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tape is on this meet is being held in conformance with the sunshine Lord notice time date in place has been furnished at to Bergen Record and the Ridgewood news notice has also been posted on a bulletin board of administration building clerk please take the role mayor Gano here Mr brck
here Mr martinello here oh Miss Sarah C Drake I'm here Mr rundo here M Mrs Weber here everyone kindly rise for the pledge allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America 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 wal veterans and all veterans across our country who have given the ultimate sacrifice some passing and dying to save us uh so that
we could live in a free country and we honor them today as we always do in the burrow of Waldwick clerk please do a prayer we thank you for everyone gathered here now thank you that you know each of us by name and have caused us to walk with you we say that we are dependent on you and our trust in you completely as we
surrender ourselves in adoration we ask that you would come by your Holy Spirit and Inspire our hearts today come fill our lives with your love fill our conversations with your grace and truth fill this meeting with your presence we ask this for your glory and praise amen amen amen good evening everyone and Welcome to our meeting tonight tonight uh before
we begin we have a couple of uh things that we would like to discuss before we start uh our reports first uh this month is National Women's History Month there'll be a proclamation I just signed it will be put on our website be placed downstairs instead of reading the whole
Proclamation it's it's National Women's MTH the theme is moving forward together women educating and inspiring Generations that will be posted on our site also uh the end of last month there was there's a group of uh young ladies
from our school W high school and they're involved with a program called team te e three e and an m and it's uh also directed by one of the teachers Ted optc who I know for a very long time I
think my B kids had you in school that says how much we're old and we had an honor of being at the Bombay Hut to do a they had a fundraiser there and we would like to thank the Bombay Hut for sponsoring it my wife I and councilman uh rundo were able to
attend and we met very remarkable young ladies and they have a great story to tell uh I won't take it away from them I'll let them tell the story but they get up in the in the early morning in the summer when it's cold and it's rainy
out and they're out there raising money for a cause that they feel is very important and it is important I knew nothing about this group of young ladies until I met met with them and they are an inspiration and this is National Women's month and you should all be proud of yourselves you are the
generation that's going to lead us and the generation that will all follow so if you'd like to come up and just tell us a little bit about your what you do if your parents are here they could come up also you like this to face this way or this way you could face to the res
yeah all right well thank you very much for having us here tonight really appreciate the invitation and uh as I stand here I think about and I look around and I see familiar faces and the audience of familiar faces up here while it's a very special place and it's been
an honor to you know to teach here and to and to work in this great in this great town how many of you have I either taught or how many of your children did I teach can you raise your hand that's a true Testament right to the strength in this community so I really appreciate that but we're here to talk
about our involvement W high school has a good fortune of working with a wonderful organization called team and I have the banner right here very proudly I'll dis FL as mayor G Oro mentioned it's a t and three e and an F so it's
the the empathy equality entrepr entrepreneurship Mission and what we do is we are connected our high school connected to a school and a site in Kenya and our primary responsibility is to support the students there but they
also have an agricultural Mission and a medical Mission so the money that we raise and the programs that we do at wal that go directly to the to the students there and to the community there but I don't want to take up too much time because I want to introduce two wonderful young women as you mentioned
who are doing amazing work uh in in the club that we run W high school and across the world in keny my name is Angelina and I am co-president of the global Le Club at w High School um one amazing thing that we
do is tutor with the students in Kenya so every Tuesday Morning from 650 to 7:50 we wake up early go to school and meet with the students on Zoom usually we start our lessons with a fun
cahoot game quiz questions and stuff like that they love learning new facts and then afterwards we read a short story with them um we go back and forth reading different pages and they can practice their English and um learn our
language um after we read we do some questions and see what they remember from the story what they learn from the story and then afterwards they teach us SP which is definitely something um we get a lot of laughs with
that and they definitely laugh at us when we mispronounce the words but um they love teaching it to us they get so happy they hold up posters and make slideshows and teach us all these new words and then we always end our lessons with a fun little session of dancing and
music they love putting on performance for us each week and I mean it's great I've been doing we've been doing it for the last three years all of us um we do it every Tuesday morning and in the summer we do it I believe Mondays and Wednesdays and
yeah it's such a great opportunity you know they get to interact with us and learn new things and learn all these new facts learn English and yeah it's great hi everyone my name is Elizabeth Davis I'm also co-president along with Angie
of the global awareness Club here at Waldwick and another really cool thing which I'm kind of impartial because this is one of my favorite activities we've done um with our friends in Kenya is the we called it the Shark Tank project which was essentially we split into
three groups and three groups over in Kenya I think they're about high school age students who each group took on a different issue in their Community one was period poverty which was lack of sanitary items for females in Kenya which is a real issue um second one was
nutrition they were creating I think they I believe they created a garden so that they could sell their produce to um their community at a reasonable price and the third group was a thrift shop which was clothing and
they thed different clothes so they could resell them to their own peers so that they could sell it at an affordable price my group particularly I worked with which is what I know the most about was the period poverty Group which was um a super eye openening experience I
think we kind of realize all as students we take for granted a lot of the resources we have here and to see that there students our age over there innovating and tackling issues in their Community was really inspiring and um I think it was just a very powerful
experience and I I love what we do with the tutoring but the shark pain felt a little bit different in that way um basically these three groups were also competing for a prize the top group got a um cash prize that they were able to
put towards their um Innovations and to actually go out and sell them so I believe the group I was working with that was pack fi poverty is getting government approval to resell their reusable pads which is super incredible because I I know about the females there
miss about like 3 days of school per month which you know that's that's hard to deal with and that sets them back academically so I think that was really inspiring to see how they were taking on issues in their Community great
job tell them the story about the uh the gym shirts the remember the you told us the story about the gym shirts with a gentleman that was with you you buy gym shirts for the for the team and then what they do is after they use the gym shirts they they give it to the uh the
rest of the children in the community all right so just I just while I just remembered I just wanted to shout out Stan thank you so much to the Chamber of Commerce for all of your help and assistance they such a big supporter of team and we appreciate you everything you do for for us as the organization
and for the kids and can Maya thank you so much for all that you've done over the years La what a phenomenal uh place and just the generosity just flows out of there so we thank you so much for all your support thank you um what mayor G
Oro mentioned is this right yes um so the students in in the school they don't have um they don't have cleats they don't have soccer shirts they don't have equipment so we decided that we were going to raise money specifically for their Sports programs but what they've
done is that they have taken these shirts that we were able to purchase for them and share them with all the schools in their in their surrounding communities so everything that we do for them including their food program uh Liz mentioned the Shark Tank uh project you
mentioned tutoring now the tutoring Pro program is up to about six or seven schools the surrounded community so all the resources that we're offering to them are being shared and it's Rippling all through the country so
that too want thank you very much for coming and uh I'll be arranging something with the school to come in and honor the all the ladies that part of it because I know a lot of them couldn't make it tonight and they got different uh things that they're doing so we'll do something in I'll do something in the school I'll
reach out to the principal thanks for thank you now the man's right there we we put on our site right put on our and we'll put it on our Town's website also thank
you okay as we continue the uh mayor's report just a couple of items uh the beginning of this month I attended our uh monthly mayor meeting uh this monthly meeting was um hosted by Allendale and what we did was we brought in the administrators also so it was
