here director leor here announcement of the open public meeting law ladies and gentlemen the notice requirement of the open public meeting law has been satisfied with respect to this meeting specifying the time date and location including the annual notice adopted a reorganization meeting filed with the county clerk posted administration
building and mailed to two newspapers in accordance with the provisions of the law Mr duy please lead us in the pledge my pledge right please join me in pledge allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag stes of America to the for it stands one
nation under God indivisible Justice for All pleas remain standing for a moment of silence remember all the men and women who have died while serving in the United States armed forces and will have died from covid-19 especially the
2259 residents of pay County and while I we standing um we had the bad news today that uh director Lions um who served the for the last 50 years passed away today so please keep him in your thoughts thank
you need a motion to approve the minutes for February 27th 202 motion made by Duffy second second by barlet roll call County Commissioners Bartlett the yes Duffy yes deputy director Lazar yes director laor yes need a motion to
approve the proclamations make that motion made by Duffy second by Lara roll call uh County Commissioners Bartlett yes dor yes Duffy yes deputy director Lazar yes director laor yes
administrative report thank you director we like to actually okay I'm sorry I ignore me ignore me ignored motion to ignore second a third I'd like to welcome everybody to
our Irish heritage Mar uh month celebrating and honoring Mrs Ursula erit and sister Colleen chair FM CLA FMA um we're also going to start that off with our invocation so father line no now I'm
wrong [Laughter] I think we'll start with the pipes and drums [Music]
[Applause] [Music] [Applause]
[Music] [Applause] [Music] yes sir it's good okay hello everyone thank you for being here uh I don't know if I was
supposed to be introduced or just where winging it we're going to wing it cuz it's an Irish thing I don't want to get yelled at again I want to thank you all for being here it's a it's a Bittersweet thing because this is my last St Patty's Day
after uh celebration after 21 years with my good friend Pat leor and who has no green on by the way I mention that so what am I supposed to do here L Father Ryan I'm going to introduce just have
the invation okay we're going ask Father Ryan to come up right right L to we're following the program talk to me I didn't read the program actually so Father Ryan if you would come up and say the invocation let start
this going here this is very confusing and Father Ryan I might as well share with you he shared with me that he got a haircut today because the the nuns were coming yeah that's the truth so your fight I begged Barber to
squeeze me in because the sisters are coming if we stand in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen oh god of goodness and mercy hear our prayer as we begin this Lenton Journey with
you let us be honest with [Music] ourselves as uh as we look into our our hearts and souls notice ing the times we have turned away from you guide us as we
humbly seek to reput you into our lives and return your love may humility guide our efforts to be reconciled with you and live forever in your abundant grace transform us this
Lent Heavenly Father give us the strength to make ourselves 100% available to you every day as I as we prepare for Easter and we ask St Patrick the patron of
Ireland St Bridget the Patronis St Lawrence oul St Kevin of glendel loock and St Oliva plunket to intercede for us and lead us to you amen thank you thank you Father so I get
the uh privilege to uh to read the proclamation for Mrs erit and uh it's um it's my privilege and my honor to do that I know her her son who's a decorated police officer in Patterson and we've been very good friends for a
long long time so let me grab this I'm sorry I'm going to make you stand there all night long I'm not going to dismiss the C I want to thank the pipes and and drums these guys have been all over the place and they're personal friends of
mine and they never miss a beat and how about a [Applause] applaud and I might as well tell you they'll be at Duffy's Tavern first in River Street uh all weekend long
starting on Friday going on to Monday so corn beef and I will dismiss you with M thank you so much for being here thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
[Music] [Applause] [Music] l [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
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he [Music] so without further Ado let me ask Mrs uh Eric please come up want to come up come on
up come on you help her up come on do something kid come on you want went to Notre Dame all that money Notre Dame Notre Dame graduate not bad played football no not no no say you play football it's all right it's political here make it up it's all
right come all right let me uh whereas in recognition of the outstanding achievements and contributions made by many exceptional Irish Americans over the years P kind Board of County freeholders of the county of P it seems
