Hammonton Town Council Reorganization Meeting 1/4/21

loading dock all right i think we're
live good evening hamilton
it's january 4th it's about 601
uh this is our reorg meeting in zoom
fashion
uh so thank you all for tuning in
i want to thank council uh you know the
police chief's here and
uh mr dominsky is here uh
mr zuber and then denise mazzio
so thank you all with that denise if you
would like to go
to the oath of office of the council
persons elect
please
steve thanks again for asking me to
swear you in under these most unusual
circumstances thank you for doing we
appreciate it would you please raise
your right hand
and steve please repeat after me hi
steve virginia i stay for johnny do
solemnly affirm and soundly affirm that
i will faithfully that i will faithfully
and partially and partially and justly
perform
just to perform all duties required of
men all duties required of me
as councilman as counsel for the town
hall and with the town of hamilton
according to the best of my abilities
according to the best of my ability
i further affirmed i further affirmed
that i will
that i support support the constitution
of the united states the constitution of
the united states and the state of new
jersey
and state of new jersey so help me god
congratulations
thank you you're welcome
billy would you please repeat after me
i'm william
hi william oliva silently affirmative
but i will faithfully faithfully and
partially impartially and justly perform
and just to perform all duties required
of men
all duties are required of maine as
councilman as counsel court and founder
having good town and hamilton according
to the dustin button
according to the rest of my village i
further affirm thank you for their
attorney that i will support
the constitution that i support the
constitution of the united states of the
united states and the state of new
jersey and the state of new jersey so
i'll help you guys
impartially and justly perform and just
to perform all duties required
me as uh as counselor town hammond town
hammond
according to the best of my ability to
the best of my ability i further
affirmed i further affirmed that i will
support the constitution that i will
support the constitution the united
states
united states and the state of new
jersey
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now
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all right congratulations to the three
councilmen i know that uh that was
recorded earlier for hamilton's
information for the resident's
information that wasn't quite the way we
normally do it
but in coronavirus and for the safety of
everybody
that's the way we did it this year i
want to acknowledge uh
uh council person oliver i mean livo
excuse me i got i got uh oh and a here
i'm sorry i apologize i knew i was gonna
mess that up
muzzle get it over with right out of the
gate council person
bill olivo i want to acknowledge that he
was sworn in
in the building that he was instrumental
in keeping at 100
central avenue uh he served on council
in 2005 if i have my dates correct
and four and five and and prior and he
was an instrumental
uh at that time he ran as a republican
and he did a tremendous job
and and he felt the town hall should be
kept in the location it was
so i want to thank him i think that's a
proud moment in hamilton's history
i know it's a proud gnome in mr livo's
history to get sworn in
i hope someday in the next couple months
that we could swear him in again
in person so we can all stand and clap
for him but congratulations to all three
of you and especially to you mr livo
thank you very much
congratulations thank you thank you very
much
looking forward to being in the town
hall one day
yeah who you are uh with that
frank if we could have a roll call for
squirrel call of 2021 please
okay council person for joanie here
jerala here gribben here
oliva here
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i'm here gotcha gotcha okay rodeo
here mayor di donato here
public notice notice this meeting has
been posted and given to official
newspapers
due to the covet 19 virus this meeting
will be held electronically by way of
zoom
and broadcast live on our local cable
channel nine each person who wishes to
address council will be allowed five
minutes public may be heard by dialing
609
four 561-3040-609-561-3040 all rise for
the pledge please
pledge 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
okay here's the two first of two
opportunities for the public to be heard
609 561 3040 on agenda items only 609
561 304 agenda items only
with that we'll pause for a second
because i don't want to start into the
agenda in case
uh at least pause for 30 seconds here
there's a little delay
on tv this is where we would normally
have uh
deputy mayor griffin do a song and dance
but i don't know if he prepared anything
with uh
uh his friends tonight did you work with
