oh you have the you got the pro good evening and happy New Year I'd like to call the reorganization meeting of the township Committee of the township of L Hill to order at 6:09 p.m. it's only because somebody else told me in compliance with the open public
meetings Act of New Jersey adequate notice of this meeting specifically the time date and public call and information were included the meeting that was electronically sent to the echo settin all moris Daily Record and posted on the Township website the agenda and public handouts for this meeting can be viewed online at www.long Hill nj.gov a
public common Pei held in the order it is listed on the meeting agenda please stand 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 thank you we have two newly elected members of the township committee Aubrey Riker Eline who served for Brendan Ray's unexpired term for 2024 and this will be her first term as the as Township
Committee Member um we are going to have assemblywoman Munos swear in Aubrey so if her family wants to come up so that's for you to
read are absolutely the more the marrier you want somebody's gonna hold the mic you come over this way to this side somebody's gonna hold the Bible mom you do that you're going to put that down I've done this a few times right
you're going to raise your right hand and put your left hand on the Bible and repeat you can help and repeat after I state your name I Aubry Riker Eline do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the
Constitution of the United States and the state of New Jersey and the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and to the governments established in the United States and in this state and in
this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will face faithfully and that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of the office of Township Committee of the office of Township
committee according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability and that I will not use my office and that I will not use my office to Grant preferential treatment to Grant preferential treatment nor to seek personal gain nor to seek personal gain favor favor or advantage or Advantage
not available to the general public not available to the General Public so help me God so help me God congratulations thank you so much thank you love you you guys great I'll take this if you want to just
sign this over here excuse me here [Music] and while Nancy's signing that I just wanted to thank everyone the my fellow council members the staff of the Town my family friends and the supporters um for
electing me to serve in this role I take it very seriously and I'm excited to do this I'm excited to learn as we go and I appreciate everyone in advance for the patience uh as I learn this role and ask questions many questions probably too many questions at times but I appreciate
it I take it seriously and I just want to thank everyone um for this opportunity to serve so thank [Applause] you guys want to come right out here ready one two three very nice
uh next we have guy Pia who was elected for his sixth term to the township committee and Sheriff Ganon will be doing his swearing in thank you thank you Happy New Year this is my wife Sandra sa we're gonna put you to work so
if you can hold the Bible and the microphone sir if you could put your left hand on a Bible raise your right hand and face the photographer okay imagine having to tell an elected official to yeah right there you go
and repeat after me I guy ptia I guy ptia do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and of the state of New Jersey and of the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same
that I will bear true true um what's that true faith and Allegiance true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and to the governments established in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will
faithfully and that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties of the office of Township committee all the duties of Township committee according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability and that I will not use my
office and that I will not use my office to Grant preferential treatment to Grant preferential treatment nor to seek personal gain nor to seek personal gain favor or Advantage favor or Advantage not available to the general public not available to the general public so help
me God so help me God and that's it thank you congratulations thank you sherff thank you congratulations thank you you have obviously thank you anything just have this sign do you guys want to
take a nice picture yeah should I do that call her up S do you want to take a nice picture other weren't nice Chu Chuck the photographer tonight exactly get my good sir all right which is my wife there you
go two congratulations thank you congratulations congratulations thank you I know he's so cute now that they've been sworn in I'll call the role committee man dorsy yes committe lavender yes committee Pia yes
committee woman rer Eline yes committeeman valza present it right next we'll conduct the election of the mayor can I have a nomination for mayor for 2025 uh yeah I'd like to nominate Matt dorsy for mayor please and
I'd like to second that motion are there any other nominations can I have motion to close nominations and I move to close second have a second second Comm mandori I guess yes
committee lavender yes committee Pia that's the beginning of the entertainment coming this year yes committee woman rer align yes committeeman valza yes and I have a motion to elect committee man dorsy as the longo Township mayor for 2025 so
moved second committee man dorsy yes committeeman lavender yes committee man Pia yes committee woman rer Aline yes committeeman verza yes thank you if I could ask assemblywoman mudas to administer the
