Pennsauken committee approves consent agenda, awards design-build contract and authorizes $2 million bond ordinance

The Pennsauken Township Committee approved a consent agenda and several fiscal items at its Dec. 19 meeting, including the awarding of a design-build contract for a new community center and a bond ordinance authorizing up to $2,000,000 in general obligation bonds for capital improvements.

The clerk read a bond ordinance authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds or bond anticipation notes in an aggregate principal amount of up to $2,000,000 to fund various capital projects. After opening and closing the public comment period with no speakers, the committee moved and approved the ordinance by roll call.

Also adopted as part of the consent agenda was Resolution 2024-378, awarding a design-build contract for the new community center project, and multiple other resolutions covering budget transfers, CDBG policy updates, tax cancellations for qualifying veterans, contract amendments (including a decrease of $66,390 for the Campbell Avenue storm-lining contract), IT service contract modifications, professional services awards for the new municipal complex, and other routine fiscal and administrative items.

Roll call votes recorded members present and voting in the affirmative (Committeewoman Roberts; Committee member Martinez; Deputy Mayor Raffin; Mayor and others as recorded). No individual dissent was recorded in the meeting transcript for these items.

The committee also presented bills for payment for October and November; the committee moved to accept and authorize payments and approved them by voice vote during the meeting.