ray shippion to do something for new
year's eve time
we uh we put together individual videos
uh but we were unfortunately unable to
have the uh
the usual blueberry drop show that we've
been having for the past three years
and so uh we look to be back better than
ever
next year i guarantee it all right all
right
hearing no one for the public portion
will close the first public portion
and uh this is a council appointment
town solicitor
could i get a motion in the name from
council police
mayor i'd like to make a motion for mr
mike malinsky of fox rothschild
for 20 second that motion ribbon
second we have a first and second for
michael malinsky any additional
nominations
with that we'll close the nominations
and uh
roll call vote please that's the person
for joni
yes geraldo yes ribbon
yes olivia yes level
yes rodeo yes donato
yes motion carried with that i believe
mr molinski is in attendance at town
hall if you'd like to be sworn in
yeah we're going to do the earth right
here i'll just turn this around this way
members of council i'm proud to be here
again this evening to swear in our
solicitor
michael bolinsky you guys might not be
aware of this but he is beginning his
15th
year of service to the town of hamilton
he was our solicitor for the
land use board for 10 years and now he's
starting his
fifth year as our solicitor tonight i
have hope in the bible for him
our chief by the way this is the mayor
edward marinelli bible from 1988
mayor marinelli i hope you're watching
us this evening
chief michael
repeat after me i'm michael malenski i'm
michael melinski do something affirm you
solemnly affirm that i will faithfully
that i will faithfully and partially
impartially and justly perform and
justly perform
all duties required of them all duties
required to make as solicitor for the
town of hamilton as solicitor for the
town of hannah according to the best of
my ability according to the best of my
bill
i further affirm i further affirm that i
will support the constitution that i
will support the constitution of the
united states of the united states and
the state of new jersey the state of new
jersey so help me god so help me god
congratulations
once again
and i want to thank mayor council for
giving me the opportunity and pleasure
of representing you for another year
congratulations michael michael
all right uh with that i'd accept them
there you have
in front of you a uh rules of counsel
we have to do an adoption can i get a
first and a second please
so move jarala first
second second to live up discussion
okay these are the same as we've done
nothing's been amended it's the same as
we've done
uh the last 10 or 11 years to my
knowledge
uh roll call please council person for
joni
yes girallo yes ribbon
yes olivia yes lebeau
yes mayor did not i'm sorry rodeo yes
mayor de donato yes motion carried
with that we'll jump into uh mayor's
uh council committee appointments uh the
first person as i read them denotes the
chair
uh administration griben olivo
and the mayor business and industry
aliveau
gribben and the mayor education
geraldo oliva and the mayor
finance is a committee of the of all
council
law and order the mayor rodeo and livo
public works and transportation rodeo
for joanie and the mayor
quality of life oliva girallo and the
mayor
water and sewer for joni rodeo and the
mayor
then we have some ad hoc committees the
green committee has done a wonderful job
in the past
and we expect big things from uh again
this year
the chair this year will be amy manziel
committee members will be sarah jennings
michael mccullough eric schultz
lisa zoner jeannette
pierro and linda esposito
uh great carver watershed association
again as his team
uh robert meyers the alternate and john
hanna
is the member airport committee is
public works and transportation and
frank zuber
communications director brooke sacco she
did an excellent job last year
uh we're very thankful for brooke sacco
clock committee clock committee uh in
fact i'm hearing our clock
is probably a couple weeks from being
done uh
it probably won't come back then because
of the delay
from i believe ohio has a 14-day
quarantine
but robert shank is working out all that
the
clock committee is shank john ruffalo
dorothy ferreira susan cohen harry
stratford
monica wallerman and dan bachales
property maintenance task force uh
another ad hoc committee we have to do a
little more work
uh some of our housing is is in pretty
good shape
and some of it still needs to be
improved mayor just so you know on that
there's an error that
um robert jones should be replaced by
kevin friel i know i sent that out
earlier but that's
kevin frill should be there not robert
jones okay
okay so we have to do some more work for
the property maintenance extension 300.
if you're for whatever reason you feel
your conditions are substandard
it's an anonymous extension
you dial 609 567 4300 extension 300.
