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On October 28, 2025, the Vineland City Council held a regular meeting at 5:30 PM, adjourning at 5:56 PM. All five council members were present: President Paul F. Spinelli, Vice President Cruz Gomez, and Councilmembers Elizabeth Arthur, Scott English, and Albert Vargas. The meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance led by Vineland High School Air Force Junior ROTC cadets. Key actions included adoption of six ordinances on final reading, introduction of five ordinances on first reading, approval of 24 resolutions (with a discrepancy in procedural format), and referral of two redevelopment plan amendments to the Planning Board.
The following six ordinances were each read by title, opened for public hearing (no one spoke), closed, and adopted on final reading with unanimous votes:
The following five ordinances were read for the first time and passed unanimously (5-0), with public hearings set for Monday, November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM (the agenda and minutes state 5:00 PM, but the transcript states 5:30 PM – note the discrepancy). Each was moved by Councilmember Vargas and seconded by Councilmember Arthur:
The council approved 24 resolutions. The official minutes record each resolution with a separate motion and roll-call vote (all 5-0). However, the transcript indicates that the council attempted to adopt all remaining resolutions as a consent agenda after the ordinances, with a single motion that passed unanimously. The resolutions covered a wide range of routine administrative and financial actions, including:
October twenty eighth at five thirty p.m. Dr. Arthur? Here. Councilmember English? Here. Council Member Vargas? Here. Vice President Gomez? Here. President Spinelli. Here. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. We will have the ROTC come up. I pledge allegiance to the flag and to the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, but liberty and justice for all. They're gonna put the flags down and then come up the receipt. Great. Cruzy, you got okay. Thank you. Once again, we'd like to thank the ROTC for participating in our flag. Salute. Thank you, Liz, for getting them out here, and every week we uh try to get some one of the schools to come in and participate with us. Welcome. Public notice in this meeting pursuant to the open public meeting act has been given by the city clerk on December eleventh, twenty twenty-four and is amended in the following manner. Post some written notice on the official Bolden Board of the lobby of City Hall. Provide excuse me, providing written notice to the offices of the Daily Journal Press of Atlantic City in the Binland voice and filing written notice in the office of the city clerk of the city of Binland. Chairman attain a motion that the minutes of the pre-meeting conference and the regular meeting of October 14th and the work session of October twenty-one, twenty twenty-five be approved this submitted. So move. Second. Discussion. Seeing none. Dr. Arthur? Yes. Councilmember English? Yes. Councilmember Vargas. Vice President Gomez? Yes. President Spinelli. Yes. I'll read the statement. We'll open up the public comment portion of the meeting. Public comment provides an opportunity for members of the public to inform the governing body about their views. The governing body prescribes to the city council's bylaws in the New Jersey statutes on open public meetings when engaging during public comment. As such, each individual shall have a five minute limit to comment, cannot yield time to another individual. May only approach the podium once during public comment for any one topic.