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. >> Mr. Davis, >> Mr. Duca >> here. >> Mangel >> here. >> Zurman >> here. Mayor Adams here.
Whereas chapter 231, public laws of 1975, commonly known as the open public meetings act, requires all means of public bodies be open to the public. And whereas section 7A provides that the governing body has the discretion to permit, prohibit or regulate the act of
participation of the public at any meeting. And whereas desire the governing body to comply with the provision of this act same time to conduct its business in an orderly and expeditious manner. Now therefore be it resolved by the township committee township baywood does hereby prohibit
except as set forth in the formal agenda active participation in deliberations of the governing body by the public except as otherwise prescribed by law does limit the public to observations of the actions and discussions of the governing body at all its regular and special meetings. Moved
>> second. >> Mr. Duca, >> yes. >> Zangel, >> yes. >> Thurman, >> yes. >> Mayor Adams, >> yes. >> Okay, we have a couple of moments of silence after the salute to the flag. So, please stand. Salute to the flag.
>> I pledge allegiance 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. if you indulge us. Uh
we'd just like to hold a moment of silence in memory of a couple of uh important residents. Giovana Barata Leafredo. She passed away on November 15th. Longtime business owner and wife and
mother um of Roman Gourmet since 1971. She was also a former Maplewood resident. So, please take a moment to remember her. Thank you. Next, we remember J. Todd Lamb. Todd uh recently passed away. He
was retired Township of Maplewood DPW4person in the Shade Tree Division from 1994 to 2012. He was the township arborist and landscaping at did landscaping for the Duran Heden house um
for a number of years. He was also consulted with a conservancy in our early years in the Memorial Park Conservancy um and just loved trees and and helped us save a lot of them. And um we remember him and
sadly Thank you. >> Good evening everyone and welcome to the uh December 2nd, 2025 meeting of the Maplewood Township Committee. Uh we have no proclamations or special presentations tonight. Um so we will the
first thing on the agenda is public comment for agenda items only. Then we move into our board of health meeting. Um we have ordinance no ordinances on final passage and one ordinance on for introduction um to prohibit smoking in
outdoor cafes and streeteries. um our reports from departments. We have administration, township attorney, township clerk, and then elected official reports. We start with committee member Angel, committee member Duca, Deputy Mayor Herman, and then I go
last. We have no discussion items on for tonight. Um and we have a consent agenda. Then we move into second public comment. Um, and then we will uh go into close session again because we didn't finish what we needed to talk about in
close session prior to the meeting. So, we will continue that close session, then come back into open and uh adjourn. So, with that, um, I'd like to open public comment. Mr. Wear, is there anyone online who would like to address
the township committee on agenda items only? If anyone joining on Zoom would like to speak on agenda items only, please raise your hand. >> I see no hands. Mayor. >> Okay, then with that, we'll move into our board of health meeting. I'll turn
it over to committee member Angel. >> Thanks, Mayor. That was fast. Um, pursuant 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 >> here, >> Mr. Herman >> here, >> Miss Angel >> here. Whereas chapter 231 public law clause 1975 commonly known as the open public media act requires that all means
of public bodies be open to the public and whereas section 7 provides that the board of health has a discretion to permit prohibit or regulate the actual participation of the public at any meeting and whereas desire the Maplewood Board of Health to comply with the
provision of this act same time to conduct its business in an orderly and expeditious manner shall therefore be resolved by the Maplewood Board of health township Maplewood does hereby prohibit except to set forth in formal agenda. Active participation in
deliberations of the board of health by the public except as otherwise described by law does limit the public to the observation of the actions and discussions of the board of health at all of its regular and special meetings. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mayor Adams. >> Yes.
>> Mr. Duca. >> Yes. >> Surman. >> Yes. >> Miss angel. >> Yes. Um, now I move the approval of the board of health meeting minutes from November 5th, 2025. >> Second. >> Mayor Adams. >> Yes. >> M.
