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If you are not registered to vote, please make it a priority to do so. To complete a registration form or for more information regarding voting in Bergen County, please click onto the this link.

If you are not sure if you are registered to vote in Teaneck, you may search here.

To check the details of your voter record, you may sign up here.

By clicking on the link below, you can indicate your interest in participating in one of many informal, confidential, and increasingly in-person café conversations I am co-facilitating with one of our neighbors. It's a great forum for you and certainly for me. Click here

The litigants say progress has been made. But there is no settlement yet due to "technical matters." They have ask judge for another 90 days to work on it.

That was the message delivered by all 3 counsels representing Stop & Shop corporate, the Township, and the Teaneck Planning Board when they met in a Case Management Conference call on Friday afternoon, March 4, with Judge Christine Farrington of the Civil Division, Bergen County, Superior Court of NJ.

  

The additional information provided to the judge during the call by the litigants’ Counsel, was that the settlement is expected to include the landlord for the property on which Stop & Shop sits and the prospective developer (who has not yet been publicly named).

The scope of this prospective developer’s role in the settlement (and perhaps in the entire Area in Need of Redevelopment plan) was not clarified in the Case Conference call.

But the fact that five entities are now involved in the settlement was said by the litigant counsels to add complexity to the “technical issues” of the settlement.

Having accepted the litigants’ statement that they needed another 90 days before the parties would be able to report to her, Judge Farrington proposed – and all participants agreed - that the next Case Conference call would occur at noon on June 9. 

Following the resignation of Board of Education member, Harold Clark, the Teaneck Board of Education is advertising to Teaneck residents who would like to be selected for the vacant Board position for the remainder of the 2022 school year.

Those interested in the Board member vacancy should submit a letter of interest and a resume that must be sealed and delivered to:

Teaneck Board of Education, Interim Board Secretary

651 Teaneck Road

Teaneck, New Jersey 07666

Or via email to:

ba@teaneckschools.org 

The deadline for filing your interest is 4:00 pm on Friday, March 11, 2022

Qualifications to be a Teaneck Board of Education member pursuant to NJSA 18A:12-1, are as follows:

 

1. a. be a United States citizen; b. have been a resident of the district for at least one year at the time of election or appointment; c. be able to read and write; d. be a registered voter in the district; e. not be disqualified as a voter; f. have not been convicted of any of the crimes or offenses enumerated in N.J.S.A. 18A:12-1 or conspiracy to commit or attempt to commit any of said crimes. And

2. a. not be the mayor or a member of the governing body of the municipality or, in the case of special services or vocational schools, the county, or; b. not have a direct, or indirect, contract with or claim against the board.

Appointments can be scheduled at www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/en/covid19/schedule

Free at-home COVID-19 tests ordered on www.covidtests.gov and delivered by USPS. Limit of 1 order per household. Each order contains 4 individual tests.

In an effort to keep the senior center staff and participants safe, all are required to be fully vaccinated and provide proof of vaccination. Mask wearing and social distancing are required.

Forms for the spring session are available February 14 in the senior center lobby, outside of the recreation office on the first floor and online on the town website. Spring classes begin in March.

There are a few more openings in the class to begin in April “So You Want to Go to the Movies”. The Art History class is closed.

Teaneck Library Services and Schedule have been altered due to COVID: See updated schedule

Teaneck public entity meetings this week (5) will all occur on either Wednesday or Thursday evenings. The three on Thursday evening will likely overlap. Unfortunately, as Teaneck Voices goes to press there exists NO INFORMATION as to how to access 3 of the 4 meetings to which the public is invited – nor is there any official information about the agenda for any of the 5 meetings. 

Wednesday March 9, 2022 at 6:30pm 

Public access and opportunity for input limited by Advisory Board ordinance (*see below)

Wednesday March 9, 2022 at 8:00 pm. 

Zoom Link 

This meeting will be held virtually only! You are invited to a Zoom webinar. For more information, Click Here. If you have any questions in regards to this notice, please contact the Board office at 201-833- 5527 during regular business hours 

Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 6:30pm

By Zoom 

No agenda or access info available as of noon 3/7.  

The Library’s website currently states “Members of the public who wish to attend can register at: TBA"

Council Budget Meeting

Thursday March 10, 2022 at 7:00pm 

Unbelievably, no meeting access information or agenda is available as of noon 3/7. This is to be the first budget meeting of the year for 2022 – the current year. For reasons never specified, the originally scheduled first budget meeting was to have been last week – March 3. It was cancelled. 

Thursday March 10, 2022 at 8:00pm

As of noon 3/7, no information was available from the Township as to the location, zoom address or agenda of this scheduled statutory land use board meeting.

It was informally communicated to Teaneck Voices that this Planning Board session will include consideration of whether the zoning ordinance on Holy Name H-Hospital Zone expansion (Ord. 9-2022 Introduced by Council on 2/22 (Click Here) and scheduled for adoption 3/15) is consistent with the Township Master Plan. The relevant Master Plan amendment concerning the Hospital was passed by the Planning Board 12/16 (Click Here) 

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For those subscribers looking for agenda information about Teaneck’s land use boards:

The Board of Adjustment continues to run far behind with “scheduled” delays and continuations of applicant hearings requiring multiple sessions now stretching out until at least late-May. No schedule of or agendas for those regular and special meetings are available except some information can be obtained by watching videos of agenda discussions at recent earlier B of A meetings, discussions which usually occur early in the meeting or at the end of meetings which typically last more than 3 hours. (see also Click Here)

Events at the Library: Click here

**This Program is offered again in March and April. Click here for more detailed information about this Program.

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We're pleased to announce our first ever Teaneck eCitizen Program for adults! This program aims to teach participants how to: