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Nov 12 2026 · Council
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Michele Lombardi (Council President) Piscataway Town Council meeting for November 12th, 2026. Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided as required under Chapter 2 3 1 PL 1975, specifying the time, date, location, login, or dial in information, and to the extent known the agenda by posting a copy of the notice on the bulletin boards municipal court, and the two municipal library bulletin boards municipal website, providing a copy to the official newspapers of the township, and by filing a copy in the office of the township clerk, in accordance with the certification by the clerk, which will be entered in the minutes. There will be a public comment period for both remote and in-person attendees separately, each member of the public shall have only one opportunity to speak during each public portion, as the technology does not allow us to know if there are separate callers on an individual phone line or a logged in user account. We ask that if you wish to speak that you log in or dial in separately so we can recognize you as a separate individual. Should you have any further comments or questions. The Town Council is always available by email and phone, and you can always call the mayor's office during the normal operating hours. Ms. Seader, can you please call the role
Melissa Seader (Clerk) Councilmember Cahill? Here. Councilmember Carmichael. Councilmember Espinosa. Here. Councilmember Liebowitz? Here. Councilmember Rashid? Here. Councilmember Ern. Here. Council President Lombardi Here.
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Everyone please join in the flag salute
Speaker 2 Republic and Justice for all.
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Number five are comments from the administration and the council regarding the adjournment of any matters on the agenda.
Sarah Rashid (At-Large Councilmember) I have a suggestion, but can I just wait till we get to the, the consent agenda? Or I can ask the questions now and the suggestion,
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Is there anything that you want to No, nothing remove from this agenda? No. Move? No. Okay. We can wait then. Okay. Seeing none, we'll move to number six, which is open to the public. Is comments regarding the item number eight? Any of the consent agenda items? We will open to the public remotely at this time. Anyone wishing to comment on? Again, the consent agenda items only. Please raise your hand at this time.
Melissa Seader (Clerk) Council president, there are no remote attendees with their hand raised regarding this agenda item.
Michele Lombardi (Council President) We're closing the remote portion. Anyone in the public here wishing to speak on any of the consent agenda items? Please state your name and address and know that you have three minutes in which to speak.
Charlie Kratovil Good evening. Name's Charlie Kratovil. I live at 1 43 SDA Street, new Brunswick. I'm the editor of New Brunswick. Today. I wanted to ask about item E authorizing a settlement agreement. Can you tell me the amount of the settlement agreement, where the funds will come from, if any funds are associated with it and what the nature of the case was?
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Is that your only question?
Charlie Kratovil I think there were three there. Those are the, the three I have for now. Please
Michele Lombardi (Council President) State your three comments and we'll answer them when you're done stating your comments. Thank you.
Charlie Kratovil I've I've stated my questions. You Yes,
Raj Goomer (Township Attorney) I can handle that. Council. So it officer we is a police officer filed a complaint about two, just over two years ago in 2024. It was allegations of unequal treatment, et cetera. You can probably pull the complaint down from e from NJ courts. The settlement was for a hundred thousand dollars and that was decided by this was managed and and handled by the GIF, the joint insurance fund. So the insurance company assigned counsel and they settled the matter. We still have to authorize it unfortunately, but the decision really comes from the insurance fund. They determine their risk attorney fees, et cetera. Going to trial. They determined, you know, that this was the, the best method to settle it to reduce their costs. So the, the payment is gonna be by the JF, but we still have to authorize settlement
Charlie Kratovil Full payment from the JF. Okay, thank you.
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Thank you. Anyone else at this time? We're now closing the public portion. Number seven is an ordinance first reading, approving the application for tax exemption and authorizing the execution of the financial agreement. It's a resolution adopting ordinance. Ms. Seader, can you please read this ordinance, be it
Melissa Seader (Clerk) Resolved by the Township Council of Piscataway Township, New Jersey, that an ordinance entitled Ordinance of the Township of Piscataway, county of Middlesex, New Jersey, approving application for tax exemption and authorizing execution of financial agreements in connection therewith B and is hereby adopted on the first reading that it be published on the township website. And that a second reading and public hearing be held at 7:00 PM prevailing time at the Piscataway Municipal Building 4 55 Hose Lane Piscataway, New Jersey on the first day of December, 2026. Be it further resolved that a copy of this ordinance shall be posted in at least two public places within the township prior to the day of the second reading and final passage. And a copy of this ordinance shall be made available at the office of the township clerk for any interested member of the public
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Give Ms. Seader, do we have any questions or concern from council members? Seeing none, can I have an offer? Please Offer Count Cahill. Can I have a second Espinoza? Ms. Seader, can you please call the role
Melissa Seader (Clerk) Councilmember Cahill? Yes. Councilmember Espinosa. Yes.