please it's monitored by myself nobody
we want to help you if your conditions
are subpar
nobody should live in subpar conditions
it's not fair
so that is uh the mayor and the deputy
mayor
deputy mayor griffin shirley grass so
chief
freeland jim donio town advocate
uh which i'll speak about later uh is
jim donio he's done a magnificent job
so thankful to have jim and one time i
called him the chief of staff he's
he's i i couldn't do this job without
jim donio's help
blake advisory committee
the chair is alicia murphy
the members are donna fierbo dennis
blewett
d'amber chalice jason resch tracy carr
stephen carr and david beaudry
then these are mayor's appointment with
council's
approval
i know in the past we haven't done it
but i want council to prove these
uh the first section environmental
commission three-year term
charles crawley environmental commission
three-year term
marty matrow environmental commission
taking over the position
for uh charles crowley is
louis antonio diaz campos
historic preservation commission class
c carol santour historic preservation
class
a jeffrey michelin historic preservation
class b
christina mccullen chris
historic preservation alternate one
lorraine shapine
historic preservation alternate to donna
hagin
deputy mayor is tom griffin
obscenity review board
is myself and from council is
sam rodeo and tom griffin planning and
zoning and i want to thank
uh quality of life jonathan uh
oliva and cmrodia for their help and
they did a
lot of help on this one planning and
zoning alternate to
jonathan bask planning board sitting in
the mayor's seat
brook sacco if brooke is unavailable uh
councilman oliveau will will sit there
as an uh between one or the other and
we'll coordinate that back and forth
planning board alternate for ed
marinelli to a four-year term
planning board alternate for ralph
capaccio
to a four-year term uh
represent representative of the
revitalization council
is jonathan oliva alternate is thomas
gribben
can i get a motion and approval from
council for those this year
please i'll make that motion mayor
rodeo
okay roll call please
what's the person for joni yes doralo
yes gribben yes oliva
yes olivo yes rodeo
yes mayor di donato yes motion carried
sorry man who was the second on that
geraldo jerrell okay thank you
all right now these are uh
also mayor's appointments and these are
going to be confirmed by council lake
water quality
now this has stayed the same uh three
year term john cannon
three-year term robert resch three-year
term william parkerst
uh one-year term dan pachales the lake
quality park rep was changed this year
to one year term sean mccloud late
equality
alternate three tracy petrongalo lead
quality alternate three to your term
lynn the cicero park commission
two year term luca puccio park
commission two year term paul rodeo
i'm sorry i was looking down at i'm
sorry i apologize
park commission two-year term paul or
dilly
park commission alternate two one-year
term michael mccollum
park commission council steve rajone
park commission council sam rodeo
and we need a motion for council please
i'll make that motion mr mayor griffin
first
second geraldo mr dustin
roll paul please council person for joni
yes geraldo yes gribben
yes olivia yes olivo
yes rodeo yes mayor di donato
yes motion carried uh now these are all
council appointments so uh
we need an auditor for a term of one
year if someone would like to make a
motion from council police
i'll make that motion mayor for leon
costello of ford scott associates
llc second emotion
rodeo geraldo discussion
roll call please count the person for
joni yes
jerilo yes ribbon yes
olivia yes olivo yes
rodeo yes mayor de donato
yes motion carried bond council for a
term of one year
somebody like to make a motion please
of wence goldman and spitzer
thank you mr geraldo do we have a second
it was a live off do we have any
discussion
role call please council person for joni
yes geraldo yes gribben
yes olivia yes olivo
yes rodeo yes mayor de leonardo
yes motion carried uh we need a labor
attorney
mayor i'll make that motion for mr uh
barcey mr steve barcia gruccio pepper de
santo
and ruth i'd like to second that motion
mr mayor
for joni griffin
i'm sorry sam that's okay not a problem
no big deal discussion
mr boris he's been a uh a fine addition
uh and has served our town for a number
of years and i'm
happy that he is returning as our labor
council i think i speak for us all when
he
when i say what a solid uh job mr barcy
does
i agree thank you tom
roll call please council person for joni
yes tirallo yes lynn
yes olivia yes davao
yes rodeo yes mayor de donato
yes motion carried we need a conflict
solicitor
for a term of one year mr mayor i'd like
to make a motion
for brian howe as cl conflict solicitor
for a term of one year
caribbean first i'll second the motion
a livo second discussion
roll call please counsel person for joni
yes jiralla yes ribbon
yes oliva yes olivo
yes rodeo yes mayor de donato
yes merchant carried
deputy clerk for a term of one year
move that we appoint audrey boyer as
deputy town clerk
geraldo first second
second ribbon discussion
roll call please council person for joni
yes dorallo yes
yes olivia yes livo
yes rodeo yes mayor de donato
yes motion carried
fire chief and assistant fire chief for
a term of one year
mr mayor i'll make that motion for the
appointment of sean mccree as fire chief
