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Good evening. Welcome to the regular public meeting of April 20, 2026 of the Township Council of the Township of Washington. Adequate notice of this meeting was given in accordance with the open public meetings act by the township clerk on January 8, 2026

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to at least two newspapers. And this meeting has been posted on the township's bulletin board, electronic message board, WCTV, and on the township's website. Please notify the municipal clerk for any disability requirements necessary

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for attendance at township council meetings. The fire exits are located through the double doors to your right and through the door on your left. Please silence all cell phones. If you are unable to attend the council meeting

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in person and would like a topic to be addressed at a council meeting, please visit www.wipof washington. us contact us tab. Click on mayor and council. Send email to contact all

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council members at once. If everyone could stand for a salute to the flag. 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

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justice for all. Just to note, uh, council president, the senate was unable to attend this evening and I will be, uh, running the meeting in his place as vice president. Uh, Sue, if you could do a roll call. >> Councilman Casio >> here.

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>> Councilman Sears >> here. >> Councilman >> here. >> Councilwoman BZ >> here. >> And Council President Dennis absent. >> Yes. Let the record reflect also in attendance, Mayor Peter Calamari, Township Administrator Mark D. Carlo, Township Attorney Siobhan Valley, and

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Township Clerk Susan Wikowski. First order of business, payment of bills. Resolution number 26-231, authorized payment of bills April 2nd, 2026 through April 15, 2026.

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May I have a motion? >> So move. Second. >> Are there any questions on the council? >> Not at this time. >> All right. Can we have a roll call, please? >> Councilman Casio? >> Yes. >> Councilman Sears? >> Yes. >> Councilwoman BZ? >> Yes.

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>> Council Vice President Alman. >> I see what you did there. Yes. Switched it up. >> Okay. The following is >> I did. I thought I said I said yes. >> That was the easy one. Okay, this is the

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PSA for April 20, 2022. Construction has begun on the new DPW building at Town Hall. With this construction, the DPW yard will remain closed on Tuesdays for household debris and recycling drop off. Residents may

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still drop off items on Saturdays between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 100 p.m. Please note during the hours of construction, there will be limited parking to the east side of Hudson Avenue. To report power outages, gas leaks,

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street light outages, or downed power lines, please call PSENG at 1 8004367734, or you can download their app. Please be advised, the township has contracted with Frank Machion

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Construction Paving Plus to do the work on the following roads. Milling and paving scheduled will begin as follows, weather permitting. Monday, April 20th, mill Bergen Avenue, begin milling Fern Street and pave Bergen Avenue. Tuesday,

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April 21st, continue milling Fern Street and begin paving Fern Street. Wednesday, April 22nd, Mill Salem Road and Carriage Court and continue paving per excuse me, Fern Street.

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Thursday, April 23rd, pave Salem Road and Carriage Court. Friday, April 24th is a cushion day. This estimate is all based on the work days going smoothly and no inclement weather. If you have any questions or concerns, please

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contact the administrator's office for assistance. Residents of those roads will receive a letter from the contractor with additional details. New law regarding public notices. Governor Murphy signed into law on June

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30, 2025, a new law which reflects the transition from traditional print newspaper to online p excuse me online platforms as of March 1st, 2026. You will find on our township website a

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tab on the homepage named public notices where all official public notices are required to be posted and may be obtained or viewed. These documents, in addition, will have a hyperlink to the Secretary of State's public notice web

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page. Our township's fourth annual family spring into wellness 5K walk and health fair will take place on Sunday, May 17th, 2026. The event will be held outside the

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Township of Washington's Public Library, 144 Woodfield Avenue. The health fair will take place starting at 8:00 a.m. and the 5K run walk will kick off at 900 a.m. on Woodfield Avenue. Please visit our website for registration

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information. Note, our next council meeting will be held on Monday, May 4, 2026. All right. Uh we have approval of minutes. Uh approval of regular meeting December

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2nd, 2025. Conference meeting December 2nd, 2025. Regular meeting December 15, 2025. Conference meeting December 15, 2025.

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May I have a motion? >> So move. Second. >> Any questions or corrections? Okay. So, may I have a roll call? >> Councilman Casio? >> Yes. >> Councilman Sears? >> Yes. >> Counciloman BZ? >> Yes. >> Council Vice President Omen.

