##VIDEO ID:lPlBa-RZzH0## the open public meetings act pl1 1975 chapter 231 the notice requirements have been satisfied the meeting dates for the year are confirmed that the annual meeting are posted on the public Bolton board in the lobby of the municipal center and published in the record within the first 10 Days of the New Year salute salute to the flag please Al to the flag United States of America the stand indivisible omark we have a roll call please Council Corsair Council men here councilor Michaels Council Dr W Conor here counc park here Council rary here mayor Zen here all right Chief Chamberlain please come up and step up to the uh microphone we're not wasting any time good evening everyone happy holidays thank you for being out here showing your support So tonight we are going to be uh uh swearing in two new officers to the tenly police department uh we have more coming uh this is part of our uh restructuring building uh rebuilding uh process um these two individuals that are going to be sworn in this evening uh we're in two separate processes um in very close proximity to one another this is based upon some unexpected uh departures uh both these individuals scor the highest in all the categories that uh we offer which is basic the Physical Agility the written examination the interviews and uh we couldn't be more happy something with uh these with them and their performance and uh their acceptance to join us because OB is always tough strict the competition with other departments so so this evening something we're going to start with the first officer officer Patrick gay can you please approach probationary police officer Patrick gray of s River correct I should know that um Patrick was a standard wrestler of Bergen Catholic High School ordell Patrick earn a bachelor's degree in criminology and criminal justice from the University of South Carolina prior to being hired by the B of tenly Patrick served a full-time police dispatcher for the sad River Police Department Patrick then applied to and was accepted into a competitive alternate route program ber County Police Academy where he scheduled to graduate on January 8th 2025 basically in a couple weeks Patrick is currently serving as executive officer of his recruit class he along with the commanding officer which is another recruit are the recruits in charge of the police recruit class they together are responsible for conveying the instructions and Orders of the Academy training staff this is a position that is often lost and relinquished by other recruits when the class is not meeting the standards set by the Police Academy training staff this is something that a lot of us going to test to all these uniform officers that all gone to the academy and they bring in commanding officers and executive officers and they don't measure up unfortunately and you know something that's you know not a big deal but they do really restructuring um fortunately he's uh uh was selected and was able to maintain this position which is a testament to his leadership abilities this is going to serve him well throughout his entire career upon graduation next month officer gray will embark on his three-month field training assignment for is released on his own to patrol and serve the community the academy teaches recruits how to be police officers in the state of New Jersey but the field training program uh teaches that him or her of the officer uh how to be a police officer in the bur of tly while a lot of police departments are all very similar uh when it comes to application and enforcement of laws and procedures uh we all differ greatly when it comes to practices and customized services to our towns uh and and and the the service with our communities we're thrilled to have officer gray uh join our our our department here in tanly uh Patrick gray you're now going to take your oath of office so uh can I have Mar Maryanne mom come up to the uh the front here and uh father bill is going to pin his badge after the oath Omar I state your name hi Patrick gra do you Solly swear do you Solly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the con constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I and that I bear the true faith and allegiance to the Saint and I will bear to Faith and legancy the same and to the governments established in the United States and to the governments established in the unit unit States and in this state under the authority of the people and in this state under the authority of the people I will Faithfully I will faithfully and partially and partially and justly perform all the duties and justly perform all the duties of the office of probationary police officer and the office of probationary police officer for the bar tenly for the bur of tfly according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God I okay next officer Jus now hackinson Justin was a stand up football player at Bergen Catholic High School so we're not I know we're getting we trending here but we're not always thinking everyone from B and Catholic just turn out that one uh Justin earned a bachelor's degree in law and Justice uh studies at Rowan University prior to being hired by the burough TL and graduated from college Justin worked as a full-time private investigator this work uh this work experience will provide him and his new environment where investigations umor serve him very well in new environment where investigations are carried out daily J then applied to and was accepted into the competitive alterate route program of the Atlanta County Police Academy similar to like Patrick was known Patrick was here in Bergen and uh just was uh the bottom of the state um where he gra he graduated on November 22nd 2024 so he already graduated uh Justin won the emergency vehicle operations scores