Pennsauken committee adopts salary ordinance, approves multiple consent resolutions and schedules closed session

The Pennsauken Township Committee on April 3, 2025, adopted an ordinance updating salaries and compensation and approved a package of consent resolutions covering emergency borrowing, shared services, professional contracts and multiple equipment and construction contracts for the new Pennsauken Township Public Library municipal complex.

Committee members opened public comment on the salary ordinance (listed in the record as “20 25 0 5”), received no public comments and then moved to final approval. The committee took the same procedure for a second ordinance listed in the record as “20 25 0 6.” Both ordinances passed on roll call with all members voting yes.

The committee then approved the first reading of an ordinance labeled in the record as “20 25 0 8,” amending the township code section on vehicles and traffic; the first-reading motion passed by roll call. The committee adopted a consent agenda that included a series of resolutions (numbers and short descriptions quoted from the meeting record): 2024-145 authorizing issuance/sale of up to $780,000 of special emergency notes; 2025-146 authorizing a shared-services agreement with Merchantville for emergency medical services; a resolution awarding a professional services contract for CDBG resurfacing (CME Associates) for Eden Lane engineering services (record lists the item as presented); 2025-148 awarding a public relations/consultant contract (listed in the record as Frank Sinatra); 2025-149 authorizing an agreement with NJDEP Green Acres to construct “Welcome Home Jake’s Place”; 2025-150 awarding a contract for supply, configuration and installation of audio-visual and PA systems at the new Pennsauken Township Public Library Municipal Complex; a separate resolution to award network infrastructure at the same complex (listed in the record as 2020-?1501); 2025-152 issuing a used-car dealer license for Suburbese Truck Inc.; 2025-153 authorizing a refund for a tax payment (listed in the record as “Iranian’s tax payment”); 2025-154 appointing crossing guards; 2025-155 awarding a contract for access-control and burglar system at the new library complex; 2025-156 awarding a contract for security-camera installation at the new library complex; 2025-157 approving change order A on the Pennsauken Country Club dining addition and deck replacement project; and 2025-158 authorizing the purchase and installation of an IP office phone system (Concert Technologies / IVEA IP, as listed in the record).

Each consent item was presented on the consent agenda, a motion to adopt the consent agenda was made and seconded, and the items were approved by roll call vote with all present members voting yes. After the consent agenda, the committee approved resolution 2025-159 (listed in the record as “20 25 1 59”), authorizing the township committee to move into closed session to discuss contract matters; the committee’s stated plan was to return to the open meeting but to take no further action immediately following that closed session.

Votes at a glance - Ordinance (recorded as 20 25 0 5) — final adoption; roll call: unanimous yes. - Ordinance (recorded as 20 25 0 6) — final adoption; roll call: unanimous yes. - Ordinance (first reading recorded as 20 25 0 8) — first reading approved; roll call: unanimous yes. - Consent resolutions (2024-145; 2025-146; [CDBG resurfacing/CME Associates]; 2025-148; 2025-149; 2025-150; [network infrastructure listed as 20 20 5 1 50 1]; 2025-152; 2025-153; 2025-154; 2025-155; 2025-156; 2025-157; 2025-158) — adopted on consent; roll call: unanimous yes. - Resolution 2025-159 authorizing closed session to discuss contracts — adopted; roll call: unanimous yes. The committee announced there would be no action taken and they would reconvene later.

The meeting record shows routine committee announcements following the votes — library exhibits, upcoming community events, the township’s annual shredding event, and other civic programming. The committee then moved into the authorized closed session to discuss contract matters.

Notes: Where the meeting transcript listed ordinance or resolution numbers with unclear formatting or gaps (for example an item transcribed as “20 20 5 1 40 7” or the network infrastructure resolution shown as “20 20 5 1 50 1”), this article reproduces those identifiers exactly as spoken on the record and marks substantive detail as listed in the meeting record. The committee did not take any further public action on matters discussed in closed session during the open meeting.