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for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all omar we have a roll call please council member Corsier here council member Dayton council member Michaels present council member Dr okconor here
council member Park here council member Reri here mayor Zetta here okay first thing to be considered Historic Preservation Commission application fees this basically uh came up from the Historical Preservation
Commission there's a memo from that they're recommending that we uh add an administrative fee for a uh application for certificate of appropriateness of uh of uh between 50 or $75 what's the
How many applications do they get a year and why do they want to add a fee what's the um I think they get a handful i I don't have the the total amount but I would say it's under last year i think it was under 20 this is for historic homes to reapply
and keep their status no this is the certificate appropriate and correct me if I'm wrong there administrative so let's see you want to you have a historic building you want to make changes to it you have to submit your changes to you know whoever whether it's the plane board the building department
historic preservation commission if your home is already deemed historic okay and then you get a certificate of appropriateness from historic preservation that says "Yes the changes you're making are consistent with the
historic plans and all that good stuff administrative work it's I think it's a re response to our general call to the department of revenue where did these fees go to whose budget will it building
department um HPC is within the administrator's office currently so general revenue I mean we can't anticipate it if we do it so what triggers the application the certification if you will for an example
there's a fee for that this is a fee for this particular process the administrative work involved with the application i I happen to Well who has an opinion because I have an opinion i mean okay so
the uh the work the commission does is wonderful i think the historic preservation is exceptional i think it's very challenging to maintain historical historically preserved homes it's very expensive so I'm not sure we'd want to add another fee to the homeowners who
kind of have chosen to have their houses deemed historical that's my view i agree i agree i agree julie sounds good okay let's go to the next item 2025 funding round for open space
trust fund programs i think that last time we were possibly asking if um we could take a look at uh the projects that that Jamie uh might
have on her uh possible to-do list i know some of the things that I brought up whether it was the tennis courts or things were weren't necessarily like advantageous to go through this funding am I am I right on that one yeah I would you know with the
Bergen County Open Spaceship we've used it for the Little League we've uh used it for the dog park uh we could potentially put an application in for something with the pool uh next year you know it's sort of a spread around i think the conversation was to find get
input from Jamie and the recreation commission as to what's next on their list of things to do we do have time i think the deadline on this is May at some point we I I have asked Omar to keep this on the agenda so we don't lose track of it i'm down is it too late but
is it too late in the sense of I know we're progressing with the pool right now but is is it like what if the the pool was Oh wow we can do this like re something on that pool property that makes it pop we we potentially could i
mean this this usually is awarded in uh September oh yeah all just something to keep in mind in case the people running the pool for us say like there's this great upgrade okay
we had not operationally no only physical improvements they have to make you could for examp yeah so it would be for something that you would be planning to do for next season that you would do in the off season of this year so the burken open
space typically It's uh it's not quite a 50/50 grant but it's it's close to that so you're matching whatever to be a good idea it's unfortunate we can't get you know we have an expenditure now that right to build it
but I think to build off that um anything on this year's list of capital list that would qualify like the pool has a timeline we need the summer i mean it's a big capital might as well chip away project that we're looking at offset with
this year you could potentially offset some of your costs with the tennis courts i was thinking initially but I thought I thought you told me something regarding like not to go with the open space for
because it doesn't max for the tennis court price tag you're not maximizing the 50% offset yeah you're not going to I mean that's that's you're not they're not going to fund that whole thing there may be an Aztec maybe they would fund one of the courts or
I'd be interested in that so nobody because the construction time period for the tennis courts is most likely going to be July August September October it'll it'll be in time so um and then just for everyone's knowledge we're saying for the following year if the
pool is still you know what it is if there was some big court or something that we wanted to put there's some major upgrade it's like perfect for this type of right you'd have to know that this we have to think about it yeah so we have
