statement adequate notice of this meeting of the township Council of the township of Roxbury was given as required by the open public meetings act as follows on December 31st 2024 notice was emailed in facts to the build record The norstar Ledger the West reporter and
published in the B record shall also remain posted throughout the year on the board in the main hallway of the municipal building thank you roll call Council here councilman Cary here Deputy Mayor Crowley here here councilman D Filippo
here councilman Hall here Council Riley here mayor Patilla item four presentation Awards Etc there are none item five approval of minutes a motion so
Mo any discussion on February 25th 2025 roll call Council alra yes councilman Carrie yes Deputy Mayor Carley yes councilman Lio yes councilman Hall yes Council Riley yes mayor Pella yes this brings us to our first public
portion anyone in public to be heard on any topic please come to the microphone state your name and address for the record seeing none I'll close public brings us some reports Council on Representatives Council committee new and old
business councilman Hall thank you uh um just a couple things and I'm sure will talk a little bit about this the uh the event at the library um that they had the re ACR America was uh was
done very well again this year and uh think congratulations to full host that put that together at the library um I think it's something that was really very nice um I
was asked speak at rockston and uh I couldn't make it because I had another event that was occurring early but they said don't worry about it because they're there all night so so I wind up speaking at 12:30 in the morning so been 25 years of sitting up
here I'd never made a speech at 12:30 at night um it's very interesting but um very very heartwarming um set of circumstances um these these kids I would imagine there was probably three
four 500 total um that uh that that attended this uh raised $140,000 my understanding was for mostly for Pediatric cancer and U you know just just an
absolutely wonderful event um I can't say enough about the uh you know the the kids and you know you know what they were doing for the for this course and there a pretty pretty heartwarming event folks really was give it whoever put
that whole thing together um a lot of credit um it's it was a really nice event and with that I will turn it over Mr Mayor thank you councilwoman arber thank you mayor I had it last last
Saturday at America Library as Council St and we also have the honor of reading a counted schools read across America and other than that was a pretty quiet week I know my colleagues are going to report on a meeting from last night I'm
thank you Deputy Mayor Crowley thank you mayor meeting last night I to referred to you was a great great meeting also May and I attended Daisy's group that wanted to talk about democracy and what we do up
here and hopefully we'll have them come in at some we had a traffic talk about two weeks ago to another traffic meeting that's it thank you thank you councilman
Riley couple sever days ago I was honor to with along with yourself show up for rib cutting for Mama's play new SC by anony Baker uh seems to be high energy kind of place so hopefully they do well
uh speaking of Ro that night but she couldn't have heard her speech because she had to leave at 11 because they had robotics at 7 in the morning so you told her I was going to speak you told her to get out and just FYI our robotics team show uh was pretty good this year um it's not
a placement type of situation but they did well that's all I have thank you councilman D flipo thank you very again I'll um I'm going to let you talk about there must have been 100 people in the room last night um people are desperate
to find out what's going on with I and um so I'm going to let the mayor take a lead on that but with reserving the right to to comment about what right the state did for us and what they didn't Chief I'm just going to put this here but you can
have it later so two Saturdays ago right two Saturdays T FL yes there was this fabulous of end of the library you couldn't even get a parking space there was um we Across America and oh God I
just I just want to know that you see these pictures there kids are absolutely mesmerized by the large pink woman in the middle but but in particular
Cat every year C Hat shows up so there was just unbelievable amount of kids there it was a wonderful event you guys never failed to entertain Tru so the library the community thanks a lot
would you super job thank you councilman Carrie thank you Mr Mayor um just wanted to reiterate uh how proud I am of our high schoolers that raised this season on
143,000 553 toward pediatric cancer you can't be more proud of class kids and just wanted to reiterate the sentiments of how proud I am of our high schoolers
that's all I have to see thank you councilman uh I have two items as other council members alluded to we had a meeting last night uh where Roxberry invited the uh New Jersey Economic Development Authority to to
town to discuss Grant and financial opportunities uh that they could provide to the businesses in our area um that have been impacted by the route 80 shutdown uh you know due to the sinkhole and the traffic The increased traffic
that has um occurred on our local uh streets um I think the Eda came and did an amazing job uh they provided some good opportunities um it was very well attended and uh I thought it was a successful meaning to get some
information out to the businesses that they may not have known before um so um I'm I'm I'm happy to say that roxb was the first um to do such a a meeting um what was that the news and we were on
the news news2 did did did join the meeting um as long as Mike our reporter in the corner sent a proxy as well um uh but no overall it was a great meeting I'm I'm very proud of Roxberry
to uh be out in the Forefront of this trying to help our businesses they're being impacted and they're frustrated and they need support um you know the the loss in Revenue that uh I've heard personally from businesses could shut down a business so
um there was some some good conversation about next steps that we we're looking to take uh we had our assembly woman um Don Fantasia join us where she was able to uh support us as well and uh we will continue to move forward and see what we
can do to one make sure that this gets fixed as quickly and safely as possible and uh to see how we can continue to support these businesses that that will need support so do you have anything else like that I just also to a letter
of support and that was U that was very welcome um in terms of the frustration I don't want to dwell too much on this but but part of the frustration was it was clear that the merchants that were there were not so much looking for low interest loans as they were looking for covid like relief relief where there is
