Salem County inserts multiple grants into 2025–2026 budget under Chapter 159

The Salem County Board of County Commissioners approved eight Chapter 159 insertions June 18 to add special items of revenue to the county budget under New Jersey law.

Those insertions (H1–H8) added grant awards and program-specific revenues, including sustaining local public health infrastructure grant funding, a veterans transportation grant for fiscal year 2025–2026, county family court and partnership grants, the Southern Coastal Wellness Grant, and a Municipal Alliance grant for substance-use prevention. The board read all eight Chapter 159 resolutions into the record and adopted them by unanimous voice vote.

Why it matters: Chapter 159 (P.L. 1948) is the statutory mechanism that permits municipal and county governments in New Jersey to record and spend grant revenues that were not included in the original budget. Adding these items formally authorizes the county to accept and expend the specified grant funds in FY2025–2026.

Supporting details: The resolutions listed specific grant programs by their internal identifiers as read during the meeting (for example, references to SCP-25-PS-17 and other program codes). No dollar amounts were read into the public record during the portions of the meeting captured in the transcript; commissioners adopted the insertions as a group and recorded the vote as unanimous.