some time let's u But David I'm sorry just to make sure I'm reading it right it says March 28th is that not correct from on the documents that's that's a separate grant um we're going to get to that in the administrator's report this is for
this is the Bergen County open space grant opportunity deadline is in May we brought this up that's what I'm looking at from the document i mean make sure I'm reading it right the document that the patch for this open space says March 28th for a letter of intent to apply am
I reading it wrong this is the this is what's connected i know March 28th is the date for the congressional funding approval so this is uh this is for the B open space grant
that's what it says the letter of intent so okay I I stand correct then no worries let's just get with Jamie and let's make sure or explore deeper this idea of chipping away some of the money from the from the
our current list the tennis that we're paying anyway yeah you say as a cost offset is the right thing to do choose a cost offset highest and maximum value i think most we have we have enough
projects we'll pick one just all right so we so I guess the consensus is we'll issue a letter of intent by the deadline correct and we'll come back to you at the April 8th meeting and formalize the project whatever is the
best bang for the buck okay good with that clarity It is the same day yeah that's all right ready for the next item okay grove Street Park update so who's are you going to talk about this Andy so so Andy
so we're kind of in a little shell shock on this one to understand what's going on so why don't you kind of help enlighten us here i can thank Thank you for having me tonight so the obviously the history is a long history it's about a fiveyear history
with this park the original grant and estimate for this park was under $500,000 and then the park was designed and put out through probably a dozen concepts in front of multiple councils and when that project was finally done
and put out to bid that project bid the first time at over a million dollars we rejected those bids and then bid it again and then a bit over a million dollars again um at that point you're allowed to negotiate which then the council which had changed at that point authorized negotiation we went out
for negotiation with a number of vendors keran who was the vendor was one of them and in that negotiation we negotiated the base contract for this project which was around 490 was the base contract that base contract at the time did not include the skate park which was
alternate A and some of the other alternates in the project because at that time the budget money was was the budgeted money is only about $500,000 that allowed the project to start kindergan was on the job as you as you know with the letter in front of you there was a number of change orders that
came up during that project of all which were negotiated items some were outside the original contract some were in the original contract but not in his award they were they were part of the original bids that were rejected this change order tonight is the last phase so the
skate park equipment or the skate park was part of the grant that was received the original skate park was about three times the size of this one at some point it was paired down because it was too expensive during the time that Danny was awarded the contract and now so it's now one-third the size the burrow went ahead
and purchased skate park equipment for it once we had the skatepark equipment and design from that vendor we then applied that to this contract gave it to Kendan to price it and that's what you see tonight you see the pricing to put the surface in for it then the fencing in for it and there's some benches and
stuff to go along with that so that's the this is the last part of this job it kind of rounds this whole job i I think what we're struggling to understand is is why wasn't this number this $82,000 part of the original
cost built in with when we ordered the skate park i mean like there's no way we couldn't have known it didn't need a floor or a base or concrete or black top i mean it's in the site plan i don't I don't we don't understand how we got here right so
the when you rejected the bids for the two projects it was in those bids when we awarded to Danny to start the the part of the project that's under construction now the skate park had to be redesigned and paired down it was too big you couldn't afford the skate park
that was specked out so the equipment that was specked out by the burrow and the size of the park was too big so it had to be negotiated so this being a negotiated contract and not bid we've been negotiating with K with Kendrickan pretty much since the time you awarded this to him to try to get him down to a
price that we thought was reasonable to do the skate park there was coordination with the vendor who the burrow is buying the equipment from because that vendor was going back and forth between different services and different delivery dates and there's a lot that went on in that and they we finally have come to an overall price that we're
comfortable with Kenderan's comfortable with and the vendor that's supplying the skatepark equipment is comfortable with but the size is significantly different than the original size so it took time that's what happens in a negotiated contract right so So I think part of the challenge is so the
council the council voted on a particular number thinking they were getting a skate park and that we're going to get a skate park and it didn't include like a major fundamental component of it so I don't that that's very confusing and troubling about how that happens and now we've got to figure
