Can we stop? Yes. It's time to go lunch. This meeting is being held in conformance with the Sunshine Law. Notice of time, date, and place has been furnished to the Bergen record in the Ridid News. Notice has also been posted on the bulletin board of the administration building. Would the clerk
please take the role? Mayor Gerardano, I am here. Mr. Brennick here. Mr. Sakola Drake here. Mr. Marello here. Mr. Roando here. Mr. Richie here. Mrs. Weber here. Everyone kindly rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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 Wick veterans, all veterans across our country who have given the ultimate sacrifice so that we
could assemble the way we are and live in a country that is free. Let us also have a moment of silence for all those whose lives were lost in Texas that uh their families find comfort in knowing that there are people all around the world that are praying for them and
praying for still the people that they're still looking to find. The clerk 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 will 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. Just a couple of comments before we uh open it up
for a speaker. First of all, uh I'd like to ask everyone to keep in their prayers a member of our community who was he came to a lot of our meetings who's always sat in the back of the room, Eric Leaporter, who passed away this afternoon. Pray for him and his family.
Also, um pray for the um the ML Mloud family who had their memorial service for their son over the weekend. Uh there were over 100 people that were showed up at Burough Park. And um it was a nice tribute that the family had for their son who passed away at he would have
been I think 20 years old uh two days ago. And now we have a a guest star with us tonight. Lieutenant Seafford will be talking to us about safety. Um, if you'd like to come up, but then we'll ask you questions.
Thank you, sir. Guest speakers. And thank you very much for coming here and for the star. Thank you for your appearance. You look very professional. Thank you, sir. I don't know where your hat is, but that's okay. It's in the car. Thank you for that. Um, thank you very much, council pe uh members. Good
evening. Um, so I just wanted to get in front of the mayor and council tonight to uh kind of announce our new traffic pattern plan that we have starting in September at on Summit A right in front of Trap Hagen School. Um, we have been researching pretty hard. It's something
to do in this area. It is heavily congested, especially in the afternoon. Cars back up on ridge. It is extremely dangerous for our crossing guard. at any one time there's kind of three different angles of traffic coming at him in the
intersection at ridge and summit. So in working with Mr. Neil and uh we had some traffic engineers from Boswell helping us out with this. We developed this idea to change Summit A to a oneway heading east from
Nordom to Ridge. Nordm to Ridge only. Uh the hours of operation of this oneway are going to be between 7 am and 4 pm only during school in session. So that's Monday through Friday. Even on half days, it'll be till 4:00. We couldn't
really comp uh accommodate that. It just it's just easier for us to to lay it out. This went went to ordinance a couple meetings ago. Thank you for passing that. It is a something that we feel is going to be beneficial. Uh I'm not sure if you're aware, but Trap Hagen School restricts access into the parking
lot, which we still want our our parents to access. They uh restrict access into the parking lot at a certain time. I don't think you can get into the parking lot till maybe 2:20, 2:25, something along those lines. People are extremely early in picking their children up, so they tend to block
and line up on Ridge, where over the last couple school years, we've seen that traffic hit Manhattan A and even Waldo Gav a lot of times. It's It's very very dangerous. Cars have to pass the other side of them. Now we got two lanes coming at each other. They want to make a left. Now we got cars parked on both
sides. It's just it's it's it's kind of been a nightmare for us. Uh it's a nightmare to police. It's not very safe. We feel that having the cars come down one way allows those people on ridge to come off ridge and get to Summit. If everybody's coming down the east side of
heading east on Summit, they can park on both sides of the road. And if they want to wait to get into the lot, it's easier to do it there. And we can congest that area rather than Ridge and the the intersection. We feel that'd be a lot safer for the for the kids. It is
something that we're trying. We're we're confident it's going to work. We are not getting rid of the loading unloading zone that's in front of Trap Hagen. If you're all familiar with it, there is a yellow curb there. We are going to keep that. It should be for a quick pickup. There are a couple buses that get kids in the afternoon. So, we want to make
sure that they still have access. But the main reason I'm here is that in speaking to Mr. Neil, we want to have a meeting with the residents of Summit so I can explain it. If they have any questions, they can ask me in person. We we have some drawings that we can show them. Uh if they're, you know, parked
facing west, we're going to ask them to turn around before when they're exiting. Uh we don't think it's going to be that much of an issue. and we think the the the rewards here are are outweigh the the possible inconvenience for the summit residents. So, we've been looking
at traffic pretty hard in Waldor the last the last couple months especially. Uh this is probably one of the first phases that we have as far as some uh some traffic plans to put in place. Does the board of ed know what you're doing? We've spoken to uh Mr. Silio about this. Uh he's he controls inside the parking
lot. We control outside. So he is aware of what we're doing, but uh the outside we feel is is our issue to to tackle. Are they going to send maybe a letter out to the parents when they send the letters out to welcome them back to school? What the students schedule is like? Great question, sir. We uh I'm going to
ask the chief of police to to draft something to send to the principal so that we can we can get that out in the first day of school. Uh we are not going to um we we have our signs already made. Our crossing guard is aware of our plan. Our crossing guard out there is an outstanding individual. Uh he's going to
be bringing a barricade out every day. It's going to have a sign on it. He's pretty excited. We uh we kind of went over this with him as well and he uh he was on board for it. So we have police presence there for just the first couple of days. Absolutely. That's that's the plan. Anybody else?
Sir, um is I know it's a concern for people that live on Ridge and Highwood. uh they barrel down that street and I hate to say it's the local moms, not the people that live close. Um is that going to be monitored? I know Silio usually
sends out a letter saying they're not supposed to, but it's a challenge. Yeah, he sends a letter there. They don't want them picked up there because they don't want the kids walking through the back. I understand it does happen. Uh all things we monitor everything. So yeah, if we if we're directed, we'll be
there. So, we just think this is the big we think it's going to alleviate that intersection because that's that's really the concern. And now people can still exit the parking lot normal. They can head to uh they can make the right out of the parking lot, but when they get to Ridge, they're going to have to make the left. So, they won't be able to
travel up the hill. The problem we were getting there is that cars parked on both sides. Somebody's coming east, somebody's coming west, they don't there's not enough room. Doesn't matter. So the homes on the westbound side, if you're going up Summit, if they're parked out in the street,
you're going to tell them by 7:00 they should kind of turn around or get in their driveways. I'm going to ask nicely. Uh if if I'm also I'm also going to ask them nicely if they're leaving in the morning and at 7:45, I'm going to ask them to kindly turn around. Uh we don't want people
coming out the other the other way. We have our signs already made. They're in. Uh, and speaking to the DBW superintendent, they're going to try to post them maybe next week or the week after. We'll cover them because we're not we're not ready to go until the school year, but they do say 7 to 4 during school hours um during school in
session. So, anyone else? Well, thank you very much. Hopefully, it's going to work, which I think it will. I think it will. As long as you think it will, it'll be all right. It's a good plan. It'll work. Thank you for the time.
