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Good evening. I call to order this regular meeting of the Verona Township Council for Monday the 20th of July, 2026. Madame Clerk, would you please read the Open Public Meetings Act compliance statements? >> The notice requirements of the Open Public Meetings Act have been satisfied with respect to this meeting of the

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township council. Specifically, the date and time were included in the publication of the annual meeting notice. The public noticed the meeting agenda was posted in the municipal building at least 48 hours preceding the start time of this meeting. The agenda and documents can be viewed online at

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vereronj.org/counsil meetings. Please take notice that pursuant to New Jersey Public Law 2025, Chapter 72, the complete text of each legal notice of the Township of Verona, including all public entities under the authority of the township, may be

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obtained or viewed by the public on our official state registered web page, veronj.org/legalpublic notices. A public comment period will be held in the order it's listed on the meeting agenda and instructions on how to comment will be provided at the appropriate time. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. Would you call

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the role, please? Councilman Shore >> here. >> Councilwoman McGrath >> here. >> Councilman Roman >> here. >> Deputy Mayor Mackoy >> present. >> Mayor Tambbor >> here. >> Mayor also present tonight is Township Attorney Brian Aoya. Deputy Township Manager Michael Krauss, Township Manager

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Kevin O Sullivan, myself, Municipal Clerk Jennifer Kieran. >> Thank you. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation

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under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Right. Short mayor's report. I just uh wanted to thank Deputy Mayor Makavoy for presiding at the last meeting while I was uh on vacation. and uh well less on

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vacation and more shephering 26 people through Australia and New Zealand. But um thank you regardless uh for that and for the attention administration for keeping me apprised during that time. And I'll turn it over at this point to the attention manager.

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>> Thank you, mayor. Uh to start off my report, I would like to bring up solutions architecture for a presentation tonight on their facility audit that they recently completed. Uh Frank, welcome. >> Good evening, everybody.

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>> Good evening. >> Good evening. >> Good evening. >> I'm actually very excited to be here tonight to uh share with you um what I I will consider something that's pretty groundbreaking. It's something that we've been doing for probably the last

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four or five years that many other architects aren't doing yet. We haven't gotten uh you know to a point we're doing this for our municipalities. for doing this for our school districts. Uh, and you've no doubt experienced a facilities audit in your uh, time here

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and in the past. Uh, and you've know, you know it to be a series or a series or one binder or a series of binders that ultimately once they're delivered, they sit up on a shelf. And many of our clients, they get the binders with all the data and all the information in it.

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and they'll often call us anyway when they need a question answered or something associated with it. And what we decided to do was make this a lot more interactive, make this a website instead of a binder that sits on a shelf. So, we've created a facilities

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health check. And it is a web-based uh software program that uh addresses each of the facilities in town uh by thorough review of the systems and architectural elements that make up the building in

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terms of their age, in terms of the need, in terms of what you what you do. The true intent of this uh health check is to make the township proactive and no longer reactive to things that arise uh at a moment's notice. So, we'll start

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out with a couple of quick things. There's some ground rules with a report like this. This report represents a starting point, not an end point, right? It is it is a snapshot in time from when we walk through each of these facilities. The report is not an

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indictment of maintenance practices or how you're handling things. This is just a factual representation of the relative health of the building at this particular time. It's also not a complete listing of any specific project. It does list scope of work that

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could be completed now and into the future, but it's not a a list of projects. There are priorities you're going to see in this report which are our recommendations. However, there are local needs and local things that we may not be taking into consideration. You

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may find things more of a priority than we've rated them. So, it's subject to flexibility and uh review. The budget estimates that are included in here, they are order of magnitude only. We don't know when these projects

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will be done. We don't know how many years from now they could be done. This is a five-year snapshot. So the budgetary estimates have escalators and multipliers that give you an order of magnitude of the work to be done. So if

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and when you decide to look at and do any one of these projects, we would come back or your engineer would come back and come up with a budget estimate that suits the project at that particular time. And then finally, everything that's represented here, no municipality

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would ever be able to do the amount of work that's shown here under your regular operating budget. So it's it's a it's a long-term planning tool. It needs to be viewed as a long-term planning tool uh so that the expectations are set. There's a number of categories that

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were reviewed. Each of the facilities were reviewed. Site improvements, building envelope, building interiors, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire systems. uh they were also reviewed by priorities. We created these priorities. Number one would be immediate action or

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remedies required. Could be a code issue, could be a safety issue. Uh two action and remedy is strongly recommended. Uh three action is and remedy is strongly recommended as the budget will allow. And then um attention

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four would be a tension and remedy may be performed in order to improve the facility's efficiency or an operational adequacy of the facility. So these are the ground rules. These are the the priorities and categories that were reviewed and as you can see there are

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these pictures and each of the buildings for the that were reviewed are represented in this uh vignette. We have the annex building. We have the community center, the community pool, the engineering building, the Verona library, the municipal building, the tower building, and then you'll see a

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last box that shows totals by priority. And what that does is take the budget estimates for each facility and combine them into one full total budget estimate that sorts the costs by priority. And we'll look at that a little bit later. So, for the purposes of the presentation, we're obviously not going

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to go through every building. We're going to pick one and we're going to kind of go through it to show you how this report is supposed to work, how you're supposed to view it, and how how uh it will support how it will support. I think it's been idle too long. Bear

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with me. Let me just log back in. um how it will support uh your uh budget cycle and being able to um do what needs to be done. Okay. So, we're going to come in and we're

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every building has its own page, own web page. So as you can see um this is the engineering building and on the right sidebar you'll see a series of of icons and wording and the first wording is

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facilities audit written report. These are the components of each building. So we have a facilities audit written report. We have a site plan. We have issues floor plans. We have roof plans and images. We have a room listing with square footages. and we have a budget

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estimate for this building. There was actually some future planning concepts that were created. So, we've included them in here as well and you'll be able to see those. But if we go through and we're not going to go in great detail through this facilities audit report, what you'll find is there is, you know,

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over the summer of 2025, representatives of solutions architecture and our engineer visited each of the buildings. We walked through each of the buildings, cataloged systems, looked at mechanical equipment, looked at roofing, looked at windows, walls, everything that you'll see in those categories. Um, each report

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was is organized by the visual report, by the facilities written report, by the issues plans, the roof plans, uh, the room listing. So, if we go through the engineering building, there's a short description of the building, what it is. It was constructed in 1928. It's about

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12,200 square feet, what lot and block it's on. Um on um it what the acreage of the site is, whether it had major facilities renovations. So there's a brief history for you to look at and then we go through each of those categories that you saw. So site

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improvements, there's a series of, you know, ADA walkways where the concrete transitioned into the main asphalt parking lot, but they don't appear to have the appropriate slope for ADA compliance or they don't have warning strips. So there are recommendations that are made. Um the asphalt driveways,

