Highlands Council Meeting
The first regular meeting of the Mayor and Council in the new Borough Hall on Navesink Avenue will be Wednesday, Nov. 1, at 7 p..m. with a lot on the agenda.
The new meeting place, which will eliminate the meetings at the Wilson Community Center, was advertised both in the newspapers and online as well as posted in Borough Hall so residents now know to go up the hill rather than to Waterwitch to attend a meeting.
As in the past, there will be no ZOOM proceedings for the public meetings.
Ptl. Ryan Schoellner will be sworn in as Police Sergeant and Stanley Wojdylak IV will be named a patrolman at the meeting, and both will take their oaths of office immediately after.
Steve Winters will also be appointed Construction Official and former Councilwoman Rebecca Wells will be named to the Housing Authority.
Council will act on a resolution to authorize the consolidation issue of bonds totaling $8,036,736 into a single issue rather than the six bond ordinances currently adopted. It will also introduce an ordinance to include privately owned salt storage facilities in outdoor storage areas and set a public hearing for the next meeting. A public hearing on amending the Snug Harbor design in the FEMA project will be held on Wednesday.
Mayor and Council will also issue a proclamation remembering Holodomor, the Great Ukrainian Famine man-made in 1932 as part of the Soviet famine of the 1930s. That famine killed millions of Ukrainians as the Soviet Union destroyed major grain-producing areas in a deliberate move designed by Josef Stalin. The action is identified by many as an attempt at genocide and the elimination of Ukrainian independence. The Ukraine was one of the largest grain producing states in the Soviet Union and millions of Ukrainians died as a result of the year long Holodomor.
