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September 24th, 2025 Long Hill Township Committee meeting. We rise for the uh pledge of allegiance. Goodness to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all. Madame Clerk, in compliance with the Open Public Meetings Act of New Jersey, adequate notice of this meeting, specifically the time, date, and public call and information were included in the meeting that was electronically sent to the Echo Sentinel Morris daily record and posted on the township website. The agenda and
public handouts for this meeting can be viewed online at www.longhillj.gov. A public comment period will be held in the order it is listed on the meeting agenda. Committeeman Lavender here. Committee woman Riker Eline here. Committeeman Verlesa present. Deputy Mayor Burchia.
Mayor Dorsy here. All right. So, we'll start off with a proclamation and a presentation to Grace because she's already been reprimanded by her. She's very busy tonight and wants to get this thing moving. All right. So, as as most of you are aware, it's pediatric cancer month
at least for the next six days. Yes. Uh the signs out there. I know we've doing a lot of events in town. We had out of town. We had a you had the uh prestige diner fundraiser. Then they had the uh the fair and the at that was two weeks ago on a Saturday. I was told there probably over hundred people came which
was great and uh with uh the doge cutting of all federal funding. I think it's very important to bring awareness to this because it's not getting any nicer and they're not helping. So for childhood cancer awareness month it said childhood cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in children. One in 264
kids in the country will be diagnosed by their 21st 20th birthday. 41 kids per day or 14,690 children per year diagnosed with cancer in this country. Um there are approximately 40,000 kids on active
treatment at any given time. The average age of diagnosis is six years old compared to 66 for adults with a cancer diagnosis. 80% of childhood cancer patients are diagnosed late with metastatic disease. On average, there's
been an increase in incidents per year since this mid70s, resulting in overall incidence increase of 24% over the last 40 years. Twothirds of childhood cancer patients will have chronic health conditions as a result of their treatment toxicity with one quarter
being classified as severe to life-threatening. Approximately half the childhood cancer families rate the associated financial toxidity due to out-of- pocket expenses uh as considerable to severe. Uh in the last 20 years, only four new drugs have been
approved by the FDA to specifically treat childhood cancer. The National Cancer Institute recognized the unique research needs of childhood cancer and the associated need for increased funding to carry this out. Hundreds of nonprofits at the local and national level, including with grace initiative,
are helping children with cancer and their families cope through educational, emotional, and financial support. Researchers and health care professionals work diligently dedicating their expertise to treat and cure children with cancer. And uh too many children are affected by this deadly
disease. And more must be done to raise awareness and find a cure. So therefore, uh I or the mayor and the township committee declare, um September 2025 as childhood cancer awareness month in Long Hill Township. Um and we encourage
all Americans and everybody in the world for that matter to observe this month. Uh support the cause that deeply affects every family in every community across the country. It doesn't matter what party you are, what you look like, what your gender is. Unfortunately, cancer doesn't care. So they don't discrim it
doesn't discriminate. So, please support the cause. And Grace, you want to come up? I'll meet you up there for yet another picture with you. I'll present the frame and the award. Get and also with us we have the founders of
with grace initiative obviously Grace and her mother Aubrey Christina Rosati from with grace I know she's very involved in the foundation at many uh many other people that are involved. So, thank you to the volunteers. Grace, if you want to say something, you can
just another thank you for all your continued support throughout the years. I think it's been almost five plus years that we've been doing this with the town. You guys have always been so supportive of the college, especially being pediatric cancer awareness month. Um, it's more important than ever, I think, to spread
the word, to get involved with the cause. So, thank you guys. And I just wanted to that New Jersey is number three in the country for pediatric cancer incidence rates and approximately 10 kids will be diagnosed this week in the state. So it's especially relevant
for here. Um and just always want to thank the community about um the constant support that this community and this committee and everybody got to pause and special shout out to Christina Angelina as well as the rest of the
family. They were the ones spearheading the carnival that went on two weeks ago. That was a huge success um both in terms of awareness and bringing the community together as well as families which is amazing. Um as well as fundraising our
[Applause] guy here. member of the board. Go ahead, Don. Well, I think Christina come up as well. And I think Dan should come up as well. One, two, three.
[Applause] All right. Oh, thank you. And Grace, just say for Before you guys leave, Mr. Mayor, can I just say something? So you you can't make this stuff up. So, it's like serendipity or whatever the
appropriate word is. I was I was on the phone with somebody today completely unrelated uh to pediatric cancer. Uh but somehow the conversation came up through a a mutual um uh acquaintance. So, I said,
"Oh, you know, pediatric cancer." And I went through the numbers, which we've discussed at length. 8020, yay, but 8020 challenge. And I said the a young lady in town and I mentioned the organization with Grace Initiative and blah blah and
then I told the story of Aubrey being on a train. Somebody overheard next thing you know conversation with the White House. Then Grace is standing next to uh Melania Trump and he goes, "Wait, I I
remember that." And I'm thinking, "No, you can't remember that. It's completely unrelated. And he says, "No, no, I remember that. That was the little girl that was at the the State of the Union with President Trump at the time, 2019." He remembered everything about it. He
said, "Nobody, there were no other standing ovations that night except for for the little girl, Grace." So, I I explained it to him and uh you can't make that up. That was just a couple of hours ago. and I promised to send him and the other one I I I mentioned uh uh
the with grace initiative because I can't be seen uh you know advocating in that particular function but Grace I love I love embarrassing you what what wasn't discussed is as a result of that phone call and your
involvement and your and the foundation's involvement correct me if I'm wrong if I get the numbers wrong working with the Trump administration at the time uh I believe they put $50 million because up until then it was just cancer research money went to adults
you know in which you know 70 80 90 year old but nothing for pediatric cancer or very little and in fairness that 50 million stayed in the budget and then when President Biden was elected it stayed in the budget and what the Arbre and Grace are too modest to point out
you were in DC the two of you last week advocating for uh pediatric cancer research and I believe it may be up to $60 million. It is. Yes. 60 million. It goes through it'll Yep. It'll be 60 million for that. And then there's two
other bills that went through energy and commerce last week. Knock on wood. Unanimously. But they still deal with the full house and then the Senate. But yeah, and that's bipartisan. The people you speak with y a bipartisan effort. Uh, and also lost in that is working with the state.
You guys had gone down saw Senator Sweeney and if I remember his story correctly, you had asked could you put a little money into the budget and Senator Sweeney said how about 5 million and you almost fell off your chair. He said like a million and he's like what's that going to do for you? How
about 5 million? We're like yeah. He's like what do you really want? I'm like 10 million. And correct me if I'm wrong. To this day, there's still $10 million in the state budget, and that's because of that young lady sitting out in the audience. So, I think we're going to give you another round of applause.
[Applause] Did I sufficiently embarrass you? Did I sufficiently embarrass you? My job is done. Well, we're proud of you.
Thank you. Seriously, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you for all the young young children. And as you well know, I have a dear friend whose son is is hanging in there. Uh and he had an extremely rare form of cancer and the doctors say it was a miracle, but I would also say it's the miracle is in
part uh the research money that went into it or he may not be here either. So, thank you. Thank you, Grace. All right. All right. Thank you, Eli family and Christina Rosati for appearing. All right. Moving on. We're now on to
ordinance uh first reading of 575-25. It's regarding uh abudding sidewalks abuing commercial properties and who will be responsible. Jack, you just tell us explain to us what that is real quick. Yeah, this makes commercial property owners responsible for the repair,
maintenance, and replacement of the sidewalks uh abing their properties. Uh it does not cover residential properties at this time. this exclusively for commercial properties. Has nothing to do with residential just before people get up in arms.
