All right, welcome welcome everybody uh to our meeting of September 29th. Nice to see uh the room so crowded. I'm going to read first the statement of compliance. This meeting is being held
in accordance with the Open Public Meeting Act and adequate notice of this meeting has been provided as required by law. Specifically, the annual notice was emailed to the West Sussex Tribune and Star Ledger on January 3rd, 2025, and a 48 hour notice was emailed to the same publications on September 16, 2025. The
conference meeting may be continued after the regular meeting is finished. Agenda and resolutions for this meeting are available at livingstonj.org. Certain portions of this meeting may be closed to the public for the purpose of personnel and or other matters as outlined in Sunshine Law. Decisions made and or discussed in closed sessions will
be made known to the public at a later time. notice to the members of the governing body and township staff. Any use of electronic devices during this meeting shall be used solely for the purpose of the township business and any communications are subject to the open public's record act. To the extent possible, this evening's Township of
Livingston Council meeting will be livereamed via Facebook at facebook.comlsontownship NJ. Questions or comments will be accepted by emailing live comments at livingstonj.org uh by 4 p.m. on that day of the on the day of the meeting and shared with the
town council before the meeting. Each speaker should be followed the rules of order and Livingston code 2-15.3. Roll call, please. Council member Anthony here. Banani here. Vier present. Deputy Mayor Klene here. Mayor Minhart I am here. We're going to
rise in a minute for the pledge of allegiance followed uh first a moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance. As we rise this evening, we remember uh the four innocent victims who were uh killed yesterday in the Mormon church that's in Michigan. Um uh
and also as we are coming up on the 2-year anniversary of October 7th, we remember all the victims from all over the country of that day and the hostages that are still being held. So, thank you. To the flag
of America and to the stands one nation indivisibley and justice for all. All right. Thank you very much. Uh we have a couple of uh presentations this evening before we get into the uh police
officer promotions. So I will send the Annie over to the Eiseners. You guys are up. Whoever's speaking, Jody, Andrew, whoever. Uh there's a mic. Where's the mic? Right there. Right there. You can come that you can you can come on this side and speak to
you can you can come on this side and speak. Yeah. I'm short but even I'm not you know excuse me Mr. Eisner did you hear the part that said about 15.3. Okay. Thanks face. Which way you
either way you want. Okay. Too many people here for me to look at that way today. Thank you so much to the council for inviting us here this evening. When we last stood before you all, it was just a month after we lost Annie and
we were trying to figure it out day by day. If you could have told us then what we would accomplish, we might have laughed at you. Those days getting dressed and possibly leaving the house were about as much as we could expect.
And now as we head into our third Annietober, we are saving lives and making a huge impact in the fight against cancer. But we don't do it alone. There's absolutely no way that we could. And we are so incredibly grateful to everyone in our community who has
helped us along the way. This past year, we have partnered with so many outstanding, incredible organizations in town to hold swab drives. We were honored to join the Livingston Police Department last week for the community day out. We'll be at the Kuanas October
Fest on the 12th. We've been to the Chinese cultural festival, the AAPI picnic, the Pride picnic amongst other events. Assemblywoman Begali's office arranged for us to swab at the Monontlair Health Fair and we and they helped us make contacts at Monontlair State University to get their student
body involved. We've shared our message with the Rotary Club, the Livingston Committee for Diversity and Inclusion. We have swabbed 350 graduating seniors over the past two years along with our partners from Wer Strong and Trial Blazers for Kids and we are grateful for
the exceptional group of young men and their moms, the Young Men's Service League, who are incredibly supportive and help us run the drives that we have in town very often. This has enabled us to register as of this morning 7,575
people into the bone marrow registry resulting in 102 matches that give hope to people in their darkest hours. Four life-saving transplants have come out of those matches which is just amazing and just the very very beginning. Every single swab we get makes an impact and
we are so fortunate for the support that we have here in addition to our initiatives on college campuses and workplaces. The call to action is if you have connection to any people between the ages of 18 and 35, let them know that joining the bone marrow registry is
safe, simple, and free of charge and has the power to save one person's life just by being kind. A year ago today, we launched the Antitober 365 Foundation, a 501c3 charity to help us grow what we began two years ago. We have raised over a
half a million dollars for Cycle for Survival over the past two years through generous donations, our Annietober fundraisers, our hugely successful first annual Annie Totober Golf Classic at Cedar Hill this past June, and of course, through the sale of Annie's
famous cookies. Starting tomorrow, you're going to start to see our signature pink flyers on stores and restaurant windows around town. So many of our incredible businesses have once again committed to donating a portion of sales on specific days during the month to our foundation. In last week's issue
of the Tribune, there was a QR code to our calendar of events, which will also be posted in the upcoming days on Eltown Lowdown. And we are thankful to Neil and her crew for their support. We are so thrilled for the support from our lo local merchants including Love Letters, Compliments, Infinity, Four Fashions,
The Tempting Table, Mixology, 580 South, HTB, Sitting Pretty Intimates, Sherry Amster, Pink Jewels, and Live to Shop. We have restaurants that are joining in, including Pittetta, The Landmark, Calabria, Nanas, and the Twisted Tulip. And there are other events, too. To highlight just a few, you can get the
crowd favorite Annie salad this month, a tribute to Annie's favorite custom lunch order. Crumbsville Bakery will be selling a pink sprinkle cookie and you'll find special pink Annie Totober cocktails available at Pitteta, and a special pink tea available all month long at the Twisted Tulip. There's a
workout class at Alpha Fit, a needle point night at Mrs. Mishuga in Maplewood, and a very, very special volunteer opportunity at Lifettown. The incredible generosity and kindness of our local businesses has been overwhelming in the very best possible way. Many of them are businesses that
our family has long been patrons of, but some of them are places that we've never been to before. They heard of our plans and they reached out to us to help continue Annie's mission. And we are very grateful. And so, as a community, we have the opportunity to unite and do something really important in the coming weeks. Look at the calendar and then go
out shopping. Go out to eat. support the owners of these businesses for they are wonderful neighbors. We can help them as they have committed to helping so many others. Now, perhaps the biggest news this coming Annie Totober is the partnership that we have formed with an amazing bakery to produce Annie's
cookies. It's called Carson's Cookie Dough and it was founded by a mom whose son has autism. She wanted to create a business that he would be able to work at as he gets older. And it is staffed by differently aabled people and programs to help them develop job skills and find meaningful employment. So, we
will be able to offer Annie's cookies year round and with shipping so that we can spread the happiness they bring beyond the borders of Livingston. Each cookie we sell will not only support Annie's hope of curing cancer, one cookie at a time, but will also help so many students in the programs that the
bakery supports. It's the melding of two beautiful missions and we're so excited to see how this grows. On October 11th, we'll be having a birthday party in honor of Vie's birthday, a celebration at the bakery in Fairlon. And we hope a lot of people will come and see what an absolutely amazing place it is.
