[Music] in compliance with the open public meetings act PL1975 chapter 231 the notice requirements have been satisfied the meeting dates for the year are confirmed at the annual meeting are posted on the
public bolden board in the lobby of the municipal center and published in the record within the first 10 days of the new year salute to the flag please i aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic
for it stands one nation under God indivisibley and justice for all omar roll call please council member Corsair here council member Dayton here council member Michaels present council
member Dr okconor here council member Park here council member Roeri here mayor Z here um before we get into the um the Arbor Day proclamation presentation I just wanted to uh make sure everyone knows and the public know that we had the official ribbon cutting
this afternoon for the skate park the dog park the pollinator gardens the park was filled with dogs and skaters so it was very cool everybody loves it so um it's open seven days a week to everyone whoever wants to use it and thank you to all the residents who helped uh make it
happen and the council the administrator and the staff that made it happen so thanks everybody right now it's uh dust till dawn dawn to dust we're going to have signs that go up with some of the rules okay um next is
the uh Arbor Day proclamation councilwoman Dr okconor would you like to read that for us please yes thank you whereas April 25th 2025 is designated as National Arbor Day which is a day set aside to promote the planting of trees
tree conservancy and appreciation of our environment and whereas the Burough of Tennifly has promoted tree conservancy and planting for many years and whereas trees in our community increase property values enhance the economic vitality of
business areas and beautify our burrow and whereas the Burrow of Tennifly has been recognized as a tree city USA by the National Arbor Foundation um and desires to continue its tree planting practices now therefore the
mayor and council of the Burough of Tenly do proclaim April 25th 2025 as Arbor Day and urge all citizens to celebrate this day and to support efforts to protect our trees and woodlands
thank you all right to be considered the first item on the agenda is the dust control ordinance i think that you got it okay yes uh so the council had asked me to look uh at
the last council meeting at a way to incorporate other materials in addition to the dust control that is incorporated in the existing or uh code with soil so I just wanted to report back I put together a form of a draft ordinance there's no chapter number or anything
like that because obviously you all need to give feedback but it doesn't fit where we had discussed at the last meeting so we wanted to bring it back and make sure that everybody's on board before we move forward that it goes either under litter control or under
building and construction because in the other area where we had discussed the last council meeting it would only apply to someone who was getting a soil moving permit so it doesn't really fulfill the purpose of what was discussed so you have a draft in front of you if you want
to take time to digest it if there's any comments um Dr okconor has provided a a model uh Councilman Park had as well i looked around a little bit more and and just put together what I thought was most appropriate you're free to disagree
yeah so it was in litter control previously no um and when I did a little research on it some towns have put it under litter control and to also incorporate they already had existing items with litter that it could go under
some have more robust construction code um so it was generally under the building and construction that was the more prevalent area but I did want to give you that option in case that was something you wanted to consider you need a permit to do it
at something well you would still have construction permits regardless of whether it's as of right or not you would still come in for permits for electrical or plumbing or things of that nature so unless it's it's minor or I
think Dan had some thoughts I guess go ahead Dan what were you going to say so just to clarify this I sent her a sample of what I thought it was it was under the soil movement um ordinance so it was completely off um
yeah but so this would just cut and paste into not cut and paste but just kind of slide into somewhere in the construction something in construction which is where we had added in also when the state mandated the lead testing with the dust wipe sampling that went into
that area as well it's just a more residential standard area that sounds like the better fit than the the more natural fit correct is construction the building and house yeah yeah i I agree but I just wanted to make sure that everybody was comfortable because it's a
little bit bigger of a ordinance now than what we had thought it's not just adding materials lauren totally fine with that instruction makes perfect sense i would just put a note under in our litter of garbage section like any resident that utilizes the materials in
this section used to abide by it you know just I would put like a two section so that any property like in the soil movement permit or or let garbage section you have a garbage garbage section and just say you know if any
individual homeowner is utilizing these materials same rules apply well the litter was more considering the dust is litter it wasn't it's not that your litter ordinance already provides it if you're cutting tile you know I was cutting my own tile it's more
right but that that wouldn't be covered by litter that's just you know you don't let things onto the ground right it's not this isn't litter right it wouldn't cross reference i did put in addition to any other requirements because obviously there are soil movement dust control requirements as well so that's why that
it starts with that that language i just want to make sure like any individual homeowner has to abide by because it does say here um very specifically in the whereas the contractors so um I defined contractors to include property owner agent or contractor got
