Okay. Meeting call to order. Council member Bezerson here. Council member Chapman here. Council member Clayton here. Deputy Mayor Quinn here. Mayor Moore here. Please stand for a silent prayer. Moment of reflection. We will now the flag. I pledge algiance
to the flag of the United States of America and to the stand. [Music] As complied with the open public meetings act chapter 231 PL1 1975
adequate notice of this meeting has been provided in the following manner. The annual notes is forwarded to the Asbury Park Press, the coaster, and the Star Ledger on January 16th, 2025, and posted on bulletin board the same date. All notices are on file with the city clerk. We're now on special event applications
from recreation director Alicia Floyd. Good evening, Mayor and Council. There are four applications before you and one wedding application. Um the only new application is for the line dancing classes to be held in Springwood Park.
Are there any questions? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you. We're now on to Maris from city council. Council member Bezerson. Yes. I have a couple announcements. Good evening everyone. Uh summer day camp program. It begins June 30th and it runs through
August 8th uh from 12 to 4:30 p.m. It's at Thood Marshall Martin Luther King Middle School and the Bradley schools. Uh all payments are non-refundable. So please bring the exact amount of money. Please see the uh director Miss uh Lysia
Floyd. Uh if you want to register your child also uh at the table there we have savings for our seniors workshop. this about this is for those who are interested in uh getting a tax refund. So we're having a senior freeze
workshop. It'll be July 14th. So it'll be here at the chambers. There is a flyer on the table there. And then also line dancing classes. So if you ever been to a party and everyone breaks out and they're doing the line dancing and you don't know how, you can learn. And that
begins uh July 7th, excuse me, July 10th. and it'll run through uh July 31st from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Springwood Park. That's all that I have for now. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Chapman. Yes. I'd just like to let everyone know that the uh Fourth of July
fireworks are actually taking place on July 3rd on the beachfront in Asbury Park between 1st and Fifth Avenues uh at around 9:00. Thanks. Thank you, Council Member Clayton. Um nothing at this time. Thank you. Thank you, Deputy Mayor
Quinn. No. Thank you, Mayor Moore. Yeah. Something just very brief. And uh this morning there was an incident on the beach front where uh unfortunately one of our lifeguards got kind of impelled by uh umbrella. Uh she's out of
surgery. She's doing fine. And uh we just wish her the best in the future and hopefully in a week or two she'll be back on the bench. So just want it's been on TV. It's been on the news. I just want we're not ignoring it. Uh the governor sent a pray his prayers and but
she's doing fine. So just heads up for everybody to know that. Thank you. Uh Maris from the city manager. Uh good evening. Nothing to add. Thank you. And Madison from the city attorney. Uh thank you. I have nothing for tonight. Thank you. We're now on to public purpose participation.
May I have a motion to open the meeting to the public? Move to open. Second. All in favor? Hi. Public participation portion of the meeting is now open. Any member of the public who wishes to speak, please use the microphone. State your name and address for the record. And there will be a 3minut time limit
for each speaker. And let me just start off with another little housekeeping. There's a ordinance on later for in the agenda. You you can speak at both. You can speak
now and speak then, but I just want to let you know like the main that ordinance will be towards the end of the meeting. So, and you can speak then about that if you wish to, but right now you can speak about anything. Go ahead, sir. Okay. Hello. My name is Frank
Cuchinata. I'm at 209 6th Avenue, and I'd like to uh ask a couple questions regarding the infrastructure improvement plan. So, uh I guess a couple requests. The first one is that you change the
backend angled parking from back in to head in angled parking. Uh if you're coming from Ocean on sixth, you start off in the first first block you hit, you go into angled parking head in. Then
once you cross Kingsley under the plan, you're now going to be angled parking butt in, which doesn't make any sense for a couple reasons. Number one, somebody coming down the street goes head in and all of a sudden now they're looking for parking. They have to back in one. The other thing is
with these people uh backing in, you have the exhaust going from the cars that are idling and while they're unloading or loading, all this exhaust is getting closer to our houses, uh our porches, our yards, our our balconies,
the windows, the doors. all that exhaust is coming into the into into our properties and that just doesn't make any sense to have the exhaust going that way. Um, the other thing that I would ask is that we carve out those two historic homes on
6th Avenue. If you look at the plan, the plan the the benefit that you're getting from widening the street from for 2020 207 and 209, you're abs you're getting no benefit at all as far as parking spaces.
