##VIDEO ID:hIOKmBYF3Ik## I call to order the meeting of the mayor and council at burough Riveredge November 25th 2024 7M regular meeting I ask for a moment of uh reflective uh silent prayer for all of our service uh members uh Coast Guard Army Navy Air Force Marines and even space force who uh serve our country day in and day out um silently doing what needs to be done to keep us safe pled Al 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 okay statement of compliance with the open public meeting act this meeting complies with the open public meeting act by notification on January 11th 202 four of this location date and time to the town news the record and by posting of the same on the municipal bulletin board and the burough website following notes of the same with the municipal clerk Deputy clerk roll call please Council here council president m is abing prior notice Council cons here Council here Council Benson here councilman glass here may here okay uh first up is a presentation Jim Jim state your name for the record and for the public and your office so that the public understands what you're doing and why sure my name is James enino I'm the tax assessor for de burough riverid James if you like if that would make you comfortable well let me just start off I just want to I was asked first of all thank you for allowing me to come before the mayor and counsel to explain a little bit about our reassessment program and what it entails and how it's going to be done and where we are at this current moment and I'll try and be as brief as I can I do have a tendency unfortunately get a little long- winded so please forgive me um what we're basically doing is we were ordered by the division of taxation through the Bergen County Board of Taxation to conduct a reassessment and the key word is ordered ordered and in fact we were given uh a break for a period of time due to covid correct we were ordered in 2019 yeah so we were able to push I don't say push this off but do it at a time that was most U advantage for the bur to do so we kind of got to the certain point when they said okay either you're going to authorized to do this or we're going to do it for you so that's kind of the decision that the mayor and Council was sort of challenged with um so and here's just a sample of our introduction letter I believe everybody got this already but it just kind of outlines what we were doing it's a six-year program and the first year which is 20 for 2025 everybody everybody in town is going to be reassessed every proper every property on it commercial and residential each year after that 20% of the homes will be reassessed now when I say reassessed that means the market value full inspections this is the first time we did full inspections since 2004 so the inspections have not been done other than annual re you know annual inspections for permits and things along those lines the company is appraisal systems they've done basically all the they're pretty much the premier company in northern New Jersey we went out for quotes and they were the only person that only company that quoted on a job I'm very comfortable I work with them in multiple all my other towns they're located right in Fon they do a wonderful job you can pick up the phone and i' I'm sure John knows this too and you can call him at 10 o'clock at night Rick delario the president will'll always get back to you nice so where we are at the current moment is every property has been inspected everybody's gotten has been in attempt to be inspected let me just correct that now recently we just sent out a letter about a week and a half ago to those properties we did not get into now remember our goal was to make sure we get into every home so we could get the pr excuse me the correct assessment we don't want somebody coming to us and saying gez you charge me for three bathrooms I have one bathroom well you never let us in so how are we supposed to know if we don't get into a house according to the state standards we have to assess it as what the most highest use that could be in that building so if you have a house let's say you have a colonial home you have one bathroom no finished basement how are we supposed to know we're going to assume you got an updated kitchen two two and a half bathrooms and a finished basement and the person comes back and says oh my god well you're right you should complain but if we don't get in there's no way for us to know now one nice thing about ASI they'll do video conferences too so you'll go with your phone or your iPad you know whatever your technology is and they will actually let you do the inspection virtually so now that's the first phase so we're pretty we're doing pretty good we're up to about 80% of that we're going to pick up another 10% then they're going to send out their letters right once they send out the letters that's going to be in January why in January by the way this goes on for the 2025 tax year so for 2025 these will be the new assessments I've been doing this a long time ever since I think Moses opened up the river there it's kind of what I've been doing this and I learned between Thanksgiving January 1st nobody really looks at your mail they look at it because the letter the second letter they send out is this is the value that we determined and um you have a week to 10 days to question it with the inspectors if you get the letter and you kind of put it on the side and you don't read it there's not a lot we can do so but when you get that second letter now that's the next thing that's going to be coming up it's going to say your value is $500,000 please call on schedule an appointment with the appraisal company and no or hearing probably wherever we could obtain a room for them to be and they'll have charts they'll have all sorts of their data Jim just interrupt for a second and for the Public's benefit this if this hearing is if you disagree with the evaluation yes so it's not that everyone needs to go to a hearing it's just those residents who disagree with the the assess value right now what they