All right. So, um I have a motion to introduce this on a first reading. It'll be scheduled for when is it madam? October 8th for a public discussion and final vote. Motion to approve. Second.
Committeeman Lavender. Yes. Committeewoman Riker Eline. Yes. Committee Verza. Yes. Yes. Deputy Mayorian. Yes. Mayor Dorsy. Yes. The next one is 573-25. It's a second reading for adoption. It's amending the lead paint hazard
inspections of rental properties prior to 1978. Jack, does this have to do with the state regulation? Yeah, but Randy can explain this better. This is just because we have a new inspection company. Yeah, we we we already have uh this ordinance and this is just amending the ordinance to uh
relate a new company that is going to be taking care of all the paper required paperwork from the state. Uh so they'll be doing all that directly. Uh and uh as a bonus to the taxpayers of the town, they're cheaper than the last company we
had. So, it's a win-win for not only the residents but for the staff and and actually the state too because they're getting the proper paperwork that they need. So, thank you. Um, I'll open the uh meeting to the public hearing on this topic. Anybody from the public have want
to comment on the leadbased pain hazard inspection rental property issue? Anybody online? Madame clerk, if anybody on Zoom would like to make a public comment, please raise your hand now. I don't see anyone. Mayor, thank you. All right, so we'll close the
public hearing. Can I have a motion to adopt ordinance 573-25? So moved. Second. Committeeman Lavender. Yes. Committeewoman Riker Eline. Yes. Committee Verlesa. Yes. Deputy Mayor Bergia. Yes. Mayor Dorsy. Yes. All right. Next one's
a second reading for adoption 574-25. Amending the salary and wages ordinance. Um Randy, what's this one actually amending so people know? carrying. Sorry, Mr. Mayor. What I would ask is uh we we would like to amend the this ordinance
to include a police captain position with a salary range of 165 to 225 which would which has not been in our uh salary range ordinance. Uh but what this orders does is is changes a couple of
the ranges uh for certain positions um within the township. Okay. So, we'll carry it to the next meeting and we'll to add what's on obviously what's there now plus the captain position, right? Okay. You have to make a motion then. Yeah. We need to a motion to amend the
ordinance to add the captain's position with the salary range that Randy mentioned and to continue the public hearing on the ordinance as amended until October 8th. Further publication. You you'll have to publish the amendment. Okay. So moved.
Second. Committeeman Lavender. Yes. Committeewoman Riker Elign. Yes. Committee Verza. Yes. Deputy Mayor Burchia. Yes. Mayor Dorsy. Yes. Now on the consent agenda, at least the change, there's one change 25-228. It's regarding the resolution awarding
the contract for solid waste. This this excludes recycling. So that is regarding just for garbage, not recycling. Is there anything on anybody have anything they want to pull out or discuss or have any conflicts for?
Seeing none, I just want to comment uh also on here some of you may have known officer Lagenbach uh retired a few weeks ago on a Friday and actually got married Sunday. So like to wish D a congratulations on her wedding, her retirement. Enjoy yourself
and hopefully we see you around town sometime. Thank you, Dolores. Thank you. because it's carried until the next meeting. All right. So, seeing that nobody needs to pull anything out of the consent agenda. Uh motion to approve. Motion to approve, Mr. Mayor.
Resolutions numbers 25-210 through 25 second 228. 228 as Oh, I'm sorry. And to two to two to two to two to two to two to two to two to two to two to two too. Yeah. Silly me. And as amended. As amended. You want me to repeat it, Mr. Mr. Randy? Good.
We're good. We're good, Jack. We're good. All right, Madame Clerk. Committeeman Lavender. Yes. Committee RER. Yes. Committeeman Verza. Yes. Deputy Mayor Persia. Mayor Dorsey. Yes. All right. Now, we're going to liazison reports. Vic, did you find
the one you needed? I did. Okay. Wait, you queued up? You want me to start down the other end, Madame Clerk? Okay, we'll start down with Scott. You have anything for us? Uh, nothing tonight, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, sir. Guy? Nothing, Mr. Mayor.
Aubrey. All right. Oh, he's these updates. Well, I While you're queuing that up, Megan, I'm going to mention the unless you have it up there. The health department. No, I don't think. Nope. So, I'll mention that. Um, well, a couple different things. one. I know we acknowledge childhood cancer
awareness month. Thank you. Um but also September is blood cancer awareness month, ovarian and gyne ank um cancer prostate cancer sickle cell awareness month also which is a terrible disease. Um and it's suicide prevention month as
well. Just some things to note. And then I also wanted to go over some things from the health department. So, there is going to be a vaccine clinic which will be on October 8th from 12 to 2:00 p.m. right here at the library which is very
exciting. Um, what will be offered again it's October 8th 12 to2 Longville Township Library. Flu, pneumonia and COVID 19 vaccinations. Nurses will be on site to provide free health screening for blood pressure, pulseox and BMI.
There will also be senior safety and fall prevention resources. Uh the office of emergency management, OEM, and the Red Cross will be there to also provide resources on power outages, winter preparedness, and other things there as well. Um and there's also the
opportunity to sign up for free smoke alarm installations. If you have any questions or need more details, the township website has all of the details. And also um Long Hill Township Transportation will provide service for the our residents to and from the
clinic. Um so the mention is also that as always residents may call the office to reserve a ride. So I think all of that is great information for getting that here because I know you tried to push to get stuff. Everything was always in Burners Township. So thank you for getting something over here for our residents.
So I think it's a great thing to take advantage of for all ages actually. So, quick question. I know it's probably on the website, but the uh the vaccines, so flu, COVID, and I forget the third one. Uh, pneumonia. Pneumonia. Is there is there a cost? Good question.
