Votes at a glance: Montgomery County commissioners approve planning contracts, cell tower easement changes, bonds, reappointments and routine items

The Montgomery County Board of Commissioners voted Thursday to approve a series of resolutions, contracts and routine items. Key approved actions ranged from short-term planning contracts to a conditional approval allowing a cell tower on county-open-space land, and a TEFRA authorization for a school bond issue.

What passed - Authorization of short-term planning assistance contracts (Wissahickon School District, Jenkintown School District and the municipality of Norristown). The planning commission will provide enrollment projection and ordinance update services; municipal and school-district cost shares were recorded in the contracts presented. - A conditional approval permitting a single cell tower on Penland Woods in Lower Gwynedd Township, where the county had provided open-space acquisition funding in the 1990s. The resolution includes conditions requiring notice to Wissahickon Trails on future easement changes, commitment of a share of tower lease revenue to conservation work in the township, a removal…