Christine McGrath

On Monday the Verona Town Council met and had a robust agenda. The following are the highlights of what happened. We introduced a suite of ordinances for the 2026 pool season and passed the 2026 pool rules in our resolutions. I know many residents are passionate about the pool and concerned about it's financial future. Over the last few months, the Administration has received lots of feedback on the pool's rate structure and ideas to generate more revenue and reduce costs from the public,...

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...