##VIDEO ID:3-DPNh7XR9I## e e meeting call to order this is the January 7th 20125 burough of Oakland council meeting at this time would the cler please read the statement of compliance this meeting is being held in accordance with the open public meetings law duly announced advertised and posted in the municipal building this meeting will adjourn at 10 p.m. unless the majority of the council members are present to vote and extend the time all rise for the Pledge of Allegiance Chief Keenan please lead us with pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all please remain standing for a moment of silence be seated thank you at this time I'd like to call uh the fire department chapl rust Hammer forward for the invocation will you join me as we pray dear wise and loving heavenly father thank you on behalf of all who are gathered here this evening thank you for your many Abundant Blessings bestowed upon us thank you for life itself for the measure of Health we need to fulfill our callings for sustenance and for friendship thank you for the ability to be involved in the useful work and for the honor of bearing appropriate responsibilities that will benefit the residents of our wonderful burrow thank you as well for the freedom that we have to worship you thank you for loving us from your boundless and gracious nature in your word you have said that citizens ought to obey the governing authorities since you have established those very authorities to promote peace and Order and Justice therefore I pray for our mayor and counsel for our Police Department our fire department and our first aid Squad I also pray for all of those who will be sworn into office this evening I thank you for the willingness to serve and I pray that you will bless their service I pray that you will graciously Grant all who serve our town wisdom to govern admit the conflicting interests and issues of our time a sense of the welfare and true needs of the residents of Oakland a keen thirst for justice and rightness a confidence in what is good and fitting the ability to work together in harmony even when there is honest disagreement and the personal peace in their lives and joy in their tasks as these your workers go about the business of our town please give an assurance of what would please you and what would benefit those who live and work in and around our beloved burrow of Oakland I pray this in jesus' name amen amen amen thank you at this time we have the oath of office for councilman Steve saliani and this will be administered by Matthew Gilson our burough attorney you could repeat after me I state your name I Steven salani do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and the constitution of the state of New Jersey of the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same allegiance to the same and to the governments established and to the governments established in the united states in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will Faithfully I will faithfully and partially and partially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties of the office of council member all the duties of the office of council member according to to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations [Applause] councilman you wish to share a couple words or oh yes I want I want to thank everyone in Oakland who has faith in me to reelect me uh to the seat um the people in this town have been nothing but good to me but more importantly you have been nothing but good to each other it's a it's a great privilege to serve the citizens of Oakland it's a great Community volunteer driven and uh I'm just honored to be able to represent you thank you Council [Applause] at this time I'd like to ask councilwoman carolan Rose elect to come forward and she's going to be sworn in by Brian Hannon attorney all right I state your name I Caroline Rose do solemnly swear or affirm do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and allegiance to the same and the governments established in the United States and in the governments established in the United States and in the state and in the state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will Faithfully and that I will faithfully impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties of the office perform all the duties of the office of council member of council member according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations thank you [Applause] welcome aboard thank you counc do you have would like to share a couple words uh yes I I would thank you uh good evening I am honored to be here tonight as your newly elected Council woman I would first like to thank God for guiding me through this new journey in my life this journey has led me to meet some wonderful people in this community and make long lasting friendships through all of you I would like to remember my late husband Joseph who was here for me there for me and cheering me on and no matter what Came Upon Us he was my biggest fan and I'm sure he's proud of the accomplishments that I have made these past 3 years I want to thank the Oakland residents for allowing me the opportunity to serve them and I look forward to working with my fellow councilmen in keeping Oakland a safe and beautiful Community lastly thank you to my family and friends and colleagues who are here tonight to support me thank you cler thinging that the council has been seated and sworn would you please call the rooll councilman mccan councilman pigal here councilwoman Rose here councilman Sani present councilman linski here councilman talamini here i' like to make a motion to excuse councilman mccan second said that yes I did pleas all all in favor Mary forgot me we know you all right this time we're going