Vineland City Council adopts $9.2M bond ordinance, approves $800K landfill closure funding and ratifies municipal utilities director

On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, the Vineland City Council voted 5-0 to adopt Ordinance 20-25-26, a bond ordinance appropriating $9,200,000 and authorizing $8,740,000 in bonds or notes for various capital improvements, and adopted Ordinance 20-25-29, a supplemental bond appropriation of $800,000 for closure of the city sanitary landfill authorizing $760,000 in bonds or notes. The council also ratified Resolution 20-25-181 to confirm Dennis ***** as director of the Department of Municipal Utilities and administered his oath of office.

The bond ordinances were presented and taken up for final reading and adoption without substantive council debate. For Ordinance 20-25-26 the council voted "yes" from each member — Doctor Arthur, Council member English, Council member Gomez, Council member Vargas and President Spinelli — and the ordinance was declared adopted by a 5-0 vote. City staff was asked to submit the adopted ordinance to the mayor for approval or disapproval.

Ordinance 20-25-29, the $800,000 supplemental appropriation…