All right. All right. Can we just grab some Can we grab our seats so we can start? We're a couple minutes late. Sorry about that. We just had some other business to finish up in there. Uh I'm going to welcome everybody to our meeting of June 23rd and read the statement of
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2-15.3. Roll call, please. Council member Anthony, here. Pepani, here. Vieira, present. W Mary Klein, here. Mayor Minhart here. Uh we are going um to rise for the pledge of allegiance and for a moment of silence. And as we rise for a
moment of silence, we will uh continue to pray for the US soldiers who uh came under attack today and also uh for peace in the Middle East as well. Thank you to the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Just two just two real quick uh housekeeping uh items for if anyone is
here uh for a resolution that is listed on the consent agenda which is RS25-220 that is being pulled and will not be voted on this evening. And for those of you who've come to our meetings in the past uh you might recognize that we are
here without ties this evening. So, we decided to go a little casual and the heat advisory was out. The good doctors will, you know, hopefully will appreciate that we listened to the to the heat advisors. And so, uh, so anyway, so I'm sorry, Carrie, that you didn't get the memo, but anyway, uh, so
I apologize about that. All right, so we have a couple of proclamations and presentations. Um, Summit Medical Group, uh, is first up on the list. So, uh, I'm going to invite all four of you to talk about what, uh, your your generous donation that you have made to the July
4th committee, which I think Scott is here as well. Who's who's here from the July 4th? Where's Scott? He's coming. Oh, Scott, I'm sorry. I was looking over I was here, too. I'm sorry. I was looking over on the first aid squad for you as well. I apologize. I didn't know where to look. I I I apologize. All right.
And Ira here, too. And And Joe Gil as well. Joe, always great to see you. representing the recreation department, but he's also part of our committee. Hi, guys. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Testing. Yeah. Okay. I appreciate your help. You've
helped us in the past. You've really come to our help this year. We needed it. Our July 4th program has expanded significantly this year. I hope you can send a whole contingent of your people for July 4th. It'll be great. We We're getting a banner and doing the whole
thing. Um July 4th this year for everybody in the room is um an all day event. We start with the largest car show in the whole state of New Jersey for July 4th period. We have all kinds of kids programs in the afternoon. Um we have a
beer and wine cafe. We have 21 food trucks uh with and the beer and wine cafe have its own entertainment. And then starting at 7:45 we have one of the number one Eagles bands entertaining. And for the first time ever in its 88y year history,
we're doing fireworks totally computerized synchronized with music exactly what Macy's does. So it's the first time we've ever had and you're helping us. You're helping that to happen. So we made up a little ceremonial check. Okay.
And that's what we're going to do. I'm going to hand you back the mic. Okay. So let's see if we can Ira is a coach here with us and Joe is a
recreational person here. Are you sorry? Are you from Are you from the Yeah, I'm new. Oh, nice meeting. And our official photographer. Thank you very much.
[Applause] Yeah. On beh on behalf of uh Summit Health, uh we've always tried to be a good neighbor uh the town of Livingston and as you know, we're building another building where the health club was and we hope to be
more involved with the town going forward. uh bring good health and happiness to the town. So, thank you very much for all your support for Summit Health from the rescue squad uh
and all. Thank you. So, just first of all, on behalf of the entire council, thank you all very much for your generous donation. Number one, it's it's it's, you know, lovely to have you back in the fold. Number two, you know, we're really looking forward to the new building. We're very excited. I know you're building a a great new
building right around the corner from here on Livingston Avenue. We're looking forward to when that is going to open as well. Um, Saw Medical has been part of this town now for many years and we appreciate all your partnership and we look forward to continue that in good health and happiness. So, thank you guys very much. Thank you. Thank you.
[Applause] All right, moving moving uh right along. Um we have a couple of 75th anniversaries this evening in Livingston, which to me kind of marks who we are in Livingston. We always talk about we always talk about the volunteers of this town and having two
anniversaries marking 75 years of p of pure volunteerism really goes to uh you know to the heart of who this town is. So uh while we'll be thanking each one of the groups uh individually just as a collectively from all of us here thank you both very much for everything that
you and all your members do to the first aid and to the Rotary Club. It's really you know we are and all the residents are extremely fortunate to have so many wonderful people like you folks watching over us, taking care of us and doing a lot of good deeds for those who are less
fortunate. So we really appreciate from both of you. Um I don't know who was born first. It says 75th anniversary. So, if somebody wants to tell me who was born first, I'm happy to uh I'm happy to believe that. How's that? But uh Elliot, I've only been in
the club for 74 years. Um anyway, so um uh for the Oh, yeah. Um All right. So, we'll go with the first aid squad first. So, who's coming up for the first aid squad? Everybody. the whole group. How are you?
