[0:07] this a combined meeting of the mayor and
Council of bur of Northville the date
[0:11] time and location of this meeting have
been advertised in the official
[0:15] newspaper of the burough filed with the
municipal clerk and posted on the
[0:19] bulletin board in the municipal building
all notice requirements of the open
[0:24] public meetings act for this meeting
have been fulfilled please note the fire
[0:29] exits as ired by law at public meetings
let's rise and
[0:37] salute i al to the flag of the United
States of America and to the stands
[0:46] Nation God
indivisible and justice for all you can
[0:51] just remain standing for one second I
just want to have a moment of silence
[0:54] just keep in our thoughts and prayers
our our police our First Responders and
[0:59] also our military
[1:02] [Music]
thank
[1:25] you okay great so the first thing we're
going to do we have a resolution number
[1:31] 54 which is resolution authorizing to
hire three police
[1:36] officers John Caroll Nicholas chrisa and
Kyle
[1:40] Sullivan so can I get a motion and a
second on
[1:45] that
second motion by Council moner second by
[1:50] Council
sasi a
[1:56] question okay roll
Callan
[2:01] [Music]
[2:07] yes
yes congratulations
[2:19] gentlemen okay so we're GNA um we're
going to take a little break here we're
[2:23] going to do this be swearing in but we
also have something else here and that
[2:27] is on Friday is the uh B's birthday 108
years old March 15th
[2:34] 1916 um and we have a cake and it
coincides nicely with everybody being
[2:38] here so that we can have the cake you
can have the cake
[2:41] so but anyway we're going to come down
and we're going to do the SAR again
[2:46] myself and Council mcaro who was our
police
[2:50] [Music]
[2:58] commissioner
[3:05] and at this point I will turn it over to
Chief
[3:08] osra thank you mayor uh first of all for
first and foremost thank everybody for
[3:14] coming tonight I'd like to congratulate
John Nick and Kyle on this great
[3:21] achievement uh the process was long it
was
[3:26] intensive but they shined through every
of
[3:30] and I congratulate them all
[Music]
[3:39] on I'd also like to thank the mayor and
councel without their support none of
[3:44] this would be happening that burrow was
very fortunate enough to receive a grant
[3:50] uh this year which is enabling us to
hire these three it'll bring North Bale
[3:55] to its highest number ever which is 17
may not seem a lot departments but for
[4:00] us uh it's a great number to be at so
we're very happy to be there and very
[4:05] thankful to the mayor and counsel to
letting us and get to that
[4:10] number thank you to the families for
those of you related to our candidates
[4:17] it's the beginning of a great career
it's going to be a little bit difficult
[4:20] in the beginning please put up with
their schedules uh they early nights let
[4:25] them sleep uh I'd like to thank my
department uh My Command Staff for
[4:31] conducting all the interviews doing a
great job uh the rest of my officers for
[4:36] their support as you can see they're all
in the back there which is makes me very
[4:41] happy to see and friends and
[4:55] family uh and then before we begin too
we do this wearing in I just want to say
[5:00] to you gentlemen you know thank you for
coming out uh and and doing this you
[5:05] guys in the back thank you for what you
do u i I got to tell you I am just sick
[5:10] and tired of of hearing negative things
about the police uh in the media and um
[5:16] you know just in general and uh it's not
warranted it's wrong and uh and I'm just
[5:22] glad that we're hiring for new tops be
partable for here so so
[5:28] congratulations
[5:39] all right so first up John
Carol yeah
[5:45] [Music]
[5:51] please face this
[5:56] way yeah exactly uh okay and it would
help if I could
[6:02] [Music]
[6:07] see you want to
[6:11] hold okay raise your right hand I John
Carol I John Carol do solemnly swear do
[6:17] solemnly swear that I will support the
Constitution of the United States that I
[6:21] will support the Constitution of the
United States and the constitution of
[6:24] the state of New Jersey and the
constitution of the state of New Jersey
[6:27] and that I will bear true faith and
Allegiance to the same and and that I
[6:31] will bear true faith and allegiance to
the same and to the governments
[6:35] established in the United States and to
the governments established in the
[6:38] United States and this state and this
state under the authority of the people
[6:43] and under the authority of the people so
help me God so help me God I do further
[6:47] solemnly swear I do further solemnly
swear that I will impartially and justly
[6:52] that I will impartially and justly
perform all the duties of the office of
[6:57] perform all the duties of the office of
police off officer Northville Police
[7:00] Department police officer Northville
Police Department according to the best
[7:03] of my ability so help me God according
to the best of my ability so help me
[7:09] [Applause]
[7:28] God
[7:43] [Music]
[Applause]
[7:56] next up we've got Kyle
Sol
[8:18] [Music]
[8:23] you
said okay hi Kyle Sullivan hi Kyle
[8:28] Sullivan do Som swear to solemnly swear
that I will support the Constitution of
[8:32] the United States that I will support
the Constitution of the United States
[8:36] and the constitution of the state of New
Jersey and the constitution of the state
[8:39] of New Jersey and that I will bear true
faith and allegiance to the same and I
[8:43] will bear true faith and allegiance to
the same and to the governments
[8:47] established in the United States and to
the governments established in the
[8:50] United States and in this state and in
this state under the authority of the
[8:54] people so help me God under the
authority of the people so help me God I
[8:58] do further Sil L swear I do further
solemnly swear that I will impartially
[9:02] and justly perform that I will
impartially and justly perform all the
[9:07] duties of the office of police officer
Northvale Police Department all the
[9:10] duties of the
officer of the off of the office police
[9:16] officer North police officer Northvale
Police Department according to the best
[9:20] of my ability so help me go according to
the best of my ability so help me
[9:28] God
[9:51] [Music]
[9:58] be oh
[10:06] God tough
[10:13] [Music]
[10:20] [Music]
[10:28] one
all right I'll be honest with you this
[10:31] is a good one because I I know Nick
since he's a little kid watch him grow
[10:36] up here in town and uh it's really great
to see kid from North here doing this so
[10:42] that's fantastic the only issue that I
was at it is almost St Patrick's Day
[10:46] I've got my green on you got you got
Sullivan you got
