Good evening and welcome to July 15, 2025 meeting of the Rosland governing body. Adequate notice meeting is provided in accordance with the all public meeting act and that the date, time, and location meeting were including the annual meeting schedule, post on the public bulletin board in the municipal building and filed in the burough clerk. For those attending tonight's meeting via Zoom, the agenda
and any of the relevant documents can be found on the burough's website attached to the meeting notice posted in the news and announcement section. During the meeting, announcement made prior to the two public comment periods. Anyone wishing to make a public comment via computer will be instructed to use raise your hand icon. And anyone wishing to make a public comment via telephone will be instructed to dial star9 at the
appropriate time. For those in attendance in person or remotely, please provide your name and address when selected. If you are eligible for Daniels Law, please just announce your name. Mr. Watkins, please call the role. Mayor Spango, present. Mr. Barty, here. Mr. Bont. Mr. Paratt here. Mr. Schroeder
here. Mrs. Tolley, here. Mr. Trillo here. Please rise for the flag. I pledge allegiance 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. Thank you. First on the agenda, we have our first round of public comment. Any member of the public wishing to be heard, come forward and state your name and address for the record. You're with us via Zoom, use the raise your hand icon. And if you're with us telephonically, press star 9 at the
appropriate time. Janet Tmont, 38 Leonard Terrace, Roseland. I wrote my comments down because I don't want to exceed my five minutes. On Tuesday, June 17th, I received an email from Moren Chimancus that had
attached to it an undated, unsigned letter addressing concerns that I raised five months ago following the police department's budget hearing. According to Moren, this letter was prepared on June 4th and written and collaborated by the police committee and
the Roseand Governing Body and reviewed by council. The pronoun I is used consistently throughout the letter, but no one actually signed it. 10 people, four months, no date, no signature, and not
much content. Before getting into the substance of that letter, let me take this opportunity, Mayor Spango, to tell you how deeply offended I am by the way you handled the photograph. I texted you on May 7th. By your own admission and
without my permission, you shared the photo and my name with at least 10 people, including your police leadership, the burrow council, and the board attorney, as referenced in that undated letter. Why would that even be mentioned in the response to my budget
questions? And I never gave permission for my name to be used. your act actions were insensitive and unbefitting a person of your position. It was always my understanding that the practice of sharing the name of a resident who filed
a complaint was frowned upon and clearly in my case you felt otherwise. You dis disregarded my privacy, safety, and well-being, and it is something I will remember for a long time. How very sad that you chose to make this personal and
public. I hope in the future you're exercise you exercise better judgment when dealing with your constituents with respect to the letter's content. I offer the following comments. You state that the mayor and council are aware of the police director's use of
the vehicle and believe that the practice should be continued. Of course you are aware. You are aware because I told you five months ago what was going on. Before I opened my mouth, most of the council was in the dark. It's not my intention to embarrass anyone on the
deis, but suffice it to say that I have emails, text messages, and a record of a phone call dating back to Martin Luther King Day that suggests this was not done with the support of the council. Your response was wellcrafted and clearly designed to skirt the real issue. If the
use of cars was something that the entire governing body was on board with, why did you sit there and say nothing when I appeared before the council to voice my concerns? You could have put a stop to this ludicrous exchange months ago simply by saying, "I am fully aware
of how the director's car and other unmarked cars are being used by offduty officers and I approve." You did not do that. Not that night, nor the day after, nor the week after, nor the month after, nor the month after that, nor the month
after that. You sat in silence and waited for me to go away. Same question for the police director. If he had exclusive use of the car 24/7 with the blessing of the governing body and also had the authority to allow our offduty
lieutenants to take home cars during the week, why didn't he say so? Why did he tell the story about occasional trips to a lab in South Jersey? And why are the cars only taken home during the week and not on weekends? Do we not have emergencies on weekends? Why is everyone in this
administration having so much difficulty with the truth? And still no answer as to why the director is driving a high performance police car with confidential plates in a PD easy pass. If he's entitled to a car, it should be a Ford Escort or something similar with MG
plates. Finally, I'm struggling with the fact that it took 10 people, an attorney, and four months to complete a one-page response that still doesn't address the underlying problem. Answers were not truthful. The entire governing body
