--------- okay all right better now someone would make a motion to exit the closed session discussion and re-enter the open work session so move second is BG danky yes Mr Lane hi Mr
Madigan yes Mr milon yes and mayor B yes with affirmative vote the motion is approved all right so we are now an open session and the work session is completed so I'll take a motion to adjourn the work session I'll moved second bug danky yes Mr Lan I Mr Madigan
yes Mr melon yes and mayor B yes with an affirmative vote we are adjourned we're adjourned now we'll move right into the business meeting the um regular 800m business meeting of the wof township committee is now in session everyone will rise for a
flag salute I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all please remain
standing for the invocation Reverend you are Michael Johnson Cedar Hill Church thank you Michael for joining us and leading Us in invocation okay thanks for having me please please proceed gracious God our creator we give you thanks this day for the beauty of
this day for the temperatures warming for the flowers pushing up through the ground for the beauty that we see around us we thank you Lord for this town in which we live we're grateful that we can call it home and we're privileged to live here and so help us to appreciate
that to seek the good of our neighbors around us we pray for your blessing upon woff we pray for those who lead and serve uh here from our elected officials to our volunteers who give of themselves we pray Lord for your
blessing upon uh lifelong residents of woff and those who have just moved here we pray for your blessing on our schools and our businesses nonprofit prophets our places of worship we pray for our police and firefighters and uh Emergency
Services we pray for those who work in our library and recycling center for our municipal building for our teachers and schools and sport teams all the things that make this uh such a blessed
Community we pray for every household in this town those in which happiness abounds and those in which there is conflict or grief or turmoil or loneliness Lord be a Healer and helper we pray we pray that we will care for
one another in this town as as Citizens here and to that end whatever business may come up this in this meeting tonight uh we pray for uh the benefit and the thriving of all those here in our community I pray for uh those who have
been given the task of leadership here that you would bless them with wisdom and strength and discernment and compassion for those here with particular needs or requests we ask the same so help us Lord as a community to so help and support each other to do
what is right to show respect to each other to bless each one one another as neighbors and we ask all this oh Lord God in your name amen amen thank you Pastor Michael I think I'm going to be at your church Thursday morning with
Hope Christian for having thef thank you thank you again for joining us Nancy the open public yes Mr Man the notice requirements of the open public meetings act have been satisfied with respect to this meeting specifically the time date
and location were included in the annual notice of meetings adopted by the governing body posted in the municipal building by the township clerk's office and sent to at least two newspapers including the official newspaper of the township the Ridgewood news and the Burgen record additionally to the extent known the agenda for this meeting and whether formal action will be taken was
posted in the municipal building by the township clerk's office and sent to at least two newspapers including the official newspaper of the township the Ridgewood news and posted on our Municipal website in accordance with the open public meetings act thank you you're
welcome roll call Miss bansky here Mr Lane here Mr madakin here Mr melon here and mayor bura here I'll take a motion to open the meeting for public comment five minutes per speaker some moved
second Miss bogdansky yes Mr Lane I Mr Madigan yes Mr Mion yes mayor bura yes an affirmative vote the motion is approved thank you uh the meeting is open for public comment 5 minutes per speaker for public comment on any governmental issue that a member of the
public feels may be of concern to the residents of the township wof if you wish to say something please step to the microphone we have one distinguished guest here tonight no com that being none uh motion to close to public
second is bug Dany yes Mr Lane hi Mr Madigan yes Mr milon yes and mayor BR yes with an affirmative vote the motion is approved thank you I'll take a motion to approve the March 4th 2025 five work
session and business meeting minutes so moved second thank you Miss bansky yes Mr Lane hi Mr Madigan yes Mion yes and mayor B
yes with an affirmative vote the minutes are approved thank you we can move Nancy to the consent agenda please all matters listed below are considered by the township committee to be routine in nature there will be no separate discussion of these items if any discussion is desired by the town committee that item will be removed from
the consent agenda and considered separately we have quite a list of resolutions authorized 2024 loap authorization of vouchers and payment of bills permitting the budget to be read by title only cancel taxes as per njsa
54 4- 3.3 tax exempt emergency temporary Appropriations authorize a board of contract to Motorola Solutions Inc for the mobile and radio upgrades for the police department authorize a board of contractor to Motorola Solutions Inc for the mobile and radio upgrades for the
