20th 27th April 3rd and April 8th the next televised regular council meeting is April 8th which is April 8th is that correct M which begins at 6:30 with public portion at 8m uh we may or may not have those budget meetings so please uh stand by in case they get delayed uh
the council met in Clos session to discuss the following a potential sale Township property B Personnel C contracts D New Jersey Route 4 project e council meeting schedule F Municipal to Redevelopment agency G legal issues and opinions and or opinions regarding any
items on the Open Session agenda H litigation updates and I Oprah with that the beginning of the meeting we will start with a a a presentation to our longtime Township Tax Assessor Jam Tai
[Music] so we have a light of tendance today because what people didn't realize is if you come out to celebrate you 10% off your assessment so no one no one apparently everyone loves what they're paying um so um we've you've served our town for many many years and one of
those quiet things behind the scenes but it affects everyone every single day and that's the tax assessments uh you're the person we get to blame so I hope the next person that takes your position is just as easy to blame as well so and thank you for taking all the blame Mr
manager James um even though I have only had the privilege of working with you for a few months um of your 27 years of service with the township it has been more than enough time to understand your dedication and the respect you have earned from your colleagues and residents always professional always
helpful and to be honest you've been a a pleasure to work with when asked about your retirement and the future plans for the next assessor you always offered your assistance and your honest Insight that says a lot about your character and how much you care thank you for always taking the time to explain situations
both simple and complex and especially going the extra mile when we needed your assistance with the njd matters now as you approach approach your retirement years I truly wish you good health happiness always and many years of fond memories of a are well served best
wishes and congratulations again read it okay the township Council and CH Community thank you for dedicated 27 years of service tck will miss you but congratul congratulates you on a job well done happy retirement thank you thank
you thank you very much and you can go if you want or you can stay it's exciting just want to say it's been a privilege working for the township of t for all these years uh it's also been a challenge at times um right now we're in
a very relative stability I feel like we're leaving the town in a good place recently completed revaluation we still relatively strong that was your third right I'm sorry that was your third that was the third reevaluation yes the when I originally came here you know
they hadn't done one in 20 years so that was the first and it was after some disastrous attempts in Bergenfield Etc um so we managed to weather that storm pretty well um yes we up to the third one now I always said when I started
here I thought I'd put in five years and then move on to the next thing and 27 years later I'm finally leaving but Mr May where the time went Mr Mar if I could say one thing real quick Mr Tai you started with us I think in 1998 and you're one of the last
full-time assessors in Bergen County and you've helped so many people over the years so so many people including my family and so I just want to publicly say thank you for all your years of dedicated service to the township and thank you for helping so many residents over the years and we wish you the very best of luck in your retirement and if
there's ever anything we can do to help you please don't hesitate to reach out thank you thank you James and um thank you for stay staying with us through this last one um I I know you could have not and um we wish you the best of luck in your future
enjoy um what the next few years hold for you thank you yeah I also good luck I'm sorry good luck in your um in your retirement and uh thank you for always being available to answer questions from our residents
uh as it uh pertain to the revaluation and all the the uncertainty and so forth it it it meant a lot to you know to to Residents to to have your knowhow and and knowledge and best of luck in your future you know it's get the answer they
wanted but it was the answer they needed um I also wanted to say thank you for your 27 years of service to this town I know our residence can be quite demanding and so I'm really impressed that you stuck it out this long and I also just want to call out before I was on Council I think before I was even
involved in public service I had called one day and I was so shocked that you picked up the phone was I was just you know coming from Brook and I didn't think you could call up and and get the assessor right on one phone call and you were so helpful and answered all my questions and I really appreciate the level of service that you bring to our
residents so thank you for that what's crazy and you and I were just talking about as I remember the day you were hired um it was in Gary Sage's office over here um and the manager um Jack you just mentioned about you being professional helpful and I
agree with that but I think what's most important about your personal person ality is your temperament you really um you really make people feel comfortable at the end of the day taxes what everyone talks about and everyone's concerned about their property values and they go to you and I'm sure you've
gotten some very um strong phone calls over the years and your temperament really makes people feel comfortable and confident that what's being done is being done fairly and equitably across the board through the entire neighborhood so thank you very much for everything thank you thank you everyone
okay miscellaneous old business new business Mr clerk do we have anything on new business want guess no yes yeah we'll wait for him to get back we'll jump right back to new business say uh
Communications okay Doug we're gonna wait for him to yes maybe he left um Community reports by cancel is on transparency task force minutes February 28th sure is this going to be jump into Council list of items as well is that
the same number one well I can speak to the task force if you like me to okay right so and this kind of kind of ties into um the Chamber of Commerce in our last meeting we had some great discussion about um the fact that we next year not too long from now uh we
will have the World Cup um right here in in our backyard and so um Mr Mayor what one of the things I'd like to recommend is that we create a uh a simple task force okay task force sorry while while on that subject let's just jump back to the clerk first clerk yeah sorry okay
that's right apologies All Apologies we're just jumping back to new business because we just have a couple pieces of business that we have to walk in this evening and the first bit is uh we have a part-time municipal court judge with us Mr Seth dbec according to resolution
111222 for his term expires March 12th 2025 and uh we need to we were considering extending his appointment for 90 days uh while the township solicits applications and resumés from potential Replacements and uh what we'll
do is just extend the agreement within resolution 111222 if there's a motion and a first uh a motion and a second on the floor I will take a roll call so moved second Schwarz thank you so much we have councilwoman Goldberg yes we have
