##VIDEO ID:3gwjLQ86Mng## rep for possible later playback everyone please rise the flat church let us pray Heavenly Father we thank you that you would allow us to come together with vision for this community we pray for all those that are involved we pray God that you would bless every appointed individual here and we all work together to carry out the vision we pray God that you will bless this meeting that will bring you glory we pray in Jesus name amen thank also please for President Carter all the victims of new or terrorist attack Mrs beer fire chief's Mom and Mother uh and Harry TR ofers real estate also keep in your prayers please Pete from Pizza he's doing very badly right now and also all of the people from Los Angeles California that are losing their homes due to this massive fire so please just take a moment thank you we presentation of both of office our both I'm sorry toled our eled official here sorry thank you all right um at this time we're going do office and while we're getting set up um you know as being the assembly woman for 19 years and then you know representing this Township for a while uh you know walking and knocking on doors really getting to know this community it really is a a community of of real um real people um day-to-day lives you know making things work for each and every one of you but what I really saw was a community supporting each Community they knew their neighbors they were helping out their neighbors and uh it really warms your heart to be able to continue to have these types of communities here in New Jersey want to wish everybody a Happy New Year um happy and a healthy one for everybody and uh yes with my new role I am your I am now your county clerk um and really happy to serve you I have the opportunity to work very closely with Cheryl and uh you know very dedicated extremely dedicated and I hope to see more of that dedication uh throughout my my period of time working with I could do it yeah you're excited yeah who's the school board president thank you thank you for what you do I I chaired education committee for the last seven years in the state and uh you know the dedication that the school boards have um and our teachers and the community in our education world is really second and none and it really helps to keep you know New Jersey uh ranked one of the top in the nation so thank you do you have a question did you have solemly swear Sol swear that'll support the Constitution of the United States that will support the Constitution of the United States Constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Saints I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Saints and the governments established and to the government in the United States in the United States and in this States and in this States under the authority of the people under the authority of the people I do furtherly swear I Solly swear I will Faithfully I will Faithfully andly perform all the duties perform all the duties of office of counil office of counil thank every St do Solly swear do Sol swear I support theti of the United States and I will support of United States and state of New and state of New Jersy and that bear true faith I will be and ALG to the AL the government established and to the government established in the united states in the United States and in this stat and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people I do further swear I do further swear I will Faithfully that I will Faithfully partially andly inly perform all the duties perform all the duties of counil of counil and ab M CL call please here counc here coun loun Mary here herec presidentand here mayor here all right resolution 21 appointment of Municipal solicitor resolution 2021 appin questions yes counc yes counc yes Council Mar yes councilwoman Patton yes councilwoman Rand Shar yes next cons agenda theist below consider by theed upon in one motion there be no formal discuss of these items it ised remove for resolution 2025 02 through 2025 col 6 second please yes yes counc yes coun yes councilwoman yes councilwoman R yes next council president is there any nominations for council president please I nominate other nominations um second councilwoman yes Council lowski yes councilman jaon yes Council yes councilwoman Pon yes councilwoman presidentand okay Council Council hopefully this year we will have a very safe healthy and prosperous year I just congratul congratulations to Essa and all the candidates um this this year and including our C County Court we elected c m um I just wanted to say Happy New Year to everyone it's pleasure being here thank you for the residents of lall for entrusting me once again to be a council person in this being has been a great honor um I really really get a lot out of serving the community um and I always say if I can help you I will that's what I tell people I can't always help you but if I can I will so I thank you for entrusting me with that honor it's an honor to work with the mayor and counsel um I just hope that we get a lot of things accomplished this year and um and just continue to make lindol a great place to live um also wanted to say a few things about Jimmy Carter and everybody up here knows I'm kind of like a little history so I'm GNA go down memory lane for a minute with Jimmy Carter because tomorrow will be his final wrestling um I was following the tracking and he starts out in Washington DC and in PL Georgia by tomorrow night about 5:30 tomorrow night to be in turn but Jimmy C is a 39 president in the United States and the longest living president and has ever been president in this country God bless him with a