>> Mr. Duca. >> Yes. >> M. Herman. >> Yes. >> Zangle. >> Yes. Thank you. And now I have a very um special guest joining us today. Our health officer is out. So in her place we have Gabriel Suarez. Um very exciting. He's our local health outreach
coordinator and we are excited for you to give our board of health presentation this month. Welcome. >> Thank you for having me. >> Yeah. Make sure you speak right into the mic because that one's not that great. >> Are you gonna share his presentation,
Mr. Wary? Good thing you asked because poor Gabe is standing there. >> I know. I wouldn't want to. >> He's got the hands out though like Candace always has. >> So, uh, we will start with um Yes, thank you. with, um, our first slide here is
included to address the recent statements coming from the CDC that suggested there may be a link between vaccines and autism. We just want to reiterate that along with several other professional organizations, this one specifically is from the American um
Academy of Pediatrics um that says scientists have repeatedly found no link between vaccines and autism. There's no single root cause of autism. And we just want to remind the public that there is no link between vaccines and the increasing autism rates we've seen in
this country. Next slide, please. That said, uh, vaccines for children clinic is back this month thanks to the county of Essex. Um, they are hosting this clinic three times this month as usual and information can be seen on the
flyer for uh, a phone number or the website to register. Next slide. We'd also like to highlight an event coming up during the holiday break. The township and the Red Cross are partnering to host a blood drive. The info here is on the flyer. It'll be on
Tuesday, December 30th from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. You can sign up to donate blood at the website at the bottom, redcrossblood.org. Next slide. Uh, this may be familiar to some of you. We have created a list of resources in
our community for families dealing with food insecurity. It was created following the recent hiatus of SNAP benefits and food stamp benefits. And in the next slide, you will find a directory of local businesses that are offering assistance or discounts. If you know of any food distributions happening
around town, feel free to reach out to our department so we can help promote it. Thank you. We'd also like to remind the public that open enrollment for health insurance is now open. NJ family care is available for families with children and get covered NJ is a great tool for
adults looking to find affordable healthcare insurance. Next slide. Our nursing update for this month. First want to touch on the recent executive directive signed by Governor Murphy which allows anyone 6 months and older
to be vaccinated against CO 19. This statewide effort acts as a medical prescription that the public can use both in this room or watching at home and take advantage to stay protected this winter season. In the next slide, you'll find that our
nurse has investigated six communicable diseases and completed seven health screenings. These were at the Dehar Community Center during one of their senior social events last month and also
administered one flu vaccine. Next slide. Our environmental health update. Actually, before we start here, I'd like to thank the EXIS Regional Health Commission for offering their coverage and expertise this month while we were
in between health inspectors. But actually today was our first day for our new health inspector uh Mickens Matio and we're very excited to have him now join as part of our team and he'll be helping us with the the board of health
presentations going forward. Next slide. For social services and mental health, we'd like to report that our crisis intervention social workers have had a total case count of 31 in November. And
we'd also like to highlight another program on the next slide um from Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, CSBJ. Um, for anybody needing help applying for social services online, they are at
the Hilton Branch Library between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on Saturdays every single week. Two quick announcements from the health department. Uh, we'd like to thank the division of arts and culture for helping put the gratitude graffiti project together and also the participating
vendors um for welcoming this initiative back to MAPSO. It ran throughout the whole of November and as you can see some pictures here, um it was really great to see people kind of make it their own and tell the community what they're grateful
for through these um graffiti marker projects at at the windows of the vendors. Next slide. As always, we'd like to remind the public to make the right call. This is a banner that we created and we'd like all
residents to keep these numbers at easy access and to familiarize themselves with their uses. We have fridge magnets of this banner available upon request at the health department if you're interested. And before I end, I'd also like to on behalf of the health department extend
our deepest thanks to committee member Deb Engel for serving as the board of health chair during her tenure here. Thank you. >> Thank you. I I think that was a fabulous first presentation here in the township committee room. So, good job, Mr.
Shroes. Um, any questions from my colleagues? >> Mr. Duca? >> Yes. Um, I would like the health department to um take a look at the uh former quick check on Bdon.
