the United States of America approval of minutes January 27 2025 close session is there a motion moot is there a second all in favor yes any oppos motion passes January 27 2025 Open Session motion motion second all in
favor yes yes any oppose none motion passes motion to open to the public for three minutes each speaker motion a second all in favor yes okay motion passes anyone from the public wish to say anything come on
up I want comment about rision come up'll do it at there'll be a separate one for for that the two ordinance okay no no one from else from the public motion to close to the
public second all in favor any oppos none motion passes proclamations are included in your package national black history month and American Heart month you can take a look at that uh mayor's report I'm going to appoint two committees first committee um I'm going
to appoint councilwoman Jen Margolis council president Josh Sturm and councilman um Ben poock to the tri burough ambulance uh committee um there's some negotiations going on there so I'd like to have their input on that also there's
um there's a request to buy an ambulance and we have to take a look at that stuff too so uh welcome to that committee also uh I met with mayor gasali and mayor mchenga uh they want to appoint two
members each to 250th anniversary of our great nation so I will Point uh um from W flake Ben poock and Josh Stern on that um and that concludes my mayor report uh um on the Shay tree committee uh you
have a list of members that need to be reappointed uh that's a mayor's appointment so I'm going to appoint every member of that's listed here of the shake tree committee so uh welcome welcome aboard and here comes two more members of the shade tree
committee everybody very good timed it well yeah they Tim it well you you've been reappointed to the shade tree committee came in just in time okay uh council members reports councilwoman
Brodsky yes first um I want to welcome Evan leer as an addition to the sh committee um I just want to make reference for the two ordinances um tonight 251 and 25 das2 um the purpose of these um the
process really isn't changing uh the wording is being amended so the two are in line with each other um and that's really the purpose of it tonight um to maintain consistency in the messaging between the original Chapter 70 which is for the shat Tre committee um- six which
was actually written in 1963 um and then the new revised um amended um one was written in 2020 so these tonight it's just showing that the word is consistent with each
other um The Parent Academy and Hills Valley Coalition in partnership with um pascot Kell's high school has two events coming up the first one is Tuesday March 4th at 7M via Zoom um it's navigating the transition from middle school to high school there's going to be a panel
of ninth grade parents to answer any questions um and to discuss their experiences the second one is Wednesday March 12th at 7 p.m. and that one is in person in the pasc Hills auditor orium it's the third of a series of screenagers under the influence
addressing vaping drugs and alcohol in the digital age um anyone who's interested can visit uh pasak Hills High School P faa.org click on Parent Academy and you can register for either or
both um Park and wreck um Chris will be talking about events but I'll talk about um Camp the good news is Grace croso is coming back as our camp director uh we had a preliminary meeting discussing ways to build upon the successes of last summer details and registration
information will be posted shortly on our website we'll be hosting a open house on April 26 um for camp and pool memberships combining it um and the good news is and I can't give specifics tonight but we are very close to
um coming to a location on rainy days for Camp so that's the good news and hopefully we'll have an answer on that um in the next day or two um TGA will be back offering youth tennis and golf lessons flag football K through third
grade plus Youth and adult pickle ball sessions additionally they'll be offering a spring break Camp k through6 summer Sports elected programs and a multiports camp that will be held one week before our camp opens and then two weeks after our camp closes so it'll
give an additional opportunity um for campers um and that's really it that's all I have I know there was some discussion about opening the park at the end of March but that's Chris okay he's gonna talk about okay councilwoman Jen
Mar gois thank you um so this week we had to postpone the um chili off at the fire department it was a Confluence of different conflicts and different events but we are going to roll it in with the fire prevention week in October which will be great um we have to wait till the weather cools down again
because Chile in summer is not exactly what anyone would like to do but it will now be able to hopefully be have an outdoor component as well which is great and we will um whip the volunteer fire department into shape to get the events going but uh we also are looking on
doing another spring event we've talked about um with them possibly doing an adult Pinewood Derby event since the adults build all of the cars for their kids anyway it might be a good way to have a a fun event for everyone um the uh Chris and I haven't met with them yet