Laura Leibowitz (At-Large Councilmember) Councilmember Liebowitz. Hello. In light of the fact that this is a warehouse that I opposed on a previous vote, I am going to vote no on this. I also wanna point out that this is a pilot. I know that we have a broad range of robust opportunities to bring revenue into the town, including pilot agreements. I do think that in the future, and certainly even at this time, it would be a great opportunity for us as some other towns do throughout the state to look for opportunities for pilot carve outs for certain projects. I know East Brunswick did it recently, so just putting that out there for future discussion. And my vote is no Councilmember Rashid.
Sarah Rashid (At-Large Councilmember) My vote is also no, for the same reasons as Councilmember Lebowitz. I also think we need to have more discussion about this pilot programs. We need to understand how much are we attracting and what is it that we're leaving on the table. And it definitely is. We wanna attract more businesses. We definitely want to have, you know, more jobs, but what kind of businesses are we attracting to Piscataway? That's a discussion we should be having. Thank you.
Melissa Seader (Clerk) Councilmember Rin? Yes. Council President Lombardi?
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Yes. Number eight are the consent agenda. Resolutions for efficiency items have been consolidated into a consent agenda to be voted on together and the materials for these items have been distributed to the council in advance of the meeting. Do I have a motion to the accept the consent agenda?
Gabrielle Cahill Council president. I think Councilwoman Rashid had wanted to
Sarah Rashid (At-Large Councilmember) Yes. Discuss it. So just make a suggestion. So I see that we, we've been passing, you know, budgets and for health for the employees. So just a suggestion for the administration, if they would look into, if we can include from all the grants or all the budgets that we are allocating, if we can have the y to be one of the benefits that the township employees get. So either they can get a discount membership to the Y or get it as a free perk. So of all the, the budgeting that we're doing for next year, if we could look into that,
Paula Cozzarelli (Business Administrator) True employees do get a discount? Oh yes. Great. Yes they do. They
Speaker 3 Do have it. How much they've had much discount do they receive? You don't need to. You call
Paula Cozzarelli (Business Administrator) Me off. I
Speaker 3 Don't know
Paula Cozzarelli (Business Administrator) Off the top of my head, but I'll certainly find out and, and, okay,
Sarah Rashid (At-Large Councilmember) That's wonderful. That's really great to know. And the other question I had was for f could you please just elaborate what that is?
Paula Cozzarelli (Business Administrator) It is just recently renovated the building. If you, I think it's right next to the little league field. It's our community development. We have outgrown our space right now. People are sitting on drawings. If you ever go into our building department, we have building code, enforcement, planning, engineering, zoning. What else do we have in there? And every other inspector Oh our inspectors. It, we, we've, we've outgrown that building. So this building is right next door and that will where, where planning and zoning will be the Department of Engineering Code Enforcement. So this is just furniture for the new building?
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Yeah, that big. And sat, that building sat vacant for many years. It was originally going to be the Italian American club and they went, never finished it. So it was only advantageous for the town to buy it as part of our complex here.
Speaker 6 And before that it was the VFW sat over there.
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Correct. A lot. Anyone else? Can I have an offer to accept a consent agenda?
Gabrielle Cahill Offer Cahill,
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Can I have a second please?
Sarah Rashid (At-Large Councilmember) Second Espinosa
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Seader, can you please call the role
Speaker 1 Councilmember Cahill?
Gabrielle Cahill Yes.
Melissa Seader (Clerk) Councilmember Espinosa. Yes. Councilmember Leibowitz. Yes. Councilmember Rashid?
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Yes.
Melissa Seader (Clerk) Councilmember Rin. Yes. Council President Lombardi?
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Yes. And the consent agenda passes. We'll now move to number nine, which are the announcements and the comments from officials. Gabrielle Cahill moving
Gabrielle Cahill A spider,
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Spider removal. Yeah.
Gabrielle Cahill Thank you. Council president. Spiders are very good, but I don't like them. Yeah, my comments are for our folks to be very careful on the roads over the tonight, the tomorrow. I do want to mention and get a chance the last one that to recognize our veterans Veterans Day. Of course it was Wednesday. Very grateful that in town we still have the American Legion and for all the support they do. Up until this year, I had no idea that they collected food. They collect clothing for vets. So if anyone is interested in dropping off things to the American Legion over there at eight 40 South Washington, the, the group of people there do a fine job in supporting our vets and we do have some homeless vets in the area. So just wanted to mention that. And I think we have a meeting before Thanksgiving, so I won't say anything else.