should be embarrassed by this. My inquiry was mishandled from the beginning. It could have been resolved in one day with a simple phone call to the director asking if there was truth to what I was saying. That did not happen because he was already on record as saying something else. No
backpedaling on this one. I have been a resident of this town for more than 27 years and I have seen my taxes increase every year. And now, like every other taxpayer in town, I'm footing the bill for three more members of the RPD to drive back and forth to their homes in
other count towns and in other counties. Free car, free gas, free maintenance, free insurance, and free tolls, all with your blessing. In my opinion, you have completely dismantled the RPD. I stand by my statement that I made a few months
ago that Roseland does not have a fully functioning police department. Our leadership ex exists only weekdays from about 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm. Five years no chief, three years no captains, only two lieutenants, and no plan for
succession. We don't even have a duly designated OIC. Two and a half years ago, during a round of eight promotions and three new hires, you said that the burrow is committed to keeping the community safe by having a properly staffed PD while also showing
appreciation to existing police officers in the department by giving them the recognition and promotions that are deserved. What changed? We are worse off than we were then. We are in worse shape than we were last year. We are
regressing. We linger in limbo because of the lack of promotions. When are you going to promote the two lieutenants? And please don't tell me they're not ready. Each has the skill that each has held that title for more than two years and both officers have the
skill set to advance to higher leadership positions. Those men are ready. If you think otherwise, I suggest the problem may be with the teacher, not the students. Do you not recognize the absurdity of the situation you have created? Once the lieutenants are
promoted, the director's job becomes redundant. We need police leadership that is proactive, not reactive. And we should be building our department so that it is equipped to handle all the additional housing that is planned for Roseand. Six
Becker Farm Road will begin renting in the fall this year with Harrison Avenue and 85 Livingston not far behind. Public safety must be the number one priority in this town. Thank you for your time and please don't feel obligated to
respond. Any other member of the public wish to be heard? Come forward. State your name and address for the record. Wait a minute. Let's go 20 m court on resolution number 6251-2025. Can you just give me a little explanation on about the fee thing? You
know, I ask about recreation fees trust fund for recreation. Is that for the fees for the things the kids playing or is it something else? I don't know. Yes, we Yes, we added one for the roses back. I I can't say it. I'm sorry.
We We added Run for the Roses back to recreation past couple of years. It was being um held by by the boosters boosters. So ADP ADP the which is so it's not to do with the fees. That's what I mean. It's to bring money in. We had to add the fee. That's because I couldn't understand it
the way it is. You know, I didn't know if it was a fee uh increase. We outsourced it for a little bit and now we brought it back in. But I think the fee remained the same as it was before. the fee was the fee increased by $10 for that. But I'm talking about the whole thing. That's all you just always ask about the fees just for
the collect the fees to run the program. Right. And the other thing, you know, basically I'm going to go back to what I said one time ago about your ordinances. How can how come we can't read them online? I try to read them online. I thought you were going to change something. You know, sometimes it you
know, you get in here, you try to read it, you can't read the whole thing and you don't understand it. So I'd appreciate if it's possible I think it should be able to get online especially in the electronics things the county does it I think you can do it personally and not
thank you that's it any other member of the public wish to be heard uh Wayne McCulla 212nd Avenue uh I just want to know this latest flooding that's happened. Is the council
addressing anything with flash flooding in Rosland? Because we've been having this problem since 99, since I've lived there. I've lived there 41 years. And I just wonder if the council has any agenda as far as flash flooding problems
in Roseand if we have any contingency plan about. I know we had our engineer who you've been dealing with, Joe. We had a study done at the expense of the county as for the flooding issues in Rosland. I know you've been dealing with Joe, but we are aware that it is an issue. Do we have a
plan right now? No. But we are working one through our engineers cuz like I said, this has been dragging on. We got very lucky last night. Oh yeah, that's got very compared to North Planefield and everything. We got and it wasn't Milbourne got hit pretty bad. We were on
the cusp. We we we were very very lucky. Agreed. And like I said, we had, like I say, I've provided to the engineer a contingency plan, what to do, and what we should be doing about it, getting the money for it. You know, you presented something to Joe.
