The Township of Washington Planning Board approved minutes from its Oct. 15 meeting and voted unanimously to enter a closed session at its Nov. 19, 2025 meeting, after a brief public-comment procedure and routine roll call.

Board staff read the meeting notice and participation rules at the start of the meeting. Grace Kaye, identified in the record as board secretary, explained how members of the public could participate: "You'll be asked to state your name for the record, and we ask that only 1 person speak at a time," and that the public portion was "only for non agenda items." The board opened the public portion after a motion and later closed it by a separate motion; the record does not identify who moved or seconded those procedural motions.

A board member raised minor corrections to the Oct. 15 minutes — notably a duplicated word on page 3 and pagination issues — and a motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes "as amended." The chair called a roll-call vote; members on the record answered in the affirmative in sequence (for example, "Mister Carroll? Yes."). The minutes were approved by recorded "Yes" responses.

Near the end of the session, the chair announced, "At this point, we will go into closed session. We will not go back into open session after the closed session." The board moved into closed session after a motion, a second and an affirmative vote. The public record closes at that point; the board did not return to open session during the recorded meeting.

The meeting included no new business or substantive agenda discussion recorded in the public portion. The board noted the presence of tenant counsel Lee Valentina, Paul Azalina, and board secretary Grace Kaye on the record but provided no additional public deliberations before entering closed session.