That was the remote control when I was a kid. Okay. Good evening and welcome to the August 12th, 2025 meeting of the Rosland Governing Body. Adequate notice of meeting has been provided in accordance with the open public meeting act that the date, time, and location of the meeting will include the annual meeting schedule, post on the public bulletin
board in the municipal building, and filed in the office of the burough clerk. For those attending tonight's meeting via Zoom, the agenda and other relevant documents can be found on the burrow's website, attached to the meeting notice posted in the news and announcement section. During the meeting, an announcement made prior to the two public comment periods. Anyone wishing to make a public comment via te
via computer, excuse me, will be in instructed to use the 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 Daniel's law, please just announce your name. Miss Kenny, would you please call the role?
Mayor Spango, present. Mr. Vardy, here. Mr. Ver, here. Mrs. Fatty, here. Mr. Schroeder, here. Mrs. Trello, I mean Mrs. Sorry, here. Mr. Please rise the flag algebice
for all for all. Um we have two presentations tonight. Well, actually, we have three. Um, we have one uh with the Rosland Police Foundation, we have one with Jersey Mike's, and we have one that was just added. And I'm
actually going to bring up the one that was just added um for a purpose, and I'm I'm going to bring her up um one second. There's a young lady here named Maria Clementi Moresi. She's from Re-Imagine Mind. Um, and she's here about mental
health. And I think it's important that we bring her up beforehand. Mental health is something that's very important and is very important in the workplace. No matter what you are, but especially important based on our second presentation for our officer who suffered a horrible tragedy,
the mental health of himself, his family, and his fellow officers that witnessed it and responded, accluding to the first responders, fired, first aid. So, I think it'd be apppropo if she comes up first and speaks about her group and then we'll go on to the second one. Maria and she might be a little more tired
than the rest of us. Okay. Thank you so much. Um, thank you for all of that. You do too. I didn't know it was going to be such a crowd tonight, so this is nice. Um, I'm Maria Clemente Moresi, as mayor said. I'm a Roseline resident. Uh, I'm a mom of one,
soon to be mom of two. I'm the CEO of a mental health and wellness practice called Reimagine Mind Counseling and Consultation. Uh, we treat all sorts of mental health challenges. We focus a lot on women and their families. I'm also the co-founder of an organization called
the Perinatal Resource Collaborative and that supports the growth of businesses and practitioners within the perinatal space. and I'm also the president of a nonprofit called Reimagine Mind as well. Uh thank you to Jean for letting me know about tonight and for inviting me to
introduce myself. Being a part of communities is is very important to me. I'm not originally from the growth from Rosland. I'm originally from Mammoth County. So starting to get to understand the community is really important to me as especially as I start to grow my family here. Um, one way that I'm
intentionally trying to become more involved in the community is through co-hosting an inaugural West Essex Women's Will Wellness Mini Expo with the Rosland Public Library. And I also wanted to say a special thank you to Sandra Mickelson and Michael Pooie for
being incredibly supportive as co-hosts while we plan and prepare the event. A lot of the work I involve myself in revolves around supporting women from before they get pregnant to the beautiful stages but often challenging stages of motherhood.