it deems fitting and appropriate this time to recognize ursul eron during during its Irish American Heritage celebration whereas ursul Eric was born and raised in Brooklyn New York and the eldest of six children whereas
Ursula eron attended St savior's high school and then Hunter College receiving a degree in education whereas Ursula eron taught Elementary School in mipa Long Island for several years later to
return to teaching full-time in Wayne School System including Anthony Wayne middle school and John F Kennedy Kennedy Elementary school until retirement in 1996 and whereas Ursula
and eron paternal grandparents came to the United States in 1893 from the counties of mayo and Cavin of Ireland residing first in P New Jersey and then and then in Brooklyn whereas Ursula erot was a parishioner of
Immaculate Heart of Mary and panac anunciation Church in way and currently Notre Dame Church in North calwell New Jersey and whereas Ursa ER was involved in the Little Sisters of the Poor auxiliary as well as
a pro-life group Birthright assisting expectant mothers participa in the right to life march in Washington DC and in 1998 she traveled to Ireland with an organized trip by Notre Dame Church in
in herself in her Irish culture and learn where her family came from whereas Ursula is a is a proud wife in Bartholomew eret and both are proud parents of four children four grandchildren and recently became great
great grandparents how's that I'm now therefore it be proclaimed this is my favorite part it's like The Wizard of Oz now therefore be proclaimed by the P County of County Commissioners that is their part publicly recognizes and
applauds Ursula erid for the significant contributions she has made for the county of pic and and the community be it further Proclaim that this board congratulates Ursel erett for being named 2025 Irish Woman of the Year
congratulations young [Applause] lady go ahead say thank you all ever so
much there's something new every day at 93 years of age and I thank the good Lord for each day wonderful and I know you've had prayers but this is my wish for all of you it
came to me from the daughter of one of my dear friends a Murphy by the way and my m m name was B so anyway for all of you may your
morning spring joy and your evenings bring peace may your troubles grow less as your blessings increase God bless you all and thank you very
much thank you CH the mve in the shake I don't know about that come on go sit down you had enough come on kid get up yeah a picture I'm sorry we're gonna have picture you get
over here yeah you want to move this back or yeah I got and don't forget to take some soda bread home yes yeah what you e don't forget some soda bread please
please uh next up is uh was special to me because sister is a celian nun and my uncle father Vincent Duffy was a cian priest and I don't uh I'm going to ask my commissioner here who's an educator
herself and sister if you'd come up sister Claire sister Colleen not Claire thank you we have a lot in common do we really we're both teachers it's true went to Catholic school on my life yeah same
cathic scar you have the okay so I get the pleasure of reading this Proclamation for sister Colleen whereas in recognition of the outstanding achievements and contributions made by many exceptional Irish Americans over the years the Pake
County Board of County commissioners of the county of Pake deems it fitting and appropriate at this time to recognize sister Colin CLE FMA duris Irish American Heritage celebration whereas sister Colleen is
the 14th out of 16 children born to Joseph and rosemary CLA raised in southeast New York State and whereas sister Colleen graduated Summa kumade from Felician University with a bachelor's in elementary education and
religious studies also holds a masters in educational leadership from Montclair State University me too you whereas sister Colleen has been a celian sister since 1992 and served
years as vocation director of her Province and during that time 58 young women entered the order and whereas sister Colleen for years taught in schools administered by the celian sisters both in Patterson New
Jersey and tamper Florida whereas sister colan CLA is a former principal of St Anthony's School in Horn New Jersey former head of school of M Help of Christians Academy in north haen New Jersey and currently serves as
mother provincial of cayan Sisters of St John Bosco in hailed in New Jersey now therefore let it be proclaimed by the Pake County Board of County Commissioners that it hereby publicly recognizes and applauds sister
Colleen CLA FMA for the significant contributions she has made to the county of Pake and to the community be a further Proclaim that this board congratu hates sister Colleen CLE FMA
for being named the 2025 Irish woman of the year for the county of [Applause] Pake I'm very grateful to receive this award it is really a great honor and I
receive it in the name of every celian sister you know all of us we're all Irish on St Patrick's Day so there's a lot of there's the O renales the the the real flanigans who's the the True Blood Irish and I just feel very grateful really for that beautiful
Heritage that we have but also for the beautiful gift that we have of being born in the United States I had a professor in college who said you know if you consider life like a lottery we won like we were born here you know what
