To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisibley for all reads the open statement. I'm not going to ask Inspector Health to come up, but
I'm sure everyone's aware we have exits to our right and exits to to our left. So, your your left and your right should an emergency. Open public meeting statement. >> Adequate notice of this meeting of the township council of the township of Roxbury was given as required by the
open public meeting this followed on December 31st, 2025. Notice was emailed in back to the recorded published in the daily record. Notice also remain posted throughout the year on the building.
>> Thank you. Roll call. >> Councilwoman >> here. >> Councilman Kelly >> here. >> Deputy Mayor Crowley >> here. >> Councilman G. Philippo >> here. >> Councilman Hall >> here. >> Councilman Riley >> here. >> Mayor Patello >> here. Thank you Amy.
>> Good evening everyone. Uh Roxbury Township continues to stand firmly opposed to the federal processing facility proposed under former Secretary Christy Dome for the reasons clearly outlined in resolution 2026-29. These include its inappropriate
placement within a residential area, significant border and sewer capacity limitations, environmental impact, and the immediate loss of critical tax revenue to our community. As many of you are aware, the state of New Jersey in partnership with Roxbury
Township has filed suit against the federal government to challenge the proposed conversion of a warehouse at 1879 Route 46 into an ICE detention facility. Our township attorney, Mr. Buco, will coordinate on behalf of Roxberry while the New Jersey State
Attorney General's office leads this litigation. We are grateful to the governor and the attorney general for their partnership. Their involvement ensures that Roxbury taxpayers are not solely burdened with the financial responsibility of this legal action. This support is critical as council
remains focused on protecting our residents and our resources. Mr. Buo, is there an update any you'd like to discuss at this point in time? As you stated, mayor, on Friday, March 20th, 2026,
the township in cooperation and together uh with the state of New Jersey filed a complaint entitled state of New Jersey and Township of Roxbury versus US immigrations and and custom enforcement,
the United States Department of Homeland Security, Christy and Todd is director um of immigration and customs enforcement. That complaint was filed in federal district court uh on Friday the
20th. Under the complaint, the state and the township um have allegations in there of violations that the government violated the administrative procedures act under
the national environmental polic. including the Intergovernmental and Cooperations Act and um the Immigration and National Nationality Act,
including an action for arbitrary and capricious actions and failure to consider uh state and local concerns. That complaint has been filed. A briefing schedule has not been um has
not been issued yet by the court, but at some point in time we will get a litigation schedule from the court. Um our office has provided information directly to the attorney general's office in order for this litigation to
commence. Much of the work that we have done over the last two months uh through experts that the township has retained has been provided to the attorney general's office and served for uh the
joint drafting of this complaint. At this point, in consultation with the attorney general's office, I recommended to you and to the council that um the attorney general's office assume the lead attorney's position in
this case and that is because they have not only the resources but direct access to the Department of Environmental Protection um and quite frankly a lot of externals in litigating in the federal district
In my office, my partner Jim Bryce, who is my litigation partner, um will will coordinate with the attorney general's office. We will work cooperatively together under a cooperation agreement that was signed between the parties.
We've had already communications with Department of Justice. I'm not going to say where that ended up, but parties are in communications with each other. As you know, over the last few months,
because of the township's position as a municipality, um we have been reserved in communicating exactly what was transpiring and what we were doing. That was to protect not only the township,
but the township's interests and to protect the litigation strategy. At this point, now that this is an active litigation, that communications will be even less unfortunate. But that's the way that it has to be. The attorney general's office has
requested that. And uh quite frankly, it is what I've been saying now for a number of months. Uh this is not a situation where you uh communicate uh key facts and issues that can be reported by the press that could um
impact our abilities uh for success in this case. Um so that's where we stand at this point. >> Thank you, Mr. Buo. Moving on. As of today, no application or current requests have been filed with Rockberry
Township. No plans have been submitted. No additional information has been provided by the Department of Homeland Security. We do continue to communicate with the office of Senator Andy Kim. I'd like to thank Senator Kim for his continued commitment to Roxberry and for standing with us in opposition to this
facility for the same reasons we have consistently raised. We welcome the opportunity to host both Senator Kim and newly confirmed Secretary of Homeland Security Senator Mull here in Ro so that so that they may firsthand the proposed
location and better understand the significant impact this project would have on our residents, infrastructure, and environment. We remain hopeful that the secretary will honor his commitment to meet with us in the near future. Finally, I want to thank the residents
of Roxbury along with the staff and professional partners for your continued support, patient, and professionalism. Your engagement and dedication to our community do not go unnoticed. The council remains unwavered in his commitment to the safety, protection,
and the best interest of Roxberry Township. >> Moving on, presentations, award, etc. There are none. Item five, approve approval of minutes, the approval. >> Any discussion?
>> Mayor As everybody, I went through this entire list and there's a tremendous amount of work that was put in by Amy put in subsets of comments, you know, in the appropriate way for everybody in the public. So, just a shout out to you, you know, for
for the efforts. That's absolutely appropriate. Thank you so much for the time. We know every week um how much time you put into this and we appreciate it. So thank you. >> All right, right.
>> Roll call. Council >> I abain from January 27th, March the 10th, and February 17th, but all others, yes, >> Mayor Crowley, >> Councilman Hall. Yes or no?
>> Riley. >> Yes or no? >> Mayor Patillo. >> I abain on February 10th and March 3rd. Yes. The 27th of January, 17th and 24th of February. 10th of March. 17th of March. >> Thank you. This brings us to our first
public portion and ask that anyone in the audience that has um comments, concerns, questions specific to township business, please come up to the microphone, state your name and address for the record. Uh and please maintain three minutes.
