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North Haledon council reviews road and sidewalk updates; consent agenda lists $5.51 million in bills
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Summary
At its Nov. 12, 2025 work session, the North Haledon Borough Council received engineering updates on multiple road and sidewalk projects, heard a public comment about a new self-funded insurance policy, and listed a consent agenda that includes $5,511,379.11 in bills. Procedural motions to open and close public comment and to adjourn passed unanimously.
The North Haledon Borough Council met in a work session on Nov. 12, 2025, receiving a series of project updates from borough staff and reviewing a consent-agenda list that included a payment-of-bills item totaling $5,511,379.11.
Mayor Randy George opened the meeting by reading the required Open Public Meetings Law notice and called the session to order at 7:30 p.m. After the prayer and Pledge of Allegiance, the clerk recorded roll call; Councilman Vincent Parmese was listed as absent.
During the public-comment period, Council Member Bruce O. Iacobelli moved and Council Member Donna Puglisi seconded a motion to open the floor. The motion carried on a unanimous roll-call vote. Dino Stampone addressed the council during public comment, saying the borough’s new insurance policy is being self-funded and that the change will produce future savings for the borough. With no further speakers, Puglisi moved and Iacobelli seconded a motion to close public comment; that motion also passed unanimously.
Borough Engineer Joseph Pomante reported on capital and pavement work. He said the Linda Avenue sidewalk improvements are substantially completed; concrete work on Squaw Brook Road is finished and milling and paving are beginning; Manchester Avenue is in the design phase; and the 2025 Road Improvement Project was scheduled for milling and paving the week of the meeting. Pomante also said the borough’s Municipal Aid grant application for Highland Road is pending and that the borough will know whether it was approved in the coming weeks. Pomante was noted as dismissed from the meeting at 8:20 p.m.
Municipal Clerk Dena Cedar presented communications and administrative items, including a Best Practices Inventory (no aid withholding), an electric bid overview from Concord Energy Services/PCERCPS, NJLM proposed membership dues, and solid-waste collection options. The agenda also listed Ordinance No. 13-2025 (a salary amendment) under old business.
Under new business the council placed a consent agenda that listed routine and contractual items: buy-back time, property tax deductions for veterans, appointment of a full-time temporary leaf collector, approval of raffle licenses, participation authorization for the 2025–2026 Sustainable Jersey–PSE&G Energy Efficiency Partnership Program, approval of a contract for sale of 811 Belmont Avenue, awards/contracts for garbage disposal, solid-waste collection and recycling transportation to disposal sites, acceptance of bids for the PCERCPS electric procurement, and a payment-of-bills entry for $5,511,379.11. The meeting minutes record the consent-agenda items on the agenda but do not show a recorded vote adopting the consent agenda during the session.
Council Member Iacobelli moved and Council Member Puglisi seconded a motion to adjourn; the motion carried on a unanimous roll-call vote. Mayor George declared the meeting adjourned at 8:43 p.m. The minutes were prepared by Municipal Clerk Dena Cedar and noted as approved at the council meeting of Dec. 10, 2025.
What happens next: the council’s listed items (ordinance, contracts, and the consent agenda) appear on the work-session record and would be subject to formal approval at the subsequent council meeting; the minutes show no final vote on the consent agenda during this session.