At its May 23 meeting – Teaneck Council will – after a limited public input session – consider a resolution to “clear the deck” and then vote on resolutions to appoint a new Township attorney firm and several others to handle specific functions.
Jardim, Meisner & Susser LLC of Florham Park will in all likelihood be named the Town’s Township
attorney and charged with overseeing its litigation functions. That firm name may not be well-known in town. But Scott Salmon, the firm partner who will actually be our lead attorney, gained a broad reputation in 2021 for strategic advice and litigative success. He guided the Town advocates who sought to move Council elections from May to November and won the litigation opposed by the prior Council majority to place two referenda on the 2021 ballot. By a 2-1 margin, Teaneck chose to move Council election to November – and a significantly larger portion of the electorate participated in the 2022 election and led to the new Council majority. Salmon thus knows Teaneck. But what more do we know about him?
The RFQ application which Council received in April provides a good look at Salmon and his firm. Unfortunately, its 11 pages is currently embedded in the middle of the 363-page meeting agenda packet for Tuesday night. So Teaneck Voices has extracted those 16 pages and placed them here.
