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Millville commissioners remove bond ordinance and personnel-policy item from tonight’s work-session agenda
Summary
At a Millville City work session, commissioners voted to remove a bond ordinance and a personnel-policy/resolution (item 19.3) from tonight’s agenda, saying the incoming commission should decide on them; both removals passed by roll call vote. Public comment was opened but no speakers were recorded.
The Millville City Commission voted on two procedural motions during its work session, removing a bond ordinance and a personnel-policy item from tonight’s agenda so the newly elected commissioners can decide their disposition.
Commissioner Suie raised concerns about the bond ordinance scheduled for the regular session and recommended that the incoming commission decide whether to proceed. "There was some concern about our financial management. We should probably leave that to them," Suie said, and moved to remove the item from tonight’s agenda; another commissioner seconded the motion. Commissioner Kasabun said staff and the administration had engaged in lengthy planning for water and sewer capital projects and noted recent work on a clarifier (referenced in the session as $1 million) and financing options including the I-Bank or surplus funds.
The commission took a roll-call vote and recorded unanimous "yes" votes from Commissioners Hwitt, Suie, Kasabun, Vice Mayor Watson and Mayor Ramy to remove the bond-ordinance item from the agenda. The transcript includes a verbal reference to the bond as "181 the million dollar bond," but the recorded minutes/agenda did not specify a clear amount in the transcript; the exact bond amount is not specified in the meeting record provided.
Later in the session Vice Mayor Watson raised personnel policies (identified in the agenda as resolution 19.3 / the employee manual) and suggested allowing the incoming commission to review them before final action. A motion to remove that item from tonight’s agenda was made and seconded. The commission again voted by roll call with the same five "yes" votes to remove the personnel-policy item.
The meeting host read the required Open Public Meeting Act statement and the municipal clerk confirmed there were no other changes to the agenda. The chair opened the public-comment period for agenda items only and invited speakers to the podium, instructing speakers to state their name and address; no public speakers were recorded in the transcript. The work session then moved on to closing housekeeping.
Both agenda removals were procedural: the commission removed the items from tonight’s agenda so that the incoming commission can choose whether to reintroduce them at a future meeting.