administrators and Mayors we sat down we talked about the different our towns and what uh some of our situation some of the problems we have and every town is almost the same everybody has a little bit of a problem here and there but at the end of the day between the administrators and the the governing
body things get uh worked out uh we talked a little bit about deer we talked a little bit about central dispatch we talked a little bit about uh other items that uh we're going to try to get uh people uh in higher uh areas to help us
with we're going into looking into our elected officials to see uh our Whatchamacallit uh Mr Tedesco to help us and uh all our assembly people to help with with certain issues so right now there's a primary coming in so we'll wait till after that's over so that we
don't burden anybody with anything that need but we're this the organization is moving forward also uh I spoke with our administrator last week maybe it was last week um a lot of times I get people calling
up on the phone telling me go on to this Facebook page and see what people are saying about the mayor and Council and how bad they think you are and this and that and unfortunately I go on it and I see and a lot of things I see are not really true or what I see is if you come and call us or ask us we'd be more than
happy happy to help you with the solution but I guess people just do it a different way um one of the big concerns is and I think we have to find a new word for it transparency that's a word that I guess everybody likes to throw out this council is very transparent
about everything we do and if I am if we are not transparent please let us know but tell it to our faces please do not go on Facebook also one of the big concerns and Mr rogol will be very happy with this I've asked the administrator to start as of June doing our meetings on Zoom that was a
big concern the administrator decided he will take take it on it'll be a six-month uh trial and then after that trial um you know if it works we will keep it if it doesn't work then we'll discuss it with the residents also are
hearing a lot of things about change is coming to walwick well change doesn't come to Waldwick change is Waldwick every day we sit up here every day we make a phone call to to somebody every day we open up outd doors in this building is changing walwick so you know
be very careful how you talk about us be very careful how you talk about each other because at the end of the day we're supposed to be a unified Force here and if we're not a unified Force what we're good all we and I've always said it we're all approachable if you ever send anything to the mayor and
Council you'll never get a response from the mayor and Council you'll always get a response from the administrator the administrator is our spokesperson we are not going to bother you with so many people people calling you and giving you different ideas so whatever you if you send me an email you'll get a response back saying I I received your email it's
being folded to our administrator he will get it back to you and I think we've doing a good job of it but starting June 1st or the first meeting in June we will have zoom uh that's all I have to report financial and administrative committee Mr Richie I know he's not here right now
does anyone have a report from him or nothing or he'll just report at the next meeting okay fire police protection committee Mr brenick thanks Mr Mayor I've got some uh I've got some issues that I'd like to discuss under new business but uh for
right now I just want to point out the let everybody know that on uh Friday April 11th the uh Ladies Auxiliary is going to host their annual fish and chip dinner outside of company 1 uh it's a pickup service only as it has been in the years past I believe it's $15 a
person it's a great Buy and uh come support our ladies thank you yeah um I reached out to well the president of the auxiliary reached out to me and as soon as they flyer is ready we'll post it on outsite about that thank you much thank
you Public Safety Committee Miss saraha Drake Thank you there were 33 total calls for the month of February one being Mutual Aid and the majority of the calls were on Saturdays with 30% Ashley studo responded to the most calls at 19
April trainer at 17 and Frank alino at 8 important upcoming dates May 7 or March 17th monthly business meeting April 7th is monthly training with avac and April 12th is the Easter EG hunt which I'm sure everyone's looking forward to thank you mayor you're welcome thank you
Recreation and health committee Mr M thank you Mr Mayor um just a few updates for you in health in the month of February uh School audits for school year 2425 are ongoing uh in February the hospital admission and er visits were elevated for uh for
covid-19 child health clinic is still operational every third Wednesday at the white slain facility also during February there were 12 retail establishments inspected one temporary food establishment inspected four complaints were investigated and on the
vital statistics we have three marriage applications five marriage certificates and seven deaths remind everyone to go to www. nwbr rc.org there's a bunch of of uh resources and upcoming events you can
see on their calendar um really take advantage of that resource is something that we provide and they provide to us um really be great for people to continue to use those facilities on the recreation front um baseballs registration is still open at walck baseball. sport engine.com for prek
through 8th grade uh they're up over 400 um uh young boys and girls already um they're looking forward to a great season April 26th is opening day or unveil a lot of the the renovations that have been done to burrow park over the winter and uh early spring here so we're
looking forward to that also the we thank the uh members of the Chamber of Commerce and our local businesses for sponsoring teams and Banners and our local uh volunteer organizations for also sponsoring teams it's a great uh great honor to have them on our shirts
for for the kids and also the uh their golf outing for 2025 is is sold out they have 100 golfers coming out to support the organization on April 10th it's going to be a great event um also now walwick soccer Rec regation is open you
can go to www. Waldwick soccer.org always a great organization here in in Waldwick for the last over 50 years look forward to having a new season there and uh just a reminder that the pool registration which we'll cover in a little bit opens up on April 1st so
really look forward to that and one last reminder Lions Club blood drive on Friday April 11th really important to get out and and donate blood um it's always a critical resource for um people in the area thank you thank you Public Works committee Mr rundo thank you Mr
Mayor uh spoke with Mike Lor superintendent uh he's hoping that we are done with the snow uh but as we all know had snow storms in April so they're starting to gear down uh with the intent that hopefully this weather we're getting is going to continue uh and then
they can start the spring cleanup uh the other ask is uh especially with bulk items um it would be nice if people contact the municipality uh and put that out when the day before uh we've had several complaints from residents that
they put them out ahead of time uh we're fortunate that the DPW is nice enough to go and get it but we'd like to keep the streets looking clean and not create a problem uh and had several items with regards to people calling uh saying they
don't see things on nixel um I think the emergency side is nixel I think we need to have more people sign up for Constant Contact because that seems to give you a lot of things that are going on again it tells you about the blood drives it tells you about the Ramadan celebrations it basically hits everything that's
going on in walwick and I know Tatiana and Kelly and Melissa do a great job of posting items on there so um sign up it'll it'll allow you to get more information um and I think in today's digital age that's what people
especially the younger folks are looking for so that's all Mr Mayor thank you thank you very much building and grounds committee Mrs Weber thank you Mr Mayor just an update on the public safety building the uh fire suppression is just about completed
over there and um just for some of my other items um tomorrow is our Board of Ed and uh safety meeting and then on Friday um going to be doing a walk through with uh the board administrator Steve and a gentleman by the name of Kurt Springstead with the uh signal
Tower that's all I have thank you with the signal to did you reach out to Andrea mrea about that cuz she has yeah she's got the she's involved with that everybody thank you Al B administrator excuse me uh thank you Mr
Mayor so I want to provide some water updates um one some some good news uh is our p project is officially closed out we we received our um administrative consent order termination letter from the D last week which is good news
meaning um we are finally lifted from that um so we are currently filtering out posos um across town so that's that's one thing um that is finalized which is good news unfortunately it has caused some other issues which I'll get into in a minute um along with the posos
close out you'll see two resolutions on the agenda tonight um regarding our loans so that P project was uh financed through the ibank H2O Loan program um so part of that is actually we are receiving $2 million in forgiveness
which is great so was about a $6 million project so $2 million is is forgivable um which is a huge benefit um also just to touch on um some people are familiar the the posos uh litigation and settlements that are
going on um we received some of updates on that we're actually we don't have solid numbers yet on what we're going to be receiving but we have received some updates on our calculations and our rankings um so we anticipate that we will hopefully see some solid numbers by
the end of this month if not early next month um so that would be a big help to offset some of these costs and some of the ongoing operating costs that we're now faced with the posos filters that are in place um a couple other notes on water related projects we have been doing a
