Redevelopment Agency - Regular Meeting

Okay. The following is the agenda for the regular meeting of the Falcon Lake Redevelopment Agency. The meeting is to be held in the municipal building at 25 MX Avenue on Thursday, May 15, 2025, beginning promptly at 7:30. Formal written advance notice as required by NJSA 104-1 has been provided to this meeting at least 48 hours in advance of today given the time, date, and location and the and to the extent known the agenda of this meeting. Such notice states a formal action may or may not be taken. This meeting will be video recorded and broadcasted for later reviewing by the public. This mo this notice was posted on the Bolton board outside the offices of the admissible building preserved for this and other similar announcements provided to the suburban trends. The newspaper designated by the borrow to receive such notices and filed with the clerk of the borrow. Please stand. I pledge allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Okay. Um, we do a roll call first or minutes first? Roll call. No, I thought so. This is out of order. What? Mhm. Pledge of Allegiance. Oh, you know why? Cuz I took the oath office out. Ah, see boo. Roll call. Okay. Mr. Quigley here. Miss Novak. Okay. Mr. Ross here. Mr. Kimberlin. Um, Mr. Sinki here. Okay. Mr. Lavasi here. Councilman Venon here. Mayor Sarah and Glenn, Mr. Dominic is

absent and Dandy Brewer and there will be no uh engineer repres representation tonight. Okay, thank you very much. May I have a motion to accept the regular minutes from the March 20th, 2025 mid meeting, please? Motion. We got uh Ken a second, please. I'll second. Matt, any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. obstained. So move. Okay. Uh need approval for the following three bills. Bill number one, Marazini Falcon, uh for the March services, uh $2,25. Seems extreme extreme, but don't worry about it. It's a fair price. No, the total amount total amount $2,25 exactly. Big number down below that. One more down. I get it. I get it. Thank you for pointing that out. Like, you know, I am I am a banker, by the way. I am $2,624. Emotion, please. No, no, no. You're going to do all of them? No. Oh, we're going to do all three ones. Great. Uh, the second uh invoice is for the April of 2025, also from Maraziti Falcon. No, no, no. Cer's engineering. I had a wrong agenda. I got it. Sorry. I'm okay. Uhhuh. $584.50. And the third one is Kier's Engineering and Design for a total of $1,455.75. I have a motion to accept my goodness. And office office concepts. New play. Oh, for for Jason Lassi, our new guy.

$29.99. May I have a motion to accept all four invoices, please? All four um payments. Motion. Ken. Second. I'll second. Matt. Well done. Okay. Can I just add a comment to that just so for anybody watching at home? Most of those bills that we just went through, except Jason's name plate is uh being paid from escrow from the developers themselves. when the town is not getting those bills, the escrow from the developers that are building these projects are paying those. Good point, Mayor. Thank you. Uh we do have a couple of correspondents. Do you want to do a roll call or just all voted? Yes. Roll call. No. For the uh bills, you tell me. Roll call or roll call or Yes, roll call. Roll call. Okay. Mr. Quigley, yes. Uh Mr. Ross, yes. Uh Mr. Sinki, yes. Uh Mr. Yes. And Mr. V. Councilman Bennett. Yes. Thank you very much. Uh there are two correspondences from uh Liz Brandness, our municipal clerk. One is from uh Wayne, that they're going to have a they're going to have a uh a new rule that you have to take photographs of the site to be developed and include that in your packet. Actually, it's pretty good. Pretty good rule if you ask me. It looks pretty good. Um, second one was uh also from Wayne. It had 20 for for uh some an adjustment to chapter 134. Any idea what that's all about? I didn't see. Okay. And the other one was from Oakland Borrow. They're uh amending a site and a site uh a site plan in a subdivision, but uh not nothing really for Pontto Lakes. Yeah. All that one I think that was just they had to they won't declare you complete until you've paid the escrow. Thank you very much. The escrow and the fees. It's always good to have somebody who reads these things. Really is. Uh executive director report. There will be none tonight as uh he's not