councilman Pagan yes councilwoman G yes councilman cats de May beler yes that mayor Oregon yes mayor Schwarz yes Seth donck is extended to 90 days we had a uh and this is
resolution 11-202 that's for the record for myself in the clerk's office and then we have clerk you advis him yes absolutely I'll be in touch with the municipal court and Mr dck and uh we also have a another
resolution here uh to walk on to the consent agenda do you want to talk about it at all Mr salmon or would you prefer I just read it into the record you can just read into the record okay this is a resolution Council a warning Professional Services contract to sarasini Hollenbeck LLC sorry to be
clear scr H sorry say that again sceny Hollenbeck just want to be clear sceny Hollenbeck l C thank you for special Council Legal Services bear with us where is the township of tenek the township is
seeking to retain professional legal services for special counsel to the township for the purposes of providing independent legal guidance on issues of importance in the township whereas the local public contracts law authorizes the award of a Professional Services contract for such services without
competitive bidding by reason that such Services constitute Professional Services which are services rendered or performed by a person authorized by law to practice a recognized profession whose practice is regulated by law and the performance of Rich Services requires knowledge of an advanced type in a field of learning acquired by a
prolonged formal course A specialized instruction and study as distinguished from General academic instruction or Apprentice apprenticeship and whereas Donald S sereny sceny Esquire of the law firm has agreed
to provide the above described service at an hourly rate of 175 per hour and whereas the township Council finds that a contract for such professional legal services should be awarded based on their experience expertise and scope of services offered and whereas the fees
expended expended expended excuse me all for these Services shall not exceed 17,500 without prior authorization of the township Council and whereas the authorization for these Services shall be subject to the township manager's approval and the CFO certifying that
there are available sufficient uncommitted Appropriations to provide for the payment now therefore be it resolved that the township is authorized to enter into a a contract with the aforementioned to engage in professional legal services as described above the term of the contract will be from March
11th through December 31 2025 the contract is awarded pursuant to the non-fair and open process under the local public contracts law the mayor is hereby authorized to execute a contract in a form acceptable to the township attorney based upon the fees set forth
above the business entity disclosure certification determination to value is to be placed within the resolution and this resolution shall be placed in the Township's official newspaper as required by law within 10 days of Passage mov so this is to add to the
consent agenda I think that was from councilwoman Goldberg second Schwarz councilman Goldberg yes councilman G yes yes councilman G yes councilman Catz yeah de mayor beler yes that mayor Oregon yes mayor Schwarz yes
add consent agenda as 112 d225 yes councilman um I also want to walk on an item for the consent agenda yes please go ahead um I'd like to nominate uh to appoint Cassandra Reyes as the Board of Ed Le on member to the T Municipal alliance against substance abuse second
Bo with the term of 1125 to 12 3126 and there's a meeting coming up correct there there should be a meeting the first quarter the year thank you so that's seconded by ell white c yeah that was a scking roll Co
please councilwoman Goldberg yes councilman pan yes councilwoman G yes councilman Catz yes may beler yes D mayor Oregon yes mayor schw
yes Mr Mayor uh I'm not sure we started to talk about it before so the transparency is on you now Mr CL you're done yes we're done Council Mo over the floor is yours great so we met this week all of the minutes are there and I think the clerk put them on the website so
thank you very much for that um the task force essentially was okay with everything that was in the resolution we just clarified that the meetings the public meetings would be held by zoom and that I believe Deputy Mayor beler spoke to the manager to ensure that um
that there would be a staff member if needed for for minutes um and other than that the task force was okay with the rest of the language so I would like to move this to the consent agenda I'll second that good job thank you good job TK for
Council woman Goldberg yes councilman Gan yes councilman G yes councilman Catz yeah D beler yes then may Oregon yes mayor Schwarz yes all right add 113 okay now on Council list of items so
we skip now that number one it's the same thing council mberg is that correct yeah okay um back to you in the World Cup pleas okay so um mayor this is kind of my report also from the Chamber of Commerce and uh the business community in general and that is um there's a lot that is um happening from
a county and a state perspective as pertains to the World Cup and so I would uh like to make a motion that we um form a simple task force so that we can um be apprised and informed and can inform our our residents and Community um
businesses as well uh as to the status of the World Cup can I just ask what the like what what what's the goal like what are you gonna do on it I'm just curious okay certainly so uh it is right now like the metaland uh Regional Chamber of Commerce
is doing quite a bit to prepare for the World Cup so the recommendation is that we uh we form our own task force so that we can essentially be apprised and stay informed as it pertains to preparations
for the World Cup so that's what the task force will do okay okay is that a motion in a second yeah I I so move and there's a a desire of anyone to serve on that myself I'll serve if that's right we have our three people we have it's going
to be deputy mayor beler council mberg and councilman Pagan on a world World Cup task force which also starts this year with a world club cup as well yes excellent um so just some information um mayor Schwarz and I were speaking to the
police chief yesterday and the county did have a meeting with them I think this week and there is a lot of preparation that's going to go into this it it may um be worth meeting with him and hearing what they already um it seems like it's going to be very overwhelming for everybody here
especially EK with the glum Point um the teams are going to be staying there so absolutely good luck to them thank you yeah um and I sorry I did jump on the committee reports is there any other committee reports I'll go with cedan the cedan Management Group uh meeting monthly meeting is tomorrow night 6:30
with dinner if anyone like to stop by it's also a public meeting good food coming by anybody else any other meeting uh committee reports okay Township manager report do we do we have to make a motion I mean do we have to vote on that the
motion that was oh is there we is there I mean do we have to move on that or on the task force is it necessary um I think we should just the formal yeah I think we skip the I'm sorry that's not me please pull the rooll on that apologies and that was um I believe a motion from myself yes by by by
councilman Pagan councilwoman Goldberg yes councilman Pagan yes councilman G yes councilman Catz D mayor belshire yes saie mayor Oregon yes mayor Schwarz yes form hey Mrs manager the floor is yours thank you mayor and good
