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Please be advised, Union County Mosquito Control will be spraying county and city parks Wednesday morning, August 16, 2023, between the hours of 3:00 A.M. to 7:00 A.M. (Weather Permitting). Check below for the list of Parks to be sprayed. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Union County Office of Mosquito Control at 908-654-9834 or 908-654-9835.

County Parks

• Clark – Esposito, Oak Ridge
• Cranford – Nomahegan
• Garwood – Unami
• Hillside – Conant, Rutgers
• Linden – Wheeler
• Mountainside – Echo Lake
• Plainfield – Cedar Brook, Green Brook
• Rahway – Rahway Pk.
• Roselle – Warinanco
• Scotch Plains – Ponderosa
• Union – Lighting Brook

City Parks

• Hillside – Sanford
• Linden – Memorial
• Union – Biertuempfel, Rabkin

Pursuant to an announcement by Deana Mesaros, Director of the Union County Paratransit System, notice is hereby given that on August 22, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. at Union County Administration Building at 10 Elizabethtown Plaza 6^th Floor, Elizabeth, NJ  the COUNTY OF UNION, Department of Human Services Paratransit, will hold a Hearing accepting input concerning the 2024 Application to New Jersey Transit for funding under the Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Assistance Program, at which time and place all interested parties will be given an opportunity to be heard. To assure that all members of the public are given an opportunity to be heard, initial presentations will be limited to five (5) minutes.

In order to encourage full participation in this Hearing, please submit any requests for accommodation of people with disabilities to the Union County Paratransit 10 Elizabethtown Plaza 2^nd Fl., Elizabeth, NJ 07207 no later than five (5) business days prior to the public hearing. People who are deaf, hard of hearing and/or speech impaired should access this service by contacting New Jersey Relay Service TTY/TDD 1-800-852-7899.

For those residents unable to attend the Hearing, please know that written comments and/or testimony will be accepted through September 5^th. Please send correspondence to Deana Mesaros, Director, Union County Paratransit System 10 Elizabethtown Plaza 2^nd Fl. Elizabeth, NJ 07207

Under the terms of the Open Public Meetings Act P.L. 1975, C. 231, and pursuant to requirements of N.J.S.A 10: 4-10, please be advised that circumstances necessitate amending the 2023 Meeting Schedule of the Union County Board of County Commissioners.

The Board has a need to cancel the Agenda Setting Session and the Regular Meeting of Thursday, June 22, 2023. Both the Agenda Setting Session and the Regular Meeting will be rescheduled for the next ensuing week on Thursday, June 29, 2023. The Agenda Setting Session will commence at 6:00pm and the Regular Meeting will commence as soon as possible after the Agenda Setting Session. Both meetings will be held in the Commissioner Meeting Room, Administration Building, 10 Elizabethtown Plaza, 6^th Floor, Elizabeth, New Jersey as originally advertised. 

Persons requiring a sign language interpreter should contact the Office of the Clerk of the Board at 908-527-4140.

Submission Date: June 19, 2023

James E. Pellettiere,

Clerk of the Board

Under the terms of the Open Public Meetings Act, P.L. 1975, C. 231, please be advised that the Fiscal Affairs Committee of the Union County Board of County Commissioners will be hosting Special Meetings on the 2023 Budget on Wednesday, March 29, 2023 and Thursday, March 30, 2023.

Please be advised that both meetings of the Fiscal Affairs Committee will be held in the Commissioner Meeting Room within the Administration Building, 6th floor, located at 10 Elizabethtown Plaza, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 07207 and will commence at 5:00 P.M.  Please be further advised, the purpose of said meetings of the Fiscal Affairs Committee is to hear and review proposed 2023 budgets of various County departments.

Please be advised, these meetings of the Fiscal Affairs Committee are not Regular Meetings of the Board of County Commissioners, and as such, no action will be taken.  While open to the public, there is no opportunity for public comment.  The time and place for public comments on the 2023 Union County Budget will be provided during the official Public Hearing on the 2023 Union County Budget, which will be announced at the time of the budget introduction in accordance with the law.

Submission Date: March 7, 2023

James E. Pellettiere, Clerk of the Board

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:12-13.5 the County of Union will hold a in-person Public Meeting on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 10:00 am at the Commissioner’s Meeting Room, located on the 6th Floor of the County Administration Building, 10 Elizabethtown Plaza, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 07107.   

The purpose of this meeting is to inform the public of the County’s decision to sell a 0.243 portion of its parkland that is located in the Berkeley Heights section of the County’s Passaic River Park.  

This property is identified on the Berkeley Heights tax map as Block 201, part of Lot 2.   Specifically, the land in question is the southern half of McClellan Street, a paper street vacated by the Township of Berkeley Heights in 1966, that runs from Summit Ave. westward to another vacated public street.  The former McClellan Street was between the County’s Passaic River parkland on the left side (heading north) of the last block of Summit Avenue’s northern end, and the adjoining former Millmaster property bordering the River.    

The name of the proposed buyer is Chevron Environmental Management Company (CEMC).

This strip of land, measuring 530 feet in length by 25 feet in width and constituting 0.243 of an Acre, is being used by CEMC for the location of a slurry wall.   This wall prevents hazardous contaminants from seeping out of the former Millmaster property; and it is required to be there by N.J. Department of Environmental Protection’s remediation regulations.

The County will sell this property by public bid.  In light of its dimensions (which make it an unbuildable lot) and its contaminated condition, CEMC is expected to the only bidder.   Once CEMC acquires this land, it can complete the remediation by recording the Deed to this land.  The Deed will include a restriction which will state that no residential housing may ever be constructed on this property. 

The County has prepared a report providing more information about this proposed sale.   It can be obtained at no cost.   A request for the report must be made in writing.  The request can be made via email to Kevin Campbell, Assistant County Counsel at kcampbell@ucnj.org, or by regular mail sent to the County Counsel’s Office, Administration Building, 10 Elizabethtown Plaza, Elizabeth, N.J.  07207. The report includes a diagram showing the location of this property, as well as the monetary amount CEMC intends to pay for this land.

Members of the public may also submit written comment about the sale of this property prior to the Hearing Date, by email or regular mail, to the person and address in the preceding paragraph.   All such comments must be-post marked no later than the Hearing Date.    

The Public Hearing will be recorded by a stenographer.  The Hearing will begin with a brief presentation of the proposed sale.  Members of the public will then be asked if they have any questions about the proposed sale transaction.   Only after such questions have been answered will comments be accepted.  Speakers questions and comments will be limited to three minutes.  Speakers may ask or comment more than once, but only after everyone in attendance has first had a chance to speak.    

Parking is available at the Christian Bollwage Parking Garage.  The Garage is also located on Elizabethtown Plaza.   There is a fee for this parking.