pl1 1975 chapter 231 the notice requirements have been satisfied the meeting dates for the year are confirmed that the annual meeting are posted on the public Bolton 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 to the flag of the United States of America to the rep stand okay could I have a roll call please Omar council member Corsair here council member Dayton here council member Michaels presid council member Dr
o Conor here council member Park here council member rary here may Zen here okay the first thing of going off script right away a public service announcement for everyone listening in or here is um the pond at uh Roosevelt
Pond has got very thin ice on it and we've seen we've had to chase some kids and some adults off of the pond um so I'm urging everyone please don't walk on the pond the ice is not say I think it was like 43 degrees today and we don't want anybody to drown and get killed
over there so spread the word don't go on the pond at Roosevelt comments okay all right thank you first thing to be considered um originally on this agenda was the um public hearing for cannabis and the the
council and I have gotten a lot of public feedback on cannabis and so I pulled it off the agenda so we are not going to have a public meeting on cannabis tonight there'll be no vote on cannabis tonight um as a matter of fact the first order of business with
cannabis is going to be have a conversation about uh the Cannabis committee um putting together a schedule for a town hall where we can invite the public here everyone will be able to say their peace and at the Town Hall will
also not be a boat that'll just be a town hall to talk it all through okay um if anyone wants to make a comment about cannabis tonight you're absolutely welcome to in about 10 minutes we're going to have H public comment time okay and you're for it you're against it you
want to think about it more you're going to be welcome to come up to the microphone and say your peace okay but there'll be no voting on cannabis tonight so um that being said t cannabis Town Hall what do everyone say it again next
Tuesday Tuesdays are great for councils so let me ask a question next Tuesday is I'm throwing it out I just throw it out there yeah yeah so why don't we do this how about the Cannabis committee have an offline conversation
about scheduling a meeting and then circulate the recommendations through Omar or David and then we'll do it that way and then we'll let the public know I'd like to make sure we have some um people who are in the industry who
could maybe also advise us as a council I'd like to hear from some professionals well that'll so Canabis committee um that's an excellent recommendation right okay correct come sure or open it up to any
members of that business community that want to come in and talk about it Everyone's entitled to the three minutes at the microphone okay any other questions about cannabis we'll wait to hear back from the committee right okay next on the agenda is the tenly railroad station
preservation plan okay mayor so the historic preservation committee has uh recommended that this plan be adopted um they are recommending that the historic preservation commission oversee the suggested building advisor committee and assist
with managing Theo violations and building if the council approves certainly we can have the commission give some input from a u an advisory perspective that obviously the overseeing of improvements
to Ability staff okay so so help me through this a little we've got the historic preservation commission is going to oversee a building advisory committee well there's this in the in the report there's a suggestion that building
advisory as part of historic preservation commission or separate separate made up of council members or historic preservation okay they want to be the advis they want to be the advisor they want to be the advis what's the scope of
yeah Lauren's next Lauren then Adam please so we had um set money aside to do some of this upgrading what is the status of all of that so the electrical work was done correct okay the building work has not been done because the
correct because of the cost we did right the roof repairs are done so what here this is all internal structural in the attic there's some there's a lot there's a lot I still saw the roof in here sorry I think we just have to take a look at again they have
recommendations short and long term some of the short term is already been done so I think we just need to understand what's already been done where it is I mean I'm very eager you know this is great for Grants they mentioned in the report it's really great report um a lot
of GRS available let's see how we slowly they say two to 10 years it seems to me that you don't need to create a new correct ask for them was to oh can we be
a committee and sensing like perhaps yeah we can certainly get some of their input but yeah the control would have be through DPW and our Engineers single it's all the railroad okay so do you need consensus
from the council this evening to move forward with this I think um you're just going to accept that uh they've approved the plan as written and uh you'll take into consideration their recommendation is everyone good with that yes okay that's
unanimous it's really cool actually you have you know four or 500 hours re through it I had a chance to look through it 150 pages but actually assembly woman uh haters here they actually had old cing and when the new guy came in actually you were spoken
about it like in the article it's pretty kind of cool seeing these older articles yeah pretty cool they do a wonderful job with HBC and they've set us up to really get the grants here so thank you for that work okay moving on uh 2025 funding
round for open space trust fund programs go ahead oh no that's what I was looking for with this is to make you aware of it the deadline is not until March 28th so we have three more Council meetings to discuss the projects so yes so I was
talking with um Adam and some others just about the idea that what we've done in the past is we've collected ideas and emailed them to the burough administrator so that you could um pres
present them as options at a future meeting for discussion Maybe that way um we could make it a little bit um better use of our time right you know just so like now you say you kind of circulate a memo prior you know you figure out the
timing that you want we do know that the timing is end of March but you know we OB want good discussion beforehand but just as a way to narrow some of our thoughts is that make would that be okay yeah and then just for the council um council's uh information the last two
years we did get awarded uh grant money uh the oldest one is for the Grove Street Park which is currently under um construction and then last year we were awarded U grant money for the little lake so and I think the grant awards
were about $119,000 little Le oh little Le sorry they're usually like about a third of the project usually it com down you come up with the to project budget and then submit that and then so is that is that something that David you think is a that
maybe we should email you some ideas for for next meeting for discussion is that yeah I would think with the amount of money that um we historically have been able to secure probably the second to get the land acquisition and Municipal Park Improvement program would be the
