supposed to be October. >> Sorry, >> thank you, Robin. Good evening. Welcome to the Bedminister Township Committee. This is our regularly scheduled December 15, 2025 meeting. um recognize that we have a
quorum of township committee with committeewoman Fernandez, Committeeman Hickey, Committeeman Rosen here in attendance. Committeewoman Moreski um has an excused absence. And before we start the meeting,
let me just say happy Hanukkah. >> Happy Hanukkah, Bill. Right back at you. >> Right back at you. Ms. Ray, may we please have the open public meetings act
state? >> Yes, mayor. Adequate notice of this meeting of the township committee was sent to the courier news Somerville Burnersville News Whippony and to all subscribers and post at the Township Municipal Building on January 7, 2025. >> Thank you. Please join me in standing for the pledge of
>> allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> This is the time of the meeting that we
uh open up for public comment. Jason is attending remote. So, no one on Zoom. Anyone in person ready, willing, able to make a comment? Seeing none, let's move on.
We once said meeting minutes to approve. That's the December 1st, 2025 township committee meeting. Any comments to those minutes that have not otherwise been communicated to Miss Ray? >> None. Take a motion to approve the
minutes. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> No permits and raffles. I think this is two meetings in a row. We have enough. Great.
>> Great. >> We will go into monthly report discussions by subcommittee chair. Sorry, Gina, >> it's not you leading off with anymore. It's committeeman Rosen. >> All right, >> fine. >> You got a fine.
>> Fine. That's a four-letter word that starts with F, buddy. >> Yep. >> Don't think I don't think I don't know what f what fine means. fun. >> Um, lots going lots going on in the world of wreck. Um, recreation
basketball games start Friday, January 9th. Decay and first and second through fourth rec basketball clinics with drills, skills, and thrills began Saturday, December 6th, will be held for 10 sessions ending March 7th. The air dry clay holiday after school workshop
began last Thursday. The winter session of afterchool dance will begin in January. The Lego engineering afterchool program begins in February. Camp Bedminster and the afternoon camp scheduling has begun. And finally, the long- aaited Bedminster community garden
plot registration will begin in January. >> Yeah. Okay. Lot going on. >> Very enthusiastic. Committeewoman Fernandez, >> I have to say, Bill, that was very enthusiastic.
Um, need I say more? Uh, our DPW department, Jason and all of our guys, um, taking care of the roads, you know, based on this snowstorm, woke up Sunday morning, roads are clear, right? >> Um, I work in a town where the roads are
still not cleared and icy. So, I just have to say, you know, we I don't want to take for granted in Bedminister how good we have it. We wouldn't know unless we worked somewhere else how, you know, um the roads are not cleared yet. So, thank you, Jason, and all the guys for, you know, your hard work. I just want to
say that, start that off. Um they the DPW department has finished the town leaf pickup. Uh they picked up the trees and the branches on the sides of the road from the storms. They were prepping the truck for winter thankfully with salt spreaders and plows because we
needed them um on Sunday or Saturday night. Uh they worked on heavy equipment, filled the potholes and grading of dirt roads, installed park bench for the bench program, and the DPW electric gate was installed. Um so that's that's our update.
>> Where's the electric, Jason? Gina, do you know? >> I don't know is the one we budgeted for. It's on the uh >> It's on this side. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Or that side. >> Yeah. It's where the other the double gate was down by the uh the field.