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we do we call out to mill and pave certain areas based on our evaluation. Um fencing, there's fencing around the site, it's 4 feet. We need to, you know, obviously replace that fence with a six-ft fence to so that it prevents people from scaling the fence. Um

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exterior walls, uh the building is composed of pre-cast concrete panels, plaster, and brick. It's generally in sound condition. So, we call to clean or to take care of or to do maintenance in certain areas. We go through exterior doors. We go through roofing. Uh you'll

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see egress and accessibility. Every door entrance into the facility was reviewed. It's looked at as to whether it's ADA compliant or not. It looks at whether the total egress ability of the building can be met. Um, and there are a number

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of of recommendations that are code requirements whereas there's labels on exit doors or whether it's fire rated doors. Uh, we go through building interiors, the toilet rooms. We did a plumbing fixture count to make sure there's enough fixtures in the building

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for um for people uh that are occupying the building for the occupants. Uh in this particular case, it shows one new female water closet is necessary in the building because it doesn't meet the exact plumbing count. Obviously, you've been operating as such all along. Uh

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it's just and again, it's listed as a priority uh you know uh two recommendation, but it's something that can be looked at further. flooring, ceilings, egress diagrams, room signage. Uh everything in this building was looked at in in terms of the number of

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fire extinguishers, the number of water fountains, security issues were looked at. Uh then mechanical, they looked at the boiler plant, the heating and circulating pumps, uh automatic temperature control systems, you know, the original construction of the first

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floor. Uh the first floor north edition includes two offices, a small conference room. It tells what this system is. So there's an ex a list of exhaust fans, whether they need to be replaced or they still are operational. Uh toilet rooms in general, electrical service. Uh

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there's then this just doesn't just look at the building itself. It looks at is there the possibility of putting solar on the building? Uh there's no present solar on the building. Is there a potential for air conditioning in certain spaces? So, it not only looks at the building itself, but it explores

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other areas of the building. It talks about the electrical service. It talks about emergency power and the Caterpillar 750KW natural gas standby generator. It goes through a full accounting of the building. It looks at lighting. implicit emergency lighting,

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exit signs, uh fire alarm systems, lightning protection, and then it goes into plumbing, pumps, domestic water, hot water, um waste water, natural gas, storm water. So, this report is very detailed and lists a series of

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priorities. You'll see everywhere a priority number is listed, that's a recommendation that something should be done. um breakroom sink, uh general sinks, kitchen pot sinks, grease interceptors. So, it goes through a host

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of findings for the building for the building and it puts it into this written report. Again, it's not something that we can cover in a half an hour. So, I wanted to you to see that this is the makeup and this is the makeup for every report you'll see. There is a continuity. So when you look

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at one building, you can see what the next building's going to, you know, when you look at the next building, you'll see that site plan. So with every building, we look at the site. We determine is the parking, you know, seal coat the existing asphalt. It's not in relatively bad shape. Install a new ADA

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curb cut. Uh replace perimeter fencing. This is that 4ft fencing along the back side of the building. Um you know, there's a dumpster area. Provide a CMU enclosure or something to cover it up. there was a concern about replacing the existing gate with an automated gate

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there. Everything that came out of either our review or discussions with engineering was put into this report. Um so from a site perspective, that's a site plan. Those items are cataloged as well. Issues floor plans. When we talk

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about issues floor plans, what you're going to see is that there is an issues legend for every building. The plans that you're going to see are two scale plans that were done by scanning these buildings. So, you'll never have to look for a blueprint down in the basement.

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Again, you'll have an updated floor plan for every facility, and they can be updated as we go on. Uh, but what you'll see is they're colorcoded. Does the space require a complete renovation? Does it require just upgrades to lighting, ceilings, flooring, paint, or

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just the flooring? Um, does it should the should all these corridor doors be replaced with 20 minute doors per code? Uh, again, a lot of these items you're grandfathered in and you don't have to go out and wholesale do, but if budget allows, it's something that would be

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recommended. Making sure the hardware is ADA compliant. All of these things are noted on the floor plan. You can see it in a without reading the report, but then you can refer to the report for something that you're interested in looking at. So, we have those issues,

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floor plans. This is something that we find is invaluable for most places where we are, and that is a roof plan. Uh, a roof plan that has sections of each roof, square footages of each roof, the roof type. So, you're going to have a chart for every roof in for every

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facility. It talks about what the roof area is, when it was installed, who the manufacturer is, what type of roof system it is, and when the warranty expiration date. In this particular case, you had coatings put on the top on the top of this roof, which only are

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warranted for 10 years. It's not a full roof replacement. It's a less expensive option. It was something that you needed to do to get the roof sound, but it's going to be coming up on its expiration. So, this is where we become more proactive. We look at this and say,

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"Okay, we've got a roof expiring in 2026." Now, does that mean tomorrow the roof's going to fail in 2027? No. But it makes you look at it and say, "Hey, we should start to plan and budget for these items that need to be replaced."

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Room listing for every facility. You're going to see a chart like this. And it's a room listing that lists every administrative space, every circulation space, every support space, where it is. Is it on the first floor, in the basement? How many square foot foot is it? This is helpful if you are looking

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at a particular space and you want to say, "Hey, can we move something into this room or can we divide this room and create two spaces? Can we get an office out of it?" I can look at this and determine without going back out in the field again what size that room is and what we can do with it. And you're going

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to see when we get into the model how that's even more uh relevant. I'm going to jump over the budget estimate. We're going to cover that last, but I wanted to go to these future planning concepts. Nothing that we we've done here since we've been is lost. So at one point we

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looked at renovating the engineering building. We actually put together plans and concepts for layouts and a new engineers room and concepts. So all those drawings are yours. They're part of this plan. So if you start to look at the future and say we need to implement any of these, you've got stuff that's

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already done. It's part of your facility's health check. You can access it at any time. Any questions about the written reports or that kind of explanation I just provided? Okay. So, probably this is where we get

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into groundbreaking. So, this picture with the play button that you see here is actually a scan of the entire building. And you'll see this 3D model that's spinning around and that we zoom in. I'm going to go back out to the

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plan. So, you see this 3D model. As we zoom in, you can see what that room is. It's the wastewater room. Um, you can see the women's toilet. You can see every room is labeled in the facility. And it's basically an overview of the floor plan. There are different floor

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levels. Right now, we're on floor level two. Uh, there's floor level one, which is the basement level. So, you have an ability to see every part of this building and what rooms are are within that building. So, I'm going to go back to that floor plan. The dots that you

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see throughout are and these dots on the outside of the building, they're scan points. And the dots on the outside of the building are scan points. The dots on the inside of the building are items of note. These are things that we are calling out that

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need to be rectified. So, first I want to just jump to the one of these dots on the outside of the building. And what you're going to see is you can actually look at the exterior of this building without having to drive out there. Uh it's helped many of our clients being able to assess certain conditions in