areas to focus on um rather than the historic preservation program just on dollar value um Rec used to also give us a list of their programs that were in their rotation of Maintenance basically if we
can get that list okay I think we I think we had some inut from Jamie counton last year we pushed one of her we pushed one of her projects back a few years back I don't still remember which one it was well we did Municipal Park improvements over at mun but I think
that was one of the ones we pushed off oh we delay that one we did but she's got a rotation she's got a list of places she's got to fix so well but it would be okay for maybe in two weeks from now that we so so if anyone has ideas to email David and then David
collect them all the suggestions go to David yeah from any Council M yeah if I can get it like like Thursday or Friday prior to the 18th get that circulated announ thank you okay all right let's move on to a public comment please audience members
wishing to speak will have a three minute time limit to address the governing body body on items on or off the agenda large groups are asked to have a spokesperson represent them so who would like to come up and speak assembly woman please just give us your name not your
address shama haa thank you mayor councel for giving me this opportunity I have two issues but I'm going to compress them into my three minutes so you'll hear them both the first is I think you all know there's a law in New Jersey that any estab business
establishment restaurant or otherwise which looks to charge a service fee on the use of credit cards has to inform the patrons in a in a obvious manner that this is what their policy is and I'm finding it more and more that where
you go you pay you don't realize you look on your bill oh my God they charge me the fee I would have paid cash this happened to me in tenly also I don't want to go running to the Department of consumer affairs this is my hometown I don't want to create any trouble but I'm
hoping mayor and Council can do like a uh Outreach to the Comm to the business Community theber downtown or the chamber there is a law it should be followed we should know whe that we are going to be charged that fee and then it's my option
whether I choose to pay my credit card or not that was number one number two is in my work in the assembly the one thing that's very obvious and we all know it is the housing issue affordable housing
issue in New Jersey it leads to economic inequity food insecurity homelessness and may you wrote a wonderful article in the uh the opinion piece in New Jersey globe and if you haven't read it I urge the entire Council to please read that
article I think what you are talking about is something which the council should come together to plan the future of the town I'm not saying that you sit and change the zoning laws tomorrow but you have to come together and philosophically and policy wise consider
what the future will look like and how you can do some Innovative and you know different outof the-box thinking ideas so 10 years from now we are not in a position where we saying oh God I wish we had thought of this before your
article is the first step I mean tly has a great great track record without aordable Housing Programs I think we are probably way ahead of most towns but please I would urge you maybe do a retreat maybe sit amongst yourself but start the process of things you the
community leaders you got to start the process please start that process now because there has to be a first step before we can go to any larger changes I thank you for your consideration thank you assembly woman yes come up to the microphone please just give us your name
not your address absolutely thank you thank thank you mayor thank you councils my name is ran Levy I'm president and owner of the house in 10i for over 10 years 11 years uh my friend here my good friend gorri for over 20 years resident
in owner of house I want to refer to the shortterm rent issue now in s there is ordinance on the agenda I'm obviously supporting it very much but I want to reinforce the issue so it's in record on record and we all
understand what's behind it I made a point here to come here and talk about it there are three things that we should consider okay one is quality of Love second one is safety third one is value I should probably put safety first but those are the three things I want to
give you examples my own examples and examples of some of my friends quality of life in front Columbus Drive you know that on the way to school my next house I was strug to learn that they sold the house started doing shortterm renting
Airbnb the guys don't know what is recycling Bean trash Bean they put the trash in the recycling it sits there for a week two weeks three weeks overflow have picture of that second issue is noise I mean these guys on a daily basis
someone else comes and they show up at 11 o'clock sometimes 1 o00 some 2 o'cl you know with the luggage everything they don't know how to get in my God second thing third thing point we had a marijuana party one of those Airbnb kids
loud noise obviously quality of life and the fourth thing was alarm that went off for three hours they didn't know how to shut it off they are renters qual of Life second thing is safety safety you know kids next door there are
kids three years old six years old now let's be honest 99% of the people are good people and we all good people but when you have every day someone from Alabama from South Carolina you know unknown State you know states that I
know but unknown people from different states right they come in and you don't know you RIS these kids you RIS the safety of all of us the third point that I want to talk about was the value quality safety and value let's go let's
not kid ourselves okay the value of our homes and our town is going to go down no question about that now I don't want to ask to break any new grounds let's from my research our research okay cres
kill cluster and deris they all have this ordinance from 2016 2017 I have the references some of them go six months some of them say minimum of three months I know the ordinance on the table is 30 days whatever I'll take 30 days 60 days
whatever it is but it's for for the future of our 10 fly our kids our safety and our quality of life thank you very much before you step away from the mic thank thank you for that a question for you do you also you know we're going to have a public hearing on this tonight if
you'd like you can speak again at the public hearing to go on the record officially during the public comment um on the ordinance itself it's up to you you're welcome to do that okay yeah okay thank you all right all who else would like to speak uh first the young lady on
the left okay over there young lady on the right whichever one of you wants to uh lady the lady in the middle did not raise her hand I would have said the lady in the Hat just give us your name not your address Jenny Jenny
Jackson um I am here to talk about the it skip the plastic resolution that you spoke at the last meeting about and councilwoman OK Conor reached out to me to get information from the Chamber of Commerce so I sourced some feedback from
