##VIDEO ID:tQUy_OKrs5U## turned on now we are all right pH how are you how are you happy holiday everybody good evening everyone if you please stand and join me in a pledge of allegiance in prayer please to flag United States of America to the stand one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all God we ask you bless this governing body with an abundance of wisdom and understanding so that in fulfilling their public trust every deliberation will result in actions that will promote the common good and general welfare for all the people of Mars plain notice to members of the governing body of burrow staff any use of electronic devices during this meeting shall be used Sol for the purpose of approval of minutes stand I move that the minutes of conference executive and regular session from December 5th 2024 be approved is there a second second second by Dennis all in favor I oppos abstain eyes have it approval of consent agenda and the report I that the reports approved from November 2024 Municipal Court building inspector Animal Control bar clerk animal licensing tax collector and Treasurer and resolution 2024 170 entitled approving settlement on appeal from assessment Matt C 5 moris PLS B Block 171 lot 1250 Johnson Road uh docket numbers all those numbers there Mars County our file number 11,487 resolution 2024 171 entitled resolution authorizing the award of non contracts for Professional Services for calendar year 2025 resolution 2024 172 entitled resolution authorizing the 5e extension of the license of management agreement for Davenport Village 26 Road resolution 2024 173 intitled resolution authorizing title 39 Motor Vehicle Enforcement for 18521 and 221 tab Road known as block 151 blocks 2.011 2.12 and 2.13 in accordance with the request of the property owner resolution 2024 174 entitled resolution reappointing Ralph Bando as a member of the southeast mors County Municipal Utilities Authority resolution 2024 175 entitled bar Mars Plains Mars County adaptive recreational program resolution 2024 176 entitled transfer of funds resolution 2024 177 resolution requesting approval of item of Revenue and appropriation njsa 4A 487 Department of Community Affairs local Recreation Improvement Grant resolution 202478 entitled cancel unexpended 2024 budget appropriation balances resolution 2024 179 entitled refund of overpayment resolution 202 24-180 entitled resolution authorizing New Jersey Department of Community Affairs local recreational approvement 2025 gr application Maria Emilia Lopez parttime cleaning maintenance received $21 an hour for cleaning of the community center and team Center in the absence of Mohammad Sal the mayor be approved to sign the LIC agreement between spatial data logic LLC sdl and the Mars barom Mar ples the following employees be granted permission to carry vacation time from 2024 to 2025 which shall be used by March 31st 2025 officer Anthony cardena Police Department 12 hours officer Kelvin preiato Police Department 32 hours John sarelli superintendent DPW 40 hours Kevin Rango acting assistant superintendent DPW 40 hours Roy Chavez labor DPW 40 hours Seymour Foreman assistant senior mechanic DPW 32 hours Robert fet labor DPW 24 hours Rosemary Le lean Deputy clerk seven hours Anna Thomas CFO collector 35 hours Nicole Sita clerk's office 28 hours Rosanne demon bar clerk 35 hours mayor be authorized to execute a contract with animal control Solutions Inc to provide animal control services to the Bur from January 1 2025 through December 31 2026 one thing here though that I want to point out was not um we didn't have a a discussion with the Council on the reappointment of r fando as a member of SMC MUA um advice and consent of the council is required for that and I don't think we had a discussion so can I pull that out put under resolution okay I that we the resolution 2024 174 and move it to resolutions number 13 on the agenda is there a second second second by Dennis call please please M yes Mr yes Mr yes Miss Kelly yes yes I'd like to welcome everybody here tonight like to open up the public invitation anybody wish I wanted to raise the concern about ordinance 14-223 for the drive through restaurants in the2 business Zone I would like to you know while we can't go back in time to prevent the tragedy of the McDonald um which unfortunately has been an emotional topic that's many has downgraded our town to a bit of a highway off ramp um I would still like to protect our town from additional deterioration or degradation and danger by reversing the drive-through restaurant um change from that um ordinance back to the B2 Zone without the drive-thru restaurants so again McDonald's we know what the boat outcome was last night but there are other properties that could potentially decide now to change to a drive- through restaurant and I think we all heard um the concerns of the town around the danger and my concern is that we would further exacerbate the problem and the deterioration of our town if we don't close this store before other businesses come in with applications that are headed down a path so what we heard last night is the minute that permissible use went through um some you know some of the people on the plan board felt that that was that was it right it was a done deal