• Two dueling proposed resolutions purporting to provide the needed transparency to the Council’s currently “closed” subcommittees have JUST been added to the draft consent agenda for Teaneck Council’s 4/8/2025 meeting. They may be compared by going  directly to the lead article on the Teaneck Voices website – Click Here

Community Meeting on Plan for 827 Teaneck Road – Monday, April 7, 2025, at 8:00 pm in person in Council Chambers or by Zoom. (See Announcements in this Voices edition)

Municipal Open Space Trust Advisory Board (MOST) – Monday, April 7, 2025 at 8:00 pm. Apparently, by Zoom only (possibly at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81603539956 with a passcode of 589113), but that address was for the March 10 meeting. No other information is currently available.

Teaneck Council Regular Meeting – Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at 8:00 pm in Council Chambers (hybrid by Zoom Click Here and add passcode 909044). For the agenda packet, Click Here

• Early in the meeting Council will continue its discussion of the $12.7M 2025 Capital Improvement Budget (go to the agenda packet at p.13 and see the related story in this Voices). Also Council will decide whether to place on the meeting’s Consent Agenda a resolution on End Jewish Hatred Day being proposed by two CMs (see agenda and p. 17ff). Later in the agenda there are two notable draft ordinances being proposed for Introduction that readers should review carefully. The first (19-2025) is found in the agenda packet beginning at p. 245. It is a long (21-page) and complicated “amendment” ordinance addressing the use and/permitting of various sources of noise pollution. Happily, the draft ordinance underlines in red/green font changes from the current code.  It affects not only landscaping machines and audio devices but also barking dogs. But residents will want to ask for an explanation of the effect and source of the ordinance.. Next is a draft ordinance just proposed over the weekend (20-2025 at the agenda packet pp. 236ff. It is another effort to amend and further restrict a broadly defined set of “special events”. The newer version may well pose fewer constitutional issues than its controversial predecessor. Unfortunately, residents apparently are not being given the “constitutional” assessment for which we agreed to pay to have an expert review the prior version. More disturbing is the failure of whoever decided to belatedly put this new version on the 4/8 agenda to underline what the changes are to the prior code it is amending. Many Voices readers believe the town Council’s commitment to never provide residents with adequate and timely information is emerging as its primary governance principle.

• MIA – Council Subcommittee Transparency Resolution. Deputy Mayor Orgen, as she was on 3/20, making her motion to have Council rescind its 3/11 subcommittee transparency decision, made a promise. She said that she had changed her mind – that she now supported the Council subcommittee’s transparency.  And she solemnly promised that the new task force she was promoting would come back, timely, to Council on April 8 with a new and better, and more efficient subcommittee transparency resolution. So much for an Orgen promise. No such promised resolution sits on the current 4/8 Council agenda.  (PS. In fact, it is very likely that DM Orgen’s motion to “rescind” the subcommittee transparency resolution would not be sustained if judicially reviewed. Why? Because DM Orgen had voted against the original transparency resolution (Res. 113-2025, Click Here). Hence, she was probably not qualified to make a motion to rescind the resolution. (as it was first certified by the Clerk) Some Voices readers believe that is why Orgen’s “motion” to rescind Res 113-2025 was later converted into a new “resolution” (115-2025) in the second iteration of the website’s draft minutes for the 3/20 meeting, the one that the Clerk later authored and certified and were belatedly placed on the website.  Lots to look at, here.  Hm…….
• Apropos this MIA article – Two dueling proposed resolutions purporting to provide the needed transparency to the Council’s currently “closed” subcommittees have JUST been added to the draft consent agenda. They may be compared by going to pp. 18 and then 22 of the most recent full agenda packet for the Tuesday 4/8 meeting (Click Here)
  .OR readers can go directly to the lead article on the Teaneck Voices website – Click Here

Youth Advisory Board – Wednesday, April 9, 202,5 at 6:00 pm in person only in MP-3 of the Rodda Center

Teaneck Council Budget Meeting – Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 7:00 pm  (Cancelled)

Planning Board – Regular Mtg. Thursday, April 10, 2025, at 7:30 pm in MP-1 of the Rodda Center or by Zoom (Click Here and add passcode 099780 ) to view but no comment. Click Here for a VERY short agenda that apparently will be limited to an educational presentation about how various variances work.)