Warren Township Committee: Meetings, How to Watch, and Every Vote Covered
Who sits on the Warren Township Committee, where and when it meets, how to follow the record since the Facebook stream ended, and every meeting covered.
The Warren Township Committee is five elected members who adopt the municipal budget, pass ordinances, award contracts and appoint board members. It meets in the Susie B. Boyce Court Room at 44 Mountain Boulevard, with executive session at 6 p.m. and the public session at 7 p.m. on the nights this site has covered. There is no fixed monthly pattern, so dates go on the Warren calendar as agendas are posted. The next meeting is Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 7 p.m. For 2026 the Mayor is Shaun Fine and the Deputy Mayor is Vanessa Kian, each elected 5-0 on January 6. Meetings stopped streaming on Facebook on August 20, 2026.
Who sits
| Member | 2026 office | On the record |
|---|---|---|
| Shaun Fine | Mayor and Chairperson, elected 5-0 January 6, 2026 | Named affordable housing his top priority for the term. Lost the 2025 mayoral vote 3 to 2 to Victoria Lontai. |
| Vanessa Kian | Deputy Mayor, elected 5-0 January 6, 2026 | Seconded the December 2025 mediation agreement and the 2025 settlement motion. |
| Lance Blick | Committeeman | Voted no on the 225 unit settlement in March 2025. |
| Daniel Croson | Committeeman, Public Works liaison | Tabled the bond counsel appointment in January 2026 pending pay to play assurances. Introduced the data center ban. |
| Daniel McCarey | Committeeman, sworn in January 6, 2026 | Won the November 2025 seat 4,052 to 3,306. Announced a forensic audit of all PILOT programs. Cast the one no vote on the data center ordinance at introduction, over drafting. |
The professionals who appear at nearly every meeting: Administrator Mark Krane, Township Attorney William Willard of DiFrancesco Bateman Kunzman Davis Lehrer and Flaum, Clerk Donna Hands, and Planner Katherine Sarmad of Sarmad Planning, who handles affordable housing. The full list of 2026 appointments is in the reorganization report.
Where and when
Meetings are in the Susie B. Boyce Court Room at 44 Mountain Boulevard. They are not at the temporary township offices at 3 Mountainview Road, where most departments have worked since March 2026 after the February 8 sprinkler pipe break at Town Hall. Mail still goes to 46 Mountain Boulevard. The agendas this site has covered list executive session at 6 p.m. and the public session at 7 p.m. Special meetings happen when a statutory clock is running: the January 30, 2025 session that set the township's own affordable housing figure and the March 31, 2025 session that refused a settlement were both special meetings, the second one at 11 a.m. on a Monday.
Warren does not publish a fixed monthly schedule the way its school boards do. This site adds Township Committee dates to the Warren calendar as the township posts agendas, which is why the calendar is the place to check rather than this page.
How to watch and how to follow the record
Since August 20, 2026, Township Committee meetings are no longer livestreamed on Facebook. The township's standing meeting notice names the township website, the My Warren Township app and the local Access Channel, broadcast live and taped for rebroadcast. That list is the agenda boilerplate rather than a statement in the announcement, so confirm the channel before a meeting that matters to you. The full story is here.
A stream is a way to watch. Showing up is the only way to be heard on the record during a public hearing. And the record itself lives in documents, which are searchable in a way video is not:
- The Agenda Center on warrennj.org carries agendas before a meeting and minutes after they are approved at a later meeting. Minutes lag by design.
- The adopted ordinances and adopted resolutions pages carry the actual texts. An ordinance number plus that page is the fastest route to what a law says.
- The Ordinances Pending Adoption page is the only list that lets you act before a vote rather than after.
- Nixle, from Warren Township Police, carries closures, water main breaks, storm advisories and outages, and is consistently faster than the township website.
How a decision moves
An ordinance takes two meetings. It is introduced on first reading, then gets a public hearing and a vote at a later meeting. Public comment at the hearing is the mechanism for being heard on it. An ordinary ordinance passes on a majority of the members present. A bond ordinance needs an affirmative vote of two thirds of the entire governing body, which on a five member committee means four, so two absences can stop borrowing but not zoning. That rule held up a $150,000 Maxwell Court drainage bond on June 26, 2025 when only three members were present. Routine business, including the year's professional appointments, moves on a consent agenda in a single vote, and any member can pull an item off it for a separate vote, as Committeeman Croson did with the bond counsel appointment in January 2026.
What each of the township's four bodies decides, and how the three budgets on your tax bill are set, is on the government and budget page.