Yeah. Yeah, we had a meeting, but the problem is we're waiting for the hydraologist to meet with me so we can turn around and get the ball rolling. Okay. I will follow up with Joe on Friday morning. Cuz could could you have him call me or something? is when I didn't when I saw you not person
when I saw you last month I thought he I told you to reach out to me I thought he reached out to you but you haven't heard from him no and I told and we I told her at our meeting as well I will I will personally call him tomorrow Friday morning 8:30 yeah because sooner than later because
like I say yep you know we got very lucky we're on borrowed time I kept walking down the street well that's what I'm saying to you that's you know if you don't hear from a week from today. Call me. You have my number. I will make sure I stay on top of it.
All right. Because like I said, it's understood. You know, we could take care of it. It's It's not a problem. Understood and agreed. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Any other member of the public wish to be heard, come forward, state your name and address for the record, please. If you're with us via Zoom, use the raise your hand icon. And if you're with us,
telephonically, press star 9. Okay. First, before we do um uh the first order of business, we have resolution 244-2025 appointing Michael Trainer as a patrol officer to the Rose Police Department. Do we have a motion to appoint Michael? So moved. Second.
Parate Tully. All in favor? I opposed. Hearing none. If the police department could please assemble. Think you got to go down. [Music] Um, if Michael could please come forward.
if his father Michael and his father and mother Michael and Elizabeth can come forward also. I asked Michael outside. I said, "Who's going to hold the Bible?" He said, "Mike." He said, "My dad." I said, "Who's going to put the badge on?" He
very smartly said, "My mom." So, I state your name. I, Michael Tra, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey of the State of New Jersey
that I will bear true faith and that I will bear true faith and allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments and to the government established in established in the United States the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and I state your name
and I Michael do further solemnly swear do further solemnly swear that I will faithfully that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties all the duties of police officer of police officer according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability and I will not use my office
and I will not use my office to grant preferential treatment to grant preferential treatment nor to seek personal gain nor to seek personal gain favor or advantage favor or advantage not available to the general public not available to the general public It's like putting a brooch on before the
P. If the council could stand up, please. What? I want I don't want to pull up the largest. Thank you. Michael, Michael, congratulations. So,
I uh I say basically the same thing every time I hire a new police officer about support and how the family up here is as important as the family that's out there for these police officers. It couldn't be more evident based on what happened in this town 3 weeks ago. We
have a miracle that one of our officers survived a horrible, horrible crash. And it put things in perspective. I don't want to scare the family. How much these officers could just be doing something completely routine, not even a law enforcement function. It could have been
one of us driving our our vehicles. How quickly anyone's life can be turned upside down. I want to commend the police department and its leadership for the for the support that they've shown Officer Miller, who I don't have social
media, but I know it's it's out there now. In a matter of weeks, he went from not knowing if he would be alive or could walk to being at Kesler on rehab and speaking. And it's absolutely amazing. And I want to thank the
council, the public, the law enforcement family. I want to tell his family that his thoughts and prayers, our thoughts and prayers are with him. But the support once again that police officers receive on the job and off the job is essential.
And I know the thoughts and prayers that came from this family, his Rosland family, his personal family are why he was so confident and he was in the right mindset and he had hope because everyone was there for them, for him and his
family. And keep that in mind. There's a brotherhood and sisterhood up there and then there's your family at home. Both have to support you at times like this and everyone to take a step back and understand how precious life is for
anyone but especially when the what the men and women go out every day and put their lives on the line and you should all be commended and I want to thank you and I know Councilwoman Parat is going to speak about our other first responders that responded there but I want to put that in perspective. I don't want to put a somber
tone on today. I want to put a realistic tone. It's a happy day, but it's also very happy every day when you go home to your family. And enjoy your next 30 years. Well, you have a couple years on, don't you? Enjoy your next 29 years here. We're pleased to have you here and we're
looking forward to great things from you and the police department. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Keep up the good work. Good work. Good work. Continuing our law enforcement family. Um, next up
we have a um presentation and proclamation. If I could uh I can ask Mrs. Tilter to come up. If I could ask Mike to come up, Wendy and Daniel,
please. Oh, sure. Um, we're here tonight. We lost two great public servants. both of the fire department and one of the police department in the last year.