could do they have a fabulous website and what it'll be on all their letters we encourage everybody at least to have them send you the proper copy of the property record card and they have a description of it and that explains everything so that's they're very culminating public relations wise and if you're still unhappy you can have an individual appointment if you're still not satisfied you have the right to appeal to the Bergen County Tax Board by May 1st so the first thing you're going to get is the letter of information and again oh and the other thing is let's say the May May says gez I think my value is a little high they'll go over your card with you if they never got into your house they'll schedule an appointment at that time to go through it they might even do it that day or that night because they again they want to get the job done andc correct and that's that portion of the property now that's the portion of the inspections the letter that they send you in January it says okay here's your new value here's the projected tax rate before the increase in val property uh excuse me before the increase in your budget so you typically go up little less than $100 the county goes up around that and the schools and the regional schools are a little bit more that's the pront of your increase in your taxes that's prior to that so they take the 24 spending compared to the 25 values and they come up with a rate so it kind of works now um with that being said we won't know the final rate until July why the question came about was how do we calculate the values and how is it determined yes I had a little bird that kind of TI me off all the residential HS are priced out according to the state manual the New Jersey Real Property Appraisers manual is what every home in New Jersey is priced out to be and it goes over one family twostory Colonial number of bedrooms number of bathrooms ironically who thinks we assess by the number of bedrooms we don't we assess by the square feet of liable space now square fet of heated area is worth more than square feet of non heated area so let's say you have a deck it's priced out a you know 20t deck it's priced out of one value decks patios and are assessed the same but now you put a roof over it now it's an open porch so it's a little more now you like the open porch but you know you want to have a little other room because it gets cold in the winter so you enclose it well now that's a little more now the next thing you do is you add heat to it well now it's living space so it's basically always priced out according to the market at the end of the day we want to come up with the market value how do we get to the market value so we take all the homes we that are the inspectors are coming around with they have the little tablets and they re basically reconstruct the house they measure it exterior they look on the interior once they do that it gets put in the file it's all gets saved and they take it off a depreciation the depreciation schedule is pretty easy is excellent condition which is basically no very good good average there's one little trick now that kind of hurt us and 3 years ago you don't have to get permits for bathrooms or kitchen renovations anymore so we used to have uh much more added assessments an added assessment is if you put a deck on you put a new house on I would go out and respect it people are always smiling because they're happy to see somebody knocking on their door then they realize it's me and I just ruin somebody else's day you know you but we go and we do what's called an added assessment when that's put on that gets build in November and it gets retroactive back to the month they completed it so let's say you put up a deck I'm going to come by in the summer because I don't like the cold and you were done in February in November you're going to get a bill retroactive back March but equ remainder of the bill now the last time the inspections were done here was in 2005 almost 20 years ago during that 20 years ago we did a reassessment which was kind of like a computerized update in 2 for 2012 still long time ago but that did not have inspections oh so now what's happened since then Well Properties might have gotten up gone up or came down a little when it say came down they just didn't go up as average as everybody else let's say the average increase in assessments is 10% mathematically all that happens is the tax rate goes down 10% but let's say the North End goes up 12% the South End goes up 8% I'm not saying this is going to happen happen just as an example even though it's an average of increase of 10% the North End net went up 12% they're going to have a little bit of an increase in taxes the South End is going to have a little bit of a reduction because it didn't go up as much historically and typically look I've done probably 15 20 reassessments in my my time 20% of the people go down 20% go up the other 60% remain about the same prior to the increase in the budgets to be raised by taxation for 25 now why did they go up that's always like something I kind of wondered well it could be a neighborhood change it could be they were incorrectly assessed before or it could be through no fault of their own they did work on their home ever since that law came out again three to five years ago if somebody in their kitchens and bathrooms does that increase the value of your house yes so you're going to see they're going to get a little bit of a bump up that they never had before strictly because of the value of the home went up the homes are actually priced out three approaches so remember I said before we redid we rebuild the homes we actually rebuild the homes and when we put that aside we take all the sales of existing properties so a house sells for $100,000 very simple once you have to buy a house now for $100 let's say the building itself is worth 75,000 that means what's less left is the land that's worth $25,000 so now everybody's got a 75,000 75 by 100t lot so we assume that lot's worth $25,000 it's called the lane residual technique and