Seeing none, closed public. Uh this brings us to reports council leazison representative council committee and new and old business. Um, I'd like to start off with All right. I'd like to start off by
commending our Roxbury Police Department for another fantastic job. Yesterday, at approximately 3:58 p.m., law enforcement received a report of a bank robbery at the Bank of America located in Dville. An investigation determined that the male suspect fledged with approximately $6,000,
noting no weapon was displayed during that incident. This the suspect's vehicle was later observed traveling on Route 10 in Roxbury where officers from the Roxberry Police Department and the State New Jersey New Jersey State Police conducted a motor vehicle stop and took the driver
into custody without incident. Recovering evidence and the alleged stolen money from the vehicle and charged the suspect with count second degree robbery. We would like to recognize the co the coordination efforts of Lieutenant Gaffy, Sergeant
Barbara, Detective Sergeant Marciano, Corporal Del Turko, Patrolman Romez, patrolman Trever, and patrolman Geraldo from their prompt and professional for their prompt and professional response working in close
collaboration with the police, state police, and Denver Police Department. Their actions led to a safe and efficient apprehension of the suspect, the recovery of evidence, and the protection of the public without incident. So, Chief, thank you so much
for just having uh just a few things. Uh we had the Chamber of Commerce host hosted a mayor's breakfast last week. I attended se several other mayors from our um area. Uh it's always nice to be able to talk to the business owners and and talk
through issues with them and and uh and conversation with them. So I'd like to thank the Chamber of Commerce for holding that uh annually. Uh I also had the opportunity to go to Mary Hart and celebrate Mary D'Angelo's 103rd
birthday. >> Is right. That's quite the life. And she was very active, very spot, and um had quite the character on her. So, it was nice to be able to celebrate that. Uh we also had a Lake of Packon mayor's
meeting last week. Um couple of key notes that came out of that. Uh harvesting on the lake starts on May 15th. That's where they take the weeds out. Uh that's an allseason um situation there and there'll be two crews, one in the north, one in the
south. So they think that this year they'll be able to go a little faster, a little smoother. Uh Jefferson sewer update up in Jefferson. They were awarded a grant, federal grant to start their uh sewer project there that will also help support the uh health of the
lake. Uh Army Corps is still working on that moving forward uh to get that project underway. um here in in Roxbury in the landing channel area, they're still looking for funding to dredge the landing channel and then repurpose that sediment into uh the burnt island there,
which is a very unique uh situation that's not typically done in fresh water. So, it' be a great case study and they're very positive that that money will be awarded. Um, anyone with a boat, the Lake Packon Foundation, they run a
shrink wrap uh recycling program every year for three years now. Very successful. That will open up to any residents um on May 2nd and they can drop off any shrink wrap from their boat up at the Jefferson Health Center.
And that's all I have for that. Um, and then, uh, last thing, I was able to attend pack 159 gold arrow of light ceremony this past weekend. I just want to congratulate Colton and Tristan Morgan for achieving that arrow of
light. Good job. >> I took everything. Counciloman, >> I'd also like to thank our police department for another outstanding job that they completed with nobody harmed.
Excellent. And that's all I have. Thank you, >> Councilman Hall. So glad they yielded time because I have a few things I got to say. So I finally had the opportunity to go to a Devil's game this year. And I'm I'm sitting at the Devils game. It's between the second and the third period and they had that big jumbotron.
And who pops up right in the middle of that? Carl Ronco and his wife Christine. And uh Carl obviously um was a veteran along with his his wife, a Vietnam
veteran. And they call it what do they call her? H heroes amongst us. So So they there there it was on the big screen Carl getting recognized in front of God only knows how many people were at at that game that night. It was completely packed. But big
congratulations out for Carl. Um his people he was also honored at the library. He did win the people of his community service award former judge in Rotary Club member.
I should mention Carl Carl was our judge for Jim how many years at least? 15 years. >> Yeah. So, really nice to see a Roxberry resident get this uh this recognition. So, a lot lot shout outs. Uh first of
all, I'm going to ask um one of our other councilmen here to follow up on some of these uh for the school board, but um every year they have this event in town called Rockstein and it's probably one of the greatest events you could ever imagine. Uh it's an all night
affair. It involves collecting as much money as possible. Uh and they all the money is donated for pediatric pediatric cancer and it's my understanding that they raised over $140,000 this year. $1,000
at the uh at the actual event $148,572.31. >> It's a it's a really big number and uh it you know you hear a lot of things uh about school systems. It doesn't get any better than this. they they really put out all their efforts in order to help
uh you know children that have have these needs. It's it's a wonderful thing. Um also um the uh our girls when a 4x400 need a relay at the Morris County relay championships. Um we have a
collection uh I got to meet the mayor about this of people that we need to uh to recognize in the near future for their accomplishments. So, congratulations to our girls. Mr. Carrie, did I miss anybody else that uh at the schools that needed recognition?