we are waiting for the Chamber of Commerce um we are waiting for a list from the new fire inspection official of all the businesses in town and our contacts so as soon as that list gets updated we'll be able to reach out to them a lot easier than trying to go through the businesses at TI to get to
corporate and all that which is great um I did speak again last week to the seniors about the New Jersey Historical Society so mayor I would respectfully request to join um Ben and Josh on the revolution since I'm working with the county as well on some events going around and so we can all be sort of on
the same page and I I'm happy to report that some of the seniors actually have documents in their house and they are willing to share them regarding um the history of woff lake and I was able from the Pas Valley Historical Society to get some Publications where woff Lake is mentioned so we can use the 100th
anniversary in the 125th to sort of create a more a bigger history of w of lake and a new history um and last thing is DPW our next shredding event is March 22nd it's between 8:00 a.m and 11:00 a.m. um or until the truck fills no more than
six boxes per trip and no no three- ring binders and plastic bags Apparently that is a problem we are currently training three new DPW workers which is no small feat um based with the uh snow removal and other things that are going on in town um we should all thank our DPW for
an amazing job that they are doing and that they continue to do um so if you see them around please thank them I'll speak to Mayor gasali and mayor Mr to see if there's any issue having three wlake people as opposed to two for mountvale and you know how sensitive
they could be I I actually I met with mayor michag with the at the PTI Historical Society so he's he's aware of that we want to get I'll speak to them uh woman morsh thank you um I'll be quick
um great um tomorrow night we have our planning board meeting um there's a pool in a Pergola on nothing super exciting but again everyone's welcome to come out um at our last planning board meeting we did approve resoning a house um from a
doctor's office and a single family home to two uh family homes um so that that was you know always nice when we can do that the doctor's office wasn't in use and anytime we can help out our residents we're more than happy to do so um speaking of our residents we have
gotten some residents who have reached out to the economic development committee to meet with us and share your ideas and that's been great um the economic development is busy we've had a busy few months we will continue to have a busy few months as the developments from some of our properties that are for
sale keep moving forwards um when we have more information to share with the public we will but we again encourage everybody to continue to reach out to us um and share your ideas because it has been really helpful and we are more than happy to meet with anybody you can email
us or call us you know um just feel free thank you okay uh councilman poock um just an update as residents may have seen both social media and in the news last week um along chest Ridge Road
one of the shopping centers we had a incident involving um a theft uh both in one of the stores as well as a stolen vehicle um in the course of apprehending uh the suspects uh an officer from a neighboring town
from mville one of the lieutenants um was injured um we understand that he is recovering who underwent Achilles surgery and he's doing well and wish him well in his uh his recovery and thank all the responding neighboring towns for
their assistance um with that it just is a reminder of uh the critical role that our Police Department plays in keeping us safe uh and it's further uh support of the uh camera and security system
that we've invested in over the course of the last couple of years that did assist in the immediate apprehension of the suspects as we uh continue on and and hopefully end the winter months pretty soon I just want to remind uh residents
uh to continue to uh make sure that fire hydrants are clear of snow uh and ice and uh keep that clear for for responders if you do have a sidewalk adjacent to your property is also your responsibility to keep that
clear and lastly uh from a finance perspective um councilman CERN counil banano and myself uh continue to meet our bro administrator as well as other uh Department leads throughout municipality to make sure that we are progressing towards introduction of the
budget later on this year very good thank you councilman banano uh to follow up with what Julie was talking about with the park as of right now the the opening date that was out there is going to be moved um once we have a date finalized we'll let
everyone know because of the weather's been kind of brutal lately we had some rough couple of weeks it was delayed and so looks like it was a smart thing to do to move it out April 5th we have the baseball and softball opening day uh the Easter egg hunt there will be a uh we're
trying to confirm a day on that that should be hopefully we'll have that confirmed the next couple of days um also want to mention April 8th the DMV mobile unit will be at the tyes um Center people should make appointments if they're looking to take advantage of
