##VIDEO ID:B2vK9nUPEtw## I'm making this announcement in compliance with the open public meeting act being chapter 231 Public Law 1975 laws of the state of New Jersey the planning board secretary has prepared a schedule of the meeting of the planning board for the burrow of Kenworth for the year 2025 and has posted a true copy of this schedule on the bulletin board located at the front entrance of ball and has mailed true copies of this schedule to the local source to stall Ledger and is maintaining a copy of this schedule in barl Hall accordingly the notice of requirements of the open public meeting acts has been satisfied in regards to this meeting s to the flag please I to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands Nation God indivisible Justice for All um how about a roll call roll call please you want to do the oath of office yes sir I'm sorry um the oath of office for the planning board members I'm going to turn the meeting over to Mr Mr thank you we are swearing in five members tonight uh Bob galdi Mike Scary Larry Clementi Nick pantina and Savino scarice well saino doesn't get scorn in does he Joe Joe Joe's not here yeah so okay am I mistaken L that the council president gets sworn in yeah he's a member of the planing board then good okay good he's a m of the planing board if you gentlemen could stand up when before you leave tonight I have the Oaths to sign them yeah sign them date them and I will uh and then Kathy will take care of what needs to be done just repeat after me um I and then state your name I you solemly swear you swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States support the Constitution of the United States and bear true faith and allegiance to the same TR to the governments established in the United States establish in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people I do further Solly swear I do furtherly swear that I will Faithfully I will faithfully impartially and justly justly perform the duties of planning board member perform the duties of the planning board according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God okay congratulations congratulations again see see Kathy after the meeting sign him I'll take I'll sign him and We're Off to the Races it is [Music] official Greg at this point can we have a ro yes sir no you're going I'm do um Mr berno here Mr here Mr David here Mr clti here Mr pantina here Mr maio here Mr Lei here Mr scary here Mr DeLuca here Mr Baldi here and Mr py here okay at this point as your planning board chair of last year I'm going to turn the meeting over to our uh Vice chair Mr Greg David okay thank you Mr chairman at this time we have election of officers and since the first officer to be elected is Chairman um at this time I will entertain a motion for our chairman for the upcoming year I'd like to nominate Mr we have of board or right we have a motion from Mr pno I see a second Mr Deluca and Mr vo call um you can do we can just do all in favor all those in favor of Mr pno I should say any other and there any other motions to be made for chairman [Music] okay I all right so all those in favor say I I is anyone opposed all right Mr stno congratulations thank you again Mr David I am deeply humbled and I promise to do my very very best as your chairman as I've done uh I know I have made some some some very minor mistakes P but I I'm going to do everything I possibly can to make this a great 2025 and thank you for putting your trust in me one more time I do appreciate it thank you and now I turn it over to back to to our new chairman um for election of the vice chairman okay um as your new chairman is there a motion for a vice chair Mr Clemente I make a motion that D be Vice chairman for planning board 2025 a motion has been made for Mr Greg David to be our vice chair all in favor by hands or I we need a second oh we need a second I'm sorry second by everybody in the room we'll do that by Mr DeLuca I'm sorry do you need a second you got to ask for all nominations right oh is there any other nominations for vice chair seeing none the second was made by Mr DeLuca by eyes all in favor I I okay congratulations Mr chair thank you Mr chairman and I will just more or less repeat what you said without actually repeating it I uh appreciate everyone's uh um confidence in me to serve as a second in command well you know Mr David I have to say that you're really never second in command you you are you are right there right there thank you Mr chairman okay appreciate so yeah however okay what do we have now our planning board attorney yep so next is resolutions appointments of planning board professionals secretary Mr chairman sorry secretary's got to be Mr D would you cover that oh so we we we don't do that under the resolutions no that's an elected position ah okay all right so officer of the of the board gotcha you have to make sure that we spell that out in the agenda in the future um so I have I have a resolution for the is that that's for the recording secretary is that uh the position I believe is planning board secretary and then the recording one needs a resolution for the recording part we don't have recording how do we have a recording meaning back in 200 I don't know what it was 21 we have um uh passed