out what the heck we're going to do here it's also So when you awarded the first contract to Keran the skate park was not in that that was not in that original number right right but at some point it got in
there right and it this this number only rep that this the price that we were given only represents part of the substance of the skate park itself right they we should have been told this number whatever it was four five six months ago
and and now we have we're now over cost and twothirds smaller than anticipated is that correct correct you're oneird the size that was originally designed in the million dollar bid that was I don't want to go to the
million dollar bid i'm asking a specific question we signed off on $490,000 is what's being delivered the same size as what we expected in $490,000 yes no in the $490,000 In the $490,000 contract there was no skate
park being installed you're giving an aggregate number for stuff beyond the skate park i'm sorry you've got a number that you're using that's beyond just a skating portion no 490 is including if 490 is included okay got it right councilman Clark was was
very very deliberate about having a skateboard it was the emphasis in fact of our discussions i'd be very surprised if we signed off on a budget that was non-inclusive of a skateboard that's why I'm asking the question very specifically
$490,000 in a over engineered design was to be inclusive of a skate park that was 66% larger than what's being delivered today true or false no okay the lower number was with a smaller staple 490 was with a smaller staple
correct so we shouldn't pay attention to the fact but it contemplated this size fine good so we're not that far off it just sounds like we're getting a lot all right so I have I have a recommendation to make i'm sorry Julie go ahead yeah so
Andy um if Yeah know I know this is the the size that it was kind of whittleled down to but Andy can you just maybe speak to the is this did the equipment get more expensive as because I I hear the mayor
saying like you know when we reached out to open it you know directly to the skate park vendor why did it not include the what I'm saying curves things like that so did the equipment get more expensive So the difficult part about a discounted
contract the equipment is a separate vendor and that was $69,000 and that hasn't changed that was that was done off of a source contract that was okay this is $85,000 for specifically
fencing for benches and asphalt curbing right the curbing but Andy can you maybe speak to that a little bit is that I can I can so yeah I I can when we when we award the 490 contract to Kernigan we
didn't have the skate park vendors equipment list or layout at that point that didn't come till way later once we had a layout that was approved then we had to redesign the surface that went on to meet that project which was much smaller we had to sc we had to scale it down that's why you negotiated this
whole contract because you didn't have enough money for the bigger contract so we we once we had the layout from the vendor we got it we scaled it down we got the revised layout to Kanan it took him you know literally 60 plus days to get us a number and we didn't agree to that number and we've negotiated him
down to the number you see in front of you the number he originally gave us was twice his number you said the number he originally gave was what i'm sorry twice this number twice twice right i I think the issue though is so the equipment cost
$69,000 plus it's now $82,000 for what the equipment sits on which none of us were aware of that's that's the issue so whether the park was 10 times the size or not the issue is we've got this extra 82,000 out of nowhere i mean I mean I would recommend
that we take this resolution off tonight that authorizing this change order and have a separate there's got to be a conversation tomorrow with everybody involved here about what we're going to do yeah what what is this to come back with a recommendation where are we and what is this change in like what is the
physical thing we're getting asphalt asphalt black top nothing underneath the skate park so there's two things so if I could there's so it's the skate park floor so And so there's two things they can't be right it is right that's that's
that's agreement so So hold on a second i don't know if Let me Let me explain let me explain something okay if you don't mind so I went to the skate park this afternoon at six o'clock and the dog park and the the rest of the park everything's coming along great the dog park where the gardens are going to be
concrete is in water is all coming along fine when you go to the part that's going to be the skate park what's installed right now are approximately I don't know 10 to 12 feet tall the poles the metal poles in black that hold the fencing the fencing itself is not up
only the poles are in and it shows about a 30 by 60 approximately don't quote me on that uh area of skate park now within those poles okay there has to be there's all dirt and rock right now and then what has to be put down is black top the
base underneath it and all the concrete curving so that's what these change orders are about is the base and the concrete curving and everything goes along with the floor of the park itself so long story short is regardless of the size the design the layout the equipment