oath of office for mayor to dad if I can put you to work the mic and the Bible he can't M no worries okay ready yes go ahead okay I state your name I Matthew dorsy do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the
Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the state of New Jersey and the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and allegiance to the same and to the governments and to the governments established in the United States
established in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will faithfully and that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of the office of Mayor of
the office of Mayor according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability and I will not use my office and I will not use my office to Grant preferential treatment to Grant preferential treatment nor to seek personal gain nor to seek personal gain favor favor or advantage or Advantage
not available to the general public not available to the general public so help me God so help me God conratulations I'll take this and then we'll do you guys want to sign that and then we'll take it oh right there you take a nice picture I guess so nice
picture one two [Music] [Applause] three okay I was goingon to ask you can I like of course be disruptive you talk to me all the time I know well I wanted to say thank you to to um guy for for uh
previously serving as mayor and I wanted to say welcome Matt for currently serving as mayor thank you and I didn't I know we've talked about it before but I look forward to working with you and I didn't know if there was anything you wanted to share with us about you've done this before and you've got lots of History here are there exciting new
things you're looking forward to as mayor or different things you're going to do look as as guy said by previous meeting we have a lot of things going on with the sore ban coming lifted there's going to be a lot of change in town that's a lot of it's pre-approved so we're going to have a lot of movement
going forward there's going to be shovels in the ground for good I hope uh let's attract some new businesses to town and let's get things moving so I'm looking forward to working with everybody here and everybody not here so let's go and Matt I know you're very familiar across the street now that
everything's in place uh I think hopefully after many many years uh we can start looking seriously at what might happen on the property across from town hall yeah a lot of these things that been concepts are going to actually start coming to fruition soon so we're going to see a lot of movement as guy
said and all bring everybody else in the right direction we get some new volunteers going what any ideas people may have please bring them to us even if you think they're wacky maybe they're not I don't know so bring them to us we're all available and we're open to listening so thank you and let's let's have a good year thank you Matt thank
you all right next order of business um we have nominations for deputy mayor for 2025 yeah I'd like to uh nominate guy paseri as Deputy Mayor I second that any other nominations seeing none uh can I have a
second to close nominations a motion sorry so moved second second thank you sir uh Madam clerk you take the role committee man lavender yes committee man CIA yes committee woman rer Eline yes
committee men verza yes mayor dorsy yes all right that being said can I have a motion to elect uh deputy mayor for 2025 so moved second Madam clerk committee lavender yes committee Pia yes committee woman rer Eline yes
committee man veraza yes mayor dorsy yes congratulations and now we're going to have um if I could ask assembly woman Munos to administer the of office for deputy mayor you're GNA hold it that you're GNA raise your right hand right here
we I know I state your name I guy Pia do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the state of New Jersey and the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith that I will bear true faith and
Allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments and to the governments established in the United States established in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will faithfully and that I will
faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of the office of deputy mayor of the do office of Deputy Mayor according to the best of my ability according to the best of my abilities and that I will not use my
office and that I will not use my office to Grant preferential treatment to Grant preferential treatment nor to seek personal gain nor to seek personal gain favor favor or advantage or Advantage not available to the general public not available to the general public so help
me God so help me God congratulations thank you I we looking at we looking at Chuck excellent good I can sign this yes you sign that I'll take this he could take this by thank you for
[Music] sorry thank you so the the mayor has graciously uh offered to let me introduce the dignitaries here and then he quickly added the the word briefly Sheriff Ganon who I know has to run off to another swearing in Sheriff Ganon thank you for
being here thank you uh assembly woman uh Nancy Munos I know assembly woman uh Michelle matsakas uh mors County surrogate Heather darling I think you you must have a uh what are those things called when you can duplicate yourself or
something clone hologram or something she is everywhere twin um I see Police director Michael peoples officer in charge Alexis chamello uh and many Volunteers in town I see dick dorsy Commander dorsy uh in the
audience and a lot of the members of uh Matt's family uh and many volunteers out there so thank everybody give every give yourself a Round of Applause Just One Shout Out Mr Mayor if I could I want to thank Tom
Groff for those who are have an eye for detail he he purchased a flag spreader I think it's called and if you could see the flags uh look beautiful now for years I think they were a little bit uh bunched up together so Tom thank you
