Township Council Meeting — Agenda

expert.10 Those emails therefore satisfy the pre-decisional prong of the standard for the deliberative process privilege. Libertarians for Transparent Gov't, 453 N.J. Super. at 90. Similarly, the record shows eight emails were exchanged concerning the Township Council's consideration of an amended resolution authorizing the planning board to consider and determine whether the library was an area in need of redevelopment. The emails consist of a consecutive series of communications, the first of which was exchanged at 3:34 p.m. on December 12, 2018, and the last at 12:00 p.m. on December 20, 2018. Those emails are therefore pre-decisional – exchanged prior to any decision by the Township's Council concerning the revised resolution – under the deliberative process privilege standard. See Ibid. There are eight additional emails for which the summary judgment record does not permit a finding the information exchanged was as part of a decision - making or deliberative process. Those emails include exchanges at 2:29 p.m. and 2:31 p.m. on November 29, 2018, and at 4:13 p.m. on December 11, 2018. 10 The confidential appendix includes seventeen emails that were exchanged prior to the Township Council's adoption of the resolution appointing HGA as the planning board's expert and agent. The last of those emails was exchanged at 1:12 p.m. on November 27, 2018. A-2287-19 23 Pa023