Borough Council - Regular Meeting
The Bloomingdale Borough Council recognized resident Larry Brogan for completing 100 marathons in 100 consecutive days to raise awareness for Parkinson's disease. The council also discussed upcoming community events and addressed an audit report finding regarding property maintenance funds.
About this meeting
- Government Body
- Borough Council
- Meeting Type
- Borough Council
- Location
- Bloomingdale, NJ
- Meeting Date
- July 21, 2026
Transcript
68 sections
Richard, are you ready?
Okay, good evening, everyone. This is a record meeting in general with Governor Bonnie O'Farrell.
We will meet on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2076 at 7.70 p.m. by the call of 24 by the school's request.
We also have Mr. Chris Smith, Mr. Michael Feinmeier, and Mr. Charlie Turner. This meeting is called to assume that this is a result of the public public law law.
On January 9th, 2026. Copy of the bill. Copy of the bill.
Copy of the bill. Copy of the bill. Copy of the bill. Copy of the bill. The main engine that you approve is a secondary engine. If there is an emergency, walk more clearly to the exit and move the footer down the stair and up and out of the boat. And the question is, please raise your hand.
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We do have one more presentation tonight. I'm going to step it down to the podium. And Dr. Johnson, excuse me, can you please spread out your hands? Thank you. There was not enough we could say about the accomplishment that has taken place during that. So, in our commons, in Ironman, other military practices that Larry has, I was Massive press reached out to the council and the town to find that this accomplishment had occurred and they had not had the opportunity yet to shake your hand and discuss their examples of mobility with you.
I'll turn it over to Beggar from here, but do be nice.
Before we get to the reason for the prosperation, we're going to do a comment on Larry's achievements. You reached out to Ben Martin. regarding all Atlanta has done, especially his last challenge. So you're talking about drugs. Hyopractic. Lactobacillus. Lactobacillus. Hercules.
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And over his lifetime, he's competed in more than three marathons and 30 Ironman triathlons, proving that movement is a powerful tool for the health and resilience of a body. I respect that Kate Trump and people, unless they act like they're trying to find professional medicine and alternative therapies, where the whole person, where can they jump beyond a clinic and get assaulted with professional ethics?
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So we have a movement of wellness that can transform lives. So in 2019, Larry was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Instead of letting the virus define him, The embrace the new challenge of running 100 marathons in 100 consecutive days to inspire the Parkinson's community is a race awareness about the importance of movement. We're lucky that Larry's part of our community in New Middendale, up in the Long Valley area. For the channels that Larry just endeavored,
He started in a record length on March 24th, 2026. And over 2,620 miles later, finished running equipment at Marathon every day for 100 days.
That is simply amazing. His final destination was South California in Calabasas, California on July 1st, 2000.
Those words or actions can probably recognize Larry's accomplishments and what an amazing person he is. Coming from his friend Mark, who basically gave me all the information I need to know tonight.
I just thought it was really important to go see our community to recognize his great accomplishments from Larry Weir. So without further ado, Larry, come on up. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
to the well-being of others.
In whereabouts, Larry has devoted decades to helping individuals heal and maintain active healthy lives as a firefighter, acupuncturist, herbalist, and wellness practitioner, defined by traditional and cultural therapies for and for the whole person. In whereabouts, in his lifetime, Larry has distinguished himself as a part-time athlete, He will enjoy 300 marathons and 30 Irish-owned travel triathlons that demonstrate the power of movement, determination, and resilience. As we're at, my expertise and commitment to global wellness have extended beyond my practice to his work with professional athletes, sports teams, and others seeking to improve their health and performance. And we're at, on March 24, 2026, I'm going to get extraordinary first country journey Franco Wakes, New Jersey. Undertaking the challenge of running 100 marathons in 100 consecutive days inspired others to promote the importance of movement, wellness, and perseverance.
And we're at it. We're covering more than 2,620 miles.
We've completed our marathon every day in 100 consecutive days. I still think that's amazing. Larry successfully completed his remarkable endeavor. In Calabasas, California, July 1, 2026. In Warehouse, throughout his historic achievement, Larry inspired countless individuals to assume courage, determination, and commitment to raise awareness and transform the power to move and help in living.
