Basking Ridge's Future Planning Meeting To Be Held Tonight

BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Want to help shape Basking Ridge's future? Here's your chance. The Bernards Township Vision 2020/Planning for the Future Task Force is holding a public meeting on Wednesday, March 27 from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Warren Craft Meeting Room, 1 Collyer Lane.

Members of the newly-appointed task force are asking the public to help create a vision plan that reflects the goals and priorities of the township.

During the meeting residents' community-related concerns and objectives for the year 2020 and beyond will be collected.

Information collected by task force members will be used to develop a township-wide survey as Vision 2020 plans to kick off an effort to promote a high level of resident participation at Charter Day, 2019.

The survey will be made available online, on the bernards.org website, as well as at select senior living residences, beginning in mid-May. Survey results, in turn, will be compiled, analyzed and presented to the Township Committee before December of this year.

The Vision 2020 Task Force has been meeting regularly since early February, and is comprised of appointed township residents Jennifer Aaron and Monique Loh (Co-Chairs), Faris Jebara, Madhavi Puppala and Suzanne Tufariello. Township Committee members, Mayor Carol Bianchi and Joan Harris, also participate in the group's meetings, as do Director of Technology Chris Kyriacou, Township Administrator Pat Monaco and Deputy Municipal Clerk Rhonda Pisano.

Public input is also welcome via email to vision2020@bernards.org.

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