that's how what the land how we put in a synopsis way that's what we put the land on with the and add it to the building so therefore it equals $100,000 land's worth 25 building's worth 75 sold for 100 it all makes sense where sometimes people get a little confused now our ratio of sale versus assessment will be for the next 6 years 100% And what does that mean as of October 1 what your houses assess that you should be able to sell it for it if I'm going too long or Too Short just cut me off or just wrap it up and then we'll turn to questions so that's whenever somebody puts a new house up or a major addition we go back to that year of the first reassessment so if somebody builds a house now and it sells for a million to which is kind of like the common price they may only be assessed at 800,000 because our ratio of sale versus assessment is 60 65 66% so that kind of equates it what's the ratio of s versus assessment they take all the sales they compare it to the assessments so if the sales are selling 10% more than the market our ratio is 90% so if the sales are selling for 40% more than the market ours are at 40 uh 60% sometimes with some of the newer homes and the newer additions it's hard to you know you can't bring them up to the sale price because if we're all assessed at 60% % if I'm my house is is worth 100,000 but my assessment's only 60 I can't tell somebody whose house is a million doll that their house should be assessed at a million dollar that's illegal in the state of New Jersey it's called Welcome homeowner or welcome neighbor right John cor as you can tell John and I have been doing this way too long so that's kind of a quick synopsis of where at but I want you as well to take my cell phone I put on my business cards you can call I'm better with texting than I am with email just so everybody knows I'm I think everybody is my C is 2011 906 24 69 most important thing I could say is when the letters go out it's going to be a little bit a shock to neighbors particularly the seniors I actually spoke before before the seniors at St Peters mhm um it's very important don't answer any questions have them call me or you can call me and I'll call them back because a lot of times people they think if they call me I'm going to yell at them or something which I may do anyway only kidding not true uh I just want them to get the answer because the one thing I don't want them to do is go to their neighbors and say you know and the Neighbors start giving advice the one thing that you're going to see too is you might have those two homes identical to each other this guy took an appeal back in 19 or 2010 so they're kind of here this guy never did but they got the same home so they both go up but this guy's starting from a lower base so when they go up let's say 10% this guy's going up 20% what do you think's going to happen to his taxes they're going to go up more this guy's going to say to you or me my I was always paying less than my neighbor now I'm paying more or now is saying well what kind of house you got Kate what do he after Kate what year was it built 1950 what years was your build 1950 you do any upgrades no you no all the same so it should be valued the same the biggest thing we could do to help people through is if they seniors the senior free program uh the income limits this year for 2020 it the program Compares you taxes from 22 to 23 and 24 you get back the increased um it's 150,000 for 22 163,000 for 23 this program is going back to Governor Whitman Jim explain to the public what 150,000 is referring to okay I'm sorry 150,000 is the gross income that the seniors the person makes now could be a senior citizen or somebody disabled so now let's say somebody single or married whatever it is combin yeah it does not count the children income so like if it's just Mom and Dad on a deed that's it if it's a family income they get 50% of that so if I own the prop my wife and I own the house with my daughter which she's trying to take away from us just so you know it'll be a 50% reduction but what program's great is my mom passed away in February last year she was in a program since when she was 96 she was in a program since Governor Whit she would get back $3,800 if she was able this year be like 39 and change uh you factor that with the anchor program which is somewhere between 15 and 18 is what it's almost $5,000 a little over $5,000 that a person could get but what happens is the first year you appy for the freeze you got to be over 65 lived in town lived in New Jersey for 10 years in River Edge for 3 years if your taxes are say $10,000 and you said that it was 150,000 maximum gross income yes but it's going up to 163 well you have to qualify for both years so in 2022 you turned 65 and your income was less than 150,000 and your taxes were 10,000 then you compare it to 2023 20 yeah 23 and your income is less than 163,000 and your taxes go from 10 to 10,00 ,200 in 2024 you get $200 back 5 years from now the taxes are $1,000 you get check back for $1,000 but the best thing we can recommend to the public and to the council as a whole is that if someone is interested in doing that they should contact you absolutely and the best thing we can recommend to the public and to the council as a whole is that if anyone should feel that the assessment is unfair or improper they should contact you or the assessment company or the assessment company great questions I have go ahead the freeze when does that actually when you apply for it or great question when you apply for it it you have to be 67 really to apply okay because it take it goes back two years it goes back to your 65 65th birthday compared to the 66 and that's for both spouses have to be six over than 6 one just one okay and if your property is in um like like Estates you can still apply so yeah and Jim I'm sorry about that I thought they passed something where seniors would be getting back like half their taxes that's something coming due in 2026 I don't like to project what it is because quite honestly I'm not that I haven't seen that much about