Northfield City Council Meeting

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good evening this is the work session
for Northfield city council October 24th
of
2023 this meeting was properly
advertised in accordance with public law
1975 chapter 231 in the Press of
Atlantic City on January 7th of this
year may have a flag salute led by
council president proem DZ
please
salute
roll call Mrs bchi here Mrs carfano here
Mr deiz here Mr Leeds here Mr Notaro
here Mr Smith here Mr Palestina here Mr
Chow Mr President thank you
um we move right into our committee
reports councilman leads thank you for
the month of
September conspir responded with 264
calls for service between us lywood and
mutual Aid in our city alone they
respond to 106 medical emergencies and
15 times out of those 15 times F we had
to have each come into town and the pr
43 and
that's thank you councilman councilman
DSE uh thank you um Public Works um
approximately 20% of the storm systems
are clean that includes the basins and
all the
lines um the V truck is slated to be
winterized sometime next
month the fence behind City Hall is we
don't have an exact schedule but it's uh
it's in it works the material has been
ordered um that should be installed soon
public work replaced all the uh dog bag
dispensers on the bike
path uh new recycling cans have been
installed on the bike path as
well Birch Grove Park bathrooms are
slated to be
closed next
week There's a the old reptile house
it's a tan shed out bir Grove Park um
that's slated to get a sprucing up and
the police are going to use that for
storage he there at the
park and Public Work superintendent met
with a uh fence contractor to do some um
replacing of some fence at the uh at the
girls major league softball
field um the outfall inspections have
been completed for the year including be
inspection fors that's all that I have
tonight thank you councilwoman VCI thank
you council president um I just have one
thing uh we had a very productive
meeting today with the planning board
Triad and the economic development um
commission regarding the economic
element um
being adopted into the management plan
so now with planning board we're gonna
take a look at it
and put it
in thank you councilman Smith
thank you Mr President uh really nothing
much to report here I did want to ask U
the Senate if there was any supp little
communication about the courts situation
uh is there any other update for that uh
nothing definitive uh what I can tell
you is few towns got called
by uh the administrative office of the
courts and were advised that certain
decisions weren't going to be made uh
until
a decision could be made on the state
police issue with the state police
ticket interestingly I did not get that
call not sure why um but I did hear that
news I have been back and forth with Mr
melinsky in an effort to assist him with
some correspondence we believe he's
going to submit to the court and to the
AOC in order to uh hopefully try to prop
this
decision
that's all I have Mr President thank you
Council car hik council president um the
only thing I have is that mainland's
next board meeting is November 20th at 6
and for the cultural committee they are
going to have their fall flea market
November 18th and stay posted to the
city website for um information for that
and buyers to be part of the vendors
that's it
Council Nara no report this evening
thank you um for me the library board
did have a meeting this past month uh
that I attended the new director Mr
bryne uh seems to be working out very
well he's um formerly with the Atlantic
City Board of Education and uh he's also
been able to get a lot of new working on
new programs to bring in some things I
guess that work well where he was
formerly um as well as still some uh
Staffing shortages that they've been
going through over the past year so
things are looking good over there to uh
increase the uh usage of the
library that's all I
had I think the any updates on the ad
hwks I do not have any on
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anything you have anything on that okay
storm water still waiting on the county
nothing and we have nothing further on
the those properties right the two are
still being reviewed
by habitat and the other
still
Sur surveys
okay uh new grants uh
okay
the next item is the best practices
we this inventory is done every year all
the different categories that the state
requires us to re do a
self-review um ethics Personnel our
budget Financial Administration capital
projects transparency
procurement many categories cyber
security lead remediation shared
services special Improvement districts
solid waste recycling utilities and
environment so out of all those
categories a lot of some don't even
apply to us uh you need to and and the
reason for this is to meet a certain
score so that you get full State a um if
you get you need a score of 29 which
Northfield uh we were at 38.5 we came
down a little bit there's a one item on
there it's actually on our at Hawks that
I need to we need to get caught up the
electronic the the
EV report or EV ordinance that we need
to finish um with the and get that into
our master
plan so that'll help us for next year
and then everyone got a copy of this if
you can look through and see if there's
any items you think we might be able to
improve our scores just to make sure we
don't
fall
below the 29 Points and make sure we get
full State eight every
year and that's all I
have all right we'll move on if everyone
can
please refer to your
agendas approval of the minutes Council
woman Buchi and councilman
Naro resolutions is there any
resolutions anyone would like to hold
from the consent
agenda okay councilman deiz councilman
woman
Carano payment of bills councilman Smith
and councilman Leeds and meeting notices
councilman
Nara at this time we'll open the meeting
to the public anyone from the public
wishing to speak on any topic we ask
that you please step forward and stay
your name and city for the record and
observe a 5 minute limit per
speaker and if anyone is in Zoom please
indicate by raising your Zoom
hand okay um anyone in Zoom no see no
one public session is now
closed
MO all in favor I any
opposed we'll begin the reg session
momentarily
good
evening this is the regular session
for Northfield city council October 24th
of
2023 this meeting was properly
advertised in accordance with public law
1975 chapter 231 and in the Press of
Atlantic City on January 7th of this