evening Council and Township residents as an update for our compost pilot program our community interest has been overwhelming that we have now reached our Max of 75 households our pilot program will begin on April 27th at our cleanup day the environmental
commission will be Distributing compost buckets and liners to the first 75 households that have signed up we will also monitor the weight list and upate all residents on how we will proceed after the six-month pilot program is complete thank you to everyone for your
participation as we look forward to a successful composting program for the teet Community regarding last week's meetings uh discussions about faride bus stops the Teck Police Department met with ngj Transit supervisors and field representatives to further discuss the
relocation of faride bus stops on West Anglewood Avenue specifically discussed was a statement that NJ do indicated that moving the bus stops was warranted in accordance with NJ doot safety guidelines there is no data or information that supports this
conclusion NJ do states that relocating these bus stops is a preference and decided by convenience and what is less bothersome to local residents in addition the PD asked New Jersey Transit if they if there are any current safety concerns on West
Anglewood Avenue there are not to to date these bus stops have been in place since 2011 and there are no concerns at this time we see no benefit to relocation but we will revisit this if needed our pedestrian safety campaign
results from mid January to mid-February are as follows 1,267 moving VI moving violations 306 of these were pedestrian safety related 39 crosswalk parking summonses were also
issued our next campaign will be targeted enforcement against negligent and erratic driving to increase compliance and knowledge thank you to the Teek Police Department for your continued efforts on pedestrian safety the Motor Vehicle Commission mobile unit will be on site at township
hall on August 18 online appointments will be available 30 days prior for residents sign up and I will I will be sure to remind everyone the tck pool continues with on-site Renovations in preparation for our open house mid May and our grand
opening will be Memorial Day Weekend a flyer will be posted in the near future with our fee schedule along with registration dates at the Rota Center um some grant grant updates I have um for you tonight uh the township has been awarded a grant in the amount
of $20,000 from njde for the development of a tree inventory Community forestry manage management plan we also have been awarded $1,000 for tree idid tags along with signage from the Bergen County Autobon
Society for our project updates heric Park improvements have resumed with playground and splash pad progress of concrete pouring fencing grading and top soil bike lane the project is officially out to bid along with argon Park tennis courts and both of these will be
scheduled for March 25th Palisade AV imp improvements does have a change order on tonight's agenda and that is for a collaps storm um storm water drain this repair was required during the project 2024 roadway resurfacing program
final design is in progress and the list of streets that will be paid this year will be on our project status tab on our Township website Andreas Park pickle B courts uh construction officially began today the Bev drainage project is progressing with the lease agreement
diversion permit and compensation proposal design work for their detention system is scheduled to be finished by the end of this month month and a neighborhood meeting is going to be scheduled to discuss the final design the pedestrian bridge over CSX we are awaiting an agreement between CSX
and the township for design review and construction activities a friendly reminder to please sign up for our Township alerts on the front page of our website that's all I have for you mayor excellent thank you very much Mr
attorney I have nothing tonight okay uh public hearing adoption of ordinances do you want to read first or can I make a motion to pull the fence ordinance number three there's some language that the attorney is looking with as relates to surveys and permits and and required the the outlay by by residents on the
actual survey if you wish to table one you can do that now okay I'd like can make a motion to table second thank you T ordinance three roll call please do you have a date wait Mr Mayor I have a request last time I believe um council member cats and I were discussing about
amending it a little bit to grandf in residents and that wasn't added can we do that do we have to vote it down and then change it like is that like I I don't know do you don't need to vote it down what would happen is if I'm going to look at the some of these issues
related to surveys I can look at the grandfathering as well and if the council decides to amend it essentially we'll be reintroducing it as a new thing so we don't we don't need to I mean you could vote down if you want we don't have to for us to do introduce all right I just want to make sure that we're grandfathering people you want a table
until the April meeting May 23rd May 23rd why what is that what is that into the May meeting May meeting May meeting May May council meeting yes all right cool that was a second from councilman cats yes councilwoman
Goldberg yes councilman Pagan councilwoman G yes councilman cats yes thatb be May beler yes thatb be mayor Oregon yes mayor Schwarz yes in the M okay anybody in the public like to speak on behalf of any other ordinances
anybody on Zoom oh sorry you read first no it's all good it's all good um sorry one sec we are all over the place tonight
folks I'm sorry give us one second few ordinances ordinance three is tabled ordinance number 14-22 adopting a Redevelopment plan and furtherance of the Redevelopment of block 5004 lot
4.01 100 State Street as shown in the tax map of the township te accordance with the local Redevelopment and Housing law we have ordinance number 15-22 adopting an amendment Redevelopment plan and furtherance of the Redevelopment of block 5004 lot one 140 State Street as shown on the tax m
of the township te in accordance with the local Redevelopment and Housing law last but not least we have ordinance number 16 as 2025 amending the township code to revise Recreation fees hey good night to the council I just want to talk about uh 14 and 15 so
is it possible for 140 for State Street to have uh solar panels integrated to them to at least offset their own elect electricity use and since it'll be a low traffic building it might as well do some carbon offsets and another thing they should probably look into is a
rainwater recollection and harvesting system right if it's just going to sit there as a storage building it might as well try to reuse and help flow water back into the grid thank you good evening Council Philip Yu
resident so you heard from me last last time I was here I think it was two meetings back um it's probably too late for this but I'm going to just say it anyway just to put it on the record that I think a storage facility is poor use of that property given that situation with
housing and um and I looked at the at the at the rendering in in the um online and in today's agenda and it doesn't look like an apartment building it looks like a storage facil facility and there are storage facilities all around us I don't understand how we got to this