and I don't want any more done deals if we can realize that the thoughts that went into preparing that um ordinance or the changing that ordinance were dated back in the pandemic and we don't have the same issues now and the town made it clear they'd rather an empty a vacant lot than a drive-through restaurant right for the sake of this town so I would like to put it to this group to see if we can revisit that change um for that ordinance to put a put a stop to this and close the door for future drive through restaurants in B2 business in the B2 Z so I'm not exactly how to go about that um to ask for a resolution on that um or someone to work on that to to push that topic forward the um the ordinance committee will certainly look at that star okay and if if there can be some urgency about it so that we don't have another application in our lab headed down a path that where we we can't stop it so beginning of January pardon the beginning of January okay I'm glad for your commitment to that thank you 11 dayon Road I'm just wondering if the town has budgeted has done the police budget or given them increase for the upcoming year Well I urge the council to do so because I know they're already busy and we need we will definitely need more officers with McDonald's I can promise you that we'll probably need at least one um after the McDonald's being approved last night you're definitely going to need one to just cover the calls that I anticipate making from the moment demolition Begins the vote last night spoke volumes as to how some of our town Representatives feel about the citizens and their quality of life in the community of caring unfortunately this puts me and my neighborhood in a position that we cannot sit quietly and let more detriment happen I to call every single time there's anything I feel that is not being followed by the books I've already spoke to Chief kski and I apologize to him in advance um but I will have his number memorized and on speed dial so I urge that we give more funding to the police department because it will definitely be needed um on a different note I've sat here before at least on two other occasions complaining about the garbage and rotted fence in the Friendly's parking lot a fence that was falling into my property for years with no consideration from the property owner that was just rewarded last night um he's never made the smallest effort to try to maintain it to any sort of acceptable condition at the end of the June meeting council meeting I believe it may have been might have been the plan board meeting I spoke directly with you mayor car and asked who I should contact in the town to complain he said you would reach out to the property owner's lawyer and see what could be done and he did in fact do that as you promised and called the lawyer although it took over a month before only half of the fence has been replaced and since then the old fencing has been sitting in a pile outside my living room window in their parking lot for me to enjoy looking at every day after coming back to more Council meetings and complaining again once again about the garbage and the old fencing now piled up in the parking lot at October 17th meeting I was promised it would be taken care of and guess what it's still there I would like to know what fines that property owner has been given for this violation and i' also to know why has the zoning officer not been held accountable for performing his duties but I would definitely like to take a moment and thank Mrs verga for taking the time to come out and see for herself what my complaints were I I had urged everybody and maybe some have I only know of Mrs verga coming to the property and seeing for herself and that's it happy holidays we did have after the meetings the road department did go out there there was complaint about the bags and whatever else was out there is that I was wondering clean that up you know around the outskirts of that property so why has the property owner not been held accountable but you rewarded last night anybody else Craig Mor s Hill View Avenue uh I'm flabbergasted and appalled by the irant dog and pony show to which my fellow residents and I have Bor witness to over the past seven months as I know you're all aware of the planning board approved McDonald's application for the two Parcels of land on Speedwell Avenue just a little more than 200 feet from my house while four board members apparently had enough questions on topics ranging from the parking lot size to the safety of our Town's people another board member prior to putting one of the final Nails in the coffin simply stated that all the questions have been answered and voted yes words cannot describe the level of Shame towards the individuals who approved this this Abomination while all the people who were in the community center last night may live in the community of caring it's apparent that not everyone there cares the same amount 34 place um so disappointed mayor car and Mr SK I can't believe you did this today I really can't totally I'm just so disappointed um Chief gry can I ask you a question sure did you submit anything to the McDonald's applicant the bo PL police am I permitted to answer John sorry am I permitted to answer the question what was the