Parsippany Road Project Included In 2024 Morris County Spending Plan

PARSIPPANY, NJ — The Morris County Board of County Commissioners recently unveiled a comprehensive capital spending plan for Morris County, which includes funding for a project in Parsippany.

The Capital Budget Committee of the board, comprised of Commissioners Tayfun Selen, Stephen H. Shaw and Deborah Smith, outlined the plan during a public meeting last month in Morristown.

The 2024 Capital Spending Plan, minus state grants and ongoing legacy commitments, invests nearly $35 million into educational facilities, human services support, public safety, health, county parks and upgrades to roads, intersections and bridges.

“The capital budget process began several months ago with the administration getting requests and back-up from the various county departments. We like to get our capital plan completed early so we can be among the first public entities to send projects out to bid,” said Shaw, chairman of the county budget committee.

In addition to education, the plan prioritizes public safety, health, "and the needs of our veterans and vulnerable residents," according to the commissioner's spending plan statement.

The county government is in charge of funding the county courts, sheriff's office, penitentiary facility, public safety training academy, and mosquito control. It also supervises the largest county park system in the state.

The spending plan continues the county's policy of using federal COVID-19 relief money from the American Rescue Plan Act to offset future capital project borrowing needs, according to the commissioners.

Allocations from those funds to meet capital expenses will continue until 2025.

In Parsippany, the spending plan includes funds for construction work on Intervale Road on the Parsippany-Mountain Lakes border over a tributary to Troy Brook. The project is expected to start sometime in 2024, though no specific date has been set.

“We will continue to lead the state in bridge upgrades with the addition of $5.4 million to our 2024 Capital Plan. Bridges in Dover, Mount Olive and Parsippany are among those targeted for improvement in 2024. By the end of next year, we will have replaced 43 bridges and rehabilitated six others over the past eight years,” Selen said.