township administration president of tonight's meeting is are Jacqueline Hashman our township manager Doug Reion our township clerk Kristen Denoria our deputy township clerk Scott Salmer our township attorney Ron Goodman our volunteer cable master and we have our police chief and deputy chief in
attendance thank you very much um for the public's information we are currently holding a hybrid format meeting we have people in person and on Zoom if the Wi-Fi at the mun building has an issue with the Zoom meeting and where the Zoom meeting drops we will aim to retrieve the connection and continue the meeting if you haven't already
signed up for alerts please do so on the township's website the township trip council have budget meeting start at 7 p.m um on this Thursday April 10th that will be discussed for possible cancellation or move to Zoom so stand by for that um the council may in close
session to discuss the following potential SL of Tonra property personnel contracts New Jersey R4 project municipal redevelopment agency drones hunting trapping projectiles legal issues and opinions regarding any open any items on the open session agenda
litigation updates and Oprah that okay with that let us Okay I think we go right into work session i old business right into the 2025 capital improvement budget um on for tonight we'll be discussing the capital improvement budget and I do not
I am unsure if we have a for this Thursday night nor an agenda for this Thursday night so we'll debate we're discuss closing that canceling that meeting as well um at the last meeting we left off that we people object or some council members objected to uh the
size of the capital budget which my comments were if you just take take out the grants take out foreer monies take out most monies it is well sorry it is well below other prior years i asked the CFO to send that information out which
verifies that regardless of whether or not you agree right now the question is are we proceeding with this capital budget for an introduction or is there something you want to see removed and if so please speak up now and start discussing what you'd like to see mr
mayor yes please um so is is CFO on i Is the CFO on is he on is my CFO on okay so while we're waiting because I I'm going to need him and I do think that we should meet but I started going
through the capital improvements um against some of the open bond ordinances that we have um for example the uh Phelps Park Lash pad was um bonded and
authorization for the bond was done in 2019 um I wasn't on council yet but you did vote for it um also the uh entire DPW uh piece the 500,000 there and the
450,000 for uh traffic lights there is room in the 2021 and 2023 I believe and there was some room in 2024 um but I think that we don't have to not do anything i just think that
there's already funding so why should we um take out an additional credit authorization for the next 13 years when there's already been a authorization for and I believe there was also I just looked at it um there was some also
existing money that wasn't um spent from the same ex the same three existing bonds for the police and fire equipment to some degree i think it was $350,000 and um I did try calling the CFO earlier to go through the ordinances with him but we were playing phone tag so can you
would you mind repeating so we can make a note with which one you on the 2025 which ones you refer to so all of DPW is can be covered through an existing bond ordinance you're referring to the public works equipment yes okay so it's 500,000 on public work okay
we're going to get the CFO of the phone in Steve and then um the half of the Where is it oh the traffic lights up to code $250,000 oh the 450 right so you can have that
okay um the Phelps Park splash pad was on the 2019 uh capital improvement budget and on the bond already so um why it's on there again i don't know but that's okay off um and I didn't uh I
started seeing some room for some of the police and fire but that was kind of where I needed to I needed another day to to talk to him but there's my point is that there's a room and I'm happy to you know get on
the phone with the CFO um and go through this but I found um I think it's over $2 million at the very least of stuff that's already there why should we bond for more when we see 1.25 we assume without the police this I know the police had I think it was 350
and I didn't get a chance to look at the roads so I I want to do some more digging but my point is that I I did find I I don't I need more time with the CFO specifically i understand okay so Okay so the question it's it's it's more than that more detailed i totally understand if we have to push this off
and to save a million dollars or if or if he disagrees healthy conversation moving on to anyone else before we go back to this or put this to the side go offline um why don't anyone else what what what would be the Scott what would be the um procedure if we wanted to then
introduce and what would be the timeline uh you can introduce and then just set a different you know further date for adoption that that provides the additional time needed uh at a at a later date um doesn't have to be subsequent meetings or or anything like that so you can introduce it now and
then we can wait to uh bring it up for adoption till a following meeting until that opportunity but only the number sticks correct i'm sorry the number the the max number stays or could it be lowered it can the max number you can it can be lower it can be lower so hypothetically we want we can introduce
a billion dollars tonight and then reint go at the next meeting and bring it down to 1 million correct yeah so there's no harm in introducing because these are some very potential savings we're not missing out on any of the savings should there be should the CFO agree no I don't believe so okay then we have to
reintroduce it don't we yeah then you're going to Yes if you So then it's then it's just an extra meeting so we can just do it right i don't get why we would do that but but in case there So yes you need to you need to reintroduce it and it would add an extra meeting on the other hand if there are no changes
then you've saved yourself the meeting by by because you've already introduced it so then you can just adopt it but if there are changes then you just reintroduce it and there's no harm no foul you I guess the point is you can only gain and you can potentially save a meeting understand but but what you're saying is introduce it if the CFO says
no Council McGomery is wrong then we've already introduced if Council McGover is right and we can save it then we have to do what we have to do now anyways which is introduce at a future meeting so it's free it's a free it's a free bite at the app right we love Apple okay and
Councilwoman G anything you want to take off that i'm good uh no I'm good you're good on just want to hear what well right I just want to hear what the CFO has to say if and when he gets on above yeah we can ask if his answer now but at the
same time I also want to make sure that if there is a potential for savings not to to to vote but also not to hold him against it I mean I guess we have time this is introduction only um Mr cfo are you there yeah we'll give him a second there's
like Yes I'm I'm on Mayor okay um so I'm going to turn the floor over to uh Council McGin i do realize you one more time than that just to start that the Yeah I did try to call you earlier so just slowly indicate what you had mentioned before right so um
522021 had um funds left over that would work um towards and I have a whole spreadsheet i'm sorry um towards the uh DPW lights the the traffic code uh then you have 2020 2021 2023 and I believe
that's where I want to go through this kind of more nitty-gritty with you for uh the bulk of this and then the splash pad was literally on and approved in 2019 so I have to actually get back to you on that because there are audit adjustments that need to be made to the Edmonds
balances and that's why I don't want to um put that out there there's extra funds in there just because Edmonds says so so I can circle back i apologize to Mr coff but I don't know that the balance in Edmonds actually reflects what is available i know we had the reclassification for most but I would
just caution before we do anything i'd rather take the extra time make sure the auditor the balances are tuned up in Edmond before we move further so I I'm actually I'm going out of town tomorrow but I'm happy to get on a call with you and the auditor and kind of go through I
mean I spent a significant amount of time going through the ordinances against this and you know really kind of allocating it sorry to see what's out there um to see how we can still provide the same service and you know we
shouldn't be taking out a bond authorization you know for the next 13 years um for something that we already did um so I I'm happy to set up a time for you me and the auditor to go through this line by line and and show you but for the most part it was 2019 2021
i didn't see anything for 2022 but I would want to double check with you guys on the phone actually since you know I think it's better and 2023 and I had some questions for 24 but there was a little bit okay um M Mr manager any comments
so what what I'm going to do is in accordance to speaking with our attorney is under how do we do this i would like to call for the introduction knowing full well that we're not approving anything tonight and that if again to repeat it if Councilwoman Goldberg is correct at the next meeting we're going to reintroduce a new capital budget if
Councilwoman Goldberg uh agrees or disagrees or makes some mod doesn't make modifications we've already introduced it for voting at the next meeting so we do get that free bite so that would be a hearing do we need what would be the process now coming out of old business can you confirm for the public and for
us the process so sorry Mr mayor i'm not really comfortable voting until I have this meeting with the auditor and CFO on the same so uh yeah so we we're introducing it listing it for listening for adoption for the the 22nd you know subject to the
understanding that that may be that may be tabled at that time hearings nothing what what do we have to do tonight coming out of old business where are we introducing where in the you mean where in the Yes where is there is a hearing want to go through the process for everybody so mayor my understanding was tonight was really to give the council a
chance to finalize what they wanted to do not to introduce it tonight but to introduce it April 22nd and then have the adoption on I believe it's May 6th so we're not we're not introducing tonight but you know with Councilwoman Goldber's feedback we can certainly have a call administration herself and the
auditor and uh just make sure everything that she's requesting is accurate and can possibly be done okay understood mr mayor I I just would recommend that we have a summary that goes out to all of us you know as a
result of the um communication that um we have with um the CFO thank you absolutely okay okay so if that's the case we're going to go on to Thank you very much for that i hope I hope it comes out to be productive and fruitful um on to new
business anyone for new business no okay uh communications we'll go we'll get that um communications uh no communications community reports by council leaison historic preservation committee
yes um mayor and council I just wanted to uh give an update uh many of our residents have seen the remarkable uh markers that um we have uh around town uh the historic preservation uh commission has been extremely busy uh we
have had one request that has come in from the historic uh preservation society regarding the 100th anniversary of holy name hos um holy name medical center uh and requesting a marker uh in your packet you see uh the the verbiage
that has been uh requested it has been um uh suggested also by the the historic preservation commission um uh and I'm bringing it to the council for approval because this is a monumental um year um for our uh medical center um neighbor
here and we're asking for uh the centennial um marker to be placed somewhere on the campus uh of um of uh the Holy Name hospital uh with the council's approval uh and basic financial support the market will
probably run roughly about um 3,000 for the uh if the council approves the market it should be situated somewhere uh on the campus and the word wording is uh listed here i uh just want to read it for the benefit of the community and that is Holy Name Hospital or Holy Name
Medical Center with Bergen County's population surging from the first world war and uh 1918 to 1919 uh Spanish flu still fresh in memory uh mother General Agatha Brown of the Sisters of St joseph of Peace partnered with the physicians
Frank C McCormack and George P pickin to establish a hospital in Tene the 16 acre site selected at the southwest corner of Cedo Lane and Tene Road has been the the homestead of William Walter Phelps the township's pioneering landholder uh Holy
Name Hospital a four-story 115 uh bed red bricks institution surrounded by pastoral lawns opened on October 4th 1925 it's a claimed school of nursing with an initial class of 13 women was launched
concurrently what would become known as Holy Name Medical Center part of the Holy Name Health System has been a leader in patient care uh never more uh so than 95 years after its founding when it was the epicenter of the coid9
pandemic in New Jersey and took extraordinary and innovative measures to treat the sick and protect the community holy Name's legacy of outstanding compassionate care continues as it stands poised and prepared for the next century so that's what would be on the
marker excellent and we're looking for nodding heads is that what we're looking yes we are i make a motion Mr mayor yes Mr sorry yes uh Mayor C um I like the idea as long as Holy Name obviously is on board it sounds like they are um my only request is if we can follow the uh
the the way we've been doing the other markers where we also on the other side list the council members of the current uh council um that's is that is that the official recommendation of the plaque committee that is we met this now okay excellent
just want to make sure okay yes absolutely those are beautiful signs up throughout town okay you want to roll call or we going seven nothing or is it nodding heads i would rather not do nodding heads okay roll call for the marker for holy name with our
