YARDLEY, PA – The bi-state Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission today voted to retain its panel of leadership posts, maintaining Aladar G. Komjathy of Lambertville, N.J. as the bistate agency’s chairman for a fifth consecutive year.
The Pennsylvania-New Jersey transportation body’s other top officers for the next year are: Pamela Janvey of Bristol, PA. as Vice Chairwoman; Daniel Grace of Feasterville, PA. as Secretary; and Michael B. Lavery of Hackettstown, N.J. as Treasurer.
The votes were unanimous and took place during the Commission’s May meeting at the agency’s Scudder Falls Administration Building in Lower Makefield, PA.
Komjathy has over 40 years of experience in public service and business. His government-affairs firm – Komjathy & Kean – services a variety of Fortune-500 companies and non-profit entities. Mr. Komjathy serves on the N.J. State Board of Mortuary Science and is member of the board of trustees for Capital Healthcare, Inc. He was the long-time chairman of the Lambertville Board of Fire Commissioners. Prior positions include president of the Hunterdon County Board of Taxation; special assistant to New Jersey’s Commissioner of Corrections, where he oversaw a major prison building project; and legislative assistant to former state Senator Francis J. McManimon of Mercer County. Komjathy, a U.S. Navy veteran, is a Trenton State College graduate. He has served as Commission Chairman since 2022.
Janvey is a former accounting department supervisor at the Bridge Commission, with previous experience in the real estate industry and in-service delivery for at-risk families and residents in Bucks County, Pa. Since 2013, she has served as a board member of the Livengrin Foundation for Addictive Recovery, a Bensalem-based organization that was one of Pennsylvania’s first non-profit treatment centers for drug and alcohol dependency. She became the Commission’s vice chairwoman in October 2020.
Grace has served as secretary since 2021. He has been a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Local 830 of Pennsylvania for more than four decades. He has served as the organization’s Secretary-Treasurer/Business Manager since 2001 and as an executive board director of the 95,000-member Pennsylvania Conference of Teamsters since 2005. He also serves on a variety of other union-related boards and councils.
Lavery has a distinguished community service record, having served on the Hackettstown Medical Center Board of Trustees, the Centenary University Board of Trustees, and as a member of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission since 2015. He presided as DRJTBC Chairman from 2016 to 2021. A partner in the North Jersey law firm Lavery, Selvaggi & Cohen, P.C., Lavery’s practice is concentrated in local government law, litigation and land-use law. He represents a wide variety of municipalities and government bodies. Lavery served as mayor of Hackettstown from 2005 to 2011. He served on the executive board of the New Jersey League of Municipalities and as a board member for the New Jersey Conference of Mayors. He received his B.A. from the University of New Haven and his law degree from Rutgers University. He resides in Hackettstown.
The office bearers are to serve in their respective positions for the remaining seven months of this year and the first five months of 2027.
The Commission’s governing body consists of 10 members – five commissioners from New Jersey and five commissioners from Pennsylvania. (Commissioners are volunteer uncompensated positions.
New Jersey commissioners are nominated by that state’s governor and confirmed by its Senate. Pennsylvania commissioners are appointed by its governor and serve at his pleasure. The Commissioners meet monthly to review reports, provide oversight, and set policies carried out by the agency’s Executive Director and professional staff.
The Commission’s first organizational meeting occurred December 28, 1934. The 90th anniversary of the Commission’s federal compact enactment occurred in August of last year.