So, my hope continues to be that you are never in the position that we've been in, but should you be, know that this town will be by your side. And while you're out there supporting your local businesses this month, you'll be joining in the fight against rare cancers, which we all know are actually not very rare at all. Thank you all so much for your
time, and we look forward to seeing you all in the coming weeks out and about Taton Town. [Applause] So, Jody, it's, you know, it's beautiful. I've I've known you guys for
I don't know I've tried to figure it out earlier um 25 years now I think we've known each other and we spent a lot of time together and um what you have done for so many it's really truly incredible and uh you know they say about you know
out of lemons you make lemonade well you've made a lot more than lemonades you've saved a lot of lives and uh I think a lot of people are very grateful for what you've done I know we are I know this town is and it's wonderful to see this community rally around your
cause. Um, I had a chance to play in the golf tournament uh last whenever it was a few months ago. I already forgot when it was. It was amazing to see 400 people there at dinner and 180 golfers on that golf course. And what you do, what you and Andrew both do. Um, there just no
words. So, we send you nothing but hugs and loves like I always text you. We think about you and we remember you and you know, we certainly remember Annie as well. So, thank you for being here and thank you for presenting to this town. And I will I'm just going to put a a shameless plug in. There's some uh Seden Hall University basketball players here
sitting in the front row. I think it'd be a great way I think it'd be a great way if they could somehow bring what Annie what what the Eiseners have to Seden Hall University. Um maybe you could figure out a way to coordinate with them and you know and show them a little love as well because I think I think you all would be better off for it
as well. So thank you guys very much. Thank you. [Applause] Okay, Jen, use the microphone, too. Yes, I'm pretty loud. We know you're loud, but go ahead. I'm pretty loud. We know. I like the uh the shameless plug. That
was a good idea. That was that was I like that. That was nice. Right here. Putting putting two great organizations together. Right. Okay. So, for those of you that don't know me, I'm Jen Walker. I'm the recreation director in town. And one of our many, many, many programs that we do here in town is our in town and our
travel basketball program in the winter. I'm sure we've have former players in here, future future players in here. Yeah. And uh one of the thing that we that makes our program thrive is our volunteer coaches. We have coaches from this town, coaches from other towns. Uh
and they are a huge huge part of our program. We are unbelievably fortunate that we have How many years have you guys been coaching? This your third year. Fourth year. Fourth. Fourth year. Tony and his daughter uh Ashley have been coaching our seventh grade team.
This year, last year was seventh grade, right? They do unbelievably well. But one of the things that they have done for us this year in particular is introduced us to the Satan Hall women's basketball coach and his team. And we were honored this year that they uh came
well we went to them and they did a free clinic for our Livingston girl uh ladies athletes for for fourth through 8th grade this year and um I think the council's going to give them a proclamation for that. But it was a huge event. It was a huge success. The girls
we had nothing but rave reviews for them. The girls and coach was absolutely amazing. They opened us with welcome arms. It was the pictures. I was not there. It was my birthday actually. But the uh the pictures that I saw, the girls, our little Livingston athletes were just beaming watching the their
their idols and their their uh heroes teach them how to play. It was it was it was a great event. So they also we were also lucky enough to have a Livingston day at one of the games. We uh gave away tickets and we came to a game and we had a huge turnout for Livingston and it was
a great event. So, just want to thank you. If Tony and Ashley, if you want to come up and coach Bazella and the girls, [Applause] they want to talk for a minute and then we can give the plaque. They have a They have a couple words to say and then we can come down and give them the plaque. Great.
Way to go. My name is Ashley Greny and as Jen said, um, my dad and I along with Dr. Josephson, who's not here tonight, coached the seventh grade girls basketball team last year. We actually lost in the finals by four points. But anyway,
but we were able to be coached. We were able to we had a good relationship. We were able to attend practices and they even came to one of our games. We went to a few of theirs. So, we just want to thank tonight Coach Bazella, Jada, and Ja Ja and Jordana for helping us and
helping our girls succeed. Thank you. Thank you, Ashley. And good evening, everyone. I will uh be very brief because no one ever said a short speech was bad. So, we're going to continue to do that. Um Jen and Ron, um thank you very much to the whole Department of
Recreation, Mayor Mayheart, and the entire town of Livingston board for such a wonderful honor. On behalf of the three young ladies I have here, all tremendous players, Jada, Jaca, and Jordana, and the entire Sen Hall Wounds basketball program, we want to say thank
you very much. We don't take this lightly. This is um such an honor. Um when I asked for three volunteers, these three young ladies stepped right up and uh I appreciate it very much. We'd love to have you come to a game or two or three. Um we have an exciting team. We
finished third place in the Big East last year, won 23 games. We have an even better team this year. Um, we have some of the top players in the country. Um, we play an really exciting, unselfish style of basketball. I would love to have you. And most of all, thank you
again for this wonderful honor. Amen. And go Pirates. Coach, nice to meet you. Mayor Miner, thank you very much. Thank you very much, Ashley. Thank you so much. Good to see you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, guys. Hey, listen. I'm kind of upset with you.
Why? What' I do? Tella, don't tell me. All right, that's fine. All right, we have a um I'm gonna Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna stand over here for I'm going to read I'm going to read a citation. The mayor and the members of the Livingston
Township Council council are pleased to honor the Satan Hall University girls coach Anthony Bazella for providing the Livingston 7th grade travel basketball team an opportunity to play at halftime for providing 100 free tickets to the travel team to attend a game on Sunday
January 26 2025 and providing a free basketball clinic to all the Livingston recreation basketball players. Your generosity and time spent with the Livingston team is appreciated more than words can ever express. Thank you, coach. So, please
We have some gifts for you guys, too. So, there are Yes. Yes. Let's go. We're gonna All right. All right. We're going to continue. We're going to continue on. We have some police promotions as well. Uh Chief, the
floor is all yours. [Applause] Sorry, folks. I need my glasses. I'm getting there. getting old. Hello, my name is Gary Marshoots. I uh have the p privilege of serving as a police chief here in Livingston, New
Jersey. I want to welcome everybody uh to uh to Livingston tonight. I know family and friends have traveled a long distance uh to be part of this celebration. So, we appreciate that. Also, I also want to thank the council, the township council for their support of the police department, including the
current project in our building, which is a refresh of our 24-hour day, 7. Hold on. We got to keep one of the doors. We have to keep one of the doors open. One of one door has to stay open. State law. Thank you.