historic preservation commission there was a motion from Mayor Schwarz was there a second second i second thank you councilwoman Goldberg yes councilman Kagan yes councilwoman G yes councilman
Katz yes deputy Mayor Belchure yes deputy Mayor Oregon yes Mayor Schwar yes okay thank you um on committee reports I'll go with my two committee reports zon and subcommittee let met late Friday like 4:00 we finished at 4:00 um I'll
have a meeting I'll have a minute coming up in the next meeting no um immediate action steps are being taken that's number one number two we had a very um lively meeting here last night in council chambers a community meeting as it relates to potential um Regina's um
development and needless to say I thought we would hear from some neighbors that insisted that you know they liked Regina should stay in reality it was there were some very irate neighbors that discuss some live and parties and spillovers and the need to call police and then this dates back in
time to the Saints Cafe um two general ideas were proposed a four-story and a fivetory the five story was a smaller amount of units and there was more overwhelming support for the less units less dense but fivetory especially with the fourth story fifth story built into
the roof um they're going to continue making the the owner is going to work on some plans come back um in a few months on that um secondly tomorrow night Cedar Lane management group is meeting there is dinner it's open to the public 6:30 p.m on Cedar Lane please join us anyone
else in committees mr mayor the social services advisory board had their first meeting last week and it's their first meeting in over a year and they uh it was a good meeting they had a lot of questions about the Hyatt fund how much was in the Hyatt fund how the Hyatt fund had been used in the past to help people and they have a lot of questions about how it could use to be help more people
going forward in terms of how many federal cuts are coming down so the CFO and the manager are working on a memo for the members so that they can figure some stuff out and uh once we get that if anyone's interested I'm happy to share it with y'all um Mr mayor yes sir just um for council
to know for years the Hyatt fund was only using the interest um and that was really what uh was was being used to help social services and then at one point I think when interest rates were like maybe very low um then they uh
decided to go cut into the principal i don't know what's left there anymore i'm sure the CFO does excellent we'll spend it over $300,000 how much over $300,000 originally 300,000 no still to the state
mhm under 6% okay don't touch that money yeah please bear in mind it's to help folks yeah deputy mayor yeah i just wanted to uh mention a couple quick things that uh historic preservation we have an interactive map so just want to remind the community uh that it is
available on our website to take a look and so forth uh we continue to work with markers and some other uh really interesting things that are happening um around town historically and which we'll be um you know um reporting on and I just want to give a shout out to the
youth advisory board for inviting us to their civic um event um last week it was very informative i think uh the young people really were engaged and I just want to thank them um on behalf of the council deputy Mayor Bela question for you for historic presto historic
preservation so tonight there's an application on for a grant for Shrek through TAC and is through the the historic preservation fund of the state is that something that came from historic preservation
i know that there are lots of grants that are in flight right now and the program is what I was asking the the program itself yes yes from my education understanding it is yes what is it i'm just curious can you just share that i I'm just curious it sounds
interesting well I know that there's a lot of um um desires from throughout the the state to encourage um tours within historic districts so from my understanding that is what um we're really looking at in terms of um being
able to provide historic tours for um you know occasions throughout um town we have so many historic buildings around town um and um so I'll report more as we get closer to obtaining thank you that sounds interesting i appreciate it hey
Deputy Mayor yeah so not um an advisory board but I attended the Bergen County League of Municipalities mayor's breakfast this morning because the mayor couldn't attend and there was a speaker from New Jersey Transit there and I know that a lot of people have had questions
about busing with um congestion pricing and busing with development and um just some facts that he gave uh New Jersey Transit does have 208 articulated buses coming online those are the buses with the accordion in the middle they have 20
electric buses coming and there will be a new bus depot in Ridgefield Park um Port Authority in New York is kicking off a 10-year construction project so it'll take a while but we'll hopefully be able to accommodate uh the busing and
Bergen County um accounts for a quarter of all the buses um in New Jersey that New Jersey Transit runs um they also discussed the Bergen light rail which was interesting because there were a lot of towns there um from Norwood down to Englewood where
it would run and uh they gave an update on where they are with that so right now they're waiting for state funding to do environmental studies because of all the flooding that goes on in Englewood and Leonia and those areas um they can't build they may have to actually build
elevated trains if they do there uh so they're waiting for state funding for environmental studies and then they would need federal funding going forward from there uh the name of the person in charge is Paul Woff and he said as development in town or the needs of the
town uh change we should be feel free to reach out to him so it was really informative committees okay council listed item yes mayor i just wanted to remind everyone real quick public access
channel 77 channel 47 still down we are streaming to YouTube Facebook and Zoom and uh that info is on the front page of the website if anyone needs it okay um proposed resolution recognizing April 29th as end Jewish hatred day in month
of May as end Jewish hate and Jewish heritage month i believe we've done that in the past you're looking for a roll call to put this on the consent agenda or what are you looking for um well I'm going to present it so Tene has done this resolution for the past two years and I hope that we're able to pass it for the third years in a row um it's
recognized in states and municipalities across the country um thanks to the End You Hate organization and unfortunately I just want to share with the public last night during a very routine municipal open space trust fund advisory board meeting um that just simply discusses funding uh somebody was
flashing a swastika on the screen um so uh the meeting had to be shut down and I want to thank the police chief um for all of their work last night um but I think it's it's it's important you can't outlaw what's in people's hearts you can't refuse to be silent and that's the most powerful weapon we have so just
like we do every year I'm going to read it so whereas there's a documented and dangerous rise in anti-semitism globally nationally in New Jersey Bergen County and Tene including a 200% increase in anti-semitic incidents in the United States since October 7th 2023 according
to the Anti-Defamation League whereas anti-semitism is not limited to physical acts but includes rhetoric social behavior academic norms political speech social media content that perpetuates the dehumanization conspiracy theories and discrimination against Jews whereas anti-semitism is defined as a certain
perception of Jews which may be expressed as a hatred towards Jews including rhetorical physical manifestations directed at Jewish or non-Jewish individuals or their property Jewish community institutions and religious facilities whereas one cannot tackle hate without defining it whereas
TX Jewish community is diverse in their beliefs and traditions and is comprised of individuals of all denominations and backgrounds including reform conservative Orthodox and secular Jews reminding us that Jewish identity is not defined by one's level of observance or
affiliation but an unbroken peoplehood that transcends labels and unites generations whereas anti-semitic expression may include justifying violence against Jews promoting the myth of Jewish control over the media or government denying the Holocaust questioning Jewish loyalty to
their country are holding Jews collectively responsible for the actions of the state of Israel whereas data published by the ADL Center for Anti-semitism Research in February 2024 shows that the average number of anti-Jewish tropes believed by Americans has increased with nearly one in four
Americans now agreeing with six or more classic anti-semitic beliefs and that conspiracy theory social dominance and simplistic oppressor versus oppressed worldviews are strongly correlated with anti-semitic attitudes whereas the ADL reports that Tene has experienced at least 20 documented anti-semitic
incidences in 24 including an assault on a Jewish school security card during PUM muza's repeatedly stolen from Jewish homes a restaurant defaced for displaying flyers about hostages death threats on social media targeting Jewish students with Holocaust imagery death
threats to Jewish council members with Holocaust imagery swastikas etched into private property and whereas these incidents represent a pattern not isolated events they impact Jewish residents sense of safety belonging and equal participation in community life whereas the township of Tene supports
every resident's right to worship freely walk safely and live with dignity regardless of religion race or ethnicity and now therefore it be it resolved that the township council of Tene hereby recognizes for the third year in a row that April 29th is Nu hate day and declares the month of May as Jewish
Heritage Month be it further resolved that the township council of Tene unequivocably rejects all form of anti-semitism and be it further resolved that the township council pledges to work with houses of worship the Tene public library and the Tene board of education to develop and support
significant and sustained programming to educate residents about historic and modern forms of anti-semitism and actively combat its spread through civic education and cultural dialogue and policy awareness so I would like to make a motion to move this to the consent agenda a motion by council McGover second by
council gun roll call please right we got roll call please councilman Goldberg yes councilman began yes councilman G yes councilman Katz
to hold it that was a yes from that yes thank you sir gonna mute you again Deputy Mayor Belchure debbie Mayor Oregon yes mayor Schwarz yes and thank you Councilwoman Goldberg and Mayor on consent agenda
resolution 132 thank you so I have the the next thing too we have two uh seemingly uh close in nature proposed resolutions so so the I was going to present mine okay do that okay thank you
transparency subcommittee meetings council members Goldberg and Pagan uh Denu created a day before the council meeting go ahead Councilman Goldberg so this resolution was the product of six weeks of discussion a task force with detailed minutes for the council and public and most importantly
collaboration and compromise among across council it would passed once and it was repealed in darkness and tonight I'm simply reintroducing it so that public access documentation and open governance aren't left to the whim of whoever holds the majority it's not complicated notice minutes recordings
and clarity and that's what the public expects and deserves so that says so everyone hears it whereas for decades the TAK Township Council conducted its business in the open seated together around the clerk's table in full view of the public and each other where every deliberation could be seen heard and
scrutinized by the people we serve because as Justice Brandeise reminded us sunshine is the best of disinfectants and whereas this full body model ensured that council operated transparently with no side rooms no secret agendas no conversations the public couldn't witness an approach that helped build
trust set a tone of ethical leadership and move Tene forward whereas in recent years the council began relying on subcommittees to handle businesses that had been that had traditionally been discussed publicly leading to decisions shaped in private meetings that were not noticed recorded or accessible to the
public or even to fellow council members as was seen with the original cannabis subcommittee where repeated requests for information by Councilwoman Romney Rice were ignored whereas on January 14th 2025 a motion to dissolve these subcommittees and return to the council's historic model of open
governance failed prompting the introduction of a resolution to formally restore transparency whereas after revisions and collaboration resolution 113 2025 was adopted on March 11th by a 5-2 vote establishing the first formal
policy requiring public notice access and documentation of subcommittee meetings whereas until then subcommittees had never been open to the public despite their growing role in shaping township decisions involving public assets and spending where items were quietly pushed to the finish line and funding figured out after often
leaving the public and at times even members of council expected to get in line without fully understanding what they were being told to support whereas this mirrored a 2020 action by members of the current council to remove advisory board from public view just as a broader community participation was
increasing whereas less than two weeks after resolution 1132025 passed it was rescended at a budget meeting with no public notice no published text under the guise of logistics and whereas transparency delayed is transparency denied and access to government should
not depend on who holds the majority whereas subcommittees through informal routinely in wait sorry routinely influence township policy spending and development and must meet clear standards of public accountability if we are to rise for tene and remain stronger