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certain areas. You can see closer, you know, conditions of walls and the pavement and the asphalt. You can look up, you can look down. It is um a very powerful tool to be able to look at it. Uh and then you can go back inside the

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building. You can switch to plan view again and let's say we want to jump into the break room. So we're going to dive into the break room. And now we are in the break room which as you can see is a break room but it has all sorts of electrical equipment in it as it stands

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now. Then the if we click on a blue tag service provide a point of use mixing valve for the service sink. It goes into as much detail um you know when you click on each of these tags it brings up lighting controls. update the lighting controls with the latest edition of

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Ashray. Um, as you go into the egress diagrams, there are no egress diagrams in any of these rooms. It doesn't tell you where you go in the event of a fire or an emergency. Uh, we get into ceilings and you start looking at the ceiling and the sprinklers. Uh, you know, provide required fire protection

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per NFPA if, uh, it's a new addition andor a new space. So, it's offering a recommendation, but again, in that particular case, it doesn't need to be done. Replace the ceiling tiles throughout the building. There was a lot of leaking in the roof uh at at one

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particular time. So, and you can walk through this entire building. You can look up and down. Here's another another crazy feature with this with this software. If you hit the dimension button, you can actually see the width of the corridor. You can see the height

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of the space. You can see dimensions. You can measure to within a quarter of an inch using your computer and a mouse in the space that you have here. So, there's a power to this that it saves time in the future. You call up and say, "We want to look at the Office 2B. Uh,

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we want to figure out whether we can divide it and put a space in there or whatever." We have the dimensions at our fingertip. We don't have to come out. Saves you money in the long run. It allows you to look at this, print out a plan, sketch up, we can come out. It's a very very work uh workable tool. It

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talks about replacing the carpeting uh with hard surf hard surface flooring. Um replace the RTU and additional return grills to provide proper air balancing. So there's a whole host of things that can be determined by walking through

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this building without leaving your space. So let's jump out of the model again. Any questions on the model? Many of you may have seen something like this on a real estate website where you walk through a new new purchase or a new new building. This is a very similar um

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technology uh that we've we've employed for the use of of these reports. The other the final piece that we'll talk about is this budget estimate. Every one of those dots that you saw in the report is a report tag. So you'll

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see S3 92 9.2 2 4.1 those are all indexed in the report. So what you can see is it says update the ADA curb cuts replace existing fence with a 6ft tall fence. You'll see that there's an include in project switch here in the

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Excel spreadsheet that the town manager will get. He will be able to se turn off all the projects and select only the projects that are up for discussion. You will then be able to see exactly what those projects that you're selecting cost. So there is a unit cost, there's a

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construction cost, if there's any furniture or technology to be included, we include costs for overhead and profit from contractors so that you have a complete picture of what this could cost. You'll have professional service fees, design contingency, construction

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manager if necessary, testing, environmental, construction contingency, legal bonding, reimburseable expenses, and a total cost for the projects. Everything that you need is at your fingertips here. And as I said before, these are not cost estimates. They are

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budget estimates for order of magnitude. You'll see that those costs for soft cost and contingency equal about 30%. Typically costs on any project for soft and contingency equal about 20%. Less than 20%. But we've included this as an

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order of magnitude. We don't know if you're going to do it this year or next year, five years from now. So, we want to make sure that these numbers are reasonable. Obviously, if you said to us, we want to uh replace all exterior doors uh with FRP doors, we would then

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come in and budget for replacing all those doors and give you an accurate budget because we're doing it today, not without that uh overall cost. And then finally, if we go back out to the health check again and we go out to the main

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page, this is that total by priority report that we talked about. So for the community center, priority one, priority 2, three, and four, the fire department, community center, priorities 1, two, three, and four. So you'll see a listing of all these projects, total soft cost,

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total construction cost, and total order of magnitude costs. uh engineering. Uh so and again as I said all of these items recommended based on their the need for them because of code based on the discussion that was had with the

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facilities people and they're not necessarily indicative of the building's unsafe and you have to do all this stuff right away. That's not what we're doing here. What we're doing here is trying to give you a menu of things to be looked at in years to come. The report will tell you, look at replacing the rooftop

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units in the next 5 to 10 years. It'll tell you they are coming up on the end of their useful life and they should be looked at quicker. The goal here is to give the township a proactive plan with every one of these projects. The beauty of this is that it's completely

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flexible. It's index. It's indexable. So, you can controlf and search. It's also completely updatable. Let's say we were to put a big wall right in the middle of this room and divide this into two spaces. All we would have to do is come out with the this the scanning camera that we use, this 3D scanning

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camera, come in, scan this space, scan that space, and it would automatically import that into that overall model. So, you would always have an updated uh plan of the building and an updated idea of the spaces. So, it's a it's very

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updatable and it's very flexible and I find that it's going to be a useful tool for it's been a useful tool for a lot of our clients. I'm sure that it's going to be a useful tool for the township in trying to be more proactive with what you're doing. >> Thank you. >> Any questions for Mr.

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>> I have one >> quick question. Uh I have a couple points but uh this website we have as council members have access to this website passcode and all. So it is a secure website. This information is not for the for the for everybody and for

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the public. This is a secure website. It is password protected and username protected. >> Um it can be given out to who the the town and the council deem necessary. One of the things that we often do is we have an OEM version of this so it can be

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given to the police and the fire department so that they have access to the plans. They wouldn't get the budget estimates and those things. they only get access to the things that they would need to be able to see specific areas of the building. But yes, it is a completely secure document only accessible by username and password. If

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a councilman comes off or if someone leaves, their restrictions become uh re revoked, but otherwise, yes, it is accessible. >> That's nice because there's a lot more detail in what you just showed us than what we got as far as each plan for each building. And I like it when you were

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talking about you picked this specific building. You said that uh the roof is still under warranty, >> but in the report you said it's under warranty, but in what you just said, you said it was sealed 10 years ago. Did they use a 10ear sealant? >> Yeah. >> So that's just >> one of those coatings.

