It went back. We're good. That's good. >> It went back on. It said we were lost. I >> Yeah. Yep. This meeting is being held in conformance with Sunshine Law. Notice of time, date, and place has been furnished to the Bergen record in Ridgewood News.
Notice has also been posted on the bulletin board of the administration building. Would the clerk kindly take the role? >> Mayor Gordano >> here. >> Mr. Brennick >> here. >> Mr. Marello >> here. >> Mr. Roundo here. >> Mr. Richie here. >> Mrs. Weber here. >> Everyone kindly stand for the pledge of
allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Let us have a moment of silence for all
our Walter veterans and all veterans across our country who have given the ultimate sacrifice to protect and serve our country so that we can live in a land that is free so we could assemble the way we are tonight. Clerk, please do the 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 is 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. >> Amen. Tonight, I'm honored to honor five individuals who during their summer u swim classes or swim uh
present swim meet today. I'm sorry. Let me start from the beginning. Tonight we're honor we are here to honor five individuals who are lifeguards who have done an excellent job and they save lives. I'd like to have Melanie, Joseph, Jessica, Isabella, and I know Haley's
running late. Are you here? >> Which one of you? How are you? I'd like to have you all come on up. Please come up. I was going to have your mom and dad come up, but now that you're here, that's good. On July 4th, 2025, Melanie was sitting
at chair 2. She observed a small girl with a green cast jump into the 3 ft wall. The little girl never completely broke the surface of the water. After jumping in, Melanie blew three whistles and jumped in the water. Right before Melanie got to the child, the mother
jumped in and grabbed the daughter. Melanie's quick response saved the girl from being seriously hurt. And we'd like to thank Melanie. We'd like to present her with a certificate from the Burl Waldick and from the police department for a job well done. On July 10th, 2025, Joe was walking past
chair number one and saw a child go under in shallow end. Joe counted to 15, blew three whistles, used a compact jump to enter the water, and used a submerged victim rescue to save the child. After the child was saved, Joe went to the ch
to chair number two and continue to do his job protecting our residents. Joe's quick response saved the child's life. And not only did he save a life, he also went back to work and did what he enjoys doing, being a lifeguard in the burrow. Congratulations. On August 3rd, 2025, Isabella was
sitting in chair number two at the Waldy pool. Two boys were trying to swim across the pool in 4T section by the center ropes. About halfway through the pool, one of the boys stopped swimming. He turned to look back to see how far he swam. He yelled, "Oh no!" and went under
the water. He did not immediately resurface. Is Isabella blew three whistles, used a compact jump to enter the water, and arrived at the child. At the same time, Jessica was walking past chair number two, saw the child go under and jumped into action as well by
jumping into the water using a stride jump and used a front submerge assist to save the child. Both Isabella and Jessica used the rescue tube to bring the child back to the wall. Both Isabella and Jessica quick response saved the boy from being seriously hurt.
We want to thank you very much for doing the greatest job that you could do. Last but not least, Haley. She had three saves so far. Congratulations. On June 13th, Haley was sitting in chair number two. Two small girls jumped in on
the 4ft sign. Both girls immediately started to struggle to stay above the water. The girls appeared to be trying to hold on to one another. The first girl pushed the second girl away from her and grabbed for the wall, making it to the wall. The second girl submerged
to the bottom and did not resurface. She was holding her nose with one hand and waving her other hand at the surface of the water. She was in static. She was static in water. Haley blew three whistles, used a compact jump to enter
the water, and used the rear simple assist to lift the girl out of the water and place her on the pool deck. On July 10th, Haley was sitting in chair number two. That's a special chair number two. Haley observed a 10-year-old girl attempt to swim across the width of the
pool in 4t 6 in of water. Halfway across the pool, the girl stopped swimming. She turned back the way to to see what she how far she uh was going and called out to her mother, "Help me." She could not stand and she could not reach the rope.
Haley blew three whistles, used a compact jump to enter the water, and executed an active drowning front rescue. That same day, Haley was sitting once again in chair number two. A boy and a girl jumped into the shallow end by the ropes in the 4T 6 in of water.
The girl was a solid shallow end swimmer. The boy trying to follow his sister across the pool made it about 20 ft from the wall. His swimming momentum had stopped. He was trying to grab the rope separately and at the shallow end from the deep end of the pool. He called
out to his sister for help. Haley blew three whistles, used a compact jump to enter the water, and used the front active drowning technique to save the child. The first girl pushed the second girl away from her and grabbed for the wall, making it to the wall.
That is something that's really special that you have done. The second girl submerged into the bottom of and did not resurface. She was holding her nose with one hand and waving her hand to the surface. You blew your whistle, took care of everything. All of you, all of
you exemplify what it means to take action and help save a life. We want to thank you so much for being the heroes that you are, for keeping our residents safe as they enjoy being members of the Waldick Pool. And always remember, a lifeguard is like a light guiding others
to safety, a beacon of hope and security. You all should be very proud of yourselves. We want to thank you for a great season so far and we we wish you much success and happiness in the year coming up, in school, and in the rest of your summer. We want to thank you Haley
for your three saves and everyone else for all you have done for the B burrow and for our young residents it's one thing to want to do it's one thing to want to have a job in the in the summer but it's another job to to save people and all of you has done a
great job in saving our residents and without your help. God knows what would have happened. You guys are all assets to the burrow. We're very proud of all of you. Your parents, I know, are very proud of you, and you should be proud of yourselves. You people are our future, and I know Wald could be in good hands
with all of you. And I want to thank you very much. At this time, we'll take a minute break to congratulate everybody. And who's working tomorrow? tapes are on. >> At this time, we're going to ask um Hop Light Communications who's here to do a
presentation for us. >> Good afternoon, mayor and committee members. Peter Lup, Hoplight Communications. I'm your telecommunications consultant. Um so, just give a little bit of background. 19 Industrial Way. There's an existing uh monopole right there on um sitting
there. Uh it's owned by Crown Castle International. There's three carriers on there. Uh and I identified a opportunity potentially to um maximize revenue from the tower. I do this in Allenale, Hocus, um Midland Park, and a whole bunch of other local municipalities where we take
over the tower. Uh and we would own the tower. The tower itself is probably worth about $300,000 itself. Uh, and I identified um, sorry. Thank you. There you go. Appreciate it. >> Yeah, you got to keep that door open. Excuse me. That door has to stay open. Public meeting. >> Okay.
