having it on Zoom for our residents. Uh Steve, our administrator, will be the host and taking care of it during the meeting. Uh for members of the council, uh another item is we move into our polo shirts as of next month through
Labor Day. So, uh we no longer have to wear our suits and ties. Uh this is all I have to report. Uh any questions, please feel free to ask. Next would be Financial Administration Committee,
Mr. Richie. Thank you, Council President. It's a good evening, everyone. It's great to be here. Apologies for uh my absence in the prior meetings. As they say, uh work got in the way of life, so uh I was out of town, but uh I'm happy to be here this
evening. Just a few things. So we are I am at least I think we all are eagerly waiting the uh the results from the audit uh from our um from our finance uh from our um finance and uh accounting department. Um the the big piece of information from that audit that I'm
waiting for is exactly how much money we put back into surplus uh from last year. So we'll wait for that number. We'll see exactly how much we use versus put back. Um so I think we're eagerly awaiting that, but it'll be maybe another month before we get those results. if if if I'm not mistaken. Um the finance
committee also has scheduled at least one hopefully our first of many meetings to review uh non- tax uh revenue items uh ways in which we can get creative to kind of increase revenue streams outside of the the the tax uh the tax base. Um
we will be meeting I think publicly here at our next council meeting with uh the new group that we have hired to manage our our grant applications. We're hoping that we see a big boost uh in grant applications this year that'll offset a number of costs not only for our
operating budget but hopefully our capital budget and um you know hopefully that will help us on on the budgetary fund. So I look forward to that uh at at our next meeting and it will be on Zoom so people can participate uh virtually uh and so you know with that uh council president that is my report this
evening. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Richie. Mr. Brennick, Fire and Police Protection Committee. Thank you, sir. Um, the fire department took part in the U Memorial Day parade, and I just want
to take a moment to uh to say how how well that came off. It's it's much more than just a parade. It's it's a feeling. It's it's something that happened that enabled us to be right where we are today. without those
folks, this wouldn't be here. So, it means quite a bit to me and as well as the fire department and the members therein. Um, other than that, uh, as I mentioned in the last meeting, uh, the fire department attended, uh, a live
burn class up at the academy. Uh, we also attended a confined space and, uh, mass fit uh, drill also at the academy. and uh both wellreceived and very educational. That's about all I have
tonight. Thank you, Mr. Renick. Public safety committee, Miss Sarakola Drake. Thank you. WBack was very proud to participate in the Memorial Day parade where they treated one patient during the conclusion of the ceremony and they are looking forward to attending the car show on June 1st.
That's all. Thank you. Recreation and health, Mr. Martinella. Thank you, Mr. Council President. Um, just a few notes for today. Also like to add my thanks to all those who participated in the parade um on Monday.
It was great day, great weather. It was awesome to see how many young kids were participating from the different recreation programs that we do sponsor. So, it was awesome to see so many kids out there. Hopefully, they got to learn a little bit from um some of the speeches that were out there today and how um how all this works for them. Uh
on the recreation note, just a couple things. The baseball season is winding down um for youth baseball. We've been fighting a lot of rain this year. Um the fields have held up well and we're trying to they extended the season a little bit to provide some more playing time for the boys and girls. I had their lady warrior day for for softball which
was um a great success for uh we had the most girls in the program in over 15 years I think. So it's great to see so many girls out playing now. Um, also our recreation soccer program is still has registration open. Always a great program to to see. And um, just remind
everyone that our car show is coming up um, for be a great day u next weekend. Come out and see everyone out there and all the great cars that come around. That's it. Thank you, Mr. Council President. Thank you, Mr. Martinella. Uh, public works committee. Uh the only
things I have to announce is uh thanks to the DPW for setting up the parade as well as doing the street sweeping uh prior to the parade. Uh did get some feedback from a gentleman uh a veteran from Mawa who stated that it was nice to
see a parade uh here in town uh with a lot of attendance. He goes he lives in Mawa and they don't see the same level of attendance. He said the the nice thing is with a small town like this, you seem to get a lot of person personal interest from folks in the town, but he
wanted to have that brought out. Uh, but again, thanks to the public works department for taking care of that, for setting up and taking everything down, building and grounds, Ms. Weber, thank you, Council President. Um, just a few things. The pistol range is currently out for bid. We'll be doing a
new roof and a HVAC system over there. Uh, Lion's Playground will be going out to bid uh, June 3rd. And I just wanted to say thank you to Dave Zokowski and uh, the Boy Scouts. They did a general cleanup and planted flowers over at the library, not this past weekend, the
