##VIDEO ID:aexJ_giaTiU## okay good even everyone this is Tuesday October 15 2024 at 7 p.m. is a regular scheduled meeting agenda of government body of the bur of Bloomingdale like to call the meeting order with to slute to the flag to the flag of the United States of America it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all roll call please mayor damato here councilman Catalano here councilman delara here councilman Graziano here councilwoman Hudson here councilwoman Schubert here councilman yasi here we also have our municipal clerk Brianna Smith B uh business administrator Michael Sand and bur attorney Ed pck this meeting is called to pursue to the provisions of the open public meetings law adequate notice of this meeting was advertised in The Herald news on January 12 2024 copies were provided to the local news media and posted continuously in the municipal building a copy of this noes is available to the public and on file in the office of the municipal clerk as per state fire code I am required to acknowledge that there are two emergency exits in this council chambers the main entrance would you entered through and a secondary exit to the left of where I am seated if there is an emergency walk orderly to the exit exit through the door down the stairs and out the building if there's any questions please raise your hand um now seeing none um we do have in the early executive session tonight so do I have a motion to go into early exact some of second all in favor I I I okay we also do have one n agenda item which has to do with the um with bog pond so um we're going to go into exec so you guys are going to have to step out for a while and then we'll call you back in as soon as we're done we shouldn't be too 26 all in favor okay like I said before we do have one non-agenda item which will be a resolution to approve um ecoscience we going to uh do a report on bog Pond this is part of the process for the Green Acres funding that we received all right so that'll be at the end um can I open up a motion to open up early public comment second all in favor anyone wishing to speak please come up to agenda items can you pick her up on the microphone for the resolution 24w labor who that that is Cody Newberg is he related to the superintendent yes he is is that against not a work not as a seasonal worker can never be a full-time employee part-time and fulltime is not in our mannual seasonal worker you are allowed according to our attorney I asked the same thing very bad Optics well he's only here another for 10 weeks and he's done well we did have we hired a lot of people no nobody came and they would come and work for one day and leave because they were on the back of a garbage AR doing anything so we went down a list of a lot of people and they would work a day or two and they didn't like to work they would just never show back up again so okay thank you anyone else this is only for agenda item corre yes no if you want to come up we if you don't want to wait till the end I can we can listen to you you guys have been real patient Wai yeah so we'll deviate a little bit on Snake Road the Forgotten part of blooming um we have a storm drain that's Bloomingdale property that has had no maintenance in the 10 years I've been Liv in there it's a tripping Hazard it doesn't drain it's full of debris and rocks and leaves and everything else so in the winter when the snow melts it doesn't drain the water freezes it's ice we have to drag our garbage cans over it I spoke to the business administrator 13 months ago he came up with the director and the assistant director of the DPW and it's been over a year and nothing has been done and another Winter's coming you remember this yeah the issue is we can't claim that is our drain or it's private property drain just on a private road you were there with me you measured it and you told me it was the one that it's and you told you said 15 ft from the center line was Bloomingdale property you measured it you said it's Bloomingdale proper nothing on our maps showing a storm drain the PE and I sent you a follow email stating that 20 years ago it was put in by Ringwood and Bloomingdale had the town had a um a private company paav it and put the storm drains in Ringwood does maintenance every year on their storm drain and nothing is done with yours now it's been 13 months if you're saying you can't figure out what have you done to figure out I'll do is I'll get the engineer up there have him make a decision well we have to figure out what the distance is because from the center line out for the RightWay I'm assuming that's what we're talking about right the bottom of the private drive that comes down at that where it's where State private driveways all snake Okay correct yeah the private road snake down the private section comes down to the public section right that's a strip train at the bottom and there's a strip ban at the bottom there's one at the bottom of our private road there's one at the bottom of the private roads for Ringwood the private roads for Ringwood drain the Ringwood dpws there every year they do the routine maintenance ours nothing again I would spend 13 months Mr s Meer came out I followed up with two emails that got no response and another Winter's coming and okay we'll do is we'll we'll get the engineer to go out shortly okay and who can I email because I'd like email me okay and then I will follow up with him and if I have to meet him there with Mike I would like to be there also well we'll let you know when we're coming yeah five minutes away and then we'll go from there okay all right all right all right so as soon as I hear from him um can you paper give give me your contact number I have you have everything and that's the engineer coming on Thursday so okay so we'll talk to him on Thursday and then we will make a phone call I'll call you and then we'll figure it out okay all right thank you thank you anyone else wishing to come up seeing no one motion to close early public comment and late public comment okay reporting committees keep it your keep sure um mayor uh for the senior center um they uh there all their informations on our uh blomingdale website uh they have uh they'll be going to V Roma tomorrow oh today they're at they're away at V of Roma in Woodstock um they have a senior a New Year's uh ringing in the New Year's party for December 31st at l gretes in uh the Staten at Lake grees um all this is information is aail able online for BBC um they have um every Tuesday there's a dine to donate uh at jigs 15% off uh um if you mention bbyc you get 15% off and the donations will go to um bbyc um they're you know everything's online as far as their uh practices um they have a colding drive um that's available uh Saturday uh the drop off date and for the uh event that they're collecting is uh Saturday October 26 it's a clothing and uh shoot fund Drive um it's from 9 to 12 at the BB bbyc uniform shed at the Richard Butler parking lot um they're looking for household items uh blankets sheets pillows um clothing uh also their pink out date is uh October 26th um for uh cancer and uh the salute