>> Thank you. >> So, um, so we have an opportunity now to monetize and I identified an ability or um an opportunity to get another $77,000 immediately. Um, I'm actively recruiting Dish to go on the poll. That would be another roughly $40,000 a year. And if
we get a high frequency trader, I'm going to actively market it. might be another $80,000 a year from a high frequency trader. So, uh at least at a minimum of $77,000 initially and then that could climb up to another 40,000 on top of that. So, uh call it roughly $120,000 and maybe up to $190,000 in
additional revenue which is not as exciting saving lives like the lifeguards who are here. Uh very important, very nice to be able to witness that but still uh in in a place with great inflation. Uh a town like ours, we don't have much in the way of readables. It's a nice way of getting additional revenue for uh for the for
the burrow. So my recommendation I've been in a good consultation uh with Florious Rudy and also the business administrator and Tatiana about this opportunity. The lease expires August 17th. Um and my recommendation is to send a termination notes to Crown Castle International. Assume ownership of the
tower and uh start bidding out uh to the existing tenants and start um you know hopefully making um a lot more money than we are right now. Um, one thing I just want to identify as a potential uh, weakness in here is that the uh, tower there's a um, there's um, agreements between us and the um, and the carriers
directly. But I believe that once the undergrounding uh, underlying uh, license agreement um, expires that also expires as well. So I've been vetting this and socializing it with all the carriers. I have not heard any objection with it. So my uh recommendation to mayor and committee member council members is to move ahead with the
cancellation and to move forward with a bid. Uh any questions of me? >> Have we had an attorney look at that uh the underlying agreement on >> I'm the attorney? The attorney? >> Yes, I'm the telecommunications attorney. Yeah. >> All right. So then uh >> and and I've been in conversation with
Craig as well. So yes, we've had uh telephone conversations with the business administrator. So I've been talking to Craig about once or twice on phone and by emails. >> Yep. And I'm a lawyer, too. Yeah. >> Fair enough. >> Two questions for me. Um, one was for
any maintenance on the tower and stuff like that under the lease agreement. Does anything change to borrow responsibility or the carriers who are using that um responsible for any maintenance on there? >> That's a very good question. So, the two things we're going to do, number one is um we're going to um the one expense
we're going to have is insurance on the tower. And I think we go through the GIF is about 3 to 5,000. Uh Allenale took over their tower. So I've dealt with the mayor and council on that. And also Franklin Lakes also did that. I think the insurance is 3 to 5,000. I think Steve might have priced that. I think it's a fair range about 3 to 5,000.
That'll be an additional expense to um to us. Um but in terms of maintenance and maintaining the tower uh structurals, I'm going to have the um carriers do that. So we're going to have them as part of their shared responsibility in the tower um to do um annual structural agree analysis of it
climate do mappings and that won't be on the on us it'll be on the carriers. >> Okay. >> You had two questions right? >> Yeah. The second question was how do we find a high frequency trader? I would imagine what's the site in Ma you know there's probably a lot are out there you just solicit or there's is there a problem? >> Yeah and I I have I have contacts over
there. So uh right now we're we're doing this in other towns. Allenale is actually recruiting but there are multiple HFTs right now. So I would actively market it. I would go around and uh seek other HFTs that go on there. So highfrequency traders is what HFT stands for and they basically go in a
straight line as much as possible from Chicago exchange to New York City. MAWA has got this Fort Knox looking things all the servers and alikes. Uh they they telegraph everything directly to New York City. So when you execute a trade uh goes from New York City to MA and right to Chicago. So um they pay a lot
of money. So, for example, in Allenale, they they they paid about 90,000 a year to have an elevation on the pole, and I would like to do that here as well for Walwick. >> Thank you. >> Yep. >> And you'll just keep in contact with Steve and Tatiana about everything. >> Uh I'm in constant communication with
them. Yep. >> Good. Excellent. Thank you, >> Chris. Mayor, >> anybody else have any questions? >> Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. Committees. Under my committee, just a couple of items. Uh I've been in
contact with Dan Maro and uh from the board of ed, he's the board of ed president in regards to uh the um school committee or safety school committee meeting that we've had or we had. There was a group of parents that were there and they're very concerned about two
items. One item was busing children in and out of the school. Um Dan Maro has uh spoke with me that in September they're going to do a poll with all the parents to see if they want this. At this meeting we had the parents that
were concerned about busing real said that they don't care if they have to pay for it. So unfortunately whoever is going to be bust they're going to be paying for it on their own. But the board of ed wants to make sure that this is what all the all the students parents want to have done for all those who have
to be busted. Also, um, September's coming and you'll know notice about the all the different signage on Summit Avenue. They're all ready for it. The board of ed, our police department's ready for it. We'll be monitoring it the first week in September to make sure everything goes right. If there's any
problems, we will take care of it right away so that there's no no uh problems. Also, there was another resident who came to the meeting that was concerned about adding another crossing guard at the overpass from the HCA section into
over the train over the train trestle into uh our area here down on 17. Uh what we've done is uh our administrator spoke with Troy Troy Seafford, Lieutenant Seafford and uh what they're doing is they have to wait till September when school starts to see how
much uh action is in that area to decide if they need another crossing guard. They used to have one there. They took it away because there wasn't so much traffic there with children crossing, but they're going to review it once again in September. They can't do anything now because nobody's crossing, but once September comes, they will take
care of all that. Uh other than that I have not Oh, I would like to thank everyone who was involved with the uh the meeting we had uh on teams for the water. There was about 50 residents. A lot of good uh questions were uh raised and a lot of good answers were given. We
