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Vernon council adopts consent agenda including veterans' tax refunds, transfers and surplus auction authorization
Summary
The council unanimously approved a consent agenda that included multiple veterans' tax refunds and cancellations, a transfer resolution moving $18,000 within the 2025 budget, authorization to auction surplus equipment on GovDeals, and solicitor permits for two RJW Exteriors applicants.
The Vernon Township Council on March 23 adopted an omnibus consent agenda that bundled a range of routine and administrative measures, including multiple property-tax refunds and cancellations for veterans, budget transfers, authorization to auction obsolete equipment, issuance of duplicate tax sale certificates when papers are lost, and solicitor permits.
Resolutions on the consent agenda included numerous refunds and cancellations for taxpayers certified as 100% permanently and totally disabled by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The minutes list individual resolutions authorizing specific refund amounts and cancellations for named parcels; amounts vary by case and are recorded in each resolution.
The council also approved Resolution #26-142, a transfer of $18,000 within the 2025 municipal reserve budget (moving funds from Workers' Compensation O/E to LOSAP and Finance O/E) under N.J.S.A. 40A:58/59. In addition, Resolution #26-143 authorized disposal or salvage of obsolete township equipment via auction on GovDeals.com with a proposed live date of April 13, 2026; the resolution lists vehicles and equipment to be offered and notes the items are sold "as-is" and that the township may accept or reject bids.
Other consent items included authorization to issue duplicate tax sale certificates in accordance with Chapter 99 of the Public Laws of 1997 and approval of solicitor permits for two RJW Exteriors applicants after police background checks.
All consent-agenda items were approved on a roll-call vote recorded in the minutes: AYES – Contino, Ooms, Rizzuto, Sparta, Higgins. Where the minutes record specific dollar amounts (for example, refunds tied to individual veterans), those amounts are recorded in the official resolutions; the council minutes provide the list of resolutions and direct readers to the full resolution text for line-item details.
Ending: The consent agenda, including the administrative and veterans' items, was adopted; the minutes show the items were forwarded to the appropriate municipal officers for processing.