it so I rather know what I I rather speak about what I know of okay not what I think is going to happen is that bill been passed New Jersey state New Jersey but the details have not been not been passed or the regulations I just think the working out the regulations had ear yeah they they adopted it last year but it goes into effect in 26 so they're working out so our so our seniors have three programs the anchor program the freeze program and soon the state New Jersey program yes and all three of them they should feel free to contact you uh for great absolutely uh another question I I had a question can you just I didn't totally understand the million dooll home not getting assessed to okay so let's say a house is sells for brand new house right and sells for a million dollars um we can't assess it at a million because our ratio of sale to assessment is at 66% so you have to do 66% we actually go back to what the sales were in 2011 like our formulas that I work in on my on my system I could show you all later I just you it only allows me to put in a house that was built like if there's a new house I have to go back to 2011 or if I put anything after that it will show no value okay so it just go every so this way every house is assessed equally so you may have I'll go back to the deck Theory too if the deck now would add $10,000 back then it added $22,000 it'll show $2,000 so the assessment is not going to be anywhere near what the house back now it will be oh after okay so when I do my annual joint around the town in the summer any new constructions should come very close to the sale prices okay uh the assessment date is October 1st so a month ago is the date we value property for next year so any other questions I have a question go ahead yes thank you I had a question about your the neighborhood concept how did that is River divided up into neighborhood oh you're going to be divided up into a few different neighborhoods Apartments business uh one family homes demographics uh it'll not demographics um one we got a few two families not many um location next to the river Kinder Kack Road will be a little bit of different type of area okay but it's all according to the sales so properties like use Wayne Avenue is kind of a symmetrical really the town is all pretty symmetrical there'll be different neighborhoods like maybe like kindak road if you take a house on kindak road comparing to a house on Wayne well the one on Wayne's going to sell for a little more if it's the identical house so what's that affected by the land value so not so much by the you know the building that the building is the building a 2,000 square foot Colonial is going to be assessed the same again the same year the same amenities as the house no matter where it is in town but the land value is going to be different great David thanks um so I think of this as like a zero sum gain right we're all going to collectively be paying the same amount in taxes based on what our budget is all that we're doing is redistributing who pays how much so we've had all kinds of new construction and people adding on to their houses and upgrades so those people I like you said are going to be in that upper they're going to see that 20% increase right and the people on the lower end no he didn't say 20% he said 20% of the homes so they'd be in the 20% who saw an increase only reason I stopped you is because we're being taped I just want to make sure public we've already assessed them you know now I grant I may have missed a few I'm not saying I'm perfect but for the most part when we get a building permit I go out and I make sure I follow up on the home uh I think the 20% going to be people that had appeals um they new new new and additional constructions that may we may not be familiar with and um any changes in the market in different neighborhoods just like you're saying anyway my question was is there going to be transparency across so anyone in the Bono can see what the change in their neighbor taxes are or how their neighbor was reassessed or how someone across town that's a great question and maybe we could get a link to appraisal systems website because on their website they're going to have all pictures of all the homes that sold they're going to list every sale for the past two years they're going to list um every assessment the old assessment the new assessment on the new homes they're going to show um a picture of the house it's going to show how many you know bathrooms bedrooms just like a little description and uh also the sales so it gives and that's what you see on that website is the actual data that we use it's going to have the map we're going to give there's a map of the town and it'll show exactly different areas and different Neighbors which will also be on the website so because this is public record it's it has to be released but uh as of right now you can go on our bur website and look up any house by name or address or Street and find out exactly what the uh person is paying what they paid previously whether they paid on time all of that is public record and available for any Resident right now and I go to it often um because when it's time to pay my taxes I you know want to make sure that I'm getting everything in on the right time and I want to I'm just a nut about it it's math so will that then be updated yes the okay let's differentiate what we're doing is the assessments so that's going to be on our system and there's a you can get access to the county system also yeah and Appraisal systems is going to be that's going to be the one system the other system is the tax collector system so in August when your budget's adopted when the school budget's adopted and the county budget's adopted that's all going to be uploaded into the tax collector system Mrs mes and that will print out for you the um it'll show online every every body's taxes everybody's updated taxes ask another question sure uh most people like myself when we think of Assassins we think of Zillow truly are is there any relationship between what I see on Zillow