Okay, continuing our reports. Just one more thing on the my report. On July 17th is going to be the 11th anniversary of the death of police officer Christophell. So, if you could in your daily keep him him and his family in your prayers that day. He u died in the
line of duty saving and protecting us. Uh that's all I have to report. Financial administrative committee, Mr. Richie. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and good evening everybody. I hope you're doing well. So, just a quick uh couple things on on my uh committee report. So, we are
finalizing the audit uh for 2024. So, we should get that back soon. Um I'm sorry. Yeah, for 2024. I think the biggest piece of information we're all waiting for is how much money did we put back into surplus or or or roughly how
much uh am I feeding back? Okay. Uh is that better? No, stay there. Now you okay it's this seems better it seems better okay good yeah so I think the biggest question that we have in our mind is how much money did we take from surplus in that year how much
did we put back if you remember in uh leading up to about 2023 we would put back more than we took to balance our budget so um last year was the first year that we took more out so we're we're I think very eager to see what that looks like and we should have that I think by the next meeting for council to review and then we can probably have
a a longer conversation about that the finance committee met uh in June a couple weeks ago. Um, we really are are focused on, you know, a couple things, right? And it it hearkens back to what I just said about the surplus. How can we close that gap of, you know, right now
we're using about $2.5 million to uh to to balance the budget and if we're putting less back, then we have a real deficit. And we're just trying to close that gap as much as we can. Um, I think the three areas that I've been focused on, and I think some of us have been focused on is grants, non- tax revenue,
and expanding the tax base. And I'm just going to keep saying that at every meeting. So it just really kind of uh it really kind of imprints into our heads. So uh first part of the meeting we met with Bruno. They were here at the last council meeting. They given this presentation on certain areas that they
will be focusing on. And I think the finance committee uh wanted to dig a little bit deeper. And so we had I think a really nice productive meeting. We we we really dug into a number of details. Some of the um and and I think Michelle and Joe came very prepared. we we were
ready to talk about uh grants for water infrastructure, uh road safety. Uh Michelle had the uh idea of thinking about um you know, kind of greater access within the parks and and are there grants that are out there that can kind of really help uh and that a little bit about digitization, water, you know,
recycling. So, can we bring money in through grants to offset some of the day-to-day uh appropriations that the the bureau spends so that we can kind of close this gap? Uh we we we spoke for probably 30 minutes to Bruno. It was a really nice conversation. We spent the last 30 minutes talking about
miscellaneous revenue items. So non- tax revenue items. Our goal is to really increase revenue but not through more taxation to to the residents. So we looked at a number of different areas. I proposed a goal of 250,000 increased in non- tax revenue over the next three
years. So we looked at a couple key areas. The first was uniform construction codes. I think Stephen and Colleen uh Colleen being our CFO uh really I think educated us that we can't just arbitrarily go in and increase our construction code fees. They really do
have to kind of be uh there has to be a a requisite for it. So I went and looked at how we benchmarked to Midland Park after the meeting and you know unfortunately we're pretty darn in line if not like intentionally in line with Midland Park's construction code fees. So there's not a whole heck of a lot we
can do on that line item. But I did go back and when the um public station was built, uh the Barrow did seem to get an increase in anywhere from it's hard to estimate cuz I wasn't here at that time, but it could be as high as 70,000 in additional uniform construction code
fees. So, you know, with the new redevelopment plan that's uh proposed for Harrison Avenue, maybe we'll see an increase there. Uh we then kind of looked at um cell phone towers. We're currently bringing in about 335,000 uh in rental fees for the cell phone
towers. And it sounds like we might even be be getting a nice increase in that this year. So, we may potentially get to our uh the stated goal that I that I put up there was um 416,000. If we could bump that up to 416 somehow, that will go a long way to meeting our objective.
And I think we're kind of on our way there. We talked a little bit about the police training facility. I know that we're waiting to see kind of what the HVAC fees are. And I know Councilman Bren's then going to um uh take the baton to maybe speak with the lieutenant about how we can turn that police training facility into more of a revenue
stream to kind of boost that up. And then and then I threw out there more liquor licenses, but that's obviously a big uh complication. Uh we kind of closed the meeting with talking about our water rates and um I think we're going to meet again uh probably in July to further this discussion, but we are
committed to kind of focusing on how can we get Bruno to really double down, bring in grants that offset these appropriations. How do we uh you know bring these non- tax revenue items up? How do we expand the tax base? And that way we're not throwing this uh increased
need for revenue on on the residents. So that was kind of an overview of the meeting. Um, I won't steal Steve's thunder, but we did hear about the PAS litigation. It sounds like we make as much as a million dollars from that litigation. Remember, we had to spend five to put these filtration systems in
uh to clear the rider of POS. It sounds like we'll get about 700,000 this year and then over the next couple years, smaller fees, but it'll potentially add up to a million dollars. And so, I think it's going to be, you know, uh, up to the bureau to decide or the council to decide how we want to spend that money.