You're losing green space. It just doesn't make any sense to to what what uh I'm asking is that you carve that out. If you want to do the infrastructure improvement plan on 6th Avenue, carve out those two houses so that you don't lose any parking. In fact, you gain a parking spot by leaving
the street as it is for that section. And you gain additional green space. Um so in in addition, the there doesn't seem to be a need to widen the sidewalks for that area. It's
a residential area. It's not like it's a commercial area where you have a lot of foot traffic. It's it's a res it's a residential area. So expanding the sidewalk from 6 ft to 7 and 1/2 ft just doesn't make any sense. It's it's overkill.
We also ask that you leave the blue stone sidewalk as they are because blue stone sidewalk is is much more durable and more pleasant to look at than than concrete. So the other thing I I look at is that all this work that's being done on 6th
Avenue in the 6th Avenue section will only add six additional parking spaces. So the question is a how much is this infrastructure plan costing and do we really need this to be done on that section of 6th Avenue when you're
not getting any gain or very little gain? Thank you very much for your time. Appreciate it. Thank you. Hi, I'm Gabriella Cuchinada, 2096th Avenue. Uh we were here a couple times already. I thank you for your time. Um
but I wanted to speak again on the critical issues that will severely impact the North Beach neighborhood that that we live in. The block um between sixth and seventh and Kingsley and Web is home to many residents living in condos, apartment buildings, multif
family and single family homes. The vision for this block at the writing of the waterfront redevelopment plan was that the entire block would be obtained through eminent domain. And you can see the the maps on page 18, 22, and 24 showing this one large placeholder
building. the plan um that was meant to be applied to a block that was being fully developed doesn't just doesn't make sense for our community. Our property sits on the corner of Web 6. I will focus the concerns that we have with the changes proposed along Web
Street. On the east side, you will find our home, a 50 foot wide lot in an apartment building with patios and balconies facing the street. The proposed plan calls for taking the rightway 30 in to increase the three-foot grassy apron into a 4ft
concrete paver apron with tree pits. A retaining mall which does sit on the right away and for which we pay rent every year um will have to be removed and pushed back. Um and the garden that
sits that that's there that's enjoyed by all lake not only the residents but also visitors always comment on how beautiful this garden will be completely will be truncated. Um we will have less grass for the water to be absorbed increasing our flood risk
for our house and also increasing liability for the city since the house has never flooded in all the years. Um, so further down the street, the residents of the apartments will lose their privacy by having the sidewalk move to a few feet from the patios and
balconies. Dogs will have fewer places to relieve themselves. With the loss of the grassy apron, lawns in our garden, our street will become more sterile and less inviting. If the concern is to widen the aprons to allow trees to be planted, trees can be planted in the current grassy aprons. Um there are many
streets throughout the city that have um three-foot grassy aprons where trees are thriving. The street will keep its cohesive look with west side of the street where the grassy aprons will remain um if the proposed changes are not made. The waterfront redevelopment plan has been modified many times um
since its inception. The maps on page 1822 and 24 show the plans have already been modified for our block since the entire block is not being redeveloped. We are asking the city to apply a common sense approach and only make changes to web street on sections where the entire block is being developed. Seventh and
eighth there. This will save Starfield money by avoiding the cost of pavers and building and building and rebuilding retaining walls. More importantly, it will save the city money on maintenance needed for um permeable pavers to remain permeable. So, I would really appreciate
your consideration. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Doe Felder. I'm the CFO of First Healthcare Management Company. We own and operate the Jersey Shore. I have your address for the record, please, sir. I My home address. Yeah. 99
Flintlock Drive in Lakewood, New Jersey. Thank you. We own and operate the Jersey Shore Adult Daycare Center, currently operating at 600 Main Street in the great city of Asbury Park. I thank you for this opportunity to address this distinguished body this evening. I'm
joined today by some of the many Asbury Park residents that attend and are cared for daily in our center. We have many more residents that we serve, but not everybody was able to make it this evening. We're also joined by some of our amazing staff, many who reside in Asbury Park. These are the amazing
