Glassboro council approves personnel and procedural resolutions; introduces ordinance to rename Tucker Street

Glassboro Mayor and Council on Jan. 14 approved a package of resolutions that included three police department appointments, several zoning-board appointments and authorization for a contractor to install monitoring wells on borough streets, and introduced an ordinance to rename Tucker Street to Rock Road.

The actions matter to residents because they fill vacant municipal positions and authorize drilling activity on public rights-of-way that could affect work on Liberty, Reading and William streets. The ordinance introduction begins a formal process that will return to council for further hearings and votes if it advances.

Under a single roll-call vote the council approved resolutions numbered 61 through 71. Those items included appointing Marcus Nasis, Edward Ruiz and Matthew J. Casas as patrol officers for the Glassboro Police Department; appointing David A. Lopez and Roseanne Clerk Lafferty to the Glassboro Zoning Board of Adjustment; authorizing a site-access agreement to allow Petrodi LLC, through East Coast Drilling Inc., to install and monitor wells and boreholes within Liberty Street, Reading Street and William Street; and other routine municipal administrative matters including a refund for a street-opening performance guarantee and reimbursement of a fourth-quarter property tax payment to a named individual (description in the resolution text).

The council also introduced ordinance 25-01, an ordinance “providing for the renaming of Tucker Street to Rock Road in the Borough of Glassboro,” on first reading. The ordinance was placed on the agenda for introduction and passed the roll-call introduction; further readings, public notice and a final adoption vote would follow the borough’s ordinance process.

There was no substantive public comment during the meeting. The council approved the minutes of the Dec. 10, 2024 meeting, the payment of duly authorized bills and accepted routine department reports. Engineer Martin reported that several construction projects are mostly complete and that interior work has continued through cold weather, with another wave of construction expected in spring when outstanding approvals are finalized.

The meeting record shows the items were adopted by roll-call vote; the clerk recorded the vote as carried for the grouped resolutions and for the ordinance introduction. No abstentions or nay votes were noted on the record provided. The borough solicited motions, carried the votes and closed the public-comment portion after no members of the public stepped forward.

The council set its next regular meeting for Jan. 28, 2025 at 6 p.m.