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Packet · Jul 7, 2026

Township Council Meeting — Packet

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TERRITORY NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ENTIRE STATE PREVAILING WAGE RATE DETERMINATION HEAVY & GENERAL LABORERS- NEW TRANS HUDSON TUNNELS Rates Expiration Date = *THESE RATES APPLY TO CONSTRUCTION ON NEW TRANS HUDSON TUNNELS ONLY** {For apprentice rates refer to "Laborer - Heavy & General" apprentice rates in any county rate package} The regular workday consists of 8 hours, starting at 7:00 AM or 8:00 AM SHIFT DIFFERENTIALS: = Shifts must start at 3:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 12:00 AM, or 1:00 AM, to be considered shift work, except when the project owner mandates special hours of work in the job specifications, in which case those hours may be considered shift work. - When such hours are mandated by the project owner, a shift that begins before midnight on Friday and ends on Saturday morning, or that begins at or after 8:00 PM on Sunday and ends on Monday morning may be paid at the shift differential rate. - Shifts shall receive an additional $3.00 per hour. OVERTIME: - Hours in excess of 8 per day, Monday through Friday, or outside of the regular workday that are not shift work, and all hours on Saturdays, shall be paid at time and one-half the hourly rate. All hours on Sundays and holidays shall be paid at double the hourly rate. - Four 10-hour days may be worked, Monday through Thursday, at straight time, with Friday used as a make-up day for a day lost to inclement weather. If Friday is not a make-up day, all hours on Friday shall be paid at time and one-half the hourly rate. RECOGNIZED HOLIDAYS: New Year's Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Presidential Election Day, Veterans’ Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day. Sunday holidays observed the following Monday. Veterans Day may be substituted for the day after Thanksgiving. However, in the trading of Veterans Day for the day after Thanksgiving, if overtime is worked on Veterans Day, it shall be paid at double the hourly rate. Hazardous Waste Work: -where Level A, B, or C protection is required: + $5.00/hr -other Hazardous Waste site: + $1.00/hr Traffic Control Coordinator: When either of the work classifications found below are working as a Traffic Control Coordinator they are to receive $.75 above their current rate of pay. Effective Dates: 03/01/2026 Rate Fringe Total 83.18 40.63 123.81 CLASSIFICATIONS: Walking Boss & Superintendent Effective

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trol Coordinator they are to receive $.75 above their current rate of pay. Effective Dates: 03/01/2026 Rate Fringe Total 83.18 40.63 123.81 CLASSIFICATIONS: Walking Boss & Superintendent Effective Dates: 03/01/2026 Rate Fringe Total 82,73 40.63 123.36 CLASSIFICATIONS: Heading Foreman, Shaft Foreman, Rod Foreman, Electrical Foreman, Rigging Foreman 03/03/2026 Page 50 of 52

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TERRITORY ~NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ENTIRE STATE PREVAILING WAGE RATE DETERMINATION HEAVY & GENERAL LABORERS- NEW TRANS HUDSON TUNNELS Rates Expiration Date : Effective Dates: 03/01/2026 Rate Fringe Total 81.98 40.63 122.61 CLASSIFICATIONS: Iron Foreman, Caulking Foreman, Form Foreman, Cement Finishing Foreman, Concrete Foreman, Track Foreman, Clean-up Foreman, Grout Foreman Effective Dates: 03/01/2026 Rate Fringe Total 85.73 40.63 126.36 CLASSIFICATIONS: Blaster Effective Dates: 03/01/2026 Rate Fringe Total 81.15 40.63 121.78 CLASSIFICATIONS: Top Labor Foreman Effective Dates: 03/01/2026 Rate Fringe Total 80.63 40.63 121.26 CLASSIFICATIONS: Skilled Men (including Caulker, Powder Carrier, all other skilled men) Skilled Men (including Miner, Drill Runner, Iron Man, Conveyor Man, Maintenance Man, Safety Miner, Rigger, Block Layer, Cement Finisher, Rod Man) Effective Dates: 03/01/2026 Rate Fringe Total 80.40 40.63 121.03 CLASSIFICATIONS: Semi-Skilled Men (including Bell or Signal Man top or bottom, Form Worker & Mover, Concrete Worker, Shaft Man, Tunnel Laborer, Caulker's Helper, all other semi-skilled) Semi-Skilled Men (including Miner's Helper, Chuck Tender, Track Man, Nipper, Brake Man, Derail Man, Cable Man, Hose Man, Gravel Man, Form Man) 03/03/2026 Page 51 of 52

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TERRITORY NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ENTIRE STATE PREVAILING WAGE RATE DETERMINATION HEAVY & GENERAL LABORERS- NEW TRANS HUDSON TUNNELS Rates Expiration Date : Effective Dates: 03/01/2026 Rate Fringe Total 79.80 40.63 120.43 CLASSIFICATIONS: All others (including Powder Watchman, Change House Attendant, Top Laborer, Job Steward) 03/03/2026 Page 52 of 52