weekend before. And it was that much appreciated. And we were able to participate with the mayor this past weekend to plant some flowers here at the Burough Hall uh, with the help of our family and the environmental committee. So, I just want to thank everyone that was able to come out for that as well. That's all I have. Thank
you. Thank you, Miss Weber. Department heads, Mr. Neil. Uh, thank you, Mr. Council President. I'll save most of my comments for other items on the agenda. Okay. Thank you. Um, bur clerks. Thank you, Council President. Um, just a
final reminder with regards to elections that there's a link uh to the primary election sample ballot on our website and it's also been included uh for several weeks now um in our Friday email blast. um the ballot include um the new
block style where candidates are grouped by their office, not by their party. So it does look um very different. So people should try to voters should try to familiarize themselves with that. Uh we also have a video on our website under under elections um showing you how
to go through the motions of voting on the new machines. If you haven't done so, it'd be a good idea to familiarize yourself with that as well. Uh June 3rd is the last day to apply for a mail-in ballot by mail. June 3rd through June 8th is the early voting period. Monday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
and Sundays 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Um there are several locations throughout the county, but the two closest to us is the Ty Senior Center for 111 Chestnut Ridge Road in Woodliff Lake and the Wyoff Public Library, the Shot Meer Room at 200 Woodland Avenue in Wyoff. Um on
the agenda tonight, uh resolution 2025169, the licenses listed in that resolution have met all their require state and local requirements for renewal. Um and also 2025170, that's for a raffle license for the Walden Baseball Association, and they have met all their requirements for
approval for this resolution uh for their tricky tray. Thank you. Thank you. Uh confidential assistant, Miss Marquee. Thank you, council president. So, Saturday was opening day for the Walduk pool. Uh, thank you to all the
departments that uh worked together to make sure that uh we had a smooth opening. It was not quite swimming weather, but our guards were ready to jump in. They were there. They were ready to go. They did a great job of preparing and making uh the grounds and the pool itself look beautiful. Uh we're
doing great on the um side of registrations. We are slightly higher than where we were last year at this time. um and they just keep coming in. So, um encourage anybody who has any questions with the new structure for this year to please feel free to call or
email me. Um but registration's going great. Also, a reminder that the swim team registration deadline is Friday, June 20th. Practices will begin on June 23rd. We've got um a great head coach who's ready to take on another season
here. Uh so, there are spots available. There's three different age categories for the children who are interested. And again, it's open to both Midland Park swimmers and Waldwick resident swimmers. Um, so that's that's about it. Thank you. Thank you,
Burough Attorney. Thank you, Council President. Uh, we still don't have the numbers for the PIFA settlement. Hopefully, we should have them soon. They were supposed to be out by the end of May, so maybe within the next week. Um, but at the next meeting, I can report further
on. That's for the initial settlements with DuPont and 3M. The next set BASF and TAO. We we don't have any for any updated information yet on those. There's also the only other item is there's an agenda a resolution being added to the
agenda that we uh I forgot to forward over. It's for the assignment of a developer agreement for six Monroe. uh the prior developer who has the approvals is selling the project to another LLC. We did all the the
background on it and this is like a pro for under the developers agreement that's recorded. You have to authorize the assignment of the in the uh the transfer. So that'll be added on to your consent agenda this evening. But that's all. Thank you, Council President. Will we be going into close session? No items
for close session. Thank you. Clerk, please read the consent resolutions and resolutions of the governing body. Be it resolved that the following resolutions here were implicit by consent having been considered by the governing body of the Burough of Boulder hereby passed and approved. 2025 165 approval of consent.
2025166 approval of minutes regular meeting and close session meetings of May 13, 2025. Policy votes A. Stephanie Rodriguez requests to use Pavilion B on June 7th from 12:00 to 5:00 for a birthday party with alcoholic beverages being served. B. Esther Hutchinson
request to use Pavilion A on June 13th from 2 p.m. to dusk for a class party with alcoholic beverages being served. C. Nadia uh Searchinger Sernacher uh request to use Pavilion B on June 22nd from 12:30 to um dusk for a
birthday party with alcohol beverages. Selena Pal requests to use Pavilion B on June 28th from 1 to 6:00 p.m. for a birthday party with alcohol beverages being served. E. Michelle Elliot request to use Pavilion A on August 2nd from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. for a family
picnic with alcohol beverages being served. An Felick band request to use Burough Park on Friday, August 29th for a free concert from 7:00 p.m. to 8:15 sponsored by the Walduk Lions Club with the DPW to provide chairs and turn on lights in Pavilion A.