Speaker 1 No comments for me.
Gabrielle Cahill Laura Leibowitz.
Laura Leibowitz (At-Large Councilmember) Hello. I have two concerns. One is that people have been reaching out. We changed the timing of the light at Centennial and Plainfield Ave. There's no more right on red there. So it's impacting traffic patterns as well as the immediate green arrow. So it's just, if we can investigate that people are, have concerns about that. Yeah. Yeah. And I also wanna just reach back to all the way last Wednesday, which was Veterans Day. And on Sunday the Cultural Arts Commission ran a wonderful program highlighting veterans in town, talking about a possible, really interesting program that repurposes military uniforms that people bring in. And it's part of veteran mental health processing and connection through the print council in North Jersey was really interesting. And also to the fact that hopefully for next year we're going to be able to have a map so that residents can access where their hometown hero flag is, which will be a great asset to the town.
Laura Leibowitz (At-Large Councilmember) I know people do reach out to me and you have to give them their address and they have to drive around. So it would be great. I know we have Boy Scouts that do projects with veterans and for any number of reasons, kind of a universal access point for those flags in town would be great. I do have a concern about, or question about the up an issue on the upcoming agenda. Is that something I can talk about now? Okay. In ordinance second reading amending various chapters of the revised general ordinances of the town. We are, we do have a piece in there that the video and the, the access that people have to our meetings. And I just wanna make sure leading up to that meeting, which is in two weeks, that we continue to maintain and ensure open and transparent access for all residents, whether they are physically here or through virtual engagement. I wanna make sure that none of the language impacts the ability for residents and people interested in what we do here. That they can still zoom in, that they can still do all of the things that are both open and transparent. Thank you
Sarah Rashid (At-Large Councilmember) Sarah Rashid, one of the concerns that I will, you know, email you Raj directly to, but one of the things when I was reading the ordinance for second reading, there are changes to the hotel motel regulations and I want to understand where is that coming from? We passed this a year ago, there was a lot of pushback. What is the intent or what was the need for more changes to be made to that?
Raj Goomer (Township Attorney) So part of it is recommendations from, from the Hotel Trades council. They've reached out and, and said what best practices would be in terms of other licensing that they've interacted with throughout New York and New Jersey. So some of those were recommendations. Another one was just in terms of staffing of the front desk, making sure that as we've got a couple of new hotels, and I think there may be a couple more in the future, is that with modern technology, they're not just make going staff lists and we, you know, there's safety and security concerns with not having a person in the building. So, so that's the biggest change that's, that's been incorporated into it.
Sarah Rashid (At-Large Councilmember) Okay, thank you. I I like to hear about best practices. So if someone's recommending best practices, that's really great. Would it be okay if we can, we would, if you can present like a report to the council about what, how effective it has been in the last 12 months so we can understand, you know, how far we've come and then, you know, see how these best practices will take us forward. So
Raj Goomer (Township Attorney) We're we're, I mean, I can, I can definitely write up a memo to the council in terms of where we are in the process that we, we got delayed through the application process. We also had the litigation with one of our entities that has also delayed some of that process. So I, I would say last 12 months is a little, 'cause we only passed it I think six to eight months ago. So I, yeah, so I would say, you know, let's wait a little bit more before we can actually see any results from it. I think it has affected substantially in terms of applicants, how those, how the hotels are behaving in town. And so we have seen substantial reductions and issues, but we're also implementing the new nuisance ordinance and there will be some effectiveness on that. I can write a quick memo to the council.
Sarah Rashid (At-Large Councilmember) That would be great. The only other thing is I wanted to highlight the artist that is being highlighted at the Y this month in November. Every month they have a different artist that is highlighted by the Cultural Arts Commission. So right now, if you wanted to stop by at the Y Shelly Phillips has her art exhibition up. I was there yesterday and it, it's really, really good. So if you have time, please do stop by at the Y
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Thank Uhrin.
Speaker 9 No comment at this time.
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Business Administrator, Paul Elli.