and for dominic di giban angelo as
assistant fire chief for a term of one
year
second griben girallo discussion
roll call please sponsor person for joni
yes jawala yes gribben
yes olivia yes olivo
yes rodeo yes mayor di donato
yes motion carried
court prosecutor for a term of one year
i like to make that motion mayor for
shirley grasso
rodeo first second
geraldo second
discussion roll call please
council person for joni yes uralo
yes gribben yes olivia
yes olivo yes rodeo
yes mayor de donato yes motion carry
conflict court prosecutor for a term of
one year
move to appoint jessica rodeo of weiss
pars
as conflict court prosecutor geraldo
first
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second second to live on
discussion
rule call please council person for joni
yes geraldo yes griffin
yes oliva yes olivo
yes uh rodeo yes
mayor di donato yes motion carried
public defender for a term of one year
move to appoint
sam curcio jr geraldo first
second mayor second was for joni
discussion roll call please
council person for joni yes hello
yes gribben yes olivia
yes olivo yes rodeo yes
mayor de donato yes motion carried
public defender for a term of one
conflict public defender for a term of
one year i'm sorry
mr mayor i'll make a motion for linda
goff
as conflict public defender for a term
of one year
ribbon first second
second jarala discussion
roll call please council person for joni
yes geraldo yes ribbon
yes olivia yes
oliveau yes rodeo yes
mayor de donato yes motion carried
airport consultant for a term of one
year
i like to make that motion mayor for dui
consultants
dennis dui consultant excuse me thank
you councilman rodia
second mayor second for journey
discussion roll call please
council person for joni yes geraldo
yes ribbon yes olivia
yes olivo yes rodeo
yes mayor de donato yes motion carry
town planner for a term of one year
mayor i'd like to make that motion for
adam's raymond hagan engineering to be
appointed as town planner
oliva second geraldo
second discussion
roll call please council person for
joanie
yes geraldo yes ribbon
yes liva yes livo
yes rodeo yes mayor do you know
yes motion carried
town engineer for a term of one year
please
i'll make that motion mayor for air to
be town engineer for one year
second rodeo geraldo discussion
roll call please council person for joni
yes geraldo yes ribbon
yes olivia yes olivo
yes rodeo yes
alternate engineer for a term of one
year
i'll make a motion for key engineers to
be appointed as an alternate
alternate town engineer oliva first
second geraldo's second discussion
roll call please tell us a person for
joni
yes uralo yes ribbon
yes olivia yes level
yes yes mayor di donato
yes motion carried
traffic consultant for a term of one
year
mayor i'll make the motion for mr chris
raymond of adam's raymond and hagin
for joni first second
geraldo second discussion
roll call please council person for joni
yes geraldo yes
yes olivia yes oliveau
yes rodeo yes mayor donato
yes motion carried town dock
for a term of one year
mayor i'll make a motion for atlanta
care
urgent care and occupational medicine as
town doctor for a term of one year
driven first
i'm sorry second was you give it to
jonathan
oliva yep discussions
i didn't even make this steal one from
you joe that's
[Laughter]
roll call please counsel person for joni
yes girallo yes ribbon
yes yes olivo
yes rodeo yes mayor de donato
yes motion carried planning board class
3
council member for a term of one year
mayor i'll make the motion for
councilman jonathan oliva
to be appointed to the position of
planning board class iii member
gribben first second
second jarawa discussion
roll call police council person for joni
yes jualo yes ribbon
yes oliva abstain
yep olivo
yes rodeo yes
mayor di donato yes motion carried
obscenity review board uh council member
one year term we need two members
mayor i'd like to make the motion to
appoint councilman sam rodeo and deputy
mayor tom griffin for a term of one year
oliver first second
second for joni discussion
roll call please council person for joni
yes geraldo yes ribbon abstain
oliva yes oliveau
yes rodeo abstain yes
mayor di donato yes motion carried
frank we'll jump over to the clerk slash
administrator report with the
resolutions
good thank you mayor resolution 10
deferred
school tax resolution
11 designate banks and signatures
resolution 12 state vendors
resolution 13 designate official
newspapers
resolution 14 authorized temporary
budget for 2021
resolution 15 fixing interest rates for
non-payment of taxes or assessments
resolution 16 adopt cash management plan
resolution 17 assignment of tax sales
certificate
for block 4123 lot 13
resolution 18 assignment of tax sale
certificate for block 4123 lap5
resolution 19 appointing assessor as
agent
approval is read we get a
motion for all please so moved mayor
exactly
griffin i'm sorry who was the second i'm
sorry you're wrong
ribbon girallo discussion on any of the
resolutions
roll call please sponsor person for joni
yes
jiralla yes ribbon
yes olivia yes olivo
yes rodeo yes
mayor de donato yes motion carry
and that concludes my report mayor thank
you uh
so i'm going to do an address my mayor's
address
before i do that the second of two
opportunities if the public would like
to be heard
609-561-3040-609-561-304 if you'd like
to be heard
on anything
so hamilton welcome to 2021 hamilton
