##VIDEO ID:-8GaEW4vGCg## e e e e e e e e e e e e e e o sit down it's quiet let the record reflect we reconvene with all members present please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance if you're able and also ask you to remain standing after the pledge IED to the flag of the United States of America stands na indivisible andice take a moment to remember Madison uh resident who passed away over the last few weeks Lilian Sedano longtime Madison resident died at home on July 28th with her family at her side she was 94 survived by her daughter Patty Gibbons and her husband Jerry of Madison and two grandsons and two great-grandchildren it was predeceased by her husband Pasquel Pat Sedano in 2002 and also her brother Ralph and her sister Joan born in Newark to the late Ralph and lilan Moore she was raised in mors County with her brother and sister before settling in Madison after marrying her husband Pat before retiring lilan proudly worked at bulur in Madison where she made countless friends for the in the 30 years that she worked there she was also a 70-year parishioner at St Vincent Martyr Church so let us take a moment to remember lilyan Sedano and pass our thoughts on to her family and friends that she leaves behind thank you excuse me can I have a motion for the executive minutes of July 22nd 2024 so moved second all in favor I and a motion for the regular minutes of July 22nd 2024 so move second any discussion or Corrections all in favor I I welcome all apologize for a slight delay we had a just an extended convers ation that uh wrap up and usually at this um meeting I talk about what a great National night we had in uh Madison but we did have an abbreviated event but I never made it there as I was uh just waiting for the rain and wind to let up a A tree came crashing down in my yard taking out power and the back of my car um I certainly not alone in Madison with having a tree fall in the house and having to deal with the recovery but I'm among the many uh people who now truly appreciate the services we have here in Madison and it's not just what the buau provides but the carrying and support you get from Neighbors that madisonian always step forward and uh with the storm you know we with that cold front coming through they were calling for thunderstorms but not a storm of this magnitude it it came up quickly its impact was pretty much in Madison only and while we didn't have the luxury of planning ahead as we might with a hurricane we did have a coincidence of lineing having it line up with national KN out so while the that event was cut short we were able to take advantage of all the extra Personnel that were on site with support of our County and neighboring towns um and officially it was not a tornado or a Micro Burst but a straight line Windstorm with uh 75 mile gusts about 400 ft above ground uh and as defined by the national weather service straight line winds are thunderstorms that have no R rotation such as a tornado but down bursts are common uh cause a wind damage from a thunderstorm which probably what took my tree out because it was split in half one half went One Direction the other half on another direction to spread the spread the pain I guess uh and these down bursts can reach over 100 miles per hour and are caused by the air being dragged down by that heavy precipitation which we knew was incredible that you couldn't see in front of your face so but whatever you call it it was scary dangerous and caused tremendous damage um at the height of this uh outages we had about 2500 residents out some of those 2500 were only uh were disconnected as they were doing other repairs but uh 2500 um did did feel the power outage but due to the diligent efforts of the Madison Electric Department the support from Butler uh Power and Light power was restored to all residents by Friday afternoon with the majority regaining power late Thursday and I want to uh thank and I've got a proclamation or and just a few minutes to thank uh all those that helped us out and um also with the supporting the Swift recovery was uh New Jersey office emergy management New Jersey State Police Mars County Sheriff's Office Mars County communications center the office of emergency management East Handover Police Department China fire department I had one want to volunteer fire fighters sto at my house asking how we were doing Mars Township Fire Department Butler Power and Light which reconnected my house uh chanan burrow who did a great job of cleaning up the debris in front of my house so it was a great team effort um Mars Township as I mentioned already Milburn New Providence and also Pioneer rentals helped out and there were some other things going on over the last couple of weeks uh back on July 30th I joined Madison hous Authority staff and Commissioners for a visit from HUD Newark uh field office they were able to tour our scattered site locations and even tour a f units which is something I had never been able to do before so it was a very helpful tour as they as they said they spend most of their time with struggling housing authorities so they truly enjoyed their time in Madison as they said with a very well-run Housing Authority truly delivering on the mission of providing quality affordable housing and our employees for the month of August tax collector Chrissy mer and our qualified purchasing agent Kevin O'Keefe and P purchasing Administrative Assistant Stacey douly all three have taken on additional responsibilities while the accounts pay department is in transition their continued professionalism has kept the department running smoothly before I do the proclamations as a reminder this is our only meeting in August our next meeting is Monday September 9th where did that summer go right let me just come on down here so the uh first Proclamation and recognition of Public Works utility Crews from the burough of chadam uh Township at Milburn Township at Mars and the burrow of Butler whereas on Tuesday August 6 2024 unnamed storm though many residents wanted to give it a name uh hit the burough of Madison with high winds and unprecedented Force accompanied by heavy rain causing extensive destru destruction WID spread power outages and whereas the burough of Madison sustained major damage caused by snap util poles hundreds of Fallen trees well as well as power outages caused by down power lines and damaged Transformers and whereas dedicated members of the Madison Electric Utility Department of Public Works Madison fire department Madison police department worked around the clock to restore power to the burrow and clear roadways while ensuring all were safe and all calls were answered and whereas burough employees were supported in the restoration utility Crews from the burough of Butler public works crws from burrow of chadam Township of Milburn and the township of Mars for chadam bilbur and Mars Township all those were done during their regular work hour so it was Grace and a donation of support as we help each other in times of uh trouble so now therefore I Robert H Cony mayor burrow Mattis on behalf of the Govern body hereby extend thanks and appreciation to the employees of the burough of Butler the burough chadam Township at Milburn Township at Mars for their hard work and dedicated efforts in helping restore power clear roadways for the residents of M of the burough of Madison with additional thanks to the town administrators and elected officials for their cooperation and support and we will be sending copies of that to the respective municipalities and if I got Rachel putam come on up and her brother Jonathan is joining us in in the audience he is a uh councilman in Rockaway so Jonathan thank you for joining us and this is a proclamation for ovarian cancer awareness month whereas ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of death among women and the American Cancer Society estimates each year approximately 19,000 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2024 with 12 12,000 and 12,000 individuals will die from the disease Nationwide including 590 new cases and 30 340 deaths here in New Jersey whereas the United States a woman's lifetime risk of being di diagnosed with lifetime ovarian cancer is about 1 in 87 and whereas due to the vague symptoms and the lack of reliable early detection tests most women are not diagnosed until stage three or later when the cancer has already been gun to spread to lymph nodes and outside the pelvis and whereas although the 5year survival rate for stage one ovarian cancer is over 90% only 15% of ovarian cancers are diagnosed at this early stage and the 5year survival rate for late stage ovarian cancer is below 30% and whereas while a mamogram can detect breast cancer and and a papsmear can detect cervical cancer there is no reliable early detection test for ovarian cancer and whereas women's lives can be saved through increased public awareness of ovarian cancer and its risk factors signs and symptoms and whereas this month the burough of Madison joins all those who are battling ovarian cancer those who have lost their lives to the disease their loved ones our state's many dedicated healthc care workers in spreading awareness committing to public education embracing hope for better diagnosis treatments and cure now therefore I Robert H Conley mayor of burrow Madison on behalf of the governing body hereby Proclaim September 2024 as ovarian cancer awareness month and encourage all residents support the cause that deeply impacts families with in every Community across this [Applause] country just uh thank you so much and just a couple things that IID wanted to say and you kind of said them so um ovarian cancer does not run in my family um I had no signs or symptoms so it is a one in 87 um chance I am four years out so I am already beating that statistic which is pretty uh wild to consider I was diagnosed in stage three and um there's no FDA approved treatment for my specific type of ovarian cancer that disproportionately impacts younger women and it is recurrent persistent and unfortunately deadly so I really appreciate you being able to Grant this Proclamation and bring awareness because when I was diagnosed it really um I had no idea and I was blindsided and so the more people that I could make aware um thinking that there's no early detection test just people understanding