correct me if I think we passed a resolution that Kathy we all voted on that she was going to to be our planning board recording secretary for 4 years am I correct KY yeah it's planning board secretary remember Janet used to record the meetings so right and now it's all you you're just the secretary and recording secretary yeah so do you need two positions or just it's all in one resolution it's all one work all right so are we back to just covering it under resolutions or okay all right so it does need to be voted on the vote is there a motion for but I'm saying the resolution will be voted by all members yes very good all right so back to resolutions the first um resolution that we have is for the planning board planter planner and wanted to same one the same um and I am going to read the actual resolution and whereas the planning board is an autonomous statutory board that is coordinated under the division of Planning and Zoning in the department of planning and engineering and where whereas pursuant to the fair and open process rule advertisements for proposals were published in the local source and posted on the Barrow of cord's website proposals were received and reviewed for the following professional service for the year 2025 planning board planner whereas after review of said proposals the planning board appoints Shamrock Enterprises LTD as planning board planner for the year 2025 at a rate of 12,000 perom and an hourly rate of $175 for any other matter directed by the planning board now therefore be it resolved by the planning board that the firm of Shamrock Enterprises LTD being is hereby appointed to the position of planning board planner for the year 2025 at a rate of 12,000 perom and at an hourly rate of there's a conflict here it say 165 here is a 175 or 165 175 for any other matters directed by the planning board the and same as hereby confirm would someone like to make a motion for this resolution okay Mr scary accept the resolution um and I need a second all right Mr scary made the motion Mr Clen um seconded hit roll call okay Mr bno yes Mr svino yes I mean SC Mr David yes Mr CL yes Mr pantina yes Mr mazio yes Mr Mr yes Mr uh Mr DeLuca yes Mr gal yes and Mr yes thank you all for your continued docum look forward to a great year thank you great working with all all righty next up is planning board attorney um I will go over the resolution again whereas the planning board is an autonomous statutory board that is coordinated under the division of planning and zoning and the department of planning and engineering and whereas pursuant to the fair and open public open process will advertisements for proposals were published in the local source and were received and reviewed by the planning board for the following professional service for the year 2025 planning board attorney now therefore being resolved after review of said proposals the planning board appoints Lewis P REO as planning board attorney for the year 2025 at a rate of 12,000 perom and an hourly rate of $145 for litigation or any other matter directed by the planning board being the same is hereby confirmed do I have a motion on this resolution okay Mr clementy I see your hand go up first do I have a second second by Mr DeLuca roll call Mr bno yes Mr scare yes Mr David yes Mr kenti yes Mr Cantina yeso yes Mr M yes Mr SC yes Mr DeLuca yes Mr raldi yes and Mr P yes thank you one and all thank you that's what you got to [Music] say skinny teeth shortest thir whoever less less is more next item planning board engineer and the resolution says whereas the planning board is an autonomous statutory board that is coordinated under the division of planning and zoning and the department of planning and engineering and whereas pursuant to the fair and open public process advertisements for proposals were published in a local source and posted on the B Count's website and proposals were received and reviewed for the following professional service for the year 20125 it should say Barrow engine planning board engineer um and whereas The Firm Harbor Consultants Inc was responsive to the request for proposals due on November 15 2024 at 11: a.m. for the position of 2025 planning planning board and oops and engineer and whereas The Firm Harbor consultan Inc shall perform all services of planning board engineer consistent with the response submitted by Sid firm now therefore be it resolved by the planning board of the Bure of Kenworth County of union state of New Jersey that the firm Harbor consultants incb and is hereby appointed to position of planning board engineer effective January 1st 2025 for a term set to expire December 31st 20125 pursuant to a fair and open Prof process under njsa 19 44 a-204 at se and that's it um I have a motion for planning board engineer Mr David Mr pentina oh Mr pentina yes thank you do I have a second second by Mr raldi roll call Mr berno yes Mr yes Mr David yes Mr Clen yes Mr pantina yes Mr mazio yes Mr leavi yes Mr scary yes Mr DeLuca yes Mr Grimaldi yes and Mr py yes thank you all looking forward to working with you all again moving on to planning board secretary this one is really short and sweet be ad here by resolve that the planning board's appointment of Kathleen Mida as PL board secretary and recording