Ready. >> Good evening. Welcome to the 2026 reorganization meeting of Hanover Township. It is great pleasure to welcome you on behalf of the governing body. We wish everyone a very healthy and happy new year. Let us begin with
our formal proceedings. Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided in accordance with the open public's meeting at by posting written notice and agenda of the meeting on the bulletin board of the municipal building 1000 route 10 the township of handover
and by hand delivering mailing or faxing such notice and agenda to the following newspapers the handover eagle Morris County Daily Record the Star Ledger and by filing same with the township clerk. At this time, the first order of
business is to do a roll call of the members of the township committee that sit on the deis in accordance with the open public's meeting act. Committeeman Brian Cah Hill >> here. >> Committeeman John Faramasca >> here. >> Committeeman Michael Malco >> here.
>> Three members in attendance. I'd like to now introduce to you our business administrator, Joseph Giorgio, who will be their master of ceremonies to begin this evening's job. >> Thank you, Christa. Ladies and gentlemen, would you please rise as we
welcome the Hanover Veterans Alliance in leading us in the pledge of allegiance and the posting of the colors. Post colors. 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. Recover March. >> Ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing as we welcome Reverend Ross
Lang from the Hillgale Park Presbyterian Church who will lead us this evening for the invocation. Thank you. invite you to join together with me in
prayer. Let us pray. Loving God, we come before you today to ask your blessing on the leaders assembled here, elected by the citizens of Hanover Township to guide and direct us in the days ahead.
This year holds special meaning for us here in Hanover. As a milestone both for the town of Whippony and for our nation as a whole. As we prepare to both revel and reflect, I ask that your spirit of wisdom and understanding of justice and
truth would reside on those you have called to serve our town in this season. We pray for committeemen Brian Cahill, Michael Mahalo, and John Farraamosa. And especially for the committee
men-elect, Ron Francoli and Thomas Gallagher. For them, we ask for guidance, patience, protection, and perseverance. We ask that you would watch over these individuals and their families day by day. Let them never tire of doing what
is good. We pray for the residents of the town as well that grace and generosity would abound towards those who undertake this difficult task of governing for the public good. Let all those who live and work in Whippony and Cedar Nolles
remember that the elected and appointed officials and employees of the town are human just like us, created in your image and beloved just as we are. When times are good, let credit be given in abundance where it is due. When times
are difficult, let kindness win out over complaints. Let understanding and empathy have the last word between all the citizens of our town. I pray also for the families of these elected representatives this evening.
Though they are full of joy and pride now, they will also bear the strain of the weight of government. long hours, unforeseen emergencies, and the burden of being in the public eye. Lift them up and let your grace overshadow them that
the great honor which these representatives have attained may be for them a great joy, not just today, but in the days to come. And in the township of Hanover, from the mayor himself down to
the youngest resident, may prosperity abound, and may justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an everflowing stream. Amen. >> Amen. >> Thank you, Reverend Lang. Please be seated, ladies and gentlemen.
As we now proceed with the next order of business, the statement of the county board of canvasers. We have two statements of determination. The first statement of determination
concerns the election of members to the Hanover Township Board of Education for three-year terms of office. and they are Christine Eggbert, Gina Johnston, and Gregory Skiff. All reelected to serve
three-year terms of office. The second statement of determination concerns our elected officials reelected to three-year terms, Ronald Francoli and Thomas A. Gallagher.
At this time, it gives me uh great pleasure to ask Sheriff James Ganon to step forward with uh Mr. Gallagher and
Christy Deorgio will administer the oath of office and I would ask the families family of um Mr. Gallagher to step forward also. If I may, sir, I'll share it with you
again and I'm so honored to give you office to uh Thomas Aer. Um I know very well phenomenal job for this not only for this but for county laws are really involved with a lot of these mayors very
innovative things across town. So, please raise your right face. I Thomas A. Scout. I, Thomas A. Gallagher, 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 State of New Jersey and the State of New Jersey that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and to the government established
in the United States and in this under the authority of the people under the authority of the people. And I will faithfully and that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties of all the duties of township committee. Township committee according
to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. CONGRATULATIONS. Before the sheriff leaves, I just want to congratulate the sheriff on his victory. And in my opening comments, I do refer
to the sheriff and all the great work that he does for all of us. I say that the sheriff is not only my brother, he's not only big brother, but we believe he's the brother of thousands and thousands of people who does selfless work all the time. Mr. Sure.
Congratulations and thank you FOR >> OKAY, ladies and gentlemen, we will now ask committee man elect Ronald F. Franci to step forward with his wife Carol. And we will ask Christine Deorgio to
step forward to administer the oath of office. Heather. >> Heather. We'd like to welcome our county surrogate Heather Darling who administered the oath of office
for committee man-elect Franc I want to say everybody knows what a great job is now that he's the mayor but when I started before I started in politics when I was thinking about it was the mayor And everywhere as you guys
know that now I started the trend. There was nothing that he was and I was I showed up today contesting contest to do that. It was fantastic.
And best friends and I just love seeing the work that he's done and I know Brian Harold has friends as well. They're incredible people and it's an honor for me to be here tonight.
Thank you. Thank you. I >> I do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States. I will support the Constitution of the United States and the State of New Jersey >> and the State of New Jersey and I will
bear true faith and allegiance. I will bear true >> to the states and to the to the >> and to the government established >> and to the government established >> in the United States >> in the United States >> and in this state >> in this state >> under the authority of the people
>> under the authority of the people >> and I will faithfully >> I will faithfully and partially >> and partially >> and justly >> and justly perform all the duties >> perform all the duties of the office of township committee of the office of township committee
>> according to the best Heat. Heat. We met a long time ago when she was just a freeholder. She did a fantastic job of service and sereniors and our community. She care for us
anytime we want. Thank you. Love you. That's okay. >> Thank you, Heather. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Congratulations. You going to lose your congratulations. Congratulations mayor. Congratulations.
>> Okay, now that the deis is full again, I'm going to take another roll call. Committeeman Cahill >> here. >> Committeeman Faramosa >> here. >> Committeeman Francioli >> here. >> Committeeman Gallagher >> here. >> And Committeeman Mahelco >> here.
>> Five members in attendance. Mr. George would like to proceed to the next order of business. Ladies and gentlemen, at this time um the township committee needs to appoint a temporary chairman for the purpose of uh nominations for
the positions of mayor and deputy mayor. I'd like to appoint Joseph Giorgio. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I. >> So, at this time, ladies and gentlemen, do we have any nominations for the position of mayor? But before we
do that, just want to point out to uh our residents and members of the public that under state statute, the mayor serves as the chairman of the board just like a big business, big corporation. And according to statute which reads as
follows, the mayor shall be chairman of the township committee and head of the municipal government. The mayor shall have all the powers placed in the mayor by general law and the mayor shall preside at meetings of the committee and shall have the right
to debate and vote on all questions before the committee. The the the statute, however, is silent in that the chairman of the board or the mayor does a lot more than just serve as the
chairman. The chairman or the mayor is a consensus builder. It's important to get all the members of the governing body to work in unison and to cooperate and pass legislation. And in this regard, um, we
have a mayor, past mayor, um, who has done that very am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am am amiably as well as other members of the township committee who have done done the same in previous years. So we'll also point out that the mayor serves as the orchestra leader and that's very
important in getting everyone to work together. So at this time do we have any nominations? I'd like to make a nomination. >> I'll second the nomination. I didn't take any nomination. >> Nomination is for who? >> I would like to nominate Ace Galler.
