the following is the agenda for the regular Burough Council meeting of the Burough Thompson Lakes mayor and council and municipal corporation in the county of the state The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m on March 26th in the municipal building 25 Lex Avenue Lakes consistent with the open public meetings act The
meeting will be open for public comment and shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the bureau's municipal code of Iowa Please stand for salute To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it
stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all Please bless this mar and council as they deliberate on the best of Hampton Lakes In accordance with the open public meeting or public law 1975 chapter 231
adequate notice of this meeting setting forth the time date place and purpose of this regular meeting through notice posted on the Bolton board in the Misper building may all have requested and paid for saying and published in suburban trends Roll call please Mayor here Council President here Council here
Council me here Councilwoman Kent here Councilwoman Kilder here Councilman Bennett here With us this evening is our burough attorney Dave Rutner and our B administrator Michael
Okay Who's going to You want to read that first Liz or the introduction and then we'll discuss Yeah The budget Okay Budget Yeah So we have to approve the resolution 25148 self-examination budget and resolution
All right we're going to do these individual We just need a motion Okay Motion to approve uh resolution 25148 Motion Second move in council approves All in favor against uh resolutions
25-141 authorizing the introduction of the municipal budget to be read by title only Motion to approve or uh resolution 25-19 Council second Councilman Hinton Council You guys are going fast I'm councilwoman All in favor i quick
against uh 25150 2025 municipal budget resolution Motion to introduce the 25 2025 municipal budget of the B Compton Lakes So moved Councilman Benning Councilwoman Kilberg Uh roll call please
Councilman Benn Yes Counciloman Cruz Yes Council yes Councilwoman Ken yes Councilwoman Kilberg yes Councilwoman Hollywood yes Okay So I have to read the municipal clerk to read The notice is hereby given that the budget and tax
resolution was approved by the governing body of the burough consulates county March 26 and advertising current trends A hearing on the budget and tax resolution will be held at the municipal building on Wednesday April 23rd 2025 at 7:30 p.m at which which time and place
objections to the budget and tax resolution for the year 2025 may be presented by taxpayers and others interested persons Copies of the budget are available in the office of the burough clerk at the municipal building 25 Lennox Avenue and phone number
9738350143 section 238 hours of 9 a.m to 4:30 p.m or on the bug burrow's website Thank you Got a motion to open the meeting for public comments Councilman Bennett second Councilman Hickin all in favor
Anyone from the public like to address five minutes Keep your name and address Step up Hi my name is Kathy Shortway of Pine Street Punch Lakes Um just a couple of things Uh first I know that there was a vote last uh last meeting on a new
apartment building and as a result there was a post on social media saying that one council person voted against it and I chose not to respond on uh social media but I'm here to personally thank um Councilwoman Polydori for her no vote Um she asked smart pertinent questions
and she voted for what she thinks is right for Pompton Lakes and I totally agree with you So thank you Uh the other thing is I read on social media that business owners and employees are being charged to park and one business owner said it's going to cost him like $6,000
a year um between his employees and him to park for the year And I just feel like it's really I I I just don't I don't understand why we could be charging business owners They pay I'm sure a really pretty penny to for rent and they're bringing business into town
This one in particular brings a lot in My son goes to him and so does a lot of his friends Um I just find it unbelievable that we're charging these people If anybody should get a free pass to park a parking permit it should be business owners and their employees Um
and lastly I wanted to ask Michael if there was any um any uh update on the um the because I had gotten a call from your um your assistant about the uh issue I brought up about the plywood how horrible it looks and um I was wondering
if there was any update on that uh cuz she had mentioned that you reached out to the uh developer about changing the the plywood And I also reached out to Val Cole from bid and about my idea of having like um like the high school kids paint a mural maybe even having a
contest and have that painted on the plywood which plywood which I thought would would be a really cool idea So I just wanted to see if there was any update on that Okay Okay Thank you Thank you Anyone else from the public like to address see him gardener Summit 147 Summit Avenue
Pmpton Lakes So I have two different issues Uh I wanted to know what are the rules about parking a car with a on the street with a cover over it and it sits out there all year and I'm pretty sure doesn't have New Jersey plates and I
can't tell if it's registered cuz I'm not going to go pick up the cup but one's sitting right in front of one Glen Court which is right by Maria Kent's house So I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to park there And if that's the case either I can go and discuss it with the owner which I prefer not to do The
town should enforce its own rules or whether the town's going to do anything about it because people are parking uh cars in the street all the time cars that are immobile on their property all through the town parking on lawns and there is no
enforcement So but I'm only concerned about the one right in front of one Glen Court because I happen to look at it every morning when I pull out of my driveway So mayor do you know if there's a I'll answer at the end but I will address that Yeah Great Now the next thing is um I actually saw uh Jennifer's
um post on uh I guess probably Compton or Perfectly Compton and so I reviewed the uh clips on uh YouTube to see what was what went on here And I have to tell you that the town was hoodwinkedked because when you look at
the projections they only tell you what the sum of all the money is and you say "Oh look at the $2.45 million we got." But you're like Popey You're like Wendy from Popeye You know you're they're going to pay you on Tuesday in the future for something today And so what
ends up happening is that value of $2.5 million is only 50% of what you think it is And then they compared a 20-year pilot to a 30-year pilot And they said "Oh you get more money on the on the 30-year pilot." But really you don't because for the last 10 years you're
going to be getting full taxes So how the presentation was done didn't reflect the economics So I don't know who on the council has the financial wherewithal I mean I miss Rick's deal He would have told you in 2 seconds I was wrong and maybe even Terry would have told you it
was wrong But I don't see how anybody here has the expertise to value it And I looked at how what your expert said and he had a bunch of mistakes So I don't know where you got these guys from and you think they're so great They did negotiate for you but I'm not sure how
you can compare that they did a good job from what I saw Thank you Thank you Anyone else from the public like to address please step up Dave David Farick 107 Federal Hill Road Uh first I want to congratulate
Randy and Lisa for winning the council The uh the elections from November This is your second right Lisa or is your actual first mhm Oh from
covering for Bill Okay So this is your actual first and same with Randy So congratulations and Bobby [Music]
Uh okay Yeah Uh likewise with Bobby Mech I I was at the the first board of ed meeting this month to where uh Dr also gave out the the awards to the
SER and um uh he yeah and not known Chef Foley is on it and so which was new news to me says he walked in the room and I'm
like Jeff Foley what are you doing here I know you're on assert Yeah Then I said "Okay I I thought you only cook and he said "No I I do more than that Dave."
