Okay. The um Tuesday, June 13th, 2025, 700 p.m. work session meeting of the township committee is now in session. Taco, it's the 17th today. H It's the
17th today. I You're right. It's the 17th. Even I missed that. I don't know why I did that. Make that Tuesday, June 17th. Living in the past here. 7 p.m. work session meeting of the White Co Township Committee is now in session.
Nancy, roll call, please. Miss Bogdansky, here. Mr. Lane, here. Mr. Madigan, here. Mr. Milkon here. And Mayor Bonto here. This regular work session meeting of the Woff Township Committee is now in session in accordance with the open public meetings act. Notice of this
meeting appears on our annual schedule of meetings. A copy of said annual schedule has been posted on the bulletin board in memorial town hall. A copy has been filed with the municipal clerk and has been posted on our municipal website and a copy has also been emailed to the record the Rididgewood News and the North Jersey Herald News. All newspapers
having a general circulation throughout the township of Wifol. At least 48 hours prior to this meeting, the agenda thereof was similarly posted, filed, and emailed to said newspapers. Thank you. Um, we had a lot of vouchers being signed here. Is everything uh
signed and reviewed and uh everything is ready. Is everything all signatures necessary? Everything is ready, Mr. Mayor. Okay, then I'll ask for a motion to open the work session meeting for a 10-minute public comment period.
So moved. Second, Miss Bogdansky. Yes. Mr. Lane. Hi. Mr. Madigan. Yes. Mr. Melion. And Mayor Bonstra. Yes. With an affirmative vote, the motion is approved. Okay. Before we close this, I just want to um make note
we have uh a boy scout with us, Alex Bodino from Troop 89 with us tonight. Welcome, Alex. When his uncle here, thank you for joining us. Now, Alex is going to lead us in the flag salute at the 8:00 meeting. But just so you understand what the batting order is here tonight, we actually have two meetings. One is the meeting we're in
now, which is the 7:00, what we call the work session meeting. The second is at 8:00, which is the general business meeting at which we we do our flag salute. Now, in the meantime, when we get to the end of our uh agenda here, we're going to take a recess and go into executive session in the conference room
in the back, but then we'll be back at 8:00 to proceed from there. Just so you know what we're up to here. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Motion to close. Seeing none, motion to close to the
public. Rogers. Second. Miss Bogdansky. Yes. Mr. Lane. Hi. Mr. Madigan. Yes. Mr. Milkon. Yes. And Mayor Bona? Uh, yes. With an affirmative vote. The motion is approved. Thank you. Okay, Matt. Review of the uh business
meeting, please. So under resolutions, um we start off uh recognizing June as pride month. Uh the flag has been up in the back on our public expression flag on our government expression flag pole uh since January since June 1st. We have
several resolutions uh ex um approving the renewal of our 202526 liquor licenses. Uh we have uh a personnel resolution with regard to health benefits waiver. Our
authorization to submit a grant uh to the NJ DOT with regard to a portion of C uh Crescent Avenue. uh a closeout for our roof uh project uh which is now complete and an award of the removal and pruning of shave tree
bid that was uh opened today. There are no ordinances for introduction. Uh there is one motion which will be read into the record at the 8:00 p.m. meeting. And then under ordinance for public hearing and further consideration, we have the uh new flood damage prevention ordinance
which is required by FEMA and the NJD and they have been very persistent at following up with Nancy every other day to confirm that this ordinance will be on the agenda for adoption today. Um, this has to do with um, this really
ordinance has to really do with people being able to get flood insurance if they need it uh, in uh, certain parts of our town that do fall into the into the flood category. That's all I have for the agenda. Um, with regard to some updates, just a
reminder to save the date, January, sorry, September 27th will be our annual fireworks celebration. Uh, town hall summer hours are in effect. uh Friday as we close at 1:30. Um as I mentioned, the township bid for tree removal and pruning services was open today. The
contract is award is on the agenda for award this evening. Uh discounted summer parking uh park and ride permits for cornerstone Christian church park and ride are available at the township clerk's office through September 15th. White golf residents
$60, non-residents $80. As I mentioned, we're finalizing our application to the NJ DOT fiscal year 2026 municipal aid program for resurfacing a portion of Crescent Avenue. This will probably be the first of one, if not sorry, first of two, if not three, depending on the the
value uh grant that we'll submit for Crescent Avenue. The planning board will have a public hearing uh sorry the planning board will have uh will be hearing uh the fourth round uh housing element and fair share
plan uh this upcoming Tuesday June 25th. Uh and after that sometime when we have our meeting in uh July, the township committee will pass a resolution endorsing it, but we will meet our June 30th uh deadline for uh being approved by the planning board. That's a
Wednesday, by the way. That's correct. Right. Wednesday. 25th. Thank you. I wrote Tuesday. I wrote the date right. Yeah. Uh third quarter estimated tax bills have been mailed for properties that are connected to our sanitary source system.