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>> It's not a whole new roof that we Okay. >> No, it was just the coating was to buy you another 10 years. >> Good for 10 years. >> Good for 10 years. It buys you 10. Now again, if you haven't been up on that roof and trouncing around and, you know, doing a whole bunch, it could last you 15. Um, it's just something that we're going to have to keep an eye out if

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you're start to experience leaks. It's something that you may want to budget for the replacement. >> No, I find it's extremely useful because it this is basically a punch list for us moving forward and pick and choose what is the most important and and go from there. I I this of course since you

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picked that facility, I looked at the cameras, I think that's should be top of our list to get some type of security cameras around that building. But then you wrote in another section as I kept reading that there were cameras up there for some certain areas. But I thank you for your time on this. It's very very

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helpful for us. >> Great. >> Thank you. >> Great, >> Mr. Shore. >> I just wanted to say thank you very much. Uh I think this report is extremely useful. Um the presentation that went into the uh border um facility

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was really good because I just I just was there last week. And so basically I was reviewing it and then uh I I I find that the breakdown of every single project to be very like a blueprint for us to go forward and for us to stay organized. Um over the last couple weeks

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I've been going to almost every single department and my first response has been uh to the town manager was basically in my head was where is this report because I wanted to see something like that. So um it's very nice to see something like this and something that

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we can um obtain to get to as uh we go forward. So thank you very much for your work. >> You're welcome. Thank you Councilwoman McGrath. >> Thank you. Um this is a a more of a comment and then question for our town um administration, you know. Um so I totally understand why

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the you know the the website their security issues by releasing all of the plans and all of the nuances of all of our buildings. But we do want the public to get an understanding of the state of our buildings because you know we have

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had to approve some emergency projects emergency remediation. So I don't know if some sort of public facing executive summary for each building can be produced and my question really for Mr. Sullivan is what are your plans and what

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are the next steps now that we have this wealth of incredible data and cost estimates that are you know substantial what is what are your next steps for your departments? >> The next step with this would be to present I think

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>> yeah my next step would be to take the reports and the top priorities to build next year's capital budget. It'll be the building block and the foundational work for some of the key projects that are included in next year's capital budget. >> Okay. And do you think an executive

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summary can be produced for the public so that they can understand the conditions of all the buildings? >> I think that's fair and I'll work with Frank to make sure that we have an executive summary. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I think we can certainly release the the priority sheets and and stuff like that. I mean, what we got?

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>> I think the only thing that we can't release is really the the plans of the buildings because that's a security issue, but >> plans and the and the scans >> and the scans. Yeah. And and pretty much anything else should be public record or I mean could be I believe so. Yeah.

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>> Councilman Roman, >> just also wanted to add my thanks. Um, I've been involved in managing physical plants and facilities at various times in my career and a report like this to sort of baseline everything that you have is very very helpful and thank you for all the detailed analysis and costing that went into this. Um I just

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also I I am reading through the reports and there are notes in the text about security things that should be yes we do want to be cautious about what we redact but I agree that a general condition report or the executive summary would be uh helpful to release um especially since we do have to approve large

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capital expenditures and it kind of goes to show the point. I mean this town has been around a very long time. Our buildings you know we do everything we possibly can. I see Lenny sitting behind you there who you know takes care of these facilities as uh you know as if they were his own and uh but it's just we have a consistent rolling set of

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needs we have to we have to look at you know every time we put a new roof on there's another one that's coming due. So uh it just kind of shows what business we're in of having to continuously maintain maintain these facilities and uh what it takes. So thank you very much for uh all your work on this. >> Great. Great. >> Yeah. But I reflect the comments of my

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of my colleagues and thank you. This is very interesting. Um, I haven't been in in the bowels of some of those buildings in in five years. So, it's good to to see them. Um, so thank you for your work and I just want to thank Lenny and his team as well who I'm sure were instrumental in getting you access and

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providing feedback and uh there's nobody knows these buildings better. Lenny could probably draw those plans um by hand at this point. After how many years? 45, Lenny. Uh 46. So only 46. Um but uh when you get 47, you know, we'll

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talk. But We're not >> I know that's Yeah, that's >> He's gonna have everything on his list fixed before he >> It'll be fine. It'll be fine. We'll just cut him in check. Um but I think it's important I I agree with Councilwoman McGrath that we should make as much of this public as possible. Um you know,

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understanding that we have to redack certain things. But, uh you know, thanks for all of this. And I think one general comment is I don't know if the public realizes how much we actually have as physical infrastructure and this is a good thing to put out there. Um, I did have one question. The engineering

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building seemed to be included in this, but the DPW facility, the rest of the DPW facility was not um the garage and the the garages and the offices there. And that's another infrastructure concern. Um, so I'm wondering if maybe

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that's something we should be looking at as well as a facility because people do work in there. Um, and we store some pretty valuable things uh in those buildings as well. um and their you know work hazard buildings and and so on. So just a

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thought to add uh the commerce the rest of the commerce court facility at some point in there would be helpful um you know because it's another it's going to be another cost driver at some point as well but also to make sure the buildings are safe and and updated. Uh, I think some of those buildings were

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never meant to be long-term buildings. Uh, but they are now, so we should be taking care of them. And, uh, that's it. Thank you, Mr. Msinio. >> Appreciate it >> for your insight. >> Thank you everyone. >> All right. Take care. >> Thank you.

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>> I look forward to getting my password and going through going through all those buildings. I certainly do. >> Yes. When you can't sleep at night, it's a perfect thing. >> There's perfect thing to do. >> All right. Thank you so much. >> Back to you, Mr. Osaldin.

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>> Thank you, mayor. Uh, I will go through some of the other remaining highlights in my report. Um, as far as wastewater infrastructure needs, uh, our Derwent and Brookside sewer lining project, uh, is going to be starting in August. We

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held a pre-construction meeting last week. Uh, we will be, uh, holding a neighborhood outreach meeting and that's expected to start the first week of August. Uh our Fair View Avenue well rehabilitation project is underway. Uh the contractor remains scheduled for

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completion by December 26th and that is ahead of our March 2027 deadline within our amended acco. Uh as far as the Montlair emergency interconnection, uh we received a uh draft feasibility study from Boswell.

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It's under review. Uh and then that will be uh ultimately circulated to the council and put into final form. Uh and then uh our Clarage drive pump station project uh that remains ongoing. We've had some slight delays with getting utilities uh run to the site

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from PSENG. Uh we do now have a gas main run to the system and our utility pole should be there shortly. So um based upon PSENG remobilizing to the site, we should be able to wrap up that project in in uh short order. And we have kicked off an

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update on our rate study. Uh we have a follow-up meeting with the consultant running the analysis on the rate study later this week to uh review the uh current status of the financials of the utility and re make recommendations for

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uh upcoming rates. Uh as far as storm water goes, uh we did receive our approved watershed inventory report from the state. Uh the and Boswell is moving forward with phase two of the watershed improvement plan which

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is an assessment report that is due in December. We'll present that to the council when we do have it available. Um we have uh at the last meeting we presented the community energy plan. Uh it is on the agenda for adoption uh by

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the council tonight. uh that was a grant-f funded initiative and uh the adopt plan is due to the state at the end of the month uh and this will close out that project. Um we uh to report on we also received our technology grant

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from the uh Comcast franchise renewal uh initiative that was or ordinance that was adopted earlier this year. Uh based upon that the receipt of that grant, we've requested um the AVA contractor to provide us an updated proposal for the community

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center ballroom to provide similar technology upgrades for that room that uh similar to what was installed in this room, but what fits into that room more appropriately. Um, as far as uh kind of piggybacking on Frank's report on our facility needs,

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one of the projects that we recently completed was the town hall windows and repointing uh project. We have our final change order and closeout resolution on the agenda tonight. And we also have a resolution authorizing a contract for

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the community center ADA upgrades. Uh those bids were received a few weeks ago. We received three bids. Uh that's um a project that is partially funded with a $100,000 grant from CDBG.