or anything else it was unplanned for that it would require a foundation to sit on well I think what was in terms of foundation was played planned for the last skatepark meeting I had was we're going to do the foundation in the floor
like it's going to be a full skatepark right we scale down the equipment to a corner of the skate park the equipment the ramps the the rails whatever at least there's a flat space you can learn to skate your kids whatever the more advanced kids can actually start doing
stuff on equipment on the equipment yeah that was the original plan sure this was never mentioned though correct that's the point the plan isn't the issue the issue is that we were never told about this 82,000
correct okay correct did you want to say something about Well just to break the 82,000 or $84,000 apart um $42,000 is the So what was truly not
anticipated was the fence so the $42,000 fence is required because of our insurance requirements um it's unfortunate it's an 8 foot high fence that must be there or we can't use it well we can't get insurance without
the fence so that's change order proposed change order number eight at $42,000 what the mayor is respectfully referring to is the 42,73794 which is the curb the curb cuts and the asphalt which Andy which Andy
can speak to okay so the order of magnitude of the real challenge here one is a regulatory requirement of insurance and the other is a $42,000 that's just to boil down magnitude we're talking about 4200 and to follow up Andy
in the original price the equipment is in there too the skate equipment back in the back in the original contract a million dollars there there was equipment in there everything was in there was no fencing in there at the
time because insurance at the time we had not met with them to find if they required insurance or required a fence that fence came in at a later date but actually just I'm sorry doesn't it like Andy you just said like we forgot or we didn't think it was important to speak to our insurance carriers isn't that
kind of important as we put this together that sounds like a a pretty significant miss that we we we forgot to speak to our insurance carriers don't you think so I didn't me personally I didn't forget to speak to insurance carrier i
didn't design the skatepark it was done with recreation so recreation scoped it designed it and just gave me the equipment so I said this let's move forward david David Fansaw at some point said "We should run this by our insurance carrier to make sure they're
going to fund the park which is a burrow requirement which was done after the fact." And that came all the costs and everything that came along with that came along with that and then the floor also you weren't responsible for the to forgetting to put the floor in the floor was not forgot about it was in the
original bid it was in the contract with Krian for the negotiated number the problem was he couldn't bid on it because the burrow was scaling down the amount of equipment they were buying again I'm not designing your equipment so if we would have had Kanan bid on that original price it would have been three times the size so we had to wait
till the burrow finished designing their skatepark and getting it to us and then we had to get a new quote from K we probably shouldn't do it here but I think David and I'm happy to help in any way I can when when you start talking about change order number eight I think there was a fundamental flaw on whichever engineer helped us put this
together we should probably do a sort of post-mortem on how we're up to change order number eight which I wouldn't bet we're we don't see number nine or 10 also we got to try to figure out uh how we uh what we did wrong and so we do it right the next time I think and I'm
happy to help in any way I can yeah I agree i'm happy to help too just a request for Okay hold one at a time dan you're first and uh Jamie can we get um what's planned for change order number seven like what what scale that is so I can
compare to the original idea so Joe change order number seven is a skate park area that's about onethird the size of the original bid when you say third the area it's 30 it's 30 by 60 the original area
was I don't have in front of me it was a T-shape it was a little It was a very different shape all right Jamie you were next okay so John I'm gonna come back to your question in a second john go ahead uh I would suggest that with uh Councilman
Michaels that if we're doing a holistic review on the postmortem I'd like to see the details supporting the other change orders i know we've gone through them before but I think a holistic review of the project and the performance versus original budget would be a very prudent exercise for us to
undertake i I think what we should do here I think uh David has u some work to do okay in terms of conversations uh with Andy offline you know tomorrow and that we pull this
resolution R24 R251 195 and that we don't okay these change orders tonight until we understand what's going on uh just found the original we are under 4K for the fence bid
and 460K under the skate park bid 500 was the estimate for the skate park it's coming in at 40 uh the fence is in here so we knew about the fence 46k was the original estimate right the is the
issue isn't the components we knew about the issue is what's the cost what's the number right i found that all right so any other opinions on that we'll pull this ordinance r25195 resolution excuse me the