mayor back to you nice touch hang on asking Jack a question all right so moving along here next we have resolutions pertaining the appointments of boards committees commissions uh for 2025 would a like to pull any of the resolutions to discuss or
abstain actually I have questions for Jack uh Jack on 255 uh where is it it's for aren't the oh appoint a local lepc are those may all
appointments I believe those are mayor appointments yeah but you can leave them in there because it doesn't hurt to no but here's the other one and then we have 06 is that also from the mayor yes okay my issue is Ray Clark's name appeared on here I don't have a problem
with Ray Clark but or every other person in this entire packet all of us discussed and we all approved and appointed I don't know where Ray's name came from but I'd like to pull it for a week or to the next meeting so we can discuss and see if that's okay with everybody before we do it other than that I have no
issue I don't have any issue with that only because as Matt has pointed out we've always discussed all appointments including those that on paper are meral as opposed to Township committee by consent uh so and I think that's uh
gracious of the mayor to point out even though he could make appointments uh he's deferring to the committee to discuss so I would support what Mata suggested yeah we could put this back on for next week but other than Ray and I said I have nothing against Ray but I think we should
discuss it before we before we start appointing people so how do we handle this then just just pull that out before it's introduced oh just the name or the whole thing just the name all right so for I I make a go ahead R so we're gonna take Ray
Clark's name out of 25-5 25-6 correct and I believe well O2 I don't think also in 252 but I don't according a Jack that's not a mayoral appointment is it that's
that's correct yeah so that that that is an appointment by the OEM coordinator with the approval of the mayor yeah so that one will'll leave alone for now so I'm leaving that one in yes okay so I will take those out of
255 25-6 and then yeah we'll discuss it as like normal then we could then we could put it back on if everybody agrees and no votes needed because you you're doing it before you consider it okay and then
I don't have anything else oh I said I don't have any other issues unless it's anybody else so I'll make a motion to approve consent agenda resolutions 25- 015 through
Z 254 01 to ah that would be nice thank you yeah all I got you okay so 25- 001 through 25 5- 014 with the uh changes that the mayor has already referenced
second second committee lavender yes committee woman rer Aline yes committee man verza yes Deputy Mayor Pia yes mayor dorsy I'm a no on 03 but yes on the rest next order of business uh motion to approve resolution
241 should be 24 oh sorry uh 251 to where are we sorry I'm a rust I'm Rusty where are we on 15 25 255 to 2540 I believe these are all the um
professional contracts correct and statutory things we need to approve it it's all the housekeeping kind of things depository temporary budget personel policy procedures cast management plan those sort of things all right I make a motion to accept resolutions
2515 through 25040 second committee lavender yes committee woman rer Aline yes committee man verza yes Deputy Mayor Pia yes mayor dorsy yes all right now we're moving on to
ordinances ordinance 557 d25 is a first reading uh it's establishing a basically a third Lieutenant for um if we ever needed one this is not we're not hiring a third Lieutenant this is if we ever wanted to we creating the position of third Lieutenant that's all this is
doing so nobody's getting hired today no money's getting spent it's just to create the position unless is there anything else any clarification one clarification what it does is it allows three lieutenants if the captain's position is not filled two lieutenants if the captain's position is
filled and and as you said this is not hiring or appointing a lieutenant it it just allows it to be done in the future if you so choose yes we don't and for clar I mean not for clarification but just to be clear the captain's position already exists so what we are doing is
in absence of the captain Captain's position being filled we can uh uh appoint a thir time that's right that position exists but it it has not been filled correct and I'll say it one other way okay we currently have three command level positions that does not change
yeah so right yeah just creates optionality if in fact we want to do it in the future and we don't have to run to start all over again so if we want to do it five months from now we don't need to introduce an ordinance we can just do it so let's this uh let's see like to
move ordinance uh 55-25 through the first reading and we'll put it on for I guess what this 22nd yes January 22 I'll second the motion committee uh lavender yes committee woman rer Aline yes committee
man valza yes Deputy Mayor pan yes mayor dor yes okay that being said now we have meeting open to the public so anybody have any questions comments concerns come on up we have a three minute Rule still in effect and I think mayor dorsy will
enforce the three minute rule more than I did I'll enforce it on myself especially on me uh uh Madam clerks anybody online if anybody on Zoom would like to make a public common please raise your hand
now I don't see anyone mayor all right that being said we'll close the open public comment any announcements no announce I go ahead a happy and a healthy and a blessed 2025 to everyone Long Hill and God bless America Sterling Fire Company pancake
breakfast Sunday not was it 8 to 12 so come on down for nice pancake breakfast anything else motion to adjourn so moved second all in favor thank you everybody have a nice night we'll see you on the 22nd
thank you thank you everyone who came yes congratul you did already