[Music] evening everyone this meeting is called the order um annual notice of this meeting was provided to the home news tribute Star Ledger and the Highland Park planet on January 31st 2023 in addition notice of this meeting via Zoom was emailed to the home news tribun The Star Ledger of the High Park Planet on June 6 2023 and was posted on the burrow website at www.hpb.com and on the bulletin board at B Hall 221 South fth Avenue By The Park New Jersey and has remained continuously posted as required by law fire exits are to the left and right of council chambers if you speak please speak into the microphone and that takes care of that so do well we well we not going to be able to do the roll call we need to swear in one of the members uh bill could stand up please just repeat after me I and then state your name I you sol swear or you Solly swear that I will Faithfully I will Faithfully impartially partially and justly perform and justly perform all of the duties all of the duties of the office of the office of a zoning Board member of Zoning Board member according to the best of my according to the best of I do further Sol this or affirm further solir uh that I will support the Constitution of the United States support the Constitution of United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey Constitution State of Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same true faith and alance to the same and to the governments established to the governments established in the united states in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of people thank you very much you already signed so we are set uh with that Mr chairman we can end up having the roll call okay so uh now that we have the person SW V is swor in let's do the roll call please Mr Rosner here Mr fector Mr Fant yeah Mr hail okay Mr Hofer yeah Mr Close [Music] offo Mr cor miss corbman here Mr roord Mr Winfrey here Mr Thomas here Mr cassena Mr cotch here okay so um this is the sort of annual reorganization meeting so we will select board officers tonight and as well as professionals and staff so um I guess we start with the chairperson yes we do I'm going to call for a motion is there a motion for the chair for the year 2024 for the Zoning Board of adjustment for the burough of Highland Park I make a motion for robt is there a second to that I second are there any other nominations hearing none the nominations are closed I I I tend to be U smooth on this would you be kind enough to do a roll call please Mr Fez yes Mr Hofer yes Miss Corman yes Mr Winfrey yes Mr Rosner yes is yours now all right thank you so now we select a vice chairperson um I will take any motions for nominations to Vice chairperson maybe it would be a little easier the vice chair last year was me okay are you willing to Sure here we go why don't you make so I'll make a motion to nominate Miss Corman as Vice chair for the year 2024 oh second any other nominations okay so um I guess roll call please Mr fessant yes Mr Hofer yes Miss Corman yes Mr Winfrey yes Mr rosener yes okay now we will uh select a secretary for the board did we remember who it was last year I I was it you was you okay are you willing to serve as secretary again and you did a heck of a job so I'll make a motion to nominate wol from Hofer as secretary for the planning or zoning board adustment for 2024 any seconds I'll second any other nominations seeing none so roll call vote Please Mr f yes Mr Hofer yes Miss Corman yes Mr Winfrey yes Mr Rosner yes okay thanks everybody all right now we will move on to the professionals and staff we'll start with attorney for the board um and we have here Roger Thomas are we nominating you or your firm uh it would be me uh through the firm of Dolan and Dolan okay so I will I'll make a motion to nominate Roger Thomas to the firm of Dolan and Dolan as uh zoning board attorney for the year 2024 second I take those not these are all no these are all roll calls roll call v y Mr feasant yes Mr Hofer yes Miss corbman yes Mr Winfrey yes Mr Rosner yes thank you all appreciate it all right now we go on to planner now Chris cenza is at uh l lrk lrk so uh I'll make a motion to appoint um lrk and Chris cenza as planning zoning board planner for our 2024 year any seconds I second seconded any know nominations or anybody running so we'll do a roll call vote Please Mr feasant yes Mr Hofer yes Miss Corman yes Mr Winfrey yes Mr Rosner yes now on to the engineer um I guess Bruce you're Willie and able and want to serve again as engineer for the Z where we had a lot of work last year are you Shing up for it so I'll make a motion to appoint Bruce ker CME engineering as the um Board of engineer for year 2024 any seconds I'll second I guess roll call yep M Mr peasant yes Mr huler yes M cman yes Mr Winfrey yes Mr Rosner yes thank you everyone and then the clerk is U because because you have a board member who's the secretary you then designate the clerk and last year of course it was son so motion for that so um I'm going to make a motion for son as as clerk for the for I second no other nomination so roll call vote for that as well Mr Fant yes Mr Hofer yes Miss cman yes Mr Winfrey yes Mr rosar yes thank you congratulations Mr chairman the next one is the setting of the dates and establishing the U the newspapers they are you have the setting of the dates and the attachment to the agenda and um you've already had in in the agenda as well the the newspapers that can be done as one motion and then that one can be a but you still need a motion I have one comment on the dates yes um so April 22nd is the first night of passover so I can't be here but I don't know if it affects anybody else when it matters what I I I understand and I get this question a lot from various people for various reasons and what I think should be done in my estimation is that set the dates and if it turns out that you um have a similar kind of activity level uh in 24 that you had in 23 it really won't make a difference the meeting is going to be canceled if per chance you know you get a little of activity you can always end up um you know adjourning the meeting if you don't have a quorum uh and then carry whatever the matter may be to the next available meeting so that way uh it it's probably a good idea to keep the meeting and then cancel it as opposed to saying oh geez we need that meeting and then somebody and that's going to cost the burrow to have to advertise okay so uh we do a motion and voice yeah motion second and a voice vot so I'll make a motion to approve the 2024 meeting schedule that you have before you um with the caveat we just talked about for April 22nd we'll keep it on but um you know deal with it as a com along and uh any seconds yeah I'll second any discussion any other discussion all all in favor I I any opposed no all right so we have our we have our dates um and the same is true with regard to the adoption of the rules they are the I'm reasonably certain they are the same rules excuse me that you had uh last year and um and in previous years so it's just a matter of technically adopting them again for 2022 yes um they've been in place for a while yeah they and I and again that that could be a I guess I'll make a motion to adopt The Rules of Order um any seconds a second any discussion about them at all or questions all in favor of adopting the rules say I I I any opposed none Okay so we've got our rules adopted now um we have one set of minutes to adopt from last year the October 23 minutes you remember we met to discuss whether we should continue to be a board or not we all agreed that we should be um the minutes look good to me there was one change from the draft and I think that's been corrected um so anybody have any well first all I guess I'll make a motion to approve the minutes a second a second um any discussion about them any comments no look good to meet you okay great so all in favor of adopting the minutes say I I oppose and the only other thing you should be asking if there's any abstentions uh it looks like everybody that is well Mr oh no no uh yeah I think everybody that's here is here at that meeting okay AR op then now we're at the uh public comment is there anyone on Zoom that we can't see nobody's on nobody's on Zoom um there's nobody in the room so opening public comments closing public comments um and that's it so that was Lightnings fast through the agenda and if you're do that you still need a motion to adjourn any other final discussion the board we got a couple questions oh okay I just have a question is it likely is there anything I can pipeline for us to see I'm not aware of anything in the pipeline son what is there anything that's pending that you know of not that I know of okay so there's nothing right now right now no okay but it's possible something could come in stay on I'll be here okay good um I just wanted to say on behalf of the mayor and the council thank you all for your service I understand that um you know we haven't been meeting a lot but it's still is um it's important that we have this board and it's important that you're here and as a as the mayor and we certainly appreciate um your efforts to come out and um and be ready for um for for what's coming in 2024 but thank you all very much for your wel thank you for around any other final questions none so I'll make a motion to adjourn second all in favor go all right