competition just so you know that's basically where you get to go take a police guard and beat the crap out of it and have a lot of fun and you uh hit you hit the least amount of cones is what what it is that's basically what it is don't worry they want art cars right they the academy cars and then we also chose something I just heard so he's a specimen just like Patrick is when it comes to um athletes he probably would have won the top athletic award but I I come to find out something that because we were pulling him out of the academy so much uh to interview him and testing this and that they didn't give it to him something so I apologize for that something basically the runner up right um he's currently assigned to the field training uh program here in the department where he's learning all the department procedures and practices in addition to learning all the streets in his Patrol District learning all the streats is not the easiest thing to do folks or something but uh you you you'll get it and you'll you you'll do it well we're equally th equally thrilled to have officer karw joining our team here in the T tenly you're gonna now take your oath uh your brother Chris is going to hold the Bible and pin your badge uh come on a Chris oh yes uh Karen mom's gonna pin the badge if can't clamp it just throw it on okay hi station name hi Justin do Solly swear you Solly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States I support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith in allegiance to the Saint I will bear true faith in Alle to this hand and to the governments established in the United States and the and governments established in the United States and in this state under the authority of the people and in this state under the authority of the people I will Faithfully I will faithfully and partially partially and justly to perform all the duties and justly perform all the duties of probationary police officer of the probationary probationary police officer for the bur T apply the bur T apply according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God ulations theing in ceremony for the two officers uh here in front of me I'm making a cameo appearance is uh in the back row right there is the is also to the Future stifi Police Department the three gentlemen right here which will be starting the academy uh in January and also be sworn in on rorg day is at the second or the third right so these guys are going be started in the academy fresh we picked them up in the academy Midway through uh but five new people uh yes I I'm starting to feel old that's okay that's okay but uh so that concludes the uh the ceremony I want to thank you for your time and I just want to say con you know congratulations but also thank you for coming to tenly and choosing our community we're really proud to have you guys here and extremely excited and uh as the chief said we're doing a lot of recruiting and you've got three new uh three new right three new recruits right behind you coming on board so um you know it's a great town it's uh it's got its challenges but I know you guys will be up to it so thank you very much for uh joining Poli Bo okay yeah everyone's welcome to stay for the whole council meeting if you have enough coffee with you thanks guys all right we've got um council members and Omar okay so just we have two gifts that were donated to the borrow I just wanted to share with you that were donated recently the first one is from photo photographer Joey shim and he had an exhibit at the KCC and I happen to mention I like one of the photographs so he doed a replica of it to the town so we're going to frame this and hang it for a hall of course it's uh you know the train tracks in front of Angeli so that's very cool so thank you Joey Elizabeth Elizabeth instead of in front of the Elizabeth ktie Stanton station the second gift here is from the Korean Community Center and this is a replica of a Celadon in laid gilded chrysanthemum and Vine cup from the 15th century and it's got I don't want to actually well you know what I will take it out I won't break it and it's got gold leaf on it all kinds of beautiful stuff 15 Cy yeah you were young yeah all right so Omar why don't you prepare the appropriate re resolutions so we can accept it all the you know the next available council meeting all right we'll put them on display here at borrow Hall so thank you to Joey shim and thank you to the Korean Community Center okay all right next on the agenda um since we're going to start off to be considered the draft of the membership program for the municipal pool I'd like to first start by appointing the ad hoc committee that we talked about at the last council meeting and uh so for the Ed hoc committee for the pool I'm appointing Janet Kim Maria valz valz tahadia and Christine cook okay and then um let's take it away with the draft membership program discussion good all right okay um I in your packet or or on the screen I have the U municipal pool registration program uh basically in in working with the mayor and with the three members of the ad hoc committee uh we basically came up with a a membership amount for 2025 and to really encourage membership uh to be paid prior to February 28th so we can gauge uh whether or not this this uh pool season we'll be able to move forward we're we're providing a 15% discount for family membership for both uh the in tenly Residence and outside of tenly residence um on this form uh it says family grandparents so the word grandparents should be removed it's really just family membership um the form some of the form was borrowed from another town so that didn't get caught so just now um other than that if there are any questions I'd be glad to answer them um but this is if this is meets with your satisfaction