fire department awarding a contract for the purchase of one new Chevrolet Tahoe ppv for the white golf volunteer fire department confirming endorsement of Bergen County Community Development Grant window replacement Phase 2 at Livewell counseling authorizing participation in the mammoth ocean
Educational Services Commission authorizing contract for architectural and Engineering Services for the addition and renovation of the white golf Police Department authorizing the township administrator to apply for fiscal year 26 Congressional discretionary spending for Police
Department Renovations authorizing the township attorney to file a settlement order with the affordable housing dispute resolution program we do not have any ordinances for introduction this meeting but we do have two motions the first is to approve the use of woff Memorial Field for the landing of a
helicopter on May 20th 2025 as part of the Citizen Police Academy event and authorizes the township administrator to issue a letter stating that the township committee has no objection to the issuance of a temporary license by the New Jersey Department of Transportation for the said helicopter
landing approved special event application for a grand opening to be held on Saturday March 22nd from 12: to 4: for an and for an 8ot by 10 foot temporary vinyl sign on the building at 690 wof Avenue home of the new woff veterinary hospital for the 10-day
period beginning on Friday March 21st and ending on April 1st 2025 may have a motion and a second to approve this consent to agenda so moved second Miss bansy yes Mr Lane hi Mr Madigan yes Mr melon yes and mayor bura
yes with an affirmative vote the consent agenda is approved mayor bura I have one ordinance for public hearing further consideration on tonight's agenda it is ordinance number 2036 which is an ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits and to established a cap
bank for second reading by title only and a copy of this ordinance has has been posted on our Municipal website on the bulletin board and Town Hall where Public Notices are customarily posted and copies have been made available to members of the general public of the township who requested the same this is the time and place for the
public hearing on ordinance number 236 all persons who wish to be heard please state your name before making your statement if you wish to make a comment please step forward to the microphone I move that public hearing on ordinance 2036 be closed
says here that I seconded it so I'll second it thank you Miss bug Dany yes Mr Lane I Mr Madan read it Mr M yes and mayor yes affirmative vote the motion is approved be it resolved by the township Committee
of the township of white that ordinance number 2036 after public hearing and further consideration is hereby adopted and the municipal clerk is hereby authorized and directed to publish the notice of final passage of said ordinance in the official newspaper for the township as provided by law I move I move ordinance
203 sorry 2036 on second reading by title only second tough M bogdansky yes Mr Lane hi Mr Madigan yes Mr mó yes and mayor brra yesir vote the motion is approved motion to adjourn right motion
second all those in favor you want to do a roll call n that's fine I got you thank you good meeting Rudy I'll see you at 4: tomorrow yeah Part: 2
pause Mana pause okay okay the um Tuesday March 18th 2025 work session meeting of the whitef township committee is now in
session roll call please miss bug Dany here Mr Lane here Mr Madan here Mr mó here and mayor B here thank you this regular work session meeting of the wof township committee is now in session in accordance with the open public meetings act notice of this
meeting appears on our annual schedule of meetings a copy of said annual schedule has been posted on the bulletin board in Memorial Town Hall a copy has been filed with the municipal clerk and has been posted on our Municipal website and a copy has been emailed to the record The Ridgewood news and the north Jersey Harold News all newspapers having a general circulation throughout the
Tatum of wof at least 48 hours prior to this meeting the agenda thereof was similarly posted filed and emailed to said newspapers thank you Nancy is everything signed it is we good to go all right thank you everyone for uh coming in early and signing those things I'll take
a motion now to open um the meeting for 10 minutes for public comment show moved second Miss bansky yes Mr Lane hi Mr Madigan yes Mr milone yes mayor B uh yes
for an affirmative vote we are it is approved thank you the meeting is now open for 10 minutes 2 minutes per speaker for public comment or any governmental issue that a member of the public feels may be of concern to the residents of wof please step forward to the microphone if you want to say
something nice about hoe or Tom or myself or something now's your opportunity is it only nice hurry up hurry up and close it Raj uhoh should say something they're being done always that being n that being
none good evening distinguished committee I would just like to say on behalf of not only myself and my family and these Knuckleheads back here um I would like to really thank hoe for his many years in town not only as a
business owner uh a resident but uh just a uh someone who's given a lot to the community uh he's done a lot for a lot of different organizations helped me out at the Y rotary uh we used to hang out on the sidelines of torpedoes with our girls um but and
