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Caucus reads a wide slate of grant applications and procurement items, including a $1.95M Safe Streets application and request for 12 electric minibuses
Summary
At the June 11 caucus the clerk read more than two dozen resolutions covering grant applications, CDBG reprogramming, contract awards and ordinances. Notable items included a $1,949,161.72 Safe Streets and Roads for All grant application and a request to lease 12 electric minibuses under FFY 2024 5310 funding ($1.92M).
The Hudson County Board's June 11 caucus involved reading and sponsoring a broad slate of resolutions and ordinances covering grants, contract renewals and procurement requests.
Notable items read into the record included:
- A resolution to apply for U.S. DOT FY2025 Safe Streets and Roads for All Implementation Grant (up to $1,949,161.72). - A resolution requesting 12 electric minibuses under the FFY 2024 5310 Program for Hudson County, not to exceed $1,920,000. - A HUD Community Project Funding agreement for roadway safety improvements in James J. Braddock Park ($500,000). - Renewals and extensions for Department of Children and Families grant programs, and an allocation under the Government Council on Substance Use Disorder ($270,478). - Extension and reprogramming of Open Space Trust Fund grants totaling $1,298,884.74 for several municipalities (extensions to Guttenberg, Harrison, Jersey City, Union City and West New York; reprogramming for Bayonne).
Administration also presented a professional services addition for engineering/architectural services at the William J. Brennan Courthouse heating and cooling plant replacement ($553,300), and a two-year janitorial award to Hudson Community Enterprises, Inc. (a Sheltered Workshop) covering multiple county properties (combined $3,164,944.96).
Chairman Romano asked whether insurance would cover rifles lost in a vehicle fire associated with a procurement; County Administrator Abraham Antun said the county's self-insured retention is about $750,000 and the County would likely absorb the loss.
Several resolutions were read and sponsors were recorded during the caucus; the transcript records sponsors and seconds for many items but does not show a formal roll-call adoption for each resolution in the caucus transcript. Where commissioners asked for details — for example about Open Space Trust Fund extensions — County administration and staff provided brief explanations.
The clerk also read ordinances related to handicapped parking, restricted parking on John F. Kennedy Boulevard and traffic-calming/no U-turn measures in Kearny. No public comments or final votes on the ordinances were recorded in the caucus transcript.
