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record within the first 10 Days of the New Year salute to the flag please to the flag of the United States of America to the rep C roll call please Omar counc member Corsair here counc member D here C
Michael CC member dror here park here here first thing on the agenda is an update on the dean Drive properties Jeff Zen here to help us with that right come on
up um I'm not sure what exactly you want to know in terms of the update where we are think we've all been updated in terms of the negoti status of negotiations with the redeveloper agreement which is to say that uh we've
learned after negotiating redeveloper agreement for quite some time that the uh entity that we were nego ating with does not own all the property any longer and uh that's the status of where
we were where we are after having negotiated a comprehensive redevelop uh Redevelopment contract so I'm going to just a couple of questions so we know the status of the hotel has been purchased by a new individual owns a new entity that is
correct that's separate from the original overall group right that's correct the the group that we were negotiating with that owned the totality as far as I know still owns the southernly piece the Northerly peace
Hotel sold off relatively soon after the Redevelopment plan was adopted uh unboned to us doesn't that nullify the Redevelopment plan or nothing to do with that well well it doesn't no well the
Redevelopment plan had specific covenants in there that representations that they owned all the property so it does know so well they I mean if if assuming they had ever signed
it it would have you know there would have been a breach but beyond that as I think the council will recall it required the developments to be developed together that is to say you couldn't develop the the consisted
living without first doing the hotel so I I don't even know what to make of you don't know what why we weren't told all this I mean I don't even know to what end because it just didn't make sense and and we had very specific Provisions in there
about the types of uh refurbishment and Rehab to the hotel that was required and as I say it was all required there was all you know a condition to be able to get a certificate of occupancy to build to
occupy the assist living facility so I don't understand it just doesn't make sense but that's where we are go ahead Lauren um we declared an area need of Redevelopment correct so what conditions did I'm sorry I don't have it
in front of me I haven't looked at it in a little bit uh what conditions did we have to create that area under that statute I I don't recall the exact I mean there was a redevelop there was a
study done right that the council had in front of it when it determined that the conditions were appropriate for making that and I I I think one of them was that the fact that particularly the property to the south of the hotel the
South property had become um how do I put it dilapitated okay okay um and the property to the South had also become underutilized so in term I just want to read like in terms of what we discussed
for the existing Hotel property that was included in the area of Redevelopment but if this it's hard not to do this it's hard to figure this out here um and if if this new entity is this new
entity then abiding by those conditions so just just to make clear um backing up a little bit when you have a Redevelopment as Jeff suggested there's a study done first in order to determine that the block and lots that are part of that study actually meet the definition
of the state statute of what is an area need of Redevelopment that was found on those southerly lots remember they had other building structures on them that had since been knocked down those stru were up at the time the study was done a Redevelopment study looks at the current
conditions it doesn't say what you're going to do now the next step after that's designated is the adoption of the Redevelopment plan which is adopting what the zoning is for it right what Jeff was talking about earlier with the Lots being under the same ownership that was part of the requirement also for the
Redevelopment agreement which the council since reced authority to enter into once we learned that all of the properties weren't under single ownership because that was one of the conditions of the Redevelopment agreement so there's three different steps I just want to make sure everybody
has those clear um conditions into what the developer would do would be in a Redevelopment agreement that was not executed got the plan is zoning and I think it might be helpful Jeff if you wanted to let everybody know what the
Redevelopment plan zoning how explain like the overlay portion of it and that there is still the underlying zoning and what that is because obviously the Redevelopment plan is envisioned can't really move forward since part of the hotel like the Lots were going to be merge together and then
separated again so that design won't work under separate owner at this point can the owner of the Southern or plan can they do anything or they can't do anything so the Redevelopment plan is what we
call overlay zerone okay so you you can take advantage developer redeveloper can take advantage of that zoning on the Redevelopment plan the Redevelopment plan provides for two principal uses two
permitted uses assisted living or congregant care housing and hotels hotels hotels and there are some accessory uses and so you could take advantage of that
or because it's an overlay you can still UTI iiz you want to take advantage of the underlying zoning you can do that um we had a few months ago an applicant come in um in front of
