so when you do the order when do you want to make your announcement i'm going to pull that i'm going to make a motion to pull that what this one oh okay so when do you want to make your announcement right before we do that okay before you do the Okay
okay council President we're ready to start okay council agenda township precipitate Troy Hills regular Township Council meeting of March 25th 2025 introduction posting of notice adequate notice of this meeting has been provided in accordance with the retire with the requirements of the open public meetings
law by filing notice in the office of the township clerk and by posting the meeting notice on the bulletin board at the municipal building on March 20th 2025 which remained posted since that date notice was transmitted to the daily record in Newarkstar ledger on March 20th 2025 and posted to the township website on March 20th 2025 can I ask
everyone to please stand for the flag salute 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 okay roll call mr hernandez here mr
mcgrath here mr musella here Mr neglia here Mr karifi here also in attendance are business administrator Jamie Cryan Mayor James Barbario Township Attorney Michael Levery and Municipal Clerk Colet Madden council President we have a quorum can we begin yes please upcoming
meetings april 1st 2025 at 7 p.m is the agenda meeting and April 15th 2025 at 7 p.m is the regular meeting uh moving on to ordinances a second reading and public hearing uh ordinance 20251 at this time uh Council President the ordinance is in the process of being
reddrafted to include some additional language so I'll ask for a motion to table this ordinance while we're on this uh ordinance are we before Before we start I need a motion in a second and then you can second okay so motion made by uh Miss Hernandez seconded by Mr mcgrath go ahead Mr
michelle yeah my my point about uh ordinance 2025 colon 1 and ordinance 2025 colon 2 um is the fact that New Jersey law requires that all ordinances on second reading like this one be advertised to the public in at least 10
days notice and it's been made aware to me that the township did not advertise to the public within at least 10 days that uh there would be a public hearing on both of these ordinances tonight at this location uh well first of all they did advertise 10 days prior to uh it
always is advertised 10 days prior to i can assure you that and you can check the newspaper second of all there is no public hearing on this particular ordinance because it's going to be tabled and uh the next ordinance is also uh not going to be tabled but we're going to I'm going to have Michael Avery instruct you guys to basically kill this
ordinance because it also has to be reddrafted so uh that point at this particular time is moved but I can assure you Mr miscella that all ordinances for public hearing are advertised appropriately and according to the law okay but to be clear so both ordinances will not be voted on tonight so anyway that is correct okay all right
so we have uh a motion made by Mr mcgrath and seconded by Mr hernandez this motion is to table mr hernandez oh yes sorry mr mcgrath yes mr miscella yes and Mr neglia yes mr
karifi yes okay the motion passes moving along mr levery I'll ask you just to instruct the council how to proceed so we can uh take care of this ordinance please sure uh there are some substantive changes that were made uh from the first reading so this will have to be reintroduced so
I would just suggest that uh the council president or call for a motion and then if the motion is if the motion's not made it dies and then what will happen is once the revisions are made it will be reintroduced so I would just suggest that somebody make the motion and then because you're not So we need a motion
and no second and once we have a motion without a second the ordinance will die and then we will have a new ordinance that is to be redrafted okay so can I call for a motion please can we just get an explanation on why it's being reddrafted sure yeah there was some there were some questions about like
zoning and then some changes that were made i I thought that it was really like word smithing more than anything else but if you make a change to an ordinance from first reading to second reading that's more than an and to a the or something like that it's got to be reintroduced so I don't even though
they're substantive because it's more like describing words for lack of a better term it doesn't change the body it's not going to change it in any wholesale so could I have a motion please i'll make a motion okay and uh no second okay
fantastic motion by Mr sell up no second this motion is dead ordinance is dead okay we're moving along to the public session i'd like to entertain a motion to open up the public motion council President we have a
motion in a second i know council president wanted to make an announcement so before we go to roll call I'll have council president make an announcement okay a couple things before we get started if we have anyone yelling out vulgarities obscenities anything that is
inappropriate behavior you will be removed from the meeting just letting you know now we're not going to put up with this everyone in here is a grown adult okay we don't need that kind of behavior we want to make sure that everyone here is heard okay and everyone
gets a chance to speak and to ensure that we're going to be cutting down the open public to one minute because all right here we go listen we want to make sure that everyone gets a chance to speak if we left it at the normal time
we may not be able to have everyone get up and speak and we want to give we want to assure that everyone is given the opportunity to speak okay so 4 hours from now if half of you haven't had a chance to speak that's a problem so
we're cutting it down to one minute you can say what you want to say in a minute so we can ensure that everyone gets a chance to speak that's why we're doing that we want to make sure every voice is heard count Council President okay again
there okay you want to yell go ahead you want to yell keep it up okay just keep it up council President I Did you hear what I said we're going to be moving on we have a We have a vote well hold on before we have a vote it seems to me that anytime this body does
not like the speech of the public you limit the speech of the public would you would you prefer that people don't get to speak i would would you prefer that people don't get to speak i'm going to answer your question and if we're going to have a code of conduct
for the public I suggest you follow the code of conduct with me really n number two is I believe that everybody should have their aotted time of five minutes to speak i think that's the right thing to do it's fair by the
public and we should put it to a vote to see who's interested in suppressing what the public has to say again again the public will not be suppressed because every person will get the opportunity to speak every single person this ensures
that everyone in here if they all wanted to come up and speak every single person would have the opportunity uh at this time you ma'am we have That's what I thought why are you rejecting you
okay let's uh Can I get So a motion and a second please what was the Who made the motions mr mcgrath can I have a motion to open up the public session well aren't we making a motion on on voting on the public's right to speak uh that's up to the
council president well we have a meeting we have a Do we have a second for that he made a motion for Well I I would like to make the motion that we reinstate the public's time at 5 minutes and that we don't Which motion will you hear first all right so So at this particular time
there was a motion on the table we'll get that motion and we'll take Mr mucella's motion so Mr misella can you please repeat your motion for the record my motion is to enable that the public has five minutes to speak okay so uh so we have a motion do I have a second on
that okay since I do not have a second that motion dies uh moving on to the uh the next motion could I please have a motion to open up the public session motion second motion made by Mr neglia seconded
by Mr hernandez roll call mr hernandez yes mr mcgrath yes mr michel yes mr neglia yes mr karifi yes okay so the motion passes the floor is open to the public you have one minute to speak before you speak please state
your name and where you're from and sign the um the notepad up there thank you my name is Helen can you speak to the mic please thank you okay my name is Helen Trinkle i reside at 10 Southwood Drive on January 20th a water mane broke
in front of eight Southwood Drive the break in front of number eight caused a flood of water sand rock and other debris to flow across my front lawn and my side
lawn resulting in significant damage we filed a claim with the township but no one from the water department or anyone else came after the initial day to check out the property
the only response we received was a one-page letter from your insurance company denying our claim after living in this township for over 50 years paying faithfully our
taxes this lack of response is disappointing and shameful i call on the council to take responsibility for the damage that the water system Ma'am you have 10 seconds
and fix my property settle down and fix my property sir please keep it down okay you've been given the rules the guidelines that we're following tonight again we're all grown adults in here please act it
go ahead ma'am i'm saying please have someone come out look at it and fix it there is there is piles of rock and sand all over our
property u Mr cryan can we Yes can we get her address you know her name and address so we can have somebody go look at that please if you could just sign the sheet with your name and address i mean I have I have video you can hear it it's running like Okay
if you collect should she give that to you Council President yeah can you give that Could you give that to our clerk ma'am that you're that information that you're writing down okay you You could write it down there and we'll collect it we know she's the first speaker so we'll take What we'll do is we will get get a copy of the video and send it to our
township engineer she wanted three or four pictures we sent three or four pictures they did not You should get the video thank you ma'am good evening chris Maserella Parcipony
New Jersey i didn't prepare anything to come say here because I got a lot to say and I know I have a minute and I'm fine with a minute because what I've watched for three and a half years is things not get done because we're busy arguing about it everything turns into an
argument and our town suffers because of it if you can't say what you need to say in a minute there's nothing you can say that's going to change that sorry for talking to them but at some point in time the town needs to come first from
everybody up there not just one person saying it does come first i don't care who wins an election i don't care who's running for the election all I do know is the town suffers when we do this every time somebody has a problem with