[10:52] Carol are Irish
[10:58] promise all
right I Nicholas criscolo I Nicholas
[11:03] criscolo do solemnly swear do solemnly
swear that I will support the
[11:07] Constitution of the United States that
I'll support the Constitution of the
[11:10] United States and the constitution of
the state of New Jersey and the
[11:13] constitution of the state of New Jersey
and that I will bear true faith and
[11:16] allegiance to the same I will bear true
faith and allegiance to the same and to
[11:20] the governments established in the
United States and to the governments
[11:23] established in the United States and in
this state and in this state under the
[11:26] authority of the people so help me God
under the authority of
[11:30] I do further solemnly swear I do
furtherly swear that I will impartially
[11:34] and justly perform all the
[11:42] duties that I will impartially and
justly perform that I'll impartially and
[11:46] justly perform all the duties of the
office out all the duties of the office
[11:50] out police officer North Bale Police
Department police officer North police
[11:53] depart according to the best of my
ability so help me God according to the
[11:56] best of my ability so help me go
[Applause]
[12:28] m
[12:33] [Music]
[Applause]
[12:45] [Music]
[12:52] look at
[12:58] it
right so um we can take a break now if
[13:03] you guys want to take pictures you want
to congratul we have
[13:15] [Music]
[13:22] cake this so exciting Dan it's good to
see so good to see you as
[13:28] well oh my
[13:32] [Music]
[13:48] [Music]
[13:58] God
[14:08] anything that's it okay Danny Jack thank
you very
[14:15] [Music]
[14:23] [Music]
much
[14:31] okay so the next item on our agenda is
the approval of the minutes from the
[14:36] combined meeting February
14th if I could get a motion and a
[14:41] second for
[14:44] minutes motion from Council president
Mar second from Council Fernandez on
[14:53] question
[14:58] okay
[15:03] yes
yes yes I
[15:22] knowwhere think
[15:27] that's
[15:31] okay so we'll move on to our consent
agenda
[15:38] um number 55 and number 56 those are
resolutions that are um canceling the uh
[15:45] the taxes for totally disabled veteran
status for
[15:50] residents um number
57 is um a a resolution that is opposing
[15:59] a current bill that's in the New Jersey
legislature which is the next phase of
[16:03] affordable
housing um because of the unrealistic
[16:07] deadlines and honorous standards I'll
give you a couple of reasons why most of
[16:13] the C most of the municipalities in our
area are opposing this bill um number
[16:19] one the uh the formula to determine the
number obligation of housing is based
[16:24] upon growth that's in the past in 2010
2020 rather than future growth
[16:30] um the second one
is um the number of uh Coos issued for
[16:36] new housing units over 2010 to 2020 um
was approximately 140,000 Which is less
[16:42] than onethird of those required under
this year formula so that means about
[16:47] 60% of the stated the anticipated cos
would have to be for affordable housing
[16:53] over 25 to 35 period so it's it's simply
not realistic
[16:59] um thirdly even if the municipality
proves that it doesn't have enough BAC
[17:04] land this
housing um the state will still not
[17:10] accept that as as a
reason two for one rental bonus credits
[17:16] have been eliminated um despite
requiring municipality to address at
[17:20] least 25% of its number as rental
units um if a parcel is zoned for
[17:27] inclusionary zoning % Market 20%
affordable does not develop municipality
[17:33] will likely have to take additional
steps to ensure that it will develop
[17:39] um to remain in the
plan um even if you come to an agreement
[17:44] with the Department of Community Affairs
no finality is provided meaning that the
[17:49] state has not said um okay that's good
with us and then this is the really bad
[17:56] part the legislation permanently
institutes a judicially run process for
[18:02] an administrative process substituting 3
to seven retired judges for an equally
[18:06] balanced interest and partisan entity
which is cod to resolve virtually all
[18:13] disputes that arise during the entity
the entirety of the process and it also
[18:17] exposes municipalities to risk loss of
immunity if several of the unrealistic
[18:22] and unachievable deadlines are
missed
[18:26] um that's just some of the reasons why
um most of the municipalities are
[18:32] opposing this and that's why it's on our
agenda uh
[18:40] tonight number
58 is a resolution that authorizes uh
[18:47] our engineer negle group to begin
Professional Services on Wildwood Road
[18:51] West and Sh Avenue Road pavement program
this year we did receive a grant for
[18:57] that road pavement
$86,000 this will kick off that
[19:02] process 59 is a raffle license for a
Texas Holden tournament at the at St
[19:07] Anthony's on April
6th um number 60 is for the Riverside
[19:13] Co-op and that's essentially to extend
for one year an agreement that the co-op
[19:18] has with um Conquest
construction um to extend um for
[19:23] emergency water M for sanitary sewer
repairs
[19:29] number 61 is um is a budgetary one it it
moves money $25,000 from the reserve
[19:36] budget from
2023 into uh this year's budget in order
[19:40] to uh in order to pay some
bills number 62 is the payment of bills
[19:47] I hope everyone had a chance to review
that um of course if you have questions
[19:53] um pleas pay forward so um that is it as
far as the consent agenda is concerned
[20:00] uh can I get a motion and a second on
those
[20:07] items okay can I get a second yeah
motion by Council woman Fernandez second
[20:13] by
councilman on the question yeah I got a
[20:17] question on 57 yeah does that is that
residential only or does that also appli
[20:23] to mixed use with residential on top
something like what's going on like
[20:29] yeah I think yeah so it it applies to
anything that's where you're going to
[20:33] have residential housing oh it's mixed
use as well that applies to that good
[20:41] example in the area is on Livingston
Street Norwood you saw where you have
[20:46] the retail businesses on the bottom that
had to comply as well does it also
[20:52] include like let's say condo
associations too if someone wants to
[20:55] develop condo Community do that I
believe it
[21:04] does it's not just mental could fine
with it uh Mr Mayor if I can I was
[21:11] involved in this quite a bit in my prior
terms with the I guess that was the
[21:16] second round of Kaa and they couldn't
come to terms with the third round of Co
[21:22] and the rules back then were
incomprehensible you couldn't figure
[21:26] them out which is part of the reason why
they never on the third round of gold