resolution R25 i just do have a a curiosity um because I seem to remember something about that fence situation was that because the the rules also changed or was that always the case i was just
curious basically when I after I started I talked to our fund commissioner JIF fund commissioner and JIF had not been consulted gotcha so they did update their regulations in January of 24 but yeah the fence requirement was was
always there was there okay and I guess it was in that original bid and and to put it in a nutshell the GIF basically doesn't want to have a skate park so they look to offset my ability so that's why it's so stringent about the fencing and about an engineering design um so
the skate park equipment company designed it they're gonna have an engineer seal it and that engineer will have liability for injuries from the state department oh okay okay okay okay let's move on to um public
comment audience members wishing to speak will have a threem minute time limit to address the governing body on items on or off the agenda large groups are asked to have a spokesperson represent is there anyone here in the chambers who from the public that would
like to speak omar do you see anyone see no hands there okay is there anyone on Zoom that would like to speak please raise your hand or speak out omar is there anyone there i see no hands ma'am no hands okay we're
going to close public comment we'll move on to administrator's report um go ahead Mr administrator please thank you Mayor um in light of tonight's conversation or in preparation for it I' I've uh come up with a few policy recommendations that
uh I've researched and have discussed with uh with Susan and with Omar um and I think that at moving forward I would like to propose that we cap professional engineering services at 10% of the total
cost of any particular capital project this mirrors the policy of the department of transportation which also caps uh engineering costs at 10% uh what I would suggest is is also with a maximum of 15% in extraordinary cases
would be the governing body uh two that the governing body shall not enter into negotiating contracts for co capital project in the future and I think that uh this number of change orders on this particular job have have proven that um
it's my understanding uh from Andy that he's had two uh two issues with things having a number of change orders are going over one was um uh this project and one was the Bliss Avenue coververt um
uh that was also a negotiated contract so I think that basically tells us not to do this and go back out for bid even if we go back out for bid a third time um and then third that the professional engineer be required to provide the all-in cost and I've talked about this
uh several times uh of a capital project that would be inclusive of conceptual design bid documents contract administration inspections and the construction cost uh prior to the capital project moving forward in the in the then current year the estimate of the professional engineer must be in a
position to be relied upon for proper budgeting and budget control purposes so you know this is not the first scenario that we've had stuff that has has that have surprised us with cost so I think that we just need to tighten this process and uh you know not go into a
negotiated contract in the future this makes a lot of sense thank you for your recommendations i just had a question about number two if you could clarify for me sure so you're you're saying to me that um if we have a capital project
in future and if the if the project says oh I need this change or you're saying no um stop it and go back out to this what no what I'm saying is for professional engineering services okay so you know
you also will get resolutions for additional professional engineering services we've seen plenty of them um come come along with various projects and this is not necessarily a reflection on the current engineers or anything but just as we have there's a standard so
DOT will not approve an engineering expense that is more than 10% of the total cost of the DOT road project all I'm saying is let's adopt that same process for our projects obviously it's a policy so the burial council can
choose to increase that or make an exception i would just say moving forward it should be our policy you shouldn't exceed 10% there may be extraordinary cases such as if you're going to build a new municipal building that that may uh you know that may be something that is more in the 15% range
versus along the way but just generally I think if we start with saying our policies they're going to cap it at 10% it gives us an idea of where we are it gives the professional that we're going to engage that expectation as well that
we're we're capping this 10% any other questions about the administrator's report just what happens if it goes over 10% responsible for it that would ultimately still come back to the governing body um for improvement so you
authorize additional engineering services but I think that policy being in place there will be some additional explanation prior to awarding it or engaging in it but it basically sets the the playing field so they know what to expect and we know what to expect as we
move forward with the county budget i'm sorry i was going to say any other questions about the administrator's report on the flood control grant i'm remembering um a special meeting where I think it was Yeah angie was here talking about the intense work about going kind