Um, one was assistant fire chief George Pilter, right? Um, George served the Burrow of Rosland. We talk about volunteerism and the epitome of what our town's about. George not only served of the Burrow of Rosland as a volunteer fireman, he was also a police officer.
George spent 28 years with the police department. Is that correct? Mhm. Um he spent over four decades with the fire department. Um complete public servant. Set an example for his son Michael who spent how many years, Mike? With the fire department?
Almost 40 years. Also, sorry, also the chief. Excuse me. Um he had to help his father by one. You know that. Um but um I'm not going to read through the whole proclamation, but I'm going to read some points. George's service to the borrow include his
involvement with the fire department, the police department, and if you didn't think he did enough, the cub scouts and boy scouts, as well as support of numerous community organizations, and he touched the lives of countless young people and families in Rosland. He's left a legacy of love, leadership, and service, evidently, and has left an
indelible mark on the burrow of Rosland, shaping the community into the close-knit and caring place we know today. What Rosland is today wouldn't be what it is without families like the Piltechers and like Assistant Chief Pilter, Police Officer Pilter. We wanted
to thank him for his service and want to make sure that we honored him and his family formally here at our at our meeting. I asked Mrs. Pilter if she was going to speak. She said yes. And then when she got up here, she pointed to Wendy and said she's gonna say something. I wasn't expecting to say anything, but
um my dad was a very humble man and he loved this town and he loved the people in it and I know he would have loved this. So, thank you so much for doing this for him
on behalf of my whole family. Um, thank you so much. It's really appreciated and I know he would have loved it. Thank you. We have the proclamation, but we're going to get it fixed first before we give it to you. Okay. Um, once again,
I want to thank the Pilter family for what they've done and what they continue to do, and they are a true example of what volunteerism and what public service means to this community. Thank you so much. Michael. No. Train it. Train it. Train it. New police officers. Oh my god. There's so many Michael.
Too many like my house when you say Jimmy Anthony. Paul Anthony. No originality. Everybody's named after somebody else. Congrats, Michael. You don't have to say you can go.
Thank you. Next on the agenda, we have board. Oh, sorry. Please, please, see you tomorrow morning. Congratulations. Bright and early. Bye, guys. It
was either going to be Michelle or Annette. Annette one cuz my mother's name is Ann. Would it be a I don't know. I don't know. So my brother said Annette the hairet Michelle the sea shell and they picked Michelle after my dad Michael. So cuz he's Joseph after the grandfather
and the other grandfather. No, they're just in the family. I think Yep. Yeah. That's how you spell Michael. and uh father were Italian media. Oh, okay. They they are they don't they might have even gone up together. I don't know. I didn't know there I didn't
know. I'll get them later. Yeah, they must have been so close. I didn't Yeah, I have someone else maybe for a proclamation. Arty Schwinberg who was also
he was also Santa Claus and all that. So, you know, we're doing we're going to do um we're going to do love next door. Came to my house and the kids were like,
"That's that. That is not Santa Claus. Who's that?" Just to play Santa Claus, be on the fire truck and everything. They were like the original police from town. Next on the agenda, we have introduction of ordinance 24-2025. Mr. Watkins,
please read the ordinance by title only. An ordinance of the Burough Rosland to repeal ordinance number 44-2024 as amended, which provided for salaries and compensation to be paid to non-union employees of the Burough of Rosand and substitute therefore salaries and
compensation for the year 2025. Is there a motion to introduce ordinance 24-2025? Second. Billardi. All in favor? I opposed hearing and seeing none.
Ordinance number 24-2025 will be posted on the burough's website. Notice of public hearing will be published in the progress. Public hearing will be held on Tuesday, August 12th, 2025. Thank you. Next is introduction of ordinance 25-2025. Mr. Rockkins, please
read the ordinance by title only. An ordinance of the burrow of Rosland establishing salaries for the mayor council of burough of Rosland. Is there a motion to introduce ordinance 25-2025? So moved. Second. I think it was moved. Trillo. Yep.
All in favor? I opposed. Hearing and seeing none. Ordinance number 25-2025 will be posted on the bureau's website. Notice of public hearing will be published in the progress. Public hearing will be held on Tuesday, August 12th, 2025.