question did the submit anything MD sorry any comment to the mor McDonald AF did the police department yes you can answer that question yes I did okay thank you um so I was on a jury once it was actually a murder trial about 10 12 years ago um about a six week jury uh trial one of the jurors fell asleep multiple times and he was recused from the jury we can not have people falling asleep at planning board when I spoke he was asleep until I said his name he's a great man he was a great mayor but the time has come I urge you to make that change thank you Bill greco9 hiby way on a different note I would just like to wish each of you a merry Christmas happy Hanukkah happy K Quanza enjoy your holidays I will be in Florida thank you have a good day seeing no one else I close the publiction reports of committees and or department heads I'm sorry fin that's okay you can skip pass I I don't have a report time there I'm going to save my uh my year end for next week my last council meeting up here anyway they Public Safety Mr Cortez thank you mayor it's a short report you know we had all the meetings we had three meetings quickly and one more next week next week uh from the police side um we're getting a new car new hybrid number six should be coming in uh tomorrow tomorrow so police department is very happy and then it'll it'll go out for January for all the bells and missiles what we need for the Coury equipment and also vehicle number four that was by sad by guys might not know by drunk driver is being repaired and should be operational by also mid January so we have a lot more cars um our fire chief is here too Kin did you want to say anything go I don't have I don't have much this uh this evening which is rare for me but uh I'll just report quickly on the uh the deer coal for the burrow uh total since uh the last one was harvested on November 1st our standed at 12 eight female four male and for the dep it's kind of year end report time uh crunching numbers for our 2025 budget request that's all I have Merry Christmas happy holiday stay safe good evening everyone everybody stay warm here uh as of today as of right now we're uh 398 398 calls for the year so we're hitting that 400 marks soon maybe or could just stay there um I looked I did some research uh of those 398 calls 99 of them are mutually request so that's 99 calls we have gone out of town and that's not just with our but with so we held our uh 2025 elections assistant Engineers Tyler Shay engineer Dave kitchell Chief three will be is Mark Bellis Chief Two is Bob Webster that's not unfortunate they're all here tonight right I see I see I see Tyler can you guys stand up for a minute call your name as as I gave the nickname it's the best fire department east of Mississippi thank uh let's see we uh we were able to bring Santa through the tree lighting safely the kids enjoyed it they love Santa so it was a good time weather wasn't too bad either that was a good thing uh we're going to do our Santa tour this Sunday at uh we're start at 11:00 a.m. so we have the two engines back so we're going to do the whole town again we're to do stops we last year we only so we will be out there 11 the stre that's again some of our guys we do it every year we do for our Widow we bring out give them point setas and a gift so our guys did that last Saturday the widows love that and we appreciate the widows what they gave up Hanukkah Gil drop will be there with the the ladder to help the rabbi with the Bel drop on the 29th and then the next day we the truck down get lad so the lad I want to thank the uh governing body for and the police chief for giving us our old vehicle power that's in service now ch2 is using it and it's it's helping us greatly get through the traffic on get U also want to thank the governing body for making fire prevention Marshall position full time I just have some stats here that just blow my mind from January this year to May at part time there was only 136 inspections done from June to December 19th full time 78 INSP that's total for Year date is 844 Revenue brought in in just half a year 7,435 48 compared to last year 36 143 5 six months you said yeah that's from June so he's been able to get a lot State money was there unid over get one of that one person that's so I mean it's it's not anyone's fault that the money was out there it was just people they left the business and they didn't know about it and uh majority of the businesses now that that Chris is but he has approached uh he's informed them what it was all about he's given them the website to go to for the state and there's been no push back people okay I mean a couple people were like amazed was a bill that high on the property but they uh they worked it out and they come up with the money you know benefited us so just want we had a a problem right so that guy down in the state what's his name division yeah area don't he was very helpful called him and out his number and said whoever call out yeah richus is but I don't think that's I can't remember very help and they're going to be the dog the that comes out you know it's but it was good that he was able to talk to the business owner explain the whole thing that and I just like I said I want to thank every governing body for this I think this