Second half of sore bills are also due uh and and the estimated tax bills are both due on August 1st. U just a reminder to people that a permit is required to remove any tree that is considered a qualified tree in Wyoff. Permanent information is available on our website or by calling
the township clerk's office. To have two bulk items collected curbside on Wednesday, June 26th, uh you must sign up. Think I have that date wrong. On on June 26th, uh you must sign up by this
Friday, June 20th. Uh let's see. Just a reminder that Woff is observing two day per week ordering schedule. Even numbered addresses can order on Wednesdays and Sundays. odd number addresses on Tuesdays and Saturdays. And a reminder that although we've had significant rainfall and it's
helped, New Jersey does remain under a drought warning. Uh and it is currently being evaluated by the D to see how long it'll if it's going to continue to last. And then finally, uh two things. Uh a deadline, the deadline to apply for the uh anchor, which is the affordable New
Jersey communities for homeowners and renters. the senior freeze which is the property tax reimbursement program and the uh stay program which is a property tax relief program. All three applications are due well I should say it's one application for all three
programs are due October 31st. It's a streamlined application and it's available online on the state's website. And then as we only have one meeting in July, we will be uh running an interim bill list around June 27th. Um and possibly one a week later uh just
because we have some bills that need to get paid and those bills will appear on the uh July meetings resolution. That's all. Thank you, Matt. Tom Question. Yeah. Just one clarification. I know the fireworks is set for the 27th. Yes. I
know we've asked before and I can't remember the answer, but this particular year, do we have a rain date? There is no rain date and that's our practice going forward because No, it's not our practice going forward, but there is no rain day because logistically and the advice from our chief is they cannot
have the proper um the proper amount of offers they were need on a rain day. Scheduling he said would just be too much of a nightmare and too hard. Unless the county does a uh a scan of the area and it also has to do with field usage. Yeah. Okay. So, how it's a slew of
things. Thank you. Good question. Anyone else questions? Me, could you start tonight on reports? Sure. Um I don't have much, but I'll tell you what I have. Um this past uh Saturday, I think actually the Saturday before was the fishing derby.