we want to thank you for being a part of that. We will we'll have other meetings in person and like that also as we progress along with the water. also all those who came here to meet with Lieutenant Seafford uh when uh we we had from 1 to 4 I think it was to talk about
the Summit Avenue and the traffic there um the traffic pattern. I want to thank you all for coming. I know that you had your questions answered. A lot of um misinformation was given out. A lot of misinformation was told to people by neighbors or whatever. And it was good that we had Troy Seaffort here,
Lieutenant Seaffort to explain everything and get everything straight. And I think that's what we'll be doing a lot lately moving forward. Whenever we have an issue that is in importance to the residents, which a lot of issues are, we will have meetings like this so that if people are not aware what's going on, they have an opportunity to
come here and they get to speak to the people that are implementing these changes. That's all I have to report for now. Financial and administrative committee. Mr. Rich. >> Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, everyone. And I have just two items uh for my committee report today and they
really just um refer to two resolutions uh that we will be uh discussing. So the first is uh related to the audit. So you'll see two resolutions 243 uh 244. One is approval of the um I'm sorry 242 and 243. One is uh certification of the
annual audit. Uh we got the results back between the last meeting and this meeting. And then the second is the uh corrective action plan. Um, so I think Steve's working on getting the auditor to come uh potentially sometime in September and give a formal overview of of what the audit findings were. So, um,
I won't go into too much detail. Just I think from a very high level, uh, if anyone read it, um, there weren't any major findings. I think you, you know, probably could give the audit an A. Uh, you know, uh, a minus at worst, very small findings. And when you look at the corrective action plan, when you think
about the thousands of transactions that we do each year, uh there's really only like four four findings. So, uh very minor in scope. Uh we have a fantastic finance uh team and and CFO. So, I would expect nothing less. Uh I think the big uh piece of information that that I and
we were all were waiting for was information on the surplus. Um and so just a just a very uh high level overview. Um when we do our budget every year, you can you can um uh you can basically uh diminish it down to two two
aspects, right? Uh you can reduce it down to two aspects, money in and money out. In an ideal scenario, money in equals money out. Uh but that's not always the case. Um going back 10 years, uh the delta between money in and money out was about 700,000. In 2024, uh was
about 2.1 million. So, uh, that delta, uh, tends to be covered by our surplus or our savings balance. Now, uh, for about a 10-year period, um, it wasn't such a big deal. We would borrow money from surplus to balance the budget, but the approp or the appropriations, which
is money out, uh, tended to be padded in such a way that we didn't use it all. We didn't spend it all. We would plan to spend it, but not spend it all. And so, at the end of the year, the money we borrowed would go back in, and we would actually put even more in. So, our surplus was growing. But as the years went on, you start to see that shrink and shrink and shrink and shrink. And in
2023, uh, was the first year that we put less back. And so our our fund, our surplus reduced from 7.5 million to about 7.1 7.15 million. So we reduced it about 350,000. Uh, in 2024, which is what the audit was
on, we we we borrowed about 2.1 million or we we allotted 2.1 2.2 million from surplus to to balance the budget. And um unfortunately we only put back about 1.5. So we've now reduced our surplus to just about 65 million. So we've taken
about a million out of surplus over the last two years. So continues to accelerate and um so it is what it is. We'll we'll continue to have discussions on that. But that is the that is the audit. Um the second piece is you'll see uh a resolution here 2024 to call for
the immediate restoration of energy taxes to municipalities. This is a great resolution. I don't know who recommended it, but it was a great recommendation nonetheless. Um, it was >> it was recommended by Michelle and also by uh Councilwoman Circle. >> Fantastic. Uh, fantastic resolution. So,
what's going on here? So, the, you know, utility authorities, right, where it's whether it's electric or gas or whatever, they run their pipes or their wires all throughout town. They have to pay for the ability to to lay all that infrastructure down. Back in the late 90s, the the state decided that they
were going to be the one to collect all of the fees or the taxes from these utilities companies and and then they would be so kind as to give that back to all the municipalities. But as happened, what happens in Trenton uh is they they tend to misappropriate things left and right and they start putting that money
towards other things and and it starts to run out. That's a real issue. Along the way, they released something called supplemental uh energy. Uh so that's called energy tax revenue, I think, ETR. uh or energy some people >> tax receipts >> energy tax receipts we take about 2.3
million in ETRs every year to to uh balance our budget and along the way they released additional or supplemental uh um aid to burrows. Uh one of them is just quite literally called supplemental energy tax receipts and we took in about
141,000 last year to uh as revenue into our budget. Um, and it seems that that's potentially going to go away this year. It's not it's not budgeted for 2025 or 2026. Um, so $141,000 loss from the
state. That's state aid that's going away. Um, it's not in the resolution, but there's another municipal uh aid about $257,000 that has also not been funded for 2025 or 2026. So, collectively, we're looking at about a $400,000 hit from state aid
for next year's budget. So, you know, on top of all of the hits that we've been taking from uh the the insurance that's going to go up, right, and now the loss of state aid, we're looking at a potential delta of 600 to 700,000 for
next year's budget. So, it's going to be a lot of fun. Um, but this is a resolution compelling the state to take action and give us that money. Uh and so yeah, it was a really good recommendation from Michelle uh to put that on here. So you'll see that resolution. Uh I hope it passes. I'm
fully in support of it. And that is my uh uh report. Mayor, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Fire and police protection committee, Mr. Brennan. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um it's relatively business as usual for the fire department. Since last we met,