[21:30] right and it got so ridiculous that they
would have people going around town
[21:35] looking for any sliver of undeveloped
land and you would have to count that as
[21:39] a place to build something when you
couldn't physically build anything there
[21:44] right um the numbers just don't make
sense as the mayor said you couldn't
[21:49] possibly build that much housing in our
existing Town it won't fit it's really a
[21:55] push by Builders to be able to build and
go up okay that's why and it's happening
[22:02] not just in New Jersey you see it all
over the country we do have a nationwide
[22:07] problem where there's not enough housing
space so it's inevitable at some point
[22:11] we're going to start building up but I
think we need to be much more careful
[22:16] and maybe put the brakes on it and study
this before we just say yeah we're going
[22:20] to build housing everywhere yeah but
until then yeah you're probably going to
[22:25] see more projects like the one you just
approved on P
[22:29] y but and and the um the thing I didn't
mention was um you've got a major
[22:36] problem right now with flooding in storm
water management across Northern New
[22:40] Jersey to do this and impose these sorts
of numbers on communities where you're
[22:44] putting in more concrete and more you
know and taking away the U you know
[22:48] Green spaces and it's just it doesn't
make sense for flood
[22:55] perspective uh any other questions just
the bills page 16 there's a charge for
[23:01] shop right monitoring is that like the
super fund
[23:11] monitor oh yeah yeah that's that's it's
your environmental engineer yeah it's
[23:16] the environmental engineer it's um when
they say shoppr it's for the old um it's
[23:21] for the liquor
store yeah that
[23:27] building
any other
[23:32] questions okay um open to the public on
consent agenda items
[23:40] only all right we'll close to the
public um roll call
[23:46] counc yes Council Fernandez yes counc
madis yes council president mcar yes
[23:53] counc yes Council
yes okay okay so we'll move to our
[24:01] ordinances um the first few are going to
be second readings uh so the public can
[24:07] comment on second readings of ordinances
um this first one number
[24:12] 1076 is the fixing the salaries and
wages of the DPW um this is a
[24:17] contractual agreement that we have
they're in year three of their contract
[24:21] um and it's one that we pass every year
as I said so it basically just is saying
[24:26] this is the third year of the contract
here the salar after this this year so
[24:30] if I could get a a motion and a second
for that sove second motion by
[24:37] councilwoman offer second by council
president mcor on the
[24:44] question we'll open this one up to the
public for this ordinance
[24:50] only no okay we'll close to the public
roll call councilman mallan yes
[24:57] councilwoman fernandz
yes counc M yes counc M yes coun yes
[25:04] counc
yes okay we have another second reading
[25:10] which is number
1077 that is the same one that we just
[25:15] did except this one is for the police
department same thing they are in year
[25:19] two of their contract um so same sort of
thing contractual obligations outlined
[25:25] here in the salaries um if I could get a
motion and a second for that motion
[25:32] second motion by Council Madison second
by Council
[25:36] mon uh on the
question okay we will open to the public
[25:44] for this ordinance
[25:47] only okay we'll close to the public roll
Callan yes councilwoman Fernandez yes
[25:54] counc M yes counc president M yes counc
manra yes coun
[26:02] yes
okay okay number 1078 is also a second
[26:07] reading and that is to revise the
background check process that we have
[26:11] here essentially what we're doing is
we're the burrow will now pay for the
[26:15] cost of
fingerprinting um this is simply to
[26:18] encourage more volunteers and not have
any sort of financial barrier getting
[26:22] away uh of them coming out to
volunteer um can I get a motion and
[26:32] second motion by council president
tomorrow second by Council
[26:37] Fernandez on the
question yeah um any idea how much how
[26:43] many volunteers for you yeah we were we
were estimating because the
[26:48] fingerprinting is coming in now about
like 70 bucks 70 to 80 becoming you know
[26:53] pretty expensive and uh we're figuring
we're thinking like maybe if that this
[27:00] is this is ambulance fire
Recreation Main and that's pretty
[27:08] much and not not like um the teacher not
teachers I mean like substitutes or
[27:13] anyone that's the school that's all on
the board yeah yeah yeah so that's what
[27:18] we're figuring for for the burrow itself
you're talking about literally a few
[27:24] hundred it's only one time it's only one
time yeah
[27:28] okay um we just don't we just don't want
somebody to say hey I'm I'm coming out
[27:32] here to volunteer I want a coach and
then we say okay go get fingerprinted
[27:36] and you got to pay $75 you know it's
just you rather just take that
[27:42] away okay so any other questions on
it we'll open it up to the public for
[27:47] this ordinance
only okay uh close to the
[27:54] public uh roll call coun mallan yes
Council Fernandez Council M yes council
[28:02] president mcar yes Council yes counc
yes now we have H first readings of uh
[28:11] couple ordinances where there will not
be open to the public um so the first
[28:17] one is an ordinance for storm water
management um to meet a state mandate
[28:22] and I I'll let you explain exactly what
we're doing to change our code sure
[28:28] so njac 7 is the state law that
legislates storm water in the state of
[28:34] New Jersey specifically it's major
developments and major development is a
[28:39] project that disturbs more than an acre
of land or increases in pervious
[28:44] coverage like asphalt or concrete Etc by
more than a quarter acre so if you take
[28:48] on a project of that scale you have to
comply with these rules and they make
[28:52] you reduce runoff rates reduce water
quality in terms of Etc and groundwater
[29:00] recharge which is perating water to the
ground you have to comply with their
[29:04] standards so every now every couple
years the state uh re-ups their
[29:08] regulations they just did so this past
July 2023 the new addition was to
[29:14] account for storm water um rainfall uh
amounts precipitation amounts to account
[29:21] for um future what the state has
calculated to be future 2100 storms
[29:28] uh give the recent higher intensity more
rainfall they uh now you have to design
[29:34] for current rainfall data and what the D
projects to be future 20 year 2100
[29:40] rainfall data and the Really the the
implication is that you'll end up
[29:46] developers will end up having to provide