signs and symptoms the better we can do and help save women's life so thank you so much for letting me be here mayor thank you so great to meet you in person thank you dedicating your [Applause] time they would stay but they have to go to chat so the chatam can on so reports from committees Public Safety Council president range thank you mayor um I know we already talked a little bit about the storm but I think that's going to be a a recurring theme uh for tonight I just before I get to the chief's reports um just personally want to uh throw out my thank you uh to everyone who responded to the storm I arrived at 5:00 to National Night Out hoping to mingle with some folks and have a hot dog before planning board and uh ended up uh at the public safety building uh for the for the rest of the night watching the team and and jumping in where I could so uh you know thanks to Chief Misha and chief Wickman uh The Dispatch Center got over 600 calls and 200 dispatched calls um Ray and Jim Michael were all there as well from Administration and DPW of the electric Department the whole gang came together very quickly to address it so it was really great to see all of that in action that said I can never see it in action ever again and I would be perfectly content um so from the police department tonight uh Chief Misha uh wants to extend his thank you uh to everyone who did come out and where was able to support uh National Night Out on the 6th obviously the weather uh many residents and and visitors did actually Brave the storm uh or before the storm and kind of got trapped and so they had a captive audience there for a little while at National Night Out um but it was really good to see uh everybody coming together to support that event and then of course uh what happened afterward uh police department's looking forward to uh planning uh for 2025 already uh and and again hopefully not a repeat of of this year um from the fire department for the month of July the fire department responded to 169 calls uh this is this included 74 fire calls and 95 EMS calls uh where 90 people were transported to the hospital uh there were 24 home uh sale inspections uh for uh co uh inspections there were eight fire prevention inspections performed as well and the fire prevention Bureau now has fire permit applications online as well as the business emergency contact update form um so this eliminates the need to print those forms out and mail them in uh and leveraging some of our existing systems so those forms can now be accessed uh via rosenet.org um and as indicated uh there were a number of emergency calls on August 6th regarding the storm uh fire department responded to 51 of those um including damage to homes from falling trees burning wires gas leaks uh and only four Medicals and um not any serious injuries uh and thankfully no fatalities related to the storm so that is really great um the fire department would like to remind folks that uh a number of the issues that were caused um were from some pumps that were not operational because of uh the power outage so now would be a good time to explore uh other options like battery backups or large battery power generators in addition to gas power generators um so you can run those sum pumps um when the power is out uh and that's all tonight from Public Safety thank you mayor I'm getting a uh battery backup some pump myself Finance of b cler m thank you mayor the finance department notes that this evening we have two small consent agenda resolutions to insert items of Revenue into the budget these are ministerial but important actions that must be taken State Statute permits modifying the adopted Municipal budget during the year so the buau can accept and spend Grant monies our Municipal budget document includes a section for Grant revenue and other and another section for Grant Appropriations tonight resolutions 236 d224 and 237 modify the budget and establish the grant receivable and Grant expense lines the tax department reports that the third quarter grace period ended today if you have not yet paid your taxes please call the tax office for an interest figure the official tax sale notices are going out on Wednesday to Residents with unpaid 2023 balances on their taxes and utilities the tax sale will be held October 3rd the tax sale process is a way for municipalities in New Jersey to obtain the full amount of property taxes and other charges needed to support the annual budget while providing the property owner with additional time to pay off what they ow that's all mayor very much Public Works and Engineering Mr L thank you thank you mayor well first a little bit more about the storm a lot of groups have already been thanked but what people don't see is a lot of what goes on behind the scenes um and this town is fortunate or unfortunate I don't know very well rehearsed in it first there was the October snowstorm many years ago which brought down trees all over town and knocked out power then came Hurricane Irene and then came Hurricane Sandy I would sent pictures of what was going up on up in the command center and let me tell you these residents are very well protected everything is very well organized you can't ask for more um the pictures reminded me of the days in Hurricane Sandy so we're in good shape here I just wanted to thank all those people who spent all that time who really aren't seen out on the road it was amazing to just see those pictures again now for the more boring stuff okay from the Department of Public Works um the wellbe facility Improvement is okay that's okay utility building roof contract with Joseph D uh the construction was in March uh and the main roof has been complete Helena R ran Architects reviewing submittals and progress repayments the project is nearing completion an ancillary items such as lver and finishes are to be completed the library interior contract with dascal LLC uh the architect is reviewing submittals and invoicing the library staff has relocated to a temporary trailer work is progressing well construction work is approximately 95% complete furnishings and restocking of Library materials will take some time to anticipate opening in the fall Milling an overlay in 2024 the project the project contracted to the mors County cooperative purchasing Council Rose to be done in arnwood Longville and Valley Road partial re curb reconstruction on no is being completed completed early this week building is scheduled for Thursday and Friday with Paving to take place soon after the Overflow parking lot near the dog park will also be paved the cook Avenue parking lot DLS Contracting has commenced construction electric department has completed their portion of the underground electric work they're coordinating with the Telecom communication companies to have them relocate their facilities work with DL they're working with DLS to get them back on site now that the underground electric work can be completed Dodge field playground the project has moved along very well work with the contractor on the fine-tuning some equipment locations the project is fully funded through several grants the project has an approximate 3month construction timeline that's very good at the MRC solar carport the project has been awarded to Bullet electric of North Arlington in the amount of 1,99 $8,500 contract the required paperwor in progress they will be setting up a preconstruction meeting shortly and then finally from Public Works they would like to thank all those municipalities who came in to help on such short notice uh this was a huge Factor as they're saying in getting us a good amount of storm debris picked up and cleared while uh cleared quite while clearing quite a few dangerous trees there continued to go around going around town and clean up parks and roadways this was a big stor and thankfully the men and women of Public Works stepped up and gave us 100% the amount of water and wind was astronomical unfortunately we lost some very nice trees and I'll be working with the shade tree commission to handle The Replacements thank you mayor very much and uh utilities Mr har pus thank you mayor welcome everybody from the community you guys all took my thunder I was supposed to talk about that with my left I'll make it short so you added some Thunder to talk about this yeah I want to add some lightning so uh yeah we know we were hit by the serious wind and rainstorm last Tuesday like uh Mayor Bob said the National Weather Service said it wasn't a tornado it was a straight line Thunder burst storm uh 5:00 pm to midnight on Tuesday the burough we got 915 calls 76 requests on click fix 2500 residents without power hundreds of trees uprooted roads closed all over the burrow parts of town were flooded water rescues thankfully no reported injuries one road is still closed West Lane I didn't know that I'm not really sure why but I'll have to take a walk up there many thanks to all the B employees our neighbors chadam the may already said all that we provided a lot of DPW assistance clearing the breezing roads um the burrow operations returned to normal we continue to clean up the process we continue Contin the cleanup process garbage yard waste and recycling is back on track so I have to take my trash out tonight residents should bring their debris to the curb I think a lot of the community knows this but maybe there's another way to get the message out to them because there's still people questioning that uh the yard waste contractor is going to pick up small items the DPW has already started handling the larger items so for the community who's listening or uh maybe the eagle is going to tell them too don't get if you don't get your property this picked up this week because of the heavy workload leave the items on the curb and also if you see any block storm drains please try and clear any debris off the top of the storm drains the initial damage estimate to burough property prepared by the state police exceeds $1.4 million in counting the burrow will be pursuing reimbursement from FEMA and our insurance carrier Federal councilman Bob landrian is a FEMA expert so he's already volunteered whe he wanted to or not helping us in the reimbursement process like we've done it past storms so if our claim is approved female will reimburse the burough with 75% of the expenditures that's all ma'am