Okay, the mics are on. That's right. Is that what you're uh see? Oh, sorry. You ready? Yes. We're on. So, this meeting is being held in conformance with the sunshine law.
Notice of date, time, and place. Has been furnished to the Bergen record in the Ridgewood News. Notice has also been posted on the bulletin board of the administration building. Would the clerk kindly take the role? Mayor Gerard data here. Mr. Bren here. Mr. Martinella here. Mr. Randa here.
Mrs. Weber here. Every everybody kindly 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 under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all. Let us have a moment of silence for our Waldik veterans and all veterans across our country who have given the ultimate sacrifice going off to war, some not returning, so that we could live in a land that is free, so we could assemble the way we are tonight.
Would the clerk kindly do the prayer? Dear Lord, we start this meeting asking for your guidance and wisdom. May we find unity and fairness. The outcome should reflect our wishes to assist the burrow in all their endeavors. Thank you in his name. Amen. Amen. Sorry about that. We We're on a a new
system, so I'm I was trying to respond under my report. Uh first of all, we have the environmental committee here. Uh and I'd like to have the chair of the environmental committee. Please just introduce your crew that is here. Been
very supportive to us and you in in our town. We're really excited to be here with you and to share some We have three things we wanted to accomplish tonight. I'll talk to you very quickly about the first one which will be slow-mo summer and then Dave Z is going to come up and talk to you guys and then we have a very exciting presentation. I might even turn
the lights off if I may if I may just so you can see it better. Um we've been working on a lot of really exciting things. Um we're excited to Dr. Muhammad is also here this evening from our group and uh we just had a really successful cleanup of the town this past Sunday. Um we saw some of you there. Way
to go Michelle. Mark I'm looking at you. Good job. you make it go. We appreciate you. Um, but, uh, so my name is Tom and I'm going to talk to you guys about Slow-Mo summer. Um, and slow-mo summer is something that we I actually have a handout for you that I will give you afterwards, but I don't want you looking
at it while we do it. Okay. So, um, something that has been done in other towns, pollinators and bees, which there are over 300 uh, species of bees in the state of New Jersey, which is why we are the garden state, and we'd like to remain that way. So, one of the things that we could do to uh to accomplish
that is encouraging people to mow their lawns less. The trouble with this and what we come to you for is we looked for language in the laws in the bylaws in any of the um any of the things that you guys have put together, which we appreciate to talk about how long
someone's lawn can be before they are able to be complained about or reported by a neighbor. There is no specific language. it just says unsightly or uh untenable. So, we were looking to make sure that people who um let their lawn grow starting at three uh 3 in is when
you uh is the ideal and then you let it grow to 6 in and then mow your lawn. That encourages pollinators. It um uh it makes everything better. And we could potentially do this at the school where kids are out for the summer. how we could um mow less often and have that be
the example where we teach the town and use it as an educational tool. And then the other part is if you look on the back of your handout that you're going to get, it's so exciting. I know. I just wanted to keep you anxious for it. Um there are signs that we are able to print off on waterproof or water
resistant paper that uh would be uh on um spikes in people's lawn so that people would know we are growing our lawn because we care about the environment. We care about New Jersey and we care about the future of uh what is happening in the world. Um so with
that, I will hand you guys these uh pollinator um uh slow-mo summer uh things and I will invite Dave Z to come on up and have have a little have a little talk. Could we ask you some questions about what you just talked about? Ask me any questions you like, sir? This thing about the 3 in you
that's just for the summer or for all year round? Well, summer, right? So, it used to be uh no mo may that used to be the thing that they were trying to encourage people to do. Ridgewood used to have signs that they would put up and they have really specific language in their bylaws about how long your lawn
may be before you are reported by a neighbor or in trouble with the town. Um, and so it has actually turned into a slow-mo summer where you just mow less often. It's not about letting unsightly or uh making your lawn look like a a jungle. It's about leaving a little bit
of It also is actually better for water consumption because the roots are able to take the longer the grass is, right? Isn't that good? We all love water. That's good. Okay. Um and um sorry, I didn't answer your question, did I? Uh you did. Oh, okay. Good. Yes. Success.
Could we work on this to change? We'll have our attorney review. Yeah, of course. And we have all the we have the research and all the all the good stuff here. I just wanted to give you guys the highlights so that you would be able to take it under advisement and if you have any other questions, we're more than happy to work with you and make sure
that you know know things, understand things, and feel like you are heard. That's all we want to do. Thank you. Thank you. Perfect. So, I'll hand this out and invite I think if we have the sign if we have a little sign Oh, yeah. And that notifies the town we're all right. Yeah, we have one made. We're ready. That would be like the override
to the rule. But we'll follow the rules. We do as we're told. We do. Well, we tried. Thank you so much for listening to me. Daisy's going to come up while I hand things out. Yeah. As for the sign, if this is
something we are interested in promoting, uh we had looked into waterproof outdoor proof paper to print something on. Uh try to really do it at a low cost though maybe only eight and a half1. But again, the person
participating in this, if they want to advertise their participating in it as to why they've let their long get a longer little longer than normal, we'd be happy to uh show you our design for that. Um I'm here to talk about what I think is referred to as 197 Woff a which
is like the property that the town has purchased. Um, we've known about this, I guess, maybe for a year or so in the environmental committee and we're looking forward to eventually being able to tour it. Um, but I did pull it up on Google Maps. I'm sure you're all
familiar with it. I don't know if you guys have toured it. Um, my impression is it's this big stretch right here kind of between looks like four or five, six houses and then Waldwick Gardens. Um, I think we had been throwing around
ideas ourselves just as a suggestion of maybe a community garden, but I'm seeing so many trees here. And then I know there's the rule about cutting trees down nowadays, unless they really need to be cut down is kind of a no no. Um, I imagine we're
kind of our suggestion was maybe changing this more to like a walkound in park. And I don't know if if you're familiar um in Hocus there's a 16 acres park which I know this is only three um down off West
River Road in Hollywood Avenue where there's like a a mile long path in there. And I think if we were creative with this now it looks like from again this Google Earth view that there's definitely some trees that need to be cleaned up in there. where we could have maybe a wandering path through there.