point I think it's it's it's a mistake um but you'll vote how you vote but I have to express how I feel about that in terms of the building at the at the corner the apartment building that's being proposed uh personal opinion I
don't like the design I don't think we we don't have design standards in town we should have design standards in town I know that that's something that's being worked on um cannot be held off until we have design standards in place so that so that it can be built away uh
based on what the design standards for our town will be so that's my other comment on that thank you thankk you Mr good evening Howard Rose T resident regarding State Street and especially the storage unit I think
what's very appropriate are the first 14 letters 14 words to a song that predates almost everyone in this room and it's a song called I'm not a juvenile delinquent by Frankie Lyman from 1957 and the first 14 words are no no no
no no no no no no and I think that's very appropriate regarding what you're proposing for State Street thank you thank you Mr Rose anybody else see other hands here heing is closed oh you said there's no
sorry we're bringing in Gail you have three minutes whenever you're ready g hi Gail you're muted yeah I just want to um express my support for the PRI previous two speakers who spoke against the storage
facility I don't think that's you know really what what we asked for in the master plan and also we need to look at these things as holistic like the how does this fit into the the um the other parts of the town that are adjacent to
it and I don't see it and there are lots and lots of storage facilities around the area and it's just again it's in the Northeast area and it's near my community and I don't feel that it's needed there are facilities nearby there
aren't enough there's not enough housing nearby that's all we have Keith Kaplan hello Mr Mayor and Council um I just uh want to say that one these are private properties and it Mr rose has a
store owner would know anyone can bid to go and purchase them and this one especially was uh doing absolutely nothing but being an eyesore for quite a while I understand what the residents that
spoke are talking about they want certain things from properties but they have the ability to go and make that happen they can band together they can purchase the property they can make it a park they can donate it to the meal
lands trust for you know IM memorium uh they can do what they wish with any property they own and they can purchase 100 State Street the same way as anybody else in fact right now if they want to make a bid that's better than the other store I'm guessing the owner would sell it to
them on the spot but they don't want to purchase it they want government to limit what you can do with your own property I was on the Town Council and I had a choice about making design standards and I think the people people that spoke would be very happy they didn't because they would be stuck with
what I thought was a good design standard and I guarantee you my thoughts are going to be different than someone else's places constantly change in fact if you read this month's Atlantic about the lack of movement across this country
you'll find that the fact that people stay much longer in a single location has led to lower wages it's led to all kinds of problems and that starts with codes and it starts with zoning and it starts with design standards people that move in will change things that's part
of life people that used to be here for a very long time will not like the new things that come in that's part of life too it's okay that no no no no no no no no no is your personal Mantra it's not
okay when it's codified as the law and I can't do with my property what I wish for the record I do not want that location to be a uh a a place that people are going to bring
stuff but I also didn't want to buy it so my comment stopped there if I felt like buying it it could have been whatever I wanted it to be and I suggest the next time you see a place and look this location was empty for decades if you see a place that right now is empty
for decades start beating the drum start getting people together buy the property make it whatever you want and that is the way to create a design standard that you like you own it you design it that'll be the standard for forever and
uh I think we need to understand that people have different tastes and that's okay thank you okay oh bringing in Chuck Powers okay good evening I would um very much like
to draw the attention of the council to the fact that this particular piece of property is not like every other privately owned property in town and in fact we we have standards that we impose
all the time when we decide to develop something what is surprising to me is that there is no um so far as I know no publication release or in any other way consideration of the fact that the
planning board at its most recent meeting did what it is required to do which is to test whether or not these two Redevelopment plans are in fact consistent with the master plan they eventually ended up saying that yes they
did in fact they were in fact consistent but what they very clearly said about each of them were that there were comments that they thought that Council should respond to before simply moving
ahead with the approval of this ordinance tonight so far as I know I have no idea whether or not those comments have actually as they should have done reached this Council and what in fact
the council's response to them is because under the under the state law Council may go ahead and ignore whatever it is that the planning board says in fact they can do so about whether it's consistent or not but they are required
to to provide a response to whatever it is the planning board said we have neither what it was that the planning board ended up saying and what was communic ated to the council nor do we have at this point any idea what
council's response was before it actually moves toward voting on these these ordinances getting these issues correct and lined up properly is something we are having enormous trouble with in this town but we certainly need
to have the council meet its its state defined obligation to provide us an understanding of why it is that they think that whatever it was that the planning board said to them about these two these two Redevelopment plans is or
is not something that should be incorporated into them and if if it they should be then this ought to be delayed until they are in fact Incorporated thank you very much anybody else on Zoom
okay no one on Zoom sorry okay Mr Mayor can Scott address what Dr PO said I guess which which part regarding the planning board recommendations uh regarding the planning board recommendations so I mean
yeah the the C the council is entitled to uh accept or reject those we have to give a reason if we um a reason for why we're rejecting them uh if if we that's what we choose to do but the council is entitled to do that uh I will we should also note that a number of the uh
concerns or comments that are being made in general I think are going to be handled at the site plan level uh and so they are are or at least can be addressed by by the um uh by by the boards by the um by the applicant so I just want to be clear that this is not necessarily the end of the end of the
process here thank you and just to close so they're GNA we're g to the developers agreement is voted on by this Council after it's written correct and the comments I believe were forwarded to the attorneys to incorporate into developers agreement yes thank you and I'm just going to respond to the the time of no no no no no no no no has to stop hard