>> Tom, you have anybody else? >> Um, there was a female basketball athlete senior who scored >> her career at Gaprile. Her last name
>> Capri Leone. Luke. >> Yeah. For those people don't who don't know Luke, um is a national hero here in he um he won a world championships in
his division recently. >> Yeah. For for the under 20 division. I mean the world championship under 20 in his weight class. So we had we had a big get together for him and it was uh it was really nice. He had won the state
the state title I believe twice here at Atlantic City before going to college and in college he was outstanding and then he went to that won that and I guess third place guys is that what you heard >> for this year as I recall there was only
six20 mark So, uh, big shout out to, uh, uh, this Saturday is our annual Easter egg hunt at Horseshoe Lake. Uh, shout out to team order. Um,
thank you. Also, a bunch of us are on this 250th committee. Um, and big shout out to Roxberry, Roxberry Rotary, um, for getting us the canisters. We're going to meet buries in each one of the schools
and I guess we'll resurrect them in 50 years. Mayor, is that the time? >> Uh, each elementary school bury one for 50 years and open it 300th anniversary. >> So, big thanks to Roxberry Rotary. They took care of all of it for us and uh
it's it's very well much appreciated. Uh we have our April 18th we have our stream water clean up at Black River Park. Um we get out truly amazes me. We figured we'd do it one year and it would stay for a couple of years and it never does. So, um, so we're going to clean
that up. So, this is an environmental commission event. Um, so if anyone wants to come out, please join me. On April 22nd, it's Earth Day. On Earth Day, what we do is if you go to the Uho Lake facility, we have a three tree giveaway.
Um, so only two per Roxbury res. Um, and the trees usually we have about 4 to 600 of them. They usually go in about an hour and a half. So this is for a significant replanting effort. It's a big event in Roxberry and that's on April the 22nd. On the 28th is the uh
county of community cleanup effort. So if you want to get involved with that um um our work on a forestry plan has begun. Um so you know we're hoping to get that done as soon as possible. And recently
we as a town manager to check for grants um related to uh obtaining money for one of our reports that needs to be done on rare and endangered species. So that's something that we're going to try to get some grant money for. So with all
that I will say that's it and thank you mayor. Thank you. Riley had several committee meetings planned for COA and master plan. Um nothing to get into at this time. I was going to
bring up the rock spawn as well. My granddaughter participated in it and it was um you know it's fantastic. We had the gentleman in that started Mike. and he
he did a fantastic job setting this up and he really wanted the kids to take it over and he's really just an advis it is the high school running this program. So it's great to see them be so successful so much from that program. So I think
schools and high schools that are involved. >> Thank you mayor. Um just very quickly last Saturday the um library did cut the ribbon on its new digital kiosk so we can transact
business now but it's just one of a number of substantial improvements I think you're going to see in the next few months new carpeting in the children's library so looking forward to that great things
happen thank you mayor >> thank you council car >> thank you Mr. Mayor um board of education uh had their meeting yesterday and we've mentioned quite a bit of of
what went on. Um the only thing that I want to piggyback on is Drew um in Roxond actually impacted five families in Roxberry this time around. So it's, you know, a big deal and this
was the highest amount ever raised. >> Excellent. >> The uh the other thing was proposed uh budget which um is going to increase by 70.3 million.
>> Yeah. Tax increaseable going from 1.36% to 1.934%. >> This is proposed, right? >> Proposed. Um the increase amounts to if you were to do a $500,000 assessed value home would
increase about $492 a year. And that's all I had. >> Thank you, >> Madam Clerk. >> Thank you manager. This moves us to item eight requested referred council members managers
attorneys and clerk a budget guidance right the junior years. Obviously, we've shared we've had a reduction of our township M by $62 million which
translated to a reduction of revenue file impact facility. Um staff has finished our budget presentations. Uh we last week a high level I would just say I think
next Tuesday's budget meeting our I've budgeted. That's why we gave you to talk about >> I think we're closing in
the rest of council but I know a lot of work has gone into this part. >> Thank you. Item nine, introduce introduction of proposed ordinances 06-26, an ordinance amending a revised general
ordinance of the township of Roxbury and the procedure for a disabled veteran tax exemption. Second reading on April 14th, >> any discussion. >> Roll call. Yes.
>> Council, >> yes. Crowley. >> Yes. >> Council, >> yes. >> Councilman Hall, >> yes. >> Council Riley, >> yes. >> Yes. Item 10, hearing adoption of ordinance on second reading 05-26.
Capital Ordinance of the Township of Roxbury, the county of Morris, New Jersey, authorizing funds for the replacement of police vehicle appropriating therefore the sum of $51,800 and providing that such sum so appropriated from a township's capital
reserve account. Motion open. >> All in favor? >> Anybody in the public who wish to be heard on this orance and this ordinance alone, please come to the microphone. State your name and address for the record.
>> Seeing none. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Motion to adopt. >> Roll call. >> Counciloman. >> Yes. >> Council Harry. >> Yes. >> Dr. Mayor Crowley. >> Council Dippo.
>> Yes. >> Councilman Hall. >> Yes. >> Council Riley. >> Yes. >> Mayor, >> yes. Item 11, introduction and adoption of resolutions. If I may move 20261 to include 20267260
second to discussion uh I just wanted to call out one resolution yeah one resolution 2026-076 a resolution authorizing acceptance of gifts for the snowstorm on January 25th 26,
2026. I'm going to ask the DPW to stand up. Uh they're the ones that receive these gifts and it's just another great example of what our community does here in Roxberry. Um led by the Rotary Club. Uh just another outstanding outstanding
situation. >> Tell the story. So, as you all know, you know, major snowstorm in this area, um DPW runs into the issue where, you know, diners are closed, all the grocery stores have been
closed and our staff, me doing it for many years, you know, there's no place to grab a bite to eat and take a break. Yeah, there are 7-Elevens open for coffee, but as far as food, not really great food. So,
through a social media post leading up the weather alert leading up to the January 25th 26th snowstorm predict a major snowstorm winds a foot plus of snow. So through social media there was
someone saw a post from Randolph Township organizing a drop off for food for DPW. Someone got a hold of it, put it on Facebook and Roxbury Rotary, Steve Walford in
particular, um started running with this and myself, Kellyanne Keys was our cycling coordinator. We're in a a loop. Steve sent out a lot of things to his Rotary members and also there was a post going out to get the residents involved.
