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Green Township committee installs mayor, confirms 2025 calendar and dozens of appointments
Summary
At its Jan. 6 reorganizational meeting Green Township appointed Virginia "Ginnie" Raffay mayor and Michael Rose deputy mayor, adopted the 2025 meeting schedule and approved a slate of professional and board appointments and routine financial resolutions.
Virginia "Ginnie" Raffay was appointed mayor of Green Township for 2025 at the committee's Jan. 6 reorganizational meeting, and Michael Rose was named deputy mayor.
The Township Clerk, Mark Zschack, administered the oaths after the committee approved Resolution 2025-01 naming Raffay and Resolution 2025-02 naming Rose. The mayoral appointment passed with votes recorded as Ayes: Phillips, Qarmout and Rose; Raffay abstained. The deputy mayor vote was unanimous among members present.
The committee also approved the township's 2025 meeting schedule, the official holiday list and designated the New Jersey Herald and the Star-Ledger as official newspapers. A multi-part consent agenda cleared a wide range of administrative and financial housekeeping measures, including temporary budget approvals and a model cash management plan.
Members confirmed a slate of professional services providers for 2025, including Wielkotz & Company as township auditor; Harold E. Pellow & Associates as township engineer (with Thomas G. Knutelsky named as primary engineer representative); Rogut McCarthy as bond counsel; Laddey, Clark & Ryan as township attorney; and J. Caldwell & Associates as professional planner. The committee also approved appraisals, conflict counsel, purchasing agent services and other professional appointments.
Committee members appointed volunteers and officials to boards and advisory committees, including the Open Space Committee, Agricultural Advisory Committee, Environmental Committee, Recreation Committee and the Land Use Board, and approved routine operational resolutions such as authority to sign township checks and fixed fees for delinquent taxes.
The meeting included passage of several administrative contracts: a computer technical assistance contract with Navitend (Resolution 2025-11), a qualified purchasing agent engagement with The Canning Group (fee not to exceed $5,500), and a $200 contribution to the Sussex County Economic Development Partnership.
The meeting closed after a brief executive session for attorney-client and personnel matters. The committee set its next meeting for Jan. 22, 2025.
The actions above track the resolutions adopted on Jan. 6; vote records are included in the meeting minutes and the recorded resolutions attached to those minutes.
