##VIDEO ID:ofwWCDYZ05I## way around this whole thing see the movie or did you see the movie you guys are ination meeting of the B of con LS mayor and Council Municipal Corporation in the county the meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday January 2nd 2025 in the municipal 25 L Avenue comton L pleas stand for flexu of the United States of America and to the for stands nais andice for all please bless this mayor and Council as they deliberate on the best of PS me read the statement sure go for it let better you than me adate notice of the reorganization meeting has been provided in accordance with the open Publications Law Public Law 1975 CH 231 said forth the time dat place on purpose of this meeting through a legal notice published in the Suburban Trends newspaper on December 15 2024 and notice is mailed to the following name newspapers The Herald News the store Ledger the record and posted on the bulletin board in the Balo on December 15 2024 Now read the uh yeah please okay I in receipt of the certification of the November 5th 2024 general election results by St County Clerk Danielle Ireland mhof which states Robert Cruz received a total number of 3,278 votes and is elected to council for a three-year term Emanuel Henson i 4 received a total number of 3,22 votes and is elected to council for a three-year term and Lisa hilberg received a total of number of 3,22 votes and is elected to council to fill an unexpired term to to 12 3125 thank you um we're going to do it in this order list that we have listed here okay um we I'm honored to uh announce that San Brian Bergen's here step up I'm bring in our first contestant take it from there who's coming up first it'll be outside and everything huh are you all right hold that your right hand yeah there you go you got all set okay I state your name I Robert Cru 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 constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same I will bear TR faith and allegiance to the Saints and the governments established in the United States to the governments established in the United States and in the state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will faithfully and partially and justly I will faithfully and partially and justly I know perform all the duties of the office of perform all the duties of the office of Municipal Council ipal Council according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me go so help me go congratulations thank you [Music] [Applause] sir [Music] so while we're signing that I just want to thank Randy's next oh Mike can you get Randy but we'll let him go I just wanted to thank our assen for coming down you know they have a business schedule and I appreciate you guys coming down to p l take care of us you're always here for when we need you so I appreciate that that's my you may take your seat on the we'll do photos after and then we'll do speeches when we're all done there all right has to say put your left hand on raise your right hand I state your name I ready do solemly swear do solemly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same I will bear true faith and allegiance to the state and to the governments established and to the government established in the United States and in this state in the United States and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of all the people and that I will faithfully and I will faithfully and partially and partially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties of the office of Municipal Council all the duties of the municipal Municipal Council according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me gu oh help me [Applause] you just got to fill that out that you don't sign you get thrown out you add an extra word too slide yeah there was an extra word I heard short wall I got it that's good [Music] take your seat up at the desk we're going to do that after in our Dream very efficient operation I st your name hi lber you swear s I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same that I will bear true Faith true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established and to the government to establish in the united states in the United States and in the state and in the state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will faithfully and that I will faithfully and partially and partially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties of the the office of Municipal Council of all the duties of the municipal Council according to the best of my ability according to the best of my so help you got so you congratulations and then I'm going to ask all the candidates to go back down so we can take a group picture okay that Cor just got me in the corner already [Music] suck so long conratulations [Applause] come on back up gots thank you soep thank you everybody thank you than you thank you congratulations okay that was the way to do it that's we have three new members up here I'm going give them all a chance to say a couple words if they'd like and I'm going to start with councilman Cruz who first all right uh I just want to say thank you to the residents my family um really it's an honor to be up here uh representing the uh the residents of Pompton Lakes and um along with you know my council members here at the de we'll continue to fight for all that is good in Pompton Lakes and um I look forward to serving another three years thank you thank you for everything you've done in the past up to this stage thank you our newly elected councilman councilman my speech is about an hour you got time I got nowhere to go now I just want to also thank the residents of pump the legs um all that voted for me and I want to be here to represent all the people who pump the Lakes like Ryan I put that all in there and um it for me I grew up in this town and I want to serve this town and all its residents I don't play games I'm a a guy that just comes in and goes to look so if anybody has any issues at all with Town come to me I'll do the best I can for it I want to thank the mayor and the rest of my Council i' love to serve thank you very much welcome and coun lastly councilman kilberg um I would just like to say thank you to everyone um to all the voters in town um to everyone who helped on the campaign to my running mates the rest of the council um and I look forward to serving the town for the next year and I thank you for all the service you put in okay now now I just got to get the names down for the next year and we'll be good to go so um roll call please mayor Sarah here councilman Cruz here Council here councilwoman Ken here councilwoman kilber here councilwoman paor here counc here okay so you going to tell me when I can't do groups some on to yes all right thank you okay uh does any council person require any of the following one-year appointment nominations to be pulled for separate action seeing no one can I have a motion so uh hold on is is mine the first motion do I just need a second here second yeah second just a second motion y uh councilman Cruz uh roll call please councilman Cruz yes counc yes councilwoman Ken yes councilwoman yes councilwoman yes counc yes am I doing these l or you want me to the next is the nomination of council president okay uh Council to nominate Jennifer palador to serve as council president