how they're being treated the issue was brought to you last time did you have any other instances where you handed over your card you said you do not recall i'll ask you was there ever a time other than the one time on tape that that
happened thank you yes ma'am go ahead you can come up to the mic my name does this work you just speak it to the mic yeah it works good evening my name is Dorothy Allerin
i've lived on Foxhill Road for over 50 years last meeting I attended I asked Mr barbie to consider looking into why we have 8 ton trucks allowed on our road and I know it was 1976 or something my
concern is this we're getting more trucks and there was an 18-wheeler wheeling by my house which is on a curve my significant other tried to get his phone out to take a picture because it wasn't 16 wheel it was 18 and he
appeared to be removing rather quickly which was remarkable because it's on a sharp curve have you looked into anything have you had time mayor to look into if we could change that because I see a big
danger there was an accident there and it was just a regular car 10 seconds ma'am okay i'm asking did you have an opportunity i know you're busy and it's an election year so you got a lot to do have you had time to look into resolving
the danger the engineer as will be reach has reached out to the DOT with because I know we've had this conversation prior I didn't have a conversation with anybody other than I gota be honest with you the acoustics up here is horrible i
can hardly I didn't hear from anybody no I can't either so I do apologize okay anyway can you get back to me at some point to let me know if we're going to rectify that sure thank you anyone else ma'am just make sure you use the mic no
I think I can no it has to be for the record ma'am we need it for the record and they they want to hear you only so it's only for the record so can you hear me now yes thank you ma'am okay great my name is Barbara Matthews i live on Mitchell Road for 40 years 40 years
we've owned our home um when I'm thinking about the other people talking tonight I'm realizing that four to five times we have had the department of engineering out to see the problem that the city created for us
over two and a half or three years ago when they put in the new sidewalks on Mitchell when they upgraded it we've had trouble ever since their answer always is we'll be back next week and that's the last that you hear about him and
that's including the supervisor of that engineering department i even thought his name was Justin but I may be wrong i have a couple of other things just to say about what's going on tonight while walking around out here in the parking
lot before I came in I was looking at the cars and I noticed that a couple of them had these PVA tags on them in the back window the back um left windows ma'am your time is up
well can I finish this mr karifi I asked one of the people "Where did you get that?" They told me "Oh I had to buy that one." But if you want one go inside and ask Paul Karifi
Jr he carries them around in his pocket and he'll be happy to give you one it's a get out of speeding times up i'll answer your question i don't have any well I'm so because you probably uh ran out of them
what happened if you could give me the name of the person that told you that I'll I'll make sure I Listen if I could get him I would i was looking for him before if I find him I'll bring him to you and you and your guys can I appreciate that because I would love to know who's spreading that rumor one of
the things to say Ma'am ma'am your time is up ma'am when you have a newcomer to the council ma'am ma'am your time is up your time is up i'm sorry i'm part of your time is up
did you say time is up yes ma'am well you know what i'm going to say Justin for mayor [Applause] good evening uh Ray Santana 21 Wild Trail um in an effort to become um more
informed of both candidates positions on on certain things i reviewed Mr miscella's public safety plan and I found several misleading claims he accuses the police department administration of corruption and unfounded allegation falsely states that crime of precipany is rising also
pledged to increase traffic enforcement but voted against the budget three consecutive years which included funding for the police department traffic enforcement and the reinstatement of traffic division the facts tell a different story crime in Precipany has actually decreased since 2022 recent crime statistics show a
decline with crime rates now lower than both Morris County and state averages between 2019 and 2020 I'm sorry 2022 non-violent crime in Precipany rose 4.6 six per 100,000 persons for Mars County it rose three.3 and for New Jersey one
to every 100,000 persons since 2022 crime has decreased to its current level which most recent statistics for 2023 01 for every 100,000 persons in Pipany surpassing Mars County as a whole regarding the pedestrian safety Mr miscellis cites fatalities to justify
his plan however the three pedestrian deaths of Precipany this year all occurred outside of crosswalks on Route 46 between Vale and Baldwin at night statewide pedestrian fatalities have actually increased with 209 reported this year compared to 153 at this time last year while every loss is tragic
these three incidents do not indicate a local crisis it seems is simply fear-mongering sir times up thank you my name is Amit Mitra i've been in Pasipony since 1992 uh I moved from uh Powder Mills to
where I live now on Foxchase Drive because of the thick woods the ambiance and the habitats we have which I really enjoyed i saw the house the first time I said this is the one I want uh the woods
have been destroyed and cut down there's a warehouse being built there uh we had compl talked to the last administration they did squat we were totally ignored then when the they started building our homes started shaking uh they shook the
rafters were rattling picture frames fell off the walls i complained to the current administration nothing happened i even sent followups and videos nothing happened but then Justin came and planted some trees after all that was
done out to screen us from this and uh both Justin and Mayor Barbario interceded with uh uh with Tom Andes i think Justin you did it first and asked that we should have a fence at least to separate us from the factory for
security time's up sir well I have a quick question do you have a schedule for the fence from uh from I I can He asked if there was a schedule for the fence behind it property for the warehouse we're going to have to find out they still going to go through the
permitting process so I have to see what their schedule is it's since it's it's not our construction board it's theirs okay appreciate we will we will we'll find out as we get more detail okay and I thank you for the I got the letter i thank you for I mean we we couldn't
speak on this in the previous meetings because we were going back and forth with Danville and we didn't want to say anything that might not happen u when we got the good news we shared it with the residents that we met in my office all right thank you so you let me know you
send us a letter yes he'll let you know yes yeah thank you sir my name is Marie i live at 3ville Drive in Percepony i grew up in Percepony and I remember sitting at the dinner table listening to my parents worry that the
Democrats were going to raise our taxes again those were the good old days could you face us please thank you this is me facing you make sure you stop the timer i've dragged myself here not because of a policy pertaining to Peripany like a
warehouse a billboard or a high-rise i grew up in Peripany but I also spent 10 years away before coming back to what I considered to be home i assure the residents council and the mayor that whether in the deep south a major college town with more college kids than
residents or the freezing depths of Alaska this is not how politics are done i am one of the many many residents that have expressed their opinions online that have written letters and that are here tonight to demand a no to the
censure vote 10 seconds ma'am okay y'all keep saying nobody is above the law i see that i see that but whose law exactly are we following supposed to address supposed to face
So I will repeat what I was just saying you're saying nobody's above the law but whose law are we following right okay time's up thank you yep oh by the way Paul I'm almost 40 so am I allowed to be
here and talk yes you are just please right i'm sorry ma'am i just need you to sign ma'am I just need you to sign the book please oh I will thank you man I'm going to be here all night anthony Longo Lake
Parcany but I've been hearing water pipes break crappy roads high taxes nothing's really getting done now all I have to say is this last part because it's going to be less than a minute when does Myella and Barbarrow
have a debate it's about time let's see what they have to say put up or shut up tony Fano 41 Robin Hood Road council members sadly this is a kind of behavior
that would not be accepted from someone who has struggled to maintain stability in their careers having held seven jobs within the te past 10 years and graduating from college this means he can't hold a job mela's inexperience and lack of commitment raise serious
concerns about his suitability for the role of mayor his actions reveal several deeply flawed character that makes it difficult to trust him to do the right thing and when it matters most i whollyhearted support the censorship and
resolution because of our elected officials must be held accountable for the unlawful acts we cannot afford to overlook implications and having someone inexperienced in such a crucial position thank you
good evening council i have um a very simple request i've we've now heard three people talking about statistics of how Pipony is great how no one's not above the law and you know it it's
exactly what the first person said is there's more fighting than doing with with the like somebody else said some crappy roads and high taxes what I would request is a debate between Justin and
mayor to so that the issues not the personalities can be can the issues of Pipony can be discussed the personalities i am sure that if everybody if somebody was to do a a
hitman job on any one of you they could find something or the other that is questionable but okay just need you uh ma'am i just need you just ask not what interests you ma'am ma'am if you could please just sign the book i did you did
thank you so much ma'am good evening my name is Mark Philhower i'm tempted to say that I live on 590 Route 46 alternate but it's formerly called Fail Road um I walk my
dog virtually every morning on Twin Oaks Road last Wednesday morning I got the feeling that just about every car was speeding down Twin Oaks Road to avoid that crossing guard and I thought of that
eight-year-old boy who was killed on Precipany Road last summer we have four young boys who ride their bicycles to school on in good weather and they're crazy and they ride out in the middle of
the road um and I thought I better do something about this so Wednesday afternoon I went over to police headquarters to express what I saw and I talked to patrolman
Connover and he said "Well we want to find out exactly how many cars and how fast they're going." Short story yeah short story long sorry about that time's up turn that around sir your time your time is up thursday
