Public Input Needed To Help Shape Basking Ridge's Future

BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Want to help share Basking Ridge's future? Here's your chance. Members of the newly-appointed Bernards Township Vision 2020 Task Force are asking the public to help create a vision plan that reflects the goals and priorities of the township.

A series of public input and brainstorming sessions will be held where residents’ community-related concerns and objectives for the year 2020 and beyond will be collected.

The meetings, open to the public, will be held at the following times and locations:

• Thursday, March 21, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., Warren Craft Meeting Room, 1 Collyer Lane
• Wednesday, March 27, 7 to 8 p.m., Warren Craft Meeting Room, 1 Collyer Lane

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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