2025-167 support the Major Richard Star Act. 2025168 approval of towing contracts for June 1, 2025 through May 31st. June uh May 31st, 2026. 2025169 authorized liquid license
renewals for 2025 20226 2025170 approval of raffle license 2025-03 for the Waldo baseball association 2021 171 appointment to the environmental advisory committee 2025172 authorized refund of a water over payment
2025173 authorized pool membership refund 2025174 authorizing the bureau of tax collector to prepare and mail estimated tax bills in accordance with public law 1994 chapter 72.
2025175 payment of vouchers 20251 177 is authorizing assignment of the developers agreement for the estate of D Martini to 6 Monroe Waldwick LLC block 134.02 lot 15.
Do I have a motion? Mike Richie second. Mr. Bren, can we take a vote? Sure. Uh, Mr. Brennick, yes. Miss Sarak, yes. Mr. Marello, uh, recuse on 2025 170 for
affiliation with that program. Everything else, yes. Thank you, Mr. Raundo. Yes. Mr. Richie? Yes. Mrs. Weber? Yes. Okay. Okay. We need to read the ordinances. Yes.
Ordinance number 2025-12, an ordinance amending chapter 89 towing and storage regulations section 89-212 application for placement on emergency duty list to increase payment of licensing fee to $500.
Are there any questions on the council? Can I have a motion? We need a motion to open. What's that? You just have to open it to the open to the public. Any questions from the public on this ordinance? Not seeing none.
None. Okay. Now, you want a motion? I have a motion. Katie and we take a vote. Yep. Mr. Bernick, yes. Miss Sarah, yes. Mr. Marello, yes. Mr. Roando, yes. Mr. Richie, yes. Mrs. Weber, yes. Reading of ordinance 202513.
Ordinance number 2025-13. An ordinance of the bureau up for decreing position of special law enforcement officers and setting forth the qualifications, powers, and duties of the same. Do I have any questions from the council? See none. Any questions from the
public? Please come forward. State your name. I'm next. All right, just a couple questions on this. Thank you all. Good to see some of you. It's been a while. To say I've been busy is a understatement. Uh, has there
been a study made on the need for an actual special police officer in the schools or has this been just something that the council and the police department has pushed? Has there been any data basically stating what the risk factors are and that can back the
expenditure? What's that? You can answer it. Um yeah, we don't have any solid data. This has been a partnership um with the board of ed and the police department and the bureau. Okay, that's fair. Uh and uh just just will add too this also
came from the special counsel when they had people on there from the public included in that um committee that was set up by board of education which they asked from the council to sit on. So this came from the community as well as board of education and police department. Thank you
mate communities around here other towns that do have those such as the park and other surrounding towns. Um, I don't think they looked at any specific data that says there's a risk or a threat, but just saying that their preparation and you know, why would we be different
than any other small town, right? It's um well anecdotally obviously we I have family in Parkland, right? So, um, a a young a young, uh, nephew who was there. And so, I understand this is a highly
political, but it shouldn't be, uh, uh, topic. Uh, the safety of our children is is everyone's duty here. Everyone as a parent and as a council member and as a police officer. So, I'm not, uh, pushing back at all in having a special police officer. But, I do want to know, I guess, from you, Mr. Richie, and thank
you, Mr. Martinelloo, cuz that is due diligence, right? It's not just, hey, I'm just going to put a police officer out there, right? So, they did do some due diligence. They looked at it. They saw the benefits and some of the pitfalls as we've seen in some of the Eastern Bergen County towns. Financial impact. Now, I'm going to call out
because that's what I do and it's been four years. So, I'm going to say it. The 800 lb gorilla is that this is a nice way for someone to retire from the police force, get a nice little job after the fact, and still be on the payroll while taking the same pension.