Um it was a great success. Uh, I think we had 100, we counted 115 Fisher kids. Um, yeah. And the weather held out for, you know, no rain until we were done, which was great. Um, K through eight,
the meeting um was just business as usual. They uh Eisenhower School is having their graduation tomorrow. Um, they're going to hold the graduation indoor. um the next K through8 meeting and the zoning board meeting is Friday um for
the zoning board and Monday for K through8. So I don't have a report for that. Um and then Rudy's kind enough to do my planning board meeting since I was not here. Thank you. Okay. Uh Pete and I had our centennial
committee meeting and u you know everything's moving uh according to plan. has a lot of moving parts. A couple of added things that we are are considering and pretty much going to do is the uh White Coff Reform Church
cemetery. There'll be a tour of the cemetery and the history behind it at some point. There's an awful lot of history in in that cemetery. And uh we're through the historic preservation committee, we're working on uh having a
house tour. There's 14 designated historic homes in town and we're hoping to tie that in and then get that uh on the calendar, Tom, at some point once we can lock down the date. So, it'll be good. Uh under the fire department, uh I
mean, sad news. There was a a fatality uh the other day in an accident uh right in Hawthorne there and uh a truck came down the hill, lost brakes, plowed into a car. Uh our fire department was there
and we handled the extrication with every single piece of gear that we have and uh you know unfortunately it was a fatality. However, the extrication was done in record time and if there was any way to save this
individual that would have been the key to it. It uh it was a traumatic event for our volunteers uh you know which just goes to show what they do to step up for this community every day. Uh it's it's uh you
know again we we feel for the the individual that passed to this family uh you know but we want to thank the fire department for responding to such an incident and doing uh their job under extremely uh difficult situation. Uh
just on usually I do a a report. It it it could be very long, but I'm just going to make it very brief. Uh year-to- date 10,952 hours by our volunteers. 10,952 hours by our volunteer fire department.
It's all I have, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Roger. Yep. Tom Madigan. Okay, let me start off with the fishing derby. I agree with May. It was terrific, you know. I think I've gone to 40 out of the 43. I've been in town 42 years, so I
know I haven't been to all 43, but it was really good. Environmental commission did a great job with your uh as the layers on. And I think uh Danielle Capitella was terrific organizer as always with everything and everybody pitched in and did a really
nice job. And uh thank you to all those that uh did that and thank you to Peter's Fish for that. mayor's grand prize of the biggest fish which was kind of nice and thoughtful of him as a member of our community. The rec board
meeting met last night. Um everything's busy, everything's hectic. They got the season in. Um the baseball season quite a challenge with the weather and uh actually had a rain delay in the championship games. They said, "We're
staying no matter what." And they waited out and they did that. The uh just to report the new there was a new club in town that was sponsored rec department girls field hockey. So that begins this
summer and um I reported on before that that was in the works. Well, it's being implemented. Just wanted to bring everybody up to date. uh lacrosse boosters uh continue to work hard on the lacrosse wall that they're doing fundraising for
over at Pulis and uh there's a lot of excitement over that. There was a lot of discussion as well at the rec board meeting how members of the rec board are very enthusiastic. Um just wanted to um
congratulate all those involved in uh getting the bathrooms at Memorial Field up and running and um I wasn't there for the ribbon cutting, but I know they've been successful the few weeks that been operational. So, right. You were there for something
else. I I think it was I was there for the baseball. I didn't have an opportunity to use the facilities, but I just want to congratulate everybody for, you know, working so hard to get that done. uh the Rotary in town. I had uh
scholarship applicants and uh recipients. Uh we're fortunate to I'm a member of the Rotary, the Whiteoff Miller Park Rotary. We had seven students from Whiteoff, four students from Midland Park, each of whom received
$2,000 scholarships. They were fantastic. The students they went we had 33 applicants from seven different high schools. Criteria is must live in Whiteoff or Milan Park, do community service,
be a leader in your school, and be very active um next to curricular. And I think I have one more and I got to find it because I usually write them down a number. Oh, here it is. Um let's see.
