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New Providence council approves consent agenda including $9.42M in bills and multiple municipal contracts
Summary
Council approved agenda items 1–23 by roll call, including a $9,424,564.33 bills‑payable list and contracts for fireworks, tennis‑court cameras, generator and Municipal Annex renovations; vote was recorded in favor by the full roll call.
The Borough of New Providence approved a consent package of agenda items 1 through 23 during a roll‑call vote. The motion to approve the consent agenda was moved by the finance representative (speaker 6) and seconded by an administration presenter (speaker 4); the roll call recorded aye/yes votes from Mister Lerner, Miss Dolan, Mrs Jeffrey, Mister Kaminsky, Missus McKnight and Mister Gardner and the motion passed.
The bills‑payable resolution (Resolution 2026‑178) listed $9,424,564.33 in payments. Significant line items read into the record included $7,000,502.08 to the New Providence Board of Education for the May school tax levy and $1,000,000 to the Union County Improvement Authority related to police department construction.
The council also approved a set of vendor requisitions and contracts on the consent agenda: a fireworks contract with Garden State Fireworks Inc. for up to $16,500 (Resolution 167); a requisition to Fosia Trinity Electric LLC for up to $13,250 to install a circuit for tennis‑court cameras (Resolution 168); Collier's Engineering Design additional design fees for Maple Street project (Resolution 169); multiple Municipal Annex requisitions and work orders including wiring (QuickText LLC, up to $14,944), generator installation (Fosia Trinity Electric LLC, up to $47,840), boiler maintenance (Dill and Sons, $2,640), carpentry and drywall (Woodland Builders, $44,196.43), flooring (Marlin LLC, $37,406.65), security camera installation (Continental Fire and Safety Services d/b/a MAFRE's Security Group, $29,391.70), and electrical work (Fosia Trinity Electric LLC, $50,360.50). Council members said these contracts will support the police department move into the Municipal Annex later in the summer.
Finance reported a separate small grant insertion (Resolution 2026‑177) of $829.10 from the national opioid settlement into the 2026 budget for opioid‑remediation use.
The consent agenda items were bundled and approved in a single roll‑call motion; the meeting minutes and materials list individual resolutions and requisitions for the public record.