There is a cost if your insurance doesn't cover. Uh, they will take the insurance here. $39.99, I believe. I don't know. I don't I think it was $39.99. Let me see. I But will the will they be able to take your insurance card here? I'm uh they said on the flyer that uh insurance
coverage is accepted. Okay. So by definition I mean yes here we here it says hold on. Yeah I the flyer it says uh bring all your medical and pharmacy insurance cards with you. Okay. Then it says uninsured or insurance not accepted. Credit cards only. $39.99 for
the standard flu. Reservations requested but not required. So yes, it's be 40 bucks worst case scenario if you don't have insurance covering it. Correct. which would be the same if you went to probably. Yeah, unless they're running some Well, well, either way, you can have your insurance covered if you have the
insurance. All right, cool. All right, I'm going to do the library update now. Is that Yep. Thank you, Megan. You're doing great. Okay, slide one. The library is open Monday through Sunday. We are now showing a free movie for adults every
Sunday at 2 p.m. Our adult schedule of activities is here. Adult and kid weekly schedules are shared on our social media, our newsletters, and through the school's Friday flyer and posted around town. To note, there are free Italian classes on Tuesdays and free Spanish classes on
Fridays this fall. Most popular books at our library last month. Just in case someone is looking for a new book to try, they are shown on the screen there. And I'm sure if you miss it on the screen, you can probably go and ask a librarian. They will tell you. September is National Sign Up for a
Library Card Month. All residents are eligible for a library card, plus those who work here and those who go to school here. Kindergarteners are coming to get their library cards on Tuesday, September 30th. Super cute. All right, for Mets fans, an in-person baseball talk this Saturday. We know at
least one Cub fan is attending, so come one and come all. That's exciting, right? Try a new meditation class, sound healing, free at the library on Monday evening. That is definitely something if you haven't done it, you should try. And
the last slide is online cooking classes for all ages. Learn a new recipe at home. Good stuff. The library team is great. Thank you. Oh, also the library. I saw their advertising. They're looking for a part-time employee. So, if anybody's interested in work at the library,
please contact the library or check their website. You probably didn't tell you that. Yes. Thank you. Guess it's my turn. You did great. Batter up, Vic. All right, I'm waiting for the queue. Right. You want Right. You want your
slide? What's the name of the garage? Okay. The wreck update for September 24th is as follows. On September 16th, the rec the recreation advisory committee met. Given Daniel Rogers recent resignation from the committee
due to personal obligations, we had to select a new chairperson. Manzy Patel is our new chairperson. We also started discussing issues in the parks with ebikes, escooters, and bicycles. We may be coming to the committee with a
recommendation for changes in the park rules and regulations on their use in the parks. We will continue our discussion at our next upcoming meeting on October 21st at 700 p.m. at town hall outside the parks and recreation office.
As a reminder, these meetings are always open to the public. Interested in working in our fall? I'm sorry. Interested in working in our basketball program? Please complete our application by 10:1 found online. We
will start hiring in October. Travel basketball tryyous for teams in grades four through 8 will start next Monday. Everyone trying out must register online in community pass by 9:28. Please visit the website for all of the
information. Adult open basketball registration is currently open. The program starts on 10:16 and runs every Thursday night at Central School through 5726. Registration is now open for our
Saturday recreation basketball program, grades one through eight. Register on Community Pass by 11:1 and the program starts on 11:22. All right, moving right along. Fall yoga programming on Monday mornings has
started and our Wednesday yoga yoga program will start on 10:29. If interested, please register on community pass. programming is held at the old Millington Schoolhouse.
All right. Our annual Halloween parade will be held on Sat on Sunday 10:19, 300 p.m. sharp at Caner Park. The rain date will be 10:26. Get those costumes ready. This is a free
event for all Longill kids. I look forward to that. I was going to say not to be confused with trunk or treat. That's right. Not to be confused with trunk or treat. Moving on to slide number eight. Also, the Longill First Aid Squad will once
again host their annual trunk or treat in the town hall parking lot on 10:25. Remember, Oscar the Grouch is always watching and wants to make sure everyone keeps
garbage in its place. And last but not least, want to have some fun with us? Consider joining the recreation advisory committee. Check out the website for more information. We are always looking for new members. And that
concludes my recreation update. Thank you. Yeah. All right. All I have is uh please continue to recycle. We Al rolled out a new recycle program recently. What? Sneakers. You have old sneakers you want to get rid of?
We can recycle them. Out where the One second. Oh, you got it. Nope. Got to show people where the bins are. Oh, that's Megan's good, but she's not that good. There we go. Okay. What's that? Tennis balls. So
that's that's where it is in town hall. Yes. Okay. In town hall on the library side, there's the bin. So please feel free to drop off any sneakers. And I believe there's a bin in the DPW in the lobby as well. Correct, Al? Yes. So if you have any sneakers you want to get rid of,
they repurposed. If they're decent shape, they will donate them to like a needy country or needy people outside the country, I should say. And if they're in disrepair, then they will they grind them up and recycle them, I think, for turf and things like that. Um, also please keep recycling the styrofoam. I see people putting it in
their recycling almost every week. It doesn't go there. You can bring it to the box right outside the library 24/7. Uh, we also have the pancake breakfast October 5th. It's the hosted by the Sterling Fire Company. Actually, I went last year. You get a lot of food, so
it's well worth it. It's the benefits for annual fire prevention week. Um, it's $15 for adults, kids under 12, and seniors are $10. It's 8 am to noon October 5th. So, if you want breakfast next week, that's the place to be. And I've had plenty of meals down there, and
as I said, they're always well well attended and very good. That's all I have. Mr. Administrator, thank you, mayor. Um, we'll start off with Saturday, October 4th. We have the Longill Community Cleanup Day. So any
organizations uh that want to participate, any individuals that want to participate, it's from 800 am to 12 pm, we'll have crews uh in different areas uh located in within the town working with uh
public works to clean up some areas. Contact Colette or mentee in the administrator's office to sign up um for for the committee. Uh I I've been having meeting uh couple meetings with
neighboring towns with a a grant opportunity that addresses the regional climate resilience planning. You may have heard of this grant. Uh the state is um opening $10 million available for
um planning and and uh implementation of different um different areas to uh combat flooding um and different different natural
disasters. Uh so we've been meeting with New Providence, Chattam Township, Berkeley Heights, and the city of Summit as well as Long Hill Township. Uh our focus is um the common thing of all those towns, the Payic River. So uh new
in this grant application, somebody has to be a lead agency. New Providence has has volunteered to be that lead agency. Um we contacted uh they asked for a quote from their engineer uh engineering
for firm to file the application which is quite extensive unfortunately. Um the cost to file that would be $1,600 per town. Uh once we file that uh we have opportunity to get up to $300,000
for the planning part of what we would like to see done. And this would open once we get the application done and and the consensus and and um I I believe we would have a great shot of getting money for this grant. It would also open more
opportunity not only for D but Army Corps of Engineers uh to have a multi-town project instead of longheld battling on ourselves if you will to try and get ar federal funding and D funding. Um, so I I would ask the
committee if you believe that $1,600 is a worthwhile investment uh to move forward, I would ask that you you grant me permission to go uh move and we're probably going to need a resolution at a future date. Uh so that we could uh apply that to the state that the grant
is um due in the middle of October. Um and the engineering firm said they would have no trouble getting that filed. So, um, I'd like some kind of any kind of feedback that which which are the towns, uh, New Providence, Cadam Township,
Berkeley Heights, City of Summit, and ourselves. So, five Chattam Burrow's not Chattam didn't seem interested. I have no issue with I think No, not at all. What do you need, Megan? A resolution at the next meeting, but
just kind of consensus for him to move. I think you have I say as long as the CFO says we can afford it. I think it seems he makes sense. Yes. Randy uh administrator, could you ask Randy the CFO? I'll I'll ask him next time I see him. Is he cooperative this? Sometimes he's cooperative. Sometimes
he's not so cooperative, but All right. All right. Any So, um you have anything else? Oh, of course. We haven't met in a while. So, um I have uh two months of police report. So, um, calls for service for the month of July
amounted to 2576 calls. Uh, August was 2,679 calls, bringing a total year-to- date of 20,333. Um, accidents, excuse me, for the month
of July 14, there was one with injury and one DWI charge. uh August there were 13 accidents, one with injury and two DWI uh charges. Um
events that they uh had over the last two months. On July 24th, Officer Logar and Officer Ray joined first responders at All Saints PreK camp for community helpers week. They gave a present presentation about policing and a look
inside the police car and the kids had a thrilling time. Uh the mayor already uh mentioned that officer Lagabach uh retired as of August 31st. I wish her a happy and healthy retirement and a long retirement. Um August 5th um as many of
you know was uh National Night Out. The police participated in National Night Out. It was a well attended event. Um, and I thank all those uh that attended and and also those members up here that attended. Um, and it was it was a great time for for families. I think uh
everybody had a great time that showed up. Uh, there was some some food that was that was good. It was it was a good event. Uh, August 13th, uh, the police sworn swore in Daniel Longo. He's the newest officer to the township uh, of
Longill. Officer Longo transferred from Orange Police Department after serving with that city for two years. Um, and we we welcome him. We welcome his experience and uh wish him the best uh career
uh moving forward. The police have scheduled coffee with a cop on October 1st uh from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the local Starbucks in Valley Mall. All are invited. Township committee members are welcome to attend.