Um, and not have to spend too much money, not have to put up fences again if this was going to be a community garden or something else. Um, not have to worry about parking. I guess if you want to walk there, you just walk there, walk around, and then continue your walk however you are going through town. And
I know right now too also, um, the celery farm in Allenale is really making an effort to get out invasive plants and put in natives. uh one of the residents here in town who was also an Eagle Scout uh is working on
that project because that's something he kind of went for college for. And he told me he'd also be interested in in helping us know what plants to um apply to this um that are native and hopefully aren't just deer food as well. So,
there's that as well. So, um, again, if if you guys are interested in us coming up with more of a proposal for something, maybe this is something we can maybe get some grant for, green acres grant money that we want to preserve it as a wooded area, but then just put in some paths. Who if there's
some extra money, maybe some kind of sculpture or something would be kind of cool. Um, so again, we just wanted to present that as an option for this. And I know there's I guess residents in both ends of this, right, that still need to be taken care of, but um we haven't
discussed anything about this uh pieces of property that we bought yet, but once we do, of course, we we will bring in the environmental committee. Yeah, we'd love to either have you guys come see us or or we can we'll bigger presentation when that time comes. We'll set up a a meeting over there. You could just walk
around. I would love to love to see it cuz then also we bring in access for all also because they're involved with the disabilities and we want to make sure everything is up to snuff with everybody. Yeah. Yeah. But right now, as I said, we're quiet with this. But as soon as we start going, we'll start advertising it and of course all our
committees will come right in cuz what's what's interesting with the property too is there's like a little wetland area kind of in there which so we're on the same kind of on the same page with that. Be like almost like an arbor. Yeah. I mean, I think it would be really nice to make just
a pleasant place to walk around in. Um, but there were some trees that needed to come that didn't Yeah, it looks like there's stuff that needs to be cleaned out. Yeah, I know. I've I personally have been to a park up in Rockland County and they make a point of putting
signs on certain things. So, if you, hey, I really like that. Can I get that for my yard? You know what it is. Glenrock, they have the arboritum and it's similar. And when you look at it, it just looks like woods, but there's actually like thought that went into it with the different trees that are all n
there and they are native to the area. So that's and they're a lot of them are labeled. Yeah. So it's a it's a good idea. So hey Steve, if it's possible, I mean I have no problem walking with them just to at least get the lay of the land so they have ideas. I mean, there is one
spot, you know, Steve and I looked at that's behind the Brady garages that would be a perfect spot for just a garden. Not a big one, but big enough to have enough spots, right? Yeah. Steve will Steve will reach Well, you Yeah, I
was going to say just reach out anytime if if you want to pop over there if anyone whoever's available, happy to meet. I've met with some residents over there already. Kind of show them where the the boundaries are and Yeah. Maybe after our next meeting, we can all get together, decide a time, and see if that works for you. Thank you. Keep in mind
one thing. I know she's very she's very endused about it. We have to keep some property cuz I'd like to keep a dog park there. Little doggy area. I know Michelle's very happy with that. They are they are God's creatures as well.
The lines are still human. That's right. A lot of us walk on four legs sometimes, so you never know. All right. Um, good evening everybody. Now this is David I. You had David Z. Now you have David I. David I. David I for Isac. And I just want to say uh first of all thank
you to everybody. Thanks for allowing us to be here and Mayor Tom appreciate your your help with uh the environmental advisory committee. Of course Mark and Michelle and I was really grateful to be here to be able to to present this to you guys. Um a little bit about myself.
I've been a resident of Walwick for 21 years. thanks to my dear wife Nina who's sitting down there and um I you know and I've been a member of the environmental advisory committee since its inception since the beginning and uh professionally uh I'm an environmental
engineer at a at a utility in New York City and I'm a licensed engineer here in New Jersey. So with that, um here is the solar powered uh irrigation system flower box uh project for Hopper Avenue
right here right opposite the pool. And um the image there is uh it's AI generated and uh it's not exactly the way I wanted but it conveys the idea, right? It convey gives you a glimpse of what things could look like at a site,
right? So um here's the agenda for today. I'll give you a brief project overview. We'll talk about environmental and community benefits, the project location. I look at uh conceptual layout sketches. I had three. I narrow it down to one, right? And one I think is the
best. And if you want to see the odds, we can do that too. Um we look at key components, maintenance, um our proposed funding plan. You know, money is, you know, you know where we going to get money from? I get that, right? And um
and then the cost estimate, project cost estimate, and then you know pending approval, pending uh receipt of funds, what would a project timeline look like? And then I'll open up the Yeah, you can ask questions at any time, but there'll
also be, you know, portion for questions after. Okay. Project overview. Like I mentioned, we're installing floor boxes on the on the railings on the north railings of Hopper A. Right. That's is close to where the the pool is over the Hocus Brook and we're using a solar
power irrigation system and we're taking water from the Hocusbrook uh benefits to the environment and the community. Right? So, first of all, we are not relying on the municipal water supply. We're taking our own water from
the uh Hocusbrook. Um so we're reducing reliance on the water supply and just the obvious we are enhancing the the Hopper Avenue bridge right that's what we're doing um and visitors to the pool they'll see that that'll be aesthetically pleasing to them and one
of the things is that um you know we provide a habitat for pollinators but we also are engaging the community right everybody from our you know local residents to students possibly possibly businesses could be donors maybe possibly and um
you know when we have a green team and a beautifification committee so this is a perfect opportunity for everybody to come together and be a part of it all right so here's the project location uh you know the bridge is sorry the the pool is like I said it's on your bottom
right that's a north railing so left to right I should have put a north arrow here um well anyway that's a hocus book and you know Right. Right below. This is a street level view of the project location. And um this is what it looks
like under the under the bridge. Like a song under the bridge. And so we're we're here uh you know near below the bridge. We're looking we're upstream of the bridge. We're looking down. Right. So your project location would be everything that you see right here. Um we'd have a
transfer pump where the water is, you know, uh it would not be submersible, but be drawing water from uh from the the brook. Uh we'd house it in a little coved area uh between the I beams beneath the bridge. And um on a on a wall up top there is where it would
house a rain barrel that uh the pump would discharge to. I'll show you some more photos uh images rather. Um a little bit more below the bridge. I fished there before, by the way. So that was trout but mostly you know uh pan
fish. Uh there's a cold air beneath the I beams of the abupment right. Um and that's where would house the the transfer pump the solar transfer pump. Ah a sketch right. So starting from the uh from the suction of the pump
we'll be drawing um from the hocus book. Right. It's going to be uh we'll have an anchor to make sure that things don't go arry. Um, and so that that's a suction line to the transfer pump right there. Transfer pump, like I mentioned, is housed in in the cove area of the abovement beneath the I- beams. And that
transfer pump discharges to a rain barrel. It's a solar powered transfer pump. There's four 100 watt uh solar panels there um that that uh help to provide, you know, power for for the pump. And um obviously we'll need to
provide a um a pole for supporting the the four the solar panels. Right? So that's a part of things. Uh let's see here. Uh you know there's a a reverse act uh reverse action pressure switch
instead of the uh rain barrel. So whenever the water level gets high it'll shut off. When it lowers it'll it's fish to it'll make a an operation to cause the pump to turn on. And uh the rain barrel itself, well the suction line into the uh sorry the the discharge line
into the rain barrel has a um a filter fabric back. So you make sure that you got no no fines going into the rain barrel. Uh discharge line from the rain barrel is our is a regular irrigation 3/4 uh uh diameter irrigation hosing and uh that feeds quarter inch diameter
tubes that goes through what we call an OA ball. What's an Oya ball? Well, it's uh it's basically terracotta like a terracotta uh vase uh plant plant, you know, whatever vase, whatever it is, right? And it's an old technology, thousands of years old, used in the southwest by Native Americans all over
the world, as a matter of fact. And basically, this allows uh seepage into into the soil. Gives the plants exactly what they need, no more than they need, right? Um and uh and of course we have our uh planted boxes on on the railing there
and um soil and and flowers and plants. Have an image here. Uh this is just a sketch right here of the um what it will look like if you're walking along um that part of the project. There's our rain barrel. Uh we have the
B of Wallet logo on there. We have the environmental advisor committee logo on there and um yeah on on the that's the the the pole that would be um supporting the the four um solar panels and um yeah
floor boxes on the railing. That's it. This is the solar power uh uh transfer pump system. Right. So on the bottom left is your transfer pump. Uh in the middle is your uh controller uh
which regulates the voltage and current to the transfer pump. We're not using a battery in this, right? There's no, you know, so it's only will work in the day in the daytime. This is a a very cost effective solution for what we want to do. And um of course the solar panels right
there. Here is um rain barrel. Uh this particular one is not made in the United States. Um you know, I forgot to mention this. Let me go back. the I'm not sure if I did, but this the transfer the transfer pump kit, solar panel kit, it's it's made in the United States, right?
