[0:01] Okay, good evening, everyone, and welcome to the May 11, 2020, we're a council meeting of the even

[0:06] touching, we're a council. After the notice that this meeting has been given in accordance with the

[0:09] open public meetings act, pursuant, law of 1975, chapter 231, said notice was sent to the

[0:16] Home News Tribute and star ledger on January 2, 2020, close to in Burl Hall and on file and

[0:21] clerk's office. All requirements of the open public meetings act have been satisfied. This meeting

[0:28] is being conducted through electronic communication equipment by a Zoom teleconferencing due to the

[0:33] COVID-19 crisis, formal action will be taken by the Mayor and Council this meeting. The meeting

[0:39] is open to the public. Members of the public wishing to attend the meeting in our participate

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[0:56] six, five, seven, eight, six, three during the course of this meeting as to the every other meeting members of the public will be given the opportunity to provide comments, the meetings being streamed by by a Facebook for your viewing pleasure and

[1:13] Please join me for the flag salute.

[1:18] A pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States.

[1:24] And take the Republican candidate for the nation.

[1:31] Mr.

[1:35] Jackson?

[1:35] roll call. Councilman Julia. Here. Councilman Hersch. Here. Councilman Hagle.

[1:44] Here. Councilwoman Rasmussen. Here. Councilwoman Ruben. Here. Council President Kaskowski.

[1:53] Here. Mayor Bush. Here. Okay. This time to have a motion. Open the agenda session.

[2:01] I moved to open the agenda session.

[2:03] Thanks. Do I have a second?

[2:05] Second. All those on favor?

[2:08] Hi. Hi.

[2:11] I'm not opposed.

[2:12] All right, Spain.

[2:15] So opening the agenda session?

[2:16] Excuse me.

[2:17] I didn't do anything for everything tonight.

[2:20] No, no, no.

[2:21] I only told you for the minutes.

[2:22] Okay.

[2:23] The motion is carried.

[2:25] And so we are now opening the agenda session.

[2:27] Are there any items for the agenda session?

[2:30] I don't have anything, okay, thank you, Council President, anything else from anyone else?

[2:36] All right, seeing none.

[2:37] They have a motion to close the agenda session.

[2:39] I move to close the agenda session.

[2:41] Is there a second?

[2:43] Second.

[2:44] All this in favor?

[2:45] Aye.

[2:47] Are there anything to close?

[2:50] All right, sitting none.

[2:53] We are now.

[2:54] I'll see how smooth we're getting here.

[2:55] Feel you?

[2:56] I get.

[2:57] And I, at this point we have public comment, I'm going to open up the theme to public comment.

[3:02] We have a couple people who have joined the meeting and I'm going to do my best to

[3:06] try to bring them in here. I see if any of them have comments. I'm going to call them by

[3:13] or either information we have by them, but certainly the number is available for you if you

[3:18] want to call. It's on the number to call and contact us for public comments a lot.

[3:25] 2, 0, 5, 6, 0, 9, 9, 9. The media ID is 849, 2, 3, 2, 7, 117, 2, 2 and the past were there at 6, 5, 7, 8, 6, 3. So depending on what they actually ask you, that's the info you need.

[3:42] and I think they came in here. The first person I'm going to call on is Linda Campbell.

[3:53] Oh, yes. I was wondering if you had come to any decision about opening the municipal

[3:59] pool with the summer. Okay, Highland, did you give your dress for the record?

[4:05] No, I did not. I am not a resident of Mithetchen, but I took along to the pool. Okay, no problem.

[4:10] That's fair. I just for the for the record we usually like we don't have to give it to us, but it's it's helpful to have it.

[4:16] So we have not yet come to the pool commission is not yet coming to the floor. I'm going to send this conversation over to Dan Hirsch, who also member.

[4:26] Who liaison to the pool commission.

[4:28] Yeah, so thank you for the question.

[4:31] We are meeting actually Wednesday night view zone.

[4:34] We've noticed it in the information is on the website at this point.

[4:39] We haven't made a decision, and we've actually gone out to the Board of Health, which I'm

[4:43] often leads on to seeing if we can get any advice as to whether it's going to be opening.

