Planning Board
FRANCIS A. KENNY
Chair
A Jersey City resident and Commissioner since 2020, he is an Associate Attorney at Littler Mendelson P.C.. He formerly served as the Judicial Law Clerk to the Hon. Carmen Messano, P.J.A.D. at the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.
DR. FLOYD JETER
Vice Chair
A Jersey City resident and commissioner since 2017, he currently works with the Jersey City Office of Inclusion and is an adjunct professor at New Jersey City University.
arthur pettigrew
Commissioner
A Harrison resident and Commissioner since 2023, he is the Environmental Senior Supervisor for the Hudson County Improvement Authority and is a Commissioner for the Harrison Board of Education, Board of Health, and Chairman to the Harrison Planning Board.
Mark W. Kataryniak, PE, PTOE
County Engineer
Mark is a professional engineer with over thirty-five years of experience in the public and private sectors. He has been qualified as an expert witness in civil engineering and as a traffic engineer in over fifty New Jersey municipalities and in the Superior Court of New Jersey. Mark has also served as a technical advisor to numerous municipal land use boards, and has extensive experience with infrastructure improvements and land development.
HON. YRAIDA APONTE-LIPSKI
County Commissioner | District 4
A Jersey City resident and commissioner since 2021, she is a professor and clinical instructor at Eastern International College in Journal Square. She is also an elected Democratic Committeewoman in Ward C, District 23, and serves as the Sergeant-At-Arms for the Jersey City Democratic Organization.
KENNEDY NG
First Alternative
A Union City resident and commissioner since the 2000s, he serves as the Director of the Community Development Agency of Union City, is on the Union City School Board.
Pamela Layson
Pro Tempore
A Hoboken resident and commissioner since 2022, she is a nurse and serves as an aide to Hudson County Commissioner Anthony Romano.
VERONICA PARK
Commissioner
Veronica Park is a Jersey City resident since 1999, Founder of the Youth Foundation of Jersey City in 2013, Board President of the Hudson County Schools of Technology Foundation and an active member of this community. She Co-founded a consulting agency in 2016, Beyond Brands, to help Entrepreneurs build and accelerate their Business capabilities.
HON. ANTHONY ROMANO
County Commissioner | District 5
JOSEPH GLEMBOCKI, P.E.
County Engineer Alternative
