Morris County Director Sellin and the Board of County Commissioners on July 23 moved forward on financing for a county multipurpose building, introducing two ordinances to appropriate a total of $1,611,298.18 and adopting two other ordinances by roll-call votes after public hearings that drew no speakers.

The board introduced Ordinance 2025-35, appropriating $1,111,298.18 from the capital surplus fund for construction costs for the county multipurpose building in the Department of Public Works, and Ordinance 2025-36, appropriating $500,000 from the reserve for road and bridge fund for site work related to the project. Deputy Director Shaw and other commissioners voted yes on the introductions during roll call; Commissioners Crickus and Smith were absent.

The moves followed the board’s second-reading and adoption of Ordinance 2025-33 (related to the multipurpose building) and Ordinance 2025-34, a bond ordinance amending the title section, Section 3(a) and Section 6(d) of Bond Ordinance No. 953566 of the County of Morris, New Jersey, finally adopted March 11, 2020, to amend the project description and to change Section 20 costs. Each public hearing was opened, the clerk reported no members of the public wished to speak, and the board closed the hearings before adopting the ordinances on second and final reading by roll-call vote.

The meeting record shows the board followed required notice procedures for the meeting (a resolution adopted January 3, 2025, and public notice via the county website and local papers) and that public comment was opened with a three-minute limit; no written comments were reported to the clerk and no public speakers addressed the ordinances during the hearings.

In addition to the ordinances, the board approved the July 9, 2025 meeting minutes (the record indicates one abstention during that vote), approved the resolutions on the agenda by roll call, and authorized payment of the county’s bills. The meeting included routine procedural items, a moment recognizing recent severe-weather victims, the prayer and pledge of allegiance, and brief staff attendance acknowledgments. No substantive debate or public opposition to the multipurpose-building appropriations appears in the transcript.

The board adjourned after the roll-call approvals and payment authorization.