4,000 gentlemen. What happened? No. Recording in progress. There's two sit to order. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Amy, could you please read the open meeting 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 meetings actless. On December 31st, 2024, a notice was emailed in 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 year on the bulletin board in the main hallway of the municipal building. Thank you. Roll call, please. Councilwoman, I am here. Councilman Kerry, here. Deputy Mayor Caroli here. Councilman D. Philippo here. Councilman Hall here.
Councilman Riley here. Mayor Patillo here. Brings us to presentations, awards, etc. Roxbury Arts Alliance. Yes, Mayor. I did talk to Linda earlier today and there was a little bit of a mix up. So, she's not going to be with us tonight. She may be at a future meeting at the
council. So, she she's nothing for us to do tonight. Thank you. Moving on to approval of minutes June 24th, 2025. I have a motion here. Second. Second. Uh, any comments?
Roll. Councilwoman, yes. Councilman Carrie, yes. Deputy Mayor Crowley, yes. Councilman Dippo, yes. Councilman Hall, yes. Councilman Riley, Mayor Patillo,
yes. This brings us to our first public portion. Does anyone 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. Brings us to reports of council leazison.
Representative council committee business. Um I'm going to go first and just mention I'm unprepared right now. Apologize.
Um John, you received um infer an email or letter about the the work being done at the train trestle down in Lower Bshire Valley. Yes. Um is the what public notification are we doing to make sure that people in
that area understand that I think it's 3 weeks? We I know the state will I'm sorry the county will certainly send some information out. We can do the same thing on our end. We can send out as much information as as council thinks we need to send. We can send it townwide. We'll get it out there. But they'll also do the same thing. They have a pretty good pretty good way of getting
information out. We utilize our digital signs or anything that we did. If we have something available, we can certainly do that in the area. Absolutely. Yeah, we we can talk about it and we can put it up. That was the only question I had for
myself. Thank you, Deputy Mayor Crowley. Thank you, Mayor. Um, one u we had a great veterans cruise because that was two weeks ago. Thank God that the weather held nicely for it and stuff and it was really a fantastic
event especially for park segment of the lake. Also the Roxbury police had their PBA run. I'm going ask the chief just to comment on it. I believe it was very successful. Oh yes. It has nothing to do with me. It's the the PBA and they always do a
great job. But, uh, this year I was down there helping them out and, uh, they, uh, donated over $19,000 they raised, uh, for a family with a disabled child. Uh, that's going to go a long way. So, we're very fantastic. Awesome.
That's all I have. Thank I really don't have anything this time around. Thank you. Shocking. I know. Well, although, hang on. I do have my 49th wedding tomorrow. How's that? Just to be clear.
Correct. Correct. Correct. I've only I've only I've only been married to one guy for 35 years. Just one. I did. I was thinking you were a child. I am. I um I did recently celebrate my 30th anniversary of my 29th birthday.
Thank you, Councilman Hall. Well, we had uh first of all, I want everybody to turn your attention to Mike's shirt over here. It's the 15th anniversary. Best efforts. We had two rain outs, couple of thunders along with that hard.
So, this would have been our 15th annual. So, we're going to have to reschedu that next year. One of our favorite events in town. Um but unfortunately, um it didn't work out and safety comes first. So, um we'll have that again. We'll have that again next
year. Um mayor and I went up to landfill today annual visit um just to uh see how things are progressing. So, that happened today and question just out of curiosity. Um how
we going with the water lines project for Ledgewood area. Yeah, we recently request I actually asked D for an update. They promised that they would have an answer back to us back in June. Unfortunately, we haven't received that
yet. Um I recently corresponded with them and asked them for additional update. They said they would get us an answer. I think I provided that information to council just so you're aware of kind of where we stand a little bit of the history of some of the back and forth. So, we've had that. We've certainly had our information to them
for a while. We're just waiting to hear back from them and hopefully we'll hear some positive information back. But, you know, if not, we'll certainly, you know, connect with them again just so we can get a response to our really the scope of the project, I think, was pretty much determined really what our cost estimate was of whether they're able to fund that
for us. And I think that's uh I think that's it for now. I'll stop there. Thank you, Councilman Riley. Uh I was away for most of the time,
but Last night you've been with the fire chiefs. John, can you give an update? Where are we with the cost recovery? Cost recovery. We have the um the new contract being uh reviewed and being signed. Um I know that uh Tony's office was assisting with that and also the
vendor. I did see some correspondents today through email that they're still getting the contract signed. I think one or two of the provisions in the contract needed changed um administrative stuff. I don't believe there'll be any issue with that. Once it's signed, we'll be ready to go with the new and actually getting training. So training will be
the next step with them and contract was the one that Jimmy Price was correct. Yeah. Because theirs changed drastically after our initial. Yeah. I think one of the things they somehow they had put in there maybe made something in their proposal but any
adjudication would be in the state of Washington and obviously we're saying that doesn't happen. It's going to be here in New Jersey. So there were things like that. Hopefully we'll be good. The person we're dealing with is the same person we were dealing with before. there was some confusion with the changing of the companies and buying one and selling one. So, she's certainly
familiar with I think what we what we're looking for. So, once we once those agreements are signed, we're ready to go with training. I'm sure I'm sure the property market's ready. Also, thank you. We have an anticipated time when it will be completed, ready to go. I don't I once it's signed, I just saw that email about getting the agreement
signed, assuming that's in order. I can't imagine it takes more than, you know, a week to get the agreement signed. Everything's through email and then you know just a matter of scheduling at that point. Thank you. That's all I have. Thank you council.