together whereas the open public meetings act does not formally govern subcommittees this council affirms its commitment to abiding by both the letter and spirit of OPMA including its narrowly defined exceptions for matters such as litigation and personnel to uphold public trust and transparency
whereas this resolution affirms that subcommittees shall not engage in contract negotiations funding decisions or partnership discussions without notice documentation and full council awareness whereas modern remote technology makes it easier than ever for the public to access meetings and and
records now therefore be it resolved that the township council and of the township of Tene that all council subcommittees shall be reopened to the public whether the meeting is held in person or via video unless a close session is required under the spirit of OPMA be it further resolved that notice
of all subcommittee meetings whether open or closed shall be posted to the township website at least 24 hours in advance and must include date time and location including Zoom login all agenda items for discussion a statement clarifying that the subcommittee makes recommendation only if applicable a
close session citation referencing the specific OPMA exemption be it further resolved that Zoom is strongly encouraged for accessibility and automatic recording and in-person meetings may be held with proper notice and may take place in the manager's conference room with a Zoom link provided for public viewing if a recording cannot be made due to
technical failure the meeting remains valid as long as the minutes are taken and submitted format may be v may vary but transparency must remain consistent be it further resolved that all open meetings must be recorded audio or video and posted to the township website within 5 days closed meetings must be
recorded and made available to the full council within 5 days and may not be released to the public unless authorized in writing by the township attorney we have further resolved that any subcommittee member may take minutes and minutes must include time location of the meeting names of all individuals
present including council members township staff and invited participants third parties but not limited to developers and their council vendors consultants attorneys nonprofit representatives including board members applicants and any outside individuals or entities involved in the discussion a summary of the discussion and any
recommendations uh should be made for the council consideration be it further resolved that if no recording is made minutes must be distributed to council members within 10 days minutes and recordings of open meetings must be posted within 15 days and minutes of closed meetings must be shared with the full council but not released publicly
as authorized by the attorney further this resolution shall take effect immediately i so move second okay any uh conversation on that i I'm going to uh I actually disagree with virtually every single word in that but we
can just I couldn't there's nothing where I can disagree with in anything from historical what we've done historically going back a century to the OPMA there to decisions made none of which happens in any subcommittees um but I guess I'll vote accordingly we'll see what happens
roll call mr clerk there was a first from Councilman Goldberg a second from Councilman Bean councilman Goldberg yes councilman Gan yes councilman G no councilman Catz no deputy Mayor Belchure
no deputy Mayor Oregon no mayor Schwarz no next proposed resolution expanded transparency in township council subcommittee meetings deputy mayors Belchron Oregon and Councilwoman G
do you need us to read that i think it's reading you want to read it okay yeah let's go ahead and read it 22 22 sure we we took that resolution and made
it something that the town could work with that the council could work with that the clerk could work with the manager could work with um with um without impeding the business of the town yeah i just want to add that the we are very much committed to transparency
the previous version just did not logistically work um we had uh an affordable housing meeting deadline for example where the um previous version did not allow them to set up a meeting that was required in order to um uh
discuss uh the affordable housing um uh meeting so it's just one example of how it didn't work so I'm just going to read this proposed resolution um whereas the township of Tene believes that transparency and public access to governmental proceedings is essential to good governance and community trust and
whereas township council subcommittees play a vital role in discussing and developing policy recommendations for the township council and whereas ensuring that subcommittee meetings are properly noticed documented and open to the public strengthens accountability and public engagement now therefore be
it resolved that when a subcommittee of the township um committee schedules a meeting the township clerk shall advertise said meeting on the township website and social media as soon as possible all such subcommittee meetings shall be open to the public via Zoom or other similar streaming software members
of the public shall be able to watch but not comment all open portions of the meeting shall be recorded and preserved on the township website or through a service such as YouTube meeting of the personal subcommittee shall not be open to the public all subcommittees shall be entitled to go into closed or executive
session without the public present to discuss negotiations legal matters or other confidential information as the subcommittee deems appropriate the work of all subcommittees and the work of the township cannot be impeded each subcommittee by by and through their council leaison shall be required to
provide an oral report at the next meeting of the township council this resolution shall be published in the township's official newspaper as required by law within 10 days of its passage any comments on this i I just have one uh something to add uh there there is nothing nefarious that went into this so
we came together and we know the importance of transparency you know uh any meeting that I um am uh involved with uh on a subcommittee or chairing anything is open to anyone that wants to come uh we are just trying to not impede the
management of our township so when it comes to our uh town manager and our clerk's office needing to do things and in an uh expedited way we want to ensure that we do not tie their hands so uh we
are 100% without a doubt in favor of transparency anyone can sit in on any meeting that I'm involved with i have no problems with that and um we would ensure that after the meeting because we're asking that we leverage our
technology like Zoom and uh we're recording meetings we if you can't make the meeting you can go back and and uh view the meeting because the clerk's office is going to post it on the website so there is 100% total
transparency when it comes to um governing thank you Mr mayor yes what exactly are subcommittees negotiating and literally hiding they can't approve any contracts they can't authorize spending they don't speak for the township unless the council votes to
give them power so what exactly is being negotiated behind closed doors okay I can answer that you chaired the cannabis subcommittee so were you hiding anything in that first open meeting okay was was there
anything being hidden or was there anything nefarious happening no we had a forum and we had the first open meeting and then we got rid of it exactly and that's what is happening for the other subcommittees that I and I think as it relates to from a zoning point of view we have got
contract vendes come here saying "Hey for example um we had actually one on Friday afternoon where about a year and a half ago we said if you purchase that property next door come back to us." um he's now under not under contract yet but he has an offer if all and we do this all the time in the subzone
committee so if that's entirely open to the public um that's going to hurt negotiations between owners developers sellers and buyers so just to give a further example on that now again if it were up to me none of this would be open i mean I my comments to yours is the same comments here it's something that's
worked for me worked for this town for 126 years and so that that I'm totally fine with what we have the way we've been doing it right well you can close it at any point so I just want to just say that this isn't transparency actually I think it's a smokeokc screen
and it's not a theoretical smoke screen either um so I'll just use an example on February 11th this council approved a use and occupancy agreement with the TX Swim Club but the financial terms of that deal including the over $10,000 in insurance and audit costs and bond
holder discounts and staffing plans weren't discussed with the public they weren't itemized in any budgets they weren't disclosed to the council before the deal was finalized and there was an ordinance to pass fees in the in the recreation department but those weren't those were set by the swim club committee negotiated off the record off
the camera outside the public eye so let's just be honest with the public cuz now they're really paying attention this resolution wasn't written to protect transparency it was written to allow the people who repealed it to keep operating in the dark so we're covering private liabilities subsidizing operations and locking ourselves into a financial
structure the public or the governing body which is the the biggest I think issue here never got to see so now the public can see that the deal was made behind closed doors and the cost will show up when they get their tax bill i oppose this going on the consent agenda the swim club was meetings were run by
the manager system manager with the DPW as well as the recck department and anything was passed thereafter by the full council it the way it is the way it also it was a wonderful speech but we didn't know
until we got in the door how much work the swim club required it was what it was council decided to take it over it's in the best interest of the town to have a much bigger pool right now the first year is going to take more work than others to bring up to code but there was
no smoke screen and we need to stop with the drama well I mean it's a little bit I actually have seen emails that say otherwise okay I think it's also a little bit disingenuous that you were recused from the swim club for various reasons and now perhaps it didn't go the
way you liked and now that you're not recused anymore because the swim club is pro all for all intents and purpose dissolved so now it's you're upset about it i get you're upset about it and that's where we all vote everyone has their own vote and um can I make a motion to move this resolution to the
consent agenda yes so roll call please on on the motion I'm sorry yeah the motion to move this to the consent agenda no no I know i know can I just make comment before Oh sorry i here yes so I I happen to be of the same school
of thought with as the mayor i I personally don't feel any of this is necessary i think that uh the whole point of a subcommittee is to try to do some work bring it to the to the council and then make it public um and be as transparent as you know as as possible
without compromising the work that's being done on the side you know like the negotiations that you was mentioned earlier but with that said I'm I'm supporting the ordinance i'm just wondering since we don't know what we don't know does it make sense to put a caveat at the very end saying that uh
some of these terms could be waved um you know by the manager but then must they she must notice the council within days of waving like if if an emergency meeting shows up or something happens and she needs to bring two council members i mean I just just floating that
idea if not if not not I'm I'm okay with it the way it is yep the author or whoever has written this resolution want to comment on that i I think it's implied because it doesn't it says that we're going to notice the public as soon as the meeting
is planned so if we have to have an emergency meeting this allows us to notice the public as soon as we plan it and I think that's what the most important thing is we're not working on someone else's calendar okay okay mr clerk what was it it was that motion in
second i apologize oh good motion from Deputy Mayor Morgan second from Councilwoman G councilwoman Goldberg no councilman Pagan no councilwoman G yes councilman Catz yes deputy Mayor Belchure yes deputy Mayor
Oregon yes mayor Schwarz no to add the consent agenda as 133 moving on uh township managers report thank you mayor and good evening council and township residents um I would like to start start my report this evening by
welcoming our police chief Andrew Mcgur and Deputy Chief Seth Regal from the Tene Police Department the department has just launched the Blue Envelope Program which helps law enforcement identify someone who has autism who may have difficulty clearly expressing themselves during police encounters
deputy Chief Cregel um if you could please come up and give us a little summary about this program thank you good evening everyone i want to thank the manager and the council for giving me the opportunity to speak about the blue envelope program and also I want to start by just giving a shout out to our
community policing bureau uh under the direction of Lieutenant Dan Allesio for uh implementing this program with our department uh for those who are not familiar um obviously the manager just gave a brief um description of the program i'll just go into a little bit more detail it was designed to create
safer more positive interactions between law enforcement and individuals with autism during traffic stops uh it aims to reduce misunderstandings and promote better communication it was first implemented as a pilot program in Hunter
County um and is now uh being rolled out throughout uh several towns in Bergen County obviously uh Tene of which is one uh so as far as what it what it actually is um so as the name suggests it's a a blue envelope um similar exactly to this one that I
have in my hand um and this is something that will be given out to uh individuals who request it and it's uh something where they can store their driver's license or registration insurance documents uh inside this envelope hold hold it with them in their car in their glove box in your center console and