big uh M replacement and um connecting uh water mins eliminating a couple dead ends around town so the work has been compl completed on Hemlock and Evergreen section so there's that's now looped in there are no more dead ends over there
um which is great and then we are in the final stages of the same type of work uh water main replacement on Sheridan Avenue and that whole section along there so um we just have some final testing to do and then we'll open all that back up so that should be totally
compl completed um in about the next week or so um and then the paving just so everybody knows over on Hemlock and Evergreen is scheduled to be fully repaved again during our normal road paving program so right now yes I understand it's a little rough but it is
just a patch we're going to fully repave that um later this year in the late summer early fall probably um and then shifting over to the discoloration uh odor and metallic taste issue we've been experiencing ing
um you know we have been receiving more complaints we created an updated reporting form so I would encourage anyone who's experiencing any type of issues with your water to please utilize that online form so we could collect as much data as possible so what we're doing right now is we've actually hired
a firm h2m engineering um we have a resolution on the agenda tonight to award them that contract for uh hydraulic model um so they're going to basically take a hard look at our system look at all the the water flow through throughout Town throughout the entire system all the pipes um and hopefully we
could start to get down to the root cause of the discolor discoloration issue that's happening um so please all the data that we collect gets shifted to them and that really helps us identify you know target areas we know Waldwick AV is is a area of concern um some other areas are
starting to pop up you know around EMT and so so if you're having any issues uh please use that form if you're not having any issues please let us know you can just shoot us you know shoot me an email or give us a call let us know hey my water is fine because we know the large majority of town is not
experiencing any issues so it seems to be limited to one area so we're just trying to narrow down that focus a bit more so any any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated um later on we'll we'll touch on uh budget status we'll give a little bit of updates there
Redevelopment and then the wof and uh Brady open space discussion that's all I have thank you man okay B Clark thank you mayor just briefly um I'm Melissa and I went to the Bergen
County um election officials uh meeting last week it went very well not much report they did give us they did let us know that the ballots will all be in block style which means the candidates will be listed by the office they're running for not by their party line um
they gave us some statistics from last year last November's election 463,000 votes were cast or 67% of the voters 103,104 six early votes that were cast um the board of election is expanding their
high school program for pole workers Dr casarico did receive the letter um to see if they uh waldor high school would be interested in having any students sign up um I can tell you that other towns have used it with great success um you know the students know how to they
can open and close faster than anybody so um we're hoping that we might be able to um capture some some students for that and just a reminder that April 16th is the last is the deadline to change uh your party affiliation uh declaration and those forms are on our website
that's all I have thank you thank you a confidential assistant thank you mayor uh our office is buzzing as you know we have two new employees that we continue to train and on board uh they've been a really great addition to
uh the burough both Melissa and Lindsay uh we'll do a lot of interfacing uh between uh Kelly myself and Steve in the office uh so uh as they get acclimated I'm sure you'll have some interaction with them they've been wonderful and um we're really happy to have them on board
a lot of Po pool prep uh discussions going uh on currently and uh to to um to councilman's point earlier we will be discussing some of that today uh at the next meeting I will be providing the council with uh information and data on
the EV charging stations I know that uh there was some interest on that so um I'll have that information for you at the next meeting thank you mayor thank you our attorney uh thank you Mr Mayor just to piggyback on what the administrator said the uh settlement numbers for the first P just so
everybody is aware we do expect those hopefully by the end of the month that that's just the first group of settlements that was reached in the uh the combined litigation there is a second set that has recently been approved by the court so the process the same process that we went through for
the first time with they rank you get a score and every what's called a base score the settlement administrator will have to do that for the second one so you know maybe later in the year we'll get a word of another award to help offset those costs as well so I just
wanted to just clarify that we did receive if you remember back in January 28th uh we timely filed our our numbers for the affordable housing for the COA uh we used the DCA recommended number there were some clear errors that the
DCA had missed in the vacant land analysis so we had submitted a reduction from the 178 that the DCA had come up with to 147 the uh anybody had till the end of February to challenge our calculations
and our numbers fair share housing who's the lead uh you know Challenger to all this they did not challenge our numbers so they are accepting of our numbers however we did receive a challenge from the New Jersey boers Association um I'll refrain from you
know what their involvement or I suspect their position is in regards to it you know why they they intervened and have f a challenge however their challenge basically is you accept the DCA number numers or you're wrong and they've put
that in writing and that's what they've relayed to the court so we're waiting for our initial what's called a mediation hearing so that we can you know listen to them and see what they have to say but uh the court has already said to them that you know the whole
point is to mediate these and there's other legal issues and some you know some technicalities to it but uh I just want to let everybody know that we did receive this Challenge and as soon as we have a date for mediation or whatever we we'll keep you informed but uh you know
the good news is and what's really um we should be happy about is a fair share is accepting of our numbers that they reviewed the calculations and they believe you guys in your planner did it correctly that's all Mr Mayor are we going into close I have no item for
close tonight okay thank you consent resolutions and resolutions of the governing body Pete resolved that the following resolutions here with this back consent having been considered by the governing body the B of Walder hereby pass and approv 2025 96 approval of consent policy votes a Britney
Rodriguez request to use ailan a on May 10th uh from 2: to 5:00 p.m. for a Mother's Day gathering with alcoholic barage is being served B Eileen Layman requests to use Pilan B on May 10th from 10:30 to 4: for a bridal shower with alcoholic beverages being served C Carly Blake requests to use Pavilion a on May
17th from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. for a birthday party with alcohol beverages being served D Nicole palent anonio request to use Pavilion a on June 21st from 1: p.m. to dust for a birthday party with alcoholic beverages being served e Mary uh Chapman requests to use
Pavilion a on June 22nd from 11: to 5: for a birthday party with alcohol beverages being served the class activity parents were tra and in Crest in schools request to use request the use of the municipal pool on June 17th from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. for the fifth grade Splash party with lifeguard staff requested G wal Community Alliance
request to hold the annual Car Show event on Sunday June 1st from 9:30 to 3 rain date June 8th as described in the letter dated February 20th 2025 97 resolution combining three authorizations of bonds into a single use a single issue determining the form
and other details of not exceeding 6,00,000 water utility bond series 2025 of the bur of waldick in the count in the county of Bergen state of New Jersey and providing for their sale to the New Jersey infrastructure bank and to the state of New Jersey pursuant to the uh
State fisal year 2 New Jersey water Bank environmental infrastructure financing program 2025 98 resolution authorizing the execution and delivery of the loan agreements to be executed by the bur of w in each of the New Jersey infrastructure bank and the state of New Jersey acting by and through the the New
Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and further authorizing the execution and delivery of an Esco agreement all pursuant to State fiscal year 2025 New Jersey uh water Bank environmental infrastructure financing program 2025 99 Award of fair and open
contract to genti motives for the purchase of One Police Department Tahoe in the amount of $3,122 38 cents 2025 100 award a non-fair and Open professional service contract of Boswell engineering for Evergreen Hemlock and Bergen Sheridan water main replacement project
Inspection Services in the amount of $38,000 2025 101 award a non-fair and Open professional service contract to Boswell engineering for Malcolm Street pumping station rehab Inspection Services in the amount of $65,000 2025 102 award a non-fair and Open
professional service contract to h2m for a hydraulic study in the amount of $93,000 2025 103 authorize amendment to autocab license for InStyle car and limo 2025 104 authorize amendment to autocab license for DJ limo 2025 105