people that make up the team and family at Jersey Shore Adult Daycare. We are here today to express our support for ordinance 2025-14, an amendment to the city's Main Street redevelopment plan. This will allow our daycare to move from our current location at 600 Main Street to 11:05
Main Street. Journeyshore Adult Daycare has been a beacon and part of Asbury Park community for 30 plus years, 20 years under our ownership. We are proud to serve the community of Asbury Park and we care for the city's frail and elderly as well as the disabled population. We are part of the fabric of
this city. We are a good neighbor. We work with our neighbors and make sure that we are an asset to this community. As you all know, we don't have any complaints about our current neighbors and are a true asset to this city. There are many reasons we should approve this amendment today. First and foremost, as
I've said, we serve the community and part of Aspberry Park. Two, we are currently in the redevelopment area and our youth should have been grandfathered into the plan when it was created. We are just moving a few blocks over. Three, the plan allows for child daycare and not allowing for senior or adult
daycare would be discrimination. Discrimination against our most vulnerable populations. Four, this amendment, this amendment has been recommended for approval by the city plan planning board. And I quote, the board finds the proposed amendments are consistent with the city master plan and
the goals and objectives of the MSRP. This amendment will allow Jersey Shore to stay in Azerie Park, continue to serve its residents, continue to employ members of this community and flourish in the city that it serves. We ask for your support and your vote to pass this amendment.
Uh we have a lot of people here and uh in lie of each person getting up and stating their name and their support, we can uh give handwritten uh statements of support. I don't know if that's acceptable or if you would rather each person get up and say their support for
this amendment. I'm sorry, sir. Stay there a second. Yeah, absolutely. Where the I'm sorry. Go ahead, sir. Um, is that would that be okay for the record to just hand in statements of support from all these
amazing people here? You already have them filled out? Yes. Yes. if you want to do that. Absolutely. Okay. I I I think that would be easier on everybody, right? I mean, we're all here to support Jersey Shore. They'll take care, right? Yes. Hello. I I want to get my voice.
Hold on one second. Hold on one second. You have to give us your name and address. Okay. My name is Christina Lang and my address is 1400 4th Avenue. Listen, I've been trying since before Memorial Day weekend
to get blue parking lines parked in painted in my house because I'm handicapped. And this town is such unbelievable process. I'm getting complete runaround. James Banano doesn't call back for weeks
and he says, "You have to go through the police." I go through the police. Then all of a sudden they say it's not important enough for today's agenda. Well, it's important. You know what? It's summer and I can't find parking at my own house and this is ridiculous. We're 1.2 square mile town. I've lived
in New York my whole life. I moved here 5 years ago. I've never seen such bureaucratic red tape. This is ridiculous. So, it's very important to me that I could park at my own house. I pay $11,000 in taxes and I have an very
expensive house. I've put hundreds of thousands of dollars in my house to renovate, make this neighborhood better, and now that I'm in need, you give me the runaround. This is ridiculous. So, I want my agenda added right now. And I want to have my blue lines painted. I
have four broken vertebrae. And I have a broken foot. And this is ridiculous that I have to go through hoops to try to get somebody to give me a handicap parking at my own house. I have neighbors that sit there and say two beds, first come, first serve. I should be able to park at
my house and I can't park at my own house. And I'm sick to death of getting a runaround from everybody at this city. This is ridiculous. So, I want somebody to help me and I don't want to get, you know, oh, you got to speak to Banano. Oh, you got to speak to Office of
Vargas. Oh, you got to get on the city council meeting. Oh, James Banano. Oh, it's not important enough at tomorrow's agenda meeting. Really, it's really important for me to be able to park at my own house. So, what do we need to do to get the blue lights painted because
I'm sick and tired of getting the runaround? Are you done? Yes, I'm done. Okay. Well, number one, I apologize for you getting the runaround. It's the first time obviously we're hearing about it. So, you know, I can't correct the past, but we can move forward in the future. We by
law need a recommendation from the police department. The police department has to go out there and say it has to be done and then we can approve it. So, that's the process. We can just Your police department officer Reed is
apparently got one foot out the door in retirement. So if I showed you my cell phone and how many times I've left him a voice message and I've given him my card for persons with a disability, I've given him my placard and just because he's got one foot out the door and he's
