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Essex County commissioners approve slate of contracts, grants and a budget transfer

Essex County Board of County Commissioners · November 5, 2025
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The Essex County Board of County Commissioners approved multiple contracts and grant awards — including jail monitoring, traffic-signal engineering, a prosecutor command-vehicle rehab and a cybersecurity amendment — and adopted a budget transfer to cover corrections-related wage costs.

The Essex County Board of County Commissioners approved a series of contracts, grant awards and a budget transfer during a combined conference-board meeting, voting to authorize operational reviews at the county jail, public-works contracts and an amendment to a county cybersecurity agreement.

The board moved to renew county oversight and operational review work with the Ambrose Group for monitoring and operational review at the correctional facility and approved a separate ammunition purchase through a state contract for officers’ qualifications. Department of Corrections staff told commissioners the Ambrose scope will include capital and IT improvements and recommended the firm examine parking-lot security measures as part of that review. “Part…

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