afternoon there was a radar box sir your time is up give me one second i want to say thank you to the police there was a radar box on Twin Oaks just like the patrolman promised i want to say thank you to our police
department they couldn't be more responsive thank you to something from a resident thank you thank you sir could I just have you uh sir could I just have you sign the book sir just need you to sign I'm sorry sir
good evening Paripony residents uh great turnout um council members and mayor thank you for the opportunity um I just want to be here and say that uh let's talk about the substantive issues of
Paripony bad roads higher taxes not fighting amongst each other let's come up with proper solutions for partipony residents improved roads and uh parks in our area i've been coming around for
every meeting actually since 2016 promises made promises broken nothing's been done let's work and improve Paripony not work for big builders okay that are putting money for the uh for
the electoral process work for the residents who pay taxes not the builders let's do that okay let's work for res thank you [Applause] anyone else
okay um my name is Bob Vanzi i live at 102 Brook Lawn Drive in Paripony i hope that the council members will see the Musella speeding incident for what it is a routine traffic sp uh stop that is being exaggerated for political
purposes to be to be fair Councilman Misella exhibited poor judgment when he added his council card to his wife document when he got pulled over but I don't think that that rises to the c category
of a censurable offense the councilman immediately at at the beginning of the stop the councilman was recognized by the policeman so that the information on the card was totally redundant councilman's card created just
a false perception of intimidation in the absence of a bribe or real intimidation the grounds for censuring are weak at best let the voter Let the voters decide how serious the speeding ticket incident is when they
are in the voting booth weighing it against the current mayor's record in office times up hey Bob bob did you sign Bob you signed the book thank you Bob it's all right don't worry about it i
know who you are my name is Siobhan Fuller McConnell and I live on 12 Philadelphia Road i don't care if he handed his card over or not he sat in council chamber and said the cops were not doing their job and not giving enough speeding tickets then he
encouraged his wife to speed on a residential street knowing that as a councilman in this town any cop would be hardpressed to give him a ticket it was wrong we need to hold our elected officials to a higher standard no
speeding on our residential roads period amen no further discussion well then I hope everyone who is booing doesn't have their child riding a bike on the road when Mr justin goes speeding
please before you start counting I'd like you to know that I think it's disgraceful that you didn't let us know that it was going to be a one minute limit before the meeting so we could prepare ourselves i prepared four minutes and 13 seconds of comment and obviously you're
not interested in hearing it because it's inconvenient my name is Hank Heler i live at 50 I've lived in Paripity for 55 years so after with all of our PLA and
pilot problems and discussions a new dark horse came out of Paripany's town council justin Mucella he alone spoke up for the people against PLA's and pilots but in the Pipony Mars County political
machine that has also ridden up risen up and in a most childish way attacked his candidacy because he might have avoided a speeding ticket once or twice or how many how disrespectful to the voters of Paripity for those of our town council
to use such mess to try to knock down Uella for mayor to most of us who think as well as read we understand that the letter to the editor writers who work for the township or pe or citizens whose children work
for the township have good reason to support the current administration when Mr smith or others write with heat I get it they have good reasons and and I have no problem with them but most of us do not work for the town and only expect Paripan's leadership to help make our
town better many of those same people are feeling very disappointed in our administration you have everything so nicely arranged yes both Mr times censor your political based upon your political needs and desires but I think you get I
don't but I know you've shot yourself in the foot thank you uh Mr heler if you could please sign in i will do that thank you sir eric Zimmerman Iowa Boulevard i'd like to address the council directly i won't
need a full minute to express my disappointment in your behavior i was there at the last meeting i'm here at this meeting you like to belittle the residents that you say that you're representing you like to silence them if you don't like what you're hearing you try to restrict
the speech or the verbiage it's your job to hear us every one of you if you don't want to do that you should step down personally I don't see a single person up here that commands my full respect that commands my full trust
i've been here since 92 and I haven't said I can't say things have gotten better i want to see every single one of you fight for your positions i want to see every single one of you explain why you should have that seat and not somebody else like one of us just because you've been there forever
or just because you've been here for a long time does not mean you should be have a good day [Applause] [Applause] patrick DV Antonio i find it both ironic and
appropriate that we are here at the high school this evening it was in this building 50 years ago that our cross country coach would use the discipline and endurance required by the sport in
his lessons about virtues such as truth duty beauty love and honor these are principles to live by this evening the township council will be asked to vote on censoring one
of its members i would ask that each member think about the meaning of these virtues before casting their vote because is it is the measure of your honor that will be on display this
evening [Applause] hcomiac from Lake Kaayawata uh I also find it ironic ironic that right now in
Washington DC we have an administration and a chief executive who's a convicted felon a tax chief and a grifter and he's assembled this mob of
mafia wannabes to destroy the republic and to eliminate faith in our constitution so what is that compared to a traffic
stop donald Trump also let out of jail his mob his MAGA mob that assaulted police officers so I don't I don't think anybody here really
I don't understand it i just don't understand why we had a pick censoring it should have It should have been There should be a debate there should not be a censor and I I have my differences with Justin
and I I'm probably not even going to vote for the guy but think about what you're doing all right [Applause] hello my name My name is Dolores Salazo 5 Brentwood Drive Morris Plains New
Jersey i'm here to speak to say do not please do not censor Marcela everyone has a right to speak but it looks like you're going to head in that direction just like you censor us to one minute just like it was censored at the pilot program when
everyone came out to say we don't want Pipony overdevelopment we used to be Tree City USA now all the trees are getting cut down the animals are coming across my property the foxes the bears everybody the turtles everybody's coming out of
the swamp because the warehouses all being demolished i'm very upset i mean James Bario you had an animal shelter under your regime no 10 seconds and 10 seconds it was a kill shelter and now all the
animals are getting killed again because of the overdevelopment and I don't want to see Pipany change and I would like to see Marcela be able to debate you times times up man
[Applause] good evening everyone my name is Eric Densmore and I live at 87 Maro Road in Lake Hayawa i am not here to throw mud at anyone i just want to bring up this
point on June 10th in the Republican primary one of you will win and one of you will lose this campaign has reached a point
of nastiness on both sides that I quite frankly have never seen before my question is this when the dust is settled how does the winner plan to win a general election with a divided
Republican party and in a purple town thank you [Applause] good evening my name is Harold Moore Sher i'm in 75 Lakeshore Drive Lake Kawata New Jersey i just have a little
situation here with our Memorial Memorial uh place down in Lake Awata Park by the swim club you know what that is in honor of our late Hayawata son who made the supreme sacrifice in
Vietnam John Peter K O United States Army killed in action December 17th 1968 private Donald Lee Wicklesson United States Army killed in action June 15
1969 my problem is there's no lights over that memorial there's no flag over that memorial there's no lights and flag nowhere near that memorial why is that i don't know why i hope y'all can fix it
united States of America [Applause] Constitution good evening i have to adjust this i'm a little vertically challenged danielle Casone uh Robin Hood Road i didn't intend to speak uh what
I'd like to would say is there was a previous speaker who mentioned that there's nothing happening in this town i beg to differ there is monstrosity of buildings being built to the left to the right to the front and to the back of my home we have been woken up at 6:30 every
morning on weekends during the week to jackhammers okay i want the opportunity to vote for someone who's going to stop that work from happening all around us okay it's a metropolis and I'm telling you now no one seems to care except for
the people who are knocking at my door in 25°ree weather talking about these pilot programs and my taxes okay that's not a democracy censoring any candidate is not a democracy and I want that opportunity to vote for
whoever everybody feels is best served their purposes and I will just follow and and last end up by saying I'd like to know anybody on this council who was last cited with a citation other than a parking ticket when's the last time anybody on this council got a ticket for
anything times up ma'am pba cards and gold cards exist for a reason so that police officers have discretion and I'm sure you know that word very well ma'am you have the discretion as police officers to make that decision discretion was used appropriately could
I just ask you to sign in ma'am thank you thank you ma'am just to just to make everyone aware that a censorship does not remove Mr mousella from the ballot it does not prevent him from running has
nothing to do with that so if that's where you're if that's what because we know there's been some social media posts out there where people are spreading that that if Mr nella is censored he will not be able to run for mayor that is not correct whatsoever
well you wish it would you're going to go ahead and speak sir my name is Paul Oliver i live right here on 19 Raider Drive um just want to say uh piggy back what young lady was saying there democracy thrives on on disagreement it thrives on debate it thrives on the ability of people elected