Paula Cozzarelli (Business Administrator) Thank you council president. I just wanna bring to your attention, I know there's been a lot of discussion with, with respect to healthcare rates increase and whatnot. What you are, what you voted on tonight will only result in an increase of $27,500 to the township. So it's been quite a, it's quite a process. I'm glad it came that way and let's hope it stays that way. Horizon wanted our business back, so let's do what happens.
Gabrielle Cahill Thank you Paula, thank very much all you because what you did last year probably prompted them to do the right thing.
Paula Cozzarelli (Business Administrator) Thank you. Hopefully, I, I I think they, I think they realize that we're not status quo. So I'm not here to toy with the employees at all. But you know, it's, it's, it's, there's a lot to take in consideration when selecting health benefits. It's not just cost. The other, the other thing I just wanna say is that the township is, is teed up to receive what's called sre. SRE stands for Solar Renewable Energy Certificates. All of our solar projects produce solar energy. Every megawatt of energy produced by this township. We have a flat rate where we can get $130 per megawatt in some of our facilities. Others $95, this will equate to, I'm hoping the estimate is somewhere around $700,000 a year. So that will offset our electric costs and certainly help us continue grow with our capital projects, our services and whatnot. And I just wanna bring to your attention because the sre, we already had solar.
Paula Cozzarelli (Business Administrator) For those that don't know already on the DPW and we should be receiving a check for $72,000. And I just really wanna give a shout out to Matt Cho, he kicked it off. Matt also does our GIS system and he works with Jorge, the, is this assistant DPW superintendent. So this has been in ja, Jim Ferdi and of course guy, our team over there. I just wanna give a shout out for what they do and getting this money, this isn't an easy system to navigate. Not at all. So I just really want to thank them because this is what's making it a reality. So, and that's what I have to say for tonight. Thank you.
Speaker 0 Thank you for that, counsel.
Speaker 10 No comments. Thank you.
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Last but not least, the final shredding event is this Saturday at eight o'clock at the little league field. We had several of these very, very well attended. So if anybody has shredding that they wanna get done prior to the winter months, Saturday morning at eight o'clock would be the time to get in line. We'll now move to number 11, which is open to the public for the remote attendees at this time going, I'm going right past the agenda. Number 10 is the agenda session for November 24th, 2026. And on that agenda will be the ordinance Second reading adoption of redevelopment plan for block 2 0 1 lot zero 1.01, block 2 0 2 lot 42.02 1791 South second Street and 1776 South second Street. It will be open to the public and it will be a resolution adopting ordinance. The next on the agenda will be an ordinance Second reading adoption of redevelopment plan for block 1901 lot, 64.0 1 44 Stelton Road. It will be open to the public, it will be a resolution adopting ordinance. Any questions? The next ordinance will be a second reading authorizing the execution of financial agreement with Piscataway Centennial Developer Urban Renewal, LLC block 67 0 3 lot eight dash 88 Centennial Avenue. Open to the public at be a resolution adopting ordinance questions or concerns
Michele Lombardi (Council President) An ordinance. Second reading authorizing the execution of financial agreement with GREP, new Brunswick Urban Renewal LLC block 1701 lot 2.0 3 41, a hundred New Brunswick Avenue open to the public. It will be an a resolution adopting ordinance. Another ordinance second reading, amending various chapters of the revised general ordinances of the township of Piscataway. It will be open to the public and it will be a resolution adopting ordinance questions or concerns. And lastly, I'm sure there will be more to follow A motion to accept council meeting minutes for October 6th and November 5th, 2026. Move to number 11, which is open to the attendee council president. I'm asking the first individual with their hand raised to unmute themself. Go ahead.
Jessica Kratovil Good evening, this is Jessica Kratovil from 1247 Brookside Road. Can you hear me?
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Yes we can. Yes we can.
Jessica Kratovil Excellent. Thank you. So I was unable to attend the previous meeting and I, but I, I read back the transcript from the meeting and I, while I appreciate the gentleman from IBEW coming out and talking about their opinion on data centers in general. Number one, I thought it was really interesting how they were allowed to speak for longer than most of us are. I thought the three minute time limit was for everyone. I wanted to bring up a study that was published just in the last few days here on November 9th called Data Centers and Local Labor Markets Evidence from the Texas Experience by Hicks Bo Etal, which is a peer reviewed study about the impacts of data center development on jobs in a local area. And the conclusion was that there is a increase during the construction phase. There are not long-term jobs available to local people in any substantial number.