our members and our board and um the overwhelming consensus that was that no one wants to put additional plastic in the takeout bags um that said it happens and I think that based on um the
feedback from you is that the Department of Health could be a good partner in this in informing every single one of the restaurants that they shouldn't do however is appropriate to communicate with them that we would like to be plastic free you know unless we are
given uh unless the customer notes it um because even though we can have that one on one conversation with as many businesses it makes it a little more official and then it makes sure that we don't it doesn't get to be a problem um
yes can I ask any question can you ask a question of course was there a discussion on the fee so if there's a violation yes so the over there was a there was a big push back on the fee of course naturally no one wants to get
fined for this um and they felt like that that was um I don't know it was the punitive feeling was that you know they're they're being attacked for for they're providing a service and they're getting attacked for it too harsh it was too
harsh yeah too harsh yeah even the conversation approaching the conversation with these business owners was like you know that's what I asked that was my um indication as well when I spoke to a couple people you know I spoke to the diner I spoke to the pizza places and they're like look we agree
with the policy but not necessarily the fee but you remember the fee has been removed we removed the fee we took the fee out so so it's just a it's just a resolution for an educational campaign we we didn't want to start with it being punitive at all right and and I
know that but I think that you know it could get to a point if no one's listening and everyone's still putting plastic in the bags then action could be taken in the future and I think that as long as the information is received by everyone then they have the tools so then you know okay it's a positive and
not Julie you have a question to that end I questions a little bit more to David I know that we were gonna craft kind of a missive to the businesses is that just in its final stages it should be going out uh if not this week next we
awesome so they're going to get it from the town officially kind of butting what you're talking to I've had my step finishing the newsletter councilwoman so as soon as that's done it's actually going to the printer now so we'll get to this next great thank you one more interesting point was that you know
every restaurant has their different sort of approaches to things like one restaurant specifically said oh we hate plastic we never use it I never we don't use it at home we don't use EX for our sups right they're like for sure we have to and you know so like they feel very
they're different every restaurant is a different case these are people and they have their different reasons for things so like you know I think that allowing the information to come directly officially from the buau is will be helpful thank you yeah thank you J than
for communicating it too okay who else thank you Jenny who else would like to speak here come on up just give us your name not your address please sure Amy salza good evening mayor counsel um I actually just wanted to offer a little perspective on the
Cannabis so um I'm a single mom of three I applied uh for a license a couple years ago thankfully I was granted one and the perspective I'd like to offer is just to possibly um help everybody
understand a little bit more what the CRC the compliancy the regulatories the non-negotiables that happen in order to get a state license it's very difficult as I'm sure some of you may or may not know and I just think
as someone that's raised our children in the community my children socialize here since I've been over for 15 years here so I understand some of the concerns of the residents and others and I think that it's important to just have a
different softer lens when looking at cannabis because it also has a lot of positive things such as health benefits such as tax revenue job creation and so hopefully when it after the town um hall meeting and everybody gets together and
offers their opinion I hope that it is my intention to always push forward wellness and education and I think through that lens it can create a little bit more soften that stigma around it and so I just wanted to come here and
offer a little perspective as a as a state lcy uh from the state and help people understand what the CRC which is the Cannabis Regulatory Commission how important safety and responsibility is so I thank you for your time tonight can
I ask you a question yes of course how much tax have you paid to where your store is so I actually am not an oper in operations currently I just have my license I've been doing my due diligence as to where I want to place my license full license or micro annual full full
yes and I also it's a medical and hybrid license so it's to do for it's for retail correct congrats by the way yes thank you so much well I went to West Point so I think that definitely helps with my character
integrity a lot of check boxes yeah exactly thank you so much thank you very much any more public comments here for anyone in the audience and and keep in mind first person how we come up and give us your
name how um May is it okay to talk about what I want to of course it's public comment time okay I just didn't know yeah yeah and I got a response from them by the way but go ahead okay so I just wanted to give an update on the development that's been going on behind
my house it located in Anglewood on IB West IB Lane um back in October my wife and I we heard trees getting cut down and we didn't know anything about it all of a sudden out of the blue action was
happening over there so we called Anglewood they sent over a building inspector and they they put a stop work order there were no permits and they they stopped them at the time from from doing that work um so last week I had to go to my
uh debtist and his office is across the street from there and and the uh secretary says to me can you believe what they're doing across the street I'm like no what I I don't have any updates she said that they're cutting down trees
and they're demolishing the two homes when I had spoken to the developer originally he had said that they were preserving the houses and they were just fixing them I said how do you know about this and she said um she said that um they received
notice from the city of angle and I said I haven't received it I called my neighbor he didn't receive anything I have't check with my other tenly neighbors but none of them reached out to me and I was leading the opposition group against the development so I think nobody in tenly was notified
about this so upon that I called Anglewood I spoke to the planning board there they said there were no plans for the houses but there were permits issued for the trees
and but it's all before the engineering department they contact the engineering department so I contacted the city of benwood engineering department the engineering department said oh yes it was issued and um they're going to be cutting down
trees and people were noticed and I said okay well I never received a noticed she say oh she's asked me my name my address I gave it to her and she said no you're not on this list and this was the list given to them