[Music] So so anyways so as Jar Luciani opened it the meeting the second time for for open comments uh I I uh told the school
board that I'm on the email list for Junk Boardwalk in Point Pleasant Obviously you all know that and and uh then in late February they
sent me an email showing what's going on within the next few months and and also I I printed out for Dr and we're also to give to all the schools to the principles and and I and uh last
week I I uh dropped one off at the high school after one of the events I attended and and uh April 6th for anyone who said
scouts and family neighbors friends you you name it Then and uh April 6th they're going to have a uh Scouts Day down there so so the scouts can help
and clean up the boardwalk and the beaches Carlson Any of you on [Music] scout anyway so so
uh yeah So so if anyone's going scouts and then you can go to www.janks janks boardwalk.com to register your kid if they want to go And then then if anyone does go down on
Saturday to the 5th and needs a motel to stay at then I I highly recommend the uh Point Beach Motel which is where I stay when I go down there
Great place great staff and it's like it's like so close to the boardwalk So like if you walk from the bench to to a little past Carval Center that's how close it is to the boardwalk You don't
have to walk five six blocks down a a street or whatever So it's like that close Yes And uh then in April
only they give you a break on the price since no one's down there obviously until May So so you get like if you stay two
nights or three nights rather then then it's $100 a night per person then you get your third night Three then then you check out the fourth day If you're if you're all going to
stay four days Okay Dave your time's up But I thank you All right Do I have another part next yeah that's good That's fine Thank you
Anyone else from the public like to address seeing no one can I have a motion to close the public session councilman Bennett Second Councilman Hidden All in favor all right Yes Um okay About the parking Yeah Unfortunately like all towns around us
we have to pay for parking here Uh cuz there's lots of employees and if they take up all the spots then no one would have a place to park uh to shop So we have a lot of businesses in town that have a lot of employees Now saying that we are working on uh we already offer a
reduced rate for employees and after talking with our administrator we're we're going to find fine-tune that a little bit for some businesses that are have in and out like 1 hour or 2 hour like a gym or or something like that where they might pay a little less of a rate just for the one hour But at and
correct me if I'm wrong Mike for two hours it's a $160 Is that what it is it's a dollar A dollar for two hours So I don't know where they're getting a $6,000 bill That's a pretty high bill They might have a lot of employees and you know they can buy parking passes though for one How much is that Mike
1801 It's uh $50 per per employee per month So it's $50 a parking spot for an employee someone working there per month So I don't know where that number is coming from So you know five employees is going to cost them $250 a month So that that's with that Uh Mike do you
have any update on the awning i know you reached out to the county and yes I had given that to the redevelopment director Uh I'll follow up with him tomorrow Okay Uh Mr Simmon about the cars Um first of all uh it doesn't have to have
a a jersey plate to be parked on the street Okay It does have to have a registration You are correct If the car does not have a registration anyone could call the police and say it doesn't have a registration I do not know the ordinance on a covered car If somebody could look that up Michael follow up
tomorrow We could find that out Um if there is an uh ordinance that says you can't have a covered car in the street then we'll send the police over there to address that There might not be an ordinance that says that so I I'm not sure of that Um any other situations with cars if we have addressed police
when they're driving around if they see cars uh on properties or something to to write summones and they have been uh so I can tell you that that is something that I've said this before that affects me too So I I don't want to see that So it's important about redevelopment Uh so
first of all uh we hire experts because that's what they do The the gentleman that was speaking in that uh speaks all they do is pilots Uh so they recommended everything It didn't come from this council They make the recommendation to us and that's why they present to us to give us that information Now one of the
statements you made was it it reverts back to taxes Yes It reverts back to the taxes where we get a small percentage as a pilot we collect 95% of the taxes So there's a bigger change a bigger chunk of change coming to the town for a much longer time So saying we collect taxes
we would only be collecting taxes at a much lower rate Um and that's not the same number that we're collecting now So you know and that's why every town around us is using pilots right now Riverdale is going to have a huge pilot Wayne has been using them for years Uh you know we're not unusual in what we're
doing here in any shape or form Um and that's why the state offered them to to make that happen Uh Dave thank you for that information about the Boy Scouts If anybody's interested then they go down to Jenkins That would be great And have a little fun and go down to the beach That's always a good thing Okay Uh
consent agenda Anybody need anything removed um yes Mayor the approval of minutes Yeah I don't see Oh that's good I'm sorry I'm sorry Thank you Uh motion to approve the following minutes Special budget meet workshop meeting minutes
March 12th Regular meeting minutes March 12th Close session meeting minutes March 12th 2025 Can I have a motion some moved Second Councilman Benning Councilman Cruz All in favor i against
uh authorizing the bills and uh uh wires as listed below Can I have a motion so moved Councilwoman Kilberg second Councilman Gunning All in favor i against Now anything cons 25141
Okay Anybody else we're good Yeah Okay Whereas the mayor and burough council of burough conflict reviews proposed resolutions where the mayor council of bur complex does desire to remove resolution for individual actions from their agenda Now therefore we resolve the following resolution from
the consent agenda Hereby resolution 25-139 through 25-147 and we're going to remove 25-141 Okay Can I have a motion motion Councilman Nett Second Councilwoman
Kilberg All in favor i against Uh 25141 Authorizing share service agreement with the township regarding homes being purchased in the FNA 2023 Swift sub grant agreement I'm going to let Mike explain that but that's more of a um Oh
first of all do you have a question you have an actual question or Oh yeah I have quite a few questions Um do you want to have Michael respond first or my question all right This is an agreement between town of Papa Lakes and Town of Wayne Um town of Wayne uh there's four
houses to be torn down in the south end of town Um a statement on page two number three says in an event of New Jersey Office of Emergency Management fails to reimburse the town of Wayne for
monies it expended to complete the buyout of properties listed above Pumpton Lakes shall be wholly responsible to reimburse the Wayne for all monies it expended and then seek
recoupment of the money directly from the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management Now in that statement it says "Invent in the event of the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management fails to reimburse Wayne well then who would
think that they're going to reimburse Pump and Legs?" It's a good question I'm going to reach your to our answer to that Um or Mike this is Michael and I discussed this this um the property owners have already
agreed to the sale of the property Um Michael what am I what am I missing here uh I did speak to the township administrator in Wayne Uh from my understanding uh they have a full commitment from FEMA uh for the funding Uh I do have prior experience with the
FMA subrant they call it Um you know it would be an unforeseen circumstance that that this would occur uh in speaking with the township administrator um we did express those concerns to Wayne and you know we're satisfied you know after speaking with