He's done a terrific job uh these past couple of years. Uh he's really got a handle on things and moving things forward. Um it'd be honor if you'd be our chair again, please. >> We have the nomination by committeeman Malco, seconded by committeeman Franci.
Are there any other nominations? >> Move to close nominations. >> We have a motion by committee man to close. Second by committee man to close. So at this time we'll take a roll call. >> Commander Cahill.
>> Yes. >> Committee mana. >> Hi. >> Committee man. >> Hi. >> Committee. >> Yes. >> And command Galler. >> Hi. >> Congratulations. Just want to say point out that Mayor Gallagher is a very high energy G
person. If some of you like in my age group remember the commercial of the Energizer Battery the Bunny. Well, that's Ace Gallagher. It's He's always on the go and he's he does like to do team building and he's always looking
for everyone to cooperate and work together. So, um I appreciate that as the business administrator because it helps me in doing my job. So, thank you very much, Mary Gallagher. Thank you, Joseph. >> You know, Chris, I just want to say one thing and I have quite a few thank yous
in in my comments, but I just want to say something additionally um with my family all being here. Full disclosure, uh running sometimes is difficult. It's it's kind of scary. Sometimes you have confidence. Sometimes you you hope people come out. Some people sometimes
you hope people appreciate and understand what you're trying to do. But prior to the last election, I said to my wife, I said, "You know, Shill, I've been here for a while. I know I have a lot more gas in the tank. I think I'm going to run again. And Sheila said, "I really think you
should." And I said, "Really?" We talked about it. And after that, I thought, "Wow, this is nice. After all of this time out of the house, I have full support of my family and I know my kids think it's cool." And Sheila said, "To be honest with you, I I really don't think I can have you in the house every night."
So, that pushed me over the edge. So, it is an honor to be here. I appreciate all you guys, everything you do every day. That's my two cents. I'll save everything for my comments later on. Thank you. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Now, ladies and gentlemen, as we proceed to nominate a deputy mayor, do
we have any nominations, >> Joseph? >> Yes, sir. >> I'd be honored to nominate Michael Mahalo. >> Okay, we have the nomination of Michael Mahalo to serve as deputy mayor. Do we have a second? >> And I'd like to second that, please. >> Second by committee man Cahill. Are there any other nominations at this
time? >> Nominations. >> Motions to close by Mr. Francoli and Mr. So at this time on Red >> again. Committeeman Cahill. >> Hi. >> Committeeman Feramasca. >> Hi. >> Committeeman Francioli. >> Hi. >> Committeeman Malco.
>> And Mayor Gallagher. >> Hi. >> Five members in agreeance. Congratulations. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we are now going to swear in the uh mayor and deputy mayor and Mr. Georgio will be
Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. I do swear >> do so for the Constitution support the Constitution >> of the United States >> of the United States >> of the State of New Jersey
>> of the State of New Jersey >> and allegiance to the >> same to the government established >> and to the government established >> in the United States >> in the United And in this state and in this state under the authority of your people under the authority of people and
faithfully and just performing to the best of my ability to the best of my ability Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat.
Heat. Before we continue, I just would like to acknowledge some of our friends that are with us tonight. And uh I'm going to miss a few cuz we don't have a list, but I just want to tell you something else.
When I got involved in this arena, I was told, uh, don't think these people are your friends. It's an opportunity for a lot of people. It's business and it's politics. And I've been here for a while now. And I disagree with that. I couldn't more
strongly disagree with that because when my son was young, he said to me, "Dad, you have a lot of friends. How do you make friends?" I said, "You don't make friends, you become friends." and you become friends with similar passions, similar goals, a a very similar drive to
help people and want to do very good things for people and a lot of times people you don't even know. So, it's an honor to have this many friends in our lives, have such beautiful, selfless people that work with us all the time. I'm going to mention a few and
throughout the night I'll mention a few more. But we don't do a lot in Hannib Township without Florent Park Mayor Mark Taylor's name coming up. Flo Park Mayor Mark Taylor right there. Dear friend and brother, Marsh Plains Mayor Jason Carr.
We are going out for Kavasi Pizza tomorrow night. So Jason's fasting. He's usually a lot more personal, but we got to give him the space tonight. We also have a dear friend of ours, Marstown Mayor Tim Dowy. TIM, so we uh again we have members of our
board of education, Chris, members of our DPW, Brian Fan, Brian De Primo Blanch, we have some beautiful people here and thank you and we have our families in the governing body. And I want to say on behalf of all of us, thank you for all your sacrifice and thank you for putting up with so much
cuz it is a lot. And if I missed anybody, I'll get you. But OEM director right there, and he's in my comments, Tom Quirk. He's also the superintendent of Wreck. And we don't do a lot without TQ. TQ, you're the best. Thank you very much. And it was a beautiful move us bringing you on full
time to steer that Thank you. And if you guys do watch our meetings on video, there's a gentleman back there that's should almost have a regular spot, a featured spot. Gary Kaiser, commissioner of Cedar Hills. Thank you, Gary, for everything you do.
Thank you. >> Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we're now going to proceed with the appointment of um officials in various positions. and we'll take a vote at the end after
we read into the record all of the positions, the individuals that will be handling or holding those positions and the term of office. So, as we begin, township attorney and general counsel
for the township, Fred Samra, Esquire, and the firm of Dorsy and Samra, one-year appointment. Personnel and labor attorney, Steven Trembley, Esquire, and the Chilla Business Council LLC. One year
orders for the township of Hanover, Katherine Mantel and Brian Co and the firm of Nissacia, one year. Business administrator Joseph A. Giorgio, one year. Municipal Prosecutor
John E. Haran Esquire, one year. Alternate municipal prosecutor Shurog Meta Esquire one year and substitute alternate prosecutors in the other 38 municipalities
if need be one year public defender one-year term Dino Membelli Esquire alternate public defender Lee Levid Esquire one year municipal court administrator
Lauren Dalgau, one year full-time deputy court administrators, Briana Eiglacius, Eileene Delgado, and Scarlet Contrarus. All one-year terms.
