12 12 24 PSEG West Orange BOA ZB 24 06 PSEG 35 Mt Pleasant Ave Condensed

65b96228-b9ab-4f72-9291-fa4a14ff04c8 3 (Pages 9 to 12) Page 9 1 follows: 2 MR. WILLIAMS: I most certainly do. 3 G E O R G E W. W I L L I A M S, ACIP, PP 4 105 CR-623, Suite 1, Montclair, New Jersey, 5 having been duly sworn, testifies as follows: 6 MR. DeLUCA: Thank you. 7 CHAIRMAN NEUER: Thank you all. 8 We have one application on our agenda 9 this evening, that's application ZB-24-06, Public 10 Service Electric and Gas Company, for property 11 designated as Lot 26.01 in Block 155, also known as 12 325 Mount Pleasant Avenue. 13 Counsel, your appearance for the 14 record, please. 15 MS. PORTER: Good evening, 16 Mr. Chairman. Jen Porter from CSG Law on behalf of 17 the applicant, PSE&G. 18 And I also have with me my co-counsel, 19 Erica Parlavecchio. 20 CHAIRMAN NEUER: Yes, we saw 21 Ms. Parlavecchio at a prior meeting. 22 MS. PORTER: Yes. 23 CHAIRMAN NEUER: Welcome to both of 24 you. 25 MS. PARLAVECCHIO: Thank you. Page 11 1 forester to discuss the tree removal, as well as the 2 tree replacement plans and their compliance with the 3 township's tree ordinances, both the prior ordinance 4 which we were subject to, as well as the new 5 ordinance which we were exempted from, but 6 voluntarily chose to comply. 7 After that testimony was given, we did 8 entertain questions from members of the public, and 9 at this point PSE&G is ready to rest with its direct 10 testimony regarding the application. 11 CHAIRMAN NEUER: Thank you very much, 12 Ms. Porter. 13 That brings us to the point in these 14 proceedings where we take testimony and evidence from 15 members of the public. 16 Are there any members of the public who 17 wish to be heard on this application or to present 18 evidence? Please raise your hand so that you can be 19 admitted. 20 MS. BRILL: Yes, we have 21 Mr. Turteltaub. 22 CHAIRMAN NEUER: Okay, Mr. Turteltaub, 23 please bring him into the -- 24 MS. BRILL: Should I promote him to 25 panelist -- Page 10 1 CHAIRMAN NEUER: This application has 2 been heard on four prior occasions by the Board; 3 August 15th, September 12, September 19th and 4 October 17th. 5 Mr. DeLuca, we've already verified that 6 notice was in order and -- from each of those prior 7 four hearings, carried until today so the 8 jurisdiction has been obtained. 9 I will also note for the record that 10 based upon the roll call, a quorum is present so that 11 we may move forward to conduct

hearings, carried until today so the 8 jurisdiction has been obtained. 9 I will also note for the record that 10 based upon the roll call, a quorum is present so that 11 we may move forward to conduct business this evening. 12 Ms. Porter, the floor is yours. 13 MS. PORTER: Great. Thank you, 14 Mr. Chairman. 15 So, as I indicated before, good evening 16 everyone, as the Chairman indicated, we last appeared 17 in front of the Board back in October. 18 At that hearing we presented further 19 testimony from two of our experts, our civil engineer 20 and our landscape architect. The basis of that 21 testimony was to indicate that we had conducted 22 further due diligence in terms of the site design, 23 tree preservation and various other site design 24 considerations for the site. 25 We also met again with township Page 12 1 CHAIRMAN NEUER: Yes. 2 MS. BRILL: -- or is he okay in the 3 gallery. 4 CHAIRMAN NEUER: No, bring him into the 5 panel. 6 MS. BRILL: Okay. I'm doing that now. 7 You should see a prompt. 8 Here he comes. 9 There you go. 10 CHAIRMAN NEUER: Welcome back, 11 Mr. Turteltaub. 12 MR. TURTELTAUB: Good evening, 13 Mr. Neuer and Members of the Board, I thank you for 14 your time tonight. 15 CHAIRMAN NEUER: Mr. Turteltaub, my 16 recollection is that you're appearing on behalf of a 17 citizen of this community, Kevin Malanga. 18 Is that correct? 19 MR. TURTELTAUB: Yes, Mr. Neuer. 20 This is actually my first appearance 21 for Mr. Malanga in this application. And I do have a 22 case to put on tonight on his behalf, yes. 23 CHAIRMAN NEUER: Okay. What do you 24 intend to present? 25 MR. TURTELTAUB: We intend to present