the planning board that was in an affordable housing overlay Zone it worked more efficiently for them to utilize the underlying zoning and they utilized the underlying zoning
because that was an overlay they could have used the overlay but it was more efficient for them to use the underlying zoning and there was still an affordable housing unit but I'm just saying that's the same thing here they can use the underlying zoning the
underlying zoning is the B2 Zone that allows any use in the B1 Zone in addition business secretary of schools hotels Museums Art Galleries libraries and the
B1 is your downtown business district things in1 is your downtown business district you know retail St development retail stores personal service yes library but they can't use the overlay they cannot
not really they cannot take advantage of it because they don't know you need one developer correct so it's underlying us so can they build residential there so so mayor your question was because
it's a they're allowed B1 right and B1 allows dwelling units above the first floor so it's like your downtown district where you have commercial two stories about okay so thank you just so the public understands
so the so the dean Drive project that was going to be the assisted living in the hotel so that's no longer there's a new owner of the hotel I mean I think for the public out there who's listening and are very interested in that seeing that this project was going ahead you know there's a lot of questions is it
going to ahead and clearly it's not so the assisted living is not and and we have no agreement with the current hotel owner at this time nor the other owner it's irrelevant because he's anything to do with the
other yeah neither of them it's dead okay I just want to clarify that for our public yeah and just for just for clarification he has come to us to discuss some of the things he wants to
do there to upgrade that hotel so we're waiting to see if he actually makes those applications which he's free to do so pardon me which the hotel is free to do so they want he's not he's not tied to this right right and that's
a because he's not in this development plan he's not tied to it well he's not tied to it but in the in the underlying B2 Zone it's permitted use right now yeah we updated our storm water management ordinances um and one of the things that
we were excited about the old plan was that we were going to have some water control some storm water flooding controls um and I guess we can't enforce anything on an area need around the hotel right the area need has nothing to
do with storm water um those requirements come into play when you add on to a development if if if they're just making Renovations and the existing box there you would not have to do any upgrades on storm water
now I knew that but right but if they come in for a cyan approval depends upon how extensive their Renovations are then those types of things may come into play but if they're just going to do interior inovations that's just a
building permit who has more questions for Mr Zen I'm glad you came in but pretty pretty straightforward done any other questions for Jeff Jeff anything else you want to Enlighten us
with no that's I just to to councilwoman Dayton's question though if you recall we added some heightened storm water Provisions in the Redevelopment correct um but you got to comp with the Redevelopment plan those are the some of
the benefits that would Ur to right okay thanks for being here we appreciate it pleasure all right take care all right tree ordinance discussion yes we have um just's a couple ends of the tree ordinance discussion one is uh
we've been approached by a couple of residents who um have faced forfeiture into their escrow uh because they have not been able to plant the required trees uh Bas of calculation and part of
the issue is uh as I understand is that there's not enough land their property to plant all the trees that they would be required to plant um so they're looking for some due process relief or appeal process to the
governing body um from a determination of the DPW director regarding the number of trees they would have to plant or to get some relief from that number of trees if the property signs is not adequate to to handle that number of
trees and then on the other end of Spectrum uh a couple of the council members had uh brought the subject up of landmark trees and how they get designated and whether or not there needs to be or should be some changes to the Orin around that question so can I
uh talk to the to the first J Lauren yeah um so our tree ordinance just as an explanation to anyone out there much in the same way as other ordinances I've read is is precisely this it's the calculation is uh to replace to mitigate
what you've taken away um if you cannot do that on your own property then you you forfeit the amount of money to go to our shade tree our fund that benefits the whole town we've been able to put up hundreds of trees throughout town in the
last couple of years we're doing all right with it um I want to just highlight we were able to put up many many about 100 trees of the nature center from that fund so you know while I appreciate that there is a certain population that's
maybe frustrated that they can't put the trees back and the property that they took them from that's actually our first primary goal is we always want them replaced in the area that they were taken from but you know sometimes the footprint of the of the house that's too
large and uh we allow them to uh forfeit quite frankly that money so it helps the town rid large so so that's just how a shade tree fund works so I would not be supportive of of you know now a relief situation we have a calculation and it's
