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Frenchtown council approves library accessibility change order, final payments and 2025 service contracts
Summary
The Frenchtown Borough Council approved a slate of routine resolutions at its meeting, including hiring a temporary library assistant, a contract for affordable-housing engineering, change order for library accessibility, final payments for bridge and borough-hall repairs, and a 2025 animal-control contract.
The Frenchtown Borough Council moved through a set of routine but substantive resolutions and approved them by motion and roll call during the meeting.
Key approvals included:
- Resolution 2025-30: Adopted to hire a temporary library assistant to address current staffing needs.
- Resolution 2025-38: Awarded a contract to Collier's Engineering Design to support the borough’s affordable-housing work; a council member said the contract positions the borough to address upcoming housing-related activities.
- Resolution 2025-39: Approved change order number 1 for the Frenchtown Public Library entrance accessibility improvement project; the chair reported the library had reopened.
- Resolution 2025-40: Authorized final payment to Top Line Contracting for the Bridge Street improvement project after engineer certification of completion and inspection.
- Resolution 2025-41: Authorized final payment to DeSapio Construction for emergency water-damage repairs at Borough Hall.
- Resolution 2025-42: Awarded the animal-control services contract for calendar year 2025; council members said the vendor plans to embrace a pro-animal approach and improve reporting and transparency.
- Resolution 2025-43: Expressed support for the Lower Delaware River management plan and endorsed designation of specific tributaries into the Wild and Scenic River system at the environmental commission’s request.
- Resolution 2025-44: Adopted temporary budget appropriations as recommended by the CFO.
All listed items were moved, seconded and carried on roll call. Council discussion was mostly procedural; a few members offered brief comments of support or clarification. The meeting record shows roll-call responses for each resolution.
