Also at Monday’s meeting, Gloucester Township Council accepted NJ DOT grant money to repair lane in Sicklerville.
At its latest meeting, Gloucester Township Council passed an ordinance on first reading that would change the speed limit to 35 mph along Salina Road to its intersection with a private lane almost 3,000 feet west of Woodbury-Turnersville Road. From that intersection to Blackwood-Mt. Pleasant Road, the speed limit would remain at 45 mph.
If the ordinance passes on second reading at the next meeting, regulatory and warning signs will be erected and maintained.
Council also accepted the insertion of a $226,595 grant from the state Department of Transportation into the 2018 municipal budget. The funding will be used to resurface Stone Bridge Drive, located off of Sicklerville Road.
At the meeting, Council approved the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2018 One Year Action Plan, which requires Gloucester Township to submit an action plan annually for each of the five years between 2015 and 2019.
For the 2018 fiscal year, the department is granting the township more than $289,000. Also, the township anticipates another $50,000 of program income, according to the agenda. The action plan outlines the township’s intentions for the use of the more than $339,000 worth of funding.
In another resolution, Council signed off on an interlocal agreement with the county coordinating funds to be allocated to the Gloucester Township Alliance Committee, which will be designated for the township’s Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs, which are provided by Gov. Murphy’s Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.
Council will present to the county a detailed plan striving to establish prevention and early intervention of substance abuse among township residents.