The chief municipal finance officer, treasurer, utilities collector, tax search officer, Silio Espazito, one-year term. Assessment Search Officer, one-year term. Gerardo Misera,
Affirmative Action Public Agency Compliance Officer, Joseph A. Giorgio, one-year term. American with Disabilities Coordinator, one-year term. Joseph A. Giorgio, Commissioner to the North Jersey Health Benefits Fund, Sylvio Espazito, one-year
term. Commissioner to the Mars County Municipal Joint Insurance Fund, one-year term, Sylvio Espazito. Representatives from the Township of Hanover to the County of Mars Community Development Revenue Sharing Program
Committee are as follows. Gerardo Msera, Dave Leo, Thomas Quirk, and Joseph Georgio. All one-year terms to the Hanover Surge Authority reappoint. Dennis Faniano. That term is
effective February 1st, 2026. And by virtue of their um service as the mayor, Thomas A. Gallagher, one-year term as a planning board member, class one. And John Feramosa, committee man,
will serve as the planning board class 3 member to the planning board. Again, one-year term. to the board of adjustment regular member uh Michael Orwell that is a 4-year term to the environmental commission Philip
Glowy three-year term alternate one environmental commission Claire Matlin three-year term alternate two to the environmental commission Christopher Mattisk three-year term on the green
team advisory committee these are all one year terms. Christopher Mattisk, Dennis Dietrich, Dennis Wilson, John Hendris, Dennis Bishano, Darren Chinan, Philip Glowy, Claire Madlin, Margaret
Mardle, Stella Kolkov, Roberto Risinger, Greg Scoblelet, Mark Haywood, and John Duramosa. Board of Health, two-year term, Michael Ramo, and Marlene
Peterson. To the Economic Development Advisory Committee, these are all one-year terms. Thomas A. Gallagher, John Feramosa, Robert Bruno, Susanna Demontova, David Yun, Christopher
Mattisk, Greg Davyy, Michael Canouse, Arthur Lfonte, Susan Shannon, Mark D'Angelo, Richard Campbell, Daniel Caciro, Landmark Commission. These are four-year
terms. Leonardo Ferelloo and Manfred Saul. Open Space Advisory Committee, three-year terms, Mark Hayward and Brian Forin. Recreation Commission, 5-year term of office, Robert Bruno.
Representatives to the Whippony River Water Action Committee, Dennis Dietrich and John El Feramosco, one-year terms. Stony Brook Community Farm and Garden members uh two-year terms Valerie Bolar Navaro,
Ronald Francoli, Aaron Wasserman, Terresa Swalla, Robert Hink, Thomas Quirk. As we move ahead, class three special law enforcement officers, Emanuel Cruz, Michael Cardella, Timothy
Franks, Michael Veria, and Jason Kangas. The mayor's wellness campaign steering committee members, all one-year terms of office, Thomas A. Gallagher, Thomas Quirk, Christine Emmerisano, Christine
Eggberg, Thomas Lev, Anime May, Carol Gorgio, Ava Ventron, Tammy Thomas, and Angela Hark. Mayor's Wellness Campaign Committee advisory board members John
Feramosa, Lucy Deutsch, Ro Kim Rim, Justin Tumi, Howard Olson, Linda Oaks, and James Hark. That reads into the record all of the appointments on nominations this evening. Are there any questions for
members of the governing body concerning any of the nominations? >> A motion. >> We We have a motion by Mr. Seconded by Mr. Feramasa. May we have a roll call, please? >> Hi. >> Hi.
>> Hi. >> Yes. Mayor Gallagher. >> Hi. >> Hi. Member. >> Thank you, Chris. At this time, I'll turn over the next portion of the meeting to the mayor for his appointments to the planning board. >> We have three appointments to the
planning board tonight. Mike Critley, who's a class four member, four-year term. William Burn, class two member, one-year term. And Mark Hayward, class 4, alternate
one, two-year term. And Charles Monzo, class 4 member, four-year term. Motion to approve. So move. >> I'll second. All in favor? I. >> That's it. Thank you. Okay, mayor. It's now um back in real
court for the township committee assignments. >> Okay, do I have my assignments? >> We'll just pause the minute. >> I do have my assignments, but they're back there. We'll just be one minute.
I'd also like to congratulate Mayor Dowy who won another election as mayor of Marstown and they had their reor yesterday and the mayor got sworn in yesterday. So congratulations mayor. Talk amongst yourselves. You say if we got extra time, I could
start my revation report, >> do a trial of the video. I got faith. There's another I guess sound I hit the person like 6 miles.
Nothing. It was I'll tell you after this water. How you doing, Mark? Flora Park is still humming along beautifully. Wonderful honor. You gave one of your 50ear service for your work as a
volunteer in the fire department. >> Yes. >> Very nice. Lower your flags. these drawers. Got him, Joseph. >> Thank you. Okay, we're back in business everybody.
All right, so the assignments of the township committee are as follows. Thomas A. Gallagher, director of administration, mayor, chairman of the governing body, finance, co-director of personnel, violations bureau, municipal
court, class one planning board, member of EDAC, Mars County Chamber of Commerce Advisory Board, officer, office of the Mars County League municipalities, co-chair of school and park traffic safety, affordable housing and legislative subcommittee, mayor's
wellness campaign. Michael Mahalo, deputy mayor, vice chair, co-director of engineering for parks, director of recreation and park administration, department liaison to open space advisory committee, liaison to cultural arts, liaison to senior citizens club
and Hannibar Township Board of Education K through8 liaison. Ronald Francioli, director of DPW, buildings and grounds and park maintenance, board of health, health alternate one, member and liaison for the Whippony Library Committee,
Veterans Alliance, Interfaith Food Pantry, Group Homes, SMC, MDUA, Marstown Airport, member of the Community Farm and Green Garden Advisory Committee, and member of the Morris County Transportation Committee, affordable
housing and legislative subcommittee. John Faramosa, director of planning and zoning and engineering departments, class 3 planning board member, planning liaison to EDAC, leazison to green team and environmental commission, Whippony River action committee, and member of
the Hannibal Township Sewage Authority. Brian Cahill, building department and property maintenance director, liaison to the police department, board of fire commissioners, office of emergency management, landmark commission in the Hannover Park regional high school
district liaison, co-chair of school and park traffic safety advisory committee and co-director of personnel and succession planning. That is our detail, Christa. And here you go. And thank you. I'm sorry.
Always one day wrong. I think we're human. >> Yes. Sorry. I apologize for that. >> Chie, you did a great job preparing for tonight. No big deal. EVERYBODY LIKE >> OKAY, MAYOR. I believe we're up to
committee um reports. Okay. the committee reports. This is a very interesting portion of our meeting and I will personally abbreviate mine and I will go last, but you will hear a little bit of a snapshot
to the detail that we participated in and oversaw uh this past year. So, Brian, if if we could, I'd like to start with you, sir. Thank you. All right. So, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Congratulations, Ron. everybody.