secretary for four-year term expiring in 2028 being the same is hereby confirmed do I have a motion okay made by Mr s second by Mr pesi roll call Mr P yes see how fast that was guys Mr David yes Mr SC yes Mr Ken yes Mr pantina yes Mr maio yes Mr Le yes Mr scary yes Mr Lua yes Mr galdi yes and Mr thank you okay you're welcome last one guys um this is for our videographer another short and sweet being hereby resolved that Marco Antonio Studio 401 Scott Mobis place Harrison New Jersey be contracted to videotape and edit Kenworth planning board meetings for the year 2025 at a rate of $150 per hour editing fee of $55 per meeting SL event not to to exceed $5,000 for the year would someone like to make the motion Mr clementy made the motion do I have a second second by Mr pesi roll call Mr PNA yes Mr David yes Mr spice yes Mr clti yes Mr pantina yes Mr naio yes Mr Lei yes Mr scary yes Mr DeLuca yes Mr veraldi yes and Mr BL yes okay wonderful I'd like to congratulate you all for coming aboard thank you very much thank you is there a motion to approve the minutes for December 12th I'll move moved by Mr Mao second and by Mr scary all in favor I is there any comments for the go to the board I just want to make sure we continue like last year the beginning of the year we kind of had a bunch of applicants and our attorneys not prepared I we cleaned a lot of that I just want to make sure to continue to kind of like make sure they're all prepared and the diagrams are all with there and we're prepared as a as a planning board also so saves just a bunch of time I think I agree with you Mr L I think that um one of the things that this board has stressed over the um over the past couple of years that if the applicants are not prepared we can we understand that some things could be missed and they could be subject to comments later on but if there's more than two or three go back to J we don't even want to hear you get it right we we don't have time to play around we all agree with that okay anyone else for comments yep I have a comment I have a couple number one um uh here we are in 2025 and one of the things that uh Lou Rego whispered in my year a little while ago was that um he was happy to see that Mr Grimaldi was back on board with us and I have to Echo those words Mr galdi brings um a talent of architecture and he knows the town he's been here for a long time and um I we welcome you aboard uh Robert I known you for a long time and I and I know you always have the talent interest at in your heart and and and welcome aboard so we really appreciate you coming back the other the other thing is I want to recognize pardon me um council president uh saino scarice um he is council president now and um he's going to be a great addition to our planning board he brings a lot of his talent uh here he has his you may not know this but I go to probably 90% of the council meetings and I watch and listen to what everybody has to offer and Mr scarice is a always involved in every aspect of what's going on on the council level I am so happy that he's here at this point so he can see what we do to bring back to council to understand not that you don't understand already I I say that with complete respect to understand what we go through to get it to the council level and to bring it back with a professional um aspect of what we do so congratulations and thank you for coming AB board with us thank you I also wanted to take uh one more minute or two more minutes and saying two [Music] things I don't care what side of the fence we are on independent republic uh uh Republican or or democrat you know we just lost a president uh Jimmy Carter 100 years and uh I have to say that uh he was laying in State and and we have to bow our heads to a great man I don't care what your beliefs are uh the man did a lot uh we should recognize him we should humble ourselves to some of the things that he's done whether you believe in everything that he's done or not he's been around for a long time and with his habitat the humanity should really U resonate with all of us to the people in New Orleans and California and things that are going on in our own States and what's happening uh if we could just maybe not tonight but just bow our heads when we go home tonight and say thank God we're all here and thank God we have good representation so I just wanted to recognize that okay so that's that's really all I have okay Mr chairman one more item sorry to backtrack we need to approve our 2025 meeting dates that was did I did I jump the gun you did no worries that's what alcohol does I'm sorry [Music] so is there a motion to approve the 2025 meeting minutes motion made by Mr Mr scarice I'm going to get this correct and seconded by Mr sciri all in favor okay so we already did the comments is any other comments for to go to the board none okay uh this time I'll make a motion to open the meeting to the public say second I'm sorry second by Mr y okay no one from the public seeing no one I'll make a motion to close the public portion of the meeting second okay have a second all in favor is there a motion to adjourn so move moved by Mr David second and by Mr pantina all in favor happy New Year guys 2025 make it a good one good job good job Mr David good job is [Music]