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Camden County commissioners introduce wide-ranging package of budget, grant and contract resolutions; adopt closed-session vote
Summary
The Camden County Board of Commissioners read and introduced dozens of resolutions covering transportation and GIS grants, park and library renovations, corrections contracts, public-safety equipment purchases and multiple health and human services agreements. The board then voted to enter closed session after no public comments were made.
An unnamed meeting official called the Camden County Board of Commissioners to order and led a roll call before the board read and introduced a large package of budget, grant and contract resolutions on Tuesday.
The measures covered a wide range of county business, from small planning grants to multimillion-dollar contracts. The board also adopted a resolution to enter closed session and adjourned after no members of the public signed up to speak.
The agenda included several Chapter 159 insertions of state and regional grants. The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission grants included a $41,500 transit support award and roughly $34,000 for a countywide transportation geographic information system. The board also listed a $71,111 Regional Vision & Action program grant and a $44,015 grant supporting regional highway planning.
Parks and recreation items included a Green Acres Jake’s Law grant application for New Camden Park playground improvements in the amount of $882,170.02 and a separate listed grant for New Camden Park (same amount listed again in the reading). A walk-on resolution was read to insert $90,000 from the New Jersey Department of State Historical Commission for a Jersey Joe Wolcott statue grant.
Library and facility projects were among the capital items introduced: bond substitutions to finance renovations at the South County and Bellmawr library branches ($90,000 and $60,000 respectively) and a listed contract for an emergency generator for a county building at about $827,000. The board also read an award for elevator/escalator maintenance under a cooperative pricing system for $586,000; funding for several capital and service contracts was described as contingent on passage of the county’s 2025 temporary or permanent budgets.
Public-safety and corrections items featured multiple contracting items. The Department of Corrections listed competitive contracting awards for substance use and addiction counseling services (approximately $999,517.30) and a competitively awarded medical, mental health and dental care services contract for inmates with CFG Health Systems LLC totaling about $14,832,849.50; both were identified as contingent on passage of the 2025 budgets. The board also authorized awards for inmate commissary services and electronic monitoring.
The agenda listed several public-health and human-services actions: an Area Plan grant insertion for $4,249,153; a Comprehensive Alcoholism Drug Abuse Grant for $1,508,756; a National Opioid Abatement Trust allocation (approximately $642,660.47); and numerous RFP-based agreements for substance use disorder, recovery-support and senior services with combined amounts in the low millions and several smaller grants and programs. A planned agreement with Planned Parenthood of Northern, Central and Southern New Jersey for professional medical health services was listed at $78,750 and described as contingent on 2025 budget passage.
Other notable items: a Fund My Future workforce-development grant application for about $2,367,200.69; a county contract/lease for operation of a shelter (listed at $409,619); and technology purchases under state contract, including body-worn cameras and related equipment from Axon Enterprises (approximately $117,288.30), backup servers (about $45,951.68) and mobile radio equipment (about $70,000.75).
The meeting opened for public comment on the resolutions. When no one registered to speak, a motion to close public comment was made; the presiding official called for a voice vote and the board closed the public portion by voice vote.
Following the public portion, the board adopted a closed-session resolution under the Open Public Meetings Act (cited as chapter 231 PL 1975) to discuss pending litigation, contract negotiations, personnel matters and other exempt subjects. A voice vote was recorded in favor. After concluding closed session, the board reported no additional matters for the open meeting, moved to adjourn and took a voice vote to adjourn.
What’s next: most of the contracts and grant submissions listed in the reading were identified as contingent on future budget action; the meeting record shows items introduced and listed for approval but does not record final passage of those individual resolutions in the public portion. The board did adopt the closed-session resolution and adjourned the meeting.
