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35 th Anniversary & Annual Recognition Event Moving Forward, the Next 35 Years The Gran Centurions 440 Madison Hill Road, Clark, NJ 07066
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Thank you for joining us!
35th Anniversary
&
Annual Recognition Event
Moving Forward, the Next 35 Years
The Gran Centurions 440 Madison Hill Road, Clark, NJ 07066
At EZ Ride, we believe that access to safe, affordable and reliable transportation is critical to our quality of life and the economic growth of the region.
Transportation is a daily concern for commuters who cannot afford to drive to work, for older adults and people with disabilities who do not drive a car, and for businesses seeking to recruit and retain employees who do not have easy access to public transportation.
For 35-years, we have helped people overcome transportation barriers by partnering with public and private sector organizations to implement transportation programs like carpools, vanpools, shuttles, transportation for seniors and riders with reduced mobility, bicycling & walking programs, and even transportation with compa-nies like Lyft and Uber.
Today, we provide shuttle services for more than 2,000 riders daily using a fleet of 32 minibuses and about 100 drivers, carpools for 30,000 commuters, vanpools for 200 riders, transportation for 1,000 older adults and 150 riders with disabilities. Additionally, we have an extensive bike and pedestrian program that serves more than a 100 schools.
Whatever your transportation needs, EZ Ride is here to help.
As a result of our efforts, in 2013 EZ Ride was recognized for excellence in serving the needs of the community and named the Urban Community Transportation System of the Year by the Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA).
A Board of Trustees comprised of twenty members representing business, government and non-profit sectors set the direction and policy to be implemented by the staff.
Annually, at this event we recognize and honor the deserving individuals, municipalities and corporations who work tirelessly behind the scenes to affect positive change in our state’s mobility.
Congratulations to all the award recipients!
About EZ Ride
Automated Business Solutions Www.abs-pa.com (610) 350-7403
Insurance and Benefit Services www.coastalfinancialgroup.com (973) 952-0300
Financial Services www.healeyassociates.com (207) 775-6177
Vanpool Services www.enterpriserideshare.com (646) 276-4493
Special thanks to Axiom for media coverage
Thank you to our event sponsors
Audit Tax Advisory www.withum.com (732) 842-3113
Insurance and Benefit Services www.hubinternational.com (484) 344-4517
Public Relations and Communications www.axiominc.net (201) 348-8998
Commercial Bus Sales www.wolfington.com 1-800-328-7636
Commercial Real Estate www.hartzmountain.com (201) 348-1200
Trustees
Mary D. Ameen Executive Director North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority
Sandra Bleckman Director Fairleigh Dickinson University
Scott Bogren Executive Director Community Transportation Association of America
Steve Brown Mgr. Regional Tpt. Planning The Port Authority of NY & NJ
Robert R. Ceberio President RCM Ceberio, LLC
Angel G. Estrada Freeholder Union County
Diana E. Fainberg President Diana E. Fainberg Associates, LLC
Sal Gentile Executive Vice President Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc.
Kent E. Hansen Senior Staff Attorney Pro Bono Partnership, Inc.