>> Okay. Got it. >> That's the main. So, that's all that's all my update. Thank you, Jason, for all your hard work. >> Commandment Hickey. >> Thank you, mayor. Good evening all. Uh board of health will not have a meeting in December. However, I did attend the
December board of ed meeting. Two individuals were recognized there for their service to both the school and the board. Patty Seagull, who is also the president of the Far Hills Bedminister First Aid Squad, is retiring from the board at the end of this year, having been elected in 2023. She is a busy
lady. And speaking of busy, Susie Stevenson, wife of Committee Stevenson, >> has volunteered in various capacities with the school for the past 17 years. Wow. >> And served on the board since 2017, including a term as president. and she is also retiring at the end of this
year. So many thanks to both of these amazing individuals as they have served not only the school but the community at large during their time at BTS and mayor that's all I have. >> Okay. Uh real quick land use board we did have a meeting uh but we was it was
administrative going over uh RFPs that were coming in for professionals. Uh there were no hearing scheduled at that last meeting and trying to think when we actually have a hearing scheduled. We might do one at the reor on January 8th.
>> Yes. >> Yeah. I think there's a small application on January 8th. >> Uh farmers market. We ended the farmers market season um with a
holiday uh market. Uh, we had, I think, 32 or 33 vendors that day. And >> 656. >> 656. Yeah. >> 656. Uh, Far Hills Bedminster Fire Department
was there. Uh, Santa was there. Bill missed you at the time. I mean, Santa came. >> Yeah, I know. I I I had a um you >> had a conflict. >> Had a conflict >> and then he left and you >> my conflict ended. >> Yeah. That was interesting that all the
time. >> But that was great. Just tremendous um tremendous uh showing by the uh community coming out on that uh cold snowy morning. Just enough snow
to make it look great. That's >> uh so thanks everyone uh all the volunteers and for Neil Masraono and for Jason and the DPW team for uh helping us through a great 2025
farmers market season and um you know it's just interesting just the the comments on Facebook and Instagram u people going we missed the market already just >> only about what 180 days uh till opening day. Yeah, that's that's true. That's
true. Um, so that's what I have. Uh, for the farmers market, there was uh really no a meeting since we last meet. Uh, no library board meeting since we last met. Um, however, a little bit different from
subcommittee. Uh, we did have a meeting last week with the property owners in Pluckman. Property owners and business operators in Pluckman. Uh we want to give this uh thank you to
uh Pastor Ian Raiken and Suzanne Suz from the Pluckman Presbyterian Church for hosting us. Uh we had pretty good attendance by the property owners and uh we also had an appearance by um
the gentleman from New Jersey EDA. I have his name in front of me and I >> Yes, I have it. Uh, his name was >> Alberto. >> Alberto Grio. >> Garrito. >> Alberto.
He ran through some of the uh small business loans and small business grant opportunities that EDA has, including a number of grant opportunities for starting new businesses, investing uh in
properties in uh both operations and in real estate. and his presentation was was really wellreceived by um the representatives who were there who
are primarily property owners but to some extent they're landlords and if whatever they can do to uh bring in and support their tenants they're on board. So there was a lot of good information that was exchanged. Um, and talking about the exchange of
information, we had a representative from KRE talking about the KRE project coming down the pike and while we've talked about it at length and certainly um the land use board has talked about it. You know,
some of the and the newspaper has reported on it as well. Some of the folks who own properties in the area were not aware and these meetings are an opportunity to exchange ideas, exchange uh developments that are going on with
their properties and also saying, "Hey, this property is for sale. This property just got redone. This is what the town is doing with the park in Pluckman." And there was a lot of interaction between the property owners
while we were there. Also, the church is moving forward with its 175th anniversary and so they're working on some historical elements uh and some events that they'll be celebrating uh and certainly they're looking to uh
engage with Bedminster Township uh both on a governmental and a community basis. So I think that's going to be um terrific. Um, and there were a lot of really interesting takeaways and and I spoke to uh Committ Hickey uh afterwards
and and our municipal engineer and I said, you know, we've talked about uh Puckman getting kicked in the pants um for some years now and I think we're seeing it. I really think
we, you know, with uh Mike Skanker building, the building at the corner, well, not off the corner, but right off Somerset Hill Shopping Center, >> um the pocket park and now we see two buildings, the old Wret building for
sale and two doors down from that, another property for sale. And just hearing the buzz among the property owners about if this could be done in that building. Hey, I'm going to take a look at that building, see what I can do.
