This meeting is being held in conformance with the sunshine law. Notice of date, time, and place has been furnished to the Bergen record in the Ridgewood News. Notice has also been posted on the bulletin board of our administration building. Would the clerk kindly take the role? >> Mayor Gardeno >> here. >> Mr. Brennick >> here.
>> Miss Sarakola Drake here. >> Mr. Marello >> here. >> Mr. Rabundo here. Mr. Richie >> here. >> Mrs. Weber here. Everyone kindly rise for the pledge of >> 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 world veterans, all veterans across our country who have gone off to war, some never returning so that we can live in a land that is free. And for all the
killers that occurred this week, may all the families know that they are being comforted by all those who care and love them deeply. The court to say 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. Good evening everyone. Tonight I have the honor as mayor to promote Christopher Cone to sergeant, Kyle Moore to lieutenant, and swear in the chief of the Walder Police Department, Troy
Seafford. All three men along with our entire police department work tirelessly day in and day out protecting our residents and keeping our community safe. I have had the privilege of serving as both councilman and now mayor and has
witnessed each of you being sworn in while also being promoted up the ranks. I would like to thank at this time our former police chief the honorable Richard Brady who will be swearing in our honor honores tonight. our judge
Helen Herbert who is here with us, our ex uh police chief who is here with us, Mark Mesner, all the members of the police department who are here, the council who is here, and also everyone here today. I thank you very much for being here to show your support and friendship to the events that are going
to be happening today. Sergeant Christopher Cone was born and raised in Wwick. After graduating from Waldwick High School, he attended the Sales University where he earned a degree in criminal justice. He became a member of the world police department in July of
2014. In his 11-year career, Sergeant Cone has served as the department's resiliency officer and biased officer. He has been a DARE and lead instructor since 2018, teaching fifth grade students at Trap
Hagen as well as Crescent School. Chris is assigned as a field training officer where he is responsible for training and mentoring newly hired police officers. He has always served on the PBA executive board since 2016, holding the positions of recording
secretary and vice president and is currently serving his se second term as president. Chris resides in Waldick with his wife Alisa and their daughter Avery. Lieutenant Kyle Moore was born and
raised in Waldwick. After graduating from Waldwick High School, he attended Stockton University, majoring in criminal justice. Lieutenant Moore became a member of the Waldick Police Department in September of 2011. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant in 2018, serving as a patrol supervisor and
later as a as being in the detective bureau as a supervisor. Lieutenant Moore is a certified instructor in pistol rifle, active shooting response, taser, and ren dot optics and has serves as the department supervising firearms
instructor since 2014. In this role, he is responsible for all firearms and tactical training. He is also a certified police academy instructor, assisting with firearms and tactical instructions. Lieutenant Moore has been an operator on the Bergen
County Regional SWAT team since 2015, where he currently serves as first team leader. He has served on the PBA executive board as well as recording secretary and vice president. Kyle resides in Raldick with his wife Meline
and their two children Kelsey and Jack. As I often say at promotion ceremonies for the police department, people sleep perfect p perfectly and peacefully in their beds at night only because people like yourselves stand ready to protect
them. Police officers put their lives on the line every day. This is not simply something you do. It is something you are. Thank you both for protecting all of us. Your dedication and love for this profession are very evident. I know you
will make a great lieutenant, Kyle, and you will make a great sergeant, Chris. You will both lead with integrity and make a lasting difference within our police department. At this time, I ask Sergeant Christopher Cone to please come up with his family to be sworn in.
I >> I, Christopher Prone, >> do solemnly swear >> do solemnly swear >> that I will faithfully >> that I will faithfully >> impartially >> impartially >> and justly >> and justly >> perform all the duties of police sergeant >> perform all the duties of police sergeant >> for the burrow of Waldor >> for the burrow of Waldorf >> Bergden County Burden County
>> according to the best of my ability >> according to the best of my abilities >> and I will support the Constitution of the United state >> and I will support the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the S.
>> And I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same >> and to the governments established in the United States >> and to the governments established in the United States >> and in this state >> and in this state >> under the authority of the people >> under the authority of the people. >> So help me God. >> So help me God. [applause]
>> [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> At this time, we're going to ask Kyle Mo to come up and be sworn in with his family. I >> I Kyle Moore >> do solemnly swear >> solely swear >> that I faithfully >> I faithful
>> impartially >> impartial >> and justice >> and justice >> perform all the duties of police >> perform all the duties of police and county >> to the borrow of >> the borrow of law >> burden according to the best of my ability. >> according to the best of my ability. >> That I will support the Constitution of the United States.
>> I will support the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State of England. >> Constitution State to the government established in the United States >> to the government established in the United States >> and this under the authority of the people under
the authority of the people. >> [applause] [applause] [applause] >> Just stand up, PLEASE. [applause] The last time we were all together, we were saying goodbye to our uh chief, Mark Mesnner, and I was standing in the
corner with Troy. And Troy says to me, "Listen, when I become chief, you better say something better than what you're saying to about Mark. I'll try." Tonight, the B of Waldwick will swear in its eighth police officer since its founding, Chief Troy Seafford. Troy
Caesar was born and raised in Waldwick. After graduating from Walwick High School, he attended John J. College and William Patterson University. He beca he began his law enforcement career in 1999 as a police dispatcher and then also in
2000 became a police officer in the burrow of Hopus. We're not going to hold that against you. He then followed the light in the woods, crossed over the border, and in 2005 became a member of the Waldwood Police
Department. He was promoted to sergeant in 2012 and served as a patrol sergeant until his assignment to the detective bureau in 2014. In 2019, Troy was promoted to lieutenant where he has served as patrol commander
and most recent recently as the officer in charge of the administration section of the department. Troy has served as department's juvenile officer, DARE instructor, and field training officer. He also served on the PBA executive board as recording secretary and
treasurer. He also serves as president of the Waldick Baseball Association and as a trustee on the Waldwick Board of Education. Our new chief resides in Waldwick with his wife Erin and their three daughters, Emma, Maggie, and Katie.
Troy, before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. A leader's role is to build people, develop others, strengthen the organization from within, empower
all those around you, and encourage others to become leaders themselves. Chief, you have demonstrated time and time again your love, service, and selfless dedication to the well-being of our community, our residents, and your
fellow officers. You are truly a leader. As Steve Jobs said, your work is going to fill a large part of your life. And the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love
what you do. Troy, I am proud and honor honored to call you right now my police chief and my friend. Please come up and be sworn in. [applause] >> [applause] >> Very good sir. I I secretly swear to faithfully and I
will favor and impartial and justice and justice perform all the duties perform all the duties of the chief of police according to the best of my ability. according to the best of my ability. >> That I will support the Constitution of the United States. >> And I will support the Constitution of
the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey. And the Constitution of the State of New Jersey to the government established in the United States >> and of the government established in the United States >> and in this authority of the people under the authority of the people.
>> [applause] [applause] [applause] >> HEAT up here. [applause] We're going to take a fivem minute break so everyone congratulate those who just got sworn My recording's on. You have it already.
You're >> chief. [clears throat] You told me to wait. >> Yep. >> Thank you. >> Minus 5. If I could just say something real quick to the mayor and council. I want to thank you very much for a great night. Want to thank you for your unwavering
support of the W Police Department. uh through promotions tonight is is amazing. Um I just want you to know that is is my honor to serve in this office of chief of police and serve for the town that that I grew up in. Uh one one thing that I think is a is a nice thing that you picked that I picked up on all
three of the bios tonight is that all three of us were born and raised here. We are from Walduk. We are Waldo. We continue to serve Waldo. I just want to thank you again for a great night and uh and thank you. Have a good meeting. Thank you again. >> THANKS CHIEF.