thank you very much comun Affairs Miss Hanahan thank you mayor uh the Downtown Development commission uh encourages people to visit Saturday uh the Madison farm and Artisan Market that goes through December so keep coming it's got good energy energ good vendors great music and lots of community that you may or may not have seen over the summer uh bottle Hill day is October 5th and information regarding vendor applications and event sponsorship is posted on rosenet uh the next Downtown Development commission regular meeting will be on September 19th at 7:15 in harly Dodge and the public is invited to attend from the Chamber of Commerce there are three upcoming events uh on October 5th the Madison car show will take place October 26 the Halloween parade and magic show which is so adorable uh and then November 2nd The Rose City Dog Day Parade so something to look forward to and the Madison Community Arts Center as of July 30th there have been 980 scheduled events at the center for 2024 uh the building is well used and operated uh at 70% of capacity four summer outdoor concerts have been presented and attendance has doubled for each of those events so great Community engagement um and this coming Friday August 16th our former Madison resident Michael Gribble will present a new concert song cycle a summer in Mad town this is the second original show presented in as many weeks by current or former Madison residents last Sunday Nick kits presented the Nick kits variety show please look at Madison arts nj.org for a full calendar thank you very much and Health Mr Forte thank you mayor August is immunization awareness month the Health Department would like to remind residents to ask their healthc care provider if they're up to date with all recommended vaccines the health department is able to offer free vaccination services to non-insured and underinsured residents of all ages uh looking ahead to flu shots the general guidance is to be seen before Halloween so uh you should think about getting flu shots Prior to Halloween uh the health department completed tobacco age sale enforcement inspections which check for local retailer compliance in only selling nicotine and vaping products to individuals over the age of 21 the department would like to remind the community that New Jersey residents must be 21 to purchase nicotine and vaping products and this was an interesting uh exercise where uh some youth from uh Madison and surrounding towns went around to these businesses and offered to purchase these products to see if there were uh violators so pretty good program due to the leria outbreak the health department has been working with retail food establishments and the New Jersey Department of Health to ensure all Bs head recalled items have been discarded properly residents who have B's head products in their home should check the recall list and discard any products that are recalled residents with questions can call the health department thank you mayor thank you very much and Communications petitions uh yes mayor mayor and Council received an email dated August the 8th from Resident John Lin of Elm Street regarding ps's uh Paving schedule at Park Avenue very much and now this is our first of two invitations for public comment this one is limited to things on our agenda discussion and our resolutions you want to uh comment on other topics we will have a second um comment period later in the meeting and these are the res or the uh agenda discussions you may comment on are the climate action committee report electric utility rate incentives and electric utility benchmarking and of course you can always comment on those later on too if you want and the resolutions you may comment on now are resolution 228 appointing Janet Wagstaff the position of confidential secretary for Chief Financial Officer annual salary of $715 resolution 229 uh bid awarding bid for purchase of new unused capacitor Bank fuses to Swift Electric Company in the amount of2222 funded through ordinance 29 2023 resolution 230 is amending the pensable adjustment appointments of Bruce baros Tom boan and Evan Webb as lieutenants and it was um listed in a resolution 186 say 2250 and it's uh $3,000 annually so that correcting that one resolution 231 is appointing uh leis am marado Jr's position of head cian annual salary $65,625 resolution 232 is authorizing execution termination removal of a deed restriction the property located 24 Central Avenue which is the uh fire the firehouse affordable apartments there resolution 233 is approving special event permit to allow use of Memorial Park um parking area by Adult School of cadams Madison Floren Park these are various stes in September through the December after the pool season resolution 234 is authorized an assignment of contract for water utility laboratory services with Agra environmental and laboratory services to Pace analytic Services of Minneapolis Minnesota resolution 235 is appointing James Sullivan position of counts clerk assistant to the construction code officer annual salary of $44,000 resolution 236 is requesting uh a insertion of item of Revenue in the uh budget U this is to recognize a uh a grant of $4,200 from the um P Leahy bulletproof Fest partnership resolution uh 237 is another in insertion of Revenue in the budget for 2024 of 4278 also uh same same Source different one and then resolution 238 is awarding contract to neelon Ford or two um 2023 Ford police interceptor utility vehicles for the police department amount of $1,606 and resolution 239 is a approving temporary signs for Thursday morning club and resolution 240 is a approving temporary signs for Madison PBA local 92 so those are the resolutions you may comment on those will also be part of the consent agenda and um or you can comment on the three discussion items if you do want to comment on those please step to lect turn state your name your address and then write the same on the clipboard and then announce the CL the agenda item or the resolution you want to comment on anyone want wishing to comment seeing none I close this part of the meeting and we move on to agenda discussions climate Action Report Rachel okay thank you mayor thank you to my my Council colleagues who had a chance to preview this presentation and report a couple weeks ago so uh tonight's presentation is a really brief uh kind of synopsis of the fulllength report which is over 40 pages and has a lot of detailed information so that's going to be published on roset for members of the public uh to review but for tonight in the interest of brevity and because we have a lot of exciting stuff to move on to that deals with climate action uh after this uh report we're just going to focus on the highlights and uh if there's any questions though from Council um or members of the public during the second period for comment the full report has a lot more data as well as some proposed initiatives and actions to consider okay next slide so the climate action annual report is result of the climate action process that was adopted uh by Council by which we would take annual measurements against several key metrics to see how the burough is doing in reaching its climate goals the burough has two categories of climate goals eight of them pertain to energy and they're really focused on cutting carbon pollution and four of them pertain to resiliency which is to mitigate the effects uh of climate change and to help our community Thrive as the climate changes so tonight's report is a report of our metrics and progress towards those goals there's no action requested of the governing body in this report it's for everyone's information we can see how we're doing and where we need to improve what areas we need to focus on So based on these findings the idea is that the climate action committee will develop proposed climate actions for 2025 present them uh to the burough Council after vetting them with the administration and the department heads and hopefully um select some priority actions for the council to endorse and to pursue in the coming year there are some initial items for consideration included in the full length report which will be published uh online um but if there's questions about those we can talk about them tonight too next slide okay so here's the first of our as I mentioned we have eight energy goals five of them are listed on this sheet the the big one the sort of overarching goal is that Madison is aiming to decrease our total carbon footprint by 80% from 140,000 tons which is our Baseline measurement in 2018 to only 28,000 tons by 2050 now I'll mention as an aside that there's been a a recalculation by the north Jersey Transportation Planning Authority that based on vehicular travel in 2018 our actual emissions from that year are 150,000 tons so our new Target is 30,000 tons but we have 25 years and what's you know 2,000 tons here or there but I think going forward we're going to adjust this goal to reflect the the latest data the takeaway is that we reduced our carbon pollution overall in Madison by about 7% however this was primarily due to the fact that we had a very warm winter in fact the warmest winter on record and we just burned less gas in our building so that reduction is not really attributable to great progress in any of the categories that we're looking at the other uh takeaway here is that our electricity purchase our contracts vary every 6 months and the contracts that we had in place over the recent uh years recent year just use less fossil fuel and more nuclear generation so there's lower carbon in the electricity production for our town uh the next item is our goal was to reduce um our emissions from the plug-in electric vehicles in our Municipal Fleet the goal is to have 25% of our mileage for our non-emergency light duty vehicles uh be from plug and electric vehicles by 2025 and 100% by 2035 so you can see we did a little uh Roundup here of how we're doing 9% in our first year we went to 12.5% of the mileage being with pevs in 2023 which is a great Improvement Until you realize we need to get to 25% in 2025 so we need to accelerate to reach that goal similarly the next goal is for townwide plugin electric vehicles this is for all the vehicles in town owned by you know residents and businesses our goal based on the New Jersey D goal for the state is to have 12, sorry 