we've collaborated on a lot of stuff so I just want to say on behalf of myself my family my business I want to thank hoe and blue moon for doing what they've done for the past 25 years than thank you anyone else okay there being no others once
twice no uh a motion to close the public second M bansky yes Mr Lane hi Mr Madigan yes Mr milon yes and mayor boa uh yes with an affirmative vote the motion is approved okay okay now we have here a um
Proclamation a put together by Nancy thank you Nancy and edited by Tom Madigan that I will read into the record whereas how we feel exed and his wife Mindy moved to wof in 1994 and Su expanded their family as
they welcomed Jared Goldie and jordina and whereas in 2000 how he opened the Blue Moon Mexican cafe and Boulder Run Shopping Center and then in 2011 the restaurant was expanded doubling the size and adding a full bar in 2025 and in 2025 is celebrating his 25th
year in the restaurant whereas when Co closed down many area businesses local First Responders enjoyed meals cooked by the Blue Moon kitchen while they risk their lives performing their duties to the community and whereas during the pandemic Blue Moon expanded to include
outdoor outdoor space in the parking lot for patrons to dine in the fresh air even debuting the month debuting the monthly outdoor Dueling Piano events and whereas now music is now in every weekend Affair at the cafe and whereas
lumon Mexican Cafe has consistent recently supported many annual events in our community including the men's softball allstar game by providing Game Day shirts and food for participants and whereas the caf's community night program has helped raise thousands of
dollars for local schools and many charitable organizations and whereas blue moon has been a longtime supporter of the YMCA's annual woff Day event and is considered a main stay in the wof community now therefore be it proclaimed that the township committee
of the township of wov County of Bergen state of New Jersey thanks Howe Felix BR and recognizes him as an active participant in our community and for weaving a part of himself into the fabric fabric of wov he is a shining example of what makes wov so special and
he has admired for his countless years carrying support generosity and dedication to many local nonprofit organizations that have greatly benefited from the Felix broad family and the Blue Moon Mexican CAF Community spirit and philanthropic contributions
we congratulate him on this occasion of his 25th anniversary and wish all at the Blue Moon Mexican Cafe continued success signed by myself mayor of Township of wof over the names of May bansy Roger Lane Tom Madigan and Pete mó thank you
Howie for everything I just want to say Rudy thank you very much I appreciate it guys I really sorry I brought them thank you guys for supporting me and for over all the years great friends
and my son Jared and um again thank you for the township committee I really appreciate this is very nice har we appreciate everything you've done obviously thank and you know when we do this for like sports teams we take a team picture so maybe this could be your team here take a team picture
but first hold on first we're gonna present the take the picture already Executive Vice okay now let's get the picture with the team on the lollipop Walter over here
wal a [Music] full say chips and salsa salsa good jobard me the bo help because you want anybody get there all right ni that was very nice
thank you we purposely left that off thanks for coming everybody well there goes our audience very nice good Joby really good job good job good job by everyone thanks Nancy and Tom for putting that together good job
yeah good job excellent as always all right uh Matt the 800m business meeting if we could review sure so we have several resolutions uh first is uh authorizing our 2024 losap recipients uh this is forther both the ambulance Corps
and the fire department members um two resolutions uh that have to deal with actually three that have to deal with the budget first is authorizing the budget to be uh read by title at the next meeting um one cancelling taxes for residents that are currently ta uh
currently uh approved by the assessor's office as tax exempt and three authorizing an extension of our temporary budget uh there are two resolutions for Award of contracts to Motorola Solutions one's for the mobile and radio up gr for the police department and the second is for the fire department there's a resolution
authorizing Award of a uh Chevrolet Tahoe for the for the white call fire department this is all paid by Capital uh resolution 120 is a resolution we've done here often uh as
what is uh confirming our endorsement of uh Community Development Block Grant application for this is Hope or uh Christian he this is hope this is hope this is for Hope
for Hope Christian as you know we are not eligible for Community Development block grant because we are too much of an affluent Community here but our two associations in town uh do are are eligible uh to apply so Christian health
and uh Hope Christian do take uh do CL claw back some of that Federal money into white cof um resolution 121 authorizes our participation in the mammoth ocean Educational Service Commission pricing Cooperative pricing Council this is uh