them and you know Dave could add anything uh if you have any concerns any question about Wayne M So I I would just underscore that I have you know we've we've done these before in our other towns This is the standard
approach and I have never seen where the township undertaking the the work has not been reimbursed So but we are aware of it We did bring it up and we got the the the asurances that we're comfortable doing it A new term force majour majour
No that's a that's a um events beyond the control of the parties An act of God Yes correct Um but also through the years that I've been standing at that podium and asking questions I might have asked a question or two in my time
um talking to our ex burough administrator Kevin Bole He said from a point in time and this was years ago when he was on that there would be no more tear downs of houses in the south end of town only elevations But here we are now He
telling us that we're going to tear down four more houses Well that's a it's a program though that's offered We can't we don't demand that We don't say it It it's offered by the state So if they take part in the program then so what you're saying is the town of Pmpton
Lakes has no say as to whether or not the homeowner tears the house down or not I mean from what Kevin told me there was going to be no more tear downs only elevations like the town of Aquanic from what I understand they're only doing elevations not tear downs So we lose
four more houses round numbers 10,000 a year property tax That's another $40,000 we're going to lose per Yes Uh so Councilman I did meet with Blue Acres this week uh with their manager within the Blue Acres program uh to ask that specific question in anticipation of
ratifying this agreement and they do have three more buyouts on the horizon I was told that yes I was told that that is a wholly state managed program and us as the burrow we really don't have any jurisdiction or say whether it's a elevation or buyout I guess perhaps we
could look into an ordinance of some sorts but we'd have to consult with our attorney in close session about that Uh but again Blue Acres confirmed to me that it's really up to them Uh you know and and I would add that Blue Acres also
confirmed that with the new uh presidential administration uh they're not sure how long the release of future funds will take Um so they're not sure that any future buyouts beyond the four in this interlocal agreement would take place in the next two years I mean it
really could be a while before we could see any other buyouts So those extra three may not happen I'm told it's not going to happen anytime soon But I but I say this M council I agree with you I mean losing taxes you know we went through this I went through this one
time before and it was not it took us a couple years to get out saying that it is the homeowner's decision though which program you're going to use to to get out with Um and so they could pick if they like the town and want them to stay and like their areas they could do an elevation if they wanted to But these
homeowners are choosing to get out and sell the property So the aspect of that is is that homeowner is making the decision which is going to affect the town of Pumpton Lakes forever That is true Yeah And and you do have to meet certain criteria You have to be what's
called a repetitive loss zone Uh so not all homes in the south end are repetitive loss I believe there's c a certain listing Liz would have it in her office Well actually the flood the flood Yeah So a repetitive loss means that FEMA wants it off their records
basically Well what really bothered me was that if uh town of Wayne is not reimbursed that we have to make everything whole for them and then we have to fight But from my understanding when these two are saying is the money's already put aside for these houses and
we're good to go Yes When I read the agreement I reached out to Michael with that exactly that concern We we have received back the adequate assurances that this money is already in place and so it's not there's no basis for the concern My concern being exactly what
was having in happening in Washington and whether it would cut off those funds now but those funds have already been allocated from my from my understanding Yeah that could be problem Yeah Okay Any other questions uh no Thank you Okay Uh
could I have a motion for ordinance 25-141 motion Councilman Bennett A second Second Councilwoman Kib Uh roll call Glad we'll do a roll call Councilman Ben Yes Council Cruz Yes
Council no Council woman Yes Council yes Council woman yes Okay Uh ordinances
First reading will be presented for second reading and final adoption on April 9th Ordinance 25-15 an ordinance establishing the annual compensation for member of the Thompson Lakes Municipal Utilities Authority Motion to approve
ordinance 25-15 for introduction We ask for discussion now or after it's after it's uh after motion Second Council President Paul Councilwoman Kilberg discussion Discussion Can you just walk us through the general
purpose of course Uh I would rely on our burough attorney a little bit but from my understanding uh the burrow has historically uh memorialized the annual uh salaries for the commissioners of the Pompton Lakes Municipal Utilities
Authority via ordinances uh and the utilities authority at their March 17th commissioners meeting uh uh made a motion to increase the salaries by a 2.5% cola uh for the
fiscal year 2025 Um the salaries for chairman and members are included in the ordinance and you know just for the public uh this is not funded by the burrow This is funded by the uh utility uh rates of the MUA Thank you So all we
do as a as our job here is to uh vote on the uh amendment that's sent to us Right The uh the ordinance Correct Correct Yeah It's not it's not a practice that's done everywhere but I think they do it for the sake of transparency Okay Um and
so you know because I can tell you as a as an authority attorney there's not a huge public turnout for authority meetings sometimes And so um by doing it this way um there's a little more transparency since it is a municipal utilities authority Okay Um question I
had it's a 2.5% increase That's what's listed Yep That's what I understand We had a 2% increase Is the job of commissioners in the MUA a little harder that they need a
0.5% more than the council i'm not going to argue that I don't know if we can even argue Can we argue the number yeah I I I mean really as I said this is 5% more No understood Not that I'm jealous I was willing to give up my 2% to the
secretary I don't even know if we can argue the percentage They're presenting it to us We could just vote no to the ordinance if we wanted But yeah as I said the uh the fact that they do it as an ordinance um is really for transparency I think if you voted down the ordinance it would send a message to
them but I don't think it would have the effect because they're a standalone authority Um they can give themselves that sort of raise without coming to this municipality without coming to the burrow for an ordinance They have nothing to do with us So so
it's a unique practice I'll say that So as the liaison to the MUA which I am if I vote no is that going to make all my future meetings pretty interesting that's up to you Sorry You were doing better than us right um I had a
discussion with one of the uh commissioners down there and he had said that uh the raise uh our salaries have to be competitive and I thought for a minute uh how are your salaries competitive
competitive to who other MUAs I'm guessing Other well in order to be uh commissioner of the MUA you have to be a resident in town and you're appointed by this council Correct It's a recommendation Recommendation
So what are you competitive against these are all questions you should ask as liaison to the MUA I will I You know I will I just just for the record I don't know off the top of my head whether we have an ordinance in place that says they have to be a resident in
town Yeah I don't know that either the the municipal utilities authority law specifically does not um have that limitation that you have to be a resident beyond the NWA and the reason for that is when you have regional authorities a lot of times the
municipality will appoint its engineer who may not be a resident of the municipality but the engineer because of their expertise is there you know they choose them as a representative so I'm just saying it may not yes as a commissioner it may not be that there's a residency require required for the MUA
