Open public meetings act. Notice of the time and place of this meeting has been posted
and sent to the officially designated newspapers. Roll call. Vote, please. That'll.
lodge it here. Yes, here. Khan. Here. Money. Here. Roberts. Here. Schuldiner. Here. Singh.
here. Taylor. Todd. Here. Locklear. Here. Sharma, here. And now we will have the salute
to the flag. Okay? Flag of the united states of america. And to the republic for which it
stands. One nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Right now, I'm
going to open nominations for the chair. Do we have a nomination for the chair? I
nominate dave camp, and do we have a second? Second? And do we have a motion to close
nominations? So moved. And a second second roll call vote please. Yes yes yes yes, honey.
yes. Roberts. Yes. Schuldiner. Yes. Singh. Yes yes. Yes. Good evening. Is yours? It was a
hard fought battle, but thank you everybody. And as everybody on the board knows, except for
our newest person, I take this pretty seriously. And I'm really proud of what we did
last year, because that was a challenging year for this board. So I'm glad to be back. Okay.
do we have a nomination for vice chair? I would like to nominate our vice chair. Second,
I was going to second. Okay. Two seconds. Do I have any other nominations for vice
chair? Okay. Another hard fought battle. And can we do a roll call, please? There. Roger.
yes yes yes yes. Money present. Roberts. Yes. Yes. Singh. Yes. Taylor. Todd. Yes. Yes. Okay.
this is everybody always jumps for this one. Do I have a nomination for secretary? I
nominate sarah roberts. Oh, I will second that. Any other nominations? Sarah, do you
accept the nomination. Oh yes. Okay. Good. Roll call please. Tara. Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes
yes. Singh. Yes. Taylor. Todd. Yes, sir. Yes. Okay. Thank you everybody. First order of
business is our meeting schedule. And be it resolved by the planning board of the
township of montgomery that the planning board will meet in 2026 on the second and the
fourth monday of the month, and that the monthly meeting dates of the board are hereby scheduled on the following dates to commence at 7 p.m. In the municipal building located
at 100 community drive, skillman, new jersey. All interested persons may attend
and be heard. Special work sessions scheduled periodically will be noticed as required.
upon scheduling, this notice shall be transmitted to the officially designated
newspapers and filed with the clerk of montgomery township. Those dates in 2026 are january
26th, february 9th and 23rd, march 9th and 23rd, april 13th and 27th, may 11th, june 8th
and 22nd. July 13th and 27th. August 10th and 24th. September 14th and 28th october 12th.
november 9th and 23rd. December 14th and then the reorganization meeting will be
january 11th of 2027. Do I have a motion to approve the slate of meetings? Mr. Chair, can I
make a comment? I believe october 12th is columbus day, and I don't know if the
township is actually open that day. That's true. October. Anyone have a calendar handy?
no. Let's see. Yeah. Do you have the township one? I'm just checking to hear december 1st.
and I do have our. Our closings usually follow the state closings. And I believe the
state is closed on columbus day or indigenous people day, if we want to call it that. So okay,
maybe we can double check that because I don't have it on my calendar either. Usually lisa
will put it, but we can double check as yeah, well, why don't we confirm the rest of the
meetings, vote on that. And then to martin's point, we will figure out what dates in
october. We'll meet. Okay. And then we can do that at our next meeting to finalize october
12th. So do I have a motion? Yeah. Subject to changes I move it. Okay. Do I have a second?
second roll call, please. Sarah. Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes okay. Next order of
business is the site plan subdivision committee meetings and be it resolved by the
planning board of the township of montgomery, that the site plan subdivision committee will
hold on the following dates in 2026 at 8:30 a.m. Virtual meetings enabled by zoom gov.
special work session schedule periodically will be noticed as required upon scheduling. This
notice shall be transmitted to the officially designated newspapers and filed with the clerk of montgomery township. All interested persons may attend those portions of the
meeting that the applicant is being heard. Those dates are february 3rd, march 3rd, april
7th, may 5th, june 2nd july seventh, august 1st, september 1st, october 6th, november 3rd
and december 1st. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve these meetings? Second. Second. Okay.
roll call please. Jerry. Yes yes yes yes yes. Roberts. Yes. Yes. Singh. Yes. Taylor. Todd.