by the Anglewood tax assessor so uh being that we were in tenly none of us were on the list nobody from tenly received any notice which is very disheartening you would think that they would know that there's another street right behind
them so she said well why don't you contact the tax assessor so I called the tax assessor and she said you're not pinning this on me I said pinning what just I I want to find out what's going on and how come I haven't been notified where my neighbors well I looked at the
Anglewood tax records and you're not on the Anglewood tax records I said okay well can you call that over there and tell them that this was issued in mistake and have this shut down and she said no that's not my job I said well the planning the engineering
department told me it has to to come through you now you're telling me it has to go through them so I went back to the engineering department and they said well we gave the permit and they said you should be happy they're going to end up putting more trees there than there were well actually their ordinance doesn't state that their ordinance says
that trees can be put anywhere in their City that's mutually agreed upon so and I'm not saying I'm for or against the project at this point because I really don't know what's going on at this point but I want everything
done by book I want it done on on Legit level you know if they're going to do other things that are not following plans what kind of recourse am I going to have later on and I'm getting the runaround from everybody in angle where the city manager refuses to take my
calls the burrow engineer city engineer doesn't take my calls and so finally I got an administrator there and she said you're checking on it so this all started on Tuesday so this is now Friday where on Friday she says me well we're going to cont it's legal department we don't know
if we have to notify anybody in tenly or not I said so you're telling me you notify people that are five six houses away down IV Lane but my house touches the property and I'm not notified well we don't know that we have to okay well
please find out and let me know Monday comes I don't hear anything so said you know what I'll give them the benefit of the doubt maybe somebody was out of town today finally at 3:00 I just was fed up and had enough
and so I uh I called over there and the response I got was well it's before the legal department I said well you have a permit that's issued and there could be action taken that's illegal that's
not done proper this needs to be stopped I said what are you asking for me to do do you want me to go to the county and get an injunction if that's what it takes or do you want me to come to City Hall at one of your Council meetings and embarrass you because I will tell the truth they said well you should be happy
you're you're gonna have more trees again with the more trees I just want things done legitimately and by the book and so this is where we're at now I haven't heard anything their tree permit was issued and it's that said that they were
planning on cutting them down around January 20th as far as I so and then demolishing they were supposed to demolish on February that hasn't happened so I received a call late this afternoon from someone in
Anglewood and I think you're going to have responses to your questions by the end of this week okay um I can't attest to whether you'll be happy or sad about those responses they said they will respond though and um you know we'll follow up together and figure
out I understand that it's just it's very frustrating mayor yes tly you know a year ago was going to have our Engineers look at the flooding over on IB Lane and the impact that this development was going to have on our properties it's a different it's a whole
different thing now they've switched it on correct completely different yeah the other development didn't get approved good this is just two houses got it so I mean I mean I'm happy that it's going to be
single family homes but but I just want everything done legally and proper and we conduct ourselves proper intenna fly other other jurisdictions should do the same okay thank you thank you
Howie yes hello may hello how are you I'm well thank you my name is uh can I ask you a question sure are you going to talk about cannabis no oh okay go ahead I was I was going to talk about the public hearing yeah right that's right correct
yeah so uh my name is Richard fonte back again you may recall my fiance Christina and I married Saturday um yeah so I wanted to just come back first of all to thank you for the speed with which this issue seems to have moved through uh it sounds like you
know there's there's support I'm encouraged and uh hopefully we'll see you know voted in or enacted into law so thank you very much as a reminder I just wanted to once again again state that you know we're the the short-term rentals continue in just the three short
weeks since I've been here last um you know it's the same issues persist so there's the overflowing garbage that you heard about I uh one morning I got up the bag was ripped apart sensibly by you know some animal and so you have litter
around um and then the parking on a culdesac with with a narrow neck is just dangerous so there's overnight parking you know sometimes with a couple of cars sometimes with seven cars it chokes off the top of the street it's just a safety
hazard so uh again I just want to reinforce we're against thank you for taking up the issue and uh should we stick around for you're absolutely welcome to stick around for the public hearing and you can comment again and then you'll be on the record that's why I asked you before I got confused wasn't
cannabis it was the okay very good thank you thank you for your comments anyone here have any other comments before we move out to zoom okay Omar is there anyone on Zoom who would like to make a public comment anybody on Zoom would like to speak we make a public comment please
raise your hand see no hands mayor there's no hands on Zoom for public comment okay then uh we're going to close public comment time and move on to the hearings okay ad report pardon
me ad report oh yes admin report okay so thank you for reminding me thank you um I distributed the report today I apologize for being late but there was some information that was uh critical that would be put in here that uh would
give a better update um the first item is the pscg gas mine uh service installation and Paving so um Andy Hipp has confirmed that psng plans to pave about 20 roads uh in
2025 uh we're waiting a a firm list of those roads an updated map of uh all the roads that will be touched with Paving uh in 2025 in 2026 was emailed out to you along with uh this report and I think all more
reped them back into the website as well no no no what I'm saying is that they won't be done with all of their Paving in 2025 so there's some roads that we're responsible for half and they're responsible for half so not 100%
of all the roads that they requir done yeah because they're they they uh gas man and service project will be done around the end of October so roads that are just in that time frame will probably be the following
