BRIELLE — A water main break at Riverview Drive and Locust Road last week prompted the mayor and council to award an emergency repair contract to a vendor Tuesday night without going through usual bidding process.
By law, the borough has to go through the process of requiring bidding for any projects before awarding the job to a vendor.
“This was an exemption,” Borough Administrator Tom Nolan explained. “In this case, we had a water main break. We don’t have time to put together a bidding process. So, we declared an emergency to justify that and we passed a resolution for that.”
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Other business taken up by the council at the Feb. 27 meeting included the establishment of new towing rates, new regulations in the maintenance of property detention basins and the “capping” of the borough budget increase in light of inflation and current economic conditions.
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