Start over now. No. Also, I want to thank the township council for their support of the police department, including the current project of refreshing our 24-hour a day, 7-day a week dis dispatch center, which hasn't been refreshed for almost 20 years, which is the first point of contact for
our residents. Um, so I want to again just to give a a shout out to the council. Uh everybody, all the officers know that once a month I go to a uh New Jersey state chief's meeting in um South Jersey and there's 500 police chiefs in a room and a lot of it's training and
going over protocol and policies, but at the end everybody gets a chance to kind of share what's going on in their township and um kind of like the drama that's going on in their township. And every month I drive home an hour and a half from this meeting and I thank God that I work for the township of
Livingston and uh it's such a well-run township and um the support that we get from the council behind us is is second to none. I drive home every month the entire time I thank uh God for the strong leadership in this township. Um
tonight we're promoting three lieutenants and three sergeants. They have worked extremely hard in a very competitive process and we are all proud of them. But we are equally proud of the real real heroes of the promotional process and they are the officers who
elect to participate in the process. Study hard, sacrifice time away from their families. They give it their best and they wake up the next day and go back right back to protecting Livingston as professionals carrying out the
mission that they were sworn to do. And I would like to ask you a round of applause for everybody who participated in the promotional process. Also, we are very fortunate in Livingston to have a few patrol officers who are un unofficial leaders in our
department. And I wasn't going to call out names, but I'm looking around the room tonight and I see Officer Naylor. I see Officer Guzy, I see Officer Pansion. We have uh we're very fortunate to have patrol officers here who are unofficial leaders who help us run the police department every day. They set an
example for the officers, especially uh we have a lot of extremely new officers. um they they're helping us mentor them every day. So, one more round of applause, please, if you don't mind, for our I'll call them our
I'll call them our unsung heroes. So, without further ado, we're going to get into the promotional process. Swearing in, I'm sorry. And I'm going to first call up Lieutenant Shade Dats. Can you come forward,
Lieutenant Dats? stand next to me while I read your bio. Uh, Lieutenant Shay Dat is a graduate of Livingston High School, class of uh, 2004. He holds a degree in finance and economics from Fairley Dickinson University and is a distinguished military graduate of Satan Hall's
University's ROC program where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in military intelligence. After being hired in September of 2009, he attended and graduated from the Essex County Police Academy class 0902. Following graduation, he was assigned to
the patrol division where his assignments included being a 911 operator and field training officer, mentoring new recruits. In September of 2020, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant in the patrol division. In April of 2025, he was promoted to the
rank of lieutenant and continues to oversee a patrol shift. Lieutenant Dats would like to thank his wife Sheila, who also is a nurse for our township, and daughter Sienna and son Shawn for their years of love and support. And I'm going to ask them to step forward now.
And I'm going to ask Mayor Minhardt to come down and join us. Oh, he's already on the way. Already on the way. Who's going to administer the oath of office? And Sheila. Who's going to hold the Bible? Shay.
And we have two. Hold on a second. We have another mic. I know. We have another mic. Yeah. Yeah. Give him one. I'll hold it. Why don't you Why don't you give Yeah. There you go. Makes hard for me to give up the mic. I know. I know. Because you're you politicians are all the same. I got it.
I got I have to I have to do it. Can you hold this? No, he's hold it. No. Can we Okay. Can we start? No. Are you good? Are you good? I just want to make sure you're good. I just want to make sure. I'm fine. My first row here. All right. I got it right here. I Shayats
I Shayats do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey in the Constitution of the State of New Jersey. And I will bear true faith and allegiance and I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same
to the same and to the governments established in the United States and to the governments established 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 solemnly swear I do further solemnly swear that I will faithfully that I will faithfully impartially
impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties of lieutenant perform all the duties of lieutenant in the township of Livingston in the township of Livingston according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations.
[Applause] supposed to wait till the end for the photo. Supposed to have your badge on. Hold on. Get back over there. All right. We're gonna pin your badge
for the second time in your lifetime. You're now a commission's lieutenant. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. [Applause] We're going to call everybody up at the
end and take one photo with all the promotes at one time. At the end. Shay, we're going to call you back up at the end. At the end. Right. Next in seniority is going to be Lieutenant Christopher Grio. Can you please step forward, Lieutenant Grio?
[Applause] Just relax for a minute while I read your bio. Okay. Lieutenant Christopher Grio is a graduate of Cobalt College with a bachelor's degree in communications.
After being hired in January of 2006, he attended and graduated from the Morris County Police Academy class 67. Upon graduation, he was assigned to the patrol division where some of his assignments have been firearms instructor, active shooter instructor,
and range master. In February of 2021, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant in the patrol division. In July of 2025, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and continues to oversee a patrol shift. Lieutenant Rico would like to thank his uh family, wife Haley, and
daughter Juliana for their years of love and support. And we're going to call up Haley now. Justin, come on up, too. Lieutenant Grio is receiving his badge tonight from his brother-in-law, Justin Nielsen, a K-9 officer with the Somerset
County Sheriff's Officer uh Sheriff's Department. And prior to that, he worked for the uh Verona Police Department in Essex County. Yeah, I'll hold it. There we photos look better. Repeat after me. I state your name. I,
Christopher Grio, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey. And 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 governments established in the United States. And in this state under the authority of the people and in this state under the authority of the people. I do further solemnly swear
I do further solemnly swear that I will faithfully that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties of lieutenant in the township of Livingston. perform all the duties of lieutenant in the township of Livingston. according to the best of my ability. according to the best of my ability.
So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. Justin's gonna pin a badge on his brother-in-law. Turn around for the photo. [Applause] Yeah, of course. Thank you, sir.
Okay, our third and final lieutenant of the evening is Lieutenant Jose Antunes. Come on down, Jose. for a minute. Okay. Lieutenant Antunes is a graduate of Livingston High School, class of 1995. He went on to graduate from
William Patterson University with a bachelor's degree in communications. Lieutenant Antunes has previously served in the uh community as a member of both the Livingston Fire Department and the Livingston First Aid Squad. After being hired in January of 2004, he attended
and graduated from the Essis County uh police academy class uh 2004-1. Upon graduation, he was assigned to the patrol division where some of his assignments included motorcycle officer and firearms instructor. In July of
2020, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant in the patrol division. In August of 2025, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and continues to over oversee a patrol shift. Lieutenant Anton would like to thank his family, wife Fernanda, and daughter Isabella for the years of love and support. And real
quick before we clap, I just want you to know when I it's kind of an understatement to say that Jose is a motorcycle officer. Jose has ridden that motorcycle all over the eastern seabboard uh for fallen officers funerals and represent the Livingston Police Department in a most professional
way. So, thank you for that as well. Council member Vieier is going to administer the oath, right? I, Jose and Tunes, do solemnly swear I, Jose and Tounes, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New
Jersey and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey. And 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 governments established in the United States. and in this state under the authority of the people and in this state under the authority of
the people I do further solemnly swear I do further solemnly swear that I will faithfully and partially and justly that I will faithfully and partially and justly perform all the duties of lieutenant in the township of Livingston perform all the duties of lieutenant in the township of Livingston according to the best of my ability
according to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. [Applause] it. Next. No, you need your back.
