very pry looking nor today really when I went down I went like uh seven no I was 8:30 freezing rain came right after called school bad entry and at dismissal open no accur SO2 good evening welcome to the January 16 2024 meeting of the rosand governing body adequate notice of meeting has been provided in accordance with the open public meeting act at the date time and location of the meeting we're including the annual meeting schedule post on the public bulletin board and municipal building and filed in the office of the bur clerk for those attending tonight's meeting via Zoom the agenda and any other relevant documents can be posted on the bur's website attached to the meeting notice posted in the news and announcement section during the meeting announc be made prior to the two public comment periods anyone wishing to make a public comment via computer will be instructed to use the raise your hand icon and anyone wishing to make a public comment via telephone will be instructed to dial Star n at the appropriate time for those in attendance in person remotely please provide your name and address when selected Mr Watkins please call the Home mayor spango pres Mr B Mr bar here Mr Fishman here Mr Frida Mrs Pate here Mr trillo here two members of the Boy Scouts I IED out crowd and come forward please they're going to lead us in the flag salute please rise the flag salute to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liy and justice for all the old ones I really was goingon to scare I was goingon to tell M had to sing the bang think they were nervous enough um if the police department could please come in we have two promotional ceremonies tonight for promotion to Sergeant if first at the podium if I could have soon deut Sergeant uh Williams please m you Solly swear you sol swear that will support the Constitution that will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States the Constitution the constitution of the state of New Jersey the state of New Jersey now will bear true Faith now will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and allegiance to the same and to the government's established the governments established in the united states in the United States and in the state in the state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and I state your name and I will R do further solemly swear do further solemnly swear that I will Faithfully faithfully and partially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties all the duties of Sergeant of Sergeant of the rosand police department of the rosand police department according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability that I will not use my office that I will not use my office to Grant preferential treatment to Grant preferential treatment nor to see personal gain nor to see personal gain favor Advantage favor Advantage not available to the general public not available to the general public so help me go so help me go congratulations thank thank you for next have soon to be Sergeant Anthony mdav come up I Anthony MCD do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and the constitution of the state of New Jersey of the state of New Jersey that will bear true faith that will bear true faith and Allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments established and to the governments established in the united states in the United States and in this state and in this state under the author of the people under the authority of the people and I state your name and I Anthony McDavid do further solemnly swear do further solemnly swear that I will Faithfully that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly performed and justly performed all the duties all the duties sergeant of Sergeant of the rosand police department of the rosand police department according to the best according to the best of my ability of my ability and that I will not use and that I will not use my office my office to Grant preferential treatment to Grant preferential treatment order toce personal gain don't receive personal gain favor or Advantage favor or Advantage not available not available to the general public to the general so help me go so help me than um say a few things and I say the show when we get promoted when people get promoted it's going from officer to Sergeant is one of the toughest things you're going to be able to do in any job going from worker to supervisor you have to differentiate yourself as from being one of the guys or girls being the father of two daughters have to say that guys are girls to being the leader and to being the boss and it's a very tough transition but we have full confidence in both of your abilities that you'll make it smoothly and we look forward to great things in moving this department forward congratulations good evening everybody I want to thank the mayor and Council um for supporting this tonight and how important it is to for uh having Frontline supervision thank you mayor and Council I appreciate your support um I'd like to congratulate Sergeant Williams and sergeant davit I had the opportunity of working with Sergeant Williams when I was in charge of the detective Bureau and um Larry's one of my detectives and his work ethics are are amazing and that's part of the reason why he's here today and his his leadership skills are going to continue Sergeant McDavid I was part of the process when um when he first got hired I did his background investigation and true to his word that day he's living up to it and the results are amazing thank you congratulations and thank you for everybody for being here today also like to thank the mayor and Council for helping us make this wise decision to move forward and I'd also like to congratulate uh Sergeant Williams Sergeant McDavid I would mention too that retired lieutenant Williams is here who worked 25 years at our department both officers have done fine job and uh best of uh luck to you and we're moving forward to uh great Department that we have now while they're signing their questions or uh comments from the council I just want to say I just want to thank the sergeant Williams and Sergeant McDavid person of all for serving on the Rosland Police Department thank you for your service your work ethic and and your selflessness to serve this community is what put you guys here today so again I want to congratulate you wish you the best and stay safe out there in your new role you too more freezing light open yeah I saw them I it's we need her three need three don't need three I oh okay I thought we B oh okay thank uh next on the agenda is our first round of public comment any member of the public wish to be heard come forward state your name and address of the record anything from the man behind the [Laughter] curtain of next on the agenda is public hearing ordinance 1-22 24 m Mr Watkins please read the ordinance by title only ordinance of the B of rosand County of Essex New Jersey