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Northvale council approves consent agenda, appointments and bond ordinance for road work
Summary
The borough approved routine consent-agenda resolutions including participation in the GSA surplus program, appointments (Tommy Miglaccio to the volunteer fire department; Edward Raymond as deputy OEM coordinator), contract updates and a bond ordinance funding three street projects and a fire department vehicle; council also moved the borough’s health insurance plan to New Jersey Solutions to limit premium increases.
The Northvale mayor and council approved the consent agenda and several individual measures during a regularly scheduled, properly noticed meeting.
Council approved consent items Nos. 64–76, which included authorizing the Northvale Volunteer Fire Department to participate in the GSA Federal Surplus Program, a decrease of roughly $37,000 on a change order for the Livingston Street streetscape project, a trust-fund spending plan for the affordable housing trust, and a resolution appointing Edward Raymond as the borough’s deputy OEM coordinator. The council also approved an updated five-year contract for public-safety dispatch with the county, an execution of a one-year contract with Chief Ostroff for 2026, emergency temporary appropriations to cover bills ahead of the 2026 budget and a transfer of appropriations from reserve funds in the amount of $53,400.
The council appointed Tommy Miglaccio (introduced from Harrington Park) to the Northvale Volunteer Fire Department; the mayor noted Miglaccio is already a firefighter and an EMT and expected to be active in the department.
Council also approved a bond ordinance (Ordinance No. 7) to finance work on three streets and to replace the assistant fire chief’s vehicle. The ordinance was the subject of a public hearing, which the council opened and closed, and then adopted by roll call.
In reports, police and emergency-service representatives provided February and January statistics respectively; planning staff reported 16 permits issued in the prior month with fee receipts down year-over-year. The mayor announced that, because premiums from the state health plan had risen sharply (cited as 37% this year and 20% last year), the borough will leave the state group and switch to a health insurance fund called New Jersey Solutions on April 1; the borough said that move reduces this year’s increase to about 13%.
All motions on the consent agenda and the bond ordinance were adopted on roll call at the meeting. Where the transcript did not provide precise vote tallies for every item, the record shows affirmative roll-call responses for the adopted items.