This rain barrel um I liked it because of the color. We don't have to use it. Um but you know, it's this one's made in Canada, not in the United States, but um it's not a problem. We you know, we'll keep things here in the United States,
right? Move on here. And here are the oil balls. And that is I actually spoke to the um the person who came up with it. They uh last night they're down in Tucson, Arizona. And um each each flower
pot each flower box would hold about five. And I'm thinking about 10 floor boxes along the um along the railing. And see, you know, they'll be spaced about 12 inches apart in the floor box. And um I'm not sure I don't I don't have any information on the
delivery rate, but you can expect maybe uh anything from 1.5 gallons a day to maybe a little bit more uh for uh these balls. And these are the uh flower boxes. Use all the United States 78 in
long uh 8 in uh tall and 9 in wide. And these would be um affixed to the to the railings on on the bridge um by almost like an adjustable clamp type system. Maintenance, right? So what do
we do winter time? We uh we got to drain the system. Everything will be ice if you leave it in place, right? So we have to uh purge the irrigation lines and the oil balls. Uh we can take out the oil balls. We can do that. Absolutely. um we'll have to uh wrap up the uh
discharge line and the suction of the of the transfer pump. The transfer pump can stay can remain where it is below the bridge and um the control cables. We can definitely put that away as well. And um we'll have to remove all the dead, you know, plants and so on from the boxes.
Come springtime, you know, you replant things, put the oil balls back in place, um, order new ones if we need to in case any get damaged and recommission irrigation system. All right. Money. Where do we get it from? And and what's our what's
our plan? What's our approach? Uh, Mark had an idea that I totally loved. It's it's for Bora Park. It is solar lights along the pathway from uh Hopper A all the way to the playground, right? And I think it's a great idea. Solar powered
lights. And if we can couple that project with this and I don't I don't expect to get funding right now in 2025 in all reality, right? Um but sustainable Jersey, right, with along with PSNG. Um by the way, we missed the
the grant application period which was in February this year. um if we can somehow uh and get the bor's help with looking for grants, you know, other grants, but we can also um you know, target sustainable Jersey and what they
have for next year for 2026. Okay. Money. Um so the these costs here are just the raw costs, not including the the first two two rows. Don't include any contingencies or anything else. So,
equipment and materials $11,360 approximately, right? Uh labor almost $12,000. Um your total cost when you add in your your your taxes and your contingencies, it can get up to
$26,500. However, labor, you know, if we do a lot of the work, we can cut that down, right? And um yeah, where's it coming from? If you really want to look at this in detail, it's it's right there. Yeah, you can see
this is for you. That's where it came from, right? And um you can see the uh accounting for or um 10% for uh contingencies and the New Jersey sales tax and the grand totals
there. Right. And lastly, timelines, right? Once we get the money and all of approvals, we can start things. We can kick things off. And it's going to take about four to six months, we got to, you know, procure items, maybe procure contractor to help
out with the uh the, you know, the support poll and anything else, get, you know, recruit people, recruit students, you know, members of the beautifification committee and the and the green team and, you know, uh to to help out. And once, you know, it's going to take about four to six months. And
once we we do that, once we get the system installed, you know, you have to test it and comm commission it and we can make it a community event where everybody can, you know, in cut a ribbon or something, right? And um yeah, community launch event. And that's it.
That's uh that's any any questions. How much do you think you're going to be able to get from Sustainable Jersey? Oh, good question. So, and PSG, so they their their grant, you know, offers funds any anything from 2,000 to
20,000. Um, I'm hoping I I don't know if I get to 20,000, but if we can get at least 10,000, that'd be great. Okay. Yeah. Now, you going to do fundraising or We can absolutely do that as well. Do fundraising events and I'm open to ideas. Yeah. It might be a good idea to
reach out to the board of ed and see what this if the uh the students there especially people that are graduating that need to do some projects and everything might be able to help you with this. Absolutely. And and then open it up to the whole community. Absolutely. I mean because everyone's going to be benefiting from this not just a group of people. Right. Right.
Yeah. This is a it's a great project even you know for kids who are in school in an engineering school they can jump in on this learn some things and you know get some hands-on experience. you know, the kids in high school, if they move around in college, you can certainly Yeah, you you should reach out to our engineer and speak with him about
this. Okay. And he could probably, you know, they have, I guess, they have students and and uh young adults that do summer programs with them. Probably help us out with this. Yeah. But what's the first step you're going to do? We'll look for grants or Yeah, because you have your plan. I see that.
Well, we need Yes. But we So, we need your help. Sure. Uh with with looking for grants. That's that would be the as for tonight. You all right with that? Now, do we have to get any permissions to tap into the brook and do anything with the Mr. Attorney?
Probably and we could work on that. And then also the uh where they're going to pl put everything along that wall, that fencing. The same thing that is putting that equipment underneath the I beams and stuff like that. Who is
that? A county bridge. Is that a state bridge? Is that a county county county road? Yeah. Well, that's what we have the attorney for. Got so help us. The only the only penetrations that would be made would be for the transfer
pump, you know, tapcons into the concrete in that area here that I showed you. We're funding most of it. It hopefully will help. Yeah. What are you thinking for like annual maintenance costs of it? And would that be something that the DPW would end up having to do? This is our
baby. This is this is the baby of Chicago committee. The green team. I mean, we we will maintain it. Knowing the environmental people, they're not going to let nobody touch it. Yeah. You have to worry about this is a to 100% community, you know, uh project. Good. All right. I think everybody's uh we had
a council woman that wanted to do this once before, but I don't think it was in that area, but it it was just something just didn't work. Gotcha. But you know, I think this is a great idea. Oh, thank you for being really and thank you for, you know, thinking about this. A very nice presentation. The first person I
learned about Oyas from was Mar. Well, you know what? That could pay for the bill. Whatever money we don't get, he should pay for that bill. But no, that's you know, just keep us in touch with everything. We'll have the attorney look into this about what has to be done with the brook. Okay. And then Tatiana, could we work on the
grant? Could we look into the grants? But is the way to be? It could be. We have 8 ft there. We could go as much as 12 ft. I looked at at a trees there. Trees won't be a problem. They're not in the way. Not in the way. Is that I didn't know if it had to be a minimum height, I guess. So, nobody
can tamperroof. Yeah. No, we're good. You know, hey, Steve. Um, does PS I mean, we have utility poles in town. I mean, is that something that they could put the utility pole in? Well, it's not that high.