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Uh and then the last items that I'll report on are the the community services uh plans and and reports that we've been working on. The age friendly audit and action plan was presented and is in final form. At this point, we're just working through the final submitts to

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the state to close out that project. And then uh lastly we have our inclusive healthy communities survey and action plan that we are working on. Uh we continue to try to increase survey responses and we are going to be moving

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into uh small group sessions with NJ future facilitating those small groups. Uh that concludes my report unless there's questions from the council. >> Council can get an update on Lynen Mill and pave schedule. I know you touched on it. Um

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>> sure. the the contractor for Lynen Avenue uh is looking to coordinate their scheduling. Uh they've uh they do understand that the paving has to occur this summer before school is back in session. They've preliminarily told us that it'll either be the last week of

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July or the first week of August, but we'll finalize those dates with the contractor so we can finalize the milling and paving. And then we have uh held off on the the tree planting schedule until the fall as was uh a request from the shade tree commission.

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Uh so the the tree planting schedule will be deferred until cooler months. >> Okay. Thank you, Councilwoman McGrath. >> Um thank you. Two things. So on the Monontlair interconnection study um again you are you coordinating with the Monontlair Township administrator

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because it's going to reveal that you know we want to go in on this together. Correct. >> Correct. The the report itself is it's presently a feasibility study looking at the water pressures and the capacity on both sides of the system. That required

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uh coordination between both water departments because we needed to open fire hydrants on both sides. So Monontlair has been uh fully involved in this feasibility study from the beginning and throughout. >> But then the actual cost for the work, we have to have a discussion like are we

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paying for it? Are we asking >> the the cost of the work? There were initial discussions. We haven't approached the discussions again with Monontlair. Okay. >> Yet because we're waiting upon the final version of feasibility study to make sure the project is feasible and to understand the scope of cost. But that

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would be the next step is then opening up a discussion and uh and and entering into some form of an agreement with Monontlair on the costs that uh we would be looking to share with them. >> Okay. And then on the healthy inclusive

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communities, I think it's important for everyone uh to understand and I know Councilman Shore and I both attended an update on Friday. Um you know the survey uh doesn't have a lot of respondents. So, anyone who has um um individuals,

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neighbors, friends, family members in Verona um who may fit the qualif qualifications of living with a disability, they should be encouraged to fill out the survey. I know I reached out to some people one-on-one. Um and it could be whether they've had a

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disability their whole lives or it's a short-term thing because we want as many people as possible to fill out the survey. Um, so I know I reached out to a couple of um, residents I've met over the years, but I encourage everyone to do the same so we can get those numbers

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up on the survey um, respondents because the goal is how many? >> The the goal for that survey was 100 responses. Um, our goal for the age friendly survey was 200 responses and we pretty quickly exceeded 260 270. So we got a strong response on the age friendly survey. Our goal for the

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inclusive healthy community survey was 100 responses. uh as of Friday we're up to 41. So we're we're struggling to get responses on that survey so far. Um but we've u we've initiated a lot of direct outreach to community organizations. Uh

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provided direct paper responses. Um they're they're being distributed a number of of ways um to try to increase those survey responses. And it's started to move the needle. uh we moved from about 25 to 41 uh over the course of about a week and a half of shifting our

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our um our efforts but uh we do need uh continued responses to benefit the purpose of that survey. >> Great. Thank you, >> Mr. Cross. >> Thank you. Um,

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building off of uh Frank's report from solutions architecture um last year there was a energy audit strands engineering has provided a proposal um for managing energy efficiency

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upgrades at not just town hall but all facilities. Um that would be a larger project. It would help reduce um our energy costs over time uh at the community center and for the uh

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charger at uh the pool and the work that would happen at the pickle ball courts. PSNG is requesting um substantial documentation with um drawings for utility plans. We may need to engage the services of an

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engineer to complete those. While it might not be completely necessary at the community center as the charger is already active to get the service line run to the pool, we would need to do that. Um, on insurance, there's

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only been minor concerns raised after the prescription plan switched. Most recently, one was raised earlier today. Harmony RX was contacted immediately. They stated they would reach out. We will follow up with them tomorrow to see if the problem's been resolved.

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Um for community services, the World Cup watch party was well attended. Um all of the pool tables that were ordered have been delivered. They're being assembled. It takes some time to do all of that, but as they are

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being assembled, DPW and buildings and grounds are bringing them up to the pool. Hopefully, they will all be um assembled and delivered to the pool this week. Um, also at Everett Field, there were

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some concerns raised about the um, playground area. The adhesive that was ordered to um, secure the rocks where kids were climbing the wall and picking the rocks up and throwing them down. DPW is picking that up tomorrow and they plan on installing

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it in the near future. Um, hopefully this week. um the fencing to complete or to bring the chain link wall or fence to the retaining wall. The purchase requisition has been entered. We're just

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it has to go through the process to get approved into a purchase order before the materials can be ordered. Um, the Shade Tree Commission, we have all of the documents for the Green Communities Grant, which was the D grant

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that funded the tree inventory update and community forestry management plan. Um, ready to be submitted. Those will be submitted this week. Um on sustainable Verona, the part-time staff member has

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um increased their efforts on reaching out to numerous businesses um and conducting outreach sessions. They are also scheduling a meeting with all of the houses of worship. Um Strand Engineering has also provided

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a proposal to uh provide like a professional face to that outreach. Um and the EV and solar training for first responders has been scheduled. That'll be held in August and September. They're two different classes.

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Um on the property maintenance front, the comp the are not the um the volume of property maintenance complaints has decreased. Um but some of the serious or the more involved ones

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are still hanging around. Verona Flats with the sanitation issue um and their trash um has been difficult to deal with. They were issued summones on Friday for failure to maintain a clean um garbage area. The court date for that

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is at the end of August. Um on the pool front, pool revenue is um 1,27,733, which is just shy of our anticipated revenue of 1,30,000.