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>> Yes. Next is the report of the administrator, Mr. D. Carlo. >> Uh, good evening. There will be no report this evening. >> Okay. Uh, next would be general public comments. Uh, please limit your comments

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to five minutes. May I have a motion to open the public comment? >> So move. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Is there anyone in the audience who would like to address the council? Okay, seeing no one, uh, may I have a

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motion to close the public comment? >> Second. All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Ordinances. Adoption second reading.

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Uh we're pushing off ordinance 2604 and 2606. >> No, just 2604. >> Okay. Thank you. So, we're going to push off 2604 to May 4th of 2026. Uh,

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next is ordinance 20 26-06, an ordinance under chapter 87 of the code of the township of Washington setting forth the rate of closing clothing allowance of officers and firefighters of the fire department in

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said municipality for the year 2026. Resolution 26-232 authorizing second reading and opening of public hearing for ordinance 26-06. >> Second. >> Roll call.

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>> Councilman Casio. >> Yes. >> Councilman Sears. >> Yes. >> Counciloman. >> Yes. >> Council Vice President Omen. >> Yes. Is there anyone in the public who would like to address the council on this ordinance?

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Seeing no one, may I have a motion to close the public hearing on ordinance 2606? >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Councilman Casio, >> yes. >> Councilman Sears, >> yes. >> Counciloman BZ, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Alman,

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>> yes. Motion to adopt ordinance 26-06 at second reading by title. May I have a motion? >> So move. >> Roll call. >> Councilman Casio. >> Yes. >> Councilman Sears.

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>> Recuse myself from voting. >> Counciloman Veles. >> Yes. >> And Councilman Omen. >> Yes. Next is ordinance 26-07 calendar year 2026 ordinance to to exceed the municipal budget

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appropriations limit and to establish a CAC bank under NJSA 4A4-45 spot 14 resolution 26-23 33 authorizing second reading and opening of public hearing for ordinance 2607.

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I have a motion. >> So move second. >> Good. >> Roll call. >> Councilman Casio. >> Yes. >> Councilman Sears. >> Yes. >> Counciloman. >> Yes. >> Councilman Omen. >> Yes. >> Would anyone like to comment on

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ordinance 2607? >> Okay. Seeing no one, may I have a motion to close public hearing for ordinance 2607? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Councilman Casio, >> yes. >> Councilman Sears, yes. >> Councilwoman BZ, >> yes.

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>> Council Vice President Alman, >> yes. Motion to adopt 26-07 at second reading by title. I have a motion. >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Councelman Casio, >> yes. Councilman Sears. >> Yes.

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>> Councilwoman Belz. >> Yes. Council Vice President Omen. >> Yes. Ordinance number 26-08, bond ordinance appropriating 1,799,000 and authorizing the issuance of

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1,464,398 dollar in bonds or notes of the township for various improvements or purposes authorized to be undertaken by the township of Washington in the county of Bergen, New Jersey. Resolution 26-234

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authorizing second reading and opening of public hearing for ordinance 2608. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Councilman Casio. >> Yes. >> Councilman Se. >> I'm sorry, one second. I just have a

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quick question. um to to the administration, can you just remind me real quick which exa what exactly is covered under this bond? >> Yes, this was um the approved capital expenses that council approved during

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the budget. Um approximately I'd say about 1.4 million in road projects. However, um that'll be supplemented by grant money. There is a $20,000 new emergency siren

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system that will be funded through um I'm sorry, vehicle warning system that'll be funded through capital fund balance already on hand. $45,000 in field rake uh for the DPW, $21,000

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uh in portable radio upgrades that Councilman Desenna was hoping to that we had money that night to uh move towards this project because he found felt it very important. Clarkfield basketball court for 105,000 grant match for Memorial and Clark improvements of 120,000

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uh and soft costs expenses approx or 30,000 and then additionally um we were able to secure $30,000 in HVAC repairs for the police department. The um I'm sorry, one more follow-up

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question. the road program that Mr. um man mentioned at the beginning that has nothing to do with this. Correct. This is >> No, those were last year's. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> Um so,

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>> so sorry. Thank you, Mr. >> No problem. So, did we >> We have to finish your roll call. >> Roll call. Okay. >> Um in fact, I'm going to go back. Councilman Casio. >> Yes. >> Councilman Sears. Yes. >> Councilwoman BZ. >> Yes. >> Council pres Council Vice President

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Omen. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Um, is there anyone in the audience who would like to comment on bond ordinance 26-08? Seeing no one, uh, may we have a motion

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to close the public hearing? >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Councilman Casio. Yes. >> Councilman Sears. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman BZ. >> Yes. >> Council Vice President Olman. >> Yes.