>> [applause] >> OKAY. REPORTS of committees. Under my report, I have nothing to have to handle it. Okay. >> We're going to just go away from the script and we're going to just do uh something else first. We have it under new business.
>> Yeah, we have new business. >> Oh, >> but that's okay. Your council wants to hear it now. That's >> a draft. You got a draft. Not sure why. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of the council. For the record, Bruce Whitaker
here on behalf of Ron Duranti and the Duranti family. Uh, thank you for taking us out of turn. Um, as you know, the Durant family um, owners of Rocket Building Supply, uh, have been in this town for a long time, generational. uh they have been builders in this town and
they have operated uh rocket building supply for many years. Uh they have been two generations of builders in this town. Um starting out in the 50s and the 60s. Uh Rocket Building Supply still in
operation, limited operation. We've had um inquiries about other companies coming in and taking it over to use it as an area for uh supplies uh to be delivered from that site. and Duranti
family uh has resisted doing that and is looking forward to having this area done in area of need of redevelopment and are looking towards uh doing a housing project there. By resolution uh by this council uh May the 9th of 2023
um you determined this area as well as other areas in the vicinity to be an area in need of redevelopment, a non-condemnation type of area. um the report that you had and your resolution provides in part that the negative
conditions that exist in this area uh are decadent effect on the surrounding properties. Um I think we can all agree, you already made the determination that something better than what's there right now can be done uh at this uh location. So the property that we're talking about
um is a series of lots uh 13 uh 135 79 and 11. uh you have the plans uh that we delivered um and it's just a conceptual plan that we provided um they were prepared by Burgona and Burgona
Architects well-known company that does this type of development work and architectural work. Uh the parcel has one uh 1.525 acres 66,419 square ft. Uh as you know it borders
three streets Houston, Frederick and Harrison. uh applicant is proposing um as part of the development here 54 units in two buildings. 39 would be in one building, 15 would be in the other building. Um
you would have eight affordable units meeting part of your requirements under the uh fourth round. Uh the building would be correlated with what has already been approved across the street on Harrison.
uh it uh have an ordinance now that says that the maximum height would be 50 feet. Uh the this developer here is proposing a height of approximately 45 ft, four stories. um 25% of the areas being proposed that are
on the plans will be open space uh which is uh uh much more than the uh the ordinance really permits that you have for across the street. Uh under the residential site improvement standards, there's a requirement for 96 parking spaces. Um and you can see from these
plans, the proposal is for 98 parking spaces. So it exceeds the requirements. So our request is for you to review this plan and authorize uh your planner uh to move forward with developing an
ordinance um that would emulate the uh plan that we have here as far as the bulk requirements are concerned and then we look forward to taking the plan and engineering it obviously um and then come back and come before the planning
board to uh pro proceed with what the ordinance would uh permit. So that's an overview of the application. I have with me tonight Ray Verona who developed the plans and I would have him come up to present it. Unless there's any questions
of me, we can move on with him. Perhaps if you show it that way. We have What about you? this in this angle. Okay, >> I'll step away and you can >> Okay. My name is Raymond Verona. I'm an
architect and planner. I've been uh an architect for over 50 years. I've designed many multif family projects uh over 5,000 units. So we're very familiar with this type of project and this type of development.
Um what you have before you on the easel which we call SK1 is the >> is is the overall site plan of of the development where we give the standards and we show the building outlines, the
setbacks, the parking and so on. Um you'll see from this drawing that we have proposed two buildings. Uh building one is the larger of the two buildings. Uh it it's the one nearest to the
railroad. It contains 39 units, eight of which are affordable. Uh and we have plans of those which I can show you in the rest of the set. The second building is on Harrison Street. It's it contains 15 units and it's more
of a townhouse style building. It's a low-rise where the building at the rear has a garage uh below it and three stories of um living units. Um the building on Harrison has units which we call town houses which are actually
attached to apartments behind them uh which have their driveways and garages in the rear of the building. As most of you know, the property slopes from Harrison down uh approximately a
full uh story. So, we're able to provide parking under the building and maintain green space uh at the street in the front. So our object here was to conceal as much of the parking as possible
uh either within the building or under the building and to provide as much green space as possible around the perimeter of the site. And at the same time we have a rather large green space in the center which is
um I'll go through some of the statistics. Um as Bruce said we're proposing 54 units. Um the site is 1.525 acres. Uh so we're providing we're providing a
density of 35.4 units per acre. The we're asking for a building coverage of 39.3%. Um and uh we're providing setbacks of 13 ft and 20 ft along the streets. Um we're
providing adequate yards along the sides. Um the maximum height of buildings would be 45 ft for the building um uh on using and the other building is considerably lower and I'll show you those
elevations. Um so we have a maximum improved coverage of 25% which means we provided 25% of the site as green area. Uh we meet the parking and exceed
actually the RSIS parking requirement. Uh we have a drawing that shows that and we're also providing uh the eight affordable units which would be required. Uh if we compare ourselves to the project which was approved across
the street on Harrison um that site is 1.296 acres. The density there is 32.4 units an acre but the height is uh 48.47 ft and four stories. So we're a little bit below
that but that's in our building which is farthest away from the homes on Harrison. Um, we also have less impervious coverage than what was approved across the street. Across the street was almost 80% and we're at 75%.
So, it gives you a general idea of uh how the building um stacks up against the previously approved project. Um, as I said, SK1 shows the overall site layout. We have a drawing SK2. The next
drawing SK2 demonstrates how the parking works on the site and you'll see uh the building on Harrison has individual garages and driveways in addition to um ongrade parking. We have a 10c car
parking lot lot off Harrison and the rest of the parking is provided under the building behind the building. Um on the left side of that drawing you'll see the four-story building which has a garage for the most part under the
entire lower level with the exception of a lobby space, a trash room uh and service areas meter and mechanical space etc. Uh this demonstrates that we exceed the RSIs, the residential site improvement
standards uh for parking on the on the site. There's an easement that runs through the site which is dashed in on this drawing uh which uh accounts for some of the way
the buildings are uh shaped and and split apart. If we go to the next drawing which is A1, this set this series of drawings shows the actual buildings. Uh this building is the um larger of the
buildings obviously and you'll see the two main elevations, the two street elevations are shown on this drawing. On the lower uh part of the drawing is the Frederick Street elevation which we've designed to look like a series of town houses even though it's a
multi-story building with uh an elevator and with floors that extend through the building. So the units facing the street would have entrances on the street to mimic the townhouse look, but also have secondary entrances off a corer on the
interior, which you can see on the floor floor plans, which I'll show you later. Uh the upper elevation is the Henson Street elevation. It shows the building at its tallest. It's four stories on this elevation. Uh our lobby entrance is
on the left corner. We have a decorative element at the corner. And then we we're following the same architectural treatment on this side as we have on uh on the Frederick Street side.