James Kirkos President & CEO Meadowlands Regional Chamber
Michael Russo Assistant Commissioner NJ Department of Transportation
Nadereh Moini, Ph.D., P.E Chief of Transportation NJ Sports & Exposition Authority
Anthony Scardino President Anthony Scardino & Associates
Thomas Schulze, AICP Executive Director Center for Community Planning
James J. Tedesco III County Executive Bergen County
Michael Vieira Director of Special Transportation Services, Essex County
Trustee Emeritus Richard Fritzky
EZ Ride Board Members
Officers
Perry E. Frenzel, P.E., P.P. - Chair Principal Associate PNJ/Frenzel Assoc., LLC
Patricia Ott, P.E., - Vice Chair Managing Member, MBO Engineering, LLC
Chip Hallock - Secretary President, Newark Regional Business Partnership
Ronald E. Nichols - Treasurer Senior Director, Private Carrier Affairs, New Jersey Transit
Event Agenda
8:30am
Registration/Breakfast/Networking
9:00am
Welcome - Perry Frenzel
EZ Ride Chairman
9:15am
Chief Guest – Honorable Angel Estrada
Chairman NJTPA & Union County Freeholder
9:30am
Presentation – Nat Bottigheimer
NJ Director, RPA
9:55am
Presentation of Awards
10:15am
Closing Remarks - Krishna Murthy
EZ Ride Executive Director
Silver
Township of Irvington Florence Avenue Elementary School City of Orange Township Oakwood Avenue Community School
Gold City of Asbury Park Barack Obama Elementary School Township of Bloomfield Brookdale Elementary School City of Clifton Clifton Public School #2 City of Long Branch Amerigo A. Anastasia Elementary School City of Orange Township Park Avenue School City of Plainfield Dewitt D. B arlow Elementary School
City of Paterson William C. Best School #24 Paterson Academy for the Gifted and Talented at PS #28 City of Plainfield Jefferson Elementary School Borough of Roselle Park Sherman Elementary School Robert Gordon
Elementary School Borough of Rumson Deane-Porter Elementary School Borough of Shrewsbury Shrewsbury Borough School Borough of Tinton Falls Mahala Atchison School
Swimming River Elementary School Tinton Falls Middle School Township of Verona Brookdale Avenue
Elementary School Laning Avenue School Borough of Wallington Jefferson Annex
Elementary School Borough of West Long Branch Betty McElmon
Elementary School Township of Wyckoff Calvin Coolidge
Elementary School
Bronze Township of Bloomfield Franklin Elementary School Township of Freehold Freehold Learning Center Borough of Leonia Anna C Scott Elementary Leonia Middle School Township of Maplewood Tuscan Elementary School Borough of Maywood Maywood Avenue School City of Orange Township Heywood Avenue School
City of Passaic Passaic Gifted and Talented Academy School #20 Sallie D. Gamble School #16 Thomas Jefferson School #1 City of Plainfield Hubbard Middle School Queen City Academy
Charter School Borough of Sea Girt Sea Girt Elementary School Township of Verona Frederic N. Brown
Elementary School Town of Westfield McKinley Elementary School
Grant Funding Organizations
Chief Guest
Honorable Angel G. Estrada
Freeholder Angel G. Estrada was first elected to the Freeholder Board in 1999. He served as Freeholder Chairman in 2004 and Vice Chairman the previous year. He was re-elected to a sixth term in 2014. Freeholder Estrada was the first Latino elected to the Freeholder Board and has more than 30 years of business and public service experience.
A long-time education advocate, Freeholder Estrada was elected to the Elizabeth Board of Education in 1994 and re-elected in 1997. He secured state funds for expansion and renovations, and brought college recruiters to Elizabeth’s schools to encourage students to pursue higher education.
As Freeholder Chairman in 2008, he presided over the expansion of shared county-local services, Phase III of the Workforce Competitiveness Project, and Go Green, a comprehensive environmental program. He has been instrumental in open space preservation and county-local tree planting in the 21 municipalities, worked with private and non-profit sectors to fund youth recreation and help municipalities improve athletic fields, and worked with the United Way to help bring the 211 information line to Union County.
Freeholder Estrada also supported the Freeholder Scholars initiative, which provides scholarships to Union County College for eligible residents. As chairman of the Open Space Trust Fund Committee in 2005, Freeholder Estrada oversaw the distribution of more than $1.4 million for Children’s Recreation and Historic Preservation.
Freeholder Estrada works closely with Latino community organizations to bring their voices and concerns to the Freeholder Board. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of EZ Ride, and is also Chairman of the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority. Under Freeholder Estrada’s leadership, Union County has advanced almost $3 million in safety improvements and nearly $38 million in local roadway and bridge projects.
Freeholder Estrada emigrated from Cuba to the United States 57 years ago and has made Elizabeth his home ever since. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Spanish from Kean College (now Kean University) in Union. Freeholder Estrada and his wife Teresa have three children: Liliana, Jorge, Daniel, and two grandchildren, Keith and Alexandra.
