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Bridgeport council approves fire-investigation team, pension MMOs, pension audits and final paving payment
Summary
At its Sept. 9 meeting, Bridgeport Borough Council approved a multi-agency fire investigation team, set minimum municipal obligations for pension plans for 2026 (with corrected figures), accepted pension audit findings and authorized a final paving payment for a CDBG-funded project.
Bridgeport Borough Council approved several operational and fiscal measures on Sept. 9, including a resolution forming a multi-agency fire investigation team, the minimum municipal obligations (MMOs) for borough pension plans for calendar year 2026, acceptance of pension audits, an ordinance housekeeping update to pension code language, and authorization of a final payment on a CDBG-funded paving project.
Fire investigation team: The council adopted Resolution 2025-18 to establish a multi-agency fire investigation team to pool technical expertise across neighboring municipalities for origin-and-cause investigations. Council members described the team as a collaborative arrangement rather than a hiring action.
Pension obligations and audits: The council set the borough’s MMOs for calendar year 2026 and accepted the 2025 pension audits. The council’s initial MMO figures were corrected during the meeting: the police (uniformed defined-benefit) MMO for 2026 was announced in the meeting as $233,940 (a correction downward from an earlier misstated figure), and the nonuniform defined-contribution MMO was corrected to $27,407. The council accepted the findings of the 2025 police pension audit and the 2025 nonuniform pension audit by motion and voice vote.
Ordinance housekeeping: The council adopted Ordinance 2025-1 to amend Chapter 7.235 (Deferred Retirement Option Plan) of the borough code to align code language with recent collective bargaining agreement changes. Council described the change as housekeeping.
Paving payment: Council authorized final payments to Innovative Construction for the 2022 paving project using CDBG funds in the amount reported in the meeting ($14,888.29).
How the council voted: Most measures were approved by voice vote during the meeting; the transcript records “Aye” and “That motion carries” for the items noted. Several motions were moved and seconded by council members present; the meeting did not record roll-call tallies in the published transcript for these items.
Ending: Council leaders said the items clear routine operational and financial housekeeping so staff can proceed with implementation and budgeting steps.
