funeral. >> I know, right? >> Like a funeral. >> We good to go. Still 459. All right. >> Almost. Mayor. >> All right. You got You got 20 seconds. >> Longest minute of our lives. >> Yeah, they always are. >> 15.
>> Well, it's all you. >> Whenever you're ready, mayor. >> Good evening, everyone. I'd like to call the reorganization meeting of mayor and council of the burrow of Glboro for January 3rd, 2026 to order. Karen, could you please read the opening statement?
>> Pursuant to the open public meetings act, I hereby announce that adequate notice of this meeting as required by set act has been provided by adopting a schedule of regular meetings for the year 2025. which schedule was posted on the Burough Hall bulletin board as well as the
Burough website and forwarded to both the South Jersey Times and the Sentinel of Gloucester County and filed with the Burough Clerk on January 4th, 2025. >> Thank you. Can we all rise to salute the flag, please? I aliance 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. >> Thank you. Can I all ask you all to please remain standing? Uh I have invited a Glassboro select choir member,
Jasmine Laurel Morales, to come up and bless us with the singing of the national anthem. Oh, say can you see by the dawn early light
what so proudly we held at the twilight last gleaming whose broad stripes and Bright stars through the perilous
fight. Or the ramparts we watch were so gallently streaming and the rockets red glare. The bones bursting in air gave proof
through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star spangled manner yet wave
or the land of the free and the home of the brave? Beautiful job. Thank you very much. At this time, I'd like to invite
Reverend Tin Conway from the First United Methodist Church of Glassboro to give us the invocation, please. Good evening. Would you join me in prayer? Gracious and loving God, we come before
you this evening and we give you thanks for the unity that is in this room. And God, we pray that you will pour your blessing and grace upon us here in Glasboro. That you give your guidance to our council that is up here. That you be
with their families and their loved ones, those that are coming in. God, we pray for our first responders, the firefighters, police department, EMT and EMS. And God, we ask that you would place your hedge protection around them.
God, we lift to you our schools, our students, our administrators. We pray for Rowan University. God, we thank you for the love that is
here and we ask that you continue to guide us into this year of 2026 and throughout our lives. We give you all the honor and glory in ourselves. Your holy name we pray. Amen. >> Amen.
>> Great showtime. 52 years Come on, gather around everybody. >> George, I have to build an addition. >> I don't have hand on your Bible. Raise your right hand and please repeat after me. I state
your name. I, George, Senior, >> do solemnly swear >> do solemnly swear >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> that I will bear true faith
>> that I will bear true faith >> and allegiance to the same. >> And allegiance to the same >> and to the governments established >> and to the governments established >> in the United States and in this state >> in the United States and in this state >> under the authority of the people >> under the authority of the people and that I will faithfully
>> and that I will faithfully >> impartially >> impartially >> and justly >> and justly >> perform all the duties of >> perform all the duties of >> the office of council member of the burrow of Glboro >> the office of council member of the burrow of glass >> according to the best of my ability
>> according to the best of my ability help I'm going to be a while. I present to you George Con. At this time, I'd like to invite Assemblywoman uh Heather Simmons up to swear in
our next council member. I don't know. I state your name. >> I Danielle >> do solemnly swear >> do solemnly swear >> that I will support the Constitution >> that I will support the Constitution >> of the United States >> of the United States >> and the Constitution
>> and the Constitution >> of the State of New Jersey >> of the state of New Jersey. I will do something else. >> Their true faith >> their true faith >> their true faith >> and allegiance to the same >> and allegiance to the same >> and to the governments established >> and to the governments established >> in the United States
>> in the United States >> and in this state >> and in this state >> under the authority of the people >> under the authority of the people. I will faithfully >> I will faithfully >> impartially >> impartially >> and justly >> and justly >> perform all the duties >> perform all the duties >> of the office of councilwoman >> of the office of councilwoman
>> for the burrow of glass >> for the bur of glass >> to the best of my ability >> to the best of my ability. >> So help me God. >> So help me God. Thank you. I present to you Daniel Smith. strong. >> Congratulations.
