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Tinton Falls Council introduces three ordinances, approves appointments and consent agenda
Summary
At its Jan. 21 meeting the Tinton Falls Borough Council introduced ordinances to vacate a roadway, revise cemetery zoning and set department salaries, scheduled public hearings for Feb. 4, and approved an appointment to the Shade Tree Commission and the consent agenda.
The Tinton Falls Borough Council introduced three ordinances and approved a slate of routine items at its Jan. 21 meeting, scheduling public hearings on the ordinances for Feb. 4.
The council voted to introduce: an ordinance to vacate the borough’s rights and interest in a roadway known as Gun Club Road (Ordinance 2025-15-20); an amendment to Chapter 40 (land use) to revise zoning requirements for cemeteries (Ordinance 2025-15-21); and an ordinance setting salaries for department heads, statutory employees, the mayor and council (Ordinance 2025-15-22). All three ordinances were introduced by motion and approved on roll call; the council set public hearings for Feb. 4, 2025, or as soon thereafter as they can be reached on the agenda.
The meeting also included a resolution appointing a liaison to the Shade Tree Commission (R25-14). The council approved the appointment on roll call during the resolutions portion of the agenda.
Other routine business cleared the consent agenda, and the council approved the minutes of the Dec. 17 regular meeting.
During the reports portion of the meeting a member of council noted two forthcoming items that will appear on the council’s agenda: a proposed cost-of-living adjustment for the borough’s LOSAP (Length of Service Award Program) for eligible volunteer emergency services members, described as an increase equal to the state’s 3.4% maximum for the year (the specific dollar amounts were not specified in the meeting); and a resolution to authorize issuance of bond anticipation notes through the Monmouth County Improvement Authority, a financing mechanism the speaker said the borough had used the prior year to reduce interest and issuance costs.
In public comment, Ellen Goldberg, 90 Glenwood Drive, thanked the borough Department of Public Works for clearing roads after a recent snowstorm and announced two community events: an Environmental Resource Inventory presentation by the Environmental Commission at 11 a.m. Feb. 8 at the Crawford House, and a children’s fashion show tentatively scheduled for March 29 at Atchison School (final school board approval had not been received).
There was no final consideration of ordinances at this meeting; the council moved to public discussion and then adjourned at 7:15 p.m.