There's real interest and real opportunity for investment in that neighborhood. And that perhaps was um extremely refreshing to see. So, uh thank you, Robin, for uh convening everyone. Um and once again, we don't do
these as oneoffs and we'll be setting up another meeting probably in about four months or so. So, um, >> mayor, if I can add. Yes, of course. We had a on that Friday following our meeting, I did put together, um, Alberto with one of the other folks and I just got a had a phone call earlier today
with another gentleman who could not attend the meeting, um, but wanted information, so I put them together this afternoon. That's great. So, >> that's great. So, >> but that's great. you know, whether it's um the county programs that the county offers
or EDA and the state programs that are offered through there. when we get the opportunity to have these meetings whether in bed village or in pluckman these may not be our programs but the fact that we can convey this information
to the folks who are most interested you know if we can connect EDA with uh the businesses and the property owners great um we also talked you know while we're on that subject we also talked about some of the county programs so once again the county
um using CoStar and city data. Once again, we talked about geo fencing and you know, we mentioned it. Colin actually went into uh uh some detail uh with the owner of
Pluckman Fine Wines. Pluckman Fine or Colonial Licorice. >> Colonial Licorice, right? >> It's still called Colonial Licorice. >> Colonial Fine Wines. >> Colonial Fine Wines. All right. Sorry. >> Their business name is Pluckman. >> Yes. Got it. >> And talking about geoence, right? and and finding out, hey, you know, the
folks that are coming into your store are traveling from this area and then heading to this area and that information can certainly help you market. Uh was interesting seeing all the notes >> notes that were being taken down by uh
the folks in attendance. So once again, we'll look in another four months to have another meeting and certainly we'll have another meeting with the um representatives in Bedminster Village as well. Ms. Ray. >> Yes. >> May we please have the administrator's
report? >> Yes. So, um, last Thursday, December 5th, uh, we had our Summers Hills public safety meeting, which I attended. Um, the group will meet next on January 22nd. Um, in addition to public safety, the discussion will expand to economic
developments and other opportunities such as the World Cup and filming. Um, personnel manual. Amanda Summers and I continue to work on updating the GIF model employment practice manual for adoption at the December 29th meeting. Um, this is a big project and uh the
manual and the handbook review is actually now complete. We're in the process of doing our individual formatting. Um, we've been working with our labor attorney, Art Tibo, who's been reviewing updating some of the sections that are specific to Bedminster and uh, updating some of the GIF policies as
they relate to current statute such as um, indemnification and defense, which we passed, um, an ordinance back in 2010. It just needs to be updated to the statute and um, a civil rights policy, which you'll see later on in this uh, meeting as a resolution to adopt. 2026
budget prep is underway. Here we go. All the departments have been sent their budget worksheets. Um, and tomorrow Derek and I have our first department budget meeting with our police department which is one of our biggest next to DPW. So, here we go. Um, in
preparation last week we had a fleet meeting which was rather lively on December 10th uh with DPW, the police construction and fire prevention just to kind of go over examine what we have um now, what our future needs are, what vehicles are aging out um refurbishing
any vehicles and how we can repurpose them for other departments. So, that was a fun conversation, but something that needed to be had uh prior to budget season. It I'm going to I'll let you cover that in your report. >> You go ahead. >> Okay. You got it. >> Um you're rolling. >> All right. So, for it, one of the goals
this year was to have um was to implement artificial intelligence uh in the township to improve efficiencies. So, uh, last week we, uh, Committeeman Hickeyi and myself along with IT director Elliot Perez and Chief, uh, Frank Bernardo met to discuss the use of
AI, a new AI technology called Blue Voice, which is really, um, it's uh, highly recommended by the chiefs of some of the larger towns. And I think Colin, I know a little bit more, but we were both amazed at the amount of directives