>> Thank you. Okay, Karen, could you take us through the roll call, please? >> Mayor Wallace >> here. >> Mr. Cosone, >> present. >> Mr. Brown, >> here. >> Mr. Halter, >> yes. >> Mrs. Garlic >> here.
>> Ms. Miller >> here. Mrs. Spence >> here. >> Mr. Milandro >> here. >> Mr. Sciti >> present. >> Okay. At this time, I'd just like to recognize some uh some of our honored guests. And I'd start with uh first of
all, my wife Alisa and my mother, former mayor of Washington Township, Barbara Wallace. Thank you. I see we have Senator Bersuchelli is in the back back there. Welcome. Thank you.
Uh I see uh Assemblyman Dave Bailey and Assemblywoman again, Heather Simmons in the back. Thank you very much. From the county, we have uh uh Director Frank DeMarco I see back there. There he is.
and Deputy Commissioner Director Jim Jefferson. I see Jerry back there. And then I see uh Commissioner Matt Wang. I see Commissioner uh Joanne Gatinelli.
Uh Commissioner Tom Biano. Very very nice. Uh from our school district uh we have newly uh sworn in superintendent uh Al Lewis. Welcome uh from Rowan University. I see Dr.
Hushand. I saw him here. Thank you very much, doctor. And I saw uh board of trustee member Tom Galla. And I also believe I saw Nick Patron
out there. And I think Oh, I'm sorry. I see uh what do we have? We have uh Joe Chilla, our surrogate is out there. My apologies. Back in the morning. And I see Sheriff Carmel Marino in the back as
well. Thank you, sir, all for attending. And at this time, I will entertain a a nomination. Any nominations for president of council? >> Yes, mayor. I'd like to nominate Councilwoman Anna Miller. >> I second that motion. >> Have a second. I have a motion and a
second. Are there any other nominations? >> Nominations are closed. We do have a motion and a second. All those in favor state I. I. >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? That motion carries. Congratulations, COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
AT THIS TIME, I will announce the council committee appointments for 2026, starting with public safety. Uh chairperson will be George P. Kasabone, Senior. Uh other uh committee members Andrew Halter, Anna Miller.
Highway Chairperson Anna Miller, committee people, Deanna Garlic, George P. Kasabone, Senior, Water and Sewer, chairperson, Andrew Halter, committee people, Dan Brown,
Danielle Spence, Finance Chairperson, Dan Brown, Committee people, Andrew Halter, George P. Tossibone senior health welfare where welfare and recreation
chairperson Deanna Garlic committee people Anna Miller Danielle Spence public property and ordinance chairperson Danielle Spence committee people Deanna Garlic Dan Brown
council represounc Council representatives for health welfare and recreation Deanna Garlic For the planning board will be George P. Kasabone senior. For library and human services, Dan Brown and Deanna Garlic.
Housing authority, Anna Miller. School board, Andrew Halter. Historic Preservations Commissions and Museums, Danielle Spence and Andrew Halter. Uh we have no communications this evening.
We have no new business this evening. So, at this time, I will turn the meeting over to our burough solicitor. >> Yes, evening, mayor. Happy new year. On our consent agenda this evening, we have resolutions beginning with 0126 through 5726. If council moves for
approval, roll call vote. >> So, move. >> Second. >> Okay. I have a motion and a second. Karen, roll call, please. >> Mr. Brown, >> yes. >> Mr. Cosone, >> yes. >> Mrs. Garlic, >> in favor. >> Mr. Halter >> four. >> Miss Miller >> four. >> Mrs. Spence. >> Yes.
>> Motion carries. Uh at this time I will allow comments from the members of council and I will begin with council president Miller. >> Happy new year. Um I first want to thank
my council uh colleagues for nominating me for council president again. Uh, thank you to all of the Burrow employees for all that you do to make Glboro a great place to work, live, and play. And, um, I'd also like to give a special
thanks to our water department because recently I had a water mane break on my street and they, um, fixed it really quick. I saw it in the morning when I left for work, but by the time I came home, everything was fixed. So, thank you to our water and sewer department
and thank you to everyone in attendance tonight. Congratulations, George Casabone, senior and Danielle for another term in Burough Council. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, uh, Councilman Casabone. >> Oh, thank you, Mayor. >> You're welcome.