Um and then um everyone knows I I thank the mayor for kind of mentioning it on Waldwick United insurance we already know insurance costs are likely to go up this year for the burrow as high as maybe 30% you know maybe 20 who knows I've heard a number of of numbers thrown around but we currently spend about
$860,000 in insurance. So a 30% increase could be as much as 250,000 in new costs to our budget next year. This is uh our borrowed costs to uh provide insurance. Obviously, the employees rates are going to go up as well. It's it's a whole
mess. It's it's really a mess. It's it's it's a shame. Um but it sounds like everyone dug in very quickly. Uh the whole the whole council, uh the entire burough staff uh to meet with potential brokers and look for alternatives to this. So, um you know, I think it's really nice that we're we're ahead of
schedule. We're we're talking about 2026's budget in July. Um and so I think we're putting ourselves in a nice position to tackle these early. Um, and come January, we'll uh we'll be in a position to to hopefully put a nice budget together. So, quite a lot
actually for what is an otherwise summer month uh for for finance, but uh but yeah, that that is my uh report, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Thank you very much. Fire and Police Protection Committee, Mr. Brennan. Uh thank you, Mayor. Not much to report this month. uh as of the 20th of the
month, we've we ran seven seven calls of various different types. And the other thing I just want to bring out is the fact that we participated in the uh uh junior police program. It was uh it was a real
hoot. Uh the kids loved it. Fire department loved it. Love being a part of it and u look forward to doing it again next year. That's what I have, sir. Thank you. Public Safety Committee, Miss Eric Colola Drake. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. No major updates
from WVAC. They performed standby responsibilities at the Allenale Fireworks on July 4th. They also performed standby responsibilities at the Ramsey fireworks on the 5th. And they hosted a monthly joint training with AVAC and HOUS on heat emergencies. Thank you.
Thank you. Recreation and Health Committee, Mr. Marello. Just add a couple of quick updates, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Um, first that Warwick junior football has their annual summer camp starting next week uh at the high school with members of the Walwick High
School Midland Park coaching staff and some of the varsity players there helping out with the kids. So, uh, looking forward to a great week with for them. Um, I know the Waldick Soccer Association is looking forward to their opening this fall as well as U Wick Wrestling is starting their registration
push as well as uh, Walwick um, basketball. So great things to come for the fall. Also like to congratulate the uh members of Wick Baseball Association and softball association with all that rain yesterday for the first time probably in 20 years. They're playing on
the field the next day after 5 in of rain hit that those fields. So kudos to all the uh men and women who put a lot of work into that place this this offseason and uh it's a great accomplishment having been down there myself for many years pumping water. This was a great day for them. Uh, very
great day. Anybody lose their shoes in the mud? Not this time. That's good. I happy for it. Good. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Public works committee, Mr. Roando. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, only a couple of items. Uh, want to thank the DPW for
this weekend. Uh, they were busy on Saturday with the recycling. Uh, it was very well organized. went through uh on Saturday around 11:00 and basically it was just an organized uh operation. They were processing all the items. They had
stations for all the other items that were not normally collected. Then on s Sunday they set up for the family uh and like you said there was 100 people there. It was it was nice to see how they took your guidance as to how to set
up the uh site. And the last item is uh been working diligently on the break on Nordom and Bergen. Uh they've been there for since according to all the Nixel reports since last Thursday. Uh I think
they're done as of today. So uh they've been working hard in the grid to uh rectify the water situation. That's all, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Building the grounds committee. Mr. Mrs. Mweber. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um just a few items with our parks. Uh Lions Park is
uh going to start construction. The uh uh playground items are on order. They won't be arriving till about September. We also have some pathway upgrades going to be at Veterans Park and also at EMTT. Um did an update a check on the ambulance core and their air conditioning unit and their door seems
to be functioning uh as as installed. And uh we did we had some companies come out to do some preventative maintenance uh give us some preventive maintenance contracts on all of our buildings and that's still a work in progress. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you, Eler Administrator.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh just a couple things. I want to note that um we've been talking about having a water quality meeting for the public. Uh we finally can confirm that date. So, it's going to be held on Wednesday, July 30th at 7:00 p.m. Now, this initial summer
meeting is going to be entirely held uh on Teams just like this. Um it will be interactive, so the public is invited to attend, engage. There will be an opportunity for question and answers afterwards. Um we're basically going to tee it up with myself, the uh water
operator, Mike Lour, and our um water compliance engineers from H2M. They have a whole team that they're bringing. So basically the what you can expect is we're going to give an overview of the situation kind of what led us to the discoloration issues everyone's experiencing um kind of wrap that into
you know all the the ongoing construction work you know valve repairs things like that the POS remediation um we're going to give a status update where we're at with the hydraulic study um which has been ongoing so we'll be able to actually present some some data and images from that um their GIS model
for at and then we we'll also discuss the lead service line work um our new uh consumer confidence report that was mailed out just all things water. So we're going to put it all out there um give as much information as possible and then we'll open it up for question and answer with our professionals directly.
This will be recorded then we'll post it and we'll share it afterwards on all of our platforms so people could watch it. And then in in the fall maybe probably September October we're going to have an in-person meeting. Um it'll also be held on teams like this. So it'll be a hybrid
meeting um where people could come in person and ask additional questions and hopefully we'll have additional data to share at that point. Um so we're excited for that. If you have any questions ahead of that, please reach out to me. You could reach me anytime by email um and let me know so
we could have some things prepared for that. That goes for all the council members, too. So if you have anything special you want to, you know, touch on in that meeting, please let me know ahead of time so we can make sure to have those answers for you. Um, and just one thing, don't come here cuz we're not here. Yeah. No, come into a dark room.
There there is no inerson option for the July meeting. So, we're not we're not we're not coming to this one. We're going to be like a resident on every res. You can attend via teams, but on camera will just be myself, Mike, and the H2. But the next one will be everybody. Yep. Yeah. Next the the one in the fall
will be advertised kind of like a regular meeting. Gotcha. Um, and Councilman Richie touched on the the Pile settlement numbers. Um we're excited to see those finally come in. This is just for the 3M settlement. So this is only one of them. There are
others that are coming. Um so hopefully we see similar numbers, but we are looking at just over a million in total, but that's over the um until 2033, but the heavy payments actually come in this year, which is about $700,000 we
should realize this year, which is great. But um I don't want everyone to get too excited because our goal is to actually reserve that um for you know projects related to the water system, the PEOS remediation system. Um so we want to earmark that for the media
change out and all associated costs for that which is significant. Um but good news nonetheless. And lastly, I al also wanted to mention that um I recently attended a a workshop with PSENG and their officials um to talk about the
increases that are coming. Uh people may start seeing that in their bills now. Um you know, even the June bill, the upcoming bills. So, there are a lot of different programs that PSNG has for uh bill payment assistance. So, we actually printed a bunch out, English and
Spanish. Downstairs, there's hard copy flyers. And tomorrow I'm going to blast this out on our website and on social media too with all the different program options. So there are some some ways to help cut back. Um they do like to say, you know, you pay for what you don't
use. So the best way to keep your bills down is to try and reduce your usage. I know that's easier said than done when it's very hot like it's been. Um but that's all I have now. Mayor, thank you. Thank you. Al Clark. Thank you, Mayor. Um, first I would just
like to thank the mayor for obtaining a donation from uh Columbia Bank um for us to hold two concerts in Burough Park. The first one will be July 23rd, that's next uh Wednesday, uh the Christine Spiro duo um from 6:30 to 8. And then on
August 6th, we have Tim Gson who will be um there from 7 to 8:30. So um residents should come and attend. um as always you you know bring your own chair and um it's it's usually a good time. So those I just wanted to thank the mayor for
setting that up for us uh and getting that donation from Columbia Bank. Um item uh policy vote F the football club in your backup they originally had requested August 1st um stating that you know they were doing the same thing as
last year but last year was actually August 15th. So once I reminded them of that um I did change it. So, they're requesting from August 15th to November 20th for those same dates. And finally, um 2025 214, uh authorized amendment for
the AutoCAD license for all county car and limo LLC. All the documents um have been um presented and um it's it's ready to be approved um and payment was made. And that's all I have. Thank you. Okay. Thank you.