just another Cooperative pricing uh group that we are going to belong to 122 authorizes a contract for our architectural and Engineering Services for addition of renovation to the police department as you recall at the last meeting we authorized the funding for that this is awarding um uh the
continuation of the contract we already started for the concept um resolution 123 authorizes uh us to apply for Congressional discretionary spending uh for the police department Renovations as
you recall last year we applied for um extension of the sore main on white cof a in between Russell and let's say Hartong area um unfortunately due to Congressional boondoggle that we going
on going on right now then the budget still has not been passed that application is actually still in limbo so while we weren't able to fund the entire project uh weren't able to apply for the entire project and normally we could apply a second year in a row because that project is still on the pending list we couldn't apply for that
so we're moving on to our next big project applying for somewhere around $2.3 million and uh resolution 124 is authorizing um the township attorney to file a settlement order uh with regard to the affordable housing dispute
resolution program I will let Dave speak to that during his report uh we have one sorry two motions and one ordinance for approval uh and the ordinance is just our standard housekeeping before the adop before the adoption of the budget we have to uh
adopt the um Municipal cap Bank ordinance uh there are several items going on in town uh first off this past weekend uh we had our uh drive through rabes Clinic uh really thanks to Nancy
and Anna and Courtney and the staff in the clerk's office or the staff in the clerk's office for for making this go smoothly 154 pets were vaccinated which is 25 more than last year working with a new vet this year we had Dr Britney Scott who worked quickly and the
approximate wait time was 20 minutes or less just give me one second to go back to the next report the deadline for bulk collection for this month is tomorrow uh that's for March 2st pickup there is a composting Workshop Saturday the 22nd at uh Russell
Farms information is on the website and in our E news uh as you know there's some wof a closures having to deal with the Roy water main extensions on Russell AV between Russ AV and Hartung it uh is from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. um they have
made some decent progress in putting that line down but it's still it is still an inconvenience but uh all all pushing forward to a 2026 opening of those of those Wells um we are hiring several positions
Finance assistant mechanic seasonal DPW uh those positions are available on our website anybody who applied for the senior freeze program it's been combined um into the anchor program applications for 2024 due October 31st uh that's all
on the website we really don't have anything it all has to be completed through the State website and spring leaf collection April 7th uh the week of April 7th and the week of April 14th please make sure you put everything out there because once we're done with our spring leaf collection everything must be brought to
the recycling center uh until our fall leaf collection which starts third week in October and that's all I got thank you thank you Matt Matt Matt did you mention that Cooperative is that part of I did oh thank
you Township committee reports Pete can we start with you sure thank you mayor um just have a brief report this evening we uh kicked off the Memorial Day Parade um committee uh last last week um planning is going as usual and looking
forward to a uh a great uh Memorial Day Parade unfortunately last year year we uh didn't have the parade because of the weather so we're keeping our fingers crossed for uh great weather this year and thanks to all of our volunteers especially the parade committee uh a lot of work goes into it and uh Centennial
committee um the caler Galla committee met I think Tom might touch on that a little bit more that planning is still underway and um oh also the military tribute banners um if you purchased in 2022 those are being retired you can
pick them up in uh Town Hall um and if you're looking to um if you had one you could get the same Banner again I think it cost $90 or if anyone's interested in purchasing a new Banner for uh for the uh for the season they'll be going up Memorial Day through Veterans Day and
that's all I have today thank you Pete Tom just want to say uh congratulations again to Howe Felix Broad in Blue Moon for their 25th anniversary this year uh Pete mentioned we uh had a calendar in G
meeting last week plans are progressing a lot of work there putting it all together but uh we are progressing uh I wanted to mention that thank you I was not able to be at the rabies clinic but thanks for all for the
successful rabies clinic I know Nancy and Anna and think Courtney were involved know people Board of Health couple of board uh Township committee members went and uh new veterinarian in town helped out so all those that help
to facilitate that thank you very much I attended the Chamber of Commerce meeting this morning it was held at the library very good showing good meeting and uh anything we can do at any time to support our Chamber of Commerce is is
very popular and finally I have a big shout out to my grandson Grayson who is celebrating his first birthday today so happy birthday Grayson that's my seventh grandchild and uh he's out in California we miss
him but happy birthday that's it thank you thank you Tom Roger oh sure uh just to add to the uh Centennial and the Galla just the dates I know it's it's early but the Galla is March 21st