Um there seems to be folks who are living there in the front of it and um I think we could send our social workers or the crisis intervention team to take a look see if we could help folks out. >> Yes, we'll do. Thank you for um bringing that up. Actually, we have received
several reports of um the cases at the former quick check as you called it. So, um we are working with CSBJ to make sure we are on top of um the individuals there. So, thank you. >> Relocation of >> Deputy Mayor Herman.
>> Thank you. Um I wanted to thank you for the the first slide that you shared with us about how vaccines don't cause autism. That's really important message to get out to our community, especially in light of some of the things that we're hearing out of Washington. So, um,
I' I'd like to see that, um, you know, shared along with our information about the vaccines, you know, and maybe shared with our community. Um, but thank you for that including that slide in your presentation. I think it goes a long way to um, giving the right medical
information to our residents. >> Thank you, Mayor. >> Okay. I I had one thing. Um, so last month we talked, it was funny when you talked about um, get covered NJ and affordable insurance. It's not really that affordable for people anymore. We
talked about this last month about how we have so many members of our community who are independent contractors who work in entertainment who rely on the Affordable Care Act and subsidies for health insurance. And I just want to like read one example of someone who's a Broadway actress and her husband is a
small business owner and she wrote on Facebook, "My family and I are on the health insurance exchange this year. Thanks thanks to Trump and the Republicans, on January 1st, 2026, our health insurance premiums will go up from 77 from $777 a month to $2,221
per month. This is in addition to the tremendous out-of-pocket costs that Hurseword health plan has us pay. So I just want to reiterate that this is a huge problem for our community and I think a lot of people are actually going to be without health insurance. I know I'm without health insurance right now
because it's not affordable and I just want to ask our health department to look at programs that we can be doing for our community during this time which is a crisis. Um I was disappointed to know we don't have flu shot clinics this year. We're not doing COVID shock clinics this year. We talked last month
about is there a way to continue health screenings in the wintertime because we do them at the farmers market. We do them at the heart community center. So, I'm just hoping that maybe we can throw this back to your committee or whoever's community is um next month so that we can talk about ways that we can help our
community who's going to be really suffering because I think a lot of people on the stasis have corporate health insurance and I don't think you realize how hard it is. you know, you could hear it in my voice and I've been on the marketplace since like 2015 or
something and it's like really hard right now. >> Yeah. >> I just want to make sure that we're aware of it and thinking about it and thinking about ways that we can be helping our community. >> Yeah, I think it's a really great idea especially I mean we do do health screenings but they tend to be uh for
our senior community. Um yeah, maybe we could look at uh seeing what we can do to open that up a little more too. um others who are not seniors or >> and I even know like getting flu shots like a resident told me that you can't bring your kids to theies anymore to get
flu shots. So, you know, even just I know I know that Essex County has their program, but just ways to make it accessible for people to be able to go get vaccinated. >> Yeah. >> Um thank you for bringing this up. I saw that comment on Facebook as well and was equally shocked and dismayed at at this
this cost increase. And I think this is definitely going to be a big issue and um hopefully we can you know find ways to help. Um I did want to bring up that there is um there is a screening van that comes to
the food shed. I went for the screening van because they were advertising that there were going to be flu and COVID shots. I can follow up with you and Miss Davenport afterward, but I went because I I didn't have either of those shots myself and I thought, "Oh, good. I'll go
and check this out and I'll get my shots." And then the shot the person who was supposed to be providing the shots didn't show up that day. So, I did the screening and a little PSA to, you know, share with folks that you can, you know, that this is available. But um I believe
that they were planning to come uh once a month and they were going to be providing these shots. So um that's something I think we can follow up on and hopefully get that information out to the public. >> That was I thought the oneoff that was some partnership with an LGBTQ plus
>> it was >> um program and it was to and to provide you know the screenings there. They had been coming. We've been working with um Barn St. Barnabas. They've been coming R.J. Barnabas whatever. They've been coming to the farmers markets every month once a month for >> there it was um NJCRI
mobile testing van they were providing free HIV and STI testing with like a finger prick. Um they were supposed to also I believe have um like the flu and the COVID shot. So that's something to follow up on.
