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Seaside Heights lists settlement consent agreement with Fair Share Housing Center and adopts fourth-round affordable housing plan
Summary
The Borough of Seaside Heights placed a consent agreement with Fair Share Housing Center on the executive-session agenda and included a settlement consent agreement (Resolution 26-109) and a fourth-round affordable housing spending plan among consent-agenda approvals at its March 4 meeting.
Council members discussed a consent agreement with Fair Share Housing Center during the council’s executive session, where planner Malvika Apte joined by Zoom to brief the mayor and council on the matter.
The agreement was listed on the open-meeting consent agenda as Resolution No. 26-109, "Authorizing a Settlement Consent Agreement with Fair Share Housing Center." Resolution No. 26-108, which endorses the fourth-round affordable housing spending plan and related affordability assistance and rehabilitation program manuals, also appeared on the consent agenda.
The transcript records that the listed consent-agenda resolutions were approved by the council (the consent agenda included personnel and administrative items as well as the housing documents). Because the Fair Share Housing Center matter was discussed in executive session, council members provided no in-chamber substantive summary during the open meeting; the minutes record only that Malvika Apte discussed the consent agreement via Zoom in the executive session and that the consent agenda items were listed and approved.
The items affect the borough’s affordable housing compliance and spending plan for the fourth round and authorize the borough to execute the settlement consent agreement named in Resolution 26-109. The council did not provide further detail at the open meeting about the settlement terms, cash commitments, or implementation timeline; those details were discussed in executive session and are not set out in the minutes.
Next steps reported or implied in the meeting record are limited to administrative execution of approved documents; the council did not announce any forthcoming public hearings specifically tied to the settlement at the March 4 meeting.
