242-25 - Exhibit C - Agreement to Retain Gregg Paster Esq. as Assistant Township Attorney - 2025 - FINAL.pdf

AGREEMENT FOR SERVICES OF THE ASSISTANT TOWNSHIP ATTORNEY THIS AGREEMENT made and entered into effective the 28th day of October, 2025, 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 GREGG F. PASTER & ASSOCIATES with a principal place of business at 2160 N. Central Road, Suite 303, Fort Lee, NJ 07024, hereinafter referred to as “COUNSEL”, and for a term subject to reappointment annually with the manner and amount of compensation to be approved by the Governing Body. 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, with an Assistant Township Attorney appointed by the Township Attorney, to provide such assistance and services as the Township Attorney may direct and require, as provided in Section 2-9.3 of the Township Code; and WHEREAS, the Mayor has appointed MARK SEMERARO, Esq., an Attorney at Law of the State of New Jersey (“‘“SEMERARO”) to the position of Township Attorney subject to advice and consent of the Township Council, which has approved of the Mayor’s appointment, and SEMERARO has appointed GREGG F. PASTER, Esq., an Attorney at Law of the State of New Jersey and principal of GREGG F. PASTER & ASSOCIATES (“PASTER”) to be Assistant Township Attorney ; and WHEREAS, Section 2-9.3 of the Township’s Revised General Ordinances provides that the Assistant Township Attorney, appointed by the Township Attorney “who shall supervise same and delegate and assign those of his duties, or portions of them, which in the Township