You got to get your bag. Who's excited? Who's excited to shake hands? Are you next? You're not running for office, so come on over here. All right, let's get to Florida. It's not official until you get pinned here.
All right. Congratulations, Lieutenant. Take one just We're going to take one at the end with everybody. All right, we'll take one at the end. Yeah, we'll just take hold of progress. Not one to All right, I know it's hot in here, so
I'm going to move along right away. All right, we're down. We're down to our sergeants, our first line supervisors. A lot of residents asked me, "Why were there three cars on a call?" I said, "If there's three cars on a call, that's a bad sign because that means the supervisor rolled up on the call, too." So, um, Sergeant Adam McDavid, where are
you? Come on down. Okay. Sergeant Adam McDad McDavid is a graduate of Montlair State University with a bachelor's degree in elementary education with a concentration in kindergarten through fifth grade. That's a mouthful. Um, Sergeant McDavid
also earned a nursing diploma from the Mountainside Hospital of Nursing and worked previously as a nurse at St. Barnabas Medical Center. After being hired in January of uh 2016, Sergeant McDavid attended and graduated the Essex County Police Academy class 16001 and
was assigned to the patrol division. In October of 2022, he was reassigned to the detective bureau in the role of juvenile detective. Detect Detective McDavid was promoted to the rank of sergeant in August of 2025 and has been
reassigned as a supervisor in the patrol division. Sergeant McDavid would like to thank his family, wife Emily and son Cooper for the years of love and support. And we have a special guest. I believe Sergeant uh McDavid's uh will be receiving his badge from his brother Anthony, his twin brother Anthony
McDavid, a sergeant with the Roseland Police Department. So, let's get the family, too. Anybody who you want to bring down, come on up. Yeah, you're welcome.
Take your time. So, repeat after me. Okay. Okay. All right. I state your name. I, Adam McDavid, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States
that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments established in the United States and to the governments established 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 solemnly swear I do further solemnly swear that I will faithfully and partially and justly perform that I will faithfully and partially and justly perform all the duties of sergeant all the duties of sergeant in the township of Livingston
in the township of Livingston according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. Thank you, Deputy Mayor Klein. Hold on a second. We're gonna pin your badge on real quick. While we're doing this, Mom, who was the
favorite? Do you want to tell us? No. All right. Well, we'll we'll talk later. Congratulations. Take as many photos as you want. [Applause]
Yes. Okay, moving right along. Sergeant Jessica Kuchi, come on down. Jess, relax for a second. Sergeant Jessica Kucci is a graduate of Temple University where she earned a bachelor's degree in public health. She attended
the Mercer County Police Academy class 1114. Sergeant Kluchi previously served with the Princeton University Police Department before transferring to Livingston Police Department in July of uh 2015 where she was assigned to the
patrol division. While in the patrol division, some of her assignments included serving as a department's resiliency officer and field training officer, mentoring new recruits. In July of 2024, she was reassigned to the detective
division in the role of detect of juvenile detective. Uh, detective Klucci was promoted to the rank of sergeant in August of 2025 and has been reassigned as a supervisor to the patrol division. Sergeant Kluchi would like to thank her mom, Donna, father, Dominic, and the
rest of her family for the years of love and support. Uh, who's Katie? Council member Bhutani is going to join us. Is that your mom? What are you waiting for, Mom?
It's now or never. You're waiting for the next promot. Okay. I, Jessica Kucci, I, Jessica Kucci, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of
the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey. And that I will bear true faith and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. and allegiance to the same. and to the governments established in the United
States and and to the governments established 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 solemnly swear I do further solemnly swear that I will faithfully that I will faithfully
impartially and justly impartially and justly perform all the duties of the sergeant perform all the duties of sergeant in the township of Livingston according to the best of my ability in the township of Livingston according to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God.
[Applause] See where my glasses. [Applause] Photo. Photo time. Jump in. [Applause]
And last but not least, Sergeant John Drum Jr., can you come on? Okay. Sergeant John Dum Jr. is a graduate of William Patterson University with a degree uh who where he earned a degree I'm sorry, earned a bachelor's
degree in finance. Um after after being hired in January of 2020, he attended and graduated from the Mars County Police Academy, class number 94, which I believe you were the highest uh academic score in the police academy. Um,
yeah. And we all we all know now that that wasn't a fluke and you take after your mother. Uh, after uh graduation from the police academy, he was assigned to the patrol division where his assignments included 911 operator, drone operator, basically
a pilot, right? and uh field training officer mentoring new recruits. Patrolman uh Drum was promoted to the rank of sergeant in August of 2025 and has been reassigned as a supervisor to the patrol division. Sergeant Drum would like to thank his mother Renee. Uh
Father John Senior and family for the years of love and support. Uh Sergeant Drum will be receiving his badge from his father, retired uh Livingston Police Captain John Drum Senior. Pleasure. Who wants to hold the Bible and who
wants to hold Raise your right hand. And oh, you're going to really give me the mic. The last time I had a mic. I need a mic. Hold on. I'll hold it. I'll hold it. All right. All right. All
right. All right. I, John Drum Jr. I, John Drum Jr. do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey.
And I will bear true faith and allegiance and I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the same. And to the governments established in the United States and to the governments established 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 solemnly swear I do further solemnly swear that I will faithfully impartially that I will faithfully impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties of sergeant perform all the duties of sergeant
in the township of Livingston in the township of Livingston according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. Thank you. Drop the door. [Applause]
In closing, I want to ask all the officers to come in the room for a second. Even officers outside, Mayor Minhardt would like to address the police department. [Applause] No, you're down. No, you're down.
I'll get you back up. All right. Okay, you can move over. We'll take a picture at the end. We're gonna take a picture at the end. uh every uh so first of all first of all I just first I want to recognize we also have in the back of the room our our retired captain also Tom Smith is here as well so Tom always good to see you as well.