that come from the AG's office, the prosecutor's office, um, local ordinances, the stat statutes that are constantly changing that the police really have to keep on top of and they right now they're using multiple sources. So, we thought that, um, this blue voice was really kind of met the
needs and kept us. It was like insurance in the bank that everybody was doing the right thing and they could get the information at a moment's notice. So, um, we thought it would be a gamecher for our police department. It's a relatively inexpensive technology, but something that we're recommending, um, that the police department go with, uh,
going forward. Um, also with it, the new phone system we had hoped was to be in place by December. Uh, this was previously budgeted in our capital budget. Um, however, the equipment won't won't be delivered until January, but it didn't come soon enough because our phones were out all day today. uh we
took a surge of electricity yesterday in the morning which blew a couple things um and namely it knocked out our aging phone equipment. So um that was restored today late in the afternoon and in the event of that we used backup and used my cell phone as a forward too. So it was a
fun day. Um Pluckman Village business meeting uh Mayor Jacobs already reviewed that. Uh, don't forget we have our annual holiday party this Wednesday, the 17th for employees and township committee and our professionals. And don't forget your white elephant gifts because that's the highlight of the of
the day. Um, and then we have our annual reorganization meeting at the Pengu School on Monday, January 5th at 7 p.m. That concludes my report. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Uh, Chief Bernardo is not here to do the community policing report. Oh, you do?
You have one. Okay, great. quickly. Um he ha has the reminder that people can drop off food at any county police department for the countywide food drive through December 31st. >> Okay, >> that's it. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> Introduction of ordinances. We have
none. Public hearing of ordinances. We have none. Consent agenda. We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. You count that again. One, two, three, four, five, six, eight, nine, 10. 10
items on the consent agenda. Um, I have a question about the consent agenda. Sure. So, a number of these items are pointing municipal prosecutor, public defender, shared court related. Um, just to confirm for the record that
these appointments still do require the other municipalities signing on board as well. They are contingent upon the other municipalities. Correct. >> Okay. Other than that, um I have no questions regarding the items in the consent agenda, but any member of the
township committee who has a question may ask uh to pull one off for individual consideration. Shaking it head. Reading the resolutions. Shaking her head. Shaking. Okay. Seeing uh there are no uh
requests to pull items off, take a motion to approve the items on the consent agenda. >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call vote, please. Committeeman Hickeyi. >> I. >> Committeewoman Fernandez. >> I. >> Committeeman Rosen. >> I. >> And Mayor Jacobs.
>> I. >> Thank you. >> First resolution for individual consideration is resolution 2025186. This authorizes the execution of a change order with JA Alexander for the Union Grove Lisk Hill Daily and Long
View Road Improvements Project. >> Robin, is this you or Jason? >> Yeah, I I'll go ahead and go through it. So, um, Mayor, in 2023, we received a uh DOT grant for the paving of Union Grove, Bliss Kill Daily, and Long View Roads um
for 286,530. we um had to come out of the budget, capital budget 33,000 and we had passed an ordinance in 2024 for 320,000. The contract for Jay Alexander was 309. So again, the ordinance was 320. The
contract was 309 and we received a change order for additional materials that we needed to um it was based on a directive that we had given them for a change order which needs to be approved by the governing body. The change order was for 8,500
for a total to JA Alexander of 317 and the ordinance was for 320. So we're still under what we had budgeted by uh $2,141. So um >> Okay. >> So well within >> any further questions regarding
resolution 2025 186. See none. Take a motion to approve. Second. >> Okay. >> Roll call vote, please. Committeeman Hickeyi, I. >> Committeewoman Fernandez, I. >> Committeeman Rosen, I.