yes. Blackler. Yes. If I can just interject for a moment, sherry just texted me. We are
open on columbus day, so that's why that date. Oh, okay. We are open. Okay. Then we will not be
coming back about this next meeting. Thanks, sarah. Okay. Next is the designation of the
official newspaper. And between january 1st, 2020 sixth and march 1st, 2026. The official
newspaper for legal, municipal advertising and notice shall be the courier news and the star
ledger in accordance with pl 2025, chapter 72, section 4654, no later than march 1st, 2026,
township notices will be posted on the montgomery township website and will be available
at public notices. Montgomery township, new jersey beginning march 1st, 2026, applicant
notices for public hearings must be in an eligible online news publication. Okay, so
until march 1st, it's going to be the actual newspaper. After march 1st it is online. Is that
correct? Okay. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Do I have a second? Second? Roll
call please. There. Roger. Yes yes yes yes yes. Roberts. Yes. Yes. Singh. Yes yes yes. Okay.
next order of business is the appointment of subcommittees. And I'll just read who the who
will be on the various subcommittees. First is the master plan land development
ordinance update committee that meets from six, 6 to 7 p.m. On the second and fourth mondays.
so there will be an hour before the planning board meeting. The members are. Mayor and myself
and marvin schuldiner and arun mani. Site plan subdivision committee meets the first
tuesday of every month at 8:30 a.m. Via zoom. Members are. I'm sorry, patricia taylor todd
paul blodgett, mayor, and myself. And then marvin schuldiner will be the planning
board liaison to the transportation advisory committee that meets on a
quarterly basis. And the planning board liaison to the edc economic development
commission will be our. And marnie. And I believe those are our committees. I have a
comment on the meetings. Yes, it looks like august 1st is a saturday. Oh. Which one,
forgive me is august 4th. August 4th, august 1st. That's the site plan. Yep. All right.
so yes, it must be a typo. It must be the fourth. So I will make note. We will adjust it
okay. August 4th, third or fourth. Oh of yeah it's the tuesday right. Tuesday. Yeah
yeah. Okay. Thank you pat. Okay. Next item is the approval of a combination membership for the
new jersey federation of planning officials. Membership is $212.50. Do I have a motion
to approve that expense? So moved to have a second. Second. Roll call please. Yes yes yes
yes yes yes. Schuldiner. Yes. Singh. Yes. Taylor. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Dara. Okay. Next
item is the appointment of professional services under the local unit pay to play law. And
the professional services resolution is resolution oh one dash 2026. Look at that. The
first one. Whereas there exists a need to acquire the following professional services for 2026
without a fair and open process as defined by pl 2004 c 19, the local unit pay to play law that
includes the planning board, attorney, planning board, planner, planning board, landscape architect, planning board, traffic engineer and the planning board engineer. And
whereas, the montgomery township purchasing agent has determined and certified in
writing that the value. I'm sorry, just making sure the value of the services over the
course of the contract is anticipated to exceed $17,500. And whereas the new jersey
local public contracts law njsa 40 a colon 1101 authorizes the award of professional services
contracts without competitive bidding. And whereas the chief financial officer has certified
that sufficient funds are available for the aforesaid services in accordance with the
amount set forth in the 2026 temporary budget, with performance of said services
after march 31st, 2026 being subject to the township's amendment of the 2026 temporary
budget and or adoption of the final 2026 budget. Now, therefore, be it resolved by
the planning board of the township of montgomery as follows. And the chairman is
hereby authorized and directed to execute a proper agreement with the following the law.
excuse me. Office of karan casey, llc as our planning board attorney clerk. Caton.