was a uh experiment has gone in the right direction from the town uh can't I got an extra guy on the road during the day fantastic it's it's keeping the town safe and that's what we have to do we have to keep the town safe and but you know I can't can't express it enough we're fortunate in more SP I don't know how we do it I don't know why how it happens but we have people that want to volunteer in this time it's great that my job a lot easier I'll tell you what um the guys I have as officers and the membership behind them didn't do anything they train they want to learn they want to do what has to get done uh we I'm very proud of this this department and I think everybody probably in this room should be proud of this department because if you go to other towns you don't have this so that's why we're going on some mutual calls and see people are saying that we have the man we get things done and uh they appreciate it so I think I think you guys your on the back to part of the to give us the tools now you guys deserve a lot of credit like I always say 100% volunteer 100% of the time not even just Mutual aid but you do the fun things here cha and all the holidays and all that kind of stuff all everybody here dedicated as much time as they do is really fantastic and you guys really deserve a lot of credit your officers and teaching the younger guys and everything I think that's part of why kids come and and recruit keep them active doing stuff they're learning so think it's congratulations to you rest your offic [Applause] he was a Niner serving on public safety and I hope I hope I did pretty good job you let me know later but I I do want to sh have a public big big public tonight during the co years this is what touched my heart the most during Co years our fire department got together their houses and every little kid that had a birthday they went there bells whistles and sang them happy birthday and I'm just that touches my heart and I say the community carrying right there and art I think art drove the truck so I I thank you all and I'll never forget that in my life because it was just we were all down during the covid times we were didn't know where to go our country everything but yet you guys lifted our spirits up and it's something Kevin I'm going to tell you right now now I take to my grave and it's just I love you man thank [Applause] you oh see thought I talk a l this is important we still got trees s right we have 85 trees left the BFW so whoever hasn't got one please come over and we might give one bu one get one free at this point actually if anybody does know anybody that's in need will donate whether it's a church uh family in need we're willing and happy to do that I can deliver anybody with pickup TRS and also I was up at our Communications deer yesterday looking answer the siren so siren will be back the siren will be back I know you guys have been looking at different models the insurance insurance so you explain to everybody getting simar to what we had same same sound uh we're not going to mount it on a pole in the back we're actually going to mount it on the roof on the far end of the building so it sticking above the the roof line and uh we're still toying with the idea of doing a bringing back the 5:00 test and that could be done uh the timer set that's how we knew dinner was ready 5 o' whistle man be get home get Ked thank you all and merry Christmas happy holidays depart I just uh just I know he's going to not like me but we have somebody here retiring from the moris county Communication Center uh Mark bis he's been there I believe answering calls and doing the duty that do up there not just answering calls come up the ranks for 36 years and really uh retiring here towards the end of the month 27th I think is your last day so congratulations job well done people don't realiz people don't realize that really that is the first touch for any 911 911 call is one of those operators he's graduated from that and everything on your roll up there really Priceless nothing good things thank you very much thank you appreciate it moving on we have Public Works Mr BR thank you may just to add to Chief Rango there was the building was built in 1941 and in front of the Bays were these Black Lanterns I'll call them that have been up there for I think about 83 years I did a quick calculation and they haven't worked in the 28 years I've been a volunteer firefighter so the mayor and the buildings grounds committee decided to get them sent out so they've been sand blasted repaired and repainted and did they pick them up today Kevin or do you know they called today to tell us that they were ready so we're excited to get them back on they'll be lit just little sentimental thing but it was I thought it was pretty cool so on to DPW um DPW continues to work daily on their police and uh road department Vehicles U they pick up garbage in our Parks which we appreciate uh they had set up for the uh McDonald's meetings at the community center they finished up blowing leaves on all the burel properties uh they finished the holiday decoration awesome as always they've collected 580 cubic yards of leaves so far this period uh they assisted clearw services with pump problems at American Road pumping station and the snow