Oh, township calendar meeting. We talked about the calendar. We have an upcoming calendar meeting this Thursday. We'll be reviewing the calendar where we are. We think we have January through June
kind of completed and now we're going to go on to clean that up a little bit, get July through January because we'll do January again and uh start plugging in some of these activities as well. But
Denise is working very hard on it, Pete as well. And uh we'll get back let you know what's going on. That's it. Thank you, Tom. Hey. All right. Thank you, Mayor. Um, just want to also echo the comments. Fishing derby was a great success. Rain held out and it just a
great community event that we uh host here in Wyoff. Um, I know Rudy will go into this a little bit more, but I was able to attend a chief for a day this past Friday. Chief John uh was sworn in by our mayor and it's the second time we've had it here in Wyoff and it's a great event. Hopefully, we uh keep doing
it going forward. It's it's actually a countywide event. Um fireworks, as Matt mentioned, they're September 27th. Um there will be no rain day this year. And I just want to thank uh Provident Bank and Sarah for once again for their
generous donations. Um their donations goes towards and all donations on the day of the fireworks goes towards our first responders here in town and is uh split between the fire department, ambulance, and the police chief's fund. Um, and then the other day I was down at
Memorial Field from a Boy Scout project that was going on LA from last year with that I was involved in that uh Cole Bickford did a big green and deck chair that's sitting right by the scoreboard at Memorial Field there. So, he's encouraged everyone to go sit in it and
take a picture and uh post it online. It came out came out great over there. He did an excellent job. And then um just a little PSA, I've received a few comments and calls over the last week or so. A lot of ebikes and e- scooters buzzing around town. So,
anyone that is on these ebikes or e- scooters, please use some caution and try to uh you know, use safety. Um I know some of these things go pretty fast. So, uh just be careful and safe out there. And that's all I have tonight. Thank you, Pete.
Okay. Hey, I too will start with the fishing derby which was a a great success. Um, everyone had a good time. The weather held out and uh again, special thanks to Ben and Danielle and the entire Whiteoff Environmental
Commission who were there um Leaison May um Badansky who and it was great and a big shout out to to I think it's the Clearwater Anglers who were there helping with all the fish and the hooks and everything else. Big shout out to those to those folks. they they they actually are a big part of a successful
uh event uh because it is catch and release and everyone has to take the hook out of their fish and they're a big big help with that. Um, on Monday the 9th, I attended along with uh Dave and Matt and May a uh fourth round affordable housing subcommittee here in
town hall with um some planning board officers and um and uh we had our affordable housing planner on Zoom and it was kind of a tutorial for the group we had there. So everyone
starts to develop an understanding of what the pro the process and the procedure is um with getting our um our round four affordable housing plan uh adopted and accepted. Um I'll come back to that in my planning board meeting
also. Um now on to the planning board meeting on the uh on Wednesday the 11th. Um we we approved a resolution changing a resolution from years ago on um Madison
A which released um the cash bonds posted by 232 238 and 248 Madison A for streetscape and sidewalk improvements which were never done. Now, we we changed the um the uh resolutions from
years ago, which leave the plan in place should we ever want to do it, and we would start over with funding it. But in the meantime, um holding on to that the um the cash that was pledged was getting to be a bookkeeping nightmare. So, we we gave that all back to the um to the
property owners. Um, we had a completeness hearing on Cafe Amichi's um application to expand uh with outdoor dining out in in the front of the restaurant on the Franklin Avenue side
and to do renovations inside. Um, and when they but it was for completist only. Public hearing will start at the July meeting. Um when that finishes hopefully and everything gets done there, that will deact um reactivate one of the liquor licenses which we're going
to approve tonight which is now an inactive license which is good. Um we began a little bit of an outline with during the work session um with the entire planning board um regarding the aforementioned affordable housing plan
that we had the subcommittee meeting. uh we we handed out um outlines of the uh of the plan for folks to have a look at and we had a brief discussion on it. We didn't have a lot of time to get into too much of it. Um and uh I I asked
anyone who had questions to call me or to call Matt or Kevin Hanley or anyone who was at the meeting um on Monday the 9th that we could help them with uh with uh any questions they had. And this is in anticipation of the special meeting
on June 25th on Wednesday which uh in which the planning board will adopt the affordable housing plan as presented by uh by the subcommittee and our affordable housing planner Beth McManis.