But you should ask that question Yeah I mean I figured it out You know it comes to like 401 cents a day but uh Okay They need that Roll call please Councilman Ben Yes Councilman Cruz Yes
Councilman Yes You're not giving me a 41 Well we've divided up your salary before Yes you have Council Counciloman I'm going to recuse
it from voting Council woman Yes Counciloman Yes Ordinance 2516 and ordinance amendment chapter 2 of the revised ordinances of the bur lakes for revising the term of appointment of special police officer
Motion to approve ordinance 25-16 for introduction Motion councilman hit Second Councilwoman Kilberg Any discussion same thing Thank you Uh yes So this ordinance uh was brought to us by the police chief um to specifically amend
our code regarding our class three officers in the Pmpton Lake School District Um the ordinance amends the term of the officers uh to coincide with the school year uh typically August uh or September uh term start date Uh the
ordinance right now I believe is written on a calendar year basis Um additionally for class 2 officers um as it's in the same chapter of the code uh this ordinance uh confirms that there those
class 2 officers are sworn at sworn in uh at the first council meeting of the year which takes place in January And the section about officer limits is amended uh per statute to confirm that there's no limit on the number of class 3 officers that we the burrow can have
uh and also confirms that class two officers are subject to the 25% uh cap limit uh within the police department So in other words we cannot have uh we cannot have class 2 officers
that exceed 25% of our police department and that's per state statute Uh so again this ordinance was brought to us by the police chief and was looked at by our attorney Thank you Okay roll call please Council
yes Yes Council yes Council member yes Counciloman yes Counciloman yes Okay Okay Under my report I have a relatively short report I first got to thank our DPW staff for doing our great work
they've done outside on the floors and painting in the wall It's all nice to see internally done for the first time in a long time where we used to pay out to get this kind of work done Um so I'm glad to see we have people interested and the manpower willing to do that work and it's only going to get better
They're going to do some more work uh as they move forward So I thank them all for doing that You probably noticed in the back they started the work on the civic center They're tearing that apart Uh they got the roof off of it They got the inside gutted Um they hope to start moving along and get that building up and running I I hope to have that up and
running again in the next month or two where we can start to have our meetings again in there And we're adding a women's shower for women police officers and locker room These are things that we needed some office space and then we still will have our meetings meeting rooms back there So that that's a good a good project and you remember that was
brought brought to us by the redevelopment project in town That was one of the side pieces of this They're they're doing that at no cost to us Um I attended a personnel meeting Uh uh I performed a couple weddings I
attended a meeting this afternoon with our GIF and our uh labor attorney And that is my report Council President Paul Dur Okay I have a few things to report on behalf of the coalition They have um
some events coming up that they would like to make us aware of They are hosting a diamond classic at the high school on April 5th with a rain date of April 6th If you remember they did something similarly at the high school about a month and a half ago and had a tremendous turnout This is a
fundraising event for the coalition It helps offset the costs of the programs that they run throughout the year Uh in addition to the fact that we are currently waiting for a response for a continuation of the grant that was recently submitted which um I want to
take a minute to thank Ryan Gosser Uh he really stepped into something he was unfamiliar with and worked really hard uh to to submit that I think he did a good job So I'm very proud of him I thank him for that Uh he also wants to remind us that the walk for hope also
taking place at the high school is on May 18th There are already up to 50 registrants Um and they are hosting on the 30th uh a fundraising I'm sorry this is not a fundraising game It's an event
to bring awareness They will be attending the Devil's game with 30 people representing and attending So he uh expressed happiness for the turnout that he's had at the last few events Um and then not necessarily town related
but I did attend a PTA meeting for the high school at which it was mentioned that in the first week of April uh there will be an individual holding an assembly at the school to discuss the upcoming movie that will be filmed in uh with some of the students in town They are filming an
anti-bullying movie and they're going to be opening some open uh casting calls for some of the students So hopefully if this comes to fruition we will have some of our students uh participating as well So excited to hear more about that And then um just in response to a comment
that was made tonight uh in regards to the lack of ability to um I guess look at the information Uh I'm not going to share my thoughts on on how that was perceived but I will tell you that it was about approximately a month before
that presentation that I had fought pretty hard up here to have that moved to a later date so that we could get additional information to review so that we could make a more educated decision Um because I felt it was very important to see numbers based on different terms
so that we could evaluate whether or not that was in the best interest of the bureau I will tell you the Monday of that week for the council meeting at which that presentation was given I had reached out and asked why a month had passed and we had not been given any of that information to review And here it
was Monday before the council meeting We had already received our packet and those comps were not included I was told that they were not provided It went back and forth with we didn't provide it we weren't asked so on and so forth The additional information was provided to us Tuesday before the council meeting
with little to no time to review it It was um reviewed in a presentation that left limited time to ask adequate questions and then immediately voted on thereafter So while I understand your position I will tell you that the way that
information is disseminated and shared and the timeliness of it for decisions as impactful as that is an absolute disgrace Um and additionally if you're looking at those numbers perhaps it would be also um of interest to look at the impact of additional services and
expenses incurred in the year that they take place such as increased salaries increased personnel to uh compensate for additional residents moving into the burough versus um the amount of money that's collected over a deferred period of time And that is my report Thank you
uh Councilman Cruz Thank you Mayor have a fairly brief report Um attended the board of health meeting on March 17th 2025 Um they discussed all business Uh they've issued the 2025 retail food licenses and 2025 vape licenses Final
notice was mailed to establishments who have not submitted applications for 2025 uh retail food establishment licenses Food Mart in Delhi is I'm not sure if that's the one by uh King and Sons What's it called so for FAR and Delhi plead guilty after receiving a
citation The details of the citation were not discussed during the meeting I was trying to figure out if that's the one by King and Sons Um Good Guy Vapes will be going to trial filing a citation and hearing That's a good one Um well they're they're saying that the juices that they have on sale did not create
any type of um information related to fruits or anything of candy I guess in nature um you know they saw otherwise So they're actually going to be fighting this Obviously they're going to court and I would imagine they're going to lose
Okay That's actually by where the old subway used to be That's where they Oh over there Okay Um let's see New business Mike Fellet will be filling the vacancy seat on the board of health Congratulations Uh Dami Sushi new sushi establishment located at 246 Wanaku
