Transcript for Piscataway Re-warding meeting on January 14 2022
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Speaker 0 00:00:00 Good morning, everybody. Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided with respect to the home news Tribune to publish the same as well as posted to the Middlesex county board of elections website and the Piscataway Township municipal webpage. This announcement must be entered into the minutes of the meeting. And for those listening to the meeting today, please be aware that all work commission meetings are recorded via audio roll call Speaker 1 00:00:32 Word, commissioner angle here. Ward, commissioner Frankl. What commissioner? Cedar. What commissioner Katz. What commissioner Moscowitz present? What commissioner jello. What commissioner? Bencivenga Speaker 0 00:01:03 Adoption of the minutes and motion to adopt the minutes of January 11th. We're commissioned meeting. Second, Second, second. Roll call Speaker 1 00:01:21 Word commissioner ankle. Yes. When commissioner Frankel, What? Commissioner Frankel? Speaker 2 00:01:36 Yes. Can you hear me Speaker 1 00:01:37 Okay? Yes. Now I can. Yes. Yes. We can hear what commissioner is. Cedar. Yes. Okay. What commissioner Moscowitz yes. What commissioner jello? Yes. What commissioner Bencivenga. Speaker 0 00:01:53 Yeah, the purpose of the meeting would be to vote on a plan to establish, establish congressional districts in New Jersey. That would be in effect for the next 10 years. Members of the public may view the proceedings by the board of elections homepage so we can proceed Speaker 2 00:02:25 Metric. There's no emotion right now. Speaker 0 00:02:32 Yes. Speaker 2 00:02:33 Commotion that. Okay. I would like to make a motion that we would adopt scenario three in the plans that have been given to us by Remington Vernick scenario three is a, is compliant has Speaker 0 00:02:55 I'll second that, okay. Roll call. Marie Speaker 1 00:03:11 We're commissioner. Speaker 0 00:03:16 We have any discussion commissioners proceed with the boat. Speaker 1 00:03:25 What? Commissioner angle? Yes. We're commissioner Frankel. Ward. Commissioner Frankl. Yes. No one can word commissioner. Cedar Where commissioner Moscowitz. Speaker 0 00:03:49 Yes. Speaker 1 00:03:50 What commissioner? Jello Ward. Commissioner. Bencivenga. Speaker 0 00:03:56 Yeah. Lotion is carried. Any condition, your comments with this John Madam chair. I'm wondering if for a representative from revenue to verdict could put that scenario three map up on the up edge. Sure. That's a good idea. Speaker 3 00:04:18 I Speaker 0 00:04:18 Will stop sharing my screen and then you can share the, the word three. Excuse me, the scenarios right now. Speaker 3 00:04:31 Okay. Okay. Can everybody see the screen? Okay. Speaker 0 00:04:35 Yes. Yes, Nick. Oh, that's good. Okay. Speaker 3 00:04:39 So I'm going to zoom out a little bit. I'm just going to give a brief here's the chart with the numbers as would be in alternative scenario three, they're all compliant and they are actually, I mean, pretty evenly spread minus one is still a little low, but it is compliant and M word for this is a little high, but again, all numbers are compliant under the scenario as indicated on commissioner Frankl and to make it a little easier to see, we actually we're ties to kinda give it a shading for each word. And I hope that this makes it a little easier to understand and see the differences. So we're one would be this piece up here, new word loan. It would be this green piece up here following the border where my cursor's kind of running new word would kind of be in the central piece central west and would Speaker 3 00:05:54 Run along and kind of follow the district lines and runways and kind of get down into here and then shoot all the way back on river road to this is where the end of district 10 is. Ward three will be this red piece. I guess we could call that red, orange, red, orange, red, I don't know, apparently I'm color blind. So then we would come start up here. We would shoot down and kind of follow the border of glare board to the new lawyer to, and then we're three would also border or four right in here. Shoot down here, come across and down in here. And then board four would be the remainder and this purple piece shooting up and falling and actually making its way all the way to border one up here, the new ward one and ward two, right in here. I got an all numbers are compliant and I think this is actually a great suggestion. And yeah. And I just want to say real quick, unfortunately, Kevin was, he really wanted to be on this meeting. Unfortunately, he had a meeting in ocean county and was unable to get an in-person meeting and was unable to jump on the call. So he apologizes Speaker 0 00:07:49 Nick. This map is so much better to look at pony a screen. Speaker 3 00:07:55 Yeah. Versus just do harms boundaries. Yep. Yep. No problem. That's okay. Speaker 2 00:08:01 They could figure, remember that 10 years from now. Speaker 3 00:08:04 Yeah. I'll make a note. Speaker 0 00:08:12 Any comments on this, on the map warrants are being non-kin we move on to the public. Tom, do we have, Speaker 2 00:08:26 Yes. Ma'am we do have members of the public on. So again, for, for those folks who are on your desktop or laptop, in order to unmute yourself, you would hit the microphone icon at the top, right of your screen. If you were on your, if you're on your phone, a cell phone or landline star six would be how you went on mute yourself. I would just go into the, to the section where we had people into the meeting and as dos that are, that are listed by phone number or by name, if they wish to speak. And then I'll start with phone number (732) 921-8012. Seeing none. I'll move on to phone number (856) 340-6945. I'm sorry. I'm moving on to the next one. Number is 8 6 2 7 5 5 6 3 5 3. Speaker 0 00:10:07 I have no. Speaker 2 00:10:10 Great. Thank you. Thank you. Ma'am moving on Ms. Mosier. We wish to make a comment, Speaker 0 00:10:21 No questions or comments at this time. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:10:23 Thank you. Moving on to the next individual. Dana Corbin, Moving on for Mr. Jean Welk. And again, just as a reminder, if you, if you're not able to hear Jen, reach yourself from your laptop or desktop, you can hit the microphone icon at the top right of your screen. Or if you're on your phone, you can hit star six, Moving on a Mr. Ken Simmons. Great. Thank you. And then lastly, Willie Mikita, Speaker 0 00:11:13 Thank you. No questions or comments. Speaker 2 00:11:17 Okay. Ma'am that a chair. And again for, let me just, if there's anyone else in the public that, that I did not call upon and you wish to make a public comment, please, please feel free to identify yourself now and do some, Okay. So, you know, unmet I'm chairwoman to public comment section as ended. Okay. Speaker 0 00:11:46 I guess you can adjourn the meeting. Madam chair. Make a motion to adjourn. Second Speaker 1 00:12:01 Word commissioner angle. Yes. What commissioner Frankel. Ward. Commissioner. Cedar. Yes. Where commissioner Moscowitz where commissioner jello. Yes. What commissioner Bencivenga. Yeah, Speaker 0 00:12:30 Madam the meeting is, has been adjourned and I'll end the meeting from my end. Thank you. Have a good weekend.