>> I want to first thank my beautiful wife, Linda, and my beautiful family for all their love and support. I love all you guys. And I also want to thank Mayor Wallace. Thank you, mayor, for swearing me in. It means a lot to me. >> It's my pleasure. >> And uh congratulations to Councilwoman
Danielle Spence on your return to council. I look forward to working with you and the members of council in 2026. Lost my pace police here. I also want to thank Ed Meandro and to all the department heads and employees for their
hard work and dedication to the burrow, especially police chief Ryan Knight and fire chief Steve Smith for their help and support in my role as public safety director. Congratulations to uh Councilwoman Anna Miller on her appointment to council president and I
want to wish everybody a happy, healthy new year and may God bless. >> Thank you, sir. Councilman Brown. >> Uh, good evening, Mayor. >> Good evening. >> I'd just like to wish everyone a happy new year. Uh, it's great to see so many dignitaries come out to to Glasbro and
then so many towns people as well, residents that come out to uh to our meetings. Uh, for me, I'd just like to say uh to Miss Spence and to Mr. Well, first of all, congratulations to Miss Miller on council president, but then I'd like to say uh I've only been on
council for two years, but uh to Miss Spence and to Mr. Casabone, I'd like to say that I've really learned a lot from both of them, and it's been an honor to serve under both of them. Miss Spence has been, you know, only on council for six, seven years now, but her time in
the community and what she's done over the course of her lifetime has been incredible. And to Mr. Kasabone who's served basically his whole adult life. >> On council, >> that's what he's saying. >> You definitely don't you're not an old
man. But it's it's just been an honor for them uh for me to be up here and to learn so much from from both of them. So, I just like to thank them and I'm I'm glad that we're going to spend more time together up here. So, thank you.
>> Thank you very much. Uh, Councilman Halter. >> Yeah, good evening, Mayor. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Thanks for being here with us tonight. Uh, I just wanted to say thank you to my family. Uh, first of all, Laura, Grayson, and Duckan, my parents, our good friend Jay here. Uh, without their support, this wouldn't be
possible to be able to give back to the town here. Big congratulations to you, Danielle, as well as George. I'll give you a big Roger that. Uh so uh we know that we have the best folks back with us here running uh again on the council up on this day is tonight and uh congratulations to my running mate and
press down there Anna Miller. Uh we appreciate all your support to all the folks out in the audience here tonight and those that support us all year long. Again we couldn't do any of this without your support from those here in Glboro and then also throughout the county and the region here that support Glassro. We know we have one of the best places
around if not the best place. So, we want to keep on doing what we're doing here and uh having great things happen here in Glboro. So, thanks for everybody being here. Um happy new year and have a healthy and safe day and week. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Uh Councilwoman Garlic.
>> Good evening, Mayor Council. First, I'd like to say thank you to my husband and also to my mother who they both allow me to to do this um position and I'm grateful for them and all of my family members. I want to say it has been an honor to serve. I too have only been
serving so far for two years here on council. It's been an honor to serve with each and every one of you. I'm grateful for that opportunity. And I want to say congratulations to Danielle Spence and also to George Pasone. It's great serving with them and also sitting
by him. He keeps me smiling. Congratulations to Anna, our president, um, who served so humbly and gracefully. I'm so glad to work with her. Um, I also like to say thank you to all of the Glboro employees. You make Glassboro a
beautiful place to live and to raise a family. I always say that on social media. Hopefully, it'll catch on um, and everybody will start to say it. Also, a special um thank you to the park and rec staff who I've been beginning to work very closely with and I'm so grateful
for all of the work that they do. Um just just constantly fixing and clean up Glassboro is just a wonderful and a beautiful thing. And happy new year to everyone. Thank you for coming out and being with us during this um event. Oh man, mine's super long. I'm sorry
guys. I know it's hot in here. Happy New Year everyone. Um, I want to begin by expressing my heartfelt gratitude to my husband Fran and to my entire family who's here. My mom, thanks for making it here, Mom. Your support and sacrifices you make allow me to serve the Burough Glass Council woman. I'm deeply
thankful. To the voters, thank you for your confidence and trust in reelecting me to this seat. It is an honor to continue representing you. Congratulations to my running mate, George Casabone. Big C. George, your continued commitment to serving our community is commendable. Thank you for
bringing your expertise and institutional knowledge back to the table. I look forward to working alongside you and the entire council through 2026. Congratulations as well to Anna Miller on your re-election as council president. Look forward to your leadership and the year ahead. A sincere thank you to Assemblywoman Heather
Simmons for swearing me in this evening and messing it all up. for your friendship and for all that you do for Glboro. Your heart is really here. I also want to thank Senator John Bzeruchelli. Sorry, John. John Bersachelli and Assemblyman Dave Bailey.