Who has the mic? Who Who has the mic? So, you want to grab the You want to grab the mic? You want Whoever wants to talk. I can I don't I don't know who's talking. Staceia, who's talking together?
Why don't we wait? Why don't we wait because we have a we have a plaque at the end. So, we all come down. We'll give a plaque at the end and we'll take all the pictures together. I That's right with you. Okay, cool. No pictures for now. Well, whatever. You can take pictures. He's got to fix his hair. He's got my stylist.
All right. So, from us to the town, um we want to thank you guys for this recognition. Yes, the squad has been volunteer for 75 years long before me. Um but collectively I don't know what would you say experience-wise
um we I think we did that with the plaque right our level pat and I figured it out we have a lot of experience a couple hundred years of experience 400 some people came uh like Barbara from from other organizations and then over
once we they started here in town um but we do appreciate the recognition we appreciate the support because you guys are really what fuels us and I'm not talking about getting sick and making us come out, but we are nonfor-profit. So, your donations go to our equipment, help
us run the calls with everything that we need for calls. You guys that came out to the pancake breakfast, thank you very much. It was a success for us. But all of those funds go to our operations and we have our own building in town. So, when that fund drive letter does come in the mail, please think about that. Keep
sending those funds because that's really what besides our volunteers, that's the other thing that keeps us going. And we hope to continue on till beyond 100, but 100 will be our next goal. Thank you guys very much. [Applause]
Yeah, come on down. You're not leaving afterwards. No, after he's still got his new giraffe. It's okay. All right. too. I think it's on. It just doesn't sound like it's on. All right. Is that Now it's on. All right. Thank you. So,
congrat. So, we in in our customary Livingston tradition. We have a citation that I'm honored to read. The mayor and the mayor and members of Livingston Township Council are pleased to honor the Livingston First Aid Squad 75th anniversary for their unwavering support of the Livingston community during
medical emergencies and for sacrificing time with your families and loved ones to ensure that the Livingston community receives exemplary care and attention. for responding to over 150,000 emergency calls over the years, which amounts to
2,000 calls per year. And by continuously training with once a month drills to stay current with the latest methodologies, medications, and procedures to ensure that the best care possible. And in capital letters, it says, "Thank you for all that you do."
And we all mean that. Thank you very much for everything you do. photos. Thank you guys. Thank you again. Congratulations everybody. Great job. Great job. And thank you enough. Thank you enough.
Thank you. Thank you. Byebye. All right. This is here. Good to see you as well. Thank you guys very much. I appreciate that. Thank you. All right. So now now we're honored to have the second group which is uh the Livingston Rotary. So, why don't you all
come up and who's going to Okay. Well, in the meantime, someone can come up and start talking. Who's going to talk? All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Ed Mayert. Yes, we need we need the Rotarians here.
Yeah, we have we have two two members. Yeah. Nice to get dressed up in the No, we we'll wait for Scott. I'll try to talk to Oh. Oh my god. Your third shirt. I'm only kidding. Where did you find
your room? All right. Uh, yeah. Thank you so much to the town council on behalf have the Rotary Club. We, you know, love having your support and, you know, partnering with us. We have two council members part of the Rotary Club. We have room for three more if you want to join. That's good. Yeah.
So, uh, thank you so much for all your support. We've been, you know, around for 75 years. Apparently, I'm not around for 75 years, but together, I don't know, more than a 100red years among all the members. Uh so we are 26 members now and you know if anybody wants to join the Rotary Club to do more good deeds
you know do reach out to any of us we meet every Tuesday morning 8:00 and you can just come in for a free breakfast. Um thank you project. Yes. Uh yeah you want you have more to say or not? Yeah you can say Monty
should say Monty's projects. Okay. So, so first of all, um, as I always do is I always, uh, thank the town council for their support, uh, for all that we do in town because we wouldn't be able
to do it without their support. Um, Summerfest was a great success. We had over 3,200 people show up uh, for that uh, day, which was great. Um we are preparing now for our food tasting event
which is Monday the Monday before election day by now. Yeah and you guys have always been very supportive of that and we appreciate that as well. Um we do these two grand events to raise money to help
uh those uh needy in the community and the world. So, uh, we've helped many of people in the township of Livingston and wherever there's a tragedy, we try to help out as well. So, we can't do it without the community. So, thank you very much. So, thank you all very much.