to do the both of office for the volunteer fire department this time I'd like to ask Vincent and C to come forward with his [Music] family and just a little bio on Vincent uh Vincent served on the fire department for 18 years he's moved up through the ranks of Lieutenant Captain Deputy Chief and now the membership has awarded him the privilege of being the Department chief so this time we're going to do the open walk I I Vincent and Caro do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support that I'll support the Constitution of the United States support the Constitution of the United States and the state of New Jersey and the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith that I bear true faith and Allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments and to the governments established in the United States established in the United States and in this state and in the state Under The Authority Under the authority of the people of the people and that I will and I will Faithfully faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of the office of Oakland Department chief of the office of Oakland Fire Department chief according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God [Applause] congratulations you got to see him in Holiday picture thanks sign up thank you you're welcome congratulations to you conat conat all right at this time I'd like to call Chris whou forward and whoever is going to be holding the Bible on his behalf uh Chris has served 12 years on the Oakland volunteer fire department and 39 years on the Falon volunteer fire department he's been a past chief of fairon twice he has served in the positions of engineer in Oakland Lieutenant captain and now he's moving up to Department chief company to a but high chief assistant chief company to high wat only one oh actually I'm wrong see [Music] that I I Chrisman do solemnly swear you solemnly swear that I will support that I will support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith that I will bear true faith and aliance and allegiance to the same to the same and the governments and the governments established in the United States established in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that and that I will and that I will Faithfully faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of the office of Company 2 assistant fire chief the office of a company number two assistant fire chief according to the best of my ability to the best of my ability so help me gu so help me go congratulations [Applause] Chief one congratulations at this time I call Andrew palwick forward thank you congratulations family conat boy all right okay so a little bit about Andrew Andrew joined the fire department six years ago uh and he's already started to move up the ranks he's already served as lieutenant and now he's he's been voted in to be the captain of company one so Andrew I I Andrew falck do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will that I will support the Constitution of the United States support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith that I will bear true faith and Allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and the government's established and the government's established in the united states in the United States and in this state and in this state Under The Authority Under the authority of the people of the people and that I will and that I will Faithfully faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform the duties of the office of company one Captain perform the duties of the office of company one Captain according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations k this time I'd like to ask Grady D to come forward congratulations gr has served eight years on the fire department uh he was elected to be Lieutenant of company 1 this year his father was the chief of the department who just stepped down last year and at this time greater your in want to get every else come on don't be shy okay ready I I gr guys do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and the constitution of the state of New Jersey of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear and that I will bear true Faith true faith and Allegiance allegiance to the same to the same and the government's established and the government's established in the united states in the United States and and in this state and in this state Under The Authority Under the authority of the people of the people and that I will and that I will Faithfully faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of the office of company one Lieutenant of the office of company one Lieutenant according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me gu so help me gu congratulations lieutenant you want a family picture we need picture superimpose sh smile at this time I'd like to bring Don Johnson forward Cody ly Cody here Steve L and is D B here just Dan vender is not here not here so all right so Don Johnson has served the Oakland fire department for 15 years he's been assistant chief for four years once again he was reelected by the department for another year Steve longa served 15 years on the oak fire department he was one of our first junior members of the Oakland volunteer fire department and is also a paid Anglewood fire department firefighter so at this time uh these are exist officer so we're going to swear you both in at the same time okay John where's why don't we get somebody to come up ex Chief th hey CH come on up come on your handsome got hisat on you're not done with us yet one more minute right are you ready ready I do solemnly swear swe that I will support I will support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith that I will bear true faith and allegiance alance to the same to the same and the governments and the governments established established in the United States in the United States and in this state and in this state Under The Authority Under the authority of the people of the people and that I will and that I will Faithfully faithfully and partially partially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of the office of of the office of assistant chief Lieutenant according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations chief congratulations congratulations to you congratulations congratulations congratulations thank you congratulations hey D we want you come back for a picture for the fire department you want me to yeah good thank you this time we like to bring the uh fire Engineers over we have Peter Rocko with Sean torpy want to have Vinnie hold it first [Music] I think he's [Music] hold there we go it's a family all right so Peter Rocco he's been member of the Oklahom fire department for 10 years uh Peter is also a a career firefighter in hackensac uh he serves to the I believe you're a captain in hackin sack fire department uh Sean torpy has served 10 years on the opal volunteer fire department he's also been a previous lieutenant and a captain all right heav you ready you got it all right I I Peter do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support that I will support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constition of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear that I will bear true Faith true faith and Allegiance and aliance to the same to the same and the governments and the governments established in the United States established in the United States and in this state and in State under the Authority Under the authority of the people of the people and that I will and that I will Faithfully faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of the office of engineer from the office office of engineer according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God help me congratulations [Applause] congratulations congratulations congratulations congratulations congratulations conat we have is Tim the block here no all right I think we're done with the fire department this time we are going to move forward with our new police officers at this time we have two resolutions in front of the governing body one is 2453 2553 and the second one is 2554 do I have a motion don't move second all in favor I I let me read off 2453 hire Nicholas Mark how I'm sorry Nicholas how do you say your last name mar mar as a police officer whereas the mayor and bur counsel of The Bu of Oakland has determined the need to authorize the hiring of a police officer for the Oakland Police Department based on a vacancy and current Table of organization and whereas the police chief bur administrator and Public Safety Committee has recommended the appointment of Nicholas meish did I get that right I'm sorry marage pending the completion of the necessary pre-employment testing and background checks now therefore be resolved by the mayor and the burough Council of the bur of Oakland in the county of Bergen and the state of New Jersey but Nicholas marises B and is hereby appointed as a police officer for the buau of Oakland which the appointment is effective January 8th 2025 and being made in accordance with the New Jersey Department of personnel Certificate of Eligibility eligibles for the appointment list and his starting salary shall the academy step $412 in accordance with the current PBA contract at this time I'd like to bring Nicholas forward whoever's holding everybody ready ra your right hand marage I Nicholas marage do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and the constitution of the state of New Jersey of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and I will bear true faith and Allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and the government and the government established established in the united states in the United States and in this state and in this state Under The Authority Under the authority of the people of the people and that I will and that I will Faithfully faithfully and partially and partially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of the office of police of police officer of the office of police officer according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God [Applause] congratulations so nichas I need to sign this can you write your address Ino welcome to Oakland congratulations congratulations congratulations okay I'm going to read resolution 2554 to the record hire James vardo as police officer whereas the mayor and burough Council the burough of Oakland has determined the need to authorize the hiring of a police officer for the Oakland Police Department based on a vacancy and the current Table of organization and whereas the police chief bro administrator and Public Safety Committee has recommended the appointment of James vardo pending the completion of the necessary pre-employment testing and background checks now therefore be resolved by the mayor and burough Council of the burough of Oakland in the county of Bergen and the state of New Jersey that James vardo be be and hereby appointed as police officer for The Bu of Oakland which the appointment is effective January 8th 2025 being made in accordance with the New Jersey Department of personnel certificate of eligibles for the appointment list and his starting salary shall be at the Academy step $4,295 in accordance with the current PBA contract this time I'd like to ask Nicholas vardo and his family to come forward James James James I'm sorry [Applause] it I I James vardo James vardo do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support