Uh but uh for the public uh please stop by, say hello to the officers, get to know the officers. If you have any questions or anything, uh feel free to ask them. Um last I have the public works. So during the uh course of of the
last month and a half or so, they did four tons of asphalt used for potholes potholes and curbing. They recycled. Ready? I want to hear it. 13,981 pounds of styrofoam. All right. Okay. That's two months worth. Uh so
that that's that's doing fabulous. Six days of tree work and trim and and takedowns. Eight trees removed. 15 basins were repaired. Street sweepings recycled. Uh closed Sterling Lake for the season. Uh obviously they did weekly
uh lawn maintenance throughout all the properties in in that the town owns. Uh we they set up for community uh events. They did um fantastic work at the drainage um drainage improvement at the Myersfield uh ball fieldersville
ballfield. Um so you know when it rains the next day or so we'll see. Uh but so far um it's looking good and they've done some uh line striping and um again you know Al wants to remind people this
sneaker drop off is the new uh new and latest recycling and uh I know a lot of people have used sneakers. So um I'll probably be putting some in myself. So bring them on down. there's needy families andor um they they can use the
souls as recycled materials to uh for for better and cleaner earth. Um that's it, mayor. That's it. All right. Then we have for discussion items. Oh, this is actually one of yours. The township committee
meeting schedule for 2026. Correct. Correct. All right. So, I guess the discussion was should we have what? One meeting a month or two? I believe that was discussion. Oh, we have a handout. Hold on. Well, this is like the proposed schedule that we talked about the last time.
Is that one meeting or just your typical two meeting a month? This is your typical two meeting. We kind of Thank you. This is set out the other one has the one meeting. Well, we were going to talk about maybe leaving the second meeting open as a Thank you.
working one or just a possible one. So, I don't know what you guys are thinking. Aubrey, any comment? My recommendation was to go to one meeting a month to make them more
stream to streamline the overall calendar, make them I think more robust and focused that one time a month versus kind of chipping away at them multiple times a month. That was kind of the rationale behind that suggestion. The only question I have, so we'd schedule
what? Schedule two just in case, but really unless we needed a second one, do one. Is that what you're prop that's what I'm I'm I'm proposing and you guys can say no. I would say keep the first meeting of every month.
Um, and then say like for February, you have the February 11th meeting and kind of keep it as a tenative if you need to have a special meeting. but not on the books a February 25th meeting at the same time. So, we won't advertise it.
I'll have to do a 48 hour notice, but you can kind of gauge at the February 11th meeting if you're going to need that special meeting for the second meeting of the month. So, for example, there's an ordinance we need to pass quicker to get the second reading. Correct. Okay. The other rationale was, I know we've spoken about it before, is having those
kind of open discussions before an ordinance goes into full-blown ordinance mode. um so that there is opportunity for members of the public to come and speak about a topic before we it goes into full-blown ordinance so that there's more time to kind of see all
sides of it, hear from all members of the public and then go and generate the ordinance. That was, you know, another part of the rationale with this by going to fewer meetings. It would encourage that to happen. So that ordinance don't be like keeping revised, keep being revised. Have those open comments, have those topics that are coming up for the
township, have that opportunity for the community to speak and propose different sides of everything so that it can be evaluated and the ordinance can be drawn up. All right. And then okay, I guess it might be easier for quarum
too sometimes because sometimes with people traveling, it's tough to get people here. All of us at least three people here. So we're traveling. Hey, say you couldn't we couldn't have a meeting on February 11th. We already have on schedule for the 25th. We can do the same stuff then. So you can pivot to the second. You can pivot because I know you have to go away. Scott goes away sometimes. I
there's people things come up. Aubry's going away. And this is not unusual, Randy. I mean I know you know this for other towns. There are many towns that have one uh sometimes they have a working meeting that's not a public meeting. I I Jack in your experience
do you like for example Burnouts right what Burnersville did a year and a half ago was they went back to having a work session in the conference room it's open to the public but where they discuss everything and don't take any formal action unless it's
absolutely necessary and then at the regular meeting which is the following week so there's no they take action so as a result both meetings have been shortened Uh, I'd say their average meeting lasts an hour and 15 minutes, an hour and a half. So, let me ask you a question then. In
your experience, the working session since you don't need a quorum, it could be run by the mayor, the deputy mayor, it could although they usually have a quorum there. They usually do. I mean, the idea is to have a quorum, but you could have it without because they don't take any formal action. U, you you you can discuss, to Aubry's
point, you can discuss what's what's coming up. We used to do it here the same way except we had two weeks between the the work session and actually we used to have five meetings a month at one point but we we don't want to go back to that. Uh but we used to do it here. We used to have a work session
excuse me they call it an agenda meeting and then a regular meeting. Yeah. And but in fairness back then you didn't have the ability to one stream live televise live tape put that meeting on the so those uh links almost serve as
the public notice of or or information and like I said in Bernersville they meet in the conference room for the work sessions which is really conducive to having discussions u you know and the public could sit around the the perimeter. Yeah, but what if you end up with more than fit? Then I'll move it
out to the Okay. Yep. But it's been it's been very very successful. All right, Madam Clerk, you're the one that runs the meetings. Technically, you're the one that runs the meetings. Do you have any opinion? I like one meeting a month. I figured you would. I mean, I I
honestly don't I think it might work. I might as well give it a try. Right. I I I I think what the mayor's suggesting is probably where I am. I don't know. I'm a little apprehensive only because we've not done it before. That doesn't mean you don't do it. We've done it summers and we could.
Yeah, it's true. Correct. And we could and also to Matt's point, you know, we've had some meetings where we had to cancel them because of travel schedules and stuff like that and things seem to progress anyway. So, if we put it on a regular schedule knowing that we could pivot to that second date,
I I think Megan's suggestion is that you only uh schedule one a month and if you need a second one, then we put it in and then you give 48 hours notice and just 48 is all you need. All we need is 48. But if you guys are in the meeting for, you know, say
February 11th and there's a lot and you want to have that meeting, you can absolutely call for that meeting then and I can put out the notice well in advance. And if something's time sensitive, we could certainly have a a meeting, a Zoom meeting to cover one topic, you know, on 48 hours notice. It
could certainly be done. So, what do you need? What do you need from the committee? Well, wait. Well, my only concern is does it give the like the members of of the the public, members of of our community, ample opportunity to come and voice their opinions and and and attend the
meetings, you know, by only giving them one opportunity a month. Does that kind of shut them down? uh that listen selfishly once a month sounds great but that would be my only concern. Yeah, I agree with Vic on that. Yeah, that's why I was saying the
community kind of forum idea to get ahead of issues or decisions that have to be made in the town to encourage more of that open dialogue prior to going to a ruling or an ordinance or things like that. We already have four I mean that's
absolutely legitimate concern. Absolutely. And I agree with it. But keep in mind, it's not just two months a year that we only have one meeting. Oftent times November because of the way the calendar works and December the way the calendar works. So you often have four months a year
in those months. Yes. December is the 8:30 meeting. That's one I mean one in those four months. Is this something that we should kind of like, you know, maybe post and get the the the, you know, our community's opinion and and and hear what they say about it.
before we make a decision. I don't know. When does the calendar go out? We have to put When do you have to send the calendar to print? That's the uh Well, I was supposed to get it to Colette by the 1st of September. Oh, how how'd that work out? I'm a little late. So, you know, we could
because you were attending two meetings a month. All right. So, we'll put it on for further discussion on the future have it by November 1st, but if you want, we could put on next meeting. Yes. But we highly encourage comments Yeah. from the public. From from the public on that one.