that um as far as the seniors goes the 40th anniversary can have exciting things encourage everyone to go to the website take a look and see what they have going on but I know March 6 which is right around the corner they have the annual St Patrick's Day party um and
that's again Thursday at noon March 6th uh April 3rd they have a business meeting with a presentation by Susie uh Jerry a toy designer who will do a a be doing an interesting presentation on toys and so there's other stuff going on you should always
check the website and that's pretty much it thank you councilman Stern sure to those who don't remember last month we we passed a resolution outlining our affordable housing number I think the number was 329 anybody who challenges that number number has until the end of
this week uh to challenge that number so fingers and toes crossed that uh no one will challenge um after that we then have an another deadline of June 30th to actually submit our affordable housing plan uh we've already had meetings uh
about that um more will be disclosed as as we figure out if anyone's going to challenge our number and then once we get um a formal plan we will present it to the public we also had a traffic safety meeting with with the County
engineer um over a couple different intersections uh one of them was the intersection of High View and Broadway uh the the county was receptive to moving that stop line um back a little bit they indicated it would probably
take a few months before that decision is made and then they would need to um have whatever striping company come out to to actually to move the line we would expect if that's going to go forward it probably be sometime in June or July um
we we did meet with them about um a traffic light at the intersection of woodcliffe Avenue and Weis we were told uh no on certain terms that it would take a minimum of five years before anything could be done at that intersection that is just the nature of
our County government uh they took a little bit of issue with some of the counts on our traffic study um so if we're going to go back out um to them we do need to conduct a new traffic study hopefully those numbers will be a little higher in the meantime U we we are we
have instructed our engineer to sort of put together some interim measures for that intersection we know it's a very uh dangerous intersection I think it's the number two most accidents in town so our engineer will is going to be designing a plan not involving a traffic signal
because of knows where each of us is going to be in 5 years but uh but hopefully we can get an an interim design up um something done within the next year or two so um it could involv um some kind of concrete Island could involve you know
moving one of the driveways on one of the streets could be uh different signage and different um you know lights that that would light up on the signage um to be honest I'm not a traffic engineer I would I would not pretend to know what what they could do all I know
is that you know some people have suggested a roundabout which unfortunately based on the fact that that we have a C1 waterway that runs right adjacent to the road there's there's not enough room for a roundabout and there's no way for us to
take any additional land to build it so can I just add something to that abely the other thing that we did ask for is a reduction in speed on on both of the streets that's what we will corre correct we did we did ask because the speed limit on wus road is 40 uh they
they did indicate they would be receptive to 35 I don't know 35 is still better than 40 you know I'd love it if it was 25 I'd love if there were speed bumps although just so everyone knows the county does not allow speed bumps on County Roads so just because someone I
know people post things on social media just because someone has an idea about speed bumps or roundabouts doesn't mean that the county will go for it and it's going to be a long time but I don't think the DPW would allow those out be a challenge so where where we left it is the burough engineer is uh coming up
with some proposals that we can continue to take back to the county and continue the dialogue and then just one other thing regarding traffic which um I saw someone from New Jersey Transit yesterday and I meant to send an email and I forgot um who was marking out the problems near the near the railroad
tracks with the signal problems and they were sending someone out both today and tomorrow to fix the problem I asked if they would be moving the box which constantly gets flooded because it's underground he said that is not his department but he would think that they it might be more costeffective to keep on fixing it as opposed to changing it
based on the fact then they have to go between Dot and New Jersey transit to figure out who pays for it and who does it so they assured me that they would at least fix it for right now and then we will see where we go from there but at least they are listening and I have to credit our chief of police for um
getting to new J New Jersey Transit very quickly and being on top of it very good all right administrator's report I don't really have much it's been all very good very good job resolution may all right excellent we move right we can
move right along along any questions you have see after yeah yeah uh Engineers report I just have a question on the engineers report uh there was something concerning the paving of burl Hall but I thought we pulled that I don't want Anthony to work on that if I think