[4:48] If it does open, it won't open until right now June 20th, so it'll give us some time.

[4:52] Early bird special, early bird time is actually in our, I believe it's in our, I don't know,

[4:59] one of our motions tonight, that's supposed to start May 15th, but I would say, hold

[5:05] off on sending your money and sending the application and until we know more, as Governor Murphy

[5:13] says, the data determines the dates and that's what we're going. That's what we're going.

[5:17] We need to be needed to the science to make sure it's going to be safe for anybody who uses

[5:20] the call. Okay. Very good. Thank you. All right. So that's the, that is the, that's the, I mean,

[5:30] that's where we are right now. And I appreciate the accounts from her. I think that every single

[5:34] person up here would like to be able to open the news report, the question is going to be

[5:38] able to do it safely. So we know that people want some semblance, they want their entire

[5:45] summer, obviously, but they want some semblance of what their summer usually looks like.

[5:49] There's a question as to what that is at this point. So we're going to do our best.

[5:55] But you see your patience as we try to figure this out, as you understand. It's hard to think one week.

[5:59] I had a little loan. I'm off there. Thanks, here we go. I appreciate you coming in today.

[6:06] Okay, thanks. Thank you.

[6:09] At this point, I have a 973 number that ends in E2. I'm going to unmute me now and please just give your name and address for the broad council if you would like to address us.

[6:23] May I? This is Fred Snell. I'm just listening.

[6:27] Hello again, Fred. I should now memorize your number for next time. I don't have to do that.

[6:31] I'm just listening.

[6:32] Thank you, Fred.

[6:33] For those of you who don't have it, Fred Snowflag

[6:36] is a reporter with the Matouch and Mirra.

[6:38] So he covers our meetings and we're happy to have them

[6:40] with us.

[6:42] Let's see, we've got someone with a name going on.

[6:45] I'm going to give us your full name

[6:47] and address for the record.

[6:48] We'd appreciate it.

[6:49] Hi, Gwen.

[6:51] Hi.

[6:52] Hi.

[6:54] Would you like to address the Baroque Council?

[6:55] Oh, no, I'm just watching, as always.

[6:58] This Gwen Roseman?

[6:59] Yes.

[7:00] I'd like one. How are you?

[7:02] Okay. Thank you for participating.

[7:08] When was the one who gave us the video on the 1929 Matuchin movie, which was really cool.

[7:17] I saw it. That was provided by the Matuchin Historical Society.

[7:22] And I guess when in the 1990s gave a copy of it to the Matuchin Edison Historical Society.

[7:30] Reminded me, I don't even, I only remember the game. Give it to me to not hurt all the hours. I guess two weeks ago. We're going to have to go. So anyway, it was a, it was funny.

[7:44] Anybody, anybody else, we're going to give another minute or so for anyone who may want to participate.

[7:48] for the watch on Facebook live, presumably.

[7:53] You can see that we have a,

[7:57] we have, I'll see,

[8:00] local movement movement movement.

[8:01] Anyone wants to participate as your chance?

[8:07] No?

[8:08] Okay.

[8:09] I'll come in and comment period.

[8:12] I'm gonna stop the share here.

[8:17] And we are going to move on to,

[8:20] or then's 2020, dash it online.

[8:24] Thank you, Mayor.

[8:25] Ms. Jackson, will you please present the

[8:26] appadavit of publication?

[8:28] Appadavit of publication, stating that

[8:31] said the ordinance 2020-09 has been

[8:33] published one time in the long news

[8:34] to be in according to law on April 30, 2020.

[8:39] I move that the appadavit of publication

[8:41] be received in files.

[8:43] We have a second.

[8:45] All those in favor?

[8:47] Aye.

[8:47] Are you opposed?

[8:50] Council President?

[8:51] Ms. Jackson, will you please read the

[8:52] and sites had a lonely.

[8:54] In order to amend subsection E,

[8:57] multi-family zones in chapter 110,

[8:59] dash 95.7, new construction in Article 21,

[9:04] affordable housing, in part three zoning

[9:07] of chapter 110 land development of the code

[9:10] of the borough of the touch and to further address compliance

[9:14] with the boroughs of affordable housing obligations.