Your partnership and friendship and support are truly invaluable. Um, thanks to everybody's here from LD3, too. It's great to see your faces and I thank you for your your uh friendship as well. To all the Gloucester County representatives here, the surrogate and sheriff and all the commissioners, thank you. Your friendship is important to me.
Your leadership and commitment to Glboro makes a tremendous difference. Thank you for being here. To our partners from Rowan University, I look forward to working together to strengthen and expand your stewardship of this burrow. Our relationship is truly interdependent. Neither of us thrives without the other. While the growth of
the university has brought its share of challenges, I'm committed to fostering collaborative and harmonious partnership that serves everyone who lives and works here in our beautiful burrow. Thank you for being here, Dr. Hushman. It's it means a lot for you to be here tonight. I also want to recognize the volunteers and committee members who dedicated
their time throughout the year. Your efforts were instrumental not only in this election but in strengthening Glboro's standing with the c county and the state. It is because of you that our burrow continues to be recognized as one of the leading municipalities in our district. My gratitude extends to all of our burrow department heads and
employees. Thank you for the outstanding work you do every single day. A special note of appreciation goes to administrator Ed Milandro, Assistant Administrator Clark Peront, CFO Karen Pacion, and Clerk Karen Clausgrove. Your exceptional work ethic and leadership do not go unnoticed, and they are
appreciated more than you know. To everyone appointed to boards and commissions this evening, and to those already serving, thank you for offering your time, your expertise, and your commitment. Public service is a meaningful responsibility, and your willingness to step forward truly matters. Thank you all for being here tonight and I wish each of you a safe,
healthy, and fulfilling 2026. >> Very nice. Thank you. And I would like to start uh by again thanking my wife uh for allowing me so much time that I pour into the borrow uh in other areas of my life and sharing me with the rest of the
world. So, thank you very much for that. Um I'm excited. Congratulations to Jordan and to Danielle. Welcome back to the Deis. Uh and to everybody up on this deis. Uh we we make a really good team and uh we're really knocking it out of
the park and I look forward to seeing how we're going to make 26 better than 25 and I thought the 25 was pretty dog on good. So I'm looking forward to that. uh to our administration, Ed Millandro, Clark Puront back there, Karen Piona, I know Councilwoman Spence already
notified them, all the day-to-day operations people, uh the ones that show up every day to keep the burrow going. All of our uh staff workers, department heads, all the people that are out there making our burrow the best burrow, yes, in South Jersey, if not New Jersey. Um
to our stakeholders, our professionals back there. I see our legal professionals, our engineers, our planners. uh representatives from the county and the state. Uh thank you very very much for all of your support. Um and to most importantly uh and I'll say
it over and over again uh to the community at large. Uh to the members of Glboro, the residents of Glboro that really make Glboro what it is. Uh it's heartwarming to have you all here tonight. Uh it's heartwarming to have you come out to our meetings on a
regular basis and share with you share with us uh what you think is good uh what you share uh that you think is bad so that we can make things uh better for all of us. Uh I continue to encourage you to come out uh because that is our
job and we take great pride in doing that. So please keep us a breast of everything we have. I say I have two eyes and two ears. Uh and we're responsible for a whole lot of people. Uh so all the help that we can get with bringing information to us, uh please
bring it to us because we want to continue to make Glassboro uh the destination point of South Jersey. Um happy new year to everybody uh a safe and and healthy 2026. Thank you. And now allow uh our burough
administrator to offer comments. >> Thank you, mayor. I don't often do it, but I will this evening. I'd like to wish everyone a happy new year. And I'd like to thank my wife, Megan, for putting up with me for the last six years in this job, listening to everything that goes on in the burrow.