2026 and the uh the day that we're going to be celebrating is June 27th 2026 and I did Pete just so you guys know I did confirm firm the whitef reform church for that morning where we can have a get together like an Interfaith prayer about
the town uh talk about the history of the church etc etc so that's that's good news on that front uh as you can see if you uh drive down the road to the left you get to The Brownstone you can see the the brand new uh Hardy plank that's
gone up uh it really is shaping up very nicely and it's going to make the building look uh quite handsome uh at the end uh under the fire department uh the department responded to 50 calls for service in February in a total of 161
calls year-to date it ranged from building fires cooking fires motor vehicle accidents motor vehicle fires Hazmat spills Co alarms and fire alarms we received Mutual Aid one time during the month for a brush fire in town next
to a house and cars we received automatic Aid once for highli hazard buildings and town MA was from uh Midland Park uh uh for an engine the department provided Mutual aid for two structure fires in neighboring
communities engine 234 responded to Hawthorne for a second alarm house fire on gole Hill Road rescue two responded to Allandale for a three alarm housee fire on Hillside a the training uh Monday night drills on equipment where
we did training and on the uh uh radio Communications which is critical uh year-to dat uh Personnel hours as of March 18th 2025 the fire department has logged 4, 96827 personal hours uh for calls
meetings and training so uh we thank these these wonderful volunteers for what they do for the town and and uh our neighboring communities we we thank them for their help and uh I trust they certainly thank us as well uh there is a fire department dinner coming up this
Saturday evening where there'll be some awards presented to some of our uh certainly worthy volunteers so looking forward to that uh what else I think that's it Mr Mayor thank you R thank you so much me thank
you um I think last time I mentioned that we were going to go visit the Atlantic Coast Recycling so we did that six of us from the environmental committee went um GA from what we learned keeps our cardboard um and does not give it to Atlantic Coast cuz it's
more valuable they get more Revenue back from that um uh these recycle centers bundle materials to reprocess for income China to stop buying from us 10 years ago most of the stuff that we sell or they sell
rather um goes to Southern us India Vietnam and Indonesia um then uh Board of Health I'm not um I'm just giving you fact just information I'm not promoting Hack and Sack Urgent Care Plus but Dr Andrew dapy
came and visit the um board and gave us a little bit feedback of what they do in their services they do CAT scans x-rays MRIs blood work on site and apparently he says the results are returned within 15 minutes um except they accept all
insurance now Etna will be in a few months um just some facts p uh they see about 25 to 30 people per day 30% is from Frankin Lakes 45% from wof and 25% from neighboring
towns um last night was the Board of Ed K through 8 um they adopted their tenative budget for the 2025 2026 year in order to submit the budget to the executive County Superintendent of Schools um the budget would total 51,8
34,653 and local tax levy was $463 54 um and 142 sorry 354,000 it's a big number and that's all I have to report thank you may Mr Mayor
I forgot one thing I absolutely respect the decorum of wearing a tie uh I'm get bring I'm getting better I I so I believe at the next public meeting I'll be able you know tie a tie around my neck so I
just want don't tie it too tight R well well i' let you help me may but but uh in any event I just want to let you know I I respect the decorum and my apologies but uh it's getting better get have clipons clipons yeah I know I I don't I don't own I don't own a clip on you
should have known better than bringing that up I figured that I I well I'm I'm I'm always open for abuse it's fine all right um on the weekend of the 7th 8th and 9th Tom and
I performed in flo fies true along with the mayor of Oakland and the mayor of Franklin Lakes and it's always a great event we always have fun doing it a lot of laughs a lot of AD living you know you put three politicians up there or four politicians up there you got a lot
of AD living so anyway it was it's always a good time and it it's a good work that the um casting crew do to raise money for the for the high school student so that was a lot of fun um planning board last week um was a lot shorter than I thought it was going to
be we we did a we had a um a completeness hearing for the Cedar Hill shopping center application and um we declared it complete in 15 minutes so it was a good meeting in that respect now we get the
public hearing on at the next meeting that'll take a little longer um also on the planning board um the the application for the project on Franklin a to the east of us here that involved the rezoning is in the planning board
office so that's going to have to go for completeness and we'll get into public hearing on that for site plan approval somewhere down the road um I attended the rabus clinic on Saturday it was a good event as Matt said we I thought it was uh 140 we did but it was 154 which
is extraordinary and um I want to thank Nancy and Courtney and Anna from her office uh Mike SP roic was there Board of Health chairman uh a couple his his daughter a few other Board of Health people were