we'll get it out tomorrow and then public ize it between now and February 28th partipants so the the goal in in total revenue for minimum would be $200,000 between all the categories so so in other words if we get 110 tant FL families at 850 or or whatever the excuse me 210 or we get 150 out of town families plus organizations so long as the combination adds up to the 200,000 that's the goal and where do the yeah it was it was it was comparative to other towns uh we did look at creskill we looked at the history of um of uh uh membership announced the tenac Hill Swim Club had placed in place and we did find out through some of the research that their rates were increased on a regular basis without potentially any input from their membership and the increasing of that cost drove members away uh so the ad hoc committee felt strongly that if we were able to set the rates where we have them now that will spark a significant amount of tenderly residents to rejoin the pool well we're we this is reduced from when the The Swim Club R in the operation yes so yes so it's reduced from year over year but not it's it's it's much more consistent with prior years last year they raised the rates and they drove correct correct ran to presco and I'm told we we we JP Pudo who's on online um has his certified pool operator license he worked at the swim club for a few seasons as one of the managers we're looking to bring him on uh to serve in that role for us and uh one of the things we're going to look at is the Staffing that is required uh there's some thought that that the swim club had overstaffed um on a on a shift by shift basis and maybe that was somewhat bloated so we're looking to to ratchet that down as well set be set this target February 28th yes yes so we should I should be prepared to have a report to you for your first meeting in March and so Janet and Christine are here and actually and Maria is online so if any of you have any questions for the committee they're also here I just wanted to refresh how is this geted you well we're going to release it on our webbsite uh uh Jamie Canon is going to send it to all the folks that are on community pass I can be it will be able to be signed up own Community pass and paid through Community pass as well um we're also going to ask the school to put it on their communication we'll put it on Facebook uh channels and my mayor's messaging mayor's messaging and so forth the senior center the mayor yes in theer can put it on his every Friday from now through through February and I also appreciate I know you guys were at the winter festival so thank you guys for thatz I'd love I don't know if anyone's available for we have the Santa uh this week this week yeah yes so I don't know if anyone could Jo go there but you guys they're doing a great job of getting thank you it's a good idea yeah I think the Santa visit is tomorrow so when I'm sorry go ahead and the website as well yes yeah so so when will so if I put this in this Friday's message will people be able to go on Friday at 401 to register some yes yes Community pass will be up and run I've talked to Jamie about it so hopefully we're going to get the community pass portion of this up and running tomorrow or Thursday and then we can put okay yes all right any other questions go ahead is there a um an online um version of this yeah this is going to be put online and fillable online the B website with instructions on where to then email that or send the payment but you know primarily we want to try to direct them on the community pass because in community yes they can pay through Community ta right but I mean there's no online like where you can actually fill in the information yes so this is going to be online but they have to send it in well no it's once you go on community pass to do this this this everything here will pop up and then they'll fill in there'll be some mandatory responses that they've read the acknowledg rules and so forth and that we weren't going to put anything up until after this meeting perfect thank you any other questions from anyone okay so do we have a consensus to do this we're going to move forward Full Speed Ahead then okay wait go ahead what correct correct 100% yeah we're going to I Janet I think has the email addresses to those uh to those members that previously from out of town or that are out of town that were former members right out of would be to get so we can work on that offline okay okay I mean even for previous years you the ones who have gone to whatever record they have all right any other question sounds like we're good to go okay thank all three of you thank you all three of you you have did you want did you want I didn't want did you want to say something or just come up to the microphone yes thank you okay well now nowes now we I mean you the fair we're looking forward to spreading the word now we can actually put a number to it um and really start spreading the word and getting people to sign up so we're excited that we got here we really appreciative that you're all supporting for here okay we're all working towards it okay thanks for all your work and Maria also it's just the beginning thank you yes beginning right okay thank you all right have a great night now the hard part starts yeah yeah okay uh next is the Bergen County Division of Community Development uh cdbg Grant okay um so about a year and a half back when we were talking about the RO Street Park I remembered that Andy hippol had mentioned in passing that this location would be great for an ADA Compliant F he said that would be eligible and probably completely paid for by a community block grant I have to confess I didn't really I was only focusing on the park and I didn't really know what the community block grant was but I had it in the back