November 13, 2024 Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

TOWNSHIP OF WEST ORANGE PLANNING BOARD MEETING ESSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY IN THE MATTER OF: ) TRANSCRIPT ) PB-24-01 ) OF WEST ESSEX HIGHLANDS, INC. ) ) PLANNING BOARD MEETING ) Place: Council Chambers 66 Main Street West Orange, NJ 07052 Date: November 13, 2024 BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: DR. ROBERT BAGOFF, Chairman JERRY GUARINO, Vice Chairman SUSAN McCARTNEY, Mayor KEN ALPER JOHN CARDOZA LORI KAPFERER LEE D. KLEIN WILLIAM B. WILKES, II BILL RUTHERFORD BOARD PROFESSIONALS: DIANA P. McGOVERN, ESQ., Board Attorney JOHN J. HESS, PE, PP, Consulting Engineering JAMILET BAQUERIZO VITE, Board Secretary FISHMAN COURT REPORTING 89 Headquarters Plaza Morristown, NJ 07960 (732)605-9390 E-mail: pfishman1@aol.com Audio Recorded 2 APPEARANCES: BRYAN PLOCKER, ESQ. (Hutt Shimanowitz & Plocker, P.C.) Attorney for the Applicant BRUCE AFRAN, ESQ. (Law Office of Bruce Afran) Attorney for WeCare NJ 3 A D D E N D U M Individuals identified within the text of the following transcript do not represent necessarily all of the individuals in attendance at this meeting. Their presence, speaker identification and other information regarding title page and appearance, along with various words, proper nouns and other spellings found within this transcript were able to have been extrapolated from minutes of the meeting and discussions with the Board Secretary and, of course, that which is evident and that which can be concluded by way of the tape recording itself, which is of fair quality. Areas of the tape which were unable to be discerned were identified by placing the word (indiscernible) or (inaudible). * * * * * 4 I N D E X PAGE PUBLIC COMMENT Barbara White 10 Werner Heck 16 Peter Guarino 18 Seth Weisleder 20 Randy Cooper 26 Mr. Coviat (phonetic) 29 Mike McGlynn 40 WITNESS WAYNE DeFEO Examination by Mr. Bruce Afran 41