it makes it fair for everybody in that situation and and I think I know that council's GNA go but I think um the also the other part of it is is that we have a mechanism right now that uh someone could appeal the determination of the zoning officer if he determines that
he's not going to issue a tree cutting permit that can come to the Gover come to the governing body we've had that but we don't have that same mechanism in this regard so basically right now it's it's the the termination of the DPW directory ends and I think what's being requested
is that there should be an appeal process we've had the hardship appeal when DPW director has made determination no no this not this type so we've had um when there's a determination we added in a specific process of a few years ago
for a determination that a tree cannot come down right the hardship appeal was always there where if somebody has trouble with the mitigation there's a hardship appeal section as well oh okay so maybe they're not aware of that so so that's already covered they use
that okay very good Lauren um I want to talk on both points actually that David raised and completely agree with Julie this ordinance is intended to keep the trees where the trees were the homeowner makes the decision to cut down major
trees uh for example there's uh I'll talk about it later our planning board decision is going to cut down a tree that requires uh 70 plus trees and I don't see them being able to mitigate that on the property they're going to have to pay money into escrow the tree
is a 200 plus year old beach tree U you know that's healthy and just for for edification purposes the reason why it's not direct one tree to one tree is because obviously an old growth tree provides more benefits than a newly handed little shrub that's going to grow
so that's where the calculations are made by people far smarter than I to use one of uh Council president's favorite terms but that's when it's done where you can't plant a tree with a circumference that's extremely larger it's going to die you can't move it from
one place to the other so that's why it's more small trees to make up for one large one that's right and so the ordinance is in place with the concept to protect what exists on the property the homeowner makes a choice to take that down and when they do that our
ordinance is very clear it's not a hardship to have to mitigate and replace trees or pay money into escrow which is Julie explained then the town uses to replant trees all over town um you in the public if you don't know can ask our
our shade tree division to come to your property and put trees on your own property and our DPW will do do just that and it it's really an amazing benefit that we re continually replant here at tenly um so I would not um be willing to entertain this you
know it's not fair sort of H hardship I don't believe it's a hardship you've made a choice as a property owner to take that down um the second thing is I do want to talk about the landmarking of trees um the way our ordinance is written is that a property owner
themselves needs to ask for landmark designation and needs to then go to Mike Cassidy our DPW director for landmark a tree I believe the intention and Julie since you helped write the ordinance was
that the trees that are of a certain circumference of type let's say the beach tree that's 200 years old um would REM be designated as Landmark without having to go through a property owner
asking for it um I don't see too many Property Owners upon the sale of their house saying you know all trees need to stay um and so it's almost a self-defeating ordinance as written which is problem with that is similar to a landmark historic designation on and
any type of designation on a property to have property owner rights and they can always object to it so even if somebody else was going to say I think it should be designated it still has to get a have some input and and process with the land owner because it's their apprpriate so
in other Comm so I I hear you and so I actually have looked this up and other communities designate historical or Landmark trees over a certain age like if your tree is more than for example 150 years old the town wants to protect
it there is a public Community benefit to protecting these older trees there's less soil erosion there's less uh disruption of property there you know shade that provides sh you know climate help whatever the environmental reasons are that there is a public benefit to
maintaining these treats I believe when we wrote and passed the ordinance that we wanted to maintain those public benefits our ordinance as written will never get enforced so we as a council have to take a look at that um and I would like that's what they I think
that's what they were um go going to be I know we were in the middle of budget season but I think that was one of the forward projects you know that David Wendy were talking about um but I I had just a quick question that um to make
sure Lauren and I understand when I was looking at it earlier today it's a um residents May nominate a tree for consideration as a landmark Tree by contacting DPW but I just want to confirm Wendy you said that even if it's
um me and I go and I nominate something is a landmark tree and there's these bullet points of of you know what would C you would classify it you're actually just telling you though that the owner of the property really must agree to the designation on private is that the law
private that's what she's saying yeah just confirming yes there's there's a hardship appeal there's a hardship appeal so so I've got a couple of com question I've got a couple of comments to make so Julie you made the comment about we planted 100 trees at the nature
