[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Township of North
Brunswick 2-6-1984. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Municipal Council desires to provide for a process whereby resolutions,
reports and other business which appear to be routine and noncontroversial
may be placed on a consent agenda and be considered an action without reading
in full unless removed from the consent agenda at the request of any member
of the governing body.
There is hereby authorized a consent agenda for inclusion as a part
of the agenda of every regularly scheduled meeting of the Municipal Council.
Items which may be included in the consent agenda include, but are not
limited to, the following:
A.
Approval of minutes; payment of bill list.
B.
Conveyances, easements, leases and agreements previously
approved in principle.
C.
Routine reports of receipts and awards of bids.
D.
Payroll.
E.
Awards of bingo and taxi licenses.
F.
Refund of tax payments of less than $1,500 for the year
in question.
G.
Cancellation of tax sale certificates.
H.
Honorary and memorial resolutions when the individual
or members of the family are not present at the Municipal Council meeting.
I.
Resolutions for permits to hold parades, sidewalk sales,
solicitations and other similar matters.
J.
Payment of outside attorney fees in accordance with N.J.S.A.
40A:14-155.
K.
Placing of liens on property for demolition thereof or
removal of a health or safety hazard.
The consent agenda shall consist of any item so designated by the Municipal
Council and marked on the agenda with an asterisk. This shall not preclude
the reading by title of any ordinance as permitted by law.
No item shall be designated on the consent agenda unless an accurate
copy of the resolution, proclamation, report or other matter which is the
subject of the consent item is filed with the Township Clerk at least 24 hours
prior to the meeting at which the items are to be considered.
Prior to voting upon any item on the consent agenda, the Mayor shall
open the meeting to members of the Municipal Council for the sole purpose
of hearing requests for removal of items from the consent agenda.
There will be no separate discussion of items on the consent agenda
unless a member of the Municipal Council so requests, in which event the item
will be removed from the consent agenda and considered in its normal sequence
on the regular agenda.
Those items which appear on the consent agenda are not required to be
read at the meeting in their entirety but may be read by description only.
Once a matter is placed on the consent agenda and no member of the Municipal
Council requests its removal, there will be no separate discussion of that
item, but the person moving or reporting on the item may make a brief general
statement of the substance of the report or general purpose of the proposed
action.
Each such item requiring a vote will be voted upon by oral or roll call
vote as may be required.
All items approved or rejected on the consent agenda will appear on
the Council minutes in their complete and proper form.
Nothing herein shall preclude the reading of less than all of an item
on the agenda session of the regular business meeting of the Municipal Council
of the Township of North Brunswick or authorized by law or where this has
been the normal practice.
