Notes on the 02/06/2024 Town Council Agenda
All-Inclusive Playground- Update: This item was removed from the Agenda on 2/6/2024 As we’ve reported, the Township appears to be moving forward with an “all-inclusive” playground at CMS; however, this did not appear to be an agenda item for either of the BOE Meetings in January, and the Town Council Liasion for the BOE (Gale Bradford) has not mentioned this...
Laura’s Notes on the 01/18/2024 Town Council Meeting-Part 1
The Town Council meeting, 1/23/24, opened up with the citizens hearing on agenda items only and no residents had comments on agenda. Committee Reports followed and, for the most part, it was business as usual. Items of note are that the Sherman Avenue revitalization project is in the works and the primary purpose of this project is to make the...
BHCW 01/21/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter includes a NightWatch episode featuring Liza Viana, Township Administrator, who discusses Sewage, Flooding, Bell Labs, and other topics. Our written content focused primarily on the 01/18/2024 BOE, during which the BOE Deadlocked, Ms. Stanley, Ms. Bradford, and the BOE Attorney played the role of political operative (again), and...
Councilman Paul Donnelly Emails Mayor Devanney On Vote to Reappoint Municipal Judge
Earlier today, BHCW posted a video clip on a tense discussion between Councilman Donnelly, Mayor Devanney and the Township Attorney. Soon after we were cc’d on an email from Councilman Donnelly to Mayor Devanney. It read as follows: Dear Angie, all, During last night’s Town Council meeting on Jan 2, 2023, I asked you and council to table the...
Six Days Before Christmas: The 12/19/2023 Town Council Meeting & Municipal Land Use Ordinance
On December 19, 2023, the Berkeley Heights town council unanimously voted on the final adoption of the Municipal Land Use ordinance. This is a 290-page document that was introduced for initial reading on December 5, 2023, and the planning board unanimously voted on this during it’s December 6, 2023 meeting. On the planning board agenda for December 6, 2023, it...
The Municipal Land Use Ordinance- Why Now And In This Manner?
Today on the town council agenda for final adoption is the Municipal Land Use Ordinance’s final amended version. We are SIX days from Christmas and in a lame-duck session. I have been writing to council members and the mayor since September 2023 on the sign ordinance. Natasha Joly also wrote to the council. Other than the initial response from the...
Resident Comments on Land Use Ordinance – 12/05/2023 Town Council Meeting
While BHCW has focused much of its attention on issues connected to political signs and free speech with the new land use ordinance, we must be aware that this is an impactful 200+ page document that includes multiple changes on a variety of items that’s worked its way through a lame-duck session. Government – good government – has a responsibility...
BHCW 12/10/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week… This week, BHCW informed residents of where Mayor Devanney stood in relation to OPRA and shared an email in which she encouraged state legislators to protect critical aspects of this vital law. BHCW exposed a highly suspect RFP and warned the BOE and Community of the potential for more violations on...
Resident Comments on Redevelopment Study Approved by the Council during the 11/21/2023 Berkeley Heights Council
An informative exchange involving a resident during the 11/21/2023 Town Council Meeting. One note is the response to the question on how these properties were decided on by citing one property owner’s request without clarifying how the other properties were decided upon. This was repeated throughout the whole meeting when asked. Also, we notice that we are no longer able...
BHCW 12/03/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter begins with revisiting the Berkeley Heights Board of Education; we review the current BOE Majority’s attempts to gridlock change next year through policy changes. Berkeley Heights residents also discovered that the District’s issues with conducting ethical surveys in obtaining student information continue – this time in connection to...
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