July 31, 2024 Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

14 (Pages 50 to 53) Page 50 1 Mayor and Council has asked us to review the 2 stormwater as it affects the residents in Verona. 3 You have a report, which I understand the Board does 4 not accept by mail, so I'm here to present the 5 report formally for the record. 6 (Applause by members of the public) 7 MS. McGOVERN: Could you pass that 8 out. The Board hasn't had a chance to read it. 9 MR. TENKATE: I understand. 10 MS. McGOVERN: Are you going to make 11 yourself available for questions with respect to the 12 report or would you like to pass it out and then 13 give a summary to the Board of the salient points 14 within it? 15 MR. TENKATE: Yes, it's very technical 16 in nature. I could come back to another meeting to 17 go over it after everybody's had the chance to 18 review it or I could -- 19 MS. McGOVERN: All right, so my 20 suggestion is if you give the exhibits to our Board 21 secretary, who will pass them out. If you will 22 identify it as the exhibit, we'll do -- we'll call 23 it -- you're the one who prepared this report, 24 you're familiar with it? 25 MR. TENKATE: I am not the one who Page 51 1 prepared it. 2 MS. McGOVERN: But you're familiar 3 with it? 4 MR. TENKATE: That person is not 5 available. 6 MS. McGOVERN: It's from your company 7 and you -- 8 MR. TENKATE: Yes. 9 MS. McGOVERN: -- you have the 10 expertise to discuss it, correct? 11 MR. TENKATE: I prefer that the person 12 who prepared it did it but I could discuss it. It's 13 very technical in nature and that is to do with the 14 regulations. 15 MS. McGOVERN: Do you have the 16 expertise to give us a summary of what's in that 17 report? 18 MR. TENKATE: Yes. 19 MS. McGOVERN: Okay. So Mr. Hess, I 20 did send that to you earlier -- 21 MR. HESS: Yes. 22 MS. McGOVERN: -- because I did have a 23 copy. It would be my suggestion that you give a 24 brief summary and the Board won't be in a position, 25 really, to ask any substantive questions nor do I Page 52 1 think that the applicant's -- 2 MR. PLOCKER: No. 3 MS. McGOVERN: -- attorney would be 4 prepared, so that we'll take it at this point and 5 ask for you to come back or the author of the report 6 to come back, but you've identified it as a reliable 7 instrument, I'm going to have to say that, that it 8 is something that -- it can have some bearing on the 9 Board's decision. 10 So if you could just give a brief 11 summary of what we are

reliable 7 instrument, I'm going to have to say that, that it 8 is something that -- it can have some bearing on the 9 Board's decision. 10 So if you could just give a brief 11 summary of what we are accepting right now and the 12 Board will take a look at it, but we'll delve into 13 testimony at a later date when someone from your 14 office can respond to it, okay? 15 MR. TENKATE: Okay. 16 MR. KLEIN: What are you labeling 17 this? 18 MS. McGOVERN: We're going to label it 19 as O-1 because he's -- it's an objector exhibit. 20 MR. PLOCKER: Is Mr. Anderson still 21 being questioned? I know it's kind of a little out 22 of order now. 23 MS. McGOVERN: Mr. Anderson, we 24 haven't finished him -- 25 MR. PLOCKER: Okay. Page 53 1 MS. McGOVERN: -- because I think 2 there might be someone behind -- 3 MR. PLOCKER: Okay, great. 4 MS. McGOVERN: -- but you took the 5 opportunity to get on the line and do this and I get 6 it, so... It's sort of in the same subject matter 7 because it's an engineer. 8 MR. TENKATE: I would prefer if we 9 could defer this to the next meeting to have the 10 author present -- 11 MS. McGOVERN: Do you have any 12 objection to that? 13 MR. PLOCKER: No objection. 14 MS. McGOVERN: All right, Mr. Hess, 15 then, our Board engineer will also be able to review 16 that. And if you could give a copy of your report. 17 Thank you. 18 MR. AFRAN: Thank you. 19 MS. McGOVERN: We'll ask you to come 20 back. So the Board members, you can take a look at 21 this and we'll -- once we get somebody back here to 22 ask questions about it, that's when we'll delve into 23 it in more detail. 24 MR. TENKATE: Okay. When is the next 25 meeting?