IV. Safe Routes to School - Schools
First Step Borough of Allendale Hillside Elementary School City of Asbury Park MLK Jr. Middle School Township of Bloomfield Watsessing Elementary School Demarest Elementary School Oakview School Borough of Bradley Beach Bradley Beach Elementary School Township of Cranford Brookside Place School Walnut Avenue
Elementary School Borough of Cresskill Academy of St. Therese
of Lisiuex City of Elizabeth Charles J. Hudson School #25 Christopher Columbus
School #15 Dr. Albert Einstein Academy
School #29 Dr. Antonia Pantoja School #27 Iprep Academy School #8 Jerome Dunn Academy
School #9 John Marshall School #20 Joseph Battin School #4 Elmora School #12
George Washington Academy
School #1 Mabel G. Holmes School #5 Dr. Orlando Edreira Academy
School #26 Nicholas Murray Butler School
School #23 Nicholas S La Corte-Peterstown
School #3
Robert Morris School #18 Ronald Reagan Academy
School #30 Toussaint L'ouverture-Marquis
de Lafayette School #6 Victor Mravlag School #21 William F. Halloran School #22 Winfield Scott School #2 Woodrow Wilson School #19 Township of Freehold Park Avenue Elementary School City of Garfield Woodrow Wilson School #5 Borough of Maywood Memorial Elementary School Township of Montclair Bradford Elementary School Edgemont Montessori School City of Newark Benjamin Franklin School Park Elementary School
III. Safe Routes to School - Municipalities
First Step Township of Belleville City of Clifton Borough of Freehold City of Hackensack City of Lodi
Township of Maplewood Township of Freehold Township of Ocean City of Paterson Borough of Tinton Falls
Bronze Borough of Farmingdale City of Orange
Silver Township of Cranford Borough of Haledon Borough of Leonia City of Linden Borough of Maywood
City of Passaic City of Plainfield Township of Teaneck Township of Verona Township of West Orange
Gold City of Asbury Park Township of Bloomfield City of Elizabeth City of Long Branch Township of Scotch Plains Borough of Westwood
Presentation
Nat Bottigheimer, NJ Director
Regional Plan Association
Nat Bottigheimer is an urban planner with land use
economics and transportation planning background. He has 25 years of
experience coordinating growth and infrastructure investment; and
connecting local plans with public agency programs and policy.
Nat has spent half his career as a planning consultant and half as a senior
public agency official. Since July of this year, he has been working as the
New Jersey Director for the Regional Plan Association, a 100 year-old
planning research and advocacy non-profit that promotes economic
growth, environmental sustainability, and equitable outcomes in NYC and
the 31 New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey counties surrounding it.
Nat’s public agency experience includes five years in the Secretary’s office
of the Maryland Department of Transportation, where he led land
use-transportation coordination programs around the State, including
transit-oriented development planning. It also includes seven years at the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), where Nat led
WMATA’s planning, real estate, parking, bike/ped access, and sustainability
programs.
2018 AWARDS
I. Champions of Change Awards for Individuals
II. New Jersey Smart Workplaces for Businesses
III. Safe Routes to School Program for Municipalities
IV. Safe Routes to School Program for Schools
I. Champions of Change
Bike & Pedestrian Program - Youth Advocate Soham K. Bhatnagar
Arthur Abowitz
Michael Cargill
Terje Lande
Thomas Carroll
Joseph Dougherty
Paul Lanchenaur
Taras Wayner
Christina A Rasmussen
Bike & Pedestrian Program
Carpool Program Piyush Reshamwala
George Cepeda
Paul Marici
Daniel Bonnano
Ryde4Life Program Affordable Housing Alliance
Vanpool Program Larry Williams Tina Malinak James Sheridan James Schubert Gary Dowling
John Gondek Robert Russo Regina Sambucini Kathy Fazzari Jade Martin
II. New Jersey Smart Workplaces
Bronze
Captive Fastener Corporation Hillside Plastics Corporation
Silver Decker Tape Products, Inc. Flying Food Group
Gold Airway Services BD FJC Security Express Scripts Union County College
Platinum AT&T Bergen Community College
Lyndhurst & Paramus Berkeley College Ernst & Young, LLP FedEx Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc. Kean University Lisbon Cleaning Myron Corporation