of my head when Adam reached out and we were talking about Community black Grant ideas I remembered how Andy had said that and um so just as a little background for anyone listening our Grove Street park has ADA Compliant flower beds that there raised that's where people with wheelchairs can do the gardening those are the community garden clots and they it's also being designed that a person can park go in a wheelchair and then all the pathways they can go like directly through the entire park around the skate park come back and that's all wheelchair exible path so this is a this is an adaa compliant part so one of the pieces of the community block grant is you know that a bathroom putting in an a compliant bathroom is really in line with with what one of the tenants of the grant is so um that was an idea that I thought might be worth pursuing yeah so there is a resolution on the agenda tonight to authorize the grant application for the Grove Street Park uh and to authorize cers to uh formally submit that on our behalf um I would mention that um we are somewhat limited on what projects we could entertain um because would have to be at one of our public facilities uh primarily serving senior citizens and disabled uh residents because none of our census tracks among themselves qualify for cdbg Grants so this is an opportunity I think we're going to apply for 250,000 and uh there is a typical match usually got 20% so whatever they award we would match that by 20% and then that would be our project and for what it's worth I mean anyone can use the bathroom and I I feel that you know as a mother I had young kids who took my kids to the park sometimes the thing that's forgotten about is the the need for a bathroom if you have little kids and stuff so I think this is a great family addition recommendation any other questions about this so Omar we going to add this as 540 and 541 so yeah so we're going to add this as yes 540 and 541 so 540 is for the engineering 541 is for the grant itself 250,000 yes okay okay that all right thank you for that um it's public comment time audience members wishing to speak will have a three minute time limit to address the governing body uh on any items on a off the agenda large groups are asked to have a spokesperson represent them is there anyone here in the chambers from the public that would like to speak there anyone here Omar see no hands mayor okay is there anyone online that would like to speak please uh raise your hand or speak up now Omar no one there hi everyone oh JP yes how's it going good just speak up a little please can you hear me yeah yes okay I know you all are voting on the TAC performance stipend agenda um I did provide uh information to Omar to disseminate all of you so I just wanted to see if there were any questions or concerns um you know Tac as always is doing the most for the town um and has over the past year gone above and beyond and even with our updated ordinance um you know now the members have to do five times as much work to earn their performance stipended um and that's why we're asking for that increase so I just wanted to see if anyone had any questions um but we thank you for your support and uh we look forward to continuing to support uh the town of ten flag well JP we thank you and your team for everything you do for the community so that's uh that's really the challenging part right so thank you for that and congratulations for all the hard work your team does um does anyone have any questions for JP at this point no thank you JP okay app thank you JP and please thank you yes I will thank you happy holidays everyone okay any other members of the public online or in the chambers that would like to speak Omar are you seeing any hands or anyone wanting to speak online see no hands mayor all right we're going to close public comment time and let's move right on to the administrator's report please sure thank you Mr Mayor um uh before getting into the written part of my report I just wanted to bring up a couple things on on some cost-saving matters and and some solutions one is actually your teabag um as as uh we have talked previously Dr cherto was unable to move forward with being the medical director um because of insurance concerns and the like of the time that that insurance would have to be to be to be covered uh so we have a vacancy there and it's a needed position um to allow for the TAC to have epipens and naren and CPAP and some other things that are required by by uh prescription or to be directed by a medical director um I I reached out to Dr Barber shriman um at Anglewood hospital and um she is uh willing to entertain the possibility of becoming the medical director for us um she is looking to set up a meeting with JP and his leadership uh that will be joined by arle aison the mayor myself uh to make sure everybody's sort of on the same page uh she has some expectations on chart review and some other things uh that she will require to to lend her license to be to be the uh medical director The Beneficial part is um uh the site for that is probably going to be something about $4,000 which is significant it's a fraction of the money that we had set aside in the budget to pay for the male practice insurance so in 2024 we never paid for the male practice insurance because we couldn't work that out so we have money to in fact pay for that we can carry it over and make an appropriation in 2025 um Anglewood hospitals contribution is they pay for the medical malpractice insurance as a community service uh so uh Dr Shan serves as medical director for a few other uh municipalities uh volunteer ambulance quarter so uh we will be joining some others and uh you know from all concerned she has a good track record in talking with JP about this yesterday um it's it's my