center right which someone had a write a check for the Nature Center has approximately 300,000 trees in it okay which have managed to grow and uh replace themselves with any intervent without any intervention on our part heard over
the past 125 years no you're gonna say well my my question is what is the economic value of planting a 100 trees when we have a Forest of 300,000 can I answer go ahead so the Nature Center over the past 10 years actually has a
project to remove non-native species trees which actually harm our environment and aren't native to this area of New Jersey and replace them with Native species so that the Nature Center eventually will be a fully native Forest
uh better for the habitat better for the environment better for the animals and you know that live in this area so it's not just that they're planting trees in the middle OFA Forest it's that they actually are doing a replacement tree program with the benefit of an
Environmental Protection of that wind air Birds you know it doesn't matter isn't that a natural problem this is a whole another conversation but I'm just raising an economic point right when you take the size of the Nature
Center Forest ting reason so that you have expansion ofas that trees and benefits and it's not yeah also can I just uh add to because the mayor brought up a question
so um basically when we have this uh situation of developing you know large footprint and they take it away from the you know property that's there our first goal as you know is to put back you know
mitigate on the property however as a town we have a challenge when they can't do that we don't have as many places to put trees like we we're a very stressed community in that way we don't have
burrow owns property that is expansive to put trees so we use the natur center we use people's 10 feet Within the right of way when they ask for it um but we have
money where we want to put back these trees and we don't have swaps of land that we could line our trees you know along the street so there's just very few locations so when we came up with the Nature Center idea and they also had
this what they call a forest uh re regeneration you know plan uh it actually worked out very well because they said oh here's our wish list of the trees that we wanted to and we were able to fund some of that with our shade tree fund I want to be clear though Mike from
gpw um we've got over 30 trees that were planted last year throughout the town that's when you'll see in the spring you'll see trees being planted like along the school and stuff and that's of course optimal you don't want it all in the Nature Center we just don't have all
that much space so you know top line is we want people to replace on the property that they took it from then we want okay in burrow Parks through integrated throughout the community and then the Nature Center um so that's just
kind of the the order of of business so my second point was going to be someone brought up the issue of fers with the trees so our ordinances are written in a way that if your property physically can't hold the replacement trees then you're
effectively punished for not planting those trees right so why would and for PL I love trees as much as the next squirrel and guy over here right so my my point is though should our ordinances be intentionally punishing people who
don't have room on their property for an excessive number of trees is that not maybe I'm just missing is that not possible said repl trees so at some point there was I appreciate a correct
right so I appreciate the challenge is that you know people have 100 foot place they want foot that's what creates correct I understand it correctly plan plan accordingly a there
right you're not so no the ratio the ratio get up to five to one because you you took down one big tree now you have to put right now you have to put five trees up that sort of thing or your money gets sacrificed go ahead Lauren so I'm I'm
raising the issue of if the smaller property owner is getting we know before they even start that they're not going to be able to physically do that shouldn't the ordinance have fuels process or some sort of consideration for that but a
smaller property on it right correct right I assume our forefathers said trees are important trees are for and trees were there and what's been
happening I'm assuming never built house to build my house that the house is becoming quote unquote too big and therefore you can't replace the property so I guess to your point yes we can decide as a council
trees are dumb and allow everyone to put you know 100% uh coverage of their facility alternatively the flip side of it is are the only that's point in the world and everyone just gets one you know small bathroom the rest of the property has to be trees correct I
assume we picked a midle a a not necessar even a middle ground we picked the ground that said there were trees on your property before you can move them around but we'd like to keep roughly the same amount of trees this is not my passion project I appreciate dror knows
it better I'm just I do want to make sure if I'm understand it correctly we're not buring people to say the tree never fit on your property we're now making you do 87 extra trees the tree was on your property before you and George
Washington right cut it down and therefore we're tremendous loss of treeson wasn't subject to tree regulations I just so you know and I'll bring these stats next week next time because I get it from from Mike um but
every um every year T of I lose this trees whatever we're whatever we're trying to make we are in a in the red with the trees every year every year you're P your compound it's easier to pay for so just keep that in mind not even close I just want to reiterate that