our confidential assistant and video DJ Tatiana. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, so the pool continues to uh have a really active season despite the some some of the days that haven't been so great, but we've been able to find a good number of pool
days and uh people are enjoying it overall. We've been getting some nice feedback and compliments that people are enjoying um spending their time there. Uh on the revenue side, we were looking at and we were able to incorporate it's okay
some uh smaller uh increases in our pricing and are just our our membership um uh fees for this year. Um even though the season is still ongoing and registration continues daily, uh we are at about 5 1/2% up uh from where we were
last year, which um is nice obviously considering that the costs associated with the pool um do continue to go up and it's something that we have to take a look at every year. So uh that's the update on the pool. And then we had a really great internal meeting this
morning. Um 2026 uh burrow calendar planning is underway. As you guys know, there's a lot of information in there. We've really we strive every year to put as much as we can ahead of time so that residents are aware of what to expect
and um it helps us in a whole a whole variety of ways. It helps in cutting down questions that residents might have. It helps us incorporate digitally with our website. Uh we try to cut down on some of those uh newsletters that we were sending quarterly. So there's a savings there on the on the printing and
the mailing of those. Uh so it it's a it's a large undertaking, but we have a great team in place. Um so really happy to have Lindsay, Melissa on board this year to help us out. Uh Carrie, Steve, myself, and the department heads. Uh so we're excited to get that underway. And
if you know you have any questions or any thoughts on the calendar, please let us know. That's it. Yeah, we got to talk about the cover. I was told that I have to deal with you by heart. Okay. That's not true. I already designed this. See, that's why I was told to talk to you.
We'll let you know what you agreed upon. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh Rob Deainy in for our attorney, Craig Mazan. Yes. Good evening. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. There is no legal update this evening and we're not going to close. No. Oh, thank you. Okay.
Consent 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 Bureau of Wald are hereby passed and approved. 2025203 approval of consent. 2025204 approval of minutes regular meeting June 24th.
Policy votes Richard McDonald request use pavilion A on July 27th from 10 to 6 for a family party with alcoholic beverages being served. B. Alexandria Scarpull requests to use pavilion August 3rd from 10:00 to 5:00 for a birthday party with alcoholic beverages being served. C. Ed personal care requests to
use pavilion A on August 6th from 11 to 3 for a corporate barbecue with alcoholic beverages being served. D. Max Polycastro request to use pavilion A on August 9th from 10:30 to 5:00 for a picnic with alcoholic beverages being served. E. Alyssa uh Fesco requests to
use pavilion B on September 1st from 10 to 6 for birthday party with alcohol beverages being served. And F. Waldwick Football Club requests use of uh Veron Park Field from August 15th to November 20th on the dates on the for the days and times listed. 2005 205 um I'm going
to say this. Award a fair and open contract for police the police firing range and HVC HVAC replacement project 2025206 award fair and open professional service contract uh for redevelopment council in an amount not to exceed 25,000 2025207
approval of chapter 159 for the 2024 2025 county of Oregon CDBG handicap accessible ramps 2025208 awarded non-fair and open professional service contract to Basel Engineering for the engineering services for the 2024 CDBG G88 curb ramp upgrade in the amount of
$21,500. 2020 rock 209 aware of fair and open contract to Ben Schaefer Recreation for the Lions Memorial Playground Equipment in amount of $144,3162. 2025210 authorizing the borrow disqualified purchasing agent to issue contracts between 175 and the amended
bid threshold of 53,000. 2025 211 accept donation from Columbia Bank. 20252 authorize a contract with the Christine Spiro duo in the amount of $550. 2025213 authorized contract with Tim Gson the amount of $500. 2025 214 authorized
amendment to the autoc cab license all county car and limo LLC. 2025215 authorized refund of pavilion permit fee uh to rug 2025 216 appointment of full-time communication officer Ryan Dunn. 2025 217 cancellation of refund of
taxes block 163.03 03 lot 26 2025 218 cancellation and refund of taxes block 11 lot 34 2025 219 cancellation and refund of taxes block 157 lot 3 2025220 authorized uh refund senior tax
deduction over payments various and 2025221 payment of vouchers you don't want to repeat that do you only if you want me to do I have a motion this second to accept motion by Mark second by Joe anyone have a Yes.
Can we Mr. Mayor, can we pull 205 and 206 for discussion? I'm sorry. Can we please rule 205 and 206 for discussion? Sure. Thank you. Anybody? Anything else? Anyone else with this? Okay, we're going to pull them two. We're going to vote on the rest.
Okay, clerk, take the role. Mr. Bren, yes. Miss Drake, yes. Mr. Martinelloo, yes. Mr. Rando, yes. Mr. Richie, yes. Mrs. rubber. Yes. Okay. So, let's go to 205. 205. Yeah. Sorry. My question on 205 is is
relatively uh easy, I guess. Um just a little bit of background, right? So, the prices are overrunning. Do we have a sense is do we have a sense for when we're going to know how much it'll it'll actually cost? So, I had a meeting with our engineers this morning on this. Um we're in talks
with the contractor. Um we're doing some additional followup and call in some additional references just to make sure everything's set. Um it the low bid did come in over our budget. So we need once we're comfortable with everything with how the bids came in, they're actually still being reviewed by the attorney uh
to make sure there was no fatal flaws or anything that would knock somebody out. Um if for some reason the low bid was, you know, rejected for any reason, the next highest bidder is about $200,000 over that low bid. So, we would definitely have an issue with the budget
there. Um, so we'd more than likely have to reject all bids and kind of start over on this. We have to literally start the whole process over. Not necessarily, but we'd have to go back and see what we could drop or put it on hold until the budget became available. So, we're we're exploring all
those options right now. Um, we feel pretty confident that, you know, the low bid is a a responsible bidder. Um, so we just really need to work out, you know, the uh additional budgeting concerns. Yeah, because we've been pushing this one for a while. So, I I'd really hope to see it get done.
