Uh, welcome to the township committee meeting of November 13, 2025. Adequate notice of the November 13, 2025 regular meeting of the township committee has been provided in accordance with the open public meetings act by posting written notice and agenda of the meeting
on the bulletin board in the municipal building of 1000 route 10 township of handover and by hand delivering mailing or faxing such notice to the following newspapers Morris County Daily Records Star Ledger Howard Eagle and by filing the same with the township clerk. >> Roll call. Committeeman Cahill
>> here. Committeeman Faramosa here, >> Committeeman Francioli here, >> Committeeman Mahelco, and Mayor Galgar is excused this evening. We have four members in attendance. >> At this time, please stand for the pledge of allegiance and remain standing for the prayer flag.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Almighty God, please watch over and guide this governing body with an
abundance of wisdom and understanding to help make the best decisions for our residents. Please bless our first responders and township volunteers who help to keep us all safe. Also, bless our township
employees and residents. Lastly, please let us pray for the men and women of the United States Armed Forces who stand vigil over us as always. And happy Veterans Day to all those who
have served and who serve defending our way of life. We ask this respectfully in your name. Amen. Good evening everyone. First on the agenda is the approval of the township committee meeting minutes of October 9th
and 23rd. May I please have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> May I have a second? Second. >> All in favor? >> So approved. Next is the public hearing and adoption of ordinance number 25-2025 and 28-2025.
Proof of publication that ordinance 25 and ordinance 28 and their notice of introduction appeared in full in the October 29th issue of the daily work. At this time, I have a motion to convene a public hearing on ordinance number 25-2025
and 28 2022. >> So move. >> May I have a second? Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Is there anyone in chambers wishing to be heard concerning ordinance 25 or 28? If so, please state your name and address for the record.
>> Motion to close. May >> I have a second? All in favor to close the public hearing. I >> now on adoption. May I have an motion to adopt ordinance 25-2025 and 28-2025? >> Motion.
>> Second. >> Second. >> Roll call. Committ Cahill. >> Hi. >> Committas. >> Hi. >> Committ Francioli. >> Hi. Deputy Mayor Mahalco. >> Yes. >> So adopted. >> Next on the agenda is the introduction
of ordinance number 30-2025. I will read the title into the record. Ordinance 30-2025, an ordinance of the township committee of the township of handover, the county of Mars, and the state of New Jersey, repealing chapter
255 of the code of the township of handover entitled towing and road service and inserting in its place a new amended and supplemented chapter 2 255 of the code to be entitled towing and road services.
I'd like to state for the record that ordinance 30-2025 and its respective notice of introduction will be published in full in the daily record in accordance with law. The public hearing will be scheduled for December 11th at 8:00 p.m. May I please have a motion to introduce
ordinance 30-2025? >> So moved. >> May I have a second? >> Second. >> Roll call. Committeeman Cahill. >> Hi. >> Committeeman Farraka. >> Hi. >> Committee man Francioli. >> Hi. >> Deputy Mayor Melco. >> Yes. So introduced.
Next on the agenda, we have a record amount of resolutions to pass tonight. We have resolution number 205-2025 through 225-225. However, I have a late additional item I would like to add, so I will read it
into the record. It will be resolution 226-2025. The title is a resolution of the township committee of the township of handover approving the calendar year 2026 rates of compensation for members of the board of fire commissioners of
handover township fire district number three all in accordance with NJSA48 colon 14-88. Does any member of the uh committee have any questions regarding any of this monumental number of resolutions that we have tonight? >> Move they be approved.
>> Thank you. May I have a second? >> Second. >> All resolutions are approved. Next on the agenda, we have raffle applications. They are uh raffle number 3502, Whippony Park PTO raffle and raffle
3503, Harmonium Coral Society raffle. May I have a motion to approve? >> Motion. >> May I have a second? >> Second. >> Raffles are so approved. Next, we have to pay our bills in the amount of $9,410,48124 cents. John,
>> motion to pay the bills. >> May I have a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> We to pay our bills. Um, deputy mayor and the members of the committee, that clears the agenda and I thank you. >> All right. May I have a motion to open
the meeting to the public? >> Move. Second. All in favor? Hi. >> Hi. >> Any member of the public who would like to address the township committee, please state your name and address for the record. And you have four minutes to address the governing body.