It's very nice. So, just uh I'll just ask two things. So, first of all, Monty, you look great for 75, number one. And and and here's the other question is because it always comes up now, who are we going to buy our ticket from for the uh for the food tasting, right? Because we always get asked to buy from you, right? So, we I'm sure you have tickets in your pockets you want to sell
already. So anyway, so we do have a plaque. Let me get I'm going to snoop in the middle here. It's all right with you. Uh the citation reads as following. The mayor and members of the Livingston Township Council are pleased to honor the Rotary Club of Livingston 75th anniversary for being a longtime community civic organization who looks
for ways to assist those in need within the township of Livingston as well as the surrounding municipalities and around the world. And again in all capitals, thank you for all that you do. So thank you very much. All right. All right. Thank you.
Congratulations to us. Congratulations to us. Congratulations to us. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] You got you got some some makeup room or something.
Good job. That was good. All right. Okay. So, now we also have some young young folks in the room who want to talk about I believe um some health camp for health screening. Is that correct? Who who is going to be the representative? Who's going to talk and who would like to to give the few-minute presentation?
So, please come up. There's a microphone. Um, Adam, can you Adam, can you just get the microphone all Maybe you guys want to introduce yourself, how old you are, what school you are, and you know, give us a little background about who you folks are. All right. Good evening, councilmen and town
members. Thank you so much for having us this evening. We greatly appreciate the opportunity to speak about our organization. We are the Livingston youth leaders and are proud students of Livingston High School. My name is Aana Agaral and my name is Real Motra. We are the
co-presidents. My name is Arv Sacri. My name is Vantra Praathi. We are the VP's operations. My name is Jane Gandhi. I'm Ivanch Shvasov. And we are the co- treasures of this organization.
We operate as a youth division of the global karma health and education trust incorporation. Our mission is to promote philanthropy and youths by advocating selfless service to community and providing a forum of participation for various nonprofit events and opportunities for
youth involvement. The G-Cut youth division has a deep rooted history stemming from the dedication of Livingston moms and their children. In April of 2021, at the height of the CO 19 pandemic, we formed the Livingston news leaders to help raise funds to help India combat its severe shortage of
oxygen and um medical equipment. Our first initiative, a bake sale, successfully raised significant funds for the CO 19 relief efforts. Building on the success, we collaborated with Dr. Sia Sha, president of GCAT, and managed to send oxygen concentrators and BiPAP
machines to India. Motivated by our success, we are now committed to serving underserved communities in the US and worldwide. Over the past five years, our various fundraisers have raised over $330,000
for various charities. We firmly believe in the impact of helping others, knowing that it might not change the world, but it can certainly change the world for one person. We are here to share details of our upcoming free health screening camp which will be held at the Livingston community center on June
27th. We have partnered with Let's Save Ma and the Lions Club. Let's save MA is dedicated to raising awareness about breast cancer and has collaborated with the New Jersey Cancer Education and Early Detection Program to provide free mammogram screening screenings without
the requirement of insurance supporting women of all socioeconomic statuses. Through our annual fundraisers and additional events, we have contributed our profits to many causes for underprivileged communities and organizations around the world. In order
to raise this money, we involve small businesses and give shelters opportunities to represent their products and their organizations. We provided money to countries such as India for COVID relief where we sent respirators and funds for HPV vaccines in 2021. Following that, we assisted
with Ukraine war relief in 2022. Additionally, we supported organizations such as Let's Save Ma, who advocates for women to be more aware of breast cancer. We funded free mamograms to assist Let's Save Ma in their aim for more awareness in 2023 and sent money to Turkey to aid
those who are affected by the earthquake. Also, we've done book and coat drives in addition to a Thanksgiving food drive in 2023. We have ongoing projects such as collecting rehab equipment for disabled and un uninsured patients at Trinitas Regional
Medical Center. We believe that giving back to our community is vital and supporting those who are in need. Last year we hosted a bake sale along with a car wash to donate to the bridges outreach for the homeless and a living education foundation.
