New Providence Council to Vote on Housing Mandates and Major Building Renovations Tonight

There are a slew of resolutions on the agenda for tonight’s New Providence Council meeting connecting to the Annex, Affordable Housing, Professional Services and Personnel

Municipal Annex
A big part of the agenda connects to this area and includes:

Foggia Trinity Electric – NTE $47,840 for a generator

Quikteks – NTE $14,944 for data wiring

R.A. Dill & Sons. – NTE $2,640 for boiler maintenance

Woodland Builders – NTE $44,196.43 for carpentry, drywall, painting etc; Woodland Builders came in with the lowest price for the work

Floors by Marlon – NTE $37,406.65 for flooring installation (luxury vinyl plank flooring) – the resolution says Marlon LLC had the lowest quote

Maffey’s Security Group – NTE $29,391.70 for security camera install – this is through the Union County Co-op

Foggia Trinity Electric shows up again for electrical work – NTE $50,360.50; they were previously awarded a contract for on call services (Reso. 2026-133).

The total bill comes to over $226K for all the work listed on this agenda.

Affordable Housing
According to the resolution, five challenges were filed to the Borough’s Housing Element and Fair Share Plan. The Borough and Fair Share Housing Center entered into a mediation agreement, one challenger withdrew, another agreed to the provisions of the agreement and two challengers maintained their challenges.

There’s an interesting line near the end where the council agrees to the amended plan “while reserving its rights to amend the Plan in the event final adjudication or settlement of its Fourth Round Prospective Need Obligation is less than 201 units.”

In other words, New Providence is moving forward with it but is holding onto its position in case the final obligation comes under 201 units.

Pay-to-Play Clean Up
The Borough apparently approved a bunch of resolutions with the wrong term describing how services were procured:

2026-022 through 2026-032
2026-034
2026-067
2026-114
2026-118
all referenced a ‘non-fair and open process’; Reso. 2026 164 changes all of those to ‘fair and open’ based on a review of the resolutions by the Borough Admin and QPA.

There may be a straightforward explanation for the error, but residents may still want to know why so many resolutions carried the wrong language and whether any public disclosure or contribution restrictions changed as a result.

Natural Gas Auction
Resolution 2026-179 authorizes the Borough to use an EMEX reverse auction for natural gas supply services and that a contract can be awarded if the auction produces a price of $0.85730 per therm or less for a 12-month term, $0.87736 per therm or less for an 18-month term, $0.86240 per therm or less for a 24-month term, or $0.86520 per therm or less for a 36-month term.

That gives the Borough flexibility to get into a contract after the auction if the pricing falls at or below the listed thresholds.

Bills List: $9.4 Million
The resolution approves a bills payable list totaling $9,424,564.33, but I could not find the actual detailed bill list in the packet materials reviewed.

Park Place Parking Ordinance
Ordinance 2026-04 amends Chapter 257 of the Borough Code “Vehicles and Traffic.”
Overnight parking prohibition remains listed for all streets, highways, and municipal maintained/designated public parking lots from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m with a Saturday 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. restriction for Park Place. Willow Street remains repealed under Ordinance 2025-02.

Return of Crest Road
The correspondence section includes a note stating several Action Line Requests went unanswered, including submissions to Councilman Lerner, the DPW and the Borough Adm.

The note points to Resolution 2026-140, approved at the January 14, 2026 Council meeting, for Armstrong, Inc. (NTE $5,000) for Passaic River de-snagging and asks whether that work includes removal of a fallen tree, debris, and damaged fence located within the Borough stormwater culvert easement adjacent to her property.

She also points to Mayor Al Morgan’s March 24, 2026 Stormwater Committee update, where she states the Mayor said: “Armstrong is going to come out and remove those trees that were on Crest Rd.”

According to the note the tree is still there and that it presents as a safety hazard, may worsen flooding and involves a damaged Borough-owned fence that needs to be removed and replaced.

NJ American Water Notice
Another item under correspondence includes a public hearing notice related to the proposed acquisition of Gordon’s Corner Water Company by American Water Works Company, with Gordon’s Corner later to be merged into New Jersey-American Water Company. The BPU docket listed is WM25110610.

The notice says no rate changes are proposed in connection with the transaction, but after the merger Gordon’s Corner ratepayers would be subject to any additional increases approved by the Board.

Virtual public hearings are scheduled for May 20, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.