12 1,200 plugin electric vehicles unfortunately Madison is lagging behind our plan by about 15% it's interesting because we were slightly ahead of the plan the previous year so was a little bit of fluctuation uh some uncertainty perhaps with you know the the the vehicle the vehicle market and the charging standards however New Jersey is on track according to the Statewide goal so Madison is a little bit behind similarly we haven't shown um a big improvement in our goals for rooftop solar our goal is to have 1,000 Madison residences with rooftop solar Generation by 2050 we have uh we're sort of plugging along at the same rate we have 117 total residential systems as of last year um we need to double that rate instead of adding uh you know 5 to 10 each year we need to double that to meet our goal of 1,000 by 2050 our goal for townwide um electricity in Municipal School and commercial solar assets is to generate 5% of our electric needs by 2050 in town we haven't made progress unfortunately with getting solar on the schools or commercial properties um fortunately we are making progress with the MRC solar carport as uh council member leran reported the contract for that has been awarded and there'll be a preconstruction uh walkthrough soon we're excited that we'll be generating in approximately 850,000 kilowatt hourss of electricity per year with that carport but it's 6% of burough wide consumption next slide okay three more for energy this goal pertains to where we get who we purchase our electricity from our goal is to meet or exceed the New Jersey renewable portfolio standard that applies to the investor owned utilities and use that same standard for our Municipal utility in the latest data which is reflected in the full report we can see that Madison's renewable content unfortunately dropped below the RPS requirements whereas previously we were tracking ahead of the RPS requirements in the in the previous year no official framework or formal rubric has been adopted to use the renewable content or carbon content as a formal criteria for our power purchases which is not to say that it's not a topic of discussion every time we make a power purchase um I know uh Mr brunette looks at this and he thinks about you know know what's the right balance for how can we purchase uh lower carbon energy um but it's kind of a on a case-by Case basis and hasn't been we don't have a framework to tell us how much more expensive for instance a a renewable kilowatt hour is versus um a traditional uh fossil fuel source so having some information about what premium we would expect to pay would help us make a more formal decision each time when we go out to market for this uh the next goal has to do with modernizing our grid we all know that there's an expectation that loads will increase as people buy more EVS people are going to be putting more solar on their roofs installing batteries in their homes and this stresses our grid we need to know more about our grid and maintain its high level of reliability as it demands change so we have reliability tracking in place now when we're reporting that on an annual or I think um we have semiannual tracking for that marelen annual tracking we haven't yet um implemented the uh phase one grid analysis that we presented at the end of last year to start uh tracking our own grid to see which customer meters were tied to which Transformers um we did apply for a $50,000 Grant to the BPU to underwrite that program uh hopefully we'll hear back from the BPU by the end of the summer early fall we're waiting to see if we can get that money awarded and begin that project and last for energy our goal by 2050 is to reduce our use of fossil fuels in buildings by 90% for all of Madison buildings public and private through electrification and energy improvements and as I mentioned in 2023 our gas consumptions in build consumption in buildings did decrease but it was only due to the fact that we had a very warm winter and when winter temperatures are considered in the calculation the effective consumption actually Rose back to 2021 levels so we have some some work to do in that category next Slide the slide pertains to our goals for resiliency and for resiliency we don't have um numerical metrics so much as a set of initiatives and actions that will lead us to increase resiliency in these categories so the first one decrease the effects of increased precipitation in storm water we all felt that keenly last week um of course there's no amount of green infrastructure that could have absorbed the amount of water water the amount of rain that fell on Madison on Tuesday night but the idea is that everyday storms and everyday nuisance flooding can be reduced by um green infrastructure and having a stronger storm water ordinance so fortunately in 2024 we did adopt a new stronger storm water ordinance and we did a lot of work um to raise awareness and do demonstration projects we had the rur Water Resources program conduct to the GI infrastruct the infrastructure assessment that was presented earlier this year um and then there's a demonstration rain Garden at the library that is to be completed by November 2024 so there's some real focus on those areas of green infrastructure in Madison um thanks to the work of a lot of dedicated volunteers including U members of sustainable Madison advisory committee to mitigate increased temperatures we're seeking to preserve our tree canopy because it helps keep us cool and in 2023 we did strengthen the tree protection ordinance the next goal is to identify and address social vulnerabilities because we know that climate impacts disproportionately affect people who are disadvantaged in our community and one way to identify those members of our community who may be disproportionately impacted uh through Health um and um the climate impacts of of heat and pollution is to complete a community equity and diversity profile which was completed in 2023 and lastly to strive for Health Equity um we have initiated did through the health department the health assessment survey and Health Department Health Department representative and a smack chair our smack chairperson Kathy C Valley participated in the health and all policies training so that's a lot of text it's a lot of um high level information um in the report that is also uh the sort of uh accompanying um work product from the climate action committee this summer we have 40 pages with nine metrics and dozens of actions and initiatives with updates so if you have let's see next slide Michael uh go one more ahead I'll come back to this one if if there are questions about how we did in any of these categories with specific metrics and initiatives you can find all that information in the full report so let's go back one and just do the wrap up here on our 80 by 50 goal so here you can see in this footprint that we um continue to have the majority of our carbon pollution be in this gray area which is from vehicles and the blue area which is the gas we burn in our buildings for heating our buildings and our hot water and so the key contributors to our carbon pollution are in those two categories we talked a little bit about this dip here being due to this warm winter we had and you can also see how in Orange our electricity purchase contracts dipped down we had slightly more nuclear power generation in this contract than fossil fuels the black dash line represents our goal where we need to get to by 2050 we have a lot of work to do but this is a slow and steady Pro process um if you go to the last second to last slide Michael just a summary of one more so Madison is taking those tangible steps um we are you know have a series of forward looking looking actions that are in all the categories that were highlighted um in in the previous slide and we have made some gains in some metrics the big picture here is that we need to get this done uh over 25 years and limit Global heating while preserving human safety so that doesn't mean we do nothing and then as I say here panic after year 24 we need significant steady incremental Al progress like the work we're doing here in Madison but these numbers show that we need to ramp it up our rate of progress is not where we need it to be to get to these goals so in 2024 in the next couple months we'll be coming back to council Pro um providing some recommendations for additional actions we can take and new areas of focus to help us adapt to changing demands on our grid uh and um try to get closer to some of these goals both things that the municipality can do directly in ways that we can help our residents um uh cut carbon pollution and enhance their resiliency of their homes so we have a couple great things to talk about tonight presentations by other members of the climate action committee and other volunteers pertaining to um electrification how we can cut carbon pollution that comes from our homes by incentivizing people to replace their gas powered appliances and equipment with uh Efficient Electric equipment um we're going to talk about Energy Efficiency that can be understood through new benchmarking tool these are a couple of examples of uh initiatives that have been in progress um another one coming up hopefully in the third quarter this year is to implement time of use rates we're hoping to do that in the third quarter after all the software updates have been pushed out to everyone's Smart Meters so these are things we've been talking about for some time these should sound familiar um but some of them are new um like uh Tom you've been talking about incentive residential electrification for a while so I hope you're excited to finally hear about more about that tonight um the last page is just some references both for uh these these links are available in the presentation as well as the full report this is the background on climate action in Madison and how our goals are extrapolated from the New Jersey state goals for energy and resiliency so I'm going to leave it at that but if there's any questions about more specifics I'm happy to pull up uh data or actions about any of the categories that people want to know more about thank you for the update any qu questions or comments from the council um Rachel and Dr freed everybody you guys put so much effort into this tremendous report and U very eye opening to the