that's just proor I we have not formally selected which street we're paved I think we have some idea it won't it will most likely not be yeah Bor all okay very good thank you uh ordinances public hearing ordinance number 25-01 an ordinance to amend Chapter 70
entitled sha tree committee the bur code of the B of w flake state of New Jersey public hearing yeah let me do both and then public hearing ordinance number 252 an ordinance to amend chapter 23 2 326 entitled streets and sidewalks of the
burough code of bur wlake state of New Jersey is there a motion to open to the public on this motion seconds all in favor yes yes any oppos none come on up whoever wants to speak on these ordinances yeah come on up state your name and the town you live
in her tayor would Qui Lake thank you and since she had a kid a chance to ask about the the intersection may I just put an an idea wife what about a four-way sign we did inquire about a four-way sign it's not something they'd
be they're not really receptive to four signs on again B the easiest thing and the best way we could explain to them we are going to be working with our engineer to come up with some different scenarios different ideas and then we have to the issue we have is that we are at the County's Mercy in a certain way
because both roads are County Roads so we have to work with them see what would be acceptable and what we can do so but um you're not the first to think of 4way you know five years ago I made a proposal the council saying it was a difficult one and nothing happened in between so we could have had this done
but I'm not and having been around there and seen where we had traic trailers that head into the into the uh area on on the I guess it's the west side uh maybe the first death that occurs there
will cause the county to do something already um do you have anything on the ordinances okay uh just to let you know my wife is at home last time when you were on here and you had four people that were setting everything up because it came to the last meeting okay I only
have two tonight forg well be that as it may last time we couldn't see anything at home actually actually I was watching here me and Josh were watching maybe you will you couldn't see anything anything at home home is where PS not here I I think you were on the wrong link I I explained that to you when you emailed
me I think you were on the wrong link because everybody else could see it well I can tell my employees were on I can tell you that tonight through the let me see we got my my wife here uh at home she told me that we can see it
on um Zoom but we can't see it on the television channel if you read the notice it's not on the television channel hasn't on the television channel in since Co oh well sorry there's your answer okay let me go
then I'm trying to as fast as I can yeah you want to get a fast meeting out of here as opposed to asking any questions uh when it comes to the shade tree committee uh shade tree uh resolution that's in front of you I wanted to say
that I'm looking into two things because you're taking responsibility away from the town understand what's happening and putting it on the homeowner to take care of the Shady trees I don't think that's actually true if you look at the ordinance I think there's a conflict within the ordinance itself okay so I
don't think it's that we're taking responsibility I think we're just clarifying the wording of the so nothing's actually changing to to different policy ship the ship that you're talking about happen in 20120 that's not what these ordinances are
about well all right I'm talking talk about the care of the tree that is on within the right of way and I'm talking about the maintenance of the tree the watering of the tree the uh in the case
of the M Bora which has been with us for six years the treatment of the tree to prevent the mov B from from from killing it and I'm also talking about what happens with a dangerous tree or a dead
tree that happens to now be on the homeowner's property and is that now the homeowner's responsibility to take care of the dentry and have it removed if it's on their property yes it has been since 2020 what I'm saying is this is
new I don't think anybody has told any home I don't know if you were hear in the beginning when the council person was explaining it this is not new what happened was there was an old ordinance right dated in 1963 okay which was inconsistent with the ordinance of 2020
okay so to make it consistent not change to make it consistent the one ordinance had to be changed to be consistent with the 2020 ordinance yeah and the responsibility as most towns place the responsibility for trees that are on
their sidewest property owner for planting the tree as has been the practice and continues this is again not a change the town pays for the planting of the tree but once the tree is planted it becomes the responsibility of the
property and I may add counselor that the form that they sign when we do plant on their property states that they are taking full responsibility for that tree that that that form was done back in 2020 when this was and my wife was partially responsible for that too oh
