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know these are yeah pursuant to section 5 chapter 231 Public Law 1975 this is to save for the record that adequate notice of this meeting has been provided to the public by posting and maintaining the annual notice of regular meetings on the bulletin board of the municipal building
by mailing the annual notice of regular meetings for 2025 to the news record and Star Ledger in December of 2024 and by filing said notice in the office of the Township Clerk Mr def Mr Duca I'm here
virtually Miss Engle here Thurman present mayor Adams here whereas chapter 231 Public Law 1975 commonly known as the open public meetings act requires that all meetings of public bodies be open to the public
and whereas section 7A provides that the governing body has a discretion to permit prohibit or regulate the active participation of the public at any meeting and where desire the governing body to comply with the provision this act same time to conduct its business in
an orderly and expeditious manner now therefore be it resolved by the time ship committee Township mwood does hereby prohibit except to set forth an a formal agenda active participation in deliberations of the governing body by the public and accept as otherwise
ascribed by law does limit the public to the observation of the actions and discussions of the governing body at all its regular and special meetings moved second zle yes fman yes mayor
Adams yes please rise for salute to the flag I pledge aliance to the the United States of America and to the Republic which it stands one nation under God indivisible ince for all almost forgot
the words good evening everyone and welcome to the Tuesday March 4th 2025 meeting of the Maplewood Township committee um in honor of women's history month we have um banned the men on the township
committee from attending this meeting no not quite Mr Duca is not feeling well and we thank him for not um getting anyone else sick and Mr daff is is on vacation so um but thank you all for coming this is so wonderful from
here I got to take a picture to look at all the women wearing white it just it's fabulous so thank you for taking the time tonight um just a quick review of tonight's meeting we have a proclamation as you might be aware for women's
history month we have um that will pause for the wear white for women photo um then we have boards and committee assignments for the zoning board we have James Fant um to be reappointed um then we have we'll move
into our Board of Health meeting then we'll go to public comment for agenda items only we have introductions of two two ordinances on for um for the agenda and then um we
have administrative reports Mr weary miss cedido and miss fritzen we will have reports from elected officials Deputy Mayor Herman Committee Member DeLuca Committee Member Engle and then I go last then we have the consent agenda
public um comment on any subject matter um and then we will adjourn so we have um some short agenda almost intentionally so that we can take all the time we want for the important thing of recognizing
women and in particular tonight women who are elected themselves or who have served in elected role um in our community in in the past so um I would love all the elected women who have
served our community to join me at the podium for the proclamation I we've done this a few times now so you all know you got to wear as Clause to read so thank you I won't put you in any order oh wait Kathy you
yeah you wanted to give them out look at y'all you're all so formal and well behaved Mary you're supposed to come on you remember you were an elected official once all right you know you already know
your first that's great so thaty lethal brought these for us those who are here for the picture all no ready when you are assembly walk first of all all I'd like to say
good evening to everybody and thank you for coming out I'm assemblywoman Gard at Hall I represent the 28th District which includes Maplewood South Orange Irvington Hillside in the west and south ward of newk and just a sliver of the central Ward so thank you for your
attention tonight so much more formal now how many times I had to say that whereas from the first settlers who came to our shore and those native communities who befriended them men and
women have worked together to build this nation too often the women were unsung and their contributions went unnoticed but the leadership courage and strength of the women who built America
were as vital as oh vital vital as that of the men whose names we've known so well and here you I'm Celia King whereas the national women's history month's theme for 2025
celebrates moving forward together women educating and inspiring Generations this theme celebrates the Collective Strength and influence of women who have dead dedicated their lives to Education mentorship and Leadership through their
efforts they have served as an inspiration for all generations both past and present Andia King was vice mayor can you guys all introduce like what you what position you serve so when you before
you I'm Kathy L Kathy lenthal I was Deputy Mayor whereas and served for 12 years on the and served for 12 years on the test
in right here um whereas during 2025 we recognize the example of Maplewood and South Orange women who are committed to embracing everyone and excluding no one in our common quest for freedom and
opportunity they know that our kids need to learn the value of hearing from different voices with different points of view as they grow up and did this one-sided she's not she's sick oh okay