Drawing A2 shows the other two sides of that building. The upper elevation is the east elevation, which is the elevation that faces the back of the building that that's on Harrison Street. And at this side of the building, you'll
see it's three stories. uh because of the difference in grade elevation from um upward on the site. Uh the low elevation is the other side which would be the south elevation, the right side as you face the entrance. And
we're using the same architectural treatment throughout all the elevations, all the building elevations. Drawing 83 shows the lower level of the of the building on um Eucen and Frederick Street. Uh you enter the
garage on the upper portion of this drawing. Uh most of the parking in this for this building is contained within the garage. We have 49 cars at this level. And in addition to the parking, we have a fairly large lobby, a trash
room, and mechanical space. Um, excuse me, along with an entrance vestibule and package room. the first residential floor which is one floor above the lobby. Uh the layout is shown with the various units um
dimensioned your room sizes and square footages and so on. Um on this level we have a terrace which covers part of the uh garage parking. Uh and off that terrace is a community room uh and an
exercise room so that you can go from the building uh through the exercise and community room area to the terrace. Uh we also have a small business center at this uh at this level. The next two drawings, A5 and A6, are
the floor plans for the two upper floors of the building. They are essentially the same with some minor changes in the units. Um, but it's we have an elevator, carter, and stairs in the same location
on this uh on these two floors. drawing A7 shows the elevations of the building on Harrison Street. The lower elevation is the Harrison Street, Harrison Avenue rather, elevation where you see we have a series of units that have entrances directly
from the street. Uh are basically town houses. Um and I'll show you the plans and they relate to the town houses that were approved across the street. Uh I think we did one better in that we've got an entirely green uh street
frontage. We're not parking cars there. We're not driving out on that street. It's just a a an entry uh access area for the building. And the middle left elevation on this drawing shows the uh other corner or
street elevation on Frederick Street. Same architectural treatment of the building. Um and again that's a townhouse unit uh which is in front of other units. It's uh the uh excuse me, the elevation on the
right is the left side. Uh so you see this from the street diagonally and it's a twotory or two and a half story look and the upper elevation is the elevation facing west which would be the elevation facing into our property. And you'll see
uh at the lowest level a series of garage doors with two levels of uh apartments above and a partial uppermost level. And I'll show you the plans for those in the next two drawings.
Drawing A8 is the lowest level of the Harrison Avenue building. And what you have is at the back of the building, which is on the upper part of this plan, a series of garages and driveway spaces outside. The garages are under the
building. These spaces are outside and then in the front portion are basement areas which are the basements for the town houses which are directly above them. So typically uh a resident could uh be in a townhouse, go down the stairs, go
into the hallway, and then access directly a garage, his own garage at the back. The last drawing is A9 and the lower uh uh plan is the ground level at Harrison Street. And as I was
describing, what we show as A and B and C units are actually individual units, individual townhouse units. Um they're not technically town houses because they attach to other units, but um they are
duplexes that uh appear to be town houses. Um you there's a plan of one of the typical a units in the middle. Kitchen, dining, living, powder room on the first floor, and then two bedrooms and a bath and closets on the second
floor. This building has a corridor behind the town houses which allows us to access the units barrierfree. Uh so the steps which are shown at the front are a secondary can be a secondary entrance. Someone with handicaps can
enter this building without uh having to go up or down steps. The upper plan shows the other upper level of the building where the bedrooms occur and where we have at the rear portion of that building um three apartment units.
So we have 1 2 3 4. We have seven townhouse what I call townhouse units and then three boxes three boxes at the back which are stacked apartment units. So essentially that's what we're
proposing for the development. Um be happy to answer any questions. Um, >> anyone have any questions? >> Yeah, I just have a quick question. Um, coming off Frederick Street,
I see the entrance way there looks like into the around the middle of the block uh to go in between building one and building two on Frederick Street. >> On Frederick Street, is that an entrance into the parking lot? >> Um, no. Oh, the
I'm not following where that >> I'll show you. >> Oh, sure. >> Yeah. >> So, you have parking lot of that. >> Yes, we do. any concern about fire access
builds that are there? I mean, we had very what I think is very good accessibility. Um >> um >> just thinking about that turn. How tight is it to get off? a you know a a truck
to come directly in at the rear. You know we have actually three streets or two streets I should say a parking area and a second parking area. So the building essentially can be accessed all around.
Um obviously the other building uh Houston has the same parking lot and the two streets. So we have good access as far as fire fighting fires go. The buildings are
going to be fully sprinklered also. Um the buildings are going to be uh fully adaptable for handicapped uh users as well. Um I think we have this is a standard we
followed we followed the RSIS standards for all the driveways and parking space sizes. Um and so I think we should have no issue as far as fighting fires and as far as access. >> Another question for me unless anybody
else. Um utilities for this area. You see upgrades in terms of water manes or um supply lines that are needed to you know buy the 56 units? >> I I don't believe so. But we haven't engineered the plan yet. That would be
our next step. Yeah. Yeah. So, so thank you for the presentation. Um, in general, I agree. I don't really love the the property as it exists. I kind of think of this area as part of our downtown. You know,
um, you know, I think that there's a lot of potential for for Waldwood. Um, you know, that being said, kind of don't love this. It's just a lot of apartments in an area where I think there's a lot of potential for as you
come down Prospect and you make that right uh at the train station, you know, a lot of potential for what we could, you know, see in a in a vibrant downtown. Was was there any attempt to look at first floor commercial retail or
it just feels like an attempt to jam a whole bunch of apartments into an otherwise very valuable? I mean, it's it's not super dense. Um, I don't think commercial would be viable here. Uh, but >> well, we had it at the across the street. They put the SA cafe and that's
very successful. It's a it's a it's a landmark for the town now, too. People love it. >> I mean, we we thought that this would be more compatible with the residential uh on Harrison. Um, >> I think it would I I don't know what my colleagues think, but I think that might
be nice to try to discussion on what you know some retail on Houston would look like you know then we're giving something back to the town more than just you know throwing how many apartments or how many >> uh there are 39 in that building >> 39 and
>> 15 on the >> Yeah. So so 50 >> 54 in total >> four units without really giving a whole lot back to the town. I I personally would like to to see something else um in there. I I listen I I love I appreciate what you've done on um on
Harrison to try to match the the town homes like right >> that that was fantastic when we saw the the Harrison A property uh project we actually saw a few iterations of it and I think one of our requests as a council was there's some retail in there right
let's let's add back to the downtown and when they came back that was they put 4,000 square feet of of retail in there that's when I personally became a big advocate for it Um it would require for me I I think something like that would go a long way.
>> I mean that project of course has the has some retail. It's on Prospect which is of course your main one of the main retail spots. Um I felt going farther into Harrison would make uh make a difficult um sell
for those. you know, I I don't think they'd be, as I said, viable because I think they'd be mixed among a residential in the middle of a residential location. Um I I know what you're saying. I >> Yeah. And I and I think that we haven't had a chance to discuss it as a council,
but perhaps there's a vision for what we can do long term for this entire area. And I have my own view and I and I think everyone else has their their own view with 59 apartments without any kind of
giving back to the town on on on making that downtown vibrant >> is uh not at least how I'm kind of seeing it long term and once they go in right they're not coming out. So >> well I mean those 50 right those 54 units are going to help the downtown
area. they're going to provide residents which are going to support that. Uh so um and we are providing affordable housing in the project and um I think it's an asset in general. It it's much
more green I think than any of the other projects that I know uh in the area. >> Certainly an upgrade on what we have. >> Yeah. >> But like I said, we only have one chance to do this. I mean, what do you all think?
>> Well, I think it's just you're just presenting to us currently. >> That's right. That's right. >> Yeah. I would certainly like to uh take some time to think about this and perhaps to formulate some questions
and perhaps come back to it, but uh honestly just points valid. Um, I would like to have time to take a look and say yes and no. But, uh, let's think about come back.
>> In building number one, >> yes, >> you have right here four, uh, stores. So, you're going to put four stores in building number one. What is the size of the stores? >> Um, and where are the parking going to be? Going to be in the front of the building. Where is it going to be? >> Uh, stories.