That is the reputation of certain towns that I'm aware of which do that. My question is financial impact long-term to the burrow from a tax perspective. Yeah, it's it's it's going to be real. It's going to be real. It's real dollars
and cents. But um it's you know I can say certainly listen I I I I've pushed the narrative many times that I don't think the bureau has a spending problem. I think we have a revenue problem. I think we need to continue bringing in new new sources of revenue. These are
programs that the community wants and I think that it would be ill advised for us to push back on that. And certainly a committee was formed and uh on a personal level my my kids don't go to school in Waldwick but they they do have the benefit of having a safety officer in their school. I can tell you the
peace of mind that I have every day when my kids go to school is a luxury that every person in in Waldwick should have. and I do have nieces in the school. So, I I I voted on it from that perspective and I think we need to we I mean we talk about it. We need to solve the financial
problems, but I I I do firmly believe that uh we do that from the revenue side. Got it. So, there's work to and I heard grants and several other programs are in place right now to start to offset some of these new new We're going to start to work. Yeah, absolutely. We're going to work together and uh
we're going to get creative. Great. That's all I had. Thank you. My my question was answered. Okay. Any other questions? Can you can I get a motion? Motion. Mr.
Marello? Mr. Bren, please take your role. Mr. Bren, yes. Miss Sarakola Drake, yes. Mr. Marello, yes. Mr. Roando, yes. Mr. Richie, yes. Mrs. Weber, yes. Clerk, please read ordinance number 25-14.
Ordinance number 25, 2025-14, an ordinance to authorize the vacation of an easement located on block 18.04, lot 2 by the Burough of Wick and extinguishing any rights that the Burrow of Wick may have in said easement. Are there any questions from the council? Do
you want me to freaking out? This is the This is the easement we discussed last week in the uh behind the property on Richard Drive that was reserved back in the uh the 40s for utility installation and maintenance. It's never nothing's ever been put there. We've confirmed that with all the departments and the
engineer. So, we're just extinguishing the rights on that property. Any questions from the public? I see none. Motion Mr. Martinelloo. Mr. Sarakola. Okay. Can I have a vote? Yep.
Mr. Bernick. Yes. Mr. Colola Drake. Yes. Mr. Marlo. Yes. Mr. Romano. Yes. Mr. Richie. Yes. Mrs. Weber. Yes. Clerk, please read ordinance number 25 2025-15. Ordinance number 2025-15. an ordinance
amending ordinance number 2024-05 fixing the compensation salary and wages of the officials and employees of the bow of Waldweek. Would you like to speak to this chair? Uh thank you council president. Um since the the last meeting the only major
changes which I noted to all of you are we're we have increases um here for the fire department officer position. So you see those changes reflected in the green copy that you have in front of you. Um, other than that, this ordinance sets
all the ranges for all the positions within the burrow. Um, and just a a process clarification, we need to vote to amend the ordinance uh to add the fire department changes and then before we have the public hearing. Yes. And so,
just to be clear, we myself, Mr. Brennick, and Miss Weber can vote on this because we're not in direct correct. Yeah. you do not receive a direct financial benefit from those. Okay. Thank you. Minor changes. So, we just need a motion and a second to amend
to add the fire department um officer position. Mr. Bren, Mr. Brennick, and Miss Weber. Okay, we'll do a roll call. We can have a roll call. Yep. Uh Mr. Brennick, yes. Miss Sarah, yes. Mr. Martinell, yes. Mr.
Roando, yes. Mr. Richie, yes. Mrs. Weber, yes. Now you can open it up to the public. Do we have any questions from the public? Can I have a motion to pass ordinance 202515?
Motion. Mr. Bren. Motion. Mr. Richie. Take a roll call, please. Mr. Brennick, yes. Mr. Drake, yes. Mr. Marello, yes. Mr. Romeo, yes. Mr. Richie, yes. Mrs. Weber, yes. Clerk, can you read resolution 2025 176
authorized? Yeah. Authorized salaries for 2025. And Mr. Neil, please. Um, yep. So, this resolution actually just sets the rates for the spec uh specific employees now.
Okay. Thank you. Any questions from the council? Any questions from the public? This is just the resolution. The resolution. Yeah, you're good. You're good. So, you just need a motion. Need a motion. Mr. Richie, Mr.