we had 23 calls. um gas issues, uh CO alarms, mutual aid calls. Um we had 154 uh emergency responses to date from January 1st. The interesting one was in
July. We had a furnace issue. It was really hot in July, but we had a furnace issue anyway. Um now to the bad news. Um
about a week or 10 days ago, uh while on driver's training, um our tower ladder, uh suffered a malfunction. Uh fortunately, no one was injured, no one was hurt. Uh no property was damaged, but that ladder truck is now out of
service and it's going to need to be uh it's going to need to be fixed. Um, currently we are uh establishing uh estimates um and after that we're going to go out to bid um to uh to get that machine back
on the road. However, I want to assure all of you that while that truck is down and out, that we still have coverage from our surrounding towns as we did uh for quite a long period of time in Allenale, uh we are now getting uh we're
now getting help when help is needed from uh the surrounding towns, Allenale, Wafo, Hogus, etc. Um I will give you more information as we get it and u that's uh that's what we have to deal with.
And that's what I have. >> Could you just meet with, you know, speak with them regularly like once a week to make sure everything's all right with them and the truck and then let us know? >> So, I'm doing that just about daily. >> Good. Perfect. Perfect. Thank you. Public safety committee. Makulla is not
here. Uh when she gets back from I guess on vacation, she will report uh which the ambulance score. I did speak with uh the president of the ambulance core. already speak with him once a week and he wants to thank you Steve for always
listening to him and always uh advising him and always giving them what they need. I did ask him if they need anything from us and he says that he's in good hands because anytime he needs anything he calls you. So thank you for that recreation and health committee Mr. Monell.
>> Thank you Mr. Mayor. uh just like to end my congratulations to the five um young men and women who were up here earlier from the lifeguards and helping saving lives in in town. That's a tremendous bite to see so many of those kids uh participating. >> Chair two, >> chair two. Chair two, that's where to
be. Um other recreation in town. Just want to commend uh uh baseball and softball for wrapping up their season. Our 12-year-old 12-year-old team just came back from Coopertown. So, thank all of you sponsors um and individuals who supported them raising money to go up
there. It was a great experience for them as it is every year. I'm glad they were able to have fun up there and they they were very competitive. They went uh they won three games up there and made it to the playoffs, receiving 55th out of 102 teams, which was pretty good for small town. Um proud of them. Um I know
the fall sports are getting ready. Uh the boys and girls are out there working hard in the heat for football and cheer and soccer season is right around the corner as well. So we're looking forward to that uh on the fields this year. And uh the health department just want to remind people to look at the website.
It's www.nwbrc.org. There's a lot of great programs there, a lot of safety tips. They talk about a lot of the diseases that are out there. Foot and uh hand disease coming up around this corner because schools are coming back. still have a lot of information about COVID and and things like that and there's some really great
programs to learn about uh safety. So hopefully people utilize that resource there. Um thank you. That's it, Mr. Mayor. >> Thank you. Public works committee. Mr. Roando. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh two items uh uh concerns raised by resident uh Ted Senzo
at our last uh smartphone collection regarding the light that's located behind the DPW. I spoke with Troy and he said that we're waiting for a resolution with the insurance company. Uh I guess whoever hit it and we're waiting for
that to be resolved. Once that's resolved, it'll be corrected. Uh the other item is uh DPW and the water department have been working on McDonald A since Sunday uh repairing a water main break and they're looking to get that
completed uh hopefully soon. uh as of today still they have it under control but they're still trying to fix it. >> That's all I have. Mr. Mayor, thank you. >> Thank you. Building the grounds Weber. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um the Lions Park
rehab is underway. Anybody who's been by Burough Park, you can see that it's gone and uh they're working to regrade and the new playground equipment should be arriving uh probably midepptember. So we we're very excited about that pro that uh project uh coming to completion. You
also uh see that at Veterans Park there's been some improvements over there uh with the walkway tree was removed uh so that there can be a new walkway put in. It was unsafe the way that it had been uh prior and the fencing was fixed over there as well. Uh there'll be also some upgrades for EMTT
Park for the entrance there. Those haven't uh begun yet. And then at Burough Park, there going to be some path upgrades uh to get to the back fields and the bleacher areas there. Uh there was also some um upgrades. We had a garage door replacement on Brady
Street and the hot water heater was replaced at the ambulance building. Um those just come under some general maintenance things and uh um just doing day-to-day business over at those two locations. And I I did
wanted to uh thank everyone that participated in the water quality uh meeting uh with H2M. I think H2M did a really good job explaining uh things to the residents and we had a lot of really good uh feedback from the residents and
uh questions that that were answered uh pretty thoroughly by the consultant. I just want to thank everyone for that. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. >> Thank you Administrator. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, I just want to highlight a couple exciting personnel updates. Um, we do have a resolution on
to appoint a new police officer, uh, Jake Putterman. He is currently in Pay County Police Academy. Um, so we are hiring him, uh, through the alt route program, which is a benefit to us, um, because he'll he'll come out of the academy already instead of waiting to place somebody in and and waiting nine
months to get them through. Um, we also have our two CEOs are being appointed tonight. So, I'd like to thank uh Mario Cartas and Michael Christensen. They are both Waldwick residents also. Um, and we also have the appointment of a clerk one in the police department. It's a
part-time position to handle all of our our vast amount of records requests that come in uh that are currently being handled by our high ranking officers. So, that's going to be a huge help to them. And that's all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> I have a clerk. Clerk Kelly.