more storage underground than previously
[29:51] um it's a requirement to pass to adopt
this as an ordinance the DP lets you go
[29:58] strictor but not less um and it has to
be adopted by July 16th of this year um
[30:06] so that's why it's on the agenda and
that's pretty much the change
[30:12] and that that was the change from July
it doesn't matter commercial residential
[30:17] it's it's the amount of the project yes
and and and Municipal projects as well
[30:23] are are subject to the rules if if
you're if you fall on that
[30:30] okay
okay um can I get a motion in a second
[30:36] for this one uh
so
[30:40] second motion by councilman sasi second
by Council mon on the
[30:46] question yeah I do but I gotta think
about it a little bit in ter I have a
[30:51] question in terms of DP of New Jersey
this is a federal government this is
[30:55] state New Jersey and you said it's 25%
coverage solid say that again to me
[31:01] explain that to me one more time if you
uh take on a project that disturbs
[31:06] actively disturbing the soil to
construct your improvements that's
[31:10] greater than one acre okay or you
increase in perious coverage by greater
[31:14] than a quarter acre or about 11,000
square F feet you're subject to the
[31:18] rules if your project is less than that
then you're not subject to the rules
[31:22] you're subject to whatever local
municipalities ordinances which is
[31:27] varies
so for example let's say we I know this
[31:31] isn't real but let's say we took the
section of the park which is all grass
[31:37] now it's perious right and we said we're
going to
[31:41] take quarter of that area or it's over
the yeah say you took say you took say
[31:49] you took two acres yeah or you took
Veterans Park and you wanted to build a
[31:54] shopping center for example you would
you would be subject to you would easily
[31:59] hit the criteria for that you'd be
subject to following these rules and you
[32:02] would have to comply with what they make
you do is reduce it's a whole bunch of
[32:06] engineering C really just reduce Peak
runoff rates which is for for a two1 and
[32:12] 100 Year storm event which is just
varing intensities and rainfall depths
[32:17] and for you would run those calculations
and you'd have to prove that your
[32:20] proposed project reduces um compared to
existing conditions which is a heck of a
[32:26] lot of stor because
you're essentially doing is taking that
[32:29] grass nice grass that perks into the
ground putting up hardcap pavement
[32:34] building parking lot and which greatly
increases the amount of runoff and you
[32:40] have to store that and then some
underground or above ground but
[32:44] typically New Jersey doesn't have the
space for above ground tension the most
[32:48] part would that also include like on
that haris project where they're doing
[32:52] like herous the rule they I think it was
[32:58] 2020 new rules included green
infrastructure requirements which that
[33:04] isn't um is a method that you're an
option you have to meet the rules
[33:09] there's there's specific methods of
reducing Roth that you have to use to
[33:13] meet the rules as well and it's a whole
part of the the green infrastructure
[33:17] updates previous pavement is one of them
infiltration basins is one of them bio
[33:22] retention basins which are like ring
Gardens is another one there's there's a
[33:27] couple options
if if you recall you should have a few
[33:32] months ago I think we were required on
the council to take a course and in
[33:37] trying to understand this yeah which was
interesting of course it was like from
[33:41] 20 years ago and I thought it's not even
up to date what we've learned about but
[33:45] yeah basically if we're going to keep
caving over Paradise that water has to
[33:50] go somewhere and so you're going to have
huge underground chambers that capture
[33:56] that water and hold it so slowly
percolate under roll of that pavement
[34:00] back into the ground it's to prevent
[34:06] flooding thank you all right um did I
get a roll call on
[34:12] that coun yes
[34:18] Fernandez yes MC yesc
yes
[34:25] yes okay so the next first reading is um
number 1080 and again Scott this is
[34:31] another d one so I'll I'll let you
explain yes different um piece of
[34:36] legislation that governs this this is
part of um what the D what it's called
[34:42] it's called a tier a ms4 storm water
permit which every municipality in the
[34:47] state is governed by um it basically
authorizes the burrow to discharge from
[34:53] their storm system through the various
outfalls in town to open bodies of water
[34:59] which are um like Pond and Spark Hill
Creek Etc um all the outlet points are
[35:07] essentially governed by the state
because the state takes jurisdiction
[35:10] over all Open Water Creeks Lakes Etc and
the background of the the permit is to
[35:20] reduce uh water quality um detrimental
effects of water quality to those bi of
[35:27] water water Downstream on Fisheries Etc
from Salt and and different um debris in
[35:32] the roads because all that gets
collected unfiltered through your system
[35:37] in the under the roads and whatnot and
discharges out directly into these open
[35:43] bodies of water so this permit more or
less just legislates that and you have
[35:47] to comply with many things that the DP
wants uh that any requirements and I'm
[35:53] sure um DPW is very familiar with it
because every year weit report um to the
[36:00] D noting our compliance a couple of them
are you have to swe the streets x amount
[36:05] of um miles and x amount of times per
year you have to clean catch basins you
[36:11] have to um report how much material
material you removed from catch B you
[36:17] have to inspect all those outfalls and
you have to report it all back that's
[36:20] just part of the permit um what we have
to do now with the burrow the
[36:25] requirement on the bur now is to adop
which is going to govern privately owned
[36:31] salt storage um facilities already the
municipal owned public owned facilities
[36:38] are governed by essentially very close
to the same requirements here if if you
[36:42] ask DPW to have to keep the salt piles
um covered away from bodies of water
[36:49] away from inlets anywhere where it could
Lech into the storm system and create
[36:54] negative impact of water quality they're
just passing uh this on to now private
[37:00] owners of salt storage um and it's
largely the same requirements that dpws
[37:06] around State already comply with and
that's essentially just what the
[37:10] ordinance is I noticed there was a
section in there for
[37:14] Resident right like which which was was
less of a requirement but still there
[37:19] were guidelines that that residents have
the follow as well right they don't want
