The governing body approved a resolution (AR-160-22) during its Aug. 8 regular meeting, seating O’Reilly to a term that runs through 2026. He will serve the remainder of the term to which Timmons originally was appointed earlier this year. Timmons stepped down effective June 30.

Timmons was reappointed at the beginning of this year to another four-year term. He originally was appointed in 2019 to an unexpired term previously occupied by Jorge Casalins that ran through 2021.

The seven-member Redevelopment Agency meets monthly, usually on the third Wednesday of each month. The next scheduled meeting is Sept. 21. Commissioners are unpaid and serve four-year terms, appointed by the mayor and confirmed by City Council.

O’Reilly, a resident of Greslin Terrace, was appointed in 2018 to a two-year term as an alternate on the Planning Board, stepping down last month. He was a member of the Board of Education from 2018 to 2020, serving as vice president in 2019 and 2020.  In 2020, he ran for Board of Education on the “Rahway Strong Together” slate — with Timmons, Carlos Garay, and Joanna Macaluso — that was backed by the Rahway Democratic Committee. O’Reilly finished sixth out of eight candidates; Garay and Timmons finished first and fifth, respectively. Macaluso won an unexpired term.

O’Reilly is a teacher in Union and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Seton Hall University.  He’s served on the Rahway Public Library Board of Trustees since 2020 and currently is vice president.

In 2018, Timmons finished sixth out of a field of seven candidates for three seats on the nine-member Board of Education. He also was a former board secretary for the Roselle Board of Education, having resigned in early 2018.