i' like to call to order the uh regular session meeting of L pacan Township for April 3rd 2024 um have have a moment of silence please salute to the flag to the flag United States of America to the for stands one nation God indivisible andice adequate notice of this meeting has been provided indicating the time and place of the meeting in accordance with chapter 231 of the public laws of 1975 advertising and notice in the Star Ledger the express Time Warren County Zone and by posting a copy on the bul board in the municipal building would you have a roll call please counc here coun Marinelli here hereid here may here uh Larry would you please summarize executive session please yes uh we had as indicated on the agenda several items on the executive session tonight the first item dealt with a potential a discussion a potential purchase of the Ms property in town the second item dealt with filling position of ass assistant Clerk and interviews for that position uh the third matter talked about uh um retaining a uh person in the CFO officer to be a certified purchasing agent fill that position and the last uh item dealt with a discussion concerning the pilot program to the Redevelopment of the Philips for wall all right thank you Chief you want to SAR in Dylan you have him come [Music] up okay you Swit around okay ra your right hand repeat after I Dylan Rodman I Dylan Rodman do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constit constitution of the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the saint that I'll bear true faith and allegiance to the Saint and to the governments established in the United States and to the governments establish United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and I will faithfully and I will faithfully and partially partially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties of police officer and all the duties of the office of police officer according to the best of my ability ACC to the best of my so help me God so help me God well congratulations thank [Music] [Music] Dylan like I tell all the new guys I drive a black Nissan okay um old business number one minutes approved executive and regular session of the March 6 2024 minutes I have a motion in a second motion second all in favor you have to take a r on that no yeah okay all right number two ordinance 24-5 second reading and public hearing to vacate P paper Street known as block 95 lot 18.01 to become a part of Jason Lots this ordinance has been reviewed and recommended by the planning board for adoption I have a motion in a second to hold a public meeting please motion second all in favor I comments from the public Bruce I I just wanted to commend what I understand was a pretty smooth well uh from a planning board we saw the discussion that was made at the planning board it uh really seemed to resolve an issue that uh did need legislation so uh very good uh pass my regards to the planning board and to you sir thank you sir any other comments all right seeing none motion to close po hearing motion second all in favor I okay motion and second to adopt motion second we have a roll call yes coun yes counc marelli yes counc mqu yes counc president abstain May yes number three ordinance number 24- 06 second reading and public hearing to include provisions of background check for members appointed to all boards commission and committees I have a motion second second uh all in favor comments from the public anybody have a comment seeing none have a motion second to close the public hearing motion second all in favor I have a motion second to adopt motion second roll call Council B Caro yes councilman Marinelli yes Council mqu yes council president yes yes number four resolution self-examination of the 2024 budget um we have to pass this because we're in a year it's every three years that um division local government services actually examines and asks us questions well this is one of the health exam years so we're saying that we've looked at everything and did our due diligence and so we have to pass his resolution just formalizing that okay what you what each individual member the Council saying that that they are aware of this oh that's yes okay I need a motion in a second yep can I have a motion a second please motion second okay roll call Vote Yes Council valaro yes Council Marinelli yes Council mcade yes council president yes may yes number five introduce the 2024 Municipal budget I I guess she talks about it first or what yeah I don't know what is all that's okay um yeah we're here to introduce the 2024 budget um our total Appropriations and I I left all copies for everybody on the day there right for the introduced budget um the total Appropriations 12,536 49.4 with miscellaneous revenues projected at 6 6,472 51.79 which includes using 2, 334,000 in our fund balance um amount to be raised is 6, 63,0 9761 um this represents a 2o set increase um and let me just um kind of put that in numbers um a house assessed at 231,000 we'll see an annual increase in the local share of $51 for the year and our public hearing is June 5th at 7:30 okay anything El any questions for Kim all right can I have a motion a second to uh adopt it motion second roll call please yes councilman valaro yes councilman Marinelli yes counc M yes council president too yes may yes okay consent agenda items 1 through 12 have a motion and second to approve them motion second roll call please councilman Val yes councilman Mari yes councilman mqu yes counc yes yes Council reports rich I don't have anything for you mayor lello want to say something but I want to hold off okay all right Scott nothing at this time here and Jim the Easter hunt went well I'd like to thank the DPW Recreation committee uh Beth and Kay for all their help with that and the Earth Day cleanup is scheduled for April 20th that's all thank you again Easter