there he comes please read the open book exactly the notice requirements of the open public's meetings act have been satisfied with respect to this meeting of the township council the meeting time and date were included in the public meeting notice along with the public internet link and telephone call-in
information said notice and meeting agenda was posted in the municipal building and sent to the official newspapers of the township the Verona city of Times in the Star Ledger at least 48 hours preceding the start time of this meeting the agenda and handouts can be viewed online at veronj.org/
org/counts meetings a public comment period will be held in the order it is listed on the meeting agenda and instructions on how to comment will be provided at the appropriate time thank you Madam Speaker please councilwoman Holland here councilwoman McGrath here
councilman Roman here deputy Mayor Mackoy present mayor Tambbor here mayor also present township attorney Brian Aoya township Manager Kevin O Sullivan Deputy Township Manager Michael Krauss myself
Municipal Clerk Jennifer Kieran thank you Madam Clerk all those who are able if you please stand for the flag of the United States of America justice for all so I have two brief items for the mayor's record and we'll have someations
um I had the pleasure of attending the Rona Baseball and softball league opening day on Saturday uh was a cold day for the first day of baseball but it was a lovely day and wonderful ceremony uh recognizing some of our residents who
we lost too soon um and it was a pleasure to see over 500 athletes participating in the BTSL program on over 50 teams um so it was great i look forward to following that season the
open space committee met um and discussed some properties and strategy moving forward on securing open space received a good update on the finances at the trust fund um and had an
excellent discussion on some opportunities for moving forward and I look forward to the conversation continuing um the planning board met um as well we
did adorn an application um at the request of the applicant for the uh removal at the gardens complex so anybody who is interested in that issue that will occur presumably at the next
board meeting but always check the agenda just in case we will go through that um that's all I have uh at this time I'll call up our county good evening Mayor
Council as well gorgeous weather that we're having we did have a wonderful day yesterday park we had 2,000 runners uh deputy mayor we missed you you know hopefully out next year with us i do not
run um on the agenda right now is um Saturday April 26th at Turtleback Zoo sensory friendly morning i have no
idea what it is but it's when I read the little blurp it's get in touch with the animals and it's from 8 a.m to 10 to 10 a.m on the 26th uh the other thing is
right here in town on the 26 is drug takeback day at the police department so uh there is a press conference on the 16th and uh hopefully including myself I've done pharmacy items etc drugs that being
said on uh April 27th Earth Day at the Environmental Center which is 621B Eagle Rock Avenue and that is from 11 a.m to 300 p.m rain date is May 3rd
uh going to May 3rd Saturday May 3rd from 8:00 a.m to 400 pm in this hazardous waste day household at 99 Bradford which is our public works
building and all the hazardous waste that are hanging around in your garage and underneath the cabins that you haven't used in years no this is I learned something reading the pamphlet today uh no smoke detectors
or not okay and May 17th again at 99 Bradford is our electronic computer day and bring your old TVs any other
electronics etc i think that is it for me right now i haven't been walking far but I will get myself out there to see what looks like a couple weeks to go but any questions for me
there is a hole in the asphalt it's in the path not side of the path not far from last year uh Gary called me on that i know they filled it it may be sinking
again i have pictures of myself because I you and I diamond whoever gets by yesterday I'll be there because I am it has been doing much better in the
rain thank you and I want to say there was a tree on the um on the rail trail that was promptly removed by the county so we really appreciate everyone's attention when we bring them um issues um the you said there's a press conference for that
yes with Verona Police i don't know that i just haven't seen the blur but I will find out the exact location okay great and um if we can get the sensory I don't know if there's a flyer that goes with that sensory friendly warning but I want to send that to
our special group of parents that have if I have your email as I sit down yes that would be great i already notified one of the board members anything else thank you very
much thank you right we have two uh proclamations first is honoring Vietnam veterans um Vietnam war veterans day and receiving the proclamation today after be Mr john who is a lifelong
native corona graduate from high school we don't want to ask you what year John uh Mr uh Mr lacroso served in the US Navy's construction battalion known as the CBS a new unique force within the Navy um
during the war the Navy CVs constructed roads and bridges for the Marines before their arrival especially when close to the DMZ and Mr lasso was stationed 5 miles away from the DMZ they lived underground because the
rocket and Mr sebastto recently retired from the International Union of Operating Engineers 25 in February 54 years congratulations on that uh excellent so I will read the proclamation and we're going to ask you to come up after we
read it relax for now we'll take a picture and we appreciate that um and a copy of this will be posted in the lobby of town hall as well to replace the one that had a pledge whereas America's involvement in
Vietnam began on June 1954 when a military advisers escalated into 11 years of military combat involving more than three million servicemen and service women and officially ended on May 15th 1975 a joint special operations
squadron rescuing the crew of the USS merchant ship May on the island of Pang near Cambodia whereas more than 212,000 of New Jersey's greatest sons and daughters wear the uniforms of our nation's armed horses during this most turbulent time in US history during the
wars on popularity and their lives fighting for democracy and for reflect on the life-changing combat wounds of so many of our residents and the suffering and sacrifice felt by the families of those missing in action whereas since
that unveiling the Vietnam War memorials across the country and here in the state the home bill have helped heal a nation deeply divided by paying eternal tribute to the 58,286 American servicemen and women who pay the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam of
the names listed on the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington 1487 of them are from the state of New Jersey whereas Vietnam veterans were awarded the Medal of Honor the highest distinction that could be bestowed by the President of the United States in the name of US Congress for
conspicuous gallantry and trepid actions as they risk their lives on the public on the call of duty and whereas on Vietnam Veterans Day we remember and appreciate with grateful hearts the contributions of Vietnam veterans out living in New Jersey as well as the extraordinary bravery whereas of
residents first lieutenant Gerald Goen and Corporal Anthony Hine and Lance Corporal Robert Alan Pusky were killed in action today on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Washington DC and whereas Vietnam Veterans Day affords us the recall with pride and gratitude to stop
military service patriotism battle courage and sacrifice those servicemen women who answer the country's call to duty to fight for another nation's peace and democracy therefore I Dr christopher mayor of the county of Vona we hereby
acknowledge March 29th 2025 as National Vietnam Veterans Day invite all citizens both in public ceremonies and private thoughts and prayers to gratefully acknowledge our Vietnam veterans witness I to set my hand and cause the official
seal of the throne of New Jersey this 7th day of April in the year 2025 and I would encourage everybody truly if you have not been to the Vietnam Memorial it is an extraordinary place to do one of the most meaningful professional development opportunities
of my life um at the uh at the center with some veterans from the time and also some protesters and the veterans protesters um special at this point inceptation
somebody bring like their laptop for Alex to like 40 people did I know right right ready do it again i have to do it again if I have to do it again i join thank you thank you
very soon hopefully yeah enjoy your retirement yeah I will our next proclamation is to recognize child abuse prevention month uh but before I do that I'd like to invite the women's club if you would
like to come up and share um if anybody wanted to share your uh project for Sorry if I'm putting you on the spot but All right anyway so good evening Mr mayor and council members on behalf of the
Junior Women's Club of Verona thank you for recognizing April as Child Abuse Prevention Month and for this meaningful proclamation today in partnership with the Voron Police and the Voron Public Library we planted pin wheel gardens one outside
the library and another in front of the civic center these pin wheels are part of a nationwide initiative through the Federation of Women's Clubs they serve as a powerful symbol of the innocence of childhood and our shared responsibility to protect we're deeply grateful to the
library especially librarian Claudine Pas the Ron Police Department and the Bishop of Verona for providing the space and support to make this message possible your commitment to fostering safe supportive environments where