of house to house along there is that what this is referring to this is part of that that will be that will be that'll set up a good basis for the environmental review that's required with this grant um I think Andy and Nikki are still on i don't know if he
has anything or Nikki has anything to add andy is on still this is regarding the flood control grant andy I'm still on so the the grant the flood control grant is a scoping grant so what it is is uh sorry Andy this is the go she's
councilwoman Okconor Dr okconor is referring to the Gothheimer um grant the $1.6 million grant the HUD grant yeah yeah that so that that that's we're still we've only had a plane meeting with HUD so it's going to take a number
of meetings that actual scope and what they're going to cover to cover yeah i think I think the question is about the the work that was awarded back in September what is the progress on that work with the with the flying of the drones and so forth oh we're about we're
a little over 50% complete mapping the entire system for the burrow including the streams which neighborhoods does this include which creek which um creeks which creeks Andy which we're we're mapping everything so we're mapping we're mapping all of your storm sewer system
including the creeks and tributaries to it it's every pipe every inlet every manhole everything okay thank you any other questions for the administrator on his report okay let's move on to new
business uh Councilwoman uh we went introduction of ordinance 25-10 oh yes go ahead please so the other the other grant for the May the March 28th deadline is uh another grant opportunity from Congressman Gothimer for community
project funding which is what we were just talking about that culminated into this hybrid $1.6 million grant we need to come up with a project uh to submit to the congressman's office by March 25th at 5:00 pm so just just to put it
in context um I just received the email from the congressman's office was it this morning it's either this morning or late last night um and they give us basically a 9 day or so window to turn around the request um for uh for this
grant same way we got the one for the 1.6 million it's the same turnaround time well so um my first thought was potentially it's just an idea potentially we use this money to identify any houses along the
overpay that perhaps floods so much it's worth using that money to buy those houses at fair market value to willing residents who are willing to sell them and then um create like a mini estuary there so that when
it floods the water has somewhere to go and damages less property it's kind it's it's it's it kind of mirrors a little bit the Blue Acres fund that the state has which they do when the what is it the Bic River overflows or the Saddle River whichever those crazy rivers flood
houses they buy them up slowly but surely and make the homeowners whole do we have what do well it's not it's a this isn't a this isn't a real estate play people would get fair market value if they
wanted to sell it you know if their house is continually flooding that might be something what what's that they may be motivated they may be motivated right so can I ask you off hand ask anything do we do are you aware of some houses that this is
constantly an issue there are two houses that are very specifically constantly an issue okay constantly non-stop all right nothing they've been able to do has been able to change pardon me street um one
is on um Downey one is on Maple okay all right so we'll we'll look at that then okay all right introduction of ordinance ordinance 25-10 cola uh Councilwoman Corsair would
you like to make a motion please april 8,2 please second omar could you please read the title of the ordinance and conduct a roll call sure ordinance number 25-10 calendar year 25 2025 ordinance to exceed the municipal budget
appropriate limits to establish the cafe council member Corsair council member Dayton council member Michaels yes yes council member Dr okconor yes council member Park yes council member Roleri yes
uh 25-11 multi-purpose bond ordinance uh Councilman Rolieri would you like to uh make the motion please i move to introduce on first reading ordinance 25-11 and set the hearing for April 8th 2025 at 7:30 parameter soon thereafter i
have a second please second omar could you please read the title of the ordinance and conduct the roll call sure ordinance number 25-11 bond ordinance to authorize the making of various public improvements and the acquisition of additional or replacement equipment and machinery new information technology
equipment new communication and signal system equipment and a new automotive vehicle including original apparatus and equipment in by and for the burough ten of life in the county of Bergen State of New Jersey to appropriate the sum of
4,369,600 to pay for the cost thereof to make a down payment to authorize the issuance of bonds to finance such appropriation and to provide for the issuance of bond anticip anticipation notes in anticipation of the issuance of
such bonds corer yes Michaels yes yes council member Dr okconor yes council member Park yes council member Roy yes
25-12 Reappropriation Ordinance uh Council um Councilwoman Dr okconor would you like to make the motion please sure i move to introduce on first reading ordinance 25-12 and set the hearing for April 8th
2025 at 7:30 or soon thereafter have a second please second second omar could you please read the title of the ordinance and conduct a roll call sure ordinance number 25-12 an ordinance reappropriating 593,450,000 proceeds of obligations not