So, we organized I I agreed that we go to DPW that Saturday, the 22nd of January, I believe it was, to accept whatever may be dropped off for our DPW guys. Well, we started taking things at uh
refreshments at soda, whatever, whatever any anybody brought, we were appreciative of. So, 1:00 we start on Saturday, 1 to 3. Well, let me tell you, there was an outpouring of things that came in. I'm going to read uh the groups
and families from Roxberry who donated and there was also some donations we after 3:00 uh the recycling center open till 4 and folks were still coming in residents were still coming in dropping off for this effort. So um Roxbury Road
was the catalyst of this like Steve and all his members. Um, also donating refreshments were Short Hills Country Club, Roxbury Women's Club, Roxbury Diner, Valley Pharmacy, Kingtown Pilot and Gas, New Jersey Martial Arts
Academy, the Batona family, Walsh family, Agar family, Collins family, May family, Palary family, Ly's family, Nan's family, Thomas family, and also a big thanks to all the families who
donated recycling center. So, it was tremendous effort. We have roughly about 30 PPW drivers. The amount of food that was dropped off, we had uh cold sandwiches were dropped off, chips, pretzel, you name it, we had it. So,
I can tell you the guys at DPW were very thankful and appreciative of everything that was dropped off. And I believe we had 19 events this year. This is probably middle of the pack. Everything that was dropped off that day lasted
them through the rest of the winter season. >> So, um, >> that's cool. >> On behalf of all DPW, all the workers at DPW, thank you very much. And we one more small group. So, myself, I was there accepting all these generous
donations. Um, Kellyanne Keys, who's our recycling coordinator, she helped as well. And I'd also like to thank Councilwoman Alrech was there for a while. Mary Ashelson. All right, Val, don't shoot me. Val Lemagori, >> you're close. You're close enough.
>> Okay. And Lynette Felisa, thank you very much for helping me on that day. There was many things that came in and I appreciate all your help that day. And again, thank you for everything that was donated for DPW. Much appreciated. I'd like to say a couple things. Um,
>> speaking. I heard his voice. Great. >> Steve Alfred, Roxbury Rotary Club, 216 Eland Avenue. Sorry, I'm a little thrown off. The bodyguard is just rocking my world. The whole I just wanted to say, you know, Roxbury Rotary Club is priding itself in trying
to touch every part of our community. I look in front of me. There's five Rotarians. I brought Karen to my right, Karen to my left, my president's right here. The bell, whatever name you said is in back. Um, we have a great DPW here and you have a lot of snow coming. Um,
you know, to know that you're going to be able to get out and go to the top right within two hours, not like all the lunatics that go the day before. That's what we have here. That was a very organic thing. Our our Jackie Alrech saw the Randolph Post sent it to me. Hey, let's do something cool. I I know if we
can even repeat that ever again. Very organic. Once the word got out, people were trying to donate money, everything. We should do this for everybody. So, it was really cool. And we have a great town and I appreciate Thanks. And you guys rock and you were very, very happy to do it. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you.
>> Thank you. >> Any further discussion? See none. Roll call. Hall. >> Yes. >> Yes. Personnel change. There are none. Communications for March 20th, 2026. Any discussion?
None. Moving on. This brings us to our second public portion. Does anybody in the public wish to be heard on any topic? Please come to the microphone. State your name and address for the record. Maintain three minutes and one per >> hi Suzanne
King roading. First of all, I'd like to thank Council Councilwoman Jackie Alrech for her Women's History Month proclamation given during the last general session, which she delivered with authenticity. It was uh deeply felt by all. Thank you, Jackie. Um I commend this council for finally recognizing
that stopping the ICE detention center requires lead counsel outside of Blueco. However, I am quite disappointed that his office is still involved as I believe we do need truly independent counsel. Um his double dipping has short on results, especially since today's
ledger uh for January and February legal services shows a whopping 30 grand of taxpayer money spent on his sole contribution and 11th hour phone call to the um New Jersey AG. I'm not sure, but that might be the most expensive phone
call this town has ever made. In stark contrast, through grassroots organizations, volunteers donated thousands of free hours to provide legal service, host federal legislators in New Jersey, and lobby in Washington DC. Far from just standing around with signs,
we've launched massive hands-on democracy campaigns to build strategic alliances and gain support across the community, federal, state, and um local governments. We did this because we believe in human rights and we did this to help Roxberry all while balancing
full-time careers, being caregivers or enjoying our well-earned retirement. Since this council won't acknowledge their influence and contributions, I will. Thank you to all of the volunteers. Roberry owes you a debt of of gratitude for this council. General
approve improvements are needed as a senior director with over 10 25 years in the tech management and operations. I'd like to provide vital lessons learned for this council council that I have observed observed during the initial stages of this fight against ICE
detention center advocacy and courage accomplished leaders show up and fight for their team even when it's difficult I attended the landing the lake a patcom commission uh meeting where Mayor Patillo and deputy mayor problem sat in silence while the community members
advocated for Roxberry if you won't use your voice for us why are you on this council empathy Qualified leaders possess empathy. Councilman D. Philippo, we have consistently witnessed your smirking and visible annoyance while people share horistic experiences from
ICE detaines. Your blatant lack of humility of humanity is appalling. Active listening. Effective leaders don't assume that the smartest person in the room may listen to objectively to all viewpoints. This council just doesn't just fail at active listening.
