Can I ask our Eagle Scouts Nicholas and Austin to come lead us the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for
all. Can you read the 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 fact as follows. On December 31st, 2024, notice was emailed the facts to the
daily record, the Northstar ledger, the West Morris reporter, and published in the daily record. Notice should also remain posted throughout the Philipp. Thank you. Roll call. Councilwoman Alrech here. Councilman Kerry here. Deputy Mayor Crowley here. Councilman D.
Philippo. Councilman Hall. I'm here. Councilman Riley here. Mayor Patilla here. Brings us uh four presentations, award, etc. Tonight we have two Eagle Scouts with us. Um and it's always a uh a great
night when we get them to come in and uh be recognized here and talk about the hard work that they put in to maintain this level of scouting. Uh so I'm going to ask both Nicholas and Austin to come up and uh you guys can just tell us a little bit about your your your project.
Uh so my project was at the St. Elizabeth Church in Flanders, which is just down the road. Basically, I installed a path to a bell that's been there since when I was a kid. It was always wet. So now when the kids go there, they'll be dry when they ring the
bell. also redid a power wash and I installed new river rocks and painted benches and really refresh the church.
I signpost down next to Franklin Elementary School. I met with Austin yesterday at St. Elizabeth and saw the work that he did and um I commend you for doing such a great job. The workmanship and the the leadership that it took to to do that.
Um you know, it really uh brightened that the church's entrance. So, thank you. And I'm going to meet with uh Nick on Friday and and check out his project as well. So, I'm excited to see that. We have certificates for you may Congratul
You want to go by the flags right here. Fine. Stay right here. Good. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you guys. Thank you. Receiving that certificate means you
guys have to stay for the rest of the meeting. What? I did see that. All right, moving on to item five. Approval of minutes. April 8th, 2025.
Second. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Council, yes. Councilman Kerry, I'm going to I think I Deputy Mayor Crowley, yes. Councilman Hall, yes.
Council Riley, yes. Mayor Patillo, yes. This brings us to our first 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. Seeing none, I'll close
public. Uh brings us to reports council leazison representative council committees new and old business council hall a couple things happy birthday everybody we
have recreation perspective we're having a life certification lake uh horseshoe lake this Saturday so if you're in the area go and see that it's sponsored by the American cross we have our annual cross festival
It's going to be about 100 teams at Hor. Couple Saturdays ago, we did our annual street clean up at the Triple Lakes area. That's just off of Route 10. Kind of rainy, kind of awful, but we
still got quite a bit of garbage out there. This is the one that's this is the one that's co-sponsored by the Environmental Commission and the So for the people that came out for that, thank you very much. It was quite cleaned up. Uh we had our tree giveaway
which was very successful. We had 400 ceilings that we handed out to the public at no charge at all. Again, this this was an effort that was co-sponsored by both Roxbury Recreation and the Environmental Commission. So very
successful there. Also give away. Um we had a another housing meeting as far as that's concerned. We're spending just a tremendous amount of time with trying to help out our
current situation. What else do we have here? A big thank you to the fire department for inviting us to the annual environment center is very fortunate to have you guys really appreciate all the work. Thank you.
Thank you, Counciloman. Uh not too much for me today. I do want to say I confirmed that the mobile motor vehicle unit will be coming to Roxbury on May the 22nd. appointments will be opening
up on April the 25th at 10:00 a.m. They will go very fast. So, there's that. And this has taken a year to get them to come here. So, I'm very pleased. And also on a lot's going
on on May the 3. One of which is a repair cafe hosted by the library and that's going to take place at Roxbury Fire Company. You can go to the Roxberry Liaries website to find out more information and also that day is the
pathways of history tour and our incline plane is getting dedicated. So there's there's a lot going on on May the 3rd and our senior citizen dance later that's all I have. Thank you mayor. Thank you deputy mayor. Thank you mayor.