>> Yeah, there's no stores. No, we don't have any >> stores. I'm sorry. No, >> I'm sorry. >> It's all residential. >> Also, you said another question about you don't think there'll be a problem with the fire department. >> Yes. >> If there is a problem, you'll be able to adjust it. >> Accommodate accommodate the fire
department request. >> This is a conceptual plan. When we came in with the conceptual plan for the other uh project, right? uh that was conceptual and then by the time we got to the planning board and we had the input from the fire department and fire chief then at that point we made the revisions that were necessary to make it
appropriate. We also had comment from them that if there was a fire in all likelihood it could be uh addressed from the outside on the street and not to use period but that's an engineering aspect that we have to do. >> I think the project's a good one but it's too many units. I think it's too
many units. You're just crowding too much stuff in here. >> I mean, we're really not very different from the project across the street. >> No, we have to live. >> Uh I think the way it's done, you know, the fact that we do have the the two buildings with the the the greater
number of units in building one, which is away from the main residential and uh abuing the railroad with the park railroad parking across the street. I think um makes lessens the impact. Let me put it
that way. >> But I think the point is it's it's not adding to what we want, which is I think to make it a little bit more vibrant down there. Um and yes, it's probably not very
different from Harrison A. the the the project we approved with the one key difference which is they had 4,000 square feet of of retail and uh going back four year three years or four years when we saw that I was saying the same thing for that project uh and
they accommodated right and they came back and and then I was as you all know the strongest advocate for that for that project and um to to my own demise right >> so so my suggestion would be we'll take it under consideration We looked at that
before we uh started plans. >> Uh some consultants that we discussed it with real estate people thought that the retail wouldn't make it at this area because it's somewhat isolated and and it's not connected uh and the isolation
is what dissuaded us from doing it. I would suggest that one of the things it would be appropriate to do is have uh your planner, Mr. Grigo, look at this to see what he thinks from a planning aspect. We recognize its proximity to the train station. We recognize that there's a uh an element of the
population that becomes used to this type of u uh project u and u the size of the project and the size of the rooming the rooms that are proposed. Um there's a need for it. Uh the affordable housing of course we stipulate meets all the
requirements because the state has standards for those size units. There'll be threebedroom, two-bedroom, and onebedroom units as required uh under the appropriate regulations. Uh but um we certainly that's the purpose of the meeting. The purpose to take uh under
consideration um your suggestion and we welcome the opportunity to d have you direct us to Mr. Gel for his review. >> Um another question for me. Is there any impact to uh the homes and other businesses that are on Prospect Street that go that butt up against the back of
that property? >> Um >> during construction or any of that? >> No, we would have to bond for that. >> We would have have to go into developers agreement for that. And your developers agreement, there's language in there that we cannot adversely affect
neighboring properties including drainage, etc. There was something I think when we looked at this plan on the corner lot where Master Chad's uh Taekwond do is um something about the easement and the parking. >> So we've addressed that. What we've done here is that we've left this open u he's
actually he parks on our client's property now but we've just left this open for open parking. >> Okay. >> And that could be parking if you want be dedicated for public use. >> Yeah. I I think uh parking was an issue when we were going through the other
development plans. So maybe we could increase some parking spots and make it available to the public. Just an idea. >> We're we're beyond the RSIS standards. It's required. So we have that >> and as you can see that parking is somewhat I use the word isolated again
isolated but for it could be for the general public that and that's something a planner would look at. >> Recommendations to create an ordinance. Yeah, that would be a benefit to the town. >> I I think what we're all trying to say is that there's too many units and not enough uh
retail. >> Well, I'm going to hold back on the retail as to see if it's viable from consultants as well as your plan and our own plan. >> We're going to reach out to our planner and let them discuss. We have the plan to send everything. Is >> that right? >> Yes.
>> And if anybody has any questions from the council, please vote them to Tatiana. she could get into our uh our planner uh with your ideas and anything. >> Does anyone from the uh would you like to say anything?
>> No. >> No, I mean it's just the regular process from there and you can take the concept plan and then either the council decides to um prepare a redevelopment plan based on this or um using the planer and have
them Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. We're going to have somebody that's on the online. He wants to ask a question. >> Go ahead. >> Okay. You can go ahead.
I just like to know if the plan will be available at Burrow Hall for the residents to review before it goes before the council. >> Um well the plans are already here that you have and obviously after the input
that we get from your planner and revised plans everything is a public document. >> So the answer short answer is yes. Anyone from the audience here would like to have a comment? >> Yes, that's you could just come up. Just
give us your name, >> please. >> All right, Jim Schultz. Just I know this is preliminary. Harris, can I have a >> Yes, sidewalk. >> Uh, how many bedrooms? Do you have an
idea how many bedrooms? Yes, the plan showed us um we can have two in two bedrooms. The apartments are there's a one there two ones and a three bedroom on that building. This building has an
entirely different and then they do finance >> how we would finance it. >> No, that's not even in our consideration yet. >> Okay. And one other comment, Mike, I'm I'm glad you're concerned. I just wish
you would have been this concerned with the apartments when they did the other one on Harrison Avenue. >> I was. >> No, I'm just >> for years. For years. >> You can tell me you were, but I think this is good cuz it's direct competition now. >> You're going to have to You're going to have all of these apartments to rent. You got Harrison Avenue. You're probably
going to get a pilot program. It's going to drive the price down of the apartment. So, >> I I wouldn't even consider it. >> Okay. I I didn't say for this video. All I'm saying is you should have been as concerned with the density as the other one. >> For years, years.
>> Anyone else? >> I was >> Did you have Did you have a question, sir? >> Come on up. Please state your name for our records. >> My name. >> Just your name. Gino Maria 85.
>> Okay, >> a question for the gentleman. >> Whoever you want. >> I got so many of them. >> This guy I dealt with him before. Excuse me to say he's an artist. He make look everything perfect at the end. It's not perfect. He did it to me in the bloody.
Oh, it's going to be perfect. That looks like Christmas city cuz he lights all over and it's going to happen the same thing with this thing. He's a good BS artist. I'm sorry. >> Thank you. Okay. He presents everything. But how many how many did you do a
study? >> How many going to go through there? How many? >> Gino. You got to ask questions about the project. >> Yeah. He's got a question about I'm sorry. >> I know. I know. I know. I got you. I got you. >> I've dealt with him before.
>> We have 98. >> How many apartments? >> 54. >> Where do you put them? Where you going to put them? Well, we've shown the plane where where I'm not good with architect. Where are you going to put this before? We have 15
in this building, >> right? How many how many units? How many up and down? How many have >> 15 apart, right? Of different sizes, right? >> This building has 39, right? >> These are three stories. This is basically
>> what how many cars should they have in this apartment? How many? How about a garage? >> We have well we have 98 alto together. >> Some are garage and some are on-site spaces. You can see now these are the
onre parking spaces here and over here. The other spaces are all within the building in the garage here and the garage. Are you going to take a study of the traffic problem? They're going to be here because the railroad down here, the
street coming across there. There's a tons of problem. I don't want to get killed in Harrison. I don't want to get killed in the city, but not in Harrison. Okay? There's a bad bad problem with cars all over the place. You go there in the morning, if you don't if you don't
check, they're running right off because they got to catch the train. Imagine with this problem here too many I think 20 would have been plenty or maybe less too many apartment that's my opinion I don't know what you looks fancy sure
everything you know what they I boss everything looks good on paper but when you put in practice he stays I'm sorry I double in it looks beautiful for you for them he's very good in present everything and push
on it and he told oh nothing is going to happen come to buy my house of bread we have Christmas spat represented bread he said oh that' be perfect now I go cut my by my house you see Christmas everything lights every all night long
thank you very much thank you for because we're going to get lot of that we don't need John Vort, are these rentals or uh for sale? >> They're rent. Well, they proposed to be rentals. >> Rentals. Okay. Thank you.