[9:18] Okay, before we open the public hearing on this,

[9:22] I just ask Melissa Perlstein, our bird administrator, if there's anything she wants to add,

[9:27] the reader's digest version of this ordinance.

[9:31] Yeah, this is just to clarify how they count units for the affordable housing and it was part

[9:39] of the settlement agreement and this area of 0.5 and above means that another unit needs to

[9:47] needs to be part of the project for the Affordable Unit, point five and below means that

[9:56] there's just a monetary piece. So what we should just to be fair share housing, one of

[10:01] this clarify that for our fair share settlement agreement and things moving forward.

[10:09] All right, thank you very much for this question on that one.

[10:13] Can you give us an example, let's say we built a 500 apartment unit building, hopefully

[10:22] on Oak Heights, many years on the road, what's going to be the approximate number of

[10:28] here housing or portable apartment building in that building?

[10:33] Todd, unfortunately, I don't know the numbers off the back of my hand in terms of what

[10:39] the settlement agreement itself dictates basically in in those instances there is a formula,

[10:48] I'm not so sure what that formula is I can get back to you at the next council meeting

[10:52] but this was purely to clarify when it's 0.5 because there's a whole formula that is driven

[10:58] by the number of houses and it's usually a percentage but then when the units come into and there's

[11:04] 0.5% ratio, 0.5 and below means that there's a monetary amount, and it doesn't mandate

[11:13] another affordable unit, which I've been above means that you have to provide another unit,

[11:20] but the specifics of which I'm sorry, I'm not that bad enough, but to be able to be able to

[11:26] give you that, but I can do it at the next council meeting.

[11:28] I think council's got something to say.

[11:31] Yeah, look at the ordinance says that it's a minimum of 50% of the total units in a multi-fam multiple family dwelling 15% of the apartments must go to low, low income and then it's something about for sale if it's for sale like this condo, it's not a 20% so that that's basically the number.

[11:55] Right, and this is just, which is required by Mr. Murphy's organization. I mean, this is just required by law.

[12:01] This has an updition. This is something that we're doing as part of our resolution with the affordable housing group. Is that correct, Mr. Murphy?

[12:08] Yes, and it's my understanding, this has already been passed.

[12:12] It's just that there was a gap in in the, what the definition of, I mean, when you needed to go out with the way it was.

[12:19] Because it initially read, I mean, if it was greater than 0.5, then you went to the next.

[12:27] If it was less than 0.5, then you made a payment.

[12:33] But it didn't address if it was 0.5.

[12:36] So what this revision is really just to reflect that it's 0.5 or greater than you have to

[12:45] do a different unit.

[12:46] But this isn't changing your set aside amounts. That's already has been in place.

[12:58] Any other comments?

[13:02] Council, at this point, we're going to open the bubble hearing.

[13:06] Would you or anyone who would join us just so the purpose of discussing this?

[13:10] Since we have a bubble hearing for once again,

[13:13] I'm going to share the phone number.

[13:15] I feel like this is a calling show on cable access.

[13:18] To 0 5 6 0 9 9 anyone looking or address the broadcast on this topic. We're going to go a little longer than we normally do. Just to get people the opportunity to speak to us. Obviously we want to make sure that we comply with the provision of adopt ordinance adoption by having this open to the public. So I know there's some people looking to have me a little slight small discussion about this on.

[13:47] If there's anyone who wants to address us, they'd have to call in.

[13:52] It is number.

[13:55] We're going to wait about 30 seconds.

[13:57] It's like there.

[13:58] Mr. Murphy to comply with the ordinance.

[14:02] Thank you.

[14:07] While we're waiting on that,

[14:09] we have another public hearing that I'll be coming next with respect to

[14:14] the license and permitting fees.

[14:16] That would be nice.

[14:20] A poor fees fees.

[14:25] Yes, right.

[14:26] Okay.

[14:27] All right,

[14:31] I'm going to stop about share now.

[14:32] We're going to move on.