Bren have a roll call. Mr. Brennick, yes. Mr. Eric, yes. Mr. Martinelloo, yes. Mr. Roando, yes. Mr. Richie, yes. Mrs. Weber, yes. Introduction. Just one. Yeah. Introduction ordinances. Uh, clerk, can you please read ordinance number
2025-16? Ordinance number 2025-16, an ordinance to amend section one entitled establishment membership of chapter 20 entitled police department to increase the number of patrol officers from 13 patrol officers to
14. And so he just this is what he said. Okay. A motion is in order to move and pass the ordinance on first reading and that the municipal clerk be authorized to publish the said ordinance and notice of hearing in accordance with law with the public hearing on said ordinance to
be held at 7:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard on Tuesday, June 17th, 2025. Can I have a motion? Mr. Marello, second by Miss Whoever. Oh, sorry.
You handed it to me. I know. I'm new at this. I know. It's okay. Mr. Bick, yes. Miss Sarah Colri, yes. Mr. Martinell, yes. Mr. Roundo, yes. Mr. Richie, yes. Mrs. Weber, yes. Okay, good. We go into unfinished business. Correct. Correct.
Unfinished business. Uh, I have one comment that was given to me by the mayor. He asked um out of courtesy for the residents if we could all refrain from using cell phones and texting during the meeting out of respect for them as well as people on the council.
Uh he wanted me to add that tonight. Um that's all I have under unfinished business. Question. Council President, I use my phone to read my report from my Google doc. Is that acceptable? Um you can you can use the iPads that we were
given. That's what most people use. Noted. Thank you. Yeah. Any other unfinished business? I have unfinished business as well. Um I just had a question for Steve. I think I've asked this before, but is there any update on getting that specific tab or section on the website about the
redevelopment? Yeah, I have it pretty much built out. It's just not published yet. So, I'm hoping to finalize that hopefully by tomorrow or Thursday. Um then I'll I'll send that over to you guys just to review, make sure you capture everything, and then we'll get it up. Perfect. Thank you.
Steve, also along that same lines, um I believe the next council meeting will be after primary is over. So would you be starting to look at that list that we compiled at that point for discussion? Uh yes, anything else? New business. Anyone have
any new business? See none. I think that's it. Public comments. Public comments. Anyone have anything to Please state your Yeah. Come to the day. Uh come to my phone because it has data
on it. Well, no. Um is reference to the council, not to the public. Um so, a few questions. Um if I recall, last year our pride flag was stolen off of the just the Oh, I'm
sorry, Katherine Hartman. Sorry. Uh, our pride flag was stolen off of the fence. Um, I quickly looked it up and a municipality can charge up to about $1,000 in penalties for vandalism of that nature. Stolen flags of municipal property. Could we maybe post like a
little sign with it this year that says, you know, stolen property will be investigated and prosecuted or a potential fine or just something so that, you know, that doesn't hopefully happen. Council, a deterrent. Yeah, a deterrent. Thank you. Yes. Council, what do you
think? It's up to you guys. I, you know, this was a one-time thing. I don't know if it's going, you know, it's not in a safe place, per se. Like, I could go up and take it, but if there could be some sort of deterrent, even if it was in your proclamation, something just, you know,
um, I don't see a downside. I don't see a downside really. Thank you. Um, where can we find this Zoom link for next meeting? Should be posted on the agenda. Correct, Steve? Yeah, it's once it's all
set up. Um, we actually we have to upgrade our plan that it'll be set up as a webinar. Um, just so everyone's aware. So, the camera actually I was testing it today. We'll be set up here. You'll be able to log in, but you'll come in as just a participant. So, no one will be
on video. Um, you'll just be there to to listen in. During the public comment portion, we ask you to raise your virtual hand. We allow you to speak, but you'll never be on camera. And that will be somewhere on the town website. Yeah, it'll be on the on the website. It'll be the same link, too. Uh, reoccurring for all council meetings. Oh, good. Okay.
We'll share that as soon as we have that info. Right. Excellent. Um, and then I had one other question. Um, and it this is not related to something we have talked about and I'm not trying to catch anyone off guard, so that's that's not my goal here. Um the report of the uh Narcan I
mean I'm sorry the opioid uh uh settlement funds for 2024 came out and uh we still have about as of the end of 2024 fiscal year we had about $63,000 worth of uh unallocated funds. Um I'm a
social worker. I know a lot about uh the opioid crisis and I know that Narcan is a uh incredibly effective tool that can save lives and I'm wondering um what either new programs we can do or new interventions. I know that we're sort of
currently supporting our current programs with the funds and I agree that's very important but I'm wondering how we can maybe um enhance our interventions or education outreach uh or potential treatment options for our community so that you know nothing
horrible that could be intervened upon occurs. Um yeah, so you are right that's about where we're at with our funds. um we have been using it to help offset some of the police outreach programs, things like that. It's a lot of money still. So, we actually are um the plan is to
allocate some of it towards the the SLEOs, the the specials um for some of the the you know outfitting them, on boarding them and some of their equipment the who I'm sorry for the special law enforcement officers. Oh, in the schools. In the schools. Oh,
interesting. Okay. Okay. I hadn't thought of that. So, that'll go part of it. Um and then we are going to you know we'll try and and partner with the police on more and there's been some discussion with the health commission also they've um reached out they wanted to set up some educational program and we are going to work with them also.
