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Middlesex County Planning Board elects chair, adopts officer and meeting resolutions
Summary
At its January meeting the Middlesex County Planning Board elected Jason Freedman as chair, approved officers and passed four administrative resolutions establishing counsel, secretary designation, the 2025 meeting schedule and agenda templates.
Jason Freedman was elected chair of the Middlesex County Planning Board on a roll-call vote during the board's reorganization meeting, and members approved several administrative resolutions establishing the board's counsel, a designated secretary (subject to county-commissioner approval), the 2025 meeting schedule and standard agenda templates.
The board approved Resolution 2025-01 appointing an attorney identified in the resolution text as "Steven Decom, Esquire" as counsel to the Middlesex County Planning Board for a term ending Dec. 31, 2025. The board then moved and approved Resolution 2025-02 designating Michelle Norris, assistant administrative analyst, as board secretary, subject to the approval of the Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners.
Members also adopted Resolution 2025-03, which sets the regularly scheduled Planning Board meetings for 2025 (second Tuesday of each month at 3:15 p.m., with the Development Review Committee meeting immediately before at 3:00 p.m.), and Resolution 2025-04, which establishes an agenda template to be used at official board and Development Review Committee meetings.
Votes on the resolutions were taken by roll call; the chair called each item and members recorded votes in favor. For each resolution the meeting record shows an affirmative roll call with eight members/alternates recorded as voting "yes." No "no," abstain or recusal votes were recorded in the transcript for these resolutions.
The board also approved the minutes of its Dec. 10, 2024 meeting by unanimous voice vote.
The meeting packet and the board's adopted schedule direct that copies of the meeting-schedule resolution and agenda templates be forwarded to the county clerk, clerk of the board of county commissioners, municipal clerks for the county's 25 municipalities, and the two area newspapers named in the Open Public Meetings Act notice procedure.
The procedural business concluded with the chair welcoming the board for the coming year and moving to the planning director's report and other agenda items.
Votes and formal motions recorded in the meeting minutes follow the board's roll-call entries and are reflected below.