for 2025 that's a motion can I have a second second councilman crws roll call please councilman Cruz yes councilman Hinton yes councilwoman Ken yes councilwoman hilber yes Council yes Council V yes okay now resolution 256 we can group all three those yes unless anybody wants one call okay can I we're going to the resolu and approval of the okay okay so can I have a second second councilman bendon all in favor I against Council assignments does any council person require any of the following Council assignments to be pulled for separate action seeing none that goes all the way through 12 13 goes to the up to 13 okay can I have a second please second who was that councilwoman kilberg all uh roll quot please oh no all in favor I against that 13 but we going to start with 13 right Council appointments oh that includes 13 yeah that includes Council assignments nomination and council members and Council 11 so we're up to 14 okay we're on 14 now anybody who was following along at home does any council person require any of the following appointment ments for class two specials crossing guards and police matrons uh to be pulled for separate action seeing no one can I have a second second that coun BR all in favor against what's that it was a little late uh boards and commissions I think it is uh we can go how far with that make sure the what's yeah on in the first part and then in the end change there all right so just when we get to that is it did we pass it already no the first one is me it's right and in the end I think it says all right so when we get to the second one then we know um well uh 14 14 no we did 14 we did 14 how many can I group 15 the IR on 15 IR on 15 is just by itself right mhm y appointment of the following boards and commissions shall be appointed by the mayor as listed below okay the appointment of the following board commissions committees agent agencies and Coalition shall be appointed by the mayor with advice and consent of the council uh does any council person require any of the following boards commissions committees agencies Coalition appointments to be pulled for separate action this is what are you talking about right now going all the way through so confused is it going all the way through to page eight under Pon Lakes prevention Coalition in the middle of the page so I think that needs to be changed yes it says Bobby Cruz there it should be Jennifer door yeah right mhm right okay you got that Liz yes okay everybody got that one y yep okay so going back to the 15 motion to approve boards commissions committees agencies Coalition appointments I have can I have a second second council president poor all in favor I I against consent agenda does anybody need any of the consent agendas to be pulled no is have a motion to approve the consent agenda motion council president councilman Cruz all in favor I against okay let separate action oh we can can we group all three of these or we can't just no there those are ordinances ordinance 21 and ordinance mayor to execute a Amendment with theat motion to approve ordinance 25-1 for introduction so moved councilwoman kilberg second council president Paul Dory roll call please councilman Cruz yes councilman Hinton yes Council Ken yes Council yes Council yes councilman Ben yes ordinance 252 auth to Soccer Association motion to approve ordinance 25-2 for introduction Mercy councilman bennon second councilwoman kilberg roll call please approve yes councilman Hinton yes councilwoman Kent yes councilwoman hilberg yes councilwoman poor yes councilman benon yes ordinance 25-3 and ordinance authorizing the mayor and B cl to execute a Le Amendment with the p l Youth Organization motion approve ordinance 25-3 for introduction motion councilman Hinton who second council president Paul Dory all in favor I I'm sorry roll call roll councilman crew yes councilman Hinton yes councilwoman Ken yes councilwoman kilber yes councilwoman pador yes Council yes okay any professional report uh nothing other than to uh thank the council for the firm's reappointment it's a pleasure and a privilege to uh represent the great burrow pump lakes and to wish all of you and everyone out there and everyone watching and happy New Year thank you have any rep report no report just a happy New Year and looking forward to serving the residents for another year thank you um I usually hold my comments to the first meeting in January but I just was like to wish everybody a Happy New Year uh we have a a nice new Council here starting off fresh we're starting off with new ideas new things that we want to see done um you know this is a community that doesn't isn't shy when they want to talk so I know this whole Council has heard from residents and and none of us have an issue with that so uh you know I give my cell phone number out to anybody who wants it uh so at the end of the day we're here to serve the residents of pton lakes and make this a place to raise our families and to grow all together in so you know we're going to have bumps in the road we always have bumps in the road okay but at the end of the day we're trying to make things better for everybody so I want to thank everybody for coming uh thank our new council person and our newly elected Council people um and I'm going to open the meeting for public comments have a motion motion councilman Ben second council president Paul Dory all in favor I I against anyone from the public like to address you can step up just give need your name your address and you can keep it to a couple minutes please I'm used to seeing Mr hitting out there so I don't know what else I'm to do try to contain yourself my meeting is going to be much shorter [Laughter] I just wanted it's a lovely group um looking forward to all of the new ideas you're going to bring to the council and to the people I'm sorry did you give did you give a name you know we're going to miss you like the devil on shade tree but we know you're going to do a hell of a job up here you have a good little y on thank you and I just need your name and address Anna tassell five Lambert Street thank you Happy New Year new anyone else from the public like to address yeah I have a speak but I have to speak this time mine D6 Bedford Road any chance we can get a bucket truck there's no talk from Little humor um happy New Year to everybody uh congratulations to to all elected newly elected okay that's all thank step up Jeff K and Rain what have po the Lakes um happy New Year everybody I'm looking forward to uh coming to more Council meetings again and I guess uh got Buffet truck and deer control perhaps thank you thank you anyone else from public Step Up [Music] Dennis kilber 158 Mountain Side Drive if they're getting a bucket truck I want a Lambo but Happy New Year to everyone congratulations on all the elected officials especially my wife Lisa very proud of her another year that uh she won't be in the house very I'm sure everybody here work together do a good job for the community and keep up with good work thank you thank you anyone else from the public like to [Music] address seeing no one can have a motion to close the public session motion council president paor councilman Cruz oh councilman H councilman hiton all in favor I against uh motion to adjourn motion second V Council approv all in favor against thank you everyone for attending