that I will support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the constitution in the constitution of the state of New Jersey of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and that I will bear true faith and Allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and the government and the governments established established and the in the United States and in the United States and in this state and in this state Under The Authority Under the authority of the people of the people and that I will and that I will Faithfully faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of the office of of the office of police officer police officer according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations [Music] yeah we need a picture still picture congratulations welcome to thank you sir okay at this time I'd like to have a 5 minute recess for those people that would like to uh leave and uh we 5 minutes I e e e e e e put that in a minute we're [Music] boring shows you where we were had a okay everybody ready yep all right meeting's back in session okay we are up to the mayor's address so I want to do something a little different this year um I really I wanted to do a bit of a yearin review we had a very busy year here in the burrow and and the governing body our professionals and Engineers have did a wonderful job uh one and some of the highlights that we had last year was number one was really stopping the recycling center t dump here in town uh we were very fortunate by working with Bergen County and members of this governing body environmental commission to really put a stop to that would have been extremely detrimental to the residents here in Oakland the other thing we addressed last year in early spring was our drinking water uh all the pfoa treatments came online in the early spring uh for three Wells on the south side of town and which put Oakland water quality and compliance with uh New Jersey and state standards also we finished the sidewalks on seol at the bottom by right by the lake and we're also happy to announce that we have now refurbished the tennis courts in town and in turn by doing that we now also got pickle ball Courts for the residents and members of the recreation use one of the biggest things that really took place this past year was the amount of Paving that did we did we did 5.7 miles of Paving here in the burough of Oakland and that was based on the Oakland Road program working with public service with the gas line Replacements and Bergen County Road program so all the entrances coming into Oakland from Breakneck 202 Franklin a Lakeside Boulevard monhagen parts of hawaa parts of the Reserve I mean it was an extraord extraordin extraordinary amount of Paving that really took place I mean it was really by be able to coordinate all these three entities together it was really a very successful year and as you just saw we just hired two police officers in the last year and a half due to retirements the Bur of Oakland has hired six new recruits that went into the academy uh Patriots way Bridge uh is truly uh exceeding expectations in the construction uh we started last year uh the superstructure is up um the new water main is in place new gas main is in place the new utilities are in place uh right now they've taken down the utility Bridge uh while the in process doing that temporary water mainten is down and the crews are will be working all winter they were actually there today even though it was in the 20s so this project is moving right along throughout the winter I'm not ready to provide uh new guidance as far as when it's going to be done at this time but Pro hopefully in the next month or two we'll come up with the date of expected completion also we had a by working with the American Legion uh we had a banner program so that we can celebrate our veterans in the burough of Oakland uh next year going down 202 uh we'll be seeing the all blue banners are up we're never going to go back up again we're have nice veterans banners underneath the flags that are going up Route 202 in the downtown business district also we were able to negotiate for the people in The Reserve uh FiOS for the residents uh we're very unique in the fact that the bridge with construction was taking place we engaged Verizon and they agreed to run files throughout the reserve so now the people in The Reserve have a choice and they're not just stuck with one carrier being cable vision uh we completed Bush Plaza this year uh that's really the Cornerstone own of our Redevelopment of the downtown area um there's only one piece that's missing the one pole is still going to be coming out but we're going to be pulling off of that as we start working through the downtown uh we're also there's a new McDonald's that's going to be coming into town it's going to be behind the Walgreens uh that's going to be they they expect to start construction sometime in the spring early spring and probably the biggest piece of legislation that we passed this year was the uh the streetcape ordinance uh we we now have a building block here Oakland As businesses start to refurbish it really codifies the look and feel of the sidewalks the lights the benches the trees so we finally got that building BL Block in place as we see the Oakland drugs start getting refurbished so we can start really tying this burrow together in the downtown area oh and we also had a uh big announcement from the recreation we had several winners here we had champions in the baseball 8U 11U 13u softball Champions 14U and basketb basketball girl 7uu all won their lead championships junior football won their Super Bowl and wrestling had a number one champion and a number one state champion so our rec program is truly