Thank you, Mr. Watkins. Next on the agenda is a public hearing on ordinance 15-2025. Mr. Watkins, please read the ordinance by title only. An ordinance amending chapter 7 entitled traffic section 7-20 entitled stop intersections ridge road and hickory and
ridge road and sunset lane. Is there a motion to open the public hearing on ordinance 15-2025? So moved. Second. Parate tolli. All in favor? I opposed hearing and seeing none. Does anyone wish to be heard on ordinance 15-2025
hearing and seeing none we have a motion to close the public hearing so moved second parotti all in favor I opposed hearing none Mr. Mr. Watkins, please read the ordinance by title only. Excuse me.
Excuse me. An ordinance amending chapter 7 entitled traffic section 7-20 entitled stop intersections section ridge road and hickory lane ridge road and sunset lane. So motion to adopt ordinance 15-2025.
So moved. Second. Parate Barty. All in favor? I I opposed hearing and seeing none. Mr. Watkins, please read the ordinance by title only. Ordinance Manning chapter 7 entitled Oh, I'm sorry.
Let me finish this one. Order one in time, John. Ordinance 15-2025 will be acronized in the progress as a past ordinance and should take effect as provided by law. Ordinance 21-2025,
bond ordinance providing for improvements to Courtland Street and 4th Avenue in and by the burrow of Rosland in the county of Essex, New Jersey, appropriating $427,000 therefore and authorizing the issuance of $114,576
of bonds or notes of the bureau to finance part of the cost of a motion to open the public hearing on ordinance 21-25. 21-2025, excuse me. So moved. Second trilly. All in favor? I
I opposed hearing and seeing none. Is there be heard on ordinance 21-2025? Hearing and seeing none. I have a motion to close the public hearing. So move. Second. Marty Schroer. All in favor?
I opposed hearing and seeing none. Mr. Watkins, please read the ordinance by title only. Bond orders providing for improvements to Courtland Street and 4th Avenue in and by the burrow Rosland the county of message, New Jersey,
appropriating $427,000 therefore and authorizing the issuance of $114,576 bonds or notes of the burrow to finance part of the cost thereof. It's a motion to adopt ordinance 21-2025.
So moved. Second Tiardy. Roll call vote, please. Mr. Watkins. Mr. Barty. Yes. Sorry. Mrs. Parate. Yes. Mr. Schroeder. Yes. Mrs. Tolley. Yes. Mr. Trill.
Yes. Sleep at the switch tonight. Ordinance 21-2025 will be advertised in the progress as a past ordinance. Shall take effect 20 days after first publication after final
adoption as provided by law. Thank you, Mr. Watkins. Next on the agenda is a public hearing on ordinance 22-2025. Mr. Watkins, please read your order by title. bond ordinance providing for the acquisition of vehicles and equipment in and by the burough of Rosland the county of Essex, New Jersey,
appropriating $245,000 therefore and authorizing the issuance of $232,750 of bonds or notes of the burrow to finance part of the cost thereof. It's a motion to open the public hearing on ordinance 22-2025. So move
second. Parate Trillo. All in favor? I opposed hearing and seeing none. Does anyone wish to be heard on ordinance 22-2025 hearing and seeing none we have a motion to close the public hearing so moved second
party all in favor? I opposed hearing and seeing none Mr. Mr. Watkins, please read the ordinance by title only. Bond ordinance providing for the acquisition of vehicles and equipment in by the bureau of Rosland in the county of Essex, New Jersey, appropriating $245,000,
therefore, and authorizing the issuance of $232,750 bonds or notes of the burrow to finance part of the cost thereof. It's a motion to adopt. So move. Second, Barty. Roll call vote, please. Mr.
Watkins. Mr. Barney, yes. Mrs. Paratt, yes. Mr. Schroeder, yes. Mrs. Tolley, yes. Mr. Trillo, yes. Ordinance 22-2025 will be advertised in the progress as a
past ordinance that shall take effect 20 days after the first publication after final adoption as provided by law. Thank you, Mr. Watkins. Next is public hearing on ordinance 23-2025. Mr. Watkins, please read the ordinance by title only. bond ordinance providing
for various capital improvements in and by the bureau of Rosland in the county of Essex, New Jersey, appropriating $257,000 therefore and authorizing the issuance of $244,150 bonds and notes of the burrow to finance
part of the cost thereof. Is there a motion to open the public hearing on ordinance 23-2025? Some moved. Second. Trillo Parate. All in favor? I opposed. Hearing and seeing none, does anyone should be heard on ordinance 23-2025?