Unfortunately, the um the the bids that came in were were pretty shocking for the most part. They were they were very very high. Even the engineers said they were much higher than we've been seeing. Okay. Um so, it's just kind of kind of what we have to deal with right now, unfortunately. So, it's a it's a um kind of an
open-ended resolution. And when we So yeah, I would actually recommend that. Yeah, we're going to we're going to pull that one completely off. Yeah, until we have more info and we're actually ready to to make an award if that makes sense. Motion second. Okay, that one's done 2006. Michael.
Okay. Yeah. And just I think for 2000 for for 2025 206 for redevelopment attorney, I think it would just be good to understand um from everyone kind of how we got to the point where we we feel we need a redevelopment attorney. kind of what are what are we looking for in a
redevelopment attorney and then um how does that align with who was selected because uh you know we we yeah I'll turn it over to who whoever how we got here. Yeah, I mean I'll give a little background on to how we got to this point from my perspective and then I
welcome any other comments, but um yeah, as we've gone through the redevelopment process, we realized, you know, we we need some additional, you know, guidance and I think we really need someone to focus solely on redevelopment for us. Currently, we're we're using our burough
attorney um who's acting in multiple roles in that regard. So this really just separates out now um you know the redevelopment portion from his regular duties as burough attorney. Um so we could have someone solely focused on on redevelopment going forward. We
obviously know kind of what's in front of us now and anticipating more in the future. So I think it's it's probably a good idea in my opinion to have someone focused on that for us um that could represent us well going forward. Um, so part of that process was, you know, we
we decided to issue an RFQ, go through the, you know, the fair and open process, put it out, allow for submissions. Um, we did receive five submissions through the RFQ process, um, that were reviewed internally by myself, uh, Kelly, Tatiana, and Colleen, our
CFO. Um so we went through uh individually you know separate from each other kind of made our own notes and rankings got together on that um and and came up with our recommendation tonight for that firm. The things we looked at were you know mainly municipal
experience you know what other towns have they been working in the size of those municipalities. So at least two or three of our submissions were pretty you know good firms but they're focused on large cities. Um so they're doing major major redevelopment projects in in urban
centers. So a little bit different. Um the firm that you know we've made a recommendation for has more of a you know a wide array in their portfolio kind of small municipalities smaller than Waldwick all the way up to the larger cities all over the state. So we feel pretty comfortable that they have a
lot of experience with differentiz municipalities um you know downtown rehabilitation work in in addition to redevelopment things like that. Yeah. Yeah. So, I guess I just put this to the council. You know, when we Katie and I were were elected in 2021, we brought in a redevelopment attorney,
someone who we thought needed additional experience. Um, and what we found after the first year was we still just kept going back to Craig for everything. Uh, he's someone who knows the burough. I think he's been working with us for for 20 years. Uh, he just knows the ins and the outs and I think we're all we're all
comfortable with them. And so, at the end of that year, we decided we really don't need a redevelopment attorney. we're just gonna work with with Craig. And so, um, I'm envisioning the same thing happening here. And I'm wondering if we're just not complicating things by bringing in someone who really has no
historical, uh, you know, no background on kind of how we got to where we are and we're going to have to get them up to speed. And, um, yeah, it just I I think it complicates things and I'm just wondering how everybody else feels about, you know, why why shouldn't we
just continue to use Craig? Yeah, just my two cents is, you know, when we're in close session, Craig is always jumping in, able to answer all of our questions and he has the experience that Mike mentioned, I feel very comfortable with Craig, so I kind of see
that it might be a cog in the wheel. Anyone else? Yeah. Yes. Um, my feeling on that, Mike, is that we have an opportunity here to get a law firm that does nothing else.
They're experts in this field. In this field alone, will it take time to ramp them up? Yeah, it will. Would it be in our best interest to do it? Looking forward to the future. Maybe it can calm things down a bit, if you will. I think that it's a great idea to do. And I
think that we ought to take advantage of this. Anyone else? Yes, Mr. Mayor. I think one of the things that we we need to look at is as you see more and more in the paper, there's a lot of litigation with regards to redevelopment. So, I think we need
someone that's going to be able to focus on that and have the expertise in the small size municipalities as well as a larger size. Um, I think we put oursel at a at risk with potential redevelopments if we don't do them
correctly. Um, as you know, you see, uh, Hackinack is rescending all their, uh, proposals in some cases. I think it's something that we need to work hard with, especially if we get, uh, sequestered with things like pilot, um,
which puts the residents at risk of losing or paying more in taxes for items like the board of ed because money is given away. So I think we need to really have someone that's focused on that and has the expertise with some of these larger towns as well as these smaller towns because uh actually when you look
at the list none of the towns that were on their list are being challenged. Some of the other towns seem to have issues. Uh so I think we need to manage that within our burough to do the best for the residents and not have you know any interaction that's being done privately
or behind the scenes so that these things are done with focus not to meet someone's agenda. What are there specific concerns? Excuse me. Are there specific concerns specific concerns with
with with using our with complicating things by bringing in a you know we're bringing in another attorney? I'm just wondering what the specific concerns are so we can ensure that the attorney that we're about to appoint meets those concerns. I think we need to focus I need to have
some of the focus on redevelopment. Redevelopment is new. Redevelopment is challenge. every town that's got involved in it either goes back and doesn't like what happened. So I think it's not something that we're experts
in. You got to you don't go to a, you know, a general practitioner to get brain surgery. So I think that's basically where we need to be. He can focus on the municipal work and then we have someone that focuses on the redevelopment. That's just my opinion.
