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Part 1 (Video ID: IRVs-5KnTyQ):
- 00:00:08: Meeting Call to Order and Proclamation Introduction
- 00:01:17: Council Member Announcements: Jazz Fest and Condolences
- 00:02:24: City Attorney Report: Casino Default Opinion Update
- 00:03:12: Public Comment Begins: Parking Ticket Issues
- 00:06:15: Council Response to Parking Ticket Concerns
- 00:07:05: Chamber of Commerce Update: Events and Grant
- 00:08:25: Public Comment: Concerns About Social Programs
- 00:17:56: Save Our Structures Announcement: Casino Endangered Site
- 00:19:42: Public Comment: Abandoned Church, Homeless Encampment
- 00:23:36: Public Comment: On-Site Security for Development Sites
- 00:26:28: Public Comment: Parking Issues Impacting Businesses
- 00:31:36: Discussion, Motion to Close, and Minutes Approval
- 00:32:26: Consent Agenda and Individual Resolutions Approval
- 00:35:55: Bond Ordinance Public Hearing and Budget Update


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Meeting call to order. Council member Bez Anderson >> here. >> Council member Chapman >> here. >> Council member Clayton is absent. Deputy Mayor Quinn >> here. >> Mayor Moore >> here. >> Please stand for a silent prayer. Moment of reflection. >> Now salute the flag. I pledge allegiance

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to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all >> as complied with the open public meetings act chapter 231 PL1 1975 adequate notice of this meeting has been

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provided in the following manner. The own notice was forward to the Aspbury Park Press the coaster and the star ledger on January 15th 2026 and posted on the bulletin board the same date. All notices are on file with the city clerk. Moving on to a proclamation. City of Asbury Park would like to acknowledge a proclamation for Mary Lou Purcell

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Falco's 95th birthday. And moving on after that, we have special event applications. I have two beach cleanup dates by the Surf Rider Foundation taking place on May 13th and June 12th. Are there any questions? >> No. >> All right. Uh, moving on to matters from

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the city council. Council member Bez Anderson. >> Nothing from me. >> Thank you. Council member Chapman. Sure. I'd just like to announce that Asbury Park is hosting a jazz festival on Sunday, June 28th from noon until 8:00

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in Sunset Park. It's free admission. Come on out and have some fun. >> Thank you, Deputy Mayor Quinn. >> Uh yeah, a couple things. Uh, I want to thank Cassandra Dickerson for doing the second uh, Mother's Day tea, which was a free event at Blackbird that um, people

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people brought their mothers out to. So, Cassandra did a great job on that. And I want to acknowledge the death of a woman named Emily Harris. Emily Harris's husband is Danny Harris, who has been on the zoning board for probably close to 20 years. And the service was this

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weekend. I think the mayor and council want to offer our condolences to the Harris family. >> Thank you, Mayor Moore. >> Thank you. Moving on to Mars from the city manager. >> Hi, good evening. Nothing to it. >> Thank you. And mayor from the city

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attorney. Uh yes, just uh one matter. Um uh this the city retained um former justice uh Lee Solomon to do a report or an opinion on the um matters involving the primarily the casino and the options available to the city in the event of a

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default. I received a um a lengthy letter from Justice Solomon. Uh I just as I just informed the council, I'm in the process of reviewing it. Uh there are portions that I may have to redact. um they refer to strategic uh decisions

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and recommendations. Um but that uh when I'm completed with that, I'll I'll make that available to the public and and certainly to the council. >> All right. Thank you. We are now on to public participation. May have a motion to open the meeting to the public. >> Move to open. Second.

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>> All in favor? >> Public participation of the meeting is now open. Any member of the public wish to speak, please use the microphone, state your name and address for the record and there will be a threeminut time limit for each speaker. Hi, Mike Arllo,

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South Main Street, Ocean Grove. Uh, I'm a criminal in Asbury Park because I have three outstanding parking tickets. One because I left my car overnight because it wasn't safe for me to drive. One because I didn't look at my phone for 30 minutes

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while I was having dinner. And one because in the six minutes it took me to get to the meter after I parked, somebody came and gave me a ticket. I spent a disproportionate amount of time in the last week being the recipient of a lot

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of uh strong feelings about how parking is being forced in Asbury Park because uh multiple people tagged me on Instagram in the yellow vests that are being draped on the cars. uh for whatever reasons those vests were being draped on the cars and um people

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perceived that those vests were indications of selective enforcement of the parking fees and the violations and uh it prompted everybody to start telling me about the pain that they're experiencing from the way that the parking is enforced here in Aspbury