money grants that were given uh to make up the levenue uh to a certain extent they make a they make an excellent excellent point somebody needs to listen to this all right and um so I think the people who left the meeting from the state heard
loud and clear that what has to happen next is the state needs to be thinking about how do they address the loss revenue for these towns and the only other point I want to make mayor which came up again last night was of all the
municipalities that that are impacted by this um this problem on this is the one and only public meeting that has ever been held where the Public's been invited to talk about so um I think we can do a better
job communicating was a real need for more information in the room a lot of when you say you me the state sayate we need to do more the editorial
the powers that being need to need to focus on what's going on with the the merchants in all the municipalities that are as you have already said you councel you're good I'm tell Deputy Mayor going back to the Lost
Revenue a lot of these small businesses really discussed and I wonder we get some traffic counts on Hillside and so that we can substantiate the the
extra traffic that we're getting I believe that there's a lot of people getting off 206 and coming through town to stay away from the I don't know what that means I don't know if that means they're going to make Avenue that last as long in the paving uh certainly we have more traffic
through there and stuff I think it would benefit us to have some counts one more car from Delaware beeps on I swear I I agree that we should be able to quantify you know the the increase of of what we we seeing on our local roads we
don't know what now that we're in a state of emergency we don't really quite know what what at least I don't what that really means uh how that helps us or the businesses we're trying to find that out but I think any information that we can capture now any
use down um duve tailing off of that we have our chief of police in the audience with us and and Township manager John um I'm wondering if um we can reach out to the state employes for additional support on our intersections on the
weekends it seems to be um you know almost as bad on on on the weekends in our in our town on 10 and 46 between the hours of noon and 6 see if we can get some some uh additional support State Police and if not perhaps um John maybe
you can reach out to the governor's um Chief of Staff Rob fields or Deputy Chief of Staff and see if there's any reimbursement if our officers have to go out there and do it is that something you can look into I can look into it I can I can get an answer tomorrow I don't know if they'll
be able to do it or not but I'll find out I at least let's ask a question to see if we can get that additional support we'll find out all right please convey that we think they're doing a Fant yeah they're doing a great job your department and the state and everybody working together and and most motorists
are are being understand absolutely and so far they've been very uh Cooperative any needs or suggestions that we had and made those adjustments I just haven't asked for something as big as two additional so we'll see how that
goes allk you thank you Chief thank you John I do have one more quick success story um John uh John sent a letter to the do three years ago two years ago
um uh they his letter was in regards to the Drake uh U-turn eclipse and the the geometry that needs to be reworked and uh we we received a uh a response after some uh state representative assistance
that they will investigate so that's uh a step step in the right direction um that's all I have thank you Amy I have nothing thank you thank you only only thank you for giving us that
warning Mr Bryce uh John nothing thank you all right thank you everybody um item eight manager is referred by council members manager attorney or clerk there are none nine introduction of proposed ordinance there are none hearing and Adoption of
ordinances on the second reading there are none 11 introduction and Adoption of resolutions mayor can I please move 2025 there 069 include 2025 d07 through
22573 744 uh 7 thank you have a second any discussion coun um 073 is the accepting of the bid
for the dialysis center prior to closing I'd like to make sure all everything are paid up anything Curr anything further roll call councilman monre yes councilman Cary yes
Deputy Mayor Crowley yes councilman D fpp yes councilman Hall yes councilman Riley yes mayor Patilla yes this brings us to item 12 Personnel change or a none 13 Communications March 7th
2025 Council just just one notation I already the planning board but uh AJ's Computer Services sent out a notice he they were located 46 10 have
reissue all right anything else all right this brings us this brings us to a second public portion is anybody in the public wish to be heard of any topic please come to the microphone say your name and
address I have one right behind in front of you Mr go ahead sir you're up you're you're up I was I was calling you first that's okay that's right all right Mr or state your name and address for that Robert C quick question I missed
the last week's budget is the budget review completed now and so we are having a meeting next week we will have a budget meeting next week and we will uh determine next week if there's any addition uh there were a couple big changes if you like I can go those with you
we've never seen you before for a chairman I do have a Grand Marshal for this year it's not Mr his name is Charles arano so will be intervie okay sorry y so I'll be interviewing him
in the coming weeks so I just want everybody know and thefw is very very interested in having expanded picnic at the I pursuing that a little bit further with other opportunities other businesses in the area to to see if
they're to donate looking you and awesome thank you so much we can do yes we'll do thank you thank you does anyone else in the public wish to be heard on any topic seeing now
not closed public as we heard we do have an executive session correct Mr rice is corre um yeah the resolution reflected going to be affordable housing and negotiations and litigation and it's
also going to Ren resolution of the township Council the township of rasbury in the county of Morris New Jersey authoriz a conference of the township council with the public excluded whereas the apprpriate township Council discuss matters here and after mentioned without the presence of theu
in accordance with provisions of RS 10 4- being section B of the open public meetings act and therefore be it resolved by the township Council Township matters rela to contract negotiations affordable housing and litigation Rosen B ver ref toship shall
be discussed by Township Council without presence of the public a motion motion second favor for anyone in the public doesn't know we're going to go into executive we will not be taking any action we should be probably less than 15 minutes and we
come back we don't anticipate any further action on see