a beautiful gift I served two years as a missionary in Egypt and during that time there was actually a lottery for the people to get a Visa just to come and visit the United States think of what a blessing we have so I thank God really I
thank God for all the blessings that I've received in my life and for this beautiful gift as well thank you all [Applause] picture now you were in Tampa
e e let's just say something I'm me f oh no you bet you blew it like I want to see Father Ryan again but before I do I want to mention that do you know that
Duffy's Tavern first in River Street we open Friday Saturday Sunday with corn beef and and bag pipes father you're up and thank you so much and Lou Who is the clerk he wants to remind you to take soda bread so you
see all that soda bread over there enough for everyone two for everyone or three even and then we'll have a collection no I just wanted to mention um you know
I had I had sisters Grammar School High School uh college for master's degrees I I got my doctorate somewhere else I called sister and asked her if she would take the award and she wanted to give it to someone else I love nuns
like that oh no give it to sister Teresa and then sister teres oh no you take it so then we ask for a little bio sister wrote enough to fill the back of a an 18 cent stamp it was nothing and Lou called
me and said father there's like three lines here what do we do but then he knows the computer and he found it but these sisters are the most humble wonderful sisters in the world and we're grateful that the cians are here in the dasis and even the dasis of Tampa they
do so much wonderful work with the poor you know wonderful wonderful work and never ask for anything in return so uh and and when they told you that I got a hack on today I did because I didn't want the I was all straggly and I didn't
want the sisters to see me that's how much and I love my hair so so thank you sister col for being here and sister Katie and Sister Mary the Trinity all right that's all God [Applause]
bless I just want to make about L Lou and the staff we never do anything without these guys are the best Lou leads the charge and the rest of the staff but I want to thank you you know 21 years it's an honor and pleasure sir TR
is thank thank you yep did I mention that Duffy's Tavern just for the record could you mention it all right before we move on I just want to acknowledge our County Clerk Danielle IR lenhof our auditor Steve WI
fo and a member of the pay County Improvement Authority Mike R maglia and director that concludes my administrator's report thank you Mark the agenda resolution resolution to exceed the county budget appropriation
limits and establish a cap Bank puru to njsa 48 I miss oh okay I can't see that far down I'll take a motion to suspend the regular order of business so moved second motion made by
Bartlett second by Duffy roll call you guys want to get out of here some s bread um County Commissioners Bartlett yes D'Or yes Duffy yes deputy director Lazar yes director leor yes director can you
can we take a three minute sure all right we're going to take a three minute recess as per L yeah if you guys want you can maybe they want to stay they don't want
to what we're [Laughter] fun e e e e e e e okay folks we're
back uh number two on the agenda resolution to establish a county budget appropriation limit and establish a c bank puru to njsa 48 col 4- 455 at es need a motion yes so moved by Bartley second by
Duffy roll call County Commissioners Bartlett yes D'Or yes Duffy yes director lar yes director laor yes does anyone present desire to be heard on the 2025 cap resolution see no one at voting I move
to close the public portion second motion made by Duffy second by Lazar close roll call County Commissioners Bartlett yes D'Or yes Duffy yes deputy director Lazar yes director leor yes motion for final
adoption of resolution to exceed the county budget appropriation limits and establish a cap act pursuant to njsa 48 need a motion so moved second by bar secondar roll call County Commissioner Bartlett yes
D'Or yes Duffy yes deputy director lar yes director laor yes uh next is a resolution to exceed the county budget appropriation limits and establish a c bank pursue it to njsa
48 they did that already right okay typo it's there twice okay um I take a motion to adopt the 2025 say County budget no I used that as a heading I apologize
okay director um I need I need a um go to eight please eight motion to open the public hearing on the 2025 budget state county budget introduced February 11 2025 so moved motion made by Bartley second second made by D'Or roll
call County Commissioners Bartlett yes D'Or yes Duffy yes deputy director Lazar yes director laor yes does anyone present desire to be heard of the 2025 state county budget see no one at the podium I move the close public portion
second motion made by Duffy second by lazara roll call County Commissioner is Bartlett yes dor yes Duffy yes deputy director Lazar yes director laor yes uh motion to amend the county budget
approved on February 11th 2025 so moved motion made by Bartley second second by roll call County Commissioners um Bartlett yes Dore yes Duffy yes deputy director Lazar yes director