Regardless of what you decide, I think Aubry's suggestion is a good one and I've been recommending this for years is that we not introduce ordinances the first night. They're before you. Thank you. You know that they get discussed and then put off to the next meeting and introduce Well, we always did in in years past. That's how we did it.
Right. But it hasn't been happening. We've fallen away from that. So I I think it's the only way to go. Oh, I see. So you're saying so say we're talking about the lead paint one, right? We talk about it first then the next meeting be the first reading then the second reading. That's right. So it's really people an opportunity to hear all we might not we
might not know all the sides of hearing the public. Yeah. All right. So so with that with that one change then why don't we just stay with the way we've always done the scheduling of these meetings and make that one cultural change. We can do that and then just I guess we
could always cancel the second. We have nothing to do and that's what we did all year. That's true. Yes. There is one other suggestion if if I might. Um there's some um township committees that give the public two opportunities to speak. One in the
beginning of the meeting for agenda items only. Um basically if they have concerns over an ordinance that was discussed at a prior meeting and they don't like something in it or uh a resolution that they want further clarification on. And then at the end of
the meeting, the public comment period. Let me ask you, Megan, the examples you used, would that be on second reading? I don't I don't think it would be necessary on first reading in the beginning and at the end. Typically what we had done in the past,
we allowed comment, public comment at the end of introduction, the meeting where there was introduction and then at the meeting. I absolutely agree at the the the voting evening it's better to have it in the beginning of the meeting because by the by the end
of the meeting as Mr. Rentitz has pointed out several times you know it's a fatal complaint we've already voted. Yeah, I think the clerk is saying not at all meetings. This way people can comment on the resolutions before they're adopted if they have what
they want clarification on on a specific resolution in the consent agenda prior to you guys voting on it. So I think she's saying each meeting have what two sessions of p public So you're not talking about just the ordinance. You'd have to have a second or you'd
have to have a public hearing for the second reading of an ordinance ordinance anyway. You might Yes. But sometimes you just have one public session, but it's at the beginning and they can comment on things on the agenda or anything else and then the town. So not after the vote is twice, right? You go not two public sessions.
So I I I apologize, Megan. I thought you were saying twice. Yes. Beginning and end. Sometimes do that. Right. And you were saying the beginning one is for the agenda items coming up and then the end is any other Yep. any other things. Right. The beginning would be limited to what's on the
agenda. basically resolutions because y already being introduced. But yeah, the open mic night doesn't happen till after the meeting. All right, we're going to try it. We can start trying an extra meeting. I don't care. We'll try it out. You want to add that? And are we sticking with the two meetings or Well, do you want to make that decision
now in the two meetings for next year? I'm just saying. No, not you. I'm asking for when everyone is coming to the clerk's office asking where their calendars are. I just want I don't want to be the cause of the delay. I think stick with the two meetings as you guys mentioned. if you cancel one or not. All right, makes sense.
And then again, just pinky swear promise going on record that we'll do the public comment ahead of an ordinance being introduced so that we can hear or ahead of a decision being made so everyone can weigh in on all sides so it can be properly evaluated before the ordinance is demo that next meeting. Yeah, but we solve that problem if we
don't introduce the same night we discussed. Correct. Love. There you go. All right. So, next week we'll demo next meeting. We'll demo that in the beginning and we'll see how it goes. All right, Mr. Mayor, I have a couple more things to add. Sorry. Um, just to let the committee and the
public know, um, our engineer and DPW director were out uh looking at the public service construction that was done this past uh year. Uh, so th that those road overlays will be starting soon. Don't expect any delays or or
changes in bus schedules and so forth. We'll we'll work around those things. Um, Long Hill Road is the uh plans are going to DOT for approval and we'll be going out to bid for that very shortly. Um, Long Hill Road where specifically it
it's going to be divided into two sections because we're we're applying for a second uh state grant. So, uh I think it's going to be the first section I believe is going to be west to east. So basically half of our road uh and the
next um uh state grant will be the same. Could you describe what what you meant by our road as opposed to county road? The the county owned some of Longill Road. So right so responsible for you probably know the road better than I do. So as you come sorry I'm going to rather
than keep poking you. So, as you come up Myersville Road and you hit Longon Hill Road where you can either turn right or or left on Long Hill Road or go down Mountain, if you turn right going west, that is owned by the county and it's their responsibility to maintain. If you
go east, make a left towards Chattam, that is owned by the municipality and that's the road that ran. Correct. And when you say it would be done, it appears half and half. Half would be done this year, half next year or half
this year first and then you know a little period and then the second half depending I I can't give you an answer to that right now. Fair enough. It's the grant. It's the grant. So it's a little state involvement when we get the bid and when we get all the documentation so forth.
So u you know we we would love to see it done this year. uh if it gets too late obviously I don't want to put that that in jeopardy to uh for too late and I don't want to open up the road to start the curbing and leave it all winter in
in in a disaster. The township is moving as quickly as it can. Yes, we're we're trying to get thisation of money. Yeah, we're trying to get it done and trying to optimize the grant money from the state so it's less cost to the taxpayers. And I just want to I just
want to um point out a resolution that you guys adopted tonight and for the public. Uh resolution 227, a resolution consenting to Gillette Crossing LLC's treatment works approval application. Okay, that
is for New Jersey American Water to go to DP to get surge for the Gillette Crossing LLC which is down towards uh going towards Berkeley Heights on the right hand side where they started
clearing behind an Kona. So um this is shore capacity. Okay. Um we asked New Jersey American Water if they could come tonight. Uh they had a conflict. He will be here at our next regular meeting on October 8th
to give an update. Excellent. That's good news. But they have said that they're going to meet the deadline. I think this is a perfect resolution to indicate that. Not only for their part of it, but also to get the ban lifted. Yes. All right. Anything else, Randy?