It barely listens at all. Councilman Riley, I have no helpful suggestions for you. Your MAGA proise views and those of your silent majority are simply vile. You support the desecration of our constitution and human rights violations
that are drenched in white nationalism. You are beyond help. Stakeholder engagement. The ultimate takeaway in transparent takeaways are transparency and communications. As equal stakeholders, Roberry citizens deserve birectional communication, not a council
who ignores questions and refuses to engage in discussion. I am formally requesting a nonpartisan block ice task force proposed of community members and council representatives that will engage equally with the members of this
community. Good evening. Uh David Foot, lower Berkshire Valley Township. I would like to thank everybody in front of me today for working with the state government in bringing this lawsuit against DHS challenging the conversion
of this warehouse into an ICE concentration camp. This is a real step that puts a meaningful roadblock in front of DHS and I am so grateful that all of you had the courage to stand up and fight for what is right.
Uh I'd like to recap. I was watching the announcement that Governor Cheryl made and I want to recap seven issues with this facility that she brought up in her announcement. Uh so she said that um the conversion of this the conversion of this facility will strain water
resources depleting groundwater and wells for residents and limiting the ability of emergency responders to fight fire. Uh number two, the facility will strain resources, producing 15 times the site's approved wastewater capacity and impacting the drinking water supply for
70% of the residents of New Jersey. Number three, the facility will disrupt road infrastructure, vastly increasing traffic at a dangerous interchange between Routes 46 and 80. Number four, the facility will divert critical Roxbury emergency resources. Number
five, the facility will displace potential housing. Number six, the facility will disrupt the economic growth in Roxbury by removing a warehouse that is key to the logistics industry. And number seven, this facility violates zoning and building codes that any other property owner
would have to abide by. While I personally would have liked to hear her focus a bit more on the unlawful detention and inhumane conditions inside that facility were it to be converted, I think this is a great list. Um, and I also noticed as I was
listening to this that there's really nothing new in this list at all. Um, I have heard all of those sentiments be expressed over and over again by the community members who attend these town council meetings.
Um, Senator Bua made a comment earlier today about the need for secrecy when discussing ongoing litigation. And I suppose that's probably true. But from my perspective, what I am able to hear and am party to all of these avenues of
resistance that I just described came from the people standing behind me and not in front of me. from the community members. And this lawsuit has proved to me that grassroots community action works. So, we're going to continue to
fight and resist DHS as long as they meddle in the affairs of Roxbury, and I hope that you'll continue to join us as we do. Thank you again. >> Yeah. Hello, I'm David Roderick, retired attorney who lives in Rockway Township.
I want to follow up the other gentleman's comments and say that we're very pleased, we being those of us who are opposing this facility. We're very pleased that the township has joined litigation with the state attorney general. So, that's a a major step
forward. Um, two uh particular points. Um, as a lawyer, a retired lawyer, I know where the complaint and when I heard it was filed, I went right to the website and I filed it and I and I downloaded or read it, but I'm thinking your average citizen here doesn't know how to do that. So, I would urge you to
post the complaint on the uh the new tab on the Roxberry website so that everybody can read it because I think it's very important that everybody be uh be educated. Uh and secondly, um a particular part of the complaint really caught my eye and it says, uh since the
defendant's purchase of the property, the township has conducted a traffic study to assess the impact to the surrounding areas of operating the warehouse as a detention processing facility. The traffic study estimates that the use of the Roxberry warehouse as a detention processing facility would
add approximately 479 new trips to and from the facility during the peak morning hour and approximately 422 new trips during the peak afternoon hour. Um again I think that traffic study is very very important and I think it should be
posted on your website so that uh both your citizens people who are involved in this project free access to Guy Citron, Tukesberry Township. Good evening, honorable mayor, council
members, state senator. Um, you know, coming to you guys as a friend and a neighbor and I just wanted to strongly urge you and the town to try to do more. And uh you know I say that in total
gratitude of of what you have accomplished thus far and um I want to kind of make that case just as briefly as I can for why you should do more. I also watched the press briefing. I guess that was Friday and uh I'm still not a
lawyer so I apologize for not you know having all that straight. Um, but I thought I heard the AG say something to the effect of and I think they were she was questioned by a reporter, you know, what what would you like to see the town do? And you know, again, lawyers being
kind of on the secret, you know, how they talk. I get that. I understand that. Um, she kind of answered it without answering. And I thought that was intentional. And I thought that left a door open meaning like, yeah, go ahead, do more. And we've already talked
about in Georgia. They, as you know, you mentioned uh is the same with what we're seeing here. They did not get adequate permits. Um and down there, the town council decided to just go ahead and shut off whatever they were not entitled to. I would strongly re recommend
something like that because, you know, I'll try to say this as fast as I can. I've completely lost the plot on what ICE does for us. Um, you talked about our chief of police, you talked
about our clerk. Um, last week we saw all the good work that the fire uh department is doing. And tonight we heard about DPW. And it's like these are very obvious examples of good public service. It's self-evident. These people
serve the community and we're happy to pay for that service in our tax dollars. I think it was today. One of the Walt is what's the Walmart family? The Waltons. It's the Walton. One of the Walton family members. This is I'll end here. Sorry. One of the Walton family members
purchased an entire front page ad. These are billionaires. These are people very clicked up, very very with the power. You know, front page of the New York Times today said, "I demand, Mr. demands the release of the 70% of people
who are currently detained in facilities who we can't even say have committed any sort of a a crime, let alone a heinous crime. So again, thank you um honorable mayor.
