AGENDA FOR

PUBLIC MEETING OF MAYOR AND COUNCIL

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

8:00 PM

(Agenda Meeting - 7:00 p.m. on same date)

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1.   Meeting Call to order by Mayor Gallagher in accordance with the Open                       

      Public Meetings Act.

2.   Roll call by Municipal Clerk

3.   Pledge of Allegiance

4.   Invocation by Pastor Mingle

5.   PROMOTIONS

            Sergeant Raymond Jazikoff to Lieutenant

            Police Officer Wendell Born to Sergeant

            Police Officer David DeLair to Sergeant 

6.   Acceptance of Governing Body Minutes – September 5, 2006 (Agenda & Public)

                                                                 September 5, 2006 (Executive Session)

7.   PROCLAMATION

      Car Free Day – September 22, 2006

8.   Public Hearing on SFY2007 Budget

9.   Public Comments on Agenda Items only.     

10. ORDINANCES – Public Hearing and Final Adoption

     #1751 – An ordinance providing for the sale of municipal land known as Block 361, Lot 3 (Lorraine

Avenue) to Pinto Brothers Disposal, LLC in the amount of $146,000.00.

     #1752 – An ordinance providing for compensation of various employees and the method of payment

                        of said employees for the period January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2010.

     #1753 – An ordinance appropriating $263,000.00 for the acquisition of various capital improvements

within the Borough of South Plainfield.      

11. ORDINANCES – Introduction

     #1754 – An ordinance providing for the sale of municipal land known as Block 362, Lot 6.01 

Kenneth Avenue) to Joseph and Lisa Glowacki in the amount of $127,500.00.

     #1755 – An ordinance creating the employment position of Coordinator of Long Term and Alternate

Care for the Elderly and establish compensation for said position for the year 2006 through 2008.

     #1756 – An ordinance appropriating $473,000.00 for improvements to various capital improvements

within the Borough of South Plainfield.

12. RESOLUTIONS

     #255 – Authorize the Chief Financial Officer to issue refund check(s) in the amount of $1,216.94.

     #256 – Authorize the Chief Financial Officer to issue refund check(s) to the owner of Block 528, Lot

46.16 in the amount of $8,145.90, who received a successful judgment reducing the assessed value of said property.

     #257 – Authorize the Chief Financial Officer to issue refund check(s) to the owner of Block 254, Lot

16 in the amount of $4,643.09, who received a successful judgment reducing the assessed value of said property.

     #258 – Appoint Building Inspection Underwriters as the Borough’s electrical inspectors for the three-

year period, September 19, 2006 through September 17, 2009 and authorize the Mayor and Municipal Clerk to execute the contract with said firm.

     #259 - Authorize the Mayor and Municipal Clerk to execute the Inter-local Agreement with the

Middlesex County Health Department for the period January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007.

     #260 – Award a contract to Andy Matt, Inc. to construct and install Monument Park walkway and

                        footbridge at a cost not to exceed $273,656.25.

     #261 – Approve a request from G & W Laboratories to hold an employee picnic on September 29,

2006 and to block off the dead end portion of Helen Street for said event.

     #262 – Authorize a maintenance contract for the Borough’s Emergency Services Dispatch System

with Queues Enforth Development for the period July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007 at a

cost not to exceed $23,061.00.

     #263 – Authorize the Mayor and Municipal Clerk to execute the Labor Agreement with Teamsters

Local 866 for the five year period January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2010.  

     #264 – Authorize the temporary capital budget amendment to include improvements to various

recreation facilities.     

     #265 – Authorize amendments to the SFY2007 Temporary Budget – Total Appropriations Inside

“CAPS” in the amount of $615,000.00; Total Appropriations Outside “CAPS” in the amount of $20,000.00 and Total Sewer Utility in the amount of $200,000.00.

     #266 – Authorize the Mayor and Municipal Clerk to execute the Agreement with Conrail for the

widening of the Metuchen Road and Belmont Avenue intersection.

13.  CORRESPONDENCE

1. Meeting Minutes  – Zoning Board of Adjustment – August 10, 2006

2. Monthly Report – Code Enforcement Department – August 2006

3. Meeting Minutes – Planning Board – August 15, 2006

4. Meeting Minutes – Zoning Board of Adjustment – August 24, 2006

5. Meeting Minutes – Environmental Commission – July 12, 2006

6. Meeting Minutes – Middlesex County Planning Board – June 13, 2006

7. Monthly Report – Recycling Department – August 2006

14.   PAYMENT OF BILLS

           Current Fund Reserve - $7,579.03

            Current Fund - $3,897,467.10

   Sewer Utility Operating Fund - $1,596.59

           Pool Utility Operating Fund – $685.25

           General Capital - $131,685.78

    Sewer Utility Capital Fund - $

            Grant Fund - $732.18

            Treasurers Trust - $3,351.94

            Recreation Trust - $9,057.08

   Dog Trust - $241.20

   Pool Capital - $

   Sewer Utility Reserve - $

   Pool Utility Reserve - $

       TOTAL OF ALL FUNDS - $4,052,396.1

15.   REPORTS

16.   PUBLIC COMMENTS

17.   ADJOURNMENT