Janine Bauer

A former interim Trustee, a transportation and environmental attorney, and a16-year Clark Street resident, Janine Bauer has served South Orange in a number of capacities, resulting in a profound impact. Janine's unique combination of redevelopment experience, environmental experience, transportation experience, and proven ability to generate grant funding will be a tremendous asset to the Board.

Appointed to the Environmental Commission in 1999 and the Planning Board in 2000, Janine helped Environmental Commission members finish the Natural Resources Inventory. In 2006, Janine successfully lobbied the Board of Trustees to change the Commission's enabling ordinance to allow it to comment on the environmental implications of development.

As a Planning Board member Janine helped write several sections of the Master Plan, including the Recreation and Open Space element and the Bicycle and Pedestrian aspect of the Circulation element—all in addition to hearing and deciding major development applications. Currently chair of the River Greenway committee, Janine has worked closely with representatives of the Village, citizen advisory boards, and state and federal regulatory agencies to negotiate permits for and coordinate construction of the bicycle path and river restoration project. She insisted on competitive bidding to hire a consultant to write the River Corridor Master Plan, and oversaw its completion with committee colleagues. Janine was directly responsible for securing over $1.2 million in federal Green Acres grants to help fund this effort.

Janine is an attorney in private practice in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. She focuses on transportation, environmental, and land use matters and is a fixture on the transportation scene. She started her own consulting firm in 2004, which advises municipalities and public clients. She is the former director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign (1993-2003), a New York-based non-profit firm working to implement a more seamless, economically efficient and environmentally-friendly transportation network.

One of Janine's first projects at Tri-State was to help Maplewood obtain grant funds to operate a jitney to service residents commuting to and from the town train station. She then persuaded NJ Transit to expand the jitney program to six communities (including South Orange) along the Morris & Essex railroad line, and then to 32 communities statewide.

Janine was an assistant prosecutor in Mercer County where she tried jury cases involving violent crimes, narcotics distribution, and official corruption (1991-93). A former resident of Trenton, she was a founding member of the board of directors of the local professional theatre, Passage, and appointed by the mayor to Trenton's open space advisory board. She also chaired the Trenton Roebling Community Development Corporation, which revitalized the city's vacant, blighted wire rope factories. Today, the factories are vibrant examples of redevelopment, leased to offices, shops, a supermarket and non-profit organizations.

Janine obtained her B.A. from Syracuse University and law degree from Rutgers University, where she graduated with honors, won a prize for Contracts, and was a member of the Law Review. South Orange residents since 1993, she and her husband, Edward Lloyd, have a son and daughter. Janine is an active member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) in Montclair, NJ, and also attends the First Baptist Church in South Orange.