Getting Organized in the New Year
With family, friends, colleagues, staff, elected officials from the state and local levels in attendance, the Ocean County Board of Commissioners held its annual Organization Meeting for 2023 on Jan. 4 in the Ocean County Administration Building, Toms River. With his children Jimmy and Dawn Marie, by his side, holding the Bible, Ocean County Commissioner John P. Kelly was sworn to his 10th three year term on the Board. Ocean County Commissioner Virginia E. Haines was sworn to her third three-year term on the Board by former state Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli and accompanied by her nephew Grant and his wife Darlene. Commissioner Joseph H. Vicari, the longest serving Commissioner in the state with more than four decades on the Board was named Director of the Board for 2023 and Commissioner Gary Quinn was named Deputy Director.