and almost retirement and then I have to speak to officer Vargas and he he's I'm new to doing this and he's not sure how to do it and then he says, "Okay, I finally have all the information." And then it didn't make it council meeting. You know, John, I I live right
across the street from you. You know my house. It's the blue house. I've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars renovating my house. And now this past year, I've had nothing but medical nightmares. I was in the hospital for 7 weeks. I have four broken vertebraes. It
I shouldn't have to go through this to be able to park at my house. Okay. Can you furnish us? And when I say I us send it to John Hayes, the deputy city manager, all of your emails so he can look into that. This shouldn't be going
on for over a month already. This is ridiculous. Since before Memorial Day weekend, I've been trying to get somebody to say to me that I can't park on my property. And my neighbors don't care. Their attitude is first come, first serve. It's street parking. So, my
placard means nothing unless there's blue lines painted because then anybody could park at right by my house, right? Okay. So, I'm being told it will be on the next council again. No, I I can't wait till the next calendar. We're in the middle of summer right now. It's 92
degrees outside and for me to have to circle around and try to find parking when I can't walk and I have a broken back in four places, it should not wait till the next meeting. That's why I drove here right now after a doctor's appointment and and and left my
16-year-old dog that's waiting for me to get his medication and to eat because that's how important it is for me that I needed to come down here and be seen and be heard and say, "I'm not waiting till July 9th to the next meeting." Well, you you've been heard, but we legally cannot
do what you're asking us to do. You can't legally. No, we cannot legally do that. Sere has not returned any of my phone calls. This should have been in in May, right? In May. And I wish you would complain sooner. And look, I'll tell you what. You know what? I tried calling to
everybody. You never You never called me. Doesn't care about this. Look, you're 3 minutes is up. And I'm not trying to be rude. I'm not going to be rude to you. Like you you're right. You live across the street from me. I'll move my car. You can park where I park until the night. Now, another thing
once that handicapped parking spot goes up, it's not reserved for you. Anybody with a handicapped spot can park there. So don't think just because people that are weekenders that live on Jeffrey Street that are under row houses and most of them live somewhere else in New York City or they live in Hoboken and
they only come here to go to the beach in the on the weekends. People like that that are not handicapped then can't park where my house is and it's not in front of my house. It needs to be on the side right by my gate so it's easier for me to get into my house. Trying to enter in the front of my house is too difficult. When when we get the police report, it
will go where the police tells us. It'll say like 21 ft from this street, 21 ft. So say exactly where it's going. We'll make sure that's where you want it. But just because that handicap parking sign is going up, does that mean you you're the only one that can park it. That's
law. That's the state law. I mean, I'm not the governor. I can't change the state. I understand that. But John, I've been trying to do this since before Memorial Day weekend. Not now. June 25th. since before Memorial Day weekend. I feel terrible and uh it will be on the
next agenda. There's just no way that I work at Microsoft. If I sat there and said and did this to my customers, I'd have no job. Okay? This should not apply at our city level at our residents where when somebody has a problem and they need to get something taken care of. And
I shouldn't hear that. Sorry, we only have three minutes. This is my life. This is a very big problem. Okay. And you've made your point. You made your point very clear and I totally agree with you and it'll be on the next agenda and that's the best we can do and I'm
sorry. Okay. Well, you you shouldn't be sorry. You should do something about it because you should see all the calls that I had into officer Reed that he never returned. That's what we as I asked you to forward so we can look at. Okay. Well, where's James Banana? What difference does that make? because
he didn't return any of my calls to tell me. Okay. Well, that that will all be looked into, but it's not going to be looked into tonight. And again, I'm sorry to tell you, your time's up. Okay. So, who am I going to speak to tomorrow that's going to work with me instead of it being till July 9th? Mr. John Aes or
Mr. Adam? I'm sorry. Who? Hold on. Uh, you can talk to me. Um, Adam Cruz, the new city manager or John Haye. John Hayes, Adam Cruz or John Hayes. Okay. And and mayor, we found out about it