stop these were vacant sites for decades in a town in a county a state in a nation that needs housing that needs a town that needs Revenue as it relates to the Self Storage people in this community fought some of the speakers tonight fought against not having
development there this Council voted to wait until the master plan was approved before this was finally approved people had protests in the dunk Donuts parking lot to not have parking there people did didn't want a pilot approved people
wanted presentations to the council in public every single one of those steps were taken and now the time is now to move forward move forward more housing move forward more Revenue smart Revenue that'll help the Board of Ed that'll
help the community that will help affordable housing and I'll help all the neighborhood with retail as well and on top of all that as a bonus get rid of isour so with that if there's no one else to speak I'd like them make a motion there's no speak to approve
ordinances three sorry 14 15 and 16 2025 and if approved look forward to seeing the developers agreement back here for for votes second councilwoman Goldberg no on 14 no
on 15 and abstain on 16 councilman Pagan no to all three no to all three is that what you said sorry uh councilman G yes councilman cads yes D beler yes mayor Oregon yes mayor
Schwarz yes adopted okay public time we waiting for public good and Welfare you have three minutes to speak anyone in public would like to speak if like any new residents would like to speak no new residents
okay Mr Schwarz thank you Mr Mayor Ron Schwarz Larch Avenue T New Jersey I want to commend the members of the council who worked on this proposed resolution bringing transparency to the Tina Council subcommittee meetings um I've read the uh proposal I read the resolution I find
it adequately addresses the public need for transparency that groups like one town would vote have been working for have been advocating for for the last couple of years it's it's about time that the council is finally going to open up these subcommittee meetings I'm
very happy that they are going to be open to the public at the public is going to be given a notice of when these meetings are occurring the date and the time the proposed agenda and that there will be someone there from the township who will be taking minutes as well as
any member of the subcommittee who wants to take minutes as well and that those minutes will be made available uh to the TNI public within a defined period of time time so congratulations uh to doing what should have been done a couple years ago I'm glad you're finally doing
it and I think this is a win for transparency and democracy in the township of EK uh one question I'd like you to answer during the response period uh last meeting the council started to talk about the creation of a Redevelopment
agency I would like to ask on behalf of some residents of Dina uh what the status of that proposal is and uh specifically whether the plan is to have a Redevelopment agency that U also includes members of the uh various uh
neighborhood associations as um to give Community input onto that Redevelopment agency thank you very much look forward to your answer Rose Howard Rose tck resident I find it very ironic that tonight this Council in a point pointing
a part-time judge gave him 30 days sounds like a sentence uh 9 days 90 days I'm sorry that's even longer yikes uh transparency two words it's good I hope
that this council is strong enough in its commitment to transparency to pass what is proposed thank you good evening Rich seagull 25e Teck homeowner I brought a friend with me
tonight for protection I'm not even joking Yousef is a Palestinian American I'm a Jewish anti Zionist I don't know which one one of us is more of a Target I hate speaking here I've been
speaking here a lot because I've been trying to shut down your Israeli real estate events because they're illegal and immoral and they're um supporting ethnic cleansing which devolved into genocide during the past year and a
half the last time I was here was on February 11th and I was talking about the disgusting way I've been treated by three of the Zionist Jewish members of this Council I went to my seat and I was
assaulted I was assaulted right here in Chambers in your meeting and you all saw it very ironically after talking about the disgusting way that members of this Council have treated me
um and it's reminiscent to me of what I see of the IDF and how they put on women's clothing after they have victimized these women you see for a year and a half I saw photos of Israeli
soldiers wearing bras and panties and neges and it's a sneering I mean the fact that this guy felt that he was entitled to jump me to assault me right here in a meeting he people who know that they're
in the right don't act like this yeah you Mr Mayor copyright violation another council member turned her back on me another council member said I was a liar why because I'm a Jewish anti
Zionist because I disagree with your ethnic cleansing of Palestine you think you have the right to just sneer at me and do whatever the hell you want to me and and assault me right here in Chambers and the thing of it is is that we have people watching this right now
who are really glad that it happened and who are congratulating the guy who did it and wish that they could have done it that's where the Jewish Community has gone to you've become disgusting human
beings I'm one of you I was raised with your sickness but you've become worse than I could ever have imagined re Palestine uh am Raman T resident um so this ties into what I was talking about
before uh can the council look into zero net carbon or net zero emissions for new buildings I have no problems with new development but as a Township we should look into green initiatives especially when it comes to building and constructing there are standards to World Green Building Council and the US
Green Building Council recommend is this something you already have in a code or something we have to investigate now uh with regards to the World Cup task force how about a quick suggestion uh maybe something called like a pamphlet uh Taste of te- neck just uh to to drop something in the
hotels or the restaurants that just Vis are all the different food places and this is how close they are depending on what hotel or place you're staying at thank you any Mr BR else my name is Elliot Burman I'm a
lawyer and I've lived in EK for almost 30 years I spoke at a Township council meeting on March 19th 2024 and then again two weeks ago at the February 25th meeting both times I address the fact that tenek needs to impose content neutral time place and manner restrictions with regard to
demonstrations as I am sure you recall the ordinance discussed at the February 25th meeting regarding such content neutral restrictions could not even muster four votes to support its introduction at the next council meeting this was extremely disappointing more disappointing was the fact that it
appeared at the meeting both when the proposed ordinance was addressed before good and Welfare as well as afterwards when some council members gave closing remarks that council members at best were not working in sync to address the problem problems for which the proposed