You see us doing everything we can. We're out here putting our faces and voices to to what could be a politically difficult thing. And I just I I I respect what you're doing. Please, I believe as like the the chief
of police, as like the fire brigade, as like the DPW, as like the clerk, you can be a real hero here. You can do more. Please. Thank you. >> Hi, my name is Marissa and I live in Fort Morris. I would like to start by saying I'm very glad to hear that Roxer
has now joined the state in a lawsuit. the ice fac. But while that matters, I want to be honest. I don't believe that would have happened if we were not here week after week speaking out, showing up, and in Senator Buo's words, participating in what he called
political theater. Let me be clear, this is not political theater. This is our community. This is our future. And it is deeply frustrating to hear Senator Buo dismiss the voices of residents while claiming to represent us. Because if he truly represented Robberry, he would be
listening to the overwhelming number of people who have come here again and again to say we do not want ice in detention centers in our town. But conscious him sitting here, many of us have noticed the way that the men on
this council, including the mayor, seem to be completely tapped out while people are speaking about serious issues, looking down disgusted, and even laughing or smirking while residents are pouring their hearts out. This is not leadership. This is not
respect. We are standing here talking about real people, real harm, and the future of our town. and it deserves your full attention. The truth is a lawsuit is not a guarantee. It is not ensuring that this
facility won't come here. So the question is what's next? What are you and what is Senator Luca going to do to make sure that this does not come our town and become our reality because we are not going anywhere. We will continue to show up. We will continue to speak
out and we will continue to demand that the people that we represented and we elected to represent our town are actually doing something for us. We are not political theater. We are concerned citizens of this town and it's
time that we are treated like it. Thank you. Sierra Wilson. I had a question first. I meant to bring this up at the last meeting. However, public was closed without warning. Um, on the budget, I believe it was page 25
and page 26. Senator Bugo was listed as a legal service with 80K a year as as the the budget for him. But then on the very next page, it said 18K a month. Um, I don't think that quite makes sense to me. So, I'm hoping either that can be
explained or or brought up in another meeting. But 18K times 12 is what, like 216? It's been a long time since I took a math class. Okay. 216 $214,000 a year. So, I don't What is What is the
difference there? >> Yeah. I don't have I don't have that. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, thank you. I appreciate that. Um, the next point I want to make is thank you for joining the lawsuit. However,
more thanks belongs to the people behind me than the people in front of me. The people behind me, regular people that take time out of their jobs, out of their families, out of whatever they're doing on Tuesday nights at 7:30 p.m. Uh, they are the
reason that this lawsuit is is in place. They are the reason that has got national attention. These these people are out protesting all of the time. They're writing postcards to vocals to voters to local state and federal officials. They were the ones that proposed ordinances and moratoriums.
They brought the notice of the issue through social media, national news, and personal engagement to uh residents to people that may not have known about this. They have been to every single town council meeting which unfortunately and I understand why is more than I can
say for people on this town council now. They have called Mikey Cheryl. They have called the D. They have sat on on wait list for Tom Kaine Jr. and other state reps and they have brought up legal notices and were assistants in writing this uh this lawsuit. So, thank you to
the Sussex Visibility Brigade and thank you to Project Ninja and thank you to all of the people behind me that come here every single week to oppose this facility. >> Hello, Freddy Green from View. Um, I wrote
this a few weeks ago and then I wasn't able to come. Um, I don't know if you recall, uh, Mayor Sean Pillo, uh, there was a public comment section, um, I think it was two weeks ago now, uh, where you laughed during one of the
public comments and you stated you weren't laughing at the current speaker. Uh, you chose not to clarify. >> I'll clarify that right now. >> Okay. Sure. Absolutely. >> I will always laugh racism off. >> Racism? >> She did. >> She so confidently misidentified me. I
laughed it off. I will always do that because that's what I'm taught to do. People want to be ignorant like that and make comments like that. I will teach my family to laugh at all. We all move together as >> it's very interesting that you would interpret her comments as racism when
she is an immigrant activist. Honestly, it is very >> what she said. So she soly misidentified me, but I laughed it off. >> Okay. If that's if that's what you believe in the recording >> activist. Yeah, I have the whole thing recorded. >> Then you know what I'm saying?
>> Racist. That's very interesting that you say that. Okay. Uh in either case, um mocking the public is completely inappropriate uh and reflects very poorly on your character as a person, not just a council member. Uh I bet you thought that because they were part of
this organizing movement, um it was especially funny. Uh this is probably part about sitting before this council. Um, you don't give a single lying fudge muffin. Um, I'm following the quorum, don't worry. Uh, about the people in this room. Uh, you very obviously don't
respect us. Uh, neither does Stephanie May, Councilman Mippo, or Councilman Perry. But we take But if we were to take your accomplishments and compare it to ours, um, who do you think that Roxbury would feel is actually standing up for them? Uh, here's kind of a
summary of all the actions that we've taken to date. It's actually comprehensive because I didn't get to finish writing this. So, we notified you of the leak. They gave us the official address and the time of day of the site visit um so that you guys could be there present for it. Um we've attended council meetings after council meetings
all the way since the beginning of January. Uh we've organized protests both large and small here and in other towns. Uh we created a website and an information landing page about everything going on which contains way more than the tab on your website.
We have weekly about council meetings. Uh, you took a long time to post the minutes, but that's okay. I understand. It's a lot. Um, drafted two ordinances referencing Roxberry's master plan and legal codes. That takes a lot of research and a lot
of work. And it's from actual like lawyers and attorneys. They did submit a lot of it. They submitted it to you. They submitted it to the AG. They submitted it to the DP, which we've also been in contact with the Senator Kim, Senator Booker, all of the other Congress people. We've been meeting with them regularly.