>> And Mayor Jacobs. >> Hi. >> Thank you. >> Next resolution for individual consideration is resolution 2025187. This resolution awards a national cooperative purchase through Houston Galveistston area council by
national purchasing cooperative program for a replacement chassis for an ambulance for the far hills Bedminister first aid squad through contract AM10-23. Robin. >> Sure. So this was actually um uh
budgeted for in our 2025 budget. We went through the motions of joining the co-op in order to go through this process, but we never um actually authorized the award of contract to the co-op. Um so that's what this resolution does. It actually authorizes the uh purchase for
the replacement chassis through the co-op. >> Okay. Any further questions of Robin regarding that resolution? Seeing none, take a motion to approve. So moved. >> Second. Roll call vote, please. Committeeman
Hickeyi, >> hi. >> Committeewoman Fernandez, >> hi. >> Uh, Committeeman Rosen, >> hi. >> I gota get that to roll off time. And Mayor Jacobs, >> hi. >> Thank you. >> You'll get used to it. >> I know. I'm getting. >> And I'll take a motion to approve the
bill list pending review of individual invoices. >> So move. >> Second. >> We'll call vote again, please. Committeeman Hickeyi. Hi. >> Committeewoman Fernandez. Hi. >> Committeeman Rosen. Hi. and Mayor Jacobs. >> I >> thank you,
>> John. We have not heard very much of from you uh the last couple meetings, so we're giving you this opportunity right now. >> Right now, John, >> I'm happy to be here. >> Fourth round affordable housing obligations. John,
microphone is yours. I'm happy to be here because I was beginning to feel a little bit like a potted plant, >> which probably is a good thing because when you're not asking me questions, it means things are sailing smoothly along because you have such an excellent
clerk, administrator, and staff here. Um, fourth round, affordable housing obligations. As you're aware, uh, we passed an amended housing element and fair share plan by the program's required date of June 30th, 2025.
There was a two-month period extending until August 30th, 2025 for the filing of any objections by interested party developers or otherwise. Uh, no developers filed objections. Fair Share Housing Center did file an objection.
Their objection was really not styled by uh Fair Share Housing Center as an objection. It filed it in hundreds of municipalities. It was more a request for additional information from municipalities in including Bedminister, but they were required to file um an
objection. Working with uh Frank Banish, we put together the additional information that was uh required. Uh we sent that to Fairshair Housing Center, I believe, mayor sometime in September. We were uh very timely. Um a fair share housing
center um was was busy with towns where developers had filed objections. Uh the honorable William Menon entered an order that required any towns that uh needed to get Fairshair Housing Center additional information to do so by
December 5th. Obviously, we were in by uh September. Um, I did hear back from uh Josh Bowers finally maybe uh December 1, mayor I think was was the date we finally got a a draft consent order. Um
uh which which was largely acceptable. Um I signed it uh sent it over to Mr. Bowers for signature and filing with Judge Menon. Like many towns Mr. Bowers is in on behalf of Fairshare Housing Center. There was a little bit of delay. Uh, but I'm uh proud to say that uh
after we signed it on December one, Mr. Bowers signed this on December 12 rather early in the morning on Saturday at 6:36 a.m. Uh Mr. Bowers has filed with Judge Mannon. I anticipate uh that Judge Menon
will routinely sign this consent order shortly. What does the consent order require us to do? largely rather prefuncter obligations in paragraph five thereof uh which is to amend our
paragraph five here prepare an amended housing element and fair share plan which will be adopted by March 15 2026 why do we need to do that there was a technical issue in the first plan involving extension of credits we
didn't need extension of those credits and controls. Fair share had a question. We agreed to do what we did the third round, which is we reserved to take those credits in the fifth round and they reserve the right to contest them. But since we already have enough
credits, it's sort of a mood issue, but that's something the planning board uh is going to need uh to do and also the township committee by March 15th throughout their ministerial. uh we need to prepare a spending plan that complies with the forthcoming regulations
uh at NJAC59 before March 15, 2026. Those are the new U-Hack regulations >> which have not been issued. >> Uh they were supposed to be issued in the New Jersey Register today, December 15th. I have an email to my librarian to
check tomorrow to see if they were issued. I don't know if they appeared or not, but that's something I'll be able to confirm tomorrow. Um so we have to do that. Um and lastly we have to update our affordable housing ordinance,
development fee ordinance, uh affirmative marketing plan and other administrative documents also in accordance with forthcoming regulations uh of uh hack. So that's something that we'll do and we need to get drafts to the um of all these documents to fair
share by February 28, 2026. So I do not believe that we should have any issues in meeting these deadlines. If that is the case then this conditional order of compliance will become a final uh order of compliance
from judge menon and that will essentially mean that we have protection from builder's remedies and have met our fourth round obligations going forward for the period of July 2025 to July of 2035. So uh we are in good shape. We were
fortunate that no um developers uh filed any challenges and uh uh there's also some administrative requirements as Miss Ray is aware concerning developer fee spending that need to be uh filed uh by
February 15th uh 2026 and annually that's largely a a bookkeeping but yet more more work for Miss Ray and and and staff on that. So, uh, we are in essentially very goodstead coming into the year 2026. >> Great.