appointments to the board of adjustment 2025 106 payment of vouchers do I have a motion and a second motion by Mr Rondo second by Mr brenick anyone have a question uh I just like to talk about 2025 105 appointment of the board of adjustment
Board of adjustment is our zoning board and two people have uh resigned from the board so I'd like to thank Joseph myjack who um put an application in to run and also not to run but to be placed on the board he's an alternate one and to Bruce
Mitchell who will become one of our alternate number twos Mr Maya Jack's term will begin February 20 it began February 26 2025 will end December 31st 2026 Mr Mitchell's term will begin tonight uh and it will end December 31st
2025 anyone else clerk please take the role Mr berck yes mrri yes Mr martinello yes Mr randoo yes Mrs Weber yes okay we don't have no adoption of ordinances we have one introduction of an audience with the clerk hly read
ordinance number 20252 ordinance number 20252 an ordinance to amend chapter 48 col 877 of the code of the burough of Waldwick swimming pool Municipal fees a motion and a second is an order to move and pass this ordinance on first reading
and that be advertised on local legal newspapers as required by law setting a public hearing two weeks from tonight's meeting at 7:30 p.m. or soon thereafter as the matter may be reached you have a motion in a second Mr Mayor I have a question regarding that can we do a motion in a second
ation motion and a second motion by Mr Joe second by Michelle on the question now you can talk thank you Mr Mayor um I know currently we extend uh the pool passes to our Public Safety folks both
the far department and the ambulance Squad uh I would like to also extend that to the police department and also to the members of the municipality that do a lot of work that's unrecognized I think it's something that would be a nice perk for those that come to work
every day and support the town and make the town what it is uh okay who whoever's on the committee you could talk again yeah are you talking folks that are just uh employees employees also
residents of the town or they're not if they are employed by the town they would be entitled to the same per that these Public Safety folks are I think it's a a great idea to to talk about you know love to support the folks who work in
the town so I think it's a excellent idea well why don't we discuss what you discussed at the meeting so we can know what's going on we didn't well that we didn't discuss that I know that the other stuff that you discussed then we could add that into it want to start
or see a committee was set up the committee is the Recreation health committee and that committee is uh run by three of the council members and they met with the pool uh to talk about the pool fees so right they have they have their plan but now that councilman rundo
wants to add more this will be added on to next week next time we meet when we all we you have an opportunity to vote on it also well we'll add this before we advertise it so it'll be included absolutely that can highlight some of the changes uh that our new fee
structure would include uh many uh most of the memberships um currently are set as alloc cart options heard from many residents that um sometimes that can create a bulky system for registering people for the pool uh
you're registering yourself a spouse then you're going in to do your children sometimes we see two or three transactions from one family because they're uh they're checking out before they've actually registered everybody and then they have to go back in so um that's really really um something that we''ve been hearing from residents and
we want to make it less cumbersome for registration so um you know currently we have an individual option that individual option would uh remain uh with an a slight increase in the fee for this year uh we would then have a couple
option that would be to indult uh we would create we are creating under this ordinance uh family membership options so there are family of two and family of four membership options um seniors would
remain as is uh one of the things we talked about uh in line with with the mayor and and always recognizing and honoring our veterans is to provide 50% discount to all of our Waldwick senior veterans and we do have um those folks
who do enjoy the pool throughout the summer so happy to be able to provide that to them uh We've also talked about accommodating the different family structures in town um so we're happy to uh be able to provide a weekend
membership for families now uh same thing weekend uh family memberships for families of two and families of four of course there's an additional um child's option on on all of those plans depending on what your family looks like uh one of the other things that the
burrow uh previously provided for uh was to provide the same resident rates that Waldwick walck residents uh receive uh and extend those to uh Midland Park residents uh we do a lot of things together uh you know our two buroughs
and so uh recognizing that and continuing to hear from them that they really do enjoy the pool uh is a way to say thanks for the extension that they give uh Waldwick families for allowing uh Waldwick uh children to join their
camp at a really discounted uh rate so that would be a highlight as well our non-resident rates would remain the same for adults and for children but we have created a new category for seniors again this is based on uh feedback that we've
received from non-residents who enjoy the pool uh so that rate would be at a discounted uh rate from what they were paying previously as an adult guest passes uh we are uh going to continue uh guest passes that is and always has been
for Walder resident Members Only um so the uh change there is a fee um of $15 for uh guest passes and then we have created an option to purchase guest pass booklets uh this is something that uh
will be able to be purchased at B Hall it'll provide for 10 passes that'll cover adults or children uh valid for the year or in the season in which you purchase them disect so that's um something else that we're happy to bring on board to accommodate the needs of uh
the residents who have reached out to us um I think those are the the big highlights anything else you want to no I I think tana and Kelly did a lot of work researching other towns in the area just to get some ideas we're providing uh a variety of different options for
people to register and to buy passes for the pool the idea is to drive traffic there and get more people enjoying the facility there um so I think we're we're offering a lot of different options for families with different situations like caretakers and uh uh weekend p and things like that so we're really
trying to find a sweet spot to invite more people in I think we all have some great ideas for things we like to see at the pool to make it more fun and things like that in the future um but we have to start here and you know we really pushed and taata had to go back and do a
lot of uh additional research because we wanted to make sure we highlight we're not raising prices just because we want to or because we make money on it we actually uh operate to pull out a deficit right so we uh are subsidizing the pool um but things have gone up your
uh minimum wage has got up so the the price of the the folks that we get to work at the pool is more expensive every year so um there is a slight wage increase there or a slight raise in the in the prices but uh definitely with well within line and uh great value for
what we're we have in our facility there so you know thank you to Tatiana and Kelly for all the work we did on there and I hope this provides more options for our residents to to join no heat I'm told it is a little warmer than than it used to be I remember when my kids were young going
there was a little cold in the morning but they say it's a little warmer now and all this information will be on our website so you could go on it and you could just read uh line by line what Tatiana Kelly and Joe have said anyone else yeah I'd like to Echo uh Joe's sentiment as well Tatiana Kelly Steve
everyone that put a lot of effort into the planning um and I'd like to make sure that the residents know that we do listen to your concerns and we'd love to hear any other ideas you have I do think that no stone was left unturned and we did do a lot of comparison to the surrounding areas but please we welcome
any um recommendations and opinions thank you so B real quick I councilman rund made a recommendation I just want to make sure that everybody he can reiterate who else we want to exempt from the fees Police Department
ambulance fire department DPW and staff within this building so does that include the actual volunteer or their families or how do we go about that was good next question our current or calls were uh for walvac and
for fire department volunteers and their families that would be un spouse and unmarried children who reside at home see how they how they work that is correct me if wrong police fire department and ambulance cour submit to to Kelly and tantiana the percentages of
people if you reach a certain percentage you're entitled to go to the pool your family so if you still keep up your percentages you're you're being uh you're allowed to go to the pool Ence court goes there fire department goes there be different for for employees because they're not
going to a percentage and stuff like that right so so just so we're clear it's it's under paragraph n which talks about the fire the the fire department and walv are included they're ready there so then we will add in employees
of the burrow police department and Ambulance Corp I think ambulance so it's really just employees of the buau and the police department yes you have that under what letter yeah so he he doesn't have this parag it's it's going to be
lary we did some changes since that one sorry everybody that gets a paycheck from us oh Library too yeah they're employees everybody that gets the paycheck okay so if we if we can just have the people that made the motion in the second to
say as amended so that we can make that change then it can be advertised tonight so that the public hearing can happen after the publication as amended Joe say as amended as amended