amending certain Bond ordinances and appropriating re-appropriating 1,365 n43 in order to provide for water M Replacements do we have a motion to open open the public hearing on ordinance 1 d224 so move second Pate trillo all in favor I opposed hearing and seeing none anyone wish to be heard on ordinance 1-2 24 hearing and seeing n may have a motion to close the public hearing so moved second Trello Fishman all in favor I I opposed hearing and seeing none Mr Watkins please read the ordinance by title only ordinance of the burrow of rosand in the county of Essex New Jersey amending certain Bond ordinances and appropriating reappropriate 1,36 $ 5,943 in order to provide for water main Replacements you have a motion to adopt so move second all call vote please De Bron Mrs Fishman yes Mrs parate yes Mr trillo yes ordinance number 1- 12024 will be advertised in the progress as a past ordinance shall take effect 20 days after the first publication after final adoption as provided by law thank you next on the agenda is resolution 46224 approving the January 12th Bill list the amount of $4,228 May I'm sorry you want to do the resolutions appointing I got that bring I got that resolution 46224 approving the January 12th 2024 Bill list in the amount of $4,228 180 everyone received everyone received the bill list for questions concerns accusal if there are none do we have a motion so moves second TR parate all in favor I opposed hearing none next we'll have a motion for resolution 44-22 and 45224 the appointments that we just swore in for promotions to Sergeant do we have a motion to move those two resolutions so moved that bishman parate all in favor opposed hearing none next we have adoption of resolutions 1 through 10 by uh by agenda items and 47-22 through 56- 224 by resolution number question concerns recusals on those resolutions if we have none do we have a motion so moved second pH parate all in favor oppos hearing and seeing none next we have the consent agenda for meeting a conference and training we have a motion for the consent AG move second barate Fishman all in favor I opposed hearing none mayor's report um I don't like winter umras yes Christmas yes winter I no no um there's a few appointments that I need to make that aren't listed in order for some groups to reorg um I'm going to ask that the council I have a motion from the council to approve uh reappointing Anthony Gino and Joe Rabino the board of adjustment uh Lula Sal and Kevin Cody to the planning board and Aristotle papalito and William to Desco to the library board so moved second Chill O Kate all in favor I I I opposed hearing none thank you um I'll continue with the mayor's report uh it's kind of a quiet time but I I'd like to thank police uh OEM uh fire for being out there for the last few storms and especially DPW did a great job our roads were better today than the state roads were that I was on so they've been out there working very hard in there all hours of night I'd like to thank them for for for their service uh congratulate the two police officers and also just congratulate um the first aid Squad and fire department on their um their annual U Gallas um very well attended they came out in the snow for the fired up for excuse me for the first aid Squad and I made a little joke that you know people were asking me if I would go that night and I said how can I not go they have to be out there in the snow made sure they're helping out our residents so congratulations to them and I was very happy and proud to attend um besides that I have nothing committee reports Finance Administration councilman fisherman or trillo since Council B can be with us nope no Recreation uh Recreation is going well we I did want to mention to everyone we have the devil's uh roseand night going again unfortunately it is the Monday after the Super Bowl so I don't know if we'll get the same turnout that we got last year um but that was the only date where they had a a large block sitting together um so get on that it's a really good time otherwise basketball season's going but we have had quite a few delays between the flooding and Fairfield so they're behind on schedules but we should be uh we should be fine by the end of February to be over with the season that's all I have thank you councilman Fishman senior Family Services uh senior uh Society had its first meeting on Friday it was very well attended and um we had speakers from uh St Barnabas so it was very informative for them um and we have a really good year coming up so you know of activities so if anybody is interested please uh look at the calendar and come out and participate that's it thank you also they if you notice instead of sending one flyer out for each event they sent one flyer out with all the events quarter for the senior make it easier thank you um Public Works Councilman Baron or Council BR no just want to thank DPW the streets were great they were out last night early so was great uh Public Safety prod um I just want to to congratulate Sergeant Williams and Sergeant McDavid um you know our police force is is wonderful just I can't say enough good things about them and and I know they'll do a great job um I also want to mention that the fire department has now four their role their tally is now up to 36 volunteers it's been held at 32 for a few years so hopefully it's a trend and also the at the first aid Squad was it six Cadets there were six cadets at the first aid Squad and they're going to try and kind of co-mingle their Cadets and their um volunteers so that they help each so they're going to try and get like the firemen EMT trained or pre-trained as Cadets so this way they can go back and forth between both which I thought was a good idea you're going to have a good working relationship now so moving forward so I think that'll really work that'll help great anything else nope that's it Cal construct engineering councilman Brock uh nothing to report at the moment I will be attending my first planning board meeting on Monday anyone else have anything to add the committee read hearing and seeing none next on the agenda is the January 2nd reorg meeting minutes and the January 2nd Caucus meeting minutes everyone received the Minutes review if if no one has any issues take a motion motion to approve second Baron trillo all in favor I I opposed hearing none next our second round of public comment any member of the public wishing to be heard come forward state your name and address for the record if you're with us by Zoom you to raise your hand icon if this by phone press star KN hearing SE none we have no other actions or comments I'll take a motion for adjournment no move I mean motion second take that order second Rush all in favor everyone be safe oh my God sorry about that what opening tomorrow be right very weird I don't know when you left work 30 my car was an ice cube so it was mine I didn't get out till five o'clock and when I went to the car he