ordinance ordinance was grafted while there may have been well-meaning questions regarding the ordinance it appeared that some council members chose not to take advantage of opportunities of raising their concerns before the meeting with a Town Council or an experienced First Amendment lawyer Who
provided guidance to the council for free it appeared with all due respect that you have trouble getting along with each other and that those feelings were interfering in your obligation to resolve the town's problems I hope that I am wrong in any event at the last
council meeting the council did vote to retain an independent constitutional attorney to review the proposed ordinance and provide guidance to the council which has now occurred I hope to hear at the end of this meeting perhaps watching via Zoom a timeline when the council believes it will be able to pass
a Content neutral time place and manner ordinance that will help keep the residents safe and restore to them the feeling of being safe one final note Dr Martin Luther King's name was invoked two weeks ago as a reason to slow down the process of Passage at the proposed content neutral time place and manner
ordinance I believe the quote was the only weapon we have is the weapon of protest that was said by Dr King not outside a private residence or outside a house of worship but inside the H Street Baptist Church in Montgomery where Dr King was invited to speak before 5,000
people on December 5th 1955 just four days after Mrs Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery city bus and the protest he advocated was to to participate in the Montgomery Bus Boycott frankly I think if tenek was lucky enough to have Dr King on its
Council and ordinance with content neutral time place and manner restrictions to Res to restore safety and the feeling of safety to Tex residents would have passed months ago seven to nothing because Dr King would force the other council members to work
together for the greater good of tenek I implore you to get the job done and pass an ordinance already it's been too long and we shouldn't have we shouldn't heaven forbid have to wait for some catastrophe to Spur the council to action in this regard thank you thank
melson Chambers he see not further hands good W first Clos Council Goldberg I wave my timey mayor C good okay I'm going to speak a few comments um to the Redevelopment agency yes we
actually had a presentation in close session tonight going over the pros and the cons and the uh of the hiring if there's hiring involved and whatnot which is some contractual uh the Redevelopment attorney is going to so send out some more memos to the council we're going to continue to have the
conversation along the lines of what we spoke about we met about about forming re potentially forming Redevelopment agency made up of both Council employees and public uh and members of the public so that's that's in the process and it continues going it'll continue going on
um interesting we we we'll talk a little further about that there you know everything you mentioned it's being proposed in New York City for much larger buildings om as it relates to the green unfortunately that's pretty cost pretty costly uh our buildings aren't as big we also have a especially in tck unlike some towns a very large
affordable housing component which eats into the the numbers as well so um we'll talk about a little bit further down the line and see see where we go with that but thank you very much for those suggestions um and I believe I think that's what we have I think answer much questions so with that um we'll head
into the consent oh sorry you did say sorry to interrupt um I just realized with the tamasa um uh nominations we tabled the entire group so we actually need to nominate and appoint all of
those members whose terms had expired second um can I read I'm is that I'm going to turn it over for for is just is that the proper step Mr attorney what what councilman G's asking yeah I think that's an acceptable step that we give okay so that'll turn it back to you so
you're like you're so you want to redo your cons redo the I I want to add a few more names to the consent agenda because we did not reappoint anyone on tomasa there's a meeting coming up and we only the consent agend add-on was just for
the Board of Ed member correct and you want now is any of these disputed spots or this is I can read the names and can you do them all individually so everyone can vote by each name like each resolution would be each name yes how many names do we have and
how many spots do we have it's let's see one two three four five six no it's six expirations and how many need you proposing they're all reappointments they're all reappointments yeah you want to First
yes so we but how many six names for six spots yes one of them is the health officer actually no it's seven because of the Police Department police officer be so then start that we have one so far that was already done yes so what's your
second name so that was Cassandra you got that one okay the second one is Victoria Fischer that was Cassandra no she she was not listed as the Board of Ed she was just the chair here there's still an open seat so why couldn't she fill the open
seat there was no open seat there is an open seat Joseph Joseph Spiegel was the General member and he stepped down so there's still an open seat so that seat we would have to discuss we didn't we were only reappointing tonight I I think
this is going to maybe go to our next meeting because this is not the time or the place and I'm not saying anything about any appointing I don't know who the other names are I thought we were just reappointing yeah she is the she's being reappointed she was she was chair she was not it doesn't say she was Board of Ed rep here I think there's some other
positions as well so could we have this on the next meeting I this is not really the part of the meeting I I don't I think they're just reappointments I I I don't see what the problem is if we're gonna appoint Cassandra without discussion why can't re reappoint all of them prob it's just not the did you want
to have a comment this okay there's someone else that asked for an open seat also I thought um I didn't know there was an open seat do let's can we have this done at the next meeting I think that if I I have no idea what's going on right now but it's also not the right time there's
are other positions other personal matters the holdovers should be able to continue is that correct Scott Mr attorney could the hold over holds can continue continue fine we'll do then we have time okay let's go on okay um Deputy Mayor wait so then do we need to
remove the Cassandra Rees resolution because she's from the Board of Ed she's new I was voted on already excellent May beler okay yeah just wanted to make a couple comments just in response to some of our
residents comments um first off I'm really happy that we have gotten through and uh uh the transparency ordinance uh one of the ways in which we have looked at this is from the standpoint of our
technology so using our technology I've spoken with our town manager in terms of um you know how we can you can use zoom and and features that are part of Zoom that potentially can help us if I.E we have a a real person that's taking
minutes in meetings or there are some transcription services that Zoom potenti has um that we may want to get acquainted with um also someone mentioned about the planning board and and some of the additional recommendations that the planning board
had much of the discussion on the State Street Properties had to do with Community benefits uh in community benefits we spoke of things like how can we the developer um uh look at parking uh to to benefit not only the residents
