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Pennsauken committee approves vehicle purchases, police uniform contract and multiple consent resolutions
Summary
At its March 6 meeting the Pennsauken Township Committee approved a pair of contested resolutions (two abstentions on each) to buy vehicles and to renew a police uniform contract, and adopted a multi-item consent agenda covering purchases, contracts and routine refunds.
Pennsauken Township Committee voted March 6 to adopt a set of resolutions including a three-vehicle purchase through the New Jersey cooperative purchasing program and a police-uniform contract for the Pennsauken Police Department, while also approving a multi-item consent agenda covering furniture, audio-visual equipment, recycling, engineering and other routine municipal contracts and refunds.
The actions matter because they commit township funds and vendor contracts for equipment and services used across municipal operations, and two resolutions drew abstentions from two committee members during roll-call votes.
In separate roll-call votes the committee approved resolution 2025-124 (purchase of three single vehicles under New Jersey contract 28-01189) and resolution 2025-125 (contract for law enforcement uniforms with MES Lawman). In both votes Committeeman D. Bautista, Deputy Mayor Raffae and Mayor Roberts voted yes; Committeeman Alba and Committeeman Martinez recorded abstentions. The committee then adopted a broad consent agenda of additional resolutions by roll call, encompassing purchases and contract authorizations for library furnishings, audio-visual equipment, single-stream recycling marketing, road-program engineering services, and other routine items.
The consent agenda items listed on the record included: JTJ Associates for library furniture; Blue Vega LLC for audio-visual equipment; Only Recycling Holdings LLC for a 10-year single-stream recycling marketing contract under the Camden County cooperative purchasing system; an amendment to engineering services for the 2024 road program attributed to Remington and Verneig engineers; a camera/trainer contract under Bergen County cooperative pricing with Gold Type Business Machines; an emergency temporary appropriation related to the golf course; multiple small refunds (equipment/overpayments, a marriage-license refund, a zoning-permit refund); issuance of a 2025 used-car dealer license; and a contract for purchase of labor and equipment through the New Jersey cooperative purchasing program with George Eli Associates Incorporated. A motion to adopt the consent agenda passed on a roll call in which all present voted yes (individual roll-call names were recorded on the transcript as affirmative).
What the record shows: two individual resolutions drew abstentions during roll call. Abstentions were recorded on both the vehicle purchase (2025-124) and the police uniform contract (2025-125); the transcript shows the same five committee members recorded on each roll call with the same votes. The minutes do not include any additional explanation for those abstentions.
The meeting also included first-reading approval of two ordinances on salary and fee changes: Ordinance 2025-05 to repeal Ordinance 2024-18 and set salaries/compensation for 2025, and Ordinance 2025-06 amending township code language related to fees. Both ordinances were approved on first reading and advanced for subsequent consideration; the transcript records motions to approve on first reading and roll-call activity but not a final adoption vote in this meeting.
No motions or votes documented in the transcript were identified as failing or tabled. Several contract and purchase items were adopted by consent. The transcript does not record dollar totals for the vehicle purchase or the police uniform contract; amounts are not specified in the public record excerpt.
Votes at a glance
- Resolution 2025-124 (purchase of three vehicles under NJ cooperative contract 28-01189): Adopted. Roll call: D. Bautista — yes; Committeeman Alba — abstain; Committeeman Martinez — abstain; Deputy Mayor Raffae — yes; Mayor Roberts — yes.
- Resolution 2025-125 (law enforcement uniform contract, MES Lawman): Adopted. Roll call: D. Bautista — yes; Committeeman Alba — abstain; Committeeman Martinez — abstain; Deputy Mayor Raffae — yes; Mayor Roberts — yes.
- Consent agenda (multiple items including JTJ Associates, Blue Vega LLC, Only Recycling Holdings LLC, Remington and Verneig engineers amendment, Gold Type Business Machines, George Eli Associates Inc., refunds, 2025 used-car license): Adopted by roll call; individual roll-call names recorded as affirmative on the transcript.
What’s next: Ordinances approved on first reading (2025-05 and 2025-06) will be scheduled for second reading and final vote at a later meeting; the transcript shows only first-reading motions at this session.
Notes: The transcript does not specify dollar amounts for the vehicle purchase or the uniform contract and does not record reasons for the abstentions.