We made contact with all of them. Um, we discovered the conservation easement on the property, provided the case law supporting the moratorium and the zoning amendment that Senator Buco failed to find. He presented He didn't present it. We presented the case law that supports it. And yet you guys still didn't pass
it. You guys still didn't pass it. Florida passed it, but Roxberry didn't. So I just quickly I'm going to mention some of the organizations. We have NJ Apple Seed. We have Cassetta. We have Pax Christy. We have Wind of the Spirit. We've got uh American Friends Service
Committee. We've got the DSA North Jersey. They have all been doing this together. >> Can we wrap it up in three minutes, please? >> And I just it's really just frustrating to hear you recognize. >> Thank you. >> Everybody but us. So, so short. Um, Bonnie Rosen Paul
Ramba. Um, first of all, I just want to acknowledge, um, Jackie, thank you for your women's history month proclamation last week and thank you to all the women here, yourself, especially being the only woman on an all almost all male council, as well as to the women in here
who do everything you do. Um, work to uh take care of people and what have you. Um number two, I told you guys if you ended this we would stop coming, but you haven't ended this. So um I also want to acknowledge the fact that um um tonight,
Mayor, you talked about the Roxbury folks. You're forgetting about all the folks who are within the same exact distance as areas of Roxberry. Um so for me being in Randolph, I may be in the same exact somebody else who's in a
different area of Roxberry. Um it's a team. It's a team and hopefully ultimately when we shut this place down, it will be a full team. Um next item. Um if I think a lot of people here are
probably members of BJs or if you go into that place sometime and you take out all the goods and things and think that you could possibly in there and the treatment gives a whole new meaning to go or or go see the place
yourself. Go up the hill, go see the place. Um um next one is a question. Um uh um Mr. uh you claim that we're not going to know a whole lot, but people are
concerned over their safety. My question is, okay, so this lawsuit's filed, there's not a restraining order. Are they going to be up there? work anyway and what's going to stop from um it opening um and then the other thing um I
don't care whether you are red or blue. I'm sure you don't like the price of gas right now or the other things that are going on that should not be um one site or the other. Um we'd love to see some of you guys at No Kings events on
Saturday. They're all over ngs.org to one in your area. Are you truly fighting against this concentration camp? Show up. >> I'm going to close the public in about 15 minutes. So, if anyone would like to get online, please get online.
And I want to say >> I want to say thank you to the mayor, the council, to everyone in this room because this is how democracy works. It's we the people bring it to our elected officials, the elected officials
put it in writing and get a lawsuit in and start the news turning. So this is democracy. So Thank you everyone here for putting in your efforts. Thank you for everyone here for taking it seriously and moving forward. I am very
pleased with the beginnings of where this is going and I'm really excited to see that we have something in motion and please all of us all of us continue to work together. There's too many instances right now that we don't see
democracy working. This is one of them. This is democracy in action working. So everyone thank each other. >> Name is PCO. I'm a Stanhole president and um I saw the announcement of the uh of the lawsuit last Friday and I want
say thank you for putting this first roadblock and um uh and I spokesperson commented on the lawsuit and I'm going to read uh their statement and their statement said uh this case isn't about the environment it's about trying to stop President Trump from making America
safe again. The left didn't care about the mountains of leather that illegal aliens dropped on ranches and riverbeds during violence border crisis. They're feigning concern now because they want those same illegal aliens to stay forever and vote here. Now, those are
not my words. I do not uh agree with those words. I think the language on that is pretty um despicable, but I do agree with the very first um sentence of that and that's that this isn't about the environment. And my point is that this is about all the rest of the
statement that came after that. It's about the racist um fear-mongering lie that our immigrant community are to blame for all of our problems today. I that is a complete lie and that is the
basis of the justification of putting our immigrant community in these warehouses, treating them like cargo, treating them like inhumane. The very term illegals that they throw around official statements that you see on like on on racist common sections is it's
dehumanizing and using that term justifies all the horrible things that happen in ICE detention, you know, like the raping of female uh detainees, like being driven to suicide like I mentioned last uh last um last last week at the
comment section. Um so yeah, that that's what really is all about here. Like I care about the environment. I care about functioning water systems, but the real issue here is the just the violent language around this community and it's
got to stop. And uh who benefits out of all of this because it's not us, it's not the community um who ICE is being deployed against. Um I don't know who really benefits, but I might want to ask Goldman Sachs and Dan Industrial who walked away with a ton of money. Um, I
want to point the finger at for-profit private business corporations that run Delaney Hall in Newark. Um, I think those people have a more stake in the game in this cruel system than uh people who are just coming here to work. All these statistics are very clear like
you're more like crime is like not US citizens are I'm sorry I don't I'm not a statistician. I don't have on top of my head, but illeg um undocumented immigrants are not what's making me unsafe. It's not what's making me pay
more at the gas station. It's not what's driving whole prices up. Is it's just a complete boldfaced lie. And when we use terms like illegal and dehumanize them, we we unconsciously pave the way for all of this. So, thank
you for hearing me out. Hi and Gail Wind on Main Street in Fort Morris. Um I 100% echo what the gentleman just ahead of me said. It is a matter of these are human beings that we are proposing to put in this box. Um and I I
I can't believe that we would even condone such a thing. And second is it's the lights are on at night up there. I don't know what they're doing, but the office lights are on. So, so somebody's doing something. >> I can see them every night. I go out walking and if anything were to happen
in the shore system, I live right downhill. So, we all know where the stuff flows and I love the Los. It was my my baby river and it goes far and I was walking on it and it's beautiful. But thinking
about it that it is not only our natural environment, it is our social environment, our spiritual environment and just our our the very soul of the town is at stake here and I really think that if this facility goes through there is going to be a stain on us for a very
very long time and I applaud everyone for joining in with the lawsuits and all the work that has gone into supporting it. Thank you. >> Hi, my name is Jenny Garcia. I live at 220 Franklin Avenue in Rockway Township. First, I do want to thank the council for joining the lawsuit with the state
of New Jersey. I want to thank um Councilwoman Albbright from the beginning for supporting people to understanding the humanitarian concerns of why it would be detrimental for this warehouse to open. So I greatly appreciate you um for being on the council and being an advocate from this
from from the beginning. I would ask is as the council starts to meet with big power players like the D, the DOJ, that they do invite experts like David Broadick who has presented so many legal arguments both to the council, both to the attorney general's office that has
been the basis for a lot of the lawsuits that happened. Uh, I originally came here, mayor, because you've responded directly to the comments that I made to you. It wasn't my intention to misidentify you and your family. But I want to be clear that when I mentioned white, that the council was all white. I
also mean whiteness, which is also when people are smug, when people feel as though their actions do not affect other people, whether it's inaction or action. So, I do apologize if you felt misidentified. No, I meant no disrespect
to your family, but it was also whiteness, which means smuggness, which means, you know, times y'all are up here and it feels like you guys think that like you're wasting your time. So again, I want to end by saying I thank the council for joining the lawsuit and I hope that we continue be in
conversations that are important and deserve the public's knowledge. Thanks. >> Thank you Brick Road, New Jersey. At the start of the meeting, the mayor thanked the residents of Roxberry specifically.
