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Votes at a glance: Sayreville council approves salary ordinance, contracts, promotions and event permits; historic-site motion fails
Summary
At the April 2025 meeting the Sayreville Mayor and Council adopted multiple consent-agenda items including a salaries ordinance, service contracts, a promotion, and event permits. A motion to designate two borough properties as historic failed on roll call.
The Sayreville Mayor and Council approved a slate of consent-agenda items and individual motions during their April 2025 meeting. Key outcomes recorded in the meeting transcript include the following.
• Ordinance 12-24 (salaries): The council held a public hearing and then adopted Ordinance 12-24, supplementing and amending Ordinance 2-24 to fix salaries of certain borough officials, officers and employees for 2025–2027. The public portion produced no speakers. The council closed the hearing and adopted the ordinance on roll call.
• Ordinance 13-25 (property sale): The council adopted Ordinance 13-25 authorizing sale of Lock 371, Lot 2.03 to an adjacent owner (see separate report). The parcel was described in the public hearing as about 12 feet by 150 feet (1,800 square feet) and the sale price was recorded as $6,000.
• Contracts and procurement (consent agenda): The council authorized awarding a contract to Tactical Public Safety through state contract T0109 for 2025 radio system maintenance not to exceed $139,318.25, and awarded a non-fair-and-open contract to BIS Digital to upgrade courtroom sound system equipment and a Liberty DCR recorder not to exceed $22,203.27. These items were placed on the consent agenda and approved with the other resolutions.
• Promotion: The council authorized the promotion of Gwendolyn Knight to supervisor of customer service in the Water and Sewer Department, effective April 16, with no recorded objections.
• Event permits and special events: The council approved a block party request for July 5 and a special-event application from the New Jersey Sports Club to hold a sports event May 24 at War Memorial Park from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; the meeting record shows no objections and both items proceeded.
• Historic-site motion fails: A motion to declare the Old Firehouse and the Old Borough Hall as borough historic sites was moved and seconded; roll-call votes recorded Novak and Balcombe voting yes, and Khaleesi, Roberts, Sinarski and Zabrowski voting no. The motion did not carry.
Vote method: Many of the consent-agenda items were adopted after the council moved to close the public hearings and approve the consent agenda on roll call. The roll-call results for consent items recorded in the transcript show the following members voting yes: Roberts, Balcom, Khaleesi, Novak, Sunarski and Zabrowski. For the historic-site motion the transcript records the roll-call breakdown noted above.
