On September 6 2018, Teaneck’s Council went on a retreat (across the street to a small conference room at Holy Name Hospital). At this retreat, Council conducted business. An audio (but no video) was made — but no video or audio record of what happened at the retreat has ever been  available on the Township website.

However a resident did video record the meeting. His video of the actual Council discussion & vote for a Redevelopment Agency are still on You Tube.  click here for the Retreat video of that entire  Council Redevelopment discussion
Township Planner  Preiss began the discussion and told Council how it could create a new entity – a redevelopment agency – that would radically change and concentrate power in the Council itself and allow it to control everything about the Town’s future development and land use. At the end of the discussion, Council voted unanimously to tell its attorney to develop an ordinance to create the new redevelopment agency.
Responsibility for next steps was handed to the Council’s zoning sub-committee which always meets in closed session. 5 weeks later – at Council’s next regular meeting (10/10/2018) – an Ordinance (25-2018) to create the new Redevelopment Agency was proposed for Introduction. Intense Council discussion of its scope ensued, a 5-2 vote did approve the Ordinance’s Introduction (Rice & Pruitt voting no).  November 19 was set as the date for adoption, but at the October 23 Council meeting the Ordinance was tabled by the Mayor to some indefinite future time.
Neither Ord. 25-2018, nor any ordinance proposing to create a new Teaneck Redevelopment Agency, has ever appeared again on a Council agenda. In fact, likely guided by its secret Zoning Sub-Committee,  4 weeks later (by 11/19/18) Council was ready to begin its alternate redevelopment initiative by taking action to designate Areas in Need of Redevelopment.  It began by designating two areas of Town-owned property which the Town had badly neglected for decades.  (It has now – as of 5/20/22  – begun designation of 9 AINR’s (areas it views as blighted!)  Follow the money?