understanding that the TAC membership at what point had had wanted to have that describing um a few years ago and so we're we're basically going to pick up where that was left off so so she is able to do it simply because the hospital is an ongoing organization that will still be insured 50 years from now so she's covered by their insurance cor yes okay yes so and that's not going to cost us anything Anglewood Hospital provides that as a community service so we're essentially getting that coverage for free that's fabulous okay um okay the other thing I have is on the shared services uh uh um we have an opportunity before us to significantly uh cost reduce or cost avoid some expenses um specifically the county executive has reached out and has offered a share of service for uh County fiber and uh the county fiber is going to be 10 times faster than what we are paying for right now currently we're paying about $155,000 a year um the county fiber is going to cost us $150 a month the fiber is here in tenna fly and ready to go we would just need a green like that if there's a consensus to move that forward we can put a resolution on the recess agenda to get that process moving so 1,800 versus 18,000 well 15,000 yeah I go a low yeah you want to go with the low one um and then likewise uh we we're doing uh we just started some due diligence with potential of having County it provide Our IT services and and um the preliminary uh Mark is that that's going to be at least half of what we're currently paying um and uh you know they will provide the firewall and uh do an assessment of our computers offer some training maintain our computer system and uh we also have the ability through them to potentially look at a new phone system which hasn't been upgraded for a number of years um and in a phone system they will be able to support through the shared Service uh so that is still work in progress we have some du diligence they're going to be back here on Thursday to walk through our building to do an assessment for us um and you know depending on what that assessment is and and how they would like to proceed you know we may be in a position to present that to the council um if not at the recess meeting at the ju at the January 14th all right so um so the caes Full Speed Ahead and then more information to come on the details the it okay go ahead Julian so on Grove Street park one you noted that the skate equipment is due to come in in March just want to be clear we're not waiting for the opening of the entire thing for that SK right we're still on target for the yeah so so kindan our contractor is On Target to complete his T by January 31st so all the other aspects of the park should be in place by them barring any major uh Blizzard or something of that nature right um so if there's a weather event that may get extended but if we keep with the current weather we have we should be okay the reason I was asking is you know I with Green Team and environmental commission and they're going to have to get their plan in order for community garden plots that are raised like you know they have to decide you know people differently abled people and how they're going to organize that Reserve those PL so their target they should be kind of having an idea by January 31 yes theoretically yes not that there Wasing at that moment but you know yeah and um you know th those uh those planners and so forth we will make a decision whether they should be put out now or put out in the spring oh so that they get you know feed up in the winter without without um but they you know kindergate is own Target he'll be he'll complete the skate park equipment as you know is from a separate vendor and there was a lead time to order that equipment so they're targeting to have that installed for us in March they really think it will be March like that traffic yeah remember that we we authorized we authorized that contract in uh either late SE setember or early October okay so we're we're running the me time clock so we should yes we're all we're all done with the skate yes go yes um we're going to uh they're going to be getting fines um those that have uh failed completely failed grease traps are most likely going to get a summons for a $5,000 fine um those that are partially failed meaning they just don't have their paperwork on site and New Order will get a $500 I like the one that they didn't know and then there's then there's there's there's at least one that just doesn't have GRE truck at all do they have it now I I would have to check on that I know that was something was discovered last the quarterly inspection for the business I don't know but again the there's an ordinance make sure it's a lot cheaper I we can look into that but you know the ordinance that you're considering later tonight will make that a requirement to be on a monthly basis and I and we've had a few businesses that have been very responsible I had sent a letter out wonderful I sent a letter out a couple weeks ago and I had instant email um asking if if this is how if this plan to comply uh then I had someone that actually brought their receiv from cleaning to my office which will go to DPW um so we'll take a look at what's been submitted and see if we if there's any invoice cost there but we do have the name of some companies that our businesses are using so if the costs aren't there we can call them just ask I think it's much less than the uh than a $500 monthly so yeah and and it probably would be if they do it monthly then they're not getting you know compacted greas that's sitting there for months so yeah um yeah cleaning grease traps around the magnitudes of hundreds like when was saying not thousands not thousands yeah this is different no when they're on a contract they come in and you know EXC all right