Moorestown Council To Resume Hybrid Meetings Monday Night

MOORESTOWN, NJ — Moorestown Council will once again open meetings to in-person attendance and participation when it meets Monday night at town hall.

Moorestown Council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday night at town hall, 111 West Second Street. Doors will open at 6:45 p.m., and there will be a limited number of seats available for members of the public, on a first-come first-served basis.

Due to the limited seating capacity, it is requested, but not mandatory, that citizens groups send one or two representatives to speak on the group’s behalf. All citizens will be given the opportunity to speak via telephone.

Members of the public participating via the telephone may participate just the same as if present in-person. The mayor will open the floor for public participation in accordance with normal protocol. Questions or comments can be sent prior to 4 p.m. the day of the meeting, by emailing councilmeetingcomments@moorestown.nj.us.

Type "council meeting comments" and the meeting date in the subject line. Only comments received by the deadline at the email address above will be read into the record at the meeting.
To join by teleconference, dial 1 201-523-5900 and then enter Conference ID: 141 507 396 followed by the # sign or 1 833-450-2679 (toll free).

The meeting will also be broadcast via live stream on the Township's website. Note that the livestream is not interactive, and you will not be able to participate in the meeting in this format.
The live stream may be accessed by going to https://www.moorestown.nj.us/ and clicking on “Live Meetings” in the upper right hand corner of the homepage.

This will bring you to the “Agendas, Minutes, Meetings & Recordings” page. Once there, click on the “Township Council Meeting” link of the meeting you wish to watch.

Meetings were held via teleconference with online video from March through July of last year. The township moved to a hybrid format as the situation improved last summer, but went back to the virtual format when cases increased in the fall.

The announcement comes one week after the lifting of all indoor gathering and capacity limits, as well as restrictions related to dance floors at bars and restaurants. Read more here: Another Big Reopening Day In NJ: What You Can Do Now Amid COVID

It also comes after Mayor Nicole Gillespie announced that the township saw its fewest number of new cases last month since the pandemic began. Read more here: Moorestown Saw Fewest Number Of New COVID Cases In May: Mayor

As of Wednesday, there have been 1,481 cases of the coronavirus and 71 deaths in Moorestown since the pandemic began more than a year ago. There have been 39,343 coronavirus cases and 790 deaths in Burlington County since March 2020.

On Monday night, council will introduce two proposed ordinances and consider three non-consent agenda resolutions concerning a land swap concerning the Nagle Tract that has been proposed by Lockheed Martin.

The defense company has expressed concerns about housing being that close to their facility and an adjacent Navy base presenting a threat to national security.

In the proposal, Lockheed Martin would assume possession of the Nagle Tract, and the proposed affordable housing development would be built about a mile down the road. Read more here: National Security Concerns Spur Moorestown Land Swap Proposal

To view the full agenda, visit https://www.moorestown.nj.us/.