The purpose of this extension is to provide natural gas to more areas of Lake Hopatcong at some point. NJ Natural Gas is finishing up the gas main installation on Edison Road so the County can pave Edison Road & Espanong Road. This year the budget was 1.9 million with no major impact on the municipal tax and aligned with our ongoing 10-year strategic plan. Before my taking office, approximately 700K in road improvements was budgeted. I am happy to report that we completed all our major road projects by the end of August once again. This allowed us to complete a few more projects this year. Once again, we were able to take bids and awards early on our road improvement projects, and we were able to take advantage of some cost savings. This coincides with my commitment to better communicate with the community and to be transparent as possibleįor the second year, working with our Township Council, we adopted our 2021 budget earlier than most municipalities.

Thank you to our social media/web coordinator Aimee Hannon for putting it all together Aimee did a great job! We plan to continue a Spring and Fall edition each year. Our Spring newsletter was a big hit, and we received lots of positive feedback. While our numbers have not been what they were a year ago, we still see positive cases, so please continue to be vigilant when gathering, especially indoors. In May, I stopped issuing the weekly COVID RAVE notifications the weekly reports and now weekly case graphs are still posted on our COVID 19 Resource page. I hate to start with COVID in my Mayor's Message, we are all tired of it at this point, but it is unfortunately still with us. Happy Fall to all our Jefferson residents! Enjoy all the beautiful scenery our community has to offer.

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