any other questions for David on the administrators report the only thing I wanted to the only other thing I was GNA update you want that's on here is the municipal field beautification so we had a preconstruction call with the engineers and the contractor today so they were given a notice to proceed uh they could start as early as they would like but their actual uh committed start date would be March 15 and then they would have 90 days to complete um the actual work inside of defense is going to be about a two we period so they were very specifically given the instruction that work has to be started and completed between March 15th and April 1st so we're not disrupting any of any of the usage of the field and J count was on board and suggested that time frame and she's comfortable with that uh that that time period being placed and you also had an update I think on the Char yeah I think the power is on I just I have to figure out whose orange cones are there so I think I think they're green points but um yeah yeah I'll find out they're not they're not marked for tenly they have other markings on so I don't believe they're ours and those are the fast charges yes it's pretty exciting for me because I saw people charging in the in the one in the field you know Washington when went to the winter festival I like oh God people are using the Chargers that's the goal right it's working all right you good David yes okay all right let's move on to the public hearings please uh the first one uh councilman Roary the ordinance 24- 36 the bond ordinance omark would you please read the confirmation of publication of the ordinance and the title ordinance 24-36 it was published in the December 8th edition of the record it's a bond ordinance to authorize placement of the sanitary sewer line on West Railroad Avenue from River Edge Road to Washington Avenue in by and for the bur tenly in the county of Bergen New Jersey to appropriate the sum of $500,000 to pay the cost thereof to make a down payment to authorize the issuance of bonds to finance such appropriation and to provide for the issuance of bond anticipation news and anticipation of the issuance of such fonds I'd like to open open the floor for any public comment on ordinance 24-36 only anyone online or in the chambers that would like to comment on this Omar do you see any hands in either locations see no hands May okay we're going to close public comment councilman Ry arids like to make a motion please have a second please second Omar please conduct the roll call yes counc Michaels yes counc member Dr o Conor yes counc Park yes counc member rer yes ordinance 24-37 Public Works supervisor uh Omar could you please read the confirmation of publication of the ordinance and the title ordinance number 24-37 it was published in the December 8th edition of the record is an ordinance to fix the salary wage or compensation of the employees of the Department of Public Works represented by the public works supervisor bargaining unit for the calendar years 2025 2026 and 2027 um I'd like to open the floor for public comments on ordinance 24-37 only Omar are there any members of the public online or in the chambers that would like to speak see no hands mayor all I'm going to close public comment councilman Michaels would you like to make a motion I move to pass adopt on second and final reading ordinance 24-37 that notice of same shall be published according to law a second please second uh Omar could you please conduct the roll call C Min yes CER Michaels yes counc Dr o Conor yes counc member Park yes counc member roer yes ordinance 24-38 police salaries Omar could you please with the confirmation of publication of the ordinance and the title of the ordinance ordinance number 24-38 was published in the December 8th edition of the record it's an ordinance to amend ordinance 24 4-15 the salary wage or compensation of the rank of police officers of the police department of the of the burough tenly in the county of Bergen and state of New Jersey for the calendar years 2023 2024 2025 and 2026 I'd like to open the floor for any public comments on ordinance 24-38 only Omar do you see anyone in the chambers or online that would like to make a comment SE on hands okay we're going to close public comment uh councilwoman Dr OK Conor would you like to make a motion please I move to pass and adopt on second and final reading ordinance 24-38 and that notice of same shall be published according have a second please second uh Omar you please conduct the roll call C men yes counc Michaels yes counc M Dr o Conor yes coun M Park yes counc M rer yes ordinance 24-39 admin group salaries 2024 to 2026 can you please read the confirmation of publication of the ordinance and the title oh 2024 26 and 27 my mistake sorry okay ordinance number 24-39 an ordinance that was published in the December 8th edition of the record is an ordinance for the title salary wage or compensation of the employees of the tfly administrative employees bargaining unit unit for the C years 2024 2025 2026 and 2027 I'd like to open the floor for public comments on ordinance 24-39 only Omar any members of the public in the chambers are online that would like to speak hands all right I'm going to close public comment uh councilman men would you like to make a motion please sure I move to pass and adopt on second and final reading ordinance 24-39 and the notice of same shall be published according to law can I have a second please second Omar please conduct the roll call counc member men yes counc Michaels yes council member Dr o Conor yes council member Park yes roll okay uh ordinance 24-40 regulation of grease traps Omar please read the confirmation of publication of the ordinance and the title sure ordinance number 24-40 it was published in the December 8th