Jessica Kratovil And I think that that's something that should be very important to the council when considering data center development. There are not a lot of good jobs in them after the construction is done and electrical workers are able to do construction on all kinds of buildings. And so I think the long-term impacts on labor should be considered. And that being that as there are a lot of negative impacts on local community in terms of noise, air quality, electricity rates, water usage, depending on the kinds of systems that they have for cooling, which I know they addressed as well as impermeable surfaces as I'm sure everybody saw, we had a very unseasonable thunderstorm here in November and there was lots of inundation in areas and adding large amounts of impermeable cover, like a large data center or warehouse is bound to have a negative impact. And then I also wanted to say, I think it's really important that we have remote access to these meetings.
Jessica Kratovil Not everyone is able to make it all the time. And for the township at the next meeting to vote on whether or not we should eliminate zoom or phone participation is totally crazy. The voters wanted this, which is why I, as a circulator of the petition, I spoke to people, they're like, wait, we don't have this, other towns have this and they were so happy to sign. So I really hope that you do the good thing of not ruining what we have. I would really appreciate that. And that's all I have for tonight. Thank you.
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Thank you Mrs. Kratovil,
Melissa Seader (Clerk) Council president. I am asking the next individual with their hand raised to unmute themself.
Brian Rak Hello, Brian Wrack, 1247 Brookside Road. Yeah, I'd just like to follow up on that. It's, the ordinance is changing it from where the town is required to provide public access via Zoom to only if they're unable to provide in-person access, which I think is a pretty significant change. I also had a question on that upcoming ordinance. I see there's fines going in for false fire alarms. Where are the fine money going? Is that going to the fire departments that have to respond or is that going to the town?
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Is that it? Mr. Rock,
Brian Rak I'd appreciate you answering both things, but yes, that's it.
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Okay. Okay.
Paula Cozzarelli (Business Administrator) To the fines. So fines are fines that are given are, am I fines that are given our, some goes to the state and some goes into a fire prevention, I don't recall the exact name into the fire prevention trust that is only used for certain aspects of fire prevention and code activities. Call a second question. I, I I don't,
Gabrielle Cahill It was about the vote for Zoom access.
Paula Cozzarelli (Business Administrator) Okay. I guess that'll be contemplated. I, I don't, I don't really know. I mean it's in an ordinance so any comments are, you know, are able to be received With respect to it.
Melissa Seader (Clerk) Counsel president, I'm asking the next individual with their hand raised to unmute themself.
Speaker 14 Hi folks, this is Herb Tarus four 11 New Market Road in Piscataway. I was listening in and I'd like to say I appreciate the work that was done with respect to the health insurance premiums to minimize the impact to the town's budget. One who is on Medicare myself, I can attest to the fact that being on Medicare is a much, yields a much higher quality of life than being in any type of commercial health insurance plans. One of the main arguments for the country or the state adopting Medicare for all is that it removes the burden of health insurance from the municipalities. And that would then buffer or, you know, protect the municipality from the commercial health insurance marketplace as well as reducing the overall budget. Given what we saw in the election recently with the Democrats gaining more power, the time would seem to be right for municipalities like Piscataway to adopt a resolution supporting Medicare for all. Particularly since we have a federal representative in Frank Palone who purports to support Medicare for All, but however never seems to advocate for it. So a resolution from the township would seem to go a long way to pushing the, the issue forward for Medicare for all as well as insulating the town budget and its residents from the commercial health insurance marketplace. Thank you.
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Thank you. Thank you.
Melissa Seader (Clerk) Council president, there are no other remote individuals with their hand raised regarding this agenda item.
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Thank you Ms. Seader. We're now closed for the remote portion and we'll open for the in open to the public for in-person, attendees, anyone wishing to speak at this time, please come up, state your name and know that you have three minutes in which to speak.
Charlie Kratovil Good evening. Once again. Charlie Kratovil, new Brunswick today. Does the township have a press person?
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Do you have any other questions?
Charlie Kratovil Yes, I
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Do. Can you ans ask them all at one time please? We did
Charlie Kratovil The same exact discussion at the last meeting and you never answered my question, so I'm not gonna fall for that trick again. Do you have a press person?
Raj Goomer (Township Attorney) The instruction from the council president is to ask all your questions to as a courtesy, we'll answer that one. Yes, it's Gene Wilke.
Charlie Kratovil Okay. So is he okay or can the mayor handle our questions on his own? I, I emailed Gene Wilke, like I told you last time with my questions. I also read the questions to you at your meeting. I haven't heard from Jean Wilke, I haven't heard from the mayor, I haven't heard from any member of the council. Is, is Mr. Wilke really the right person to be asking the questions?