For this event, we will be working with two other organizations, the Lions Club and Let's Save Ma. Lions Club is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to serving communities through volunteer efforts. They have a mission to improve health and well-being and a strong focus on several different
humanitarian services. Additionally, the Lions Club has developed sever several programs, service resources, funding opportunities, and organizational support for their eight core global causes, which include childhood cancer, diabetes, disaster relief, environment,
humanitarian, hunger, and vision. As mentioned earlier, we're also proud to be collaborating with Let's Save Ma, a nonprofit organization focused on raising awareness about breast cancer and supporting access to early detection and screening through education, outreach, and partnerships like this
one. Let's save MA is working to provide communities with the knowledge and resources they need to take charge of their own health. The free health checkup event is on June 27th at the Livingston Senior Community Center from 9:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. We are bringing a wide range of health services
all in one place. This includes mammogram screening, blood work, eye vision tests, and mental wellness checks. This event is especially helpful to those who don't have insurance as insurance is not required to participate. The day is designed to start with registration and each
wellness service will be conducted in a separate room to maintain privacy and ensure confidentiality of the participants. In addition, a leading opthalmologist Dr. Nalashki Bagat will be hosting an insightful talk as we debunk common myths about eye health and diabetes. Join us and learn how to
protect your vision and manage diabetic eye complications effectively. Attendees are invited to enjoy free snacks and beverages during the event. Anyone who wants to register can scan the QR codes on the flyer to register in advance. Walk-ins are welcome, but mammograms and blood work encourage pre-registration.
We're also looking forward to seeing the members of the township council join us during this event. Uh please everyone, please bring your friends, family, neighbors. We really appreciate that. And let's all take a step towards better health together.
On behalf of the living on behalf of the Livingston youth leaders, I would like to thank all the council members. Mayor Ed Minhart and all the attendees for taking your time to listen to us. Thank you. So, so while you guys are here, so while you thank me really, it's all of us
should be thanking all of you. Um and also thanking you guys should be thanking your parents as well because what you're doing um is really a wonderful thing for so many people uh in this community in this town in this community and bringing health uh and bringing good health habits to everybody
is is really wonderful. So I, you know, while I appreciate your thank yous, it's is really my honor to say thank you to you and to your parents for bringing this to our attention and in making sure that you could come this evening and and give us a few minutes of presentation. And uh we certainly look forward to
seeing you on the 27th as well. So thank you very much. Any other any other real quick comments? Can I give you a course, please? Well done. Starts at what time? Helping us with the mamogs and Why don't we take
pictures and go? Are we good? Are we moving center? Everybody got their pictures? We're moving. We're moving. We're good. Good. All right. Oh my god. We're moving. Thank you.
Thank you guys. [Applause] Thank you very much. I'm ready. I'm ready. All right. We'll move on to we'll we'll uh we'll move on to the business portion of our meeting.
Can I have a uh um an approval of the minutes of pending any corrections of the June 4th, 2025 regular and conference meeting minutes as well as the June 4th, 2025 close session meeting minutes? I'll move to approve. I'll second. All those in favor? I. Any against? All right. Can I have a a
motion to open the public comment on agenda items only? Moved. Second. All those in favor on agenda items only as long as it's on the regarding Great. Yes. Yeah, they were. Yeah, we'll count it.
Just your name. Your name and and I know you live. We know you. Um, pretty ma uh Livingston, New Jersey. Um, I'm here again to come out and support the first aid squad. We had to make that call again last week, the one that no one wants to make. However, the one that we know will always be answered.
Thankfully, mom is okay. Pat mentioned that the first aid squad would be honored tonight, and I wanted to take a moment to show my family support and appreciation. Pat and the A team showed up without hesitation, bringing their usual compassion and professionalism.
Just like always, they handled everything with such kindness and skill. We are what you might call frequent flyers, yet they never make us feel like a burden. The volunteers are always so gentle with mom, and seeing her smile and knowing she will be safe on the way to the hospital means everything to us.
Once again, my family and I would like to thank our first the first aid squad for their time, their talent, and unwavering dedication to our community. We are truly grateful for all that you do. First of all, thank you very much. Uh, like I said a couple weeks ago, first of all, I'm glad that your mom
seems to be okay. So, that's number one. We're frequent flyers. It's cool. Okay. I'm glad we're glad. I'm glad I'm still glad she's okay. And thank you for coming to to making it. We, as I said earlier, you know, we are in this town so fortunate to have such great volunteers, dedicated volunteers who I
said in the plaque who give up of their family time, their meals, their holidays, whatever it is, as will the firemen as well and auxiliary police. They do this just because it's the right thing to do and for no other reason. And I certainly appreciate you spending a few minutes with us this meeting and the
meeting before coming to recognize those wonderful people. So, thank you very much. Any other comments on agenda items only? All good. Same Michelle Amin Livingston, New Jersey. Um, so I just am calling to
acknowledge and say thank you to the council and specific to Kaitton because finally after many, many years, the road of Washington Corps is going to be repaved and that is a big win for all of us. It is one of the shortest roads and the contract was recently approved um
tonight because thank God. So really I had many residents on Washington Court have been submitting concerns to the town for many many years. We're living here I don't know 16 years and it's never really been in great shape. And once I
came to this meeting last year um the magic of the council happened. So we are all very appreciative. While I realize that maybe we're going to become a speed trap for people that are trying to cut through, at least it will be a safe place for us to walk and for my kids and I to ride our bikes. So, thank you very
much. Thanks, Michelle, for coming. Say, please go to your husband for us as well. All right. I know. You know what? They they scheduled a meeting tonight and I couldn't be there. So, I feel bad that I'm missing it, but I told him I couldn't make this one. So, all good. All right. Any other comments on agenda
items only? agenda items or no. Okay. Motion to close. Second. All those in favor? I. All against. All right. Moving on. We have a few final second readings. Um so we'll start with ordinance 25-2025,
please. Ordinance 25-2025 amending and supplementing chapter 68 animals. Motion to open the public hearing. Motion to open a public me hearing. Second. All in favor? I I opposed.