In Warehouse, Larry's accomplishments reflect the highest ideal of service, perseverance, leadership, and community spirit, being a pride and distinction for the environment of Bloomingdale. Whereas, guided by his belief that we make life by what we give, Larry continues to demonstrate that one person's dedication and purpose can create meaningful change in the lives of many. Whereas, now therefore, it be proclaimed that the Mayor Council of the Borough of Bloomingdale, hereby recognize and honor Larry Brogan, extraordinary academic achievements, his life-long commitment to health and wellness, and his outstanding service to others. We further proclaim that the Mayor Council extend his sincere gratitude and congratulations and admiring for inspiring our community and people across the nation through his example of courage, resilience, generosity, and focus. The witnesses therefore, we have Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Okay, we're ready?
Okay, we're back in 7-7-16-16.
We do not have any John Ivers tonight. Do we have a motion to vote?
Second. All in favor? Aye. Anyone wish to move up? No one voted? All in favor?
Aye.
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Check out their website for their activities. They also have a platform club to keep seniors active and doing a band event. For the June numbers? For Trevor, they had 117 recalls all year-to-date, 913. Morris County had 122 recalls, 808.
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They did 90 calls while on duty, and 55 calls, all call calls. Bill running a course for the DMR responders, and they're still, if anyone is interested, being a first-aid squad person, they could use you at hand for their rotation patients. The only other thing I'd like to mention is if anyone is interested in being a member of the Liberation Day, that's coming up in October 26th. I know that's a very, very big day in the area, but we are the legislature's Our celebration day is on September 26th from 11 to 4. And any non-profit, any organization, like a table, or if any vendors are interested, please go online and fill out the effective form that's in that form section. Okay, good.
I just want to thank the community for the participation. Even folks that didn't sign out can see that people are going above and beyond to celebrate. It's nice to see the town decorated.
It's my intention to keep the decorations going for a while. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. A lot of people, I believe, who trust you well. So it's been a really nice time. So thank you guys for putting that together, Mike and Jen, Jay, and Evie. Work out well. Okay, okay. Dave, Thomas, Tyler? No problem. Tomorrow night, we're going to be going to the United Nations. Yes, that's right, that's right. Tomorrow. Tomorrow night. Right. Right. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. it's been a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a
So getting back to that, now we have, me and I and I have got to have to discuss this at our first training day. We are going to find some questions to our flyer, to our additional trainer vendors. We are going to get a couple of things going on, and then we'll just sort of kick things out of there later in the afternoon. But we are going to try to test the things that we discussed that we are going to be reporting for, and we'll get to that stuff.
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Mike?
Thanks, thanks. The late through late program is open. That's what this grant is. The grant is used and that came out really well. That's what we're going to do next. That's what we're going to do next. And now we're going to move along. I don't have any receipts, so okay.
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This Saturday. This Saturday. This Saturday. This Saturday. This Saturday. This Saturday. This Saturday. And just like the Bobcott campaign, coincides with Celebration Day. Registration is open. People are signing up, which is a good thing. So everything is along the lines.
I don't know if we're done.
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Do I have a motion? I didn't want to . I will. So move.
And before we vote on this, just a couple things. Item C, item 3, our CFO is going to be holding two positions, which is CFO and our treasurer. She resigned. We wish her nothing but a great job. But as life goes on, So, Heather is going to be taking both positions because we know it hasn't happened in a while.
We're due to do this. In fact, we're due to have it happen.
So, she's going to be doing two jobs.
The other thing is we're signing the audit report. And under the audit report, it's going to be directed back to . When you go to the audit, the auditors come in and they say, okay, It's a really, really great area, but we need to move into other areas. One area that we have to move on is how we are taking money down at the construction office regarding property maintenance.
So now we have a system.
I'm usually using the two people down there. It was a little hard times for a property maintenance person.
So we need to fix that. That's where I'm from.
There was a couple other little things. We did really well on the ordering portion. We sat with them. So we're moving in the right direction. Any other questions on that? Roll call, please. Yes, yes. Yes, yes. Yes, yes. Yes, yes. Yes, yes. I yes you where yet yet yet yes yes good I don't I don't have any like sorry for your work here where it's never got it yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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