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Asbury Park Planning Board completes 2025 reorganization, names officers and committee structure
Summary
The Asbury Park Planning Board held its annual reorganization on Jan. 27, 2025, confirming officers, professional appointments and committee assignments and adopting the board's 2025 meeting schedule and official newspapers.
The Asbury Park Planning Board on Jan. 27 completed its 2025 reorganization, confirming officer appointments, selecting professional consultants and approving committee structures and the board's official meeting schedule.
Board members nominated and approved Barbara Kurzak as chairwoman and Mike Goonan as vice chair. The board reappointed Marie Rodriguez as board secretary and voted to retain Jack Serpico as board attorney. Leon S. Avakian was nominated and approved as board engineer. The board also named APTV as the board's recording system and designated The Coaster and the Asbury Park Press as its official newspapers for 2025.
The reorganization sets the board's operating structure for the year. Members also established committee assignments and procedures: the Design Review Committee will operate as an ad hoc panel that draws members who are "passionate" and available for each project; a By-Law/Policy Committee and a Master Plan Committee were named with membership and alternates discussed. Board members agreed that the Master Plan Committee will do limited work in late 2025 and undertake the bulk of the master plan updates in 2026'27.
During roll-call votes the board approved the slate of appointments and committee designations. Members discussed how the ad hoc Design Review Committee will be formed on a per-application basis to allow interested members to serve on reviews that match their availability and interest.
Board members also confirmed procedural items for the year, including adopting the 2025 planning board meeting schedule and leaving in place prior resolutions and conditions that were not altered during the reorganization process.
The reorganization concluded with no contested appointments on the record and with the board preparing to proceed to remaining agenda items for the evening.