Uh that's a big f focus of this event. We're bringing local wellness vendors together to highlight their services that can be supportive to women and their families and moms of of all sorts of types of services that could be helpful. whether it's from med the
medical field to their own their own wellness and fitness as they get back into you know becoming uh becoming a mom in a different stage of their lives. Uh in addition the women will get to socialize with each other and expand their villages which is a huge theme of the event. The donations made by the
wonderful vendors will go towards my nonprofit and it's towards a 2026 effort to financially support women in uh with therapy who are pregnant and postpartum who might not be able to afford the services that we offer but really do
need them. Uh the events will be at the Rosland Public Library on August 23rd. It's free to attend for the community. They anybody could come from anytime between 10:30 and 1:30. There'll be coffee. There'll be small snacks. And feel free to bring your little ones
because we'll have some fun things for them like face paint and a music class. Uh you can register uh if you're interested in coming at the Rosland Public Libraries website. Uh and I really look forward to meeting whoever attends and building my community here at Roslands. Thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, next we have uh two presentations. Um, I'm going to bring up um
Matt from Jersey Mike's. Um, and I'm going to bring up u Officer Miller's family. come on up. Um, as you know, our police department suffered, we all suffered a tragedy. Um,
and we're very happy and I'm sure Mr. Miller can wants to tell everybody about it and he should. Um, our officer that is lucky to be alive and lucky to have mobility went home from a rehab, went out of a hospital and home from a rehab facility way earlier than anyone
expected. And we're truly thankful for that and grateful. Uh, and I truly believe that, and I said it last time, that the support that Officer Miller got emotionally from our community and financially from our
community assisted in helping him get there. Um it was really amazing and it makes me proud of the community that we live in. Um last week on National Night Out, um Jersey Mike's held a fundraiser
where I believe if you donated $3, you got a free sub. Um they were able to raise a substantial amount of money for the Miller family. So tonight we have Matt from Jersey Mike's here with us. He's going to present a check to to the Miller family. Matt, would you like to
say anything? It's it's Matt did this all on his own. Jersey Mike's is a great partner in our community. We like to support the businesses that support us and that's exactly what they did. So, we thank them very much. Thank you. Oh, Ryan,
hold on. need to get off of this chair. Thank you. Thank you. So, next we have another great organization that was started what maybe three or four years ago um to support our police department um both
financially through fundraising and also through events that uh integrate the the police department with the community. National Night Out, for example, was the doing of the Rosland Police Foundation, not the Burrow. We're thankful for them. We're thankful for their organization and their support. Um, I'm going to call
up their their board now. They're going to um bring up um representatives from Franklin Steakhouse and uh discuss about a uh fundraiser that they did. Come up, guys. Jack Jack Jack Jack Gordon the president of the
police foundation along with uh Tom O'Burn uh and William Johnson members of the police foundation and Frank Oliver from the Franklin steakhouse. You may think he's from Nutley but he's close to Rosland so want to keep him. Not exactly Roseland but close enough.
Anyway, as uh the mayor said, my name is Jack Gordon. We're very proud to be supporting the police department in our town and we are very uh relieved that
Pio Miller survived what would for probably an older individual have been a fatal accident. And we have taken steps to try to assist in any way that we can.
And one of the ways that we have done that is to uh if you will amalgamate the donations that other police foundations and other forces have
uh sent to us as well as um individuals in town who aren't that computer savvy to do a Venmo or anything like that. So, uh Tom Oaron has
a check for the Miller family uh for $5,000 today. Uh I believe there will be uh $7,000 including Franklin Frank Oliver's Franklin
steakhouse 2000. So that's 7,000 today. Um, anything more that we can do to help, we would be more than happy to do. And all of our hearts and our prayers
are with PO Miller, with Mark. And we really hope that the fact that this community is so focused on making our town
the best town it can be a wonderful thing. So, I know you're going through hell, but we're here for you. Yes. Brian, can you come out again, please?
Hold a second. I'm in between. I'm in between. God makes short people perfect. What can I say? Everyone look over there.
Most of you are smiling. That's great. Staying up there. Um, I'm going to ask the Miller family, Mark's dad, to come up and say a few words. must shave your mustache. Yes.
Correct. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. Laya and um that was my one from California. You can take You can take the whole Got to come back there now. Food's good. See you. I won't take up much time. I just wanted
to thank everybody and uh No, seriously, thank thank you from the bottom of my heart. I'm I'm a retired cop myself and the love and support that he got from the law enforcement community, from Roseand, it's it it just actually blew me and my family away. and
Ark very much needed this support. Really lose what I want to say cuz I'm but thank you so much. I mean that's what I'm just trying to say from the bottom my heart, Mark's heart, our family's hearts. I I I mean the the the outpouring that we have felt and seen
from you guys is just it's unbelievable. I've never I've been a cop 30 years. I never seen this much love in my career. And I'm glad it's just for my son. And from the bottom of my heart, from the director on down to all his and every citizen in this town,
thank you so much. Thank you. Wow. Hopefully the next time Mr. Miller comes, he can bring Mark with me. Yeah. Um, I moved the agenda around a little bit. I apologize. First on the agenda, we'll have our first round of public comment. Any member of the public
wishing 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. And if you're with us telephonically, press star 9. Thank you. Good seeing you. Thank you. Good night. No, but they do have one enough. There's
one in nothing. Thank you. To be one of my hangouts. First on the agenda, we have introduction of ordinances. We have ordinance 26. I'll give it a second. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. I should have given people time to file out. I apologize.