[37:24] you putting them on top of catch B
summer work for water my rans leas very
[37:32] easily on it that's why they want it
covered they want weight put on the
[37:36] cover so that it doesn't roll away so
that water just hits the cover and rolls
[37:39] off of it without actually uh coming
into contact with the salt and then
[37:44] dissolving it and getting into the water
the Water Systems
[37:48] system that's essentially what the
ordinance is and this one has to be
[37:52] adopted by the beginning of May um
without being in violation with this
[37:58] permit that's why it gives a little bit
background with the
[38:00] permit it's not really an application
that you make every year it's something
[38:04] that's sort of exists but you have to
comply with the um mandates that they
[38:10] made okay can I get a motion in a second
for
[38:17] this second motion by Council ban second
by Council
[38:23] sasi on a
question yeah enforcement yeah sorry I
[38:28] got question yeah they you know they
talked about enforcement in here um they
[38:33] don't they don't have anything as far as
issuance of fines but it does
[38:38] say um here the provisions shall be
enforced by employees officers and
[38:44] agents of the police department DPW and
Board of Health um of the borrow but it
[38:51] doesn't say I mean it does have
violations and penalties here underneath
[38:54] it yeah um you got 7 2 2 hours to to you
know remediate this a find not more than
[39:04] $1,250 you know imprisonment for not
exceeding 90 days so there's a little
[39:09] bit of leeway there that they give you
but you know I we you know I guess as a
[39:16] bur you have to figure out who's
actually going to enforce something like
[39:19] this and then what your find is going to
be could imagine like the middle of a
[39:24] snowstorm you
know pretty only to see
[39:32] this okay any other
question
[39:37] oh just sold or does it also that other
the It also says
[39:48] ice that doesn't
[39:55] count all right
uh roll call coun coun Fernandez coun
[40:04] madis yes president MC yes counc yes
counc yes okay great um number 1081 is
[40:15] the first reading of a salary ordinance
we we did the ones for the DPW and the
[40:20] police this is for everybody else um
employed um so same thing
[40:28] um same salaries that we have to do
every year so um uh I can get a motion a
[40:37] second second motion by Council for a
second by council president mcaro on the
[40:46] question all right one thing I will note
on here though is that uh school
[40:51] crossing guards are getting
$24.45 an hour we do need more so that's
[40:55] our official plub watching on
YouTube you can apply
[41:01] atall um
okay
[41:05] um roll counc yes councilwoman Fernandez
yes Council M yes council president
[41:13] tomorrow
yeser
[41:16] yes
yes okay
[41:21] great um so old
business um old business I just uh two
[41:27] things because we talked about them as
new business previously the uh military
[41:32] Banner program that we have with the
banners going up on the polls that is
[41:38] now online it went live this morning on
the burough website so people can go on
[41:43] the website they can um download an
application um you know and see what the
[41:48] program is all about all the parameters
and guidelines for it as well um so
[41:54] thank you to councilman and mich who
were on the committee and we'll tweak it
[42:00] as we go along but at least we got the
first stage done which is it's there for
[42:04] the public to be able to see and to
utilize the other thing is I know that
[42:09] we talked about the New Jersey film
commission um there's a film Ready New
[42:13] Jersey um I guess seminar in person that
I believe both uh council president
[42:21] mcaro and councilman are going to attend
in
[42:25] April and that will give us uh some type
of certification for having taken that
[42:32] class or seminar um and then we can from
that's all part of you know we'll have
[42:38] an ordinance and so on for that um so
that that's in you know in motion so I
[42:44] just wanted to keep everybody up toate
on
[42:46] that is there any other old business
somebody want to
[42:54] cover uh no we submitted the Grant
um the original one was mid December but
[43:03] then it got extended I think we had to
do a couple of other things and we
[43:06] submitted again what we have not heard I
don't know you estimate on we might hear
[43:10] on that I don't they they submitted um
we submitted some new information that
[43:15] they they have some questions we
resupply with some information they
[43:19] acknowledged they received that was yeah
I think that was done in February yeah
[43:23] we long yeah we did it a couple weeks
ago we the question video conference
[43:28] with them we we had a conference call
with them went through it explained what
[43:33] this Supply we did it same day I don't
know what their timeline is
[43:39] for so
let's would you guess in April
[43:44] maybe I don't know that' be great
[43:51] maybe any other old
business any new business
[44:01] okay so we'll move to Mayor and Council
reports I will start with h council
[44:06] president Mar okay so for the preschool
I don't have anything to report but for
[44:13] the Ambulance Corp we have uh had 20 we
had 22 calls in
[44:19] February um up okay there were nine of
those 22 to Northville two to rocking
[44:24] residential three to the Jewish Home
four Norwood one to H to park for
[44:28] coaster and one
other um a few things that are going on
[44:34] in envac uh the radios and Pages were
reprogrammed now it will have a one an
[44:39] all Town tone for response so it will
kind of cut back on some of the radio
[44:44] traffic uh our chief and president went
to Northern Valley old Japan to speak to
[44:49] students about potentially joining the
core they had posters and they gave out
[44:52] cute little rubber ducts so hopefully
that will entice some people to uh to
[44:56] join the for we'll see um 226 officially
has it power load stretcher however it
[45:02] is currently in the shop getting some
much needed um repairs so hopefully that
[45:08] will be back out on the road
shortly the cor will be participating in
[45:14] a few of the town events coming up the
Extravaganza on March
[45:18] 23rd um opening day of uh wreck or
baseball season I don't know what they
[45:24] call opening day baseball's off basball
Sall April 27th um they will be at Star
[45:30] Wars on May 3rd and of course the
Memorial Day
[45:35] Parade um so that's it for them and of
course if you'd like to join please join
[45:40] us you can get a rubber duck too and
then um for the police department for
[45:47] February they had 495 total calls 139
total traffic stops 70 of which were
[45:53] selective traffic enforcement details 34
