Christine McGrath

The Verona Township Council had a meeting on Monday, November 10th. Here are the highlights. We approved our 2024 Audit report. The public is encouraged to look through all of our financials here: https://www.veronanj.org/media/Finance%20&%20Tax/Budget/2024/2024%20Municipal%20Audit.pdf We also talked extensively about the pool (both 33 mins in and 1 hr 44 min in). We got an updated financial analysis on the pool rate structure which the public can review under the agenda here:...

We had a short meeting on October 20th. Here is a summary of what was discussed. We passed our 2025 and 2026 salary ordinance for exempt employees. Their salary increase matches our recent union agreement with the OPEIU, which is 2.75%. We introduced two ordinances regulating massage parlors, barbershops, hair salons, cosmetology, and nail salons. These ordinances will allow our Health Department (for which we contract with Bloomfield for these services) to conduct necessary health...

Last night the Council had a meeting, where the most controversial action took place in the last 2 minutes of the meeting. We started off...