Um, so first thank you. So, thank my I'd like to start by thanking my family. Um, Ryan, Kyle, my daughter Alyssa, who's here, and especially my wife. It's funny cuz my wife sometimes questions, you know, why do you do this job, right? And but she also understands how
important it is to me. So, thank you. Um, then I'd like to move on to some of the responsibilities I hold here in town. Uh, first I'd like to thank Chairman Michael Chinki and the entire landmark commission. Uh, these are volunteers and they work really, really hard uh, to bring attention and preserve
our remarkable history here in Hanover Township. They're going to be very busy this year because we are we will be celebrating Hanover's 350th birthday. Uh, so get ready cuz there's going to be a lot of special things going on here in Hanover uh, tied to other things, but it's going to be a very active year. I
also wanted to mention um, the they have finally formalized the Hannover Heritage Association. So, it's not directly related to uh the Landmark Commission other than their mission and and what they want to accomplish as far as, you know, bringing the history of Hanover Township to everyone's attention.
They've got a great Facebook page. I would strongly urge you to look it up. There's a bunch of followers now and a lot of great information. So, so thank you to everybody on the Landmark Landmark Commission. Uh next, I like to move on to Shawn Donan. Sean Donan is the uh director of building and zoning
department. Uh great job as always. I just said at the door earlier before, you know, we we only speak because the department is running so smoothly, but he does a great job. Uh they generated over $1.25 million in revenue through uh permits and COS and and just plenty of
other things that I won't list here, but really super super job. Everybody in his department does a great job. Uh next, I'd like to thank the Office of Emergency Management and the Community Emergency Response Team. They're both led by Tom Cork, the director of OEM. Uh Tom, you're I'm going to go to a lot of
accolades already because you do a great job at everything you do. But I do want to mention that there are his teams are consist literally of dozens of volunteers, many of them current or former first responders and they always stand ready no matter what the emergency is, whether it's power outages, cold weather, hot weather, whatever it is. Uh
they're there at all times here for the community and it's really uh really good to know they're here. Um next moving on to the the uh police department. Uh, first thanks to Police Chief Mike Lock and his incredible officers and staff. Uh, they worked tirelessly to protect us
here in Hanover Township. And it's a funny thing about this police department. It seems that we're really going under quite a transition these days. Um, a lot of retirements, a lot of new officers. Um, there was actually a time where I knew everybody by name and even their badge numbers. And I have no
idea who anybody is right now except you. I know who you are. But anyway, uh it's if not one of they are the busiest department in Lawrence County and they do an absolutely terrific job. So, thank you very much for that. Um on a side note, I also
wanted to mention something that Chief Rock and Christa de Giorgio uh accomplished for us here in Hannover Township. We are now certified as a film ready community. And basically what that means now is any movie uh producers, TV show producers, anything like that, when
they go looking for a site to film, we're basically now on the A-list. Uh which means that, you know, if they find some place, they know that we've prepared, we are certified. Uh we know how to manage those sorts of engagements when that sort of thing happens. It was a lot of work. Um thanks to you, Mike,
and thanks to you, Christa, very much. I know uh um Mike, I wasn't there, but I know that you actually presented in front of about 300 people about the New Jersey League municipalities uh about this to help other communities and how they might want to attain it. So, thank you very much. You know, while you're not managing the police department,
you're off bringing movies and films to us. So, thank you very much. Okay. Um, last I want to thank the entire Hannover Township administration and all the departments that keep this place running smoothly under sometimes not so ideal conditions. As you may have
heard, uh, Joe, Christa, Sylvio, Linda, uh, Bla1, Bill, Jerry, everybody that's had to sit in those long workshop meetings for hours and hours and hours. Uh, really really do appreciate you putting up with the five of us. Just really quick looking ahead uh you know in in addition to just trying to keep up
with uh you know all that's going on with affordable housing and state mandates and trying to keep our taxes low and all of those things there are three things that I really want to focus on in 2026. Uh one being really really continue to work on bringing either the
district 2 and three fire departments together as one consolidated fire department or some hybrid of that. But we're at a point now in time where we've been working on this for years and years and years. I know community members are beginning to get frustrated and angry. I've been to the meetings and and they
are rightfully so. So, we really need to push to come to either some conclusion or some decisions and the end objective will be better services uh safer safer streets and and an efficient fire and EMT uh system. So, I think 2026
hopefully is going to be a big year for that. Um, also continue the development of our H handover Township Police Traffic Division. Something I've been talking about a couple years. I think we're almost there. As you know, anytime you drive out here, it's getting very, very busy. Uh, there are a lot of cars and with more cars, there are more
violations. Um, and you know, we all see it every day. And it it's been time for a while to have some dedicated officers focused on on traffic. So hopefully I think the timing will be about maybe March or so if all goes well. Um you know we will have some people in place and get that going. Again, a lot of that
has been a challenge because a lot of retirements, a lot of recruiting for new police officers, a lot of shuffling in in their roles and positions. Um so it's a it's it's a reason for the delay, but it's a good reason because again we're transitioning our police department. Um
and then the other thing is as I mentioned before the uh the uh under difficult circumstances sometimes our administration our administrators and police departments and recck department and everybody has had to work under situations such as no heat, no air conditioning depending on what the
season is. Uh we've got some old trucks. We've got a whole bunch of things like that that I'm sure Ron will talk about as well. So I won't go into it but this year we really need to do something about that. That is loud and clear. We've had some very uh very good discussions in the back room about this. We're going to have to do something
about this uh and make sure that our 40-year-old infrastructure physical plan is in good shape uh and that Brian Pan has in his what they need and so on so forth. So those are the three things uh that I really want to focus on in 2026. So to conclude, because I think I'm over
four minutes by now, but I want to express my sincere appreciation to my fellow uh township committeemen, John, Ron, Ace, Mike. Uh while we don't always agree, and we often must compromise and make sacrifices we might not otherwise
choose, we always get the job done. Always get the job done. There's no politicking. There's no personal agendas. There's no egos. It's really just teamwork at the end of the day. We work together with a single goal in mind and that's to do what's best for all the citizens of Hanover. For that, I thank you and I look forward to working with
each of you in 2026. And if the good people of Hannover will have me and if committee man will join me, uh I will be honored to continue our work in 2027 and beyond. That's my report. Thank you. Thank you, SIR. NEXT.