Um it's the planning board that acts on this, not the township committee. Um and so we need and we need to do it by the end of the month. And um after the end of the month, the town we will re we will affirm their action. I think there's no Did I get that? All right, Matt. Pretty much. Y
just for Excuse me. Yeah, sure. Just for clarification because I know I've been hopping on this. They're going to review it on the 25th. They're going to adopt it on 25th. They're going to adopt it, right? And when do we endorse it? Because as an elected official, I would
like to have probably at our July meeting. I'd like to have some input rather than the planning board taking the lead. I don't remember electing them. Well, they have to problem. It's an amendment to your uh master plan. Master plan. And under the municipal land use law, that is the planning
board's uh obligation. So, when they adopt that, they're actually amending your master plan. uh under these rules, you are required to endorse it and the plan is you're going to do it your July meeting. There's no specific date or
time frame for you to endorse it. So, you're going to do it at your next meeting. But we have to then file within 48 hours of the adoption by the planning board. We have to file with the program, that's the court, which I will do probably on the next day. I won't even
wait for 48 hours. I will take that resolution that'll be passed and the final um plan and I will file it with the court or the program as they refer to it at then on the 20. You you should have had the the entire plan in your mailbox. Hey, but right here. Okay. All
right. But I have a mouth too and I feel that I'm not having any input. That's the summary right there. That's not the plan. Well, the summary plan, but I feel like I didn't get to go to a special meeting. I didn't get any input. I'm just for the record saying that because
I was here the last time. I don't recall it doing going this way because the rules are I thought it came from the governing body who were elected by the residents of this town to represent them and now we have different rules which has been frustrating for all expedited
rules. We're going by that and the planning board which are appointed people not even elected decides which good knucker we had one onehour meet one one and a half hour meeting since day one just
it's extremely frustrating I don't like it those are the rules but just not right that's all I have to say okay any other comments I mean I understand your frustration but we also have our representation of Rudy in May
that are on the planning board and the leaison in the special meeting for the planning boards. But fortunately, this is what we have to follow that the state has given us. You know, we we were at a um at a four different session meeting
with the mediator to arrive at our number which in large part drives this plan. That was all reported. We to we we we indicated where we started, where we finished up. everyone knew about that and that's what really kind of drives where we are with this. Um the the
planner puts the plan together. Now we can review the plan. We can set up another special meeting and you know a subcommittee meeting and review the plan with anyone who wants to go through it. I'm available. Matt will make ourselves available. Dave's available. I mean I don't mind following the rules. I have full confidence
in the people that were there. I'm just want to again be on the record. Okay. That I object to the process. Not that you made the process. I object to it as an elected official. Okay, Roger. Real quick, on a lighter note, I forgot something and if I don't mention
it, I can get in trouble. The uh I'm going to lose my train of thought here. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No, no, keep I'm sorry. Oh, real quick. Keep it quick. The Whiteoff Torpedoes, the young girls soccer team, won a tournament in Ridgewood on it's called the Father's Day tournament, and they won the
tournament. So, they came in first place here. Okay. Thanks. Thank you, Roger. Yeah. Okay. Um, back to the planning board. The board began hearing testimony from the engineer on the proposed expansion of the Cedar Hill Avenue shopping center
um including new traffic patterns on Blum Court and on the shopping center parking lot. And that went till about 9:30. And um there was several lawyers there. One obviously representing the applicant,
one representing uh an adjacent um commercial property owner, and another um representing a group of people who own that um uh um it's not an arboritum. It's it's a reserve, a wetland reserve that's behind
the shopping center. So, we took a break and while we took the break, Chairman Fortunado suggested to the three lawyers that maybe they get together between now and the next meeting and see if they can settle some of their differences before we have to hear in front of the board. I
thought it was a good idea and uh we were a we were able to with with that being said, it didn't make sense to start with yet another expert since the engineer had finished until we see what they can work out before the next meeting. So hopefully that'll save us some time and get everyone heard at the
same time. Okay. Um on the 12th I officiated in this room um a wedding which are always fun. I think that's my fourth or fifth wedding this year. Um on the 13th as Pete mentioned um here again in this room. We swore in
John Fitz Morris a seventh grader as chief for the day of the WCO Police Department. It was really this is such a great thing that the police the police department's doing. It's not just the White Rock Police Department. It's it's I think 20 towns. There were 20 of them that day or something like that. Is that the right anyone have the right number?