hence, as our planning board planner and just. Thank you and clarke caton hintz, as well as
our planning board landscape architect, tnm associates as planning board, traffic
engineer and environmental resources, inc as planning board engineer. This contract
is awarded for a period of one year for the amount set forth in the contract and without
competitive bidding as professional services under the provisions of the local public
contracts law. Njsa 40, a colon 11 51a as contracts for services to be performed by
persons authorized by law. To practice recognized professions that are regulated by law, and
because the services to be performed are not susceptible of quantifying in bid
specifications. Everyone got all that these contractors have completed and filed with
montgomery township a campaign contributions affidavit as required by njsa 19. Colon 44
20.2 certifying they have not made any prohibited contributions to a candidate
committee or municipal committee representing the elected officials of the
township. A copy of this resolution, the certificate of contract value, the campaign
contributions affidavit and the executed agreement shall be placed on file in the office of
the planning board. The notice of this action shall be published once in the official
newspaper, as required by law and performance of services under the terms of these
contracts and payment for services is subject to the certification of availability
of funds by the chief financial officer. Okay, do I have a motion to approve this part of
the resolution? So moved. Do I have a second second roll call, please? Dara blodgett yes yes
yes yes yes roberts. Yes. Yes. Singh. Yes. Taylor. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Dara. Okay. Next is
public participation for items not on the agenda. I do not believe we have anyone from the
public. So I will skip that. And next item is a resolution. It's a resolution adopting the
2025 stormwater management element as an amendment to the montgomery township master plan.
do I have a motion to approve? So move. Do I have a second? Second roll call, please? Dara
khan yes. Yes. Roberts. Yes yes yes yes yes okay. Next is an extension request. This is case
pb oh 323. The applicant is harlingen associates llc. It is for block 6001. Lots 3334 34.01,
35, 35.01 and 36 route 206 montgomery township. It's an extension of preliminary and
final major subdivision site plan approval to january 8th, 2027, and for the applicant,
richard johnson, attorney. Good evening. Good evening. Here to get an extension of vested
rights under njsa 40, column 55 d hyphen 52. We got preliminary and final site plan,
subdivision and bulk variances, design waivers, exceptions on. January, the resolution was
adopted on january 8th, 2024. So our time is up for vested rights as of january 8th of
this year. Was approved by the planning board in november of 2023. This is the application
for two story, two story, affordable market rate mix housing apartment buildings
with 18 apartments, 11 of which are affordable. As your third round obligation on the mount
laurel. Seven of market rate at 36 three bedroom townhouses. You recall that this is one
where we're doing extra work for the township, for sanitary sewer, to bring the sewer line
across down the rutland road to the manhole, and then the township then will decide to
connect to the properties in harlingen village, which have failing septic systems, which
have been failing since I came to town about 50 years ago. So it's it's a real boon to the
town. Beside being your third round obligation. So what have we? What have we been doing in
the last two years? We got somerset planning board approval on august 9th, 2025.
we got somerset union conservation district approval on site on june 4th, 2025, we
got new jersey dep approval for the stormwater discharge general permit on site approved
on january 26th, 2021. We have somerset union soil conservation district for the
all on site soil, sediment sediment control certification on june 30th, 2025. That's for
the sewer line we got doing dnr canal commission approved certificate of approval
received on october 15th, 2025 fret freshwater wetlands statewide general permit number
two for force for the force main crossing, the fox brook gp. General permit number six for
filling up the swale and a gp ten a for a driveway crossing and a transition area waiver
averaging. It was submitted by our environmental consultant, environmental sciences on
862024. I've been advised that it should be approved within a month. We got approved njd p
approval for the flood hazard area verification method six on september 16th, 2025 we got
njdep approval for freshwater wetlands. A letter of interpretation approved on
january 7th, 20222020. The nj permit for flood hazard area verification was approved on
august 29th, 2022. Let's see what else. We've done. Various easements and other things in
order to. Get our plans approved, which are being reviewed by mr. Darcy's office.
revised plans. We've had comments and so did mark herman, your engineer. And let's see
for that. We got the cross easement approved on the november on october. Sorry,
november 11th, 2025. We got the municipal services agreement approved on on december 15th,
2025. We got the drainage easement for the open space lot approved on october 29th, 2025.
we got the driveway easement because if you recall on this one there, the driveways
crossed into the common area, and that was a condition of the resolution drawn by miss casey
that was approved on july 9th, 2025 open space dedication. There's open space lands. We
submitted our environmental audit was approved by miss wasikowski. We have to clean up
some garbage, which we agreed to do. We completed the construction sequence agreement,
the affordable housing agreement. The deed restriction for affordable housing was done
today. Was approved today. I did a contract for a temporary construction access easement
for your public works. That's the offsite sewer that's being reviewed by mr. Herman and miss.
