Millville moves budget hearing to BOE Culver Center amid repairs

Millville residents who want to weigh in on the city’s 2026 spending plan need to go to the BOE Culver Center, 110 N. 3rd Street, not City Hall. The budget hearing was moved there because City Hall’s elevator is being repaired so the building can comply with ADA requirements, and the city said taxpayers or other interested parties may present objections to the Budget and Tax Resolution for 2026 at the June 16 hearing, which begins at 6 p.m.

That change matters because the budget hearing is the key step before adoption. Millville already relocated its June 2 regular meeting and June 12 work session while the elevator work continues, so anyone tracking the city’s fiscal decisions has to pay attention to the temporary location and the June 16 timetable rather than assuming the usual chambers setting. For homeowners, landlords and other taxpayers, the hearing is the point where the final version of the spending plan becomes visible and where objections can still be heard before the budget is locked in.

The June 12 agenda also carried a public safety proposal with direct local consequences. One resolution approved a shared services agreement with Cumberland County and the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office for public safety services in Millville. The agreement says sheriff’s officers would assist the Millville Police Department and conduct proactive patrols in the Urban Enterprise Zone and surrounding areas, with State of New Jersey approval still pending for use of UEZ funding to reimburse the county. That ties the arrangement not only to policing, but also to how Millville uses economic development dollars and extends public safety coverage in busy commercial areas.

The city’s planning agenda reached beyond policing. Millville’s FY 2026 Annual Action Plan keeps the city in the Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton-Fairfield Township HOME Consortium through the five-year plan covering July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030. The draft action plan says Millville is scheduled to receive $259,995 in Community Development Block Grant funds for Program Year 2026, which runs from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027. The consortium includes Vineland, Bridgeton, Fairfield Township and Pittsgrove Township, linking Millville’s local housing and redevelopment decisions to a broader countywide and regional funding structure.

The rest of the June 12 agenda dealt with the nuts and bolts of city operations: authority for water and sewer termination, amendments to the municipal code in Chapter 56 on sewer and water ordinances, and liquor license renewal resolutions for the 2026-2027 year. Taken together, the calendar shift, the budget hearing, the sheriff-services agreement and the action plan showed a city working through repairs, spending and service delivery at once, with June 16 set as the next public checkpoint.