children can thrive is something we are proud to highlight and uplift thank you again for your continued partnership and for your support and support april is child abuse prevention month dedicated to raising awareness and preventing child abuse and neglect the
Women's Club of Verona is proud to partner with the Junior Women's Club of Verona each year to feature penill gardens as part of the pen for prevention campaign penny were adopted as the national symbol for child abuse prevention because they evoke childlike
whimsy and represent the vision of a world where all children grow up happy healthy and prepared to succeed now I'm going to read the you guys can stay right there it's going to write down in a second and then everybody else can come up when we're done here whereas
we all have a responsibility as individuals neighbors community members and citizens of potential corona to create healthy nurturing and safe experiences for children whereas healthy and safe childhoods help produce confident and successful adults whereas child abuse and neglect often occur when
people find themselves in stressful situations without community resources and don't know how to whereas incidences of child abuse and neglect can be reduced by making sure all families the support they need and deserve to raise their children in a healthy environment whereas it is recognized that no person
can do everything but that everyone can do something and together we can create change for the better whereas effective prevention programs succeed as a partnerships among nonprofit organizations government agencies volunteer organizations schools service clubs houses of worship law enforcement
agencies the business community whereas display of pin wheel or planting a pin wheel garden in April will serve as a positive reminder that all children deserve great childhood happy healthy and safe i therefore be a proclaimed that I Dr tambbor mayor of potential
corona hereby proclaim April 2025 as child abuse prevention month and urge all citizens to engage activities that strengthen families and communities provide the optimal environment for children to learn grow and thrive to all children of happy healthy and safe
childhood the witness whereof I set my hand the official seal of the township of Roman to be fixed on the seventh day of April in the year 2025 any question Good ready to start taking pictures [Music]
charges promise next yes yes he doesn't Okay that concludes the mayor's report this time let me turn the meeting over to Mr sullivan potential manager thank
you mayor i will try to summarize my report as quickly as possible knowing that we also have the presentation to uh go through tonight uh just uh to update the council on a few projects that are open uh we did open enrollment for the
2025 pool season uh the early registration numbers have come back strong so far uh the construction at the main pool also is underway and ongoing um we have a number of of
projects uh on the wastewater side we do have our primary firefighter pumping station project which is awarded and uh going through submit submitts and getting ready for summer construction and we have a few other projects that are currently in design
phases uh lastly uh we also have our collection system trunk line uh that is running parallel to Derwent the final uh emergency repairs will be completed later this month as far as our drinking water wells Lind Drive well is online
and um back in service there will be um a ribbon cutting ceremony for that project on April 21st the Fairview Avenue well uh will be uh out to bid this month and we expect to be receiving bids in May so we'll be able to get that
second project back online uh hopefully by the end of next year uh the Clarage Drive pump station project we do have resolutions on the agenda for tonight to both award a contract for construction of the Clar Drive pump station and to
authorize the execution of an easement agreement uh jumping ahead through my report there is uh the expectation for the Lynen Avenue design project uh we are expecting Boswell to be ready to
present the uh the final design plans at the April 21st meeting uh that should incorporate all of the comments from the uh safe streets temporary demonstration earlier this year in addition to all the comments that were received through the public bloomfield Avenue paving is also
proceeding that's a county project uh they are expecting to be starting that project in the next several weeks they'll be starting down near Ps Avenue and then uh as the project progresses and as they get closer to Verona we'll be able to uh present the public with
some updates on the impacts to uh Winfield Avenue in Verona as it gets closer uh the Ever Field project still continues to advance through design we are anticipating a final presentation
from uh Neglia at the April 21st meeting as well uh that should incorporate all the updates and amendments to the to the plans based upon the comments from the different stakeholder groups our pickle ball and tennis court
project is uh still under construction the paving of the courts should be occurring this week the contractors mobilized uh asphalt plants have reopened they are just waiting for a little bit of dry weather to be able to pave
um we are also uh anticipating a final presentation of the Lakeside Avenue parking lot uh we should be executing final grant agreement with EDA hopefully later this month we are still waiting that the final grant agreement document from the state
um we we did hold a Bloomfield Avenue special meeting for our Bloomfield Avenue streetscape project that asked the council if they have any comments to provide them to me uh so we can summarize uh the and select the final firm for the streetscape design
project we have a few updates on the different building facility needs uh the communication tower the structural repairs are complete as we've discussed at prior meetings uh there have been some shifts in uh some of the walls and uh there is a roof repair that's
necessary that roof repair will be lumped in with uh the roof repair capital requests in uh uh the other capital items which will be presented and discussed at uh meetings in May uh introduced in May uh town hall window
and repointing project is underway the repointing should take approximately six to eight weeks windows should be delivered in June and that project is proceeding on schedule uh we also have some remediation work in uh the town
hall building uh to address some environmental needs based on some water infiltration so those two projects are running in parallel and on schedule as previously discussed uh and um as part of that
process uh the discussion of the temporary location for the uh Vermont Police Department they do remain at the uh community center annex we do anticipate upon completion of the town hall improvements that we will be be able to bring them uh back to town hall
however we will need to coordinate uh an appropriate uh location for them to move back in we're looking at all the different options which may include um some temporary trailers for their uh changing stations or other needs for the police department we'll review those and
make recommendations to the council at a later date um that leads into the longer and larger discussion about the needs of the emergency services building uh we have met with the architect a few times over the past uh month and a half to go through updated plans again those plans
have been amended to assume a smaller footprint of the building which includes police and fire only there's also been some uh additional scalebacks within the building uh the architect is going through additional updates at this time and we are going to target uh
presentation uh hopefully in May to uh be able to present the update emergency services building uh to the public we will review that and update uh that schedule as we get closer to that meeting um there is also uh an upcoming
uh mobile office hours that is being presented by Congresswoman Macyver she will be in Verona Town Hall on Wednesday April 16th from 11:30 to 3:30 p.m uh and then uh last but not least I wanted to introduce the township's new
deputy manager Michael Krauss he is uh today's actually his first day so he is uh here with us tonight wanted to introduce him and and get an opportunity to say hello to him it's a long first day mr you want to come up here
very happy to be here and serve as manager prior to this I worked for the city of for almost 11 years and completed my masters
from school at NYU government right here working with manag Martin knowledge and serve as the council the resent all right
um then uh mayor the last item on my report is just the presentation from our uh partners over with the local government energy audit team um if you wanted to come up and introduce yourselves and do I need to hold this button down that I see is it over it's
red yeah it's good it's on i'm gonna bring her in over um so thank you so much mayor distinguished council members really appreciate this opportunity to go ahead and present the findings of the local government energy audit also known as
LGA uh we also have Michelle Rossi joining from the BPU um which actually let's move on to this side um and she is going to present on EIP which stands for um energy savings improvement program we deal in a lot of acronyms in our
business which is energy efficiency so if I forget to define the item for you just raise your hand give me a flag um what does that mean and I'll I'll circle back um so today myself I am Sarah Walters the LGA program manager as well
as an associate director with TRC trc is uh contracted by the Board of Public Utilities to run New Jerseys clean energy program and this is my colleague Amanda Munch she is an LGA account manager who is also here today and remotely joining us is Michelle Rossi
