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BUDGET TIME – Public Safety Director Quovella Maeweather prepares for her comments to the Township Council at its first 2023 budget hearing on March 13. Budget requests for a number of township departments were heard at a special March 13 Township Council hearing. The hearing was one of two that will be held before the township’s 2023 budget is introduced, …

WORK UNDERWAY – This was the scene on February 21 in the Township Council chamber. Chairs were removed and existing carpeting taken up in preparation for the installation of new carpet. The replacement of the carpeting in the Township Council Chamber in the Municipal Building should be completed by the Council’s February 28 meeting, the Township Manager said. The $16,972.16 …

Township CDBG Coordinator Deborah Mitchell explains the proposed amendments to the Township Council. Left-over money in previous years’ Community Development Block Grant program was good news for four township organizations that had project funding approved at the December 13 Township Council meeting. The township had a total of $92,871.36 in left-over CDBG funds from 2019, 2020 and 2022, according to …

Contracts totaling more than $40,000 for new carpeting in the Council Chamber, the Court and Police Department were awarded December 13 by the Township Council. Both contracts went to The Gillespie Group of Dayton. The largest, $23,301.71, is for installing new carpeting in the Court and Police Department. The second contract, worth $16,972.16, is for the Council Chamber installation. Township …

New HVAC units and police cars were approved for purchase at the November 22 Township Council meeting. The Council awarded a contract worth $95,289 to Blackwood-based McCloskey Mechanical Contractors for four HVAC units for the construction code building. The purchase was made through the Hunterdon County Educational Services Commission. The Council also awarded a contract worth $119,558 to Cherry Hill-based …

Contracts worth more than $1.3 million for the resurfacing of two roads were approved July 12 by the Township Council. The largest of the contracts is for $671,940, for the resurfacing of Cortelyous Lane, which was awarded to Meco Inc. of Clarksburg. The second contract, worth $650,443.99, was awarded to Z Brothers Concrete Contractors of Sayreville for the resurfacing of …

Contracts worth more than $3 million in goods and services were approved by the Township Council in June. The Council authorized contracts totaling $913,281.60 at the June 14 meeting, and $2,274,154.55 at the June 28 meeting. At the June 14 meeting, the Council approved contracts for: extending a recreation and enrichment program from various vendors, worth $400,000eight land surveyors, worth …

A $3 million bond ordinance to pay for a handful of road improvements in the Township was introduced by the Township Council at its May 24 meeting. The Ordinance sets aside $2,812,500 for the work. The nearly three dozen streets included in the 2022 resurfacing program are Red Oak Court, Butler Road, Appleman Road, Westminster Road, Cedar Avenue, Equator Avenue, …

Township Manager Robert Vornlocker presented the proposed budget to the Township Council. Updated: The Township Council unanimously passed the budget at its May 10 meeting. Township property owners will have to dig a little deeper when paying this year’s municipal property tax bill. That’s because a $544,000 state-mandated increase in the amount to be raised in taxes for the public …

A $2 million decrease in water utility collections may lead to a rate increase during the year, the Township Council was told on March 15. Township auditor Andrew Hodulik told the Council during its second budget hearing that the utility’s fund balance decreased from $10 million to $8 million over the last year. “You’re probably going to look at a …