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Resident objects to emergency equipment purchase and questions recent animal-control hire
Summary
A resident asked why the city is invoking emergency procurement for approximately $97,000 (Resolution 280) and pressed for details about the recent animal-control hire; staff said the current vehicle had failed and that hires do not require separate resolutions, but a line-by-line explanation was not provided in the meeting.
During public comment at the Nov. 26 meeting, Vincent Lepore (33 Ocean Terrace) objected to Resolution 280, which he said would bypass bidding to acquire emergency equipment for roughly $97,000. Lepore cited statutory requirements for emergency procurement (transcribed in the meeting as 40A:11-6) and asked what the local emergency was that justified invoking the emergency-procurement statute…
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