be ready I'd like to call the regular session meeting to order roll call please mayor Ramic here commissioner hwit here commissioner suie suie here vice mayor Watson here
commissioner casabon here do we have a pastor in the room thank you ma'am yes what's your name Miss Brattle can you please stand and give us invitation we please stand
for invocation and salute a flag after Heavenly Father we just thank you for this moment in time father I thank you for each and everyone that's here I pray that uh you would bless them Lord father I thank you for the town of mville Lord God so father I pray that as
uh our uh gentlemen and ladies go out to meet this emergency need father that your protection would be around them each and time they go out father I thank you for our commissioners Lord God I pray that you would give them wisdom and guidance Lord God to lead this fine city
of nobo we give you all the praise and all the glory in the precious name of Jesus amen amen I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liy and justice for all J this meeting is being conducted in accordance with the open public meeting Act of 1975 was advertised posted and made available to the public as required by Statute the municipal clerk is
directed to include a statement in the minutes of this meeting Madam clerk are there any changes to the agenda no mayor I will now be moving presentations up so we can begin the presentation process we will have the recognition ceremony of fire department by commissioner
hwit well first thing welcome everybody good to see everybody out here and all the visiting departments uh we'll start at the top and work our way around Chief liot you want to step up
here please bring your wife if you'd like to I said please bring anybody up you want I have a proclamation here I'm going to present to Chief Michael liot proc whereas effective March 1st
2025 Michael lipincott fire chief is retiring after 20 years of exemplary service to the city of milville and whereas Michael began his employment with the city of milville on December 5 2004 as a career firefighter after
serving as a volunteer firefighter for 14 years and was promoted to Captain October 9 2008 was then appointed to fire chief June 1 2015 and whereas Michael and his wife
Beverly of 36 years are proud are the proud parents of Matt and Sarah and grandparents of three grandchild and whereas Michael enjoys spending time with family he also enjoys
playing ice hockey and whereas Michael has remained a steadfast dependable and faithful employee showing interest and concern in his job thus enhancing the overall Public Safety of the city of milville now therefore be it proclaimed
that the Board of Commissioners of the city of milville do hereby honor Michael lipincott upon his retirement from the city of milville and applaud his unselfish Devotion to the city of milville thus wishing Michael good
health and happiness in the years ahead adopted March 4th 2025 and signed by the mayor and this all of these
[Applause] Commissioners not going to give any speeches that's that's for the the incoming group and the new Chief but uh I I just want do want to extend some thank you to uh obviously to director
huitt and to the Board of Commissioners for this and for all their support um you know we always didn't see eye to eye on everything when it came to budgets but um they were always willing to listen uh same with previous commission so we've gotten a lot done in the last 10 years I'm proud of that um thank you
and of course the biggest Thanks goes to my wife it's not not easy being the the wife of a firefighter especially as the chief um but thanks to her I the rest of the family here they they want guys want to come up a quick picture my son my son couldn't make it
he's he's working he works in law enforcement unfortunately he couldn't get off and uh so then my grandson couldn't make it either but the rest of the Clans here get a quick picture I'm going to get thanks
[Applause] again okay if I could have Chief John wetstein please step up front microphone is yours sir okay so I'm
going to speak before we do anything because I want to make it brief I know everybody likes to come out for this and uh I thank you all for coming on behalf of chief ameritus chief
lipincott soon to be Captain Scott Haley and our newest firefighter Nick buad Don we thank you for coming we appreciate you giving your time I want to thank the commission especially director hwit for believing
in me to lead the fire department moving forward and I look forward to working with you in the continued you know good uh I don't know I didn't prepare the sorry but the continued uh doing great you know progress that we make out
I want to thank everyone again for being here I'm just going to call a few people out I got my mom Louise Jones my dad John Francis wetstein Jr previous deputy chief for the fire department I got my brother senior
firefighter Patrick wetstein I have my mother-in-law Jane Christie and at this point I have other friends and family I didn't want to miss anybody so I stop there at this point I'm going to call up
my wife Rebecca and my daughter Lindsay for the swear ing in part I want to send a shout out to our other daughter Jonna who's in college Lindsay made it up from Virginia for college for this our other daughter Janna's at college and she couldn't make
it she's a little bit further away but for Janna it's no longer Hey cap now it's hey chief [Applause]
Lindsay's going to take my captain badge off and Rebecca's going to put my chief badge on and I just wanted to say to Rebecca I wouldn't be standing here without you [Applause]
[Applause] y your name I John Francis wetstein III do solemnly swear or affirm do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of
the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey that I will bear truth faith and allegiance that I will bear truth faith and allegiance to the same to the same and the government's established and the governments established in the united states in the United States and in this
state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will faithfully and that I will faithfully impartially impartially and and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of the office of fire chief of the office of fire chief according to
the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God [Applause]
now we'll bring up Captain Scott Haley and his wife and [Applause] family Tracy would you like to come up okay before uh we get into all the good
stuff I'm going to take a quick moment Scott's now a captain I've known him here for three and a half years I've known everybody three and a half years uh I'm going to present this helmet badge to his wife so that she can present it to him along with the pending
of his badge [Applause] w [Applause] [Applause] I say your name I Scott Haley do solemly
swear or affirm do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith and allegiance that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the same
and the government's established and the government's established in the united states in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will faithfully and that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties from all
the duties of the office of fire captain of the office of fire captain according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God [Applause]
congratulations thank you Larry you don't always drink [Applause] and now if we can bring forward our newest firefighter Nick [Applause]
Bon ready okay I state your name do solemnly swear or affirm do swear or that I will support the Constitution of the United States support the constition of United States and the constitution of the state of New
Jersey and the con constitution of state state of New Jersey that I will bear trueth faith and Allegiance I will bear truth faith and allegiance to the same to the same and the government's established and the government's established and the United States the United States and in the state and in
the state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will Faithfully faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the the duties of the office of firefighter of the office of firefighter according to the best of my ability
according to the best of my ability so help me go so help me [Applause] God okay I'll make a short so everybody can get out of here thanks we've uh we've been through a lot since I got into office I'm proud
to say just like with our Police Department that I've gotten to known every single person in this Firehouse glad to welcome Nick aboard and our volunteers we got a couple here tonight uh thank you everybody for coming back coming out
tonight and uh I shall see Chief captain and Nick what Squad you on Bei oh no I will uh catch you at the firehouse thanks everybody for coming out
congratulations [Applause] everybody I always get caught up right in here I don't know if I should do it all together because I always feel like
they're going to get is it too slow right there what I do is I normally say so keep this okay because to sentence is hard people remember I know right I usually break it end for like three or fourths I know I'll get it one day
hopefully I don't get congratulations [Music] that's yeah Joanna like I'd like to make a call for recess okay can I have a motion for recess motion for recess second all in
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