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Motion to adopt ordinance 26-08 at second reading by title. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Mr. D. Carlo answered my question. >> Okay. Um,

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so I would like to say something. Uh at the last meeting uh I had a question regarding the ordinance specifically how we track and measure

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our compliance with uh section 4 part D which is amounts not exceeding 200,000 30 of which 30,000 of which is for bonding costs including but not limited to rating agency fees in the aggregate

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for interest on said obligations cost of issuing said obligations engineering costs and other items of expense listed in and permitted under section 2A col2-20 of said local bond law may be

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included as part of the cost of said improvement and are included in the forego ongoing estimate thereof. Uh at the meeting I had a question about how this is tracked. Mr. D Carlo uh

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provided some insight. Uh following the meeting I had emailed uh a request to Mr. D. Carlo for further clarification on uh how this is measured. Uh Mr. Vic

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Carlo replied uh I did not um feel the reply answered my question specifically. Uh in Mr. D. Carlo's email he offered to arrange uh for me to speak with uh our bond

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council. I believe it's the council Mr. Binfeld Binfield. and uh I did not was did not have the opportunity to speak to him regarding this. Uh and my question still

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arise uh is still outstanding um as to how we uh monitor this and how we remain in compliance.

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uh you know when I look at amount not exceeding $200,000 that includes aggregate interest and you know if we do a simple calculation of the 1.464 464

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at the projected interest cost of 382. You know, we wind up with um I believe it was over 50 thou uh $50,000 for just the first year. Uh, and these

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are on a 20-year note, uh, 20-year bond, uh, that I realize there'll be a depreciation, not a depreciation, but there'll be repayments on the interest, uh, and the principal over time and that

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1 will decrease over time. But just in aggregate the interest on that based on the acacia financial groups calculations

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that uh have been provided uh scenario 2 show interest uh total interest of $86,000 on the 1.4. And so I don't understand how

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we have a ordinance that speaks to a for lack of a better term not to exceed and we know or you know using simple math

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uh we are going to exceed that uh and I had a conversation with Mr. D. Paulo earlier this afternoon and you know I'm still sitting here wondering that

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uh if we are not in compliance with this if we exceed uh part D the 200k does the note become callable immediately? Are are we in default? uh you know are we going to

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have to come up with the 1.6 at that time? I don't know. Uh that was a question I had for our bond council. Didn't have the opportunity to speak to him.

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Uh and you know I felt that I had been completely transparent in the meeting expressing why I voted no. I felt I followed up and provided you know detailed

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explanation as to what my concern was and we sit here and we don't have an answer or I don't have an answer. Uh Mr. D Carlo shared that uh our financing

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team they're teeing them up to uh come ne to the next meeting. Uh that would be hopefully Acacia as well as Binefield. Uh but again that's next meeting and I

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don't know what happens in the interimm here. So I'm very uh conflicted to approve this. Uh I agree with the items that have been presented that Mr. D. Carlo recounted. Uh these

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were all discussed in the budget and although I may have disagreed with one or more overall uh I do agree that this needs to happen. Uh but I do think that as a council we have the right to ask a question and a

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reasonable expectation to have it answered. I don't think the question was that absurd. I didn't ask for the serial numbers of the dollars that are being used to pay this off. I asked for a

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number I asked for the control that's in place to ensure that we don't exceed a stated objective of the ordinance. So, you know, as I sit here, I'm

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conflicted because they need we need four votes in the positive in the affirmative to have this go through so these projects can start and there everyone is important, some

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more important than others. But at the same time, I don't understand how the council is not provided with answers to their questions when I thought, you know, it was

