Mayor Nancy Adams

After Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new Open Public Records Act [OPRA] Modernization bill…

After several years of late budgets, the township passed the final budget in May. Work is already starting on next year’s budget.

The budget supports policy decisions around streeteries, Master Plan implementation, lowering pool fees, increasing homeless outreach, and instituting pay increases for lower-wage township workers.

“Not only is this greener in that we are recycling, we are also freeing up time for our staff to perform other critical tasks for the Township”, says Mayor Nancy Adams.

The TC recently designated six of the eight lots within the area — which face Maplewood Ave. and are between Inwood Pl. and Durand Rd — as an area in need of redevelopment.

Since moving here in 1989, Adams has played pivotal roles as an environmental activist, a champion of economic redevelopment, and even named one of Maplewood’s best-known neighborhoods.

“We are so fortunate that 100 years ago, this small new municipality had the civic pride and ambition to hire some of the best landscape architects of their day to create a great public space. A place that as Percival Gallagher of the Olmsted firm noted, must reflect the ideals of the town. … Just such a place guides our efforts today.”