Thank you for I make these announcements at all the events that we go to and there are a few things I just want to say this evening. I always say when I whatever event, flag raising, something at the oval, I always say that, you know, we thank the police for not only what they do for today, but
for every day. And I really just want to take this opportunity, I get a chance to address so many of you, uh, men and women, to thank you for what you do every day for the residents of this town. Um, it's just it's remarkable. We are truly blessed to have all of you and
everybody else who's not in the room today working for the town. But specifically, I just want to point out the last week we had the Jewish holiday of Russia Shana and so many of you volunteered your time and spent times at the synagogues around the town of Livingston. I want to thank both
captains for doing such a great job making sure that all of the synagogues were covered. Uh I can't tell you how many texts and phone calls that I received thanking me. And I just said it's I it's not me to thank, but it's all of you to thank for keeping not only
the temple safe, but all the houses of worship safe every day and all the residents. I really want to take this opportunity again on behalf of all the residents of Livingston to thank you all very much for everything that you do. It's very much appreciated. Also, Chief, sorry, one more one more
thing. I received a letter today in the mail. It's addressed to me, but really goes to all of you. It's from Michael Silva, the East Ward Councilman from the city of Newark. I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Michael J. Silva, and I'm the councilman of the East Ward in the city of Newark, New Jersey. I want
to commend police officers Michael Barrerero, I apologize if I got it wrong, and Jared Husber for their and your local PBA 263 on their generosity in donating food to our most vulnerable, unhoused population. They were not expecting anything, but were very
surprised and thankful. We want to extend our sincere thanks to you and to Chief Gary Marshoots for thinking of our city. So thank you all for everything that you do for Thank you very I think Madagas mayor if I could just for a minute. Uh in
addition obviously these are always uh very special occasions when we promote people. Uh but I do also want to recognize Chief Marshoots of course for his leadership his participation in these processes. Also recognize they had big shoes to fill. Our retired captains Drum and Smith are here. Those shoes
have been more than adequately filled by Captain Mueller and Captain Deandria. Uh uh this was their uh the sergeant promotions was their first time through the promotional process. So thank them and they did a great job stepping in. And then just on a personal note uh with the recent retirement of Lieutenant
Duner and these promotions, I've now promoted all 19 superior officers in the department, which is kind of crazy to think about the level of turnover, but uh very confident that we're in great hands for the future. and uh a lot of that's a credit to the chief. So, thank you.
Thank you. It means a lot. Also, you pretty much hired half the police department at this point, too. And and to the manager's credit, he sits in on every interview for a promotional, every interview, every hiring interview. He's uh always there with us. So, we appreciate that as well. So, um I've
been to a lot of houses of worship this week uh with the mayor. Uh I was his guest. Um I prayed for our police department pretty much all over Livingston. So, I think we're covered. But please, please down the road in the future, if you're in a house of worship, pray for our young police officers. And um you know, I I get the same feedback
that the mayor gets. Um so many nice letters, so many compliments come to us and the first thing I say is don't thank me. I'm sitting in a freezing cold office all day. Thank Thank the officers. And I I extend that right to them, too. So, the captain's eye will continue to work hard, give them what
they need, and get them home safely if we can. Thank God willing. All right. Thank you very much. Oh yeah. Photo. Photo. One last photo and then then we'll let them actually conduct some business here. We have an honorable mention
tonight too. Uh detective is a reassignment, not a promotion, but we have uh who's back there? Jalisa Lashure. I saw her somewhere. She's uh one of our new detectives. It's a reassignment, so we can't bring her up. And future officer Bliss is with her,
right? Oh, captains, too. We got the captains. All right, good. [Applause] All right, we're going to uh we're going to continue on with the business part of the uh of our meetings. Uh, can I have a
motion for the approval of the minutes pending corrections September 8, 2025 regular and conference and September 8, 2025 close session? I'll make a motion. Second. Very good. All those in favor? I All right.
Thanks, Chief. Well done. There we go. All right, we're going to move on. Um, we have a public private partnership water tax maintenance public hearing. So, will you please read Caroline resolution 25282?
Resolution 25-282 authorizing the award of a contract to utility service company, Inc. We had a motion to open it for public hearing. Motion. Second. All those in favor? I. Okay. The meeting is now open for comments on 25282.
Seeing none, motion to close. Second. All those in favor of closing? I. Will somebody close? Will somebody uh call the question? Will somebody call the question? Yeah, we got to call for a vote, right? Motion to adopt.
Yeah, motion to adopt. Same thing. What's the call question? Motion to adopt. Second. Okay, roll call, please. Was there a second? Yes. Council member Anthony, say yes. It's your Yes. Peptani,
yes. Vieiraa, yes. Deputy Mayor Klene, yes. Mayor Reinhardt, yes. All right. Can I have a motion to open up the public comments on agenda items? Motion. Second. All those in favor? I. The meeting is now open for comment on agenda items only.
Seeing none, I make a motion. Motion to close. All those in favor? I. Okay. We are moving on now to introduction of ordinance 33-2025. Ordinance 33-2025
amending chapter 35-26 outside employment of police officers. I'll make a motion to approve the ordinance for introduction. Second. Okay. All those in uh roll call, please. Council member Anthony, yes. Banani, yes. Yara, yes.
Deputy Mayor Klene, yes. Mayor Reinhardt, yes. and mayor. This ordinance will have its public hearing on Monday. Oh, Tuesday, August 14. October 14th. Thank you. Ordinance 34-2025. Ordinance 34-2025
2,100,000 bond ordinance for acquisition of real property. Uh, I'll move it on first reading. I'll second it. Roll call, please. Council member Anthony, yes. Banani, yes. Vieiraa, yes. Deputy Mayor Klene, yes. Mayor Minhardt,
thank you. Mayor, this will also have its public hearing on October 14th. Thank you. All materials, the consent agenda resolutions, all materials listed with an asterric are considered to be routine and non-controversial by the council and be approved by one motion. There will be no separate discussions of these items unless member of the
governing body so request in which case the item will be removed in the consent agenda and considered its normal sequence on the agenda as part of the general orders. We have a few uh changes. Uh we are going to pull out 25280 and 25285 and read those together.
We're going to pull 25288 for this evening. Uh we are going to be adopting a revised resolution of 25-291 and we are going to be adding resolution 25-293.
So we're pulling out to 93 now. Uh, we're adding 293. We're adding 293. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. I'd like to pull it out. You want to pull out 293? Okay. No problem. Yeah. Okay. So, so,
so mayor, what remains on the consent agenda is 276, 277, 278, 279, 281, 283, 284, 286, 287, 289, 290, and 292. That
will be Woods's vote on the consent agenda. Thank you. Can you read those, please, Carolyn? Yes, mayor. Uh resolution 25-2-276 authorizing the award of a contract to Trius Inc. for salter grates. Resolution 22 25-277 authorizing the award of a contract to
Trius Inc. for truck body plow and accessories. Resolution 25-278 authorizing a six-month extension of existing contract with Colinelli Brothers Inc. Resolution-25-279 authorizing a contract with Motorola
Solutions, Inc. Resolution 25-281, authorizing approval of change order number two with Capola Services, Inc. Resolution 25-283, appointment to local assistance board. Resolution 25-284, authorizing the award of a contract to
Jessica, Inc. Resolution 25-286, Chapter 159, NJ Health Officers Association. Resolution 25-287, Chapter 159, National Opioid Trust. Resolution 25-289, authorizing the award of a contract to
Access New Jersey. Resolution 25-290, authorizing the award of a contract to Bobcat of New Jersey. and resolution 25-292 requesting permission for the dedication to education by Ryder for donations for the township of Livingston's veteran and military
programs as were required by NJSA4A 5-29. Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve the resolutions remaining on the consent agenda. I'll second it. Well, remaining are the ones that were read. Let's just get the read. Thank you very much. Okay. Council member Anthony, yes. Banani, yes.
