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Votes at a glance: key Asbury Park council actions, March 20 meeting
Summary
The council passed a package of routine consent resolutions and adopted two waterfront-related ordinances; the meeting included approvals of bond administrative contracts and waterfront tax/special-assessment ordinances.
The Asbury Park City Council on March 20 approved a number of consent resolutions, professional-service agreements related to waterfront financing and two ordinances connected to a waterfront project.
Consent items passed as a block with majority votes and included routine matters such as bill payments, purchasing equipment for public safety and public works, and establishing beach-season fees. The full consent-agenda list appears in the council minutes; individual council members voted in favor on the consent block.
The council adopted two related ordinances for a waterfront project developed by Somerset Asbury Park Urban Renewal LLC: an ordinance authorizing a financial agreement for Block 4105, Lot 1.01 (Ordinance 2025-6) and an ordinance providing for special assessments to pay infrastructure costs at the same block (Ordinance 2025-7). The council opened public comment on both ordinances, heard no speakers, and adopted both items. Ordinance 2025-6 (financial agreement) passed on recorded roll call (Council member Bez Anderson opposed; Deputy Mayor Quinn voted no; Council members Chapman and Clayton and Mayor Moore voted yes). Ordinance 2025-7 (special assessments) passed with affirmative votes recorded for the council.
The council also authorized multiple professional-service agreements and administrative contracts related to redevelopment-area bond administration and financial advisory services (recorded in the minutes as agreements with Public Resources Advisory Group and BJH Advisors) and voted on supplemental nonrecourse redevelopment-area bond issuances for waterfront infrastructure, including a supplemental authorization not to exceed $7 million and another authorization not to exceed $28 million. These bond-related resolutions passed by recorded votes (several council members voted no on some bond authorizations; votes are recorded in the minutes).
The meeting closed after adoption of the ordinances and routine adjournment motions.
