CALDWELL'S CURRENT MAYOR AND COUNCIL ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE PAST 36 MONTHS

Mayor Jones, Andrew Pollara and Brian Bambrick are running to continue the progress Caldwell has made over the last 36 months. Together, they have focused on delivering real results by restoring fiscal stability, improving essential services, and making long-overdue investments in the community.

 

Over the past three years, the administration purchased a new $1.67 million ladder truck for the fire department, resolved costly sewer litigation, brought the borough budget back into the black for the first time in three and a half years, and restored approximately $15 million in bonding capacity to address roads and infrastructure.

The team also secured a long-term home for borough government, the library, and the court through the purchase of the new municipal building at 80 Bloomfield Avenue, a decision that saved taxpayers significant money compared to new construction and will ultimately create additional parking and landscaping improvements in the Smull Avenue area.

 

At the same time, the administration has worked to improve quality of life for residents by expanding the police department from 18 to 22 officers, strengthening the volunteer fire department with new equipment and technology, advancing flood mitigation and roadway improvements, substantially reducing engineering costs, completing renovations to the Irene Gibbons Health and Human Services Building, and moving forward with major sewer treatment plant upgrades after ending litigation, including reducing stormwater infiltration, beginning clarifier improvements this summer, and proposing the cleaning and lining of the sanitary sewer line along Brookside Avenue and Westville Avenue from Bloomfield Avenue to Washburn Place.

 

The administration also recently put the restoration of the Old Library Building out to bid as part of the plan to create a new Civic Center for Caldwell, completed the sale of 22 Smull Avenue, and negotiated a new three-year agreement with North Creek to oversee and operate the borough’s recycling yard that will provide approximately $21,000 per year to the borough, paid in advance, while also recovering outstanding lease payments that had not been collected under the prior administration.