potential that we have but also the the fact that we're not moving as fast for various reasons so one one area you commented on was our municipal buildings our the town buildings uh I know that we're hopefully in next phase going to do some more uh solar installation hopefully the next phase and maybe you know we'll discuss this at another time with our ad hoc solar committee that in in L of just doing a phase two and a phase three we just go in with two next two because we had discussed it's already done I mean the the nation is already doing these installations we see them along Park Avenue so we don't have to hesitate to think oh wow we want to make sure we do it right we can always go to our neighbors and say what did you do wrong that we should look forward to avoiding when we go and do the next phase so after we do the MRC parking lot I think we could just go ahead and finish the whole the whole plan that we had discussed years ago that was before Co we actually fund our committee remember that was a long time ago but things move slow municipal government but we should definitely be ready I'd like to see us be ready for that because it's going to make a huge impact in US generating our electricity and you know you're you're very very small impact with the first one but the next two could at least make a dent so the MRC carport was an outstanding test case we the the group that worked on perfecting those bid documents going through the process understanding how we could take advantage of federal tax incentives it was a little bit of a steep learning curve but now we've got these like documents ready to go we could easily um go out with another set whether we do it a build your own uh and own own the the PVS like we're doing for the MRC or do it through a power purchase agreement um one thing we've talked about in the committee is well why not get those documents ready now and have them ready to go and when the chance comes up we don't have to spend eight months preparing it we can just you know just issue the documents and and we hadn't talked about doing two at once but I I like your optimism we're going to do it anyway we might be able to finance it whatever but ownership is very I think much more advantageous to yeah we saw in in the numbers how advantageous that is for sure the other thing I want to add is that we need to go beyond those three carports and we need to get the schools involved yeah because that we got to get I mean the high school is an outstanding site for solar we have large commercial sites in town which our ordinance currently doesn't permit larger installations like on the roof of a stop and shop for instance but uh in order to achieve that goal of generating 5% of our own power we need to to go beyond the municipal site and and reach those other sites for certainly schools needed first new new roofs first and but what I was going to make a comment on mayor is that we have the Consultants who already helped us to prepare everything that we needed to do to give to the place where we could do our own cport we can offer the consultant Services maybe there's a cost but it's a cost that the whole Community is bearing whether we say it's the school's expense or Burrow's expense it's the community's expense at the end of the day and they might not be organized enough right now because they're just focused on doing their own uh internal big Renovations but we could still and maybe our Consultants have already started to look at the five school buildings and see strategically what would be the best to start with and what they might need like roofs and stuff like that but we we can definitely contribute part of it if it was time money expertise so climate action committee is working closely with the school to bring them along and in fact we're trying to connect connect them with the florum uh florum Park Board of Ed who has solar panels oh who can teach us a thing or two about putting solar on our schools right so um uh Peter freed is making that connection uh like right now probably sending an email right now from the audience because we there's 800 schools in in New Jersey that have solar right and and Madison should be one of them wow you know that that's fantastic so how about we want to add more more plugin Electric vehicles to the burrow by 2025 for the municipality maybe the maybe the different department heads maybe they've done this for your group already what can they say if you put them on task give me you know uh 25% of your Fleet that you can possibly Electrify maybe it'll take two years or three years so they might come back because their their their mission is to do that for for you guys and for the bur maybe they'll come back and say gpw has identified some newer and older trucks that they could replace up to being creative and thinking about well is there a newer truck that we don't need to keep until the end of its service life right so there's thinking along those lines it so we got to stay on top of them but I I'm pleased to say that all of the department heads are really thinking about fuel transition and are open to working with suggestions from climate action so they they understand the brief and and they're trying to do their part okay and then also to get the uh plug-in vehicle uh Town Fleet up to 1200 cars I don't know what the Matrix is to say give a number 12200 do we have 50,000 cars in the burrow and we want to have uh 5% of them like how do we get to 12200 Michael can can you um pull up that just I know you have that other report uh I was looking through it I couldn't find that it's in the um 40 pager yeah but I'll just I'm going to direct you to the right page be expeditious here sorry to drag this out you know my favorite topic so all right that's slide 11 of the full report all right so so New Jersey's Statewide goal is 330,000 pevs for the the whole state so from that number we can extrapolate and say well Madison's portion of that would be to get to 1,200 that's how we got that number like not a RTI our bur vehicles to say well it's a ratio to say how many of those cars would be in Madison relative to the number of vehicles in our town so it's like our share of the Statewide number okay and you can see that we were doing uh better early on we have some early adopters here in Madison and then we have been lagging the state was lagging you know two years ago but now they're catching up so I I think I mean when you read about EVS coming online and the charging standards and and the makers that are going to be bringing out new models I feel like 2025 and 26 is going to be like a watershed year for EVS coming out of different types and you know appealing at different price points so I think we're on the cusp of of I mean the Market's already turned we already have 5% of new vehicles sold now our EVS so I think we're going to get there but whatever we can do in Madison like incentivizing home chargers for the home right that would be one just letting people know that there's a reason to do this um and we've done a lot of Outreach on this yeah and and and also to message the community the Savings in their energy cost as far as putting gasoline in their car if you look at some of the studies for police cars they could spend six to $7,000 a year in gasoline and $500 to $800 in electricity and it could be the same ratio but it's it takes you know some time yeah to educate people but I want I'm curious to hear what incentives we might be able to offer um Michael if you just go to the next slide there's just a short list of and I'll use this as an example you can see uh for each item we have the metrics and then we have an update on what we've been doing where we stand so there's deeper information like this so there's some suggestions in here like time of use electric rates will encourage EV adoption because you can charge your car for less if you do it at the right time of day thanks thanks Rachel for L for your questions Tom questions thank you any other comments or questions excellent thank you thank you all for everyone working on that report and yeah I do want to thank the entire climate action committee is here tonight so thank you to Mary Ellen and Peter Ken and there you are Kathy everyone has been working really hard on this and it has been a team effort so um really appreciate you guys thank you somewhat related or very much related electric utility rate incentives hi kir allenstein I'm with the uh environmental commission and the climate and I'm going to talk about the home electrification incentives Rachel referred to them um and I guess um Christ can you a little CL micone okay this is going to be challenging all right I'll figure it out okay so um the climate action committee we looked at home uh incentives ways we could help homeowners who wanted to make their homes more efficient and Electrify um make those Investments um and just to back up in case anyone um is unfamiliar with heat pumps as I was before we got them um heat pumps are energy efficient sustainable um alternative to fossil fuel heating so um they actually move the Heat and it's a more efficient process rather than taking gas pumping it from wherever and then trying to heat the air and fling it throughout your house technical term um so uh heat pumps they work in cold climates um Maine in fact is one of the biggest success stories where they um have put in 100,000 heat pumps um well ahead of their uh goal and now I think they're going for 175,000 so residents are able to use these heat pumps throughout the winter successfully um so I know earlier technology that was a concern but the um technology has progressed and so they can be used all year around and I know mad Madison residents are already um using these heat pumps all year round both air sourced which you know transfers the heat from the air as well as ground Source heat pumps um not really topic of today but uh a different kind of system um so um as I said a lot of of Madison residents have used them for various reasons um both Health but also Comfort um having control you know because it's electric um it also simplifies your system like right now we have a furnace and an AC or maybe you're lugging AC units out of the basement now you've got this one system and you can monitor Everything at Once uh New Jersey has established the goal just recently