Seeing none, may I have a motion to close the public hearing? So moved. Second. Parate. All in favor? I opposed. Hearing and seeing none, Mr. Watkins, please read the ordinance by title. bond ordinance providing for various
capital improvements in and by the bureau of Rosland and the county of Essex, New Jersey, appropriating $257,000 therefore and authorizing the issuance of $244,150 [Music] bonds or notes of the burrow to finance
part of the cost thereof. Is there a motion to adopt ordinance 23-2025? So move. Second. Schroertoi. Roll call vote, please. Mr. Watkins. Mr. Bardy. Yes. Mrs. Paratt, yes. Rotor, yes.
Mrs. Tolley, yes. Mr. Trill, yes. Ordinance 23-2025 will be advertised in the progress as a past ordinance. Shall take effect 20 days after the first publication after final adoption as provided by law.
Thank you, Mr. Watkins. Next on the agenda is resolution 245-2025 for the July 9th bill list. Everyone will receive the bill list for questions, concerns, or uses. If there are none, we'll take a motion to move the bill list.
Second chair Lombardi. All in favor? I opposed. Hearing and seeing none. Next, we have resolutions by agenda items 1 through 22 by resolution number 246-2025 through 267-2025.
There's no questions, concerns, or recusals on these resolutions. I'd like to move them in their entirety. I have a question on uh three of them. Number seven, um you're saying the Rosland Community Center. You mean the allpurpose room? Yep. Okay. Next. Number 14. Um regarding the
Home Depot. Is this something that the beautifification? I guess Moren will be able to walk in and we need to buy stuff or No. Yes. Oh, okay. And lastly, um I see the new person we're hiring for accounts receivable and it mentioned tax courses.
She's going to be involved with taxes also. Well, that's primarily part of the job is as far as collecting. Okay, fine. That's it. Counciloman, what? That's all. That's all. That's all I'm sorry. Anyone else have any questions, concerns?
There are none. Can we take a motion, please? So move second. Oh, sorry. I'll take a second. All in favor? Opposed? Hearing none. Next, we have approval of a raffle application for the St.
Nicholas Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church for a 50/50 raffle in March of 2026. Do we have a motion? Motion. Second. Paratti Tulli. All in favor? I opposed.
Hearing none. Um, next we have the mayor's report. Um, I made my comment about the police department of first responders. Councilman Pron, I know you're going to expand upon. It was a it was really a team effort and that's the reason that Mark Miller is talking and and and in moving
moving and and far way far along than anyone ever imagined. Um, we uh we have a lot of great things coming up. We have a concert tomorrow night that we're looking forward to our first of the year if the weather holds up. But um I'm not going to expand on
anything outside the the police department. So um I have nothing else. Uh finance administration council. Thank you mayor. Uh the only update I have is that we have all the final numbers in from uh the county from the local school from the regional school. Uh as well as we we had you adopted our
budget earlier in the year. Um so the tax bills will be going out in the next week or two. Yeah. By the end next two weeks. Yep. Next two weeks. and uh taxes will be due. Third quart of taxes on August 19th. So uh we at our next meeting we'll do the overview of the tax bill uh with
all the uh exact numbers. So um hope everyone's having a great summer. That's all I have. Thank you. Oh yeah, that's a good one. So we I just want to congratulate uh Moren and the burrow on a job well done for passing our audit with zero findings. No
findings. So nice job. Thank you. more. Thank you. Thank you. Uh recreation council. Uh baseball season has just about wrapped up. Well, baseball season is wrapped up. Uh some there's one little league team still competing in uh sectionals. The 10U team is in I think
Tene Tene or Fort Le. They're wrapping up. Um so that's going well. We met with the soccer recreation uh committee met today. So they're working out some things for the fall. Uh, Scram's going great from everything I'm seeing and hearing. Um, so quiet. Looking forward
to the concert tomorrow night. Congratulations on a good run for your team as well. Second place ain't bad. Yeah. Well, first losers. You know what are you going to do? Fion is a little little too much for us. Councilman Schroeder, nothing additional to add tonight. Mayor, thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Uh,
Counciloman Baron's not here. Counciloman Parade or Toli, anything from that committee? No, we just have some things that have gone back to committee that we hope to bring forward next next meeting. Public safety council. Thank you, mayor. Um, as the mayor said, you know, with Mark's accident, there