I'll make a motion to close the public hearing. Second. All in favor? I'll move the mo I'll move the ordinance. A second. Read the ordinance, please. Council member Anthony, yes. Banani, yes. Vieiraa, yes. Deputy Mayor Klene, yes. Mayor Minhardt, yes. Ordinance
26-2025. Ordinance 26-2025, bond ordinance amending bond ordinance number 19-2025. I'll make a motion to open a public hearing. Second. Seeing none. All in favor.
Is there a motion to close? Close. No, you didn't. You didn't do You didn't do all in favor? There was not a motion to close. No. No. F. Oh, I'm sorry. Motion open. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. I All in favor. Okay. Okay. It's
open. Seeing none. Second. Okay. All in favor? I any opposed? Okay. I think Sean was opposed. You want to keep it open? We have a we have a motion to to call the question. We have a second. Yeah. Second. Second. Any
discussion to move? No discussion. I'll second. We did that already. You said motion. I know you guys are waiting. I think we need to go back to our ties. All right. Carol, you want to read the You want to read roll call, please? Council member Anthony. Yes. Peptani. Yes. Viera. Yes. Yes. Deputy Mayor
Klene. Yes. Mayor Minhard. Yes. All right. Ordinance 28-2025. Ordinance 28-2025. Bond Ordinance amending bond ordinance number 21-2025. Motion to open the public. I'll make a motion to open a public hearing. I'll second it. All in favor? I I opposed.
Can I get a motion to close? Make a motion to close. I'll second. Okay. All in favor? I I opposed. I'm going to call the question. I'll move the motion. Uh I'll move the ordinance. I'll second it. Okay. Any discussion? Caroline, you want to read the role? Council member Anthony, yes.
Bonnie, yes. Vieiraa, yes. Deputy Mayor Klein, yes. Mayor Minhart, yes. Ordinance 29-2025. Ordinance 29-2025 prohibiting offering single-use food and beverage accessories except upon customers request. Okay. Is there a motion to open the public hearing? I'll
make a motion to open a public hearing. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Seeing none, I'll make a motion to close the public hearing. Second to close. All opposed. Oh. All in favor? I opposed. Okay. So, you want to call the question? I'll move the mo the ordinance. I'll
second it. Any discussion? Mayor, I'll say something. Um, so I'm uh this was something that um Alli Baris and uh some high school students um uh who are concerned about uh green issues really step forward to try to get this done. What what this what this ordinance is
doing is essentially making it that anyone who wants um plastic wear from a restaurant when they're taking takeout food is is welcome to have it. Uh but what it does do is it it creates it so that you have to request it. You just have to say can you please include it because a lot of times everyone knows you're eating at home and the restaurant
will you'll get delivery of food and there'll be six sets of silverware in there and and you don't need it because you're eating at home and you have silverware. Um so you just have to request it and you'll get it. And originally, this was going to be part of the plastic bag bill uh that uh Governor Murphy uh helped to shepherd along a few years back, but this part came out of
it. So now it's up to municipalities uh to do this on their own. And uh one of the high school students, as we're saying, you know, came to us and said that uh she wanted to see if we could move this forward and and we thought that was a great opportunity. This is a great opportunity to do that. And uh I I feel very grateful that um it was, you
know, students um advocating for this kind of change has helped to make this change happen. So, uh, thank you, mayor. I'm going to be a yes on this. Okay. Any other comments? I'll make a comment. Um, the student's name is Sophia Calderon from the high school. I believe she's graduating tomorrow. So, congratulations
to Sophia. And as Sean mentioned, Alli Varmas has been a a great uh influence on the LEC, especially with the um about a year or so ago, we expanded the LEC to include high school students. Um, and since then, you may have seen the murals around town. Some of the best ideas are
coming from the kids on the LEC, the young adults on the LEC. This was one of them, the skip the stuff. Um, and Sophia Calderon proposed it to us. We, uh, I think we're 5 on this. Um, it quickly reduces the amount of single-use plastic