Vieiraa, yes. Deputy Mayor Klene, yes. Mayor Minhart. Yes. Thank you. So now, Carol, will you please read 280 and 285 together? Resolution 25-280 authorizing the award of a contract to M2 Associates, Inc. And resolution
25-285 authorizing the award of a contract to Kier's Engineering and Design. May I make a motion to approve the resolutions? I'll second. Okay. So discussion. Barry, you want to talk about these two, please? Yeah. I was asked just to provide some
context and and it's um both of these relate to our water utility and improvements to the water system. The first is for engineering and design services for the rehabilitation of two of our production wells uh and the other relates to wershed improvements. And I bring it up because these are just the
latest examples of significant capital expenditures that we've made uh to improve and repair and upgrade the water uh system. most notably the PFAS improvements which have been staggering in expense but uh they're for the health and safety of the community and required
by law as well. Um and I and I point that out in the context of because we unfortunately recently had to raise our uh utility rates because of expenses like these on top of uh sort of historic inflation that we had in the last four or five years. So um just when people
get that higher water bill understand it's because we're having to make these commitments. Uh but am proud to say that even after our recent increases, we are still very much in the middle of the average of all the surrounding communities and a lot of that information can be found on our website. So that was the reason for uh pulling
those out separately. Barry, can I ask you a quick question on that? Uh so do we have any uh handy scorecard like how many wells are already compliant and how many we are going through? Maybe just a number to help everybody understand this. Yeah, I I can get a more detailed
timeline. I know the the major portion of the PFAS project a lot of the the construction is complete and we are still on schedule to have all those online by the end of the year uh which probably represents 80% of our production and the other two remaining
PFA these are PF affected wells uh are still on schedule to be done by next year. So again we are well ahead of most communities. Uh part of that was because we were exceeding the other threshold. It was even higher and now a lot of new communities are are
have joined the party because they lowered the standard even more. But we're in great shape. A huge credit to Nathan Kirkoff, our utility engineer, Janette Hardy, and uh the entire department. So, thank you, Mary. Okay, any other questions? If not, um can we have a motion on those
two resolutions? I'll move them. Second. Okay, I think we did it right, but a roll call, please. Council member Anthony, yes. Vani, yes. Vieiraa, yes. Deputy Mayor Klene, yes. Mayor Minhardt, yes. Thank you. All right. Would you like to read now uh 25-291
is a revised um councelor? Correct. It's a revised uh resolution. Yes, mayor. So, we were we were hoping to have a fully negotiated letter of intent tonight. Uh the originally the original resolution contemplated um having that form. Uh we're still
negotiating the letter of intent. However, given some time constraints, uh this resolution is authorizing um Mr. Lewis and myself to negotiate the letter of intent. It's allowing you to execute it once negotiating under certain terms, specifically um a $2
million purchase price um and a 20 and up to a $20,000 deposit. Um this is for the federated church. Um it's in the whereas clauses uh in the resolution. Um it's also going to be part of the um letter of intent. Um it would all be
subject to formalized to a formalized purchase and sale agreement which would need to be adopted by a formal ordinance process. There's any any other questions? Thank you very much. All right. Thank you. Want to read the resolution then we'll uh read it by line by title please.
Resolution. Resolution 25-291 um authorizing execution of LOI letter of intent Federated Church. Okay, mayor. I'll make a motion to approve the resolution. I'll second it. Okay. So, I just uh just to further what
the counselor said, what Mr. Caner said, uh this is to for the federated church. Uh we hope to be able to purchase a federated church for the for the community and to make it for open space. So, we're looking forward to that. That's why we want to put this on as quickly as possible and hopefully we will be able to uh give this back as
open space to the community. Mayor, if I just comment please. Yeah, I just also want to say I think um this is a very exciting opportunity for the town. Um, Federate Church obviously is the very dead center uh of our of our biggest intersection and uh if the town
is able to uh purchase that property and uh you know use it for the betterment of the town as open space you know in the middle of an area where um there's shops and there's there's uh uh busy traffic. I think it's going to be potentially a very special area for for the town to
use. Mayor, may I just say something? Um, I just want to say that this is really a win-win for the entire community and and really our taxpayers too because we will be using uh open state based trust fund monies for this purchase. So, the the taxpayers are not even really paying for
it as much and this is really going to be a win-win for our entire community. So, thank you. Thank you very much. Mayor, can I just add a quick quick note? Um, I agree with what my fellow council members and mayor said. Um in addition I would say this is one of those
historical sites. Uh I was referring to the other day the bicesentennial book and we had one of the first buildings was the federated church. So can't be more happy to preserve this uh this unique property and give it back to the
town. I think uh the entire council on the deis as well as everybody sitting on the deis will be very proud of uh if if if we have this going. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Uh just real quick, I think everyone thanked
uh the initiative to do this. Um I'd like to thank uh former mayor Ellie Conn who wrote a tribute uh tribune editorial on this or a letter to the uh tribune uh over a year ago talking about this and I think this is a great idea and I thank
the open space uh committee as well for having this on their radar uh which I serve liaison to. So, I think I'm gonna vote yes on this. Okay. You want to uh um please uh call the vote. Council member Anthony? Yes. Banani?
Yes. Vieiraa? Yes. Deputy Mayor Klene? Yes. Mayor Minhart? Yes. Would you please read resolution the title of resolution 293? Resolution 293 offering specific financial incentives to eligible employees selecting either the Omnia or
high deductible low plan for calendar year 2026. Okay. Is there a motion? Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve the resolution. Second. Okay. Discussion. Deputy mayor, would you like to say something? Yeah, I think um you know, across this
ent certainly across New Jersey and across the entire country, uh the issue of increases in costs related to health insurance is a big problem for governments to deal with. Certainly, we're no different than uh than governments on the county level or uh or or higher on up at the state level and
and federal level. Um but here we are in our town and we have to deal with these costs. Um the plan as presented by our CFO and town manager um you know uh there are some uncertainties related to how many um how far the incentives will
go that can help the town to save money. Um but uh they're assuring us that it's the best choice and we'll defer to their expertise. Um, I think the thing that reassures me a little bit here is that, um, we're not locked in, so to speak,
that if there are, uh, that we're still looking at options and if other options come across the table, uh, that we think will be financially advantageous to the town, uh, and still allow for our workers to have the coverage that we would want them to have, uh, and that they would want to have, uh, you know,
that we can, uh, make other choices in the future. So, um, you know, I'm gl I I want to thank them for all their hard work on this. Uh, and, um, you know, I'm hoping that, uh, these are going to be good choices for us, but there's uncertainty for everybody at every in every government right now. And, uh,
we're going to do the best we can. I just want to follow up for 30 seconds. Um, we had I like to thank Councilman Batani as well, myself. We've put together a little finance committee. We met with um, one gentleman as well, uh, one group and company. And I think like like the deputy mayor said, we have to
uh trust the instincts of our professionals and that's why we hire them and that's why we trust them so much. And so we thank the CFO Anne Cuchi and town manager Barry Lewis for putting this in front of us uh and for you know doing the work that we ask them to do and uh you are the professionals and that's why we have our trust in you. So
thank you council member Council Member Anthony. Yes. Banani. Yes. Yes. Deputy Mayor Klene. Yes. Mayor Minhardt. Yes. Thank you very much. There's a motion to open up the public portion. I'll make a motion. I'll second. All those in favor? I.
