Brick Township 2021 Budget Introduction Set For Tuesday

BRICK, NJ — The Brick Township Council is scheduled to introduce the 2021 budget when it meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

The council is holding its meeting via Zoom due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

In addition to the budget introduction, the council agenda includes a public hearing and vote on a proposed ordinance to ban all cannabis businesses within the township.

The council introduced the ordinance at the April 13 meeting. The proposed ordinance would replace the township's ban on commercial marijuana businesses that was enacted in 2018. Read more: Brick Set To Ban All Cannabis Businesses

Towns have until August to enact ordinances banning cannabis businesses under regulations approved by the state, after New Jersey voters approved legalizing recreational marijuana use by adults. In Brick, there were 27,205 votes (65.08 percent) in favor of legalizing adult use, and 14,599 votes (34.92 percent) opposing legalization, out of 41,804 votes cast on the question in the 2020 election, according to the official results from the Ocean County Clerk's office.

You can watch the council meeting at this link, or call in to listen and participate. To ask questions, call 646-876-9923; the meeting ID is 828 2618 5083 and the passcode is 022675.

The township has presented details on the various pieces of the budget at prior Township Council meetings. You can listen to those presentations at the following YouTube links. The budget presentations were at the beginning of the meetings:

• March 9: Administration and Police
• March 23: Engineering, Land Use, Zoning and Building
• April 13: Recreation, Parks, and Public Works

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