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Um at this point, we are regenerating surplus as we are we've um exceeded the amount that was budgeted for. Um some of the higher items from uh we're still looking to increase guest

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passes. Um this weekend we did not get as many just with the uh poor weather on Saturday. Um membership totals are nearing what they were last year especially on family. We currently have 719 whereas last year we

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were at 745. Um there was also an expense report um from Edmmonds that was sent to the council. It is still early on in that one especially with salary and wages. So um and that part-time employees are on a twoe lag. So the next report will have a

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full part-time payroll in there. That concludes my report. >> Any questions for Mr. B? Mr. >> Sure. Thank you very much. Uh just have uh two questions. Uh first one on Ever Field. Um

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there there was a resident that came last time and made a complaint about the schedule at Everfield. Um have we rectified uh that concern that um that you don't have to be part of um a baseball organization that there will be

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open time, open space for Everfield to be open? Is there a master schedule to allow that open time so that this is a Verona field that that's you know father son daughter uh you know mother can go over to the field and you know play play

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softball play baseball uh without being part of an organization. We have reached out to VBSL to talk about field scheduling. We don't have a master schedule right now, but we did relay that it is a town field and that there is the that we will be um

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requesting um schedules be adjusted so that there can be open play for residents. >> If I could just also supplement that. I think the important thing to keep in mind is that this field, while it is brand new, it's only been open for about three weeks and there are still minor

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punch list items that we're working through with the contractor and we are working with a professional consultant and a professional landscaper. So as we slowly roll out the use of this field, the usage will expand and we are looking to implement a a key block of time where

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it is a public family access kind of uh element where we we reschedule BBSL to other fields within the township. So we are collaborating we are deliberately working through some of the maintenance uh considerations and some of the minor

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punchless items that are still being addressed with the contractor as well. So, it is part of a larger discussion, but we are working towards uh a more deliberate and and purposeful use for the general public as well. >> Okay. Um my second question with the um to pull furniture, the ones that are

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coming in um are pool furniture that's currently at the pool, is some of them being thrown out um because of the replacement? If that's the case, then we're still going to have an issue of tables. I mean, right now, we've gotten through half the summer. might as well keep the amount of pool furniture you

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have and just add on and then next year throw out the ones that maybe are on on less legs. >> I I do not have an answer if they've been thrown out. I know there was some that might have been repurposed at other locations in town, but I will get an answer for you.

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>> Okay. Okay. >> Thank you, Councilman Shore. Thank you, Mr. Cross. Councilwoman McGrath. Um yes, I just want to add on to the discussion the you know having um our public fields you know have use. I think that actually

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applies across a lot of our fields and I understand the administration's hesitation number one we're just in the first few weeks there are punch list items that we're still working through um and there was vandalism you know in the previous you know in the previous

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field especially to the bathroom facility. So I we definitely need to protect, you know, the investment we've made. But the flip side of it is these are township fields. It's not just Everett, it's our soccer fields. And I think thinking through an orientation of

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having, you know, access times where people can come and play pickup games and just use it um is important. It's been a complaint that we've heard over time. Um, and so it's something I hope the administration can consider like a policy and, you know, with our field

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scheduling on when we just have open time. I think it would be really good for our youth. Thank you. >> Yeah, I I'll add on to that. I think the the one benefit we have of having some open time up at the community center is that we typically have a site manager assigned that can keep an eye on things.

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you don't have a site manager at at Everett. So, I think that's a logistical issue that to figure out because there are, you know, there are times when those fields are not left in good condition or and our police check the fields every night and often find people

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on them that shouldn't be on them doing things that they shouldn't be doing. >> Um, so there is some need to keep the field secured. Um, especially with that investment, but I think we'd have to figure out some kind of site management piece going along with that. I just don't want to leave that open after

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spending millions of dollars on it to to see it um get vandalized or anything like that. Especially when the the baseball softball organization helped to pay for the uh the buildings and and things like that. I don't want those to be destroyed and you know we have some

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liability there as well. So just something and there's some space parts of that field that you can't easily see from the road. Um so if police are driving by or whatever. So, I think we just have to be find some way of doing that, but also maintaining some staff

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presence there, at least a check-in kind of situation or have police check in every every 10 minutes or whatever if people are if it's open or something like that, you know, as they're able to. All right. Um, on to council member reports. Deputy Mayor Mway.

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>> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I have one thing. Uh, last Tuesday, Sustainable Verona had a whole house energy audit. uh seminar and there was a representative for public service. I'm mentioning this because for uh part of this program is

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an a whole house energy audit that is free. Uh I do let people know it takes usually two to three hours where they go through your home and they do a complete write up and they give you ideas of how you what you can do to your home to make

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it more energy efficient and save money on your utilities. Uh public service is 100% backing this. Uh once the audit is done and you talk to the company, public

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service will uh refund you up to 80% of what it costs. You can get air conditioning replacement, heating replacement, thermostats, light bulbs, pretty much anything. uh and whatever you spend is all part of this program and they will refund and the remaining

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20% public service will finance it for 0% for five years. So it's it's a wonderful program. We are shocked that more people didn't show up, but uh it's really getting it out there and telling people about it. Uh I I for anybody

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wanting to replace any appliances in their home, it is a great program. So, I strongly suggest you you can go on to Verona's website, sustainable Verona, and there's links uh and again the audit of your home is free and it even they'll

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tell you where to insulate uh should you spray foam, should you use different types of insulation. So, it's a great program. I encourage people who are going to want to spend money on their appliances in their home to make them more energy efficient. This would save you a lot of money. So, and that is all

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I have for this evening, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Thank you, Deputy Mayor. Councilman Roman, >> I'll wave my report this evening. Yeah. Thank you. >> Thank you, Councilman Roman. Councilwoman McGrath. >> Uh, thank you. I want to thank all the residents who uh reached out this week about um how we can support small

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businesses in our downtown and I sent some recommendations over to the township administration. I want to thank them for receiving them. Um I went to the Shade Tree meeting. Um they talked a lot about current and future shade tree

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plannings um and resolving issues from some past projects. Uh neighborhood traffic and safety committee also met. They meet every um once every two months. Um they're going to be following up with the administration on our complete streets um project and um or

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policy, excuse me. and uh we talked at length about personnet and potential changes in the traffic flow that may be before the council um at an upcoming meeting. And then finally, I want to thank Congresswoman MacGyver's office

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for hosting a um office hour here in Verona. Uh residents uh should sign up for her weekly email so that they're always informed on when she's in Verona or surrounding areas. It's a great um we're very lucky that she takes her

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casework on the road um and brings it to our community every few months. And that's my report. >> Thank you, Councilman Shore. >> Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. Um there were MYAK uh did not have a meeting in July but I spoke to the chair and got up

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to speed uh with the with the committee and uh I'm very excited to be part of it and be part of the liaison and uh we'll get to work um next month. Um also uh the rec committee is not back in session until um until fall. So, I'm very

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excited to be the liazison to a committee that I've pretty well known for and I'm happy to work with all the members. Um, I went to, as I stated before, I went to visit the wastewater plant last week and I just thought it was absolutely fantastic. It was

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awesome. Um, many people might not think it's awesome and there's a lot of poopy, but I would just say that um, the infrastructure was really amazing to see um, the systematic flow from the beginning all the way to the end. I mean, we have a lot of work to do and some of the uh, the buildings really

