51-19 Agreement with MSB for Appointment as Township Attorney - 2019.pdf

6 51-19 AGREEMENT FOR SERVICES OF THE TOWNSHIP ATTORNEY THIS AGREEMENT made effective nunc pro tunc for the 1st day of January, 2019, by and between the TOWNSHIP OF WEST ORANGE, a municipal corporation of the State of New Jersey, located at Town Hall, 66 Main Street, West Orange, County of Essex and State of New Jersey, hereinafter called the “TOWNSHIP”, and RICHARD D. TRENK, ESQ., an Attorney-At- Law of the State of New Jersey, hereinafter referred to as “TRENK” or “TOWNSHIP ATTORNEY”, a member of the law firm of MCMANIMON, SCOTLAND AND BAUMAN, LLC, with a principal place of business at 75 Livingston Avenue, Suite 201, Roseland, NJ 07068, hereinafter referred to as “COUNSEL”, and TRENK for a term concurrent with that of Robert D. Parisi, the Mayor appointing him, to expire December 31, 2022, and COUNSEL for a term of one year to expire December 31, 2019, WITNESSETH THAT: WHEREAS, the Township of West Orange is a Faulkner Act Mayor-Council Form of government with a Law Department established by Ordinance, the Director of which is the Township Attorney; and WHEREAS, the Mayor has appointed RICHARD D. TRENK, Esq., to the position of Township Attorney subject to advice and consent of the Township Council, which has approved of the Mayor’s appointment, and WHEREAS, N.J.S.A. 40:69A-43, a section of the Faulkner Act, provides that “each department head shall serve during the term of office of the mayor appointing him, and until the appointment and qualification of his successor”, which takes precedence over N.J.S.A. 40A:9- 139, requiring that the appointment of municipal attorneys be limited to a term of one year, and WHEREAS, Section 2-9.1 of the Township’s Revised General Ordinances provides that