Thank you mayor. Thank Mr. go for showing up. Just really the only thing I wanted to talk about was we had asked Senator Fugo to help out the main library in Morris County on some
legislation that ultimately um recently got passed and and so at $150,000 which I understand is the first time Maine has ever received a state state library. Thank you, sir. So I wanted to say thank you to the senator. Thank you to Assembly in Ganimo
who also was sponsor on this bill. So very nice to see and that money will go a long way I think actually to achieving some efficiencies of the library system. Um and then I'll call a little bit of attention to an introduction of one of
our ordinances tonight is to satisfy our third round affordable housing obligation. It was not easy to get there. A lot of credit has to go to John and the staff and some of our consultants, but also with Fred Ball and
Jim Riley and myself who serve on the housing committee. So, we're in compliance and not every town in New Jersey can say that even though we're not happy, we're in compliance. So, um with that, I
think I'm done. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Council Carrick. Oh, thank you, Mayor. Uh just a very quick thank you to Michelle Howard and those who all put the better crews together.
Fantastic job done as always. And um the last thing I had was the board of education meeting. The next one will be July 14th. Thank you Amy. Nothing. Thank you.
Senator $150,000. Thank you. Item eight, matter. Matter as requested, referred by council members, managers, attorney, and clerk. There are none. Brings us to nine, introduction of proposed ordinances. 08-25
an ordinance of the township council of the township of Roxbury County of Morris State, New Jersey, establishing the AH-12 inclusionary affordable housing zone amending chapter 13 land development article 7th zoning regulation to address Roxbury
Township's third round affordable housing obligation with a second reading on August 12th. I'd like to second it. Any comment, discussion?
All in favor? Roll call. Councilwoman, yes. Council Kelly, yes. Deputy Mayor Crowley. Yes. Council, yes. Councilman Hall, yes. Council, yes. Mayor, yes. On the hearing and adoption of
ordinance on second reading, there is none. 11. Introduction and adoption of resolutions. Introduce 2025-200 include 2025-207. Have a second. Uh any comments discussion out
the security cameras we can certainly get that for we try to keep it somewhat private. We can certainly get that information. Any other discussion? Roll call. Councilwoman, yes. Councilman Perry,
yes. Deputy Mayor Crowley, yes. Councilman Philippo. Yes. Councilman Hall. Yes. Council Riley. Yes. With an abstension on 206. Mayor Patilla. Yes. Thank you everyone. Uh personnel
change are none. Communications. I have June 27, 2025 and July 4th, 2025. Any discussion? Yes. U communications we got for um
the zoning board rental garages two next door. I don't know uh for certain, Jim, but I'm assuming it's probably the the sheathing that it's made out of. It's probably metal rather than maybe some other material, wood or something like
that. But I can certainly find out for you. I don't have the specifics on that case. Yeah, I'm just curious if it's you know, sometimes in some towns you see this little It could be it could be metal. I'm not sure. I'll certainly find out you on that for all council so you're aware of what that application is.
Yes. Any other discussion? Moving on. This brings us to our second public portion. Anybody in the public wish to be heard on any topic, please come to the microphone. Name and address for the record. Seeing none, goes public.
We do. We have an executive. Yes, we do. Not by Wow. I know. litigation, property tax appeals,
contract negotiations, PBA contract, a resolution of the township council of the township of Froxbury in the county of authorizing conference of the township council of the public excluded. Whereas it is deemed appropriate that the township council discuss the matters here and after mentioned without the
presence of the public in accordance with the provisions of RS10 column 4-12B being section B of the open public meetings act now therefore be it resolved by the township council of township of Roxbury matters relating to litigation property tax appeals and
contract negotiations PDA contract shall be discussed by the township council about the presence of the public motion I'll second. All in favor? No, we're going to go on executive now, everyone. No action will be taken. If the senator had his way, we'll be back
in three minutes. Come back. We do not anticipate taking any action. rhythm. All right.