call to order it is 700 p.m on April 2nd 2025 open Public Meeting Act Act 1975 Chapter 201 according to the Open Public Meeting Act this meeting of April 2nd 2025 was sent for publication to the
Bergen Record and Herald News on March 31st 2025 in addition a copy of this notice is and has been available to the public and is on file in the office of the municipal clerk roll call please committee woman
here committee woman here deputy Mayor Miller here committee Trrowinsky here and Mayor Judge Grall here all are present mayor thank you may we stand for the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence i aliance 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 [Music] all [Music]
right so um Dean would you read please the first word mayor Judge Cllo asks for a motion mayor Judge Cavella asked for a motion to adopt resolution number 025-123 appointing a temporary township clerk do I have a May I have a motion
please i'll make a motion i have a second i'll second roll call miss Pinto committee woman yes committeewoman Arola yes deputy Miller deputy Mayor Miller yes committee
Chinsky yes and Mayor Judge Carllo yes may I have a motion to approve this agenda i'll make the motion may I have a second second may I roll call please committee woman of PJ i'm sorry Mr he doesn't know committee woman
yes committeewoman Artolo yes deputy Mayor Miller yes committeeman Trinsky yes mayor Dllo yes all right so we're going to move on to the public portion um I would like a motion to open the public please motion i have a second
second roll call please committee woman of Pij yes committeewoman Arola yes deputy Mayor Miller yes committeeman Joinsky yes and Mayor Judge Grall yes okay so we're open to the public is there anyone that like to speak at this
time come on up um Linda Bon case 33 Parkway uh one thing I missed the last couple meetings something I had and then totally forgot but what I was going to come in and talk to the township committee about was
hiring a full-time certified municipal clerk because I sat on the deis when the last full-time certified municipal clerk was here and that was Liz Crawl and Liz left in
August of 2021 it's been a long time that there wasn't a clerk here and I understand the circumstances but there's a time when it's got to end so I appreciate I see what's going on here and I'm very happy about that thank you very much thank you thank you very
much anyone else not seeing or hearing hearing anyone may I have a motion to close the public motion i have a second second roll call committeewoman Aichi yes committee woman aro yes deputy Miller
deputy Mayor Miller yes committee Chinsky yes and Mayor Judge Carllo yes okay so we have a discussion right now pointing our township clerk um let me just say a few words and then everybody can jump in afterwards so uh we had an application
given in and uh interview uh Mr miller uh deputy mayor Miller and myself and administrative Pinto uh were very pleased to interview uh Gina S kim and I want to give you a little background on her um Gina attended Ruckers University
and and completed all prerexs for municipal clerk courses and successfully obtained the New Jersey registered municipal clerk in October of 2014 um was hired by a burrow in in July of 2015 um she is a certified municipal
clerk um and uh received uh from also has a international institute of municipal clerks that's part of her resume um she has many many years of experience and she's um she's expertise
in facilitating meetings governing body overseeing elections processing over a thousand UPER request and collaborating with various departments to ensure a smooth operation of town business so a few other things I have that I'd like to say about Miss Kim is
also some of her accolades that I have seen and I'm I'm very pleased with um so she's had her clerk license since 2015 so that's 10 years municipal certified certified municipal clerk um she is also
hold on a second i got it right here she is the past president of the Burden County Municipal Clerk Association in 2022 she is executive board member of the Bergen County of Municipal Clerks Association 2019 to 2024
education committee member of the Bergen County C of Bergen County Municipal Clerks Association 2024 to present as of now um Miss Kim is fluent in English and Korean and and she has been highly recommended by many
different people um I've spoken to she's now in Oakland and and hopefully she'll be in Roshchaw Park soon so these are a few things I'd like to highlight um I thank Miss Kim for coming and applying and I appreciate her time to be here this evening anyone else has any
questions or any other discussion no I just think that this exemplifies a significant moment within our township and former committee woman Linda Bonaface just addressed it we haven't had a certified municipal clerk since 2021
this governing body is moving this town forward and that's what this appointment does with Miss Gina Kim absolutely qualified absolutely experienced and I look forward to voting yes on her appointment so thank you for calling the special meeting mayor welcome anyone else
i also like to say I know there there's a question and one of the questions is well what's the salary and Miss Kim is coming in at a salary of 110 which it is a very good salary for a certified municipal clerk very good salary and is
at this time not taking any benefits with that so that saves the town quite a bit of money um under the circumstances that we were put into this is this is a very very good opportunity for us to move this town forward in a positive
direction i I I'm very confident you know from my opinion Miss Kim could do that i know Mr pinto is probably a little bit happy on this point also that we get uh some of this stuff strained out mr pinto correct as I just mentioned you know um off the deest to Miss Kim
this is an opportunity for her to take what I very similar to what I encountered when I took over a floundering PD i think uh you're going to be able to make this your own and I think as as Tommy has stated ear you know one other time um it's an opportunity for Miss Kim to wow this
township and I I I strongly believe that's going to happen thank you expect now you wouldn't but I believe Mim is very Mrs mrs kim right Mrs kim is very close to Is that Mrs okay miss Gina which we usually go
live right we go by first names so um Jen I don't know if you can hear us any questions or Sure no I'm good good all right we're good everybody okay all right so let's move forward um would you please read the motion sure mayor Judge
Carllo asks for a motion to adopt resolution number 025-124 appointing a township clerk may I have a motion please i'll make the motion may I have a second i'll second and a roll call please committeewoman Aichi
yes committeewoman Arola yes deputy Mayor Miller yes committeeman Trinsky yes and Mayor Judge Carmelo yes happily thank you so um Miss Ken was our start date is um April 16th uh that's what we're looking at right now and um
welcome to Rochelle Park i wish you the best and I know you're going to do great would you like to say something i know I'm making you run around sorry about that i'd like to be
on so I would like to take this opportunity to thank the township committee for this wonderful opportunity um I really look forward to coming in and really serving not only the governing body here but also the very important uh citizens of Rochelle Park
so thank you again and um I'm so happy to be here tonight thank you thank you so much thank you again thank you all right so congratulations thank you so much
so on the meeting of the 20 what the nth I'm going to go right I'm going to do a swearing in on you you want a swearing in I understand right we could do a swearing in that's fine yeah it's fine we could do it that's an easy ask that's
so you know if you want your family here or whatever you'd like to do I'd like to swear you in um as our clerk and um I think we could do it anyway after No you have to do it before the 16th so you can I could do it on the 9th how about the 9th can we do the swearing in for you on
the 9th that's our next meeting okay so that would be great so everybody we'll we'll have a little bit of a swearing in here for our new clerk and we're very excited and um All righty so we'll move forward uh do we need a close session anybody need a close session
here no I don't see anybody no okay all right so the next thing I have is we're going to adjourn and our next meeting will be our work session on April 9th 20125 that'll also be when Miss Kim is going to be um not sworn in
as per se um but um we look forward to all the good things you can do thank you may I have a roll call to adjourn please sure committeewoman Peachy yes committee Arola yes deputy Mayor
Miller yes committeeman Shinsky yes and Mayor Judge CLA yes so we are Thank you thank you you're welcome