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At a glance: Middletown supervisors approve consent items, contracts and several ordinance advertisements
Summary
The board approved the consent agenda (including bills list), a lot-line change, collective bargaining memorandum agreements, an early-retirement ordinance, and authorized advertisement of ordinances on solid waste, supervisors’ compensation, small games of chance and school zones; most items passed unanimously or by simple majority as noted.
At its Nov. 18 meeting, the Middletown Township Board of Supervisors approved a series of routine and policy items. Below is a concise list of formal actions taken during the meeting; all motions and outcomes are recorded as presented in the public meeting.
Votes and formal actions (summary):
- Consent agenda: Motion to approve the consent agenda (including bills list of $1,933,483.86; liquid fuels change order; security release; lease with Rise Up Towers Bucks 1 LLC; trash contract change-order to add Windybush neighborhood; location and architectural approval for 1475 Langhorne Yardley Road). Motion by Supervisor Payne; seconded by Supervisor Kane. Result: passed 4–0.
- Lot-line change: Approval granted for lot-line change at 735 Harding Avenue (SLD 24-4) with standard conditions and outstanding plan comments to be addressed. Motion carried 4–0.
- Collective bargaining memoranda of agreement: Board authorized memoranda of agreement with Teamsters Local 107 and the Middletown Township Public Works association (three-year terms; 4% wage increases; HSA funding transition). Motion carried 4–0.
- Early retirement ordinance (Ordinance 24-05): Board enacted an early retirement incentive program for eligible non-uniform employees (voluntary; employees 65+ with 10+ years of full-time service). Motion carried 4–0.
- Solid-waste and recycling ordinance amendment: Board authorized drafting and advertising an ordinance amending the solid waste and recycling code to implement new container sizes and the five-year trash contract. Motion carried 4–0.
- Ordinance to establish Board of Supervisors compensation: Board authorized advertisement of an ordinance to set future supervisors’ pay at the statutory level (staff cited new state allowance of $8,385 for townships in this class). Motion carried 3–1.
- Ordinance to regulate unregulated skill games: Board authorized advertisement of an ordinance to restrict unregulated skill games in most businesses and permit them under restricted conditions in liquor-licensed establishments; motion carried 4–0.
- School-zone ordinance update: Board authorized advertisement of housekeeping updates to the school-zone ordinance (to add new schools and modernize enforcement language); motion carried 4–0.
- Budget advertisement: Board authorized advertisement and public-inspection posting of the proposed 2025 budget (20-day public-inspection period to precede final adoption). Motion carried 4–0.
Each of the above items was moved and seconded as shown in the meeting record; where roll-call tallies were read the board recorded majority outcomes. The board noted that advertisement is a procedural step that opens a public-review period before any final ordinance or budget adoption.