in town. Uh, the businesses save money because they don't have to put all this stuff in in every um, takeout. It actually speeds up the takeout orders. And I actually I was uh at work today, Sean, and uh I noticed all these sitting on the desk on in the kitchen on the
table. This is what it looks like that are thrown in all the um bags all the time. So now they're available upon request. And you know what? At at an office building, these may get thrown out. So they're not even used. So this is a great ordinance uh for the skip the
stuff ordinance. And um like uh Sean said uh and I think this happened with plastic bags too where towns pass these type of things and it's like a ripple effect and then something is passed at the statewide level. There's a couple towns with us but we're definitely in a leadership position of um this
ordinance. So I'm going to vote yes on this too. Okay. Any other questions? Any other comments? Seeing none since we've already called the question had a second. Could you read the role please? Council member Anthony. Yes. Banani. Yes. Vieira. Yes. Deputy Mayor Klein. Yes. Mayor Minhardt. Yes. And mayor, can
I just also mention that there at the last meeting, we had um mention announced that the ordinance 27-2025, which was a bond ordinance amending bond ordinance number 20-2025, was going to have its final hearing tonight. And due to a noticing um issue, it will be
having its final hearing at our next meeting, which is Thursday, July 17th. Thank you very much. I run to the May. Mayor, if I could real quick, I meant to jump in when you're on it, but you were on a roll there. The I do want to clarify uh the first ordinance that was passed the principal purpose of the
ordinance was just to address and correct and update the fees for animal uh impoundment, boarding, etc. There is a line that's been in the code for some time apparently that has a fee for destruction of animal actual cost. Just want to be clear, we're a no kill
shelter. We don't destroy any animals. Not sure why that's in the ordinance, but uh it was I I just want to clarify that. I don't want anyone to think we're running around destroying animals. Thank you, Barry, the proud member of the uh a liaison to the committee and thank you for all your help on the animal shelter
committee. Yes, we do. We are no kill shelter that does not destroy animals. So, thanks. Great. Thank you very much. All right, moving on to the consent agenda. All materials listed with an asterk are considered to be routine and non-controversial by the council and will be approved by one motion. And there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the
governing body so requests in which case the items will be removed from the consent agenda and considered in its normal sequence on the agenda as part of our general orders. As I mentioned earlier, we will be pulling uh resolution 25-220. Would any of the other councilmen like
to have any of the other uh resolutions read separately? Hearing none. Uh would you please read the rest of the resolutions? Resolution 25-213, renewal of alcoholic beverage control licenses for the 2025 2026 license term.
Resolution 25-214 authorizing the cancellation of third and fourth quarter taxes on property identified as block 3803 lot 8 and 7. Resolution 25-215 authorizing the award of a contract to
SLI and Sun General Contracting Inc. Resolution 25-216 authorizing approval of change order number one with Hudson County Motors, Inc. Resolution 25-27 authorizing the sale of surplus property. Resolution 25-218 authorizing
a contract with Pumping Services, Inc. Resolution 25-219, New Jersey Volunteer Tuition Credit Program designating the fire chief as program administrator. And lastly, resolution 25-221, approving the assignment, assumption of,
and consent agreement to transfer Peach Tree Apartments. I'll make a motion to approve the resolutions. I'll second it. Okay. Um, could I have a roll call, please? Council member Anthony, yes. Peptani, yes. Vieira, yes. Deputy Mayor Klein, yes. Mayor Minhardt, yes. Can I have a motion, please open the public portion
on any subject? So moved. Second. All those in favor? I. Okay. The meeting is now open to the public portion on any subject. Okay. Yes. No. Maybe. Okay. All right. Seeing none. All right. I'll make a motion to close. Second. All
those in favor? I I opposed. Okay. I do have a couple of comments I'd like to make for public portion. Uh there have been there have been questions raised by some of the residents for the clarification regarding the Cedar Hill zoning ordinance which this council adopted.