of retrofitting 400,000 homes by 2030 um and the state is working with eight other states on the technology on training Workforce which is a big issue um so the momentum is there next SL okay um just on the left building sorry building electrification benefits um we kind of talked about these the health and the climate benefit uh improved air quality of course is a biggie uh just recently at home we had a methane leak um psng was great they came out turned off the gas luckily it was in the summer because it took a couple days to find the leak and fix it um so you know it's there is air quality issues with you know the gas furnishes um there's comfort in control and then there's a benefit for Madison in electrifying for our utili Revenue okay now I'm going to read a quote what's that you say I I'll say this I just wanted to put there gu that um one thing to keep in mind as electrification happens is that if we get to a certain point and it's a significant Point 15% increase of our total load that's megawatts that's significant increase that we will um potentially well most certainly will incur costs from jcpnl to get more electricity to us the pipes to get electricity to our substations this particular program doesn't impact that because the vast majority of this I believe will be customers that already have a furnace in their house they're using natural gas to heat and they have central air already and they're using air conditioning so many of the customers not all but many of the customers will have that and the customers that don't have that that may have a um steam radiators and air conditioners in their Windows um even that won't impact us because it won't impact this because our load and our capacity costs and the issues that would trigger the um this cost are based on summer consumption and this program is almost really exclusively based on replacing heat um in many ways so this program will not have any impact on it but we just want to be aware of it if we do you know have massive electrification a massive amount of new apartments or a massive amount of residents that put uh hockey ranks in their backyard and start cooling them like we had last December 23rd so I just wanted to say that thank you for that guest comment very wise um you know and another thing is that this program will start to give us a little cohort of data so we can project for for these kind of situations um right now psng electric and jcpnl electric customers and all the investor own utility customers have access to um to rebates or incentives um for electrification and what we would like to do is have a pilot po program that um kind of that brings us in line with with those other programs so Madison residents can benefit as well next slide so these are the details we put together for the program um the uh incentives are modeled on jcpnl so if you look at the chart on the right here you could see what their incentives are and you'll see that for air source heat pump there is I wrote tier one and tier two that's basically the lower efficiency and the higher efficiency just like if you bought an air conditioner it would have you know varying levels of strength and then there's the duckass Mini Splits which are like you know those things you see on the wall that you know pumps the air right into the room versus going through a ducted system um that's 400 and then the water heater is 750 um the incentives would be paid as a credit to the bill this is similar to what we do with solar today for customers um there will also be an additional incentive I know we just this was just brought up for um how do we get people to get EVs and so an additional incentive for Ev Chargers um at 300 and then uh we would want to look at incentives for low and moderate income uh residents as well to make sure they can truly take advantage of the program the budget for the year um one program would be 100,000 so once again keeping it limited and also limiting the um uh incentive to $2,000 per an address so that you know we could get multiple folks to part participate uh initially we'll offer it to owner occupied residents um and then you know expand from there um the program is in addition to Federal incentives right now you can get 30% um tax credit for heat pumps um federally and and for Ev Chargers too I think is that right Peter yeah just say yes okay um so and then on on this side is the estimated revenue for um for Madison for the electric utility based on the increase in electric usage obviously th those are ranges based on kind of averages of electric vehicle use and um and heating uses okay next slide so how what would we have to do um there would have to be uh an application process process um coordinating with the billing and the um um construction Department you know to uh track applications and the installation then we'd have to figure out a way to put the credit on the um bill which um based on what's been done with solar um you know the electric utilities got already has a process that we could leverage um and then just promoting the program to customers through roset through the utility statement through other online media and we also have our partnership with sealed power um doing energy home energy audit so this would be a great fit because you really want your house to be efficient before you um change over to something like a heap uh next slide so just from the customer point of view in case you're thinking well how would this work um you know they Dey with the utility billing uh the materials would be reviewed and once they were approved they go ahead and install the heat pump um I feel like I'm like did I memorize this right um and then once you know the heat pump all the permits are in and the heat pump's you know it's been approved um the credit Will Go On the bill and only on the electric bill it can't be applied to any other bills so it will just be put on the electric bill and uh I think next slide is questions questions it's me Bob y yeah um this is a great program there's no question about it I have friends from Europe and they use heat pumps over there routinely I mean this is a great way to go is this go project going to take into let's say cost comparisons so that's going to drive a lot of people's decisions meaning I have an older house with gas furnace and air conditioning whatever now I want to put a heat pum in there that whole new system what's it going to cost in terms of labor material to do that versus the payback period with the incentives am I going to really be able to afford it you know Do's The Upfront cost and can I do that and then okay the incentives are going to help but how long is it going to take me to get that money back yeah I I think it's going to vary right yet depending on whether your home is older um maybe you're just doing a mini split cuz you're adding an addition and now we have an incentive for you to make that addition would be a good maybe benefit of this program like if that would if I don't know if this program offers that analysis but let's say if I come to you and I say I want to do this well you're going to come out and say okay well now you got this unit it's going to cost this much to convert it so this is your upfront cost and now it's going to take you probably maybe five years to get that money back or do you have the money up front to do it I mean those are the type of things that people going to be battling with right right and yeah maybe there's an opportunity to work with contractors I know seal power does that a lot with cust something seel does yeah already that show you the the payback time I'm not sure but and then this other question this guy standing over here um when you talk about increased usage by the town for electric you know it's going to cost to borrow more as people convert what about new developments going up in town that's that's going to drastically increase the amount of electric usage and probably the liery costs the the new developments would be a bigger concern because it's new yeah when you're talking about R you know taking an existing house and changing it over and it's already got a an electric load and they're probably already air conditioning in some way shape or form there's going to be no um uh impact on that but there will be on the other side I also want to say shifting over to the utility billing side we already do a credit right now right for the um for the uh needs-based um electric utility rebate it's going to be very similar to that boom just drops right on on the bill so the the that side of it's going to be very easy a $1,000 credit might take that person a little while to to use that down but they will they will gain the immediate benefit once it's all installed of maybe not paying an electric bill for three or four or five months question while you're so the intent would be to give the full credit right up front as opposed to spread it out over over correct the full credit is the full credit's given upfront they consume it so that way it's not a situation where I've got to wait five years for $200 a year to get this credit they'll get a $1,000 on their bill you know depending on how what their electric consumption is two three four five six seven months they'll they'll simplifies if the house gets sold in between because all of a sudden have a new new account abely uh R Rachel you were going to oh I just wanted to mention that when you work with a contractor to uh size and select a system the first question uh you know speaking for myself that you have to when you ask a contractor about a heat pump is well what's it going to cost and you know help me do with this analysis so any qualified hbac contractor is going to sort of work through those items with you one thing is they will probably not know a lot about Madison's program because it's brand new and um um you know Madison is a little bit of an outlier in terms of not participating in the Statewide benefits so we'll have some Outreach and education to do for Madison customers and and Regional contractors to understand that there's this additional benefit available on the flip side for this program P that gets people to buy in that's the whole thing the Buy in process and if they hear that oh they're going to have these contractors are going to do this with you and these the incentives if they find this all