Avenue Uh let's see The 2025 public pool applications were sent to the Highlands Summit Falls and Iron Forge condominiums and application packets have been updated for Pompton Day And for correspondence several more anonymous complaints were received about chickens
at uh water leak Yeah they've been getting out They've been getting out a lot I've seen pictures Yes they've been getting out There's a little group of I will tell you the police are involved in speaking Uh we're going to move on to board of adjustments which I attended last
night Uh there were some questions regarding the West Lennox Bridge um by Mr Abate They wanted to know the um the dimensions regarding So I don't have any details Michael That was from Frank on board of adjustments He was in Do we have I don't know if we have the Do we
have any information relating to the structural i do Yes I could send it to you Yeah just send that forward off to uh Mr debate Uh Connor's engineering and design There were approval of bills uh for the engineering design professional services This was for the Monontlair Avenue
project Uh let's see We've had no applications Uh one of two resolutions were approved Uh BOA25-04 that is for Hunter Place BOA25-02 Industrial Riverdale Road Uh let's see Appointment of open space
committee representative Mike C will continue to represent the board of adjustments And um you said yes Yes he's I don't know if he actually wanted to go but he agreed to it And they also shared the 2024 variance report which I believe Liz
was a copy was provided to Liz Um and a copy of the variance report as well was sent to Kier Engineering and the planning board for review Uh just so everyone knows they look for trends to see if anything needs to be changed um based on the variance report Um at this time I don't think from their discussion
they didn't see anything outstanding Um but we'll wait to see all those department committees and boards to review and that'll do it for my report Mayor thank you Councilman Hinton um could I have a question for Councilman yes Monontlair Avenue project A
Monontlair a Montlair Avenue What is the status is that man still trying oh I they don't discuss that No So I I can help you with that was with the engineering So the um he's still in discussion He hasn't come back in a long time Um but it's still floating around You know he hasn't presented it again So
he's still thinking of the project I can't speak for him but you know he came once so that's all I can tell you Okay Okay Thank you Um I have something to read Motion to approve request for Lakeside Middle
School to close a portion of Lakeside Avenue Lakeside A from Van A to Manderville Street for the 8th grade awards ceremony scheduled for Monday June 12th 2025
Rain dates June 13th 2025 and June 16th 2025 from 6:15 p.m to 8:30 p.m and to make Van Avenue between Lakeside Avenue and Lennox Avenue oneway street from
6:00 p.m to 8:30 p.m Notify police fire first aid Have a second Second Councilman Bennett All in favor i I against Okay Um I attended the MUA meeting Oh there you go And I had a vote
yes on so so they don't hang me when I go there Um they're just normal operating procedures And um but they did state that the uh sewer plant is at 74%
capacity now So any future building is we're pretty close to 100% could be in a few years But um so I don't know if there's been any talk on whether or not they can expand the sewer plant Um but
um that's pretty much what they just had to say Um we had a uh senior's meeting at the um in Riverdale but it was cancelled because they had a book fair So we're going to have the seniors
meeting was pushed up to tomorrow Why are you talking about the seniors next time you go to the senior meeting ask them if they're going to prefer to come back here to Civic Center or want to stay over in Riverdale You know when this is done if and when this is done Should be relatively soon Yeah They'll have a
choice whether they can stay in Riverdale Uh unless Riverdale's thrown them out I would say yes Um Well this is an agreement you made with the mayor Correct Yeah But I I you know I don't think there's an issue but I don't know where they'd rather be So I just you can ask them where they'd rather be Do we
know the mayor in Riverdale does anybody reach out um so I I'll tell you one of the concerns they had here was that the parking was a little tougher for for them back That's that's the aspect The parking in Riverdale is beautiful Works
out well for the seniors There's no steps Um anybody with a walker or a wheelchair they have no problems at all So yes I will ask them Okay And uh but I think they would probably prefer to stay there because parking is is very bad
here Okay Um we also uh we were at Lakeside Park planting daffodils So that uh that turned out pretty good Uh I'll let Councilman Councilwoman Kent
talk more about that And um then I got a phone call from I know I'm not really affiliated with the Shay Tree Commission anymore but through the years that I was planted a lot of trees so I still have a lot of people calling me and I had a
resident from 15 Butler said her tree was leaning So I went over and straightened it out I hope I didn't step on anybody's toes Don't know if he did or didn't So it's straight now Good job And then another resident called me about a tree
in her backyard Going back Did you actually physically straighten the tree is that what you did yes I did Oh wow Okay At 71 I still got to live Okay good Good for you And uh but I I told the resident that the tree is in private property and uh they're
going to have to work with their neighbors on it So and that's all I have to report You also are going to be adding eggs with myself I think Right Excuse me And you say you'll be adding eggs with the uh Yeah if you're willing to add on wouldn't we well I don't know about that but we we will be adding at some point as soon as you start making a
nest Yes we will Don't forget your umbrella Don't forget your umbrella Councilwoman Kent Okay Thank you Mayor I attended the SER training program Although I'm already s I took a refresher We do have some new recruits coming in That's always nice to see new faces Uh I attended the space committee
and we discussed at the time uh possibly funding the replacement of the dock at Lakeside Avenue The the dock issue was something that we did a while back We have a 5-year program but we have a situation right now where the docks are are are badly rotted and the the current
dock is no longer uh viable to use They're concerned with the um you know the ability to have it float properly and somebody could get hurt So I think they're looking So uh we were asked to whether or not we would uh offer at
least 50% of the open space money instead of in in addition to the capital money uh for I think it came out to like $25,000 $30,000 the because it just came up that night Um we're going to come back and discuss that I I can't imagine
anybody saying no to a dock I am concerned with the dock um with boats going out there I was there the other day planting the daffodils with Councilman Hinton and boats that were that were launching were tying their other boats
to the current dock the floating dock Now that is not intended to hold anything other than a walkway So we really have to decide what we're going to do how to keep them out Do you hope we can legally tell them not to do that we're in find that out Yeah because that
that that'll wreck our docks Yeah No I agree Yeah Okay So anyway so I will I will take a vote If you want me to do a straw poll I can provide the two Okay So well I will come back with with their recommendation Okay Um we assisted uh
kind of funny because we always talk about the the pretty daffodils in town We have over 10,000 now Um just this past weekend I believe we we planted almost another thousand Uh and we have to thank Councilman Hinton on that because he actually saved some abandoned
bulbs from last year Usually you don't plant them in the spring You usually have them pop in the spring but it just the situation was So uh he did salvage them and he asked me to help uh pass these bulbs out So we had the
environmental protection committee plant 500 bulbs in Lakeside Park the Elks Joe Lewis Memorial Area uh the Dupont Village Park and Playground area and the Pmpton Lakes Riverdale Carlo Field Flower Boxes Uh again special thanks to
Randy Hinton Councilwoman uh Lisa Kilberg um EPC Chairman Steve Beg Director Barbara Murphy was there to tell us where the sprinkler systems were in the in the Lakeside Park Um we also had a nice visit from the Pquanic Township uh chairman Robin Jones from