spring uh the municipal Municipal field beautification project um there's going to be a pre-inspection site visit next week and the contractor is uh scheduled to start on February 24th um it will be shut down for a specific week in in
March that was work out with Jamie Canon the little leag field we were able to get the design uh completed and uh sent to the contractor the contractor is called field Turf and they are a ESC andj vendor so it cuts
out significant time like uh local public contracts bidding process uh we expect to receive pricing on that by this Friday the 7th and uh we will award a have resolution of award on February 18th the contractor has committed to
complete the project by April 18 which would be ahead of uh the upcoming Lally parade and open at the field uh the county fiber was uh
installed on Friday uh this past week um we're now taking steps to finalize and go through our our County it uh transition for uh our computer support uh one of the additional benefits that the county fiber will have is will be
able to cost avoid a separate optimal service for the police department so they will be able to get their internet service from this County F and what is this costing us now what is it costing the B $150 a month $150 a month what were we previously pay
18,000 the Year yes very nice good move very good um and the rest of uh my report is uh you can read that it's something to highlight I would just like to do uh take an opportunity to recognize Susan uh Cado our CFO and her
staff they've been working very hard along with myself and Omar in uh crafting the 2025 uh budget book and and budget process we expect that that will be ready to be h out to you distributed next week um the Auditors are finalizing
our audited financial statements and verifying some of our Revenue numbers uh so we'll have a complete U book before you so we can start going through that methodically that's all I have for toight any questions for the administrator uh the last update that I
have received is that they have about 60 members that signed up yeah yeah there's there's categories for Resident are you looking for G Geographic within the town just right it's mostly
but again I really just implore this could be a great thing for our town 60 people right now is just not a lot this is a great deal significant discount for for sign earlier so I know a note went out to everyone's mail
really love see fol the council cor you have a comment to make yeah any other questions for the administrator go ahead David I still have a question on the baseball softball field okay um the layering of the turf
um are there options on you know layering to protect the needs and the kind I we went through this for mun field we did lot different options so our engineer cers has designed it um I can get that specific for you I can give you the plans but I believe it's been
taken into consideration and and I did confirm uh with for softball as well as thank you okay let's move on to the U public hearings now uh the first hearing is uh
25 um 06 Omar could you please uh bre the confirmation of publication of the ordinance and the title of the ordinance sure ordinance number 25-06 was an ordinance published in the January 26th edition of the record is an ordinance of the burough of tenly County
of Bergen state of New Jersey supplementing chapter 10 building and housing of the revised General ordinances of the Boral temply 2004 to add new section 10-13 short-term rentals of Residential
Properties okay I'm going to open the floor for public comment on this ordinance 2506 short-term rentals only is there anyone in the chambers who would like to go on the record and make a comment you're welcome to do so please just come up to the microphone and give us your name but not your
address is we not I've been a homeowner and the residen of 10i for over 10 years again thanks for the opportunity to talk about these subjects I'll repeat some of the things I said but I think it's important to in reinforce it unfortunately I experienced
that my uh house next to me was sold in November I found out I was sh that it will start being used for Airbnb on a daily basis there is another family another family from different parts of the country that come in and out the
issues and disturbance that we've experienced and anyone who have experienced that faces three things and I want to talk about these three things again for the record to point out and stress those points one is quality of life secondly is the safety and the
third one is the value value of our homes our towns our life quality of life I mean there are incidents numerous in incidents of trash overflowing the guys don't know how to use the recycling Bean they put the trash in the recycling it's
not collected and pictures here of overflowing for over two weeks during the holiday season for two weeks and I called the to to help me with that but it was not taken care of by the residents because they didn't care they leave after a day or two issues of
parties late parties marijuana parties that we have experienced because those people come and they leave after a day who cares the third issue that I was experiencing and we are experiencing are noises people come in at midnight you know some late flights two o'clock in the morning
now it happens your neighbor can come from hisory but not on a daily basis on a daily basis every day there is someone else that comes late at night try to figure out how to get in noisy luggage and the third the fourth thing was an
experience that I experienced was an alarm that went off for four three hours you say until I came in and we call the police the guy didn't know how to shut it off he didn't know how to operate I don't know if the entry was not correct so certainly quality of life was
impacted second thing that I should probably put first was safety safety people from I saw at least five or six different states cars with licenses from different states as I said before most people are good people but we don't know
who they are and they turn over day after day after day kids are walking in the street they going to school my name my friend next door has kids six years old and three years old you know you have strangers next to you every single
day safety of our life and the third thing which I want to point out stress for all of us is the value the value of our homes the value of our town the reputation that we work so hard to build okay okay don't keep yourself the value
is going to go down Airbnb is reducing the value of our street our homes and our towns if we let it go like that and last thing I want to point out as I said before we don't need to invent the wheel there are three towns next to us our
neighbors cler Prill and Demmer they all have these ordinance some of them from 2016 2017 anything from 30 days minimum to 60 days to uh to six months so certainly we need to be the leader but
on this one I don't mind to follow let's put this in place in favor of your initiative I appreciate that and thank you so much for your time and for your initiative thank you for your comments who else would like to speak on this topic only
please hi my name is Richard fonte and uh I also wanted to speak in support of prohibiting the short-term rentals so so uh not to repeat everything that uh my friend here just said we didn't meet until tonight and to be clear we're talking about two different short-term