hundred years that's amazing uh he was married for 80 of those years to his lovely wife before she passed away he's a Noel Nobel Peace Prize winner he's a naval veteran he's a president of the United States he's written 32 bestselling books that hit the New York Times he if you ever have the opportunity to read any of his books I recommend that you read the book called an hour before daylight it's about his life in rural Georgia in the 1920s segregated oppressed his mother was a nurse she did something that many people did not do during that time she went over to the African-American community and help them with their healthare needs so I think firsthand he got to see and he didn't embrace the um era that he grew up in he hated oppression he was a prop proponent of women he elected my personal Shir Ruth Vader Ginsburg to her first position in the US Circuit Court um so early on he he fought these fights and he he really looked to um to make right the injustices of this country and one of my favorite favorite quotes from him is America did not invent human rights is in a very real sense human rights and then in America so that was the reason why this country was established and we should never forget that so I just ask tomorrow when he's laid to rest just give it a moment and just think about him they'll be flying over it's called The Missing Commander flight over tomorrow because he was a AAL veteran and if we just remember what he gave to this country my dad used to say about Jimmy Carter I couldn't vote yet he was in 1977 and I couldn't vote until 1978 but my dad used to always say he's a real deal and when my dad said that about somebody that meant that he walked when he talked he was about what he said he was about and so he was a man had of great faith a man of morals and he led this country back so thank you that was very beautifulest yes thank you also like to congratulate CH president um also like to thank Council for very productive year last year we got a lot of things done um especially with the senior center being used I want to thank Lind H and councilman J Jackson for their hard work that they did on that project and I look forward to the future that's all thank you Mr Mayor God bless them all now and forever thank you for this wonderful opportunity thank you to each digitary present tonight the most challenging aspect of public service is being available to fellow members of the public often and always this is especially challenging and those most precious to us sacrifice moments of life for so I speak on behalf of those closest to my world my part partner in everything my husband and Mr Patton our kids Elijah and my mom C my mom love Patton my Aunt Mary Thompson and my entire family when I say thank you for your families for allowing us to share some of your valuable time I ask God to continue to bless and cover you and please remember that while yes you SW to service to mankind be first true to yourself and those You Cher the because Wellness is essential for any life Venture especially a public one I pray we all become better examples of this important life skill as to my own family I could never be too thankful and I love you with everything I thank you to our C County Clerk P for the honor ofing in thank you for your team's Grace and kindness congratulations to council woman sharp for another resounding resounding to Mr kacho in our limited interaction you were a perfect gentleman and I'm very thankful for your representation and thank you to the Cy County Democratic committee for a challenging campaign and I honor you tonight also and thank you to the incredible L small my beloved Eric and councilman Mor Nino and R Jessica Joan Miss Miller Missy Paul Anthony Ashley Ruby bar thank you to Pal and the rest of the Liv and last but never not least to the people that come here every month and attend these counselings with us month in and month out you do the important work of accountability while being the voice of the community your love for world is an adorable calling not winning election receiving attention or credit or achieving Milestones or reaching the top of in you truly represent me more than I have shown the capacity and courage to represent myself in this and as I begin to understand that this journey is filled with risks and rejoices my only hope is that my heart's work be better than my words and on behalf of the approximately 20,000 us thank you for your service please continue to do your part continue to stand for the things you care about which as quiet as is kept is the most important part for me the learning Cur has been steep mistakes made and the struggle has been yet it has been an incredible honor to serve this world and on that alone I with my husband stand on faith in the heavenly father to move forward do everything without ruming or arguing so you may become blameless and no man or woman is above reproach and I take responsibility for my part home any and for that I ask your forgiveness with the will and determination to give better person and public service lendon wall will give it to me straight and although sometimes my heartt is always valued thank you for holding me accountable mercifully at the end of the day it's making me a better human and helpful to my soul which reminds me of something important about my myself myself which I've always been passionate about until recently but my little ego has changing my mind so while I understand and respect the value of continuity in public service I've always vocally and personally key word personally have been a proponent of consecutive T of public office I don't exactly have a number of