Seeing none, hearing none, motion to close. Second, I'm sorry. Hi, Blanch Lopez, 60 Perry Street in Whippony. Um, I am I am here on behalf of the uh potential to ask the town
council to announce the 350th anniversary next year celebration to do a parade on or abouts the um the fireworks. So, uh my other committee person, Mark Morasano, completely forgot. So, he is
on his way. He was the official speaker tonight, but I just wanted to uh give him a few minutes to He's on his way. >> So, but that's what we're here for to >> I did speak with him briefly about it and correct me if I'm wrong. Uh we were again going to try to try to tie it in with the fireworks and
>> there is way to make an entrance. Mark stage left. >> That's all right. >> So, yeah, we're Michael M justice. I'm sorry. >> Please state your name and address.
>> Mark Morosano, New Jersey. How's everybody doing today? >> Very well. Thank you. Thank you for your time. So, uh Blanch didn't already begin. Uh so, Blanch, Jane, and I are parade coordinators. And what we'd like to have a parade for is our wonderful
handover township Whip 350th anniversary parade which coincides with the 250th anniversary of our wonderful country which is next year. Um we've met a couple times via telephone and in person. We I personally went in
front of the recreation uh department and requested uh that we can possibly tie in with the fireworks display and celebration next year um with a parade. And the parade
route that we had discussed would start at most likely the Birchwood Manor and tied into the the down by Veterans Field coming down that way. We'd look to start maybe 2 hours before the festivities over there so we could try to
consolidate some some uh some help with the town and um consolidate some of the the um what am I trying to say here? I guess trying to say bringing people a little earlier, maybe get a little more people early on uh to really get a a
little more excitement going on for the day because I think it's a it's a wonderful thing. Um we would like to request that um we we'll obviously need some assistance and and uh from the township
first. We would like your your blessing on it, but we would like to request um well, I guess we'll need some some help with the with the police department to close down the streets and and and um traffic control, things like that a bit earlier in the day than you would have
expected. and a little more of the street. Uh well, we need like EMT and other services available as well. Uh so those are some requests. Um we would also like to ask for
possibly a tent or an area where we could have some displays on the um in the in the um parking lot with the rest of what's happening here. Uh, you know, we've reached out to a few different um
potential partners, Daughters of American Revolution, the Shriners, uh maybe some uh F and Drum Corps, Bag Pipers, we have a Town Crier and Uncle Sam, things like that. So, it's going to be an interesting thing, you know, and and tying it in with the 250th, I think,
is really is just going to make it a really nice day. Um, the other thing we would like to do is maybe an hour before an hour before the parade itself, we would like to invite families to bring their children with their bicycles
to put some streamers and and some some patriotic uh colors on their bicycles and ride in the parade with us. And the reason I'm doing that is because one of my core memories uh was the bsentennial where me and my
friends my friends and I took our bicycles and did them all up in red, white and blue streamers and we had our flags attached to them and rode in the parade and in Montville and that was I'll never forget that for the rest of my life. Uh so I thought that's something that would be really really
nice to do for the children. Um, we would think we'd we'd either do that in um the Birchwood Matter parking lot if if there was a reason to to do it there. Otherwise, possibly down by uh Stony Brook, Stony Brook, Stony Brook, and
then have them ride up and then we'd all ride down together. Um, just want to see if there's anything I missed here. So, so a couple things. We, you know, we're asking for, of course, your blessing. Um, we're asking for some assistance with some shared services on
the um, logistics piece of it. And we're also asked for if there's a little bit of room in the budget, maybe $4 or $5,000 to help us out for the tent and for some of the other items we'd like to do. Um, obviously we can we can meet get together as we go a little further along
here and and come up with some ideas and see if that's something we can work together on. Um, we would also ask that we get some time at the at the on the band stand. Um, just to give a little, you know, nothing nothing crazy, a
little little uh history of the town, maybe here and there, maybe not one long speech, but a couple times during the course of the of the of the evening. Um, and and then obviously we would be looking for any volunteers. So, if if if we're going forward this this, we'd love