they're sick would you mind reading Shannon thank you this is on behalf of Shannon cuddle they are sick this evening and and they served on the board of education whereas American women of every race class ethnic background crown
and sexual identity have made historic contributions to the growth and strength of our nation in so many ways and women from diverse diverse backgrounds have been at the Forefront of efforts to address systemic inequities and promote
a more inclusive society and Gina colum South Orange Maris since 2015 whereas for the first time in the history of our town the mayors of Maplewood and South Orange are both
female and the governing bodies of both towns our majority female each each of these women stories will shape what will be the history of Maplewood and South Orange as they bring
a woman's perspective to governing and bring their histories together to craft the kind of world where equality is not a rare occurrence but it is the norm and
Karen I'm Karen Hilton I serve on the South Orange Town Council whereas American women have played a unique role throughout the history by providing the majority of the volunteer labor force American women
have played and continued to play critical economic cultural and social roles in every sphere of the life of the nation by constituting a significant portion of the labor force working inside and outside of the home
and we Malia Herman deputy mayor in Maplewood since January whereas women's history month or rather women's hory month is a time to remember those who fought and many who
fought and died to make Freedom as real for our daughters as for our sons they were driven by a faith that our Union could extend true equality to every citizen willing to claim it and
I'm Shaina Sak Gable a current Board of Education member whereas year after year Visionary women met and marched and mobilized to prove what should have been self-evident they created a movement that touched every community and took on
our highest institutions and after Decades of slow steady progress women have written equal opportunity into the law again and again giving generations of girls a future worthy of their potential
and at Deborah Davis Ford former uh Trustee of South Orange which are now called Council people whereas American women have been leaders not only in securing their rights of equal opportunity but also in the
abolishment movement the Emancipation movement the industrial labor movement the civil rights movement and more to create a more fair and just Society for all their long F fought movement finally
succeeded in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution finally giving women the right to vote
hi I'm Deb angle Maplewood Township committee since 2023 whereas and former deputy mayor thank you Miss Jones whereas just like the nation the women's suffragist movement was fraught with racism and discrimination toward black suffragists
particularly when white suffragist leaders were trying to appeal to leaders in the Jim Crow South for Women's National Voting Rights black suffragists preserved as they fought not only for the rights of women to vote but of black women and men we recognize and honor their unparalleled commitment in
fighting for rights for all women and Olivia Le Chang president uh council member of South Orange whereas the Del Legacy of the change is all around us women are more than half of our population and our nation's Workforce and more than half of all college
graduates but even now women still face a pay Gap at work or dis discrepancies in health insurance or inadequacies options for health leave these issues affect all of us and failing to address them holds our country back and
whereas hi Summer Jones I am actually a councilwoman for South Orange this is my second term I've been in since 2019 whereas medical research while showing some improvement has for decades focused on men ignoring women women in particularly women of color in fact
medical research in many areas including cardiovascular disease which kills more women than men often excludes women subjects this disparity in research by gender has resulted in misdiagnosis and incorrect treatment of
women causing more women fatalities and hi Liz Callahan current Board of Education m member whereas too often women continue to experience sexual discrimination and harassment in the workforce holding them prisoners to male power being stepped over for promotions
and positions of authority and limiting their ability to advance and thrive in their careers when women do not speak up or a strong opinion they are not given the same respect or validity as their male counterparts and whereas as we celebrate and recognize women's history month we
include the contributions of women and allies in the LGB btq plus Community who came before us and who have brought fought for equality like New Jersey Trailblazer Marsha P Johnson and those who are making history now we also pause to remember the victims lost to fatal
anti-transgender violence who are mostly black and brown transgender women India larer um former president of the Board of Health in Maplewood and three- term committ woman two- term committee woman hi India whereas even having finally reached the White House
and our last vice president kamla Harris women are still not fully or adequately represented at the top tables of organizations corporations and local state and National houses of government and are therefore not being heard leaving a woman's important
perspective unrepresented when laws and policies are decided on in local state and federal Federal levels and Sha Sha saak Gable again women are whereas our history shows that we