the EIC coordinator from the BPU good evening sorry to interrupt madam Cler are you have this presentation up yes I will i'm sorry fantastic okay so Amanda you're going to cover the agenda for us all right yeah so I'm just
going to ease us into the meeting by covering the agenda um we will be discussing the LGA process for um I assume no one is familiar with it necessarily besides Kevin who um helped us out a lot in the beginning to get all the information that we needed um so
we'll review Township of Verona's LGA scope sarah's going to review with you the energy conservation measures that we identified in the next couple slides and Michelle Rossi is going to review with you the energy savings improvement
program also known as ESP uh so this is just outlining the LGA process uh Verona has already been through all of those steps um and it's starting you at the application approval however um there was a lot of work on the front end which um big thank you
again to Kevin who helped us uh we asked for a lot of information from you um to do our analysis to get you to the application approval stage um there were a couple calls to introduce the energy auditor um the initial call facility
interview where we gathered even more information on the buildings um in order to conduct the inerson audit so uh we sent one of our engineers out to the facilities to do the walkthrough survey all the equipment um energy using equipment and um in the background we
did benchmarking and utility analysis of the billing data that you have um so from there we issued the draft reports and we're now at this stage giving you the presentation so um Sarah's going to couple slides yeah so we actually had a
larger our presentations last 90 minutes so we didn't want to do that to you guys um so we had the larger meeting with Kevin and his team um and we actually already did issue the final reports that link that's right under LGA's process that'll take you to the LGA web page
there'll be a big yellow box that says completed reports and you can click on it go to V for Verona and you can see all the reports that we did for you there uh the images that we're presenting on these slides these are from the town hall police department report um so just some of the good
images that you can see in that technical report so I'm going to go over the what we we're calling the scope or attached scope and I'm also going to tell you a little bit about what LGA is so LGDA is an ashray level two audit this there are
three levels one two and three so we're right in that sweet spot there in the middle where we're going to take the utility billing data that you provided us uh do our analysis on it get those energy baseline conditions and then we're going to balance that with what we see on site um an investment grade audit
does a deeper dive they're going to be doing hard quotes and all these other things for you but we're just taking a best look at it balancing that energy use and then giving you prescriptive energy conservation measures based on estimates with the financial impact um
so you can see here on the left just reviewing what we did so we look uh looked at the building envelopes lighting systems HVAC and mechanical your plug load equipments and any food service uh and uh refrigeration equipment that you may have at any of these buildings we did our utility
analysis on your electric and natural gas and then you can see to the right these are all the sites that we visited so we did the town hall and police station community center library DPW garages B&G shop firehouse number two wastewater treatment plant Hillwood
wellhouse and grown community um again I'm trying to move quickly so that you're not we're not stretching out this meeting um but please if you need me to slow down let me know all right so this is if you were to
implement all of the energy conservation measures we found during the Sasha level two audit you would be saving $90,000 about $90,000 a year annually on just your utility costs this savings is broken into these categories as you can
see lighting lighting controls motor upgrades variable frequency drives electric unitary HVAC measures gas heating uh system improvements domestic hot water heating upgrades food service and refrigeration measures and then a
custom measure um but do not worry we're going to dive into this a little deeper on this side so apologies i don't know why I thought that would be big enough for anybody to read um but this is if we took all of the opportunities
across all of the buildings put it into one project this is kind of what you're looking at and I'm just going to kneel down here so I can actually read this for you um so before um I jump into these energy conservation measures to tell you a little bit about them I'm
going to read off what's on that top column the or top row the column headers because to be quite frank when I see a chart like this it looks like a bunch of numbers attacking my face and I don't have a reference point so I don't have a reference point so let
me just go over this so we can really understand what we're looking at um to help absorb that information better so going from left to right uh left being the number column it's just the number that was assigned to that ECM pretty easy then what's followed by the energy
conservation measure name followed by a column on if it's cost effective or not uh TRC defines cost effective as a piece of equipment paying for itself within twothirds of its useful life understanding was budget constrictions and sometimes the way budget cycles run
that's not necessarily how everybody is able to run their facilities um but that is a line in the sand that we drew for this analysis uh we then get into our annual energy savings so we have that expressed in KWH for your annual
electric savings your KW for your peak demand savings and then your fuel savings this would be your gas and that's expressed in MMBTU very first thing that I noticed are those negative numbers associated with lighting that is not a mistake all
lighting with the exception of LEDs really do produce a good amount of heat so our analysis is telling us hey if we're removing that heat from the space you know during your heating season you may need to pump it back in it's pretty negligible but we do account for that we
then have our annual energy cost savings i love that we're able to do this break it down per category per measure for you we're able to do this because again we have that energy baseline from your utility bills we know what you have on site and we know the gained efficiencies
from the equipment that we're proposing so that's how we're able to come up with that actual number for you all right now we're getting into estimated material and labor cost this is a little bit of an explanation because anybody that has been involved in any type of
construction project or energy project is going to go ahead and look at this and say "Sarah you are crazy these costs are so light why?" And the reason goes back to what the nature of this program is which is that ashray level two what
we are using is RS means a construction industry standard as well as our own uh project experience to come up with these cost estimates so that's the first reason they look like we're not hard pricing things the second reason is when we're talking about material as in
material and labor it is literally that piece of equipment so if I'm talking about a motor it's just the motor any auxiliary parts or such things that need to be sized those aren't included and it's always it's only talking about the labor to install that piece of equipment
there's no demolition removal fees recycling fees design fees equipment rental fees everything that goes into making a project a project because there are too many variables in that pricing so these are the numbers we know we can get you and what we're hoping is between
this your estimated incentive through the utilities which is going to be far more lucrative than you see on this chart um as well as hidden savings such as operation and maintenance costs how much are you spending to keep some of
these older pieces of equipment running between all of those things the simple payback period should shake out to be about the same and then finally we have our CO2 emissions reduction column in pounds um this is the biggest thing that I tell
people to focus on you can plug these numbers into the EPA or DOE calculators and actually see tangible um results such as trees planted in a year or miles driven by cars so you can tell everybody
that's not listening to me on this on this uh meeting you know exactly what you're doing to create a healthier environment for your residents your community um and then just the world around you okay I think I can stand up for this
now because my knees were hurting um all right so I am going to go through these um not as in-depth as an engineer would but um these should give you the ideas of the energy savings opportunities that you really do have here on at Verona so we have lighting upgrades and
this encompasses install LED fixtures retrofit fixtures with LED lamps and drivers and retrofit fixtures with LED lamps install LED fixtures for that it's a full fixture replacement and for that we were focused on exterior lighting or
high intensity discharge HID those types of lighting which would be your mercury in vapor bulbs anything that produces a real high wattage for the retrofit fluorescent fixtures with LED lamps and drivers these are specifically targeting the T12
bulbs not that many remaining here in Verona at all but um T12s if you look at T5s and T8s T12s are the real fat ones um and those are much dated technology so you need to remove both the lamps and the drivers because LED lamps uh use
