BHCW 02/11/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter features an interview with Mayor Angie Devanny that includes frank discussions with BHCW on the CMS Field, All-Inclusive Play Ground, and the recently passed Land Use Ordinance, among other items. We were proud to create and publish the first-ever 7-District Dashboard ACFR Budget spreadsheet that provides the public...
BHCW 02/04/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter starts with a primer on the 2024 Budget that provides a few snap-shots of the 2022-2023 ACFR. Residents and parents are strongly encouraged to read the attachments to this first in a series leading up to the 2024 BHPSNJ Budget process. We then move to the strange tandem...
Annual Email to Elected Representatives and Administrators of Berkeley Heights NJ-2024
Good Morning, We invite elected officials and administrators to use our platforms to connect with constituents each year. In our current “anniversary year,” we have had contributions in print or video from over 30 residents, elected representatives, educators, and subject matter experts. We’ve touched on issues connected to the school district (budget, transportation, proficiencies, ethics, etc.) and the township (flooding,...
BHCW 01/28/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week, BHCW was privileged to speak with Laura Waters (NJ Education Report) and pick her brain on a host of topics, including the continued impact of COVID on learning, transparency, standardized testing, and the state of American education. A resident provided the community with a detailed accounting of Ms. Penna’s...
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...
Night Watch Episode 25: The Return of Liza Viana- Berkeley Heights Township Administrator
Township Administrator Liza Viana comes back to update us on the Sewage Plant, progress on flooding concerns, the Sherman Ave project, Bell Labs, Affordable Housing, and More. See All Night Watch Episodes
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...
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...
Mayor Devanney Writes to Senator Scutari | Defends Key Aspects of OPRA
A significant and welcome update on our efforts in asking state representatives to pause any effort for OPRA reform to the next legislative session. BHCW was copied on an email from Mayor Devanney to Senator Scutari. This email addressed three of our primary concerns with the reforms that have been proposed: First, moving disputes over cases away from the Superior...
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