I anyone else please CL please take the role Mr branck yes missj yes Mr marello yes Mr rundo yes Mrs Weber yes okay unfinished business overall Redevelopment plan who's going to go
with that uh that'll be me Mr Mayor so I just wanted to check in with everybody I've received comments from pretty much everyone at this point so I just wanted to check in and let you all know that what we're going to do the rest of the week is you know compile everybody's thoughts and ideas um try and put that
together and some kind of narrative form that I could share out with you all so just keep in mind if you have any additional ideas for the the entire uh Redevelopment area down by the train station and you know the Right Aid block so really the two areas in need that um
were identified uh just share those with me we we'll try and get everything together and and see what we come up with so thank you 2025 minicipal budget discussions up again yep thank you Mr Mayor um so with the budget we we are
we're not going to go into great detail now we kind of did our line by line at the last meeting um but I do want to highlight a few things um we worked pretty hard just to make sure all the numbers that were inputed into the spreadsheet um and submitted to our auditor this week were solid um so a
couple things just to highlight since the last meeting we did add in the um charges for the grant writer um under Administration Professional Services and just so you know we we've been facing some significant increases with our you
know our insurance our health benefits the uh SE Authority charges um so we've been trying to balance that out I think we've done pretty well um you know we have we're still you know trying to work within the confines of you know at Max a two and a half% increase so that's kind
of where we're structured obviously we're hoping to come in under that um but also the what we did include was the new DPW clerk who has started the special Law Enforcement Officers um that has been proposed to us uh there will be more discussion on that tomorrow night
at our safety meeting um an additional police officer to the table of organization bringing their number to 22 and a part-time part-time uh records Clerk in the police department as well to help them handle all their records requests which is significant around
1,200 per year um plus and also uh we included which was pretty new um since the last time a 15% increase in our utility expenses um it's kind of an unknown right now and we know I know it's hit a lot of residents also um but
we need to build that in now so we thought you know based on some research we did 15% seemed to be a decent number to uh try and Pad some of our uh utility expenses in there so uh I don't know if anyone has any additional questions our
goal now is we're going to work with the auditor the rest of this week um and really fine-tune it tighten things up see exactly where we're at and then we'll present that all to you again um capital budget we feel was pretty solid right now I think we all pretty much agreed on that so we're going to be
sending that off to our bond Council so they could start to prepare those ordinances for us and as Steve keeps on saying Safety Committee so everyone knows Safety Committee is a committee that was set up by the board of vet the board of vet has asked us to have a committee us part of a committee to look
at the uh the surrounding schools and look at safety in the schools this will be our third meeting we've had uh the first two just with the committee and now this one will be with the police and uh we'll be taking our recommendations as we always do from our Police Department because they're the ones that
are the safety officers of our community uh as we do things you'll see things different changes in the school or around the school and then of course at every meeting we will report back to you uh what we have discussed as we always do anyone else question has there been any update
on expanding the traffic study um yeah so basically we didn't land on a solid Direction on that I know the police said you know they're open to it um but I think we wanted to focus on the grid section right now get things actually implemented and up and running
um actually met with Lieutenant CER and Lieutenant pass ready again this week yesterday um we took a ride to midlin park they just installed some new traffic caling devices um with some rumble strips and additional signage near some tough intersections so we're
hoping to implement that also also this year okay so in expansion of the study I think we just we need to have a little more discussion on you know what area of town we'd want to focus on that I'd call that phase two maybe if that that works
um no Steve just hit on something there um you know there's a lot of stuff going into the budget this year you know we we didn't say a lot of cutting yet we're trying to add some things in for safety additional police officer things like that he did slip in thereo 2 and a half% right so just folks on the council start
thinking about that and processing that it is probably something that we're looking at we don't want to raise taxes anymore than we have to but there are a lot of things going into this budget this year that we're trying to accommodate for residents so we really have to look at that once we get it back from the auditor and uh and really go
over it and really consider that as a council you know we we traditionally haven't done those types of things uh but it's something that is an eventuality for us um yeah thank you for that followup and just to kind of piggyback on everything I'd like to invite our CFO
Colleen up um she get just to present on our our fund balance we did receive um that detailed info [Music] back thank you thank you so Ste as Steve mentioned uh the Auditors uh just uh finished up with the
annual financial statement uh they come in uh the end of well in the month of January uh do a quick uh you know recap of what happened during the year produce our annual financial statement and then they come back and actually do the audit
uh but I would say uh at least 50% of the work for the audit is done dur during the annual financial statement um one of the things uh that they are able to uh fine-tune uh with with the annual uh uh
financial statement is the what they referred to as the fund balance or the Surplus for the municipality I put together uh this ch uh you know we've been I've been updating it uh each year and it it kind of tells a story in terms of uh where
we've been where we're going um back in 2009 um certainly uh Surplus or fund balance was a lot lower than uh it it has has been uh we it continued to grow
over the years uh and you see see that uh we would bring in excess Revenue uh and we would always um utilize less than what we the excess that we brought in so that helped to continue to build the Surplus but you'll notice in
2023 on the current fund side that was really the first year that we've uh uh utilized more than what we what we took in the prior year uh and that continued last year so you know it's not hard to
uh put two and two together that if we continue at that pace that we're going to uh run our our fund balance back down uh fund balance is necessary in terms of cash flow uh for the burrow um and it
also helps to stabilize the tax rate um so you know as I say it tells the story on the water side um water Surplus is not as uh Hefty as as the current fund uh but notice that uh anytime there was
Surplus utilized it was always less than uh the excess that was brought in um but you on the water side you know a little over $2 million is not much in terms of uh some of the uh infrastructure issues
that we could potentially you know have uh so that that's that's the story and you know we'll be utilizing these numbers in terms of finalizing uh the the budget for this year anyone have any questions for
Colleen no thank you very much Colleen thank you okay new business wov Brady property discussion thank you Mr Mayor uh we'll take this one so I wanted to include this on the agenda just so we could begin having these discussions we haven't really talked about it I know
we've kind of thrown out ideas here and there but I think um we should start to formally discuss it um so you know I just wanted to ask everybody you know what if you have any ideas but also more of the process thing is you know maybe like Redevelopment if you want to put together a list of ideas we could start
to compile that and you know see where some overlapping ideas are and and get a direction on that property um right now you know we have no deadlines or any strong commitments to it uh we do have tenants on there uh one property is is month-to month and the other will be
shifting month-to month later this year um so just something to keep in mind we should you know start to discuss some ideas we want to keep it you know walking paths things like that a community garden I know is brought up um and which property you know we want to maintain if it's both none keep one you
know and what that use would be so just all the different options just want to put that out there um you know start thinking so I don't know if anyone has any questions about it now or or wants to chair something good thank you Mr Mayor um the environmental committee is asked that
they would like to be part of that uh since it is open space they have some good ideas and they're open to help and support it uh some of the other items that I ask is since we're hiring a grant writer is it possible that we could
leverage them to find out if there are monies available to do some of the work that we're looking to do because I think since it's an open space uh place and we don't have a lot of it left in town I think it's an important thing for the community uh where people can get together and utilize that space
uh as a an open space as opposed to housing I think that's how we can from the owner of the property I was just going to say that cuz when we did purchase this from the family we did tell the Wagner family that we will keep it uh Parx and I I think that we we
should have parks there for the residents to enjoy and use and since 2005 I've been trying to get one type of Park in there and I'm trying my hardest to do it again I think we should put a doggy park there everybody has dogs and they could go in there in a little piece of the area and they could
