SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Although South Orange Trustee Jeffrey DuBowy had previously been sworn in, the board publicly swore DuBowy in at its July 13 meeting. The board voted to appoint DuBowy at the June 22 meeting to fill the seat vacated by Sheena Collum when she became village president.
DuBowy, who made an unsuccessful run for trustee in 2005, has been a commissioner on the South Orange Parking Authority and a board member of Main Street South Orange. He has lived in South Orange since 1992, raised three children here with his wife, and has served on the boards of the Youth Orchestra of Essex County and of Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel in South Orange.
Because Collum is no longer a trustee, trustee appointments to standing committees had to change. Under Resolution No. 2015-165, the board unanimously voted to redistribute the trustees on the standing committees, adding DuBowy to committees and removing Collum.
Under the new resolution, Howard Levison will chair and DuBowy and Stephen Schnall will sit on the Finance and Information Technology Committee. Deborah Davis Ford will chair and DuBowy and Mark Rosner will sit on the Legal and Personnel Committee. Rosner will chair and Schnall and Walter Clarke will sit on the Planning and Zoning Committee. DuBowy will chair and Clarke and Levison will sit on the Public Safety Committee. Clarke will chair and Levison and Davis Ford will sit on the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee. And Schnall will chair and Davis Ford and Rosner will sit on the Recreation and Cultural Affairs Committee.
Before his official appointment to the standing committees, however, DuBowy had already himself into governance, quickly becoming caught up in the Village Hall debate, and voting June 30 to designate Landmark Hospitality as the redeveloper of the historic Village Hall.