you better you can hear you the best way to think of this is just housekeeping on our the burrow code just making sure that the the law is as a what I wanted to to let the council know and therefore the homeowners in in in and followup to
that with what you've just said that it's now their responsibility is they have contacted one of the tree companies to find out what possible cost it could be to the homeowners for that upkeep and I'm talking specifically for two things
one of which is the town up to this point has has paid for the application of a insect I'll call it an insecticide to keep the trees alive and to keep the dangerous Emerald a as bers away from
the trees we have paid for that but only on trees in the right away or all trees uh only the town trees only the home only only only trees in the right away right only trees are the right away and and we still notify the homeowners
when we went right so so when you when you go on there but now of May shifted responsibility and as opposed to letting them know when we go on there which is absolutely true should something we should do we've now said these are now your trees and these are now your trees
to treat if you care to it's up to them but the M ashb happens to have a 98% probability of killing every as tree in the country so it's a smart thing if you want to have that on your property
to do something about it with or without treating oh if you don't treat it 98% if you treat it still pretty high right it's still pretty high okay just like the flu shot we started with like24 we're down to
about 60 to 703 so we we've kept them alive half of them anyway um so now we're down to the point where I have something whereby I can get eight eight qu that would be good that you could let
people know through the website through maybe the shamere part of it or however you see to see it I can get a quotation for what it would cost a homeowner to treat that tree should they care to because we're Shifting the responsibility over to them no but I
think we're not really shifting it what we're doing today is not changing existing policies so just keep saying we're shifting it is is not true last year we responsible for a lot of things on their owner including sidewalks and that's not to say the
council may still want to treat those we're not changing not that's I was trying to stop you before you you're assuming that we're just saying I that we're well as your lawyer has said there a certain responsibility that was shifting to the homeowners and I wanted
to find out did not say that yeah I didn't say he was shifting I said this was to uh correct the Inc consistency of two ordinances going back to 2020 so it's not again it's not new it's not a shift it's just to correct the inconsistency
would the benefit of the public so that if they read the two sections they would say well wait this is confusing one says one and one says another if we're gonna we're going to do it with the shade tree tra shade tree committee getting the money to do it that's fine if you decide
not to that's up to the council here and the mayor as well I I will get a quotation so could be available should you see fit to let the homeowners know what it would cost them per DB because
some are small some are large to treat that tree to protect it further you know probably make a suggestion but I think you should continue doing what you were doing getting the C the council will take that under consideration whether they want to continue okay I don't I don't want to speak for them but
something tells me that they probably would and you should have the tree by tree because somebody may have anal lash in their backyard that they want to treat that we're not treating because it's outside the the right away and I and I did get that quotation it was something that came in I made the
quotation so that the treated and it was a quotation for any shaped trees that were on the right of way and for any individual in the town and I also made that said it would be in the same quotation because I wanted to get a low price for it for surrounding towns as
well because they have the EM for as well so one quote one little quote and everybody gets something for back front wherever it is and around the area take care of the PAC Valley area the second question I will have for you is if I can
get that now is the trees that are that were just recently identified as being um dangerous they were taken down um I I guess it's I'm going to have
to leave it and up to the council to see are they going to make that determination whether it will be the DPW taking those down talking about the ones that were identified as part of the tree inventory I'm sorry are you talking about the eight I believe it was eight
trees yes those were identifi those homeowners have already been notified by by H and that's that's fine trees age so it could be 6 months from now it could be three years from now it could be 20 years from now trees so down trees Ag
and including the ones that are on homeown property that are in the right way so I don't know what your determination is right now but I was looking to get a quotation so that it could be good and and available to people because we now have uh a
resolution that requires people to get a permit to have trees come down oh we've had that for a while and I understand that and I I was there with it so I know quite well about that you don't have I received a phone call from a resident that was very upset that the fact that a