outstanding and the work that our volunteers do and working with our children want to talk a little bit about some of the goals that we're looking at for next year uh one of the issues I want to address going into next year is the Van Allen house if you recall at the end of last beginning of last year we had that ugly fence around that we had that removed uh now what we want to do is do some nice simple landcaping and start beautifying that corner at the bottom of Franklin a uh yo Avenue is going to be paved in the spring with the rest of our Paving um and what we're also going to be doing at the bottom you will be seeing sidewalks along the kower side and the seal shopping center side so now we will have walkway walk you know a sidewalk coming all the way down from the high school to be able to connect our sidewalks also I want to talk a little about the old worn out Christmas banners uh they're going to come down we're going to look to replace the banners in the downtown area for the Christmas time and we're also going to be investigating new Christmas decorations in the downtown area and probably the biggest thing that we're going to be looking at now is since we do have the building block in place of the streetcape I'm going to be creating a forward planning committee so that we can start to address the downtown area and not only the downtown area but how we're going to grow the town with a 5year plan the 10-e plan looking forward so this is really going to be an important year for really codifying what the O what Oakland's going to look like and feel like five 10 years down the road and I think that's that's all I have for my report all right at this point motion open public second all favor anybody wish to address the councel har serenes 41 suab so as most of you know access for all had their Santa event last actually it was a while ago Sunday December 15th with children young adults and parents stopping in at 2:15 Santa who just left arrived on the fir truck and uh to see the excitement on these children and young adult faces was just pure joy we are so blessed to have amazing organizations helping us each year we would like to thank the Oakland Senior Center for allowing us to use their space the kids left running around the dance floor that was like the biggest thing for them we would also like to thank Danny D and M from public events for helping us set up donating gifts drinks all from public events and helping us run the event smoothly we would also like to thank choer ruso for sending out our flyers for all of the events not just this one mother's club of Oakland for donating coffee hot chocolate and paper products uh and last but of course not least our Santa Frank depensa no kids are here and the Oakland fire department for Lending us their fire truck thank you uh to the Town Council uh our access forall liaison and mayor uh for always supporting access for all we did post pictures of the event on our Facebook page which is access for all- oaklands for anyone that will would like to see the pictures I would also like to say that we are in need of volunteers so please reach out to us if anyone would like to learn more about access for all uh and I would just like to end just by reading a small portion of an email that we received from a parent it just says I can't thank you enough for all that you do uh this child has lot had lots of fun at the Santa party and all your events we appreciate all the volunteers taking time out of their busy lives to organize and make these events so special thank you again thank you thank you thank you anybody else wish to address phot well I guess I can take the podium again uh my name is NI O Carlson I live six J of away I'm bringing up the conspiracy again it's been continuous and I'm constantly toward it uh the latest is uh the municipal court is withholding some court ordered documents to be delivered in person where they haven't they were delivered to my brother where there was some MP cash to check or something like that and it it bounced and went back and then I don't know what's happened since then but I've called the Municipal Court every single day for close to a year now complaining and I've called the police but uh since I'm not the property owner they go through my brother and I get in trouble is no thank you Mr cron so not too much to add then thank you sir thank you anybody else from the public motion to close do have a second second all favor all right we have approval of minutes December 23rd 2024 and December 23rd 24 executive session if there's any changes to the executive session can only be done in the executive session we have a motion to approve some Mo second all favor all special announcement we have authorized raffle license RL 1528 for the PTO high school for a 5050 on January 25th 2025 to support the high school programs at Holiday Bowl for9 Spruce Street motion to approve so move have a second second all favor all right now we're going to move on to the appointment of the burough professionals the administration committee did meet uh Monday uh and this is the following list of profession that were recommended to bring forward uh for bur attorney we got Matthew Gilson of Murphy Schiller wils LLP Kathy ston of Elston Associates as our labor attorney Lurch Vincy Bliss Gary viny as our burough auditor we have Boswell engineering Kevin Boswell is our bur engineer water sewer engineer will be Boswell engineering Kevin Boswell Bond Council will be rogot McCarthy LLC Steve rogot burough planner will be Carolyn Ritter from t Associates risk manager be aisher risk manager property liability be otter Insurance Agency Kimmy kasano bough prosecutor be William R Fenwick Esquire our public defender will be Greg Hoffman of for a public