Anyone else? Okay, we're going to continue with our meeting. Thank you very much. >> We'll get We'll have our I'll planners reach out to >> you just uh kind of target a meeting to come back to with the planner into next year. >> Probably the second meeting in January.
>> Okay. And I'll be in touch with you. >> There's one meeting. >> One meeting. All right. February. >> February. >> There's only one meeting at >> Yeah. We're not going to do it if at the re meeting ceremonial >> I would say February. >> February because we have a we have we have to start working on our budget.
>> Yeah. So it'll be the February meeting. February. >> In the meantime, we'll have the ability to deal with Mr. Griel on this. >> Our our administrator will reach out to him. Uh the council here will speak to each other or they'll discuss everything with our administrator and then she will
>> and I' I've made the offer already. If there's an escro that's required for professional fees, obviously we'll set that up and we can do that. Okay. We'll be in communication that way. Thank you for your time this evening, everyone. Have a merry Christmas. Happy Merry Christmas. Thank you.
It's going to be online. Okay, my report I have nothing to report just to wish everybody a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Uh our our reorg meeting is uh the first Tuesday in January where it will be a ceremonial meeting where we will be swarming in people, honoring people and establishing
the the new 2026 year for us. Financial and administrative committee, Mr. Richie, >> I have nothing, mayor. Thank you. >> Thank you. Fire and police protection committee. Mr. Bren, >> thank you. Um, today
uh per year 253 calls for the month of December. We got two loaded accidents, five activated fires, we got two utility emergencies. Uh the fire department assist the uh the Lions Club for their Santa event. And on
the 13th of the month, the fire department conducted it Santa, which is very successful with 90 stops. Let's go ahead. >> Thank you. Public safety committee, Mr.
Erica Drake. >> Uh no updates from WVAC. Thank you, Mayor. >> Thank you. Recreation and health committee. Mono. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just a couple of brief comments. Um, sorry I missed the tree lighting for the first time in many years due to circumstances beyond my control. I even though it was cold, I
hear it was well attended and a lot of fun had by everyone. Uh, Santa did a great job there. Um, also want to thank the fire department for um coming around town with Santa. I know all the kids look forward and even my older kid got a a present from Santa that day. So, it
was uh it was fun. Um, just want to remind everyone that the Toys for Tots at the American Legion Post is uh scheduled for Monday through Friday, 5 to 8:00 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 4 to 8:00 p.m. Um, there's always children
in need around this time and anyone who can donate toys, um, I know they will appreciate it. Uh, that's it. Thank you everyone and merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, happy new year. >> Thank you very much. Public Works Committee, Mr. Roondo. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh just two items.
Uh I want to thank the Department of Public Works for the first snowstorm Sunday supposed to be an inch a little bit more than that. I know they were out from 11:00 p.m. on Saturday till pretty much most of the day on Sunday. I want to thank them for that. But I also want
to thank the Department of Public Works for sitting at the fighting for it was well received by the residents and his Thank you for that. That's all. Thank you very much. Building and grounds committee.
>> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I don't have anything to report on buildings and grounds, but I just wanted to uh thank all the residents and of course uh the burough employees that uh took care of the tree lighting um that we had on the 5th on December 5th. It was really fun. It was very cold and I appreciate all
the residents that were that did come out and attend. Uh it was very successful. Um, also like to thank the Lions Club for holding the children's Christmas party and the fire department of course for um driving Santa through town so we could all appreciate that. And uh I'm glad to hear that the
fundraiser was as successful as it was 90 stops. That's a lot. Uh thank you for that. And I know the the kids of the town really appreciate it. And I just want to wish everybody happy holiday, merry Christmas and happy new year. Thanks. >> Thank you. Alberto administrator.
>> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, I just wanted to extend my congratulations to uh to Chief Seaffort, Lieutenant Moore, and uh, Sergeant Cone. Very happy to uh, to see these uh, promotions in the police department. They do a fantastic job for
the burrow and uh, honored to work with all of them every day. Uh, also wanted to mention to just mark your calendars that our flushing schedule is out. Um it will be posted on it is I believe already posted on the website but it has gone out on our social media and
constant contact uh pages as well. If you are in the area off White AB bordering up towards uh Whiteoff that is considered section one and the that flushing schedule will begin tomorrow. So from the Whiteoff border going east to Crescent A and then from Allenale and
the Whiteoff border south to Midland Park border. This will continue uh after the holidays and uh through the end of January. Uh total of five sections um which will incl. Uh the this flushing schedule is the
recommendation of H2M and uh a particular schedule on how the flushing um should be conducted this time around. Um, so we uh just ask that you take a look at that schedule so you know when to prepare for the flushing in uh in your area. And that's it. Thank you.
Thank you, >> Clerk Kelly. >> Thank you, Mayor. I would just like to thank those residents who donated for the Allenale Wald BA 217 Toys for Tots drive. That was very successful. Also, I want to thank all the residents who continue to donate food, toys, and clothes to benefit Families for
Families. That's the orange barrel down in our lobby. um they are picking it up regularly still and so we really appreciate those donations. Uh the 2026 calendar um just want to remind everybody your 2025 calendar uh contains
January of 2026. So um the calendar will be mailed to um all our residences uh once it's once it comes out once the printer is done with it. Um holiday events. I just wanted to thank uh the mayor and council for their support um for the annual Christmas tree lighting
at Burl Park. Also to Tatiana Melissa DPW Police Department for their assistance um behind the scenes to make our Christmas tree lighting the event that it is um which is a wonderful community event to kick off our holiday season. Uh we I want to wish everyone a happy holiday season and a safe, healthy
and happy new year. >> Thank you attorney. >> Thank you. Thank you Mr. Mayor. Nothing for this evening. I do have an item for close session, but there won't be any action taken. >> Okay, good. Consent resolutions and resolutions of the governing body.
>> Be it resolved that the following resolutions herewith listed by consent, having been considered by the governing body of the burough. Would have hereby passed and approved. 2025 314 approval of consent. 2025 315 approval of minutes regular meeting October 28th regular meeting and close session meeting
November 13th 2025 3316 resolution designating Harrison Aav redevelopment LLC as conditional redeveloper and authorizing the execution of a memorandum of understanding and escort agreement 2025 317 authorized change of
signatory for the um 2024 2025 program year grant agreement with Bergen County Community Development Block Grant for ADA A curb ramps 2025 318 authorized change of signatory for all Bergen County grants grant agreements and county vouchers 2020 319 authorized
shared service agreement with Northwest Bergen Utilities Authority for pump station inspection services for 2025 through 2027 2025 320 authorized release of dumpster escrow for 74 more a 2025 321 approval of council reorganization
meeting January 6 2026 2025 25 322 renewal of the group dental benefits program for eligible employees and their covered dependence through Delta Dental of New Jersey Incorporated. 2025323 authorized refund of uh water overpayment 2025324 approval of budget
appropriation transfers and 2025 325 payment of vouchers. >> Do I have a motion and second to accept by Mr. Mundo second by Mr. Mont? >> Yes. Just wanted to touch on uh 2025 uh
316, the resolution designating Harrison AB redevelopment as the conditional redeveloper and authorizing theou uh as the ma as the matter uh as the mayor must recuse himself from this matter. I will be signing thatou on behalf of the council. Uh and just wanted to note that
those signatory changes on the grants um is just a point of order. Um, with Steve uh no longer here at the burrow, uh, we're just switching over the signatory uh, permissions with the county to, uh, myself to sign off on the paperwork as we uh, get through all the grant
process. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else? Not, please take the role. >> Mr. Bick, >> yes. >> Mr. Saka Drake, >> yes. >> Mr. Martinelloo, >> yes. >> Mr. Roundo, >> yes. >> Mr. Richie, >> yes. >> Mrs. Weber, >> yes.