Great. Okay. That's really good to hear. Um just another push for providing Narcan for anyone interested um maybe at a central location where they could come pick it up. Um I've seen it used on the street and it really is miraculous. Thank you. Thank you.
Anyone else? Uh, Theodore Szo, uh, just a simple request. In the future, I noticed at the library and around town flags at half masked. Is there a chance that on the weekly blast we could be notified who
it's in in deference to? So, I mean, you've had I I know it's done in the past with firemen and things like that, and I think it would just be a good idea if you let the community
know. I'd appreciate it. Even if it's after the fact, if we if we know, we can do that. Some, you know, they come at random times. It may not coincide with when the blast goes out, but if we know about it, we certainly can do that. No, I can also understand if it's done
uh after the person is buried because my understanding is the flag goes back up after the burial. Correct. So, it's just a point of information. Yep. Thank you. Thank you. Any
other anyone else from the public? One more. Good evening everybody. Mr. Council President, thank you very much and thank the council for the pedestrian lights on Prospect Street. Exc Sorry, can we just have your name for the record? Ah, Joanne Mitchell. Thank you.
Thank you for the lights on Prospect Street for pedestrians. I've used them successfully several times. They seem to work most times, but I am sorry to report they do not work all the time. And on one of my crossings, actually two
of my crossings, I was cheerfully waved to by various vehicles as I was standing in the middle of the street in the crosswalk with the lights flashing. The reason for my bringing it up is I wonder if we could supplement the small
brown lights with the larger rectangular strobe lights that go below the pedestrian crossing sign. I realize that's an ad to it, but I think some of the drivers on Prospect do not see the signs. In driver safety, we call that
inintentional blindness, and there's a lot of it going around these days. So that would be my request, but thank you very much for the signs. They are help. On another matter, I am very sorry to report that I'm still having issues with
the color of the water in my house. And I read with interest to the reports about the water department and I would like to know when we expect the first phase of the hydraulic study to be completed and when we can expect a report.
Uh yeah, so the first phase of the study is completed. They they completed all the hydrogen uh flow testing a couple weeks ago now at this point. Um so we had a follow-up meeting with their GIS engineer last week to kind of go over some clarifying questions um models of
pumps, you know, the head pressure, some things like that to kind of tie everything together. Um so that should be finalized probably this week or next and then we'll kind of we'll move into phase two, which would be a public presentation. um you know the full release of a
report, some recommendations. So we we are going to start to head into phase two now. So it was really all the data collection, everything's pretty much together. Um they've built out their model, so now they're just finalizing it before everything's, you know, confirmed and and ready to report out. Has a root
cause been established? Not yet. Okay. Do we have any reasonable theories that can be shared when the report is released? Uh yeah, all that will be shared. One reasonable theory is like as we've said is just from the amount of work that was done to the system during
the POS remediation, everything has changed really. It was a shock to our system. Uh flow patterns are different, pressure is different, and we've made a lot of different upgrades um with the infrastructure. So it it's kind of all contributing. There's all different
factors. We can't point to one right now. Will there be a technical report released as well? Uh, sure. We could we could work on that. Do we have a date? Uh, no set date. We're hoping to kind of finalize that I like I said within the next week or two um for for the public
portion of that. Very good. Thank you very much for the information. Anyone else? Hi, I'm Mary Mulvaney from East Prospect Street here in Waldwick. Um, very quick question, but it's water related. Um several months ago I received a letter
from the town saying that they were going to be also testing the lead piping um in this in the pipes that went down at least for I I read it so long ago I don't remember all of it but it was like for houses that were built before 1965.