but potentially even um the the greater communities a bicycle rack uh making uh part of our master plan is that uh we are wanting our community to be more walk walkable and bikable so making sure that that's a part of of of the de of
the uh site plan a community room um you use of the rooftop space for residents so these are some of the things that that we and even charging stations um potentially that could be used by not only residents but also the Greater
Community community so I just want to mention that a lot of that discussion does happen in in the planning board uh on the planning board and these recommendations are um are sent to us to address to your point Mr Mayor that yes we would be looking at that um as a part
of the site plan but the these discussions are are had with uh on the planning board and these recommendations are made and lastly I love the idea about the World Cup task force a taste to Tac we certainly want input from our residents and our businesses and ideas
and which we can um make this an exceptional event that's a win-win for our Township and lastly I just want to mention uh Mr Mayor that the there is will be an Adu Workshop uh and it will be in the May time frame and that is uh just an informational workshop for
residents that would like more information thank you very much thank you Deputy Mayor okay Mr clerk onto the consent agenda and the bill list and the amount of it's the set agenda but also including resolutions
11-22 for Seth domack 11112 for our Law Firm that I know I'm just going to screw up pronouncing because everyone has called me out on it so much tonight so I'm not going to try again and resolution 113 bringing transparency to TX Council subcommittee
meetings and resolution 114 which is for Cassandra rais to the T Municipal alliance against substance abuse and yes mayor like you said the bill list in the amount of 9,241 6.37 was any counil like to pull
anything yes uh 102 and 113 102 and 113 anybody else want to pull anything okay um do we need a motion on the polls 102 102 1113 so with um with
that I'll make the motion that we approve all resolutions listed with the exception of 102 10113 and the bill list and I in Bill list there
second second okay that is our consent agenda our bill is excluding resolutions 102 and 113 that was a motion from the mayor second from Deputy Mayor Oregon councilwoman Goldberg
um yes on all except for an exstension on 107 due to the incorrect rosi and the bills list 107 107 and the bill list that was an exstension councilwoman yeah and
abstaining on the whole bills list yep on the rest C the gun staining on the bill list and yes to everything councilwoman G yes yes thank you Council mcats yes with an exstension on the Bell
list thatb be mayor beler yes thatb be mayor Oregon yes mayor Schwarz yes all adopted he councilwoman inut mayy orgon 102 so since I've been on Council the
planning board has not had its own planner and I know we're about to start budget discussions approaching double digits in um um an increase in the budget and um I
I understand the the want for it um I know that we just hired a new planner that we're very happy with and I am having a hard time with um the planning board having their own planner where our
planner is now approving applications sending them back to the planning board to then be reviewed by their planner for an additional charge uh which hasn't been done before and um also wondering what happens if
their planner disagrees with our planner now and so um I I am having a hard time with this I'm a I'm a no on this but also um there are other places is where I would like to put this money if we have extra
money um I don't know I'm so I guess more for Scott so the planning board's a quasi judicial board they have their own authority right I just I don't know board yeah it's it's a weird situation where the under the municipal land use
law the planning the land use boards are entit to choose their own or professionals but the council the governing body is the uh body that has to make the provision for um or make provision to pay those professionals so
you guys don't get get a vote in it uh but you're still require you're required to pay it we don't have to award a specific professional service contract um uh to do that ultimately when the bills come due your the council's going
to be essentially obligated to pay them um but you don't that doesn't mean you have to award an actual specific contract to the uh to the board of professionals tell me if that tell me if that makes sense so what happens if we don't vote for this if we don't vote for this they won't have a contract but when
the when the bills are uh I guess when when the bills are sent to us we will be obligated still obligated to pay for the portions of those uh bills that are to be paid by the township which because the new escro ordinance that you guys uh
that you adopt at the end of in December last year is not going to be the whole bill it would just be anything related to stuff like master plan red consistency reviews um uh consistency reviews uh development development or Redevelopment agreements things like that that's the stuff that would come
that would come to you guys and you would still uh the council's really obligate to P pay them whether or not we have a contract so it's symbolic if we vote no they work if we vote Yes they work yeah correct correct yeah well actually we don't have to pay
their bills because if I vote no then the bill list doesn't pass because we only have four voting members on the bill list right only three members actually vote to pay the bills yeah this is so I would abstain on that I would vote no on that one and then they wouldn't get paid either because they three people abstain every week so I'll
make a motion to approve 102 because we have to do it anyway we don't we don't have to do it as a contract but it's it's just a question of whether well we don't have to do we don't have to approve a specific contract we will have to approve the the bills when they come to us so I don't know if deputy mayor
belter has anything to say uh yeah I I mean correct me if I'm wrong if we have to play the because they're a statutory board we have to pay for a planner so the fact that it's a separate planner we
still have to pay for a planner so the the whole idea is that if we use the same planner that the council's using we would have a bill for that versus having the planning board allowing the planning
board to have its own planner we have a bill to pay for that but soing the point the point that I'm making is that um It's Not Unusual I know it's something that we have not done this this body has not done but
correct me if I'm wrong um there are towns that where the council the township has a planner and the planning board has its own planner that's something that you have seen yeah I wouldn't call it it's certainly not
common most in most places at least in my experience that it's the same planner for for both boards and for the U for the uh for the township itself yes we will we would still need to pay someone regardless I would say it would likely be cheaper for the for the township if
we had one planner because then you don't have to pay you know let's say let's say for example we do any sort of zoning ordinance and we have the township planner that reviews it and helps us draft it whatever it then gets sent to them into the plan board then the planning board's attorney uh planning board's planner is also going to have to look at it and so we're