have been so many individuals whose quick thinking and expertise were instrumental in Officer Miller's care and and his ongoing recovery. I just want to take a moment and thank a few people. Uh, first, a heartfelt thank you
to retired officer John Guyire. He was the gentleman that was at the scene. He's a retired Rosland police officer. His swift action in issuing an emergency distress call over the radio brought police, fire, and EMS to the
scene without delay. To our Rosand Volunteer Fire Department, they their skill and professionalism in the ability to extricate Officer Miller from his vehicle was nothing short of extraordinary. If you saw what the
vehicle looked like, their time and their training that they put in, it's just amazing at what they are able to do. Our first aid squad, thank you for the outstanding work in stabilizing Officer Miller so that he could be
safely transported by life to the care he needed. It's a very fine line whether or not they can be taken by by airlift. Um the team on the ground really has to get them stable enough for them to fly or else they won't fly. Um like the
mayor said um Officer Miller's on his way to recover on his way working towards recovery. So we all just want to wish him our heartfelt felt prayers and cheer him on that he's going to be back here as soon as possible. Um you know
the the volunteerism is the heart like the mayor said of our community. It plays such a vital role in keeping Roseland safe. So if anybody out there has the desire to give back, we encourage you and can to have you
consider joining the first aid squad or the volunteer fire department to learn more about these two. Just please reach out to fire chief loveless or EMS director Bob Gity. Um, a couple other things that have um that the police
department has been doing um between the director, the leadership at the police department and the governing body here, we all took an active role in collectively taking an initiative to put
the LPR readers in town. So with that, the police department came up with just some preliminary numbers and data. They just grabbed some quick data. Um they compared a 2-year period. And with the installation of the LPR readers, the
information was taken from December of 2022 to December of 24 and December of 23 to 25. With these numbers, they're really promising, but there's always room for improvement. Motor vehicle thefts have
decreased by 80%. Motor vehicle burglaries have decreased by 70%. And attempted burglaries have decreased by 50%. So again, these are just some raw numbers that they really didn't dive in deep, but we wanted to see where we
stand. As you know, there's another LPR reader going in. So, they're going to continue to um look at these numbers and look at the data, but pretty much I think the entire town of Rosland to come in is going to have an LPR reader. So, I
want to thank them for their for their time and effort that they've put in to get this initiative uh done. And that is all I have. Uh, Councilman Tolley. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, I only have one
one item uh, regarding the beautifification committee. We do have an opening for one more member. Um, we were supposed to have a meeting about two weeks ago, but the heat was just horrendous, so we decided to cancel it. But, uh, we should be having, uh,
meeting soon regarding the fall decorations and also the holiday decorations. So, if anyone out there is interested in becoming a member, um, like we always say, you know, volunteerism is is a great thing here in Roseeland, uh, you can please just give
me a call. My number is listed. Thank you. You know what? I forgot to thank the police department, too, for that scene. They're they did such a great job securing the scene and having everybody being able to do what they needed to do
to to clean it up and and have everybody investigated or whatever. So, thank you to the Rosland Police Department as well. Sorry about that. On the news, thank you. The driver was on the news. Uh, anyone else have anything for committee reports? If there are none, next we have the approval of the June 17th council
meeting and executive session minutes. If everyone received the minutes, there's no questions or questions, concerns, or recusals, we'll take a motion. So move. Second. Toi. All in favor? I I opposed. Hearing. Seeing none. Next,
we have our second round of public comment. Any member of the public wish to be heard, come forward, state your name, and address for the record. If you're with us via Zoom, use the raise your hand icon. Thank you, Ryan. If there are no other matters, we'll simply take a motion for adjournment. So move. Second.
Trillo Parate. All in favor? I opposed. Seeing none. Thank you. What team was that? My mother-in-law that's that West when I played it was just doing the recallars.