street tree in front of her property has to be taken down pursuant to this tree ordinance and she can't afford to pay for taking that down and then indicated that there's a requirement that we have to replace one tree with three
trees uh back up so for people who are struggling and don't have the money it's a little rough absolutely that's why I'm trying to prepare something I've contacted somebody from one of the established tree companies around here who will give
me a quotation based upon small trees mediumsized trees large trees go right ahead and and and if they're in bad condition that's the only way that we're going to have it right I will pass that along to I guess the administrator good idea the council so have something to
prepare ourselves should that be necessary right I've also asked at that same quotation be available in other towns around the area again feeling that the the more that we have towns involved in this the Lo of the quotes are going
to be right so it will be available hopefully for the pasak Valley Hospital pasc Valley towns towns excuse me not not in the hospital yet although it could be um so that I'm just alerting
you I'm trying to get some information that the town can use for its residents in have some idea what could be with the intuition no we appreciate that we we all have our ba reach out to neighboring town to give them their quotation okay
thank you good that's it very good thank you anyone else on this ordinance back okay um leader BR has stolen some of my thunder but I wanted to philosophize a little bit just
say your name and the town you live in name is playay B I'm chairman of the shade tree committee very good thank you okay and uh uh uh with the conversations going back and forth it's still a little confusing to me uh about maintenance of
Street trees whose responsibility is it the homeowner or the DPW the homeowner homeowner okay all right well um we plant U trees and
um um it's interesting that we plant them we furnished the um we we haven't planted we we plant them in the right away the right away is Town property right oh it's not
town no the administrat is correct the rideway only gives the have typically utilities the right to to Ren their lines in that area but their Town doesn't own it do not cut anybody's lawn on the right away we the street the
street map shows that the street is the town home is 50 feet no the town has an easement of 50 feet they don't own 50 feet I think that's the distinction well it's still owned by the homeowner subject to an Eastman um once again the the map says
the the the town has 50 feet of whatever you want to call and we pave 30 feet of that so there's 10 feet on each side what do you call that right away and and the property owner as councilman Stern mentioned and the property owner is responsible for the sidewalk which is
typically in the right of way they're responsible for snow removal which is typically in the right of way so it's not this is the common practice that it's not owned by the municipality and the municipality does not have the staffing needs to remove snow on
everyone's sidewalk and in a town such as woodliff Lake where you have a great tree population they don't have the ability to maintain all the trees in the right of way either so somebody has to do it and the law allows municipalities to put that responsibility on the
property on yeah he it's a matter of practicality but it doesn't answer the question in my mind of who owns the 50 feet uh of of a street so and if it's 30 ft of p and there 10 ft on either side
it's somebody somebody or way works it's basically like a blanket permission so it's saying if you need to run power lines or water or get onto the property instead of
asking each time you have permission you can come on it but the town doesn't Own It us planting trees there is something that we do because we like having the Tre but it's not our it's not our property somebody have to own it the home owners home
owners tax pay taxes they they counts as their square footage for if they want to put a pool on that counts I me I can tell you if the town wanted to do something on everyone's right of way people would be up in arms they'd say this is my property yes get on right if I wanted to put side just random
sidewalks down we we would get fights from every homeowner even though we have a right to do it pursuing to the E so like it's it's a complicated like Mr satina to confirm again nobody owns that property
no as council person Mar said the property owner owns the way if you I'm not familiar with all the properties and what play but where I live you would not know that it was the right away because everybody has their lawns right up to the street understand and it's the
property owner who owns right up to the street but the 10t of that TI typically into that property's lawn is the town's right away so if the town came in and said okay we're running a line through here the homeowner couldn't stop them because if the town has the right away
they have the right to utilize underneath the underneath the lawn to run and again typically it's for utilities you know for electrical water you name it so in this case to answer your question the right of way is part of your property in front of your house