our ordinances and our setbacks um they not only protect our areas for trees but they protect our light our air they reduce nuisances but really what all of us need to pay attention to right now is flooding and storm water and if we are not recognizing the useful of trees in
the environment and yes I know it's debatable it was debated at the property uh at the um at the planning board meeting the other night uh I I I will say that you know what you know it sucks up a lot of water
sand bamboo be careful what you asked for you know I made a my point is that our ordinances and the protections for neighbor in properties are there for reason and that we as a
council we as a council need to recognize that homeowners and neighboring properties of these new developments are complaining at a higher rate regardless of of you know these uh sewage pits and these claims that will take care of the water it's not actually
happening so if we are going to consider our landmarking trees which have an entire root system in the ground and and all of these other trees that are being taken down we need to seriously consider writing an ordinance that makes sense that can be enforceable that can
be useful well I think you said last time that that we should you you told me uh that we should kind of give David and Wendy our direction right and then they would give us options give us some Alternatives so I I do have the just to
to talk about trees and it's by calber which is the measur circumference which is something I never thought I needed to know by type and caliber but so for it's one to one for 12 in caler tree removed 12 to 16 in
still one tree but now a major tree 16 to 18 in is two trees 18 in to 24 in tree would require three 24 in to 30 caliber Rees for mitigation trees and then this is where you get into the problem where the trees that were
qualify for lmar trees are down 30 in or greater than caliper and that requires five trees for replacement plus two additional trees for each five in diameter apart there of over 30 in so if one big tree has to come down that's where it gets to
be difficult to re I don't think that was our I don't think that that was the all due respect I don't think think that was the the concern quite frankly it was a couple people came and they were concerned I don't know that that was our concern uh I think the concern
was protect like is there a way to protect that tree from coming down is what oh no no no I'm saying as far as together when you get into the problem where people have trouble fitting plac trees on the property
because there was one very large tree most of the time it's not that case but you know it's quite a lot comes down let be realistic okay so just to get a quick answer so you had indicated the particular resident on the pep there is an appeal method for them okay so David
So offline communicate with David on that then David code in the code yeah yeah okay I'm sorry they come before us I don't know the David will it comes before the council okay all right this is a public comment time
audience members wishing to speak will have a three-minute time limit to address the governing body on items on or off the agenda large groups are asked to have a spokesperson represent them when anyone in the chamers like to make a public comment here now is Time For That No One in the Chamber yes come on
up and just give us your name not your address please hi everyone uh Al Rosenthal uh firstly I want to thank uh the mayor and the council members for their participation in the remembrance event uh about two weekends ago for the V
family that was uh incredibly heartwarming and the definition of community uh in addition uh I know the council hasn't had time to talk about it there have other matters uh parking is uh Downtown parking and the permit issue
is I think still something that's unresolved I don't know if there's any visibility for when there will be resolution to uh business permits downtown uh in terms of discussions and lastly uh the uh workspace facility that I'm opening downtown is progressing well
there will be a soft opening in the next couple of days and hopefully a grand opening in the second half of April uh once that happens I will be in touch with David and theun thanks for investing here thank you thank you very
much what was the business parking we're talk about it in close session yeah the parking discussion will take place in Clos session um is there anyone Omar is there anyone online anyone else in the chambers that would like to speak first hold on is there anyone else uh anyone online that would like to make a public
comment Omar do you see anyone if anyone online would like to make public hand please we make a public comment please raise your hand see no hands mayor okay we're going to close public comment and move on to the administrator's report David yes
mayor thank you I'd like to First bring up the ten Municipal swimming pool membership program um so we have uh we have met the the um Target uh minimum Revenue goal he where's the energy yay
team he was very excited I was very excited I used all my energy up this morning so um that stated you know additional membership Drive is really the goal is every membership we get in reduces the ultimate amount of money
that the that the borrow needs to supplement or subsidize the program with uh so would be my recommendation that we continue the early bird rates through March 16th of 20125 and this would be for burrow residents and then the uh
that is also afforded to burrow employees and School Employees as well I think that's a great idea do Yeah March 16th gives them a few more weeks and the um employee one can we just make that permanent that price yeah that locking