up front and they see it's really good they in yeah I was going to say on the flip side one of the frustrating things certainly not being a eligible for the uh these benefits the rest of the state almost the rest of the state enjoys is contractors will make this whole pitch and then all of a sudden get ready to sign a contract oh it's Madison you're not eligible for these things so now at least when they make the pitch it just have to redirect them to the Madison program instead of the uh the utility based one so that that will be a big plus Tom your blue light on loud enough few questions and points so you said something about we're going to roll it out or this is going to start residentially I don't know why we wouldn't want to just start it and also offer it to new construction development like the wer building that's going to go up if we get him to Electrify his building more so than putting natural gas in for his heating for his cooktops there's there's more there's more Revenue no but there's more re we we discussed the revenue option too so why wait I don't know why you want to wait but so some of that stuff will be resolved at the planning board where the planning board talks about electrification with the applicant and I know that's happened um a number of times also in Redevelopment that's happened during the Redevelopment process um and it's a pilot program we want to make sure we get it right first we understand the issues and everything before we move forward and do commercial applications or uh or um new construction yeah I was going to say and this is an incentive to take the inefficient stuff that already exists um you know if a new development puts in some non-heat pump equipment it's still going to be more efficient than what the conleys are doing it's six Britain free right now yeah but we want to make sure that they're using electricity yeah but but and again Jim Jim said virtually every uh application that ends up at the planning board will end up with th those sort of requirements um but there's not really a not a lot of information out to the community yet I don't know how we going to notify people in the community about this gym but yep yeah we're going to have to really push it out yeah it's definitely got to be huge because a lot of people that are just apathetic about getting finding out what's going on right they don't they're not listening to meeting tonight yep well having it posted at the construction department so every HVAC contractor that comes in and files for permit for anything we'll see it oh hey what's this oh it's a new program and um social media everything else um you know seal power seal power is out there already talking to people about conversion hey by the way did you know you can get thousand dollar for this so yeah okay than for all the effort any any other question I was just going to talk about the messages I've had from about it's time for the cones to do this as I my wife and I uh carried the 12,000 BTU air conditioner up the steps from the basement because our damn kids were moved too far away um I sent a uh text to Rachel saying this is the last time I'm going to do it and then just to seal it was when the tree came down the branch went right through the center of this uh unit and so it's it sounds like it's time to do it so but so so um I I think what we want to do here because this is a major program we we need to uh tune up some of the to come up the ordinance and everything put in place is uh uh have a motion to support this and so we can uh move forward so and and I don't think we need to update an ordinance mayor but if the motion is to move forward with this we can adopt this plan similar to adopting the um rebate program that we've done in the past it's just so would be supported by a resolution to uh adopted which is what we do for the Reb rebate program okay now so um if unless there's any other questions or discussion can have a y I do agree with Tom I think uh looking at developments is important but I would also look at uh individual ual new homes I think uh you know to to sort of um go down the road that the mayor was going down with the efficiency yes they're going to be more efficient but you're signing up for probably 15 to 20 years of natural gas consumption when that house is built so thinking about ways to incentivize those new home builders uh would seem to be like a prudent move given the fact that it's probably difficult to get people to convert and yet you've got new homes going in every day and that's a major opportunity to get somebody off on the right foot down the path you want to go and app I know the state has they're working on a new construction um energy initiative unfortunately probably again for the investor owned utilities but maybe we can look at what that is and let let them take the lead and especially since we're talking as a as a pilot has been brought up up and we don't know what the demand will be but if we can get the Lesser efficient ones taken care of when we start Melissa you yeah just anecdotally this when seal power comes to your house they lay it all out for you and it's the people that I know in town that have taken advantage of that their minds were completely blown like like they're all on board now so um just taking advantage of that I know we had a special letter that went to Residence and I think that really kind of kickstarted some of the getting people involved in that but but this on top of that would will be really great because I think that was a sticking point right so with this new incentive it be great yeah no steel power is very excited put this down with for us so they probably had that special uh computer set up for Madison exactly all right so a motion to uh support the program as presented I'll move that a second any further discussion roll call vote Please Mr Lake yes Mr landrian yes Mr range yes Mr harm pus yes M hingan yes Mr Forte yes thank thank you so much all right electric utility benchmarking this is a generational uh presentation uh hi uh I'm here to present this presentation and a tool that we've that I have worked with uh with Mr freed over here uh and we've created a electrical benchmarking tool and what it does is it allows people to see how much electricity they use compared to other madonian but adjusted for size or for home size because a larger home will use more electricity and so it is this is going to be important because it allows homeowners to see if they are doing better or worse than the other people in the OR than the average which will give them perspective on if they need to make changes and possibly motivate them to further make changes and as this quote says up here if you can't measure it you can't fix it and and so next slide and so what the tool does is that it Compares your electrical consumption to exactly the same size and how this is done is that we have created a set of uh percentiles uh 75th 25th or 50th and 25th that are based on the kilowatt hours per square footage that the average Madison home uses and so the Benchmark shows the 25% uh lowest consuming the 50th uh median percentile and the upper 25% and puts it on a graph and it allows you to enter your utility account and see how you compare how you line up compared to the average or compared to the 25th 50th and 75th and there's a couple of notes these aren't too important but it will display your square footage just so you can make sure and so if it doesn't have the square footage that you have because we took this off the tax records and so a lot of the apartments don't have square footage in them and so you are able to enter your own square footage if needed and it will not have your square footage or it will not be able to calculate your percentile if you are a solar user because the way that the bills are tracked makes it uh uh unbalanced and if you received less than 13 bills the accounts are not counted and I can you go over to the power or to the Excel and so I I have a couple of accounts that I'd like to put in uh to show how this works uh could you put in account number 18 uh and remove the a thousand other I guess how however there copy over as a guy who Dem software for a living live demos are always the worst don't worry about it TR s in the apartment or the home type to detach you got sent over however it got sent over I don't think the formul is carried over also the the formatting looks a lot better on on my computer okay there uh I want to see mine can you click on the box for January just see Sam while we're waiting why don't you introduce yourself for a second since she didn't start oh I'm sorry uh I am I just graduated from the high school last year and and I am going off to haford next year I'm looking to study statistics and so what's your what's your what's your name uh Sam Cohen can I come back there can I come back there here we go yep prior took his father for so yeah so so okay and it looks like one of the things that this will do for Madison just as we just saw the incentive program which is available throughout the uh State except for Madison when you get your gas spill periodically you see comparison in similar sized houses I my wife and I own a another home elsewhere get the same thing with our electric bill and so it puts us in line so you can use that and I certainly look at that and say damn I'm falling behind here what can I do to do better so I think it'll be very helpful are we pulling up a okay for so here's a video of it how you can select select your home type whether it's Department or attach or detach their apartment which have different Corti values because they use different values uh because they use different amounts of electricity proportionally and if your square foot is not sare footage is not found uh you can use this drop down menu to select and uh if you could just go back and just play a put a still you could just pause the video here just to show and so it shows your month by month how this this home is just random example how they're above the average or way above in above the 75th percentile usage for the winter months which would mean that they are likely spending a lot more on electric heating or something of that sort compared to in the summer months where they are not where they're below the 50 percentile and they're doing well and this will show them