Be safe. Bye. These big ones. I'm ready. Thank you. If you can get me the information, we'll put it in our newslet. I have a print. I have the digital version. I'll email it. But I didn't I send you the
I signed up already. I'm coming. Okay. I have a baby shower in the afternoon to go to, but I'll be there for at least an hour. Give a kiss. Good luck. Give a kiss. Byebye. Thank you. I will. Thank you. First, we have introduction of ordinance
26-2025. County, please read the ordinance by title only. An ordinance by the mayor and council amending the Burrow of Rosland code of ordinances to repeal chapter 22 to adopt a new chapter 22 to adopt flood hazard maps to designate a flood plane
administrator flood flood plane manager and providing for severability and an effective date. Is there a motion to introduce ordinance 26-2025? So move second. Paratti Barant. All in favor? I I
opposed hearing and seeing none. Ordinance 26 will be posted on the bar's website and the notice of public hearing will be published in the progress. The public hearing will be held Tuesday, September 16th, 2025. Thank you. Next on the agenda is ordinance 27-2025. Miss Kenny, please read the ordinance by
title only. an ordinance to amend section 10-2 of the revised revised general ordinances of the Burough of Rosland entitled certificate of occupancy to remove the requirement for fire extinguishers to be installed in one and two family dwellings in accord ordinance with New Jersey state statute.
Is there a motion to introduce ordinance 27-2025? So moved. Second. Bar. All in favor? I opposed hearing and seeing none. Ordinance 27 will be posted on the bureau's website and the notice of public hearing will be
published in the progress. The public hearing will be held on Tuesday, September 16th, 2025. Next on the agenda is ordinance 28-2025. Miss Kennedy, please read the ordinance by title only. bond ordinance providing for the acquisition of water meters and related equipment for the water sore
utility in and by the burrow of Rosland in the county of Essex, New Jersey, appropriating $400,000 therefore and authorizing the issuance of $400,000 bonds or notes of the burrow to finance the cost thereof. Is there a motion to introduce ordinance 28-2025?
So moved. Second. Baroni. All in favor? I I opposed hearing and seeing none. Ordinance 282025 will be posted on the bar's website and the notice of public
hearing will be published in the progress. The public hearing will be held on Tuesday, September 16th, 2025. Thank you, Miss Kenny. Next is ordinance 29-2025. For introduction, please read the ordinance by title only. Bond an ordinance providing for the acquisition of vehicles and equipment in and by the
burough of Rosland in the county of Essex, New Jersey, appropriating $105,000, therefore, and authorizing the issuance of 77 $76,000 in bonds or notes of the burrow to finance part of the cost thereof. It's a motion to introduce ordinance 29-2025.
So moved. Second. Uh, Parate Schroeder. All in favor? I opposed. hearing and seeing none. Ordinance 29 will be posted on the bar's website and the notice of public hearing will be published in the progress. The
public hearing will be held on Tuesday, September 16, 2025. Next is the introduction of ordinance 30-2025. Miss Kennedy, please read the ordinance by title only. bond ordinance providing for various improvements to the water and sewer utility in and by the burough
of Rosland in the county of Essex, New Jersey, appropriating $2,467,600 therefore and authorizing the issuance of 2,467,600 bonds or notes of the bureau to finance the cost thereof. Is there a motion to introduce ordinance 30-2025?
So moved. Second Schroeder. All in favor? I I opposed hearing none. Ordinance 30 will 30 2025 will be posted on the burrow's website and the notice
of public hearing will be published in progress. The public hearing will be held Tuesday, September 16th, 2025. Thank you, Miss Kenny. Next is the introduction of ordinance 31-2025. Please read the ordinance by title only. An ordinance to amend the revised general ordinances of the burough bros
land chapter 14 entitled parks and recreation to amend the outfield banner sponsorship fee. Is there a motion to introduce ordinance 31-20220? Motion second to parate all in favor I I opposed hearing and seeing none
ordinance 312025 will be posted on the broad website and the notice of public hearing will be published in the progress. The public hearing will be held on Tuesday, September 16, 2025. Thank you, Miss County. Next is introduction of ordinance 32-2025. Please read the ordinance by title only.