My question is, is this going to be done or are we waiting for everything else to be done first? Because there's lots of um well, there's things in my yard I need to do, but I'm not going to put in a new uh wall and then have it all ripped out if
pipes have to be redone. Um so I was looking for a kind of a calendar schedule on um what when that work was going to happen. You go. Uh, so it's a lead service line replacement. If you want to jump in, I'm
sorry, right on East Prospect. Yeah. Um, so that work is ongoing. They've been doing it. Oh, they've been doing it. So it's called they can determine um so they will go, you know, they're checking the service lines in the curb boxes to check that connection. So it's really to check the service line in from from the
street, the main to the curb box and then the curb box into the actual house. That's what they're checking. So, they check at the curb box, check that connection, see if it's galvanized or a lead line going into the home. Um, if it's from the main to the curb box, that's us to replace. So, if that's
found to be lead, we're have to replace that from the curb box into the house. The service line, that would be on the homeowner to replace. There's we're Oh, at the curb, right? From the curb into the house. Correct. Yeah. So, we have our piece and then the homeowner has the other. But how are they going to go do
they have to um dig in to find out what's going on? So for the check, it's really just in the the rightway that in the main line down the street. Yep. Um Okay. If you know if it's found that you have a lead
service line or galvanized going into your home, the recommendation is to replace it, but we would notify you that. Um and then that would be your responsibility to do. It does require digging up, you know, a pretty significant trench into your house if if
you go that route. Okay, fine. Um the other uh Okay, there's are there any are there any grants coming down? I'm assuming there's none um with the way the state budget is right now, but
I'm assuming there's a zip. But um anything coming down from the state to help homeowners with this for this if it has to happen replacements? No, not that I'm aware of for homeowner assistance. But it's but it is statemandated.
Correct. So it's another unfunded mandate. Okay. God love it. Okay. I don't think that the president has to. It's kind of a choice. The bow has to replace at the the main on our side of the Okay. Exactly.
Yeah. The burrow side has to be changed, right? The homeowner side, it's a notification process. So, Oh, so if you fix change our our side of it, is a is a is the burrow's fee. So if the lead is fixed there, then I would assume
sometimes they are it'll clear out eventually. Well, galvanized and lead is in the same boat. So if your service line from the curb box into your home is galvanized or lead, that that's something you would have to look into replacing. Okay. At that point, most
houses in in the town are galvanized. Okay. Do you have any idea what the schedule is for them to get? So, they did head into this part of town along East Prospect. They did all the other stuff fairly recently. They haven't done anything. No, they just they marked out
right on White About. They just marked them out. They haven't just started. Yeah, I don't think they've started digging over there, but they did do some along Prospect here. Um I could check in. We could talk after real quick if you want. I'd love that cuz I've left three messages and nobody's gotten back to me. So that's what I that's the main
point but thank you. You have a follow sorry Katherine Hartman I just have a followup about the leadline stuff. Is there any estimate on number of houses properties that might be affected by this?
Um not right now off the top of my head. We can kind of do get a rough estimate just based on the the year they were built. Okay. Um, you know, we know anything after, you know, the 1965 date will not have it because they stopped utilizing that. But, and if somebody
moved into their house within the last 10 years, would that have been part of their inspection process? No. No. And that's something that's being talked about. Okay. Having that as, you know, part of the CEO process. Okay. That's really interesting. Um, but that's like a, you know, I'm sure that's a
statewide, countrywide situation. Um, and then I did remember my question about the grants. When we signed up with this new agency, did they sort of say we So, we're paying them what $30,000, $35,000, $30,000. You know, are they
saying we will get you this $30,000 back? Are they, you know, that's what we're hoping to hear when they come present. We really want to push them. I mean, I think we all of us really want to push them to get maximum return on that investment and not only look at, you know, they'll have their tried and
true. do they apply for these 10 or 15 grants every year? We really want to push them to go outside of that box and I think we're going to be annoying hopefully to them and we'll get more back, but uh we'll hear more when they when they come and present. And I think that's an opportunity for
you to also come and ask questions and be part of that that conversation. I mean, I think Mary, that'd be a great question for them about like, hey, homeowners, could you help with lead line replacement? Um and then uh that was the end of that thought
process. All right. Thank you. Thanks. Anyone else from the public? I hear none. Can I have a motion for journment? Mike Richie and Joe Morell. Mr. Brick. Yeah. Mr. Cre. Yes. Melo.
Yes. Mr. Yes, Mr. Richie. Yes, Mrs. Weber. Yes.