or otherwise to speak to challenge to hold strong convictions without fear or official retri retribution when you resort to censure you send a message that descent is dangerous and the different opinions will be punished and that political survival depends not on principles but on staying in line if you begin weaponizing censure those you
dislike or disagree with who will be next okay let's let's not set a precedent where century is used as a tool of silencing rather than a safeguard of true misconduct let us instead engage in open discussion challenge ideas with ideas and prove I'm trying to read real because we got a
minute here and prove our our strength not by condemning but by debating all right please censure is not a safeguard it is a shortcut and shortcuts injustice only leads to injustice thank you for your time
good evening uh Tim Wyman Ionic Court or Symphony um I just have one question if Justin if Mr musella did something so wrong why did it take this board over 18
months to do anything about it who were you protecting when you didn't take action months ago should this entire panel be censured for dereliction of duty for not taking action i second that motion [Applause]
[Applause] i'll sign in after I talk i only got a minute tom Hunter from the Rainbow Lakes section of town thank you for allowing me to speak tonight just so you know I'm come where I'm coming from 35-y year resident voted for most of you in the
last election so the confidence was there i wanted to speak tonight to say you should not pursue the censure against a political opponent in this case Justin I think the voters including myself elected you for your integrity
i think we just saw a national political party trying to smear and censor the now president and the citizens spoke out with their votes page two sorry let's all learn from that lack of
integrity strategy i think it would be a backfire strategy for the Paripity Republican party i know you will see how this would end up being a negative reflection of integrity not just now but in the upcoming election 10 seconds sir got one
left we're good so let's just stay positive let all parties run a great campaign and let Paripany residents be proud of that campaign thank you is there anyone else that would like to speak
good evening my name is Richard Young i've lived on Intervil Road for 49 years paripany's home i think highly of it i'd like to see that feeling continue so there's a rumor running around town that uh mayor May mayor Barbario and
uh Mr kriffy and Mr mcgrath are going to come to their senses and recognize that the honorable thing to do is to stop their lies about Councilman Meella and to uh take their unfounded
attempt to censure him and put that away and live up to the concept of integrity and independent positive thinking and ignoring political pressure
thank you [Applause] Mr young can I ask you what those lies are exactly i'd be delighted to share that with you thank you for asking no no I'd
like Go ahead sir yes there's the indication from you gentlemen who are opposing Mr mella and attempting to censure him that he did something unethical in the traffic stop and if you look at the entire video not the little piece that some people have put up on
the internet but the entire video you'll see that Mr mella never said "Hi I'm Mr misella the councilman officer he sat in his car and the officer said Mr mella recognized him right away." There was never an attempt to do anything
unethical that answer Paul okay all I'm going to say to you is and I'd like to ask Mr west to do the same thing just Oprah some of the other surrounding towns their traffic stops
because Mr mcgrath specifically asked Mr misella a question if this was the only incident and he said yes and then I asked him the same question and he said yes and then a couple seconds later he said that I could recall okay so I'll just leave it at that if you want to say
we have lies just go and open some of the surrounding towns and I think you'd be very surprised at what you would find that's all I'll say well I thank you for that and that isn't the issue here is it the issue is the time is up time's up
you you you Oh I'm back and in and what I would say in response is what we're hearing from residents right now and we're probably going to hear from many more is that people don't care about the value of my driving record they care about who is
best to drive Parcipony forward [Applause] so if I may Council hold on so Councilman you took an oath of ethics so you took an oath of ethics you said you would follow the rules and one of you people asked "Did anybody else get a ticket?" I got a ticket and we paid it
that's it i I'm on counsel and I've been on for a year so you can say "I'm not." We got a ticket we paid it it was for registration but here's the problem you take an oath of ethics and you say that you're going to do something and you can choose whether or not you trust that he
followed or not we went through a line of questioning i asked him specifically he said that they handed his identification his business card with the paperwork that's before the cop came up it was there so if you feel that
that's fine and you don't care about ethics and nobody else is going to come up and say "Oh this guy's on the take or that guy's this or that," then that's your opinion but if you do feel that we should be held ethically responsible for what we choose then that's where we're going to have to look at it because I
feel that is something you need to do if you make an oath of office you got to stand by if you choose not to then don't hey I I'd love to answer questions go ahead ma'am i'd love to answer it go ahead man go ahead please ma'am ma'am please sit down please sit down i think I should have
five minutes now go ahead ma'am kathy Wyman Ionic Cord not as nice as my husband as you all have stated about tickets and whatever I don't think any of you are innocent in any kind of little perks in
town because if that is if that is the case if that is the case then there's a lot of dinners and lunches that are being paid or given to certain council members or maybe we're paying the mayor
too much money that he's dining out quite frequently and Mr and Mr karifi I find it very hypocritical of you being what happened to your family in 2011 13 14 that your
family was bullied by Mr barbario himself so I find it very hypoc hypocritical of you to be feeling this way and I I I really hope all of you think hard about what you're trying to do because it could happen to you next
because we're all going to be watching all of you and all the little perks that you might be getting in town and I would like to I I would like to know Time's up ma'am my time is up thank you [Applause]
hi Toby Anderson uh Taber Road um I I'm new to this whole uh conflict um I'd just like to say that whether you decide to censure or not I think that if these rules are not
already in place you should clearly in the future state that any elected or employed officials who give anything other than their ID to an officer at a traffic stop should be subject to the same rule as everybody else either termination or some other penalty but it
needs to be clearly stated the police officers should be required to report these instances or suffer disciplinary measures if it's not already ina in the in in place they should be required to give at least the minimum penalty and no warning should be allowed for elected officials or town
employees all cameras from traffic stops of publicly public officials should be available online without an OPRA unless they involve minors or trauma or something like that that's without requiring an Oprah that would get you past this issue whatever
you guys end up voting I do think you should listen to the guy in the blue shirt about how it looks with the last election [Applause] good evening council residents my name is Bill Donnelly i live at 33 Dakota Lake Hayawa i've been in town 40 years
i've seen mayors come and go and I've seen the job that Mayor Barbario has done he came into office with the township in debt from the previous mayor he turned conditions around and I think the censure issue is a distraction okay
you know what whatever you feel about it I think the greater question is who is the candidate that has the experience the expertise and recently a new certification to financially manage the township who's the best candidate to
lead Paripony into the future i think it's Mayor Jamie Barbario i think that's the only thing we should focus on this is a distraction i support Mayor Barbario going forward for good reason
thank you [Applause] how you doing john Castone 15 Robin Hood Road i've been a cop for 22 years there's a word that we use it's called discretion i'm sure it was taught at every police academy i'm sure the
officers in here know i'm going to expose it we don't write each other we don't write the UPS guy we don't write the FedEx driver we don't write the mayor we don't write the town council we don't write anybody and that's And that that is the God's honest truth we don't write EMS guys that's
just the way it is it's always been that way and if anybody on that panel can tell me that they've never tinned somebody to get out of a stop I'm going to call sir uh sir can I excuse me thank you for signing in hi Carl journey Carl
oh thanks don't tell my age sorry anyway I know most of you guys up there this were all elected by us this is a distraction as someone pointed out um I tend to vote for the best candidate
whether they're Democratic Republican doesn't matter whoever I think is best for the town the state the country whatever but guys you just all have to get along censoring why let's know everybody's opinion on the issues there's no reason
for this let's have a a good campaign let's look out what's best for precipit i'm here 40 years i'll probably die here in 20 years god hope that long but anyway you all know I mean I know you Jamie I know you 40 years uh Frank I
know you from the West for at least 20 the way our kids are and guys let's just all get along please and let's look out what's best for the town okay thank you [Applause] hello my name is Lori Willis Gilgorei
and I live in Rainbow and I actually came to this meeting tonight to talk about something else um I was interested in learning information about the redevelopment plan at 169 Lacawana um so it said to attend this meeting tonight if you wanted to find
out about that do you know if that was being voted on tonight that was that was at the beginning of our meeting that was removed from the agenda there was some verbiage that was not in there so I knew it was maybe going to be tabled is that what happened that is correct thank you
my name is Jack Reya i'm a member of the Paripity Board of Education my comments are my own and in my capacity as a private citizen they do not reflect the point of view of the board of education are we now in a place where an office holder has to beg a police officer for a
ticket at a traffic stop when the police officer has freely chosen not to issue a ticket the officer freely exercises discretion to give Mrs myella a warning and if given a ticket given Justin's mild demeanor they would have taken the