Raj Goomer (Township Attorney) Yeah, I can check in with with Jean tomorrow.
Charlie Kratovil Please do. And I'll raise those questions one more time for this body regarding the posts about the general election made by the township. Number one, were any voters turned away at Piscataway schools due to the issue described? Does anybody here know the answer to that question? Can you just answer it now and get this over with?
Michele Lombardi (Council President) I think you're being a bit rude at this time. We will get you the answer to that and we'll have Jean look into that for you.
Charlie Kratovil I appreciate it. I Alright.
Dennis Espinosa (Ward 2 Councilmember) Please, please ask all your questions at once. That's the rule. So please ask all your questions and then we can proceed in answering them. Thank you.
Charlie Kratovil I will use my time how I see fit and I will read the second question again. Was any voter issued a parking ticket by Rutgers University authorities while voting? Does anybody know if that's
Gabrielle Cahill Council president? If I may. And counselor, if I could just answer not to the knowledge. The issue was that the university wa has a third party that now does their parking tickets and people had been ticketed in the past. So this administration had reached out to Rutgers to try to get that not to happen on election day. It was brought, we actually had a resident who works, the polls who brought it to our attention. Also, the fact that people who have, you know, disabilities, the parking area is a little bit far away from where the polling is on the campuses. Difficult for them to make it from the parking lot to the polling. So why not try to accommodate people with disabilities, maybe to park in front of the student centers where the two polling places are. So complaint was brought forward and the township thought it was right to act and reach out to Rutgers.
Charlie Kratovil Thank you for engaging on the question. I think it's important that there is transparency around these issues. Sounds like it's based on something that happened in a prior election. I just had some concern about the post that was made in that it might, you know, cause people to second guess going to go vote at that location. If you're seeing a post that says if you get a ticket, here's how to fight it. You know, that's, that's,
Gabrielle Cahill That was the only solution that the university gave us. Really. Correct. That's
Charlie Kratovil Understood. Well, thank you for, for, again, for answering the question. I, I do want to, you know, just say I hope to get another, an answer to my other question that had been asked to Jean Wilke previously about the situation at the school. And I know Councilwoman Rasheed had raised two questions of her own. Which school was it? What time was it? As far as I know, those questions haven't been answered. I also asked, what are the names of the school officials referenced in the post? The post just refers to school officials but doesn't name them. Is there any, anybody who can answer that?
Michele Lombardi (Council President) I am not aware of the names.
Charlie Kratovil Okay.
Michele Lombardi (Council President) It was a, a major concern in the morning, in election morning for people to not able to access the building to vote.
Charlie Kratovil Sure. If anyone was turned away, that's a serious thing. It does matter though, if anybody was turned away and I think that that information should be public by now. I have brought this up to the Board of Elections. They were unaware. So thank
Michele Lombardi (Council President) You for your time Mr. Kratovil.
Charlie Kratovil You're most welcome. Thank you. I did also wanna just say that I appreciate remote access to the meetings and I hope that this council doesn't change it. It seems like the administration has a problem with transparency. You know, we of course remember that that question was fought by the mayor and his administration. He tried to place misleading questions on the ballot to confuse voters until courts found them unlawful. And as if that wasn't enough, he tried to convince folks it'd be too expensive and unrealistic to have zoom access to the meetings. One other thing, you've got a camera right there. I don't know why you're not using it. You should show the person who is speaking on the video feed and I would request that if you are considering changes to the ordinance, let us let, let us see who's speaking.
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Thank you. That's all for your time. Anyone else?
Speaker 16 Good evening. John Costello, river Road two 80 River Road.
Speaker 0 Welcome back John. Hi John. Hello.
Speaker 16 I wanted to bring to your attention that Ann Nolan is going to be leaving Piscataway in sometime in the near future. She is, she's 96 years old. She's over at the rehab center office of Kyles Avenue, that building there. And she's not a, a able to live by herself anymore. And she's gonna be moving down to Georgia to live near her son in an assisted living facility.
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Thank you John.
Speaker 16 And we don't, I don't know when that's gonna take place. They have to get him into a place first. So in the meantime, she's gonna still be at, at that facility there and I'm sure she'd love to see all of you.
Michele Lombardi (Council President) Thank you for that information. I do appreciate you letting us know. Alright. Seeing no one else, I'm gonna close the public portion. I'll ask for a motion to adjourn the meeting. Motion. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Aye. I need a second. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Thank you everyone and have a good evening. I.