happy new year all we're all blessed to
be here today
2020 was full of major world shifting
events
and incredibly challenging financial
emotional
and mentally challenging times whether
it's a frontline worker
a small business owner a teacher a
parent a grandparent
a caregiver a friend or a neighbor
as we reflect on the year we must first
take a moment to remember those
we lost this year especially those we
lost from covet
i have never been prouder to be a
resident of hamilton or your
mayor at the start of 2020 during the
reorg meeting
i said in 2020 and going forward into
the new
decade we will stay committed to
promoting business culture
volunteers spend special moments that
make us all proud
in 2020 those businesses worked harder
than ever
before to stay afloat with online
curbside creative ways to reach their
customers
our grocery stores pivoted and our front
line workers
our health care workers our public
health workers law enforcement public
safety
first responder food service workers
public workers and more
took great care of us our residents met
the challenge too
by forming committees supporting
businesses
and ordering from restaurants our
volunteers nonprofits and churches
stepped up
and were incredible in 2020 with food
banks
helping a neighbor finding a special way
to connect us
we were still able to have special
moments in 2020
in unique ways we still had the 16th of
july much smaller but
wonderful celebration a beautiful and
special tree lighting
virtual and outdoor arts we had a
bunny going around with the police and
fire truck we had santa going around
with the police
and fire truck and so much more in this
wonderful town
we are hamilton strong and as a
community we came together while the
world was forced to stay apart
i am hopefully telling you i am hopeful
in telling you things
will be better in 2021
i would like to thank i would like to
take a moment to thank
deputy mayor gribben and lisa
miley hal for working on the
community goodwill committee and
supporting residents
and helping with those food banks and
many other things
i would like to thank the coronavirus
economic task force headed by councilman
oliva
and richard raymond and they had many
volunteers on both of these committees
that there's two numer i cannot mention
them all i'll miss somebody's name
these committees did tremendous work we
had the coronavirus
outreach and communications brook sacco
and jen
hatfield uh and then we had uh
so we were very blessed those three
committees alone there's more but
those three did a tremendous task and
tremendous work for the town of hamilton
i also like to thank and all day i went
back and forth with this
james donio jim donio and his powerful
state networking has brought 1.3 million
to hamilton 684 000
in npp funds that are going to go
benefit
and offset rent in the mpp district
684 thousand another approximately 150
000 for fema for reimbursement of
some costs we had during the town had
during the pandemic
235 000 which we already received
uh through salary reimbursements to the
federal government
uh 300 000 i believe councilman geraldo
is
distributing approximately what three
hundred thousand two hundred hundred
thousand
yes that'll be distributed to small
businesses
from the county and it's it was uh was
525 000 was given
from small cities for a carver and
hamilton
and we're getting approximately 300
roughly 300
000. so jim donio i always call you the
chief of staff you've
you're you're tops in my book thank you
very much
uh denise mazzio denise mazzio stepped
up big time mvp i always call her the
mvp
what a job she's done over the last nine
months
she's underpaid and overworked
and we're going to make that right in 21
too denise
so thank you for all your hard work
frank zuber
business administrator cool calm you
can't ask for a better one
i mean frank thank you for all your hard
work
done a tremendous job in keeping us all
together thank you
i'd like to thank chief friel chief real
uh
head headed the coronavirus uh safety
task force
captain hamilton with his uh chat with
the chief
and different things kept everybody in
the loop kept everybody safe
in the manpower over there the police
department
tremendous job stepped up big time thank
you
to the chief and thank you to all the
men and women of the department
thank you all i also have to take a
minute to thank the eagle theater and uh
and cassie yachavelli hrc hampton
revitalization corporation
main street richard raymond
uh and some will say why the eagle
theater because they did a lot of
outreach through the coronavirus task
force and main street is handling that
money that 500 that 684 000 came from
mtp
thank you all rich raymond cassie you're
doing a tremendous job
i got to thank john ruffalo ben knott
and the chamber
tremendous work they've done tremendous
job
we're very thankful hamilton is very
blessed to have
organizations like this that stepped up
and i have to thank the hamilton fire
department
uh and the first responders big time
stepped up so thank you all
you know who you are if i missed your
name i apologize
but thank you for everything you've done
for this wonderful community
and we wouldn't be here without you
i also would like to take a minute to
thank my wife debbie our children matt
christine and drew
grandchildren luke and mina for their
love and support
i would like to thank all the families
