Talk Directly To Red Bank Leaders At Expanded Office Hours

RED BANK, NJ — With the new Borough Council installed July 1, change is coming to local government in all sorts of ways.

Most recently, the council decided to take up Mayor Billy Portman's idea for public office hours, which he instituted when he won election earlier this year under the previous partisan form of government. Anyone in the public could meet with him Monday afternoons.

Now, with the approval by voters of a change to nonpartisan government - along with the new election of mayor and councilmembers it prompted, a new schedule of office hours was announced on Tuesday.

The following are weekly public office hours of Mayor and Council, including hours Wednesday morning at the Senior Center:

Monday afternoons: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., Mayor's Office, 90 Monmouth St., 4th Floor

Wednesday mornings: 10 a.m. to noon, Red Bank Senior Center, 80 Shrewsbury Ave.

Wednesday evenings: 5:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m., Red Bank Public Library, 84 W. Front St.

At the July 6 Borough Council meeting, Councilmember Nancy Facey-Blackwood said that councilmembers will rotate hours at the Senior Center on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon to meet with the public.

"Residents wanted more accessibility," she said.