We could explore it. I guess you'd have to look at that. We can take 15 feet. I don't mind. Perfect. Right now, I have 8 feet. This will cost, you know, cost. So, you know, the higher you go, the bigger you got to the foundation and stuff. So, yeah. Pad. Yeah. Yeah. We can reach out to PSG, see what they can do
for us. Okay. They're right there. They're part of some of the tons of pounds all over the place. Part of some of the grants. They sponsor this one. So, it's a great candidate for a sustainable Jersey at least at the $10,000 level, if not 20, if you just with the solar
element, energy efficiency, it's very creative. Oh, good. Yeah, because you're utilizing the the Olas and and the solar and it's it's all contained. That's a Yep. Yeah. So, that you know that irrigation line that feeds the oils that will constantly have water in there.
It's never going to run dry and oils won't give more than they need to give. Right. Right. Y I would recommend too maybe early on engaging with the schools, the environmental club there and maybe the science classes because if you pull in the school element, they can also apply
for grants. Okay. Um so if you kind of make it a whole learning experience, is there a contact? So we do have a a student who is on a green team, Abigail Diaz, but is is there anybody else in the school that we should reach out to? Sure, we could find I I think you should reach You should reach out to the
superintendent. You reach out to the superintendent. He would probably refer him to principal Carol if it was a high school club. Y but you start with the guy on the top recommend. That makes it a nice attractive grant
application. And then the other thing is is it possible that you guys can reach out to Sadd River to find out because I think they draw their water from the Brook. They do there. That's a Sadd that's a Sadd River. Yes. I crawled under. So they they draw from that and I
believe that's a county road as well. So they might have some they have theirs hooked hardwired into electric. That's an electric car. Well, it's electric. So this is better for solar. Well, yes, but I think the advantage is if they've already gone through the process of getting authorization, you pull from the
brook, why reinvent the wheel? Exactly. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. We'll send this to you guys as well and we'll send you the slow-mo virtually as well. The slow-mo summer.com. Yeah. Send everything to Steve and he'll disperse
it to us. Got it. Oh, yeah. I won't bug all of you. Don't worry. Thank you for your time. We appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay. I have nothing else to report. They took over my uh my slot. So, I thank you very much. But thank you very
much for the uh the cleanup. I think we did a good job. Matter of fact, um Dave V, they already cleaned up the uh the dome area. They already took care of it. This I went by there today and everything's gone. You did? Oh, good. The curio cabin. Curio cabin.
Everything's gone. So, it worked out good. Okay. Financial administrative committee. My uh councilman's not here, so we there's no report. Fire and police protection committee. Mr. Bren. Uh Mr. Mayor, in light of the agenda tonight, I'll send my reports on the next
meeting. Okay. Public safety committee, Mr. Sakola is not here, but um Lucas reached out to me and he has nothing to report, but he did want to thank uh everybody. He was very happy that was involved with the uh the PBA Easter egg hunt, and he's
looking forward to being uh with uh Allenale Hocus of Milling Park at the Ambulance Corps area for the 5K. That's all he said. and he said he'll talk to uh Miss Sarah Colola Drake when she gets back. Recreation health committee, Mr. Montelloo. Um just very briefly, Mr.
Mayor, um the Wald Reck Soccer registration is open. I encourage uh boys and girls to go out and register for the upcoming season and um Wick Baseball um opening day was postponed last week unfortunately due to the weather. Um looking forward to this
Saturday. Hopefully American Council will be able to uh come out for that event. um looking for hopefully some better weather and uh show off the improvements that have been done down at Burough Park uh baseball facilities. That's it. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you very much.
Public works committee. Mr. Roondo. Uh nothing to report, Mr. Mayor. Oh, you guys are good. Buildings and grounds. Mrs. Weber. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'll make this quick. Oh, boy. At the public safety building, they're still working on the fire suppression. It's just about done. and uh we're going to see some
movement on the uh bus shelter as well um as we were approved to uh move that out there. That's all I have. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Uh just one other thing with the sury. Uh the last meeting we were asked about what went on with the uh the survey that they did with the
odor that they took a month to have somebody out in the streets. Uh I reached out to Mr. Denubio and uh he told me that there were 200 odors detected. They don't have the um right now they don't have all the the paperwork on it. So he just gave us
general information about it and he says that uh there were only 10 treatment plant related odors out of the 200 that were detected near the border of the plant. Also, there were 68 mulch related odors, the majority of which were detected at the authorities's property,
the former Boston Market property and Matthews Diner. Oders from the uh authority tended to be light, level one out of five, where the mulch odor reached a level four out of five on the New Jersey Dale in some areas. The majority of the odor detected was
household and restaurant related odors. So, they are they are monitoring it. They are going to give us all the data complete in a big format once they receive it. Also, this weekend that passed they they had an internal problem. They had a sinkhole in their area. Uh what they did was they notified
me. I notified right away Tatiana and uh Steve and they set a Nixel out. They told everybody about what was going on. They were working over the weekend. They said that there'll be some noise and there'll be some lights that going to be a situation down there which I guess everything is back to normal again. They
they finished everything that they had to do and the place is back up to normal. Our administrator, thank you, Mr. Mayor. U just real quick, I'll I'll comment on water and save the rest of my comments for the budget. Um, but I did want to report that H2M, our our water
engineer, has been working on the hydraulic model uh project and they did start flow testing, hydro flow testing this week uh at several locations. They actually they finished up, I believe, eight roads uh today. So, they'll be continuing that work the next couple days, but they are moving along nicely.