typically and as our administrator stated you pay taxes on that and you can't pay taxes on something you you shouldn't pay taxes on something you don't know but you own it you pay taxes on it and you maintain it this is just again clarifying from
back in 2020 that the trees now located in the right of way back to 2020 is the responsibility of the homeowner as is everything else that typically is in the right way okay if I go to the back of my property and find a the property stake
and count up to the to the front be 10 ft before the the paved Street there's another post which which is exactly the dimension from my
back post so my property might be I assume stops there because there's a property State there do you cut the lawn in front of that no I don't cut my lawn you don't cut your lawn your property extends all the way up
to your the Cur your your property send to I would just take a look when you go home look at your survey I think you may see and you can't always go by the Stak unfortunately uh CL because I can tell you that most of the stakes are have been moved removed they're all over the
place I mean we get calls all the time for that U because people states are and the move that's a good I'm sorry Tom that's a good suggestion if you look at your survey you'll see that your property line goes right to the street yes if you look at your
survey I'll do it again okay well again from a sort of a philosophical standpoint um we um um still have the basic question who owns the trees which will probably never
be settled but as you know we we buy the trees Town buys the trees planted planted in this disputed area here and um um and homeowner signs off Clay they're going to take responsibility they ask do you
have the form that the person signs when they uh I don't have it in front of me and I don't know where F has it and I know because you and I have had this conversation numerous times it yeah can you get it because it says on there that they are taking control they're going to water it they're do everything we are
planting it that's the savings they're get that's comment I made who owns the tree I think pH wa wait wait one at a time gift so basically if we purchase the tree and we plant it that's our gift
to the homeowners because we like as a neighborhood we've decided that there's certain streets we like to have all the trees we like the look of it so instead of putting the onus on the homeowner to have to purchase those are gift from the town to them but if somebody gives you like a c as a gift you still have to pay
for the cat's bets because now the cat's yours even if somebody gifted you that cat to begin with so you didn't pay for the cat it was a gift but once it was gifted to you and you accepted that gift you're now responsible for the cast the tree kind of works the same way and when
they sign off on the form the homeowners are basically saying I accept this gift of a tree and now I'll be responsible for the gift it doesn't say I accept the gift that says I will take care of it maybe the same thing anyway I look on
on the trees in the front of the house houses that we plant as not a gift but a um a an addition to the Community Asset it's an asset to the community not to
the individual we're not planting it for that that guy so he has a nice tree in front of his house we pl to be POS the Community Asset and so uh this this gift I that we're gift in regard to these because I
don't think we're giving it to them but what just want to read um it's a a statement I picked up in U it's happen to be in Massachusetts so you're going to say well it doesn't pertain what is a
street Tree Street tree is an in tree this is written by the the community tree tree is any tree growing within 8 to 10 ft of the paved edge of Road these trees belong to the town and not to the individual landowner as
stated in the massachus general law is the following reads and I know we probably don't have a comparable thing in New Jersey the relation of the shade tree to the highway is the same as that of any other Road improving the tree is something which benefites benefits not
only the the abing property owner but the entire Street and is upon this idea that all legislation regarding the planting and care of shade trees is based a man May plant the shade tree along the tree line but he does not own it in the sense that he owns a tree
within the property line neither he nor anybody else has the right to mutilate or cut down the street tree for the whole street would suffer by loss of such an action and S okay I
qu very good any anyone else on this or these two ordinances okay being none motion to close to the public second all in favor right motion
to adopt oh there's a public yeah okay uh ordinance number 25-01 is there a motion motion second roll call Mr ban yes spsky yes maras yes
Mar yes PA yes yes ordinance number 25-2 is there a motion there a second second call please yesy yes yes Mar yes yes sir yes motion passes okay introduction
ordinance number 25-3 2025 salary ordinance is there a motion motion favor yes none opposed motion passes on resolutions we're going to pull resolution number 25-65
right so everything else remains amenda oh we're gonna add we're gonna add you want me to read yeah um resolution approving stipulation of dismissal with prejudice and without cost 25 number 65 it'll be it'll replace