You go to a specialist. Anyone else? Uh, I need a motion in a second to accept. I'm sorry. Question. Um, I understand that I appreciate all of the work that was put in reviewing all the RFQS and I trust your judgment, but I think that it would be a miss to
not send those RFQS around to every member of the council and allow us the opportunity to look at them and ask questions as we're awarding the contract. I don't feel comfortable voting on a contract that I haven't seen the candidates. Yeah, I agree. I mean, I think if this is a big deal, we should all have a
chance to to review it unless there's a reason for us to not because we're only seeing the one the one firm. Well, you saw it. You saw it. What did you think? So, that we could just get some idea. Steve touched on the points, but you
know, that's up to the council how you guys want to proceed or, you know, move forward. But, yes, we had a committee that reviewed individually. Uh Steve and I did the uh the opening of the bids. Okay. And so our recommendation came up. All right. Why don't we do this? Does
everybody want to just table this uh or do you want to just go ahead with the project? Go ahead with this resolution. Okay. I would like to table it and do a more in-depth analysis. Okay. You got you want to go around the room? Yes. That this is for a year, right? This is just for a year. Yeah.
The way we put it out was further the year. Yeah. All right. So, you got one that says that we want to table it. Go ahead. I mean, I don't have an issue with if it's for just for a year and it states in here that that the the uh redevelopment attorney would be working
with Craig too. Yeah. Correct. I would they would be working in So, you you're going not the table. Yeah. I don't have Mike. No, I think it would be I think it would be good for us to see all of the Okay,
the CVS. You got two table one? No. Go ahead, Joe. I'd like to see all of the RFQ responses. So, I think we have to table it.
Andy. Oh, I'd like to move forward on it. I trust the judgment of uh Okay. the burrow administrator. I'd like to move forward. I trust the judgment of the team that went through the process. They're the experts. I'd re
rather rely on those. So, I'm the one that told the administrator to look into this. So, I will say that we are going to move in ahead with it. So, then we need a motion. Now, a motion to accept this as read. Do we have a motion from some Mark? Second by Michelle.
Clerk, take the role. Mr. Brennick, yes. Maltree, no. Mr. Martell, no. Mr. Romano, yes. Mr. Richie, no. Mrs. Weber, yes. Mayor Gerardo,
yes. We have an introduction of ordinance. We do. Would clerk please read ordinance number 2025-17. Ordinance number 2025-7, an ordinance to amend chapter 48 fee section 1-10.3 escro for offduty and outside employment
by police officers. Item four to increase the administrative fee to 8%. A motion in a second in order to move and pass this ordinance on first reading and that it be advertised on local legal newspapers required by law setting a public hearing two weeks from tonight's meeting or at 7:30 p.m. or soon
thereafter as the matter may be reached. Do I have a motion in a second? by Andy, second by Joe. On the question, what this is is these are the two two officers that will be placed in the school system. There were nine people that were interviewed. They picked two.
The people that were in charge of doing the picking was Lieutenant Seafford, our administrator, Lieutenant Paseretti, and Sergeant Moore. They interviewed every one of them, and two are the ones they are going to uh have into the schools.
And from what I understand, they're Wald Waldick residents and their two their children do live in the school. I mean, they do attend the school. So the these officers are not going to be strangers to anyone really. Anyone else? Uh, sorry, Mr. Mayor. Just to clarify,
this ordinance is not focused on the SEO. Everything you just said is accurate, but this one is just an administrative update to our to our ordinance. Just changing the uh Okay. the administrative fee that we have currently listed. But everything you did say was accurate and we were going to report that half right.
Yeah. Clerk, take the role. Mr. Brennick, yes. Mr. Cola Drake? Yes. Mr. Martinelloo? Yes. Mr. Roando? Yes. Mr. Richie? Yes. Mrs. Weber? Yes. Okay. Anybody from the council have any unfinished business?
Yes, I do. Thank you. And sorry for hogging the microphone this entire meeting. Um, so last meeting I brought up the gas station. Um, you know, I I looked into the ordinance. I sent Steve what I thought I was reading it. The ordinance looks like it reads only six
vehicles. Um, but what do you think? There's more than six vehicles sitting out there kind of. Yeah. So, we did look into the ordinance and you're reading the ordinance, right? Um, but we're actually working on digging up the resolution um that approved their their usage. So, we have
been looking into that. Um, our zoning official did go over there, has a good relationship with them, has talked to him about it, and, you know, asked them if there's any that should not belong to try and, you know, just keep things cleaned up. Yeah, I'm not, again, I'm not trying to hurt any business, but uh, residents are
are bringing it up uh, when I see them uh, from time to time. Yeah, I would say um, I have been working with the board secretary. We had some vacations in the mix, so hopefully at least in the next couple weeks, we'll have a a better direction. Okay. And I went there also that Thursday and told him about the concerns and he said he's
going to try to look into it and then you went and you had Ste uh you had uh Joe go there. So I think he understands where we're coming from. Can Mr. Mayor, can I ask a question? Sure. With regards to that, are we just singling out just that particular vendor or are we also going to go to the other
one that has more than six on his lot on the corner next to Natal's and has his other cars in the right eight parking lot? I guess worthy. I mean, to be consistent, if we're going to go after one, you got to go after everybody. Go after the other guy, too.
We have to go after the gentleman that has the empty lot that has cars on there. Oh, okay. If that's what you want. Be consistent. I mean, I think to be fair, we can't just single out one individual. You either need to be it's an all for all or not. It can't be selective. Um, I agree. We have been in
conversations with some of the other property owners that have similar circumstances. I know one has worked and cleaned up a lot. Um, but there's some more work to do. Anyone else? Well, I I I figure why not? Since the lieutenant's here, um, couple couple
months ago, we brought up expanding the the traffic study. We talked about budget. Tonight, we'll be budgeting for uh 2026, probably starting to really kind of line things up in the next three or four months. You know, I'm just going to throw it out there one more time. Is
there an opportunity to go back to that company that we we previously worked with and ask them to uh budget so that we can ask them to do an expanded traffic safety study to go beyond just um I hate calling it the grid but this is what my my wife says it's called the
grid Bergen A Waldwick A Manhattan AB that that whole area. Um, I think that, you know, at least where I live across the street, we would greatly benefit from kind of some recommendations on that side as well. And then these things take a year, right, to kind of do and
then and then we can work with the police department about what what is appropriate implementation. But as far as our um, you know, uh, responsibility of budgeting for these things, I just want to keep kind of pressing into it. Didn't we just hire a police officer
just take care of safety? Not yet. That's in the we approved for additional hires. Yes. And that would be the plan is to uh create a traffic safety division within the police department. Um you know, with regards to the study, uh we don't have it in this year's
budget as you all know, but yeah, if that's something we want to incorporate, we could add that in the discussions. Well, would you mind giving us your opinion of anything? I know your opinion put on the spot, but you don't That's all right. I'm not I'm not prepared for that. Uh I I you know I I
accept any study that that we're participating in. However, I would want to consult the chief of police first. Absolutely. You are the you are the safety people in our town. As far as the our focus on the grid and I do call it the grid here a long time is the grid. It always will be the grid.
