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Red Bank Council introduces four ordinances including new Department of Recreation and Human Services
Summary
On June 12, 2025 the Red Bank Borough Council introduced four ordinances for first reading — creating a Department of Recreation and Human Services, amending the salary ordinance, updating police promotional procedures, and revising commercial filming rules to seek film‑ready certification. Hearings set for June 26.
The Red Bank Borough Council on June 12 introduced four ordinances for first reading, voting unanimously to advance each to public hearing on June 26, 2025.
Council members moved to introduce ordinance 2025‑11, which would amend the borough code to create a Department of Recreation and Human Services by combining Recreation, Senior Services and Community Engagement and establish a department head reporting directly to the mayor. Jim, a borough official, described the change as a recommendation from a 2018 management enhancement study intended to improve coordination while preserving current department heads’ positions.
Two additional ordinances were introduced on motion and unanimous roll call: 2025‑12, an amendment to the borough salary ordinance, and 2025‑13, which updates promotional procedures for the police department. Council also introduced ordinance 2025‑14 to revise Chapter 355 (filming) so the borough can pursue film‑ready certification from the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission; Council member Cassidy was singled out for work on that proposal.
Each introduction passed on a recorded roll call in which Council members Bonitakis, Cassidy, Facy Blackwood, Forest, Jano, Deputy Mayor Trigiano and Mayor Portman voted yes. The council announced public hearings for all four ordinances on June 26, 2025.
The measures advance the borough’s organizational restructuring and administrative updates; 2025‑11 in particular would create a new department head post and is intended to centralize programming and grant‑seeking across recreation, senior services and community engagement.