You have an ETC meeting this evening. I attended the life commission meeting now to start reh harvesting. Um I also attended I want to thank Senator New Jersey put aside $5 million for the
businesses that are being affected by the Route 80. They had a meeting in W that I attended last week. Um the had a great presentation of how what information you needed to go ahead and %
of that money that did open on uh yesterday at 10 a.m. They're doing it by zip codes and our zip codes are are in the first tier and so looking at getting that money and I know quite a few business telling them work on your login
so you can log in Monday at 10 a.m. because that's when you get your spot and then keep that spot as you get your documentation together. unbelievably organized for something so fast for the state to do. It was
fantastic job. Uh they all knew what they're doing. The lady that gave the presentation was 100% into understanding what people are looking for, what kind of problems. So hopefully that's done. I've talked to a couple businesses in town
today that did do it. They said yes, they were able to log in and get 66 applications by 5:00 tonight. And if you go around, I just tell you, shop local, use these businesses. They are hurting. Local people are not going out
because of all the traffic and that's hurting your business. We want to keep every business. Tony, you have a breakdown of townships? I don't, but That's
great. The information is on our township website for businesses that need to find that. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Council. Yeah, as mentioned, we had a code meeting last week. We have another one next week. We have to have our numbers
decided by the end of June. Correct. That is correct. Um, so it's moving quickly. We're looking at properties and credits where we can get them and we can so we can meet
the intent of the law that they passed last year that really put a huge impact on municipalities as a whole. Last weekend we had the fireman's dinner. pass as he steps down. Very
nicely done. Um, and I think that's all I have for this. Thank you, Council Councilman Carrie. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just two quick things. to have the uh the next board of education meeting on April the 28th and
um coffee and conversation with the superintendent will be April 29th at Dixon Elementary Media Center at 7 p.m. Thanks Carrie. One more
thing next week Zoom option for those who can't attend. We're going to be here, right? Yeah, absolutely. I just have a few quick things. One, I'd like to thank the Chiefs for the invitation and the bouquet of flowers last week. That was very nice of you
guys. Uh uh this weekend, the Roxbury the Township Clean Communities uh event was rescheduled due to rain. I think it's supposed to rain again this week, but Oh, it was rescheduled for snow. It was
for snow. Um so they for this weekend. Kellyanne Keys, reach out to her if you're interested in helping out with that. Uh and then tomorrow night, we have our volunteers dinner um for mayor council appointed volunteers that um along with all of our volunteers here in
Roxbury helping our township run as well as it does. So um it's always a great night to be able to recognize those people that that have volunteered their time for Roxbury Township. That's all I have. Anything from you, Amy? Nothing. Thank you.
Senator John. Nothing. Thank you. Thank you. This item eight man's request is referred by council members, manager, attorney, clerk. Uh we have one request to wave requirements for garage sale
permits for resident participating in the township garage sale on Saturday, June 21st, 2025 and Sunday, June 22nd, 2025. Any discussion on that? voice. Voters don't have any concerns. We're fine.
No concerns. Great job. Moving on. Moving on to item nine, adoption of 2025 municipal budget. 2025-101 resolution to adopt the 2025 budget.
Mayor, council, if I can just read the um pertinent section of the resolution for the budget tonight. Um be it resolved by the council members of the town of Roxbury and county of Morris that the budget hearing before set forth is hereby adopted and shall constitute an appropriation for the purposes stated
of the sums therein set forth as appropriations and authorized the amount of as follows. for municipal purposes 23,66,24 and for open space recreation farmland and historic preservation trust
fund levy $435,889 and for the library tax the minimum library tax $1,657,254. Thank you. Thank you Jim and Tom. Any discussion on the budget?
We previously talked about I feel a very responsible budget. It includes no tax increase for this year for the residents on the municipal project. I mimic what Councilman Riley said. It's a responsible budget and you know a lot
of went into it from all parts and I thank everybody for the time that's spent on that. So, thank you. Roll call. Councilwoman, yes. Councilman Kerry, yes. Deputy Mayor Crowley, yes.
Councilman Hall, yes. Councilman Riley, yes. Mayor Pato, yes. Introduction of the proposed ordinance. We have one 0625, an ordinance to amend and supplement chapter 7, traffic of the revised general ordinance of the
township for Roxbury, county of Morris, state of New Jersey, and establishing a no parking zone on the west side of Richard's Avenue. I'll second discussion. All right, we have a motion, a
second discussion discussion, first I don't remember hearing anything about this. This this um particular issue came from a resident concern about parking in this particular location. We had this in
front of the traffic committee. We met I think it was about a month ago now and it came out of the traffic committee um recommendation after the police also looked at it. um and recommended that no parking zone for that specific um area. Um it's only because of close proximity
to route 10 and you know problems getting through the intersection um safely which I think have some time. Well, it was it was provided to council. There's an update to the traffic
committee meeting probably a month ago. Everybody received that. I didn't receive any questions on it. Assumed that there were no questions. We were okay to move forward with this considering it was the committee's recommendation to do that. But we certainly can hold on to it. If there needs to be more discussion in advance, it doesn't
sound just any further discussion. The reading is May 14th. Thank you, Councilwoman. Yes. Councilman Kerry, yes. Deputy Mayor Crowley, yes. Councilman Hall, yes. Councilman Riley,
yes. Mayor Till, yes. That brings us to hearing adoption of ordinance on second reading. First one 03-25 capital ordinance to authorize the making of various public improvements and acquisition of new additional or
replacement equipment and machinery new information technology equipment and new automotive vehicles by and for the township of Roxbury the county of Morse state of New Jersey and to appropriate the sum of $3,943,000 from various grants open
space trusts and the capital improvement fund on the town of the township pay the cost thereof. Uh, can I have a motion to open this to public? Second. All in favor? All right. Does anybody have any
comments on this ordinance alone? 03-25 public. A motion to adopt. Second. Roll call. Councilwoman Aubrey. Yes. Councilman Kerry. Yes. Deputy Mayor Crowley. Yes.