For full transparency, I am a member of I am a member of Cedar Hill and an abundance of caution, I recuse myself from this ordinance and the entire process, which is why I do not comment on this ordinance until it was passed. The ordinance represents a true win-win for the township and a Livingston
business, which is also one of the township's highest taxpayers. Prior to the ordinance, the only allowable use on this property in which Cedar Hill is situated is solely residential. So each of that the current country each of its current country club uses before the ordinance was a pre-existing
non-conforming use or as better known the uses were grandfathered in. The ordinance simply provided the zoning for all the country club uses which currently exists at Cedar Hill or are typically associated with a country club. This will allow Cedar Hill to plan for the future and make certain repairs
and upgrades to remain competitive in the country club industry without having to get a variance for each and every change of the club. The win to the township is that this property now zoned for the now zoned for the country club and not just residential housing which we will hope and will aid to preserve
this property and protect it from dense housing in the future which we are all well aware is the fate of other neighboring golf clubs within this c within the c within the county. I thank our township planner and the township manager for all their hard work on getting this ordinance passed. Uh, also
one more statement uh that I'd like to say that tomorrow uh at 9:00 am is high school graduation for the class of 2025. And I just want to wish the entire class uh congratulations to all the graduating boys and girls and to their parents as well for getting them through to this
great milestone as well. Uh I believe on this day um our counselor's uh daughter Eden will be graduating as well. So congratulations to you as well. And she'll be a TURP next year. I'm sorry. And she'll be a Turf. So go Tur. So, go Turpps. Okay.
Okay. Um, council, do you have did you have a anything? Uh, so I don't know. Uh, Mr. Lewis, do you want to I guess so we have a fair share housing update for the fourth round. Um, our fair share housing plan and element will be uh up for adoption on the planning board this
Thursday. Um and we will be having a special meeting um on June 30th, a week from today, at 5:30 to endorse if the plan gets adopted. This governing body will be uh endorsing that plan or have a resolution to endorse that plan. Um if
anyone has any comments to the plan, they should those should be addressed to the planning board as it's their responsibility to come up with the fair share housing element plan. Um on Monday, this council will not have the ability to make any changes um to the adopted plan. I don't if Mr. Lewis
wanted to add any substance or background on do you want to add some substance to the plan itself and where we are? Yeah. So the uh as anyone who's following this there New Jersey's had fair share of housing obligations for communities for 25 30 years. Um, we only
recently completed our third round obligation and statutory uh statutes were adopted by the legislature imposing fourth round obligations. One of the things I think that the mayor and council and the town as a whole were very proud of is that we were um very
proactive in our third round as part of our overall third round settlement. Uh we negotiated I think as successfully as one could under the circumstances um to to limit development to appropriate areas to limit the uh bedroom mix to one and two bedroom units studios try and
minimize the impact on the schools. Um and the result of that settlement is we we left the third round not only with having met our third round obligation but coming forward with excess credits to apply to the fourth round uh which is largely unheard of uh among other
communities that I'm familiar with. As a result, between those and uh some projects were not included in the third round, but that have already been passed and been part of the public discussion uh we are able to adopt a housing and element and fair share plan uh that meets our statutory obligation, which is
to provide for at least 25% of our unmet need in the fourth round. And and we do that and actually even still have some excess. And while it doesn't completely protect us from, you know, potential lawsuits down the road, it is uh puts us way ahead of most towns and and uh it's
a credit I think to the mayor, the council, the planning board, all of our professionals uh that we were ahead got ahead of it. Um we'll we'll have much more detail on this coming out in the very near future, but I think the uh residents should be aware that we're in a very well positioned uh to not have to
u immediately accept even more units in the fourth round. Uh and so we're we're well positioned at this point and and again I think it's credit to the the mayor, the council, uh and the entire uh township. Yeah. And mayor, I'll just add so following uh the adoption uh our fair share housing ament plan will be
uploaded uploaded to what's called the program um developers um or or fair share housing corporation will have July and August to put in any challenges to the plan. Uh the program which is basically the judicial it's the appointed judicial avenue for which
these disputes will be resolved um has to resolve all disputes by the end of 2025. So if there are any disputes, if there are any challenges, uh their deadline is the end of August. Um all disputes have to be resolved by the end of December and then any legislation associated with our fair share housing
has to be completed by March of 2026. So that's kind of what's ahead of this council. So I just want to say thank you um to the councelor uh to our Jared and to our town manager u and our planners as well. Um we were as a group, we were way
behind in our third round. Um we worked very hard over the last few years to get this town um through the hurdle and getting over the top in third round. Um and with the help of Jared and Barry guiding us, we are where we are today and where the planning board will be on Thursday and we have a chance to approve
their recommendation on Monday. This is a wonderful thing for our town and in spite of something which not all of us agree with fourth round, all of us do not agree with it. But it's fact that we are where we are at this point. Um it's a compliment um to all five of us sitting up here as well. We have taken a
lot of time at these meetings. Um, and people who say that a lot of work gets done behind closed doors. You're right. A lot of work gets behind does get behind closed doors. And this is an absolute reason why it gets behind because this is where we are today. So, I just want to compliment all five of us for the work that we've done. Thank our
town manager. Thank our attorney for getting us here and our planners as well. Um, I think now uh Councilman Bear, you're up for this week. Yes, I am. And I appreciate everybody sending me uh their information.