uh to the service game is November 9th they also put on the on their website that if people that were in the program that our veterans they um they have a little form to fill out to to honor them for um Tri burrow um first the September calls they had um we had 138 calls in September uh their year-to date calls there um uh 1,314 uh Tri burrow had 117 covered 96 calls uh Butler had 52 uh Bloomingdale had 48 Kone had had 32 calls um as always there there they do have a website if someone needs any kind of um equipment CH bur does um have uh you have the option to borrow they they they could loan out any kind of equipment that you may need um also um if you're there they always are looking for volunteers if uh anyone's interested to look up the CH Barrel first aid Squad um you could be a either adult or even teams there if you if you have a child that is interested in the medical field um and they want to make a difference they're looking for people uh and then for the Bloomingdale Library uh again they have their own website and they have many programs available um they're November um 3rd they have their paint it's a porch leaner Paint and Sip it's $50 to5 per person it's from 1 to 5 um and again they have all their book clubs available online um and if you have little ones their story times Mondays 10 uh they 10:30 a.m. they have lots of information online for that um I did want to mention uh that the Walter T Bergen is uh has their uh chunker treat uh event on uh October 27th it's from 2 to 4 uh I know Jullian Batista was if anybody wanted to decorate the cars or even just donate candy they're uh available uh she's accepting accepting that e if somebody wants to decorate their car and bring it there who do they contact Julian Batista that there is a uh it's with through the PTA um can you send me her info cuz um I was asked and I said I would find out cuz um the gentleman's wife wants to add a car and decorate a car or if they have a flyer then we can post it on the B yeah social media you can do that too if you can send me the flyer I'll get that up okay okay you good I'm good I'm G I'll make it fast for you uh this Saturday October 19th 9:30 a.m. Expedition Bloomingdale Town scavenger hunt John's going to talk about um also this Saturday we have the confidential shredding at the senior center that's 88: a.m. um until the truck is full I would suggest people show up early no Monday November 11th Veterans Day ceremony uh at Sloan Park at 11:00 a.m. um hydrant flushing is continuing through the 18th of this month so if you do feel um some issue with pressure check look out your front porch because you're probably going to see them there as we got a couple phone calls about um also don't forget please sign up for Rave um it's on the burrow website main page down at the bottom right hand side along with recycle coach um our Bloomingdale museum is open every Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4 P.M and lastly We are continuing the auxiliary the Bloomingdale fire department auxiliary shirt f fundraiser it's a multi- agency shirt so it is fire police EMS auxiliary and O um if you're interested in purchasing a shirt you can go to the uh auxiliary Facebook page there's a link there um also the fire department had their open house the other night um I was there for a little while it was great to see the little kids um also they're doing a um uh they're looking for new members so if anyone's interested you can always go down on a Monday night contact Frank newberger art Chief joh so yes Expedition Bloomingdale this Saturday it's sponsored by the economic development commission so I thank them for putting this together we also have sponsors that are donating the winning prizes Magpie Bakery M's ice cream and retro Frodo so very big special shout out and thank you to them for participating and providing the prizes for the winners so sign up is available online you can sign up that day you we can we can make that work it's a team event it's more than one person usually and you have to go around and find Clues well not really find Clues but you get Clues to go to a location take your picture with your team at the location first ones to come back uh first top three win and they get a prize from one of those uh those three businesses I mentioned so it should be a good event I'm sure it'll it'll probably be about 1 hour or two hours right to complete but again 9:30 is the the registration um and when it all kicks off at Sloan Park okay it's supposed to be a beautiful day too rich nothing for me no Mike no report thank you no report thank you okay um I do have um an update of the museum from Tom Riley um our first full day open you have 31 people come down and go through the museum which is really nice so he's really proud of that um ev's donating a last case curio curio and Tom's really looking forward to getting that so he has more stuff to display which would be great um he's expecting it so thank you um that's pretty much all I have so um okay let's move on resolution number 2024 10.14 consent agenda to have a motion to approve the consent agenda so move second any questions all in favor uh excuse me we got to do a roll call Catalano yes Del Ripa yes Graziano yes Hudson yes Shubert yes yassi yes okay new business adoption of resolution 2024 10.22 payment of the bills do have a motion to pay the bills so move second any questions roll call Dela yes Graziano yes Hudson yes Schubert yes yai yes Catalano yes okay adoption of the resolution 2024 10.23 best practices inventory do I have a motion second questions roll call Graziano yes Hudson yes Shubert yes Yi yes Catalano yes Del Ripa yes item C introduction of ordinance number 18-202 amending chapter 17 water section 6.1 charges and fees do I have a motion to read by title so second all favor I I in ordinance of the bur of Bloomingdale to amend chapter 17 entitled water sections 5.3 charges for reinstallation and section 6.1 charges and fees of the code of the burough of blomingdale Mayor the second and final reading will be on November 19 19 at 7 p.m. okay item D introduction of ordinance number 19- 2024 vacant portion of holster Court to have a motion to read by title so move second all favor I an ordinance of the burough of Bloomingdale in the county of pic state of New Jersey authorizing the vacation of a portion of a road known as holster Court by the bur of Bloomingdale a second and Fin reading and adoption will be November 19th 7 p.m. okay um the one non agenda is resolution 2024 10.24 this is to award um service contract to Echo Sciences incorporate to provide a preliminary assessment report of B Pond this is the beginning stages of the new playground do I have a motion someone second any questions roll call Hudson yes Shubert yes Yi yes patalano yes Del Ripa yes Graziano yes okay have a motion open L public comment so move second all favor okay any wishing to come up good do I see no one do have a motion to close second all favor okay uh we need a motion for adjournment second okay our next meeting will be November uh 1st 800 a.m. a workshop meeting or normal early morning one um um