Um, all the data being collected, you know, goes back to the office, gets inputed in a GIS uh system for us to review. Um, so work is underway and hopefully we'll we'll start to pull some things together with that. Um, other than that, I'll I'll hold off the
budget. Okay. Thank you, Clark Kelly. What'd you do? She's excited to report. Wow. Oh, everybody else did a report. Why do you got to report? I have a whole page. Thank you, mayor. Um, I just want to let everyone know that there's a link uh on
our primary of the primary election sample ballot on our website. The ballot is also included in our Friday email blasts so that voters can familiarize themselves with the new style. Uh voters who are signed up to receive vote by mail ballots, they have started going
out. So you should check your mail for that. We also have a step-by-step video uh on our website under the election page, voter information to assist voters with filling out um their mail-in ballot or uh and they can either mail it or put
it in our ballot dropbox which is behind the police station. We also have a video on how to vote on the new voting machines for those who have not done so yet. Um it's a good way for you to familiarize yourself with the process. Um we are only in our 2 and 1/2 years uh of using
these machines. So, not everyone has used them yet. Um, Tuesday, May 20th is the last day to register to vote in the June primary. My office will be open till 7:00 p.m. uh for late night voter registration. Um, we started the business insurance registry. The letters
went out to our businesses uh and owners of rental units as well as multif family of fewer than four units um that is owner occupied. So, we are starting to receive those back. Uh dog licenses. We currently have 919 dogs uh licenses issued. Remind just want to remind
everybody if you've uh licensed your pet to please come pick up their license at uh the bur clerk's office. Melissa has been reaching out to remind residents and they are coming in. Uh alarm and tenant registration. Both uh these registrations are up from last year. We
last year we had um 189 alarms. At this time we now have 220. Uh last year we had 79 tenant registrations. We have 155 as of right now. So I wanted to thank Melissa again for being diligent in following up on
these registrations and she's working closely with Nancy on that. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Confidential assistant Tatiana. Thank you, Mayor. So the warm weather that we are uh starting to get is getting everybody excited to get into the pool. We understand that and we're excited for the pool to open
again. Uh we do unfortunately have a situation with the vendor that we use for our online registration portal. They're dealing with a bug. They did let us know that they did rehaul on the back end the program. Uh so we're still
working out some glitches with them which has prevented us from opening the portal for registration. But in the meantime, I would encourage everyone who's interested um to read about the changes in the structure for the memberships that we're offering this
year since it is all new. Uh and the council approved that back in March. Uh so if you go to the burough's website and you go right directly to uh the departments and then there'll be a link for the Waldick Municipal Pool, you can go ahead and read ahead of time all the different membership types that will be
available. If you have any questions, let us know. uh this way you're ready to go once the portal opens and we'll we'll make sure we'll blast that out so that everybody knows it's active and and good to go. Thanks, Mayor. Thank you, B attorney. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh in regards to
the PAS litigation, we're getting closer to knowing what the numbers will be. the uh settlement administrator has released the percentages for the uh the first two the BAS no the Dupont and Tao
settlements. We're just waiting to see how those percentages correspond to what dollar figure that is. Hopefully uh there's optimism that we'll have those dollar figures next month in May for those and then they're still going through the
process for the second round of settlements which include Tao and oh who's the other one BASF right oh the first one's Dupont 3M that's what it is Dupont 3M is the first round and then TO so hopefully next month I'll at least
have numbers that I can give you as to what you can expect back in regards to that from the litigation That's all I have for for now. I have two items for close session that should be relatively quickly. Okay. Thank you very much. Consent resolutions and resolutions of
the governing body. It is that the following resolutions herewith have been listing listed by consent having been considered by the governing body of the burough of Waldick are hereby passed and approved. 2025130 approval of consent. 2025131 approval of minutes. April 15th
regular meeting. Policy votes A. 93 Long View Drive requests to replace two existing sheds over a burrow easement with one shed uh with one shed over the same burrow easement. B. Alexandria Burn request to hold a block party May 17th from 1 to 9 with Smithfield Road to be
closed between 38 Smithfield and 58 Smithfield with alcoholic beverages being served. C. Mary Mulaney request to use pavilion A on June 28th from 9 to 5:00 for a baby shower with alcoholic beverages being served. D. Christopher Sanchez requests to use Pavilion A on
June 29th from 12 to 3 PM for a birthday party with alcohol beverages being served. 2025132 authorizing execution of a mediation agreement with the New Jersey Builders Association in regards to the Burrows of Waldig's fourth round COA obligation.
2025133 authorized use of Burough Park Pavilion A with alcoholic beverages and exceptions being requested by the Waldo High School Booster Club 2025134 authorizing the Baldick's qualified purchasing agent to issue contracts between 17,500 and the bid
threshold 2025135 accept the resignation of David Burgerer as a full-time telecommunications officer effective April 26th 2025136 authorized Cancellation of taxes for 195 W and and 9 Brady due to the
Burough Baltics purchasing of the properties 2025137 cancellation and refund of taxes for block 2 lot 16 2025138 authorized release of escrow 71 Lion Road 2025139 authorized premium of
$59,600 to uh ESJ from R. Rothman to Burl of Werford tax sales certificate 19-00623 2025140 is payment of vouchers and then on green at your place tonight was 2025145 which is the appointment of a
full-time telecommunications officer um um Sundal Nadim. Do I have a motion in a second to accept motion by Mark? Second by Andy. Anyone have a question? Um, policy A, all that is is that there's two sheds on the property. Now, they
want to have one. Our superintendent of DBW was down there. He reviewed everything. He said everything was in order. And, uh, they're held liable for anything that has to be done. If they have to move a fence, do anything like that, they will be held responsible. They're aware of all this stuff. Anyone else? That was my question, Mr. Mayor.
You got the question. And also just for um policy um vote B for the PL party, we did reach out to Midland Park and they had no issue. Which one? B. Okay. Good. Mayor May. Sure. On uh Thank you,
Mr. Mayor. On 2025132, that's the uh agreement between the New Jersey Builders Association in the burrow in regards to the round four co numbers. What'll happen is that gets submitted to the court in Bergen County for approval. We don't anticipate any problems. uh the
133 that these are normally um policy votes that you'd see under the letters ABC and D. However, the Waldwick booster club requested some exceptions to what your standard protocol is. So, because of the fact that those are exceptions,
uh it's a separate resolution for you to consider. the exceptions being that they want to use the grass area for a cornhole tournament. They want to charge for the cornhole to entrance to the cornhole tournament. Um, and because those aren't the standard uh requirements, you know, we have this as
a separate resolution. And then lastly, 136, that's the, you know, the the property you guys the burrow has purchased because of the fact that we allowed the tenants to remain until we're ready to uh utilize that property. the property can't become exempt like a
normal burrow property would be because there is in essence some revenue coming into the burrow from those tenants. So what you have to do is you're not going to pay yourself. So you just cancel the taxes on it. As soon as you figure out what you're going to do and those tenants are no longer there, then it
will become a fully exempt property. Just want to clarify. Okay. U Mr. Mr. Mayor, also on uh 2025133, being as there's differences in the ordinary approval of that facility
and given that my son is a member of several Waldo sports teams at the high school, um I feel it would be best if I refuse from making a comment on that. Good. Perfect. I'll have to do the same as well, my daughter's on the booster club. Okay. Anybody else? Can we move on
this thing? Sure. Yeah. Anyone? Yeah. Do you have It's just the majority the for resolutions like that it's the majority of the members voting. Right. Okay. Now, this was the event that they were supposed to have in the pool parking lot. Then it was extended over into the uh where they have the uh the what do
you call that area? The event. What? The oval. The oval. The oval. Very good. This is this was the event that they had to cancel it. She So, and now they want to do it here, which is good. You know, it's a bigger area and they can raise money for the booster club. Okay. Okay. Hey, clerk take the rule. Mr. Bragg.
