Newark Environmental Commission

About the Commission

Mayor Cory A. Booker, Council President Donald M. Payne, Jr., and other Newark dignitaries swore in members of the City’s new Environmental Commission during a Municipal Council Chamber ceremony on March 20th 2009, launching Newark’s first such body, with a mission to support Newark’s efforts to protect and promote its natural resources and become the “greenest” city in the Garden State.

The Commission is charged with protecting and promoting Newark’s environment. The Commission makes recommendations, oversees environmental policies and practices, and advises the Mayor and Council on environmental issues. The Commission addresses environmental education, air pollution, brownfields, solid waste, environmental and public health and the conservation and protection of natural resources.

South Ward resident Kim Gaddy, the Environmental Justice & North Jersey Organizer for the New Jersey Environmental Federation and a former Executive Director of the South Ward Cultural Center, serves as Chair.

Members of the Environmental Commission:

Kim Gaddy – Commission Chair
Ana Baptista – Vice Chair
Jermaine James
Donna Kirkland
Gail Maynor
Carla Robinson
Chelsea Albucher
Elizabeth McGrady

The Newark Environmental Commission will be hosting its monthly meeting for the public on the first Wednesday of every month in 2012, except in July and August. Meetings start at 6:30pm and end at 8:30pm and will be held in room 304 at City Hall – 920 Broad St., Newark, NJ 07102. The commission meeting dates are listed below:

January 4th, 2012
February 1st, 2012
March 7th, 2012
April 4th, 2012
May 2nd, 2012
June 6th, 2012
September 5th, 2012
October 3rd, 2012
November 7th, 2012
December 5th, 2012

For more information about the Newark Environmental Commission, contact Chair Kim Gaddy at: kimgaddy111@gmail.com or leave a message for her at (973) 733.6575.