can stay true to our founding Creed that in America all things should be possible for all people that spirit is what called our mothers and grandmothers to fight for a world where no wall or ceiling could keep their daughters from their dreams although we still have much
to do to make our opportunities brighter we recognize the accomplishments of women who fought for our rights now and in the past and pledge to keep advocating for equality and where at oh Mary thorough good
evening Mary thorough I'm a former South Orange trustee whereas we encourage our community schools and organizations to celebrate the achievements of women and especially those who have championed Equity diversity and inclusion and reaffirm our commitment to advancing
these principles in our society let's teach our children about women's accomplishments and honor those who have sacrificed for the rights of all people Nancy Adams mayor right now Maplewood uh third term on the township
committee starting my fourth whereas South Orange and Maplewood Community leaders are working together to annually shine a spotlight on women's History Month with events and promotion of local women-owned businesses and to celebrate women's empowerment and to focus on
women in history who fought for our rights and whose lives changed the course of history now therefore on behalf of the rest of Maplewood Township committee and South Orange Village I have Village president in there mayor Sheena colum and the South Orange
Council I Nancy Adams mayor of the Township of Maplewood do hereby Proclaim March 2025 as women's History Month in the townships of Maplewood and South Orange and now if everyone in here who's wearing white or has something white
they can show please join us for a photo for our annual photo can I get um Pat or somebody to help get this out of the way thanks hey I'll just wa e
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e e e e e um Margaret and Alex from their office I don't think I think they skewed it out but they were here for the picture and here for the event and
e e e e sick so thank you everyone for your Indulgence um but after years and years and years of no attention no gratitude
no credit given to women throughout history seriously they're not even in the history book anyway so that was a lot of fun it was a um it's become a really nice tradition I'm I'm pleased to have uh been a part
of it all these years so with that where are we okay boards and committee appointments um Miss fritson yes mayor boards and committee appointments we have a zoning
board James Fant um yes for reappoint for appointment through 12 3128 um I don't know if he's online but he was not invited to okay so it's just reappointed okay not just reappointed but
reappointed okay um so I'll make a motion to reappoint James Fant to the Zoning Board of adjustment I have a second second Sangle yes fman yes mayor Adams yes thank you now we'll move into our
Board of Health meeting except our health officer Miss Davenport got delayed oh I believe yes we'll be here shortly that's right she wasn't here for the P she wasn't she had white on today too so should we skip around the agenda
and wait for M ordinances sure shouldn't be long well right now we'll go to public comment agenda items only is there anyone here who would like to speak to the township committee seeing none [Music] is there anyone on Zoom who would like
to speak to the township committee about agenda items if anyone joining on Zoom would like to speak on agenda items please raise your hand now I see no hands mayor thank you is Mr Duca back with us he is with us yes okay if he'd like to put he doesn't have to
put his camera on but all right so with no public comment for agenda items we'll move into introduction of ordinances we'll start with ordinance 3147 d25 Miss priton yes
mayor uh on introduction ordinance 3147 d25 is an ordinance to amend chapter 53 of the Township Code entitled environmental advisory committee this ordinance amends the
current environmental advisory committee ordinance to reflect changes in the number of committee members promote diversity within the committee and clarify the election of committee leadership okay can I get a motion for this ordinance Miss
angle yes I haven't done this in a long time um I move the passage of this ordinance on first reading its publication according to law in the Maplewood South Orange News Record and a hearing to be held on March 18
2025 I second Co Roa Miss Angel yes Miss Herman yes mayor Adams yes thank you next ordinance number 3148 d25 um yes mayor also on introduction
3148 d25 is an ordinance to amend chapter 271 of the code of the township of mwood entitled zoning and development regulations with respect to uses in the the commercial and Industrial zoning
District this ordinance will amend section 271 d70 F the township code to add permitted and accessory uses in the commercial and Industrial CI zoning District thank you I move the passage of
this ordinance on first reading its publication according to law in the Maplewood South Orange News Record and a hearing to be held on March 18 I second oops Miss Angel yes Miss Herman yes mayor Adams yes thank you moving on we have um
administrative reports I have no report tonight mayor you have no report nothing nothing's going on lots of things but nothing lots of things but nothing worth worthy of a report got it any questions for our administrator Mr