the price they employees an employee price no yes that that already yeah they were already imported just make that one permanent so they would get the resident rate which they would also get the early rate but only okay I see what you're saying okay three of you are good with that you guys
good over here okay we're good with that so just for everyone so we're going to extend it to March 16th okay so what do you you have to come up you know Jan come up to the mic yeah I don't have a dog in this fight no we just but we have to the C Council approved it so
you need to edit it if we're going to change it right so what were you saying to April yeah I mean I I don't have this right on top of my mind right now but I think um from memory that a lot of pools do do early bird until April 1 um so just to something to think about um as
families are thinking about camps and whatnot I don't think the enrichment program in town is even going to announce their program until April I think um so it could be something to think about being the first year we're investing a lot of money
right there's a double amount of money we're investing one to fix it up and then two to to supplement yeah so we're trying the more we can get before these next two weeks this is the lower we can we get to our exp our taxes and it gets
Clarity to our CFO we need to wrap up the budget and get it to the Auditors for aot easier it's a steady translates into March 16th to this March 16 this thanks keep keep up the great work great job the next item which is the
first on on my memo is the post office parking lot RFP RFQ uh responses um that was uh publicly uh noticed I think back in November uh so it was a was a 90day sorry November November yes it was a
90-day period that we had allowed for responses the deadline was this past Friday the 28th of February we received two um responses and and uh I think the next uh order of business would be to have burrow attorney or borrow special
planner who wrote the uh the RFP and myself just go through them both of them to see if they are responsive and responsible to the RFP RFQ and then uh from there I know that the council and the mayor want to be transparent on this
process to schedule um a meeting for the purpose of going through and hearing from the uh the the responders on the proposal presenting their proposals to the to the council i' be called for thatp do you have that checklist to see if they both were in compliance is that
you yes yeah I mean I would Le heav and da Noak our special planner for that and and then Wendy and I will look at it from the perspective of the legal issues and and the administrative process but
basically they sayy compliance and responsive to the RP we would rely heav didn't go back to S years um our next two things are the flood control Grant which is basically the congressman Gotham are Grant of $1.6
million we did have a initial meeting with with HUD and and this has been assigned to HUD in New Jersey so we have an assigned U uh Grant manager and um this $ 1.6 million Grant is for
destacking and and stream stream cleaning uh there is a 25 5% match so the borrow would be having it would be responsible for $400,000 so it would be a $2 million budget all in um Bal engineer has to complete an
environmental review and once completed I'll upload those Grant documents to HUD which would then res to Grant dispersement agreement uh and then we can start uh drawing down those costs um this particular Grant unlike other
federal grants is uh is a draw down Grant so we can put in monthly expenses and get it draw down so it doesn't uh harm our cash flow as opposed to other grants that are are wholly reimbursable after the project is completed um there's an opportunity
under FEMA for a grant um uh to really plan out and scope resiliency and and stabilization um and uh after speaking with New Jersey OEM and our Engineers uh the other day it was determined that our
best course of action would be to apply for a scoping Grant uh get that scoping Grant awarded get the do the incorporate all njd permits that are necessary within that scoping Grant and then once that is accomplished we will be in a better position to get an actual Grant
awarded for further um flood control activity scoping Grant would be um something that is re reimbursed for the whole world um well scoping Grant would um would fund the engineering work basically on uh determining what the
grant or the stream Bank stabilization and resilience process and a lot of that is going to be the D Kish that if we are going to do any dredging or or or work on the stream Banks themselves as compared to the the HUD Grant which is
basically cleaning up uh debris and uh and uh Rock and so forth that are just in the way of waterfly um and then if there's any other questions on my report uh I be to answer those questions can I get a um an
idea are we still on track with an April 1 kind of opening for the a groc stre yes um I have actually a meeting in the in the field tomorrow with the contractor and the engineer at nine o'clock so I'll be able to give you a a written uh answer on where we stand with
that but we are shooting for um if not April 1 certainly early April um you know the weather hopefully is is going to continue to um warm and they can get they can get the asphalt concrete um shortly in the skate park
equipment will be in place so I would suspect that uh you know this is not going to go too far too deep into here okay thank you it's awesome okay very good thank you swim pools and skate parks let's move on to uh the ordinances you
ready Omar yes okay ordinance 2508 outside Duty Omar could you please read the confirmation of publication of the ordinance and the title sure ordinance number 25-8 it was published in the February 23rd edition of the record is an