>> Thank you, Mayor. The three Rs, recognition, reflection, resolutions. Let's begin with recognition. Thanking the department heads, the staff, the board leaders, and all the
volunteers who make things happen within this town. Planning, board of adjustment, Bla1 Branchow, Kimberly Bonjouro, and chairs Michael Critsley, and Ben Stanziel. Engineering, Gerorado Misera. Ed chair
Bob Bruno, HSA, Michael Wyn, Nick Tarakani, and chairman Dennis Dietrich. Environmental and green team chairs Dennis Wilson, Chris Madison, Nadia Mania. Thanks also go out to our
business administrator Joe Gorgio, township clerk Christa Deorgio, assistant business administrator James Honori and their staff along with the mayor and my fellow committee members. Congratulations to Thomas A. Gallagher
and Ron Francoli on their reelection. Great to be serving with you again. And special recognition to my wife Kathy and thanks for her support, her council, and for managing the household responsibilities while I spend time
serving the people of Hanover Township. Reflecting upon this past year, I'll begin with the planning board. completion of major development projects. BJ's Club, Chick-fil-A, the new Shelled Dunkin Donuts Center on 10
traveling eastbound, and the opening of Chimney Rock, a fabulous new family restaurant addition to Handover Township. Planning reviewed and proposed revisions to the New Jersey state plan. They complied with the arduous New Jersey
state affordable housing initiatives as required by New Jersey state law. They updated zoning to enable and facilitate special needs affordable housing. Significant efforts were were placed by our engineering
department on roads resurfacing and infrastructure. Five roads were completed. The focus being local roads to include the top portion of Horsel's Road, which is probably one of the worst roads in Hanover Township. Alangquin
Parkway will be paved. That also needs it badly in the spring of 26. Engineering supported six recreational initiatives. Uh, Deputy Mayor Malco, I'm sure we'll talk more about those. There
were five other capital projects involving the municipal building, police headquarters and library. A very very busy year. Edac focused most of its efforts on what we call shop local to help small businesses. Think about small
businesses. They're the lifeblood of a community. They provide they preserve quality of life. They contribute to our ratable base. Please shop, frequent our small businesses. They need your help.
EDOK continued what it called its business networking program, which greets and helps orient business to town with the latest event being held at a facility called All Seasons Golf at the Cedar Notes Mall. If you have not
been there, visit it. It's very impressive. Very impressive. It's too cold to play golf outside, but you can go play golf at all seasons. >> Frustrating. also frustrating. >> Edac developed a contact management system, a database to help with
communications with the businesses in the town, which is very important. They continue to support the initiative that committee man um hail spoke about, handover film ready to attract movie and video industry within our town.
They advanced a national cpace program which is designed to help small businesses finance and cost of HVAC improvements. It's a big opportunity for businesses within our town. Environmental green team they were very
busy as well. They partnered with the Whippony River Action Committee War uh to perform river and parks cleanups. Um they conducted a special Earth event with Warrack. They facilitated tree plantings and
special thanks to our DPW and Whippy Fire Department that helped facilitate the cleanup of of the area of Central Park, that portion of the river. They produced a quarterly newsletter series highlighting environmental tips. It's online. Suggest you check it out. It's
very informative, valuable information. They conducted a free tree giveaway at on Township Day. They evaluated and proposed changes to our tree ordinances to improve it. Handover Sewage Authority once again
received national recognition. They earned what's called the National Association of Clean Water Agencies, the Naqua Award, not for one year, but for 37 years in a row. Very impressive. They received utility of the future recognition by the Water Environment
Federation. HSA is developing plans to help manage PAS and you'll be hearing a lot about that. These forever chemicals that have gotten into much of the um supply chain
and remember HSA is a 24/7 operation. So if you need emergency after our service, please call dispatch at the handover PD who knows how to get in touch with the representative HSA. They're here to help. As for the third R resolutions, I
look forward to working this new year with the fellow committeemen, the business administrator, department heads to ensure handover remains a great affordable place to live, work, and play. Three areas of focus for me will be infrastructure improvements. We got
to do more on the roads, um smart redevelopment efforts from a planning standpoint, and supporting strategic initiatives. Let's make 26 the best year for the people of Hanover Township. And I wish you and your families a wonderful
new year. Mayor, that concludes my comments. Oh, He's going to come up. He's going to come up. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, Michael Mahalo. So, uh, so that's my detail. Uh, I've
got one of the best jobs on the on the committee. Um, and it was supposed to play in the background while I spoke so you guys can watch that and hear everything that went on, but we'll add lib as usual. Love you, Christa. U, let me start with the thank yous. Let me just go through this quickly and uh, I
know I took up too much time already. Um, first I got to thank my family and my wife. Um, without them it wouldn't be possible. Well, we all know how much time we spend uh doing all of this and and I really have to thank them for for for all their support and their love uh to get this done. Um our professional
staff, Joe, Georgio, Christa, Linda, uh the backbone of Hanover Township, thank you all. You guys do a great job. Uh my fellow committeemen, again, congratulations, Ron and Ace. You guys do an awesome job. Uh learn so much from you and looking forward to continuing working with you. Uh you guys are great
to work with. Uh also looking forward to us running together for next year. >> Awesome. >> Got that out there now. Um, department heads, I see a couple of them here already. Uh, Brian Fam, Brian De Primo, thank you guys. You guys do an awesome job. Silio, Jerry Blae, Chief Lock,
thank you guys. Uh, we we really do have an excellent professional staff here. Um, we all have our directorships um and our liaison ships. mine. I I I got lucky and I fight for them every year. Um we start
with cultural arts. I see most of our crews here and that's just a testament to them. They do such a great job. Uh Phil Jane Blanch, uh led by Ed Abaloo. Um they do a great job and if you saw some of those pictures there, all of the events that they put together, uh we
even are putting the Chinese New Year back on the uh on the calendar again this year, the Chinese uh Lunar New Year. um you know the step dancing, the Ukrainian dance. Uh all there's so many to list. So thank you guys. You guys do a terrific job. Uh I also want to point
out my open space. Um Mark Hayward and Ed Pines. Also Brian's are on Open Space 2. Again, another group of guys that uh that do an awesome job. I see Carol is here. Carol, I love being a liazison for senior citizens. It's one of my favorite details. You do a terrific job. Uh I
really enjoy uh you know going meeting the seniors. Um, their parents are my friends, so I get to see them. I get to catch up with them. Uh, I also got to point out we hit a a high water mark of 400 members with the seniors this year. Um, there was some, if you remember, two years ago, there was some debate. We
rolled the seniors under the recreation umbrella and I think we hit the ground running and no looking back. They took a vote and I think it was um 99% said yes, they wanted to continue with recreation. Um, so again, it's it's great working with you guys. Thank you so much for all
that you do. Um, also my recreation committee, um, director of recreation is, uh, excuse me, I'm the director obviously, but the chairman is Jim Kley and the rec commissioners. They work handinand with the recreation department. Um, few more
thank yous. I want to thank Denise Brennan, although she's not here. She was here for the first half of 2025. She was a great superintendent. Um, but now we have a another excellent superintendent. Tom, thank you very much. You're doing an excellent job. You
and your staff. Um, Jamie, Britney, Sierra, um, you guys did a great job. All of those pictures you just saw that comes out of recreation. Most of those pictures are done through that group. And those four or five people did a bulk of that work with DPW. Um, they were
also short-handed. I want to point out they were short-handed two people for over half of the year. We finally got two more on uh to fill in the rank. So you guys again, keep up the great work. The summer concerts, the summer camps, bus trips, fireworks, masquerade malopartis, winter wonderland. Uh I was supposed to say this as this was going.