yesterday and we did follow up with it and this is why everything was completed. So that was the first time we heard about it. That was yesterday. It has been addressed and this is why we are guaranteeing that it's going to be on the next agenda. It was as of
yesterday. Okay. But it shouldn't wait till July 9th. That's weeks away already. that it I shouldn't have to wait when I've already tried and tried and tried and tried. This is ridiculous. I've already answered. We're a very small town. We're 1.2 square miles, not New York City. I'm going to have to ask
you like your time's up and I'm sorry, but that's it. Listen, so my money my my tax money is no good. My renovations are no good. So So I I have a time limit to get somebody to help. Everybody in this room has a time limit. I've already let
you extend yours longer. So, I'm pleased asking you like that's it. You heard? I'm going to come here every single day until somebody tomorrow calls me. Okay. So, I'm going to cause a scene every single day until somebody hears me because I'm sick of being ignored for 6
weeks. Okay. Sorry everyone. Sorry that you all had to hear this, but it's ridiculous in this town. Hi, council. Mary Valino, 1700 Web Street here in Asbury. Um, I actually want to thank you uh because we came before this council
regarding with uh Gabriella and Frank were speaking about maybe about a month and a half ago and you uh facilitated a meeting with many of the leaders that are in the room and we definitely appreciate that because we heard you and you're hearing us. Um I mentioned to
Michelle today just a little followup on the construction that's going on uh Kingsley 7th and 8th and I was informed today similarly uh that we should reach out to the construction department because air quality and
just the debris that's flying and the unkempt nature of the construction zone. So, um I think Michelle gave me the right information this evening to contact someone from construction or zone to make sure that they come out and cut the remaining grass at the edges
because now it's an empty lot. And conversely, on the opposite side where they're digging and throwing soil all over, do we have any code relative to having to spray it down? I worked in construction in the city and we would always throw water when you're digging a hole. So, I'm just curious about that.
um keeping the quality of life between 6th, 7th, 8th as we do go along with the process. Um so thank you again. Appreciate all you do for the town. Mary, make sure you CC Adam and John Hayes on your reaching out to the construction because I'm almost positive
we have something that stops the the dust. I recommended that it is happening. Okay. Because there is and email. No, but because go out right away. Okay, gotcha. Okay,
thank you. Thank you. Hello, Mike Neil, 700 Asbury A. Um, I just want to add a little bit to some of the things some of my wonderful neighbors here have brought up about uh parking and what's going on in the town. You just recently repaved all of Asbury A and painted all the lines to make it
look nice and smooth and it's fantastic with the exception whoever came up with this brilliant idea of a bike lane car spaces narrowing the road. It wasn't very bright. I look out my window every day. I now see 18 wheelers as they're going in either direction because they're non-stop up and down Asbury a
then have to stop and wait because now the cars are so tightly packed together trucks can't pass each other. We have bike lanes on the inside where if you're in your car, somebody's going to zip up, open a door, something's going to happen without a doubt. More importantly, now everybody's putting their garbage cans
in that bike lane. I've been riding my bike up the bike lane thinking, "Oh, this is fantastic." And at every driveway, you have to go out into the street so you can come back in because you can't even get up the um up the bike paths. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense. More importantly, I'm also been coming a lot because we know what's
going on with this new church that we're already losing parking spaces for 80 new units that are coming in. Well, in front of my house alone, they took three parking spaces away to put one spot. Doesn't make any sense to me when you can easily fit three cars. Why would you make a much larger area and limit the
parking spaces that we all know there is not enough parking in Asbury? So, whoever is uh planning the next road improvement, let's use our heads a little bit more so we can do things a little bit better. Uh somebody also brought up replacing all the blue stone,
the slate, they're putting cement down. If you look at Bond Street that they paved last year, ripped up all of the sidewalks, put down concrete. Every single sidewalk is disintegrating already because you like to put salt down in the winter and salt eats through concrete. You know, I'm not an engineer,
but it's pretty uh it doesn't take a a mad scientist to figure out what salt does to the ground. Does not seem to affect loose stone. So, why don't we leave things alone instead of constantly trying to replace things, wasting money for no reason. Thank you very much.