Did it to my I I will zero. So just just for 30 seconds, I'll take a little bit of blame because I forgot to remind everybody until about 6 5:45 today that they're supposed to send it the mayor. So I will I will take the blame. Okay. And that's my biggest blame for today. I'm in really good shape by the way.
Right. Don't worry about it. I I have I have I have enough. So just some of the events that uh for the break I did send it to you. Yes. Yes. And the meeting is in the meeting. Yes. So during the meeting actually. So some of the events that took place um uh since our last
meeting is um on the 8th um June 8th summerfest um the Rotary Rotie uh Rotary Club and the PBA 263 sponsored a great event. Probably close to 4,000 people attended. So just uh marvelous and I just want to thank the Rotary Club and the PBA uh for putting on such a
wonderful uh community event. We also want to congratulate Rabbi Simeon Conn who was installed as a senior rabbi u at Bet Shalom. Uh congratulations Rabbi. Um on the 9th of June uh the Portuguese flag uh was raised. There had to have been at least 150 people uh watching the
f flag raised for the first time in Livingston. It was just another great event. on a rainy uh day on that same Monday uh the 9th um uh I think most of us were at Hillside uh school uh where they were celebrating their 75th anniversary and they buried a time
capsule. So uh we all did get uh wet but it was a great event to uh to go to and watch the time capsule get buried. On June 11th uh we had another great um meeting with the board of education of five on five. Um that was uh uh good. Um
June 12th um we had the women's veterans day celebration. We want to thank the LCDI uh for again putting the women's uh veterans day celebration together. Um also thanking the LCDI uh for another wonderful event was the 19th Junth uh
even though the flag was not ra the flag was raised but we didn't watch the flag because it was pouring out. Uh they did have a a wonderful um uh program at the library. So uh again thank you to the LCDI uh for a Junth flag raising. Uh on the 20th and the 21st Sanskriti held uh
yoga day. Um there was two events held. Um thanks Sanskriti for that. Um on the 22nd um want to congratulate Livingston's newest Eagle Scout um Avisur um who uh who became a uh an Eagle Scout. Um, now coming up we have
the 20 June 25th uh Wednesday arts uh summer nights. Uh, correct me if I'm wrong. It's not at the Oval this uh uh Adam. It's at Heritage School this Wednesday. Yes, there's a concert at Heritage School this Wednesday. Um, I think they were afraid of the heat. Uh,
so they moved it to Heritage. Uh, also on the 25th, it may be the 26th depending on the heat. the library um summer reading kickoff. They'll there'll be a bubble run at 6:30. But uh just go on to your websites because if it gets cancelled, it'll be the next day on the 26th. Just depends on the weather. Um
and then you all heard about the July 4th celebration. All day event starts with uh the Kuana Swim Carnival. You have the auto show. You have rides and attractions, food trucks, a beer garden. You have a couple concerts, uh fireworks to music, and so much more. So, uh
hopefully we have a um uh a nice rain-free day on July 4th and uh everybody comes out to to see the fireworks and uh July 4th uh spectacular event that we hold in Livingston. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you very much. Um council, you just we were enclosed
earlier. Can you just uh tell what the what we were enclosed for, please? Have the list. Sorry. Sorry I caught you off guard on that one. Yeah, in close session we we talked about uh 23 and 25 Horse Lane that was under attorney client privilege. We
talked about 576 586 West Mount Pleasant Lane that was also under attorney client privilege. The f the federated church that was attorney client privilege. Fair housing litigation and the living simol under attorney client privilege. Great. Thank you very much. Our next meeting, our next regular meeting will take place
on July 17th at 6:30. Um, since we are not going to go back into the conference, we finished our work. Uh, may I have a motion for adjournment? Motion. Second. All in favor? Okay. Meetings adjourned. Mayor, uh, yeah, we already adjourned, but I, uh, you didn't
go to around the table or whatever, but um, the only thing that's I apologize. I'm sorry, Ann and Adam, I forgot. So, apologize. Yeah. No. Um, the only thing that's really critical it will is, uh, I want to remind anyone if who either unfortunately doesn't have air conditioning or if you're having a problem with your air conditioning, uh,
cooling centers are available both at the Cody Arena with the county, I believe, from 8 to 8:00 p.m. The community center is open as a cooling center and a Livingston library. Um, the rest I can Yeah. Sorry about that. All right. Thank you guys very much.