have their dogs you know enjoy each other and just be a dog so I mean that's my suggestion I mean to develop it into something but apartments and everything that's not what we told the family and I'd hate to go back to the family and tell them I'm sorry we're not going to do what we told
you we were going to do I I agree 100% of tiet should be open space um Parkland um offsets some of the things that we're doing down in the center of town gives people Green Space to go to a dog park would be great I have dogs we'd love to take them there I know some of the other towns have it around here which would be
awesome to to to do that um I think uh as far as what council Mundo said I think we're focusing grant money at Lions Park right now and then I think we have some ideas for um the pool and things like that so we have to kind of prioritize where we're going and it's
a it's a good uh part of our planning session to say where we want to prioritize our funds over the next you know 5 to 10 years as we have a plan of development right uh should go in line with what we're doing I mean w always did did things for their residents I mean we unfortunately we have to raise
taxes for the residents but to give them the pool to give them borrow Park that they could go there and rent the park out without paying for it and now having given them more of an area that they could go and bring their grandkids and stuff that's that means a lot I I think it means a lot and it still keeps and of
course walik has to grow but it still keeps the family knit community that we all think I I think we all want to keep agreed anybody else yeah I'm in full support of the open space obviously in Burton County that's hard to come by so we already made the first steps
toward making that an open space land so let's get this next one anyone else has any has Boswell or anyone walked through there maybe give us some ideas on on some on some things or yeah they've been through you uh talked about it kind of sent them some mapping too just looking
at Aerials um so that are a little damn yeah so there are wetlands on the one side of the property closest to the other residents um opposite the walwick gardens so that is taken into consideration um but you know if it's going to be passive Parkland it really
shouldn't infringe on it too much okay I guess we got that okay any other and if we do doggy park you could be in charge of the dogs we'll get you the Hat with the ears okay any other new business if I me I want to uh I want to
address a topic that U hasn't been looked into or adjusted for actually 15 years uh as you all know our volunteer fire department is just that it's volunteer um we do get clearing allowances based on the percentages of the uh fires drills and meetings that we
make during the course of the Year there are stipers that are given to uh line officers as well none of these items have been addressed in 15 years um we get an allotment from the town of $225,000 a year to cover the
clothing allowance last year I believe we used 177,000 of that perhaps 18,000 what I would like to do is I would like to adjust these numbers upwards and get them uh to more current number um once again we're not paid but
uh it would be nice to get a little something uh we have $25,000 allocated now I would like to double that to $50,000 knowing full well that in years past we've used as I said about
$188,000 of the $25,000 the balance went back to the budget and I figured if we could double that to about 36 that would be a real realistic number for for that particular uh set of circumstances um I'd entertain
discussion about that item only now anyone if the the increase is for is for um clothing allowance yes the increase there would be for clothing allance yeah are they going to adjust the percentages or are they going to
keep them the way they are right now um I base these numbers on the percentages as they are now if they're going to adjust them I don't know about that so I'm going to say that they're going to keep the numbers the same that being 10 to 25 26 to 39
s so I'm sorry go ahead no I was just going to say so it looks like we have been using about 75% of the allocated funds so leaving a quarter on the table every year um if we were to double it where do you think the increase would go to uh to you know get it up closer to
that 36 I I don't understand so we're only spending 18 right now yeah we haven't gone over budget that's correct we're about because the guys are just knowing not to spend that right we're allocated $25,000 a year currently okay if we push
that up to 5050 that would be double the allocation MH the reality is that they're using about 17 to 18,000 double that to 36 so that's the accurate number so you think if we did double it they would double spend oh I understand so
you so what what is the what is this typ of like their clothing allowance now that they get okay um if you make 60% of fires drills and meetings annually you'll get $500 okay there were 11 people that made that okay
40 uh 40 to 59 400 40 40 to 59% $400 26 to 39% 250 10 to 25 200 okay so it's gra based on your based on your amount of time B based on the percentage
the goal would be a fixed number okay double lists so right so if they make the majority if the max that they can make is $500 for the year right currently yes so you would want you want it to be a thousand yes okay understood that makes sense and nine times out of
10 they do give back the money they give back some money oh they do back they give it back all the time right okay I just wanted everybody be clear well honestly if you're going to do that for them you got to do it for the ambulance call cuz they get one too they get one too they get a lesser one
okay but I think we should reach out maybe Steve reach out to the uh president and see how much he wants an increase I mean if you do for one we got to do for that's fair I don't they're volunteers
too and they they by their they do a lot yeah I know is discussion on this side over to bring up is everybody all right with this it sounds fair I think we just got some solid P mbers together and and come back
with it because this would require an ordinance change do it similarly yeah they got a little I think they got less money but they do it like am of calls they make okay I just as um Craig to transparency right just to look at any reporting requirements right so it's all just
looking at IRS right $500 is below a $600 threshold do you go over that have to start reporting and stuff like that I don't know so we can look into that yeah that's SM and then also that's part of the DU the 50e members the people that are in the fire department 50 years they if
they don't come around they still get a a stien that's something that we give well they give to them as you know you did serve your time and now it's time for you to be rewarded but it's on the lowest scale on the lowest scale so Steve will run numbers for us for the next meeting is
that all right that's fine with me okay go for both my second topic is is is this money it's always money okay wow is uh the amount of money that uh the line
officers get now from 2020 we had in the year 2020 we had 228 calls in 2024 that grow to 299 we have slots for line office off and line officers by the way is a is a
term for fmatic officers the ones that go on the rigs that go to the scenes that put the wet stuff on the hot stuff so we have slots for nine of those right now we have two three four five that are filled part the reason for that is
because it's so hard to get the qualifications that you need to run for an office and still maintain your family and your work whatever so consequently we're down to to 3 four five guys
now this again has not been addressed in 15 years the chief currently gets $22,800 a year the assistant chief gets $ 900 a captain which we have a lot gets $650 and a lieutenant
375 now I think that these numbers also are Antiquated and outdated and I think that we need to bring them up to a more realistic level once again we're not paid but it would be nice to get something that what do they want would be uh in
step with today's economy um so I'm going to throw it out there that we double those numbers also currently we're looking at $5,600 in total discussion can I add something
sure 15 years ago fire service did not require the amount of paperwork and responsibility that it current does um there's a thing called Nippers which every fire that they respond to they have to report what happened resources
used and it has to be to the state within 48 hours so they're required to fill out paperwork that 20 15 20 years ago they never had to do and if they're not in compliance they're held responsible and as officers they're ultimately responsible for the fate of
the members of the fire department as well as the residents of this town so they put a lot of time in that they I'll be honest these guys put in a lot of time one of the challenges is the guy that does the ners reports he's probably spending I would say probably 10 hours a
week of his own time just to make sure that those Pap the paperwork is in compliance and we've never had an issue I think we're our GIF is said we do quite well so I think it's kind of fair for them to to get the accolades and the
resources because they spend a lot of their own personal time away from their families away from uh other things that they want to do uh to make sure that we're safe uh I think it's only fair well Mr Bren knows how I feel about
this uh I have no problem you know rewarding them for what they do once again the ambulance courp has to also uh be allowed to increase them their stuff um even though the chief will be making two and a half times that I
make that'll be all right I I you know since they haven't got a an increase for a long time and you know not that I'm because I'm in the fire department but I mean I've seen the Chiefs in action I've seen them when we had the explosion at the uh Power Plant
