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Township Manager Robert Vornlocker presented the Council with a $63 million proposed budget. A $63 million spending plan was introduced March 10 by the Township Council. The $62,827,195.19 2020 budget – up $895,857 over the 2019 budget of $61,931,338 – is powered by a tax levy of $25,751,390.71. That’s an increase of $614,888.79 over the 2019 levy.

The Township Council on February 25 approved salary hikes for commissioners in two of the township’s Fire Districts. Salary hikes for Fire Commissioners in Fire Districts 1 and 2 were approved February 25 by the Township Council. The salary for commissioners in Fire District 1 – except the chairman – was increased from $7,000 to 8,000 annually, a 14 percent …

Carl Hauck, the township’s Public Works manager, FTPD Sgt. Brian Farrar, FTPD Lt. Phil Rizzo and Township Manager Robert Vornlocker, left to right, at the Township Council’s budget hearing on February 18. The Franklin Township Police Department presented the Township Council with nearly $3 million in budget wish-list requests at the Council’s second budget hearing on February 18. The requests …

The Township Council approved a number of purchases on December 10. Nearly $300,000 in purchases for the police, public works and fire prevention departments were approved December 10 by the Township Council. The council voted to award Atlantic Uniform Company of Belleville a $94,530 contract for the purchase of bullet proof vests for police officers.

The township will increase its inventory of electric car charging stations in the next year. The township is adding another electric car charging station to its inventory, with more to come, but the “free ride” now given to electric car owners may end. The Township Council at its November 26 meeting formally accepted a $12,000 grant to install a charging …

Township Manager Robert Vornlocker said that some former Consolata Missionaries’ property is being looked at for a dog park. The township is considering creating a dog park on part of the former Consolata Missionaries property on Route 27. Township Manager Robert Vornlocker made the revelation at the November 26 Township Council meeting, in response to a suggestion from a resident.

Members of Franklin Township PBA Local 154 will receive 2 percent and 3 percent salary hikes during the course of new 5-year contracts approved Sept. 25 by the Township Council. The contracts had previously been ratified by the membership of PBA 154 and the PBA 154 Supervisory Officers Association.

Dignitaries participate in the ceremonial groundbreaking of the Franklin Township Youth Center on Aug. 15. A day that Township Councilwoman Kimberly Francois has thought about for years arrived Aug. 15 with the groundbreaking of the Franklin Township Youth Center on Lewis Street. Targeted for the land that once held the Somerset Community Action Program headquarters, the 24,000-square-foot, $9.8 million youth …

Township Manager Robert Vornlocker said he expects to launch a nationwide search to find a person with long law enforcement experience to be the township’s Public Safety Director. The township is expected to launch a nationwide search to fill its newly created Public Safety Director position. The Council created the position Aug. 13 in a unanimous vote to approve amendments …

More than $900,000 worth of vehicles and equipment for the township police department were approved June 25 by the Township Council. The purchases were for a total of 14 vehicles and 59 digital radios.