there um I want to thank Pete and um Tom and uh Bobby from the DPW for keeping traffic uh moving along on uh on West West Main Street and uh it was really a good event and and our new one of the new veterinarians in U in the new clinic
on wav as as Matt mentioned um Britney Scott was there and she administered all 154 vaccinations it's always a great event and it's good to see the neighbors and it's great to see their pets and that's that's the one place where we got a positive Fallout from covid which is
to leave all the pets in their cars and drive through and have a drive-thru operation so um Library board is tomorrow night um actually I have a comment on the fire
department um yesterday morning at 4:30 fire dispatch called out a roll a rollover on Cedar Hill and uh 208 so I assumed it was just a like a car came down 208 too fast and made a right turn on the ramp and turned over well I was
out and by the time I got over to aby's diner it was still going on so I rode over there 5:30 and there was a big truck big straight job laying on its side on the ramp half on the ramp and half on to the the buffer the planting area in front of
Cedar Hill shopping center and what really got my attention was there was milk running out the back of the truck oh no okay so then I want to know whose truck it was I wonder how the driver was and like who well I found out later in the day I won't say whose it was but it it was a dairy delery truck and I feel
bad they got the driver was okay they the rescue company cut him out and the driver was okay and everyone was just kind of waiting around for the record to figure out how to get it off the the planting uh Island and uh and get it upright and out of there the other thing is um fire commissioner Lane and I had a
meeting last week with the chief Alvarez to discuss some some Communications uh electronic and otherwise and it was a good meeting and I'm glad we had it and uh and it was I think it was a productive meeting Roger absolutely um thank you I think that's it oh I do want to
congratulate Howie on 25 years at Blue Moon and and and almost 30 years of being a good citizen Cen in white course so it's really great Mr may come can I say something absolutely I just want to make sure I got the spirit and the intent what you just mentioned being a
Milkman for all those years are you telling us that after all these years you're still not crying over spilled milk I just wonder where it came from all right just want to make sure okay Dave yes uh attorney report I'm going to
report on our affordable housing so um You probably saw there's a res res olution on for tonight at an obligation number that we've settled on obviously uh you need to pass the resolution to confirm that but let me just tell you how we got there and where we're at um
as you may recall the uh State uh passed an amended Fair Housing Act about a year ago I think it was actually in February of last year when the me when the governor signed it and with that Co is no longer here and they set the thing what they called the program and so if
you whatever happened before the way they did it don't think about that anymore they're all new rules to this game the new fourth round covers this year 20125 through 2035 they tested DCA to come up with their calculations methodology and
numbers uh both for the State uh the uh regions we're in region one that's with Hudson County pic and Sussex including us Bergen uh there's six regions come up with numbers for that and down to the municipality ities
they issued that back on October 18th with those numbers and we had a number that was given from the DCA of 387 for our new prospective um affordable housing now that number wasn't set in stone and because everybody could then
respond mean municipalities could come up with a number fair housing could any other objector um but we didn't know what was going to really happen how it was going to be laid out until December I think the date was uh December 13th they came up with the rules we didn't even have any rules till that point in time how
this whole thing was going to be how you had to run this thing those rules were kind of drafted by judge Grant who's now retired um kind of his last tab before he retired with the help of some other fair housing people and fair housing uh
Center the municipalities really didn't get the chance to participate in that um some of the reason why we're in litigation too I won't go into that right now but with that being said we had till the end of January to come up with what we thought was our number based upon our acre as you may recall
you passed a resolution on the 29th of January saying 277 was our number that was based upon much of the work analysis by our fair share um or affordable housing planner Beth um mcmanis we submitted that with a
resolution and I filed a declaratory judgment action the next day which is what you need to do by the rules by the 31st and that was sat there until the end of February because any challenges could be made up to that point in time you may recall our first meeting in February I
said no one challenged the numbers yet but beware so I think I might have even said that by our last meeting but on the 26th of February the billers association filed a challenge to it and they uh were saying well we like the dca's number of