That's it. Sorry. Any old or new business? I have something real quick. Go ahead. Okay. I have uh a request to bring up. Uh I think we discussed in the past uh the parking permits at the train
stations giving priority to the residents uh before people from out of town could park. We can't I'm sorry. I hate to be the the party pooper here, but we can't. But you do it so well, Jack. So there's
that we so we we don't own we we could at the Millington you know across the street because we own that but we don't own the other three lots. So we cannot give preference to residents pursuant to our lease agreement with New Jersey and that's standard across the state. So if if a current how about current
people that currently have a permit whether they live could they get preferential? I I think we could probably grant uh current permitted holders the right to renew first before we open it up, but Okay. Is there a problem with parking right
now? No, I didn't think so. I think there's an anticipation that with all the highdensity development that's going on in surrounding towns as well as some of it coming to our town that there may be somewhat of a parking
issue in the future. and to help anticipate that, you know, h happening and anticipate that might happen that people that currently have that permit regardless of where they live. But I would assume that at this time it's probably mostly residents uh would be
gain would gain preferential absolutely will happen when the gateway project is done enough once into Manhattan. So, so in anticipation of that within the boundaries of what's appropriate and trying to reserve, you know, what we can for our residents that we you would think you would want them
to have preferential parking if you lived in town. Can we can we at least grant that to people who currently hold it? And I hear the answer is yes. So, if that is the answer, how do we move forward in doing so? Well, it could also backfire on you too. I don't know who owns what, but let's
say for example, 80% of the permits are held right now from people and watch. So we say that and then the people from town we're not going to check that before we make we're not going to check that before. Is there um a fee difference resident versus non-resident? We cannot can't do that either. Just asking. I I
swear I had so then I'm confused. Perfect sense. I I can't remember if I had that in another town, but I don't remember. I have a question. But then intuitively I I may know the answer. Chattam burrow they clearly uh only allow residents.
They might own a lot. They own lots. That's what I've seen. Summit does the same thing. Summit owns a lot of their So in a Yes. Is that what I heard? Across the street. Across the street where behind Oh, on the other side other side of the cafe. And in Summit, you had to show your that
you had an address in town to get it. Yeah. Now I remember. Okay. Wellington, but they probably owned it. West Windsor does the same thing. They own some of their lot. But someone someone came up with a clever thing like five years ago and I don't know how that trial thing worked out. They they they
had a deal with Uber where anybody in town who agreed uh to not forego their parking pass for the same price, they were offered to and from the train station because they didn't want to build another $5 million uh parking
garage knowing that at some point automated driving vehicles would take you to and from. So, what they did is they worked out a deal with Uber where to and from you pay your usual $300 and you had a reserve uh to and from the uh
train station. I don't know how that worked out. So maybe we can ask our administrator to check with summit if if it even still exists and so we can plan for the future because one thing is for sure when you get one seat trip trip trip trip trip trip trip trip trips into
Manhattan on the Gladstone line there is not nearly enough uh parking availability here in town and won't ever be. We're not going to uh eminent domain properties just to have parking and we're not going to build a $5 million garage. So,
so where where are we going to leave this discussion? I guess we can look and find out if you can get preference to uh current holders. Yeah, I I'll check for lease and see. I'm pretty sure we could do that. Perfect. And uh but I'll let you know at the next meeting. Yes, Megan.
We don't own So, also the first meeting October is when you guys pass the resolution in regards to payments. So, I can uh put together how many Warren Wong Oh, okay. Out of town. Just out of town. We don't need to. If they're in town, doesn't
matter. It's how many out of town people are using it. Okay. That's make your job easier, I hope. Anything for you. All right. If you give us a total of how many passes and then how many are out of town, I think we can figure it, you know. Perfect. All right. Any other older new business?
Announcements. Hold on. Before we get any blood drives you're aware of. I'll get back to you, Mr. Mayor. Okay. Why do we have all the announcements? I will No, no. have Millington uh uh music fest on Sunday. Oh yeah. When is that? That's two weeks, isn't it? Yeah. How come we didn't have that Sunday? Oh, this Sunday. Millington downtown
Millington Music Fest time. 12 to 6, I believe. 12 to 6. There'll be food, music. It's free for everybody. Yeah. So, come on down. Boy Scout Mum Sale. You have the Mum Sale. Go ahead. Yeah, we have the Boy Scout Mum Sale coming up. That's going to be at Valley
Mall. I believe that's this coming weekend. I saw the sign. I don't know the dates, though. They have they have a cute sign. It's like a cute little catchy sign. I don't remember what it says, but it was cute. And and the prices are very, very competitive. Good. And the flowers are beautiful.
I And the Boy Scouts is always wonderful. I still have the two flowers I bought back in April or whatever it is. They're still And not only will they sell you the flowers, they'll put them in your car for you with a smile. Bonus. With a smile. All right. And they'll even talk to Mr. Persia for
a long time. He likes that. I know. I'm lonely, Scott. All right, we got all the announcements then. Aubrey, you have an announcement. All right, it's my turn. Yes, it's your turn. You have a All right. Thank you. I said, um, after a great deal of contemplation and
reflection and with a heavy heart, um, I've made the decision to step away from my role on the town committee. Um, it did not come easily for me. I ran um you know with the intent to have this position to facilitate more community
engagement um and transparency up here and um you know and to advocate for the values and the things that I believe in and again after thoughtful um consideration I have concluded that I need to step away for
personal reasons at this time. Um it's been a privilege to serve the community. It's been a privilege to serve up here. It's been a privilege to serve with Guy as my running mate. Um, and it's been an honor of mine, and again, I'm going to
use privilege to serve with the um, leaders within the town, the departments, the employees of the town, the various um, committees and groups, and of course, the residents through my time here. And I'm very grateful for that opportunity to collaborate um,
across all sides. I'm thankful for that time. Um, I continue to believe in the importance of advocating and using one's voice to help um, drive progress. So, that's what I need to focus on um, going
forward. And I'm very thankful um, for everyone that supported me along this journey and in this role. And I maintain my dedication um, to helping the town in different ways and continuing it as it goes forward. Um,
and I wish the committee and the town great success. I'll be here. I just won't be here. So, um, again, I'm thankful for the support of the town and everyone here. And thank you. And and if I could say, Aubrey, it's been a privilege you serving here. I think you've moved us forward in in ways
that uh honestly I anticipated you could and even more so. Uh now I believe you're going to serve to to the completion of the year because we have to uh discuss um a replacement. Okay. If you guys are requesting that we can work on that.
Not that you're replaceable. Uh thank you. But I can honestly say in in the what what so we'll say 12 months but up until now in the nine months you have served you have moved this committee forward. And and I I think I speak for the community as well. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. It's been a pleasure working with you. Your your opinion, your your outspokenness, uh your drive, uh it's it's I even though unfortunately it's been a short time that we've gotten to work uh with
each other at on the committee, you definitely had an impact and thank you for that. We're definitely going to miss working with you moving forward. No, thank you. And uh Aubrey, what I'd like to say is um the work that you're doing on the on
your daughter's initiative is hugely important. Thank you. And um I'm very proud of you for prioritizing that. Thank you. That's Yeah, that's where I need to be. Yeah. All right.
Thank you. Thank you guys. So you can handle all the open mic night comments now, right? I can't. Wait, and you might be afraid if I come up there. I'm like, um, yeah, if you're smart three minutes,
you have any other announcements you want to tell us? No, I'm good for now. All right. Thank you. All right. Open mic night time. Anybody in the public that has uh any comments, questions, you have three minutes. Come on down. I don't understand. I still don't understand that microphone. I forget. I
was somewhere recently and they use the same microphone for hours without changing the thing. Yeah. Like musicians use it. They're cordless mics. That guy was I was watching this band play for two hours. Good point. Good evening, Charles Millington.