ticket home and paid for it it's spectacles like this that keep good people out of public service politicians are not saints and we shouldn't expect them to be all of us are imperfect some effort must have been expended to find this video if that's all they could find on Justin Muscella he must be very
honest indeed on something as potentially serious as a censure there must be due process there has been no independent finding of any wrongdoing whatsoever there has been no cross-examination of the police officer by Mr mousella there is only a finding
of wrongdoing by Mr mella's political opponent what could go wrong with that [Applause] anyone else are you going to answer his question oh wait no you didn't get a minute you can't You can't come up sir you can't
come up twice so Oh I'm sorry one minute no no no hi my name is Olivia Vetrachi and I live on um 13 Littleton Road um as you know 202 is a main road i have two children who walk to and from school and it puts
the fear of God in me because of speeders that are on Littleton Road um I'm happy to see the police at the churches um you know you know staying there and monitoring for speeding and it makes me give me gives me a sense of
comfort but um what I'd like to say is it's crucial to recognize that speeding is a serious problem in our town i feel like I'm playing Frogger when I'm pulling out of my back my driveway just trying to get on to 202 with my own car
um I fear for my children that walk out to the main road every day i need the speeding issue contained at an example set from our local government the blatant hypocrisy of criticizing speeding one day and then exceeding the speed limit on the very same road on the
next day is alarming it underscores that Misella cannot be trusted to uphold the standards we expect from our leaders i urge you all to take a stand and sunure him let's work together to ensure that our town remains a safe and thriving
community for everyone for our children's sake uh and this I'm sorry is for the mayor mayor I grew up in New Jersey thank you ma'am and um I grew up in three towns i don't know any of the mayor's names but my children their friends their
acquaintances when they see you because you're in their schools you're on the field supporting them both academically oh sorry we thank you for being there and putting part first [Applause] good evening council members i'm here
tonight to lend my voice against the censure of Sir can you state your name please oh Michael Paplowski Pipany Boulevard Pipany um I'm against the center of Justin Mella over his alleged attempt to use his authority to prevent the issue of a
traffic ticket the big question is has been mentioned already 18 months two years ago why now a police officer has a discretion to determine whether the ticket is issued or a warning from what I understand the officer recognized Mr
misala on site and the passing of his business card is moot would this be different from any other office holder having identifying devices in their window or special license plates we expect the best and most honorable decisions from our
representatives let us allow the political process to run its proper untainted course representing the will of our residents thank you [Applause] good evening most of you know me my name is Bruce Michaels i've been a resident
of this town for 60 years you either recognize me or know me i don't care which one of you wins ultimately but I am dead fast against the censorship
censorship that you're about to vote on justin needs to at least have a fair shake Mr mayor town council to at least I'd like I'd like to hear good debate between the two of them honestly and I and I know all most
of you I know many of you you know me i'd like to see a good debate forget this censorship you've all used a card to get out of this or that i know many of you have done it in the past sir
[Applause] thank Is there anyone else that would like to speak casey Perik 38 years residents of Pipony uh I wish it was not a political season because of that we are all here
tonight it's a political season there was no sensor for many years for incidences much worse than this this is the first time ever in
Paripony any councilman or a mayor will be censored if you decide okay even Frank Friery was not censored and I can give you a lot of instances where censor probably was required but it was not
done okay even mayor never censor Councilman Karifi and Walori after ethics complaint because of the English you know issue 10 seconds 10 seconds sir okay so what I
will do in 10 seconds I'll tell everybody who had the written speech just send it to focus or part tap into because 1 minute is not enough they probably have to go and work now so thank you anyone else
good evening mayor and council my name is Dan Manley i live on River Drive i've been a part resident since 2013 mr mayor I vote for you in every election since I resided here um and tonight I am here to talk about the censure okay uh like the my brother officer over that spoke earlier I have been involved in law
enforcement for 17 years uh and the two questions that I have um one first foremost would be this incident happened 18 months ago okay I want to know as a resident living in this community why is this coming to light now i understand there's processes and things that have
to occur first but in this situation to me this at least creates a sense of impropriety in this particular situation that's not based on one side or the other that's just my objective views and facts in addition to being a law enforcement officer I also run the internal affairs bureau for my police
department um I've seen a lot of different things over the years and I can say without fact without any question obviously police officers have discretion um but I would argue that most people um wouldn't see people no most people wouldn't see the
presentation of a PBA card as any different um so I'm understand I'm wondering under these circumstances how that it results in a censure for a councilman that is running against a sitting mayor and again I respect all of you and I appreciate all you do times up sir
sir just to answer your question in reference to why now we had two residents at a meeting just a couple meetings ago come up and bring this to the council's attention and state statues and sir I'm trying to answer
your question for you so that's it just came up within the last two months it was presented to us at a council meeting if you go back you could look at the videos you'll see residents come up and that's when we asked the town attorney in reference to it so I'm just answering
your question it It's an answer but it's a pathetic answer so yeah so moving forward that's your opinion it is It is It is my opinion but we're setting a dangerous precedent so
let's play this out if residents in the future come up and make charges against Councilman Karifi yourself Council Vice President Neglia Councilwoman Hernandez are we just going to make motions to censure and draft substantial evidence
you didn't even know at the time there's evidence you didn't know at the time how could have you known at the time right after the residents came up and said that it was all over the place i got video hello everyone my name is Danny Desai 16
Alo Paripony i have a request for all of you guys can we focus on municipality business instead of all this debate and argument and not running the business today in Paripeni if you try to get a permit is going to take you long time to
get a permit why any builder doesn't want to come build anything in Paripeni they all scared to get a permit focus on that focus on road focus on other issues instead of all this nonsense going on i'm sick and tired of this debate and all this instead of do the debate for
the next mayor who whoever is the best let them win thank you okay seeing no one else oh okay come on up um Bridget Cazetto uh Lake Precipity um I wasn't going to say anything but I'm just sick of writing letters so
since I'm here I thought I'd speak um the majority of the residents we don't care that Councilman Mousella showed his card what his business card what we care about is how much money Johnino has made off this town [Applause]
okay that's what we care about we care about the overdevelopment i won't say corruption because Mayor Barbario does not like that that that word but what I will say is Mayor Barbario Councilman Negla hope
hopefully Councilman Kifi Karifi we will vote you out we will vote you out okay seeing no okay someone else what time is it good evening i didn't prepare anything for tonight so I apologize um sir please state your name sure lad Turner uh Lake
Hayawa New Jersey obviously thank you the um I I just want to point out um I probably don't politically align with most people in this room or up there uh I'm an independent and it's rare that I vote Republican recently the um I came to the pilot program meetings a few months ago and was shocked at some of
the attitudes and behaviors uh for a living I teach kids history and civics and um one thing people look for in politics is integrity and transparency a gentleman came up earlier in a blue shirt he exhibited that right here he said something that might not have been popular but he said it he put it out
there he was being transparent he was showing integrity um starting this meeting tonight you limited people's time to one minute 80% decrease of time um I I don't know if that covers integrity but transparency you could have warned people in advance people prepared you could have put that on
social media that's a complete lack of transparency um the way people belittle u Councilman Mousella it makes me want to register as a Republican i'm kind of surprised at the treatment 10 seconds and he he's transparent he goes places i ran into him at Starbucks by accident he
shows integrity he stands up he speaks to people he talks to people he's transparent in what he says i have to applaud that in government and by the way please don't belittle people in the audience don't engage in the back and forth that's a lack of integrity on your part Paul thank you
[Applause] is there anyone else that would like to speak is that guy just making sure he's not coming up okay sitting down okay seeing no one else I'd like to enterain anyone else okay seeing no one
else I'd like to entertain a motion to close the public session motion second motion made by Mr hernandez seconded by Mr neglia roll call mr hernandez yes mr mcgrath yes mr marcella
yes mr neglia yes mr karifi yes okay motion passes moving along to the consent agenda be it resolved all items listed with an asterct are considered routine and non-controversial by the township council and will be approved by one motion there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a council member so requests in which case the item will be removed from the
consent agenda and considered in its normal sequence on the agenda may I please have a motion to approve the consent agenda motion second motion made by Mr negria seconded by Mr hernandez roll call mr hernandez yes mr mcgrath yes mr mella yes mr neglia yes mr ki yes
motion passes moving along to the approval of minutes we're approving the minutes for the agenda meeting the reorganization meeting and the regular meeting may I please have a motion to approve the minutes above motion second motion made by Mr neglia seconded by Mr hernandez roll call mr hernandez yes mr