Just do me a favor. Give me your address once more. 700 Asbury. I just want to see about the three in one spots. I'll drive by tomorrow. Thank Yeah, I actually I lost my parking spot. I now park in front of my driveway without a parking spot. I know I'm not going to pay that ticket if I ever get one. I've lost all my
Thank you. Move to close. Second. All in favor? I participation is now closed. We are now on to the minutes from June 11th. I have executive session, regular session. Do I have a motion? Move it.
Second. Council member Bezerson? Yes. Council Chapman? Yes. Council Clayton? Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn? Yes. Mayor Moore? Yes. We're now on to the consent agenda resolutions. All matters list on the consent agenda are presented collectively to the city council and will be considered for approval with one
vote. These matters are considered to be routine in nature and there will be no individual discussion of these items. If discussion is desired by one or more council members as to any particular items, then set items shall be removed from the consent agenda and considered separately. On consent agenda tonight, we have resolutions 2025 308 through
2025 311. Do I have a motion? Move it. Second. Council Berson, yes. Council Chapman, yes. Council Mayor Clayton, yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn, yes. Mayor Moore, yes. Moving on to individual resolutions. I have resolution 2025 312, resolution approving payment of bills.
Move it. Is there a second? Second. Council me? Yes. Council Chapman? Yes. Council Clayton? Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn? Yes. Mayor Moore? Yes. Resolution 2025313, resolution authorizing a contract to lexipole for online police training. Move it. Second. Council. Council
Chapman. Yes. Council Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. No. Mayor Moore. No. Resolution 2025314, resolution awarding a contract for environmental services at 616 6163 Ridge Avenue. Move it. Second. Council BZ Anderson. Yes. Council
Chapman. Yes. Council Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. Resolution 2025 315. Resolution wearing a bid for Cookman Avenue and Bond Street intersection improvements. Move it. Second. Council question.
We when we talked about this, we wanted to make sure this is not done in the middle of the se summertime. So, I just want somebody to assure me this went out to bid and it's not going to be done. We're not going to be shut down Cookman Avenue for the entire summer.
I mean, it'll be post summer, the intersection improvements. Fall. Fall. Thank you. All right. Any other questions on this? No questions. Do I have a motion? You got it.
Sorry, apologies. Council member Bezerson, yes. Council Chapman, yes. Council member Clayton, yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn, yes. Mayor Moore, yes. Resolution 2025 3:116, resolution approving change order number eight for the new fire department headquarters. Move it. Second. Council member
Anderson. Council Chapman. Yes. Council Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn, yes. Mayor Mort, yes. Resolution 2025 317 resolution approving a liquor license with special conditions for Johnny Mack House of Spirits LLC doing
business as Johnny Max for the 2025 2026 licensing year. Move it. Second. Council Abz Anderson. Yes. Council Chapman. Yes. Council member Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. Resolution 2025 318. Resolution approving a liquor license with special
conditions for Bond Street Bar and Grill LLC doing business as Bond Street Bar and Grill Capital Line Lottery for the 2025 2026 licensing year. We'll move it. Council Member Bazerson, yes. Council Member Chapman, yes. Council member Clayton, yes. Deputy
Mayor Quinn, yes. Mayor Moore, yes. Resolution 2025 319. Resolution approving 2025 2026 alcoholic beverage control license for ABG Liquor Holdings LLC doing business as Aspbury Fest Hall and Beer Garden in the city of Asbury
Park, County of Mammoth, New Jersey. Move it. Second. Council member Bezerson, yes. Council Chapman, yes. Council Clayton, yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn, yes. Mayor Moore, yes. We have a few additions to tonight's agenda. I have resolution 2025 322
resolution approving 2025 2026 alcoholic beverage control license with special conditions for Georges Inc. doing business as Georges in the city of Asbury Park County of Mammoth, New Jersey. Move it. Second. Council Bezerson. Council Chapman. Yes. Council Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes.