mrs. Quiroga. A temporary construction access agreement between montgomery and the ems,
the first aid squad, which is finally signed. Let's see what else we have. And we sent in
our homeowners association papers last week through mark herman wanted a certain
restriction on the stormwater. Stormwater facilities. We said that in he's reviewing that and
that's about it on this one here. The long pause was because for the off site
easement that we had to get from richard meier for the sewer took for a long time,
because you had to get an appraisal and you went back and forth and back and forth with
mr. Myers attorney. And that was only done on may. The easement was dated on may 25th
at 2025, and that prevented us from going on to his property and doing soil testing, in
which delay the sewer, which we now have. We do have the sewer. Bids in approved by mr. Herman,
your engineer. I drew a contract for that. I had to draw another contract for that.
he's. He and miss quiroga is are doing for your public works access. Because we have to put
the sewer line on that and the also the agreement for sewer capacity for the. Pipe plant.
so that's what we've done. We need a little bit more time, probably within a year to
complete everything. Again, the big hold up on this one was getting mr. Meyer to agree to
the easement finally, by the township committee. And and you're you're comfortable that
a year is you're comfortable with the year extension. You feel you feel comfortable with
that. That should do it. Okay. Okay. As you can see we did a lot of work on this one. Oh
yeah. Look this is a this is a this is a pretty this is an involved. The offsite sewer.
yeah. Across the fox brook go under the fox brook. And you know it took a long time. Yep.
okay. Given that we do not have public comment, we'll go right to board, question discussions.
any questions? Yeah, I have a question. Mr. Saltzman, can you divulge what was involved in
the agreement with ems? I'm sorry, what was involved in the agreement with ems? You made
reference to an agreement with ems. Oh, we're we're not giving them a line, but we're giving
them a lateral up to the foundation so that the only thing they have to do is get a
plumber to hook up to the lateral so they can get rid of their septic system. Okay.
thank you. And then what we're doing is we're originally going to only do a lateral a line,
put a sewer line. And they were going to put a lateral in but they cried poverty. And so
we're putting the lateral into the foundation. So all they have to do is get a plumber to
hook it up and to whatever facility they want to hook it up to. Thank you. Any other
questions? No. Okay then. Oops. Sorry. Then let's do I have a motion to approve the the
extension request. Do I have a second? Second? Roll call please. Dara. Sorry. Yes, yes,
yes. Khan. Money. Yes. Roberts. We lost. Roberts. Schuldiner. Yes. Thing. Yes. Yes. Loffler.
yes. Sharma. Yes. Yes. Okay. Thank you. You're all set. Okay. Next item is approval of the
minutes of the december 8th, 2025 regular meeting. Do I have a motion to approve? Do I have
a second, please? Second. Roll call please. Dara. The first I didn't hear. Sorry about that.
okay. Yes. Yes, honey? Yes. Singh. Yes. Taylor. Todd. Yes. And khan. Yes. Okay. Future
agenda items. This is a this is a addition this year that we're going to have. Yes. At least
once a month where we're going to put on the agenda what we believe future agenda items are
going to be. So if anyone from the public does come, they will hear things that are coming up.
so it's again, just another way of letting the public know about potential things coming
in front of us. So we have two future agenda items. One is the 23 orchard road redevelopment
plan, and the other is the amended affordable housing plan element. Before I go to future
meetings, I just would like to welcome our newest board member, mr. Sharma. Welcome, welcome.
yes. Thank you and should be as much fun as we had last year. So I think we welcome mr. You
know I just I'm I'm you think marvin. Yeah I mean I've been looking at I've been looking at
marvin on boards for you know 15 years. So marvin schuldiner welcome back. It was like I
hadn't even left because this last application was part of it. I handled it at the beginning.
so yeah, it's, you know, like nothing. It's still going on for years and and. Exactly
right. So, marvin, are you good with it? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Sorry about that. Yes. Welcome
back. Thank you. Okay. Future meetings january 26th will be a planning board meeting. If we
have items, as far as we know, we don't know yet. And then february 3rd is the site plan
subdivision committee meeting at 8:30 a.m. Via zoom. February 9th is a planning board meeting.
and february 23rd, our scheduled planning board meetings as well. Do I have a
motion to adjourn? So moved. Do you have a second? Second? All in favor? Aye, aye. All right.
thanks, everybody.