has fallen not greatly but they have salted uh twice our roads and they do help with the school grounds and they help with the of the new rotary clock and then moris Township Sewer Department brought their back truck to help us at American Road pump out some debris that was stuck in our wet well and they did a SE sewer detail the r generators and clean sewers four times period so we appreciate all they do beautification is hibernating with the other bears and animals they're going to wait for the spring to come out and they'll start their beautifying our town so we appreciate everything everybody does thank you thank you public buildings and not here if anybody has a report Mo on public all our parks are beautiful public building Public Health sanitation STS nanc okay the Board of Health met on Wednesday December 11th and discussed plans for the upcoming rabies clinic mark your calendar Saturday January 4th from 1 to 3 p.m. at the bar garage online registration is now open on the bar website we are hoping this year to increase the use of online registration to prevent Frozen pens for people standing out in the cold filling out their registration forms know fun for the volunteer so if you can register online it'd be great for everybody we approved Dr Werner as our burough veterinarian for 2025 an authorized payment and they reported that the increases in cases of RSV flu and walking pneumonia are spiking as well as co uh so take care during the holidays there's a flyer out on out on the desk outside there about these free cancer screenings for women who do not have health insurance that are coming with Atlantic Health on January febru in January February March take a look at the FL probably also in the weekly email and the municipal Alliance uh had met on December 2nd they are beginning there are programed seven habits of highly effective teens which is a multi-week presentation for seventh graders Alliance has been sponsoring this for a few years at Burrow school and it will start January ending in February um I just want to make a statement here I can't um weigh in on what what happened in the burrow this past these past months but I do want to validate residents who came together to advocate for this community I know you took time away and I'm reading because I'm not eloquent and I can't speak off the cuff so I know that was criticized last night and I I relate to that so um I just want to say that the love and care that the residents have for this place uh is definitely unquestionable and um I can't share my personal views I I do know that the outcome did not align with the vision of many residents and was disappointing and even devastating to some um and and I really think that this is a time for accountability and transparency and it's a time for us to look at Lessons Learned and take a hard look at our leadership and our processes and make changes that are necessary so we're better representing the people in this community uh the frustration of Voters was evident in the outcome of the elections this year both locally at the national level level so I think we need to take that seriously as a message for us and how we conduct business at every level of government and um I'd like to see us try to find some new ways to expand the availability of information to residents at every stage of decision making scaming meetings is one that I hope we can accomplish early in the year I know we have a volunteer doing that and some of us in U some of us that will be on the council next year would like to see that become an official practice um find new ways to encourage residents to share their insights and personal experience before decisions are made ensuring that we have the right people in the right positions people who are committed to putting politics aside to do what is best for the community as a whole and double down on the need to treat everyone with respect and dignity focusing Less on the process and more on delivering positive outcomes I I know that when I redid the website several years ago as part of that committee we made sure that our emails phone numbers are on the website so please reach out to me if you have other thoughts on where we can do better um somebody had a conversation tonight about Risin I believe and that has already been discussed in fact it was discussed the night we voted on it when you know there was discussion that we can change it the next day we did not change it the next day there was not the will of the council to do so but I do believe that next year there will be and um along with other ordinances that need to be um strengthened so um please keep the faith um and um and we we Tred to do better by you thank you ordinances and Public Utilities C yes thank you mayor um firstly they were supposed to be a presentation tonight by the three girls that I mentioned at our last meeting from Girls Scout through 96 845 um they were GNA they will eventually uh talk about their bike rack that they have planned for the teen center house one of girls got sick and they all wanted to be together to uh share the information so they canel and that will be set at the next available opening we have in January also the um I need to thank the PBA local for hosting their annual Christmas party at