At its Sept. 24 work session, the Morris County Board of Commissioners included Resolution 2025-790 on the agenda to formally adopt the county's Local Safety Action Plan, Deputy Director Steven Shaw said. The plan was funded by the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority and was developed over more than a year.

Shaw said the document "is gonna be used as a planning tool, not to implement specific projects," and that, "most importantly, it opens up billions in federal, USDOT safe streets and roads for all program grant dollars to the county and all of our 39 municipalities." He also said a link to the plan was sent to commissioners after the prior meeting and to administrators to share with municipal engineers.

The board did not record a vote on the floor during the part of the meeting in which Shaw reported; the resolution appeared on the agenda for consideration later in the meeting. Shaw described the plan as a grant-eligibility and planning resource rather than an instruction to build particular projects.

Why it matters: participation in the federal Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program can make municipal and county planning documents eligible for USDOT competitive grant awards. Shaw characterized the LSAP as the county-level planning document intended to allow Morris County and its municipalities to pursue those funds.

Next steps noted in the meeting: commissioners were told the resolution to adopt the LSAP was on the evening agenda (Resolution 2025-790) and that staff had circulated the plan to county administrators and engineers for review. No motion or vote adopting the plan was recorded in the public portion of the transcript excerpt.

Funding and oversight references in the report were to the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation Safe Streets and Roads for All program; Shaw said the plan was funded by NJTPA.