rentals so we're not speaking of the same location and so uh my fiance Christina and I have been in tend of fly for over a decade about a year ago we decided to buy a house together we learned a few months later that our neighbors were moving and Inc came uh
seemed like a nice family quickly they were gone and it was on the Airbnb site uh like was just said the issues are really one of safety sanitation uh from a safety perspective the cars park on the street overnight lining what is a
you know narrow necked culdesac with at times as many as seven cars it's difficult to get in and out of the Block it's uh if you have anybody on a bike or anything it's just going to crowd the street it's dangerous uh secondly the garbage sits at the curb um as was just
described from when you know the renters leave they put it out the garbage is overflowing these are often times big parties 20 people so you have one pale overflowing it sits there for days and then once emptied it just stays there so basically the garbage is you know in the
street for a week and um and recently you know I noticed that some an an animal must have got to a bag so it's thrown about so it's um and then lastly like was mentioned these are most often single night rentals so they're not even
a weekend and they come in and out during the week not much Friday Saturday out of state cars constant turn so it's very unsettling uh I think it's dangerous and I think a vote in support of this ordinance is you know a vote for
Safety and Security for 10 flight so thank you thank you okay how we come up to the microphone and just give us your name again for the record Howe siden I just want to Echo what they said in terms of safety I mean I've read in New Jersey jersey.com
where there's been drug traffickers that have rented in Fort Lee to uh because the proximity to New York and how close we would be to New York and they use this as a safe house to diby up their supplies and distribute throughout the
area um not only that you also had the incident where people were renting so that they could have parties where where pools there was a drowning and teen neck of a young child like year or the year before just because these people come in and they're it's not
their property and it's just a safety hazard all around so uh thank you thank you hoe okay would anyone else in the audience here it looks like everyone spoke in noark correct yes um how about on Zoom would anyone like to speak on
this topic only ordinance 256 short-term rentals hi hello go ahead give us your name and so thank you very much my name is parla uzel and I'm sorry if you hear some background noise but I'm not currently
at home right now um but this is an important topic um my neighbor Rich was just up speaking on behalf of what we face on our street with an Airbnb and a and a small culdesac I really want to lean into the safety issue I have young kids um these guest as he mentioned
they're one night rentals they often come at 11 12 o'clock at night park on the street overnight leave at 7:00 a.m. loud music not sure what's going on my kids get nervous and have really started to to have anxiety about this so I think
it's really important that you understand that this is not just us parents being or us in the in the town that have an issue but I think it is it is something that can trickle into the younger Generations as well um it's also not an environment I want my kids to see there was one day a rap video being
filmed in the house with a truck pulled up blaring um uh loud uh or big lights into the house that was you know resonating all around 17 18 cars on the street people walking through my yard to get to this
house it makes her a very uncomfortable situation on top of which again you know safety concerns kids I don't want them seeing things I don't know what's going on what Howie was saying about all the potential wha ifs so I just think it's really important that this is is is
banned for a short-term rental okay thank you carer Omar there other hands up see no hands mayor no more hands and last chance any other comments okay I'm going to close uh public comment time on
this topic uh councilwoman Dayton would you like to make a motion uh yes but before I make the motion I actually want to have a quick discussion on the minimum length we heard from our residents that other towns have a longer minimum we are looking at a 30-day
because that's what um is the minimum on the state is that correct but we have the option of having a longer minimum term so 60 days as a minimum you know again I I do understand that most of
these are weekend but we still want to ensure you know we have large events coming um you know the World Cup is coming here I just want to ensure that when we do pass this ordinance which I hope we do tonight that we're doing it logically and that the 30 days doesn't
become an issue as well I still think that's pretty short um so on the 30 day there was some concern that we do have residents to buy houses that want to be here for the school that are renovating and sometimes need a place locally so that was kind of also why you're not
going to get people just doing one night parties for the cost of 30 days it's not as transient in 30 days you would know the garbage schedule Etc so that's part of why 30 days was was the initial if it's needed to be changed we can always amend it later is there any way to carve
out so that if it's tly resident no require discrimination discrimination it's preed by St 30 days well there there's different parts of it um but ultimately the 30-day Mark was more of a we don't want to make it
inconvenient for our residents who are doing improvements in their homes for keeping the kids in school Etc you know we had recently the house fire having people be able to find things nearby is also important so the idea was
this should take away some of the more transient safety issues while still allowing folks who need that shortterm longer term um it can always be amended if if it doesn't solve right if if the pro if it
doesn't solve the problem at all we amend the ordinance is there a way to eliminate it on like the airb no quite honestly um the advertising on the Airbnb or vbo whatever the different sites is contrary to the ordinance if
it's adopted so that would in itself be a violation even if nobody actually okay any more questions or comments from the council okay councilwoman dayon would you like to make a motion please yes I move to pass and adopt on second and final reading
ordinance 25-26 and that notice of same shall be published according to law second could I have a uh you know Omar she said 25 26 256 256 yes s want to just read it again
so that it's sorry guys sorry guys it's okay I move to pass and adopt on second and final reading ordinance 25-06 and that notice of same be published according to law have a second please we're passing the right thing Omar could you please uh conduct the
roll call council member Corsair yes council member Dayton yes council member Michaels yes council member Dr W Conor yes council member Park yes C my rural area Mr Mayor there's a question from the audience about this can ask sure