needed for their original purpose purposes in order to provide for other purposes in and by the bureau to apply in the county of Bergen New Jersey council member Corsera yes council member Michaels yes yes council
member Dr okconor yes council member Park yes council member Roland yes ordinance 25-13 open space appropriation uh Councilman Park would you like to make the motion please i move to introduce on first reading Ordinance
25-13 and set the hearing for April 8th 2025 at 7:30 or soon thereafter have a second please second omar could you please read the title of the ordinance and conduct the roll call sure ordinance number 25-13 an ordinance of the burough
tennifi in the county of Bergen New Jersey appropriating 955,000 for the purpose for the purchase and installation of playground equipment at Warner Park for the replacement of of and new electronic signs and including
electricity to illuminate the signs for recreation and community purposes located at Roosevelt Common Tennifly Road and River Edge Road and at Route 9 and East Clinton Avenue for the purchase of benches picnic tables
receptacles racks and umbrellas at the Tiger Cage for upgrades and improvements at TFly Municipal Pool and for supplementing ordinance 24-09 for upgrades and repairs to the Little League field and for
supplementing ordinance 24-22 2 for the swim club security cameras raised flower beds fencing skate park including asphalt and curbing benches concrete footings for benches and
fountains council member Corsair yes council member Michaels yes yes council member Dr okconor yes council member Park yes council member Oair yes 25-14 parking ordinance um Councilwoman
Corsair would you like to make the motion on this one please 25-14 202 could I have a second please second Omar could you please read the title of the ordinance and conduct a roll call ordinance number 25-14 an ordinance
admitting chapter 35 land development regulations of the revised general ordinances council Corsair yes council Michaels yes yes council member Dr okconor yes council Park yes council Rol yes
okay okay thank you everyone could I get a motion to approve resolution R25-162 the temporary capital budget so move i get a second second omar could you please call the role
council Corsair yes council member Michaels yes yes council member Dr okconor yes council member Park yes council member Roer yes okay in terms of the consent agenda uh
to acknowledge we are pulling um GG resolution R24-195 are there any questions about any remaining uh resolutions on the consent agenda um I found the original estimate for that so can we come back on
it talk about it to talk about what that uh resolution i well for 195 I think we want to have a separate the council's agreed to have a separate offline but yeah you're gonna please provide that to David absolutely yeah okay all right so
uh can I have a motion to approve resolutions [Music] R25-163 through R25-194 so do I have a second omar please call the role council Corsair yes council
member Michaels yes council member yes council member Park yes council member yes okay could I have a motion to approve the minutes of February 4th 2025 mayor
and council meeting February 18th 2025 mayor and council meeting and the March 4th 2025 mayor and council meeting have a second second all in favor i any opposed okay all right committee reports uh
Councilman Park would you like to start uh nothing to report councilwoman Dr okconor how are you doing tonight i'm well thank you uh I have some dates to share and also just about something nice that happened today so today was one of
the trash cleanups uh at the with the high school students it was the Key Club and the high school green team uh combined with the Hackinack Riverkeeper so you might have seen them walking around uh and it was a nice group of them and they picked up a lot
of trash today so we're very excited about that environmental commission com you know connected those entities so that was great want to thank the DPW for assisting as well um so we have a new
residence event on April 23rd from 6:00 to 7:30 at the firehouse so that's the welcome committee uh we're doing that is an invitation only from people who have moved to town within the last year and
that's 6:00 to 7:30 April 23rd in case anyone mayor and council wants to stop by uh then on April 27th Sunday April 27th is our townwide trashathon you're going to see the billboard at the corner
uh shortly but April 27th it'll be 1:00 bring the family it's actually a really nice day to you know go out and and pick up trash they give you the gloves they give you the bags they give you the pickers and you just register at the nature center we'll have a
registration link shortly and then the Tennifly Nature Center spring gala will be on May 17th uh Saturday May 17th from 7 to 10 at Spring House and those tickets are
already available and uh what's that date again that is um Saturday May 17th of at the their gala at the Spring House and that's 7 to 10 perfect
thank you tickets tickets you can already purchase okay is that it councilwoman that's it is that all council Oier you have something to report um with great dismay reporting that uh the head of our DPW did an
outstanding job for us has submitted his resignation we are actively looking to uh fill that position u but it is lost to the book yeah you're here sorry to see you go
