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Belleville planning board reorganizes leadership and appoints board professionals
Summary
At a reorganization meeting, the Belleville Planning Board confirmed new leadership, reappointed several planning-board members, named board professionals and acknowledged a resignation from Richard Giordano. The board also approved past meeting minutes.
The Belleville Planning Board completed its annual reorganization, electing a chair and vice chair, confirming appointments to planning‑board seats and naming professional consultants.
At the start of the meeting the clerk announced receipt of a resignation from Richard Giordano (regular class member, term expired June 30). The board then proceeded under Resolution No. 20‑10 (2026) to appoint and reappoint members, with names listed aloud during the meeting including Arlene Shore (Class 1, mayor’s designee), Ryan Vanda (Class 2), Tom Graziano (Class 3), Joseph Pizzi (Class 4) and additional appointments referenced for Mario Draz and Jeremy Delbergio.
Nominations for board leadership were made from the floor. A member nominated a candidate for chair and the nomination was seconded; the board conducted a roll-call confirmation. The board also nominated and confirmed a vice chair (nomination for Ray Banero was recorded and seconded). The reorganizational votes were handled by roll call and accepted by the membership present; the facilitator and clerk managed roll-call procedure and confirmed the board’s composition during the vote.
The board appointed professional staff for the coming term. A motion to appoint Joe Maranello as board attorney was made and seconded and accepted by the board. Tom Burns was nominated and seconded for engineer, and other professional appointments (including recording secretary) were moved and approved.
The chairman delivered opening remarks thanking members, families and prior community leaders and said he would "absolutely do [his] best" on behalf of Belleville. The board approved minutes from prior meetings (06/11/2026 and 07/09/2026) by motion and roll call; the transcript records several yes votes and a small number of abstentions on those approvals.
The meeting record shows the board directing staff and professionals to remain available to members for questions and to assist with procedural issues; no substantive land‑use decisions were made at the reorganization meeting.
The board adjourned the reorganization portion of the meeting after the appointments and minutes were addressed. The next procedural items included an adjournment of a separate application (Duval Academy) to a future meeting date.