Merck & Co. Inc. NJIT Port Authority of NY & NJ PSEG Rose Brand Sika Corporation United - Chelsea Food Service Rutgers University Worldwide Flight Services
2018 AWARDS
I. Champions of Change Awards for Individuals
II. New Jersey Smart Workplaces for Businesses
III. Safe Routes to School Program for Municipalities
IV. Safe Routes to School Program for Schools
I. Champions of Change
Bike & Pedestrian Program - Youth Advocate Soham K. Bhatnagar
Arthur Abowitz
Michael Cargill
Terje Lande
Thomas Carroll
Joseph Dougherty
Paul Lanchenaur
Taras Wayner
Christina A Rasmussen
Bike & Pedestrian Program
Carpool Program Piyush Reshamwala
George Cepeda
Paul Marici
Daniel Bonnano
Ryde4Life Program Affordable Housing Alliance
Vanpool Program Larry Williams Tina Malinak James Sheridan James Schubert Gary Dowling
John Gondek Robert Russo Regina Sambucini Kathy Fazzari Jade Martin
II. New Jersey Smart Workplaces
Bronze
Captive Fastener Corporation Hillside Plastics Corporation
Silver Decker Tape Products, Inc. Flying Food Group
Gold Airway Services BD FJC Security Express Scripts Union County College
Platinum AT&T Bergen Community College
Lyndhurst & Paramus Berkeley College Ernst & Young, LLP FedEx Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc. Kean University Lisbon Cleaning Myron Corporation
Merck & Co. Inc. NJIT Port Authority of NY & NJ PSEG Rose Brand Sika Corporation United - Chelsea Food Service Rutgers University Worldwide Flight Services
III. Safe Routes to School - Municipalities
First Step Township of Belleville City of Clifton Borough of Freehold City of Hackensack City of Lodi
Township of Maplewood Township of Freehold Township of Ocean City of Paterson Borough of Tinton Falls
Bronze Borough of Farmingdale City of Orange
Silver Township of Cranford Borough of Haledon Borough of Leonia City of Linden Borough of Maywood
City of Passaic City of Plainfield Township of Teaneck Township of Verona Township of West Orange
Gold City of Asbury Park Township of Bloomfield City of Elizabeth City of Long Branch Township of Scotch Plains Borough of Westwood
Presentation
Nat Bottigheimer, NJ Director
Regional Plan Association
Nat Bottigheimer is an urban planner with land use
economics and transportation planning background. He has 25 years of
experience coordinating growth and infrastructure investment; and
connecting local plans with public agency programs and policy.
Nat has spent half his career as a planning consultant and half as a senior
public agency official. Since July of this year, he has been working as the
New Jersey Director for the Regional Plan Association, a 100 year-old
planning research and advocacy non-profit that promotes economic
growth, environmental sustainability, and equitable outcomes in NYC and
the 31 New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey counties surrounding it.
Nat’s public agency experience includes five years in the Secretary’s office
of the Maryland Department of Transportation, where he led land
use-transportation coordination programs around the State, including
transit-oriented development planning. It also includes seven years at the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), where Nat led
WMATA’s planning, real estate, parking, bike/ped access, and sustainability
programs.
Chief Guest
Honorable Angel G. Estrada
Freeholder Angel G. Estrada was first elected to the Freeholder Board in 1999. He served as Freeholder Chairman in 2004 and Vice Chairman the previous year. He was re-elected to a sixth term in 2014. Freeholder Estrada was the first Latino elected to the Freeholder Board and has more than 30 years of business and public service experience.
A long-time education advocate, Freeholder Estrada was elected to the Elizabeth Board of Education in 1994 and re-elected in 1997. He secured state funds for expansion and renovations, and brought college recruiters to Elizabeth’s schools to encourage students to pursue higher education.
As Freeholder Chairman in 2008, he presided over the expansion of shared county-local services, Phase III of the Workforce Competitiveness Project, and Go Green, a comprehensive environmental program. He has been instrumental in open space preservation and county-local tree planting in the 21 municipalities, worked with private and non-profit sectors to fund youth recreation and help municipalities improve athletic fields, and worked with the United Way to help bring the 211 information line to Union County.