thank you all yes you have a question just step up to the microphone hi richon again I'm not sure if this is the appropriate form but I have a question on how will this be enforced okay so counil do you want to address that a little bit that's basically when it comes
police yeah no I believe we have code Official Police everybody that we could possibly list is is in there but certainly you know if you see the cars on the road parking overnight that's your first indication to call the non-emergency number at the police department because even if they are
full-time there they shouldn't be doing that um as far as garbage whatnot you can report to BPW as well there's many different Avenues on just being listed on the Airbnb website is not enough no being listed is actually a violation as
well so if anything um David I don't know if you want them calling through your office or direct um yeah they're they're welcome to call my office I think you know we could send a note a notice to Airbnb and BRB with a copy of the
work so for for I'm sorry enforcement it's the police department building code official Fire official Health Department or other subcode code official just add is that maybe that um if you're just a person you want to call the police that maybe that we can make
sure that our first person answering in the police station knows the the law yes we're going to share that with Omar that right there so please go ahead's also way where we can someone in the can sign up as like atifi and then you get
notified if something is listed Andi on one of these sites so that that be yeah we can code enforcement so so this the enforcement on this is going to be very much like if someone's in violation of building permits taking down trees all
that sort of thing the residents will typically call and alert us before we realize it because you guys we're all you know on the street our next door neighbors so okay okay very goodl our just general perm violations do that
online as well if you don't want that's fine and when is this effective upon publication so when is that be second reading so we wait wait February February right so so I sign the so I
sign the ordinance tomorrow and then it gets published when February 9th February 9th yes next so February 9th is effective or February 10th well it's published on February 9th but since it'll be February 10th when it goes in effect okay that's great thank you so
much thank you all for thank you everyone for for participating take care I'll see you Saturday good luck okay we're going to go on to um new business introducing a ordinance 2507 amend elevator fees councilman
roler excuse me no no okay so councilman Ro Aries like to make a motion please could I have a second please second Omar could you please conduct the uh excuse me could you please read the title of
the ordinance and conduct a rooll full sure ordinance number 25-7 and ordinance to amend the fee schedule section 10- 1.3 of the revised General ordinances of the bural tenly 2004 entitled
construction C fees to amend elevator fees C Corsair yes council member Dayton yes council member Michaels yes council member Conor yes counc member Park yes council member R
yes okay thank you does anyone have any questions about the consent agenda okay could I get a motion to approve resolutions R 25-80 through r25 d101 I have a second second oh Mark
please call the rooll council member quair yeah council member Dayton yes council member Michaels yes council member Dr Conor yes coun Mar par yes CER yes okay thank you we're going
to do our committee reports councilman Park would you like to go first uh let's see what happen nothing to report councilwoman Dr Okana yes um so I was at the 10 of
Nature Center meeting uh they're planning some upcoming spring um fundraisers so I'll get you some details when they narrowed down their their particular date on that and um councilwoman Dayton you'll you'll like
this one in late March they're going to be working with the high school Green Team uh for the bird boxes they're doing a bird building box uh project with the high school Green Team I think your daughter's involved with that yep and
actually very cool and the TL Nature Center is going to be um supplying the materials getting it from Benjamin brothers and working with the the kids in the club to do the uh the boxes and then also staying with the High School
theme uh for the environmental commission the green team again in the high school is going to be doing a late March uh stream cleanup with the hackensac River Keeper the stream behind the High School uh so we have some nice
Outreach in that way that's the latest thank you councilwoman Corsair so um the rec department is looking for signups for boys and girls Spring lacrosse exciting lacrosse and that's well very good okay
council president can I just add comment on Lacrosse sure no I want to add that softball's softball's currently in signups as well yes's not so what are there 44 days till Spring I think it's 44
days yes that's good letter council president you guys got your money worth out of me this week so really good week okay maybe not um great Senior Center meeting over 650 uh members very
reasonable fees Inc like I tried to apply it would bring in but um clearly there was a great discussion you know clear need for more space all their events now are selling out they do a lot of physical activity stuff and the
senior center just not big enough so very excited for possibly what's to come with the new Senior Center um put on your calendars again good fees but March 3D we have the Philadelphia Flower Show and March 19th uh Outsiders onad
excellent but I have to be a senior it's all right I'm put the money in I'm prepaying so Senior Center was great um had our first downtown Committee of the year uh great new members lots of energy
um big priority that they brought forward again traffic pedestrian safety um and please mark your calendars Spring Fling May 4th um there may or may not be a wellness theme you guys got to come and check it
out but uh May 4th springling and then last but not least uh last night Monday night I don't know whatever day it is today Tuesday today's Tuesday so last night we had our um first Chamber of Commerce uh meeting um
first uh Jenny Jackson was elected to be president uh of the chamber definitely looking for it was great to see new businesses coming in so please if you're new business sign up uh one specific ask um if possibly we could help with is better communication as new businesses
come up so I brought up that you know the Buildings Department always has a an early read on new possible businesses one if we could communicate that better maybe we could communicate that with the chamber so they could reach out to the businesses and help them out and then to
uh you know we as a a burrow if we could help communicate get excitement I'm sure the mayor would be happy to go and cut the ribbon um so if we could work with the Buildings Department can I ask a question it's
related to your report but maybe no you can't sign off to the senior center it's kind of very funny like sometimes I'll see these gra trips and I'm like oh there like Senior Center Drive the bus the bus driver get a CDM um this
might be more of a question for Wendy though um so it's related to the thing you just mentioned about the new businesses is there any rule to your knowledge because I I was asked this by a business owner um there's not a limit on the