magnetic ballasts while um the T12s did not but then you can see just our regular retrofit with LED lamps and that's your what I like to call plug-andplay it's your T8 fluorescent or your incandescent bulbs that you can easily screw an LED bulb into um so that
is normally the most cost-effective measure um out of this and you can see for lighting upgrades we're looking at 4.3 years of simple payback period then you have your lighting control measures so we have install occupancy sensors that would be in offices that or spaces
that aren't very frequently used um you know every energy efficiency starts with behavior i always say that you can have the most uh efficient systems in the world but if they're not controlled or they're running 24/7 it's kind of a moot point um so that's why we recommend
these control measures for lighting so occupancy centers would be like offices restrooms things of that nature and the install high low that's going to be for your corridors and stairwells where there always must be a level of light um for safety reasons but it doesn't
necessarily have to be up to full 100% um so it could dim the light down to half or even shut off one of the lights in the fixture so it's only at half light soon as it senses people are there you're going to come out back to full light so you still always have that level of light and then full
illumination um for safety requirements and VFDs this is where your biggest savings is coming from vfd stands for variable frequency drive essentially it's a control on a motor if you have fans or motors that run
constantly but maybe the demand isn't there to need that this control this variable frequency drive will vary the motor speed so it can ramp down when it's not needed as much and then come up to full when you do need that full run
motor or fan for what's going on in the in the facility so you can see those for constant value your heating water pumps and the process and cool filtration pumps then we get into unitary HVAC
measures and this is the first one there you're going to an eye and look at 54.5 year payback Sarah good lord um and that's true anything with any unitary HVAC equipment RTUs heat pumps anything like that really big initial upfront
cost and may not be able to be justified by the energy savings alone but again I'm looking at Kevin look at your operation and maintenance costs for some of these older pieces of equipment because you may have absorbent contract fee contracts with people or you're
replacing parts constantly how much is it costing you to actually keep those things running uh so you can see we have install just high efficiency air conditioner units and also uh for heat pumps and that's for your unitary HVAC measures gas heating another one that is
a measure that typically does not pay for itself is about uh going ahead and installing high efficiency hot water boilers um as well as low nope lost my place install pipe insulations
no a high efficiency furnaces apologies um so you're looking at a combined uh payback period for that category of 37 years again it's the same thing mechanical systems just are really really expensive so to justify it on energy savings alone typically not worth
it but when it comes time to replace it that may be where you're thinking okay let's do high efficiency let's do heat pumps let's do something like that and then we get to some HVAC system improvements programmable thermostats pretty self-explanatory as well as your install
pipe insulation pipe insulation there can be a tremendous energy loss through sending uh either hot water through your pipes or anything really through your pipes anything that's going to transmit there are energy losses so if you don't have wellinssulated pipes
um you're just losing energy you're making your hot water you know work more to keep up the same temperature because you're losing that energy through the piping system and when we come to our domestic water heating upgrades um again it's
installing a high efficiency gas fired water heater or installing lowflow devices so one with a higher payback one with a super low payback um the lowflow devices these are typically air raators on just on your faucets you can screw
them in yourself it's going to utilize uh back in the day I used to say it utilizes smaller hole so you still get the same pressure coming out but it's a more laminer flow um you're not going to be using as much hot water just because it's reducing the actual amount of water
coming out with maintaining that good pressure and then we have vending machine controls recognizing most places don't actually own their vending machines but you have to pay for the electricity to power it so you can actually talk to your vending machine
contractors see if they will allow you to put it's like an occupancy sensor again you can set it with timers if it's a soda machine do you really need the refrigeration going full blast overnight if it's you know just even a lit non-refrigerated one do you need those
lights on going on constantly um so these are just the small ways we can save energy and then we had some custom measures all surrounding heat pumps which is either replace your electric water heat pump with or electric water uh heater with uh heat pump water
heaters just repeat so many words in this and then your gas fired water heater with heat pump water heater heat pumps now so electric um um domestic hot water heaters they have a coefficiency of performance of
one one stands for 100% when we talk about heat pumps their coop is three sometimes 3.5 so we're talking literally about hundreds of percentages better um so they just utilize a lot less um a lot less energy
and you can see one has a negative payback period and that's due to the relative cost of gas versus electricity that's why you're getting a negative payback on one so really that would be more of an electrification measure state has some pretty aggressive energy master
plan goals um so we started including that so it's certainly up to you whether you think that is a viable option and really that's what we tried to drive home after this LGA we have come in and we've identified energy conservation measures we have a nice report it
documents your existing conditions and it goes through everything but this is your project to choose from here but one thing that we point out is if you can read at that very bottom the totals column if you couple everything together you get a project that pays for itself
within under nine years and that's important because we're going to talk about the energy savings improvement program with Michelle Rossi next we like to point out that if you leverage your lowhanging fruit such as the lighting the controls you know those lowflow
sensors and things like that if you leverage that with the ones that have a higher payback period that aren't going to pay for themselves um sometimes it becomes a viable project to get your wish list in um so that is a lot of information in
a condensed amount of time um like I said I I said your the reports the final presentation that we gave Kevin and and his crew it is on our final report page so you can see things in in more detail um I just wanted to make through sure we
got through to the end where you can see you would be having an annual electric savings of 40 almost 548,000 KW peak demand savings of almost 100 or of just over 128 your fuel
savings of 653 MMADU with your annual energy cost savings again equaling up to almost $89,000 per year um so with that the estimated incentives your estimated net
M&L that's what's coming out to that 8.7year payback period so um I will now turn it over to Michelle Rossi to go through EIP michelle are you with us i am can you
hear me yes okay good evening everyone good evening Mayor um thank you for being part of this meeting to find out your results of your local government energy audit i recognize that you're getting lots of information kind
of thrown your way um so I'm going to do a very high level um about the ESIP program and the process and of course my contact information is after the presentation feel free to reach out if you need an EIE refresh i will certainly
um check in on you in a couple of weeks see if you have any other questions um but I know this is lots of information i'm going to keep it high level for you so what is EIP eip stands for energy saving improvement program it is performance contracting that is for uh
public entities in the state of New Jersey it's a tool um it's important that you realize it's not an incentive it's not a grant but it's a way to finance it's a mechanism that allows public entities to make these energy efficiency improvements without
impacting their budgets it's administered by the uh New Jersey Board of Public Utilities the project gets paid for with the value of its own energy savings so typically there are two options for for the financing piece it's either a le a lease purchase loan
or a refunding bond both of which are market driven um we recommend working with a financial advisor um if that is possible standard repayment is 15 years if they find a need for a combined heat
and power system um police station fire station um which is all the above um with Verona uh they can uh implement a combined heat and power system and that allows you repayment term to be 20 years instead of the 15 any BPU approved
incentive programs can get layered into the refinancing any utility or clean energy program incentives can be combined any federal or state grants can also be laid into the refinancing uh there are no upfront capital expenses
there is one out-ofpocket expense and I'll touch on that later um but otherwise there's nothing upfront and for of course Board of Education's uh no referendum or impact to taxpayers next