I think they said quite a few. Maybe it was over 40. Okay. Over 40. Okay. So, but it's just a good thing to do for the for these young people who have who have who are challenged quite honestly. Um and I want to give a big thanks to Chief Murphy and our police department and the officers who were here, the officers who
participated for for being part of this program. um Nancy and the town hall staff for helping to put all this together. A number of them attended the ceremony here Friday morning and it was just really really a a neat neat thing. Um under sewers,
we have an atypical sewer connection on Highland A that um um Mark requested and we're going to go go ahead. It's on the dead end section of Highland A and they're going to hook into the uh it's a
onehouse hookup into the sewer. Um, I want to congratulate all Eisenhower graduates, including May's daughter, Ila, for graduating tomorrow night from Eisenhower School. I want to congratulate all successful candidates on last Tuesday's primary.
And uh, I think that's it. Roger, are um, now I have a question. is the can and Pete is the committee going to include the union cemetery somewhere in there as well.
We actually that's all. Okay, that's perfect. Thank you. Um I think that's all I have. Dave address. No, that's it. Um, not to belver the whole affordable housing, but why don't I just go through so we understand
what's left on the agenda for this because even with the planning board adopting it, I will then file this adopted plan and our their resolution. You'll endorse it in July. There's now a period to the end of August where interested parties can object to our
plan. So, it's not really finalized until that point in time at August 31. Um, if nobody objects, that's our plan. If someone objects, we go through a similar negotiations that we did for the numbers and I'll take through the fall. You'll sit with the uh program member
that was the retired judge. You'll sit with the special adjudicator and you'll negotiate if there's aspects of their plan that someone's objecting to. They may be valid, they may not be. So, by the end of the calendar year is when your plan is finalized. And that's when ordinances starting in 2026 by the end
of March have to be adopted and resolutions which is which you'll take part in in actually passing the ordinances and resolutions that basically put this plan in place. So the hands your hands are not totally off on this because the ordinances have to be passed by this body, but that's not
going to happen until 2026. So I just want to make sure everybody knows kind of what's on the agenda. So it could be an internal objection. Uh well, I don't know where that would go. What do you mean internal you gentlemen? Yeah. Well, well, yes. I
mean, to Tom's point, well, you're going to endorse it. I I take it in July. And once it's endorsed, then that's the end of Well, that's the end of the sense that you're not going to make any major changes unless someone objects to it and during negotiations. From the time we upload it till January, July 1st on is
when the objections can start coming in. Okay. And the objections are going to come from people or groups like Fair Share Builders Association. or an individual developer that may say, you know what, you didn't include my property or you included my property and
we don't want to be included or or they might, this is one that they probably aren't going to go anywhere with, but you could get questions on properties on density issues. But if you're meeting your number, you know, the the number we have, it's hard for them to really have a legitimate objection. But you could
have an individual developer, they already have a pro, they already have a property, they already have a plan, but what they're looking for doesn't fit into what how you looking to zone it or whatever. And that could be an objection. Sure. But some may be valid, some may not. Tom, I asked that for you.
I asked that question for you. I'm sure you're aware. This is done every five years. 10 years. 10 years. Oh, thank God. Anyone else questions, comments? Okay. Um, we're going to have a close session. So, I'll take a motion 10 to uh
adopt a 25 seat 10 resolution to enter close session discussion. So, second third. Miss Bansky. Yes. Mr. Lane. Hi. Mr. Madigan. Yes. Mr. Milk. Yes. Mayor
Ba. Yes. that affirm. The motion is approved. All right, we'll be back in about 20 minutes or so. Do we have a Nancy? Do we have an extra agenda? Yes. For um Yes, you gave them. I gave Oh, you gave one. Okay, great. Okay. Thank
you. M of