Okay. The Tuesday, >> sorry, Thursday. >> Thursday. >> No, it's me. >> Oh, no. >> It's me. >> Well, the Thursday, January 1st, 2026 meeting, which is a continuation of the Tuesday, December 16th, um committee
meeting, uh is now in session. Take a roll call. Miss Bdansky here. >> Mr. Ba >> here. >> Mr. Melkion >> here. >> Mr. Shepard >> here. >> And Mr. Lane
>> here. >> The township committee of the township of Wolf will continue its December 16th, 2025 8:00 PM business meeting to Thursday, January 1, 2026 at 11 a.m. in the second floor courtroom at Woff Town Hall, 340 Franklin A, White Golf, New Jersey. This meeting known as the siny
die meeting will consist of all business items for the end of 2025 that were not completed on December 16, 2025. This sin die meeting was not listed on the township committee annual schedule of meetings for 2025 as was provided to the newspapers. I wish to advise that notice of this meeting was posted on the
bulletin board in Memorial Town Hall. A copy was filed with the municipal clerk as well as with the record the Rididgewood News and the North Jersey Herald News. All newspapers having a general circulation throughout the township of Wyoff. At least 48 hours prior to this meeting, the agenda thereof was similarly posted, filed, and
emailed to said newspapers. >> Okay. I'll take a motion to approve the December 16th, >> Miss Buckansky. Oh yes, sorry. >> Sorry, Mr. Lane. >> Hi. >> Mr. Melion, >> yes.
>> Mr. Shapper, >> yes. >> And Mayor Bonstra. >> With an affirmative vote, the motion is approved. >> On to [clears throat] the consent agenda. All matters listed below are considered by the township committee to be routine in nature. There'll be no separate discussion of these items. If any discussion is desired by the
township committee, that item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered separately. resolutions as follows. Number 264, budget transfers. Number 266, authorized memorandum of understanding with comprehensive behavioral healthcare, Inc. for participation in the arrive
together program. 267, authorization of vouchers and payment of bills. 268, Appointment of Thomas A. Hillman as a brisky house trustee. Two 269 accept police chief report and authorize 2026 towing licenses. 270 authorized shared
service with Woff Free Public Library for qualified purchasing agent services. 271 authorizing the award of contract for extraordinary unspecifiable services for the design and creation of a commemorative sculpture honoring the Wyoff Centennial, the United States
Semiquentennial and the 25th anniversary of September 11th, 2001. We have no ordinances and no motions. May I have a motion and a second to approve this consent agenda? >> Yes, we're doing it separately.
>> Would you like to second? >> Thank you. May >> Miss Bdansky, >> yes. >> Mr. Lane, >> hi. >> Mr. Melkion, >> yes. >> Mr. Shappert. >> Yes. >> And Mayor Bonstra. Yes. >> With an affirmative vote, the consent agenda is approved. Now, the motion we're considering separately is number
265 to release close session minutes. May I have a motion and a second for this? >> Miss Bdansky. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lane. >> Hi. >> Mr. Melion. >> Yes. >> Mr. Shepard. >> And Mayor Bloom. >> Yes.
>> With an affirmative vote, the motion is approved. Okay. Um, now it is time for the outgoing mayor's comments. Where do I begin? Um, it's been it's been quite a year
and I say that in a good way and in a not so good way. So, what I've done is I asked Matt to help me compile a list of and it's been a very busy year. Um, we accomplished a lot this year. Some of it m Some of it stressful, all of it time
consuming and um we all worked on it. As for instance, Pete and Roger and Matt um negotiated the contract with our road department workers. They're all by themselves and brought us a finished product and it was it was great. So, I'm
not going to thank every I'm going to go through the list and point out what we did and if anyone at the end wants to add something to it, please feel free. But I'm not going to thank individuals because we truly truly it was a team effort. We all worked very well together and we got a lot done guys. We really
got a lot done. So, so I'm going to start as I said we successfully negotiated the collective agreement with the department and there's no particular order. Um we completed scanning and archiving all of our documents that have
been in the basement of this building for 70 years. Um makes it easier to access our building department, everything else. Um, we modernized um a new system for our payroll processing.
Um, and got the library to go along with it. The library did not approved it and they looked into it and they said it was a good thing. They went along with it. Um, we had staffing changes this year. Um, Peggy and Moren retired and we welcome Courtney and Carmen to the
township team and Mia was put in the land use administrator office. Um, we um, how should I say this? We were able to through a lot of time and effort hire a new tax assessor and a new system tax
assessor. And it was a lot of time and effort that got us there, but we got there and thanks to everyone who uh, who participated in that. Um, we controlled the growth in the face of unbelievable increases. We controlled the growth of
our health care costs and protecting the quality of the coverage for the families and I mean it involved negotiation with discussions with our two formal unions and our unorganized workers and um and it worked out and everyone worked on it.
Matt especially worked really hard on this. Um we took delivery of a couple new very important pieces of equipment for the DPW. We expanded recycling services in the uh styrofoam area. Um we ated the
roof on town hall. We had other and it's a slate roof. Thank you to the facilities committee. Um and that was a huge accomplishment and and our slate roof remains here on our historic town hall will someday be historic town hall. Um we continued work on the Lin House uh
the second floor of the carriage houses. Take a look at it. Really looks great and a lot of brisky house. Um we did a lot with roads and traffic safety. We and received a1 million $15,000 federal appropriation grant for the police
department. We had that new ESU vehicle the police department took the pickup truck which is really cool. Um what else? Uh we have a light coming in at a crossing uh signal coming in at Spring Me
Drive. Um we sold new cameras um park. We have a new walking way over there. We negotiated a revised contribution amount towards field replacement project with the Y. Uh we work with Bridge Water to get some water
main installations in and more updates on their program there. Um we made major progress on affordable housing. We have our round four settlement after a second bite at the apple because there was an appeal
made to the first settlement. In addition um in that area we we um reszone some property to actually produce additional housing in White Oak which I don't know of any other counts doing that other than under the gun of of Fair Share Housing. So, we're going
to create additional housing in White Oak on what I'll call the more moderate side of market rate and with an affordable set, which was approved by our affordable housing plan. And we continue to um
work on the we do continue to work on the Centennial celebration. Um now, we made a great calendar, but I can't take credit for it. I didn't work on it. I
made a few contributions, but it was produced by and large by Tom Madan and Denise and it is a great product. I hope you've all seen it and look through it. It is really a great product. And that brings me to Tom Madan.
Uh we suffered the loss this year of a great friend and township committee member Tom Maddie. It's unusual and very diffult to the death of an incumbent colleague. I don't know when that's happened in local
government around here that I could even think of where someone in office passed away unexpectedly. But even more so, um Tom was a great friend and colleague. He was a larger than life presence not
only on this body but in the greater White community as well. And he was my good friend. So he's gone and we miss him. We still don't know how much we're going to miss him. As time goes along, we'll realize more and more. But on the brighter side,
with the cooperation of the White County Committee, we had a smooth transition and we're fortunate enough to bring Jim Shepard aboard to fill the vacancy. So Jim, welcome officially here and I know this is going to work out just fine. And um thanks to everyone for everything you
guys all did this year and I'll close out with that. Any thoughts or comments? I just want to say want to thank you for your leadership. We did good for our reserve. I'll take a motion to the signing. >> Miss Bdansky,
>> yes. >> Mr. Lane, >> hi. >> Mr. Melion, >> yes. >> Mr. Shepard, >> yes. >> And Mayor Bonaw, >> yes. >> With an affirmative vote, we all return.