[14:34] The public hearing is now closed on that provision.

[14:38] On that award.

[14:39] Yeah, I moved to the past ordinance 2020-9 on second reading

[14:43] and published according to law.

[14:46] Hey, is there a second?

[14:47] Second.

[14:49] May roll call please.

[14:50] Mr. Jackson.

[14:51] Councilman Dealia.

[14:54] Councilman Hirsch.

[14:56] Councilman Paygon.

[14:57] Yeah.

[14:58] Councilwoman Rasmussen.

[14:59] Thanks for watching, and don't forget to like, share, and subscribe to our channel.

[15:00] Yes. Councilwoman Rubin? Yes.

[15:03] Now, the President of the Cascade.

[15:05] Yes. Okay. Moving on to ordinance 2020-11. Ms. Jackson, would you please present the

[15:14] Affidate of Publication.

[15:16] Affidate of Publication, state in that said ordinance 2020-11, has been published one

[15:21] time in the Home News Tribune, according to law on April 30, 2020.

[15:25] I move that the affidavit of publication be received in files.

[15:30] We have a second.

[15:32] All those in favour?

[15:34] Aye.

[15:36] Maxim, would you please read the ordinance by title on me?

[15:39] In order to amend sub,

[15:42] sorry, wrong one.

[15:43] In order to amend the code of the borough of a touch in various chapters

[15:46] to amend certain application license and fees.

[15:54] All right.

[15:54] I'm just going to open the public hearing on this other ordinance, but before we get into that, and as I'm sharing the screen again.

[16:04] Bird Administrator Ms. Pearlstein, do you have a quick just a quick you on this one? This is pull fees right.

[16:12] Yes.

[16:14] Yes, it's pull fee and it was just at our last pull commission meeting. It was decided that we would go back and change the amounts that were adopted.

[16:23] I guess it was some time in January to reflect the change in the dates of the potential

[16:29] poll opening being June, June 20th and looking at that and changing it to reflect

[16:37] the results of the pandemic and COVID-19 and that's not being able to open when it normally

[16:44] would have opened by this point. Okay, thank you very much.

[16:50] I'm just going to open it up right now, as you can see the screen once again.

[16:54] We are back to the calling component of our show, right?

[17:02] I mean, it's just like kind of silly this whole thing.

[17:04] The idea of having a public meeting like this is really hard.

[17:06] This is the best way we can do it.

[17:09] And obviously to comply with the public meetings act and give everybody as much as possible access

[17:15] to the prevent, you should be into the run night.

[17:19] To the council, we want to make sure that we have this number.

[17:22] So if you'd like to speak to the council on this issue,

[17:25] this particular ordinance, 992056099 information is on the screen.

[17:31] You don't see anyone's called in.

[17:32] I'm going to wait a couple seconds on this. Okay.

[17:46] Okay.

[17:47] Seeing nobody joining our meeting to talk about this specific purpose,

[17:51] I'm going to close the portion of the meeting dealing with the public hearing.

[17:55] Okay, then at this time, I'd like to move to pass ordinance 2020-11 on second reading.

[18:02] I'm going to go into law.

[18:03] May I have a second?

[18:04] Second.

[18:05] A roll call.

[18:06] Please, Mr. Jackson.

[18:07] Councilman Dealia.

[18:10] Councilman Hirsch.

[18:11] Yes.

[18:12] Councilman Pakele.

[18:14] Yes.

[18:15] Councilwoman Rasmussen.

[18:17] Yes.

[18:18] Councilwoman Reuben.

[18:20] Yes.

[18:21] Council President Cascoste. Yes. At this time, I moved to approve Burrow Council special meeting minutes of April 20, second 2020 and the regular meeting minutes of April 26 2020.

[18:37] for a second.

[18:39] Second.

[18:40] All those in favor.

[18:42] Are there any opposed?

[18:46] Do we have any abstentions?

[18:48] But I think.

[18:50] For the record and an ostentian by, Mr. Patigol,

[18:53] on both cases,

[18:57] reports of Council members,

[18:58] Council President Kaskowski.

