10:15am – 10:45am
Welcome and Intro / CLE Requirements
Event Room: 417
Speaker:
- Steven Goodell – President, NJILGA
Seminar Programs
League of Municipalities Convention
November 19 - 20th, 2025 in Atlantic City
Agenda for November 19, 2025
Agenda subject to change
- 10:45am – 12:00pm
Emerging Issues in Municipal Use of Social Media
Event Room: 417
Speakers:
- Tara St. Angelo – Member, NJILGA
- Steven Kleinman, Trustee, NJILGA
- Janice Kovach, Past President, NJLM
- 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Affordable Housing
Event Room: 313
Speakers:
- Steven Goodell – President, NJILGA
- Edward Buzak – Past President, NJILGA
- Jeffrey Surenian – Trustee, NJILGA
- 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Attorneys & Engineers - Perfect Together
Event Room: 321
Speakers:
- Ronald Cucciaro – Past President, NJILGA
- Thomas Collins – Member, NJILGA
- Michael Herbert, Member, NJILGA
- Dennis Galvin, Trustee, NJILGA
- Robert Regan – Trustee, NJILGA
- Farah Gilani – President, NJSME
- Olga Gacia – Past President, NJSME
- Caroline Reiter – PP, AICP
- Joseph Pomante – Past President, NJSME
- 3:45pm – 5:00pm
OPRA & Right to Know - Recent Development and Strategies
Event Room: 314
Speakers:
- Jolanta Maziarz – Trustee, NJILGA
- George Morris – Member, NJILGA
- Tara St. Angelo – Member, NJILGA
- 3:45pm – 5:00pm
New Jersey Public Sector Law Update
Event Room: 320
Speakers:
- Matthew Giacobbe – Member, NJILGA
- Leslie Parikh – Member, NJILGA
Agenda for November 20, 2025
Agenda subject to change
- 9:00am – 10:15am
Open Public Meetings
Event Room: 311
Speakers:
- Steven Goodell – President, NJILGA
- Trishka Waterbury Cecil – Past President, NJILGA
- Jean Kephart Cipriani – Trustee, NJILGA
- John Gillespie – Past President, NJILGA
- 10:45am – 12:00pm
Local Government Ethics
Event Room: 414
Speakers:
- Douglas Heinold – First Vice President, NJILGA
- Sharon Dragan – Second Vice President, NJILGA
- Joseph Wenzel – Trustee, NJILGA
- James Belford Damiano – Mayor, Little Falls Township
- 10:45am – 12:00pm
The Municipal Cannabis Matrix Update
Event Room: 416
Speakers:
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Moderator: Ronald P. Mondello, Trustee, NJILGA, Municipal Cannabis Consigliere
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Marc Friedman, Esq., P.C.
- John Williams – Law Office of John D. Williams
- Sgt. Michael S. Kelly – Jackson Township Police
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Susanna Puntel – Cannabis and Hemp Consultant
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Matt and Dan Wielkotz – Municipal Auditors, Wielkotz & Company, LLC
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- 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Avoiding and Defending Claims Against Local Government
Event Room: 414
Speakers:
- Robert Renaud – Past President, NJILGA
- Robert Varady – Member, NJILGA
- Victor Afanador – Member, NJILGA
- 3:45pm – 5:00pm
Municipal Law Update
Event Room: 416
Speakers:
- Steven Goodell – President, NJILGA
- Edward Purcell – Trustee, NJILGA
- 5:00pm – 5:30pm
NJILGA Annual Meeting
Event Room: 414
- 6:00pm – 8:00pm
NJILGA Social Event
Location: Caesars Hotel, Tiberius Room