Um I'd also like to congratulate George and Danielle. you could not get two finer people back uh on this council and you could not ask for a better council president than Adam Miller. >> So, congratulations to th those folks. I'd also like to thank all the burrow employees for the job they've done and I
I I see Chief Knight over there. I'm not sure if Chief Smith is here, but I especially want to call out the police and firefighters who have worked diligently um every year, especially this year, every day keeping the keeping the residents of Glboro safe. And lastly,
I'd like to thank mayor and counsel. And I'd like to tell you why I want to thank mayor and counsel. One of the reasons is mayor and counsel, this mayor, Mayor Wallace, and this council, they've embraced change. And that's a hard thing to do. Not only have they embraced it,
they facilitate it. And one of the easiest things to do as a politician is nothing. And then you don't hear anybody on social media. You don't hear any bad stuff, but you don't move anything forward. and one day you wake up and guess what? You're stuck in a town
that's 20 years in the past. So what these folks have done and you do get hammered sometimes on social media. It's not a lot, but it's hard to get hammered. So I really appreciate that from them. The other thing I appreciate from this mayor and council is their
ability to disagree. They'll disagree with their constituents and they'll disagree with one another. And that's important because you guys didn't elect everybody to have the same opinion. So, everyone up here has a different opinion, including myself. Sometimes I just don't get to vote. And lastly, I'd
like to thank them because for everything they do, the most important thing they do is they fight for the residents of Glboro. Councilwoman Spence mentioned we're going through changes in this town. The one thing every one of these folks do is they fight for everybody in this town.
Everybody. and I just like to take that opportunity and thank them. >> That's all I have. >> Thank you. Uh at this time, I'd like to invite uh Pastor Eli Jimenez from the Emanuel Baptist Church in Glboro to give our benediction.
Pastor in >> Oh, did he make it? Jim, >> I don't know. >> Pastor Conaway. >> Jim Jefferson. >> Oh, Jim.
>> Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, Director, my apologies. Would you please >> apologize? >> On the spur, on the spur of the moment. >> I know you don't need a microphone, but thank you very very much. >> I don't need a microphone. Can we all bow our heads for a word of prayer? >> Thank you. Dear heavenly father, we thank you for the time and place where
we can gather together and meet openly and do the business of serving the residents of Glassboro. God, I thank you for the individuals uh behind me that have dedicated their time, talent, and efforts to making this burrow run effectively and smoothly and
safely. God, we are excited about all that's happening in this great community. It comes with a lot of weight, a lot of pressure, but also a lot of excitement, and a lot of joy. And I pray for the people that make the decisions that make this town go. God, I
pray that they would speak humbly. They would listen effectively and they would make sure that they would pursue a calling of service and sacrifice and of community. I'm so glad to be in this place today because there's so much positivity. God, we thank you for the
residents of this community for coming together and for those that lead and protect and serve this great burrow. God, be with the policemen, the firemen, and those that serve this community. Keep them safe as they do their job. And God, get us all home safe as we
celebrate and step into a new year. May we walk with you every step of the way. We thank you and praise you for who you are in your name. Amen. >> Amen. >> Thank you, sir. >> Okay. At this time, I'll entertain a motion >> to public. >> We need a public portion there, Doc.
Always jumping the gun, that man. >> Always jumping that gun. We need to open up the public. >> Everybody a motion to open the meeting to the public. >> Second. >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor state. I >> opposed. >> Any abstensions? Motion carries. The floor is now open to anyone from the
public that would like to come forward and address mayor and counsel. >> Seeing none, I move the public portion be >> second. >> I'm trying. >> Second. There is a motion and a second to close the public portion. All in favor state I. I.
>> Any opposed? Any abstensions? That motion carries. Public portion is now closed. I will now >> Can I say it now? >> You can say it. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> There is a motion and a second to adjurnn. All in favor state I. I. >> Opposed. >> Any abstensions? Motion carries. This
meeting is adjourned. Thank you very much everyone for attending. Have a great evening. Our next regular meeting will be Tuesday, January 13th at 6:30 p.m. Have a great evening and a wonderful 2026.