Yes, Mr. Amenda. Yes, that's it. And that's it. Okay. Okay. Now, we have a public hearing. Um waiver of the reading of this very lengthy 2025 municip municipal budget. Do I have a motion and a second to
disperse with the reading? Motion by Mark, second by Andy. Take the role, please. Mr. Bick. Yes. Mr. Marello, yes. Mr. Ro, yes. Mrs. Weber, yes. Okay. The second one, 2025-142, self-examination
of 20125 municipal budget. Do I have a motion, a second to ex to not read it? Just do it. We have to do it. Motion by Joe, second by uh Michelle. I'll take this out of defense. Clerk, take the role. Mr. Bick, yes. Mr. Martinell, yes.
Mr. Roando, yes. Mrs. Weber, yes. Okay. Now, we have the public hearing on the 2025 municipal budget. Um, we'll open up to the public. Uh, right. We'll let the public go first. Anybody from Give me a quick I'll do a quick down if you want. Okay, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, just to kind
of recap, you know, where we're at. Um, obviously, as we stated before, this year presented us with a lot of challenges. We were faced with a lot of required increases like health insurance, um, you know, pension increases, uh, contractual increases, solid waste collection, kind of our our regular
heavy um heavy costs. Um, so with that being said, you know, I think we were able to still get a lot accomplished, keep a lot in this budget um, without much of an impact uh, to the taxpayer. So, you know, the the overall impact is
um, we are looking at a 3.47 tax increase. This breaks down to be be about $79 per average homeowner per year and about $6.58 per month. Um, so given all the things we were faced, we feel this is a pretty reasonable budget and
we are happy to present this to you and the public. Anybody from the public would like to comment? Sure. Now, we were good to you. So, be good. I know I'm nice. I'm nice. I promise this is I'm going to solve a problem for you. There was one more thing I was supposed to talk to you
about from the environmental advisory committee, and it has to do with uh garbage removal. Um, we had someone come from a composting company who came and spoke to our group about composting and uh, having a public composting in Waldwick as an opportunity. Um, food
waste is approximately 40% of what trash removal is. So, if we were able to cut that down, that could help the budget. So, um, I'm happy to connect Steve with the young lady who presented to us. She said if we were happy to um provide if the town was happy to share their
information, they would give a 10% uh discount to individuals who want to pay into a system. And they're also happy to speak with you guys uh sorry with you guys. How awful. Um with you folks to um to see if there is an opportunity for us
to compost as a town, as a community to cut down on cost. So solving problems, that's why I'm here. Okay. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Anyone else from the public? Okay. So I have to do with that one. So now you're going to do a motion.
Uh I need a motion, a second to approve resolution 2025143, which is the adoption of the 2025 municipal budget. Okay. We have a motion from Mark and second from Andy. Anyone from the council have any questions? I mean, everybody worked very
hard to do this budget. Um the committee worked very hard. Our our uh administrator Tatiana of course Colleen our CFO everybody you know it was a hard one this year and nobody wants to raise taxes but sometimes you have to do it because it's the way it has to be. We
were very frugal on what we have given out. We we did not uh you know we we try to cut certain areas but still give service to the residents and I think everybody here felt the same way. So I think it's a good budget. every town. Um, I don't want to brag, but our
administrator knows it. We're the one of the less towns that got an increase like this. Everybody else is 9 10%. So, we're kind of proud of this. So, hopefully next year we could do a little bit better, but moving forward, we'll, you know, always think about the residents
and the impact it has on them. Anyone else? Yeah, I'd like to just echo the Mr. Mayor said that we don't take it lightly that we have to raise taxes. Clearly, this council in the past has done a great job of holding costs down and went a long time without raising taxes in town, which is commendable. Um,
I think this year we also as a committee uh took strides to cut back on the capital expenditure to keep that cost down as best we could. Um, they Steve and all the team in in the department did a great job finding any waste that was remaining in the budget. to cut back as much as possible and we're still
providing some new services to the community with the um addition of an officer the sos that we're talking about a lot of safety items that the town has been asking for. So happy that we're able to do that and also this further drive home the the fact that we need to
continue to look for ways to drive topline revenue so that we're not always trying to raise cost on our uh our residents. So those uh redevelopment projects and other things that we can do within town to raise revenue um it's definitely something we should look at going forward over the next few years.
Thank you, Mr. Thank you. Anyone else? Clerk take the role. Mr. Bernick? Yes. Mella? Yes. Mr. Romano? Yes. Mrs. Weber? Yes. Okay. Will the clerk kindly read ordinance number 2025-06? Ordinance number
2025-06, an ordinance amending chapter 91, vehicles and traffic section 91-14A. Parking prohibited at all times on certain streets to include the area between 20-2 and 20-3 Zazetti Street. Anyone from the council like to comment
in this ordinance that was just read? What this is saying, Edg is you don't park there. Bottom line, you don't park and that's it. We, you know, we take things like this seriously. A lot of residents come and tell us about problems with the streets. We don't not we do not brush it off. We look into it.
Steve goes out there, police go out there, DBW goes out there, and we look and see what could be done to to help uh the residents. And bottom line is don't park there. Anyone else? I close the council's comments. Anybody from the public would like to comment? If not, I
close the council's uh the public's comments and ask for a mo motion and a second to pass this ordinance on second reading and that that the clerk be authorized advertising a legal legal legal local local legal newspapers required by law. Do I have a motion in a
second? Mr. Brennick, at least I got that right. And Mr. Joe. Clerk, take the role. Mr. Bren, yes. Mr. Martinell, yes. Mr. Roando, yes. Mrs. Weber, yes. Okay. Clerk trying to read ordinance number 2025-07. Ordinance number
2025-07, an ordinance amending chapter 91 vehicles and traffic section 91-20 one-way streets to add and allow one-way traffic only east on Summit Avenue between Nordom Street and Ridge Street during certain hours during the school year. Anyone from the council like to
comment on this ordinance? What this is is that once again the residents in the area with the board of ed down on trapagen it's kind of tough there in the morning and this is going to they thought that this would be a great idea to do this. The police looked into it because they are our safety people and
uh this is what they came up with and once again this is everything we're trying to do with safety and parking. Anyone else? I close the public's comment uh council's comments and open it up to the public. Anybody from the public? If not, I close the public's comments and call for a motion and a
second to pass this audience on second reading and that the clerk be authorized to advertise it in local legal newspapers required by law. Do I have a motion? Motion by Joe, second by Mark. Got that one right. Clerk take the role. Mr. Brennick, yes. Mr. Martinelloo, yes.