and versus what I'm going to be getting in the the pictures of the home do you tend to under assess those uh those sites I never really looked at them because they've never been like a a database that we could rely on okay I will tell you um again since my mother's passing we were looking to sell the house and U I went on Zillow and it had it as a one family 50 by 100 it's a two family 60 by 100 so the accuracy was a little skeptical of um I guess it's like for for us it's kind of like a South Hain is three or four sales a year so it's kind of hard to get a market read but uh I guess it's good just for the aage person to get an idea um I don't think it's anything I would rely on it's not really admissible in for it you know it's yeah you know the other thing we do is when they go to a hearing um now again this is next late summer um we don't beat anybody up we we kind of like a very Alan spin's your tax appeal attorney and we've been working together in here in ell for many years we kind of want to give everybody the benefit of the doubt we say look we understand what you're saying we can't do anything for you so that's why you're here F the appeal nobody's going to rush you it's your day in court and you know now if they come in and they say my taxes are too high that's when they're going to cut them off they have to in order to prove their assessment is incorrect you can't say my neighbor's house is assessed at this you have to come over with sales and we actually provide all the sales on the website it's a I wish they kept that part up so you could see because it's a phenomenal job that they did any other questions I just have oneide all right we'll let that be the last one and then we'll move on can you explain just real quickly what's the difference between what you're do in the first year and what's going to happen in subsequent five years that's a great question so this what the first year is is everybody gets a physical inspection right so the first year everybody's got to be inspected once the statute says everybody else in addition to that for the next five years 20% of home needs physical inspections but 100% of the values will change so and what we do at the 20% like we go to this neighborhood that neighborhood we go all over the town to sporadically get that 20% me being a you know I don't how can I say this not always wanting to conform I could say okay this is great we'll do 100% inspections now six years later we'll do another 100% inspections they will let us do now no so in other words every home will have will be you will request a physical exam for the Public's benefit physical examination of each home um twice within the six years everyone's being requested this year and then for the next five years 20 at random 20% yes and but everybody's value will be new each year so even though you let's say you're one you're going to be assessed in that 20% everybody on the council's homes will be updated based on the market conditions yeah so that it remains fair and it's not just hitting the people who are letting them in and by the way you're right it's a zero Su whatever money you so it has to be adjusted across the board you adjust one thing something else has to check so just for the Public's benefit the No One the burrow is not going to make any extra money on this the budget is the budget is the budget so whether your house goes up or down whether it's new construction or not and not an extra Penny goes to the burrow once it strikes its budget its budget is struck struck it is uh distrib the um cost of maintaining municipal government is fairly distributed according to the assessment value but uh if your home goes up it doesn't mean uh the burrow made any money on it correct all right great let's move one question um what are what happens to those individuals who refuse to give an inspection on their home well he already said yes he did oh I'm sorry they get the highest possible assessment got it I missed it okay all right Jim we're gonna move on and we'll see you back for the close session excellent thank you thank you all right could we uh could I have motion and second to open the public on any item of the agenda second all in favor please say I I uh we see one person virtually in no one one in uh in person uh so if you have a question just raise your hand and I'll allow you to speak that's not look like could I have a motion in second to close to the public oh wait wait she sorry CLA did go ahead Claire all right all right Claire you need to say your full name and address unless you are a member of a a police department household or uh justice department household in which case you just need to say your full name just unmute you can speak now you just need to unmute CL you just want to unmute CL you can also text if you in the chat box if you can't unmute so there's going to be a second opportunity to ask a question um I think you're having some technical difficulties hopefully you can figure that out and get back to us Claire we're going to close to the public for right now but we will open again in about about four or five minutes all in favor of closing the public please uh could I have motion second to close to the public Tom second all in favor please say I okay um first reading motion that the following ordinances be introduced and passed on the first reading and setting December 9th 2024 at 7 pm or soon thereafter as the matter can be heard as a date and time and the riveridge library as the place Zoom as the virtual platform for the hearing unset ordinance or 24-25 Bond ordinance to authorize phase one of the replacement of sanitary sewers at kak Road from Reservoir Avenue to Rucker place in and by and for the burough River Edge in the county of Bergen state of New Jersey to appropriate the sum of $188,000 to pay the cost thereof and to make a down payment to authorize the issuance of bonds to finance such appropriation and to provide so for the issuance of bond anticipation notes in anticipation of the issuance of such bonds could I have a motion in second to move ordinance 