July 31, 2024 Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

2 (Pages 2 to 5) Page 2 1 A P P E A R A N C E S: 2 GACCIONE POMACO, P.C. 3 1 Boland Drive West Orange, New Jersey 07052 4 BY: DIANA POWELL-McGOVERN, ESQ. Attorneys for the Board 5 6 HUTT, SHIMANOWITZ & PLOCKER, P.C. 459 Amboy Avenue 7 Woodbridge, New Jersey 07095 BY: BRYAN D. PLOCKER, ESQ. 8 bplocker@huttshim.com Attorneys for the Applicant 9 10 BRUCE I. AFRAN, ESQ. 10 Braeburn Drive 11 Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Attorney for Objector, We Care NJ Corp. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 3 1 I N D E X 2 APPLICANT'S WITNESSES: SWORN 3 PAUL ANDERSON, P.E. 9 4 LAURANCE APPEL, P.A. 64 5 MARK HOFFMAN 150 6 7 BOARD'S WITNESSES: 8 JOHN J. HESS, P.E., P.P. 6 9 GERARD M. HAIZEL, P.P. 6 10 11 EXHIBITS MARKED INTO EVIDENCE 12 13 NUMBER DESCRIPTION PAGE 14 O-1 Report submitted by Peter Tenkate, P.E. 52 15 A-1 PowerPoint prepared and presented 16 by Paul Anderson, P.E. 66 17 A-2 PowerPoint prepared and presented by Laurance Appel, P.A. 66 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 4 1 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Good evening, ladies 2 and gentlemen, and welcome to the Planning Board 3 meeting. Notice of this meeting was given to the 4 township clerk and posted on the township bulletin 5 board and township website calendar and sent to the 6 West Orange Chronicle and The Star Ledger. This 7 meeting has been properly noticed to the public in 8 accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act. No 9 new matters will start after 10:30 p.m. 10 I'll ask all of you to rise for the 11 Pledge of Allegiance. 12 (The Pledge of Allegiance is recited.) 13 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Thank you. I'd also 14 like to welcome everybody who's on Zoom watching the 15 meeting. The next regular Planning Board meeting 16 will be held August 7, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. 17 Jamilet, roll call, please. 18 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mr. Alper? 19 MR. ALPER: Here. 20 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mr. Cardoza? 21 MR. CARDOZA: Present. 22 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mrs. Kapferer? 23 MS. KAPFERER: Here. 24 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mr. Klein? 25 MR. KLEIN: Here. Page 5 1 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mr. Morgan? Mr. 2 Wilkes? 3 MR. WILKES: Here. 4 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Council President 5 Rutherford? 6 COUNCIL PRESIDENT RUTHERFORD: Here. 7 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mayor McCartney? 8 MAYOR McCARTNEY: Present. 9 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mr. Guarino? 10 VICE-CHAIRMAN GUARINO: Here. 11 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Chairman Bagoff? 12 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Here. Thank you. 13 MR. KLEIN:

yor McCartney? 8 MAYOR McCARTNEY: Present. 9 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mr. Guarino? 10 VICE-CHAIRMAN GUARINO: Here. 11 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Chairman Bagoff? 12 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Here. Thank you. 13 MR. KLEIN: Chairman? 14 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Mr. Klein. 15 MR. KLEIN: Can I hand in my 16 certification -- 17 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Yes. 18 MR. KLEIN: -- that I listened to last 19 night's meeting? 20 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Yes. So this is a 21 certification that Mr. Klein listened to last 22 night's meeting and can participate in the meeting 23 going forward. 24 Ms. McGovern, will you swear in the 25 township professionals, please.