slide so these are the steps to doing an ESIP first one is an intake form this is a relatively new step in the process uh it's a one-page form uh so you can get informed of the process begin the actual process it gets on my radar so I know
that you are interested it is um a simple like I said it's a one-pager and that just gets it into my system and then therefore we follow up and work you through the process first step is the preliminary energy audit which you have done you've done your local government
energy audit and you now have your list of energy conservation measures and it's your choice of course what you're going to do with those and how you are going to implement them if you do decide to do an ESIP there are three different models to choose from the first one is the ESCO
model which is the most common it is hiring an energy services company which they actually do the entire project it's our turnkey option from start to finish there are currently I think 17 or 18 approved ESCOs in the state of New
Jersey they actually develop and manage the process most importantly they have the ability to guarantee the savings this process involves putting an RFP out we have a template online uh which is pretty simple of course I'm always there
to assist with the template another option is doing your project a DIY which is just what it states you use your own in-house architect or engineers they manage the project they develop their own specs and bid the jobs uh DIY unfortunately there's no way to
guarantee the savings if you're doing it yourself another option is the hybrid model which is a combination of the two your architect or engineer manage your project and the ESCO serves as a subcontractor next step is the
investment grade energy audit that is a deeper dive it's more comprehensive of an audit uh which is really the foundation of your project so your top energy conservation measures and your priorities are addressed and put into a plan called the energy savings plan the
investment grade along with your local government energy audit helps to guide the content for your final energy savings plan which is the cornerstone of a project and contains um crucial details such as energy conservation measures that are going to be imple
implemented cost to install what the savings are there's a snapshot of your repayment term uh your project must remain cash flow positive uh per EIP law throughout the life of the loan and again that's a requirement of ESIP law
and I mentioned earlier the only required outofpocket cost is the third-party uh audit so you need to hire an third-party auditor to review that energy savings plan and make sure that it complies with BPU protocols program
guidance um and also ESIP law that's really your peace of mind that another set of engineering eyes have reviewed the project make sure they'll confirm that it's viable uh and again it's been blessed by another set of engineering eyes that takes a look at the project
for you i rely on that third party audit as well during my review of the energy savings plan and that's the last step in the process once I have the plan and the third party audit I can give it my approval uh and I know like I said earlier this is a lot of information
that we're we're handing over to you but I'm happy to jump on a call with you again to discuss a potential project and your next steps if you think that's the way you'd like to proceed michelle yes thank you Michelle so um what Michelle fails to mention is there's
never been a failed EIP in the state of New Jersey um they have all remained cash flow positive there's been no issues with that um and uh really I don't see why every public entity doesn't do it um because you are paying the DOE puts it make your energy
efficiency upgrades today with tomorrow's energy savings such a nice little tagline it really tells you what it's all about thanks Sarah um and then I just have a slide with with our contact information as well i realized I went like powered
through those ECMs um just to make sure you had enough time for all the rest of your business i wasn't sure how much time we had or if I'm over um but really Kevin I just huge thank you to you and your team um this was a long process it shouldn't have taken as long that was on
our bandwidth kevin and his team were always there to answer our questions so huge thank you uh for taking this initiative to get your LGA and and get going on some energy projects and with that that's it unless anybody has any questions thank you very much for for
your presentation you both did very well for the first time you've done it plenty of time before but thank you very much is a lot to look over it is i mean this council loves reports of data seriously I am here if you read
those reports you look at all of those you want to contact me afterwards i will go through this presentation again for you um so did you have a question i don't have a question but I have a comment if that's okay so I I really want to thank you for this um and for
the robust reports which I thought were the final reports the ones that were Okay good okay so I have reviewed the final reports as well um and I really appreciate the time that went into this um you are correct not a lot of municipalities do utilize the ESAP EIC
program um I was at the attorney general's office when the legislation first took effect and I remember working on it with Mark Tw and I had the pleasure of working with Michelle at the BPU so I appreciate the time and energy that's put into this
and what a valuable um opportunity it is for the township of Verona so I also want to thank the administration's leadership in working with you all to bring um this forward to the council so thank you for doing that i really have taken a lot of um I've had a lot of
consternation about some of the costs that we pay for our utilities here in the township of Verona so if there are opportunities for us to realize savings um that's great that's a benefit for our taxpayers um and that's a benefit um
just for our residents overall so thank you so much for the effort that you put into this um and for the robust final reports and hello Michelle virtually yeah hello great to see you i had no idea thank you so much everybody always an
honor to present to a council yes you close your computer you don't have to open it up that's okay in your in your thing in line 16 you have the install high efficiency gas fire water heaters yes i would say I'm looking at the ear is that a misprint of 93.8 nope
so basically don't do so it it will it will just never pay for itself so that is probably coming from a bunch of different things throughout the township so maybe one place doesn't have much usage and that's what's driving that up um but it's it's just one of those those
things where again the the hour runs and if you're not using it like 247 if it's not a constant thing you're going to have a very hard time justifying a payback period for it because it's just so much more expensive um so again there are also wonderful um appendices in
these Kevin I sent you the excels um where you can also see the financial impact line by line in each inventory so I hope that helps and I really wish you well on any improvements you're going to move forward with thank you thanks
everything else for you that concludes my report um we're going to move on to council reports i just have one thing to mention i left my report um the council did have a joint meeting with the board of education um and it was a little
longer I think than we thought the the meeting is going to be but uh discussed a lot of very important topics related to uh relationship between these schools and municipality um there was a lengthy discussion about um finance and pilot
funds u as well as several other items including agreement for shared services between the town um and the school district um drug and alcohol abuse prevention um
those are a couple as well so I do recommend that the public watch that watch on the schoolboard website if you want you can watch it here um but it was informative meeting the first of of
many deputy mayor thank you Mr mayor i will start with that and thank the board of ed for uh having us uh to their meeting and explain it so I won't go uh I will Uh last week or two weeks ago we had a historic preservation meeting uh I
will be talking to Kevin the one thing that is on their radar and they're pushing it now is they want to move the freight shed that's on the top of personnel to be 100% on the township of Verona's property it's actually half and half right now uh so we're going to be
looking into a survey uh of the properties around there so we can be sure of it placement and historic preservation commission has a group share the commission has a group that will fund it so uh looking for that to
get done soon i would like to thank uh congratulate my colleague uh Councilwoman Holland for the uh woman being nominated for the women of impact panel i did attend it uh and congratulations to all the other uh
women that were on the panel also uh the environmental commission uh had a native plant society lecture last Wednesday uh Jeb Ellis uh gave the lecture it was very interesting i don't know if it was recorded but uh they're
pushing a native plant sale at the end of this month i think they have you have a couple days to order plants if you want to uh order them and they will be sold through Hillrest Farms uh you can go on the website and I have a link to
go and order if you'd like uh but the the presentation was very nice because it went through the seasons and what you could plant and what would flower throughout the year so they had flowers uh all year long that would attract different animals and most of them were
here all of them were deer resistant uh that same night I was bouncing around to different events uh we had a sustainable meeting that night and uh it's going to segue into what you just