edition of the record is an ordinance of the burough tly County of Bergen state of New Jersey amending chapter 18 sewer section one sewer connections to revise the regulation of Bree traps and interceptors of the revised General ordinances of the B 10i 2004 okay I'd like to open the floor for any public comments on ordinance 24-40 only Omar is there anyone in the chamber online that would like to speak see hand we're going to close public comment uh councilman Park would you like to make a motion please I move to pass and adopt on second and final reading ordinance 24 4-40 and that notice of same shall be published according to law have a second please second Omar you you please call the role C men yes counc Michaels yes council member Dr Conor yes counc Park yes council member yes okay ordinance 2441 non-represented salary ordinance Omar please read the confirmation of publication of the ordinance and the title ordinance number 24- 41 was it was published in the December 8th edition of the record it's an ordinance to amend ordinance 24-18 the salary wage or compensation of certain management administrative and part-time employees of the burough of tenly in the county of Bergen and state of New Jersey for the calendar years 2024 2025 2026 and 2027 I'd like to open the floor for public comments on ordinance 2441 only Omar is there any member of the public in the chambers or online that would like to uh speak see okay thank good to close public comment uh Council R would you like to make a motion I have a second please second Omar please conduct the roll call counc men yes counc member Michaels yes council member Dr o Conor yes counc member Park yes council member roer yes okay um are there any questions about the consent agenda okay could I have a motion to approve resolutions 20 r24 d523 through r24 d541 I I have a second second Omar please call the rooll men yes Michaels yes council member Dr Conor yes counc Park yes council member rer yes can I get a motion to approve the minutes of November 26 2024 the mayor and council meeting and December 3rd 2024 the mayor and council meeting have a second second uh Omar please call please all in favor I any any opposed okay committee reports Dan why don't we start with you tonight uh met with Tac yesterday and we just passed their stip and so that's about it all right so they're happy all right thank you um Vu anything to report uh nothing I besides the uh Senior Center met yesterday and um um you know the numbers are up to 6 640 I think it was fabulous1 uh they're they're happy with the um with you know the progress or the you know what grow the movement down the senior center um you know at least without necessarily knowing that it'll come to pass that way okay very good thank you councilwoman Dr Okana yes um so the environmental commission met and uh I was going to put this in the to be considered but I think I might have missed the deadline um however I've just been putting in the committee report because uh they are endorsing something that I'd like us to think about who is the Environmental commission okay it's called Uh skip the stuff ordinance now skip the stuff ordinance is about that the customer would ask for plastic utensils when they're doing takeout rather than automatically put in because a lot of times we go home you have all those plastic utensils you didn't even need it it ends up in the garbage so uh the these ordinance has been passed in Hoboken Jersey City places with like large takeout businesses Red Bank it's getting more popular throughout New Jersey um so this would be the type of thing to just reduce some of the plastic pollution some of the litter and I think it's also it's finding it to be a win-win for the businesses themselves because it's going to lower their bottom line I know that we already have some places in town to do this for example when you go to t a f Diner if you get the utensils they'll charge you for them so you know that's usually a question they ask to are you any utensils to say no but if you ask for them there's a charge so it's not like we don't have this in some of our businesses already but uh this is something that they have an ordinance kind of a template been past in municipalities throughout the state and so they endorse this anything to get some of the Plastics out do you want to add that to be considered for the conversation next meeting sure is is that what you yeah but that but this was this was basically my report was that I didn't care okay it's just I I had wanted to put it into be considered but I just put it the environmental commission was endorsing doing ordinance like this so I could bring up one of the sample ordinances for next meeting see we all think yep you can do that sure to be considered yeah we'll see if there's interest in it and um uh so basically uh they're we are um already communicating with the Nature Center has reached out saying that they would be um able to take more trees from the shade tree fund money like they had planted trees last year um from that fund that helps them with their uh Forest Health Plan because they are trying to replace invasives with uh native trees so I've connected their wish list over to Mike so we'll see in this upcoming planting season what's left and you know for the Nature Center just a quick question Council um there are a couple potentially new members one of the uh one of the folks is very passionate about how we bring even more color and Vibrance to the downtown one idea that they had was uh you know we have this JG front I don't know if this is how we do it but they're he already identified places throughout the downtown sort of in between the street and whatever the store is can we plant is the fund we use that money I don't know I don't know if that fund does I think that shap