defender and our affordable housing will be Brian Giblin of Giblin and guano and our tax appeal attorney will be Chason lamparello Malone and capuzzo do have any discussion have motion to approve second all in favor I do we need a roll call on that or is it just aoll call I think we need a roll call okay councilman Rose yes councilman patelli yes councilman San yes councilman cinski yes Council tell meeting yes okay at this time we have appointments for commes all right the these are all mayor with burrow and when Council consent these are going to be out of order what are you doing first I'm going to start with public events all right starting with public events I'd like to reappoint uh Thomas chopper ruso for a three-year term ending in 2027 uh Craig popz for a one-year term ending in 2026 2020 2025 I'm sorry uh M Schwarz Schwarz Schwarz Fisher for a three-year term ending in 2027 next we have the Arts commission roster uh Andrea Levy Laura Bell Shai Hopkins Elizabeth gers Kevin Badger Ashley Mar sceta Mary Lou wnc and Megan Carbone for environmental commission we have Matthew shook who's a reappointment for a three-year term ending in 2027 for the Board of Health we have three openings Len proval provale would like to come back for a three-year term expiring in 2027 Michael T talucci would like to come back expiring in 2027 and Brian lefor will be serving a two-year term ending in 2020 2026 Zoning Board of adjustment Mr shro would like to come back for a two-year term ending in 2026 and Bill eer for a two-year term ending in 2026 the Communications Commission uh James Barry would like to come back for a three-year term ending in 2027 as a commissioner William cyy for a three-year term ending in 2027 and Ben good is going to be alternate two for threeyear POS threeyear positioning in 2027 Ben used to be a junior member last year and we have a new Junior commissioner his name is Eric Darcy like to serve a one-year term ending in 2025 and that's all I have at this time call roll call we need a motion motion to approve to approve the list just roll call second Kevin second okay councilwoman Rose yes councilman patelli yes councilman s Annie yes councilman linski yes Council M meting yes okay all right this time these are mayoral appointments for the planning board Ed Clark has reapplied for a year fouryear term ending in 2028 and Andrew chano will be moved from alternate 2 to alternate one serving a 2-year expiring in 2026 for the library Marilyn vone would like to be reappointed for a 5-year term ending in 2029 and an Russo will be the mayor's alternate serving a one-year term in 2025 for OEM this is a bit lengthy OEM coordinator is Roy bger Tim Ryan will be Deputy o coordinator Anthony Marcus will be Deputy OEM coordinator Ed Shan will be Emergency Operations Center coordinator Chief Timothy Keenan or acting Chief Timothy Keenan will be the police layers on Charlie uh Sergeant Charlie Kelly will be the police layers on fire chief Vincent n c will be the fire liaison assistant fire chief Don Johnson will be fire liaison assistant chief Christopher HOA will be fire leison first aid Chief Matt Goodridge will be first aid leaon Joan Czech will be first aid leaon mayor Calo uh Richard Coons will bur administrator Wendy selin bur clerk Ron Ron Brock shelter coordinator Vincent Pelini construction code official Jason Duncan DPW equipment operator principal Sheen Bo local Board of Education Joe tomina local Board of Education Tony Smith animal rescue coordinator Charles wolf Regional Board of Education Doug Brown Sarah 3 representative Dave podach local right resources Steve tiffer Board of Health Le aison Scott cicarella DPW Municipal damage assessment Dand Lee assistant Emergency Operations coordinator Steve Farley Community response and Judy Ryan Community response for the rec committee I'm appointing Megan rotundo for the unexpired term ending in 2028 as a member Michael IES 5-year term ending in 2029 Committee Member and Vincent gunari for for a one-year unexpired term ending in 2025 as an alter as an alternative alternative one and that's it there more Commissioners we only have only so many only two up Austin wall oh Austin sorry Austin wall Austin wall alterate Austin wall Al y actually right yes thank you it's okay okay all right from the municipal Alliance uh we're still waiting for the police department to provide that information uh for the 24 sustainable Green Team we are reappointing theor over optic for one-ear term ending at 2024 access for all roster e Perry for a three-year term and Isabel rivo for a one-year term that's all I'll have at this time all right moving right along we have resolutions B can consent agenda here we're going to do two separately 2501 resolution authorizing annual schedule of burough Council meetings 2025 motion to approve second second who second it in here Kevin Kevin roll call councilwoman Rose yes councilman patelli yes councilman s Annie yes councilman cinski yes councilman talamini yes uh we have 2502 resolution adopting official burough newspaper for 20125 motion to approve move second second by Sally Annie councilwoman Rose yes councilman Pignatelli yes councilman selani yes councilman slinsky yes councilman T just um coincidentally enough I was reading in the newspaper how how they were getting away from using the newspaper as the official uh Source um is that something that we're going to do going on in the future or is this uh you know it's Matt may have some insight here the uh legislator just passed the law that the governor signed uh kind of extending the current way of doing it for 2 months because there are certain Publications not that we use uh in the normal course uh with the star ler for instance and there some other Regional newspapers