Okay, we have one public hearing. Would the clerk kindly read ordinance number 2025-23? >> Ordinance number 2025-23, an ordinance to amend chapter 64 of the code of the burrow of Waldick entitled parks, adding that dog all dogs must remain leashed within a park.
>> Anyone from the council like to comment on this ordinance? What this is just saying is it's very simple that what if you're going to bring your dog into the park, they have to be on a leash. They cannot be just roaming around by themselves. And that's the straightforward uh ordinance that we're
passing. Anyone else from the council? If not, I close the council's comments and open up to the public. Anybody from the public would like to comment. >> You have to come up here. State your name, please. >> Is this about the ordinance? >> No, it's about something else.
>> This is only the audience, right? The audience right now. Public comments, then you could come up. >> Okay. Anyone else, sir? No. I close the public's comments and ask for a motion and a second to pass this on second reading and that the uh clerk authorizes
it to be placed into uh advertising local legal newspaper that's required by law. Motion to second Andy and also Mark. Cler take the role. >> Mr. Bren, >> yes. >> Miss Sarakri, >> yes. >> Mr. Martinell,
>> yes. >> Mr. Rando, >> yes. >> Mr. Richie. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Weber. >> Yes. >> Okay. We have no introduction of ordinances. Anybody from the council have new business? Okay. Anybody from the council have unfinished business?
None. Okay. We already did the Durant uh presentation and now public comments. Anybody from the public would like to comment on anything? Please. >> Anybody from now you can come up here.
All right. I'm a little calmer than Gino. Okay. Hi. Good evening. I'm Esther Moralia. Reside at 85 Harrison. >> Your address. >> I don't need that. >> Oh, okay. Uh, good evening. Um, Esther Moralia, 85 >> this way.
>> Yeah, just no address. Everything else. >> Okay. All right. I live I've lived at 85 in Waldwick my entire life. Okay. So, I have um several questions. Um first um I'd like to know uh one question about
the town houses that are being built on Harrison A. Uh has the town conducted a traffic analysis study once these town they put these town houses on Harrison A? Did anything get done with that? And
if so, could we have a a report uh stating such? I ask because so many people have considered uh the intersection of Harrison Aav and Prospect Street a traffic hazard. The
stop sign u there's a lot of traffic and uh it's already concerning problems. Also, the intersection of Franklin Turnpike and Prospect Street is also a traffic hazard. Um, I don't know if
anybody looked into that. Uh, my second question is how many town houses are being planned to buil be built on Harrison A? We need to know that now because of the traffic pattern issues such as uh while getting in and out of
the resident's driveway. uh will that allow for a smooth uh and safe flow of traffic and then now with the rocket supply uh how is the traffic and ride aid is gone uh what is the praise with
the uh potential issues of the traffic now that they're gone and you may recall from the tra town's records not so long ago many of our citizens worked hard to vanquish the eminent domain issue that
would have been a disastrous in this historic railroad neighborhood. We were reieved from that reprieve from uh the so-called progress which would likely have made the outsiders much wealthier
while we the citizens of Waldwick struggled to pay high taxes. this kind of progress. Walwick would I would like to see progress uh in Waltick. Uh we have a really nice downtown with beautiful restaurants, beautiful
businesses, but from Bagel Nash all the way down to the railroad station. They put in these beautiful brick sidewalks. Uh but you can't see the bricks because the weeds are overflowing the brick. the sign uh near Bagel Nash is falling over
and and there's like weeds all over the buildings there. It looks horrible. And then at the intersection of Harrison and Wikoff by the new food emporium, the garbage piles up and blows in the wind. It It looks a mess. Well, thank you
tonight uh for, you know, taking my issues and just we'd like to make us proud to be to live in Waldick. Uh thank you. >> That's it. In regards to the neighborhood being 30, we have our building inspector.
Please go out and look and see what's going on. Harrison Woff, we This is not the first time. also in back of uh where the uh the food aquarium's coming, but there's dumpsters that are there that are not even lined
up. They're just placement and I think we're going to have to have somebody go around the town if our the building inspector is too busy with other stuff cuz I know he is. It's only one man to make sure this town is kept clean. Anyone else?
Sir, you wait. How are you? >> Um, I sent an email today. Did all you get that from Richard Tur? >> Yes. >> So, have you had a chance to look at it? >> Uh, I try to go on there, but you have to join that group and I join the group.
>> I'm sorry. >> But I know you sent an email out and you can explain what you want to say. >> Yeah. >> Explain to us why you want this done. Um, Seth's father, Nathaniel Budanov,
was elected mayor of Waldick, I believe in 1971. >> And unfortunately, he passed away before the election results came out. And uh at the time it was my feeling
that just kind of got whitewashed over. There was never any recognition given to Mr. Bugdanoff as mayor and it affected Seth and his family. Seth is Nathaniel's son.
Um, I think it was a very traumatic experience for them and a lot of people in the town that voted for Mr. Bugdanov I think felt the same way. Um,
so the reason I'm making this suggestion, I'm uh a resident from the 60s and 70s. Uh, I love the town but I don't live here anymore. I belong to that group along with four or 5 thousand others
around the country. Um I'm a good friend of Seth's. At the time we we uh got to know each other. There was uh the environmental uh what the
environmental protection act. There was uh a super fund in Waldwick. There was contaminated water. There was uh controversy about the Hocus Brook, which I lived on, being polluted
and maybe being a source of cancer for residents. Seth and I spent time doing research. I don't know if I don't know if there was ever a result or not, but um getting to my point, I think it would be an honor
for Seth and his father to allow him to be mayor for a day since his father never had a chance to serve even though he was elected. um just a way of memorializing
what >> his father and kind of putting Seth at at peace. >> Well, could I answer some of those questions for you? >> Sure. >> Uh I don't think the Burough Waldig whitewashed his election. If you look in the back of the room, he's up there.
This picture is up there with all the other mayors that serve. >> Okay. Well, >> and if you go in the if you go in our lobby, >> there's another picture of him also with all the mayors that serve. Very good. Well, >> so I mean we've done what we had to do for him. >> I mean to make him mayor for a day is
for him set is not for the mayor. >> I understand. >> I mean we could we could recognize the mayor at our reorg meeting of that he didn't serve. You know I read the whole history about Nate McDaniel and you know he I think he died five days before the uh the election day and he still got in
as mayor >> but the town did honor him because he's on the wall. The last time I came here for a meeting, this building didn't exist. It was on on Franklin Turnpikes. No, >> what we did was we re reread this whole room. >> It was on Prospect Street,
>> right? We did this whole room and all the pictures of all the mayors are here. >> Okay. >> If you go downstairs tonight, you go near the Christmas tree and there's a picture up there also. And we also uh the um the Waldick Alliance at the museum, the picture that is downstairs
was in that room and uh the public came and saw all the mayors that ever served you. >> I appreciate that. >> It was just a suggestion of mine and I wasn't aware. >> Right. No, it's not. Where do you live? >> I live in Fleshing right now. >> Fleshing, New York.