[19:01] So I'd like to report that as of this moment,

[19:04] we are at 72.3% for our census response rate.

[19:09] So it's pretty good, guys we're doing pretty good, but I like to get that up to a hundred percent.

[19:15] So if you can hear me, please go do your senses, do it. Do it now, and let's try to get a

[19:22] to a hundred percent. It's so important for us to get an accurate count. Having an accurate count

[19:26] is the only way to make sure that we have appropriate representation in Washington and that we've

[19:31] access to grant funding and, and, you know, the proper emergency response and all different kinds of things that we need, so we need to make sure that everybody responds.

[19:46] So go to your senses and that's all I have. Thank you.

[19:55] Thank you, Mayor.

[19:56] I don't really have a report.

[19:59] Last week, we were able to deliver 115 meals to the senior citizen building on Lincoln Avenue that was funded by the donations from our residents to the feeding the front line fund.

[20:19] So I think the Meals will well received was very happy that we had such a wonderful turnout of volunteers to help us make those deliveries and we will continue to

[20:32] to be open to need and make some determinations of how we can support the seniors in our community going forward.

[20:39] So thank you to everyone who donated and participated.

[20:43] Thank you.

[20:44] Thank you. Councilwoman Rasmussen. I have really nothing now because I haven't had any meetings, but I think we're going to try to do a Zoom meeting up the environmental commission next week. Great.

[20:58] Okay. Thank you. Councilman Bigel.

[21:01] Yeah, thank you, Mayor. Good evening, everyone.

[21:03] So I sit on spaces and everyone's beards.

[21:06] If you're scoring them, then I know some looking at you, particularly.

[21:09] Thanks for this phenomenal.

[21:12] Yeah, a couple things, so I've been receiving a lot of emails.

[21:15] I know the weather has been crazy.

[21:18] And the added wind has been going the weaknesses of our trees and

[21:24] This is something I have a need to speak with Laura Mishra, I probably have about 5 or 6 emails

[21:33] and like 2s from people who are asking for treatment, etc.

[21:38] So I'll respond back to everybody on the app, I just want everybody to know that this is,

[21:42] we understand that the trees in the such an hour aging and we are working our hardest to clean

[21:47] them up as this is possible to keep our residents safe for walking on sidewalks, etc.

[21:53] So if you did email me, thank you, I will respond back to you and this is something that's going on behind the scenes.

[22:01] We will discuss it and hopefully come up with good solutions moving forward.

[22:05] There's no easy picks because these trees are planted 100 years ago and they are reaching their lifespan.

[22:11] So we need to deal with those over the next couple years.

[22:14] So on a good note, though, with trees, plant capers and everybody knows is an essential business.

[22:19] We will be replacing some trees on Main Street.

[22:23] I'll be submitting that at the Board Administrator pretty soon with our.

[22:30] What we want now many and all those requirements. So we will be planting those downtown as well.

[22:37] It's been great to be with everybody virtually, having some great conversations about revitalizing downtown.

[22:45] What that looks like afterward, we're done with this coronavirus supporting those businesses.

[22:51] Some very smart people in the touch-in are working diligently to come up with really good solutions to support our businesses and our restaurants.

[22:59] So those conversations are happening, I want everybody to know that, and we are, we are tracking on that.

[23:06] So Paula residents who are listening or watching what we're working on all of our students virtually, right?

[23:12] Congratulations to Councilwoman, Council President Custon, 70% that's awesome.

[23:18] That's all I got, Mayor.

[23:19] Thank you, Councilman.

[23:20] Councilman Hirsch.

[23:21] Yes, my only important today is the same report I gave a few minutes ago.

[23:24] We do have a pool commission meeting Wednesday.

[23:26] If you have any questions or any comments, we're welcome to have you come on and share them with us.

[23:34] Again, the call on information is on the website.

[23:38] Thank you.

[23:38] Thank you, Councillor.

[23:40] Councilman Julia.

[23:42] Thank you, Mayor.

[23:44] I have a little bit to add on to what Catherine.

[23:47] I go with just mentioning about opening businesses.

[23:51] I want to let Mayor Council and the public know about an effort that we've been.