387 two days later the last day at about 6:00 I saw that fair housing filed theirs they had a number of 393 under the rules at that point somewhere along the way they're going to issue assign you to the program what the
program is is basically seven retired judges and you're going to get assigned to one we got I got noticed that we were assigned to a judge on the 7th of this month and with a settlement date of the 12th so that was Friday we had to go to settlement uh mayor Boonstra our our
Township administer maval and I sat on several uh settlement conferences from that date to the 12th the 14th and then finally the 17th at which time we negotiated a number of 334 which you see in your
resolution um I certainly believe that that's a good number compared to what we have to deal with um because from what I'm understanding you weren't going to do much better than that and if you didn't settle they send you what they call call a session session is basically
just a program they just look at the papers and they come up with a number for you and a good chance you were going to get that DCA number if you didn't settle so I think we're basically 335 would have been the halfway point between the uh Fair shares number and
our number and with some negotiations we got to that number uh the next thing that's in line is I'll be submitted to the um Mount Laurel judge here in the county who has to confirm that number which probably will happen since it was a mutual settlement and then we would if
he does then we move on he or she we move on to uh putting together our our plan and then we do need to work as this body work with our fair share our affordable uh housing planner to work on that plan of where those housing units should go or the zoning and so forth and
that has to be done and submitted by the end of June so that's where we stand with that just so you know the Builders Association they basically said they're not going to object to any anything that we come to a settlement between the towns and um fair share so that's where we're at and you have the resolution on
for tonight which if you approve it I will go ahead and sign that settlement agreement tomorrow and we'll move on thank you Dave for that detailed report any questions I spoke to everyone so we all know kind of where we are here I want to thank Dave and Matt for being
very very well prepared for these meetings we had a total of four I think four Zoom meetings starting last Monday uh one was just um our our um our affordable housing planner and then the other three were with variations of um
the judge and people from fair share the interesting thing I thought was there was at the first meeting there was there was an attorney there from the Builders Association which I thought was a little weird but anyway um so um there was a lot of back and forth and a lot of around and
around and um Dave was on the phone confidentially with the judge a couple times or the the mediator yesterday and did a good job so I I I'm confident that we could I agree with they I don't think we could have done much better than this I don't think
we could have so mayor I have a question yes um you said 2025 to 20 20 2035 I apologize no no it's okay but um so they won't come back to us until 10 years from now is that how how it works come back to us we're this process is going
to go on for this year right so we put together a plan somebody object to your plan then you got to they have till August to do that and then that plan has to be finalized so there's still some stages this year once that's in place the end of the calendar year you're
correct that's what you're working off you know but um then we're locked in for 10 years years we're locked in our plan is done you know if you recall wof was an early settler in the third round as well so I believe that was also and that
was actually mentioned by the judge yeah that that was taken into account in the judge who was acting as the mediator helping negotiate this is that you know we didn't dra you know we we were a active participant in the third round so
right and have and have started to move towards compliance even from the third round we've been proactive we always are MH good job thank you that's all I have been happier with 277 that's it that's it okay um now I
will take a motion number 11 to adopt the resolution number 25 C5 and enter close session discussion once again Mr so this is we have it on as pending litigation right in case we needed to
discuss a fair share or any of our other litigations so this is up to the township committee if you have questions that you wanted to speak to Dave about otherwise anything to you guys it was a place I'm good right now okay all right then we don't need the motion and
I'll take a motion to um adjourn the work session so move second just just are we going into close session are we not going to close session not we said no unless someone wants to if you want hold on I would
prefer to I like communication but I have no problem if the consensus is we'll no if we don't need it we don't need it no problem let's do it minut I'll make a I'll make a motion that we go into close session to discuss any legal matters necessary sounds good okay
I second it is Bob Dany yes Mr Lane I Mr Madigan yes Mr mó yes and mayor BTO yes affirmative vote we are approved all right so we'll adjourn to the conference room and um I I just brought that up so
that we that this resolution was for litigation okay yes right right right that's fine that's fine uh we have the little room back now yeah that's what I said we'll go to conf