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Westfield council approves packages of resolutions including police equipment purchases and an affordable housing settlement
Summary
Council approved multiple resolution packages on finance, public safety and code review that authorize refunds, affordability-assistance grants, payment for police body-worn cameras, security equipment for town hall, concession awards, agreements with the volunteer rescue squad and a court-approved affordable housing settlement said to secure certification through 2035.
The Westfield Town Council on June 5 approved several packages of resolutions covering finance, public safety and town property matters, including a resolution authorizing the town to enter a court-approved affordable housing settlement.
Councilman Pcker moved a 10-item finance package that included authorizations for the chief financial officer to issue refunds for various fees and bonds, an affordability-assistance grant for specific affordable-housing tenants (addresses were read into the record), establishment of a payment schedule for board-of-education taxes, and the establishment of an estimated tax rate pending the county certification this summer. The finance package and all listed items were seconded and approved on voice vote.
On public safety items, Councilwoman Gilman moved two resolutions: one authorizing payment to Axon Enterprise for the police department's body-worn cameras and another awarding a contract to purchase and install security access-control equipment for town facilities; both passed on voice vote.
During the code-review/town-property portion of the agenda Councilman Pcker moved seven resolutions as a package. The items included approval of concessions for Adamsfest, renewal of agreements with condominium associations, execution of an agreement with the Westfield Volunteer Rescue Squad to permit public works to perform snow-plowing on their property, and a resolution authorizing Westfield to enter into a court-approved affordable housing settlement as part of New Jersey's fourth-round process. Mayor Jeremy Burman described that settlement resolution as essentially the final step to secure the town's affordable-housing certification and to protect the town from affordable-housing lawsuits through 2035.
All packages were approved without recorded public opposition during the meeting. Specific dollar amounts for some refunds were read into the record for individual items in the finance package; where the transcript did not state an amount the record lists the item as "not specified."