heard uh the envir sustainable uh is uh having on April 22nd uh an energy efficiency presentation uh Christine Legas who is a a sustainable member will be given the uh presentation and they're
also pushing a home energy audit by Seal Power LLC uh if you go on the town website or PS&T's website uh they're listed seal Power does it in I would think I think it's about 10 or 12 towns
uh because they're affiliated with Verona you instead of paying $99 only pay $49 they come out to a full evaluation of your home all the appliances in the home uh and they say they can reduce your energy bill by 30%
which is a significant amount of money these days so uh I actually just signed up for it today and I encourage uh others to sign up uh it's well worth the money if you move forward and there are tax rebates for up to a certain amount
if you depending on what you spend on your uh the work you do uh I too attended the BBSL parade uh and like to thank the BBSL especially Lisa Lden who runs it uh and the rest of that committee for a job well done they do it
every year and it's always a nice event to go to uh they did honor Joan Milano and Kelly Lawrence this year uh two Verona residents that passed last year uh I knew them both uh and I thank them for for their hard work and everything
they did for the town of Verona uh and I believe that you council Roman uh I'll just be brief this evening just apologies for not being able to be there uh in person i'm away at a professional conference uh but
I just wanted to welcome our new deputy township manager Mr krauss uh wish you the best of luck with the new role welcome back to Verona and looking forward to working with you so that is all for me this evening thank you Councilwoman
thank you um yes welcome to very excited to work with you um I too attended the VBSL opening day ceremony and I confer that um it was so well organized thank you again to uh the president Lisa Lden
and all of the volunteer coaches and um it really is a tremendous site and reinforces the importance of recreation and the maintenance of our recreation facilities so I'm definitely looking forward to talking about Everett Field in upcoming meeting and I really
appreciated understanding the history and impact of Miss Milano and on um the program and on women's softball they did um and bringing really softball to Verona she was a trailblazer um and it was really an
incredible uh tribute and I know that I I spoke with her daughter afterward uh who was really emotional about the moment um and it was just really really important to understand our women's history here in Verona which leads me to
the women of impact event and while I was unfortunately not able to attend in person I listened to it immediately that evening it was really wonderful event again congratulations Councilwoman Holland for being honored along with former mayor Maria Force it was a great
conversation about political leadership um I do encourage everyone to watch it we the multicultural inclusion and accessible advisory committee did receive wonderful feedback from Alana Dro's mother which I'm going to read she
posted this publicly and sent it to us as well this past Sunday Alana was recognized by the Ron Multicultural Inclusion Accessibility Advisory Committee and the Ron Public Library as a woman of impact for her leadership resilience commitment to community and
service to others she sat on a panel and was honored alongside four incredibly inspirational women of resolve achieving recognition as a woman of impact was indeed an amazing honor for Ally but earning a seat at that
table as a woman with a disability well that was everything diversity is a fact equity is a choice inclusion is an action belonging is an outcome thank you V this is really um considering where we
started with the multicultural committee back in 2021 this is really a very impactful um comment feedback that we're receiving as a council and I did provide it to everyone earlier today so uh it really was a wonderful event um since then the
my committee did meet um they are brainstorming potential projects for um disability inclusion um and are considering possibly educational series on disability and hiring practices um as they formulate their ideas they will
bring them to the council and to Mr sullivan um and they also are hard at work planning um their events um for uh the rest of the quarter including older Americans um Congresswoman MacGyver did
a town hall on Medicaid um in the last two weeks which is reported and can be found on her website verona resident Kathy Tamberelloo was featured uh Miss Tamberelloo um actually had the chance to accompany Miss MacGyver or
Congresswoman MacGyver um in Washington DC to talk about the impact of Medicaid um on her uh son's uh life the positive impact of Medicaid on her son's life um there are some concerns at at the federal level there going to be drastic
cuts and so this town hall was informative to talk about the program and how it's funded um and again residents can go to Congresswoman site to um see a summary of the questions that were asked there um and that's my
report thank you thank you Councilwoman Hall thank you um and thank you for to my colleagues for recognizing me on the women of impact panel it was indeed an honor to be nominated and to sit with those really um meaning uh those really
wonderful women and their meaningful contributions to the community alana um was a very charming speaker and it was wonderful to share uh the spotlight with her that afternoon um as well as the other women that were honored in um the
last two weeks since our last meeting I've had the opportunity to attend a special meeting of the Verona Municipal Alliance Committee um the BMAC is very engaged in alcohol and drug abuse awareness um and training for our
children we discussed on March 31 and approved the VMAC plan for the fiscal year 2026 including the various programs that are often done in coordination with the board of education um this includes
programming for second graders um all the way up through high school as well as webinars for parents um these webinars are often run by members of our community um there was also the joint board meeting i was I very much
appreciated the opportunity to hear from our colleagues on the board um it was a very interesting discussion and there was definitely some information shared that I didn't know previously so I appreciate the opportunity to do that um and as well I appreciate superintendent
teaches a reference to the BMAC program and the good work that it does um so that concludes my report thank you thank you this time I will open for public comment on any agenda or sorry on any item that any member of the public wishes to bring to the attention of
council anyone from the public wishing to speak on any matter please raise your hand by pressing the raise hand button on your monitor if you're dialing in by phone please press star 9 if you're attended person please raise your hand before approaching the lecture once you're recognized please state only your
name and township of residence for the record you're not required to provide your street address however if you do please note that these meetings will be posted on the township's YouTube channel and addresses will not be redacted for any purpose you'll have four minutes to address the council there can be no
cross dialogue during this public portion after everyone wishing to speak has been heard the council may address your comments and our questions this way Mr mayor touch of council Mr sen um neighbors uh on behalf of the residents
of Parkplace I want to sincerely thank the community for the support at last month's township council meeting um I also want to acknowledge the work of the township in shutting down Palmet that response was appreciated certainly
mattered um however I'm here tonight to express my continued concern uh and call for greater accountability around the enforcement issues tied to 544 546 Bloomfield Avenue and 10 Park Place
these properties generated repeated nuisance complaints with no clear record of followup from the township or the police department um the lack of documentation and enforcement is certainly troubling and I want to reiterate that I raised safety concerns
with this property with the township in January two months before last month's shooting unfortunately uh we're now seeing a pattern of abuse with this property this time with a new tenant who's applied for a use variance uh to
operate as a place of worship worship uh that application will be this Thursday April 10th at 7 PM and I am asking all of our neighbors to attend and support the residents of Parkplace and protecting our quality of life in this
matter granting this variance would certainly create a substantial hardship for the residents of Park Place and a long-term detriment to downtown Verona will certainly negatively impact our quiet enjoyment of our homes and potentially our property
values and our concerns are numerous first zoning compatibility this building is in the town central zone which explicitly prohibits places of worship this application goes against Rona's uh 2022 master plan legally and in spirit
and intent this business is not fit for mass assembly excuse me this building is not fit for mass assembly whether it's 15 people 50 people or 500 it lacks the infrastructure accessibility and location to support safe use in this manner uh second its
hours of operations operating from 5:00 a.m to 7:00 a.m to 7:00 p.m to 10:30 p.m daily will infringe on required enjoyment well beyond business hours friday operations from 12 to 2 will cause traffic and restrict access to the middle school mobile businesses and when