it okay no bottom of page two because it's always easier to remove something if you don't want it right like any other construction in the soil there are enforcement but I don't think it was
discussed separately no but feel free to you know get back to me comments we're not ready you know to this is really just an update this is not going to be brought for introduction until you all ready so do they have do you have time frame
to hear from us then that's I I think if you have any council members that have comments or myself we're going to send them to David david will compile them and send them to Wendy okay John lauren you got that comments go to David okay great all right next on the agenda uh
council meeting schedule for June and August high school graduation is June 17th right four of us are going to be there meeting Monday yeah that works monday June 16th that works how is everybody
with Monday June 16th instead of Tuesday June 17th that's a rough week that's like the half days of the kids because four of us are graduation you're likely going to be there too
that's fun so Monday the 16th unless Do you want to do the backtoback meetings the second and the 9th the nth is primary oh nth primary it's actually the 10th the 10th is primary day
i'm fine with Monday the 16th so it sounds like Monday June 16th it is yes so we have the 3rd and then the 16th correct is that right yep okay and then there was um Mr mayor
about the August David could you put your microphone on David can you hear me now Adam yeah perfect thank you so the August meetings right now are the 5th and the 19th the 1st and third Tuesday um it was brought to my attention actually by uh the council
president that um the summer meetings are usually on Mondays so that you can go to the summer concerts um [Music] giggly kids outside i think just a loud
window outside they're outside outside oh really they're not inside everybody's good so um you know if we could move those meetings to Monday August 4th and Monday August 18th i'm not here the 18th but is am I the only one i hear it as Monday the 4th i don't
know why okay and um with Monday the 18th is typically there's not a second meeting in August uh last year we added special meeting so we contemplated second meeting it can be cancelled if we don't have a need for it as we get closer oh
to the end of July so you want to just keep it Monday August 18th and if we want to cancel it we'll cancel it on the 4th make sense that makes sense is the council okay with that am I the only one down on the 18th that's what it sounds like okay but there's a high likelihood
it's going to get cancelled oh I was going to ask July 14 okay Omar we're good with that right okay next on the agenda is public comment audience members wishing to speak will have a threeminut time limit
to address the governing body on any items of that concerns them large groups to ask to have or asked to have a spokesperson represent them anyone here uh in the chambers want to speak no public did you want
to I'm not pushing you okay i can't see what's happening okay all right okay um Omar anyone else in the chambers here see no hands mayor is there anyone online uh Susan or whoever's online
would you like to make a public comment anyone else somewhere out there it looks like they're raising their hand see no hands mayor okay so we're going to close public comment and let's move on to the administrator's report please okay mayor i handed out paper copies of the report
tonight um Omar can email them to you uh later tonight or tomorrow uh basically just picking up from where you left off with the Grove Street Park i expect that we'll have um the punch list taken care of over the next couple of weeks we do
need to order more uh flower pots um I expect the the ADA compliant uh planters rather not pots planters to be in the week before that okay all right um basically it's all hands on deck with
the pool operation where we have weekly meetings in my office and we are running out of time so we have a number of things on the agenda tonight to move forward uh to keep that running like clockwork good good i have some questions on on some of this stuff on
the little league field yes so I'm sorry just how much was a grant that we were going for can you just do the numbers one more time for me David i'm sorry sure and I have a detailed memo Lauren that I could email to you as well yeah i never got I still haven't gotten that one so that's why I So there's an LI
grant that um was for $70,000 it required us to match it with $100,000 um and then there's a Bergen County Open Space grant that we will get 119,000 and change and I believe our match
requirement is 140,000 and change okay so we have right now $553,000 available the bids the low bid came in at um I believe 620,000 or 610,000
the good news about this is that we did get 10 bids and they were very competitive but there's a gap of not even $200,000 um so the course of action is to reject all those bids rebid it um but then
concurrently to have some conversations with the little league about fundraising and raising some donations to cover that gap they were supposed to if the bids come in at the same level i'm very uncomfortable asking our families that
are in baseball and softball to raise $100,000 above what their taxes paid for i feel that that is not appropriate for this type of a project when we are sitting on so much
open space funding that we've already raised revenue from taxes and set aside for marine spaces and recreation i think the bids are high i I I'm fine rejecting them however to put it back on the people who've already
been taxed for their recreation spaces to then ask them to raise another $100,000 I just don't feel like that is the correct thing for us to do how much is left in open space right now councilwoman Dayton just Councilwoman
Dayton just so Yeah this is Adam wait can I just get my answer first let her get her answer jumps down my throat so how much is left in open space does anyone know so we're sitting on a million3 that we've raised for green