medical assist calls 13 motor vehicle
[45:59] crashes 30 activated bird Weare alarms
20 suspicious activity calls six fraud
[46:05] reports one shoplifting one shoplifting
arrest and one arrest for sexual assault
[46:12] and that is all I
have let's go this way coun man I got a
[46:19] long one just kid just
joking all right uh start with the DPW
[46:25] um they began this bring clean up at
Hogan Park in Veterans Field uh they
[46:30] also ordered some clay for the field
number one at Hogan so they're going to
[46:35] be resurfacing that
field uh they continue with po holder
[46:39] pairs brush collection wood shipping and
normal sewage sewer
[46:46] maintenance and then on top of that
there's some other items that some
[46:50] details here uh they painted inside the
bar hole they installed a new oven in
[46:57] the wreck uh I mean a new roof over the
wreck trailer which is next to the uh B
[47:04] cages or B cage uh they did install a
hood and vent in the concession stand
[47:10] the snack bar so at least when the
season starts this year they will be
[47:14] able to utilize the stone of the well
actually the St yeah um they did uh and
[47:22] that was it that's it on the uh on the
evw uh Senior Center
[47:27] uh today they did have their St
Patrick's Day lunch in uh I heard it was
[47:32] pretty successful my wife happened to
show up and assist and help so she gave
[47:37] her her own personal
report and she did say it was wonderful
[47:41] it was a very nice nice uh afternoon uh
tomorrow they are having a pottery class
[47:49] and on Good Friday they will be closed
March 29th there's some regular
[47:54] activities that they're still doing each
every month um but uh I decided not to
[48:00] play that into a
little all right the Golden Age club uh
[48:06] they're celebrating St Patrick's Day
tomorrow at The Brownstone Manor uh on
[48:11] April 10th the members will take a trip
to wink Creek
[48:17] Casino uh in
Pennsylvania and lastly the Gold AG age
[48:22] Club will be setting up trip to the
Westchester performance Arts Center to
[48:28] see a play called
Beautiful getting on to the rec
[48:34] department
uh yeah great show is it it's really
[48:40] good um getting on to the recreation
department I had a couple conversations
[48:44] with Sarah uh B basketball season is
coming to an end there's still a couple
[48:49] of games
left um not sure about indoor soccer
[48:53] indoor soccer might be over I think play
do they still have see I wasn't sure
[48:59] about that because har and I didn't
mention into our soaka we didn't speak
[49:02] about that um but overall she's been
telling me and some of the other members
[49:07] of committee on the record for have been
saying it's been a good season that the
[49:11] kids are having fun the coaches are
doing well there hasn't been any
[49:15] incidents or anything like that negative
stuff uh last month uh they began to
[49:22] sign up for softball and baseball the
numbers last month were low
[49:27] the numbers have increased dramatically
so there are a bunch of teams playing on
[49:32] the softball and baseball side and uh
like we spoke about you and I had a
[49:37] conversation about uh Hogan's field and
trying to get that fixed up so the DBW
[49:43] doing their job uh we will be laying
down the clim making that field a lot
[49:48] better on the skin field and then like
you mentioned Cara opening day is April
[49:54] 27th and the good news is Joel Maguire
our mayor is going to be throwing out
[49:59] the first pitch yes so I will definitely
be there for
[50:04] that uh I
might warming up my arm that is it for
[50:11] me excellent excellent thank you
councilwoman
[50:15] Fernandez a library upate for this
[50:20] library next regular meeting will be on
Wednesday March 27th at 630 um has mon
[50:27] on March 5th they have their grand
reopening event um to celebrate thetive
[50:32] Renovations on the new children's room
and programing
[50:38] roomed from board friends library May
Council performers in the high school um
[50:45] so that ni events as always you can
check out their website calendar forist
[50:52] of all
[50:55] acties
EXC Council thank you um there's nothing
[51:02] to report for the Board of Health
although I believe they have a meeting
[51:07] next week and I will attend that see if
there's anything new uh
[51:12] last Thursday evening the northern
Valley Greenway had one of their first
[51:17] in-person meetings because apparently
since Co on everything's been zoomed and
[51:23] councilman ban attended with me and it
was it was a very well attended meeting
[51:27] and it was it was a good meeting um you
know they've purposely been taking a
[51:33] very low key approach in the past and
the consensus seemed to be that maybe we
[51:41] need to push things up a bit to to get
this going so I'm going to pass
[51:47] something out to all of
you um it's going to maybe be confusing
[51:52] but take take one and pass it down um
New York state has another organization
[51:59] which is the Palisades
Interstate Park what I'm passing out to
[52:05] you Pal's Interstate path
study you you probably all know they now
[52:12] have a bicycle path connection from the
gwb and then it goes up the Parkway and
[52:20] they wanted to eventually connect to the
B on the New York State grou this is a
[52:26] New York State
initiative but the northern Valley
[52:30] Greenway organization is starting to say
we should try and join in with them and
[52:34] show them that we could be part of that
because the greenway could you know also
[52:40] be another place for the bicycle people
to go so there is a zoom meeting for
[52:46] government officials next
Wednesday um midday okay there's
[52:54] actually having a meeting right now with
local vendors but we're all here so we
[52:58] can't be at that meeting obviously but I
would encourage any of you who would
[53:03] like to attend the zoom meeting next
Wednesday to do so and we need to show
[53:07] our support for what New York state is
doing and also how the greenway could
[53:15] become part of that
um and
[53:19] um actually I'll I'll ask you haran if
there's anything else you think I missed
[53:24] on that uh I think that was my first
meeting with them and I think they do
[53:31] have you know a lot of active people and
I think they are getting involved with
[53:36] doing different things and this is
another option to you know try to get
[53:42] the project right yeah so so Roy this
this um this commission here
[53:49] they they're trying to do a study is
this being funded by New York State yes
[53:54] it is so they've got backing already
yeah they have backing that's than the
[53:59] greenway has I mean that's the greenway
has backing but not the actual dollars
[54:04] right yeah um we're basically saying