there's also a card here that they can fill out that indicates that they have autism with their information and also some contact information for a family member or a guardian or parent um and in addition to storing those
documents it provides um reminders for these drivers about what they can expect during a motor vehicle stop so you know the fact that an officer might be shining the light um into their vehicle uh you know that that they should keep their hands on the steering wheel that they shouldn't make any sudden movements
or uh exit the vehicle without uh permission from the officer which is actually just generally good uh guidance for any drivers um so and for for officers it it provides a visual clue in that the the individual would uh be pulling this out
to to obtain their documents when requested handing it to the officer um and there's actually some tips on on the on the envelope for officers to remind them uh to encourage them to be patient use simple language uh give some extra time to the driver uh to process
information so we believe that this will help to reduce the stress and the anxiety for autistic individuals during traffic stops and hopefully as I said earlier prevent some misunderstandings and potentially volatile situations um and in terms of the visual cue in addition
to the envelope itself there's also uh a sticker that goes along with it that a driver can place on the back of the windshield so an approaching officer will have a heads up right away as they approach the vehicle that potentially uh this this is a driver who may be on the autism spectrum um as far as where uh
individuals who are interested in obtaining this uh can pick it up at police department headquarters 247 they can also contact uh community policing directly uh and they'll be passing it out um at different events community events national and out things like that throughout the year um so that's as far
as the the blue envelope program there's also a similar program i just want to note just in case anybody has a question the Motor Vehicle Commission has also rolled out something uh similar um it's a a voluntary designation that people can um can get on their on their
driver's license people on the autism spectrum disorder or communication disorder uh where they can have it noted on their driver's license or their um non-driver ID the Motor Vehicle Commission um also issues with that a pink card that must be carried with the
individual's driver's license or identification um and the recipient's driver's license would display a number five restriction to the don't know this designation and um that's meant to be a notification to the officers um that they're dealing with someone who may
have certain challenges when it comes to communication andor uh following instructions um and the only thing with the the Motor Vehicle Commission program is that you do have to go to Department of Motor Vehicles to obtain this unfortunately you can't do it online or over the phone you'd have to come in uh
to get that that uh restriction on your driver's license all right uh that's all I have thank you for your time thank you thank you Deputy Chief mr manager more yes um I will continue with my report um as a reminder uh the recycling depot will have a modified
schedule next week um it will be closed on Friday April 18th and also on Sunday April 20th please be advised that our community cleanup day is scheduled for April 27th signup information has been posted the environmental commission will
also be handing out the compost buckets to our first 75 residents that have signed up for our composting pilot program april is National Poetry Month this month is recognized as a special occasion that celebrates a poet's integral role in our culture and for our
community scott Pleasants our very own poet Laurette has certainly fulfilled his role and shared his passion for poetry at our many township events we thank Scott for sharing his talent with all of us throughout the year our pedestrian safety campaign continues and we will be hosting a kickoff event on
April 23rd at 1 p.m at Chestnut Plaza on Cedar Lane the campaign will focus on improvements we make on Cedar Lane for pedestrian safety and all are welcome to attend the Motor Vehicle Commission mobile unit will be on site at Township Hall on August 18th online appointments
will be available 30 days prior for resident sign up the Tene community pool registration begins on April 14th at the ROA Center please refer to our online flyers with additional information and fee schedule in addition we do have an
openhouse ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for May 21st from 6 p.m to 8:00 p.m at the new pool location on Commander Walk we hope that you can join us the Tene Farmers Market will begin on May 8th and will take place on Thursdays through October at the Garrison and and Beverly
lots our recent shredding event was a huge success for those of you who were unable to stop by that this past weekend our next event is on June 6th from 9:00 a.m to 1 p.m in the Township parking lot um our grant update um for this evening
um we were awarded a grant in the amount of $12,250 from the New Jersey Division of Highway Safety for distracted driving statewide crackdown for our project updates tonight her park improvements uh the basketball courts are being paved the
restroom is awaiting final inspections and the splash pad and fencing are near completion the playground safety installation is scheduled for later this month the Vote Park restrooms construction is complete and inspections to follow bike lane improvements as well
as the Argon Park tennis courts the contract awards are on tonight's agenda our 2024 roadway resurfacing program bid opening is scheduled for April 15th phelps Park splash pad design
is complete and we are awaiting funding andreas Park pickle ball courts construction has completed the paving and next we will be will be beginning the surface painting this will be completed by next month our Bell A drainage project um and our detention
tanks the design work is complete and a community meeting is going to be planned for the first week of May our Bell A urban rain garden is undergoing geotechnical testing this month and our pedestrian bridge um over
CXS we are awaiting an agreement between CSX and the township for design review and construction activities friendly reminder to sign up for township alerts on the front page of our website wishing all that celebrate a happy Passover and a happy Easter thank you mayor that's
all I have thank you very much Mr attorney jackie I have a question for the manager when I we first got on this is very We used to get an email with kind of like the grant um reports i think it was like once a month that was very helpful can we get that again i can
forward that to council thank you all right Mr attorney any report for you other than a lengthy close session one scott any report okay um formal meeting items are public
hearing on the 2025 Bergen County open space application for Phelps Park Tennis court restoration which is resolution 120 of 2024 um Mrs manager the the courts are closed is this relating to the courts are closed or this is more long-term
um uh oh yes this is related to the courts right now we are going to have the DPW resurface them so they're open for this season but we're applying for a grant so we can do full restoration next year got it when do you anticipate them reopening for the season with the repair hopefully in a couple weeks i'm hoping
by end of May okay um is there a hearing anyone we have a hearing anyone else in the public like to speak about the Phelps card dennis again just to clarify this is a public hearing on only resolution 120-2025 on tonight's consent
agenda about a grant application council Alan Sick president of course it's again it's obvious that we have to have a hearing but again we have been systematically shortchanged on these grants uh we need to be applying for them we need to be making sure that
we're getting our fair share um these we need to be taking care of these courts uh this is a a no-brainer uh let's go for this and again let's make sure that we are systematically taking care of our needs and making sure that we're getting our fair share of what goes to the 69 other municipalities in the county thank
you very much thank you uh Mr mr cler is anyone on Zoom before we close the hearing bill bringing in bill or discuss Mr war hey Bill you're free to
unmute about this resolution did you mean to raise your hand no I didn't mean to oh good still great to hear from you Bill no one else on Zoom mayor hey this meeting is closed roll call Mr clerk
this Oh no no this was just the public hearing and we'll handle the resolution on the consent agenda excellent look forward forward to that okay um we have public hearing adoption of ordinances mr clerk would you read that yes sir we have just one ordinance this
evening which is amending the township code to revise time limited parking laws at 429 Cedar Lane that's ordinance 17-2025 okay hearing's open anyone in the public like to talk on the revised parking laws
hey Mr clark anyone in uh public no ma'am sure good mayor I have a a request for the manager on this one um because this is uh I believe this is the one right in front of the UPS store can we make sure that we're No this is um in front of the dry cleaner because there's
only other handicap spot so the request is for 15 minutes for the purposes of dropping off i'm thinking of the other one okay sorry I'm thinking the wrong then never mind sorry let me do that one i'll have Mr a motion schwarz second thank you all
councilwoman Goldberg yes councilman Pan yes councilwoman G yes councilman Catz no deputy Mayor deputy Mayor Belchure yes deputy Mayor Oregon yes mayor Schwar
yes adopted and it was a yes from Ellie Cats by the way sorry I'm slow on the We got you okay meeting open to the public for good and welfare start it up mr rose Mr seagull you're next thank you howard Rose Tene
resident transparency uh I I wish there was a middle ground between the two considerate uh ordinances uh maybe less of a dissitation on one and uh a little less of a quick fix on the other
uh but it's a start and it certainly leaves the township in a better position than it had been so I guess that's all to the good i'm concerned that we're talking about or will be talking about uh impacts of
public gatherings and it almost seems as if it's going in a negative direction i just want to make sure that you understand that there is a need for spontaneous public demonstrations and maybe they can be restricted into what
areas they are uh and and hopefully there's not a rigma role to go through to have it approved by the township if in fact it needs approval uh where do you go how do you do it how does spontaneous lose its spontaneity red
tape i was surprised to hear about the social services budget where there wasn't sufficient interest to meet the needs so they depleted the principal which means in the future there'll be even less interest going to
the fund and less principle available to deplete it's a very vicious downward s uh spiral when you're doing that personal concern at the last meeting I was concerned about building
going up at State Street what it was how it was and a member of the community indicated that well if you don't like it get the money together and buy the property you can do whatever you want well I'm not a
wannabe lawyer but even I know I guess especially after being on the planning board that you can't just buy a property and do whatever you want to there are ordinances there are restrictions that's why there are planning boards and boards of adjustment because people have some concerns about
what they can and can't do and there's a lot that you can't do my concern also tangental to that situation my name was called out by that resident at Good and Welfare now mayor Mr mayor you provide
protection to council members and I assume that also it should be provided to past elected officials as well as the general public that if someone does that and calls out the name of an individual whether it be a council member or another person that you don't just
censor them cut them off it's appropriate thank you thank you Mr rosal good evening rich Seagull 25-y year homeowner here in Tene i brought a
visual aid tonight i carried this sign at the uh demonstration at uh the illegal Israeli real estate event at Keter Tora um yet another illegal Israeli real
estate event um even though the Jewish community has been served legal papers informing them that they are in violation of 22 different laws um I think that a Jewish heritage month is
wonderful that's my heritage i think that setting a day aside uh to address hatred against Jews is ridiculous and very badly timed
state of Israel murdered 58 human beings in the past 24 hours including a two-year-old uh in at least one case bombs were dropped on a house at night and the roof came down on people while they were asleep
uh today and tomorrow marks the 77th anniversary of the massacre at the Arab village of Deratin in which Zionist terrorists wiped out most of the population of that
village there's no increase in anti-semitism i don't care what members of this council say i don't care what the ADL says the the ADL is a joke what there is is a justified increase in
anger against Zionism and the state of Israel that is currently committing a genocide that went back on a ceasefire there was a ceasefire there was no reason for them to continue the genocide
and everybody knows it and they're looking at the Jewish community and they're saying "How is it possible that you don't see what's going on how is it possible that being survivors of a Holocaust yourself that you don't see
that another Holocaust is being committed by a country that claims to represent you and it doesn't represent me?" And by setting aside a day about hatred against Jews you're almost saying "Please hate
us you're making things dangerous for me and I don't support that goddamn country that's committing genocide and neither should any of you thank you for letting me speak." Thank you Mr seagull anybody else like
to speak mr ratzky anybody else art Vansky Kak resident been a while since I've stood before you here i wanted to bring to you my concern about the visual the look of T-neck
uh I keep on by chance visiting other towns and they seem to be healthier looking than Tene is in our commercial areas and specifically I'm referring to Cedar Lane and I've written to you many times about Cedar Lane and Cedar Lane is