worry seeing none go to our Township attorney miss cdio good evening mayor very brief report as we discussed at our last meeting the legislature did approve and the go uh actually the acting Governor signed um
the legislation to extend usage of online newspapers for Public Notices until the end of June um hopefully they will resolve it definitively without the need for a further extension uh also you may have seen in the news there are a number of Suits being filed by the
neutri Jersey Builders Association with respect to towns that sought to modify their affordable housing number uh pretty much the suits are being filed in any town that that modified its number in any way uh Maplewood did not modify
its number um so right and all of the actions are proceeding through the declaratory judgment route as required by the statute okay do any questions for Township attorney nope okay you're off the hook we'll go
to Township Clerk report no really wow any questions for our clerk no no okay um mayor and I know I see I'm gonna um we're gonna uh
delay our reports from elected officials Miss Davenport I hope everything's okay um Committee Member angle I'll turn the Board of Health meeting over to you thank you mayor to section 5 chapter 231 Public Law 1975
this is to State for the record that adequate notice of this meeting has been provided to the public by posting and maintaining the annual notice of regular meetings on the bulletin board of the municipal building by mailing the annual notice of regular meetings for 2025 to the news record and Star Ledger in
December 2024 and by filing said notice in the office of the Township Clerk mayor Adams here Mr daffis Mr Duca I'll show him remote Miss Herman yes M angle here whereas chapter
231 public call 1975 Comm knows the open public meetings act requires all meetings be open to the public whereas section 7 provides that the Board of Health has a discretion to prohibit prohibit regulate the active participation of the public at any meeting and whereas asire the maple
Board of Health to comply with the provision this act same time to conduct its business in an orderly and expeditious manner now therefore be resolved by the mwood Board of Health the township of mwood those hereby prohibit except to set forth an informal
agenda active participation and deliberations of the Board of Health and does limit the public to observations of the actions and discussions of the Board of Health that Ro its regular and special meetings so moved second roll call I'm looking at it
mayor Adams this one's a little bit different mayor Adams yes Miss Herman yes M Engle yes might be easier if I look at the people yeah thank you um I move to approve the Board of Health meeting minutes from February 4th 2025
second mayor Adams yes M Herman yes SLE yes now I will send this over to miss Davenport thank you good evening everyone icon the presentation okay thank you very much we'll start off with our nursing
update we had one reportable disease investigated and the five immunization audits were our child care facilities next slide there is a shortage of blood and so uh the county is doing a blood drive on Friday March 21st from 11:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m. um at the Essex County hall of records in New York we strongly encourage people to donate they're looking for all types o a b and ab uh so please if you um can donate and have not donated recently uh please encourage
everyone to donate uh to Save a Life one pint of blood saves three lives um measles in New Jersey just to bring you up to date of what you see in the news these are the the list of um or the areas of outbreaks across the United States that were monitoring for measles
outbreak in New Jersey we had three cases of measles in Bergen County um the most significant one here is the measles outbreak that's still ongoing in Texas next slide this is just to highlight the information that is on the CDC website
please note that the information on this measles outbreak is only updated once a week uh so this is the information as of uh February 20 28th there were 164 total cases in the United States 95% of those are unvaccinated or unknown vaccination
status um while a week ago or two weeks ago we had about us uh 25% hospitalizations and now we're down to 20 which is a very good thing uh we unfortunately had one death um confirmed death due to measles and that was in a
child next slide so on that note we can't emphasize enough the importance of vaccines so if you're in need of vaccines for children uh there is a a free state program called vaccines for children and the county is providing them um on March 5th
which is tomorrow March 12th and March 19th please take advantage of that if needed thank you next slide so another thing as we are looking to uh look for volunteers in our community the county is Reviving The Medical Reserve course some of you may
remember it from a couple years past where uh they're looking for someone who's a medical professional licensed Medical Professional active or inactive and someone who's passionate about improving Public Health um this is a volunteer program where you'd be involved during an emergency or natural
disaster so um if you would like to learn more there is um a link to go to and there's a training and we hope that people will take advantage of this great opportunity to make a difference um and join other passionate volunteers and also helped the township when needed
next slide moving on to Aven flu h5n1 um so besides many of the other things we're looking at like measles on February 21st there was an infected poultry uh no identified at the Union County live bird market so um just want
to emphasize that there have been no recent reports in cattle no human infections in the state but the state is still monitoring uh wild bird flocks and now that we have infected poultry we are now looking at um domestic uh poultry
and um foul so this is a concerning and growing issue especially the fact that it's in Union County so again to emphasize anyone who um has backyard chickens or uh Works in live bird markets or works with animal control uh
to please wear uh personal protective equipment at this time next slide again just to emphasize that that there are three agencies working on this um disease and and monitoring it so if you find a sick or dead wild bird please
call the D hotline if you have a sick or dead domestic bird like poultry please call the Department of Agriculture next slide and this is again just to reduce your risk of exposure to five h5n1 again if you work with um with
foul or with Wildlife or if you are an you know Animal Control person please wear PPE in contact um if you're a resident please do not have contact with wild birds if you see a sick or wild bird please just report it and and do
not touch it there is no risk to humans for eating food um from like uh chickens like like uh eggs um but we do recommend as always for people to cook it to the appr appropriate internal temperature before consumption and please do not
drink or eat unpasteurized milk or dairy products next slide moving on to more environmental health for the month of February our rehs inspectors uh conducted 13 restaurant inspections uh one
reinspection and 13 daycare inspections they also had 13 complaints and 19 notices of violations and one summons next slide this is this um data for January and and February for animal control
Solutions um as you can see they're they're comparable from one month to the other um in January we did not have any um Wildlife calls but in February there was an increase in Wildlife calls next
slide as we move on to Social Services and mental health our crisis intervention social workers have been very busy I just want to emphasize that 19 for the month of February is one of the highest uh we've ever had had since we started this program with 17 new
cases 19 of nine of those 19 cases were co-response and 15 were clinical cases next slide um I added this one um additional U slide uh that wasn't included in the
township committee slides but March 24th there will be a virtual Narcan training from Ruckers and our partners at adapt it's a free um program and you can uh attend the virtual training and get a free Naran kit and if you'd like to register the
information is there so we hope that everyone will um be educated about Naran and how to use it especially those who are caregivers of people who are on pain medication or other medications um that would need Naran for assistance next
slide and finally we have to make the right call um this is our slide and always will probably be our end slide because we can't emphasize enough the importance of these phone numbers especially when people are in Mental Health crisis uh please call 988 all of these numbers are 24 hours a day seven
days a week um and so we hope that everyone will make the right call in the event of an emergency thank you thank you Miss saport um any questions for our health officer from my colleagues mayor Adams yeah um I just
had a question about the uh report reporting out that we may or may not be getting from the federal government on reports you I can't remember which slide it was it was early on measles right that were only getting once a week
report their reporting is uh their reporting on outbreaks is once a week according to their website so everything I'm reporting to you is is as updated as I can get it from Friday so that's where we are with the federal government and their and their data are you noticing
any other um deficiencies if you will on information or things that we would normally get from not at this time although we we are always interested in when they say that there's going to be um and they put it blatantly on the front page like expect
information only at this time um if we need any localized information we can always go to um the state and of course we track locally but if we want regionally or Statewide the state will provide it but if you wanted National Data which I wanted to provide CDC is only providing measles outbreak data
once a week and we are yeah I'm just concerned what we don't know or what we're not going to know because they're not contacting all the health departments around the country right we are very concerned about that as well yeah okay yeah thank you you're welcome
we missed you at theway from I missed you too any other questions from Miss Herman or Mr DeLuca we missed you then we will open this up to the public if anyone has any questions for our health officer here in
this room no then Mr warry will you help facilitate if any members of the public would like to speak in public por health department meeting please raise your hand now I see no hands then I move that we adjourn to our next scheduled meeting on
Tuesday April 1st 2025 April Fool's Day Health meeting you should do something really fun in your report we do we will I'll second mayor Adams yes M fman yes single
yes thank you thank you Miss saport back to your mayor thank you uh we've done administrative reports and we're moving on to reports from elected officials Deputy Mayor you're up all right I do have a report um so
last week I got to visit jby house and I enjoyed meeting the client sence there in seeing where the new jby house center will go JP is based in South Orange but many of their residents actually do a day program here in Maplewood right down on Valley um so that was really um
exciting to see um this week is read Across America and I was thrilled to be able to read to a class at Delia Balden today and I'm excited to read to some Tuscan students later this week yeah I'm reading on thurs yeah um the Parker bike lane meeting the first of three that
we're having on Mondays was last night it was so wonderful to see many people come out and we had a really productive conversation um there's two more coming up at our Recreation advisory committee meeting we talked about the proposed field update at Dart the current
proposal would eliminate the softball field which is not used for Recreation Softball villagers softball or Suburban softball so that the whole field can be one grass field roughly the size of two high school soccer field this is
something we also um what ran past the MSO softball committee um and we're continuing to seek public input on this um as we move forward in making that field the best that it can be also in wreck I want to say a huge congratulations to our mapso basketball
teams many of which made the Championships very very exciting they had these shirts made up that said mapso versus everyone very cool um and speaking of basketball tryouts are tomorrow for the spring travel program
and spring pickleball and spring tennis are also coming up they start next month as well um in the health and Community Services committee we discussed um we did had a big discussion on field facility and program rates many of these have not increased since
2010 um so we're looking at um some changes to be made there um in arts and culture um we just came off a really really busy Black History Month we had 30 events it was amazing um last Friday
we had the Ramadan Moon Lighting with about 80 people there it was really was another wonderful event um the mayor is going to tell you all about the women's history month coming up now um next week we have another very exciting thing that
we've been waiting on for a very long time and that is the ribbon cutting for the electric um senior bus so that will be next Wednesday at noon at the Maplewood Community Center at Dart Park
um a few other dates to keep in mind our egg hunt is on April 12th our softball parade is on April 26 and our health fair and Bike Rodeo is coming up on May 3rd and my last announcement is to
follow us on Instagram so that you can be aware of all of these exciting things that we're doing and all these these dates our Instagram handle is @ Maplewood TW WP and go to our website and sign up for our newsletter again you don't want to be left out of any of
these things and that's it thank you any questions thank you Deputy Mayor any questions nope Mr DeLuca you're up next thank you mayor just a couple quick things that Deputy Mayor Herman uh
mentioned uh the Parker Avenue bike lane meeting our next one is Monday uh March 10th at 7:30 it's on zoom and um you can get that information on the township website and also Black History Month was uh terrific this year and we we'll be
having a debriefing we'll be getting all of our partners reaching out to them and find out what we can do better and Miss angle you and I have to start working on Fourth of July yes yeah and I just want you to see that I'm
also wearing white I ironed it last night and didn't get a chance to wear it here so I'm sitting in my room uh even and uh but I am wearing white in honor of all of the women I didn't hear the end of his he was he's wearing white in honor of all
the women we missed you Mr DeLuca any questions for Mr DeLuca seeing none we'll move on to Committee Member angle thank you um I sent you guys a couple Graphics I don't know if you got it to share did you
Graphics them okay so we'll start with youthnet youthnet is create is um has a great High School summer intern program where they partner with local businesses and nonprofits and offer mentorship and internship opportunities um so they're
currently recruiting local businesses and nonprofits to Mentor High School student interns um for this program you can email internship snet.net org for more information and I believe they have now posted a list of
don't worry about it Mr worry I believe they have now posted a list of FAQ so you can get more information and our clerk I know had an intern um last summer and she helped um create the new Resident guide that is on our website um and it was a really valuable resource
for us and our residents to have and I believe it was a valuable resource um for a deputy Clerk and clerk to have an intern and so we highly recommend this program and I hope people will all sign up um moving on on March 23rd is our is
the um 40 I think it's the 40 48th annual Som Interfaith Holocaust remembrance service um this year it'll be held in South Orange it starts at 3:00 with the march of remembrance and Hope from spota
Park in South Orange and then we will will walk up to congregation bethl um at 400 p.m. for the remember and tell service um together we'll stand in solidarity with Som Holocaust Survivors and honor the Six Million Jewish victims
and the millions of others murdered by the Nazi regime it's a really powerful service um many many clergy in the community come elected officials um Holocaust Survivors and I definitely recommend people come and support um because we need to remember and tell and
keep telling these stories so that they're not forgotten um and then last I'm guessing our mayor will talk about this but just in case I want to just do a shout out and mention for The Unsung shirros event coming up on Wednesday
March 19th at 6:30 at The Loft at soac many um women in both Maplewood and South Orange will be honored including some of our business owners and employees and residents and it should be a really fun time you do have to register last year it sold out it's a really fun event I'm highly recommend it
and that is my report thank you Miss angle any questions none all right so yes of course I'll be covering women's History Month a little bit um but first I just want to thank all the women who um came
out tonight elected former elected just women who want to empower other women and I think it was a really fun time assemblywoman Hall made the time to come here um I know a former assembly woman
Mila Jai really wanted to be here but she had um something to deal with with her hundred-year-old mom which is if she doesn't mind me sharing she reconnected with someone she went to school with who is older than her so she had she had to
help her mom get her hair done and get all ready for this little um event at at Miss Daisy's house so that was kind of fun I I was like okay you can you can miss um and also thanks to congresswoman Cheryl's office for um had two
Representatives here tonight Margaret and Alex um and it was just it's it's just a really nice event to just kind of take a moment to um recognize all the things that women have done for our country and our world and our community
so um in that light we do have Mr R can you share that website please I had to say please because you had so just if you want information on any of the events going on for women's History Month
um Som women.org is the website I could share it but I'm not on Zoom we want to make sure everybody knows where to find that and it gets updated pretty regularly uh tonight's Proclamation and wear white for women if
you could go up to events on the top left there's also as you can see at the top there's um a tab for books we have a book list from our library up there um so we just did that and then we have these are the things that was also this
evening and obviously we couldn't be there for that women's talk um in both uh our business main business districts Springfield Avenue and um Maplewood Village we have women's art local area
Community women's art being displayed in many of the businesses Windows um for the month of March so windows for women is back which is great um then we have um a literary event on Sunday March
9th and that's in South Orange then we have um a Duran headen event that's um doing uh the power of Edith Wilson is to talk about Rebecca bogs Rob Bert s and that's at the Woodland in The Parlor and
then after that we go to a reception walk over to Draden for a reception uh women's history books now and then discussion is at the Hilton brancher library on the 13th and you can SC fast this one is cool we've got a ton of um submissions
for the 1978 um art exhibition for in honor of women's History Month this is for young women and girls and their art submissions so the opening for that is March 15th at 2:00 and then it runs for
the rest of March so that's pretty exciting for Community kids to sew that and then what Miss angle was referring to is The Unsung shirros of 2025 will be held at soac um this is an event we started last year and basically uh we
have different categories for um women who are not necessarily for W facing like not women who unlike tonight when we read the proclamation it's not women who have been elected but it's it's women in the community who um there's
public service and we're honoring Stacy Ross Trevor who works for our um cult arts and culture division so for all that she does so we'll be honoring women in the community who do a lot for this community go be above and beyond and um
but aren't recognized so we'll be recognized them there then we have um the afternoon dances on March 23rd and then we'll oh ladies of laughter um is at soac also so we all need a laugh if we can still laugh for
free um if we still have the freedom to laugh March 27th given what's going on hopefully that'll be someplace to go so um and I just wanted to thank um the who was it put the bike in bike
and bike what's the group called that uh Bike Ride walk bike ride thank you sorry by bumbling uh for the uh crossing guard appreciation breakfast yesterday was very nice and um it's it's we just need
to thank our crossing guards because they get our kids to school and we also encourage kids to walk to school to to the extent that they can and and we're working on as both Miss Herman and Mr Duca mentioned the looking into some
bike lanes and stuff so with that unless anyone has any questions we'll move on to the consent agenda all right it's not that long can I get a motion for the consent agenda I move the consent agenda there
you go second okay yes Herman yes mayor Adams yes thank you now we come to public comment on any subject matter for um anyone who wants to say anything or has concerns or questions of the township committee now is the time is
there anyone online Mr weary anyone joining on Zoom would like to speak in public portion please raise your hand now I see no hands mayor okay well then that's it we have a motion to adjourn our meeting for this evening if anyone
wants to make that motion I just want to mention that this might be the shortest meeting meeting ever without the men yeah I think without the men we we get things done a lot more quickly appar that's really interesting I think
everyone should keep that in mind at election time I move to adjourn um I'll second that motion m presid