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need a lot of work and that was really great for that facility audit to be able to see that. But uh this is you know it's really great to look at our facilities from um start to finish all over town because uh we have a lot of work but I think in front of us we can

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do it um as a council and as a community. So um that's my report and I thank you very much Mr. Mayor. >> Thank you Mr. Shore. And um we are now going to open for public comment on any matter any member of the public wishes to bring before the

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council. Madam clerk, would you please read the public participation statement? >> Anyone from the public wishing to speak on any matter? If you're dialing in by Zoom, please raise your hand by pressing the raised hand button on your monitor. If you're dialing in by phone, please

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press star 9. If you're attending in person, please raise your hand and to be acknowledged before approaching the lectern. Once recognized, clearly state only your name and township of residence for the record. You are not required to provide your street address. However, if you do, please note that these meetings

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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'll be no cross dialogue during this public portion. After everyone wishing to speak has been heard, the council may address your comments and or

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questions. It's open. >> Thank you. >> All right. Seeing no public comment, I close public comment. Oh, sorry. I didn't see your hand back there. There's a gentleman in front of you. >> Thank you,

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>> Victoria Freeland, Verona. Hi, everyone. Um, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak tonight. My husband and I recently moved to Verona and we're excited to be a part of the community. Like many of the residents here, we live in an apartment that has

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no off- streetet parking. Uh my husband's job requires him to bring a commercial vehicle home and it cannot be parked on the street overnight and there is currently no commercial permits available in lot one. So we found ourselves in a uh without any practical

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or compliant parking option. I appreciate that the council is considering opening the Lakeside Avenue lot tonight to expand parking availability. As you make that decision, I hope that you consider how the lots are used. Lot number one is most

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accessible for municipal parking option for residents that depend on their commercial vehicles every single day. And many of the commercial vehicles in that lot uh appear to remain parked for days, sometimes weeks at a time and they

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are not used on a daily ba basis. those vehicles um could likely be accommodated in the new Lakeside Avenue lot while lot number one could be prioritized for residents who rely on their vehicles each day. I simply ask that uh as the new lot is implemented, the council

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considers creating a process that takes the frequency of vehicle use into account, prioritizing lot one or lot two uh for residents who use their commercial vehicles daily just to ensure that this system best serves those who depend on these vehicles to get to work

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and expands parking opportunities for everyone. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. And I'll close public comment. Um Freeland, thank you for your comment. Um something I township management can look into. I know that

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just one of the reasons why lot one has a restricted number of spots is that um there actually isn't that much public parking in there during the day, especially when the schools are in session. Um a lot of the the spots that look like they're available and they're

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actually used by school staff. Um so I think that's one of the reasons why there's a restriction there. But your point about frequency of use is well taken. Um I think another there are other concerns as we develop

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lot three and install things like security monitoring and stuff like that. Um I think more people will be willing to and interested in moving over there. um especially uh because it's more convenient to some people's homes if they live in certain parts of town. But

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I think it's a a fair thing to hear a recommendation from the administration about seeing if we do have some way of prioritizing the the frequency of use of those vehicles as well. Um and I appreciate everybody who follows the

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municipal code and does not park their commercial vehicles in their driveways um because that is a no no as well. So, thank you for that. And we move on to hearing adoption or amendment of ordinances. Madame clerk, the next item

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on the agenda is ordinance number 2026-27 on second reading. Would you please read the title of this ordinance into the record? An ordinance to amend chapter 140 vehicles and traffic article 14 meter permit parking chapter 140-68

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paragraph B of the code of the township of Verona to include municipal lot number three. >> Thank you madam clerk. Would somebody move this ordinance, please? >> So moved. >> Motion's made by Councilwoman McGrath. Is there a second? >> I like parking lots. I'll second the motion. Um this time I'll open for the

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public hearing on ordinance 2026-27. Same public comment statement applies though comments are restricted only to this ordinance. Nobody wants to comment about this ordinance. Daniel, no boss.

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>> All right. Close public comment. Any council discussion? >> I just want to Mayor. Thank you. uh just point out that this is uh sort of I want to say temporary allowance for parking just for insurance purposes because we

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are using it uh for permits now. So the final decision on this area that we purchased is not done. Correct. >> That's correct. The permits would only be issued on a monthly basis subject to uh potential interruption for a variety of reasons. >> Thank you. Thank you. Madam clerk, would

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you be so kind as to call the role on this ordinance? Councilman Shaw, >> yes. >> Councilwoman McGrath, >> yes. >> Councilman Roman, >> yes. >> Deputy Deputy Mayor Mackoy, >> yes. >> Mayor Tambbor, >> yes. >> Mayor, ordinance 2026-27 passes 50 and

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it will be published according to law. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. The next item of the agenda is an ordinance labeled as I on first reading. Would you please read the title of this ordinance into the record? >> Fixing the salary and compensation for the supervising sewage plant operator. >> Thank you, Madam Cler. Would somebody

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please move this ordinance? >> So moved. >> Motion's made by the deputy mayor. Is there a second? >> I'll second it. >> Seconds by Councilman Roman. Any council discussion? >> Hearing none. Madam clerk, call the role, please. >> Sorry,

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Councilman Shaw. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman McGrath, >> yes. >> Councilman Roman, >> yes. >> Deputy Mayor Mackoy, >> yes. >> Mayor Tambbor, >> yes. >> Mayor, I1 will be numbered 2026-28. It will be published according to law. Public hearing will be held on August 3rd.

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>> Thank you, Madam Clerk. Uh at this point, we'll do the consent agenda. I'm going to I need to pull K1. Does anybody else need to pull anything? Would somebody please move consent agenda resolutions L1 through L8?

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>> So move. >> Motion's made by Councilwoman McGrath. Is there a second? >> Second. Second made by Councilman Shore. This time will open for public comment on any consent agenda resolutions including K1. Same public comment statement applies that we are limited to

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these resolutions. Okay, hearing none. Any council discussion on L1 through L8? Councilwoman McGrath. >> Thank you. Um can the administration uh for the benefit of the public please just walk through um the findings from

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the audit and the corrective act action plan? Thank you. Sure. Um, >> sorry. Um, the corrective action plan you have. >> Well, I have the to um the grant letter.

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>> There were uh there was one key uh recommendation from the audit. was that uh as grants are being received um from the township, they are not uh kept on file in a timely manner with uh either the clerk's office or with CFO's office.

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So uh those it's a the recommendation was to improve the documentation that is kept on file and then there was one other yeah >> there was one um there were a handful of instances where the purchase requisition

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that was entered in admins came too late. It wasn't entered before the fact. Um the corrective action is and the these all came with um regular vendors uh who um we we use very frequently. The

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recommendation and corrective action is to use blanket purchase orders and encumber the funds in advance so that when these short notice items come up the funds are already encumbered. It's just um charging something against the blanket.

