Woodcrest Bid Requires Special Council Meeting Friday

Cherry Hill's township council will hold a special meeting Friday morning to consider using local open space funds to help bolster Camden County's bid for Woodcrest Country Club, which goes to auction Monday.

The 9 a.m. meeting comes on the heels of the freeholder board's announcement Wednesday they were taking the lead on the bid for the club, in an effort to preserve it as green space, and is necessary because of a resolution passed Monday night, which requires council's OK on spending any local money in the auction.

There will likely be a closed-session caucus before the public portion, township spokeswoman Bridget Palmer said, and there will be a public hearing after the final vote on using the local funds.

For more on this story, read:

• End Comes for Woodcrest Country Club
• Possible Bidders File in Woodcrest Country Club Auction: Report
• Cherry Hill Calls for Tax Sale in Woodcrest Country Club Bankruptcy
• Woodcrest Country Club Could Go to Auction in May
• Woodcrest Country Club Goes to Auction May 20
• Woodcrest Country Club Closed-Door Auction Draws Members' Ire
• Woodcrest Bankruptcy Auction Turns Political
• Woodcrest Auction Bid Approved by Camden County Freeholders