operations expand to 24 hours as they do on some holidays what can we do to stop the same well doumented and systematic abuse of privileges that we've seen in neighboring communities third concern traffic
parkplace is already dangerous given its residential and commercial mix adding a hightraic institution at the Lakeside and Bloomfield intersection which is already poorly designed will only create a serious hazard let's talk about parking there's not enough dedicated parking spots for this building under
its current zoning uh the space would require 20 dedicated parking spots if it were operating at full capacity as the landlord intended it would require 90 um any additional load for not permitted use would overwhelm the system and create safety risk for children um the
unit's only 3500 square feet that should only be able to accommodate 35 people by commercial standards however if we grant its use as a place of worship that size without exceeding that size could swell
to 300 to 400 people six tax imp uh impact designating this as a place of worship would certainly reduce our tax revenue frankly this space is more valuable uh uh vacant than it is operating as a taxexempt uh
institution this isn't a third place this is a public place at this point your your time is up but there's another opportunity later absolutely no thank you um thank you to neighbors next my name is Alina i've been a
resident of one East Street for seven years and I've never found a reason to come to a town council meeting but the reason that I'm here is because recently since Nevada has opened up from East Lincoln there has been serious issues
with parking on the streets um there's a lot of congestion i believe has very late hours during the weekends and later in the week um there very few spots open on East Lincoln Street so I'm proposing that we only have permit parking on East
Lincoln to limit congestion on that street in the area thank you again verona how you doing guys all right uh let's start with school board meeting last week i felt that was a great
meeting um I just think there was a lot of misunderstanding because so much information was gathered at that meeting and it was a lot of back and forth um about which properties were pilots and which weren't i believe a lot of people think the run flats are a pilot program
which I they're just misunderstood um on the same topic of our schools uh schools and safety is the reason people move to this town uh I think that's the first thing we need to fix in this town before doing anything else is our schools and our safety our police department we do
not have a building my car was robbed unfortunately i tried to deal with them help them out to fix my report and go to the police department is after 4:30 i couldn't deal with them it was wild they have to come to you we need to get the police and the schools back in order first before we do anything else i know
there was a meeting about the streetscapes now that kind of heated me up because the only way I find out about these things is Thank you Miss McGrath because Council McGrath your Facebook or Instagram I don't know social media but my wife does and she sends me snap pictures of what's going on so that
helps a lot but that streetscape I do not believe we should be even thinking of that um right now with what's going on with the schools we need to figure out the school's parents and people moving into this town are furious when they move into the forest section and they're like that won't have room for
you here um the streetscape thing back to that uh the county is talking about doing the park entrance so let's like kind of wait for that and see what's going to happen there because I've worked on plans where towns have gone and done something and the county comes rips it up and tries to put it back
together nicely never happens um let's see here uh bioailes for that streetscape I think are a better idea if you do go along with it uh plus all concrete no pavers just because uh rain gardens stuff like that they're not going to work it's too big sidewalks are
too small bio swells work great with the trees that you have existing uh if it's your business district your extended business district up by Ever I think should be done first uh that area is falling apart and with all the stuff coming in from West Orange
with uh the Mount Prospect project uh a did we find anything out about that because you have 18 new buildings going in there shopping centers Target everything and all that traffic is going to bottleneck through here the county won't answer questions so I think you need to go to West Orange to figure that out um where we at here
uh does streetscape back to that kids ride their bikes so trees and all that stuff um we need to put more money into schools i got a minute left money into schools money into schools we need to put more money into our schools our police department I tried to work with them back in the day uh when they first
got shut down about getting trailers and things like that and I don't know it's a few months later and they still don't have that like I said police and schools are why people move here not because of nice sidewalks it's kind of like you got a house that's falling apart i still got a minute this is great it's kind of like you got a house that's falling apart and
you're fixing the facade but the pipes are broken we need to fix the infrastructure in Verona before we do everything else we're spending so much money on every field on every other project we can do not just ever but everything we can do we're doing so many
projects that really we need to fix what's going on the problems first if we can't fix that you're basically just putting bandaids on things and building playgrounds and parks for people that aren't going to want to come here because it's going to end up like Bayon or something like that and it's all going to be all concrete so let's get
our schools back in order that's my main thing all right guys i got 20 seconds schools thank you thank you for your comment uh anybody else all right we'll go to somebody who's coming up as iPhone 7
miss Karen will ask you to come off no you were just off to you nope there you go am I all set yeah maybe state your name please okay great uh this is Kristen Kner Verona resident um I just wanted to um connect with you all
regarding um an email correspondence I had with um Jennifer Kieran regarding um some questions that um hopefully were shared with you all um um as she stated that she would be able to maybe share
them so that you could respond to them in tonight's meeting so since they were not addressed as of yet I'm just going to review over those questions and hopefully you can provide the answers to those questions so the first question that was
sent was what dates did the township manager and each member of the town council become aware Palmetto Venues was given was improperly given a zoning permit and the certificate of occupancy the second question was what date was a
certificate of occupancy signed for Palmetto Venues third what is the name of the township employee responsible for signing the certificate of occupancy for Palmetto Venues and what inspections were completed in between the signing of
the zoning permit application for Palmetto Venues by Philip EPS on August 10th 2023 and the signing of the certificate of occupancy for Palmetto Venues in March of 2024 and then also please indicate the
names of the township employees responsible for overseeing that proper inspections were completed for Palmetto venues in between the signing of the zoning permit application for Palmetto venues by Philip EPS on August 10th 2023 and the
signing of their certificate of occupancy in March of 2024 um I did submit a OPER request and did get some information um you know obviously we know that there was a uh media um posting on my Verona on Sunday
March 17th where um you know Mayor Chris Timber you were uh there i believe Deputy Mayor Jack Makavoy and um Councilman Alex Roman were all uh there for the ribbon cutting so that was March 17th 2024 um I did see that there was an email
from uh Jared Coslo the fire inspector to Thomas Jacobson um on March 22nd 2024 um following uh that ribbon cutting regarding fire violations and reported that those violations would be issued
formally on Monday March 25th 2024 um he did in fact uh submit those formal violations on March 25th 2024 there were six fire code violations at that time and on the same day Thomas Jacobson
signed the certificate of occupancy on March 25th 2024 so if you could just clarify those questions I would appreciate it the community would appreciate it we would like a little bit more transparency um to what has transpired um with this
process especially with the new use variance that was mentioned earlier um it's really difficult to trust that our town will make the right choice um for this next use variance when those
responsible for these decisions have already failed us and have yet to be held accountable thank you comments comment at this time respond just a couple items just for the application because the
council is the appellet body to the court which denied this application come before us can't I do encourage you to attend that meeting if you have any questions about procedure you have to have his own court attorney sitting to a room behind you and you might be able to quietly pull
him into the hallway and ask him any questions about that he's a great guy on that uh so I'm happy to but I did hear everything um Miss Reyes I was not here
Lincoln this has been an ongoing issue um I have brought up in Wisconsin at this point entering agreement to identify the owners of the property at um the citizens um and I
know thousand projects going on administration's office but this might be a great opportunity for Mr house to uh to jump right in and he's being volunte but these things have happened where we've been able to provideation to