look to who has the most funding and the
[54:10] most power to keep pushing this thing
along and needs to go up every level of
[54:15] government now to get their backing as
well I think it's in the New Jersey said
[54:20] it seems to be almost like a steel me
would you agree well it is because um
[54:27] you've got the arguments between New
Jersey Transit and the state do as to if
[54:34] they're ever going to do a light rail
where is it going to end and it's taken
[54:37] them 20 years to come to the decision
that they don't know what they want to
[54:41] do and that's holding up even this
Greenway thing
[54:46] and that's the frustrating part of this
I think we're all getting frustrated
[54:50] with it and at some point maybe we
somehow trying and go around it I'm not
[54:54] sure now we also spoke briefly about the
fact that yes we're not supposed to be
[55:00] on CSX property and we can't clean it up
but we've also heard some sentiment that
[55:07] maybe what CSX doesn't know doesn't
matter and that if we want to go and
[55:12] clean up some of the areas maybe can
they're looking for safety purposes for
[55:18] safety purposes right and they're
looking at maybe doing some
[55:24] Community um what you yeah C clean
updates and that kind of yeah so I'm
[55:31] hoping we can you know benefit from some
of that
[55:35] okay uh regarding grants there's really
nothing new to say we're up to
[55:41] [Music]
86932 in applications
[55:45] pended um and we have upcoming the open
space Grant um and the again every year
[55:53] we we apply for the FEMA firefighters
brand and so we have that one coming up
[55:59] and that's it for me I and uh the
firefighters did win $775,000
[56:06] for I think it was the them award from
last year yeah
[56:12] so so
hopefully
[56:16] yeah okay great thank you
Council uh yeah um the planning board we
[56:25] we didn't uh me there's no um actual
applications but in February we had a
[56:31] total of um 11 permits
issued um and a total of
[56:38] $1,413 in uh you know various permit
fees and you know inspection
[56:44] fees um which is about $2,000 more than
the multipli so it's kind of an uptrend
[56:52] and however it is about 8,000 less than
the before right
[56:58] so and um there was no applications like
I said and
[57:08] that's yeah I'm just excellent EXC I
have a lot of questions but I just don't
[57:14] have a lot of reports
so that's fine offer I got a lot of
[57:20] reports not a lot of
questions uh fire department stats for
[57:24] the month of February 16 emergency calls
totaling 87 and a/4 man hours that was
[57:29] six fire alarm calls three hazardous
material calls one smoke condition Three
[57:34] non-structural Fires and four mutual a
calls there's also 26 non-emergency
[57:39] calls totaling 230 and 3/4 man hours
that includes one company drill and
[57:44] three Fire Academy training events
that'll do it for the fire department on
[57:49] fire prevention side for the month of
February there were 37 initial
[57:52] inspections and 12 new inspections
moving on the northv board of Ved the
[57:58] last board meeting uh was on Thursday
February 15th at the media center um
[58:03] some of the key takeaways there are that
classroom items are being set up in the
[58:06] annex for the next school year for the
preschool um there was a uh audit
[58:10] presentation by Bill Swisher the
district auditor he mentioned a few
[58:15] minor audit
[58:18] findings and um as some of you are aware
it was a standing room only Crow at the
[58:23] last meeting U mainly due to um an
incident where a student had brought a
[58:27] knife into school and a parent had was
some concern over school
[58:33] safety um student and staff safety had
recommended that the uh the board of V
[58:39] looking to hiring a class two or class
three retired police officer um and I
[58:45] expect that that topic will likely come
up again at tomorrow night's
[58:49] meeting uh finally on the Northern
Valley Board of EDS side the last
[58:54] regular meeting was held on March
at the NPD Media Center uh the
[58:59] superintendent honored um teacher of the
year and staff of the year for NP the
[59:03] teacher of the year was Lindsay stepner
who was a health and physical education
[59:07] teacher and the staff member of of the
year was Lauren Lopez who was a school
[59:12] nurse and she was also recently honored
at Congressman gimr's Hometown hero
[59:17] event so it's her second honor
recently um there was some mention of
[59:24] the uh 24 25 school budget it looks like
a 1.9% increase for taxpayers for next
[59:29] year um the main points there on why
it's going up are salaries
[59:35] transportation and health insurance cost
once
[59:38] again um there's also some uh Capital
Improvements that are planned for the
[59:43] next school year the the major one that
impacts us is um new turf fields at mbot
[59:49] so they're expanding that was about $4
million in Capital Improvements plan um
[59:54] the nbot performance cats was very
successful um well attended and well
[1:00:01] received there was a number of uh of
sporting uh achievements um the key one
[1:00:08] was by Abby Dennis who placed in the top
10 for hurdles at the Nike IND track
[1:00:14] Nationals
competition so she did really well there
[1:00:18] um there was also a um a member of the
northern Valley Youth Lacrosse
[1:00:22] organization that was concerned over
being charged to the field facilities um
[1:00:28] that's something that a lot of local
wreck and club sports organizations are
[1:00:32] facing as the uh the schools try to
contend with um the cost of maintaining
[1:00:37] these facilities um it's something
that's going to impact these
[1:00:41] organizations because it's it's not
cheap by any stretch of the
[1:00:44] imagination but we'll see where where
things go there the next meeting is
[1:00:48] Monday April 22nd at 730m at the
C
[1:00:54] tonight
uh that 1.9% once once they get a little
[1:00:59] deeper into it that's that's for the
seven pounds then they they should break
[1:01:04] it down into what it is for each like
some it might be North Bell gets nothing
[1:01:09] right or you know get
3% because there's a formula they use
[1:01:15] with the number of students you have
exactly it's not terrible but I got that
[1:01:20] more detailing I'll share with
you okay so my report um um Council mcar
[1:01:27] already covered a lot of these but we've
got events coming up Saturday March 23rd
[1:01:31] 11:00 a.m. is the egg hunt at Hogan Park
we have a a rain date of um the Sunday
[1:01:38] the 24th at 2 p.m um Saturday uh May 3rd
at dusk no I'm sorry Friday May 3rd at
[1:01:46] dusk is our movie in the park it's Star
Wars um the rain date on that would be
[1:01:51] Sunday May 5th Monday May 27th 11: a.m.