mcgrath yes mr mela yes mr neglia yes mr karifi yes motion passes moving along to presentations and reports uh mayor I really don't have any reports for tonight but I would like to read into the record the letter that I sent to the
residents on Foxchase Road um to give them the good news with regards to the fence with Vice um oh maybe not i have the wrong glasses hold on as you know I take the resident's concerns and matters of public safety
very seriously thank you for reaching out and bringing your concerns to our attention i believe the meeting I had with members of the Foxhill neighborhood including Andy Cornwallis Dorothy Allerin and Snea and Amit Mitra in December went well since then despite
some political maneuvering around this crucial issue my office has been diligently working with Danville administration to find a solution to address your security and privacy concerns we have some great news weiss has applied for a fence permit from Danville construction office and is our
understanding that this will significantly reduce access to your property providing security as well as more desirable aesthetics although this project was approved on the previous administration and in another town I'm grateful for the opportunity to help address this important community issue
um so what I'm going to do is when we get updates I guess I would contact Mr deitra we'll contact you on all the updates uh going forward with regards to this matter um and the permitting process everything that we discussed prior to that as as well thank you
Council President thank you Toun Council i have some words to prepare thank you all for taking your time to participate in your right to freely express your opinions thank you to my fellow council members the board of education Paripony High Hills High
School and for enabling a forum for this expression i also want to thank the Porcipany Police Department tonight and express my trust in their continued performance of their service to the community i am not going to comment on the facts the facts matter and in the
end they will speak for themselves listening without prejudice or agenda is how I want to approach this however I do question the priority in bringing this matter to the council at this time this issue is a high priority for those
involved while timeliness and motive may be questioned this is important matter to many but do not confuse importance and with priority in choosing to advance this matter to the council as with business before us it consumes the
limited time of the council when many other perhaps more pressing priorities are at hand and many of you have mentioned that for example we must approve the town budget in a shifting landscape that could as we read every day hold us
hostage as others to withho with withheld federal funds and grants we must and will have to take time to focus deal and plan for that one cannot help but ask why is this before us right now before the council nevertheless we on
council are here tonight as always to perform our responsibilities to the residents and I thank you for coming out tonight any other member of council yes uh but it's a council report it's not on the uh subject that's on
everybody's minds um over the weekend I uh attended the uh annual meeting for the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms um and uh discussions included 2025 fundraising for the museum's operations
uh updates uh on the work is underway uh pursuant to their five-year strategic plan um and some of the most important learnings from the meeting were um that they want to you know do a a improve on
getting the news out about uh reopening after a long uh closure uh to re rebuild from a severe storm damage in 2020 um Parcipony residents are invited to take a tour of the museum on any Saturday or
Sunday year round and residents of Paripony uh receive a discounted admissions price um join us join the uh Craftsman Farms for their makers day on Saturday May 10th 12:30 to 4:30 um and
there are two resolutions on the agenda for them and I predict that they will pass without incident so that was um what they had asked me about uh what I will say um I also met with some residents on uh Lakeshore Rockaway and
River regarding um out street lights that that JCPNL hasn't been addressing um so reported those for the residents there um I I is there any update on getting an American flag in Lake Hayawa
Park ba crime uh yes the uh parks department is doing that they're uh the park was opening and then they were putting it in so be introduced soon um and then you know just the two questions that I have are
you know when will the board of ed audit be completed and uh presented to the public and when will the budget be presented as well april 15th for the uh audit i I have no information as I you and I have talked about a
number of occasions um for the uh um the uh budget uh we're uh targeting uh April 15th right now thank you you're very welcome any other member of council yes I have something uh I had a library meeting uh last night and some
information from uh the library they have applied for two grants from AARP uh and their hope with those grants is to create an outside reading area at the Lake Haiwa at the library um so that's something pretty neat over there uh they also have revised their capital plan
which I believe will be available online um they talked about cyber liability insurance which they have to get on their own because they're a separate entity and all their equipment is owned by the library not the town so they couldn't really go with the town so
they're getting that taken care of um there is a situation with the Lake Haywatt the library the AC is no longer working and it's they already started to dismantle it they received a a bid for 92K but they also got a grant which
brought it down to 68K um so they're asking if we can look into that as soon as possible because this is March 25th and by the time we get it going and get people uh to bid I'm sure there's a bid process that has to take place and so forth i think that's something we need
to uh try to do what we can to move forward on that because there's no air conditioning at all there from what they advised me um also they're they do have an architect that's going to work a little pro bono and at a reduced rate to look over to Lake Hayawata Library to
refurbish it for refurbishment plan and uh their strategic plan now includes and they're looking to expand it programs for special needs children and they'll be having uh sensory hours for special needs children on April 6th and we'll
continue with that at the library moving forward um they're also going to be conducting a special needs resource fair so uh that's uh something that's also they haven't done before which is pretty good um also they applied for a grant New Jersey state grant for creative
aging and uh I asked what that is and that's for older seniors to come together and make things like jewelry and so forth so they're looking to do that to help the senior citizens and I think that was it from the library thank you any other member of council
okay township attorney no report to see the council president business administrator thank you council president council mayor uh just briefly wanted to uh give a couple of announcements we received noticed uh of
a grant award from the US um Environmental Protection Agency awarded us $3.4 million uh the grant is being utilized for three projects the Lake Haywata pump station project uh new road pump station project and for change orders associated with pump station
number four took some time to get this award and uh with some of the changes of scope that we had to do with this uh but uh it was a big help from uh Congresswoman Cheryl's office her staff and our our grant writers over at Millennium and uh our internal staff you
know in engineering sewer and water um so it's a it's a matching grant uh in some ways but they're they're giving 80% of it and we have to uh come up the other 20% which is really no big deal because the project is going to cost
much more than that so coming up with 20% is no issue when you really have to come up with uh a lot more than that um this was also in addition to the $2 million principal forgiveness grant that we received from the I bank uh for pump
station 4 redirection project so so some good news for us here um the two ordinances that were uh pulled tabled or not moved forward not sure the appropriate language um the first one
169 Lacawana Avenue had to do with uh Council President Kify and Councilman McGrath had some language that they wanted uh included in the uh ordinance to make sure that there was coverage with um know that the woods would remain
um it was the intention of the developer that's our understanding but uh council president and council member wanted to make sure that that was uh spelled out more clearly um and also to make sure that the bays uh were facing away from
people's homes um with the cannabis ordinance it had to do with uh vague language dealing with uh food establishments um so it wasn't clear you know food establishments aren't allowed
to be in uh retail um uh uh cannabis establishments uh they are allowed to be in the same strip mall if that was uh one of the locations that that fit so there was kind of vague language with that so we
just wanted to clean that up and make sure that that was um clear for members of the public um affordable housing uh we are dealing with another lawsuit from the New Jersey Builders Association uh our affordable
housing attorneys gave us uh updates on that in close session there will be a settlement hearing that is mandatory uh for that uh to deal with that lawsuit even though in our opinion from my
opinion but I know mayor has uh voiced his opinion it's it's very frivolous and having the builders involved in suing us when it comes to affordable housing is just proof that this is not this pure savory situation that there's a lot of
money and a lot of vested interest in this to make sure that uh the um uh that these developments happen because and it's not just about helping the most or least fortunate um that's the recreation is hiring uh
summer help and summer camp uh registration is uh open and uh that's all I have counc thank you if I can add to that um with regards to the Mount Laurel decision you know I've heard comments
tonight about overdevelopment it's not overdevelopment it's redevelopment there's a difference and redevelopment is we have 20 vacant office spaces in participate 20 and that's going to probably increase um if the economy
doesn't really pick up so as you know we have a certain amount of numbers that we have to meet and we have no choice uh so when people want to come up an attack and say you got to stop the development good luck
because what happens is we can lose our immunity um we can be sued by the developer um when I was the administrator on Eaglewood Cliffs they were sued and they lost the case and they lost their immunity when you lose your immunity basically what that means