space and open space and recreation and you want to double tax the families because they're participating in this particular sport again I just don't see asking the hundred families or so that play
baseball to raise $100,000 it's not like we're raising $5,000 it is it is an exorbitant amount i do a lot of fundraising for sports adam go ahead no no worries and I know do Councilwoman Dayton wasn't here last year this was something that we all
agreed to with the Little League this is all in concert with the Little League we're doing this all together they understand they're here every step of the way and that was part of the process that we worked on last year to uh to get there so they're already fundraising they understand that there's extra stuff
that we're getting they're looking at fencing they're looking at PA systems so we we're doing this with the Little League every step of the way but Adam if you don't mind how much financial obligation did they agree
to fund raise for do we have a monetary idea of what they thought they were raising was it in this level of six figures yes so we Yeah so first of all you're a couple steps ahead so we're rejecting
the bids and hoping that it comes out uh we've sp I've spoken to the little league i've offered a whole host of options they said uh they want to you know let's reject the bid see who we hear back but if not they want to uh
fund raise for it this is the single most important thing to them is the turf we've had multiple conversations um and that's what we're doing exactly what we've worked with the little league to do so I understand that the Little League
board has agreed to fund raise at this level but I'm not sure you have buyin from the families that participate i mean I have to just like the council represents the uh residents of town we
we don't live in a uh uh democracy right we live in a republic uh we I assume the little league is representing their uh constituents interests if not then yes we've made a mistake by working with the little league i don't think that's the case
though you're not always obligated you're not always forcing people to pay more there's lots of other there corporate sponsorships you know Pres you buy drive past them they've got their whole commerce no no one's forcing them to do anything corporate sponsorships that I
think that are solutions that I think that's where they're focusing the fundraising on and not the people and they get advertising and they get a lot of things that go along with that focus they're doing it already they're just upping the level and I think it's fair
and this whole little league thing was brought on it's not with this agreement in place that they're chipping in people that are going to get taxed yeah that's not if you think of it in terms of it's not much different than Tenniflaw United paid for the soccer cage they wrote the entire check for the soccer cage over
there members whether it's senior center seniors pay dues i mean you know the nature center members make contributions to that so it's not inconsistent yeah I understand that this is a high level you know I'm not talking 10 20,000 but they've been part of this discussion
from the beginning that's fine but again we are also collecting open space from our residents or recreational spaces but maybe we do this in phases with open space first get you know I think let's see what they can raise because I think
they are on board with it and I don't think they're doing it to the people necessarily so I think let's see how they come from there you could fill fill in the gaps and if you if you kind of do the math you know half let's just round it up the half a million dollars to build this the brow is putting up 80% of
that money so you know so it's not it's not nothing i will say having done the municipal field here and doing the turf there was no bids for 500 i mean there just even you know what however many years ago a different size it is a
different size but the turf has because of the layers and everything else wait what it is a very expensive process to turf i didn't think Look I I think it's expensive i didn't think 600 was so outrageous we went to the straight contract given what we had bids on for
this field a large part of the bid is the drainage that's required yes right yes um and I I would just note that we have uh 625,000 to date from the from the open
space fund for the little field okay question philosophical or order of magnitude driven and if so what order of magnitude would you be helpful so it is an order of magnitude i do think asking any board that is a
volunteer board of of residents to raise a six figure amount so the order of magnitude is is definitely uh look 99 cents it's it's not it's not yes it is an order of magnitude but also it's what
addition so Adam I don't know the additional things that are being added into our project that little league you know is like this is a must or this is a maybe and so again we want to get this up and running i hate to delay this you know we're in softball baseball now um
and so I just I hate to delay this another six months for bids and everything else well we're about to start baseball season on Saturday and I'm throwing out the first pitch hopefully I'll do a better job this year it's going to pour on us there that's that's a whole another conversation right so we're not going to interrupt their season with any construction i I
think perhaps the the question about their contribution is really has to we have to have that conversation with them to understand what they are comfortable with right then we revisit this whole conversation maybe we get the field in and not the shack and the shacks this is
Adam yeah adam you want to weigh in please all right one at a time he's laughing because he's going to repeat what he just said i more for humor than anything else i think first of all let's get the bids back there's no need to have this