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>> Wonderful. Thank you. I mean, I think, you know, so much is going on with municipal and school finance around the county and state that it's always good for the public to understand that we have transparent government. They can read this beautiful document um and

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understand all of our finances. But I thought it was important to put the corrective act action plans on the record so that presidents understand that we are very well managed and these are small items, but still important nevertheless. So, thank you to the CFO and the entire administration for focusing once again on our audit. Thank

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you, >> Councilman. Also, just comment on the audit. So, was brought up that uh you know, thank you to all of our uh township officials in our finance department as well as our auditor for putting this document together. It's a good road map to the finances of the township that we use throughout the

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year. Um the number of recommendations of having two is a low number of recommendations. Um and it just goes to show our overall financial control environment and how cautious our uh employees are in terms of managing public's money um for any sort of

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purchasing or contracting within our organization. There's quite a paper trail and a lot of requirements and uh you know it's I appreciate that uh that uh we get it we get it right almost all the time. So I just want to say thank you to everyone who takes care of taxpayer money and uh I'm pleased to uh

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be able to support uh certifying this audit this evening. All right. Any other comments? Hearing none. Madam clerk, would you call the role, please? >> Councilman Shore, >> yes. >> Councilwoman McGrath, >> yes. >> Councilman Roman, >> yes. >> Deputy Mayor Mackoy, yes.

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>> Mayor Tambbor, >> yes. >> Mayor L1 through L7 will be numbered 167 through and including 173. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. Would somebody >> 174? Sorry. >> Would somebody move K1, please? >> So move. Motion's made by the deputy mayor. Is there a second?

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>> Second. >> Second's made by Councilman Roman. Um I just have one comment. I was not present at the meeting and therefore can't vote on this. So uh that's the only reason why it's pulled. Madam clerk, would you >> I just have one comment as well. U just wanted to make sure that the um there

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was a change that I requested for um from the >> previous >> from the previous one. >> Yes, those were corrected and the resolution vote was corrected as well that was posted on the website. So everything >> okay. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Appreciate it. Thank you, Councilman Shore. >> Madam Clerk, would you call the role?

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>> Councilman Shore. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman McGrath. Yes. >> Councilman Roman. Yes. >> Deputy Mayor Mackoy. Yes. >> Mayor Mayor Tambbor >> abstain. >> Okay. May um minutes from July 6th uh are approved. 401 abstension. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. We have no

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licenses or permits on tonight and neither do we have an addendum. We're moving on to um the new add unfinished business. So we have our execution of the group affidavit which is always our favorite part of the year.

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>> Yes. It has to be witness which is why we do it. >> So we just do that now. >> If you could just sign and then pass. This says you have access to a pen. >> Just keep passing it up.

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>> Do I get to keep the pen? >> You can sign it. >> Prepare. >> It doesn't go to you. So Christine gets to keep it. >> I get to keep >> Thank you. What are these signatures? >> Mine is very clear. >> My electronic signature is very clear.

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>> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Now you're just showing off. >> Yes. >> We will have a discussion about that later. Um, moving on, we have a couple appointments

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on this evening. We have um appointment for the board of adjustment, Lucas Conrad Paresi for alter number three. Uh, Charles John Charles uh Betsler for the Historic Preservation Commission, alter number one, and Kate Hartwick for the Open Space Trust Fund Advisory

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Committee, public member. Uh, would somebody like to move these appointments? >> So moved. The motion is made by Councilman Roman. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Second's by the deputy mayor. Uh, council discussion.

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I will just say thank you to Miss Harwick who's in the room uh for volunteering for the open space trust fund committee, especially after Councilman Shore uh can't serve on that committee anymore because he is up here. Um, and uh, that's is such an important

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committee for this town and I uh, I look forward to your expert your expertise on this from your work. Uh, I'd also like to just make a personal note that uh, I taught Mr. Conrad Breezy many years ago. Um and uh and I'm very happy that he is

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joining the the legion of younger um folks that are starting to volunteer for our boards and committees, which is really important because um there is definitely an age gap uh on these committees and we want to make sure that all AOA residents are certainly um

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uh represented and I think the board of adjustment will be happy to have another person with an architecture background uh on on the committee as well. Um, so I've known him to be a very level-headed and respectful person, so I look forward to seeing that service as well. And

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Madame Clerk, would you >> I just had a sorry comment real quick. Uh, no, I was before you even said that, I was um looking at uh Mr. Conrad's um resume and I was so happy to see young people getting involved in our town. uh

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I saw that he graduated a couple years ago and uh very impressive in some of the work that he's done down in uh down in Newark and uh I think he'll be a a great asset and a great this is a great learning experience for for someone that's so young. So very impressive. I

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like to say um I welcome all the uh all the nominees and I support all of them. So I think um you know we have a good uh good bunch here and u no I support it. So thank you very much Mr. Mayor. >> Thank you. And uh I will note when we're talking about some of our younger

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volunteers that Vine Mccel has agreed to step up to be chair of the um BMC board as well. Uh so she served on an interim basis because they they didn't have quorum but um at the last meeting but we expect her to take over and thank you as well to Kim Manis who held that position

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for for a while. Um I was just waiting for a confirmation back on that. So I didn't say anything during the mayor's report but this felt like an appropriate time. Uh that madam clerk, would you call the role, please? >> Councilman Shaw, >> yes. >> Councilwoman McGrath, >> yes. >> Councilman Roman, yes. >> Deputy Mayor Makavoy,

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>> yes. >> Mayor Tambbor, >> yes. >> Mayor, appointments pass 50 and they will be properly notified. >> Any other new or unfinished business? >> Okay, hearing none, um we move on to one final public comment session. Same public comment statement applies.

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Hearing no public comment, I hereby close public comment. Um, and thank uh, uh, Miss Freeland for being our only public commenter tonight. Uh, and uh, which just really amplifies your your voice as well. So, thank you for that and I hope that you'll come back and

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visit us again. Um, and uh, and that's it. We have previously passed a resolution to go into executive session. We did not anticipate any official action being taken in executive session this evening. So therefore, we'll see you in the first Monday in August. And actually before we do that, before we go

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into there, there is a special council meeting next Tuesday at 7 p.m. It is on Zoom only uh to hear presentations from prospective subject matter experts for the police and fire uh building and that

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is uh will be on Zoom. So if you're interested in that topic, we hope you'll join us for that as well. And m I could just say that we might add one other item to the agenda so the public can just pay attention to the agenda. It's not finalized yet >> for the special meeting. >> For the special meeting. >> Okay. All right. Thank you uh to Mr.

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Lawrence. And uh this point we'll be going to executive session after a fiveminute recess. Thank you everyone.