[23:56] I especially wanted to mention it since I'm aware that many members of the public have been

[24:00] asking about this topic.

[24:03] So over the last few weeks, I've been meeting with Director of Special Project, Mr.

[24:08] Moldoon, representative from the Custon Downtown Alliance, representatives from the

[24:13] Custon Chamber of Commerce, and a number of local business owners.

[24:17] The point of the meeting is to ensure that all of these stakeholders, including the

[24:21] are doing everything we can to prepare for eventually reopening the touch and for business.

[24:27] So let me keep clear here.

[24:29] This group is not pushing to reopen the touch and prematurely.

[24:34] To echo the mayor's statement from last week, the borough is guided by facts and data.

[24:39] Council and Hirschness and that earlier as well.

[24:41] We've had more than 100 borough residents as positive for COVID-19.

[24:45] It's fairly obvious that we have many more cases in the world that have done on testing.

[24:50] We've been there had several deaths, so we are looking to the state, we're looking to the county, and we're looking to our own OEM office to provide back guidance on when it is appropriate to begin reopening more businesses in the world.

[25:04] We don't yet have any specific dates on when that might be. We don't yet know what a reopening plan might look like, but we will be reopening.

[25:12] At today's Delhi briefing, the governor stated that he is hoping to put some dates on the

[25:17] schedule very soon, and we have examples from other countries and states to get an idea of what

[25:22] we might expect in terms of reopening plans.

[25:25] Well, what we can't do in the meantime, as we're waiting for that more information, and what

[25:29] this group is doing while we wait, is to prepare.

[25:33] So, that once we are able to reopen the session, we do it in a way that is safe for everyone,

[25:37] And then we'll provide as much support as possible for a business community that has been hit so hard by this pandemic.

[25:45] For that end, we've identified several ways that the barrel can assist.

[25:49] One of which is by temporarily reallocating certain public space,

[25:54] for potential use as outdoor dining and retail.

[25:56] Mr. Mildoon and I met with our barrel attorney, Mr. Murphy, this batch Friday,

[26:01] to have him begin to dress an ordinance without effect.

[26:03] So more details about that will be forthcoming, once the ordinance is finalized and available for everyone's review.

[26:11] There's obviously a bit of urgency here.

[26:13] We would love to have this in place prior to reopening date so that our businesses can reap the maximum benefits of it.

[26:22] The chamber, the MBA, the businesses that have all that work really hard on this, it's been great to see everyone come together.

[26:28] our businesses are the anchor of our community, they contribute to our charities, they've sponsored

[26:35] our kids, sports teams, they've provided us with those third places that our communities need

[26:40] to gather and meet. We need to be there for them now so they can be there for us later. So I'm

[26:46] very proud to be able to help try to make sure that happens. And that's my report to everyone.

[26:52] Thank you very much for your work on that council. Mr. Murphy?

[26:58] Anything from council tonight?

[27:01] I've nothing for tonight.

[27:03] Okay.

[27:06] Ms. Perlstein?

[27:11] I just, real quickly.

[27:14] We are preparing the building,

[27:19] Barrel Hall for the potential reopening

[27:22] under different circumstances.

[27:26] We're getting ready to have someone

[27:33] Along with, we've put up barriers, or not barriers, excuse me, glass barriers to all of the offices, where there is interaction on a regular basis, the tax office, the construction code office and the parking authority, all of which we are preparing for when we are able to reopen Burrow Hall to the public on it on a more general basis.

[28:03] that's supposed to be on right now,

[28:06] it's just on a one and by appointment only.

[28:10] So, in the process of doing that,

[28:13] or end the road construction,

[28:15] the NJDOT road paving and construction project continues.

[28:20] They are on Clive Street right now,

[28:24] and they just finished up the sidewalks

[28:26] and they're gonna begin to do paving very shortly

[28:29] if the weather permits.

[28:31] And that's all, thank you.

[28:33] Great. As I appreciate that, and as I mentioned, I've mentioned, I mean through social media and if you're watching this meeting live, perhaps you've seen some of that if you're not on and you're watching this on channel 15 and you haven't heard me say this.