conversation until we get the bids back find out what we get as a lower bid and then this whole conversation is moot so let's I say we just wait for the bid to come back how's that all right anything else but I think we understand where everyone's just a quick point of order
for David to know on your B administrator report you mentioned about getting ready for the spring fling Saturday May 4th um oh that's sorry that should be Sunday May 4th right and uh it said that this week and this
weekend DBW will be powerwashing sidewalks in the downtown area i just want to remind in your communication with DBW I know Councilman Park's doing it they're all set for the trash trashon they're going to be there and not awesome they're doing the rotation for
pickup right okay okay thank you all right let's move on to um new business councilman Park would you like to make a motion please i move to introduce on first reading
ordinance 25-205 and set the hearing for May 6 2025 at 7:30 or soon thereafter i have a second please omar could you please uh read the title of the ordinance and conduct a roll call sure yes
ordinance number 25-15 an ordinance entitled establishment of a municipal pool utility of the revised general ordinances of the burough 10:00 2004 council member Corsera yes council member Dayton yes council member
Michaels yes council member Dr okconor yes council member Park yes council member yes okay before we move on to the consent agenda I just want to make a comment that I've been in touch with uh uh the
family of uh Edon Alexander and along with the downtown committee um about um actually it was Councilman Rolier's wife who came up with this idea of planting yellow
flowers downtown you know as a sign of hope for bringing Dawn back so I talked to the dad today they think that's fabulous very interested looking forward to that happening that's beautiful michelle's got the whole thing in the works with u with David okay thank you yeah that's beautiful
i actually had one more thing on David's report sorry I wasn't fast one last thing it's it's actually about the May spring plan so a resident contacted me um whose high school and middle school kids wanted to have a booth at the
downtown flank they actually went to Main Street Pops who said obviously we're sold out um but what I was curious about is the way they've actually been told to do it now is that the kids had to pay $150
Yeah with the Chamber of Commerce to be part of our community event right and that just seems to me Could you explain Say say that one more time Lauren i'm sorry i didn't I a high schooler and a middle schooler have a business have like a you know arts and crafts kind of
thing right they want to be part of our spring fling and go out and put out a table with their goods so they were told to contact Main Street Pops who said "You have to go join the Chamber of Commerce." So they just paid $150 these two kids join the chamber of commerce
they're not a ongoing business here at 10 that seems ridiculous is there an option since we are doing this event and it's not just us it's with us and the chamber to have like if a kid wants to be part to have some sort of alternative
route than him or her joining the chamber of commerce for $150 so why don't you want to talk so so so why why don't we have this as an off 100% I understand exactly what you're saying let's have this offline conversation about what's going on okay
i mean now they have literally paid to join a chamber of commerce for like a middle school soap business right a soap business well it looks like we're all going to be morally obligated to buy soap it's a fight club
right maybe there are a table for the It's 15 all right so we'll we'll take that for the event to join the chambers no they were told they had to join the Okay this is an offline conversation community event doesn't make sense because not all
the vendors are part of the chamber only non I mean I know we're moving on but only nonprofits uh don't have to pay the table fee right so let's let's talk about this offline because we don't have enough facts to resolve it here that's fine maybe we make a student or a young
person entry rate of like $25 jenny she knows she's she and I have been in touch okay moving on to the consent agenda i'm going to I'm going to pull item M25-260 okay i believe this is the
Yes I believe so also it is right Omar i think that's what this is that one's county no no no wait say that again it's East Clinton to Yeah
that's county because it's come it goes down west of I try to plan our thing to do all of it at once but that's the county section well interesting little fun fact about Engle Street and Englewood they discovered
while figuring out you know they've got that bridge to repair and all that that stuff over there they're working on that part of Engle Street is actually US highway oh yeah that's right yeah what number part of it part of it uh town part of it county and part of it's a US
highway small like 30 feet of it something crazy do you have that it's not on the resolution okay john are we going to try we don't have the detail here but he can David will follow up and send an email
to everyone okay while he's looking it up are there any other consent agenda questions correct any other consent agenda questions uh no sir okay so I'm going to ask for a motion sir can I get a motion on resolution
R25-248 through R25-259 could I have a second please second omar please call the role council member Council member Corsair yes council member D yes c Michaels yes council member Dr conor yes council
member Clark yes council member okay could I get a motion motion go ahead it's English Street from High Road to East [Music] excited so
okay any any coordination with the county on the other half yes can I get a motion on resolution R25-261 through R25-285 moved pardon me what did I do wrong
clinton i pulled 260 okay have a second i have a second omar please call the role council Corer yes d yes michael yes
connor yes park yes yes can I get a motion to approve the minutes of the April 8th 2025 mayor and council meeting can I get a second second all in favor i any opposed