of each and every council or person as
well
as the families of the public servants
and volunteers of this great town
i wish everyone a happy healthy
prosperous
and blessed 2021. it's getting better
from here gang
we got this we're hammered to strong
thank you all god bless you
all uh with that uh i don't think
there's anybody that called in but
counts i'll open up the council if
anybody would like to say something
i won't rodeo you always want to talk to
the people rodeo come on
yeah that billy talked at olivo you're
first all right
i'm just uh proud to be back it's been a
number of years since i've been there
looking forward to working back in the
town hall
on council with you and i hope
everything works out really well and i
hope
2021 is a better year than 2020 because
we had
you know a rough year it could only be
better so i'm looking forward to that
and working with the town of hamilton
thank you councilman oliver
yeah mayor i would like to say just a
couple things and i think this is uh
i've been on a few councils but uh i
want to say this looks to be one of the
best councils i ever uh
sat on uh this december this total
uh i think like like i'll read what bill
said it's going to be a tough year here
in the beginning
but hopefully it'll get better in the
end and uh and we are hamit and strong
as you say
and i do want to say one thing that
whether i'm over my head or not
uh the chief mr freel chief real
you're doing one hell of a job and i
want to say this and like i said this
may be over the top
i think it's one of the best yes votes i
ever did sitting on council
electing you as chief good man there sir
you've done a hell of a job so far
stay with it thank you councilman rodeo
i appreciate that sir
not a problem not a problem
i also do remember the first time there
mr malinsky uh
got uh i was sitting on the zoning board
that uh
that year and he uh became our zoning uh
our zoning solicitor and uh
i remember 15 years ago there uh
there mike it was a long time ago and
we've come a long way
a long way and you've done a great job
like they said earlier a great job
that's it mayor i'm good i'll go on and
on
all right he didn't have any gray hair
mr mullinski didn't have any gray hair
15 years ago
as a councilman for joni just been sworn
again
mayor just want to wish everyone a happy
new year uh thank everyone for their
support for the residents
and uh not to echo what everyone else
said but i also think we owe a big shout
out to our school board this year
uh they are really really um they're
giving
their all to keep our kids in school as
much as possible i know as a parent we
appreciate
it my wife and i and uh you know i wish
them the best this year they have a lot
of tough decisions to make
and uh i really am appreciative for all
the volunteers that you mentioned
uh in a year like this when people that
just stayed in their basement they
didn't they came out
in droves and that's what makes hamilton
so unique so thank you mayor and
happy new year to everyone thank you
deputy mayor gribben thank you mr mayor
and uh
thank you for the reappointment as
deputy mayor it's always an
honor uh to serve on council and to
serve in the capacity as deputy mayor
and i appreciate that and i
thank you for the confidence and the
faith that you put in me um
i want to welcome councilman uh olivo
uh i'm looking forward to serving with
you i've known you for a long time we've
been good friends and i'm happy
to welcome you uh to this to town
council
happy to be uh working again with sam
rodeo councilman rodeo and councilman
for joni i want to welcome you both back
to council and i
look forward to uh continuing to serve
the residents of hamilton with you
as well as councilman oliva and
councilman geraldo i'm glad to see
councilman geraldo back i'm glad that
he's doing
well thank you oh yes joe good
and and i i just want to say uh you know
i want to reiterate everything that
everyone has said and
and the thanks that everyone has given
um you know
we always say that you know hamilton is
a strong community
and boy when we get put to the test and
when there are trying times
um nothing makes that clearer
in hamilton uh to see the town come
together the way in which we did
with the volunteers that have helped to
serve on the committees as mayor as you
mentioned
i know from my committee with uh miss
lisa howe who i can't thank enough
on the community goodwill committee um
it was just an amazing
show of support from from volunteers and
residents in this town and i i can't
thank them enough
i do want to reiterate and thank denise
mazzio
and frank zuber i want to thank our
police department
um they are uh they're amazing and
they're
uh and just to reiterate councilman
rodeo
the chief uh i'm i'm very glad to have
uh chief friel at the helm leading uh
leading our our police department and
they've done an amazing job
uh somebody else that's done a great job
this year too i want to single out as a
police officer david russell officer
russell has been very instrumental
in helping with a lot of our uh videoing
behind the scenes too and i
wanna i wanna thank him um i wanna thank
uh
our residents uh for sticking together
uh during these times and uh i know that
when uh hamilton puts their mind to
something and stays together
that we can get through anything and
we'll get through this
and i hope and pray for brighter days
for all of us in 2021.
