Springfield committee approves slate of professional contracts and board appointments; one abstention on shared-service item

Springfield Township’s organizational meeting included the approval of a broad set of professional service contracts and board appointments for 2026, with the committee voting to confirm attorneys, auditors, engineering firms and numerous board members by roll call.

Claraara Herelic, chair of the Union County Board of Elections, presented certificates of election earlier in the meeting; afterward the committee moved through a series of resolutions. The committee approved Resolution 202601 authorizing a contract with Craig Dow, Esquire of Weber Dow Law LLC as township attorney, and then sequentially approved bond counsel (Res. 202602), labor counsel (Res. 202603), conflict counsel (Res. 202604), township auditor (Res. 202605), multiple consulting engineer appointments (including CME Associates and Greenman Peterson, Inc.), township planner (Res. 202609), and special counsel for tax appeals and redevelopment counsel (Res. 202610–202612). Each resolution was moved, seconded, and carried by roll call votes recorded as “yes” by the participating committee members.

The meeting also approved appointments for municipal court prosecutor and alternate prosecutor (Res. 202614–202615), public defender and alternate public defender (Res. 202616–202617), and multiple planning board, library board and environmental commission appointees with terms and expiration dates announced from the dais.

Most of the roster of resolutions was adopted by unanimous roll call. One consent-agenda item, Resolution 202647 — a shared-service agreement with Bergen Tech — was pulled for separate consideration; Committeeman Capid registered an abstention on that item while other members voted yes. The clerk confirmed the motion and the remaining consent items were adopted as moved.

"The board does determine that… Richard Huber was duly elected as member of the township committee," Claraara Herelic read when presenting certificates; her remarks framed the formal part of the organizational business. When the committee approved the slate of appointments, votes were recorded by the clerk with the five-member committee generally voting in the affirmative for each item.

The mayor administered oaths to appointees present and asked those absent to sign oaths after the meeting. No substantive public comment or challenges to the appointments are recorded in the transcript excerpt provided.

The committee adjourned after a benediction and brief closing remarks.