>> Yes, of course. Thank you for bringing that up. um we are working with them to make sure that we do have accurate information to give out to the public because as a township we want to be able to give accurate information for these types of events. So like what you were saying so they know what to expect and they're showing up for these types of
>> um screenings. So we are hoping um to bring it back in the new year and that way we'll have um accurate information for when there actually will be uh flu co shots testing all that. >> Yeah. So it was NJCRI and that was on October 22nd when I went.
>> Yeah. At the at the food shed. Yep. >> I think it would be I mean the health department we stepped up in conjunction with uh South Orange and the schools when the SNAP benefits were cut when the government shut down. And I think maybe we need to look at health screenings and
and vaccinations to the extent that we can make those available in some way um to step up for yet another gap under the Trump administration that we're experiencing. I think it's really important we do that and I did bring it up last month and you know we haven't and so I just really want to urge us to
do it um because I think having a strong public health department is a real big asset that we have in Maplewood and I know some of us on this day have really pushed in order to keep it robust um and go after grants um Miss Davenport has done a great job and able to be able to fund it and I just think that we're here
to provide services critical services to our community and we need to keep it up and it's not just about food b you know it's about health care you know how homelessness and healthcare are two driving and financial distress are driving factors of mental illness. Um, and I just think it's we have a duty to
help our residents. >> Yeah. So, we have the you were one of your slides you were talking about the the children's vaccines that are coming up. Maybe you can bring that back up. >> Yes. The vaccines for children. >> Yeah. Essex County usually runs them and they're usually like urban. Um, they're they're not as local
>> or convenient for our residents to get to them. Mhm. >> I'm just mentioning >> Oh, what the one that we're doing? >> No, the Essex County vaccines that you're talking about, Maplewood in the past has run flu shot clinics, open up to the public to sign up and get your flu shot. >> The seniors were disappointed that they
didn't have it this year. >> And then because we've been doing the health screenings once a month in the farmers market, last month when I asked it said no, it was going to stop. So, we said, "Oh, is it possible to look into some kind of health screenings again?" So, that was why I brought that. Okay,
I'll put that on the agenda. Make sure that we talk about that. >> Thank you, Deputy Herman. And then I don't know if there's an advocacy angle for y'all who've been involved more that we can be doing to in order to help our residents to get more affordable healthcare.
>> What does that say? It says week uh upper what >> the locations >> central. Yeah. >> Yeah. It's always the same locations. The dates just change every month, but it's always at what what Cessing Park Community Center. That's in Bloomfield. That's on the 3rd, so um tomorrow. Um
the second one on the 10th is Upper Central Fieldhouse in Orange. And the third one is a little bit more local. Uh Essex County in Bal Beasley Community Center. That's in Irvington. Um so it's always the same locations, just changes every single month what dates uh the
county goes in and runs the clinic. >> Could you could your department please reach out to the county health department, see if they can expand the locations? >> Yeah, sure. To maybe have one here. Yeah, of course. We'll reach out. >> I mean, I can, but it would be also good
coming from you to help. >> Yeah, we we'll find out what they need from us and then we'll bring it back to you to see if they need some sort of approval for from the township committee. >> I mean, I you know, it's not just urban areas that >> of course. Yeah, great points.
>> Thank you. >> And I did just want to say that I have I've been board of healthcare for three years and I have just loved it. I've loved working with Davenport. I've loved working with you, Gabe. I've loved working with your predecessor, with all of our various staff that we've had in the health department. Um, so I'm it's
one of my sad things that I won't be able to chair this meeting anymore, but I look forward to hopefully continuing on the municipal alliance um with you all. So, thank you so much for your report, for your time. >> And now, >> yeah, now we open it up to public
comment from the public. So, seeing no one in the room, Mr. Wary, can you help facilitate online? If anyone joining on Zoom would like to address the board of health, please raise your hand. >> I see no hands. >> Thank you, Mr. Wary. Um, so with that, I
our next scheduled meeting is Tuesday, January 6, 2026 with a new board of health chair. And with that, I move to adjourn. >> I'll second. >> Mayor Adams. >> Yes. >> Mr. Duca, >> yes. Miss Herman.
>> Yes. >> Zangel. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Back to you, Mayor. >> Thank you, Miss Angel. Um, thanks for that. Uh, I think that was really important what you shared. Um, so thank you for doing that. Uh, we have one
ordinance on for introduction. Um, Miss Britzen 3175-25. >> Uh, yes, Mayor. On introduction ordinance number 3175-25 is an ordinance amending and supplementing chapter 187 of the code of
the township of Mapwood entitled outdoor dining to prohibit smoking in outdoor cafes and shreeries. This ordinance will amend and supplement article one and article two of chapter
187 of the township code to establish prohibitions on smoking any substance in outdoor dining areas within the township. >> Okay, thank you. Can we get a motion? Miss Herman
wasn't prepared for that. 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 December 16th. >> That's it. I'll second. >> Thank you very much.
>> Roll call. >> Mr. Duca, >> yes. >> Single. >> Yes. >> Herman. >> Yes. >> Mayor Adams. >> Yes. Thank you. We have no other ordinances on, so we'll move to reports from departments. Mr. Wary, >> I have no report tonight. Mayor, >> what? >> Yep.
>> Okay. >> I had a question for you, Mr. I was going to open it up. >> My question was I know we've talked a lot about the bike lanes being installed starting November 24th, but I don't know that they've been finished. I was just curious about what the timeline is. >> Yeah, my understanding they've been
started, not finished. I don't know the timing of that, but I can find out from Mr. Kitner tomorrow. >> Thank you, >> Mr. >> I'm hoping it's done before I'm done here. >> Yeah, that the expectation. Absolutely. Oh, it has to be done. >> The weather was changing so it's
>> I believe the they're doing paving. They're doing striping this week >> 1st through the 5th. >> Yep. They were out there already this week. They're just they're not complete yet. >> Um, >> good question. >> So, yeah, I have two things. The Ballards at Bernett and Tuscan Road,
Bernett Avenue and Tuscan Road, they were they were removed in the paving. It was a question whether they were damaged in the paving or not. Um they have not been replaced. The paving's been done since September. >> Okay.
>> Um it is I've received just this week received two emails about the dangerous conditions there with left turns. Uh >> um I know Mr. Kitner is in conversations with the paving company.
>> Uh maybe you, Mr. Weary, Mr. Cidio need to get involved because there could be a dispute there as to who's responsible, >> but they're just they're just lying on the sidewalk behind the Walgreens there. Doesn't make any sense. At a minimum, we
should put some cones back up like we used to. >> Agreed. >> So that we don't have left turns. Okay. Second thing is out of the blue, and I don't know who this person is, sent me really disturbing pictures from the community fridge of all the stuff that >> Yeah, we
>> has been there. >> You mean uh garbage? >> Not only garbage, but people are bringing chairs and furniture there and all. I'll send you the pictures, but >> you could go over and take a look and just sort of come up with a strategy. I
know there was a lot of stuff brought up around Thanksgiving. >> Yeah. >> Around just Yes, we will follow up on it. So that you're aware, we collect garbage there six days a week. Uh and we collect cardboard recycling there every other day. Um and then we did get an
increased number of drop offs uh around the holidays. So, but we'll follow up on that. >> Yeah, this is like chairs and all kinds of stuff. >> I sent him the emails. >> Yep. I got them. >> Okay. >> You got those emails? >> Yeah, we all did. >> Yeah, we we all
>> we all did. Okay. >> I didn't get them. >> Count your blessings. >> You're lucky. I did talk with Mr. Wary about this and talking with the health department and DPWs a couple times regarding this this past week. >> Okay.