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BID BOND KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, the undersigned, A&J Contractors Group Inc. as Principal, and Bondex Insurance Company as Surety, is hereby held and firmly bound unto the Township of West ‘Orange, in the County of Essex as Owner, in the Ten Percent of the Amount Bid Not to Exceed twenty thousand and Penal Sum of $ —00/100 dors (10% ofthe Amount Bid Not To Exceed $20,000.09) (the penal sum shall ba equal to ten percent (10%) of the Base Bid, but not more than $20,000) for the payment of which, weil and truly to be made, we hereby jointly and severally bind ourselves, successors and assigns, Signed this_23rd__ day of June _, 2026 The condition of the above obiigation Is such that whereas the Principal has submitted to the Township of West Orange, In the County of Essex, New Jersey 8 certain bid, attached hereto and hereby made a pert of hereof, to enter into a contract in writing for the 2025 CDBG ROAD REHABILITATION STANDISH AVENUE AND FREMONT STREET NOW THEREFORE, A) If said bid shall be rejected or in the alternative, B) ifsaid bid shall be accepted end the Principal shall execute and deliver a contract properly completed In accordance with said bid and shall furnish @ bond for his faithful performance of said contract, and for the payment of all persons performing labor or furnishing materials in the connection therewith, and shall In all other respects perform the agreement created by the acceptance of said hid, Then this obligation shall be void, otherwise the same shall remain in full force and effect; it being expressly understood and agreed that the liability of the surety for any and alll claims hereunder shalll, in no event, exceed ‘the penal amount of this obligation as herein stated. The Surety, for value received, hereby stipulates and agrees that the obligations of said Surely and its bond shall be In no way impaired or affected by any extension of the time within which the Owner may accept such bid; and ‘Surety does hereby waive notice of any such extension. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Principal and the Surety have hereunto set their hands and seals, and such of them as are corporations have caused their corporate seals to be hereto affixed and these presents to be signed by their proper officers, the day and yeer first set forth above, wh. Ach, Witness Bondex Insurance Company Surety S — ~ “a r ‘Witness Loreen

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als to be hereto affixed and these presents to be signed by their proper officers, the day and yeer first set forth above, wh. Ach, Witness Bondex Insurance Company Surety S — ~ “a r ‘Witness Loreen Apohtte, Witness As to Surety Attorney-in-Fact ‘Philip S. Tobey, Attorney-in-Fact p.22

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CONSENT OF SURETY In consideration of the premises and of One Dollar ($1.00) lawful money of the United States, fo it is hand paid by the Contractor. the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned surely consents and agrees that if the contract, for which the preceding estimate and proposal is made, be awarded to the person or persons submitting the same as contracted, it will become bound as surety and guarantor for its faithful performance, in an @mount equals to one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price, and will execute it as party of the third part thereto when required so te do by the Owner, and if the said Contractor shall omit or refuse to execute such Contract, remand to the Owner any increase between the sum to which the said Contract would have been entitled upon the completion of the said Contract and the sum which the said Owner may afterwards be awarded, the amount in such case fo be determined by the bids plus the cost, if any, of readvertising the bids for this work, less the amount of any certified check or bid bond payable and received. In Witness whereof, said surety has caused these presents to be signed and attested by a duly suthorized officer and its comorste seal to be hereto affixed this23rd day of June, 2026, Acorporate acknowledgment and statement of authority to be here attached by the surety company, A performance bond will be required from the successful centractor on this project, and consequently, all bidders Shall submit, with their bid, @ consent of surety in substantially the following form: ‘fo: _ Township Of West Orange (Owner) Re; ___A & J Contractors Group Inc. (Contractor) 2025 CDBG Road Rehabilitation - Standish Ave and Fremont Street (Project Description) This Is to certily that the _Bondex Insurance Company {Surety Company) will provide to_Township Of West Orange a performance bond in the full amount (Owner) ‘of awarded contract in the event that said contractor |s awarded a contract for the above project. A &J Contractors Group Inc. (CONTRACTOR) Bondex Sete nay (Authorized Agant &Susaty Company Philip S. Tobey, Attorney-in-Fact Date: June 23, 2026 CONSENT OF SURETY MUST BE SIGNED BY AN AUTHORIZED AGENT OR REPRESENTATIVE OF A SURETY COMPANY AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN NEW JERSEY AND NOT BY THE INDIVIDUAL OR COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE SUBMITTING THE BID. P-23

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A )WLEDGEMENT OF PRINCIPAL, IF A CORPORATION STATE OF SS! COUNTY On the Qamnof day of The. in the year 20 DL, Before me personally cathe. o to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that (s) he residesyat TF pee p- faavvad that (s) he is the vi DVL PLA /A of J AT 2 fie corporation described in and which executed the above instrument; and that (s) he sighed heWhis name thereto by order of the Board of Directors of said corporation. My commission expire: “C wt \ - ww) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PRINCIPAL, IF A PART! IP STATE OF _ ) ss: COUNTY OF ) On the day of inthe year20__, Before me personally came to me known and known to me to be a member of the firm , described in and who executed the foregoing instrument; and (s) he duly acknowledged to me that (s) he executed the same for and in behalf of said firm for the uses and purpose mentioned therein. My commission expires: Notary Public ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PRINCIPAL, IF AN INDIVIDUAL STATE OF ) ss: COUNTY OF ) On the day of in the year 20 5 Before me personally came to me known and known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and (s) he duly acknowledged that (s) he executed the same. My commission expires: Notary Public

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SURETY State of New Jersey - }ss. County of Morris = On June 23, 2026 before me personally came Philip S. Tobey to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he is an Attorney-in-Fact of Bondex Insurance Company the corporation described in and which executed the within instrument; that he knows the corporate seal, and that he signed that the said instrument and affixed the said seal as Attorney-in-Fact by authority of the Board of Directors of said corporation and by authority of this office under the Standing Resolutions thereof. ae id Comm. # 2359307 My Commission Expires 05/02/2027 My commission expires: Carel (vel ly tin — Notary Public /

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