Mr. Rando, yes. Mrs. Weber, yes. Okay. Clerk, kindly read ordinance number 2025-08. Ordinance number 2025-08, an ordinance amending chapter 91, vehicles and traffic section 91-25, turn prohibitions to add and allow no
left turn from Bridge Street onto Summit Avenue on certain hours during the school year. Anybody from the council like to comment on this? This once again is with the board of ed is once again with the safety of the school once again uh to alleviate all the traffic problems that are happening when the school is
get opening and when the school is closing. Anybody else? I close the council's comments and open up to the public. Anybody from the public? If not, I close the public's comments and ask for a motion and a second to pass this ordinance on second reading and that the clerk be authorized
to advertise it in local legal newspapers required by law. Motion and a second. Motion by Michelle, second by Andy. Clerk, please take the role. Mr. Bick, yes. Mr. Marello, yes. Mr. Rando, Mrs. Weber, yes. Okay. Clerk, please
read ordinance number 2025- 09. Ordinance number 2025-09, an ordinance amending chapter 91 vehicles and traffic section 91-35C, regulation for the movement and the parking of traffic on all other private property to amend no left turn
hours for 155 WOFF Avenue. Anybody from the council like to comment on this one? Okay, I'm not commenting on this one. Somebody else, please. It's it's really just They're just changing the times as to when you can not make a left-hand turn
from the westernmost uh exit intersecting Wikoff Avenue between the hours of now 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and then 2:15 to 3:15. This is by the high school. The high school and the middle school and the middle school. That was another idea that the board of ed came up with us because we do have a
committee between the board of ed and the and the uh the council here which is a safety committee and this is the things we looked at. Most of all this was came out of this meeting and once again it helps everybody that's around it. Anyone else? Yeah, Mr. Mayor, just to add on to that if I could just for
please. Um, it's just another step that the council is taking in realizing that there is a traffic concern throughout the town. Um, and we're trying to address that as best we can, realizing that there's a larger volume of cars in Waldwick and goes through Waldwick than
there was 10 years ago. There's also a lot more kids that are going to school and everything has got to come together. So, this is just a couple more steps in trying to make that whole process happen. Came from the safety committee, came from the police department, and it came from the board of ed. So, working
together, we're addressing the problem and uh again, just another step in doing it. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Anyone else? I close the council's comments, open up to the public. Anybody from the public? Yes. You have to if you just come to the microphone and just state
your name and we know you're ex-wife. So, oh, my name is Lena. I just hearing all of this traffic thing. We live on uh West Prospect Street behind the school and after school that whole area gets
totally uh parents are parking on both sides on Idol Lane both sides on West Prospect. It's dangerous for the kids when they cross because they the traffic people are upset. So, they're trying to pass these cars and it's like chaos for 15 minutes. So, I'm not sure if anybody
brought that up to the council's attention, but that also is an area that is We'll have our administrator Steve look into that area. I know that they would looked at this a couple of years ago and it it is tough there. Really? Yeah. Yeah. People speed down that road too because it's a straight shot. So,
and and parents they they don't care. They just they'll go on your sidewalk. They'll go on your grass just to get out of there. Oh, yeah. It's bad. But thank you. Yes, Steve will look into that. Anyone else? I close the council's uh the public's comments and ask for a
motion a second to pass on second reading and that the clerk be authorized to advertise it in local legal newspapers as required by law. Motion a second. Mark and Mike. Mark and Andy. Wow. Clerk, take the role. Mr. Bick, yes. Mr. Marello, yes. Mr.
Yes. Mrs. Weber. Yes. Hey, this is a long one here. Okay. We have two introductions of ordinances. Would the clerk kindly read ordinance number 20255-10? Ordinance number 2025-10, an ordinance by the mayor and council of the Burough of Waldick amending the Burough of Walic
code of ordinances to repeal and replace chapter 52 entitled flood damage prevention to adopt flood hazard maps to designate a flood plane u administrator and providing for severability and an effective date. A motion in the second
is an order to pass this ordinance on first reading and that it be advertised in local legal newspapers required by law setting a public hearing two weeks from tonight meeting at 7:30 p.m. or soon thereafter as the matter may be reached. Motion in a second motion by Andy, second by Mark and our attorney
will talk about this one. So thank you Mr. Mayor. This ordinance, this is an update to your flood plane ordinance that you already have in effect. This is passed down from the fed federal government down to the state D which then requires you guys to adopt it. Uh there's really, you know, it's a it's a
formal ordinance that they require you to do the uh that the D requires you to do. So, uh it's, you know, just bringing everything up to date and with the new uh the new FEMA regulations and the new flood planes. Anyone else? Clerk, take the role. Mr. Brown, yes. Mr. Marello,
yes. Mr. Rando, yes. Mrs. cover. Yes. Clerk, kindly read ordinance number 2025-11. Ordinance number 2025-11 amending chapter 97 entitled lighting and sound systems of the code of the bureau of Waldvic to regulate lighting related
residential districts. A motion in the second is in order to pass this ordinance on first reading and that it be advertised in local legal newspapers required by law setting a public hearing two weeks from tonight's meeting at 7:30 p.m. or soon thereafter matter as the matter may be reached. Motion and a second. Motion by Joe, second by
Michelle. On the question, this was someone that came to us about he had problems with lights into his building or his residence. And we had our uh building inspector go and look. Then we also had our attorney review our ordinance to make sure that what we had
in there was, you know, well, we didn't have anything in there. So now what we're doing is we're having something in there so that he he is protected and we all are protected when it comes to lights shining in your rooms and sounds also. And sorry just to add add on to that
what this does is this sets the maximum foot candles that can be um on the edge of your property so that the light the idea is that the light doesn't spill into any neighbors properties from your own. We worked with your engineer as
well to get what the national standards are in relation to the amount of light that should be uh what you stand at like say your property line what it should be. And we put all those in there and uh this should hopefully address concerns that
have been raised regarding uh any residents that have what you know what they what's commonly known as light spillage outside of their property. I think it's great that there's actionable measures in there. There something that you can actually go against instead of an opinion uh making
it, you know, very subjective. Yeah. Now, this isn't somebody that's grandfathered. This is for everybody. Right. Okay. Right. See their resident came forward and they, you know, we didn't know we don't know any we don't know about things unless the residents come to us just like Mrs. I came. Now,
we know about that area and we're going to, you know, work and see what goes on with it. It's easier to come and talk to us than come and attack us. And we thank everybody for being very kind to us. Now, this is also Go ahead. This is also enforced by the building inspector.
So, that would fall under his authority. Yes. Yeah. And we'll have to purchase the proper measuring device. Measuring device. Okay. Okay. Anyone else? Clerk, take the role. Mr. Bick, yes. Mr. Martinelloo, yes. Mr. Armando, yes. Mrs.
Weber, yes. Okay. Anybody from the council have any unfinished business? Yes. Yeah. I just had a question for Steve if we could uh address the uh the water main breaks of the last few weeks. Obviously the DPW department did a great job uh you know cleaning those up and
getting us back in service. But Steve, if you would be able to address the town on that. Yeah. Uh thank you. Um yeah, so last week obviously we had some issues around town. We had three waterway breaks. um fairly significant and three service breaks um at resident houses.