that they need to focus on more or well it just shows them what specific area they they need to focus on and so uh obviously the the tool is a lot more cleaned up now but this is kind of this is kind of the basics of how it works any question excellent work Sam it's is incredible I think residents will uh greatly appreciate it and your parents are very proud I'm sure any anything else to share open up for questions from the council all right so we'll have this rolling out and uh re will be able to see it so thank you Rachel just a quick question in terms of like how the tool is would be deployed is it an Excel worksheet that you would download or is there going to be some sort of like web browser version of it how how would it work I believe we would be able to embed it into the RO into the roset website and that that would be the plan that we likely go just be able to Ed edit those three cells that you need to be a be able to edit and everything else stays still and likely we'd attach some some possible like tips like how energy efficient ways to keep your indoor temperatures more more stable or something of that sort so they can see like the quickest ways that they can make make a smooth uh at least a small impact a small dent towards fixing their numbers or not fixing them but getting them better this is really cool this is something we've been talking about doing for so long and for you to come and make a tool like this in one summer is so awesome so thank you and congratulations this is really cool Incredible all right and uh best of luck and at haford they are lucky to have you and um there is a benchmarking tool that tracks how many times you check in with your parents so we'll be we'll be checking that also thank you thank you excellent [Applause] we now move on to ordinance of hearing with the cler please read the statement ordinances scheduled for hearing were introduced by title and passed on the first reading at the regular meeting of the council held on July the 22nd 2024 were posted and filed according to law and copies were made available to the general public requesting s i call ordinance for a second reading ask the clerk to read set ordinance by title ordinance 26224 ordinance the bur of Madison adopting the Redevelopment plan for certain property located at block 3303 Lot 2 as shown on the official tax map of the burough of Madison pursuant to the local Redevelopment Housing law I open the hearing anyone wishing to comment on ordinance 26 2 24 please step forward seeing none I close the hearing may I move uh ordinance 26-22 24 second Council discussion uh just for the formalities um the planning board heard this in a special meeting earlier tonight uh and referred this back to us um indicating it was not inconsistent with the master plan um and so the next steps here will be hammering out the Redevelopment agreement and then this uh any project that would move forward on this site uh would still be subject to site plan uh approval and review by the planning board so there'll be additional opportunities uh to engage in that process as we move forward that any other discussion roll call vote Please Mr yes Mr landrian yes Mr range yes Mr haral and pudus yes Miss Hanahan yes Mr Forte yes I declare ordinance 26224 adopted and finally passed and ask the clerk to publish notice there newspaper and the ordinance accordance with the law ordinance 27224 ordinance of the Bureau of Madison appropriating $120,000 from the general Capital Improvement fund for repair and replacement of sewer lift station Valves and accessories open the hearing on ordinance 27 anyone wishing to comment please step forward seeing none I close the hearing mayor I move ordinance 27- 2024 second coun discussion call vote please Miss herlick yes Mr landrian yes Mr range yes Mr Carm pudus yes Miss hingan yes Forte yes I declare ordinance 27-22 24 adopted and finally passed and ask the clerk to publish notice thereof a newspaper and file the ordinance accordance with the law and now we're on to Second of invitations for public comment this is when you may comment on any topic uh to step to the lecturn state your name and address and try to keep your comments to three minutes but we will give you a one minute grace and stop you at four uh Clare whitcom 12 Fairwood Road um I have just one small anecdote about uh heat pumps which I did get um it's not an easy process and they're not always very knowledgeable people to install I mean we had quotes from like the standard issue um you know the people whose trucks you see with their names on it big big type ones and um you know the other thing is that during this heat wve when it was 90 Dees several people including Bob your old neighbor um lost their um AC you know their AC units one them th in the central air and and you're not going to invest in heat bumps and you're not going to explore a new process Rachel I know you experienced this with your boiler breaking I mean I my my uh water heater went out during Co and we waited a good deal of time because we wanted to switch to electric and sometimes you have to upgrade your panels so there's a lot of ancillary education that needs to happen because people have to be prepared for that moment in August when you're sweltering and you'll do anything to be cool so or or or warm depending on which part of the season is and the sad thing is that not that many people are really skilled at it and able to price it and able to like really give you the system you need and um we were lucky because I use Rachel's contractor so um okay I'm here to talk about the Drew fars now it has rained prodigiously and we can all be thankful for the forest because the forest is there with the Dells and and the vernal pools and the leaf litter and the trees absorbing tremendous amounts of water meanwhile in the rest of Madison um there was severe flooding things are just sheeting off grass they're sheeting off impervious coverage and they're going out to the Bic River so how much of that intense rain we had is actually nourishing the aquifer I would venture to say not a lot so we really have to protect our open spaces and you know our tree canopy just took a hit but we need to um reduce our Lawns uh because they're they're just no good at uh Agra for recharge and we have to really uh nurture our ecosystem and we have to I know everybody's working super hard on this but it's been three years plus we have to save the Drew Forest thank you thank you thank you anyone else wishing to comment please Kathleen kakav Valley 82 Central Avenue and I just want to raise a round of thanks to the communications team here in Madison during the event because if you were signed up for Madison alerts you got urgent phone calls etc etc and if you follow social media I just really compliment Communications team because every time I turned around there was another Facebook post telling me which roads were closed telling me you know to stay inside and and you know all those things that we needed to know which power you know where the power outages were and the fact that they were working on it so just my compliments to the communications team thank you very much Kathy appreciate you sharing that because it's recovery the uh restoring power the cleaning streets it is what it is but it's what people find out about what's going on that makes them uh appreciate so I also en encourage everyone to be on the alert system y anyone else wishing to comment please step forward seeing none I close this part of the meeting then we move on to uh introduction ordinances with there are none so we move on to consent agenda resolutions clerk please read the statement consent agenda resolutions will be enacted with a single motion any resolution requiring expenditure is supported by a certification of availability of funds any resolution requiring discussion will be removed from the consent agenda all resolutions will be reflected in full in the minutes may I move the consented agenda resolutions uh are 228-2222 24 second Council discussion roll call vote I just have want to provide a little background on um sorry I have to find the number we are purchasing moving to purchase two vehicles are 238 the Madison police department um is going to purchase two police interceptor utility vehicles and it because every time we have vehicles uh to up to be purchased um there's often a question about whether they are gas powered or electric or in the case of the MPD hybrids and um in this case these are two gas powerered uh SUVs it's not for lack of trying that chief M Misha was unable to get these uh the two hybrids that were on order um Police Department waited over two years to get the hybrids that they were hoping to get the car the uh Cruisers that they needed to replace uh are now pushing their maximum mileage and the chief is concerned that if we continue to wait with no end in sight for when the hybrids will come available we will not be able to have the uh police response and coverage that we need and so he did reach out and expressed his um disappointment that he was was n able to get the hybrids but he said he's kept the order open uh which is to say while we are going to be purchasing these two gas vehicles he hopes to take possession as soon as the hybrids are available hopefully uh before January 1st of 2025 um I don't know if that's overly optimistic or not but just a little bit of background like I said earlier all of our department heads are aware of the the urgency of this fuel transition that we're going through in the municipal Fleet um but sometimes the right vehicle is not available at the right time and this is one of those cases thank you further discussion full call vote please M herlick yes Mr landeron yes Mr range yes Mr har and pus yes onahan yes yes there is no unfinished business approval of vouchers will please read totals yes from the current fund 1,3 32,1 18067 from the general Capital fund $13,400 $ 3,842 the Electric Capital fund $ 32,9 2948 from the water operating fund $ 37,3 4027 from the water Capital fund $ 26385 even from the trust $ 72,9 79 and the total is 1,653 55 mayor I move approval of vouchers second any discussion roll call Vote mrck Yes Mr landan yes Mr range yes Mr harm pus yes M Hanan yes Mr Forte yes and we have no new business mayor I move to adjourn all in favor thank you you all