Every meeting covered
Newest first. Each row links to the story that covered the meeting, with its sources.
| Meeting | What happened | Covered |
|---|---|---|
| September 24, 2026 | Adopted the $1.4 million bond ordinance behind the purchase of the Round Top Swim and Tennis Club, price capped at $1,050,000. | Round Top |
| August 20, 2026 | Public hearing and second reading on Ordinance 26-22, the $1,140,160 Dealaman Trails and Pond appropriation. First meeting without a Facebook stream. | Week of August 17 |
| July 16, 2026 | Introduced Ordinance 26-22 and extended the third quarter tax grace period to August 24. Adopted the filming and fire prevention fee ordinances. | Trail ordinance |
| June 18, 2026 | Adopted Ordinance 26-19 banning data centers in every zone. Committed $1,779,423 to trucks, a generator and Mountainview Road Phase II. Reported the $570,080 Green Acres award. | Data center ban, $1.78 million |
| May 14, 2026 | Adopted the $27,058,363 budget 5-0, put the $7.5 million Hofheimer House question on the November ballot, introduced the data center ordinance 4 to 1, awarded the $945,800 paving contract. | Budget adopted, Data centers, Paving |
| April 16, 2026 | Nineteen residents spoke on the Bardy property. Introduced the 2026 budget 5-0. Awarded the $1,444,389 Town Hall restoration contract. | Bardy, Budget, Town Hall |
| March 12, 2026 | Adopted six affordable housing ordinances, each 4-0, with no public speakers. | AH-9 to AH-12 |
| February 19, 2026 | Introduced eight ordinances 5-0, six of them affordable housing. Extended the first quarter tax grace period to February 13. Sought $573,580 in Green Acres funding. | Six ordinances, Tax grace period |
| January 22, 2026 | Administrator Krane laid out the snow operation three days before a 12 to 17 inch storm. Reported the $875,000 purchase of 73 Mountainview Road for open space. Approved bond counsel after the January 6 tabling. | How Warren plows, 73 Mountainview |
| January 6, 2026 | Reorganization. Fine elected Mayor and Kian Deputy Mayor, both 5-0. McCarey sworn in. 45 of 46 resolutions adopted in 38 minutes. | Reorganization |
| December 11, 2025 | Authorized the mediation agreement with Fair Share Housing Center 4-0. Awarded three contracts, including the $566,735 Stiles Road pump station upgrade. | Mediation agreement |
| July 17, 2025 | Discussed the township's response to the July 14 flash flooding and a possible FEMA reimbursement. | July 2025 flooding |
| June 26, 2025 | Endorsed the Housing Element and Fair Share Plan 3-0. A $150,000 bond ordinance stalled with only three members present and passed July 2. | Fair Share Plan |
| May 15, 2025 | Adopted the $25,492,526 2025 budget 5-0, adding $68 to the average home's municipal share. | 2025 budget |
| April 17, 2025 | Attorney Willard reported the township compliant and immune from builder remedy suits while it challenged the 262 unit figure. | 262 imposed |
| March 31, 2025 | Special meeting. A 225 unit settlement with Fair Share Housing Center failed 2 to 3. | 262 imposed |
| January 30, 2025 | Special meeting. Adopted the township's own affordable housing figure of 181 units, 4 to 1. | 181, not 262 |
| January 2, 2025 | Reorganization. Victoria Lontai elected Mayor over Shaun Fine 3 to 2, Daniel Croson Deputy Mayor on the same split. | 2025 reorganization |
The township's full 2026 meeting schedule, which it does not publish as a single list. The channel carrying meetings since the Facebook stream ended, beyond the agenda boilerplate quoted above. The subject of a meeting this site did not cover is not summarized here, and the Agenda Center is the place to read it.
- Township of Warren, Minutes of the Township Committee Reorganization Meeting, January 6, 2026. warrennj.org
- Township of Warren, 2026 Resolutions. warrennj.org
- Township of Warren, Township Committee Minutes, June 26, 2025, on the two thirds rule for bond ordinances. warrennj.org
- Township of Warren, Township Committee Agenda, July 16, 2026, standing meeting notice. warrennj.org
- Township of Warren, Agenda Center. warrennj.org
- Township of Warren, Ordinances Pending Adoption. warrennj.org
- Township of Warren, 2026 Adopted Ordinances. warrennj.org
- TAPinto Warren, Warren Township Committee Meeting Streams Moving Off Facebook Aug. 20. tapinto.net
- Warren, Local., the Warren calendar. blog.johnmangini.com
- Warren, Local., Daniel McCarey won the Township Committee seat by 746 votes, with its county sources. blog.johnmangini.com
Updated October 20, 2026. A new row is added after each meeting this site covers. Where this page and a township document disagree, the document governs and this page is wrong.
Warren Township resident and full time broker, licensed in New Jersey since 2002. Warren, Local. is written from live Garden State MLS data, township records and primary sources. Every figure is traceable to a source listed above.