welcome everybody to this regular planning board meeting September 28 2023 Madam Secretary can you please call the role Mr Jacobson y Mr bero here Mr Cass here Mr Lily here Mr hman Mr coody here Mr de here Deputy Mayor maoy here councilman Roman here Vice chair fresh freski sorry chairperson Pearson here Mr T not here Mr M pres also present is our new uh planning board secretary Kathleen Mech um can everybody please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance Al to the flag the United States of America to the for stands na indivisible jice uh the notice requirements of the open public meetings act have been satisfied with respect to the meeting of the Verona planning board being held in person in the ballroom of the Verona Community Center the time and date of this meeting were included in the annual meeting notice posted in the community center and sent to the official newspapers of the township the SE a grow times on the Star Ledger at least 48 Hours preceding the star time of this meeting a public comment period will be held in the order it is listed in the meeting agenda and instructions on how to comment will be provided at the appropriate time all meetings are recorded those wishing to speak during any public comment period should only provide their name and municipality street addresses are not required and please be advised that should a member of the public choose to State their street address it will not be reacted from this recording um moving right along uh at this time we will move uh into the public portion if anybody sitting in the public would like to speak Okie do W no then I will close the public portion um and move on to letter e approval of minutes has everybody received a copy of the August 24th 2023 meeting minutes and did anybody have any comments or edits changes okay um that said can I get a motion to approve the meeting minutes for anybody that was here motion to approve second okay uh moved by Deputy Mayor McAvoy seconded by Mr katsa um and this is not a roll of vote right just all members that were at the meeting that can vote i i i any knows and any abstains abstain abstain Mr fresy abstains Mr Jacobson abstains thank you um we have no consistent so the minutes um are passed uh no consistency determination and we move into resolutions um I'm going to go a little out of order I'm going with resolution 2023 D newly numbered 15 because I screwed that up too um so the resolution appointing Kathleen Mech as secretary to the planning board will be newly numbered 2023-24 can I get a motion to appoint Miss meech as our planning board secretary motion a second who made the motion can you vote can I make the motion or no can we uh one two three four five six seven eight you can't vote sorry I move you you move I'll move it okay second Mr coody moves can I get a second second second by Mr Lily um can we get a roll call vote please and Mr Bernardo is not voting how many Mr katsof can vote because Mr Hinman is out not here Mr Bernardo no do I not vote or do Iain you can't vot I don't vot you're not here for this you just got an EnV next to you on that Mr katsa yes Mr L yes Mr is not here Mr de yes Mr KY yes Mr Jacobson yes councilman Roman yes Deputy Mayor M yes Vice chair presy yes chair pearon yes so the um the resolution passes with no no votes um the next resolution is 2023 -4 the number stands um and that is approving preliminary and final site plan for one Sunset block 303 lot one with the stated conditions um does someone want to move the resolution I'll open up discussion on it in a minute does someone want to move resolution Mr Roman uh councilman Roman seconds can um does anyone have any discussion on this any questions any discussion whatsoever seems very thorough to me one dominous thing uh that I found was that just we mentioned like Airbnb specifically in it and I think we had talked about having whatever the generic term is for sub we change that I we did but I saw it at least they're both there no shortterm Airbnb rentals yeah yeah so you might strike no short-term you might just strike Airbnb so it's no short-term rentals right okay right that's so for the record or like or he can put like okay yeah no short-term R let's put such as but not yeah you could do it in parentheses noted to I I think that's fair I I agree with you we actually discussed that just picked it up but I forgot to yep whatever good catch good catch I may uh sure um on point 51 uh the app will ensure that generators will have appropriate ex tenation um to be more specific I would like that to say shall be installed inating housing was how I um phrased that prer condition the applicant will ensure that any generator shall be installed in a sound waiting en closure will be installed you don't have to put in the applicant will ensure that generators will be installed in sound attending housing housing housing thank you any other tweaks is everybody satisfied with this resolution yes okay at that um so we have a moved and seconded can we please call I guess you could use the other one that call the role for the record then then um who was not voted um staining you're abstaining okay so it's the same people that that vote Tom is abstaining and I believe but that doesn't change anybody's ability to vote why do I need to because you weren't here for the vote right only those who voted in favor of the application can vote on the resolution oh okay so Mr Jacobson and Mr fresy are abstaining from voting and it does not allow Mr Bernard Bernardo to vote Mr Hinman is for the moment absent I think he is coming in a few minutes and um what do you what's the column for not voting should we make a new column NV abstain it's an abstain so Mr Bernardo is abstaining no Mr Bernardo is not pres okay he's not he doesn't abstain he doesn't have the right to comment you know what I'm saying what I'm saying the abstentions are Mr Jacobson and Mr pres okay all right um can you please call [Music] R Mr C yes Mr L yes Mr coody yes Mr deal yes Deputy Mayor maoy yes councilman Roman yes chairperson Pearson yes and just for the record uh um Kathleen will make the ministerial changes and then that copy will be uh that original will be executed thank you all right um yes the motion uh I'm sorry the resolution 20234 approving major site uh final and major site plans for one Sunset have passed um and I believe the last thing on this agenda then would be passing resolution 2023-the recusing uh I will be recusing from the meeting but abstaining from the vote to go into executive okay nice thank you so does she have to close this meeting now no first we have to do the resolution and then you have a motion to close so put your mic on so this is a this is a vote I'm asking for first you have to read the resolution or the whole thing no read the whole thing Okay resolution number 20236 on September 28 2023 a motion was made by no you have to take a motion to go in I'm sorry advice motion to go into need a motion motion to go into executive session can I a second a second okay uh councilman Roman makes the motion Mr coody Seconds right and do we now need to pass the resolution yes you need to read the resolution he needs to read it and then you'll do a a vote okay permitting items to be discussed in executive session whereas Section 8 the open public meetings act chapter 231 PL 1975 permits the exclusion of the public from a meeting in certain circumstances and whereas this public body is of the opinion that such circumstances presently exist now therefore be it resolved by the plan planning board of the township of Verona County of Essex state of New Jersey as follows the public shall be excluded from discussion of an action upon the here and after specified subject matter pending ongoing anticipated litigation and contract negoti negotiations pursuant to njsa 104-112 7 associated with dockit number esxl 4124 22 dmh2 LLC versus planning board of the township of Verona so we vote please um I will be abstaining oh yeah let the record show that Mr hinan has arrived thank you sneakers looking extremely athletic suer um so miss Meech uh I will be abstaining from the vote okay there's no roll call for this it's just going to be we usually do roll call okay roll call please Mr Jacobson yes Mr Bernardo oh is he not really here not here Mr KATU yes Mr Lily yes Mr hman obain Mr koodi yes Mr deal yes Deputy Mayor makoy I will obain councilman Roman yes Vice chair kusky yes chair person pearon abstain did you get called okay session will open and uh for the record I will be recusing myself from the executive session the meeting is the meeting is now closed to the public and we're going to move into executive session the meeting and the meeting will reopen upon conclusion of the executive and the meeting will reopen upon conclusion of the executive session and for the record I am also going to be abstaining because I am in proximity of this property thank you everybody now I like to call the order resume the regular session of the plan board and um we need to take a roll call nope um just call order it call an order and then you take a motion to there being no other business you would take a motion to close the meeting motion to close the meeting a motion please close second Mr Cat Mr Hinman all right all in favor favor meeting is a j b the C good job Dave da I you were tor