to get the word out and and uh right now it's the three of us and we're we're trying to work hard getting this thing together. Um but that always helps. Uh the other thing we're asking, I'm not sure if you're aware yet. Uh we're thinking that about on or about July
2nd, which would be that Thursday, is what would typically is the Thursday before. So, I don't know if you guys have nailed down that date, but that's something we would also need at some point. Yeah, we'll let you know. It it probably will be the second, but like you said, it hasn't been nailed down yet. We have to, you know, send out for the bid and the package and for the
fireworks and all, but but it should be typically second, possibly the first depending on the budget. >> Okay, that sounds good. And and again, obviously once once you have that, assuming we we're moving forward with this, uh that's the best way for us to get everybody lined up and involved. Um
so just just you a little more about the parade. We talked about the town crier. Uh we talked about um Uncle Uncle Sam will be walking around. Uh we're also I was going to go around a lot of the guys in town who have some nice cars and and here and there and see if they want to
drive. Um see if we can get some, you know, uh of the um fire department trucks, maybe some of these old times trucks to to ride the typical things. It's not going to be a big big parade, but just just something for a little bit of fun um to do that. What else did I
miss? You wanted me to make a mention of something else, Blanch. What was that? The >> I just want to chime in, too. I was talking with Mark about this. Uh, he did come to recreation. They were in full support of this. >> Yeah. >> Um, we think you we came to the conclusion this would be a good time to have it, good place to have it should work out pretty well.
>> I think it's it's it's so ideal because the time period before our first shoot until when our public arrives there there's like an hour or two hours in there. Yeah. And this is an ideal time to fill that that portion of time. Um,
and uh, I think you're on the right track. Uh, Birchwood Manor for staging would be great. They have the large parking area in the back with car shows back there. >> Yes. >> So, they can go there. Um, we'll leave it to you guys to work it
out. But once the parade comes down, how are you going to how are you going to disassemble it? Just come right in. right into the parking lot in this. I think that was the intent. >> Well, I think we would go down nuts and bolts as we go. >> I think what would happen is we would actually turn down into the baseball
field uh area and then we could disperse from there. >> Turn down the paper mill into Veterans Field. >> Correct. And then and then whoever is going to stay is going to stay and maybe the cars can stay. Well, it's getting down close to where they shoot the things off. I don't know if the car guys will want to keep it there, but they
want it there for a little while. like they and then we can kind of have the police help us move them out onto Route 10 and away. >> Yeah. >> Uh that's probably the easiest way to do it as opposed to going back up the other direction. You know, maybe you could even tell the the parents if they want to meet their kids with their bic uh with their cars to take the bicycles
over there. But what what we really want to have happen is have the people stay for the the fire. Maybe come into this parking lot here. In the past, we tried putting food trucks here. Mostly we kept it into the wreck parking lot now. >> Oh, that's true. We have this open. But we can use this parking lot for for
these cars and the kids and kind of put a little bit, you know, kind of expand over to here. >> Um, that would be easy to, but we we certainly work. >> I think we'll have some work sessions and and really figure that out and nail it down. But, but I guess really what I'm doing here is just we wanted to explain to you that that this I think is
really important for for what's happening next year. I think it's going to be an amazing year for everybody and we'd like to >> We talked about this in landmark as well. I did commit to the committee commission that I would talk with chief about cuz there will be right I mean typical setup is you've got some
obstacles along Jefferson road that would need to be moved to accommodate the parade at least for the time and things like that but you know I don't think it would be anything that's going to you think be a good uncle Okay. Listen, whoever whoever wants to get involved. >> Yeah, that would be great. And again, we
we'll have some, like I said, some working sessions uh between with the township and with the recck department. I'm sure there's a few other committees we'll have to speak with. So, we'd definitely like to get together with you guys. Yes. Oh, so that was interesting real quick. So, um Jane was telling us about what