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rather clear uh at the meeting and in the follow-up emails. >> Council Vice President, if I may. Certainly, Mr. Dallo, >> I I appreciate your dissertation and explanation, even though I find some of it inaccurate. Um, and Mayor Calamary, I

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find exceptional acceptance to how he explained this. I can assure you and the council and the residents that I did not refuse to answer any of his questions, nor was I insubordinate in any manner as he just explained. I have the email trail here that I can

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specifically read and waste everybody's time, but I'll read the last one where it says, "Mr. D. Carlo, thank you for your reply. As you point out, I don't believe there is a legal requirement to monitor soft costs on the ledger. However, there is a not to exceed that

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is memorialized in the ordinance, which is effectively a law. It is not clear to me how this is being monitored on an ongoing basis. It is not clear to me how this is being monitored on an ongoing basis. If Mr.

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Binfeld could provide some context to this portion of the ordinance, it would be appreciated. My mistake this afternoon is that I tried to speak to Mr. Olman about this and I did not review my own email prior to that mistake won't happen again to

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include speaking to Mr. Man offline. After reviewing my email, Mr. Blinfeld cannot answer this question anymore. He is not our accountant. He is our bond counsel. In a previous email, I explained to Mr. Olman that I do monitor

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this and that this is essentially in making a mountain out of a mold. I'll explain to everyone this evening. The answer is if the amount is exceeded, the ordinance can be revised. So, I'll repeat, I did not refuse to answer his question. The council

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appoints the auditor and if you would like that answer, mayor, I would suggest that they could reach out to the auditor as they see fit. And if I could just add, uh, Mr. D. Carlo is, uh, have we been doing this the same since you got here?

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>> Yes. I'm pretty confident Mr. woman has voted yes on Bonnie Lawren's without asking this question which all of a sudden is amazingly important this evening. >> You you picked up where I was going to. So, thank you. >> I'm really getting tired of

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misrepresentation that some council members elect to engage in. It's getting tiresome. >> Approve it. Don't approve it. >> Yes, sir. We work exceptionally hard for this town and for these residents to do

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work expeditiously in an appropriate manner to get things done for them. So if you vote no, you vote no. I don't care. Prolong it. Thank you.

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Uh so I believe we're waiting for uh we're up to roll call, please. >> Yes. >> Councilman Casio. >> The motion for the adoption. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes.

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>> Councilman Sears. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman BZ. >> Yes. >> Council Vice President Omen. >> No. Resolution consent agenda. The following items have been determined to have the unanimous consent of council and will be enacted

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>> in the 2609. >> My apologies. 2609, an ordinance under chapter 87 of the code of the township of Washington setting forth the rate of compensation and manner of payment of employees for the year 2026

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26-235 authorizing second reading and opening a public hearing for ordinance 2609. time. May I have a motion? >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Councilman Casio, >> yes. >> Councilman Sears,

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>> yes. >> Counciloman Blesz, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Oman, >> yes. >> Is there anyone in the public who would like to comment on ordinance 2609? Seeing no hands, may we have a motion to

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close public hearing for ordinance 2609. >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Councilman Casio. >> Yes. >> Councilman Sears. >> Yes. >> Council Councilwoman BZ. >> Yes. >> Council Vice President. >> Yes.

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>> Motion to adopt 2609 at second reading by title. Motion. So move second. >> Roll call, please. >> Councilman Casio, >> yes. >> Councilman Sears, >> yes. >> Councilwoman BZ, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Omen,

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>> yes. There are no introductions uh for first reading. Resolutions and consent. Uh the following items have been determined to have the unanimous consent of council and will be enacted in one motion. Should any item require independent

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consideration, any council member may have such item removed from the consent agenda. Does anyone have any would anyone like to have any resolution removed from the consent agenda for discussion? All right.

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Resolution 26-236, endorsement of the amended 2026 housing element and fair share plan dated February 18, 2026 through March 31st, 2026.

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Resolution 26-237 authorized cancellation of any current tax liability and all future property tax bill due to US veterans permanent disability block 2320 lot one.

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Motion to approve the consent agenda. >> So move >> as presented. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Councilman Casio. >> Yes. >> Councilman Sears. >> Yes. Council woman. >> Yes. >> Council Vice President Alman. >> Yes.

