Bedminster Township

The Bedminster Township Committee will be holding the December 2, 2024, meeting in the main meeting room of Town Hall at One Miller Lane, Bedminster, NJ and via Zoom.  Members of the public are invited to join in person or to register for the Zoom meeting by contacting the Municipal Clerk at (908) 212-7000 x 404, or by emailing [email protected] to register.  Participants will be asked to enter the Meeting ID and Password to join the meeting virtually using the link below:

Bedminster Township is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic:                                    Bedminster Township Committee Meeting

Time:                                     Dec 2, 2024, 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Meeting ID:                           898 9027 3596

Passcode:                            941351

Dial by your location:      +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)

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TOWNSHIP OF BEDMINSTER

REGULAR MEETING

December 2, 2024

1. Call Meeting to Order

    

2. Open Public Meetings Act Statement

    

   Adequate notice of this meeting of the Township Committee was sent to the Courier News, Somerville, Bernardsville News, Whippany and to all subscribers and posted at the Township Municipal Building on January 5, 2024.  

    

3. Pledge of Allegiance

    

4. Public Comments – (comments limited to 3 minutes)

    

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5. Approval of Minutes

    

   1. November 18, 2024 – Township Committee Meeting at 7:00 pm.

       

   2. November 18, 2024 – Executive Session Meeting at 7:40 pm.

       

       

      None.

       

1. Permits & Raffles
2. Monthly Report Discussion by Subcommittee Chair

    

3. Administrator’s Report

    

4. Community Policing Report

    

5. Introduction of Ordinances

    

   None.

    

6. Public Hearing of Ordinances

    

7. Consent Agenda (Consent agenda includes items of a routine nature on which consensus has been previously reached.Committee members may remove any item from the prepared agenda for discussion & possible action later in the Meeting)

    

   1. Resolution No. 2024-157 – Authorizes the cancellation of Grant Receivables and Grant Appropriations for 2024 Central Jersey Health Insurance Fund (CJHIF) Wellness Grant.

       

   2. Resolution No. 2024-158 – Authorizes the Mayor and Township Clerk to execute an Inter-local Agreement between the Township of Bedminster and the Clarence Dillon Public Library for maintenance and service to the property and building located at 2336 Lamington Road, Bedminster, NJ for the period of January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025.

       

   3. Resolution No. 2024-162 – Establishes the 2025 Interlocal Rates for the Department of Public Works (DPW) Equipment and Personnel.

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

   4. Resolution No. 2024-160 – Appoints a Public Defender for the Shared Municipal Courts of Bedminster Township, Bernards Township, Borough of Bernardsville, and Borough of Peapack and Gladstone for the period of January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025.

       

   5. Resolution No. 2024 -161 – Authorizes Professional Contract for CFO Services

       

       

       

1. Ordinance No. 2024-024 – Appropriates $530,000.00 from various Capital funding sources for the Miller Lane Pump Station Rehabilitation Project.

    

2. Ordinance No. 2024-025 – Amends Section 11-4 entitled “Street Names” of the Township of Bedminster; Section 11-4.1 entitled “Established”.

    

1. Resolutions

    

1. Resolution No. 2024-149 – Authorizes the award of contract for the Miller Lane Pump Station Replacement Project to JVS Industrial & Commercial Contractors, Inc.,154 Silver Lake Ave, Edison, NJ 08817, in the amount not to exceed $3,055,000.83.

1. Approval of Bill List

1. New Business

1. Annual Re-Organization Meeting and Betty Merck Dinner – Thursday, January 2, 2024

1. Old Business

1. Utilities

   JCP&L, Altice and NJAW status of the service and repair projects in Bedminster

    

2. Pluckemin Park Housing

    

3. Somerset Hills Public Safety Committee

    

1. Township Committee Comments

    

2. Executive Session

1. Contract Negotiations
   • 2025 Professional Contracts
   • Shared Municipal Court

      

2. Personnel – CFO Position

1. Resolutions

    

1. Resolution No. 2024-159 – Appoints a Municipal Prosecutor for the Shared Municipal Courts of Bedminster Township, Bernards Township, Borough of Bernardsville, and Borough of Peapack and Gladstone for the period of January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025.

1. Adjourn

1. Correspondence

• Borough of Peapack and Gladstone Ordinance No. 1147-2024 – Amends and supplements Chapter XXIII, Land Development, Articles III and IV, Regulating Land Disturbance and Lot Grading.

   

• Township of Readington Ordinance No. 35-2024 – Amends and supplements Chapter 148 entitled “Land Development”, permitting up to two detached single-family dwellings on lots with an appropriate lot size in the SRR special resource residential and RR rural residential zones.

   

• Township of Readington Ordinance No. 36-2024 – Amends and supplements Volume II Chapter 148 entitled “Land Development”, to create the HVC highway village commercial, HC highway commercial, and the ROM-3 research office and manufacturing zoning districts, and to provide use provisions, spatial and design standards, and definitions related thereto; to remove the PO professional office district, and to remove the village residential affordable housing-1 district, and amend the zoning map of the township to reflect the amended zoning districts.