Freeholder Estrada also supported the Freeholder Scholars initiative, which provides scholarships to Union County College for eligible residents. As chairman of the Open Space Trust Fund Committee in 2005, Freeholder Estrada oversaw the distribution of more than $1.4 million for Children’s Recreation and Historic Preservation.
Freeholder Estrada works closely with Latino community organizations to bring their voices and concerns to the Freeholder Board. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of EZ Ride, and is also Chairman of the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority. Under Freeholder Estrada’s leadership, Union County has advanced almost $3 million in safety improvements and nearly $38 million in local roadway and bridge projects.
Freeholder Estrada emigrated from Cuba to the United States 57 years ago and has made Elizabeth his home ever since. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Spanish from Kean College (now Kean University) in Union. Freeholder Estrada and his wife Teresa have three children: Liliana, Jorge, Daniel, and two grandchildren, Keith and Alexandra.
IV. Safe Routes to School - Schools
First Step Borough of Allendale Hillside Elementary School City of Asbury Park MLK Jr. Middle School Township of Bloomfield Watsessing Elementary School Demarest Elementary School Oakview School Borough of Bradley Beach Bradley Beach Elementary School Township of Cranford Brookside Place School Walnut Avenue
Elementary School Borough of Cresskill Academy of St. Therese
of Lisiuex City of Elizabeth Charles J. Hudson School #25 Christopher Columbus
School #15 Dr. Albert Einstein Academy
School #29 Dr. Antonia Pantoja School #27 Iprep Academy School #8 Jerome Dunn Academy
School #9 John Marshall School #20 Joseph Battin School #4 Elmora School #12
George Washington Academy
School #1 Mabel G. Holmes School #5 Dr. Orlando Edreira Academy
School #26 Nicholas Murray Butler School
School #23 Nicholas S La Corte-Peterstown
School #3
Robert Morris School #18 Ronald Reagan Academy
School #30 Toussaint L'ouverture-Marquis
de Lafayette School #6 Victor Mravlag School #21 William F. Halloran School #22 Winfield Scott School #2 Woodrow Wilson School #19 Township of Freehold Park Avenue Elementary School City of Garfield Woodrow Wilson School #5 Borough of Maywood Memorial Elementary School Township of Montclair Bradford Elementary School Edgemont Montessori School City of Newark Benjamin Franklin School Park Elementary School
City of Paterson William C. Best School #24 Paterson Academy for the Gifted and Talented at PS #28 City of Plainfield Jefferson Elementary School Borough of Roselle Park Sherman Elementary School Robert Gordon
Elementary School Borough of Rumson Deane-Porter Elementary School Borough of Shrewsbury Shrewsbury Borough School Borough of Tinton Falls Mahala Atchison School
Swimming River Elementary School Tinton Falls Middle School Township of Verona Brookdale Avenue
Elementary School Laning Avenue School Borough of Wallington Jefferson Annex
Elementary School Borough of West Long Branch Betty McElmon
Elementary School Township of Wyckoff Calvin Coolidge
Elementary School
Bronze Township of Bloomfield Franklin Elementary School Township of Freehold Freehold Learning Center Borough of Leonia Anna C Scott Elementary Leonia Middle School Township of Maplewood Tuscan Elementary School Borough of Maywood Maywood Avenue School City of Orange Township Heywood Avenue School
City of Passaic Passaic Gifted and Talented Academy School #20 Sallie D. Gamble School #16 Thomas Jefferson School #1 City of Plainfield Hubbard Middle School Queen City Academy
Charter School Borough of Sea Girt Sea Girt Elementary School Township of Verona Frederic N. Brown
Elementary School Town of Westfield McKinley Elementary School
Grant Funding Organizations
Event Agenda
8:30am
Registration/Breakfast/Networking
9:00am
Welcome - Perry Frenzel
EZ Ride Chairman
9:15am
Chief Guest – Honorable Angel Estrada
Chairman NJTPA & Union County Freeholder
9:30am
Presentation – Nat Bottigheimer
NJ Director, RPA
9:55am
Presentation of Awards
10:15am
Closing Remarks - Krishna Murthy
EZ Ride Executive Director
Silver
Township of Irvington Florence Avenue Elementary School City of Orange Township Oakwood Avenue Community School
Gold City of Asbury Park Barack Obama Elementary School Township of Bloomfield Brookdale Elementary School City of Clifton Clifton Public School #2 City of Long Branch Amerigo A. Anastasia Elementary School City of Orange Township Park Avenue School City of Plainfield Dewitt D. B arlow Elementary School
Thank you to our event sponsors
Audit Tax Advisory www.withum.com (732) 842-3113
Insurance and Benefit Services www.hubinternational.com (484) 344-4517
Public Relations and Communications www.axiominc.net (201) 348-8998
Commercial Bus Sales www.wolfington.com 1-800-328-7636
Commercial Real Estate www.hartzmountain.com (201) 348-1200
Trustees
Mary D. Ameen Executive Director North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority
Sandra Bleckman Director Fairleigh Dickinson University
Scott Bogren Executive Director Community Transportation Association of America
Steve Brown Mgr. Regional Tpt. Planning The Port Authority of NY & NJ
Robert R. Ceberio President RCM Ceberio, LLC
Angel G. Estrada Freeholder Union County
Diana E. Fainberg President Diana E. Fainberg Associates, LLC
Sal Gentile Executive Vice President Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc.