America means to me contest that was put out uh out in the full in United States. Correct. And then and there there were um I think every school did it or many schools did it. So, we're thinking of having part of maybe where that that tent is the kids if they if they had any
awards or even if they just wrote something and and obviously I have some connection to the schools. So, we would talk about uh and they already have some things planned whether some writings or some um some artwork and things like that that the kids will be producing for
the 250 anyway. So, we're going to tie that in with the 350 and maybe be able to display that for the children and gives them another reason to be there, another reason to be there and and and have something um to really just show that the >> might want to also contact the Knights
of Columbus active in the town. >> Certainly, they would want to participate. >> Absolutely. >> They have a they have a patriotic group for sure the fourth degree. Perfect. >> Yeah, we would do that. And I guess the veterans and and you know we have our
list. I just wanted to get the the skeleton of it out here for us to understand. >> All right. Brian, how are you doing with the the heritage committee or uh landmark and Don Kadoo? They all have
uniforms and uh costumes of the of the era. Oh yeah, they're they participated. Yeah, they're prepared. I mean they do that for the the cemetery tours. I mean it's a there's a rotating word to write great vision and and as you know they're
they're part of the heritage and we did have that conversation that was part of it. I don't think they'd have anything that would fit me. But um one other thing Blanch asked me to put out there is the uh highlight that the handover wind Symphony is presenting
a 350th colonial themed concert on Sunday June 14th 3 p.m. Memorial Junior High School uh which included the town choir choir the fight and drum color guard and also Uncle Sam plus some surprises will be there so we can get that out somehow. That's again as we as we go along we'll have a little more
discussion. We'll definitely put that out. >> Yeah. Is that right? >> Roll out on the website. >> That would be wonderful. And I appreciate everyone's time. Thank you. Have a great >> Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. >> Thank you, ladies. >> Yeah. Anyone else?
Seeing none, hearing none. Going once. Motion closed. Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> All right. Um, commandment, do you have any any notes? Any points? >> Yeah, I got comes to Fair Mask. Got a couple here. First one up is everybody's
interested in roads and we have two roads that we're trying to get done before the uh the winter Ridley sets in on the list. One's the top portion of Horse Hills Road. The second one um is Al Gangquin Parkway. So hopefully the
weather will cooperate. We'll be able to get these completed. The environmental commission has um recently completed a very successful tree giveaway program and the tree giveaway program um has awarded 30
winners trees. Now it's the responsibility of the winners to claim their trees. So they've been contacted by um the arborist and they need to contact Serbo and go collect their trees or otherwise before Serbo closed there
will not be any trees left. Second thing from an environmental highlight is they published something called the handover green and it's a really good update on lots of initiatives that will help you um learn about invasive species, learn
about how do you battle forever chemicals, uh PA PFAS. It's got MUA waste day information in it. It's on the township website. Um, so we recommend that you take a look at that.
Economic development had a uh really strong participation uh in what they call their broken broker open house that was held at All Seasons Golf and it was very very well attended. Uh, Deputy Mayor, that concludes my
commentary. Thank you very much, Mr. Princei. Very good. Uh, yeah, just a few things. uh actually won and and that is uh uh to our community to hand over a heartfelt thank you from me for your support this past election. Um I take
that as a vote for stability here in Hanover Township and uh very proud to uh serve you once again. Thank you very much. So appreciate that. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Kah. Thanks. So,
first uh congratulations to committeeman Gallagher as well. Um it'll be pleasure as always to work with you in the coming year. Um I wanted to point out a couple of there were a lot of resolutions tonight. So I just want to point a couple of note. Um first of all I want
to uh not welcome yet but congratulate uh two candidates that we've uh who have accepted an offer to join the Hard Township PD. uh first is Trevor Smith and he'll be joining the uh police academy uh shortly and then starting with us as a as a step one patrolman.