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>> Let's see. Can we have a motion to adjourn to the consent agenda? Conference agenda. Conference >> schedu at the bottom. regular next regular schedule meeting. >> I thought we were going to do that first or second. >> That's what he does in the

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>> Okay. The next regular meeting of the township council will be on Monday, May 4th, 2026 beginning at 700 p.m. Sign up for NIXL text 07676

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to 888777. Key code is twergen twe www.twipof washington. us German to the conference agenda. Can we have a motion?

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>> Some move. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Did anyone want to break before we uh begin the conference? >> Good. All right. Conference agenda for April 20. Uh the

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administration. There are no items noted uh for council. Uh no ordinance or legislation or financials. There are two miscellaneous. One is the table of organization

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uh by Mr. Casio. >> Yeah. We're going to we're going to delay that for the next meeting. >> All right. So, we will defer this to uh the May 4th. So, could you make a note of that, please? >> Yes, sir.

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>> The second item is parking loading unloading at construction sites. Uh which I requested be added to the agenda. So uh first uh you know I wanted to

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thank Mr. Sears for keeping uh us updated on this uh and specifically around uh the use of Filillmore Drive. And I

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guess my question is um this issue has come up previously uh and there was uh I believe or my

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recollection is that we were told that uh they could park their construction vehicles on Filillmore. uh you know this the latest example is work uh heavy machinery being used to

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unload uh look like steel pipes. There's a picture in your pack. Uh so I I guess my question is is there something we can do if it's not

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legislatively is there something that the police could possibly do that we would want to ask them to look into to limit the impact on the local residents to

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you know we we look outside on Hudson Avenue uh there is no parking on one side of the street. Uh I don't uh recall that that was a

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um amendment to any ordinance by the council. I'm assuming it was uh after consideration within uh with the police and the administration, it was determined that there was a need to limit parking to one

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side of the street. And I'm just wondering does that uh does this scenario uh warrant that type of treatment? And I would add on top of that that you know although this is the first

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there are two uh potential um developments going in in the town uh in response to our or to meet our affordable housing and fair share

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housing agreement. So, I'm not sure it will be the end, you know, will there be parking on Viola? Will it be parking on Me? Will there be parking other places? And is this something that

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we might want to get try to get in front of or is it just the cost of doing business? So, I don't know. >> Well, Mr. I can tell you that the neighborhood is frustrated with this with this builder. Um the code official has warned him

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multiple times and he's just ignoring. Uh this is just one of the pictures of many flatbed trucks and other heavy equipment that's running up and down uh a Vanamberg

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uh bucket loaded steel pipes sheetrock. This guy just doesn't want to listen to us. So what avenue do we have that we can enforce this guy? He has he has to start paying because if you look at go up

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there and you look at Fillmore, look at the road. The cracks are getting bigger and bigger. You know the size of this this huge back hoe and this forklift and the weight of these trucks. We going to make the contractor pay to

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resurface Filillmore. It's not his parking lot and they're using it as they're unloading and loading sites. And I can hear the frustration of the code official. And I don't know what the engineer is doing on this project, but I

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I say, "Oh, we talked to him. We talked to him. The guy keeps agreeing, but they still come unloading these trucks." So, I don't know what authority uh I would ask the council. Do we have an authority to stop all traffic, heavy

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duty traffic going into this? Limit the amount of parking on the It might affect the residents. No parking signs at all to stop them from coming in there because this is not the first time this guy has done this and it's continuous.

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>> Have you have has anyone asked why they're not putting it right on their property that they're building? >> Can I I mean, if I can shed some light, please. Um I do want to start off by saying I I do understand the frustration of the residents um that one particular in particular I'm sorry particular

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resident communicates I think with all of us. Uh but to shed some light on the picture this is a delivery that was specifically made to the property they own at the end of Filillmore. So when the last uh mishap happened with

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the delivery, we did speak to uh the construction company um Paul Aelene, the engineer, and Darius, our construction code official, to make sure that deliveries were not made. I specifically knew this delivery was

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coming, but it was I was told a few weeks ago those are water pipes and it was made to the end of the culde-sac. So I don't know how there would have been an alternative. And Mr. Sears, when you say the >> Are they putting two fire hydrants on Fillmore? Because there's two fire

