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Lopatcong council approves Dec. 16 minutes and consent agenda at special Jan. 13 meeting
Summary
At a Jan. 13 special meeting, the Lopatcong Township Council approved minutes for Dec. 16, 2025, and passed consent-agenda items 1–8 and bills in roll-call votes; no contested motions or substantive debate accompanied the approvals.
The Lopatcong Township Council voted to approve minutes from the Dec. 16, 2025 executive and regular sessions and passed the consent agenda (items 1–8) during a special meeting on Jan. 13, 2026.
The motion to approve the Dec. 16 minutes was moved and seconded; a roll-call vote recorded affirmative responses for Councilman Valera, Councilman Marinelli, an entry recorded in the transcript as “Councilman,” the Council President and Mayor Right, and the motion carried. The council then moved and seconded approval of consent-agenda items 1 through 8; the same pattern of affirmative roll-call votes was recorded and the consent agenda passed. Councilors subsequently reviewed and approved bills for payment in a separate roll call.
The meeting record does not identify the individual members who made or seconded each motion by full name. The transcript also contains inconsistent spellings of one mayoral line (appearing as “Mayor Right” and later as “Mayor Rick”); the council’s roll-call entries are transcribed as printed in the meeting record.
Council staff stated that minutes from the executive session will be released when the council determines their disclosure will not cause public harm; the executive session covered personnel, an office-construction matter, attorney–client privilege items, a utility-bill dispute and two contract matters described in the record as the 'LAA contract' and the 'PVA contract.' No formal action was taken in the executive session.
The meeting adjourned after the votes and public-comment period.
