Traffic and Safety Committee

Meeting Minutes

September 16, 2008

Present:

Jeana Macleod, Jim Bailey, Laurel Durenberger, Lauren Brickner-McDonald, Joe Tempesta

Minutes: Approved

Old Business

• Jim Bailey announced the resignation of Richard Uranker, Steve Shaw will be the new liaison.
• TSC meetings will be held quarterly in September/December/March/June
• TSC terms expire in December. A final decision on term length yet to be determined
• Joe Tempesta reported that Chief Tovo has applied for grant money that would enable a sidewalk for Kenilworth that would tie into the High School. He expects to hear a response by the end of the year or possibly early 2009.The phone polls are expensive to move so they plan to work around them as well as Drainage on Kenilworth and the catch basin on Crane.
• The replacement of the Lake Drive sidewalks from Lake to Midvale was approved.
• The crosswalks and stop lines at Lake & Lake are also being reworked
• There is a proposal to do away with the teacher parking spots after holiday break that are closest to Wildwood.
• Efforts to affect Traffic Calming include requests for crosswalks on Melrose, Hanover & Kenilworth. Tovo feels that it is only a matter of when the borough can get to it. The Board of Education is not in favor of either speed bumps or crosswalks if the existing sidewalks appear to be working. They will revisit the topic in December.
• Free-standing 25mph signs for Melrose were funded by a recent grant.
• The Borough currently has a contract with Denville for Line Painting. Mountain Lakes currently does not own a line stripper machine.

New Business:

• Car-free zones for Halloween are once-again expected to be quite busy. Laura is collecting candy and is worried about donations.
• Green Traffic: Jim Bailey has requested that the board “think-outside-the-box” and explore solutions to encourage students to walk and bike to school.

The next board meeting will be on December 16th