terms in mind or what the future but I still need to hold myself to my own standards nonetheless because while I serve these three years another person will be considering what they might do for and we should all listen and if God through the people of Vall can place me here then anyone constitutionally eligible to sit in this seat should go home and take a good look in Mar because just like me you have every right to sit into this is the advice I see time and time again from our neighbors and friends here walk and Beyond I'm returning in the and as my favorite politician of all time Mr President Carter said I believe that anyone could be successful in life regardless of natural Talent or the environment he live this is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth possession influence and fame but adhering to God's standards of truth justice humility service compassion forgiveness and love and my response to that is whatever you can do desire to do for the good of all and harm of not to do you should do whether you're thinking of running for office opening your own platform entertaining or spreading Community Unity or whatever idea you have in mind I encourage you tonight to think deeply where you might to Journey over the next years God bless his counsel Administration and the staff of the phoh thank you Mary for the opportunity to address address our community and finally made the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable and Bight Lord my strength and my thank you thank you man happy New Year to all I just want to say congratulations big congratulations to council president and Council woman p congratulations I also want to take the time to thank mayor and all Council for your assistance and guidance in my first year service particularly want to thank council president and Council you guys really been big help appreciate that that's um I just wanted um wish everybody a very happy new year and prosperous one also so I'd just like to thank um Public Works Police Department fire department all the gr employees thank Heather andse um the B employees are uh work diligently to make sure that we've done the things that we're supposed to do and do it the right way um we have made a lot of progress in correcting some of the things that have been wrong especially over so I want to thank them for helping us to get to where we want to be oh yes um by the um my apologies our CFO has was down with the SCH for the last couple of days she just couldn't stick around today to do but she was here to make sure that everything was right to get done okay with that I want to open to the public anyone in the public wishing to speak please state your name and address for the record please remember to sign in my name is but I just want to appr the anyone else in the public yes Paul Maurice 925 fueling place here in I like to say about 30 45 seconds like to commend the police department the Emergency Services with the weather we had out here we had the roads open we had sand it we had to saled everything was uh doing a phenomenal job getting the roads open and you know dealing with emergency my hats to all Hats Off the Wall anyone else coun yes coun yes yes yes yes I just to say something about Pastor Mike um he's with Commitment Community Church Cedric's church and Cedric is away and he sent Mike um as his replacement but a couple of things that I think the community should know about Pastor Pastor Mike uh is involved with the youth in our community he is also responsible for the group and makes dinner for our football team before each game um he's committed to the youth in our community um he's a young man himself with a young family and makes time to come out and try to encourage young men especially and the young people in our community Pastor Mike happened to be driving by Lyon Avenue on the night at the stol's house caught on fire he was at and we at Porton having a conversation and found this out he was at the stop sign when their side porch blew up and he parked his car and this is a man that has young children parked his car and ran into a building that was on fire to try to tell the people inside that the place was on fire as you know Joe is 90 something years old and a recliner can barely walk he made sure that they got out he made sure that he communicated to the rest of the people in the house the house was on fire and recently our fire department honored Roney uh for his heroism so I just want to he's a very modest man very humble man I'm sure he's not going to be happy that I'm sharing this but um some things are worthy to be praised and so Mike I thank you for being here at the right time story could have ended a lot differently thank you for your commitment to this community and the Youth of this community and I hope that God just continues to bless you put's father just thank you for just the opportunity to pray publicly God and just to be here um Lord just praying over our community uh for our elected officials Lord for our civil servants Lord and the people of L who um just help us so graciously uh and Lord U even after all the all the knocking on doors and the V child God we recognize that all authority uh is in your hands Lord and is set by you uh and so Lord I pray for all those who are in Authority in this town Lord that they would recognize it as such as a blessing from you uh that they would Steward that Authority that you've given them wisely Lord that you give them discernment uh wisdom God graciousness and compassion uh so that be a community that's unified Lord and growing together Lord to better please you in your name pray amen thank you anybody