year may have a flag salute led by
council president proem DZ
please
salute
please be
seated roll call Mrs bchi here Mrs
coreno here Mr deiz here Mr Leeds here
Mr Naro here Mr Smith here Mr patina
here Mr Chow Mr President thank you I
may have a motion to approve minutes I'd
like to make the necessary motion for
approval of the minutes from October
10th to 2023 they've been distributed
posted to the
office Mr please um note that I'm going
to abstain from
that
second all in
favor any
impos thank
you um engineer report thank
you only
couple
uh the 2020 local program I call
yesterday from the
contactor he will to
negotiate come in line what contract and
he will
couple
thank
you at this time we'll open this meeting
to the public anyone from public wishing
to speak on any topic we ask you please
step forward and state your name and
city for the record and observe a five
minute limit for speak
anyone in Zoom please raise your hand if
you wish to
speak okay seeing no one public session
is now closed on resolutions all
resolutions listed under the consent
agenda consider to be routine in nature
and having been reviewed by Council will
be enacted by one motion any item may be
removed from the consent agenda at the
request of any council member and if so
removed will be treated as a separate
matter any items requiring ex requiring
expenditure for subject supported by a
certificate of availability of
funds we have an executive session of
council it be held at the end of the
meeting and we will come back in the
public session make any comment for the
record after the executive session has
concluded any vote made on any subjects
discussed will be made in
public have I have a motion to vote by
consent I have a question yes sir on the
second page
2011 no never mind I got
it um i' like to make the necessary
motion to adopt resolutions 189
2023 to 2011 2023 and 201
2022 m s
agend numbering
hold
please
22
23 20123 and
20223 202 the executive session it looks
like should be
202 and 2011 this year so should be 2 as
well
actually yeah and then 202
so for corre is just the narrative on
the um page so 2011
2023 correct
okay
need R do that please like to make a
motion to adopt resolutions 20 9
2023 through 202 2023 by consent agenda
second all in favor I any
post motion to adopt the consent agenda
like to make a motion to adopt by the
consent agenda for Resolutions 189 2023
through 202
2023
second roll
call
Mr Mrs bchi yes Mrs corano yes Mr
DZ yes Mr Leeds yes Mr Notaro yes Mr
Smith Mr patina yes motion carries for
the adoption of the consent
agenda payment of
bills authorized pay of bills in the
amount of
291,000
$25.34 and our meeting
notices actually have to vote on that oh
we should vote shouldn't we
let's let's all right Mrs bchi yes Mrs
corano yes Mr deiz yes Mr Leeds Mr
Notaro yes Mr Smith yes Mr patina yes
motion cares for payment of
bills I'm a little ahead of
myself meeting notices please uh the
general election will be held on
November 7th at 6: am to 800m at the
Northfield Community School our next
city council meeting will be held
November 14th our work session starts at
6 pm and our regular session is
immediately
after one other notice time for the
general election correct uh I I changed
it I said 6 a.
okay one other item is happy anniversary
to Mr
deise and Jackie deise
really thank you us tonight on your
anniversary stop is
three thank
you oh look at
that that
treat right
time
okay so resolution 202 to of 2023 which
was just adopted as part of the consent
agenda is a resolution providing for an
executive session not open to the public
in accordance with the provisions of the
New Jersey open public meetings Act njsa
10 col 4-12 B in this case 7 matters
covered under the attorney client
privilege we are required set forth as
much information as possible about the
subject matter to be discussed as well
as provide to the public the amount of
time they can expect to elapse before
the non-public minutes can be disclosed
and for that I will defer to the
solicitor for comment thank you was
authorized by resolution 202 2023 uh
city council uh after the uh brief
recess of when Co counc arrives will
enter into an executive session not open
to the general public in accordance with
the provisions of the open public
meetings Act uh matters to be discussed
are an update regarding affordable
housing compliance efforts uh potential
future affordable housing development uh
and other matters falling within the
attorney client privilege uh Council
will keep minutes of this executive
session as required by law which must be
approved by Council and made available
for public inspection when required and
permitted by law at this time the time
frame for that is unknown it's my
understanding that Council will stay in
council chambers for this um EX session
and return to the Das for a statement
for the record once the
uh executive session is complete and I
don't believe we're contemplating any
official action Al I de
to no official action is contemplated
but certainly not ruled
out may have motion to
reset motion reset all in favor hi hi hi
we going to recess
till we can begin our ex thanks girls
great
job you got you got a couple minutes you
film us just hanging around can't be
here for
execu I think Kylie just doesn't want to
hang around us
Ryan
back to
session yeah so um the council president
has resumed to the meeting um for those
participating by Zoom the executive
session will be beginning shortly and
the audio and video portions of this
meeting will be
paused um any members of the public who
are here in person will be asked to exit
counc council chambers Council will
remain in council chambers for the
duration of the executive session and
upon conclusion the doors will be opened
the participants in Zoom will be
welcomed back in and the solicitor will
make a comment for the record at that
time yeah
clear he was there when you said
that yes Northfield Council has included
exective authorized by resolution 2002
2023 excuse me purpose of the executive
session was to obtain an update from Co
Council regarding various Co projects
throughout the city including o Avenue
um all stables and the dasis project
minutes were kept of the executive
session as required by law will be made
available for inspection when permitted
time frame for that is
unknown uh no official action has been
taken and none is
compensated
motion Mo second all in
favor
oppose That's all
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