not improving you know you can shuffle papers you can say good intentions i drove around it looks like half the town half the buildings are falling apart there's some construction maybe that's the reason but a first timer coming to
Cedar Lane would not be impressed a first timer coming to Cedar Lane would not think this is a healthy community i think it's a healthy community i want it to be a healthy community but somehow there's a there's a gap there if we're supposed
to be a good healthy good-looking community on my view and maybe I'm on extreme side but I live there in my view TNX C Lane needs a lot of work i've been doing this for two years now asking you
to get serious about it to take action on it i I want I want to see uh on the street i want to see the street I want to see improvements and I want to see trip hazards removed i I think you're
gambling with people getting injured because of we've disregarded uh obstacles that people people with uh don't have fully uh full
mobility tend to get caught up and there's a lot of those people there in TED none of you were on that committee though none of you have tried to walk up and down Cedar Lane with a cane none of you try to get by to your doctor and whatever you go okay it's it's not
safe it's not clear it's not professional it's not well done enough i can get off on story on this but uh I do it too often i have to pick up litter every time I walk to see the lane
we can't have a litter campaign we can't get our merchants to pick up after themselves are you afraid of the merchants are you afraid to ask them to pick up and clean up in the front of their property i'm not afraid of that that disrespecting the people of
Tene by letting the letter litter collect in front of their properties uh I'm surprised you find it acceptable thank you Mr vatzky s
actually sitting Sandy Silverberg T-neck resident a couple of things uh first of all I wanted to thank you for last night's uh infor session i was listening to it uh on on Zoom and one of the issues that came up
was pedestrian safety uh there are lots of areas in the town where it's just not safe for pedestrians the lights are too short for people to cross but then I was also thinking that pedestrians as well as motorists have a
responsibility how many times do I see somebody crossing when there's a legitimate crosswalk maybe 15 feet away but they're crossing outside of the crosswalk so I think maybe there has to be a little bit of balance not only do
the motorists have to start paying more attention me included but the pedestrians also have to be reminded that you should really cross at the crosswalk those are the only protected areas that's first
second I'm a little bit troubled by the ordinances that are passing that appear negative to me that instead of supporting understanding and celebrating various
heritage to end hate which I think we we believe should be ended toward all kinds of groups ending hate against AIP against Native Americans against
Hispanic etc etc etc i would much rather see ordinances that speak to celebration and to positive uh education about one heritage and another i actually don't believe in any
of it i I wish we had none of these ethnic and race which is a concept I don't believe in um ghettos I call them so that we do something in February for this group and then we never have to consider them again we do something for
this group we never have to consider them again i would like to see everything integrated all at once and just celebrate our humanity but I'm also realistic enough to know that that's not likely to happen so I I hope that we can
be more positive about what we do and uh relegate hatred to where it it belongs hatred just isn't tolerated in T-neck period end of sentence thank you thank you Sandy anybody else okay Alan and
then Alan Stone TK resident uh I was here on March 11th when the original subcommittee transparency resolution was passed i was very very glad to see that after weeks and weeks and weeks of work and a lot of effort uh to come together
as a council uh after a a task force was formed to deal with a subcommittee resolution um that this council came together and passed a resolution that genuinely opened subcommittees i was looking forward to attend i was looking forward to have the opportunity to hear what goes
on i thought this was a gigantic step forward i was also one of about three people it might have been four who were in the audience at a budget meeting just about 10 days later there was nothing on the agenda indicating that anything would be discussed it could have been
added to the agenda it wasn't uh it's unfortunately perfectly legal uh and not transparent but that's what was done there was no public input there was no public discussion uh this was a meeting that most residents were not either in
attendance and couldn't see uh on usual channels there was no opportunity for any public discussion this was a gigantic step backwards uh shortly after that was passed I sent uh a to entire
the entire council an email saying if as was discussed the issue was getting adequate public notice and getting the public listing I would like to attend the meetings that are forthcoming uh Deputy Mayor Belchure you
had indicated that the issue was that you would welcome people i had sent this it went to all seven council members and the only response I got was basically a form letter thank you for your email from the mayor i think this is really disappointing i think that the
resolution that is going to be passed tonight uh is really a watered down resolution i think it takes a gigantic step backwards i think it has the the appearance of being about transparency but it's not the one thing that I think
is a gigantic positive is I think that in the spirit of collaboration it was really remarkable to see that Councilwoman Goldberg was able to get your vote Mayor Schwarz uh against uh that resolution uh I think that's that's the kind uh of of work together spirit
that we should be working towards i hope that again this will pass and it will be presented as being something about transparency but I hope that that I and other members of the public will hold you responsible for that and that we will find out whether this is real
transparency or that meetings are being closed on pretexts uh based on claims that things need to be closed to the public that should not be i hope that we can really take some of the spirit of collaboration that created that first resolution and do much better to
demonstrate transparency for the people of Tene thank you thank you very much mr addison and Mr cohen you're next ray Addison Tene resident i just want to say that whatever Mr baski said about Cedar Lane is
identical on Tene and North East Teneck Road that that should be addressed as well because you have merchants having their hardware on the sidewalk which impedes people but not only that it looks very terrible that you have a merchant that have all of their wares
for for a showcase on the sidewalk and in the building so whatever he said verbatim just interject northeast Tene Tene Road thank you any corn brothers want to speak no okay
you're up okay anyone else yes ma'am have I'm not a resident but I have a business here and your name i'm sorry your name charlene French try to get um parking we don't have any
parking up by Amsterdam cuz they changed Amsterdam we used to park on there we can't park there anymore we don't have anywhere to park so I came by today to get parking for resident she told me I can't get resident parking cuz I don't I'm not a resident but I have a business there so
I don't know where to park and I can't pay for parking so I don't know what to do okay we'll discuss that afterwards in the clerk do you have a card yep french we'll connect uh Amir Ramitan TK resident so I saw
there was uh the time place and manner ordinance and I just saw they had a couple of uh distances in the ordinance added so I it's probably easier to read it is prohibited to pick it or engage in other activities that are disruptive or
undertaken to disrupt and are directed at and take place within 100 ft of the property line of a particular private residence h it is prohibited to pick it or engage in other activities that are disruptive or or are undertaken to
disrupt and are directed at and take place within 200 ft of a property line of a religious establishment including a house of worship or religious school from 1 hour before any religious program or activity commences to one hour after it concludes so how did we come up with
these distances because usually this is across the street right away maybe about 30 40 ft just so you're not directly in front of that residence or you know religious establishment or you know like a police station or fire department so
they can deploy or you're not impeding them but this pretty much puts you down a block or pretty much at the end of a block so it kind of defeats the purpose of uh protest so I'm not quite sure how we came up with these distances and why
they're in there can uh the council just clarify that thank you okay Mr clerk how are we looking on Zoom go ahead bringing in Chuck Bowers whenever you're ready
you're on mute you got three minutes sir i I don't see myself is there some reason for that we see you great oh great okay um I want to follow on a number of things that
um Alan S said tonight he's I think he was right in describing the process by which we first decided to make our subcommittees open and then to close them and then to open them in a much more limited way but I
want to focus something different i want to talk about the fact that for the last two decades beginning back in about 2005 on through certainly through 124 we never got minutes for council
meetings sometimes for an entire year and so therefore the fact that our clerk is doing a much better job of getting minutes to us in a timely way you'll have seven minutes to approve tonight is important but it's also
important that they actually be very accurate because if they are in fact telling us what it is that council has done either by way of a ordinance or a resolution they shape what it is that we
go about doing in the town and must be required to do so I was very disappointed to see that in the minutes for one of those seven minutes you're just you're passing tonight that there was a claim that there was an actual
resolution passed to deal with rescending the trans the subcommittee transparency resolution passed only 11 days
before and I went back and I checked and I said there was no resolution there was a there was at the very end of the meeting where there was no agenda motion whatsoever there was in fact a proposal
that there that they be rescended that was made as a motion not as a resolution never articulated more than the fact that it was to be a a motion
never made a resolution and yet somehow in the minutes well not the first version but the second version that came out of the minutes for that meeting it popped up an actual resolution that
obviously had to have been manufactured after the meeting because nothing like it had ever been articulated enumerated or in any other way uh called out either by uh council member
or by the clerk and calling for the roll call that resolution that those minutes should be not be passed tonight thank you very much we got Jackie Kates ignore that okay
jackie Kates Mayor Kates whenever you are ready you are free to unmute miss okay there she is hello everyone um thank you very much for the opportunity to say a few words
um you've been dealing with a lot of heady stuff tonight and I I find myself uh feeling very emotional um the council obviously uh has a great deal uh to uh handle uh I
think things are a lot more complicated now than they were 20 years ago so I I feel for you i also feel for the for the residents it's a it's a difficult time but I do want to thank you and particularly Deputy Mayor Belure for
supporting the uh marker for to to mark the 100th anniversary of Holy Name's uh existence uh as one of the most important institutions the two largest institutions in the community holy name
has really made a difference and I know that the administration is very uh gratified that the council would even consider this so thank you very much as long as I'm speaking I just want to echo Art Vatsky and Sandy regarding the
importance of pedestrian safety in Tene i still spend a lot of time there but on on behalf of older adults and what helps older adults helps everybody else as well there are numbers of of trip hazards and you probably remember that
the county added 3 seconds to c the four-way cross crossing at Cedar Lane and Garrison Avenue those three seconds made a big difference it doesn't sound like it would but people don't didn't have to rush across the street there may
be other areas where the the town or the county can add a few seconds that will make it much safer for people to cross streets i also just want to put in a plug for future mayors to consider the
class one seat of the planning board not as an opportunity for them to make a mayoral appointment but as an opportunity to serve to bring their vision and the vision of the council together with members of the planning board and public that's what that seed
is supposed to be for mayors not mayor's appointments and I hope that practice will go back to what it used to be when we all felt that responsibility and it was actually a gift to be able to serve
on the planning board in that manner so thank you all for your hard work and for the opportunity to speak to you tonight thank you bringing in Deb B please state your name for the record
hello is it me deb B you're up please state your name for the record hi good evening deborah Bleberg um Tene resident general troll um I'm also talking about the transparency stuff and also let's discuss transparency um I recently
received a wonderful set of Oprah emails and it kind of makes some very interesting narrative going on we have one here from Mar from the mayor dated to Marsha Staltz from New Jersey.com i think she was asking about the no vote with regards to the uh protest ordinance
that as we understand might have more than just first amendment issues but might have second amendment issues but hey what do I know oh talking of that um there's also a conflict here one would wonder because apparently the person who
um the non council person the other lawyer actually represented the Jewish link in 24 with regards to a case with Zakar including in Zachar with regards to protesting outside of a get refuser someone who's refusing a Jewish divorces uh house and the Jewish link was part of
