Parade Committee Will Be All-Plainfield
A revived Independence Day Committee will become legal slightly after the holiday is past.
The City Council will vote this week on the ordinance to recast the committee with all-Plainfield residents. But if passed Wednesday (May 17, 2006), the measure will not be up for final approval until June 21 and the 20 days must elapse before it takes effect.
The proposed ordinance gives the committee the power to solicit funds for the event. It calls for nine members serving three-year terms. A list of committees provided by the City Clerk’s office last year showed eight members on the former committee, all of whose terms expired in 1993.
Asked Monday about the timetable, City Council President Ray Blanco confirmed that the committee would not be legally constituted in time for this year’s event, but will serve in the future.
Previously, as many as nine municipalities took part in the Central Jersey July 4th parade that marched west on Front Street before turning north to a Somerset Street reviewing stand in North Plainfield.
But towns dropped out over the joint parade’s 78-year history and most recently, North Plainfield developed its own parade and related events. Since 2002, the city has held the parade starting in the East End and ending at Park Avenue and Front Street. Both Plainfield and North Plainfield have organized musical performances and fireworks to celebrate the day.
The city parade attracts several thousand viewers each year.
Plainfield has used both volunteers and a paid event coordinator to organize its own parade since the split.
Recreation Director Dave Wynn is also asking City Council permission to hold an outdoor luncheon at Hugo’s on Front Street to celebrate the parade. Officials said the city traditionally hosts a luncheon for dignitaries and volunteer organizers of the parade.
Hugo’s is a new restaurant located at the former Lily Greenleaves site.
The council received notice of other festive plans. They include the Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority’s annual Environmental Fair on Sept. 16, a concert series at the Plainwood Square Park on South Avenue on four dates starting in June and the 6th Annual Latin American Heritage Festival, this year to be held at Library Park.
--Bernice Paglia
The City Council will vote this week on the ordinance to recast the committee with all-Plainfield residents. But if passed Wednesday (May 17, 2006), the measure will not be up for final approval until June 21 and the 20 days must elapse before it takes effect.
The proposed ordinance gives the committee the power to solicit funds for the event. It calls for nine members serving three-year terms. A list of committees provided by the City Clerk’s office last year showed eight members on the former committee, all of whose terms expired in 1993.
Asked Monday about the timetable, City Council President Ray Blanco confirmed that the committee would not be legally constituted in time for this year’s event, but will serve in the future.
Previously, as many as nine municipalities took part in the Central Jersey July 4th parade that marched west on Front Street before turning north to a Somerset Street reviewing stand in North Plainfield.
But towns dropped out over the joint parade’s 78-year history and most recently, North Plainfield developed its own parade and related events. Since 2002, the city has held the parade starting in the East End and ending at Park Avenue and Front Street. Both Plainfield and North Plainfield have organized musical performances and fireworks to celebrate the day.
The city parade attracts several thousand viewers each year.
Plainfield has used both volunteers and a paid event coordinator to organize its own parade since the split.
Recreation Director Dave Wynn is also asking City Council permission to hold an outdoor luncheon at Hugo’s on Front Street to celebrate the parade. Officials said the city traditionally hosts a luncheon for dignitaries and volunteer organizers of the parade.
Hugo’s is a new restaurant located at the former Lily Greenleaves site.
The council received notice of other festive plans. They include the Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority’s annual Environmental Fair on Sept. 16, a concert series at the Plainwood Square Park on South Avenue on four dates starting in June and the 6th Annual Latin American Heritage Festival, this year to be held at Library Park.
--Bernice Paglia
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