So um they they do also do dialeride. Um dialeride provides uh you know uh rides in town for for anybody who's of need of them. Over 1,800 transports this year, which is almost 500 more than the year
before. Okay. Very active. Uh Sierra now is in charge of uh operating those and scheduling for that. Does a great job. But just one of the factors that happens that funnels through recreation. Again, great job. Um also, uh coordinating
Bmetal Pool. Uh Eddie Cashin, who's not here, does an awesome job. We've been working very hard. Um we've all heard about the splash pad that we've been working on. God willing, it'll be open by uh open by this this spring. We run into some snags here and there, but
we're really looking forward to that coming online. A great addition, ADA compliant spash pad with a excuse me, a spray park. Um that that'll be up and ready to go. We're looking forward to that. Um at the end of 2025, we completed the turf field down at
Blackbrook, the uh the large field, Blackbrook large. So that'll be ready for the springtime. Um that field, just if you're not familiar with it, uh we turf the inside. The grass is still in the outfield, but we can pretty much play anything
baseball or swapper related on that field. Uh handover, we know fields get wet, they get soggy, can't play. Puts us behind the eightball. Other teams are practicing non-stop. So now we've got a field for um you know, for our baseball and our little league to practice. You can go baseball then little league just
by moving the mound, moving the bases. We can go back to back. Uh it was a great Thank you all for the support of that. Uh a great addition to our our recreation facilities. Um, we had a very successful year with our new uh multi-purpose turf field. Um, again, we
can go back to back. It doesn't we don't lose it to rain. If you guys remember the brickyard, it rained, you couldn't go on that field for a couple days. DPW knows this. It was a beautiful field. It was like a golf course, but it rained, you couldn't go on it. But now we have a nice field. Um, and the usage we can get
out of it is is unbelievable. It's it's really does uh really does our town well to have those facilities. Um, we have some trails coming online hopefully in 2026 into 2027. If you hadn't had a chance, B Meadow, uh,
there's pads around B Meadow on a nice day, even in the winter time. Go out, take a walk around. Uh, great paths that we put in, well-maintained by our DPW department. We're also looking to do a complimentary path over on the old route 24 track up on Manganger. Uh it's going
to go up behind Lowe's, go from Hanover Avenue all the way down to Richdale Avenue. So we're in the process of of working on that. We just got grant money for the planning process. We're going to get grant money for the building process. Uh so most of this 80% is going to go through go through grants through
the county. Uh nothing that again something else that we're looking forward to for for 2026 and working on that. Um, one of the projects that carried over from 25 to 26 is the Central Park uh, hockey rink that hopefully is going to go on there. They
keep threatening to put shovel in the ground every time I talk to them, but that should be coming online hopefully in another couple months. Uh, obviously the weather turned and now they're they're stuck, but hopefully by the early spring we should have that up and going. And what that'll be is a nice area that we can either rollerblade or play hockey or have other events there.
If we want to have a um a garage sale or a craft fair, we've got a nice open spot, not in a parking lot where we can put out some tables. We're we're secure. We've got a nice park to do it in. Um one of the benefits, too, is in the winter time, we can flood it, freeze it,
skate on it. When it thaws, we know how quick the weather turns around here. Pull the plug, drain the water, and now you can back to rollerblading on it. So, uh another again another uh wonderful facilities that we're going to have at our recreation uh department. Um,
other than that, like I said, those pictures speak, you know, speak volumes for all the stuff that everybody does. I want to thank everybody for all of their help, all of their hard work, and it it is appreciated. So, thank you very much. Again, one more time, Brian and I are going to be running again. So, we're
looking forward to serving with you in the future. Thank you. >> Thank you, MICHAEL. >> Ron Francioli. Thank you, mayor. Um, this is I'm on. This year, ladies and gentlemen, as you
know, handover marks the 350th anniversary of the township incorporation and uh formation of our township committee form of government. So on that note, I begin by congratulating Mayor and Chairman Gallagher and Deputy Mayor
Mike Mahalo for being sworn in in 2006. Looking forward to working with you both again. Absolutely. Tonight marks the start of my 16th term, some 48 years in elected office. It's a long damn time.
It's been an honor to serve alongside so many accomplished committeemen who've helped serve and shape Hanover Township today. Art Albone, Salanicome, Pete Skirll, Mike Sula, I can go on and on. Jack Korn, Red, Donaf, Frio, Stiger,
Tort, Schlifer, Faramosa, Ratty, Quinn, Ferella, and on and on and on. It's been quite a journey and a rewarding one. working with people like George Capola,
Howard Olsen, and the list does go on. Let me say at this time that my health to you is very, very good. My energy is high. I can still count. For a time, I will continue to bring my past experience and knowledge to this
table. My colleagues remember my mantra. I've seen this movie. I very much appreciate all the support I've gotten over these years from many township committees and this township committee. Thank you all.
Underscore one thing that age does not define one's value. A great thank you. A great thank you to my high school sweetheart, my wife of 62 years, Carolyn Klo Francioli, who traveled the
distance with me, attending affairs and events, always by my side. You've been a tolerant sounding board and unwilling political partner all these many years. Love you.
A very happy new year to our administrator, Joseph Giorgio, who celebrates 45 years. Long way from Jersey City, Joe. >> I remember when you came on >> together. >> Yeah, together we did. Yeah, absolutely. Happy New Year to our dedicated
administrative staff, our township clerk, Christa Deorgio, who over the years has done exceptional work as our clerk. Nice job, Crystal. Very good. Sylvia Espazito, our financial officer, and his fine staff, and thank you for
the financial direction that they provided throughout the course of the year. As Mike said in an earlier comment, we all have assignments and laid on uh in our responsibility to the committee. To
my department head, superintendent of parks and recreation, Brian Fane, Brian De Primo, and their hardworking staff. Happy new year, Brian, and thank you for all you've done for us. Great job, right through this entire winter. It's been
terrible, but you've stayed with it. To Kathy Sheridan of our whipon library or Diane Herzog on our board of health who I work with, our garden staff, Val Bulkar, as well as our master gardener, Bob Hink. Thank you all for a job well
done. This, by the way, is our fifth year with our Stony Brook Farm and Garden, and we've contributed over 850 pounds of food to the interfaith food pantry this year alone. So, we will continue.
Thanks to our partners at the ARC, Morris, Salaran, his caring staff for assisting handover special needs individuals building group homes and opportunities for independent living. Shortly, another first for Hanover
Township. We're working on a special needs program designed for those with handicaps and limitations. To Corey Hanland at Marstown Airport, one of my leaison ships for partnering with us on new noise abatement procedures, safe aircraft operations,
working in concert with our neighbors to be good neighbors. Marstown has become one of our largest taxpayers. I'm glad I could contribute and I'm glad to have worked with Corey. Happy New Year to Corey. I want to take a moment
here to recognize the thankless work of so many volunteer members to our boards and commissions who unselfishly give hours of time and work to Hanover Township unpaid.
our volunteers on planning board, board of adjustment, landmark cultural arts, environmental commission, as well as our fire companies, EMT staff, members of our emergency management team, and certainly our economic development advisory committee of local
professionals. These folks are your very neighbors and like you, they have a stake in handover. They act on professional information and compliance rules. They don't need to be secondguessed by
self-proclaimed advocates using media spinning biases. Want to make a positive difference in Hanover? Participate. Offer your time to one of our many groups. And again, I thank our volunteers for all that they do.