>> Um health department should probably go over to and just kind of check it out. Yeah, >> because we were talking about um one, you know, accusation. There's also a petition to um out there to move the
community fridge, which is something we're considering anyway for other reasons, but we haven't finalized anything. Right. >> That's right. >> Okay. Any other questions for Mr. Wary? >> Just going back to the cones and the
ballards. People think that you can make left turns there now. Yeah, >> I've heard from friends. >> You can, >> right? Cuz you But so even with the colons, maybe like the signs back up again or maybe we could do something >> funny on social media. >> Fair enough.
>> Or ticket. Um, >> no report, mayor. >> Okay. Everybody's just anxious to get back into close session. Okay. Any questions for our attorney? Nope. our township clerk. You always
have a report. I love reports. Okay. Um just to uh give an overview of what's coming up with um elections and uh we have uh two upcoming election
dates to fill the uh US House of Representatives Congressional District 11. There'll be a special primary on February 5th and there'll also be uh the general um election for that position on
April 16th. So, we will um obviously get the information out on the website for the public um as far as all the uh deadlines, hash marks for um you know, registration
and uh it will then be part of four elections that we have uh in 2026. uh these two in addition to a June uh primary election and a November general
election. So um lucky us, we have four elections in 2026 and uh you know information will follow. Uh I also want to report that the uh township reorganization meeting will be
Thursday, January 1st uh 2026 beginning at 2 pm. And um we are already in in the midst of making plans and um yeah, it's going to be a great
reorganization meeting um with uh clergy, music, everything you've come to expect over, you know, the last uh several years. But again, a 2 p.m. start. And uh just to remind you that our next meeting on December 16th, we
will be beginning in uh open session for the agenda portion at 8:00 p.m. so that the township committee can attend a um a civic event, specifically the manura lighting. That is all that I have.
>> All right. Any questions for our township clerk? Seeing none, we'll move on to elected official reports. Miss Angel, >> I just want to say um happy giving Tuesday to all of the nonprofits um in Maplewood. Um I had a YouthNet meeting
um since our last meeting and so it's just they were honored at our last reorganization meeting um and that they are one of our organizations um who have fundraising going on. We have so many different organizations fundraising. So thank you all for all you do. Thank everyone for donating and that is my
report. >> Okay, any questions for Miss Engle? Seeing none, we'll move on to Mr. Duca. >> Thank you, Mayor. Uh, just a couple things. This Thursday night at 7:30,
we're going to have a uh meeting on the Ridgewood Road Historic District idea. It's going to be over at the Woodland in the uh the main hall there. Um again we'll have our consultants make presentations and there'll be an
opportunity for the participants to uh engage in the process. Um the second thing is uh we at the public safety meeting we asked the chief uh now that he has a full complement of
parking enforcement officers to really enforce the law in um Babwood Village and um I think what's happening is that people now are saying you know where are the Uber drivers and and people just running in to pick up a pizza and stuff
going to park. So, I would like to suggest that from now until um after the holidays that we authorize Mr. Weary to work with Mr. Kitner to um pull out
those old COVID signs. We used to have those 15minute signs. We had we had them on >> Oh, I pull them off the street. They're already off the street >> and put a couple over at Roman Gourmet and a couple over at Words. And um I mean I don't think they're going to
they'll have the uh um we you know in order to change in order to write tickets you'd have to do the ordinance. We're not going to be able to do that. But at least we can um do what we did in COVID that we we recognize that there was a problem and we we can't get ahead of it at the moment and particularly
during the holidays just to give some relief so that we can uh provide some of this. So, I would just suggest we do. >> You're talking about the 15minute parking for drop off. Yes, I'm very much in support of that, mentioning how >> we need places for ride shares,
>> right? And that's and that's something that we talked about and that's something that we're going to pursue with the village alliances. They're talking about parking and all that, but that's going to take time. >> Yeah. >> And this is just a a quick thing. >> I think it's a great idea. >> I think it's an okay idea
>> if we know where the signs are. Do we know where the signs are? Okay, >> we're on board. >> Yeah, hopefully we can get some feedback from residents. >> You're on board. >> Yes, >> on board. >> You kind of had no choice, right? >> And then the last thing is I just want
to uh share with you something that was in my drink. >> Jeez. >> In my Mai, my little >> I brought this back. This was uh Sunday night little my Thai. And so just want to say I'm back. >> Yeah. Great. And mayor, if if you'd
like, I'll I'll be >> Oh, gee. Thank you so much. >> You didn't bring the sunshine. >> Yeah, >> I didn't bring any sunshine. Man, it's cold here. >> Brought your tan. >> Can't believe it. >> Yes, it is cold. You're in the Northeast. >> Yes. >> You're not in Hawaii anymore. >> Anybody have any questions for Mr.