how they uh took care of everything and how you know during storms they're out there sleeping in the firehouse where their families are home and nine times out of 10 you got home and your house was ruined but you were out there saving everybody else's house so I think that
you know it's worth worth it of for them uh I don't think they expect it but you know they are our volunteers they are our Protectors of our community how do we move forward on this do you you don't have to run numbers on this one yeah we'll have to
run numbers to present I think that that's definitely going to help paint the picture so um for the next meeting if not probably before we'll try and get those numbers to you just so you have an idea ready for the next meeting yeah what we'll do is the numbers will be what they're getting now what they're going to be getting and all that okay
and by that time we have an idea as well from y yeah oh yeah y okay do you have any other things that you want to spend money on you know what I'm out of numbers anyone else from the council
would have it like any new business nobody okay we're going to open up the Public's comments anybody from the public that would like to comment please come to the microphone just give us your name not your address oh hi how are you I didn't recognize you back there hi Cassie
Hartman um I think that some of the changes that are announced tonight are really exciting the zoom stuff is really exciting I know a lot of people will be able to participate and I think the water stuff is a really big deal um two questions uh I know that when we had the rabies concern we had someone go
from house to house inquiring about individual sort of vaccination with the animals to make sure that we get our money's worth from the study and that the problem is dealt with for our non- techsavvy community members is there a
way to do um like a mailing or more directed Outreach to make sure all of the problems are known before we start paying this don't you do engineering firm don't do huh what yeah we could probably um when
we send something out we could work we could do something to let the residents know but does the we can also maybe ask the Board of Health to uh send something out also because Board of Health is the one that with the rabies and all that that'd be that I think that would be great um just to make sure we you know
everybody's aware yeah yeah exactly um I just wanted to clarify so are referring to the audit that we did with uh Tao for dog licensing last year I yeah when someone came to the door and was basically like tell me about your pets right yeah and and just to clarify there was no issue with uh or issues or
concerns about rabies it was just an audit to um reinvite those who maybe haven't been licensing their dog there was no rabies issue of concern for us I think I just made an assumption about that thank you just and it and it worked great and uh our numbers showed that we
got back you know uh what we've put into it so on that end it worked out great oh awesome um but I think that that'd be great for the water too when we hire this firm assuming we do hire them do we then get like a guarantee like are they then like responsible or do they do their sort of best effort and then are
like good luck to you you talking about the water yeah sorry um yeah I mean so there's no guarantee CU there's a lot of unknowns there that's what they're they're hired to do is really dive in present us with the data and then make recommendations to us you know the governing body on how to proceed you
know what they believe would be the best way to proceed forward so it kind of they'll lay out you know a capital plan for the next 5 10 years okay for us okay so they wouldn't necessarily be the fixers yet they're more of the data collectors correct the engineers or the
data collectors anything we did say you know we we end up doing pipe replacement in one section that would go out to bid like any other publicly bid project and then we'd have you know a contractor the winning contractor would actually perform the work understand okay so it's a little longer term but definitely
getting going correct um with that in mind I hear what you're saying about the Facebook stuff being annoying and I'm sure it is it would be great if the winds like this this Zoom stuff and the engineering
stuff and the Safety Committee and the park space and all the good stuff that is happening could somehow be put on Facebook like if someone went on Waldwick United and was like hey this is all the stuff we heard you wanted and now we're doing it or and
and for a lot of people it is their primary source of information um and so you might as well but we have a website also people go on I know but we would have to talk we have to I you know talk with the the administrators of the Waldwick uh United unfortunately you
know W un night is not supposed to be a political thing true sometimes it is which it happens it's like anything else you can't you know change things overnight you can't stop anything but you know maybe we could reach out to uh the administrators and or maybe even
start a new group that's like Council updates or something just so that that I think it's just more in Pace with how a lot of people in town do get there is a bur Waldwick Facebook page and the administrator does put stuff up there everything on okay may government page
is different than right it's presented differently it's monit differently there's different rules with the government pages and than the honestly I I don't think sorry I just don't think that W United is the right place for us to mitigate or discuss issues like that
it really should be done here and also through our government municipality website and our Municipal Facebook page but there's a lot of rules around that when you go to the municipality conference on what we can and cannot say on social media especially something like wal United which is completely free
form for anyone see if you go on okay I I just want to clarify walwick United is not an official I understand that so I would not encourage this Council or anybody on this days to request they post anything from this burrow use your
official government Facebook page Instagram account we will we've always done is we've always made the administrator answer all our questions because I like I said before I we don't want to have somebody call send a lot of people send emails to the whole Council so you're going to get six different people seven people talking so what we
usually do is I send the email out saying you know thank you very much for your concerns this will be forwarded to your to our administrator and he will get back to you if he doesn't get back to you in a timely fession please call me back and it's been working when someone goes on our website and they ask a question Steve answers them
immediately I I understand that I think the point I'm just trying to make is as a resident the first place I see the um complaints or uh wins or whatever is the more informal stuff and I understand legally maybe that's not an area that
can be dipped into but I don't know that's why we like the residents to come here to C and maybe the zoom stuff will help fix some of that as more people we have residents that are out there every every time there's a meeting saying come to the meeting come to the meeting come to the meeting and guess what they don't come
to the meeting the thing is how tonight is very and I'm glad everybody's here the thing is you know to get anything solved in this community you got to come and talk to us and you know we don't bite and not my experience necessarily but
okay um all right thank you very much mayor just wanted to add just to the point that was uh brought up earlier by councilman rundo that our e newsletter goes out every Friday and that is full of everything that's happening up to the minute that it goes out a lot of work
detail uh goes into those e newsletters if you're not re receiving them and you used to be uh rece you were used to receiving them through nixel we changed our platform last year so those e newsletters that go out every Friday including uh a monthly addition that
goes out once a month um all come through Constant Contact so all residents we really encourage that you sign up for both of them so that you receive the emergency notices but then you're getting everything up to the minute um what's happening in town and uh you know everything that we're discussing at at council meeting can we
maybe post those newsletters on the Facebook every week can we post the newsletters on the Burl wal at Facebook yeah I know we were doing that through um nixel because it was like an actual component to that um Steve shares a ton of our of U individual posts that are in
the E newsletter they get posted on the social media uh platform so we are doing that but just uh more you know one piece because then it highlights whatever we're talking about in that post but yeah most of that is covered but I think you can share it right Kelly yeah so that's what Steve and I were just going
to jump in and say um Steve can post those on our Facebook page and maybe Waldwick United could redirect their people to our site for our information good suggestion yeah we could definitely make a push to try and post more um you know
we we are restructuring in the administration office too so we're working out all the the media stuff also but we'll try and increase that as much as time allows anyone else hi Mr Mayor Mr Neil Council I'm Jill Williams I am here tonight to
communicate in person how dangerous and my safety concerns for the crossing outside of Crescent Elementary School um the Safety Committee that you brought up tonight is music to my ears Mr Neil and mayor G orano thank you so much for your thoughtful responses to all of my emails
um but I do call back yes I know you do and I'm not a Facebook person so tonight my mom was able to babysit I was able to get here um and I'm not going to rehash all of the concerns I have in email because I do have to get home for bedtime um
but what can we do sooner like it is bad it is unsafe every single day something is not there we are putting the most vulnerable population of this town at risk and I think as a parent I have I grew up in Bergen County I move back to