the open space committee and his wife Lisa They were interested they they've always taken an interest in our in our town and our open space uh projects Um and uh they they came out and actually dug a couple trenches with with us I
also want to thank uh from the from the uh EPC Bernardet Chamililli Michael Fosaludo Michael Shakatano Lloyd Kent Mike Mer and Alexa Reid They were all wonderful helpers In addition to those plantings the Pontton Lakes Women's Club
planted 375 bulbs in the public library reading garden section And I want to have a special thanks to Carmelina Fisaro Councilwoman Kilberg uh Christian Jennings chairwoman of the um let me see I'm sorry Oh friends of
friends of the library Ellen which I I'm sorry I did not get her name Uh of the library board and other women club members Kelly Salis Barbara Jennings who helped plant with the bulbs and Keith and Joe Jennings because they were the strong arms and did the planting did the
trenching for us which was much easier than having the women do that And it's always nice to have the uh the husbands and the gentlemen help Um I attended the St Patrick Explorers Passport Dinner to Ireland That's that was an amazing dinner for the the uh for the uh group
and they decorated the um excuse me they decorated the elks as if it were in they were in Ireland So they have the little passports with them and it was a really a lot of fun Um and Councilwoman Kimber was there helping me
serve um what we serve corn beef and cabbage and she Irish food Irish lots of Irish food Lots of lots of food period Uh and a special thank you to the Elks for their hospitality I want to I want to personally thank all the the DPW crew
gentlemen and women who helped re revitalize our our entrance way to the municipal building I can't thank them enough It is beautiful as you said Mayor uh and I know uh our clerk also helped very very hard Yes And she helped
weekend weekends and Yeah And they and and Liz I want to thank you for helping pick out the nice flooring to you know it's always nice to have it was you don't want to take the blade That's all six and seven Yeah it was it was a
it was something that bothered me for many for many years actually It was really uh really poorly displayed what our town is about and I just really want to thank them I'm al we're also working with administer administrator Carelli and Sharon Sony and we're looking at to
try to get the PBA for a little financial assistance and I want to thank Michael for doing that to buy the police display cases um and they're very expensive because they're you know they're thick glass and they're you know they're they're expensive I'm assuming that our DPW would probably uh put it
together and but uh we're working on that Hopefully that'll all be done by next month So that that's a project that I'm very proud of I attended the bid meeting and the bid had elections for their new executive board 2025206
uh board members were announced and they voted on their budget of $339,000 That is not taxpayer dollars That is monies that is taken from that is uh paid by the property owners that are in the bid So that is not a that
taxpayers don't pay that and they have a number of upcoming projects and I believe they're looking to hire a manager Yes it's coming up anywhere from 9 to $15,000 salary So if anybody's interested they do have a uh resume
They're asking for résumés for people that are interested in that project Um the Pmpton Lakes Volunteer First Aid Squad is holding a fundraiser It's an upcoming beef steak ticky tray fundraiser on April 26th And
of course they're looking for um donations of gift baskets gift cards merchandise and services to raffle off if anybody is interested Uh you I guess you can drop them off at the first aid
squad before uh by April 5th So if you can get something out to them they're all volunteer They do a wonderful job and uh thank God they're there when you need them So let's support that that program if we can And uh we met the CTO students to tonight I'm looking forward
to working with the students on the government Uh Angie who I met tonight is supposed to be me and she is my neighbor So isn't that nice that we we kind of all met i do have a a question for for Liz Liz when do you need the updates for
the calendar i'm working on it right now Okay So it's coming up It's not it's not due yet And then I just wanted to just advise everyone I know that back in October I think it was in October we signed a we signed a resolution that we were in agreement that the industrial
turbines along the Atlantic coast were of a concern because they did not do all the permitting properly and they did not do all the studies Um when we did sign that 6 to zero it was unanimous That project is dead it the the um there's no
funding for it and they've pulled the uh they pulled the permits So uh thank you everyone Now when you sit on the beach you will not have to look at industrial size uh wind windmills turb whatever you want to call them Uh so and there's very
very happy um towns down in South Jersey They're they've all supported this this whole issue of not building these things they just didn't have all the right information So we were a part of that You should be very proud of that And I and uh that is my report Thank
you uh Councilwoman Thank you Um I would like to thank Dan Mickey and the entire buildings and grounds team for the wonderful job they did beautifying Burough Hall It really does look wonderful Thank you Um I attended an EPC meeting Um the Pmpton Lakes River
Cleanup is Sunday May 4th from 9:30 a.m to 1:30 p.m There will be food for those who come back hungry and some prizes as well Uh Columbia Bank and the Pmpton Lakes Bid have been so kind to donate to the river cleanup again this year Um I
would like to thank Jean Hoffman and Valerie Cole for all they do to make this event a success Um a few members from EPC planted daffodil bulbs um which Maria reported about so I won't go on about that Um I did attend the explorers passport event and um as Maria did as
well and um father John was so nice from St Mary's to teach them the Irish jig It was it really is a wonderful event I love going to them Um I attended a library board meeting Uh there will be uh two events sponsored by the PI County
solid waste and recycling program Um one on Wednesday April 9th and then on May 14th Uh Michael Drezik will reach out to Lennox and Lincoln schools with the information so that they can share it with the parents because they did hold two other events um one in February and
one in March and no one really knew about it So we're going to get them to share the information Um they're also looking into having an art contest and possible fundraiser Um the picture or drawing selected will be on the next library card and as soon as I know more
information I'll share it with all of you Um the IMLS which is the Institute of Museum and Library Services is cutting their funding Um we don't know exactly how it's going to affect the library but it may affect them Um I
attend a recreation meeting Uh the walking club at Lakeside School is on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 to 8:00 p.m through May 4th Field hockey camp is July 14th 16th and 18th at the Lakeside Middle School turf Middle schoolers from 9 to 11:00 a.m High schoolers from 9 to
1 9:00 a.m to 1:00 p.m Break from 11:30 to 12 Um the Palm Lakes Rotary Beast Stake dinner is Saturday May 10th For tickets you can contact Carl Padulla or Subaron Uh Pmpton Lakes Easter egg hunt is April 12th at 2 p.m at the Hersfield
Park tennis courts Pton Lakes residents only bring your own baskets The rain date is April 13th Pompton Lakes Recreation Softball Clinic for girls grades 1 through 8 is March 31st to April 4th Lakeside Turf or Gym from 700
p.m to 8:30 p.m Registration is on site at 6:30 p.m or you can sign up on communitypass.net Pickle ball is Saturdays from 9:00 a.m to 11:00 a.m at Lincoln School The drop-in fee is $15 Um the next session of pickle ball
will be April 26th through May 17th at Lincoln School It's $40 per session or $50 drop in fe $15 drop in fe June 21st is the 3rd annual Pmpton Lakes Pride celebration on the library lawn lawn
from 1:00 p.m to 4 p.m Get fit is Mondays and Wednesdays and runs until May 21st It's $55 for all classes $40 for 10 classes or a $5 drop in fee per class And now I have two questions Um