>> Thank you, Mayor. Um we are gearing up for the general election which is November 4th. Um just various tasks that have to be done with the county that we're working on. Um August 29th there will be a free concert featuring the Waldick band which is sponsored by the
Waldick Lions Club at 7 p.m. at Burough Park. Uh August 30th, our recycling center is closed. Uh September 1st, Burough offices and the recycling center are closed in observance of Labor Day. However, there is regular Monday garbage. It must be curbside by 6:00
a.m. Uh, school will open on September 3rd. Uh, so please drive carefully. Uh, and on September 24th, uh, I'm mentioning this now because you need to make an appointment in advance for the flu clinic, which will be scheduled from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the health center.
It's included in our Friday email blast and is also on our website. So, if people want to, uh, the number, I believe, is on there. And lastly, I have two additional policy votes for consideration. uh you have at your place in green a policy vote for the Waldwick Soccer uh club, their use of Veterans
Park. Um again, they're looking for the August 18th through December 2nd, which is their fall soccer season, Thursdays and Fridays 4:30 till 8 or dark, and Saturdays 8:30 till 1:00 p.m. and Sundays 12:30 till dark. Um so that's
for your consideration tonight. And also uh on in orange at your place is the Walt Lake Warriors football club. They're requesting to put temporary lights as they did last year um for their use of of the field for fall uh 2025 season. They already have their
approval. You did that in uh I think it was June. Um but at that time they didn't think they needed the lights because they thought they were going to be going to the uh high school field which is not ready. So, they're requesting now uh for you to approve the lights, which you did that last year. So, um those are for your consideration
tonight. That's all I have. Thank you. >> Okay. This one uh with the uh the soccer >> using the field. Didn't we do that with them last year? >> The green? >> Yes. >> It's the same. It's It's the same. It's just that we wanted to get it to them and get it. >> So, it's not new. Everything is the
same. >> No. And so that Yes. The first one for Wald is exactly the same. >> Okay. Perfect. >> Okay. >> Anything else? >> That's all I have. Okay, Mr. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. >> Just wanted to uh give a reminder of
notice that we've been getting a lot of requests uh through our online portal, which is great uh for bulk pickups, metal pickups, and electronic pickups. Um it's clear that a lot of people are back in town and cleaning things up before uh school gets started. Uh so
this Friday is the deadline to fill out the form on our website to schedule yourself for a bulk collection pickup next Thursday uh the 21st. Um again, it's on our website right on the homepage you'll find a link that says schedule bulk pickup. Um and just
please keep in mind um you know to keep the the uh the community looking nice that those items cannot be at the curb earlier than the night before the scheduled pickup. So Wednesday night at the earliest. Um, until then, we just ask that you pull everything back onto your property. Um, and Kelly mentioned
it, recycling center will be closed on the 30th. Uh, just keep that in mind as you plan um, you know, uh, discarding your garbage. The other big one that comes up and people um, use a lot is the Bergen County Utilities Authority Household Hazardous Waste Collection.
There is one coming up if you want to plan, put it on your calendar, Saturday, September 6th. That'll be at the Bergen County Camp Mountain Reservation. and that's from 9:00 a.m. until 3 p.m. We have flyers in the foyer of the Burough Hall. This is on the website. Um we have
it all over, but there's a great list of items as you walk through your garage and basement that you might find uh that you can bring over there and uh and get rid of it. And um with that, the just the the pool continues to be successful. I mean, we have people registering every day uh still. So, we're uh our revenue
is definitely up from last year. Our swim team just finished this past weekend. and they did a fantastic job. Um, they brought home hardware from leagues and from counties. Uh, we're proud of them. We're very thankful for coach Meredith and coach Michaela who
really run a a fantastic team and had an awesome season. We're proud of them. Um, and so continue to swim until the very last day which will be Labor Day. That's it. >> And we are going to put out at the end of the season a survey pros and cons of good and bad. >> Yep.