that and uh Aka Shapiro was a representative so shouldn't our mayor have mentioned there might have been a slight conflict there transparency and all but let's discuss transparency and all these accusations have been going on for a while so here's an email i if you
are writing about something my quote this is from the mayor i appointed Councilwoman Goldberg to my seat on the planning board earlier this year after a vote on the development too long blah blah blah this project will provide housing as ever oh here we go as my as to any comments of anti-semitism sadly it was Miss Goldberg that refused
removed three Orthodox members from the adjustment board in 2022 as the first Orthodox mayor in Tene in 15 years I proudly represent all of Tene regardless of race gender or religion however at 5:45 p.m that night he seems to have
changed his tune the council appoints six public members the council appoints one council member to be a member it was that position that the council did not reappoint Denise Belchure to several years ago not just Mark Schwarz and the mayor holds one seat for himself or any
designate um so my question is was it the council that did it or was it Hillary and Mark that did it let's get our narrative straight because it seems to me that we only kind of go with what we want and my final thing is is that um can we please stop this is to the
general public especially to certain candidates who seem to be sabotaging other people's candidacy for assembly um please stop trying to get Republicans to switch to Democrats the Democrats in this state are currently losing membership they're literally they're jumping out the boat the rats can't
leave the ship fast enough and they're coming over to the common sense correct side so we don't want to see Democrats uh um in uh registration going up in New Jersey it needs to go down cuz Jersey is going red and we're going to get rid of
all this wokeness progress and idiocy so let's not ask about recruiting Republicans because we don't want to be recruited thank you and Rudolph yes Rudolph the Tina res we're just having a bit of a hard
time hearing you sir please take your time speaking into your mic can you pause that timer on are you there Mr rudolph call can you hear me yes loud and clear sir okay i just want to refute uh Mr seagull who
actually proves exactly why uh this council needs to pass an end Jew hatred uh day um Mr seagull is entitled to his own opinion but not fact uh and in fact Mr seagull has been very proud about
denouncing his uh Jewishness so he is not one to speak about ending Jew hatred he actually is the exact epitome of why we need to uh end Jew hatred thank you appreciate that yes sir we
have Keith Kaplan all the ex council members tonight where's Jason you got three minutes Keith whenever you're ready hello Mr mayor and Council thank you very much uh wanted to chime
in just a little bit because in Tene we seem to have forgotten the purpose of the uh first amendment the purpose of the first amendment is in large part to protect the freedom of exercising one's
religion as well as for freedom of speech and to a certain extent those are at odds with necessarily ending hatred to anyone because the first amendment says you are allowed to hate someone which is why Rich Seagull can stand up
and scream whatever he wants which is absolutely absurd it's why Howard Rose can demand that no one shout his name but that's not how the First Amendment works you are allowed to shout someone's name you're allowed to shout fire in a
crowded theater assuming that it's on fire you can do all these things and we seem to remember the rubric but forget the rationale we forget why these things are important because what this ordinance does is it says if you are
going with an intent an intent to harm the people that want to pray well then we're going to create a time manner and place restriction which while generally you are not allowed to create restrictions on speech time manner and
place is what the Supreme Court has says you are allowed to do for this specific reason and there have been cases where even 300 100 foot barriers were upheld for this particular type of uh uh issue
and if you think about it in ter if you strip out the context of the particular group imagine you have the NAACP running something in the uh uh church in Hackinack and people are literally marching there with bullhorns right
outside to the point they can't even hear their own uh meeting well of course that should be stopped the purpose of the first amendment is to have competing voices it's not to drown out a voice so that it can't be heard and that's the purpose of
this amendment it's to keep people within a certain distance when they are intending to disrupt if you're not disruptive and you're standing right outside that part of the ordinance wouldn't apply at all and as far as the
um uh transparency ordinance goes uh I think again we are forgetting the rationale behind why these meetings were required to be open and uh noticed the uh subcommittee cannot make any decisions all they can do is literally
all they can do is talk they uh discuss among themselves they offer suggestions then the council votes and that's why the council is required to have these restrictions i I think we should discuss the role of that subcommittee and whether it makes sense
point of information Mr mayor margaret Baker you're free to unmute miss Baker you are free to unmute miss Baker you were just unmuted but you muted yourself again please unmute in the
meantime I'm bringing in Michael Reich while we figure out Miss Baker's microphone we'll come right back to you Miss Baker michael Reich you have three minutes can you hear me yes michael Reich Margaret Breaker I see you got your microphone
unmuted please just hang tight we'll let Michael go real quick okay uh the first thing I wanted to discuss tonight is every member of town council every person on any of our uh statutory committees all take an oath
and that oath is to uphold the con includes upholding the constitution of the United States i question how many of these people actually have any knowledge or familiarity with the constitution referring to the ordinance that did not
pass regarding uh gatherings outside one of the members of council had first amendment concerns i post it that that's likely because that council member doesn't really understand the First Amendment i think we need to do something to educate
people who take this oath before they take the oath so that they understand what they're taking an oath for i'd also like to speak about the township taking over the Phoenix Swim Club the swim club has been a wonderful asset in this community for a very long time it would
be a shame to see it go under that being said it seems that I don't want to say not a lot of thought was put into the pricing structure but I question how it how that how the pricing came about it seems to me like it might be too low
um I think the town shouldn't really be in the business of running a pool like a swim club like this i think it would be better left to privatization and maybe the town should run it this
year but going forward I think we would be well served to uh to out to to bid it out and let a private operator operate it maybe make a profit on it uh what you know what's the town's plan
to upkeep the site make sure that it stays modern make sure that it doesn't fall apart become dilapitated and need major renovations like the vote pool and if that happens are we going to have money set aside for it uh we'd be much better off if we outsourced it moreover
I also don't think that there should be any exceptions to whatever pricing we come up with on the pool the fact of the matter is we can't we can't afford to continue to offer the pool if it's not being paid for i also would like to say
that I think it's wonderful what the deputy uh police chief was discussing about tonight i think that that that effort can actually save a lot of problems and it doesn't seem to cost anything thank you for the time thank you
margaret Baker you still with us yes I am thank you for your patience miss you have three minutes okay it's Margaret Baker urban teen resident i'm calling um in regards to
the grand opening of the building that's across the street um from me it's on Alfred Avenue and I noticed uh in the comments that were made in regards to
the building it was placed in it's a replacement for a building that was there at 329 Avenue alfred Avenue that is true
but um the mayor failed to mention that a resident a residential house was taken down in order for this building to be
put up 1085 was a residential area so I I think when you're speaking about the building you should also mention it includes the
area of a where a resident did live and also I listened to the meeting last night with the redevelopment of
Regina's and you know it's so amazing that you can have a meeting for the residents that are going to that live in the area their concerns their
questions and when the building across from me was approved and going to be built I requested to have a meeting with the council of the
residents that were directly affected which is across the street and that was like what is she talking about no answer so why is it you have it when one group
of people for redevelopment when I went to the council meeting and asked for a meeting why wasn't it possible for the people
the residents out here let's not have two sets of rules it's residents of Tina thank you Miss Baker bringing in Maxine Angel i'm sorry about that
alarm maxine you have three minutes whenever you are ready please unmute hi there is this working loud and clear Miss awesome good evening everybody thank you so much council for your service to the community and it's such a
a joy to hear so many of our of our neighbors uh presenting tonight i have such goodwill um to people who are so involved in our town and thank you for sharing your busy evenings with with Tene it's great to hear from so many of you i um I second everything Mrs baker
said and I want to um I want to thank all of the panelists that joined the Youth Advisory Board civics event um this past week it was tremendous and I commend the youth advisory board teams for putting together another successful program for the community and thank you
again to all of the panelists who have shared their evenings and their stories it was it was fantastic um and I am calling to support as well the um the noise ordinance i think that this is a great step to protect the um quality of
life for our T-neck residents and as we approach some of the excitement of the World Cup I think it will be helpful as we um prepare for potentially some some rowdy parties and things that might that might accompany that and um I live on Queen Anne and it can get quite loud
with uh with the lawn lawn care so um thank you for introducing this and also I want to thank the council's commitment to the um getting the budget right and I I commend all of you for um taking a step to make sure that we're looking at the the budget properly every every
dollar matters to um to our town so thank you for for looking more closely at that and have a a happy um happy Easter and happy Passover and uh good Ramadan to everybody and uh thank you so
much have a good evening bye-bye no other hands okay see no other hands good welfare is now closed council Mover thanks Mr mayor um so Art I guess he left and Sandy um I just wanted to let
them both know art come in here howard howard running we're running a meeting please go ahead um I wanted to let them both know that pedestrian safety is critical and that we are a very pedestrian town and we are kicking off a pedestrian safety event to bring
education and awareness on April 23rd at 1 p.m um Art I wanted to address some of what you said specifically the Envir Environmental Commission has been trying to put together a walk audit um and some of the uh viewpoints that um I know they're looking for is to have someone
with a cane so I would be happy to walk with you on Cedar Lane um for that uh walk audit um and see what we can do uh Mayor Case um I want to thank you for your wise words they're always appreciated and respected former council members uh Stone uh Dr powers thank you
for your important words on transparency i couldn't agree more former council member Rudolph thank you i I I agree and I just wanted to read a very quick um quote from a book that I just started um it's about the history of anti-semitism and it seems kind of relevant for what
everyone said so just going to give the quote and then be done so it's never wrong to speak out about anti-semitism it's not it doesn't need to be compared in scale or severity to any other hatred and addressing it does not diminish the importance or urgency of any other issue
anti-semitism is worth is worthy of concern and attention in and of its own right and it's categor as categorically wrong as any other form of racism and bigotry if we're serious about justice and we're serious about equity then we must be serious about anti-semitism and I'm not going to allow it to be ignored
and I hope tonight that we do vote yes on this resolution once again and we don't just pass it we live it and we say with clarity with the commitment that we're going to end you hate so I want to wish everyone a happy Passover and a happy Easter and be safe okay good jo I just want to say thank
you neighbors for coming out thank you for your comments i think they're very important uh I just want to underscore the fact that you know transparency is important to all of us um subcommittees are um are open for those that still are running um you know for all to attend uh
I encourage all residents to come out to attend uh if you can't attend a meeting um certainly view the the video the you know the the clerk's office will be posting video so you can still stay involved still stay informed and so forth um I just want to say that all
hatred is wrong um we know that racism is on the rise in this nation and even in this state the new New Jersey state police reported last year in 2024 40% of all instances of hatred happened toward African-Americans but we say that hatred
of all people must be condemned um I thank you uh Miss Silver for your positive view of of going of of looking at ways in which we can find common ground and commonality and work from there uh I thank you miss uh Mr vashy and and M uh Mr addison uh I do believe