tree fund is because I asked that question is specifically for tree Oh I thought you me um location I thought you me little gardens or something no no no I'm saying there's space between the street and whatever the store whatever so if you give me those locations I'm GNA forward them over to Mike because he and his tree guy they're the Arbiter of where it will go so so a lot of times somebody saying put it here they go inspect it they'll look at underground um wiring they'll look at light and then they'll say yes or no but right away and we have to make sure whatever trees you put there we have to make sure that the root struction doesn't destroy the sidewalks and and U you know the and Mike is very educated throw it over to me and I will pass it on to him bamboo some bamboo because all I do is I took tree all the time so no that's awesome I and I can communicate with okay I will have the team send us a prioritized list and I there there is money in the shade tree fund you know so yeah every place we cank thank you Adam uh just a huge thank you first to our residents uh for a successful Winter Wonderland on uh you know very popular on the ice rink maybe we should do it was really good I mean of course the s'more tables always seem to win over everything uh so I'm happy that the school's got some some stuff there but a huge thank you please pass on to DPW City Rec Department everyone did a great job around how are the conditions of those plates I walked over and a little beat up the plates the ice plates yeah we could do it again super cool remember 100 years ago during Co actually thank our residents right businesses actually we privately funded the entire event if we could get it used so you know the feedback I actually got last night we had a meeting um the idea of doing it for six three months doesn't seem to work as well but the idea for Santa for Lua Wonderland right you know it works for particular events so again I'd happily and I'm sure our our businesses would happily uh upgrade we did do one upgrade since the original bu we we bought some stuff we added we actually expanded it to make it even a little bigger but I'm happy if I would love the residents to tell me that we want to do it more often and I'd happily f it just has to be but the big thing is it has to be flat so we thought about doing it I my aspiration was theer area the problem is the roads are not flat enough it has to be really flat really flat the basketball courts are really flat so I'd love other places but as long as it's flat we I don't know the matal I'm sure I'm sure you can buy an underlay foam under L um so on that note Dan dvw did mentioned that this is probably the season that you're going to get the the most out of uh out of these current panels so we we would need to look at potentially the cost of replacing prodes do you remember the number for the first run 50,000 50,000 yeah right see again I promise I would commit I'll get you guys the money again we did it all privately last time if we get the engagement the first year was great the second year was waning the Third year is just pretty much me and you know Jamie and Carol every day uh which was great and it was very romantic three of us but not so much for the rest of the res it's hard to get kids out yeah we tried I mean again we did it for birthday parties for some time schol it's aen what else Council that's all I got thank you very much Council roting police all our there that was a long was challeng that was a long leap season thank them for their efforts yes they did a great they did a great job they did a great job okay um mayor's remarks then we're done with committee reports a little update I spoke to Tom Toronto today at United yes United Way um in terms of the project on um Serpentine they expect to be in front of the planning board or hoping to be in front of the planning board in February with their plans for that uh for the veterans housing over there um and so one of the things I brought up with him we talked about the street parking we talked about that earlier this year we want to allow them to be able to park the cars of the residents that are in that those apartments there on the street okay you know overnight right and so we're going to have to we'll put this on for to be considered for the next meeting Jan well the next meeting where it makes sense to put it right after re right and so what will happen you'll draw up an or ordinance we'll put it to be considered and then we want to hopefully pass that before plan because the planning board's going to need that to make their variances for parking and just to bring Folks up to Fe and may not recall the reason that this deviation of parking is needed is because otherwise there would be less units on the site and the council had tked United Way with coming up with the greatest bang for the buck so to speak forer um so obviously the and take is there's not enough room for rsis paring standards yep we remember okay all right um would you like to read the language for Clos session please no was I was going to do the ad HW committee now but I did that earlier right resolution r24 d uh I'm sorry Omar what's the number 40 542 and a meeting of the mayor and Council of the bur of tenly County of Bergen state of New Jersey held on December 17 2024 be it resolved in compliance with njsa 10 colum 4-12 the mayor and Council the burough of tfly are going into closed executive session to discuss the following matters attorney client privilege matters are affordable housing update and litigation update Personnel matters are personel policies update minutes will be taken of the meeting and released to the public at the time that the matter is resolved I have a motion to go into close please could I have a second second all in favor any opposed