>> Great. So, John, um, on behalf of the township committee, thank you for your efforts. Um, for those who don't know, John and I probably been, uh, on the phone multiple times um, every day for last several weeks in uh, getting this done.
So, John, um, thank you so much for staying on top of it and for, um, honestly, uh, the good relations that you have with Josh Bowers from Share Fairshare Housing certainly have helped expedite this process. are >> my theory has always been particularly
with fairshare housing center that um to the extent you can work with them and have a uh non-adversarial relationship you in general end up better than some of these these these towns that uh have decided to uh fight to the bit bitter
end either by lawsuits or other mechanisms. But we were also fortunate that we had a relatively low number of 72 and that we have a large number of of credits from uh many decades past. Um you know also kudos to our planner Frank
Banish who's been here many many years and has a great institutional memory and and and history who put together the amended housing element fair share plan and and of course your your board planner Thomas Collins who's also uh always very helpful. So, it truly was a
team effort, including uh the mayor and Robin and uh Colin as well um pitching in on affordable housing. So, so essentially our affordable housing plan um has been approved. There were no developer challenges to that plan and
there were um it was you know there was questions raised by Fair Share Housing Center. those questions were addressed uh satisfactorily and uh as John said it it provides
immunity from builder's remedies which means that the zoning that Bedminster selects is at the discretion of Bedminster and not to be manipulated by other
developers or by the courts that may take issues with what we've done. So, uh, we're in good shape. >> Really the foresight of the governing body going back to the third round with with, uh, looking at the, uh, uh, the KRE site, right?
>> Um, which, uh, good good planning, um, and also satisfied our obligations and I, I believe we went from a larger set aside from 15 to 20% now. >> Yeah. Uh so we got we got more units and uh the elite properties across from
Mediterranean satisfied them and the um uh in perpetuity uh credits for Plugman Park which we were able to again uh renew and use for 30 years and were agreed to as as as valid by Fairshare
Housing Center. So, um, very little new building unlike unlike some towns, >> but it it certainly gives us the opportunity that it's not necessarily that, um, we can, you know, put the brakes or stop sign on development, but
that we between the township committee and our control of zoning and the planning board that we are still in control of our residential development. And if there's something great coming
that we like, okay, we we may be able to support it or change the zoning. Um, but it means if there's stuff that we don't like or projects that are in the wrong location, we get the opportunity and ability to
say no without fear of the developers lawsuit. And the law that was passed in 2024 will govern the fifth round obligation. It it seems kind of futuristic to say from 2035 to 2045. Of
course, no laws are carved in concrete. So, we we don't know if the law will be amended in any form whatsoever over the next 10 years. Certainly, coming into the fourth round, everyone expected that we would be back to declaratory judgment actions that we saw in the third round.