>> Yeah. >> I'm a resident uh Waldwick 84 Whiteoff A. right next to the bridge. And uh in my day, I was a soccer player. I ended up getting invited later
to be the coach of the soccer team. I believe I turned it around from a mediocre team to after I left it started winning league, county, and state championships.
the kids that I coached, uh, the youngest of three, um, Andy Bur was on the 95 state championship team. And I coached it at the same time as Howie Reed
and he coached the football team and brought the Wald football team to their first state championship. What we're going to do is we'll take a picture of the the portrait up here and we'll take a picture of the portrait downstairs and we'll send it to you.
>> Fair enough. And I'll send it to >> Do you have another couple of minutes? >> Sure. >> Okay. Um I am getting old. I don't know if if uh you have any records of the gentleman that designed your logo that's
behind you here. Um, but I believe it was my friend Rick Dryer, class of 71. And I spent a lot of time trying to do the research. I don't know if you have that information in your archives or not, but
>> one we'll look for it, but there's one person that'll probably notice is our first administrator, Gary Crack. >> Okay. >> We'll call him up in contact with him. I'll ask him if he knows anything about it. But what was his name that you said? >> It's Richard Drier. D R E Y E R.
And uh my question is, is there a way to give him some credit somewhere on your website for designing that logo? >> If when we find out that that it was definitely him. >> Yeah, I think it was. >> One more. >> Sure.
>> This is uh another close friend of mine. >> His name was Alan Weedmire. And uh do any of you know Allan? Noah Valen. Okay. He was a track star in Waldick, a few years younger than me,
good friend of my sister, Regina, and uh he was a very religious, spiritual person. He's good friends with several other of Waldwickians, none of whom still live in Waldwick. Um,
there was an incident in Oakland in front of a a shopping mall where there was a a couple where the man was beating up the woman in public and Allen happened to be there
and he stepped in. Unfortunately, because of that, he ended up getting beaten to death. And uh it was never really discussed after that. It was again, in my words, kind of
just pushed off to the side. And in my mind, heroes aren't just military men or policemen, but I consider him a hero for standing up for someone. And unfortunately, he
lost his life doing it. >> Where where did this happen? >> In Oakland. >> Oakland, New Jersey. >> Yes. >> Okay. And his first name was >> Allan. >> Right. >> Wedder Meyer. And I believe it's we d M I E R. Right. I I'm
>> Does that sound right? >> You're aware of the story, right? >> Okay. >> I I will reach out to the mayor and let him look into it for us also. And then we'll we'll pick Mr. Bren the brain also on this. >> Okay. >> So
that's it. I don't know if there's uh it's appropriate to recognize him in any way. He's a native son of Waldwick along with Rick Drier. And >> what we'll do is I'll look into this. I'll look into it personally and we have your email address. >> Okay. >> Me and myself or our administrator
should get back to you and talk to you about that. But first thing we'll do is tonight we'll take a picture and we'll send it to you so you have >> Thank you everyone. Appreciate it. >> Have a safe trip back to Washington. >> Anyone else? >> Good evening.
>> Okay. My name is Deborah Coutuno and I'm here tonight. Um, I've lived in Waldwick for about 20 years. Do you want me to continue? Okay. So, um I've lived in Waldorick for about 20
years and I've had the pleasure of living next door uh to the Asta family. Uh I've seen them have their children, watch the children grow up and um they've been probably uh the ideal
neighbors to have for a very long time. So, uh I think it's 17 years now. By the way, I was kind of a little disturbed and discouraged because there was a letter circulating uh all over social media,
different platforms that I saw. It was prior to the election. Um, and I I think some of the allegations that were contained in the letter that was circulating
again were a little disturbing and disheartening for me to read. Um, and Mr. Mayor, I I am sorry, but I have to I have to point these things out because I love where I live and I think that Mr. Aster would have made a great
councilman. um reading this letter I I I felt that it was very vague. There was a lot of there were two reasons why it caught my attention. One was because a lot of the
um language that was used was things like possible violations. Um appears to be a violation, may directly end in danger. And those those words that you put out there
people interpret differently. Uh and they take it to heart because it's coming from a person of authority. And it really disturbed me. It it because I know that well at least on one
page I saw 30 30 likes and whatever it is there must have been at least 50 people at least that would have seen this. And some of it's documented. I have I have all the pictures from screenshots and things like that. Um,
but I think what happened that caught my attention the second time was then the two council women posted another shot of this and they edited it, which led me to believe that there were missing paragraphs. And I
don't know if they were afraid of liability issues or I I I don't know, but um the mayor, one of the people that was very influential in my life was my freshman uh advisor. He was a man who had a
Harvard PhD when Harvard actually meant something. Um, and I remember him saying to me with a freshman investigative seminar that it was extremely important that if you're going to make a statement that you can back it up with either
facts or some sort of historical statutes or whatever. And the mayor did present something where he he said there was a statute, but it was never numbered. It was I don't see anything here. And I know what he was getting at
in that he was trying to say that postcards that were sent out that said take this to the polls with you were illegal. I think that's in here somewhere. [snorts] And it isn't. It's not illegal. It's
it's allowed by law. And I know that because on the USA.gov website, which any of you can go look at, they actually They actually state what you can bring in with you
and I'll get that for you in a second. And the question that was asked on the website, this is a government website along with the White House and everything else, all the major GSA, government services administration, is can you bring sample
ballots and voter guides into the voting booth? And it says you can bring your notes, you can bring a voter guide, you can bring a sample ballot, you can bring any of those things. This frees you from having to memorize your choices for
candidates and ballot initiatives. Some polling places do restrict cell phone use. So, please bring paper copies, sorry, instead of your phone. I think that that pretty much explains
what was actually allowed in the voting booth. So, if I brought I know we have a copy still of the postcard that went out and it does say, you know, please take this card from the polls with you.
Here's my notes. Who am I going to vote for? Basically the same same thing. And the funny part was what I noticed for the first time, you can bring in your your sample ballot. I could highlight this. I
could do whatever I want. I could walk into the the polling place and just walk in with this item. And if you look at carefully on the back of your sample ballot, and this was for this past election, it says, "Helpful tip. Bring
this sample ballot to the polls for faster check-in." So, all of these things are permitted by law. And I really feel that he was done an injustice by keeping him from actually
running for an office that he probably deserved. And I'm concerned about the editing on that second letter that went out. I still don't understand why the new council people would take that certain certain segments out of there.
Um, and I'm disappointed. So, uh, that's pretty much all I have to say, but I I really don't think I really do think an injustice was done. Thank you. >> Thank you.
>> Anyone else? Yes, ma'am. Good evening. I'm Pat Morice. I Well, I am not going to tell you where I live, but it does have something to do with why I'm here. Um, I didn't know if you know this, but um, I'm in Paddington,
so you know, it's the road that goes down to the park, and we have tractor trailers coming down my block. Um, I don't know what to do about it.