Mayor Moore. Yes. Resolution 2025323. Resolution approving 2025 2026 alcoholic beverage control license for GTJM Inc. Uh doing business as Jimmy's in the city of Asbury Park, County of Mammoth, New Jersey. Move it. Second. Second. Council
member Brazen. Yes. Council member Chapman. Yes. Council member Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. Resolution 2025324. Resolution authorizing the appointment of a public safety director for the city of Asbury Park and authorizing the execution of an employment agreement
relating there too. The appointee is John B. Hayes. Move. Second. Council member Bezerson. Yes. Council member Chapman. Yes. Council member Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. Moving on to ordinances for introduction. I have bond ordinance
202516 providing for the various capital improvements and the acquisition of various capital equipment appropriating three $3,11,000 therefore and authorizing the issuance of $2,945,950 bonds and notes to finance a portion of
the cost thereof authorized in and by the city of Asbury Park in the county of Mammoth, New Jersey with a public hearing date of July 9th, 2025. Move it. Second. Council PZ Anderson. Yes. Council Chapman. Yes. Council member Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes.
Mayor Moore. Yes. Moving on to ordinances for second reading and public hearing. I have ordinance 202514, amendment to the main street redevelopment plan. Do I have a motion to open the meeting for public comment on ordinance 202514? Move to open. Second. All in favor? I.
Public comment ordinance 202514 is now open. Any member of the public who wish to speak, please use the microphone. State your name and address for the record. Your comments may only be about ordinance 202514. Sir, could you use the microphone, please?
Yeah. talking. Good afternoon. Um, Dan Harris, 17 Ridge Avenue, Adsburg Park. I apologize for being late, but I did want to Can you all be quiet while I'm talking?
I did want to address um a couple issues that we have on Ridge Avenue. Dan, can you hear me, John? We're we're on to close the public session. We're on to this ordinance now. I apologize for being late. John, can I get this in? It
takes 3 minutes. You let that other lady talk for 15. I was waiting for her to get done. You weren't late. You were here. Go ahead. Thank you. We do live in a nation with freedom of speech. Ky
the public hearing on this ordinance. It's ordinance 2025-14 amendments to the main street redevelopment plan. This section of the meeting is limited to comment on that particular ordinance. Uh we have a couple ordinances. Stay and you can make your comments. I'll let you speak at the end of that. Okay. As long
as I can speak at the end, I'm satisfied. That's why we said anybody else and that's why we closed it. No problem. But great. We don't want to jeopardize this. Uh, good evening. Dana Kelly, 3016th Avenue. Um, even though that was the
subject of a different matter. Um, I'm here regarding this ordinance. And um I am also a uh involved in Arbar which is located on Main Street across the street from the proposed location of the uh day
of the adult daycare center. Um, we just have some concerns and you know, as people that have invested heavily in this in this city, um, when we made the decision to put our business there, we
did our due diligence and we looked at the redevelopment zone and we did see that, you know, it promoted commercial businesses. What this ordinance is proposing is not
a commercial business and we just have concerns about how this is going to affect the dynamics of the area. We've made Oprah requests to the to the township or to the municipality. Um we have not received any information yet.
So, we haven't been able to really formulate a strong argument, but we we just really have concerns about the fact that this is supposed to be commercial in nature. It's supposed to be complimentary to the other businesses in
the area. So, you have a facility that's going to be open during the day and then closed and it's not really bringing anything to the e economics of the area. So, we would just appreciate um your consideration when you're voting on
this. Thank you. Anybody else like to be heard on this ordinance? Move to close. Second. All in favor? I. Do I have a motion to adopt ordinance 202514? Move it.
Second. Okay. Council member Bezerson, no. Council member Chapman, no. Council member Clayton, yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn, yes. Mayor Moore, no. Moving on to ordinance 202515, bond ordinance providing for the train station canopies, appropriating a
million dollars, therefore, and authorizing the issuance of $74,000 bonds and notes to finance a portion of the cost thereof. Authorized in and by the city of Asbury Park in the county of Mammoth, New Jersey. Do I have a motion to open the meeting for public comment on ordinance 202515?