And that was, in my opinion, not a very good system for addressing obligations. Uh the legislature in March of 2024 did uh adopt a law. Uh one may argue whether it was a a good law, bad law, a a medium
law, but it was a law that we followed and complied with. Um and uh ultimately the numbers in some communities including Bedminster were not uh as large as had been preliminarily uh predicted either by um the Serenian
law firm or some other uh prognosticators. >> Once again, John, thank you for your efforts on this old business. >> Committ Hickey. >> Mayor, I have no utility updates. Uh, I
don't know if Jason has anything he'd like to update on. >> Um, it looks like we had a power outage down at at our facility yesterday. Um, something with one of the ceramic insulators broke on one of the poles, on one of the
lines, on one of the phases, and it did take out a bunch of light fixtures in our DPW buildings, the ones we just replaced, the LED ones. So, we're looking into that. That's it.
>> Well, while we have Jason right there, Jason, Committee Woman Fernandez mentioned it, but um just kudos to you and DPW for the conditions of the road. Uh addressing that first significant snowfall. Uh
certainly was not the two to three inches that we were promised earlier. Uh, assume we got somewhere in the 4 to 6 range. Um, and you guys were out there. I know my my son went to work at 6:30 in the morning on Saturday and
was good shape here in Bedminster. So, thank you Jason to you and your guys. >> Thank you. I will pass it along. >> Luck Park Senior Housing. John, I take there's nothing that could be discussed. Mayor, you and I have discussed one particular matter on that, but that's
not yet uh public or not necessarily going anywhere. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh Robin, you covered Somerset Hills Public Safety Committee meeting uh short meeting um and we'll schedule for January.
Um, we do have an executive session. So, we will run through actually let's let's move this around. Uh, actually, you know what? Let's go through township committee comments. U, we will go through township committee
comments. We will go into executive session and we may be taking formal action on a resolution when we come back from executive session. Um I don't think
we're going to have a long executive session. >> No. >> No long executive session. >> We always say that it's true. Um, so we'll go through township committee comments, adjourn to executive
session, and return to the public session for um action, maybe yes, maybe no, on um a resolution. So, let's start with township committee comments with committeeman Rosen.
Um I am sick of winter already and has it even started. And uh happy holidays everyone. >> Yes. >> Thank you, Committee Fernandez. same. Um, just another thank you to Jason and the crew for all their hard work. Thank you, John, for all your hard work on the
>> Thank you. >> affordable housing and uh happy tonight's first night. >> Second. >> Second. Okay. >> Thank you. Just again, thank you to Jason. Thank you to John. Thank you for your leadership on the affordable housing work. And yes, wishing everybody happy holidays, merry Christmas, happy
Hanukkah, and best wishes for 2026. >> Great. Let me uh let me say it again as I start off the meeting. Um in light of all the recent events, happy Hanukkah everyone. Um who celebrates? >> Even for those who don't celebrate,
happy Hanukkah anyway. And uh John, thank you for that Christmas uh gift, the signed consent order. That's great to see. And uh certainly a lot of work into it. So merry Christmas everyone. It is crazy. It's the end of the year. We have one
more meeting, right? >> That's it. December 29th at 8:30 in the morning. >> December, which is just a end of year catch up. We approved some bills. That's it. >> So, this is really the last substantive
we need to get done meeting tonight. >> Um, so just once again, thank you everyone and then next time we meet it will be 2026 at reorganization. >> Um, >> may I make a comment? >> Yes. Yes, of course. >> I forgot to tell everybody during my
report, but I'm so excited. Um, Caitlyn passed her registered municipal clerk's exam. She just got noticed last week. >> All right. Thrilled because a lot year of her life, >> a year plus studying and uh >> they have a very low passing rate. So,
she did a great job. >> Great job. I I think she had a pretty good mentor on that. >> She did great. Yeah, >> she studied. Let me tell you, she's a good worker. She studied very hard. So great to that's great to hear. >> Um 7:42 I'll take a motion to adjourn to
executive session. Once again we will be returning to public session and we may be taking action. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Son