ordinance of the bur tenly County of Bergen state of New Jersey amending chapter 2 administration of government article 3 Police Department volunteer ambulance Court fire department section 2- 445 Police Department of the revised
General ordinances of the B tenly 2004 I'd like to open the floor for any public comment on ordinance 2508 only are there any members of the public here that would like to speak on this ordinance okay Omar is there anyone online who would like to uh uh speak on
this ordinance see no hands mayor okay we're going to close public comment on this ordinance um councilman Park could I have a motion please [Music] I move to pass and adopt on second and final reading orance 25-8 and that
notice of the same shall be published according to law cover a second please second Omar could you please conduct the roll call sure C Corsair yes C Dayton yes C Michaels yes cember dror yes C yes
ordinance 25-9 Washington Street Parking limits Omar could you please read the confirmation of publication of the ordinance and the title sure ordinance number 25 25-9 it was published in the 20 February 23rd edition of the record is an ordinance of
the B of tly County of Bergen state of New Jersey amending chapter seven parking of the revised General ordinances of the Bor T 2004 what does this one do I could just have a reminder Park 4 30
minute okay I'd like to open the floor for public comment on ordinance 2509 only anyone in the chamber that would like to speak please come forward okay is there anyone online that would like to speak Omar see no hands mayor okay Omar can you please um I'm
GNA close the public comment time and uh councilwoman Dr o Conor would you like to make a motion sure I moved to to pass and adopt on second and final reading ordinance 25-9 and that notice of same shall be published according to law can I have a second please second Omar
please call the role Corsair yes Dayton yes Michael Yes Dr Conor yes Park yes okay thank you everyone okay could I get a motion to
approve the consent to gener agenda resolutions 25- r25 d131 through r25 d161 so moved I have a second second Omar could you please call the
role yeah member Dayton yes Michel yes Conor yes yes did we have a date on the fireworks July 5th okay oh nice because that what we just so you don't think I'm insane it's what we
just what we just had for the public is the one of the resolutions as we awarded the contract for the fireworks that's correct July 5th okay could I get a motion to approve the minutes of January 7th 2025 mayor and council meeting and
January 21st 2025 mayor and council meeting have a second all in favor any opposed okay I just want to make note I was okay committee reports councilwoman
Dayton so the planning board met the other night uh there was two applications first one is on the corner of East Clinton and angle it's a historic house set up uh White House with a 200 year old or plus old beach
tree and the house was approved for a subdivision it's going to become two homes one driveways going to empty exit excuse me into angle Street and one into Stonehurst which is the very next street um it was a split vote I will say the
mayor and I both discussed the concerns of our residents of flooding and storm water management in and around this property um it did pass though it will be subdivided the second application is actually downtown um near Emanuel Deli they would
like to build a three story apartment building it has not come in detail before the planning board but it's amongst those houses um where uh Jim mone's base is new Jimmy mcone um is that is it railroad that's
the old um the the gentleman who used to repair the lawn mowers that whole area yes so that building would like to become yeah stores on the bottom and two residential floors on the top two residential floors correct correct so uh that will come before the planning board
next meeting correct and um let's see pride committee yes can I just have a quick a quick question about your planning board were in the subdivided property that they were only asking for one variance really right is it and did they get that
variance steep slopes the SL it's a steep slop soil movement variance they got that they did it was approved everything else actually was already zoned and the Z requirements all setback size everything else um it will take down
that large tree and they will need to mitigate inance the steep slopes of variance they received it but again you know we really do need to look at our water uh one of the things that I think uh the mayor and I were successful at
arguing was that additional Water Maintenance in and around East Clinton and angle on that uh traffic Corner needs to be looked at reviewed and dealt with yeah the conversation amongst us was U concern or water problems in town
or or the vast majority of it happens on the East Hill okay because the water gets tunneled you know and reaches high velocity and causes a lot of Damages not that we don't have problems on the on the lower end in terms of elevations but
most of it's on the east to so and we did get the property owner to consider adding an additional drainage function in and around that corner so that is good for you know all the houses around there um the fire did not meet Pride did not
meet we do need a again anybody out there who wants to join our pride committee we are still looking for members I want to throw something out there can we make pride and official burrow committee how does that process work it was the very first year under
the ordinance and established it it was I don't think it was it was because I was no because I paid for the insurance I know because the Dems offered it as a nice thing no like I paid for it