So, we had a malfunction in our system on one of our valves that caused kind of a surge in pressure to systemwide which caused these breaks. Um DBW was going from one to another all day long, but um they did tackle them all. Everything's been repaired. The issue has been
repaired, so hopefully that will not happen again. Um, and once we get our our storage tanks back online, um, which are currently being rehabbed, everything should be back to normal. But please, you know, again, just on that, if you see anything, um, we are aware of some
leaking valves around town near Dora. Um, so we are aware of those, but just reach out, give us a call, let us know if you see water running, you hear something, just please notify us so we we can address it as quickly as possible. And, and that's how that came to light for us initially. That first report was from a resident. So very
important. you see something, let us know. Yeah. And I want to thank Tatiana for, you know, no disrespect to you, Steve, but I was away. Steve was away and Tatiana kept on sending emails and every time I got another, I'm like, what does she want now? And it was another break. Another break, another break. But thank you very much for keeping all of
us informed of what went on. Any other unfinished business? New business. Anybody got new business? Yes, Mr. Mayor. New business. New business. Good. Thank you. Uh, I wanted to thank uh the environmental committee tonight uh for a great presentation. Uh, I also
want to thank them for this past Sunday. Uh, they did the townwide cleanup. I believe it was quite successful. Um, we went from 11 to 100 p.m. Uh, there are pictures of the mayor climbing down the bank, collecting goods, and I got a cold
now. Well, that's the cost of doing things right, doing the right thing for the town. Um, but again, uh, I want to thank them for all the hard work. Uh, they really put a lot of time and effort into it. One of the things that we would really like is if we can get the beautifification team back up and
running to help to assist us and and some of the green team members uh, to come out. I think we might need to review um, those people that are on the list because there's a lot of members that do not attend. So maybe we can open
it up to other folks as well as uh some of the folks in the high school that are part of the uh environmental team there. Yeah, I spoke to Tom Tom M about it. Uh about getting uh that's you about getting uh
like the scouts usually help. We get the Girl Scouts help here and we have David Z. He does the the uh library. So, we're trying to see if we get more people involved with it because I mean the Girl Scouts come out, you know, they're little girls. I think they have more fun looking at the worms that are in the
hole than planting, which is nice. And they all have a good time and they, you know, they're with their friends and everything. And their parents are there and it's a good Saturday. So, we're going to see if we could get a little bit more people involved with the beautifying the town a little bit. And we have to work on the entrance into
Waldwick. It's horrible. Horrible. the underpass. It's all horrible. I know that, you know, it's hard for the DBW to go out there because you need two trucks and everything, but we got to reach out to the county, the state, and just tell them, you know, make Waldwick a little bit more desirable. And then also we
while we're on the subject, uh the uh bus stop, a lot of people that are sitting there, I'm standing there and they, you know, it's kind of not good. Um yeah, if Miss Mayor, I could provide a quick update on that. So, we we're waiting on the contractor did we did
give the green light to pour the slab. The new slab. We are relocating it. If you could picture where it is now, straight down the sidewalk closer to East Prospect uh is where it's going to be located. So, once that pad is in, DPW is going to move this bus shelter over here to that new one. And then we'll
install the Ballards once that's in. So, we're hoping to have that in the next couple weeks. Good. Perfect. One other item, Mr. Mayor. Oh my god. Yeah. Uh, one of the other items and I I think we brought this up several months ago uh was with regards to the two flower uh
for lack of a better term over by the off-ramp onto Sheridan A. Uh I know we had talked about there's a person in town that's willing to help support what type of plants would be uh more proactive and not require a lot of water
and maintenance. um if that's something that is possible for this year as well. Well, he wants to do it for us. He's willing to help us scope out and the environmental team is willing to work on labor reach out to him. It's just a matter of plans. We talked about this on
Sunday. I'm going to get him into Steve. You and I are going to talk a bunch. I'm very sorry. I'm sorry I keep talking this. It's a tough spot because you have no water access there. Yeah, but he he stated that there's there's grasses that
we could put there that are very drought tolerant. I think that was kind of the plan that work out so well with the state. The state kind of just put them there. Yeah. The state what we got from the state was not what they told us we were getting. I know. Yeah. But you can't look a gift toss in the mouth. You
take it. But that would be good if you some of the plants there. That's all, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Okay. Any other new business? Yes, sir. Um, I got contacted by an attorney. She's representing the estate of a one of your residents uh who passed away that they're trying to sell their home on
Richard Drive. And during their title search, in the rear of the property, there is a 5-ft utility easement that was placed on it's probably, we assume, all the properties on Richard Drive back in 1949.
So, we're investigating it, but uh I've spoken to Mike Lour. We spoke to the engineer. It appears that all the utilities that have been installed are all in the street. There's actually nothing through this utility easement. So, we're going to continue to
investigate it, but the the request is possibly just to vacate that easement since it's not being used by the by the There's so far from everybody we've talked to, there's nothing there. the the engineer has confirmed it. Mike's confirmed it.
So, assuming we don't find anything between now and the next meeting, there'll be an ordinance on for your consideration to vacate that easement and just, you know, clean this up. Okay. But, uh, if something does come up or somebody comes back like the engineer
says, you know, they his recommendation is not to because you might need this. But right now, everybody um from the discussions I've had with them in the last two weeks are there's really no reason to keep this on your uh on your books. Do they do they think it was put in preemptively like they were going to
put something through there? You don't think there's any drainage or anything in there, right? They don't think so. Okay. Yeah. It doesn't look like there's any type of swells or anything like that. Yeah. And it it was specifically for a utility easement, so it's not like it's a drainage easement. Yeah. Yeah.
So, yeah. So, it might be just something that was put in back in 49 when this what the subdivision I guess was done back there and it was just never utilized. But, uh, for one reason or another, the potential purchase of the property is raising this issue and you
know, they asked if we would consider this. So, okay. Any other new business? When everyone is around the town walking or driving, take a look at the library. The library has a uh a new tree where the Christmas tree used to be the Christmas the tree died so they put a
flowering tree there now. And then look to the right of the tree there's a statue of a little girl or a boy I don't remember what it is. Little girl. Little girl. And that's was donated in memory of uh one of our ex mayors Frank McKenna. He left money to the library
and he asked to have that done. Uh Mr. Goodell, the father of our police officer Christopher Goodell, who unfortunately was killed in the line of duty in Waldwick. He planted the tree for nothing. He also planted another tree here at the company number two on
White Avenue. And he also did all the work uh in the slab of marble or what concrete, whatever he the little the statues on. He donated all that. He's very been very generous to the community and I was with him when he put the tree in when they put the statue up and he
said that this is his way of thanking all of us for being very supportive and loving to his family during their time of sorrow and also many years later we still keep in his son's memory alive and that's I think that's what we do good
here. Uh any other new business? If not I closed the new business. Nobody talks anymore. Now it's up to the public. Anybody from public would like to say a few words? Oh boy. I have to be in work tomorrow morning at 8.
John Vort just want to say what what a great meeting this is. Is so friendly and non-contentious. We knew you were here. Yeah. Isn't it something? Because Tom is here with his crew. We had to be nice. Yeah. It's just amazing. Um, I want to applaud the the
environmental team for for Sunday, for the work that that you guys put together to make it so and this presentation. It's awesome what you're doing for Wick. Thank you very much. Thank you. Anyone else? If there's no one else, I have a
motion to go into close. Motion by Andy, second by Mark. There's any decisions? No decisions. About maybe 15 20 minutes. Okay. If you don't want to stay, good night. Have a nice weekend. If you're going to stay, we'll see you in 15 20 minutes.