Bergen County to raise my family it's a no-brainer to me I know the Safety Committee is working on it I am not going to pretend to stand here and understand the processes and procedures and what it takes for you guys to implement things but there has to be something that can
be done like yesterday so you know I'm happy to talk about it now I'm happy for you to get back to me but I'm here in person telling you that there will be an accident it's not a matter of if or not there there have been two there will be
one um and I I don't want to see anyone's kid or parent get hurt uh thank you man um yeah so I'll give you a couple updates so the footings for the blinking crosswalks that we had ordered are installed we have the blinking crosswalks ready to go so I would anticipate those being
installed within the next two weeks um we think those are going to make a Major Impact in there just to draw attention to that crosswalk area um Lieutenant Cort and lieutenant paset and I like I said when we were driving around we actually stopped by there um and took a hard look at things so we actually came
up with a couple new things we want to work with the county on that's the other tricky part to this it is a county roadway so anything we want to implement we have to work in tandem with the county um so we are going to try they did put up some speed signs for us coming from the Allendale side which we
think hopefully will help there is some painting in the street already notifying you that you're approaching a tool zone so we are going to add some um LED signage to draw even more attention you know as you approach from Allendale side uh we also discussed this week about um
some paint so painting yellow curbs kind of to give a buffer around the crosswalk area because as much as you know it is posted there's no parking here at to Corner things like that people start to creep up as they stack up for those you know uh drop off and pickup times and
again we're looking into the painted Rubble strips as another option so there' be like three sets of of rumble strips as you're approaching the school zone so I think those are going to be kind of you know the the first hit that um we're hoping to do in the next couple months okay and then after that then you
know we could have a greater discussion with the SOS involvement and working with the board of bed so there is going to be more to come on that also okay so the next couple months school is out M so what like this week next
week um you know I understand and I think we have some of New Jersey's finest on our police Source I understand they are spread thin scheduling budgeting all of that but putting someone there three times a week two times a week is better than zero times a week so I I appreciate everything you're
working on the next couple months is not good enough for me so just to touch on that I fully understand that we also have all the other schools too so we are working with the police force that we have um we try they do make passes I can I can guarantee you I've seen them
driving by at every school so to station an officer at each school so Crescent is bad but so is traffing is is a nightmare down there also so there's a lot of issues at all the schools during those exact times so to have a cop there every single day even multiple days a week is
tough in addition to all the other emergencies that they're constantly responding to so they go on all the EMS calls and everything too so we do try they make passes through as much as humanly possible during those times um but they do get called away a lot I just
have a suggestion maybe for the council members who are on the Safety Committee could we talk to the school about staggering release times a little bit more between the elementary schools they talked they talked about that they touch Bas a little bit about that uh and you know we're going to find out tomorrow
what they they're going to come back to us with a lot of ideas okay and they were talking about that with the I think was trap Pagen weren't they talking about the Staggering the the kindergarten kindergarten at Crescent is stagger toag yeah they're going to they're trying to do all the
stuff like they changed the the out the time to make a left hand turn yeah there were some suggestions for signage and Crescent down in the in the parking area to get parents to keep moving yep I know that's still an issue yeah I just feel like staggering is obviously helpful but
when a man is standing and the crossing guard there is phenomenal I actually feel unsafe when there is a sub there like I this crossing guard there is amazing um but when he is standing in the middle of the street in a neon jacket with a stop sign and a car zooms
by him staggering anytime nothing that doesn't matter I've seen him bang on the hood of a car while I am pushing my other son into the crosswalk so I totally hear that the other schools are a concern I'm not going to pretend to know the incidences
that have arosed at those schools um I know traphagen is off of 17 I also know that you have to slow down tremendously to make that turn it's not a street that spans across multiple towns you know so um I'm not saying prioritize Crescent
because I'm a crescent parent but I I'm saying do the analysis how many issues have there been there you know this is your youngest population I'm sure it's a problem at the high school and the middle school too those kids are older they've been crossing the street a lot longer than the Elementary School Crescent was always you know and
I'm my kids all three of my kids were at Crescent and I live on white so I would never they were always to Cross by W's and walk down from there I didn't want them Crossing Prospect and I didn't want them Crossing directly in front of creson school cuz it is a
disaster and unfortunately the majority of the people causing the disaster over there are the parents jocking in and out of there it's crazy and it's correct that's I mean I definitely agree the the way it's lined up but um
experience making that turn is the parents physically Crossing when the weather is nice is the other drivers so anyway thank you very much you will continue to see me um and thanks thank you thank you anyone else uh Jeff Roga um couple of things to
just say thank you about first first of all obviously you know I'm a longtime proponent of the zoom I'm delighted to hear that it's going to be introduced as a pilot you know for many years I've been able to make it here to to meetings my work schedule changed so I couldn't
and I'm someone who likes to ask questions and so I found it unsatisfying watching on YouTube and not being able and yes I know I could come and ask questions but I've always learned a lot hearing other people's questions I'd like to think sometimes people might learn something from mine so for me the
ability to work at home on my sofa put this on while I'm doing working males will be very much appreciated so I I really appreciate that uh something else I wanted to thank you for which I hadn't had a chance because I haven't been here in a bit was the change with regard to
the dog licensing it used to be that you had to do it on January 1st and then like if you had your dog was scheduled to get the rabies shot on May 1st you couldn't do it because you needed proof of the rabies shot and so I wasn't trying to delay payment but I was
annoyed that I would be paid $15 late fee so that was changed and I'm really appreciative of that um in the spirit oh and while I've been here I don't know why I didn't put together that the town probably has a Facebook page so while I was here I followed it so I'm looking
forward to getting alerts from from that method as well um in the theme of traffic safety I do want to flag um something that's been on my mind for a bit um I live on the corner of prospect in nordom I was very grateful when the
those crosswalks were put in it would be wonderful if people actually paid attention to them you know like I don't know if people just don't see there's a crosswalk there and they go flying by um I was delighted to hear that for some locations you purchased blinking lights
I don't even know you could do that on if you have enough to do that on on Prospect or just put up a sign that says yield to pedestrians in crosswalks um my dog likes to go to the other side of Waldwick so I take my little dog and it's sometimes it's like taking your life in your hand goes they're just
zooming down and you know it's like my wife is like don't go in the it's like I'm getting annoyed I'm like in the crosswalk I would like to cross um so to the extent that there could be some signage on Prospect specifically at those crosswalks not you know the ones that are closer to NM um that would be
very appreciative because like I said I don't think everyone is bad intent to just not stop some people may not see it but in any event certainly a sign I think would be would be helpful in that regard put a sign up people go around me when I've stopped for pedestrians my yeah it's
unbelievable I don't know what they're looking at or in a rush to go to yes I mean I realized so I mean living on Prospect Street is sort of comes with its own challenges you know I have a young son who's a new driver having him back out in the morning trying to deal with that you
know is is has been has been a challenge and you know one of the impetuses for me trying to widen my driveway so he could turn around uh but that that's that's just a Conant we could work on the sign we could work on the sign I I appreciate that and again something which I'm probably sure you're aware of but since
it's in this theme of the evening nordom to there's kid you know when kids come out of trap and you know there's that is like an alternate Street I guess for people that want to go quickly and don't want to go down the other one and given that that street does not have sidewalks you know I've seen too many instances
where we're a little bit closer than I would like involving kids on bikes and things like that so just flagging that as a as an area of of concern and um thanks again I really appreciate it thank you thank you anyone
else if not do I have a motion to adjourn motion by Katie second by mock all in favor I all opposed everybody have a happy St Patrick's Day