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Green Township Board of Health names DeYoung president, Qarmout vice president in brief reorganization meeting
Summary
At its Jan. 6, 2025 reorganizational meeting, the Green Township Board of Health appointed James DeYoung as president and Bader Qarmout as vice president, designated official newspapers, and approved appointments for attorney, engineer and secretary. No public comment was recorded.
The Green Township Board of Health met on Jan. 6, 2025, for its reorganizational meeting and adopted routine administrative resolutions to set leadership and professional representation for the year. James DeYoung was nominated and appointed president and Bader Qarmout was elected vice president; both nominations passed by roll call with members present voting in favor.
The meeting, opened by Board Secretary Patty DeClesis at 8:26 p.m., recorded attendance of Margaret “Peg” Phillips, Bader Qarmout, Virginia “Ginnie” Raffay and Michael Rose; James DeYoung was absent. The board designated the New Jersey Herald as its official newspaper for publishing and The Star-Ledger for notification as required for 2025.
The board approved resolutions to appoint legal and technical representatives for 2025. The minutes show a motion to appoint Ursula Leo, Esq., as board attorney (the motion passed with an abstention recorded for Phillips in the written roll call). The minutes and attached resolution texts also record an engineer appointment, but they are inconsistent on the appointee’s name: the motion text in the meeting minutes refers to Cory L. Stoner, P.E., C.M.E., while the attached resolution names Thomas Knutelsky, P.E., P.P., of Harold E. Pellow & Associates, Inc., as the board engineer for 2025. The board adopted the engineer appointment by roll call; the record lists the vote as unanimous among those present for that item.
Margaret Phillips nominated Patty DeClesis to continue as board secretary for 2025; the motion was seconded by Michael Rose and approved by the members present. The board also approved the minutes of the Jan. 3, 2024 reorganization meeting. No members of the public spoke during the meeting.
The meeting record includes several typographical inconsistencies in the attached documents (multiple spellings of the secretary’s name and a resolution number shown as BOH2023-05 in the minutes), which the board may wish to correct in the official minutes or resolution certificates. The minutes show the meeting adjourned at 8:32 p.m.