Uh we are pretty focused on working on kind of our projects as they come in. We have a couple things that we've been working on Neil on that we ordered some some traffic caling measures that are coming in. So, uh, we're kind of focused on a few things right in front of us right now. I think the scope of the
study, again, I'm not speaking for the chief police. I would have to speak with him first, but, um, I'm not sure he would be ready to tackle that right now as far as from our point of view. Was that helpful? Very good. Sorry. Well, maybe if they're inundated with
other projects, it would be beneficial to bring on a firm to look at it, similar to the redevelopment attorney that everyone just supported. We're focused on a lot of traffic concerns right now. So any more that that would be brought to us that was I
mean obviously would be helpful for us to analyze something. We are in the process of collecting a lot of data which has never really been tackled by our agency before. We're new to that aspect of it. So we have a bunch of things we're working on already and I I think of course there's always time for more
but uh I think a scope a bigger study outside of where we're looking right now I'm not sure again speak to the chief. Okay. I'm not I'm not sure that hope that was helpful. I wasn't ready for that. I apologize. I I I did it I didn't do it
intentionally. Anyone else? New business. Anybody? Nope. Public's comments. Oh. Oh, I have one more. We're not doing public yet. Mr. Richie has one more to go. Sorry. One more thing. So I I sent an
email around to the uh mayor and council. I'm very much an advocate especially on evenings like tonight where we talk a lot about numbers about presenting slides I think for those who are here in attendance as well as for those who are logging into teams. So, you know, I'd be uh very grateful if I
could submit slides to whomever before any meeting, have them I can print them out so that people who are here have them, but at least for those who are online, if we can, you know, flip through them, I think it would be really helpful. And uh so I'm just throwing that out to everybody for consent.
What are these slides going to do? What What are the slides going to be on your your report? you. Yeah. Yes. On the report. Absolutely. Or anything that I, you know, gets brought up in new business or old business. Anything to help facilitate the discussion. But you wouldn't know new or old business. Excuse me. You wouldn't know the new or old
business until that night? Well, if I was bringing it up. Oh, you're bringing it up. Yeah. So, and you would let the council know ahead of time what you I would submit them as far in advance as anyone would like to see. And you will stay on script. Well, there will be no script written, but uh the the slides will be Yeah,
the slides will not change once I send them in. They will they will not change. What everybody want to do? I'd be willing to try it. If it's beneficial, so be it. If it isn't, it isn't. And how long do you need of time to get
everything, Miss Kelly? But that's just me. I mean, the packets go out on Friday, so it would be helpful to have it be included with that. Okay. I mean, I I don't know. What was that? That's what I'm saying. So, you need it before Friday. No, don't you think if it it should go
out with the packet? Fine. I don't know. I think that would be helpful. I'm just the clerk. Whatever. Up to you guys. Whatever you tell me, Kelly. Um, it's up to you guys. Whatever you want to do. How about Wednesday? Is that good? That's too short. Wednesday's fine. Good. Okay. Uh,
anybody else idea? If I could just add one thing. Um, if we go that route, that's great. Yeah, if you have it, just let us know so we could prepare because we will have to coordinate with the team's presentation, you know, cue that up, make sure everyone's seen it, and then hard
copies. If you have a presentation, submit submit it to us so we could print it out, have hard copies available for everyone attending in person. Why don't Why don't I um Why don't we say Tuesday before 1 week, right? 7:30 p.m. If you don't have them in to uh you, then they
cannot be presented. Um and you will uh you know, present the digital, but whoever is um presenting them is responsible for bringing in the hard copy until until we figure out how to move this to a place where everyone can see it.
So, if anybody else wants to do that, they just make sure that they give everything to Kelly. Okay. Sure. Okay. Okay. The public. Anyone from the public? Now you may come up, sir. I'm sorry.
My name is Ron. I'm from Charles Tur, New Jersey. I didn't hear it. You don't have to give us your address. Just your name. Your name again, please. Sorry. Uh Charles Turus and Richard Drive. There's no sidewalks. Cars are coming up 40 miles an hour.
Officer Seafford put radar there a couple of times. As soon as the car leaves, they're back to doing the same thing. We've had a lot of young people move into the neighborhood, appropriating, having a lot of kids, and there was a an instance where a young kid was driving down. He missed a woman
in a baby carriage by this much. We're asking to have speed bumps put in being that they're going to pave those two streets so that we can slow the traffic down unless you have another another option. You do a speed bump program.
We'd have to really look into that. Um speed bumps, speed tables, there's a lot of different options. Um, I will say a lot of times when they get installed in neighborhoods like that, uh, it sounds good in theory and then when they get installed, nobody wants it in front of their house because they do generate
noise. Um, and it is an issue for traffic. But I can say we'll we'll look into it. Then what I would say is figure out something because a kid or somebody there's a lot of young kids in the neighborhood. Yeah, that we'll we can definitely dive in and and pull together some
Mr. Lieutenant Steve is writing it down already. So we'll him and the chief will talk and then he'll get back to Mr. Neil. Okay, sounds good. Not only the children, you know, there's because we don't have any silence, there's an awful lot of traffic with people walking their dogs and people
come around the corner speeding that they won't hit our dog. I mean what, you know, we keep telling them what are you going to do about this? You know, people should not be speeding. Shouldn't be 25 miles an hour going through a residential area. I think it should be 15 or 10 miles an hour. It's just too
many things that are going on in that neighborhood. You know, lately, you know, with the kids, you know, a lot of kids there, a lot more people are walking there. A lot of people started coming there during co because there was no sidewalk. They could just walk around and have a good time and they still keep
coming. So, something is going to happen. Somebody's going to either get hurt, a dog's going to get run over, or something's going to happen. And who's going to be responsible? You. We will have our administrator look into this. Thank and thank you.
