Pennsauken Committee approves traffic ordinances, budget cap exception and consent resolutions

Pennsauken Township Committee voted unanimously to adopt several ordinances and a block of consent resolutions during its April meeting.

The committee approved Ordinance 202604, amending the township code governing vehicles and traffic for 44th Street. The public comment period was opened and closed with no speakers and the ordinance passed on a roll-call vote with Committeewoman Roberts, Committeewoman Raf, Deputy Mayor Martinez and Mayor Patrick Olivo recorded as voting yes.

The committee then approved an ordinance identified in the record as 20265 to exceed municipal budget appropriation limits and establish a cap bank under the cited NJSA provision (transcript reference: NJSA 4A4-45.14). As with the prior item, public comment produced no speakers and the committee adopted the measure by unanimous roll-call vote.

A separate amendment to chapter 299 (vehicles and traffic) establishing a no-parking restriction on King Avenue was presented for second reading and approved after a brief public-comment period with no speakers. Ordinance 202607, relocating a bus stop on Darusa Avenue, also passed following the same process. Both measures showed unanimous recorded votes by the members present.

The committee approved the consent agenda (Resolutions 2026-122 through 2026-128), which the clerk noted included bond items and refunds. The consent block passed by roll call with all members present voting yes.

Finally, the committee adopted Resolution 2026129 authorizing a closed session to discuss matters of litigation; that resolution also passed by unanimous roll-call vote.

No substantive public comment was recorded during the meeting. The committee’s recorded roll-call votes list Committeewoman Roberts, Committeewoman Raf, Deputy Mayor Martinez and Mayor Patrick Olivo as voting yes on the items reported.