Members of the Englishtown Borough Council have adopted a bond ordinance that will fund road improvements in the municipality. Council members adopted the bond ordinance during a recent meeting.
The legislation appropriates $740,000 for road improvements and authorizes the issuance of $398,000 in bonds or notes to help finance the costs. Englishtown has received a $304,000 grant from the New Jersey Department of Transportation and will make a down payment in the amount of $38,000.
According to the bond ordinance, the improvements will be for Hamilton Street, Heritage Drive and Raymond Court. Work will include excavation, milling, paving and reconstruction, plus the repair and/or installation of curbs, curb ramps, sidewalks, driveway aprons and drainage work.
In other business, council members adopted the 2019 audit and certified to the New Jersey Local Finance Board that all of the members of the governing body had reviewed, as a minimum, the sections of the audit entitled General Comments and Recommendations.
The audit was conducted by the firm of Holman Frenia Allison, P.C. Because no recommendations were made regarding the borough’s financial records, officials were not required to prepare a corrective action plan.
Borough Council members in Freehold Borough in have adopted a $5 million bond ordinance to purchase and retrofit a building at 30 Mechanic St. that will become the new Borough Hall.
The building on Mechanic Street will also house the Freehold Borough Police Department and the municipal court.
The bond ordinance was adopted on Sept. 21. The legislation authorizes the issuance of $4.76 million in bonds or notes and provides for a $240,000 down payment.
Councilman George Schnurr said moving the municipal offices from their current location in Borough Hall on West Main Street to 30 Mechanic St. will open up the West Main Street building for development, end the need for the borough to rent space for police operations in the Rug Mill Towers on Jackson Street, and allow officials to sell a parking lot on Jackson Street that is currently used by the police department.
Municipal officials said the borough has outgrown the space that is available in Borough Hall on West Main Street.