Michael um anything else to report counciloman Corsair just remind everybody who wants to join anything else to report uh Council Council President Michaels anything to report
nothing this week Mr mayor okay omar Councilwoman Dayton has joined us online so you're aware councilwoman hi hi everyone you have anything to report tonight i do i'll give you an update on the planning board um the planning board
has and is considering an application for 4446 West Railroad for a three-story apartment building commercial space below two floors above of apartments that is on for this week we are also
going to consider um she's Mayor I'm sorry I don't have the address of the other property that's coming before us at the moment but if anyone has any questions on planning board they can follow up with me um or attend our next meeting which is March
26th it's a Wednesday evening at 800 PM um the only other thing I have to report is that Tennifly Pride is still um requesting that they become an official municipal committee and so we
need to make that decision shortly because Pride Day does need to get planned so whether the burrow will officially be making Pride Day or the committee as an outside private organization so so Councilwoman I mean they they are a committee that was appointed with members at the reorg
meeting just so you're aware they are they are an official committee of the burrow so am I wrong Omar so but mayor in past years we have announced our pride committee members at the reorg me um
meeting but it didn't necessarily mean that they were a government or quasi government committee though I don't think we've officially decided one way or the other but an ad hoc committee is still a committee of of the governing body it's just appointed by the mayor rather than through a different process
through by ordinance it's still your committee it's it's a real committee in the past it's been an independent committee that we've recognized so if we're officially ad hoc now that's great i'll just report back okay yeah they're an official committee so you're
100% right for the past but they're they were appointed as an official committee at the reorg okay well then we need a meeting so that's there you go okay excellent let me clarify i think it's about the the GIF insurance coverage so
they're an official committee they are volunteer of the burrow they would be covered like any other committee correct that's it that's great news thank you anything else Councilwoman that's all I have thank you okay so
mayor's remarks i'm going to make some additional appointments to the senior um senior services committee and they are okay because we have four openings
there uh we have um Max Bos Rhysa Levan Maryanne Hart and Nina Gajens so if I've mispronounced the last name I apologize it's G A T J Ns um one other piece of business to
report uh it's actually some very interesting news yes go ahead i don't mean to interrupt sorry about that um on the senior services committee I had given two names of new committee members uh Rhysa is our employee so she's not considered a member um Risa Agen Levven
and so we are supposed to have Jennifer Yanowitz as one of the additional I'd given that name in in January right okay and and the other is Christine Ceeri
say it again christine K Christine Cesari correct that's the second name right she's she was appointed in January correct those two names she she's actually filling out the remainder of your term there oh
excellent so she's a member and then uh what was Jennifer's last name again yan yanowitz i'll check offline and see what the situation is there thank you so much you're welcome you were to tell us interesting so um I
received a call from uh Sam Williams father sam Williams is a recent graduate of Tennifly High School okay he's a recent graduate of Tennifly High School about two years or so ago and uh he grew up in Tennifly of course played soccer and he's as far as we know the first
Tennly High School graduate to be offered a professional soccer contract with the Chicago Fire yeah yeah so that was really interesting wasn't afraid so Tennifly residents have done all
manner of wonderful things right over the course of time but this particular conversation is about this young man appreciate my apologies and so it was someone and we'll talk about this at a later date but I'm just kind of throwing it out there um I was
asked if we'd cons because he this kid spent most of his life in the Tennfly soccer cage and u some folks want to know if we'd be willing to name the soccer cage after him because he's the first professional uh soccer player that but we'll come back i just want to throw
that out there we'll come back to it for further discussion his jersey there okay but anyway so congratulations to Sam Williams that's for sure okay that's it with the mayor's remarks uh councelor can you please read the
close session information resolution R25196 at a meeting of the mayor and council of the bureau of Tennifly County of Bergen state of New Jersey held on March 18th 2025 be it resolved in compliance with NJSA 104-12 the mayor
and council of the burough tennifly or going into close executive session to discuss the following matters real property burough property and potential acquisitions and under attorney client privilege as potential litigation minutes will be taken of the meeting and released to the public at the time that the matters resolved have a motion to go
into close please so move have a second second all in favor all right [Music]