>> What the residents are thinking. Yes, absolutely. We uh we plan to do that for the pool and for the swim team as well. >> Perfect. Thank you, >> Robert Deainy and uh taking the place of our attorney, Craig. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. There's no legal update this evening and we do not need
to go into executive session. >> Okay. Thank you. Content resolutions and resolutions of the governing body. >> Be resolved that the following resolutions here with listed by consent having been considered by the governing body of the Burough of Wald are hereby passed and approved. 202522 approval of
consent. 2025223 approval of minutes regular meeting July 15th policy votes. A Walt Chamber of Commerce request to turn the town teal for the month of September for ovarian cancer awareness month as per their letter dated June 19th. B Reese Lator
requests to you hold a block party on October 4th from 1 to 5:00 p.m. with Smith Street to be closed between West Prospect and Bonner Place with alcoholic beverages being served. C. Caitlyn Davis request to use resilient A on August 31st from 2 to 6:00 p.m. uh for a party
with alcoholic beverages being served. D Waldwick Soccer request to use Veterans Park from August 18th through December 2nd for the date for the times uh listed in their uh August 7th uh email. E
Walduk uh football club request the burrow to uh allow them to put temporary lights on Veterans Field. uh during the fall soccer season. 2025224 call for immediate restoration of energy taxes to municipalities. 2025225
authorization for the execution of an application for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Treatment Works approval Harrison Avenue redevelopment LLC Harrison Avenue block 107 lots 1357 through11 2025-226 award a
fair and open contract toar industries for the police firing range roofing and HVAC replacement in the amount of $767,000 2025-227 choosing not to renew the crown castle lease and to assume Assume ownership of the monopole at 19 industrial park.
2025-228 authorized shared service agreement with the village of Rididgewood for expanded polystyrene packaging recycling services. 2025 229 authorized waiver or permit fee for the Waldick Public Library for the installation of a pergola. 2025230 authorized waiver of
permit fee uh for Burough of Waldo for the rehabilization of the Malcolm Street pumping station. 2025231 authorize a waiver of food retail of the food retail licensing permit fee for all vendors participating in the Chamber of Commerce taste of Waldo event on October
13th. That mean they still have to get the permit but they won't have to pay for it. 2025232 approval of raffle license Waldwick Lions Club. 2025-233 appointment of provisional public works repairer Ezekiel Cort Cortez. 2025-234 Appointment of Jake Putterman as a
police officer. 2025-235 appointment of special law enforcement officer 3 in the police department. Maria Cortez 2025 2236 Appointment of Special Law Enforcement Officer 3 in the police department, Michael Christensen. 2025-237 appointment of part-time clerk and
police department Casey Vessie 2025-238 appointment of PDM Crossy guard Thomas Smith 2025-239 accept resignation of James Addis as public defender effective August 25th 2025 2025240 award a professional service contract for public
defender to William Quirk Esquire 2025241 accept the resignation of Mike Braki as building maintenance worker effective August 1st 2025 5 2025242 certification of the annual audit 2025243
approval of the corrective action plan 2025244 authorized refund of tax overp payments various and 2025245 payment of vouchers do I have a motion and a second to accept by M second by Joe anyone have questions
>> I um just one comment Mr. Mayor on on the u the lights the and veterans. Can we just stress to the soccer association there that uh they make sure to only use them when needed and to turn them off uh you know when they leave to make sure but we do have a lot of residents in
that area. Want to make sure that they're shut off immediately when you get the the diesel fumes and everything else and the noise. So just make sure that they are punctual with taking that off. >> Okay. Yes. I I'll add that to the policy vote when I and then when I respond, I'll include that as well.
>> Anyone else? On 2025-239 and 240, what that is is our public defender, Mr. James Addis. He was he's been here for way way long time. He was a great public defender. He did a great job. All of the police department liked
him. He retired from uh service. He's no longer an he's not being an attorney anymore. He gave up everything to enjoy his uh his retirement and in its place we are hiring a William Cork. When I got received the letter of uh resignation
from Mr. Addis, I called him right away, wished him well, thanked him for his time served with us and asked him who he felt could take his place and be as good as he is here with us. He mentioned the name William Quirk. I spoke with Mr. Quirk. I spoke with our judge. I spoke
with our prosecutor and they all said that he is a very good person. He's from Hackinack. I brought him in here last Friday. He met with myself and the police department personnel and they all felt very good about him taking over. So
on the 25th uh Mr. Cork will be taking over uh the position because Mr. Addis that will be his last day here. And that's all there is about them two people. Anyone else? One more question um on the shared
service agreement with Rididgewood for the um polyostrain packaging. Does anybody have any additional info on that one? >> I was just going to mention that um our styrofoam collection that we host three times a year continues to be very successful. Um but when we collect that material, we need to do something with
it. We've been working with poly molding for the past few years. And so following the collection, we drop it off at poly molding. uh they unfortunately the machine that they use to process and to recycle the styrofoam has broken and there was no really a good ETA on when
we would be able to use them again. So we started to look at other options. This is a great option because it cuts down the trip for our DPW tremendously from where they were going previously. So um fairly relatively, you know, similar in terms of cost. I believe our DPW will be working on the machine.
That'll be a little bit different than the the previous uh drop off, but um a a good opportunity for our towns to work together and us to be able to continue the the collection. >> Does that open up opportunity for us to do it more often since it's going more local? >> Something we can talk about. >> Yeah, I think it's definitely something
we can explore. >> We'll speak to the general environmental committee. >> Yeah, they do a great I wanted to mention that, mayor. I mean, they have their volunteers. They're there. They're working hard and um it's possible that we can do these collections because of them. >> No, it was great. I I went there. I dropped off some styrofoam last time. Uh
Councilman Rando helped me take stuff out of the car, so it was very efficient. Good to get rid of that stuff from there. >> And the equipment and bridge is brand new, so it's it's it's not going to fall apart very quickly. >> Knock on wood. >> Yes. >> Anyone else?