like I don't think I don't think else that year but it was I don't think it is it was a government and then it got moved so why don't we put that on uh like the next agenda for conversation and this way it gives when time to figure out exactly what our
options I mean the main issue of making a committee not Committee of course is insurance and I think Pride very much every year has to find funding for its own insurance independently so making it part of our government and an established committee here would be
would be beneficial for them okay we'll put it on a agenda thank you discuss council president thank you la um senior senator um really cool things they keep doing uh I don't know I
think mayor would love jewelry class they did last week really good felt class felt but I'd highly recommend folks uh taking a look they have great shows they're going to The Outsiders actually in a couple weeks on Broadway so please reach out to uh Michelle and
the senior center team some really cool stuff going on there um downtown committee uh please mark your calendar Sunday May 4th uh for Spring Fling and then uh we also had a joint
use last week this is uh where the school board and the uh Council get together spent a lot of time talking about how we could kind of share Services together and drive down cost obviously we have one one budget for uh
we have one we send out taxes to our residents as one uh as one group so the more that we can do together to drive down cost the more save our res number thank you councilwoman Corsair um spring
Sports registration is online so make sure you sign up for your spring Sports off to the rec department um also you sign off for the r Camp online so those two things are open and that's all I have thank you very much councilwoman Dr
Conor um so environmental commission met this uh last week and Dan can tell if if I miss anything just a few highlights um at this point we've diverted 27,500 pounds of food waste with our
comp congratul program so we we do need people to uh participate we want to be able to keep it going uh but we've we've done a great job so far um we have of course
our high school division we have a high school green team that comes to report and they're planning a birdhouse building project at the Nature Center for March and they also have a a cleanup for the tentacl brook area planned for March 18th with
hackin saac River Keeper which I facilitated with for them so uh we'll get some nice pictures um Arbor Day is going to be uh April 25th at Mckay school this year year uh each year for
anyone who doesn't know that we pick a different school to get the trade it's already been approved by the superintendent principal um we uh are embarking on a project about uh you know now that we've
been uh you've been seeing the skip the stuff uh posters into different eateries I did see in Pizza NOA uh we started the education campaign I assume David thank you for that um where people have to affirmatively ask for their plastic
utensils we're going to expand this idea of reducing plastic and Embark in a new project still in its um in its infancy right in the in the figuring it out stage which is about recycling recyclable containers and ensuring that
uh our businesses are using the type of containers that can be recycled so we're we're doing a little research on that and um and I'll I'll keep you posted on that uh TL Nature Center had come uh requesting volunteers for their nature
Cent annual uh boundary walk uh because it'll that'll be March 9th from uh 9:00 am to 12: PM participants will uh walk the boundary and uh see if there's any garbage to be collected along the
boundary walk so uh then Northern Valley G Northern Valley green white came to the environmental Commission meeting uh and they were talking uh just about um different times where they have
um there's a municipal committee meeting for the green white project where uh that'll be March 6 so if anyone's interested in going to that to look with the other communities impacted by the um by this Northern valy Greenway project
uh we didn't have a location on that yet but if anyone's interested in attending demb Hall demoris bur Hall March 6 thank you so much 6 6:30 um and so this would be just for anyone who doesn't know uh it's to run
through six towns in Bergen County tenly creskill demeris cluster Norwood Northville um okay uh hackensac River Nation Summit is
being held at Fairley Dickinson on April 22nd and uh the Summit is there to discuss storm water management Planning and Building trails and urban environments uh so that was if anyone's interested in that please uh
participate um so uh that's kind of the big highlights but a lot a lot we getting accomplished in the project okay thank you Dan Park uh Tac met Monday uh the medical director ran a training on
Naran and an education on its use and why it's used so it's trainings are happening wonderful thank you all right for my mayor's remark the only comment I have is I'm going to appoint Lauren toal to the downtown committee so we're very
happy to have her uh time and energy it's wonderful okay so could you read the closed session language please yes sir it's resolution r251 62 at a meeting of the mayor and Council of the B of ten County
Bergen state of New Jersey held on March 4th 2025 be it resolved in compliance with njsa 10 col 4-12 the mayor and Council of the gro of tenna are going into closed executive session to discuss the following matters in Real Property bur leases and potential property
Acquisitions update minutes will be taken of the meeting and released to the public at the time that the matters resolved have a motion to go and to close please have a second second all in favor any imposed okay we'll see everyone inside
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