As a governing body moves into 2026, our rate base has shifted from commercial to residential due mostly to the housing demands put upon municipalities by fair share housing. Hanover may soon move from boasting no
bonded debt to reluctantly seeking more ways to fund our infrastructure needs while trying to avoid increased property taxes. As John commented earlier, our roads are in sadly need of improvement
and repair. We must build back our open space program. We need to focus now on land acquisitions. We must focus on roads infrastructures and storm water management. must respond to the marketing needs of
our business community and encouraging more quality economic development and not discouraging new business partners. As John said, we welcome BJ's and we welcome Chini Rock into our Hanover
Township community. This will be a challenging year, especially for Hanover Township's large population of seniors on fixed incomes, allowing them to afford the comforts they so deserve and they work for. So, let's make a resolution in 2006 to
resolve issues together. Let's keep Hanover Township moving forward. Hanover has always taken the lead and set the bar high for all our neighbors in Morris County. Let's continue to be responsive and serve the greater needs of our community first.
Finally, and it is finally, I will not serve beyond this term. A good friend of mine and a priest from Notre Dame once said to me, Ron, he said, "There's never a good time,
only the right time. You've been good to me all these many years, and I hope I was good to you and Hanover. This is the right time. God bless you. God bless your families. Happy New Year. Thank you, MAYOR.
GREAT, GREAT. Thank you very much. And thank you very much everybody. To conclude, before I begin my comments, I'd like to say that I'm going to abbreviate my comments and I will be giving you Kristen my full comments that we could publish them. But out of
respect for time, but there is a point that I want to get to and it's up until I discuss the um long-term stay motel in Hannover Township, which has been a very very big issue in Hannover Township and probably the biggest issue in my 12
years of tenure. But I want to begin and I want to begin by my thank yous. Um because there's a lot of people that do a lot of great great things in this m municipality. And I'd like to thank you guys for all being here tonight for this
reorganization. It's an important meeting. It's a great opportunity to see a lot of people and see our families cuz uh we talk on the phone and see each other in this building, but it's it's nice to see everybody and thank you. But again, I would like to thank my family. This is a lot. I I know tonight my
daughter's going to say, "Oh my god, Daddy, those people talk as much as you do." Close. Maybe not as much sometimes, Kate. But close. But I really appreciate you guys and thank you for uh all your sacrifice, and it is a lot. I also want to say thank you very much to the residents of Hannover Township for the
continued trust, confidence, and support they have demonstrated towards me in this past election. And this enables me to serve and continue to serve on this governing body for three more years. It's a true honor to be reelected to this post and you know I will not let
you down. I want to congratulate Ron Francioli on another successful campaign to continue to serve. Thank you Ron and I know firsthand you have a lot more gas in the tank. So thank you for being here. >> Appreciate it. >> I'd also like to thank the entire township committee for what I know was a
very productive year. We have quite a few accomplishments. They're being noticed and enjoyed by many of our residents as well as neighboring municipalities. I'd like to thank the entire municipal workforce. Everyone on our professional staff, every single person that volunteers on any one of our boards,
councils, commissions or committees, all the people that serve tirelessly with organized sports scouts, and of course, thank you to the Knights of Columbus and all our houses of worship. I want to thank the Hannover Township Police Department, the Whippony and Cedar
Nolles Fire Department, the Hannover Township OEM Office of Emergency Management. I want to thank our EMTs, and at last and certainly not least, the Hannover Township DPW.
These are incredible 24-hour a day, 7 days a week departments that are compiled of some of the absolute best, most highly, highly trained and skilled men and women in New Jersey and maybe the entire Northeast. So, thank you very much to all you guys for everything you
do 24 hours a day. Thank you. I would like to thank and recognize Joe Georgio right here. And I'd like to give him a very special mention. And Joe, you you got to engage a little bit. You know what's coming. Uh I I want to say that
Joe is a very very focused, great, dedicated boss. Joe, you always put Hannover Township first and foremost, and you are a resultsdriven leader, and that's appreciated by everybody. Joe's latest nickname for me is Thurman
Mson. Nothing gets by Joe. Just like watching baseball as a kid, I never saw a ball get by Thurman Mson. Well, I've never seen anything get past Joe J. Joe, I appreciate you as a friend, a colleague, and the captain of this
entire municipal structure. So, thank you, Joe Georgio. Thank you very much. Very special thank you to Fred that couldn't be here tonight. Fred is not only a phenomenal municipal attorney, but an integral part of everything we do in Hadover Township in this building and for all of our residents. Fred is
selfless and his staff is phenomenal. So, thank you for being here representing Fred and his staff. I also want to just single out a few people that I deal with on a daily basis that are in my day-to-day detail. And there's a lot of people I deal with, but these people are every day. Crystal Deorgio,
thank you. Linda De Archangel, Brian Fan, Brian Deprimo, Tom Cork, Sylvio Espazito, and Shawn Dalan. You guys are the best. 24 hours a day. You always take my call and I always take your call and I think we have a beautiful, beautiful thing going on right now in
Edward Township. Thank you. The easiest way to begin my comments is to answer a question that I am asked periodically regarding serving on the governing body and our purpose. I always say in its simplest form, our
job is to simply problem solve. And to be a good problem solver, you must be a good listener. You must be open-minded, develop confidence and knowledge in the areas of the problems or concerns that you want to begin to attempt to make better or solve.
And you must also be honest and confident enough with yourself to understand and accept that if you are the smartest person in the room, you have the wrong people in the room. That is tough and a very tough one for many elected officials, but not us.