Two areas of comments tonight. No questions. Comment one. Disparaging remarks. I was on the Zoom special meeting of the township committee on September 18th,
2025. A few minutes before the meeting start time of 5:00 p.m. before the Zoom meeting commenced, one of you made dispatching remarks
about me personally. These remarks occurred not once but twice. To make matters worse, those township committee members already
on Zoom said absolutely nothing to this township committee member to stop making these comments. This situation reminded me of the alleged comments made by some of you to the former police
chief of Medaka. Oh, you're going to call. But the truth, the truth never came out. It didn't come out because these alleged derogatory comments were hidden behind a settlement agreement with the former
police chief. So based upon the public comments on the Zoom call on September 18th, 2025, obviously some of you have not learned
your lesson from the prior disparaging comments made to others in the past. As far as me, I've been a resident here for 44 years. The only person your time
here is Matt Mayor Dors. This is great. I'm sorry. I know. Modern technology. Does any of these work? I'm trying the budget to fix the mics. We only want to have one meeting again too. My goodness.
Actually, that works. You didn't have to use batteries. So, that's actually better. You can hear you now. Go ahead. No, no, no. Ridiculous. [Music] We'll give you soccer time.
What's that called? It's not called soccer time. It's not penalty time. It's extra time. What a clever extra time. Yeah. [Music] You ready to go? Nope. That one's not working.
This is like Trump on the elevator. You want Can you just come? No. No. You want this one? Can he just come here? What about some other witnesses? The problem is is that
can he sit at the witness? Then if you want to sit right here not allowed. You have an ordinance. I I motion to let Mr. Rawit sit at the uh So moved. Second. All in favor? All right. Not just for you, for anybody else.
I feel like Donald Trump yesterday in the elevator escalator. All right. I hope this wasn't intentional enough. Modern technology. Yes. All right. Go ahead. Continue.
As a 44 year resident of this town, and I think Matt, you only exceed me. I volunteer, make comments, and have concerns
with the best interest of this township. And I don't like a personal attack in public on me one bit. Comment two, hiring of experts. Hiring of experts to provide expertise
and experience in areas where you do not have the experience to effectively make decisions. I point to the fact you hired MRI, then former police chief Robert Fzerano,
who was scary smart, to help you manage the police department, but you chose not to implement the recommendations that these experts recommended.
So, please for the first time listen to the hired experts from the New Jersey Association of Chiefs of Police and follow their recommendations. You hired them because you didn't have
the experience and wanted their advice. The association has the experience which you do not have. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Ronto. Thank you, Mr. Labrad.
I got working batteries. This one's green. This one. This one's green. I'll bring batteries to the next meeting. I'll bring extra. Don't worry. Yes, it is. I knew I'd be lost.
Good evening. Uh, Frank Liberado, uh, Millington. Uh just have three things I wanted to touch on. Uh just to pick up on discussion about two meetings versus one. I think the decision to keep the two is the right choice for now and I think like you said if you're going to cancel it um I think it's important to
have that because will that if you were to go to one meeting just as a question a month does that delay the approval of resolutions because you need to have the two meetings. So now you'll be going to say two months to put something through if you're having meeting once a month or
would you have that meeting outside of that to put stuff through if you ever did go to one meeting? No, we could still adopt the ordinance at the next meeting because it's seven days publication requirement. So that would give us plenty of time in between. So So it wouldn't delay the process if you went to one process. And how about with payment of bills with
your vendors because I know you approve bills on the agendas. Does that get affected or no? Oh, we do every that could be one. So then you would only pay the vendors say once a month as a possibly paying twice a month. Correct. Okay, that's good. Yeah, because I know some towns I work for pay twice a month,
some pay once a month. I like the twice a month. I figured you would. Here's why I asked. Um, second question was, um, now when it's starting to get dark, you know, going into fall, um, I see especially when I'm out in the evening, we got a lot of street lights
that are out and I know we're probably paying for the lights whether they're working or not with JCP know if they're burned out or not, right? It's a flat fee every month they bill us, you know, in town for the public lights on the street poles. Good call. So, is that is that something that JCP
knows is not being responsive on? cuz like when I see ones in our neighborhood in our area, I log in to my JCPNL account and I report it. But like there's stuff out on Valley Road, there's stuff on Long Hill Road, you know, and even some of the intersections and they've been out for a while, so I don't know where it's, you
know. Do they ever come over to Heritage Area and fix it? Uh they do. I have to send two to three emails, you know, where you log in through the portal and eventually they'll get to it. where unfortunately like where other properties are with PSE and I guess they have more staff.
They're pretty quick usually within like 48 hours PS changed the ball but I don't know if JCPNL has the same staffing but if there's something you know especially coming into winter if we can maybe prod JCPNL a little bit to get the lights that are burnt out in in 2019 we asked them to make change
the lights along Valro and some other places because it's dark like the more efficient Yeah. New provenence did that on Springfield. Yeah. Chief Hen had that done over there. Exactly. Yeah. So, uh, somebody at JCPO will go nameless, dropped the ball, and she never did it. And there's a new person in that position. So, we're trying to push that,
get that project going, but we requested that in 2019. Yeah, it looks really, it's really a lot better at night when New Pro with their crosswalks with the LED lighting. It's a lot easier to see pedestrians as opposed to high pressure, especially down that area, Valley Road down towards Gillette going towards Vintage. You know, it's dark. You know,
it's dark over there. Yeah. And even when you know, even at night when we're going to call, even like up on Long Hill Road, you got lights out in those dark areas up there, which you know, if we can maybe pride JCPNL to, you know, ride through and start changing them. I think the PD had a list.
Yeah, I was just going to say I know in years past and the officer in charge is here, so maybe u if if uh officer in charge Trello would like to comment. I know in years past the police department would on their um uh coverage. They they would
note and report probably to the administrator and then it would go out to JCP. Now J C Penel is not going to come driving down every road. No, but maybe if you get to a supervisor, somebody say, "Listen, we got a lot out and we're paying money for these lights and and they're out."
I hear you. You know, and I I will I'll send an email actually tomorrow morning. Sounds good. Appreciate that. And then uh last question is uh any update on PD? I haven't been here in a few meetings and been taking care of some other things and figured I would just check in
and see if we have any update on specifically on Well, I guess all right, we'll make it too broad. I guess uh you know, are we working through the process with implementation? Anything new? Are we in promotion process? Promotion process is is ongoing right
now. It's moving along. Obviously, um there's there's there's a committee subcommittee to talk about the new building or retrofitting. That's that committee's actually been meeting and Lieutenant Chamberlain can tell you cuz I know she goes to the meetings. I know there's several members of the police on it, people from town hall. That's actually they've been discussing
properties, doing doing tours of different facilities and she can feel more information because she knows more about it. But yes, things are moving forward. And I see you're hiring people, so that's good. I see you're hiring officers. So, will we see before the end of the year some promotions within a department?
I sure hope so. Well, I think you saw tonight with the amendment to the salary ordinance, right? I saw that. So, obviously, you're going to plan on filling that position. Optionality to fill the Yes, it gives you a spot to plug somebody into. So, yes. All right. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Frank.
Thank you, Frank. Any other members of the community in here? Anybody online? Maryannne would like to speak. Go ahead, Miss Nan. Okay. Uh, okay. Good evening everyone. Um, first
of all, Aubrey, um, I want to wish you the best. As a cancer survivor myself, um I'm so appreciative of your cause uh with um children, pediatric cancer.
