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Fanwood Council meeting brief
Borough of Fanwood
At its first regular meeting of the year held on January 16, 2024, the borough council unanimously passed a resolution supporting state legislation setting minimal standards for professional nurse staffing at state health-care facilities.
The council also approved a proclamation for Dr. Martin Luther King Day and presented it to Delois Dawson, a member of the MLK Day of Service Committee, by Deputy Clerk Courtney Agnello.
Agnello noted that Dawson was a student Clark College in Atlanta at the time of Dr. King’s assassination and was asked to be an usher at Dr. King’s funeral in 1968. Dawson is a retired 37-year educator.
“Martin Luther King Day is a Day on not a day off,” Dawson said. “Every year around this time I get a little sad because I go back and I think about that sad day when we were asked to be ushers at the funeral.”
In other borough news:
Borough Engineer Antonios Panagopoulus said construction of the new borough library is 65 percent complete and that the borough anticipates getting a certificate of occupancy in March with the opening of the building before summer.