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hydrants sitting on top of the steel pipes. >> Well, it's a it's a staging area for that material that was delivered to the to the culac area. So that the from where I'm aware, the developer owns that property. So that's

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why >> at the very end. Yes. >> Yeah. At the end. That's where it was delivered to. Um, what when you said code official, did you mean Darius or >> Well, I didn't want to mention names, but >> Yeah. No, I know you mean our building department construct. Yes. >> So, I I do want to let you know because

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I don't want the misconception out there. >> They are lending an ear to us. They're not, you know, disregarding our requests, but unfortunately, there's nowhere else to park for the for the personal vehicle. So, I spoke to the

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construction company owner today with Darius and they're anticipating paving the lot in there within the next 60 days, which they feel will help the situation. He stated that 95% of deliveries are made

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with inside the construction site. I asked where are the other 5%. He said generally on Vanamber if it's something big and he said they notify the police department. I didn't call the police department to confirm with it. Um stated

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obviously when it rains it can make somewhat of a muddy disaster out of the construction site which then prevents them from being able to park inside. I asked him how long much longer they anticipate this project and he's believes it should be done before the

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end of the summer. So although any future days of this I'm sure is frustrating to hear from the residents, but this does have an end in site unfortunately is a construction site on a on a county road that doesn't have much alternative. So I would, you know,

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respectfully ask the council if if you were going to do something on Fillmore, please help us resolve the problem of where they could park. you know, I know that doesn't help, but I I do I don't want the council to think that the the construction company's not working with us. They they certainly are. It's just

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they kind of um have nowhere else to go. But we do feel that the delivery situation has been um impactfully improved and negated. It's just this delivery specifically was coming down um

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to the end of the street. And again, I'm not dismissing the, you know, I put myself in that position if I had owned a house. I drove down this morning and, you know, there there was there's the cars are on the northbound sign facing. >> Do you have another question? >> Yeah. Administrator,

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>> have we notified the county about any slowdown signs, traffic signs, or warning signs? Because if you notice the entrance and the exit is at the peak of the curve when you come down. So when you're heading

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uh north to south and you're coming down towards Van Amber, the exit comes right out. And when you're at the peak of that curve right there, >> it's a blind spot. >> Construction site, you mean? Or coming out of film?

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>> Well, it's going to be a residential out there. So, are they only allowing right-hand turns or left-hand turns out of that? I don't know, but I could certainly >> I mean, um, >> when we were there doing the fire walk through, you know, seeing where the

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pipes were laid out and things like that, you can see when you coming down from Hillsdale, when you're at that turn, if there's a car coming out, you are already on top of that car because you're making that

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wide turn and the exit and entrance is right there at that peak of that turn. So, I don't know um how we're going to address that or we should look at that and start addressing it now. >> I'm sure they probably have that plan. I

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just don't have that answer. But I can >> No, no. I I know. But it just it was very obvious when we were doing our walk through. You could see that those cars are coming down and you're already at that turn when people are coming in and

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out of that. So, it's either going to be a permanent right-hand turn because if you're making a lefthand turn, it's going to be very dangerous. >> That's a county road. So, you got to call the county uh right engineers to figure that out. I would think that the

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resolution approval of that project probably did those issues and I would imagine the county board had >> I would like to see if that's in there or not because uh

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>> I don't remember being placed on that >> and Mark regarding going back to the construction vehicles maybe we can ask the contractor if he's expecting heavy deliveries maybe just be a courtesy these things to let the residents know in advance. That way, you know, it's not

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a surprise to them and they can gauge what they have coming in and out. Also, >> yes, sir. >> Thank you. Thank you, Council President. >> Is there a possibility that they could lay the roaded down prior to them paving? I

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mean, I'm imagining they would have to lay down quite a bit of stone as a base before they start paving. You know, is it possible that they could accelerate that to provide on-site parking for

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their construction trucks or the the tradesmen? >> I will check. Have have these heavy deliveries caused any damage to Filmore to the road itself? >> You can see the cracks in the road. You see huge crack. I don't know.

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>> I don't know if they were pre-existing or not, but >> Mhm. >> Okay. >> Saying if there was there was some accountability for that and maybe negotiate >> trail truck back into something a flatbed truck.