And we also have officer I'm not going to say his name right, but Ma Hassan uh I understand he's already a sheriff's officer so he's not going to go to the academy. He's going to come in as officer and join a little sooner. This gets us that much closer to having a fully staffed um traffic safety division, which is something that you
know we've been working on for a long long time. So looking forward to that. looking forward to uh their swearing in ceremonies in the near future. Um I also want to mention and and thank and congratulate everybody that was involved with the uh Hammer Township uh PBA 128
uh contract negotiations. Uh I learned that this is the first time in a very very long time uh that we actually came to an agreement um prior to the old contract expiring which is really very very refreshing and we can hope we can
keep that trend going in years to come. But it's a fair contract. Uh I just want to thank everybody from PBA 128 and Joe and our attorneys and everybody else uh that that uh participated. There were six meetings finished up in October and and uh you know as far as negotiations
are concerned it was a pretty good experience. So uh so congratulations to all. Lastly, I want to invite everybody back here on our December 11th meeting where we'll be recognizing nine Whippony firefighters uh who participated. They
are members of the Swift Water Rescue Team for District 2. uh and during a major storm they went down to Scotch Plains where there was some pretty significant flooding and some rescue work was required uh and they went down and participated and helped out. So they'll be here on December 11th to
receive a plaque and some congratulations from us as a committee. So I would encourage uh anybody that wants to to please join us and and help support them as well. That's it. Thank you very much. Um again congratulations to Mr. Francioli. Thank you mayor. How
many terms is that? >> I think this will start my 16th term. >> 16th term. >> Sweet 16th. >> Last time for murder. Congratulations. And to Ace Galler, you guys did a terrific job. You're doing a great job. >> I want to do a side comment, but I might interrupt you for a moment cuz you just hit on something. Um there's been so
much controversy, not just here in Hover, but most most uh of uh the area about uh term limits. And uh so I'm going to touch a hot button here. uh voters have term limits twice a year
and they have to use it and term limits comes in the primary election and term limits certainly come in your general election. So, uh, term limits, if you put that in effect, what you're doing is you're putting off your responsibility to vote and make the decision, and
you're letting somebody else make the decision for you. Whether or not the term limits uh eliminate uh people that make good contributions or not, that's not the issue. The issue is your decision. So, once again, uh my my
position on that is take advantage of your opportunity. vote. You have two times a year to vote. We're not doing the job. You can handle that. You can take care of that. You can remove us. So, that's it. Mayor, thank you. Does that count as my four minutes?
>> Thank you. No, it's a very good point. Um, yeah, I just got a couple things I want to point out. We have um on the 3rd, December 3rd, we have uh the volunteer dinner. It's a thank you to all the volunteers in our town. Uh it's always a fun night. Uh also, gentlemen, mark your calendars. Winter Wonderland
is on the 13th, Saturday, December 13th, from 6:00 to 8:00 here at the rec center. Um, talk about employees. Uh, recreation finally filled two spots that we have. Uh, we're looking forward to bringing on two new employees, uh, Amarine Paige and
another another one, Madison Deorgio. So, we're really looking forward to, uh, to them. Um they were excellent candidates and have risen to the top. So we're looking forward to them them coming on. Um
I'm glad you're here. Blanch and Jane. What's the date of the Hanover Wind Symphony? I was trying to look it up real quick. In uh >> the holiday concert. I want to remind people of that one. >> December 14th. >> The 14th. >> December 14th. >> December 14th. Yeah. We also have the
holiday concert. Uh, I work with these two two lovely ladies over cultural arts. They do a terrific job. And I also want to point out while Jane's here, she has been working hundreds of hours through the historical room categorizing and sorting all of this mass amounts of
stuff. I poked my head in there for a brief moment and she brings me little snippets, too. Really some neat stuff. Thank you, Jane, for all that you're doing over there. and I did bring your suggestion of possibly using Monroe Hall um as a historical area and getting some traction. We're talking about that, but
I wanted to thank you while you're here in public uh on the record, you're doing a great job. Thank you very much. So, uh that's all I have for tonight. Well, and just if I may, cuz you reminded me also on Saturday, November 29th, District 3 CL Firehouse will be having their
Christmas tree lighting. So, I think it's about 6:00, something to that like that. So yeah. Yeah. Okay. Very good. Motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn. Second. All in favor? >> I thank you. Very good.