Passaic County commissioners advance bond ordinances for college and county improvements; add property purchase amendment to consent agenda

The Passaic County Board of County Commissioners introduced and moved to approve two bond ordinances and added a late purchase-and-sale amendment to the consent agenda during a regular meeting.

Commissioners moved a bond ordinance to appropriate $4,000,000 to pay costs for various public improvements for Passaic County Community College and to authorize issuance of bonds and bond anticipation notes (identified in the meeting as Bond Ordinance 2025-2). The motion to open/consider the public hearing on the ordinance was moved by Commissioner John Bartlett and seconded by (name recorded in the transcript as) Bruce Local; the roll-call recorded in the transcript shows affirmative votes by Bartlett, Cruz, Devore, Duffy, James and the deputy director present, and Director LaPorte, after which the board closed the public portion and proceeded.

Separately, the board introduced a second bond ordinance (referred to in the meeting as 2025-03) to appropriate $2,387,530 for the making of various public improvements and acquisition of equipment, furnishings, information-technology and communications equipment for Passaic County; that motion was made by Commissioner Terry Duffy and seconded as recorded in the meeting, followed by a roll-call vote with the same recorded affirmative responses.

A late resolution (identified in the meeting as O-49) authorizing a third amendment to a purchase and sale agreement and escrow agreement between the County of Passaic and Springbrook Acres Inc. for the purchase of property at 335 Union Avenue, Bloomingdale, New Jersey, pursuant to the statutory citation read in the meeting (recorded as “NJSA 48 code 1124”) was offered and the commissioners voted to add it to the consent agenda.

The personnel agenda and the bills section were moved and approved by roll call during the meeting; the transcript records roll-call affirmations for those motions. Several votes were recorded as “Yes” for commissioners Bartlett, Cruz, Devore, Duffy, James, the deputy director (variously recorded), and Director LaPorte during the roll-call approvals.

The meeting transcript records these formal actions and roll-call approvals; the transcript does not include full text of the ordinances beyond the appropriation amounts and the stated purposes, and it does not record any public speakers at the public hearings on the ordinances (the board moved to close the public portion after noting no one at the podium).