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>> I'm saying we can negotiate a repaving of the market. something like that if there were was damage as a result of this heavy trucking. >> I have one other question um with the planning board's resolutions

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uh when there is a major soil movement. Uh part of the resolution is to work with the township's police department to agree on a a route for the uh dump

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trucks. Um and I guess that is somewhat uh I would assume that is some somewhat binding on the path that they take or the route they take. Is it within the

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planning board's authority to put some restraint or constraints on construction? >> The planning board drafts and passes the resolution with those conditions and it's up to the engineer and code officials to enforce those conditions.

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So, I imagine they have all of that and they they are working with those documents to make sure those conditions are met. I I'm happy to >> Well, I think and uh Mayor Komari could, you know, is

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welcome to uh offer his uh input, but I believe it only talks about the route of the >> uh soil >> dump the soil movement and the

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>> uh uh coordination with the police. You know, I don't know if that's something, mayor, that you know, you would want. >> Yeah, we can look into putting in future ones. And on this one, I would say there's only one way in and out of Filillmore. So, that would probably be a

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moot point. Yes. I think it's where you can have multiple egresses and entrances uh to a property that they can use alternate routes. would you consider or you know to bring up within the board uh or is it within our scope to

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uh restrict or dictate parking on a planning board approval? >> Yeah. Um why don't we ask the planning board attorney opinion on it? >> Okay. All right. I'd like to just one more if council would if I'd appreciate if maybe when these complaints come in

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if you guys can send it to me sooner. I didn't know anything about this until I was reviewing the packet on Friday. So, just if you can get it to me quicker, I have a better chance of rectifying stuff. Thank you. All right. Uh there's no other business

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on uh no other public business on the agenda. There is a close session uh for the settlement agreement

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660 Pasc Road resolution 26-238. Does the council anticipate coming back into public? Yeah. >> So, we will not be coming back into public. That would be the uh conclusion

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to the public portion of the meeting. Um not >> just chief were you here for this or if there was any question >> regarding I'm sorry >> if there were any questions for me >> oh

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um all right it's coming back we're coming back >> all right if you do these agreements now come back Hello. >> So the the meeting is essentially over what uh >> what were you

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>> my question I guess I'm Richard Miller. I live on 10 room in North K. >> Mhm. >> Okay. My question is that we we received a certified letter asking us to come tonight to meet if you had any questions on development uh right up the block

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from us. I guess it's uh >> so that has been rescheduled. >> Yeah, I guess I don't know. I mean, I never I got a certified letter to come here tonight, but I didn't get a certified letter said it was res. >> No, you'll uh so earlier in the meeting

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uh when we uh reached that point in the agenda, I had made an announcement that uh it has been rescheduled for May 4th. um you entered the chamber after that

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you will receive a second notice that May 4th you'll have the opportunity to speak. >> Okay. So we'll get another certified letter. >> Correct. >> Okay. But we didn't get notified officially that this was canled. >> No, it uh it was a late

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>> understood. Uh it was a late uh amendment to the agenda. Uh so my apologies that you uh interrupted your evening to come here. >> Just one other question while I was listening to you. Uh I I hear what

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you're saying with the development that you're talking about the development that's going up there with the parking and the getting out of the park out of there with the roads. Okay. I wish I know it's another time in May, but please take that into consideration for

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the development over here. >> Certainly, sir. >> It's a busy busy street on the corner of Washington and >> Yes. Understood. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> You're quite welcome. We'll see you next uh in May. >> Okay.

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>> All right. So, we do not plan on returning to public session. >> Yes. Can we have a motion to go into close session ordinance 26238 >> before we start this settlement settlement agreement we don't have to

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come back out >> you have you have probably the last meetings you look at what date are you looking at council on your pink slip >> where you going back in >> on the top >> I'm looking >> April 6th

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>> yeah thank you in there. It's all right. No problem. >> All right. So, we're we're going to adjourn >> so I can stop the recording. >> Hold on. Let's make sure we're not coming back. >> We're not coming back. >> Okay. According to council, we are not there's no need to come back to vote

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publicly. So, at this point, uh, can we have a motion to go into close session resolution 26238 regarding the settlement agreement 660 Pasc Road?

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>> So, move. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> All in favor? >> All in favor? I I All right.