An ordinance of the Burough Boseand in the county of Essex, state of New Jersey, amending and supplementing the burough code to amend chapter 2 administration section 2-24.2 composition of the police department. It's a motion to introduce ordinance 32-2025.
So moved. Second parate. All in favor? I I opposed. Hearing and seeing none. Ordinance 322025 will be posted on the bars website and the notice of public hearing will be published in the progress. The public hearing will be
held on Tuesday, September 16th, 2025. Thank you, Miss Kenny. Next is a public hearing on ordinance 24-2025. Miss Kennedy, please read the ordinance by title only. an ordinance of the Burough of Roseand to repeal ordinance number 44, 2022 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. Do have a motion to open the public hearing on ordinance 24-2025. So moved. Second.
Bar Schroeder. All in favor? I opposed hearing and seeing none. Does anyone wish to be heard on ordinance 24-2025 hearing? Seeing none, may I have a motion to close the public hearing on ordinance 24-205?
So moved. Second. Ty Schroeder. All in favor? I I opposed hearing and seeing none. Miss Kennedy, please read the ordinance by title only. an ordinance of the Burough of Roseland to repeal ordinance number 44, 2022 as
amended, which provided for salaries and compensation to be paid to non non-union employees of the Burough of Rosand and substitute therefore salaries and compensation for the year 2025. Do you have a motion to adopt ordinance 24-2025? So move second.
Veroni, roll call vote, please. Miss Ken, Mr. Bardy, yes. Mr. Bar, yes. Mrs. Bar, yes. Mr. Schroeder. Yes. Mrs. Tolley. Yes. Mrs. Mr. Terillo. Ordinance 24 2025 will be advertised in
the progress as a past ordinance and shall take effect as provided by law. Thank you. Next, we have a public hearing on ordinance 25-2025. Miss Kennedy, please read the ordinance by title only. An ordinance of the Burough Rosland establishing salaries for the mayor and council of the Burough of Rosland.
Is there a motion to open the public hearing on ordinance 25-2025? So moved second Schroeder. All in favor? I opposed hearing and seeing none. Does anyone
wish to be heard on ordinance 25-2025? Hearing and seeing none. May I have a motion to close the public hearing on 20 ordinance 25-2025? So moved. Second. Bar. All in favor? I I vote opposed. Hearing and seeing none,
Miss Kennedy, please read the ordinance by title only. An ordinance of the Burough of Roseland establishing salaries for the mayor and council of the Burough of Rosland. You have a motion to adopt ordinance 25-2025. So moved. Second.
Bar. Roll call vote, please. Miss Kempy. Mr. Bardy. Yes. Mr. Bront. Yes. Mrs. Yes. Mr. Schroeder. Yes. Mrs. Tolley. Yes. Mr. Trill, Ordinance 2025 2525 will be advertised in the progress
as a past ordinance and shall take effect as provided by law. Thank you, Miss Kennedy. Next, we have resolution 269-2025 approving the August 27th bill list. Everyone received the bill list for
questions, concerns, andor recusals. If there are none from the council, we'll take a motion to approve the bill list. Motion second. Totally brought. All in favor? I opposed hearing and seeing none. Next, we have
adoption of resolutions 1 through 28. I have 1 through 23. I have 20. There's three red ones. It's 28. 21 through 28. Excuse me. By by uh agenda number by resolution number
270-2025 through 297-2025. Questions, concerns, comments, or recusals from these resolutions. If there are none, take a motion. So moved.
Second. Parate. All in favor? I I posted hearing and seeing none. Next we have two items on our consent agenda. Approval of raffle licenses for the HSA
and for St. uh Nicholas Constine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church. We have a motion for the consent agenda. So moved. Schroedery. All in favor? I opposed.
Hearing and seeing none. Uh next, the mayor's report. Um I do not have a lot to add. Um I just want to thank uh Rosland Police Foundation, everyone that was involved with National Night Out. Um, we have some great stuff coming up
in the fall, uh, which will report uh, in the September meeting, but our we don't have a September televised meeting before our last concert of the year, which is the first Friday in September. And, um, I also want to publicly thank everyone that's been involved with the mayor's ball. Um, it's a great cause.