so thank you all and happy new year
thank you deputy mayor griffin uh mr
geraldo councilman geraldo what do we
have
i just want to wish everyone a happy new
year i want to welcome bill olivo
uh bill bill was instrumental in getting
me to run for the school board many
years ago so i don't know if the public
ever knew that story
uh welcome back stephen and sam look
forward to working with everyone
2021 will be uh it's going to start off
as a bit tough but i think it'll get
better as we go forward
looking forward to the year and once
again happy new year and uh thank you
tom for those kind comments i'm on the
mend things
are things are looking up after three
surgeries in 2021
uh 2020 i'm hoping uh that i have none
in 2021
so but i feel great and uh looking
forward to uh
moving on thanks
councilman oliver thank you councilman
councilman oliver
yes well i want to echo some of the
statements from everyone else happy new
year to everyone
a happy new year everyone in the town i
think a lot of us are excited to put
2020
behind us and look forward to the the
positivity
um you know that awaits us in in 2021
um councilman olivo this was the first
of what i think will be many confusing
council meetings between
the o and the uh but i think
i think we'll make it i think we'll get
there looking forward and honored to
start with you
uh councilman for joni and rodeo i
appreciate everything you have done for
me over my first term
and looking forward to continuing to
work with you uh again
um no matter i don't think my first term
is my first year as councilman was quite
like anybody else's
uh first term um your first year so
uh definitely taking a lot in and have
learned a lot
uh councilman jaralla and deputy mayor
griffin and mayor gideon
as well just want to say thank you to
you uh to the entire
council for uh for helping me learn and
helping me god and to guide me along the
way
um and i know we thanked a lot of groups
of people individually but i'd also like
to thank the men and women of the public
works department
um because i know this has been a really
challenging year for a lot of things
that they're doing as well
so i'd like to thank them for finding
creative solutions and creative ways to
step
up and uh you know continue to keep our
our town operating
uh smoothly out there so uh everyone
continue to stay safe
it is gonna be a little bit of a longer
earlier part of the year but i think
once we get through this first quarter
it's gonna be uh it's gonna get nice and
smooth
so uh everyone uh have a wonderful uh
rest of january looking forward to
seeing everybody again in january
thank you thank you councilman oliver
this is just the first physical
and i'd be remiss if i didn't mention
that i was happy to welcome
a fellow steelers fan on the town
council
oh god we'll be watching playoff
football this week i i don't know if i
could say the same for
the rest of council
all right and i just i just wanted one
more thing i want to tell hamidton
uh all right the holidays are over
uh and i thank you i know a lot of
people had smaller muted gatherings
but let's double down one more time
let's wear a mask let's wash our hands
let's try to uh to to stay to our own
hop our own uh you know groups
real tight group let's keep it tight for
a couple weeks or there is some virus
out there uh it's not quite as bad as
all the predictions in new jersey uh
after the first year so far but let's
not
you know we still don't have the numbers
from new year's eve and and new year's
that weekend so
uh please i'm asking you to just give
give them a couple weeks
let this thing dry out a little bit hang
in there please
this this is a war and the first quarter
like everybody said is going to be a
little bumpy
but we'll get through it if we just hang
in there and double down one more time
one more time
because we want to all try to get as
many as we could through this we've
already lost enough
thank you all uh if there's nothing for
the good of the order with that i'd
accept a motion to adjourn
don't move first live a second
all in favor all right
good night gang we're jordan thank you
all and thank you everybody
thank you again thanks