number of same type of business that can open in a town I I didn't think there was if they have different land right different okay that is done by zoning if there's nothing in the zoning code
but you but you actually could change a zoning code saying I'm not allowing more than 4X really types of licenses yes really okay what are the types of licenses that
am I thought with different landlords of different buildings that wouldn't apply question I got the way that I've is for example you know things that require more resources for oversight so you can say you can't say it's not
allowed entirely it entirely um but you can say you know no more than one of this type within this are yeah but to be perfectly honest I I apologize for taking a time but just to be perfectly honest no much there's not
another business that requires more oversight than a restaurant right so you know because that's your your your health person's going there all the time so that's going to be like your top level of oversight we're not saying we're not saying oh I don't want more too many restaurants in town we know what we're talking about let's say let's
call it I don't know nail salon or I don't know hair hair hair salon I don't know I'm just throwing that out there and and then that that doesn't require so is there anything that do why don't we get some more information on this
topic say right now is that your zode is not we can leave it there if there's something that you want to look into can not really though like I don't really want to look into it there's nothing in your zode that prohibits every single um business to be exactly the
same yeah but it's but it doesn't sound like there's something that a town could do so that that's my point that's an off offline counil we'll have to do a little legal work on that okay go ahead I I just want to say you know
we have so much um interest to get our businesses filled and I would really hate to put a zoning ordinance that prevents any viable business especially you know if a you know family-owned business wants to come here I would hate to have anything that would stop the
opening up intenna FL I mean ultimately there it's it's economics it's supply and demand yeah services are what people are looking for exist if people weren't using them they wouldn't be here I just I just don't want to put any more
difficulties in opening business in our town councilman do you have any U committee reports you'd like to Enlighten us about and share with us chief police report well thank you to the board administrator for making that happen
along with the cable yes great savings there yes my C councilwoman Dayton um actually I'm sorry Mel left uh you know Mel's Burgers was here um and the pride committee uh
was contacted because Mel's um is getting harassed about her pride flag that she flies in our community um I want to ensure that who's harassing her they don't know yet phone call an anonymous phone call keeps harassing her
and um I actually thought she was going to speak about it tonight I got excited to see she report I don't mean to interrupt that she reported it to the police I we i i as councilwoman advised her to speak to the police and our committee as T like pride has advised her I just convinced her outside with
the theer but I am gonna raise that we are an inclusive and Equitable Town their community and I just want to ask Wendy this question there is nothing that prohibits any of our downtown businesses from flying a pride flag it's inside too right yep nope no I believe
there may be a recent executive Federal order as far as on federal buildings of what flags can fly when but you know private property is private property um if it's inside it's and it's not a violation of our sign ordinance then that's inside your property and if she
wants to fly one connected to her storefront I really would have to double check I'm not that familiar with with the sign ordinance as far as the zoning requirements I know we just did an overhaul to put it firly in zoning but that was last month you'd have to talk
to me again yeah but inside inside windows and things that there's no whatever she wants amever so there considerations but's specific saying you can't have a FL or
some kind of sign in your window it may just be coverage issues well I just wanted to raise it t ofl Pride obviously is working on this we're working on looking at our surrounding communities and hopefully we will become an ally in some of the issues that are you know
coming um so just you know be aware um Senior Services met and we are still looking in something called trusted Rider trusted Rider is a service that um we are looking to fund possibly with a grant if you are um Homebound and you
need to go somewhere we have our incredible senior bus but if you can't get door too from your door to the bus door you really are prevented from using our bus we are not allowed to be escorted trusted Rider is actually the same type of service but brings you from
your door to your place where you need to go and back it's an incredible thing that would allow many of our homebound to um you know live independently have more support our senior services is very excited about it they also run a
software and scheduling program where people can schedule one of the things we're exploring and maybe David you can work on this with me is a shared service with another town so it is expensive it's about 10K and maybe if we get a couple towns together with this there
aren't that many residents that require it in each Community from what we understand the program is 10K so or the or the the the employees 10K the program comes with the employees and the software um and again they have
to give us a full uh detailed you know what is involved what would be additional so we are exploring that but I just want to update the council and it would be a great shared service to consider um and again it would really help our seniors here stay in place um
the last thing I want to talk about is the planning board um the planning board if anyone would like to come to the next hearing is considering a um subdivision on the corner of East Clinton and angle there's a historic
White House set up on a hill oh yeah they would like to subdivide that into two properties um and so if anyone wants to hear that testimony or speak out in the public or any neighbors um that subdivision will have a second hearing
February 28th mayor February 28th you got a bug on your call there sorry laor okay all right all right all right back to councilwoman Dayton yes so anyway so the planning board is continuing hearing testimony on this
subdivision and so just for the council to be aware that that's occurring okay thank you very much can you read the language to go into closed session please resolution r25 d102 at a meeting of the mayor and Council of teni County Bergen
state of New Jersey held on February 4 2025 be a resolved in compliance with njsa 10 4-12 the mayor and Council tly are going into close executive session to discuss the following matters real property burrow leases and potential property Acquisitions collected
bargaining outside Duty minutes will be taken meeting and releas matter can I get a motion to go into close please have a second all in favor any opposed okay go close