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Commissioners accept state grants and insert funds into 2025 budget
Summary
The board approved several insertions into the 2025 county budget on June 11, adding state grant funds for senior health insurance counseling, clean communities and personal assistance services, and approved a municipal alliance agreement for substance-use prevention.
The Warren County Board of County Commissioners on June 11 approved multiple budget insertions and grant-related agreements that add state funding to the county’s 2025 budget.
Resolutions 315-25, 316-25 and 317-25 authorized insertion of the following into the 2025 budget: $33,000 from the New Jersey Department of Health & Senior Services for the SHIP (Senior Health Insurance Program) grant; $116,297.92 from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for the Clean Communities Program; and $15,444 from the New Jersey Department of Human Services for the Personal Assistance Services Program (PASP) grant #26BDWN. Each resolution passed by recorded vote: James Kern III, Lori Ciesla and Jason Sarnoski: yes.
The board also approved Resolution 320-25 to accept a Letter of Agreement with the Governor’s Council on Substance Use Disorder for $105,194 to support the Municipal Alliance Plan submitted by the Department of Human Services for July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026. The minutes detail a planned allocation of $70,000 for alliance coordination and $35,194 for municipal alliance programs within that total.
Separately, Resolution 321-25 authorized filing a spending plan for the Recycling Enhancement Act tax entitlement for 2024 in the amount of $162,000; the Solid Waste Coordinator/Planning Director and county officials are authorized to file the plan with the NJ Department of Environmental Protection and execute non-increasing amendments.
Why it matters: these actions bring state-directed grant dollars into the county’s 2025 operating budget for aging services, environmental cleanup efforts, personal assistance services and substance-use prevention, and authorize the county to spend a recycling entitlement. The motions were routine budget insertions recorded with affirmative votes by the three commissioners.