Okay. The meeting is now open to public portion on subject on any subject for three minutes. Just come to the mic, please, and just state your name and uh what town you live in. I live in Cwell, but I own a lot of property here in Livingston, 142 South
Livingston Avenue. That's ours. Uh, I'm here to speak today in behalf of my cousin, uh, Joyce, 7 Greenwood Court. She lives on. I'm here technically, in other words, to to discuss this. Uh there's a car wash that's located
probably 30 feet from the fence of her back property where her pool is that uh I I believe I I don't know when it started but recently um they have a uh a spot where
approximately 18 spaces is allocated for u vacuum stations where people could come in and vacuum their vehicles. Well, to run this large vacuum requires a very large turbine.
A turbine basically is a jet. Okay? Only this one is not driven by jet fuel. It's driven by an electric motor which is very big because it's drives a big turbine. Everybody's been to an airport obviously here. That's what it sounds like in her
backyard in her house right now. It runs all day long from 7:00 in the morning until they close. We were over there today with a decibel meter. We got 85 dB. Okay. Which is loud.
Probably not accurate either. I'm saying it's more because it it was a uh what do you call a a phone? One of those phones. So, we got a situation there. All right. Quality of life is horrible. There's people that you can't use your backyard.
You can't you can't you could hear this from 7:00 in the morning. It wakes her up. Ridiculous. They mounted a jet engine basically 30 ft from her her her where her pool is where the you know there's a is a backyard with a pool and
you know where you relax. I was there Saturday witness to it my own you know I don't live near there. I'm sitting in the backyard at the table. You It's ridiculous. I And And really, I don't
understand how this got by the the building department. I don't understand it. I really don't. There has to be When they saw that that the the the that engine, I'm going to call it. It's not an engine, but it's it's it makes a sound of an engine. There has to be
specs, decibel levels. It there it had to be there. There's no way it's not. It either somebody overlooked it, made a mistake, somebody dropped the ball there because there's no way this could be allowed anywhere near a residential area. It's that loud.
I ask this, would anyone hear any anyone anybody up here like this in their backyard to hear a literally a jet? It's a jet engine in their backyard. You can't possibly have people, you know, enjoy your backyard. You can't. So,
what I'm here asking, somebody needs from the town needs to step up because I believe there was a mistake made when they oeded this. There's no way this could possibly in in the anybody in their right frame of mind would allow this. It's impossible.
Barry, can you Barry, can you do me a favor and send have Marty send over Brian McShane tomorrow morning and see what's going on? Yeah, that's that's the best we can do at this point. Yeah, we we have a noise ordinance code. Uh and if in fact
they're exceeding that then that'll be enforced and they'll to take appropriate measures. I have no doubt. Yeah. And we um generally I think most of our noise is done through the Essex Regional Health Commission, but we'll involve all the necessary personnel to get out there and take sound readings and review and ensure that whatever they
built was in compliance with plans or if there were specs for this, you know, noise specs will look. Uh I I I would not I would be it's hard to believe that the specs of this of that machine that vacuum and incidentally there's 18 spots
to vacuum your car. I don't think there's 18 people in Livingston that vacuums their car. I don't believe that there there's a total to 18 but there's 18 spots the size of this turbine that they're running. It's it's big and you could you could it it resonates to the whole neighborhood.
Okay. We will definitely look into it and feel free you you have my information. Feel free to contact. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. May I just say something because uh I was going to bring this up at the uh when we finished our um our our conference call because Mr. Rada had um had sent me some videos which I had shared with you. But one of
the other things is they're starting at 7:00 in the morning when uh they actually said to the planning board that they would start at 8:00 in the morning. The 7 o'clock in the morning. So I did speak to the owner about the early morning. I didn't hear I did speak to the owner today. early morning was a was the manager who was there with a vacuum
supposedly um cleaning up before and he didn't know that he had a large vacuum I was told by the owner and that's what happened between 7 and 8 a.m. So I did speak to him about that about the time stuff. Yeah. And then the other thing was uh that the resolution I guess uh one of their experts Mr. Freud had said the
highest decel level at 30 ft would be uh approximately 38 dB. That's not true which is well below the getting 85. So if we So 85 we did it today was 85. So we'll So what we'll do is we'll Barry you'll send someone tomorrow morning and you'll see have Marty send Brian over
there and he let him measure it and let's go from there and if it's louder if it is if it is above the 38 whatever our our number is the maximum they're going to have to shut it down. It's very simple. Okay that's all I ask. Just give fair shot. That's all I can do. It's all I can do. I all I can do from that. Thank you. I
appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you. Sure. Thank you. So, my name is Joyce Marchello Armando. I've lived in Livingston my whole life. The first 28 years of my life, I lived
at seven Greenwood Court, where I recently moved back to take care of my elderly parents. in all the years that I have lived at seven Greenwood Court and I only moved about a mile away. Um, but I'm there all the time and I currently
reside there. Like I just said, um, in all those years, we've never had a complaint about the businesses behind our house. Um, Livingston Car Wash was there my whole life. Never had a problem. We never heard anything. There
was another car wash there several years ago. It didn't last very long, but we never had a complaint about them. Um, something is very different about the configuration of this express car wash that went in. It's a completely different configuration where the cars
are coming out facing my yard with this turbo engine. Um, and and like Anthony had said, we went up there today and my son measured on his iPhone 85 dB.
Um, it is there is no enjoyment. We cannot enjoy our yard. That's our backyard. We have a beautiful property, a beautiful pool. We can't sit out there. We can't talk out there. He was there with me. Like he said last weekend, we cannot even have a
conversation out there. It's maddening. It is It has made me so upset and so angry. My parents, my kids, we can not enjoy it. Our neighbors, I've gone, the neighbors are up in arms. I went there
yesterday because they were violating the noise ordinance because they were starting their backpack blowers at 7:00 a.m. in the morning. I went up there. Another neighbor who I don't even know went up there as well. So, this is affecting neighbors on Greenwood Court,
Felswood Drive, Elmwood Drive, Deerfield Road. This is how far you can hear the the everyday constant sound. And this is even if they are not using the vacuum cleaners, this motor or whatever this is
is going all day long. So, um even when we're inside of our house, I we work from home. My son and I work remotely. We cannot work. We cannot concentrate. It's driving us crazy.