It's going to benefit the police foundation that was just here, the boot, the recreational boosters, and the historical society. Uh, from there, I'll move on to committee reports. Finance Administration, Councilman Bardy. Uh, thank you, Mayor. Nothing new to report tonight. Hope everyone's enjoying the summer. Uh, just like to thank the
Rosland Police Foundation and and our and our first responders and everyone that's done all the all the great work for for officer Miller. It's been really been a great testament to community here in Rosland. So, thank you everybody. Thank you. Um, Councilman Bart, Councilman Schroeder, Councilman Chill is not here. Anything to add from
recreation? I have nothing additional I have. Same here. No, same here. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Schroeder. Nothing additional to add. Thank you. Uh, Councilman Bar, uh, a couple quick engineering and DPW
updates. Um, uh, beginning August 18th, um, concrete work and the beginning of paving on Godfrey, Lions, Gates, Mitchell, and Plymouth U will be taking place. Um the Cooper AB watermine project is now
ongoing and the county is doing the culvert project on conduct court. Um and that's all I have. Thank you. Uh thank you mayor. Um I want to thank everyone again like everyone else for national night out. It was a tremendous
extent, a tremendous success. And I want to extend my gratitude to the Rosland Police Foundation. Um, all our first responders, the the way that they they support our community. It's it's just amazing. And and we saw that
tonight. A special thank you goes to the North Mounted Police. I love the kids love seeing the horses. So do I. That was a great addition. Um, I don't think they were here last year because of the torrential rains. So, I also want to thank the vendors who were here. Um, I'm glad that officer Miller's dad
was here to give us such a positive update on Mark's condition. Um, on behalf of myself and the council, I want to thank the Franklin Steakhouse for their event as well as Jersey Mike's and manager Matt Bowen. Um, he came up
with this idea. He's such a such a huge supporter of our community. Um, a special thank you goes out to him. Um, I also last week I provided some statistics um, for the LPR readers that
we have. I want to provide an additional update. I failed to report on the corresponding statistics of our officers work. So based on the LPR
readers that we have in town, you they're great for for us, but we also need the police due diligence, their diligence to to take care of it. So year to date for July, we've had 1354 traffic summones that
were issued compared to last year of,280. Um, our officers have patrolled year to date 139,351 miles of the town, which is up from last
year where they only patrolled 91,000. So, these numbers definitely reflect the dedication and hard work of our police department and keeping our community safe. So, they correspond to, you know, with the LPR readers. We need both to keep the community safe. We also had a
speed study done. The council approved a speed study for Lincoln that was done uh by our burough engineers. The the results were shared with the police department and our traffic bureau so they could develop a comprehensive
enforcement plan for overweight vehicles and volume, sheer volume. And shortly after that report was given to the police department, a summon was issued for an oversized truck of £80,000. So
that just goes to show that enforcement does work. So hopefully that truck driver will never go down Lincoln Street again based on the ticket he received. So I just wanted to give you some additional statistics um that I spoke about last week and I I
failed to mention our police officers. So, I just wanted to clarify some of that. Thank you, Councilman. And that's all. Councilman Tol. Uh, nothing to your report right now. Thank you. Anyone else have anything to add the committee reports? Hearing none. Next on our agenda is approval of our July 17th council
meeting and executive session minutes with Councilman Barusing himself. Everyone received the minutes for review and if there are no concerns, take a motion to approve these minutes, please. So move. Second. Parate Schroeder. All in favor?
I I opposed. Hearing and seeing none. Next, we have our second round of public comment. Any member of the public wishing to be heard, come forward, state your name and address for the record. If you're with us telephonically, press star 9. And if you're with us via Zoom, use the raise your hand icon.
Thank you, Ryan. Uh, the governing body will have to close to go to executive session discuss further attorney client privilege matters. The public should know that the governing body will not take any formal action when we return from into regular session. We'll simply take a motion for adjournment. That being said, do we have a motion to close
to executive session? So moved. Second. Baroni. All in favor? I opposed. Hearing and seeing none. Thank you everyone. Have a good rest of your summer. Yeah. I was sh And we're short.
We're short. We're short. What? All right, Chris. I think I'm going to go back to the phone for you so you can hear better. Okay. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. And you know what? I forgot to too. the um the amount of cases closed.