I'm going to take a few of the big issues facing Hen Township right now and after again we get to the motel, I'm going to wrap it up and Chris, I'll give you my comments. Highdensity housing. This is a big one. We need and have all hands on deck. We
have the best at all times. And this is a tough one. We have a great legal team. We have a very well-versed governing body. And we are not alone. These are New Jersey mandates. I also want you to know that our network, and Brian Cahill
said it first, they may be smarter than us, but we have to work harder than they do. And we're working very, very hard. and I think we're getting some pretty good results, but I don't want to say that too loud. I was personally nominated and elected to the Morris County League of Municipalities Board of Directors, and I am one of six mayors
that serves on a subcommittee to understand and specifically deal with these unfair housing mandates from New Jersey. We have a lot of people working very hard on behalf of Hannover Township. also flooding and continuous damage from
flooding to our homes, businesses, and infrastructure, not to mention the serious threat to human life. We created right here the Whippony Pay Flood Remediation Task Force. We have $3.2 million. We've been doing work that no other municipality or group of
municipalities has done. We've been speaking to more and more people. We have more people coming on. And whether you are for the new governor or not for the new governor, the new governor made it very clear that this initiative is long overdue and this is going to be part of her platform. Once again, we
took a problem. We are working to create solutions. It's not just talk. We went in the water. We are doing great great things by the top professionals on the Northeast and we are making a difference. The mayor's health and wellness campaign. I'm going take a
little bit of water here and Kate two more minutes. We have incredible partnerships with Morris County Sheriff James Ganon, the mental health association, the prosecutor's office, catch you later out of Bayon, and we know more than just about anybody now in our partnerships
with our schools that since co mean people got a little bit meaner, nice people got a little bit nicer, but people are struggling and the hardest thing to do is to help people understand that we're there for them. There's resources available to them because
today, especially with social media, everybody wants to make believe they're okay, but make them believe is tough. So, we're working with the best of the best and we're having mental health symposiums not only here, but now they're going North Jersey. And catch you later is now statewide. And we wrote
recorded with Robert an incredible symposium that we sent to 536 municipalities in New Jersey. Yeah, now she's the Pam O'Donnell is now all over New Jersey. But we also help promote business in a real way, service and retail. We created
right here the Hannover Township Small Business Spotlight. We created the Mars County Small Business Spotlight. With my involvement in the Mars County Chamber of Commerce, these latest initiatives are a relatively easy lift and can benefit all small business almost
immediately. And by the way, the Whippony Park business leaders will be front and center of doing all of our interviews and all of our videos. Communication in real time with our residents is a very, very important thing. It's a beautiful thing. And now we have Tap into as our electronic media
source. And we also have the Hanover Eagle that has been much, much more aggressive and very aggressive online, delivering information almost right away, not once a week. I'm going to jump. I'm going to go to the strategies and then go to the motel because that's very very important and
then crystal again I'll give you my report. In reorganization 23 24 and 25 I begin to discuss utilizing new strategies and structures in order to produce on an even higher level for the benefit of all of our residents in Hannover Township by using every resource available. These strategies
include bringing the absolute top professionals that have been producing already at an incredible amount level and incredible amount of success. And this is truly just the beginning. We are constantly better communicating with our residents, our professionals and any
developer interested in becoming part of our community. We are subleting a lot of incredible organizations and companies. We are getting real movement and we are having a lot of very very high level meetings with great great businesses and you can see the results of what we're
doing including working very hard to work on outdated zoning and restrictions like John said. We can go through a litany of projects and ones that are coming but I will not. But I just want to jump right to the motel now because I know my time is just about up and I want
to respect your time as well as my governing body. Go right to the motel. Okay. I refer to this as the 115day crisis, although it's been going on a lot longer than that. 7 days a week, the
extended stay motel in Hanover Township. And don't worry, I'll be very careful because we are in litigation right now. Most of the legal specifics that I have shared are the only ones that I can share because we are in litigation right
now. But I want to say and touch on this incredible team that we put together and spent 115 days, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day sometimes. First of all, Christa Deorgio, Chief Lock, and Fred
Samra. I have almost never witnessed such drive, determination, focus, loyalty, and precision out of almost anyone in my entire life, every single day, 7 days a week, all hours of the day, 115 days.
And it's not over yet. Christa, when I called you or when it was Fred, Chief Lock, Senator Pacio, the DCA, the governor's office, the county, the residents, and countless additional agencies and too many people that I can list here right now. You always answered
the phone. You're always on your agame, handled every issue like the total professional that you are, and shared the information immediately with us and just us because it was very high level legal information. I think I made my point with this team and with Christa
and I want to thank all of you on behalf of the Hanover Township governing body and I want to thank the Hannover Township governing body cuz we all know a lot more than we can say because again we're in litigation. So the last thing I'll say about the
chief is a lot of people don't actually know what a chief of police does but he's the face of the department. He is the conductor like Joe said about the chairman of the governing body. But the chief is an incredible part of
this focus team. And if you want to talk about structure, strength, focus, and loyalty, there is no one that could have done a better job and been more prepared. And there is no one I would rather be standing lockep with representing Hannover Township in a
crisis than you, Chief Mike Lock. Thank you very much, CHIEF. I'M GOING TO END it there because we have a lot of great food in the hallway. And listen, eat as much as you want. Take food home.
We want to make sure you guys have a good time. We appreciate everybody being here. That being said, happy new year. God bless you. We're here. We're always available. On that note, can I have a motion? >> June motion. No. >> Oh. Oh, I thought you said no motion to the public. >> Oh, no. Ladies and gentlemen, please
rise as we ask for the bench. >> Then after that, the journal. >> Excuse me. >> Yeah, it's a open to the public right now. Question. Okay. Motion to open to the public. So
second. All in favor? I stand. >> No pressure. question. Why don't we be seated or I should say first thank you and congratulations on
your elections. Congratulations for your positions for the year and thank you for your second year. to a question on development. Uh I'm going to ask for
I believe that I write down all the names that you guys I can tell you that James who is the economic development coordinator worked closely with uh Mr. Bruno in coming up with that list. So I'm going on the
basis that Mr. Bruno the chairman and James work together on that list. Okay. Uh he has 14 member positions that are non governmental ones. Right now I believe only 11 of those are
one of them is I spoke to town. Oh, I sent you a couple months ago asking me position
tax position which would be uh Chris just so you know is not a tax assessor. He is an appraiser and he serves at the pleasure of the township committee as a
consultant. Well, the language could be specific to whatever this current role is. Um, but the reason I'm standing and taking everyone's time is because I'm asking for a favor. I think needs a bit of help with volunteers on some meetings. We
can't um this can't function that and as far as I can see we have 11 city member only 10 people that are on the roster and Chris not to interrupt but I can tell you that Mr. Feramosa has
already spoken to me about at least two, possibly third member coming on, but we could not do it tonight because it's not official yet. And I think that that's coming for coming in January. Okay. Well, that's my favorite. I'm going to
ask a favor and your next meeting. I know I believe they have very good and we have our first meeting halfway through January. I think they be a huge addition. So, I just ask that. No, no
question about it. I know Mr. Dasquez, the ASR is working with uh James and with Mr. Bruno and hopefully we'll have some uh appointments in the very near future. Thank you. You're welcome. >> Now, may we please rise for the
benediction? Motion to close. >> Motion to close. >> And we'll ask Reverend Ros Lang to lead us in the benediction as we close out our meeting this evening. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Let's invite you to join me in prayer.
Heavenly Father, the work of this meeting is done, but the work of those we have recognized here continues. May they hold fast to what is good. And may you, the Lord of all good, uphold them in your strong right hand, that
they might govern the people with equity and discern all matters with righteousness and truth. Let them lead with such wisdom that their decisions have a lasting positive impact not just in our day but in the days yet to come.
We pray this in your holy name. Amen. >> Amen. >> Thank you Reverend Russ. Appreciate it. Ladies and gentlemen, may we have a motion for adjournment. Second, all in favor. Heat. Heat.
Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat.