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Boards & Commissions
A solar company's variance request is on the Environmental Commission's October agenda, the Library Board installs pick-up lockers and prepares a lending-policy vote, and the Affordable Housing Board's posted record stops in May. Here is what these three boards have put on the township website.
Town Council
The old landfill's sale to a solar developer is approved after a pointed debate over who pays, a $1.88 million bond finally passes, a study of four Applegarth Road lots raises questions, and the township gets a clean audit.
Zoning Board
A gun shop at the Recoil shooting range wins approval to sell firearms and ammunition, the new Chipotle on Route 33 is approved after a long argument over parking and a bike lane on a private road, and the board formalizes one earlier decision.
Planning Board
A short meeting with no new applications: the board puts a wooded subdivision's curb-and-sidewalk waiver in writing, a resident asks about a development near Butcher Road, and the chairman opens with a moment of silence for a longtime township public servant.
Board of Education
The board approves a three-year teachers' contract with raises of 4.5%, 4% and 4%, formally invokes the "doctrine of necessity" so members with conflicts can vote on matters involving the superintendent, and hears a heated argument over how a law firm was hired.
Town Council
The landfill-to-solar sale clears its first vote, a bond ordinance that failed in August comes back and clears a first vote, the town's fight with its old insurance fund comes up in public comment, and a $5.7 million water-treatment contract is approved.
Board of Education
The superintendent remains on paid leave while the board voted to investigate possible tenure charges against her, a new statewide cell phone ban takes effect this school year, and full-day kindergarten is officially here.
Town Council
Data centers effectively banned, the old landfill on its way to becoming a solar farm, $4.4 million in water and sewer borrowing approved while a $2.4 million general bond failed, three new police officers, and everything else from a meeting that ran two and a half hours.
Planning Board
A zoning tweak that's really about heading off data centers, the old landfill's solar redevelopment plan clears a step with new answers about who's on the hook financially, and a wooded subdivision's paperwork finally gets sorted out.