essentially being built double for the same the same sort of thing so it will definitely be more uh to to have two separate planners but at some point or another we will we would have to pay for it regardless tell me if that makes sense or it's confusing
so Redevelopment plan for 140 so so topology reviewed it then it went to the planning board and Philips price reviewed it if topology had reviewed red it they wouldn't have to review it again in theory yeah yeah yeah so then we just paid double we just paid a different planner to review the same exact thing
they don't they wouldn't charge again it had already been reviewed by a planner now it's going to a second planner so there is there's a absolutely a double charge I I don't have a a dog in this fight myself I I just feel as if that
you know just based upon the leadership of the planning board the you know the S let me back up by saying we were in the middle of um affordable housing yeah and and I think that we had a relationship with um the existing planner and a
relationship from the master plan so I think that there was a little bit of a feeling that we knew this planner we had done a tremendous amount of work with this planner so let's stick with this planner right and I get it but now we have a relationship with topology who's
done great by us with affordable and I just I think you know this is new for us we've never had a a different planner and I'm sort of trying now that we're entering budget season I think this is not a good precedent I think this is not a good idea I'm I'm not voting for it
and I'm not voting for the bills that's just me I think this is a mistake and I I respect that uh but truth be told that we have a better relationship with the existing planner who who walked us through a master plan and walked us through affordable housing so you know
we as as a planning board we had that relationship so I know I I mean I I don't think that to follow this particular planner has been to the any planning board meeting right well we only just hired them in January it's only the beginning of March and it's a reason that the council didn't chose to
hire somebody new I just want to make a point I I I'll just say publicly I didn't vote for them at the planning board um but I don't have a problem with the planning board having its independence there I think Independence is important thing
um I'll make a motion I'll make a motion to approve 102 of 2025 second roll call Mr B house Goldberg I'm upstanding only because I didn't vote for them at the planning
board councilman pan yes councilman G yes councilman cats yes sa May Belcher yes sa mayor Oregon no mayor Schwarz yes uh 113
transparency I just had a question because it it mentions opma with the personnel subcommittee and I understand not wanting the public to see interviews of of people who are um coming to the
Personnel subcommittee but they're not yet um members of subcommittee they're just people who are being interviewed and I would think that that's something that if we are voting for transparency that
people would want to see they would want to see who we appointing and why we're appointing them and so um I had asked the attorney if there's any reason why that particular subcommittee has to be closed and he told me that there is
absolutely no reason why personnel has to be closed it can be as open as every subcommittee so if we are voting um for transparency and to keep every subcommittee open then the interviews can be open as well and um I and I'm not
in favor of this at all I don't think that the subcommittee meetings should be open I think especially the ones that I sit on I think it's going to hinder progress and work on them but I don't think that it's okay to keep that one
closed um I think that um the lines in here that say uh that that falls under opma is false and um that should be taken out if I I don't think it's factual so I think that should be taken out and the
um the resolution reworked anybody else in comments on I mean my comments are I I just stand by Personnel should be closed I I don't think people want to do their interviews um they share personal
sensitive information at times I don't think they should be done in public um so my comments are is that these are subc commities they're actually not to make not meant to be open and so it's something we've done it's something every board every committee every town every municipality state agencies
certain things just aren't open if you want to be open pull a petition run for Council but if we are going to open it we open it to everyone so now let's talk about Personnel who do we want to point on our plane aort let's meet with them let's talk with them well isn't there anything more transparent than watching
the entire Community listen to what you Mrs applicant would like to see built or or you uh Mr applicant would like to see zone changes and variances so if it's transparent let's be transparent if it's a closed committee which thousands of
committees exist in the state of New Jersey that way then it's a closed trans committee committee so I'm either all for open or all for close and I understand your sensitivity to the the ual's personal opinion but if they can't put their personal opinion in front of everyone then I don't think
that should be appointed that's my opinion is there a motion or not a motion to approve this I'll make the motion second it was a motion from councilwoman Goldberg councilman Pagan this is
resolution 13-22 councilwoman Goldberg ber yes councilman Pagan yes councilwoman G sorry can I just clarify that this this version still maintains that Personnel remains
closed then yes sorry about that councilman Catz yes deuty mayor beler yes debuty mayor Oregon no mayor schw no resolution adopted Mr clerk I believe
there is a res a new ordinance to read for the upcoming meeting introduction please yes we have ordinance number 17225 which is amending the township code to revise time limited parking laws
at 429 Cedar Lane and that's all okay I yes introduction second there was a footage question you want to ask to the attorney on the there's I think a typo on how many feet that looked like a lot of feet for one parking lot I meant to ask you before
I'm so sorry I'm sorry the new introduction of the new ordinance as it talks about west of Windsor Road and then it goes into a maybe a typo at East of the it looks like aund something feet I me to asked before I hate to do this
what what page you have well well just to council this is about a 15 minute spot in Fr this is for 429 sorry to interrupt guys 429 C Lane on the North side from a point 277 feet west of the Westerly curve line
of Windsor Road to a point 115 feet thereof I I'm pushing this one to you because I think you add that that language in there you may have got that from the police so yeah this this this was with data from the police that they measured out it's for a particular
parking space so I think I think what we see is like feet coming from this way feet coming from this way and then we have our spot does that make sense yeah it just looked like hund and something feet looked like a really big parking spot yeah no this is just a 15 minutes
for particular storefront I'll make a motion to introduce good question second Council woman Goldberg yes councilman pan yes councilwoman G yes councilman Catz y debie mayor
belshire yes debie mayor Oran yes mayor Schwarz yes upov we'll see it at our next meeting make a motion to adjourn there you go thank you 9:27 p.m.