the number on there and this is for the wood staff homes and also resolution approving release of bond number number 528 351s uh 2574 will be that number and that's for
Block 2251 LS 2.01 345 and six in the Bor okay sorry 256 you're going to up and while we're at piling on um Mr
Mayor 25-6 two uh can I request an amendment the third and fourth whereas statements I don't think add anything um to the resolution it uh say it's particularly offensive uh that the elimination of formula based funding is particularly
offensive in so far as the money was redirected outside of any formula base on favoritism I haven't seen any evidence of favoritism um unless anyone can can share any I mean I think actually that's the point that's being made in the that there is favortism
that the that the governor has directed money outside of the New Jersey Constitution that should be given to property tax relief and that he's given it to um but I think that's stipulated in the other like whereas whereas it's
really just talking about that changing this funding formula is providing an undue burden on the municipalities it just the rationale of that it was done based on favoritism have we seen any evidence that we've done based on favorit yes we have I mean I don't have it with me but I think we uh the amount of money that's being
redirected from what's supposed to be a property tax trust fund to certain um municipalities certain municipalities certain Urban municipalities I think you know I think has shown to be favoritism I think that that the number has grown exponentially over the last three or
four years to the point of that certain groups have threatened lawsuits against the governor for how he's handled that so as an example hen in Jersey City consent if have there been has there been
litigation against this threaten litigation liation with regards to the favoritism that's I believe that's one of the contentions I don't you means but I did hear that there was I'm
fine withing this think it's yeah this is a a resolution that was put forth by the Pas mayor Association that uh their Municipal councils are voting on U that's why it's on here because it was requested to no
and iord I don't have a problem with the resolution I do support it it was just the wording of that that I didn't have that substantiation but I'm fine to leave okay good so we're going to what are we going to do a motion to am um to
amend the consent agenda motion second all in favor yes yes n oppos motion pass so then I need a motion to approve the consent agenda um and
caining for 2560 we'll dooll yeah so so motion uh for the amended uh resolutions so is there a motion to
yes sorry day I'm missing meeting I'm like 20 minutes all right Mr M what did you [Laughter] say BR
yes Miss Mar yes Mr yes motion to adjourn second all in favor okay I was here for the open you know can I
just make two quick comments but then motion to until the public second favor n opposed come right thank you very much I appreciate um Joseph place um when are we going to
move over the um uh all the vws to the I haven't yes yes when is going to be before Memorial Day weekend so better be should we have a new date um we wanted
to open the park uh sometime in March but we were just notified that uh it's going to be delayed but it should still be way before that and one of the reasons is they want to have it fully uh operational or fully uh complete but yes and and to answer your question even a
little more um the finances for that were approved a couple of dayses oh and I think Joe they're they're waiting because it's going to take a a little um they're going to have to handle them with a lot of care because they haven't been moved they need to make sure that they um can be moved but you know what
the people that died for us absolutely no everybody is for that that should be okay and um I just want to say on the um the the corner you know that they're saying about the light five years and
stuff like that I F on the in score and I unfortunately saw a young person impales and died on a um one of the U whatever you call them you know stop
signs and stuff like that I I I just I cannot see why the county is the way it is that they will do something um it's just a matter of time before somebody is going to be hurt and U and
uh can I ask um John if we have known about this and somebody does get injured or hurt does that make it you know easier to be for
us to be sued and to the county road County the county to get we'd probably have qualified immunity anyway I didn't hear what you said we' probably have some level of qualified immunity as well even though it is a County Road
um and and Joe I think it's important to note that Josh Ben and I only sat on the meeting it's also it's unfortunate but we're a small town so our traffic counts and and other things are a lot smaller than our towns so it's not that it takes five years for anyone they have a backlog there's been other lights and we
would go in the sort of the cue should it come to that but we are we have much smaller traffic CS than others unfortunately thank you very much me after to the meeting because they they have other to go
to thank you motion to close to the public 20 minutes and that's it h okay actually an hour 630 all in favor I okay thank you