laor okay motion to adopt the 2025 state county budget move it second motion Babel is error second by Bartlett roll call County Commissioner is Bartlett yes dor yes Duffy yes Deputy direct laar yes
director laor yes uh motion to resume the regular order of business so moved motion made by gor second by Duffy roll call County Commissioners Bartlett yes D'Or yes Duffy yes deputy director Lazar
yes director laor yes um the uh commissioner reports I mentioned this evening that we lost a a true friend of State County under the people County um Bob Lions um just want
to read a couple of things of what he's accomplished in his 50 years of service to theate County um he served um he's a member of numerous State Police organizations he serves as commissioner of the New Jersey state police training commission State
president of the New Jersey State Police Academy Directors Association member of the New Jersey chapter FBI National Academy um member of the P County Police and Fire Emerald Society um he's also served
um uh with the um patteron Police Department the P County Park police and the P County prosecutor's office as you can see he dedicated an awful lot to all of us here in P County and uh he will be
missed next we have uh Sandy you have anything no all right good well does anybody have a report um just very briefly I I want to acknowledge our County Clerk Daniel Ireland imof who's here uh and hard at work on the first of pay County's many
elections of 2025 and if anybody's watching in Bloomingdale you have until 8 o'clock P.M to vote in your school uh Bond ordinance uh election which is taking place today uh to support I believe it's the construction of a new
school uh there in Bloomingdale uh um want to acknowledge our County auditor Steve wilcott uh whose fine work on the budget made it possible for us to take all those votes we just took so quickly uh and finally I just want to um wish
Lou an early happy birthday and I want to wish you an early happy birthday too so and and director is days from here the 14th yes happy birthday director I'm sorry no
that's what just director from wood Bob Lions I knew Bob Lions I worked with Bob Lions um he was a unique Irishman great guy um he used to he never drank during Lent I give you a real quick story never
drank during Lent he liked his his uh his Libations and um one one lent he put iced tea in the in Irish Irish uh whiskey bottle and he put it in the in the in the kitchen table and his wife
came down he was drinking out of it and his wife went wow what you know you never drank during a land and he was just the type of guy that loved to laugh was a family guy he was a law enforcement man and he was a true credit
to pay County and God Rest his soul I couldn't couldn't sit up here without saying some kind of words about him and we're going to miss him pay county has lost a a good and dear Soldier thank you move it second by larus second by
Bartlett roll call County Commissioners Barty yes dor yes Dy yes deputy director Lazar yes director laort yes anyone anyone from the public wishing to be heard please step forward state your name and address um and
remember that anything that you say is a matter of public record ready see no one to him I move the close the public portion second by Duffy second by D'Or to close roll call County Commissioners Bartlett yes
D'Or yes Duffy yes deputy director Lazar yes director leor yes um number one is resolution authorizing the chief financial yes that's just an indication right resolution authorizing the Chief Financial Officer to execute budget
transfers between the 2024 budget and Appropriations pursuant to njsa 48 colum 4- 59 need a motion so moved motion made by Bartlett second second by Duffy roll
call County Commissioners Bartlett yes dor yes Duffy yes deputy director Lazar yes director laor yes uh next order of business is the consent agenda um do we have any um any Commissioners wanting to
pull anything from the agenda nope okay there's no late starters am no amendments oh I love this okay so and one two I'll take a motion for N1 to n47 I'll move it second by lazara second
by Duffy roll call County Commissioners Bartlett yes dvor yes Duffy yes deput D Lazar yes director laor yes uh Personnel need a motion Personnel motion made by Bartlett
second second by lazara roll call County Commissioners Bartlett yes dor yes Duffy yes deputy director Lazar yes director laor yes need a motion on the bills the Bills second motion made by Barlett second by lazara roll call County
Commissioners Bartlett yes Dore yes Duffy yes deputy director ozar yes director laor yes before we adjourn I also like to thank Steve WX our auditor great job and do without you and let's not forget rich rich K also can't leave
someone in the front row not introduced thank you for your hard work as well yes absolutely they make a great team uh take a motion to adjourn before I make that motion I just want to mention that duy's Tavern will be open Saturday Su happy St Patty's Day
everyone happy St Patty's Day that the motion or plug I'm not sure what Duffy made the motion I'll second duy here you go County Commissioners Bartlett dor yes Duffy yes deputy director Lazar yes director laor yes
thank you and good night everyone thanks everybody