Arthur's it was a fun night for all of us um and it's always something to look forward to also I need to thank Chief Longo for bringing Santa and Mrs Claus to the lighting as great as they were the girls who danc at the beginning of the ceremonies at the Christmas tree lighting were fantastic these little young dancers were out there they hadn't we hadn't seen them since before Co and then the girls who are more um Middle School age were out there dancing and I'm telling you they look like they were future Rockets it was a great great evening um and also the Christmas band concert if anybody I don't know I don't remember seeing any of you here there but it was an excellent another excellent band performance with Larry Ripley as our leader and there are 43 members in that band and it was fantastic um on another important issue there's a legislative update it's uh regarding the trees ordinance that's why it's kind of been our our tree ordinance has kind of been put on hold we've been working on it for a long time U but there's pending legislation opposing the D's tree ordinance it's a 4260 it prohibits D from requiring certain municipalities to adopt ordinance that controls tree removal and replacement and um once we see where that happens we will continue Tre that's have we have no introduction of ordinances but we do have them on second reading Kell is any I miss speaking having a night issue [Music] sorry yeah now I know the drill no that's okay because he might start I'm Carolyn Bennett 19 dayon Road this is Carson um if you're interested in this age of the year um I literally cry every time I talk he's a year old because when he was born it was October of 2023 um similarly that's when I guess I got a lot of important mail so I did not read the pages of political jargon outlining the rezoning ordinance in very close proximity to our house so I come here because my ask is I believe it was a certified piece of mail someone may have signed for it I didn't read it I was post start with twins in a very bad place we were in L town for more than 5 days so is there any way that important things that will literally change our quality of life can be communicated to the public in a better way than just a piece of mail that we hope we read Because if there's another thing that comes through the mail about this whole McDonald's thing I can't promise I'm going to one understand it or two I'm scared if one of my kids grabs it or or whatnot so I don't know what the solve is but I I just I I can't be quiet about it so I just want to know if there's a different way that like everything's important but something like that was clearly super important and I would have showed up here and fought the rezoning ordinance I'm sure you guys know that by now that's how I feel um but yeah I feel like I got screwed over and my voice couldn't have been heard because I literally was not there reading this piece of paper so I don't know who gives me an answer I think it's I think it's uh it's on the website um when when those things happen the agendas for the meetings uh usually those are on here like was an ordinance so those are on there um you get the certifi it's advertised newspaper what newspaper I don't get a newspaper it's in our moris newsby is the newspaper that is the official paper of the B to pay for it so I have to pay to get information like this and then you have certified Lo that comes directly to each individual okay so if one receives said letter and I'm looking at you because I feel like you might understand most a lot of the language in there do I email you and ask you to help me dissect it because I did find that letter and I did not understand all of the things it means and I don't want to pay an attorney to translate it from me so so the answer there would be you wouldn't contact me for further guidance because I represent the bur here not as a as a resident I'm not your attorney but so so you could seek out private counsel to explain it but probably more importantly the situation in which you receive the the certified notice because you're within 200t of of of the the change or within the the change itself then that would be a time to come to Bur talk to the clerk or ask for further guides all they're doing is putting you on notice of what they what was what was happening so if you have further questions or you need clarification you can always come to tap homeall and and talk to people quite frankly even though I'm not your attorney if you want to reach out to me in the future I'd be happy to talk to you about something and try and provide some clarification on it too I don't know exactly what went out to you in October of 2023 but but having said that when you get those know this is you know you're free to come to bur all and ask questions and even though a lot of Municipal attorneys won't I I will speak to you if you reach out all the ordinances and everything are posted over here in town Hall's there's many ways it feels like a lot of like proactive I have to stay on top of it rather than like hey you need to read this this is really important so is that like that is the correct I just have to keep refreshing the page I think especially uh when you get a certified letter that that's pretty important um because