July 16, 2025, Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 5 here. That's Greg Descera and Mike Petry. Mike Petry is an engineer, I believe of Verona and Greg is one of the Township attorney's who has background on certain agreements and restrictions that he will testify to. In addition we expect to have Chris Boekel, B-O-E-K-E-L, Essex Fells Fire Department commander who was on scene at the time of the event that Ed Davis spoke to the last meeting. And in addition we have what I understand will be a witness as an expert fire chief, Richard Schartel and Richard Schartel is purely phonetic, I do not have the precise pronunciation of his name and we additionally have John Hasse, who is the chief of the Geospatial Department at Rowan University who actually has been a consultand for many state departments, Fair Share Housing, State Department of Agriculture on Geospatial aspects of properties that are identified for different state purposes. Development purposes, agriculture, preservation, parkland and actually for affordable housing and so he will testify as to their data collection with respect to this site. However, he's out of the country the whole month. He does not return until August 3, so I know the Chair wanted our witnesses to finish on that date, which I don't think is inherently unreasonable, but he is not here and so he won't be here until, let's assume he gets