This very frustrating. Anyone else? If anybody online, I'm sorry. We're going to do the people in the audience, then we'll do the people online. Uh Jeff Rogoff. I wanted to say uh start
by saying how pleased I was to hear about that idea about with Trap Hagen School. My kids been a few years since they've been in Traphagen School, but I certainly have memories of trying to navigate that and trying to get handle that on both up and back. So, that sounds like it'll be a definite improvement. I do have a question though
how it's going to work with cars coming off Route 17. Are they going to be allowed to go down or are they going to be asked to exit at Ridge? I was just curious how that's going to work. And I also want to know if if people coming out of Trap Haven School will have the option to go onto Ridge or whether
they're going to be um put onto Route 17. Are you prep Are you prepared for this question? The signs will be posted at uh Ridge and Summit. So you'll be able to exit the driveway of Traphagen and then when you
get to Summit and Ridge, there'll be a barricade there with the don't with the do not enter. Do not enter, do not enter. You'll have to make a left. Exiting off Route 17, totally fine. Exit on Summit. When you get up to um Summit and Ridge, you'll have to make the left. If it's between 7 and 4 Monday through
Friday during school in session. Yeah, that sounds great. Yeah. So that we're going to have a permanent um a movable barricade every morning. Our crossing guard at 0700 will drag out and that'll block the right side of the road just in case somebody doesn't recognize it. There'll be no
left turn signs posted on Rigid and Summit with the time restrictions. We have 14 signs that we bought for that area. So, we're going to sign a lot. So, I assume if an emergency vehicle needed to get through quickly, that could be just Absolutely. We'll get through. Don't
worry. By the way, um since since the topic of traffic came up. I was wasn't planning on talking about it, but I'm just going to make another pitch again for any additional monitoring that could be done on East Prospect. Um, now that I have two kids that are driving, I've become even more
aware of speeds on that road and just how difficult and challenging it can be, particularly if you have to back out onto East Prospect and it's just, you know, I I certainly have seen a police presence there, which is awesome. But, you know, I certainly, you know, just dealing with the people who feel like 45
is is an appropriate speed on that road is uh a continual frustration. Uh lastly, I was just wondering if I mean, certainly that sounds like awesome news about the settlement, about the peepass. I was just wondering I'm I'm slightly familiar with it. I was just wondering if you could give just a little bit more background about how we got to the point
where we're getting a was it a million dollars back and what the timeline looks like for that? Um yeah, I might even ask for some attorney involvement, but yeah. Um I think this the settlement started up around 2 or 3 years ago. Um so you know
the burrow at that time that was actually before my time here but signed on to be you know a part of the the class action suits against all these different chemical companies um you know for for the PAS. So joined in early. It's been ongoing for a while. Um like I said there's other companies that are
involved in all different settlements and tied up in the courts. 3M is just the first one to actually settle. I think they wanted to just get in front of it and get out of the way. Uh, but there's others like uh, DuPont, BASF. Those are other ones that are also going to be coming down the line.
How many are currently pending? At least five or six. Yeah, five. Yeah. Five. And do we know what the estimated timeline is of either like getting a court hearing on any of those or hopefully resolutions, successful resolutions like this one? No. see the um each case kind of goes
along individually and like the BA said, this was the first this was the first defendant that reached the settlement, so they likely just wanted to kind of get out of ahead of it. The other timelines, you know, each case has its own facts, has its own, you know, procedure, has its own dates set by um set by the court. Unfortunately, these
large class action lawsuits can, you know, drag on for years and years and years. So, nothing else has a trial date or anything, right? No. No. And uh last question is when is the pay what's the payment schedule looking like again? I thought I heard like a lump sum of 700,000 or something like that.
Um yep. Give me one minute. So yeah, the first payment um we haven't received yet is about $200,000. The next payment is about $485,000. We should receive that in third quarter of this year. So coming up hopefully soon we probably get both. Um so by the
end of the year about 700,000 then it drops down significantly. So in second quarter 26 it's about 68,000. Uh second quarter 2750,000 and kind of so on through 2033. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you.
Anyone else? Um Bianca Marosi. I just had a quick question on the redevelopment attorney. what's the scope of uh the business that's going to be given or what's the expectation of that law firm
if you want to jump in too. Yeah. So, the scope of the the scope of services for the redevelopment attorney is just it's it's it's to my understanding it's it's limited to um kind of the uh the advice and um you know the work that needs to be done on
the ground limited to the redevelopment projects that are ongoing within the burough right now. Um so it's just it's it's just going to be ongoing uh redevelopment projects that are going on right now. Okay. So just from an advice standpoint advice any kind of permitting you know things things of that nature their their
whole their whole mission in life with respect to wall is going to be just these redevelopment projects. Okay but not not finding new development projects or anything like that and bring them to the table. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? If not Tatiana is anybody on
we have Yep. One person with their virtual hand raised. So let me let them in. Good afternoon, good evening, mayor and council. This is Joanne Mitchell. Thank you for the update on the water meeting on July 30th.
For the last several weeks, we have been promised an update from the hydraulic engineers on their findings. And the last update currently on the website is April 8th. May we please have their findings in
writing before the meeting of July 30th? Uh yes. So we're actually we're having a meeting this Friday um to kind of plan out and and fine-tune the presentation for the 30th. So yeah, after that we'll kind of see where things are at and and
what we could get posted ahead of that meeting for you. With all due respect, Mr. Neil, I do believe that was the same thing we discussed at the last council meeting. Uh, yep. And the engineers are are still
working on it and, you know, finalizing everything. they did have a lot of follow-up questions um on some of the detailed, you know, components of our system before they put everything together. So, you know, as I stated, we don't want to put out, you know, half the information. We want to make sure we give you the full picture and all the
data that we can. I appreciate that thoroughess and the level of necessity that the situation requires, but the water is still coming out of my tap. A lovely shade of caramel
and it has a strong metallic component. So, I would very much like to see their preliminary findings before July 30th because it would better allow people to ask questions about the situation
and that would be the plan uh to put out those findings to date so far um along you know with a simple agenda for that meeting. So, we can reasonably expect that by Friday at the end of close of business. No, I would not anticipate that to be ready by this Friday. close of business,
but the following week. The following week. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you, mayor. Thank you, Mr. Thank you. Thank you very much. Is there anybody else? That's it. Thank you. Okay. If not, do I have a motion to
adjurnn? Motion by Katie, second by Andy. All those in favor? I oppose. Have a nice week.