egg hunting was really great a lot of people showed up I want to thank the Police Department fire department they were all there um and it was a really nice turnout I know we've been having a lot of rain the last couple weeks I here I think Brian said we got 10 and some people sell out electricity in Del Park people 107 and I we had a few accents and some poles are down and stuff like that so they're out there trying to get us back up and running but um that's about it there um the pool we had a meeting the other day we talked a little bit moving ahead on that Kim's helping Beth um we're uh moving ahead on some construction with pickle ball courts and stuff like that and it's a slow process but we are chugging ahead so that's about all I have on that um Adam engineer report yes thank you Mr Mayor excuse me so um the update I have is on the Belleview Road Improvement project phase two that's the section of bellevie road from Striker road to 519 um this evening um the council awarded a contract to Topline construction uh for that project uh that project is funded through a local a Grant partially funded through a local aid grant with the ngj do um so now that the contract's been awarded that will be forwarded to the do to allow us to you know get their concurrence of the award and then we'll move forward with the project speaking with Topline um their one of their vice presidents uh he indicated you know he feels that that work would be scheduled shortly after we got do award concurrence so we'll be scheduling a pre instruction meeting and moving forward with that work um top Top Line is has done a lot of work in the township um and they do um you know they have historically done very good work and they're able to get the projects done uh on time under budget and uh very quickly they do good um good clean work when they when they come into town um so I'm looking forward to getting that started getting that project completed um it's been in process for a little while improving the drainage on that road curbing addressing some some concerns U traffic safety and uh just the rideability of the road generally um and then as well last month the contract was awarded for Jade Lane's Top Line Construction so uh they expect that while they're sort of in town the thought is that they'll complete the bellie road project and then do the Jade Lane project after that so that's sort of the uh the work that we're currently planning for Road improvements in town that's all I have right now okay thank you chief thank you mayor and Council um the only thing I would add to for uh my report is the uh the traffic report that I give monthly um this this past month we had a total of 225 stops traffic stops and 40% of those that were stopped were issued motor vehicle citations and of those issued citations 25% of those were commercial vehicles um including tractor trailers nice right thank you thank you mayor council blue fire department you have anything you want to bring up no Squad I'm sorry I I I forgot your name Sean Sean all right thank you Sean sorry good evening uh skatch your numbers for the year and the last month so year to date fil workg emergency Squad ran 1,285 calls of which 354 were in low paccom making up about 27.5% of our call volume for the year then from March 1st to March 31st We've ran 438 calls of which 115 were in low pack on around 26.3% of our call great thank you you appreciate it approval of departmental reports motion a second motion second all in favor I I all right approval payment of bills motion second motion motion second roll call please Beth yes counc yes counc Marinelli yes Council MC yes council president PLO yes yes okay public comment anybody open up public comment by yeah just um more to the public is really you guys do much in that fashion maybe you're out um Road Department's having a problem with people thinking that LE season is in the spring and everything else all right we're we're getting massive amount of piles put out on the roads all right storm water regulation doesn't allow that all right right now and uh you know so I just want to get it out to the public that you can't do that all right that's the fall all right so there's other options out there all right with your coverage companies or whatever else is out there so we have a brush drop off and there's a brush drop off but it's not for leaves and all that all right so yeah and that starts April the third Saturday of April and it runs to October but it's the third Saturday of every month okay all right but maybe we can have put something on the website to reminding residents don't put the street sweeper can't pick them up they just too much so we have to go out and pick them up homes like that how many properties probably 10 15 of them right now I but all right can you drop off a note in their mailbox so they get it and they can read it well what I've been doing though is I've been knocking on their doors and I've told almost everyone I think there's one person I wasn't able to and they all apologize didn't realize a lot of people were moving in you know you know they don't they come from an area that does that and uh we just got to learn their checks and balances a little that's all you may want to consider also dropping a little flyer I can make one up see if that's okay with they can uh you know just to individuals that do that yeah not that'd be a property owner you especially some of the new ones that move into town might be something we can put on for new people they may not know about the website or see but if they see the flyer besides the work it's just not you can't do it for storm water regulations does not allow it at all me explain that you know what I mean okay thank yep we'll work on that okay great thank you anyone else seeing none motion for adjournment motion second all in favor thank you for coming out okay