that are going to online only versions and that's really the Crux of the matter uh where certain uh newspapers will no longer have a print edition uh and the uh state legislator is trying to figure out a long-term solution for that particular issue there's also legislation I'm not sure if it's still active or if it was passed in the OR it died in the last session uh that would create a state Clearing House for Public Notices uh to avoid using newspapers at all kind of provide an alternate means to do that so yeah the landscape is sort of changing uh right now uh but what you're doing with this resolution is in conformance with the current current law anyway okay thank uh so yes thank you that everybody yep okay all right we have consent agenda 253 to 30 it was included in your packet uh do I have a motion to approve so moved second roll call councilwoman Rose yes councilman patelli yes councilman Sani yes councilman slinsky yes councilman talamini yes all right we have the following resolutions 2531 adopt 2025 temporary budget 2532 authorized staff appointments 2533 authorized Police Department appointments 2534 authorized Bergen County Mutual a plan and Rapid deployment Force 2535 reestablish the Oakland Arts committee 2536 authorized contract and with insurance design administrators for claims administrative Services 2537 authorized participation in the liso program 2538 appoint Municipal 9 911 coordinator 2539 authorized nonunion salaries 2540 appoint Police Department Records custodian 2541 authorized share Services agreement with the buau of Waldwick for well baby Clinic Services 2542 authorized contract with Phoenix advisor LLC for continuing disclose disc disclosure agent Services 2543 authorized contract with the land conserv of New Jersey for open space preservation Services 2544 adopting form required to be used for filing of notices of Tor claims against the burough of Oakland in accordance with the provisions of New Jersey torque claims act njsa 59 colon -6 2545 bur of Oakland's applicable of threshold authorized qpa to award window contracts 2546 reopt the bylaws 2547 reappoint Fire Chief Financial Officer 2548 appoint tax collector and Anda minero 2549 AC crew time pay out sanzeri 2550 AC crew T pay time out bagio Beno and 2551 hire DPW labor arantis and 2552 authorized DPW promotion deato can you pull out 2548 for me please 48 anybody else pulling up not seeing in with the exclusion of 2548 do I have motion to approve move second roll call councilwoman Rose yes councilman patelli yes councilman Sani yes councilman l yes councilman talamini yes all right uh councilman Sal 2548 I need to obain okay do I have a motion to approve 2548 app Point tax collector Ana Mano second all roll call councilwoman Rose yes councilman Pignatelli yes councilman s Annie abstain councilman slinsky yes councilman talamini yes all right we have no ordinance on this agenda we have nothing on work session does anybody have any new business not seeing any does anybody on the council have any old business not seeing any old business uh burough Council AIS on reports does anybody have any reports at this time any the new year I don't I know not seeing any at this time i' like to ask the chaplain Pastor Russell stammer to come forward for the benediction one of the benefits uh for me of my job as fire department chaplain is being able to be here with events like this and um as I was listening to everybody being sworn in and the last line was so help me God well I can tell you I will be praying for each and every one of you that God will be your help as you lead this community it's not an easy job I know it um I I don't know how you do it but I give you a lot of credit and I also think of our emergency services our Police Department um of whom they just lost a former member of that department the fire department for their service and the first aid Squad and I just want to challenge everybody that might be watching at home home on this that you can help with the Emergency Services when you hear those Sirens going and they're responding to a call they don't always know what they're responding to or what's going to happen but just say a prayer for them pray for their safety pray for a a safe outcome for the people that are involved and the emergency workers that's how you can help me and supporting all those that said so help me God this evening in their Oaths so I'd like to just close with a prayer for our meeting tonight dear God help us to create a cohesive and peaceful burrow of Oakland with care kindness and dignity to everyone guide us to talk act and believe that we are one people and one indivisible nation under God dear God help us to fulfill the immortal Declaration of our founding fathers that we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness dear God guide our mayor and counsel to serve our burrow and be faithful to our pledge one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all guide us to take care of all of our residents regardless of their economic status race or religion dear God bless the residents of our burrow with productivity good health and jobs so that we can take care of our families and preserve their dignity dear God for protect the men and women in uniform that are committed to our safety and well-being dear God help us think speak and act peace every moment of the day dear God most of all give us your Infinite Wisdom give us the courage to do the right thing every moment of every day we ask this in your precious name amen amen thank you Pastor we have no bills to be paid at this time do I have a motion to adjourn so move second all in favor the next meeting will be held Thursday January 21st 2025 tues Tuesday January 21st 245 7. Council thank you everybody e e