[28:46] You know, I think it's important for us to plan so that my touch is ready and make no mistake, my touch will be ready when the time comes, but the key word is when the time comes.

[28:59] Okay. We're going to be very careful about following state guidance. We have been very careful

[29:05] about following state guidance, but we have done a tremendous amount of circumstances. And we

[29:11] still have 100 and 100, well, we have tested positive for coronavirus in our small town,

[29:20] and considering that our rates or infection rates are good, although that's a weird thing to say

[29:24] that infection rate is good.

[29:26] They're lower than most of our neighbors

[29:29] per resident, right, when you do the ratio.

[29:32] That's still a lot of people in this community

[29:34] have been infected.

[29:35] We've also had two, nine, at least as of right now,

[29:38] according to the information that we have.

[29:41] And so, I don't tell you this information

[29:44] to help to make this gloom and do them.

[29:46] We've had enough of that in the last couple of bonds.

[29:50] And this has been two long months.

[29:53] I mean, I was just telling somebody recently that the last time I got gasoline in my car was more...

[30:00] And I still have three quarters of the tag left of gas. I mean, that's remarkable. I mean, you just think about how many miles I could have saved on my lease, right? But really, you know, this has been two months of sitting around and, you know, taking a walk for the ventures sport, if you will, are picking up food from a, you know, local eatery.

[30:25] you've been incredible the touch and I mean the burrow has really been incredible. You've done everything we've asked

[30:33] but we are coming to a phase where you know all the hard work and put in could be for not

[30:39] if people decide that they just want to get out because it's summer. That's not a that's not a

[30:46] reason to just get out because it's summer. I want to get out. I love summer. I love spring

[30:52] But we can't just jump out of our of our of social distance because we're antsy, right, because we're frustrated. We all are frustrated with all antsy, but every bit of scientific data says that the more social distance we give ourselves the better off we will be and anyone else saying anything else is not true.

[31:18] just not real. And there's a lot more of that not so real information coming into our line of

[31:26] site, right? Lots of stuff on social media, lots of stuff coming out of the White House and television.

[31:31] We need to focus on facts, data, and information. That's real. And we know the state of New Jersey's

[31:41] doing that. You know, I think that Governor Murphy's done a very good job at communicating

[31:47] with us, us to the information that is available at this moment. You know, for people

[31:53] who complain that the Governor, for example, is not enough with respect to the standards

[31:59] of spawns. I have this to say. That is, this is dynamic. It's changing every day. So for

[32:08] For example, if we were to say, you're not saying this, but if we were to say that we're going to be opening on June 1st, okay?

[32:18] If on May 30th, the information did not allow us to, on June 1st, we wouldn't be opening on June 1st, and so I think there's an expectations game here.

[32:30] There's a lot of people who are saying that the burrow needs to provide information or

[32:37] to state needs to provide information.

[32:39] Everybody is trying as hard as they can to provide actual information, but information can't

[32:45] be on information, can't be, if it's not based in the ability to be carried out.

[32:57] And so I think we have to be very deliberative all of this, and it forces all of us to test our last nerve, right?

[33:06] Just because we're in public office doesn't mean that we're, you know, somehow less antsy than the average person, right?

[33:13] Maybe some of us are, because we have all this, this, this work that came to us as a result of, you know,

[33:20] that our borough is in crisis right now,

[33:23] but we are doing everything we can to bring ourselves through.

[33:26] And we will.

[33:27] And as Jason and as Todd and I don't know who else said it today

[33:34] at the meeting, but we're gonna get through this.

[33:36] And when we do, we're gonna be in a strong position

[33:40] as any place in New Jersey

[33:42] because of how well you all handle this.

[33:45] And how supportive you've been, for example,

[33:47] of each other and our downtown and everything else, but let's not throw this away because of

[33:54] impatience. We'll get there. But we have to do it together. We got to be deliberative and you'll

[33:59] look back at this time as the most crucial time that we had in coming through this together. So

[34:06] I think that's really important to point out. I also want to say that the planning that's going on

[34:16] is tentative.

