Readington Township, New Jersey

issues that have cropped up with increased development. Readington is trying to mitigate that by planting more trees to provide more positive recharge of the water, as opposed to it running off into the stream. The municipality will also purchase an electric vehicle and implement two electric charging stations as part of its greening mandate.“ What we’re looking at right now is, is it cost effective to have electric vehicles?” notes Mayor Heller. “If so we are going to purchase more of those.” Although Readington has had to implement new ways of conducting business in the wake of COVID-19, it has been “business as usual,” for the most part. Monaco acknowledges, “We’ve been fortunate that our caseload for COVID is one of the best in the State of New Jersey, it has been low.” Mayor Heller adds, “We have not had to adapt that much. I think most of our residents took the COVID crisis very seriously and have been self-quarantining and social distancing. The municipal building has been closed