>> If not, clerk, please take the role. >> Mr. Brennan? >> Yes. >> Mr. Martinell? >> Yes. >> Mr. Romano? Yes. >> Mr. Richie? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Weber? >> Yes. Okay, we have one public hearing. Will the clerk kind of read ordinance number
2025-17? Ordinance number 202517, an ordinance to amend chapter 48 fees section 1-10.3 escrow for offduty and outside employment by police officers, item four to increase the administrative fee uh to 8%. Anybody from the council would like
to comment on his audience I was just read. What this is doing is this is just housekeeping. It was 6% now we're just going up to the 8%. And this is for cops that do some police officers not only in here but other towns that come in and do some work for us. Anyone else from the
council? I close the council's comments. Welcome to the public. Anybody from the public would like to comment on this ordinance that was just read? Seeing none, I close the public's comments and ask for a motion in a second to pass his ordinance on second reading and that the clerk be authorized to advertise in a local legal newspaper
as required by law. Do I have a motion in a second? Much by Mike, second by Michelle. >> Clerk, take the role. >> Mr. Brennick, >> yes. >> Mr. Martinell, >> yes. >> Mr. Roundo, yes. >> Mr. Richie, Mrs. Weber, >> yes. >> We have an introduction of an ordinance. The clerk kindly read ordinance number
2025-18. Ordinance number 2025-18, an ordinance to match chapter 48 fees. Section 48 col1 miscellaneous fees subsection 481-10.1 fee schedule for photocopying and other fees to include calendar ad and fee for
same. A motion and a second is in order to move this on first reading and that it be advertised in local legal newspapers required by law setting public hearing two weeks from tonight's meeting at 7:30 p.m. or soon thereafter as the matter may be reached. Motion and a second. Motion by Andy, second by Mr.
Mark. Anyone have a question on this? >> You want to do a little? >> Um, we just needed to set a fee for our calendar ad. Um, anytime we're collecting money, we need to have the ordinance that reflects that we're going to be collecting that money. And I mean,
the bureau has been doing this calendar for a long time. So, um, we really need to >> And the fee is still the same or still? Um the fee did go up to 425. Um um it's been 400 for a really long time. So we just uh tweaked it up a little.
Again, we use this money to offset the calendar, the price, the cost of the calendar. So um it kind of just leaves us in a position where then we just have to worry about the postage. >> Okay. >> So it's really just a housekeeping kind of thing. >> Clerk, take the role. >> Mr. Brennick,
>> yes. >> Mr. Martinell, >> yes. >> Mr. Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Richie, >> yes. >> Mrs. Weber, >> yes. >> Okay. Anybody from the council have unfinished business? >> Anybody from the council have new business? >> Um, I just got a couple of things. I
just spoke with today uh John Denuvio from uh the uh sewer authority and he told me to let everyone know that the month of July, I think you got the paperwork too. Uh there was no odor complaint sent into the uh uh to the authority. Also, they just hired Me
Neglia um company to come in and do some fence work around the area and also to do some tree uh work around the area. I discussed this once before. Uh what they're doing is they're removing trees and bu making bigger trees in there. They're taking care of the residents. A lot of residents are asking them to help
them with their trees being removed and they're accommodating them. Also, they just did a study. What they did was they went to all their buildings that they own in in on the property and what they did was they tested that for odor and what they did was any of the buildings that had an odor in it. They've been
replacing all the garage doors. So that in a way will help also but they're moving forward and as they come as they progress with things they'll let us know. The um they were in the streets a couple of months ago with men looking
about the odor. U Mr. The new said that it was sent to this to to the county and he's waiting for the county supervisors to uh review it and get back to us so that he could give it to us for our uh for us to review and look at it. >> Other than that, that's all I have under
new business. We have any other new business? >> You agree? Yes. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh wanted to uh thank the environmental committee. Uh we did have a styrofoam collection the month of July. It's the first time we probably got more people coming than
we've had in some of the other collections. We filled threequarters of the dumpster. Um, and like to reiterate, you know, what Tatiana stated, you know, going to Haskell was more of a challenge. You know, typically having two members of DBW drive up there about 40-minute ride. So, you was about an
hour and a half just going back and forth where now they're only going down to Richmond. So, it opens up a lot of opportunity. Uh, and uh, I think we'll be paying based on the full dumpster or is it going to be by piece? >> Uh, I believe by piece, but there's a there's a set rate.
>> Yeah. So, there's a minimum rate, but if we don't get the lot, we'll pay a lower fee versus than what we were paying up in Haskell. We had to pay the full rate regardless to whether we had a quarter filled or a full dumpster foot. Uh, I want to thank some of the residents. Actually, Mr. Szo is here. He always
attends all these and he says he's only going to be there for a half hour and he's usually there for most of the uh things. So, thank you Teddy for your your diligence. We appreciate all your help and the rest of the environmental team and the members of the DPW that were there. Um thanks. That's all I have. Mr. Mayor,
>> thank you. Any other new business? >> Yes. >> Yeah, I was just going to note we had one thing listed in there, but we're going to hold that for September. >> Okay. >> Okay. Public comment. Anybody from the public that is here in the building would like to comment, please come to the microphone. Just tell us your name. Once
everyone has an opportunity to speak, then we'll open it up to the people that are out there in TV land. Uh Ted Szo, uh I noticed that on one of your whatever policy votes they had you had to authorize
the environmental protection treatment works approval. Is the earth there contaminated or why did you have to get involved with Department of Environmental Protection
for those properties? Anybody know? I'm curious. >> Oh, yeah. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah, I'll take that one. Uh, so it's a standard application. It's basically just for a sewer a new sewer connection fee for the uh plan development over there. >> Oh, okay. Thank you. >> Yep.