parking lot owners who were not using that especially in the hours I feel that would helpate a lot as far as making it only to comment paul um Paul you said so many
things um and I do appreciate you attending the joint school board meeting um and appreciate your opinions on all of those items i don't think you specifically ask any any questions but obviously
uh to Dr kissner uh the questions that you posed are related to the administrative operations of the township so I ask uh the township manager to respond to those questions thank you uh
in general I think part of what we've discussed tonight is that the business in question has been issued several notices of violation uh based upon varying department inspections specific violations have resulted in immediate closure of that business for safety
reasons uh business does remain closed at this time uh but as to some of the specifics that have been requested uh I cannot get into greater detail as doing such could potentially disadvantage the township's position if potential
litigation sued as a result of the uh the the matter at hand um as far as some of the specifics for the uh employees at hand A lot of documents were requested through the clerk's office and have been provided by the clerk uh however uh
again the township administration cannot discuss specifics of current or previous employees as part of a public meeting uh but that said the the administration and the bearing departments did inspect immediately and did issue violations as a result of those inspections and
business has been closed and remains closed any other comments from council all right moving on um we have ordinances second reading and the first ordinance on second reading madam
clerk ordinance an ordinance to exceed municipal budget appropriation limits and establish a cap bank thank you madam clerk please made by council is there a second by council now it's time for the
public hearing on ordinance number 2025-07 participation supply but is limited to this ordinance like public comments at this time any council discussion hearing none call the vote
please councilwoman Holland yes councilwoman McGrath yes councilman Roman yes deputy Mayor Mackoy yes mayor Tambbor yes mayor ordinance 202507 passes 5 to
zero and it would be published according to law thank you Madam Clerk the next item on the agenda speaker 2025-08 on second reading please read the title of this ordinance to record amending chapter 140 vehicles and
traffic article 12 schedule 4 time limit parking thank you madam clerk move the motion made by the deputy mayor i second that motion now it's time for a public hearing ordinance
2025-08 same public participation statement applies to uh the adoption of this ordinance which relates to parking on avenue between Avenue i close public comments for council
comment one i thank the administration and our police chief Kieran for um quick turnaround on this uh we did get a lot of public feedback from residents on the news complex discussing how um the
amended parking rules were a shift that visit parking basically to the complex to 30 minutes um and what this does is something back on that side of the street the south side to the uh Avenue
parking rules which are two hours um so that was just something I guess before the 30 minute parking stays active on the north side of the street in order to accommodate the businesses requested to have parking on that
councilwoman Holland yes councilwoman McGrath yes councilman Roman yes deputy Mayor Mackoy yes mayor Tambboro yes mayor ordinance 2025-08 passes 50 and it will be
published according to law i move on to consent agenda we have sets of minutes um we also have several resolutions going to strike uh resolutions L10 to
L14 is that correct and so I will enterain a motion we also have the municipal cler report to approve as well a motion on uh adopting
through L19 through 16 i'll make that motion okay we'll give it to Council Roman i will second that um at this time I'll call for public comment on any consent agenda items
only statement any want to comment the court's first quarter raffle report is reading none my close public comments any council discussion on any consent agenda items council woman um thank you
i'm just going to say that I'm really excited that we finally got to resolution to the Clarage Home Station this was a long time coming to get to this point uh I'm going to be very happy when this pump I know we all will be very happy when this pump is constructed to resolve
some of the safety issues that we have with water pressure in that area so um you know this is a this is a good moment in municipal government that we finally got to this point thank you just want to thank uh current manager and our former
manager for helping to get that for a long time buildings comments councilwoman Holland yes councilwoman McGrath yes councilman Roman yes deputy Mayor Mackoy yes mayor Tambbor
yes mayor consent agenda passes 50 resolutions L1 through L9 L15 and 16 will be numbered 069 through and including 079 we have no addendum this evening so
moving on to new business the first item on that agenda 65 specifically fees of the code of the township sale
thank you mayor this was actually um a fee recommendation change that was discussed with clerk's office uh there's an annual adjustment that to the scheduled fees for the alcohol uh beverage license uh that's what's
present tonight we'll be changing the an annual fee from $1,866 to $2,239 if there are any questions or comments uh hear them otherwise we can present that for introduction at the next meeting
can I ask how we arrive at that number the other liquor license is like $2,500 yeah the other the consumption licenses have hit their max their state maximum um these the state law you could
increase annually the license fees 20% or $500 whichever is less this is less at an increase of $373 um the goal was to get both of them to the state maximum 2500 like surrounding
towns does anybody believe my council me if I may if we met uh we obviously need some appointments to uh committees that we are liaison still and I ask the rest of council if we can make these
appointments tonight it would be very nice uh and the appointments would be we have a nor reoso to the may committee uh we have four openings on sustainable uh and we have two people
there Dan Murphy and Victoria Constanenko just regular members on sustainable and then one on the environmental commission their first choice was Jean Deo tonight we have other
and would be number two correct correct mayor I'll just let me go through the expiration date okay thank you uh for sustainable um both Mr murphy and Miss Constanineo
will have an unexpired term ending 123125 on Mayak Miss Reynoso will have an unexpired term expire uh ending 123126 and alternate two for environmental commission miss Dio or Gene Dio will have a unexpired term
ending 123125 and that's all all right somebody like to move those appointments that is noted and uh for those um and the uh township read the
expiration discussion on I would like to thank all four of them for publications and tried to get most of them if not all of them near their and that sentiment so thank you to these
residents for their help with that we have a couple other people for other committees that are full but they've been notified that you know we will reach out to them if the opening comes up maybe on some of those people to the
committ want to see reach out to see if they might be interested in sustainable just because they're they always can change and just just see we can fill these committees up i will um that this does lead me to one item um also on
finished business we have had a discussion on that uh deal with um attendance um and um uh how to hold committee members accountable for future
present the discussion kind of so administration attorney to bring that back on the table I think we provide feedback on that I don't think council meet on a couple of the items but um like the percentage of things
like that that would be required but I think at this point we should get something on the books um those items but I don't that's left especially if we have more people interested and we have some
members that can be attending or something like that it is a good idea we don't leave people hanging that can have a position um that's just my com oh yeah sorry we did a motion second yes we did thank you
normally Madam Cler you call the role on Council Member Holland yes council McGrath yes councilman Broman yes deputy Mayor Mackoy yes mayor Tambboro yes yeah those appointments are made
um at vote five to zero thanks our other new business hearing none i will open up the public comment one last time tonight um common statement applies any item this time thank you again i just wanted to uh
finish my comments from before um to really warn the town and make it appeal to the uh zoning board of adjustment um this application offers no benefit to the broader public uh it does not
promote inclusion it does not strengthen our downtown what it invites is overcrowding deduence enforcement problems and long-term harm to downtown the truth is there are better more
appropriate sites for this use in town um I respectfully urge the township council to take this issue seriously and implore the zoning board of adjustment to deny this application and protect the integrity of our town central zone uh thank you and uh please to any neighbors
who are listening and attending tonight uh please come out to Thursday's meeting and uh make your voices heard thank you thank you anybody else okay I will close public comment we have already passed the resolution to go
into executive session will official action be taken okay we'll see you in two weeks thank you very much perfect time we're sooner