Councilman Hall. Yes. Councilman Riley. Yes. Mayor Patillo. Yes. Moving on to the second reading for 04-25. Capital Ordinance of the Township for Roxbury in the county of Morris, New Jersey, authorizing the making of various water system improvements and the acquisition of new automotive
vehicle vehicles including origin original apparatus and equipment in and by and for the water utility of the township. Appropriate there. Therefore, the sum of $22,000 from the water utility capital improvement fund of the
township open to the public. Second. All in favor? Anybody in the public wish to comment on this ordinance 04-25? Second. All in favor? Move to adopt.
Second. Roll call. Counciloman Alrech. Yes. Councilman Kerry, yes. Deputy Mayor Crowley, yes. Councilman Hall, yes. Council Riley, yes. Mayor Patillo, yes. And our third one 0525 capital ordinance of the township of Roxbury in the county of
Morris, New Jersey, authorizing the making of various sanitary sewer system improvements in and by and for the sewer utility of the township appropriating there therefore the sum of $1,154,000 from the sewer utility capital improvement fund of the
township. All in favor? Anyone wish make a comment on this ordinance? 0 0525. Move to close the motion. Second. Second. All in favor. Motion to adopt.
Second. Roll call. Councilwoman Alrech. Yes. Councilman Kerry? Yes. Deputy Mayor Crowley? Yes. Councilman Hall? Yes. Councilman Riley? Yes. Mayor Patrick? Yes. Item 12, introduction and adoption of resolutions.
Mayor, if I may introduce move 103 through 2025-13. I'll second. Any discussion? I just have a question. Um 104 the agreement we're listing what it was. I'm
sorry. We're listing what we're charging a day now. Do we know what it was? The I think the agreement dates from 2002. It was significantly lower. I'm going to say over the years it was informally changed. It was it was more
than it was in 2002. It just wasn't on paper. So, it's significantly different what it was back in 2002 on paper because I'm assuming better than what it was. It is. We looked at it again. Steve Cise
was involved in it and Steve took a look at these numbers and not only looked at the cost of operating the equipment, but also the capital cost of purchasing our street sweeper and also street sweeper. We think we've captured that in there for street sweeping and also for the jetack that that service is it that was
more of an informal agreement that we provided that for them over the years. Whenever they request it just to assist them, we want to memorialize that. So we have it in place. Whenever they do request it, we have it in the agreement and um again that's one that we think is reasonable based on operating and capital cost of that equipment. Usually
the jetack is done through public works. They have the old jetack that the sewer department no longer utilizes. They use it more public sort of things versus the sanitary sewer. So it's actually older piece of equipment that any further discussion any
resolution roll. Yes. Councilman Kerry. Yes. Deputy Mayor Crowley. Yes. Councilman Hall. Yes. Councilman Riley. Yes. Mayor Pato. Yes. Personnel change or none. Communications
April 18th, 2025. Any discussion? Seeing none, this brings us to our second public portion. Is anyone in the public beard on hand topic? Please come to the microphone. State your name and address for the record. Mr. Cler, anything? Quick question. I was
passer is a big piece of equipment. Do we have a a large flatbed truck that we transport this to? It's a truck mounted vehicle with a back on the back of the chassis. I'm sorry. It's one unit. It's a It's one chassis.
One unit. The vacuum is mounted on the truck. The strip. It's not. No, not the vacuum. The sweeper. The street sweeper is self-propelled. So, we drive it all the way to that car. Yes. Correct. Do we clean on the way to
that? Very interesting. You never saw one driving down the road like that. Thank you. Close public. We have an executive session tonight. Well, then I'll go a second. All in favor? Thank
you everyone. I don't