[34:18] So everything that Jason, for example, is talking about,

[34:20] I know that, you know, the special records

[34:22] for Special Projects Jamal Dune has been in conversation.

[34:25] You know, all the stuff that's going on behind the scenes,

[34:28] we're getting a lot of people who are suggesting to us

[34:30] for example that we do a lot more outdoor dining

[34:36] that we have programs specifically to help our businesses

[34:40] to get that going to be right away.

[34:42] But it's again, all of it is going to be based on A, what we're able to do, and B, what is safe.

[34:53] And if it's safe, and it helps our businesses, we'll do it.

[34:58] But we've got to make that determination.

[35:01] So conversations with everybody in the businesses,

[35:12] they can board there about whether or not we'll be able to have some sort of season.

[35:16] These are the same kinds of questions as are we going to be able to open the pool?

[35:20] We don't know.

[35:22] Like to open the pool?

[35:24] Yeah.

[35:25] We would like to have a baseball season.

[35:27] Of course.

[35:28] All my goal is to love to have a baseball season.

[35:30] But it's quite a good way to do it.

[35:32] And safely.

[35:33] So if it can be done, safely, it will be done.

[35:39] So with that, I'm going to go.

[35:42] I did get some feedback from Middlesex County today about the election, they are going to be doing a mass mailing to all voters for potential mail and ballot possibilities for whoever would like to go that route.

[36:00] I will get information up on the website so that the residents can see what's going on.

[36:06] but it just came down today that they are finally putting out information to ask residents

[36:13] to do mail-in ballots and the primary has been moved to July 7th.

[36:20] You put that information on the website?

[36:22] Yeah.

[36:22] I will.

[36:24] Okay.

[36:25] All right.

[36:26] Thank you very much.

[36:30] All right.

[36:30] Do business consent agenda?

[36:32] Council President?

[36:33] Okay.

[36:33] At the time, I moved to approve new business consent agenda resolutions 2020-116 through 118.

[36:41] Do I have a second?

[36:42] Thank you.

[36:44] All those in favor?

[36:46] Aye.

[36:47] Any opposed?

[36:50] All right.

[36:50] So let me just tell you before we go any further.

[36:54] Just to approve.

[36:57] For those of you who like safe pedestrian.

[37:01] Great, and it's not going anywhere else, that's in the debate.

[37:05] We just have to prove our resolution and support of lowering the speed limit on portions

[37:10] of Route 27 to 25 miles per hour.

[37:12] And I guess it's all over those of you follow social media, but again, those of you don't have

[37:17] social media.

[37:19] We are moving closer to 25 miles per hour in most of the borough, including the main part

[37:25] that you know that aspect of Route 27 and that's big.

[37:30] Because of a hard work of council president, Linda Koskowski, councilman, Jason Deelia, and this council

[37:36] overall, their efforts to pushing this issue have been tremendous. So, thank you so much to

[37:44] you all, not everyone loves this, but it makes a safer. So how could we be against it?

[37:50] I love it, and anything in the whole wide world. I want to hug, hug a place I'm out of power.

[37:58] You took the words right out of my mouth, Mayor. I was going to say something about that too. It was very excited that we passed that resolution of support.

[38:04] Great.

[38:05] That's great.

[38:06] Okay.

[38:08] It's really fabulous.

[38:08] So thank you for all your hard work and thank you to the State of New Jersey.

[38:11] If there's been tremendous on that and working on this even while they've been in a obviously statewide pandemic.

[38:20] Next I'd like to make a motion to approve resolution 2020-19

[38:25] which is the resolution authorizing the payment of the bill list, the amounts of $3,100,000,

[38:31] $1,022.99.

[38:34] All right, do I have a second?

[38:35] A second.

[38:36] Isn't paper?

[38:38] Hi.

[38:39] Any opposed?

[38:42] All right.

[38:43] Anybody want to make a motion to adjourn?

[38:46] I move to adjourn.

[38:47] The motions are second?

[38:49] Second.

[38:50] All those in favor?

[38:51] Hi.

[38:52] I'll take a don warnings.

[38:57] Thank you everyone.

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