is the developer can bypass all your zoning laws doesn't have to go to the planning or zoning board granted by the uh judge you have a special masters so the council and the mayor we have u a lot that we have to handle here now when
you take the amount of um the numbers that we have I think it's 496 for this fourth round we're still carrying over 463 affordable housing affordable housing units from the last round and we can't circumvent that
so I just want to want to know that you know when you want to you know when you want to talk about affordable housing um the state pretty much mandates it handcuffs us why because it comes from the Supreme Court so you can't even when you try to challenge it you're
challenging the courts that made the decision so we're doing the best that we can um um you know when I wasn't the mayor the four years when the other mayor said he would not allow any development in town he couldn't stop it and I don't blame him for it because
you're handcuffed you're handcuffed by the mandates so you know I just want everyone to know um everybody up here is man handcuffed as well as um the administration but that's a lot we have to tackle now when you have 20 vacant office spaces and I don't know Matt
maybe you can remember the number we had a billion dollars in rate uh tax appeals last year thank God we have a very very very good tax assessor because he got only a h 100red million from I mean 100
million um agreed upon and we actually had a ratable increase of 27 million but eventually if we don't do something that's going to end so I just want to make that clear that's all thank you
okay i have no report moving along to ordinances and first reading ordinance 202503 ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits and to establish a camp for calendar year 2025 pursuant to NJSA 484-45.14 be it resolved that the above ordinance
be introduced read by title and passed on first reading at a meeting of the township council of the township of Symphony Troy Hills held on March 18th 2025 and that set ordinance be further considered for second reading and final passage at a meeting to be held on April 15th 2025 at 7 p.m prevailing time or soon thereafter as the matter may be reached at the municipal building in
setup in which all persons interested shall be given an opportunity to be heard concerning said ordinance be further resolved that the clerk be authorized and directed to advertise set ordinance with the notice of introduction thereof being published in the official newspaper according to law motion to approve the above resolution
motion second motion made by Mr hernandez seconded by Mr neglia roll call mr hernandez yes mr mcgrath yes mr mela yes mr neglia yes mr karifi yes motion passes moving along to the non-consent agenda
r 2025 uh 77 authorizing a grant application FY2026 strategic plan submission for the Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse may I please have a motion motion second motion made by Mr neglia seconded
by Miss Hernandez roll call mr hernandez yes mr mcgrath yes mr melo Mr neglia Mr kip yes motion passes moving along r 202578 authorizing the submission of a grant application by the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms to the Morris County Historic Preservation Trust Fund for a
2025 grant for Craftsman Farms owned by the Township for Symphony Troy Hills motion to approve the resolution above please motion second motion made by Mr neglia seconded by Mr mucella roll call mr hernandez yes mr mcgrath yes mr mucella yes mr neglia mr karifi yes
motion passes moving along to R 202579 authorizing the submission of a grant application by the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms to the New Jersey Historic Trust for 2025 historic site management grant for Craftsman's Farms owned by the Township Pacific Troy Hills motion to approve the above resolution motion
second motion made by Mr neglia seconded by Mr hernandez roll call mr hernandez Mr mcgrath Mr mella yes Mr neglia yes Mr karifi yes motion passes moving along to R 202580 awarding contracts for yard waste transportation and disposal recycling
motion to approve the above resolution please motion second motion made by Mr neglia seconded by Mr hernandez roll call mr hernandez yes mr mcgrath yes mr mella yes mr neglia yes mr ki yes motion passes
moving along to R202581 authorizing a contract for public for a public relations consultant motion to approve the above resolution well uh township clerk I just had a question before we proceed with a vote on this absolutely uh I I didn't get an explanation as to why we need a new public relations
consultant so can I just get an explanation on that i'll turn that over to the administration uh it's the yearly uh professional services uh awards that's what this is so it's really not a new one it's the existing one
well we were using direct development but what this is $65,000 for a new public relations consultant wh why are we getting a new one oh I'm sorry the uh direct development was bought out by uh
this firm so this is the new firm yes and when I looked at their client list I I was very surprised that um we would go with a very hyperartisan organization that represents Phil Murphy for governor Steve Fulip for governor um Hudson
County Democratic Organization i'm surprised we would go with an organization like that given you know the administration's conservative values what appealed to you about this organization i don't think that there was a lot of competition that submitted
how many bids did we get um I don't have the number in front of you but I don't think we um I think we only had one and it's not a bid all right so um and and really this is it's not a political function uh they
also do things for um many towns too so I I believe that they do have a political arm that they um do work on political campaigns but this isn't for a political campaign this is for the township okay um so we u can I have a motion uh
for the uh resolution please motion so who made the motion i think we have one mr mr okay can I get a second just a second please second motion made by Mr neglia seconded by Mr hernandez
roll call mr hernandez yes mr mcgrath yes mr mucella no mr neglia yes and Mr ki yes okay so it's uh 4 to one motion passes moving along to R 202582 awarding
legal professional service agreements may I please have a motion to approve the above resolution motion may I have a second please second motion made by Mr neglia seconded by Mr hernandez roll call mr hernandez yes mr mcgrath yes mr mella yes mr neglia yes
mr kari yes motion passes moving along to R20 202583 awarding professional service agreements for a hearing officer motion to approve the resolution above motion second motion made by Mr neglia seconded by Mr hernandez roll call mr
hernandez mr mcgrath yes Mr mucella yes Mr neglia yes Mr kari yes motion passes moving along to R2584 awarding professional engineering service agreements may I please have a motion to uh approve the resolution motion second motion made by Mr neglia
seconded by Mr hernandez roll call mr hernandez yes mr mcgrath yes mr recella yes mr neglia yes and Mr karif yes motion passes r 202585 awarding legal professional service agreements can I please have a motion to approve the resolution above motion second motion
made by Mr neglia seconded by Mr hernandez roll call mr hernandez yes mr mcgrath yes mr mella yes mr neglia yes and Mr ki yes okay r 2020 R 202586 uh resolution to centure Councilman
Justin Misella for exhibiting his councilman credentials during a traffic stop uh could I have a motion motion second motion made by Mr hernandez seconded by Mr neglia mr hernandez no
Mr mcgrath mr mcgrath yeah I'm thinking it's it's a challenge there's a lot of conversation that came up and it's interesting to me that when I took this oath of office and I took this role I bragged about trying to do the right things for my children and as I
mentioned I haven't taken advantage of anything um there's no pullovers there's no warnings there's no nothing within my family or my wife or anybody else and for me when I sit here and I think about it there are some valid points that some
of the officers have brought up where they give this to people that they know in town i'm not a known entity i only ran last year so it's my first year in any sort of public servitude um I wonder if there's an alternative and I'm gonna go with Toby Anderson says
something I thought was pretty interesting because our challenge is is that if people are speeding and getting away with it that doesn't help anyone in this town regardless of what way you vote or who you feel is the better candidate you're not getting a better option is is there an option that we can put
forward that the police in this town if they see us any one of us speeding or doing something illegal they have to ticket us rather than allowing us to get away with something so I I'm going to put forward an alternative let let's add
that then instead so I'll vote no if we had an alternative hold on if we had an alternative to what I just said where we're not getting away with something because I I took an oath of office and I know some of you think it's a lie i
actually mean it if we should not be able to get away with something if my average neighbor does it if I choose not to run in two years I expect that to be the same person who sits here to the same opinion so I want to put that out as an option do do we agree as a as a
council that that's an option but before I and thank you for uh coming up with an alternative instead of Mr anderson yeah but what what's been presented just so we're clear um is this on a go forward
basis are we going to look back into sorry before we continue is that going to be in the form of a resolution because this resolution is on the floor now we have to get rid of this resolution and this alternative we can bring up in the form of a motion absolutely
so before I say anything then I'd like to hear from some of my other council members how do you feel about what I asked judy Paul Frank you know John you you brought up you know all valid points
about police and and who they ticket and who they don't um the issue that that I had with it with this whole thing and and we had actually given Mr misella the opportunity to discuss this at close
session and it would have ended there it would have it would have gone it would have ended there but he decided he wanted it out and to make a big spectacle about the whole the whole thing but let me let me finish let me finish he if you go back and you know
all your supporters here could go back and look at some of the videotapes where my issue is he's bashing our police department for go back it's on tape it's on tape he's bashing our police department for not
enforcing speeding and not issuing enough speeding tickets in this particular neighborhood and went to residents and said that if he becomes mayor he will make sure that they issue speeding tickets and and for and force and this and that in the same
neighborhood that he got pulled over speeding so I'm I'm just listen you can you can argue you could say you know I mean he knows he knows that that was the case it's on video if you go back and look at past meetings you'll see you'll
