Camden County commissioners read a long slate of resolutions, open bond hearings, close public comment and move to closed session

The Camden County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday read a lengthy set of resolutions covering road and park projects, grants, contracts and board appointments and opened two public hearings on bond financing and school facility financing. No members of the public spoke during the hearings; the board voted to close the public portion and later adopted a closed-session resolution to discuss personnel matters before adjourning.

The board’s reading included a Chapter 159 insertion of $4,619,148.52 from the New Jersey Department of Transportation for Esham Road improvements between Schubert/Shumpert and Clements Bridge Road, and a contract authorization for construction-management and inspection services for Newton Avenue improvements in Camden in the amount of $499,215.94. A bid for county snow plowing (Bid B/22/2025) was read as rejected because no bids were received.

Deputy Director McDonald introduced Resolution 45, consenting to financing a school facilities project for the Booklawn Board of Education through a Camden County Improvement Authority lease revenue issuance in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $7,500,000. The deputy director also presented the acceptance of the county’s 2024 audit report and personnel items.

Other items read into the record included budget insertions and grants (a voter-education program grant of $309,090; a Victims of Crime Act grant application of $606,973), equipment purchases (a drone for $215,000; vehicle purchases and cooperative-purchase authorizations), and nonprofit contracts for reentry transitional housing services to the county correctional facility (amounts listed as roughly $94,982.70 and $89,987.10 in the reading).

The chair opened the public comment period for the resolutions and the director reported no requests to speak from members online or in person. "Seeing none, move to close," a member moved; the board voted "Aye" and the public portion was closed. Later the board adopted a closed-session resolution citing the Open Public Meetings Act to exclude the public for personnel discussions. The meeting resumed, took no further public action in open session and was adjourned.

Many resolutions were read for the record but the transcript does not include roll-call votes on each individual resolution. Where a numerical amount or contract number was unclear in the transcript, the article reports the figure as read and notes where the record contains partial or atypical formatting.