February 20, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • Page 21 Mahwah Minutes Kindergarten registration announced The Mahwah Board of Education has announced that kindergarten registration for children who will be five years old on or before Oct. 1, 2013 will be held at each of the local schools. Registration dates are: Betsy Ross School, 20 Malcolm Avenue, (201) 762-2251, March 5 and 7; George Washington School, 39 Fardale Avenue, (201) 762-2241, March 11; and Lenape Meadows School, 160 Ridge Road, (201) 7622261, March 11 and 12. Parents of students who attend private kindergarten and would like to enroll their children in first grade next year should contact the schools for registration information. Eligible first graders must turn six by Oct. 1, 2013. Parents may call the school the child is scheduled to attend to request a registration packet and to set up an appointment. To download registration forms, visit www.mahwah. k12.nj.us or call the board of education at (201) 762-2400. Schepisi, Saudino to address club Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi and Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino will address the Mahwah Republican Club on Wednesday, Feb. 27. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Mahwah Senior Center at 475 Corporate Drive. This meeting is open to the public. For more information, contact Tracy Miceli at tracy@mahwahgop.com. Coins for a Cause to benefit Winter’s Park The Winter’s Park Playground Committee will host a Coins for a Cause Day on Saturday, Feb. 23. The community is invited to visit Boiling Springs Savings Bank’s branch at 6 East Ramapo Avenue in Mahwah, use the bank’s free coin counting machine, and donate the coins to the Winter’s Park Committee. Bank hours will be 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The donations will be used to upgrade the park’s playground. The committee is planning a new state-of-the-art playground for children. The plans include the installation of ADA-compliant equipment and playground mulch, a requirement for a safe play environment. Each donation will bring the committee closer to providing a safe and enjoyable environment for local children. The 17-acre property now known as Winter’s Park was donated to the township by the Winter family in 1961. In February 1962, the property was dedicated as a park. Thirty years later, in 1992, volunteers built the existing playground on the property. Two decades and scores of children have played the recreation area to its current exhausted state. Call Boiling Springs Savings Bank at (201) 512-9300. Delisi to discuss planning a wedding Join Toni Delisi at the Mahwah Library on Feb. 20 for a discussion of wedding planning tips. Delisi’s 7 p.m. presentation will include information on budgeting, invitations, etiquette, selecting vendors, and the timing of the wedding day. No registration is necessary; seating will be available on a “first come” basis. The library is located at 100 Ridge Road. Call (201) 5297323 for details. Remembering Sinatra Donnie Farraro will present “To Be Perfectly Frank,” a musical show centered on the life of Frank Sinatra, at the Mahwah Seniors’ luncheon on Thursday, Feb. 21. This noon program will be held at the Senior Center located at 475 Corporate Drive. Farraro’s program covers the musician’s life from his birth on Dec.12, 1915 in Hoboken to his death on May 14, 1998 in Los Angeles, California. The program is open to Mahwah seniors only. For details, contact the center at (201) 529-5757, extension 213. Crossroads hearing continues (continued from page 3) through 2010. Those donations, Kates said, could have influenced DaPuzzo’s vote on the rezoning ordinance. James Jaworski, the attorney for Crossroads Developers, LLC, argued that the standard for a conflict of interest in common law and in the local government ethics law is that there be a direct or indirect financial interest. He claimed that DaPuzzo’s wife is a part time employee and does not report to the township council to which her husband was elected. Jaworski also argued that she had no role in the adoption of the rezoning ordinance and did not know it contained any recreation features when the ordinance was introduced. Jaworski also argued that DaPuzzo only served on the foundation’s corporate committee for one year during the time the donations to the schools foundation were made, and those donations were made in order to have the developer’s name placed on banners and T-shirts for the annual Mahwah Run and did not impair DaPuzzo’s objectivity. Township Attorney Andrew Fede joined Jaworski in arguing that there was no conflict of interest in the matter because, according to the facts in the case, DaPuzzo was not involved in the donations made by Crossroads Developers to the schools foundation, his wife is not an employee of Crossroads, and the foundation was not a proponent of the rezoning ordinance. Jaworski and Fede presented opposing arguments in the lawsuit brought by the developer. Jaworski argued that the council did not adhere to the required timeline to adopt the repealing ordinance because it acted before it received the written report from the planning board concerning the ordinance’s compliance with the master plan. That effort to act before the report was received was arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable, he said. Fede argued that the council was not required to adopt the rezoning ordinance and the council members simply changed their minds and came to a different conclusion when they adopted the repealing ordinance. He claimed there was no requirement that the council wait for the report from the planning board, and added there is no basis to set the repealing ordinance aside because all the statutory procedural requirements were followed.