I've called the police. Um, I think what's happening is that Google Maps is not accurate. And I think the truck drivers think because of the maps that there's
an entrance to the industrial complex. So, they go all the way down, they go down to the park and they get stuck. And it's first of all, it's really alarming to see an 18-wheeler on
Pennington Avenue. We have all small children that live there. Um it seems like it's an accident waiting to happen and it's really dangerous. I don't think a truck driver would be able to see a young child from up that high. And the
road's not made for 18ers. I've called the police and they've come several times. They've knocked down wires. They've knocked down the same stop sign like five, six times. And I can tell, you know, when they get halfway up the
block that they're freaked out, the truck drivers, and they like they're stuck in this small space and they can't get out of it. And so I called the police to come. And then I feel bad, too, because I think after that happens,
the police give them a ticket. And I think it's just a bad situation all the way around. And I'm just wondering what we can do to solve it. Like maybe we could put up either we could contact Google Maps and tell them to correct
what is obviously wrong on that maps. I think that would be one great way. But I think another thing is to have a a sign at the top of the block saying a weight limit, no trucks allowed. Like if there's just something that we can do about it because I really feel like it's
an accident waiting to happen. work on. >> Okay, great. Thank you, Tom. >> Thank you for bringing it to our attention. It's the first time I'm hearing of it, so I'll >> Yeah. Um I thought by calling the police that that would bring attention to it, but like I just can't watch another truck get caught up there again. It's
just and it's it's bringing down the wires, knocking down and and and I feel bad for the truck driver cuz it's not their fault and they're getting tickets for it on top of being freaked out. So, thank you for listening.
>> Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? >> Hello, Hulkstarter. Um, I just want to say that um I feel it's a little unfortunate for someone to say that um somebody else does deserve to win the election. The council woman who did win the election are here and I think we should support them. I'm sorry that your
person didn't win, but you know, you know, half of this town is is supportive of Democratic policies and we should support them. A lot of us, you know, Democrats, we didn't say anything when the Republic begins won. That's fine. But I feel like the other side should do
the same. They won. Okay. Thank you. >> Anyone else? >> This is ma'am, this is not going to be a debate about this, but you could have you could have >> I understand this. >> It's not a debate. This is simply a rebuttal. Uh I was not trying to say that they
didn't deserve their office or whatever. I'm saying that there were allegations that were made against someone that didn't deserve to have them and that really don't they don't cut the mustard when you when you look at the laws. So I
was like I said I was disappointed but I was also disturbed that these allegations would be put out there and nobody would actually say hm or it was worded in such a way where there was no liability. That's what I was trying to say.
Thank you. Anyone else? If not I we have one person that's on on >> Could we just let this one person talk? She can wait. Okay, >> thank you mayor and thank you very much
for talking to everyone. Um I just wanted to uh as I was listening to the meeting offer um I do have information about Nathaniel. >> Okay. >> Um my my father was actually on the ticket with him when um when this
happened and were running for council and Nathaniel was running for mayor. So I have I do have um original literature that I'd be willing to make a photo happen for uh school. I grew up with that
>> and David and uh an unfortunate situation will happen. But um I just wanted to offer that anything that I could have to help you know help out. >> If you could send that all to me, you could take that with the pictures we're going to be sending and we'll send it
right to the gentleman. Then he could give it to >> Seth. That's wonderful. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Where do you go? >> This is my monthly public announcement about pilot programs. I watched the last council meeting. Mike, I applaud you for
telling telling everyone to get involved with the pilot contract, the schools and that. So, thank you. That was very good. Next question I have. I have two more. one, you mentioned something about a $200,000 tax revenue that we would get. So you
get 200,000 with the re with the redistribution or the redistricting on Harrison minus the 67 would be about 133,000. So I went back, >> right? And so I'll get to that in a minute. So I looked up what the school
budget was. The average student in Walwick is $18,000 per pupil. Oh, sorry. So the the average student from 2023 to 2024, the average was about $18,100. So if we have 133K in excess, we get
seven students, even though we can't use that pilot money for education, we're down $133,000 there. >> I mean, listen, we can do whatever we want with the money. That's why I'm advocating we meet with the board of ed, sit down with them, find an equitable distribution here. Let's just not say no
to hundreds of thousands of dollars of in tax revenue. That's that's all I'm saying. >> Okay. No, I I understand it. And this goes to my next point. There's there's a website or there's actually a spreadsheet and Tatiana is going to ask you if you can look at it. It's called the pilot finance approval forecast. I
went out there the other day and looked at it and surprisingly there's an entry for in there. I was surprised because I went to the other spreadsheet that said we have no pilot programs. Now maybe so I don't know who put it in. I'll give you the the address. Michigan. Look at it. But that was broken down
municipality 95 county 5 school board zero. So as much as we say the school board is going to get money, I haven't seen anything yet that says they're going to get a dollar of the pilot money. >> I don't think that's our pilot. That
must be an old pilot. >> You know, I I was >> You don't have any pilots anymore? >> And and that's where cuz I went to the other spreadsheet that said that shows you all the active pilots in Bergen County. was zero. Then I went back to this and it's filled out for 30 years. That's why I'll give it to you, man. I don't know who put it in. But my only
point is it's 9550 with that. And I understand and I'm I hop on this every month when it gets negotiated. You have to negotiate to get money taken out per student. >> Well, Jim, you do this. You're giving us
considerable leverage by coming up here every every month. That's that that's my biggest concern is that I haven't I haven't seen anything that says you can use it and I and believe me there's a municipal tax abatement handbook that's out there. >> Listen, I I I think we need to meet with
the board of ed or representatives of the board of ed and figure this out. I think eventually we're going to get there. We're I think we're going to negotiate a good deal. Yeah, that's and again my concern is and maybe with the attorney that was here tonight if she can
negotiate that they pay per student for every student that attends you pay $18,185 that's a good start. >> Jim, also the board of education does not have a budget problem at this point. They have a surplus. >> Mhm. >> And they raise their tax every year to
the max. They're well funded. I don't see a shortfall in their budget at this point to worry about. But we indeed if we look at a pilot program, we have to make sure we're negotiating, we're looking at the funds. We have to work closely with the board of education to see what their
needs are. But at this point, they have and to my knowledge not a budget problem that they're >> right >> in imminent danger of anything. >> Right. So, but if you look at the 70,000 the $70,000 that taxes today that those buildings on Harrison have, >> correct?
>> 69% of that goes to the school budget. Once that 70,000 goes away, you don't you can't take that 69% for the schools. So, you're down about $47,000 a year already. >> We give we could give them >> if we if we can do that. All I'm saying
is let's negotiate that. >> I also just I I just want to say just so it's clear, not the entire ratable does not go away. There will be a land tax, a land assessment that gets taxed normally. That's how a pilot
works. So for instance, if hypothetically whatever the value of that land is, not the building. >> Mhm. >> If the land is a million dollars, >> that percentage that you're talking about still goes to the >> Okay, good. And I think that's in the
spreadsheet when you look at it. It's it's broken up by land. Again, I hate to be repeated, but when it gets negotiated, let's just make sure we take care of the school building. think anybody here >> I mean I have kids still in the school system >> and some of us up here still do I don't
think any one of us is going to forget about the board of education in this process >> um at all and I'm sure Mr. Marl won't let us forget. >> No, I I agree. But for the rest of the taxpayers, that's my concern. Tatiana, I'll send you that spreadsheet. >> Sure. And I just wanted to make uh a
point that the redeveloper for Harrison Avenue development has not submitted an application requesting a pilot yet. >> So this, you know, the conversation happens happens once we receive that. >> Yep. And there's a whole bunch like he's got to put a course benefit out. There's a whole bunch of things which I'm
probably sure in that handbook it list out that has to be done before he does it. So thank you. >> Right. Financial. >> Okay. So anyone else that would like to comment? If not, do I have a motion to go in close? Motion by Andy. Second by
Katie. All those in favor. >> Everyone have a merry Christmas and a happy new year.