is Memorial Day Parade which will start
[1:01:59] at school and make its way down to uh
the American region uh we've had two um
[1:02:05] public budget meetings the past two
Thursdays where we've covered the
[1:02:09] budgets for the DPW and the fire
department tomorrow we will continue
[1:02:13] here at 6 PM with the police department
and the ambulance
[1:02:18] for um I do want to thank our DPW who
are here for painting the conference
[1:02:24] room on the first floor of our Hall
excellent job um I'm glad to see the m
[1:02:29] and the pink from 1995 is finally
gone um so we're slowly bringing the
[1:02:35] offices into the uh 21st century with
the transformation of the building
[1:02:39] department the mayor's office conference
room so next will be the municipal
[1:02:43] perk's office and now she's excited
about that what color is that
[1:02:49] more that's yeah that's still the old
color yeah um and and then uh and then
[1:02:56] the main office area so there'll be some
changes in there which DPW will
[1:03:00] certainly be a big part of so looking
forward to that um last week as as
[1:03:05] Council Fernandez mentioned I was
honored to attend two of the grand
[1:03:09] openings that we had in town first was a
library grand opening uh reopening on
[1:03:13] Tuesday and I was glad to see just about
the entire Council there so that was a a
[1:03:18] very good showing I know they were happy
the renovation looks great um please if
[1:03:22] you haven't gone there go check it out
the second was the Grand open of the NJ
[1:03:26] Fieldhouse on the Grand Avenue on Friday
with Council manafa very impressive
[1:03:31] facility um all the latest it's the
latest in sports facilities in North
[1:03:36] Bell so um you know after that we've got
a hockey training facility that's coming
[1:03:41] very soon as well so um it's really
turning into a big Sports um
[1:03:47] town with all these older buildings
getting converted it's nice to see um I
[1:03:53] the um we did get an update from the all
the water on the funding for our
[1:03:57] community garden um I guess we're into
the next stage where they're setting up
[1:04:02] the actual vendor which would be the
ambulance core where the funds will go
[1:04:08] from be to them and then the burrow can
take them and use them for the garden so
[1:04:13] that is I guess a technical thing
they've got to set up on era and that's
[1:04:17] getting set up so hopefully what we'll
follow is um some funds coming from them
[1:04:21] so we can get this project moving this
year that would be nice
[1:04:28] it's just under $110,000 it's like 96 or
9800 something like that um and our
[1:04:34] quarterly newsletter will be printed and
sent out most likely by the end of next
[1:04:39] week and that is it for
that U with that I will move to Mr
[1:04:46] Ferraro anything for our attorney thank
you uh aside from the two ordinances you
[1:04:51] had this evening for the private salt
and the storm water another one that's
[1:04:56] mandated by the D which is a tree Tre
tree replacement ordinance and uh we'll
[1:05:03] have that for you at the next meeting
Scott and I have been working on that
[1:05:06] together um in fact I got the appendix
of the types of trees that we recommend
[1:05:12] the burrow use as the ones referred can
I can I see a question on that because
[1:05:18] it it's actually a topic that's coming
up in the last couple of weeks that
[1:05:23] ordinance that is that for municipality
does it or is this for private residents
[1:05:28] is it for
everything well it's definitely for
[1:05:32] private residents yeah I believe it also
applies to misties too just like the
[1:05:37] storm water does and
Sol as well so if you take down a
[1:05:41] certain number of trees You' got to
replace
[1:05:47] those and Street trees and Street trees
yes so part of the whole flooding issue
[1:05:54] and
[1:05:57] there'll be a few more ordinances that
you'll see uh next month the mayor just
[1:06:02] reached out to about the uh we're going
to have electric electronic permitting
[1:06:06] for our construction department so
they'll have an easier access but uh it
[1:06:12] costs money and we're committed to
charge a search charge for that help
[1:06:17] recoup over a threeyear period so you'll
see that
[1:06:20] resolution and a few other ones in the
offer
[1:06:27] and our our our sewer one oh yes we had
an issue with with a contractor in town
[1:06:35] who broke uh two sewer
lines having some issues with his
[1:06:41] insurance we're working through
our insurance Consulting for
[1:06:47] insurance and we're we're going to deep
up our street opening
[1:06:53] permits um both both with regard to the
uh providing a bond and um to address
[1:07:01] the issue of insurance which just just
arose on this one for the uh fellow who
[1:07:08] submitted a certificate of insurance for
the two sewers that broke it's very
[1:07:12] interesting I don't know if you if
you've experienced in your work that
[1:07:16] from time to time a contractor or
someone will issue a US Certificate of
[1:07:20] Insurance right and it says named
additional insured or named insured the
[1:07:26] burrow of northv well that's something
we get on a regular basis the problem is
[1:07:32] and nobody I don't know I think
everybody relies upon that Certificate
[1:07:35] of Insurance but one of the problems is
in that certificate it says this
[1:07:41] certificate is subject to all the
conditions of the policy but you don't
[1:07:45] see the policy and in this fellow's
[1:07:50] insurance damage underground such as a
sewer repair is excluded on its coverage
[1:07:56] so we would never know that so we're
going to require that on on the
[1:08:00] certificates of insurance that we
receive that those are specifically
[1:08:07] insured yeah like show like other words
this is a sewer operation we want you
[1:08:13] know you have to specifically say that
any damage to our sew system is
[1:08:20] covered okay thank you anything else
that's
[1:08:27] it Mr Lage thank you the light out front
shop right was reinstalled week or so
[1:08:34] ago I believe after about a year working
with a contractor um so we'll work with
[1:08:38] him to close out that project I think
there are two do grants that has
[1:08:43] associated with the streetcap on Paris
Livingston so we'll start put get that
[1:08:49] closed out re first um the next it is
Livingston the other Livingston stre
[1:08:55] Street project is out to bid the bid
opening is scheduled to be open Tuesday
[1:09:00] April 9th at her Hall um and then we'll
shortly after that schedu a PR
[1:09:05] construction meeting with the contractor
and hopefully begin late spring early
[1:09:10] summer and the dog park is scheduled
contractors planning to come out next
[1:09:15] Wednesday the 20th to start construction
there it should be about one to two
[1:09:20] weeks of work if not much and the Hill
post notices to the residents ordering
[1:09:25] the the park and um the DOR friend made
me aware of an issue with with the seni
[1:09:32] new senior cat dor so I look into that
to the
[1:09:35] architect address whatever needs to be
addressed that's all I have okay great
[1:09:41] thank you got a quick question I don't
know if you can help on this but is
[1:09:46] there anyone that like books at the
street light pole throughout town to see
[1:09:52] what's out what's not out or is that
something that we do or is that
[1:09:56] something if we see it we say
[1:10:02] something yeah yeah no that I know I
just didn't know if there was some kind
[1:10:06] of yeah process in place you're talking
about like Street just regular street
[1:10:11] lights yeah yeah because I know behind
the building here by the police
[1:10:15] department there's a light that's out so
I know the the police reported too well
[1:10:20] usually will call in tell me where it's
at and then I got kep
[1:10:28] yeah because I tried pulling it in
they're like oh what's your account I'm
[1:10:31] like but it's not here in my house
what so yeah so people will just call
[1:10:37] you
right that
[1:10:40] sounds I got online form I did it for
the
[1:10:47] one it just takes the uh
[1:10:54] whatever all right cool any other
questions for Scott I okay so we will
[1:11:00] open the meeting to the public for any
topic any
[1:11:06] topic all right we will close to the
public and with that we can get a motion
[1:11:13] to adjourn
[1:11:17] so all right so we got a motion by
counciler second by Council woman
[1:11:22] Fernandez um all in favor
all right meeting is a journe thank
[1:11:39] you