that's how it's sent out to make sure that it is received um so that was probably the most important document that went out why did you come early Carson should have come on time um okay well then my second concern and this will be my last one for this meeting but I'm sure I'll be around is this is also Carson's inhaler it's not mine he um he takes it quite frequently and the pi you knows him so because our lovely lot is now going to be possibly demolished construction all of that if there is any way that you guys can keep my face my address in the back of your head if there's anything important I need to know about the air quality or anything that is going to be affecting my son that would be really helpful obviously I screwed up last year and I didn't read this ordinance but I am going to refresh those pages pay money to the newspaper to hopefully be on top of anything that will affect his breathing when he's running around in his own backyard I am so nervous about the construction part of this among all of the other things but I I Don't Want To Miss A Beat there so if there's any special thing that can be done for the residents on Dayton other than just a certified letter I would appreciate that and I'm sure other people would as well because there are other people on the street with health issues cool thank thanks for letting me talk out of the Forum before before we continue with ordinances may I just I'm sorry doesn't have anything to do there is someone sitting in the audience who did perform at the Christmas concert and it's Tina janest yes I do in the Corell I know I just wanted to mention it because I said I didn't see anybody here who was there at the concert but you were you singing thank you yes sir wash your moving on to yes I council member Kelly read by TI read by title the ordinance entitled ordinance number 10224 an ordinance concerning salaries and Longevity pay which ordinance was introduced and passed on the first reading at a meeting held on December 5th 2024 the mayor announced that the meeting was open for a public hearing on the ordinance the following persons were heard ioun that the meeting is open for a public hearing this ordinance uh just sets the salary ranges for all our non-un employees see no and I Clos the public High council member Kelly state that the above ordinance as read by title on second reading at this meeting be adopted and finally passed is there a second second second by nany roll call please M yes Mr BR yes mrz yes Kelly yes Mr I council member Kelly read by title the ordinance entitled ordinance number 11224 an ordinance providing for the partial supplementation and repeal of certain fees set forth in the Fe schedule on of the bur of Morris Plains chapter 2 section 2-46 in the revised ordinance of the buau of mors Plains New Jersey 1972 which ordinance was introduced and passed on first reading at a meeting held on December 5th 2024 the mayor announced that the meeting was open for a public hearing on the ordinance I announce that the meeting is open for a public hearing anybody wish to comment no one I close the public here I council member Kelly state that the above ordinance is read by title on seconding at this meeting be adopted and finally passed was there a second second please yes yes that ordinance just sets all the fees for the bur that the B charges up or down I council member Kelly read by title the ordinance entitled ordinance number 12224 an ordinance establishing pay grades and fixing salaries and benefits for the Department of Public Work works of the bur of Morris Plains which ordinance was introduced and passed on first reading at a meeting held on December 5th 2024 the mayor announced that the meeting was open for a public hearing on the ordinance I announc Mee open for a public hearing anybody wish to be heard see nobody I closed the public hearing I council member Kelly state that the above ordinance as read by title on second reading at this meeting be adopted and finally passed is there a second second second by call please Mr yes yes yes yes and again that just sets the P grad and the salaries for our DPW uh moving on to resolutions have yeah you want to table it I'd like to table it is there a motion to table the what number is it uh resolution 20474 is there a motion to table 20474 is there a second second all in favor I roll call please sorry m b yes Mr BR yes Mr yes Miss Kelly yes Mr rner yes we Have No unfinished business we have no new business we do have vouchers Mr W today December 19th checklist total of 2, 17443 195 is there a second second please yes yes we do have a need for another executive session couni conclusions of this regular meeting of the mayor B Council of the B which regular meeting has public the mayor council shall meet an executive session from which the public shall be excluded to discuss matters as permitted pursuant to njsa 10 4-12 subsection B7 and B B7 and B8 the time when the matter is discussed pursu to paragraph one here can be disclosed to the public is as soon as practicable after the final resolution of the matters is there a second second second by Dennis all in favor I opposed abstained we are in executive session like to thank everybody for coming out tonight and wish everybody a happy holiday seon