24-25 so second it has been moved and seconded Miss appella would you please uh give us the public rather an understanding of what we hope to achieve in this yes um this is to uh appropriate funding we did receive a grant under the Community Development block grant program that is a federally funded program that would reimburse up to $123,000 um they only reimburse construction the sum of 188 the balance is for the soft cost of engineering and traffic control and the reason why we are doing this now instead of our regular budget season is because the federal government changed the deadline in which the projects have to be completed instead of December 3 first it has to be the construction must be completed by June 30th so because of that that is why we need to adopt the bond where it's now and once the funding becomes available after their stopple period our burough engineer can work on the design and we could go out to bid early next year all right is there any question comment or debate from the council I have a quick question so that's not a borrow road but sewer under the road is yes this is something um we went back and forth with the county um it starts at Kinder Comm back road from Reservoir to ruers we will do as much as the award will get us with 123,000 until we complete the census track and we only have one track in town so that's why it says phase one and then phase two will'll go a little further a little further that's not a Burrow road right Kinder kak no that is a county road but we own sewer yes so we have to coordinate with the County to repair the road or are we're responsible for repairing the road as well that um that is part of the the construction we are responsible to repair the room once we do the underground infrastructure any other questions hearing none uh because this is the first reading we're going to do it by acclamation all in favor please say I any opposed any exstension hearing none is so moved can I have a motion in second to move oh first of all is there any member of council would like to ask a question or hold out for a separate vote uh any of the resolutions 24- 336 through 24- 344 okay could I have a motion and second to move 24- 336 through 24- 344 second all in favor please say I okay any oppos any exstension is unanimous uh could I have councilwoman Kaufman as Finance chair please move resolution 24- 345 payment of the bills at a regular meeting of the mayor and Council of the buau of Riveredge County of Bergen state of New Jersey held on November 25th 2024 be it resolved that the mayor and Council of the buau of Rivage approved the following expenditures current fund 1 m625 54136 General capital fund $ 77,78 a59 Grant fund $1,548 trust other $1,245 developers escrow $1,922 Recreation trust $3,575 35 so move got number member of the budget committee second it second it's been moved and seconded this is not debatable all in favor please say I I and opposed any obss it is unanimous is there any new business tonight is there any old business tonight okay uh Claire we're gonna ask you to try to uh uh chat it chat it again so uh we're going toh hopefully get you in so uh could I have a motion second to open to the public on any item on anything at all second all favor please say I I I okay uh there is no one physically with us in the library uh public members we do have professionals with us uh Claire do you want to try again if you can't on mute I would just recommend putting it in the chat Claire we're going to give you uh a minute or so let's see if you uh are still interested in asking a question or making a comment so you have two options unmute or or hit the uh chat and leave a message just be a little bit okay Claire that's been a minute we'll give you another 15 or 20 seconds see if uh maybe you've changed your mind all right Claire if you if you uh feel at some later date you did want to have to ask a question feel free to call bur Hall ask for the deputy clerk she will um she will get your question to whoever it needs to uh be and we will definitely get back to you good I have a motion second to close close to the public so move second all in favor please say I I I any member of council wish to offer comments um I just have one comment sure um I just want to remind the public that the um the annual ornament decorating contest for kids is open until Monday December 2nd hopefully we have a lot of entries and our annual holiday lighting will be on Saturday December 7th from 4 to 4M to 6 pm at Memorial Park excellent anyone else uh I'm going to uh offer a little information uh our council president is not with us I believe she's the ls on to the shade tree advisory committee um they will have an upcoming meeting uh and at the upcoming meeting what the one one of the things some of the things they'll say is uh that within three weeks all stumps are will will be removed townwide we are currently we've currently budgeted to remove 68 stumps to the ground they will be conducted by down Tree Service uh ARB day will begin uh as an item for them um tree trimming uh was suspended due to leaf pickup emergency issues were uh are going to be done also um 125 trees were planted in the south end of town uh Talen and South uh tree filled in townwide for residents who made requests um so so a lot of good things have been happening with our uh our shade tree advisory committee new plantings removal of stumps Arbor Day planning and we are very proud of them and grateful for for their work any other member of council wishes to offer um any comments all right then um could I have a motion and second from the council uh from councilwoman Coffman a second from councilwoman consella uh to move resolution 24- 346 resolution to go into close session attorney uh client privilege njsa 10 colon 4-12 B8 uh affordable housing updates and requirements second all in favor please say I we will not be coming back at the public session to uh to enact any business so we will not be returning could I have a motion second to adjourn meeting second all in favor please say I we are adjourned