that efforts are underway now to address um Cedar Lane to address Teneac Road in terms of um evaluating assessing working with the health department to ensure that uh you know we take care of the look of uh in any kind of deferment of
of maintenance and so forth so that is underway um there's a brochure that's been created that's uh speaks to helping our um retailers understand that and and lastly I just want to say that it's important that we try our very best to
find common ground we don't always get it right but as long as we are open and honest with each other we can make changes we can make clarifications but the ultimate goal is that we move our township forward thank you and happy
Easter and um enjoy the rest of your holidays governor um just quickly Omrit we'll we'll answer your questions about the feet I think before the introduction of that ordinance because a lot of talk went into it and we're going to make some changes so they'll get answered um to
Sandy I agree i think people who walk look down at their phones and people who drive look at their phones and it's just a a bad situation i'm glad that on the 23rd at 1:00 on Cedar Lane we're having the pedestrian safety um event which is really important also the traffic bureau
has been fantastic if you call them out to an area where there is an issue they will um take a look at it and identify if there's anything that they can do to fix it so they've been fantastic also um I wanted to commend the chief and the
deputy chief they left but the blue envelope uh program just seems like we're educating ourselves on how to handle people before um things go ary and I think that's just a wonderful thing um and also I want to welcome back
Mayor Kates and council members Rudolph and Kaplan and S uh for speaking tonight it's very nice to see that people are still invested in the town even after they've served um to Dr p's point Scott can you just answer that about the the
resolution sure uh so I I I disagree with um his conclusion or his opinion that there was no resolution that was made at the uh at the last meeting um to the the one that to resend the previous
resolution on on subcommittees uh you Councilman Organ you indicated that you wanted to resend that previous resolution and I think you spec my recollection is that you specifically asked me how that during the meeting how that what the action was what the the
motion that would that would occur would be and I specifically said that the the action that the count that the council would take would be to uh essentially walk on a resolution i recall specifically using the word resolution um that would resend the previous um the
the previous resolution uh there and at that point I think you made a you made a motion which you know I I interpreted and Doug interpreted I don't speak for but I think we both interpreted as being a motion to move that resolution um I'll note the difference between one of the
difference between emotion and resolution is one of the other things the other actions that was taken as part of that resolution was spec specifically to create a task force and name some individuals that would be part of that task force that's not something that can be done through a motion to resend a
previous resolution it's that has to take place through a through a resolution um council members are obviously not you're not lawyers uh there's no magic words that have to be used that the I thought the intent of the u of the council was clear uh one of
the one of Doug's jobs as clerk is to accurately reflect the actions that are taken by the council at the meet at meeting minutes um I'm sorry at the meeting in the minutes um I think that was done uh I thought it was I thought it was clear that the action what you
what the council was trying to do um I did specifically note that it was for that it was going to be done through a resolution um and because we have the text of the resolution itself there's no other option that we have except to essentially essentially create create the resolution based on what the council
uh does at at the meeting so I had no problem with uh with that i have no problem with the with the actions that were taken from a legal perspective i have no problems from legal perspective with minutes and I think they accurately reflect what happened at that meeting okay thank you very much for everyone
for coming a few things uh uh don't look now but a longtime mutual dream of Councilman Son and Councilman Kaplan is starting to come true a bathroom in every park with the addition of uh North Vote Park with the addition of Heric Park with the addition of um Phelps Park
we're we're slowly making progress towards um bathrooms bathrooms for everyone and everywhere um Mr rose there is no and I can maybe defer to the attorney there is no reason why and there's no code against someone calling
out a resident's name if they do it and defame them if they do it and they're rude we can shut them down but in terms of saying "Mr rose says this and I disagree." That is absolutely fully covered we can gladly talk about it i believe I'm seeing you tomorrow night
and I'll gladly talk about that in further detail with you then um um Mayor Cage thank you for calling in just a point of reference as it relates to my serving on the planning board i actually served 14 out of 16 years on the planning board and I never knew why the mayor never served until I started
until I became mayor and realized that you literally have meetings day in and day out and I look forward to others filling the void filling that meeting for me when I can i'm definitely not shy about my where I stand on the planning board and planning overall if I can make it great but I I my service on the
planning board was for 14 years and maybe more and um lastly Mrs baker you're absolutely right in addition to a multi-acre office complex there was one rental house that was also taken down a small piece of the property but absolutely you are correct and and
additionally uh as it relates to the meeting and we did start a construction 329 and we did have the privilege of meeting with you and your neighbors in our conference room along with the developer the town manager and other members um as we discussed and plotted
out the construction of 359 Alfred Avenue addition on that which is actually starting to break ground uh in the next few days and of course I've can come by your house a numerous times as well so if there's anything else you'd like to discuss as always my number 9179029303 please feel free to always
reach out to me with that we'll turn it over to the next part of the meeting we have our consent agenda mayor I just want to remind council that we uh received a memo from the manager explaining resolution 124-25 this evening about the bumper
purchase from Deerrist we are still working on the purchase is that this resolution was just the improper step so we are asking council before considering the consent agenda to uh get a quick roll call on removing this from the consent agenda that's resolution motion
Schwarz thank you that was from Councilwoman G i'll just roll down council Goldberg yes council Gan yes councilman G yes council Katz yes deputy Mayor Belchure yes deputy Mayor Warin yes mayor Schwarz yes so we have
successfully removed resolution 125-2025 from tonight's consent agenda so all that is left is three sets of raffles seven sets of minutes resolutions 117 to 133 132 and 132 being the uh ending
Jewish hate and 133 being the transparency resolution we got rid of 124 and the bill list in the amount of 8,144,382 miss Mr mayor I would like to pull 117
119 122 126 and 127 please excellent anybody else want to play i'm sorry council one more time sure it is 117 119
122 126 and 127 um and when I go through them I'll read the titles so everybody knows 117 119 122 126 127 yes thank you i'd like to make a motion to approve all the raffles minutes resolutions now
pulled in the bill list as stated second roll call mr clerk councilwoman Goldberg um I am abstaining on the minutes from both the March 20th and March 27th budget meetings and then I am Okay i'm a
no on 18 yes on 20 yes on 21 wait one sec i'm sorry all right no on abstain on the the the 20th and the 27th budget minutes yes and then no on 18 yes uh yes uh
that's due to lack of transparency yes on 120 yes on 121 123 um abstain on 125 because I'm not really clear what it's fully doing and I need to uh speak to Mr ash yes on 129 uh
abstain on 130 because I just don't feel like that I have enough information still uh yes on 131 yes on 132 no on 133 and I'm abstaining on the bills list because I'm uncomfortable with some of the errors that I found um about how the
money is being spent for example the wiener firm um different GL's hitting and until I feel comfortable paying I I need to get to that point that's it council began on the bill list no on
118 no on 130 no on 131 no on 133 yes on everything thank you sir councilwoman G yes to all councilman
Catz abstain on the bill list abstain on the minutes where I'm absent and uh yes to the resolutions deputy Mayor Belure yes to all deputy Mayor Morgan yes to all mayor Short thank you we had a few polls okay so for
the amending the council meeting schedule um because and I want to you know thank the governor for moving the election date but that that we went from two meetings to to one and I want to see if we can add a meeting in July so that the residents and then the township
doesn't have to go too long without us being able to pay bills or do any other business it's the summer it's the summer swim club's first um you know year i just feel like going 90 days with three meetings and then having two in September and then again 90 days so I'm
making a motion to amend to add one meeting um July July 1st or August 5th so that we can have one meeting so there's not such a long gap um Oh that's I'm going to chime in here i mean you've
abstained from your bill list so to sit there and say you want another meeting to pay bills when you've refused to pay any bills I think I everything else is out for me so I'm out I'm against that okay i Sorry no I was I would just prefer to
um you know if the town manager wants a meeting she'll let us know and we can add one to the uh to the calendar on an ad hoc basis i don't think we need to pre-plan for a meeting that we don't know we need yeah i agree i think it's it's summer time it's it's family time vacation time
keep up plan no problem i'll monitor with the CFO and I'll let you know if we need an addition all right well I uh um next can we move 117 you want to do Y can make a motion
to approve 117 second roll call please second from De Mayor G councilman Goldberg no councilman Pagan nope councilwoman G yes quiet on the set please i'm sorry art
councilman Catz yes demir Belchure yes demare Oregon yes mayor Schwarz yes adopted excuse me um so the next one is just simple so it's appointing uh the green team so I just wanted to amend it and see if everyone was okay with adding
myself since I'm the environmental commission liaison and the environmental commission is pretty much doing this with Doug um so that's my motion i would like to make a motion to add myself to the green team counciloman Goldberg yes counciloman
Bean yes councilwoman G abstain councilman Catz yes deputy Mayor Belchure deputy Mayor Oregon yes mayor Schwarz yes
122 um I actually need the CFO on this um really quickly I This is what I tried to call him before um 122 so because I was going through the the budget stuff the there's three accounts that he has
this hitting and one of the accounts um is from a ordinance that does not is specifically for Andrea's Park um and because last year we were able to move
the rest of the project um out actually the entire $400,000 is available so um I'm making the motion to take off um an account um I'm just going to read the account number just because it's
that's what it's called i'm sorry Doug uh capital account 0455999026112 because the uh bond ordinance specifically says is only for Andrea's Park and have everything instead of the three have everything hit um
C4559905214 and5 which is specifically for Argon Park actually when it council this has been on the agenda since Thursday are you saying you reached out to the CFO in this i don't really answer that thanks Mayor mayor I'm on the meeting sorry Mayor i'm
on Sorry Mr civo we're not I'm talking right now sure it's 10:15 at night you gave a laundry list of questions on an agenda that came out Thursday i'm doing my job i'm asking you a question you I'm not answering okay roll call please i'm going to make a motion to approve 122
i'm making an a motion to amend it so it hits the right account we can't hit a bond ordinance that has that's incorrect it's illegal what I what we're going to do is we're going to treat our employees and the public with respect and we're going to treat each other with respect yeah that's a long time coming from you
a roll call please it's a motion to approve 122 and seconded by Councilwoman scott I would like a legal confirmation about this yeah well so I was honest Doug had asked me a question i know i'm sorry council Goldberg had you made a a motion at that
point i made a motion pagan seconded it this is resolution 122 okay so there's a motion in a second we have to We have to do to to do what to amend to amend to amend it so we're hitting the right bond or let's do the roll call please council Goldberg
yes council Pan yes councilman G sorry did can um Scott can you confirm whether or not it is hitting the right bond ordinance or not do we know that i think there's a question that Issa needs to answer i can't I got Issa on bond ordinance
52-2021 various park playgrounds and recreational improvements specifically it's about Argon Park it's not for for um Andrea's park we moved the other uh GL uh into most last year and the other
GL is entirely actually for Um this is this is the right one so the other one is for Andreas this is for for that so it was hitting 2023 this is literally what it was for and it's entirely full you sent me the um
the Edmonds report so for the benefit of council and I work very closely with the manager bond council and the auditor all of our resolutions have very permissive language that say included but not limited to and the reason that they say
that are in the event we have a bid that comes in higher than we anticipate and we have cushion and thank you Councilwoman Goldberg last year for moving that charge to most which really allowed us to award this contract this evening i believe in the ordinance that I sent you earlier today and I just