So, um, I'm just asking you, please, please do something about this. I don't know how this got passed, but I'm not one to complain, but this is making us absolutely miserable. Thank you. As I said earlier tonight, we'll have someone out there tomorrow.
Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you everyone. Thank you. Any other comments for public portion? Motion to close public comment. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. All opposed. All right. Reports
of town officials and anything for tonight? Nothing else. Thank you, Mayor Adam. Just wanted to congratulate um the youth appreciation week uh Alan Carpass as well as the Livingston Police Department uh for putting on uh the youth appreciation week and the
Livingston Police Department's community block party. It was a fantastic event. Had a wonderful turnout. Um all the police officers and all the surrounding uh public service agencies did a fantastic job. So um it was a great job.
Barrett. Uh nothing tonight. Mayor Russ having just nothing for tonight. Mayor, thank you councelor. Uh mayor, just briefly um I'd like to keep the public informed on our fourth round fair share housing as it's you know important to all of us. Um, at our last meeting, I shared that we received
four objections uh to our plan and one minor objection from Fair Share Housing Center. Um, we were we have been scheduled for court on October 16th uh for a mediation session on that. I'll report back to the public following that mediation session.
Okay. Thank you, Carol. Uh, mayor, just for all the uh, LHS students that might be watching or the parents of LHS students between the ages of 16 and 18, we are recruiting poll workers for the next general election on Tuesday,
November 4th, and we'd love to have you. Um, Mr. Jada over at the high school has the application, the permission form, or you could alternatively reach out to the clerk's office for any information. We'd love to have you. Thank you. Great. Thank you very much. paid position. Paid and and lunch and pizza and dinner.
Exactly. Okay. Uh I think Kaitton, you're up this week for the announcements. Thank you, mayor. Uh yes, absolutely. I think uh we did a lot of uh community outreach, community uh gatherings, lot of uh festivities in town. Uh I'll start
with ribbon cutting. Um almost all council members were in uh three ribbon cutings we had since the last meeting. Uh we opened up Kuman Learning Center uh Alpha Fitness and Trendset. Uh the first and the third uh Kuman and Trendset
being in the 545 South Livingston Alpha Fitness in the Livingston Town Center. Uh we had a very sombering but uh very powerful 9/11 ceremony of remembrance. Um mayor, you did a good job there uh addressing everybody and uh all of the
council members were there. Uh the best part was really to to see Livingston students uh high school students and uh all grades and u the scouts doing a fantastic job there. Uh I think uh Councilman or Deputy Mayor uh Klene and
I were at the Essex County 911 ceremony as well and that was very very good as well. Um we uh Councilman Ver and I were at the ice cream social. That was a very well attended event uh by our uh recreation department. Um Councilman
Anthony, Deputy Mayor Klene and I were at the Sanskrit Di Garba dance festival. That was two nights. About 1500 people took part and that was very exciting. Uh the Trailblazers Bowl I think all of us were there um were there. It was a very
beautiful ceremony there. Um, Adam touched upon the youth appreciation week. Um, kudos to uh, of course, uh, the Livingston Police Department, all the volunteers, of course, the leaders Alan Carpers and Martha Ecman. The block
party was fabulous. Um, in addition, we had a tremendous bike Livingston event as well, and that was very well attended. uh Councilman uh Anthony, deputy mayor Klein and I were there and it was very well received. Um Rotary head on other side uh you know
collecting bikes and and lovely gathering. Uh I was also at the Lego uh board and the Lego board was set up in the entire room at this at the recreation center for Manhattan skyscrapers and that was also done by um
uh you know Alan Carpass and Martha Kmen uh as part of our youth appreciation week was wonderfully done. Um couple other events Pat Paluzo um was nicely done. Um Sanskriti cricket finals was was uh very well attended. Uh, Mayor
Minehard, Councilman Ver and I were um were able to attend that. Um, the other beautiful one was a young men's Oh, of course, Deputy Mayor Klein was there as well. Yes, of course, you were there. Sorry, my my apologies. Um, but yes, of course, it was it was it was wonderful.
It was I was at Pet Pala. At at Peta, like a bunch of like a 2-year-old. Pat Palooa was was beautiful. uh as well a lot of excitement there. The the the wonderful one was really just recently
like couple days ago young men's service league and I think that there were like 17 to 20 beds were created from scratch uh and every moms and sons were with the saws and and everything. It was it was beautiful. Um wonderful to see that that
service going. Um I think everybody was there um you know attending uh Sound of Harvest. There was a concert uh in association with Livingston Chinese Association. Uh Councilman Anthony and I were there and it was a wonderful
coalition of um Indian music musicians and the Chinese musicians was wonderfully done. a few events upcoming and I think it's not as busy a calendar but nevertheless uh as we get into the fall uh the breast cancer awareness walk
um on October 5th at 10:00 a.m. at the OLE. Um, Kavanis Club October Fest is going to be there on Sunday, October 12th, starting from 11 to 6. Uh, and this was uh this will be hosted by Livingston Kavanis Club. Um, and it'll
be a family fun day at the gazebo. Um, lots of kids activity, uh, adults activities, uh, food trucks, music, petting zoo, and and a bunch of other um components. And of course there'll be a fire department presence, first aid
squad and all other local charities will be there. So looking forward to that. Um uh there will be on October 13th uh at 6:30 p.m. here at the town hall, we'll have a flag hoisting um by Unico for the Italian flag hoisting and a color run on
October 11th at 10:00 a.m. Uh so calendar again is is buzzing. Um before I close I would like to wish uh uh Kumar Hatima Chova Yamapur to everybody celebrating um and looking forward to
that. Thank you mayor. Thank you very much. Uh just to follow up uh of what Councilman Batani said wishing everybody who's celebrating an easy fast uh next few days coming up for the holiday of Yam Kipur. Uh and also we just approved something uh different,
something new. Um starting on October 5th through October 10th at the gazebo to commemorate the 2-year anniversary of October 7th, there will be flags put out uh representing a flag from each country of everybody uh who was killed on
October 7th during that massacre, including uh the United States and Israel and all the other flags. So there'll be 1,230 I forgot the exact number, but two four 200 1,237 flags put out. They'll be there from October 5th through October 7th. So when
you see them in front of the gazebo, you'll everybody will know what they're what they're for. Uh with that, we are going to conclude this part of the meeting and we are going to be going back into the conference room where we will be uh still in open conference. Thank you. And the only further action this council
will be taking will be to pass a closed session resolution. We will be passing a close session resolution.