Move to open. Second. All in favor? I. Public comment ordinance 202515 is now open. Any member of the public who wishes to speak, please use the microphone and state your name and address for the record. Your comments may only be about ordinance 202515. Seeing nobody a motion to close. Move to
close. All in favor? I do have a motion to adopt ordinance 202515. Move to adopt. Second. Council Bezerson. Yes. Council Chapman. Yes. Council member Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. No.
We're now moving on to the municipal budget. One second. Danny. Yeah. Okay. I'm Dan Harris, 17 Ridge Avenue, Asbury Park. I've been a resident of Asbury for over 35 years at the same
house. Recently, we're going through a dynamics that we haven't seen previously on our little street on Ridge Avenue. Okay, it is mostly retired citizens, people who pay their taxes and we're not violent people. recently. My biggest
concern for me lately basically Beautiful. Yes. I swear to God. Well, I'm sure you made a friend. [Applause]
All right. I'll be at the Stone Pony next week. All right. Um, basically John, my my my concern is the influx of people in our neighborhood on our quiet little block who basically either don't know the law of the city but who have basically no
regard for our way of living. I have called code enforcement, got very little things done. We have people putting sofas on their front porch now um recliners on their front porch. that takes away from the quality of life in
the neighborhood and I would like to see something done about it. Okay? I mean, I don't mind if you put lawn furniture on your front porch, but to go out your house and see a a a two-tonon sofa on the front porch and construction
materials, I think that that's just takes away from the quality of life of us who live there. Um, I hate to say call numbers out, but 11 Ridge Avenue, 36 Ridge Avenue, 101 Ridge Avenue. Okay, they all got sofas on their front porch. Okay, I've never heard about that. Okay,
the second thing is people who disrespect parking, okay? Um, you got 168 hours in a week. The city ask people not to park on one side of the street for 2 hours. When the street cleaner
comes through, people are parked there. the street cleaner has to go around them and the garbage stays there. Okay? And they know the street cleaning people do a wonderful job. Okay? But I wish that the police department would start ticketing these people who continue to park where when they're not supposed to
park. Some of them basically can't read English. Okay? It's not my fault that you can't read fourth grade English, but you're going to have to move your car when you're supposed to move your car. That is a concern of mine. So, I wish the city would reinstitute
um just ticketing people who park during those two hours when they're not supposed to park. Okay. But my big and the final thing is people who leave junk out on the street for 2, three, four, five days when you have one day to have your um your bulk picked up. There's a
house next door to me again, 11 Ridge Avenue, which has had bulk parked in front of their house for over 4 days. Okay. It hasn't gotten picked up. I've gone next and a couch. I've gone next door. John, you listen with your eyes. Um, I've gone next door. I told him,
"Look, take that. Put it behind the house until Friday and they'll pick it up on Saturday." Okay. Then they run this new speaker and I told them, "Shut up. You know what I said?" Okay. So, I just asked that the city would institute code enforcement. Danny, Danny, we gave
you more than three minutes. Not going to cut you off, but I'm going to say to Mr. Cruz, who's new in city manager, this is not the first complaint I've received from this area. There's a retired city employee who lives across the street who's called me because he
worked for me. Complaints. These complaints have been constant, but nothing gets stopped. Thank you, John, Amy, Miss Clayton, Miss Chapman, and Miss Anderson. I appreciate your courtesy of Thank you, Danny. Thank you.
All right, moving on to municipal budget public hearing. Uh, do I have a motion to open the meeting to the public? Move it. Second. All in favor? I. Public comment on the 2025 municipal budget is now open. Any member of the public who wishes to speak, please use the
microphone and state your name and address for the record. Your comments may only be about the 2025 municipal budget. Motion to close. Move to close. All in favor? I. All right. Moving on to or uh resolution 2025 320 uh uh 2025 budget
amendment. Do I have a motion? Second. Council Bas. Yes. Council Chapman. Yes. Council member Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn? Yes. Mayor Moore? Yes. Resolution 2025321
resolution adopting uh the 2025 municipal budget. Move it. Second. Council member Bezerson. Council Mayor Chapman. Yes. Council member Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn? Yes. Mayor Moore? Yes. That is all for tonight. Do I have a motion to close the meeting? Move to close. Second. All in favor? I.
Thank you everyone. Have a good night. You too.