Wildwood Crest adopts salary ordinance, approves junior firefighter program and awards Bayside bulkhead contract

The Wildwood Crest governing body unanimously passed Ordinance 14-36, an amendment to section 59-3 of the borough code governing salaries and compensation, on second and final reading and authorized the advertisement required by law. The council opened and closed a public hearing on the ordinance without public comment and recorded unanimous roll-call approval.

The commission also adopted a resolution to establish a junior firefighter auxiliary for 16- and 17-year-olds for the Wildwood Crest Volunteer Fire Company No. 1, citing N.J.S.A. 40A:14-95 as the enabling statute. The resolution was moved, seconded and approved by roll call.

Officials approved a resolution authorizing the award of a contract for the Bayside bulkhead replacement and flood mitigation improvements project. The chair noted the contract was awarded at the meeting; no further contract terms or vendor names were discussed on the record.

In other routine business the governing body adopted a required form for Open Public Records Act (OPRA) requests consistent with N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq., and approved payment of all properly authorized bills by roll call. The meeting record contains no line-item salary amounts or the contract dollar amount for the bulkhead project; these specifics were not stated in the public remarks and are therefore not reported here.

Chair and clerk procedural remarks during the session covered meeting notices, remote public-comment instructions and scheduling items for future meetings. The chair listed several pending items for future action, including a draft rental-occupancy ordinance, traffic-calming grant status, and coordination with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on back-beach excavation timing.

The meeting adjourned following routine commissioner comments.