Anyone else? Angela Smith. I'm actually um here just representing Waldick's Access for All Committee as a member and I know with the new um park that's going to be going in over at Burrow. The Lions Club has done a tremendous amount of work and I
really appreciate all the um work and I'm sure the Lions Club will still have their name on it. But if everybody was familiar with um the death of Brennan Mloud, the daughter or the son of Laura and Chant Mloud. Chant was a member of the Access for All Committee. He still
is. And I was wondering what the process would be to maybe have a small tree with the plaque in Brennan's memory. And how that we would go about that, what the process would be. Usually what happens is we we'll we'll bring somebody in that could get the tree for us and then
people usually don't donate the tree and tell us where you like to have it. We'll order the plaque and everything for you. >> Okay. >> The people that the gentleman that does that is Mr. Goodell. He he did the tree at the burough. He did the tree in uh in front of the fire department on Avenue.
He did the tree in front of the library and he's doing another tree. >> Okay. So, if you want, what I'll do is I will, if you're all right with it, I'll give him your phone number. Yes. And you could reach out to him. >> Absolutely. >> He'll he'll tell you what types of trees you could plant and where you want to plant it and everything of that nature. And then the plaque,
>> I usually get it because we get it from a monument company that we've been dealing with all the plaques that are in Burough Park and all the benches. But if you feel like you want to have another plaque done, it's up to you. Whatever we get charged, we we charge it to the families. >> So, the family >> we do trees and we do uh benches
>> to the family. It would be charged >> money to whoever wants to do this. >> Whoever wants to do this. So the tree would be charged but the plaque would be >> everything will be charged to whoever wants to do it. Like if you want to do a fundraiser, a group of people want to get together. >> Okay. >> We we get everything for you. We plant it for you. >> We uh we maintain it for a while for you
and then it just grows on its own. Then you don't have to have it maintained. Sure. >> But Mr. Goodell is very good at keeping an eye on the trees that he plants. >> Okay. That would be great. Thank you so much. >> You're welcome. Anyone else?
>> Hi, Cassie Hartman. Um, so my household does private composting through a small local business who uh brings us a uh five gallon bucket once a month. We put our compost in, she takes it away once a month, brings us fresh compost for our garden twice a year at a very minimal
price. It's a great uh service for the environment, but also just works really well for our household. I was speaking with the business owner. It's it's uh one woman, local woman who runs this entire company and she said that the towns are welcome to apply for uh
programs that the town hosts and that she had actually spoken with someone in Waldwick. Um and she was explaining to me that if if we became like a host town, we could then charge fees to other towns to use our compost service. So, it would increase our compost, it would be
better for our carbon footprints, and then it would also increase the amount of compost we can provide ourselves and our neighbors. And I was wondering what the process would be to formally um request that a contract be considered. >> Well, you're here now. So, >> you did it. >> I did it.
>> So, I think we had somebody come in here last year. >> It is. It is >> the same woman. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Two around the area. She was just starting. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> What we could do is why don't you reach
out to her and see if she wants to come maybe in September and do a presentation for us. >> That'd be great. >> Just let us know so we'll put her on the agenda. Okay. >> And then she could talk and tell us everything about it and then we could take it from there. >> Awesome. Thank you very much. >> You're welcome. >> Steve, is that something you have to put out?
>> Yeah. So, I was going to say I don't know if this is the same company because there are two kind of in this area. Um, I had met with one of them, I won't say any names now, pretty detailed a couple months ago to talk about a program and what a municipal program might look like. >> Um, so we kind of discussed those
options. There's a lot of different things with it, but if we did want to go down that road, it would be something that would have to be bid out most likely. It'd be operated as a concession. Um so you know there's a lot more to go into that but um just kind of promoting composting and you know maybe
a municipal program through the environmental committee I think is a a good starting approach. Um but yeah we could connect too just on the company to make sure we're lined up there. >> I'll I'll just follow up with you then. >> Yeah. Great. >> Yeah. Follow up with him and then we'll also bring in the environmental chair
and he'll you'll be able I think you know Tom Tom McCormack. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. He's he's very good. He's very hands-on with everything. >> Great. >> He'll be able to help us out with that also. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Anyone else? >> Nope. Just before we adjourn, I just
want to >> I'm sorry. Anybody online that wants to talk? >> We don't have any person. No, >> we just have one person on and uh no questions. No hands are up. >> Okay. Just want to make a statement once again that I do at a lot of the meetings. A lot of times you hear a lot
of things up here or you hear it on social media and sometimes it's really not accurate. Um for what reason I don't know but the thing is I just want to set the record straight. When we hired the attorney for redevelopment we are not spending more
money for this new attorney. What we are doing is we are taking the money that was supposed to be for one attorney and we're allocating it to another attorney. So no extra fees came out of our pocket. It's just everything that we set up in the beginning of the year when we set up our reorg meetings. What we do is we
allocate so much money or up to so much money for this type of service. So instead of one person getting it, another person gets it. So we are being physically responsible and we are just keeping the money but like paying Peter give it to Paul. That's all it is.
Do I have a motion to adjurnn? Motion by Andy, second by Mark. All in favor? >> All those opposed. Good night.