So, I guess friends and neighbors are not getting a thank you or acknowledgement. This county issue, this North Jersey issue, this statewide issue, this national issue,
I don't understand this dog with a bone attitude. Anyway, >> you're welcome. >> Um, I also would like to see more be done. The litigation that is happening right now is a good start, but let's do more. It seems like the other officials
in New Jersey are stepping up for us and our town council officials are not being at the forefront of the site. Um, I know you're working with them, but it doesn't feel like the you guys have been really at the forefront of this. Um, thank you for getting independent counsel. Um, and
are you working with the zoning department to fight any work being done up there? Is that something that you guys are collaborating with? Is that something that we can have on the table um as part of our as part of our strategy? Um, thank you Councilwoman for speaking up and saying you did not want
this to be your legacy. speaking up helps us and I will continue to do what I can. Contact reps, attend this meeting, attend marches and rallies and I hope you all take note and do better than us and work with those that want to fight harder. It's so much harder when we don't have each other to work with
and we all fight together and it's a lot easier for each party involved. Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Hi, my name is Woodro and I live to a line in the uh joint announcement on the lawsuit. It says here that this
partnership ensures comprehensive factual development, strong legal arguments, and a wide stakeholder engagement. And as a stakeholder, I'd like to ask the council to appoint a community liaison to give us updates. I don't agree with the town attorney that
everything has to be secret. We are huge stakeholders in this matter and I think there should be some regular communication. I personally am very myself because I found out about this whole thing through social media and I think something of this magnitude should have been coming from our township. So I
will ask you will you appoint a community leaison to keep us updated on what's happening within this legal lawsuit and so that we can be informed and we can help you too. There are so many people behind me that want to see this through and end it and rather than fight with us, I think we should all
come together and and that it's the same cause and that we can all help each other and so will you give us a community leazison that we can work with versus having to find everything on social media. Matthew Wharton. Uh, first off, I want to thank you like
everyone else. I really appreciate the steps that you're taking in terms of pursuing the lawsuit. Uh, takes a lot of courage and I respect that and I want to, you know, acknowledge that. Uh, though like some of the people behind me, uh, I am still a little bit
disappointed to hear that law firm is still going to be involved in some of this. I know uh not last week, the previous week, uh one of the other members of our community brought up uh some issues that they felt were a
conflict of interest uh especially surrounding some ways that votes in the Senate. And so I personally am someone who likes to do my own research and find things out. And so I wanted to bring up some of the things that I saw that were
kind of concerning and which would also I would like you to consider in terms of finding other legal representation. And so uh some of the bills proposed uh were S3522 uh also proposed a second time as A4070
the Privacy Protection Act. A bill which would have prohibited government and healthcare facilities from requesting and collecting data around individuals immigrant status. citizenship, place of birth, social security number, and individual taxpayer number. Uh with some
minor exceptions. Uh and when I looked, uh Senator Guo had voted against S3522 twice and against A4070 once. Uh additionally, there is S3521 A4071, the strengthening trust between law
enforcement and immigration communities. Uh this would have restricted uh local law enforcement from ly profiling individuals to enforce immigration policy. Uh asking individuals about their immigration status unless relevant to an investigation. Uh actively helping ICE agents with immigration. Providing
non-publicately available information to ICE. Uh providing equipment to ICE, giving ICE access to detained individuals or giving ICE information on when and where detainees were being released. Uh Mr. voted against S3521 twice and against
A4070 three times. Uh there was also S3216 transparency in federal law enforcement activities uh which would require the following of all ICE agents. Uh removing masks and having their names and agency names identified clearly. verbally stating their name and agency
upon request and restricting law enforcement from uh interacting with ICE agents if they are not following those above rules. Uh Mr. Google voted against this as well. Uh lastly, S3114 Law Enforcement Officer Protection Act uh which would require all law
enforcement including federal agents so including ICE officers uh to remove their face coverings and show proper identification. Mr. against this three times. And so with that shown, I think there's a clear
conflict of interest and how can we trust him to fight against or his law firm to fight for this when clear. >> Hello, my name is me best. I am in Stanh
Hope. I look directly at the warehouse from my house. Um I'm last so I'll keep it short. I am really tired myself. Um but ICE was deployed in Newark airport this week and
it's only making tensions there worse. We need to keep this momentum and use the governor's support and this lawsuit as fuel and not as permission to slow down. >> We have an executive tonight.
>> Motion to adjourn. >> All in favor? >> Thank you everyone. Michael, I Facebook.