checked it the language says Argon Park including but not limited to Argon Park and that's why along with the engineer and purchasing agent and manager we felt that this ordinance with enough funding was sufficient for this award this evening otherwise you would not be able
to award it or would take more promotes all right no Mr sman in saying that are we able What are we voting on now are we voting it as is and you explained it as is or we don't need the amendment we don't need the amendment so let's continue with the roll call i believe you're up to Councilwoman G on the amendment no
councilman Catz no deputy Mayor Belchure no deputy Mayor Oregon no mayor Schwarz no i'd like to move 122 second Schwarz actually motion i have the floor that's actually You don't there was a motion
you confirm the the rules that the person that pulls the resolution has the floor that is true was it voted on i pulled it voted she she p she had pulled it from the and it was voted down we voted down the amendment which means I
have the floor to move it then correct to move to move I'm sorry you want you want to move the I'm going to make the motion to move it 122 2025 okay instead of me I'm sorry so to understand I'm not going to make the motion you're going to make a motion the same motion to approve we have rules
and procedures yes so it's f seconded it's it's mo motion by Goldberg second by order councilwoman Goldberg no councilman no councilwoman G yes councilman Catz yes
debbie Mayor Belure yes debbie Mayor Oregon yes mayor Schwarz yes 126 there's no certification on the CFO for this this is the awarding a contract to John Garcia Construction for emergency repair of sanitary stu uh storm and sewer for a
little over $600,000 and I'm just not sure where it's hitting can somebody check that i'm looking right now it says in uh this resolution that there are available sufficient uncommitted appropriations to provide for the
payment pursuant to NJAC 530-5.3C and 530-5.5B so if East is still with us maybe he could speak on that so I am I don't have the account with me and my apologies i don't get a chance to see every resolution before it gets on with
certification uh normally I'm asked I was not asked for this account most likely I'll have to get back to council but it would be we have sufficient funds in various capital accounts for emergency sewer repairs that I would most likely encumber funds for this contract i can try to get that account
uh but if we have to pull it we'd have to pull it um so you you weren't asked for the account number for this i was not aware that this was being on tonight's agenda Councilwoman uh but I don't want to have a certification of funds it's inaccurate
so um we would have to come back to this in two weeks do you want us to table it are you able tonight Issa i mean you have to give me a few minutes to pull something and amend it we have a few other resolutions that we pull yeah give me give me a few moment so why don't you
go look for that sure um so last one is 127 awarding the contract to North Jersey Landscape Care for the baseball field maintenance so last year all the actuals to this hit most and I recall that was a public conversation that we had with Dean um and that we basically
committed to him that to make sure that we were going to take care of the the new turf that that was going to be hitting most um and I see it's not so I wanted to make a motion to you know exact this is what we said last year so I want to make a motion to move this to
most second um so on the motion I know that the field advisory board has been talking about switching contractors for the fields I believe and they've worked on this and I know that we've talked about using most funds to uh redo the field at vote so if we've got this money in the
budget I'd rather not take it from most is just my opinion so the municipal space open trust advisory board was like prepped on this that they they agreed to it last year they were not thrilled with it last year that it was hitting because it's maintenance but they agreed to it
and they that you know that's literally what they're still keep is there is there money in the account to pay for this without using most funds or Issa i don't know where it hits in the budget
while Lisa is looking at that Mr mayor can I ask Council Member Goldberg to explain the motion i didn't quite understand it sure so last year when we passed the budget um when we got the new turf uh Dean was talking to us about the cost of the maintenance for the turf and
he had asked us to commit that in order to ensure that the beautiful turf that we just spent a lot of money on continues to be maintained that it come out of most um and that's what I would like to continue that commitment just just a question i don't think this is
for turf i think this is for the Hawthorne field and the other fields that we've picked up from the schools to um to maintain the DPW maintains it um Mike Serbian maintains it and he's changing companies after speaking to Anthony D'Angelo i believe this was
discussed by the field advisory board i don't think this this um relates to the turf fields at all well all of this hit most last year because we committed to the maintenance but again there's a motion on the table there's a second we can go all right so
let's call the roll who was the motion and a second i made a motion to move this to most like we did last let me not ask I want to ask Isa his um recommendation so my apologies which resolution because I was looking up the other account is this for
one 26 no I'm looking up 126 which resolution now are we talking about most for the budget 127 127 i mean it's so it's a total amount of $113,000 i mean it's I don't want to say
it's six of one half dozen of the other but it's it's not that much of a large amount to take it from most you know typically you would charge your trust funds first and before charging capital of the budget but I know council has some considerations for most funds
um I don't want to say jump ball but really council it's up to you it's just remember whatever you charge for most is less money you have in most other projects that you designated from there and Mr co is this for the turf or it's not for the turf there's a comment about Dean wanted the
turf money for most so I'm looking at it right now and so this is from our buildings and grounds budget that we have and it actually came in a little bit lower than we had anticipated um you know similarly if you were to move this from the budget to most you'd have more money freed up
in the budget um so it's it's however you'd like to do it really again if you take it from most it's $113,000 less you have in most honestly I just don't think it's I I don't see anywhere that it's it's for turf that's one can I also do you have a
preference Miss Manager um I I I don't honestly I don't have a preference it can come out of most i said like Issa said it's not you know an astronomical amount of money so I mean if we did take it out of most it's it you know really up to you as a council
but either way um I think Issa said would be fine um council McGumber being that it's not mof are you still comfortable taking out of most no I want to hit most that's where it hit last year yeah i ask question are you so you're saying even if it's not turf you still want to hit the No I'm comfortable
with it hitting most okay that's a slippery slope so I guess we'll call the roll call it's It's a maintenance item i love not taking it out of the budget but we defer that's way vote i'm going to leave it in the budget as is so I'll say no
you already start yeah i think it was on me right it's on you and what And what was your vote Council i'm going to keep it in the current budget as as planned so no no vote councilman Catz yeah I'm okay
taking it almost give me a yes or no that's a yes a yes okay deputy Mayor Belair no deputy Mayor Oregon no mayor Schwarz I'm staying because I really don't um
How much is there how much um Isa if you're still there how much is our our most count before at the end of 2024 my recollection it was approximately 1.1 million okay so I'm actually going to I think we should split it then if that's the case if half the people want to take it from
most and half want to take it from the regular budget I still have to vote so if I vote no then it fails and then I can make a motion to reintroduce is that correct splitting it so I'm going to vote no and I believe the motion fails Mr clerk yes and I'd like to make a
motion under 127 that half come from most and half come from the capital second uh mayor that's operating current sorry half come from most have come from
operating yes there's a motion from you mayor and a second from Cats councilwoman Goldberg yes councilman Pagan yep councilwoman G yes councilman Catz
yes deputy Mayor Belchure yes deputy Mayor Oregon no mayor Schwarz give over 26 sorry are you ready for 126 when you see your above unfortunately I have some connectivity issues i'm trying
to get on i not able to access my accounts yet so should we table it for next time is it urgent i I I don't know how urgent it is i might have to defer to the manager on that but um I Yeah I don't know the urgency but I want to get this right as well i mean you need the certification of funds don't you
correct we We can table for next we can table it excellent all right i make a motion to table roll call on the table please Mr clerk councilman Goldberg yes councilman Bean yes councilman G yes councilman Cash yes
mayor Belair yes mayor Oregon yes mayor Schwarz yes sorry Mike i keep turning my mic off i apologize um I do not believe we're going to have a quorum and definitely not in person on Thursday as many people said they're either traveling or unavailable um we're waiting on the CFOs
and do some research to introduce potentially introduce a capital at the next meeting next meeting is on 422 yes so with that I'd like to make a motion that we cancel the meeting for this Thursday second councilman Boberg no councilman Pagan no
councilman G yes councilman Catz yes deputy Mayor Belure yes deputy Mayor Oregon yes mayor Schwarz yes okay introduction of ordinances if that is the next item mr mayor I'd like to may request that
the council make a couple minor changes to the uh the or the ordinance that's the sorry I'm trying to pull up the number here to ordinance number 20-2025 this is the special events or ordinance uh changes that I would like
to request be made are under the definition of special event that uh the definition be changed to say having a common purpose or goal proceeding along a public street public sidewalk uh and inserting the phrase public property uh
or other public rightway adding phrase public property there under section 31B4 to change the time of approval for uh uh permit applications to from two business days following the application
to three business days following the application in the same section changing the times from uh no event no such event shall commit earlier than 8 am nor continue beyond the hour of change it to 10 p.m of the same
day and then finally in section 31B9 uh 31 B9 each currently says uh it is prohibited to pick it or engage in other activities that are disruptive or undertaken to disrupt and or direct that
and take place within 200 feet of the property line or change i would ask that the the council change that to 100 ft of the property line uh and those are the changes I would ask that that the council make and we would need a motion to do that i'll make the motion second
councilwoman Goldberg yes councilman Pagan yes councilwoman G yes councilman Katz yes mayor Belchure yes mayor Organ yes mayor Schwarz yes so the those changes will be reflected in if the council decides to move
forward with this uh this ordinance and introduce it those changes will be reflected in the version that is published for uh prior to adoption we have ordinance 18 this evening amending the township code to provise no parking on certain days to
include a portion of hardre ordinance 19 amending the township code for township to provide regulation on excessive noise ordinance 20 amending the township code for the township to provide for additional regulation on the time place and manner of special events it's all our ordinances
i'll move them all second council Goldberg yes to all council yes that's one G yes to one and three no to two
i'm sorry we had 18 1920 noise thank Yeah yes xx on this version it's 18 i'm sorry okay sorry yes to 18 yes to 20 no to 19
deputy Mayor Councilman Catz yes to Mayor Belure to 18 and 20 no to 19 mayor Oregon uh yes to 18 and 20 no to 19 mayor Schwarz yes to 18 and 20 no sorry
no to 19 we'll see 18 and 20 on the 22nd is there something else I'm missing sorry and can I actually say something before the motion to adjourn we we get our packets on the Thursday before the meeting and the staff is so fully available to us the attorney and the
land use attorney and the manager and the CFO and the clerk and anybody that we need and the fact that we're coming to these meetings and we're coming to the consent agenda with issues that need to be tabled because they haven't been looked at before is not okay the fact
that we have to call the CFO at 10:15 during a meeting is not okay and I I don't like the way that we're treating or some of us are treating um the people that work for us and work so hard for us i think we can try better i think we can take care of these things before we're
sitting here and not use them as opportunities to um campaign and politic and grandstand i think the people that work so hard for us really deserve better than this and they deserve more respect um I I don't I believe that if we do
have a question of the CFO and we're here meeting it's important to get him on the phone don't get me wrong i I what I was trying to explain was that we should strive if something comes out on a Thursday to reach out and if he doesn't respond then yes or if something does come out three hours earlier hey
it's not fair no one got a chance to reach out so what I'm saying is when the agenda comes out if it's on the agenda then please reach out if it's added he's in a meeting just like we're in a meeting i just want to expand it i think you agree i hope you agree with me but to strive to get this done beforehand i
just want to point out that we um actually work for the residents and that's really who we respond to um and if we're really talking about petty I just direct everyone to look at their behavior over moving leaf blower
time from 6:30 a.m to 8:00 a.m or 9:00 a.m second