okay uh Councilwoman Dayton any committee reports tonight um no but I want to say make two announcements one everyone please buy their tickets for the Enchanted Evening for the Nature Center i bought mine already two tickets
that's great now fill a table Mr mayor it's a lovely donation to our nature i am and he and as a donation he get a tax okay okay and the second thing is that we are still um putting together a pride
committee uh David would you mind can we schedule a meeting for Pride and you and I discuss it but we are still looking for members for a pride committee if anyone would like to come out and plan this year's Pride Day um actually won't be there but our pride committee will have it under control okay good how many
members are how much what how many members are like how well who's there now stepped off uh we were about eight and some of the members have stepped off and we're gonna we have two new families who came on and so just if anyone else is out there we have to get a meeting
going okay for June all right uh Councilman Rolier anything else wonderful wonderful councilwoman Corsair okay councilwoman Dr julio Connor yes i have two things
one is the environmental commission and high school green team and um our nature center all combined to uh please have the trashathon please attend please sign up at the nature center website you
register in advance it gives us an idea of how many people are coming uh young people get community service hours if they register with their own names so you'll So that's some good stuff so Tenny Nature Center it's this Sat this
Sunday rather April 27th 1 to 4 you can come anytime in that window pick up your stuff and start cleaning up trash and the other thing that came up was uh something rather interesting during the um new residence uh committee that I'm
Tennifly welcome committee that I'm leazisoning to um so it came up well first of all we have a new residence event if anybody who moved here within the last calendar year so April 2024 to April 2025 there's an event tomorrow
night uh which will be by the um uh the firehouse area and you'll have lots of uh goodies to it's going to be 6 to 7:30 tomorrow night for new residents but
something that did come up was that um some new residents depending on where they have moved from actually um get a little bit uh concerned when they hear the sirens that go off at noon
time so uh because sirens mean different things in different parts of the world right that's true or or like some sort of like war you know war situation and so they we decided uh I would ask if we
could put on our website maybe by the news flashash section uh where when the siren they might not realize that we always have a siren that goes off at 12:00 why do we have Yeah why do we have a siren
oh I don't know oh I think it might be just to set your set your clock a lot of towns still do that in New Jersey why don't you have a conversation with the fire chief yeah maybe we have a Let's have a conversation with the fire it's not It's not about time it's always off it's It's
not about the time so then So that's interesting um so then maybe this comes null and void so if we don't They understand you're always going to have sirens for ambulances i think that maybe maybe we could explain the lightning siren that's
something just a quick thing about that is people a lot of people don't realize that when you give the three in succession that means the lightning uh threat is over um you know so people don't they think that that means you have to still stay off the field
we could do that yep okay so so thank you so if maybe David I don't I don't know about the 12:00 thing if that's still up in the air but if you could maybe uh direct Omar like a little thing and then I could I could tell uh the uh
welcome committee thank you and that's it um Councilman Park nope nothing to report council President yeah just uh two things we spoke about
the um spring fling on Sunday May 4th the other thing is um we had a great senior center meeting on Monday they're they're electing some uh new officers but one thing that um I don't think I fully appreciated obviously there's lots of events for the senior community the
mayor does an exceptional job making pancakes come pancake day but I don't think I fully appreciated they do a lot of stuff actually with the schools so just in the past two weeks they did a with the second graders they painted uh
flower pots they did uh a actually a pen pal thing with the eighth graders they're doing something with the uh high school so whereas yes we think of the senior center as seniors because they're exceptionally good marketers but it's actually they do a lot of things with
the uh the students as well so it was just something I wanted to highlight and it was pretty cool so that's what I got there that's it okay thanks can I just actually piggyback on that so Adam our senior services committee actually does something called seniors to seniors
where we would try to encourage the high schoolers to come be buddies come do visiting come do social events for loneliness um and it's a great program so it doesn't have to be seniors could be our any resident but we do have something called seniors to seniors it's
really nice very cool okay great um my mayor's remarks I made at the beginning about the parks um so can you read the uh language to go into close session please oh can you I should have just
said will you please resolution R25288 at a meeting of the mayor and council of the Bur of Tennifly County of Bergen state of New Jersey held on April 22nd 2025 be it resolved in compliance with NJSA 104-12 the mayor and council of the B of
Tennifly are going into closed executive session to discuss the following matters pending litigation affordable housing and real property potential acquisitions and leasing of burough property minutes will be taken of the meeting and released to the public at the time that the matter is resolved can I get a
motion to go into close please so moved i have a second second all in favor i any opposed [Music]