here. No conceptual presentations formal applications. We do have a resolution, don't we? Oh, I thought we had one. I thought I wrote one. I thought I wrote one for 60. Uh okay, I guess not. Uh any new business? Any unfinished business or all business? Uh, no executive session. I'm going to open it up to the public. Open and close. No public session as there's no public here. Motion to I want to in on some of the newer that would be under old business just so you know. Okay. American um the um Smith project that we had talked about for many years. It's on the corner where the ice cream station is. After they got their semi approvals for that project, they're going to revamp the whole project and bring a whole project back that I think will be smaller than was proposed initially, which is what I think a lot of people were asking for to begin with. So, it's nice to hear that they listen to that a little bit. I don't know what it's going to be. I don't know how many units, but they're in the works with that talk. Um, did they ever even go to the council for parking? They did. They did. and they heard from the council that there was still an issue of how we're going to do that with easement or or that or sell spots or all those things, but I think when they met with the council and the conversations we've had before that, they realized that maybe there was some push back on the trying to push too much into a small area. So I think they heard that and I think what the one of the things they also heard was the way I understand it they're going to keep all the retail that they have now existing as it sits and try to build around the existing retail. So, no garage will be needed. I understand. There'll be no ramps. There'll be none of those kind of things. Much better project, I think, for the town than than was proposed. You get anything on that? Yeah, we haven't got anything on that yet. Right. And then just a side note, uh we have a a person who's interested in purchasing,

he already purchased the game store, the old game store, and he's looking at buying the cleaners, which is a brownfield cleanup. You know, that we can't touch that. There's a $200,000 lean on the property plus cleanup costs. This gentleman is exploring the possibility of doing paying for all that, paying for the lean, paying for the cleanup, and doing a small little project there. For us, that would be a great thing because it gets that property that we can't really touch and use to look like something. If nobody does that, the town is not going to touch the brownfield property and it will sit like that forever because the EPA has the mile. used to be the old dry cleaners. The old dry cleaners, right? Rough cleaners. Right. So, if that goes through, that would be really a good thing for him. This gentleman seems interested, so maybe that'll happen. Yeah. He bought the two and now he wants to buy the third one that's next to it. The two the the game store. What else? That old antique store or whatever. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, good. Yeah. So, do you know who it is? I I know the name. I've talked to him. um you know he he seems very interested in and we've explained to him there's a big lane and it's a very costly cleanup. Um didn't run from that. So hopefully this happens. Good. We'll see what happens. That's all I got. I see 223 on Avenue is moving along nicely. They they got the the bottom in at least two floors of wood up already. So it's coming along. It's good to see some action. Anyhow, and I I should mention that the civic center in the back here, they've been waiting on the wood. The wood came in uh 2 days ago. So, they're going to start building the civic center in the back on Monday. They hope to have that done in two weeks and and finished. So, that will be a big deal for us to have our civic center back. We haven't had that. Yeah. And that's not their fault. That's because we have issues. Um so, we'll get that building back. And this property across from uh 61 Avenue across from Starbucks uh ran from John. It's still waiting. Still under review with the planning board. Um yeah, you can't go on the

planning board. That's the problem. He was complaining about uh I met with the county today on that project. I met with SU County and people that live with the policies there. Um we've worked out a good agreement. I think everybody's happy. Countyy's happy. I think the the owners will be happy and I think the sujas will happy. So I think at the end of the day that project is now going to kind of gave their blessing on the whole thing. The application is under review with college engineering at this time. Right. So I think that could happen really soon. Good. And and by the way, it's um helping the the business owners there who really have a building with no spots. That spot they've had no parking there for 25 years, but we're trying to get them some spots. And I think that's going to happen. I think that would be Yeah, that's what I meant with the county with I think we're done. That's everything, right? That's it. Thank you very much for the update. Next time remember that's old business. Just I don't mind explaining this. Okay. Motion to adjurnn. Motion. Thanks. A second. All in favor? All in favor? I Who was that? E I don't know if you guys heard of that. Wait. Yeah. cuz we're