Kent E. Hansen Senior Staff Attorney Pro Bono Partnership, Inc.
James Kirkos President & CEO Meadowlands Regional Chamber
Michael Russo Assistant Commissioner NJ Department of Transportation
Nadereh Moini, Ph.D., P.E Chief of Transportation NJ Sports & Exposition Authority
Anthony Scardino President Anthony Scardino & Associates
Thomas Schulze, AICP Executive Director Center for Community Planning
James J. Tedesco III County Executive Bergen County
Michael Vieira Director of Special Transportation Services, Essex County
Trustee Emeritus Richard Fritzky
EZ Ride Board Members
Officers
Perry E. Frenzel, P.E., P.P. - Chair Principal Associate PNJ/Frenzel Assoc., LLC
Patricia Ott, P.E., - Vice Chair Managing Member, MBO Engineering, LLC
Chip Hallock - Secretary President, Newark Regional Business Partnership
Ronald E. Nichols - Treasurer Senior Director, Private Carrier Affairs, New Jersey Transit
At EZ Ride, we believe that access to safe, affordable and reliable transportation is critical to our quality of life and the economic growth of the region.
Transportation is a daily concern for commuters who cannot afford to drive to work, for older adults and people with disabilities who do not drive a car, and for businesses seeking to recruit and retain employees who do not have easy access to public transportation.
For 35-years, we have helped people overcome transportation barriers by partnering with public and private sector organizations to implement transportation programs like carpools, vanpools, shuttles, transportation for seniors and riders with reduced mobility, bicycling & walking programs, and even transportation with compa-nies like Lyft and Uber.
Today, we provide shuttle services for more than 2,000 riders daily using a fleet of 32 minibuses and about 100 drivers, carpools for 30,000 commuters, vanpools for 200 riders, transportation for 1,000 older adults and 150 riders with disabilities. Additionally, we have an extensive bike and pedestrian program that serves more than a 100 schools.
Whatever your transportation needs, EZ Ride is here to help.
As a result of our efforts, in 2013 EZ Ride was recognized for excellence in serving the needs of the community and named the Urban Community Transportation System of the Year by the Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA).
A Board of Trustees comprised of twenty members representing business, government and non-profit sectors set the direction and policy to be implemented by the staff.
Annually, at this event we recognize and honor the deserving individuals, municipalities and corporations who work tirelessly behind the scenes to affect positive change in our state’s mobility.
Congratulations to all the award recipients!
About EZ Ride
Automated Business Solutions Www.abs-pa.com (610) 350-7403
Insurance and Benefit Services www.coastalfinancialgroup.com (973) 952-0300
Financial Services www.healeyassociates.com (207) 775-6177
Vanpool Services www.enterpriserideshare.com (646) 276-4493
Special thanks to Axiom for media coverage
Thank you for joining us!
35th Anniversary
&
Annual Recognition Event
Moving Forward, the Next 35 Years
The Gran Centurions 440 Madison Hill Road, Clark, NJ 07066
