This was another busy week at the 21st – we’re going to start from the top and work our way down to the locals.
On the state level, we cover special education audits and the state scramble to address the growing infrastructure issues throughout NJ on this week’s 21st Briefing.
The NJ DOL updated is WARN notice archive and 2026 continues to outpace 2025 on potential layoff notices.
NJ ELEC released a couple of impactful reports this week and we honed in the explosion of money feeding into NJ county political systems since Scutari’s 2023 Campaign law defanging.
We finally get something back from the Cherry Hill School District in their lawsuit against a Journalist over OPRA and have since learned there’s more to the story than we published….stay tuned on this because it has huge implications for the state of journalism in NJ.
Moving onto the locals…
In Berkeley Heights we get the final budget from BHPSNJ and their plan to tackle exploding health care costs. Laura gives us an overview on the 04/30 BHPSNJ Meeting and the 05/06 agenda. We also go back to the 04/17 Town Council Meeting and look at what changed in the Municipal Budget that led to a razor thin $400 cushion.
In Summit we provide an overview of the 05/05 Commons Council Meeting that had budget adoption and road closures as part of the agenda and wrap up our coverage of Summit School’s Budget.
In Garwood a resident offers his input on the impact of PILOT programs on local schools – part of an unfortunate yet common perspective communities around the state can relate to.
On the Socials….
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