Hawaii over here? >> Anybody want the M Thai umbrella? >> No. >> Your hometown >> or state? All right, we'll move on to deputy. >> Well, not anymore. Maplewood's my home.
Um, so let me tell you about some really exciting things we've got coming up. If you've warmed up your wallet this weekend, shopping small business Saturday, please keep it open and hop over to 1978 Maplewood Arts Center for
our special curded holiday art market. The market will be open s this Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 4 p.m. But if you want to jump on fellow shoppers, you can join us for a special pre-opening sale this Thursday night from 7 from 6
to 8:00 p.m. and that is at the 1978 center. Uh lots of amazing art for sale this weekend. Please join us Saturday at Rickleton Square for the annual tree lighting at 4:30 p.m. Dickens Village opens earlier on Saturday with Santa's
arrival at 100 p.m. So you can make a day of it. We have last call for our senior holiday party which is this uh which will be Thursday, December 11th at 12:00 p.m. at the Woodland. And then
next weekend the fun continues Saturday, December 13 with another tree lighting. this time at the gazebo at Hilton Library on Springfield Avenue. Join us at 400 pm for some snacks and music from the students at Seth Bdon and Tuscan elementary schools as well as the Soma
Pop Choir. And then the very next day on Sunday, December 14th, you can visit Duran Heden and view the winning entries at the annual gingerbread house competition. Um, I'm really looking forward to this one because this year I was asked to be one of the judges.
And finally, please join us in two weeks from tonight, December 16th, for the annual Hanukkah manura lighting. It will be held at Rickleton Square at 6 PM. Thank you. That's my report. All right. Any questions for Miss Herman?
Okay. So, you've covered all the events. Next uh December 16th meeting will be a half hour later, correct? Because of the minora lightings. >> Yes. So, we will start close session 7:30 and open session at 8:00 PM.
So, that's I have that's my report. Okay, we'll move on. We have no discussion items on. So, we can go straight to the consent agenda. Does anyone want to move it? >> I move the consent agenda. >> Mr. Duca, >> yes. >> Miss Angel, >> yes.
>> Sherman, >> yes. >> Mayor Adams, >> yes. This brings us to public comment on any subject matter. If there are anyone in the public online who would like to speak and address to the township committee. >> If anyone joining on Zoom would like to
speak in public portion, please raise your hand. I see no hands. Mayor, >> you see these? >> Nothing. >> Okay. All right. With that, I'll take ex Well, I'll move that we go back into close session.
Did I get a second? >> Second. You have to read. >> I have something to read. Okay. >> Whereas section 8 of the open public meetings act chapter 231 public 1975 permits exclusion of the public from a
me meeting in certain circumstances. And whereas this public body is the opinion that such circumstances presently exist now therefore be resolved by the township committee township of Mapwood County of Essics State of New Jersey as follows. The public shall be excluded
from discussion upon any action upon the hearing specified subject matter. The general nature of the subject matter be discussed as follows. Personnel uh Mr. Weary anything else or just personnel? uh contract
>> the same topics as earlier. >> Yeah, same topics as before. >> It's uh let's see uh personnel and um fair share mediation potential agreement. >> It's anticipated this time that the both stated subject make will be made public.
>> So I move it >> second. >> Mr. Luca, >> yes. >> Sangel, >> yes. >> Murman, >> yes. >> Mayor Adams, >> yes. Thank you. We will come back into open >> after to end the meeting. Right. >> Mhm.