It's critical in our lives right now. Um am I surprised at your resignation? No. Um but you need to do what's best for you. And um again, I once sent you a personal
note, okay? Um if you ever need help, okay, I could be an advocate with you. That's all I need to say. Wishing you all the best, Aubrey. Okay. Thank you, Mary, and I appreciate it. Okay. Uh next question I have with the
resignation of Aubrey, will there be what is the protocol? Um since she has announced her resignation, will there be a special election? Uh typically if you have put a resignation uh in terms of a quorum in a township
committee meeting, um Orby would no longer be allowed to vote. So what is what is the protocol now? So f first off, uh Aubry is staying to the end of the year. I talk about it, right? Well, we're going to talk about it. Uh and the the the process is this.
Uh the county committee in in Long Township, we have a male and a female representative for each of the six districts. Uh Republican county committee because uh Aubrey is serving as a Republican. So the county
committee, the 12 members there will meet and discuss uh candidates. They will put forth three names to this committee, the township committee. and the township committee will choose from those three
uh who will complete uh Aubre's term in office which will run through the end of 2026. Okay. Um so this is um basically what you just stated. Um and I'm sorry I I I
kind of logged in late. I'm on my cell phone. I'm sorry. Marian, repeat that. I'm sorry. Repeat the last question. Oh, my last question right now is is it is it a matter of a political
candidate from the Republican party or can anyone from the county? It's the party where when she got elected, it's the Republican municipal committee will nominate three names for consideration by the tanche committee and the tanch committee can only choose
from among those three names. And if the committee doesn't submit three names, then the township committee can name anyone they want. But the the key here is that the the resignation, although it's been announced tonight, is not effective until Aubrey submits a written notice to the clerk that she's
resigning. And the date of that resignation will affect the process for her replacement. Okay. Um, next thing, Vic, I want to thank you to bring up um regarding the issue
regarding the per uh parking permits. Um, some clarification. I had lived in um Chattam Township prior to moving here. I don't know, 28 years ago, whatever it is. Okay. Um, you're
fully aware that I'm like like one house away from the Gillette train station. Um I don't think I think you're making it a little more difficult in terms of um because I had brought the issue up. Uh I remember Aubrey actually she was
the one who responded to me to put it in her calendar to bring it up um you know when you assemble um in January. Um but in essence I'm just going to give you a heads up. Okay. having lived in Chadam
Township. Um, and uh, guy, you'll understand this. Okay, starting with uh, the Midtown Direct, okay, all of a sudden that their population kind of grew or people wanted
to live in Shadam, blah blah blah. Um, unbeknownst to me as a resident, okay, of the township, uh, the Gillette train station was located in the burrow. It was a matter of location,
okay, it was not a matter of residency. So the issue at hand, even though I lived in Chadam Township, you know, I'm looking at the end of December and I'm like, "Oh, back then I have to pay my 100 or whatever. Now it's
what is it 600? God knows." Maryanne, just one correction. The the Chattam Burrow the train stations in Chattam Burrow on Maine. No, I understand. And this this is what I'm stipulating. Okay. Okay. I I live in the township.
Okay. So, there there was a there was a gentleman's handshake, per se, or whatever. Um, but basically, I only noticed because I'm looking at this and I'm like, you know, where's my
form? I usually get a form. So, I called the township up and they said, nope. You know, uh, because, you know, the train station is located in the burrow. It's specific to the Cadam Burrow residents,
right? But Jack answered that the burrow owns the train station. We don't own the train stations. That I do not know that. No one really owns a train station. You own the property, the parking lot. Yeah.
Well, that's the relevant part. Yes. Okay. Um and then, you know, I'm sorry. You know, I'm an idiot. Okay, I grew up in Staten Island with my husband. I could have taken the ferry and like, you know, pleasantly cruised along to my
Wall Street job, but I moved to New Jersey, commuted from Baskin Ridge. Okay. Um, and then, you know, we down we kind of moved to Chadam for me to be in by 8:00 in the morning. But, you know,
the matter of having and and this is what they did in Chadam. Okay, you know how long that commute is. Okay, and then add the flexibility of this little bus running through, you
know, where you live, you know, it added, you know, 45 minutes. Okay, so I mean literally that to me is absolutely unfeasible. So, I mean, I would gladly help if if if you
guys don't have the time, I could do the digging because that commute's horrific. Okay. And we're fully aware of what's going on in Warren. Okay. With regards to Hillrest. Um, and again, I want to stress I have
another question and I I really hope someone's taking notes. Um but you know with regards uh I know Lacawana Boulevard um there's an ordinance for only a 2hour parking on my street.
Okay. And we know, we're fully aware of what is in um the Democrat Senate majority right now uh with Senator Singleton with regards to underground parking,
brown space developments for affordable housing. Okay. We we do not have the brown space around Gillette. Okay. And nor undergrounds But it's going to lead into more issues
because our streets just can't handle it. And I know for a fact with regards to Warren in terms of Hillrest Crossing, which is the second development um outside of the um the other
development which which is owner owned. Okay. Wait, Marian, is there a question? I'm just trying to figure this out. We actually opposed the singletons or singlear's thing. I remember we did some kind of resolution opposing it if I remember correctly. Okay. So
both of Yeah. But I mean we understand that but is there is there be very specific am I protected by the ordinance if Singleton comes in and signs the bill in the interim with
Governor Murphy at the helm currently? Am I protected? I don't know. You'd have to ask. I never saw the bill. I I I don't know. Call uh call John Brown's office. I can't answer that question. But it's a question pertaining to our
township. Well, we can't put underground parking because it'll flood. Correct. Okay. So, that solves that here. Okay. Um, but what I'm saying, this is more of a simplistic matter instead of
like turnurning things around and giving parking permits to residents. I think it should be an easier fix. That's all I'm saying. All right. Thank you. All right. Anybody else online? No, no, no, Matt. I'm not finished. Well, we have I'm sorry.
Yeah, but we only have a limited amount of time per person. We discussed the parking permits for residents. Vic already flushed that out. We had a full discussion about it. Okay. Um, so this will be my last comment then. You know, I'm sorry. Aubrey just
resigned. Okay. We're losing a sense of community. You had two executive sessions. I'm not going to bring that up. Okay. But no one's participating in our community anymore. Um,
you know, I I respect every each and every one of you because I would never put myself at at my point in my life in your position. Okay? But the fact of the matter is without
engaging the community and we have lost that. We're losing our community. We're lo we're going to lose our volunteers. Okay? and it's going to be very painstaking. And that's probably the end of my comments. Um Matt, if you'd like to have
a personal conversation with me on other things because I do have other things and I've actually refrained. I've me myself, I have walked away from the township because I'm just tired of it. Okay.
Thank you, Maryanne. Yeah. Okay. Uh, you know, I appreciate everything you you guys are doing. I get it. But if we lose the sense of community, we're going to lose the sense of what Long Hill Township is about. That's my opinion. Thank you.
Thank you. Have a good night everyone. Anybody else online? If there's anybody else on Zoom that would like to make a public comment, please raise your hand now. Thank you. All right. At this point, I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. So move. Second.
All in favor? I. Thank you everybody. Have a great weekend. Oh, yeah. Yeah.