one is about um the Hersfields Park um play equipment um when the project will be completed and if it will be before summer camp That was some of the questions And then two um goes along with what you said Maria It was about the T dock and how it's rotted
underneath and we needed a new one and we just wanted to make sure um because people are being seen tying off onto the railings of the other dock and it's going to bend them Um and we're just concerned it's they're concerned it's going to they're going to break them and um so where do we stand in repairing it
or getting a new one the dock to everyone is important So when Michael and I first heard about it you know we we we said we we want to fix it this year We want to get it done this year It's it's pricey So it wasn't in our budget So he's looking at funding right now with with our uh CFO to see
where we can get it I've also reached out to some uh private donors to see if they'll be willing to help Either way I think and with the open space either way I think we're going to have it as soon as we can get it You know they have to build it too We'd like to have it for the spring and summer this year It will
be the T do though It's not going to be same situation Same thing Yes And the uh I'll let Mike talk about the swings a little bit if you want Just on the dock really quick We reached out to uh Easy Docks I believe is the company uh that that we that put in the other docks It
is a T dock Um we're looking to actually it's more of an L dock to kind of make it go away from the opening of the boat launch Um but we did get a formal quote We're waiting on a little bit of a discount So I'll send a quote to the governing body We're identifying funding
We'll coordinate with open space and uh we'll go from there but we're trying to get it in as quickly as we can Uh regarding the playground uh the playground equipment uh that was authorized at the February council meeting uh is on order expected to ship
by April 10th uh will be installed well ahead of uh summer camp Uh so it should be a nice addition for the camp the campers for the summer Great We'll keep you updated Thank you Thank you Okay Yeah I'm done Okay Uh Bennett thank you
mayor Uh historic met last evening Nothing of note Uh RDA met last Thursday There were no applications Uh I want to congratulate the Steel Magnolia Robotics team for an excellent season Uh we advanced to states the first time in three years
that I I've been involved And then unfortunately we did not advance to worlds Uh but the competition was very fierce The the robots that we were up against were next level stuff and very impressive Uh and the next last thing I
want to report is over the weekend our dojo kinolan um traditional Okinawan karate of Kinolan held a Shi and and there was a bunch of promotions including a handful of black belt promotions in my family My my younger daughter was promoted to junior black
belt My wife and my older daughter was promoted to uh showdown first degree black belt and I was promoted to second degree black belt And that is my report Congratulations Thank you for that Thank you Uh attorney's report Uh nothing in open session but I we will have a brief
close session to discuss uh co- litigation Yes Uh administrative report Thank you mayor Uh so for the residents uh please be advised uh that the Doors Highway improvement project uh which consists of the resurfacing of Doors Highway from Riverdale Boulevard to
River Edge Drive will begin on or about uh Monday April 14th The first two weeks will consist of storm water management and drainage improvements um followed by an additional four weeks of concrete work Milling and paving will occur
during the month of May and residents will be dy notified ahead of time The work hours for the concrete and drainage will be 7:00 a.m to 3:00 p.m Um there's not expected to be any major traffic detours for that project uh initially
Uh we do have a pre-construction meeting uh with P County uh community development block grant program for the Lakeside ADA curb ramp upgrades project which are new ADA ramps from Van A to
Jefferson A along again Lakeside A and that's funded by the county Um and lastly uh I did meet with the county's new economic development director Gian Gian Carlo Leonardo Uh and
we discuss several projects and uh upcoming grant opportunities for the burrow Uh so you know we're looking to have him at a future bid meeting Um so it was good to meet with him Uh and that's my report Did we follow up on the walk uh the flash lights did we hear any more about the flash and
walkway wasn't somebody questioning was it you stop Oh the stop sign The stop sign right stop sign Yeah Uh at um Van I think and uh Yeah Yeah That that's included in our NJ DOT grant Uh Okay So that's when they're
going to that we received for the resurfacing of Lakeside App which will take place next year Okay Any questions administrator yes want to hear um question on the uh New Jersey Builders
Association suit Close session That'll that'll be our close session discussion Way ahead of me Thank you Thank you I did not have questions mayor I just had to mention two more items Yes sir Uh just want to make sure I just want to get this out there There was an
announcement sent by uh Michael Carelli This is for the fallen soldier battlefield cross Um there's going to be um the P County Board of County Commissioners advice the public to honor remember the sacrifices of American servicemen and women at the unveiling of the fallen soldier battlecross statue
during the National Vietnam War Veterans Day ceremony This is going to be on March 29th at 11:00 a.m and it's going to be at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall 300 Oldham Road Wayne New Jersey I just want to make sure they get that out there Obviously that's a very important event Um council members obviously the
public everyone is invited And lastly I was hoping that council president uh Paulor would have mentioned this I'm not sure she had this yet but uh the get over here Pontly Cardinal Coalition Diamond Classic promoting mental health awareness and stigma free movement in
our community This is going to be Saturday April 5th This is going to be held at Independence Park And this is going to be a double header game schedule with PTON Lakes High School versus Lakeland Kennel Junior Varsity Uh that's at 10 a.m and then 12 p.m PLHs versus the Lakeland Canalon Varsity Um
again this is going to be April 5th Start time is at 10:00 a.m for JV 12:00 p.m for varsity And there's going to be free admission food truck and resources for family I mentioned it Did you not with as much detail as you did cuz clearly you have a firmer grasp on sports than I do
I'm sorry double head I think together we like really took the point home though That was a pun There there's a lot of events There's a lot of going on with the correlation Okay that was it Any other questions for administration nope Okay
Motion to open the meeting for public comment So moved Councilman Cruz council president Paul Doori All in favor against anyone from the public like to address up Uh what do we got
here i said that Are you calling us boring is that what you're saying just uncomfortable Just as So I want to go back to the gardener 7147 some of that I want to go back to what you said about you know after after they start paying full taxes whether the
town uh what share the the town gets Now what's going to happen is 20% is going to go to the county cuz that's about the county share give or take but the rest of the money is going to go to the town and the school and whatever goes to the school lessens the burden on the on the
uh property taxpayers in this town So to say that the town retains more it's true they retain with a longer with a longer uh pilot they retain more but the real effect is that the taxpayers the who pay
property tax still get the burden reduction when they're paying full taxes So you can't look at how much the town gets and then compare it to um compare it to when we we go to full taxes and we
have to share it with the school because the people who pay the taxes end up paying less So it's it's it's a completely specious argument I just want to point out that and a couple of other things that went on in the in the
meeting there um that I caught So I made some notes to it and um so I I'd like to know because it wasn't discussed are the assessments frozen in a in a pilot program So the question is over time you would expect