see so that's where but John you bring up a you bring up a great point you bring up a great point thought to to go and after you know you've been pulled over for this in fact this this thing and then you bash the police our police department for not doing anything
not enforcing laws but you in fact are one of the people that are speeding and not getting a ticket okay that that's that's just where I had the the the issue with it i you know and like I said we gave Mr miss Ella the opportunity we were gonna we were to go in close
session talk about it just say "Hey listen my big beef is don't bash our police department for not doing their job." And then you go and and speak i I would think I would [Applause] think if
if you go if you go to the videotapes of our previous meetings you will hear him repeatedly stating that i'm just It's a fact it's on record it's on record okay it's on record and then when we questioned Mr misella couple meetings
ago on record he said this was the only time it happened if you if Okay if you recall all right so let me I'll I'll just I'll just throw this out there if anybody's been pulled over multiple times in the last couple years you wouldn't remember that calm
down i'm talking i'm talking i'm talking we're discussing we're We're having a discussion here please yeah you You We're having a discussion
we're having a discussion up here okay i'm just stating facts i'm stating facts go to the go to the past meetings go see you know this is what the ignorance of some of you what you won't go back and
look uh you know what i'm I'm going to speak I'm going to speak I'm going to speak to I'm going to speak to one resident here john John all I'm gonna ask all is that you I totally agree with everything you said totally agree but I would just ask
you if you wouldn't mind if if you have the time just go back and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about that's all I'm asking that's all that's all I'm asking tot No I totally agree with you totally totally agree
totally i Please I'm trying to hear him i don't know a single officer who has never Can you come up can you come up to the mic please this way you're on the record you can't speak from the crowd thank you sir that here so I'll just give you the scenario what why go ahead listen we
don't we don't write the laws we don't make these laws we don't do that the the issue here is and and I I I I'll put you in this i'll give you this scenario the officer knew it's been out there for a while that Mr mousella was running for
mayor okay if you're the officer and now you issue him a ticket okay in the back of your mind are you thinking like well I'm not going to give this guy the ticket because if he were to become mayor okay I might not get promoted you think you think I'm going to get promoted after I gave him a ticket
just not on no that's okay no uh no can we get the microphone let him talk please let him talk i think that give him a mic you can just grab that mic the gym's open for
everybody i distinctly remember my first police job was in Seaside Heights Police Department when I started my career as a special 2000 before 9/11 I was in the oral interview and they asked if you pull over the chief would you write him
a ticket and the chief was in there the lieutenant captains everybody who mattered i said "Of course not." And they said "Why not?" Well first of all he's the chief second of all you have discretion
right we've all been afforded that opportunity before i was asked the same i was asked you pull over a car you didn't recognize a car you pull over the car your mother's driving you're going to give her a ticket absolutely not of course not right i agree i totally agree with you i just was stating what what my
issue was of the whole Now if there's lying if there's other if there's other reasons that's a different story but let's not sit on a soap box anybody who's in law enforcement and say I've
totally agree with you totally agree i've been pulled over and I've been the recipient of what we dis what do we call it Paul totally professional courtesy right totally agree with you right totally agree have I been called over seven times i've been a cop for 22 years i guarantee you
it's been seven times okay I've I'm going to tell you the truth okay I have a I have a fellow here who knows me how many motor vehicle summones have I written Michael am I heavy-handed am I heavy-handed Michael
thank you thank you John appreciate your time thank you we need the mic back can I just make a a quick statement um I understand that a lot of people have strong feelings on this issue but
let's not m let's not mistake the difference between recommending ways we can improve a better job and I do believe that our parcipony police department does a great job and providing recommendations for
improvement is not the same thing as bashing we had Mr masarella come up and said we need to work together and there are many more issues that are of a bigger priority than of what we're discussing and there isn't one day that
hasn't gone by since this whole trial by ambush began that I just wish the police officer gave us a ticket that day and we would have paid it and that would have been the end of this but um you know having said that uh I I would be open to what M council Councilman McGrath has
proposed exploring that and uh it sounds like a code of conduct for just the governing body and I'm open to what he has to say on that and maybe what others have to say
okay u so Okay so Mr mcgrath uh no uh next is Mr mr uh Neglia yes thank you um I want to say something too you know I came to this meeting you know I was very angry i was very angry at some of the things that um have happened to me and
my family by way of someone's campaign and I was very angry but I but I did listen to what everyone said here tonight and I listen to what my co-consil u members here have said tonight justin you know you're young you're immature you
make mistakes that's part of growing up that's that that's part of growing Please let me finish that's part of growing up and we and what I was about to say is we all have done stupid things like that and um you know I I don't I
don't want to I don't want to attack you for my personal reasons i want to listen to the facts here that I've heard tonight by my co-consil members and um I said I have personal reasons and I'm sure you know what they are and um you know I want to put those aside and do
what's the right thing and I have to agree with uh my co- councilman Matt McGrath that I now have to also vote no okay and Mr kari all right to to many of you on this side of the room over here I'm sure this is going to shock you but I you know I I've
always said I've always listened to the residents i've always listened to the residents what can you Can you give me a sec all right i I've always listened to the residents okay and you know I I have to agree with what
Mr mcgrath said and I you know I wasn't even aware until this was brought up at this council meeting that I I told the gentleman and asked a question about these statues i I didn't even know about those okay so that's when we became aware of
it and that's when we asked if we were obligated to do something about it um again I think we this could have just been handled behind closed doors and just said hey listen this these statues and these laws are out there so don't do it anymore i I actually had somebody say
to me well you know that's a resident that I was trying to say I was trying to adjust and work with like Mr misanis resident said "Well that's a stupid law so it's okay that he broke it." I had a resident say that i'm like "Well we
don't write the laws." All right but I mean that that mentality is just you know come on we had another resident had a resident say "Well he helped me with a tree so he he broke the law it should be okay he helped me with the tree." I didn't say you said that Mr you did
say it okay so this is a totally different instance so you know but we don't write the laws i you know long story short I'm voting no okay we have uh four no votes so the um
motion fails and the resolution is dead i I don't want to give up on this conversation now okay uh so so hold on one second let's just uh wait for the crowd okay so now Mr mcgrath before we proceed if you do have some other recommendation you're more than welcome
to discuss and make it in the form of a motion at this point in time or you can do it at a later time and discuss it with council i don't So So I'll I'll have to put it in writing then to you but I still think as I described we need to put forward a motion that prohibits
this happening in the future so moving forward we have to come up with a way that part Tiffany is not giving warnings to anybody who sits up here at the deis and we stop so I'd recommend if you can put that in writing send it over to the business administrator along with the
county of attorney and you can copy me though yes sir okay um moving along we just ask just just we're almost done two minutes we're almost done i promise um approval of payroll and bills list cfo and please we have a few more things cfo
Angelica Sabatini recommends authorization for payment authorizes payment for of the March 28 2025 regular miscellaneous payroll estimated at 1,650,000 number two payment of bills from voucher list of 318 which is $2,423.51 could I get a motion to
approve the authorization motion second motion made by Mr enlia seconded by Mr hernandez roll call mr hernandez yes mr mcgrath yes mr mella yes mr neglia yes mr karifi yes all right could I please have a motion before i just want to say
one thing to my my colleagues um I I want to thank you for for voting no and uh putting to bed what was a very last difficult last 30 days for you know
especially my my wife and I um and uh and to Council Vice President Neglia's point um my my issues have never been personal and they are strictly professional and it will always stay that way and I don't think there is ever
a need for anybody's families always ever to be involved well I appreciate you saying that Justin i would definitely appreciate the personal attacks on my family stopping by some of the folks that are running with you i would appreciate um
the um phone calls to my house i would appreciate them to stop i would appreciate the mailers that are coming to my house and unmarked envelopes and it all started during the campaign so I can't say where it was coming from but if you know anywhere it was and you
could help me stop that I'd appreciate it what what I'll what I'll say is separate from everything I'm running an above board campaign anything that does not have my name on it does not come from me and anything that is directed to either candidates's families is
unacceptable to me and I will not for one second ever support something like that so I want to say that for the record both ways and I want to thank my colleagues for um for their for their decision so thank you very much from the
bottom of my heart okay could I please have a motion to adjourn the meeting motion i'm not going to get a second for an adjournment nope second having too much fun all right uh
motion made by Mr hernandez seconded by Mr meella roll call mr hernandez yes mr mcgrath yes mr mella yes mr uh Neglia no mr karifi yes we're adjourned have a good night everybody yes no I I can't see