Camden County introduces bond financing, dozens of contracts and grants; public hearing set for Oct. 16

At a scheduled meeting, the Camden County Board of Commissioners introduced two bond resolutions that would authorize the Camden County Improvement Authority to issue tax-exempt county-guaranteed loan revenue bonds — a Series A to finance a county capital program and a Series B to refund certain prior authority bonds — and set a public hearing on both measures for Oct. 16, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. at the Camden County Courthouse, 520 Market Street, 6th Floor Meeting Room in Camden.

The board read a long consent list of more than 70 resolutions covering a broad range of county business, including insertion of Chapter 159 funds into the budget for grant awards, contract awards and rejections, shared-service agreements and personnel actions. Highlights included federal-aid road projects such as a Coles Mill Road improvement ($52,326.98) and the Atlantic Avenue Link Trail ($3,000,121.07); engineering and design contracts for roadway and ADA work; a Wiggins Center ADA improvement contract ($250,599.20); and awards for snow plowing and maintenance materials where some bids were rejected as noncompliant or over budget.

The board also read and ratified public-health and human-services items including a National Opioid Abatement Trust grant insertion ($1,916,587.52), a child care resource referral grant ($3,761,448), recovery support and homeless shelter services contracts (totaling $193,800 with $16,150 currently available), and shared-service agreements for medical transportation and senior services. Technology and public-safety purchases singled out in the list included a $1,071,200.38 purchase from Axon Enterprises for body-worn camera equipment, and renewal of a network security appliance budgeted at $168,780.65.

On the bond refinancing, the deputy director thanked staff member Steve Williams and said, "When we refinanced these $3,033,000,000 bonds, we're gonna save about $2,300,000 for the taxpayers." The resolution text referenced NJSA 40:37A-56 as part of the authorizing language.

Public comment on the resolutions was opened and limited to three minutes per speaker; the director stated that no online participants had requested to speak, and the public hearing was closed. The board then adopted a closed-session resolution citing the Open Public Meetings Act (chapter 231, P.L. 1975) to discuss personnel matters, held the closed session, reconvened with no further action required and adjourned by voice vote.

Next procedural steps: the public hearing on the two bond resolutions will be held Oct. 16, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. at the Camden County Courthouse; other listed resolutions will proceed through routine administrative processing unless a member of the public or the board requests additional action.