the assessments to increase So if the assessments are frozen and you can't increase it then it's really a greater benefit to the to the uh landowner than you know Um and then there was some discussion about um you know how some
landlords some developers need the um the property taxes to do to get attract financing Now that's what I do for a living I finance commercial real estate and uh they say sometimes they can't get it without The only the only reason they couldn't get it without is cuz they
don't put out enough cash and also because the developer may not have the financial wherewithal to attract a loan or they may have a poor record of getting projects done on time like we see in our town So that's part of that's
part of the problem It's not just the economics of the situation And then there was some conversation about this is a speculative development People would rather put their money in the stock market Now since I finance commercial real estate I don't consider this speculative at all In fact it's
actually better than the stock market cuz at the end of the day you own some real property as opposed to just owning shares of stock So your your expert made some statements that just weren't correct And uh finally you know I I haven't seen the numbers so I'd like I'd
like to see them if I could get a hold of them Um when you're talking about the cost structure of a developer putting a project together in this project where he said his costs were 6.3 million how did he put the land cost in did he put it in at value or did he put it in on
his purchase price because in a case like this where somebody's owned it forever the land cost really is um is a sunk cost So it's just the construction cost So so if he's going to go borrow $4.4 million it's just going to be for paying for the construction the money he
spent for the property he spent it years ago is almost nothing Um and then finally uh how is how is the town going to audit the project's gross cash have you hired an have you hired an accounting firm do they do audits how
soon is it we know we had that project in in um uh by the post office and are we are we actually out there auditing and getting paid um and uh let's see That's it
Okay Anyone else from public david Faren at corn7 federal hill Uh as some of you may know that I'm on the booster club at the high school and
also so for for those who have been to the basketball games and or wrestling matches over the winter that that you've heard Dr Purge Binsky mentioning that uh April
24th at Black Bear Golf Course at 138 Route 23 Franklin there's going to be a a uh golf outing up there and and from looking at the uh flyer
that Nicole Jones posted on Facebook Uh the she says there's going to be raffles 50/50s prizes and so
forth and costs are 150 per player 540 for for some and $75 for dinner only Then checking is in at 12:00 noon
and then the event starts at 1:00 p.m and then RSVP by April 4th So that's what like next Friday or so And uh for for further information if I
were you I'd gain Tetrick McCull Jones for questions or whatever that you may have on it And and uh see what else do I
got uh Yeah then going back to what I said about Point Pleasant So if anyone has gouts in their family friends or whatnot
then then uh then then if anyone's got me on Facebook or or my cell phone number and text or call me or message me on Facebook then I can I can fill in further on the the uh
motel as I was saying earlier than my time and uh say thank Justin Nicole and Dr Wisheski and Mr
Mattel appreciate mentioning this so I got myself out of detention Thank you Did you get in school Michael oh come on You had to Okay Come on D We got other people got to come in Thank you I got quite a few
Any other members of the public like to speak seeing no one can have a motion to close the public session Motion Council second That was down there Mr Council Hinton Uh Councilwoman Kilberg All in favor i against Uh Mr Senate Um yeah I do agree
that they get the 60% but the problem is they're in charge of that 60% Where I understand in your mind it's the same tax dollar but when the 60% comes to us we can decide how we're going to use that money It might be to offset taxes It might be to offset a recreation project we're doing We might not want
and I'm not saying this because I do support the fields Maybe they want to put in a new turf field with the with the money they collect Maybe we don't want a turf field You know it works both ways on that money At the end of the day you are correct it is uh taxpayer dollars for both sides But that's how we look at it We're going to have more of
the money to determine how we're going to use it Uh the questions you brought up I cannot answer Um I wish you were here last week You could have answer asked those questions and had them answered right there Um I I'll see if I can get you some answers on that Uh we do have someone in charge of uh checking
uh the pilots and how they're corrected Mike is that correct it's uh that's correct Uh what group is it i'm sorry We have Phoenix Advisors They're our formal pilot billing company right so they're they're in charge of making sure that they're um uh doing the right thing And you're right the first year it was a
little confusing but we were new at it So that's why we went in and hired a a professional to handle the the payments And now if I'm understanding correctly Michael the payments have been on time and everything's good Okay Dave thank you again for that information It was uh good good information Uh motion to close
the public session Some moved Councilman Cruz Second Councilwoman Kilberg All in favor i against the floor Any approach of the floor i just have uh one one comment Um I've been re I was um discussing Spruce Avenue or Spruce
Street I'm not sure which They changed names I think somewhere for for the the problems with the road The the road's in terrible shape We've brought this up The residents there have brought this road to our attention when uh Paula was our administrator
I'm still complaining about uh yes it's included in our 2025 road improvement program So it is included Yes 20 And when will that occur i don't have a time frame yet but we will put out an announcement uh once the funding is in place and the bid specs are prepared
Okay So I'll what do I tell them just it's included in our program and more information is forthcoming Okay from this year This year it's this year Yeah Oh it is Yes All right Thank you Any other yes
Um at our last council meeting on March 12th um residents open public session can come up We had the uh 61 queue out came up and um we've all been trying to get
information on that and we've all discussed it as best we could um the resident God bless him who came up and uh has every right to say what he wants I'll remain nameless Um but he kind of accused the council of asking too many
questions Um looking at Councilwoman Keielberg and Councilwoman Poladari that's direction he was looking But we're all elected by residents of Pumpin Lakes to ask questions We had the professionals here and we were asking
questions This is what the small amount of money we all get paid to do this job This is what we're supposed to do I'm very proud of uh Councilwoman Keielberg and Councilwoman Poladari and how inquisitive they are and questions that
they ask Um and this is the job that we're supposed to do here and the resident was uh kind of accusing him of asking too many questions as and we all know who the resident was Uh we thank him for his service in town also But um
we don't know all the answers to everything that goes on We need to ask you brought the professionals in um um thorough um administrator um brought the professionals in for us to ask those questions And this is the
job that we're supposed to do And and I do agree with you You don't that if I have no issue with anybody asking questions ever about anything Um that's our job to get as much information as we can uh and figure it out But unfortunately on the other side of that in open session residents can say
whatever they want This resident was pretty upset I understand And you know I've been yelled at many times by many people from never me I'm not pointing fingers at anybody Um but uh at the end of the day you know we should all learn to be a little more polite to everyone as we speak to them I agree with that
That's true Um okay Any other no Okay Motion to adjourn into close session Motion council council Thank you everyone for coming In close discussion we discussed negotiation and personnel Motion to
motion Council Me Councilman or I