Acting council president suggests tabling $15 million bond authorizations, asks when Channel 34 will return

Perth Amboy — The council's acting president told the meeting that the agenda includes authorizing bond debt totaling "a little over $15,000,000" for capital projects and recommended tabling those measures so the full five-member council can vote together.

"You're voting on basically authorizing bond debt, a little over $15,000,000 which obviously is substantial," the acting council president said, adding that tabling the motions until the next meeting would avoid the appearance that absent members were dodging responsibility. The official asked that the council consider moving the items to allow all members to participate.

The acting president also raised a procedural concern about public access to meetings, asking whether Channel 34 would return to broadcast council meetings; the transcript records that, at the time, city meetings were not being broadcast on any station.

The transcript captures the acting president's remarks but does not include any formal motion to table the bond authorizations, nor does it record a vote or any staff response on the Channel 34 question within the provided segments.

Next steps: The record shows a council officer urging the body to delay large bond approvals until a full complement of members can vote; no formal action or scheduling on the tabling request is recorded in the supplied transcript segments.