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Park. Uh the community feels like it's predatory, that it's oppressive. Business owners are telling me that they're losing business because their customers don't want to come to town. Employees are telling me they don't want to work here because the parking enforcement is too aggressive and the costs are too high. And residents are

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telling me that they feel like they're getting double taxed. I don't have any solutions to it, but I did go to the parking committee meeting last week and uh great job by the way in fielding the feedback. It was not an easy meeting, I

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know. Um, but a couple of the comments were really disheartening. One was, "If you do something to get a ticket, you get a ticket." Another was, "It's called accountability." These are the words from the parking committee. In the face of a community who's saying this is out

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of hand, it's out of control. So, I don't know what I'm reading when I'm looking at the budget. I'm pretty sure that what I'm seeing is that the budget for municipal fines is being increased to match the overage that was accomplished from last year by 24%.

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So at the same time as the entire community has said we're having enough with the parking tickets. I think that what I'm reading is the city is saying we're about to charge more. You're about to get 24% more parking tickets. And I find that egregious. And I know that the

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lack of parking is a problem, but the enforcement of it is also a problem. In the off season, when the roads are empty, people are still getting tickets within 3 minutes of when they park their cars. It's painful. Somebody needs to do something about it, please.

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>> Thank you, Mark. >> Thank you. And I know you were at the parking committee meeting. I'm on the committee. I was six. I wasn't able to attend. I think a lot of your questions were answered there, but uh what I heard the first two. What was the third reason you got the ticket?

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>> I paid the meter six minutes too late. >> I thought there was a 15minute grace period. >> There's no grace period from what I understand. >> Uh we I offered dismisses ticket park committee meeting. You said provided to us that there is a grace period of typically 10 minutes, you know, between

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payment and ticketing. >> That's not formalized though, right? That's that's that's subjective and it's case by case. >> Is that a formal policy? >> I think we should make it a formal policy. >> So, can we look into that? >> Sure, sir. >> Okay. Thank you.

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>> Thank you, sir. >> Good evening, Mayor and Council, members of the public. Uh, Matthew Whan, Ezri Park Chamber of Commerce. Um just a just a few things today. Um I want to thank the city for working with us on the uh the first Friday event that we've been

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working on. Um that promotes uh people coming to town on First Friday and business staying open late and there's now they're now doing things downtown. There was there was live music last Friday. So and that'll continue throughout the summer. And also the

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second Sunday sidewalk sales citywide. um that we that we're doing uh from May through October. Um the the that that event started this past Sunday. It was a great event. A lot of people, a lot of businesses did take advantage of it. We hope to just make that bigger um as we

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go throughout the the summer. And the last thing, as I'm sure a lot of you have heard um in the news, the chamber did receive a grant for a FIFA event, and we look forward to working with the city to make that the best event possible. So, thank you. >> Thank you.

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This is you can get up and talk about anything in for three minutes. >> Okay. >> Hi, Bess McCarthy, First Avenue. Um, I haven't been here in a while, but I've been hearing that a lot of, you know, you can let me know. A lot of uh

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properties on Main Street are going to be taxexempt from social programs they're doing and I don't know a lot of it with the mentally ill. And John, you've been here before when we really had a mess. I have a house next to me

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that has had 184 calls from the police, the fire, and the EMS since 2024. 184 calls. That's not counting things that didn't get called. It's gotten really crazy over there. They've got a

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lot of young young guys all in there. You got drugs. You got people in and out of the windows. They're letting them have guests in. And it's really gotten crazy. This morning there was a hypodermic needle on my lawn. So, I just

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want to know what are you really doing that? Are you bringing letting more and more people come here to put them all in Asbury Park for social programs? And we've got the Del I mean years ago uh Ocean Grove, Long Branch and Asbury

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had all the deinstitutionalizing all these hotels here and they were going to get together and and you know get stop it that this uh city would be in charge and only Ocean Grove followed through

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and they have control of what's going on. Asbury, the uh code enforcement guy at the time said to me, "Oh, that'd be too much work for us." So, nobody inspects these places when they're under the state once a year. I mean, this one

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we've really gone after. I don't know what's going to happen, but you know, this is ridiculous. They're taking the air conditioners out, climbing in the windows at night. They threw furniture out the back window, and my taxes have gone up 400% since we came here. So, I

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just want to know, is that what you're planning on doing? Lo putting all the deinstitutionalized in Asbury. Nobody else wants them. >> I mean, on Main Street, no less. >> Well, Bessie, did you say it's a house next door to you? >> I'm sure it's a Delmont.

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>> Luther Haven. >> No. No. Del Monte is across the street. >> Del scream back and forth and back and forth. Luther Hagen. You don't remember that years ago? the Lutheran church what the building thought there was going to be like

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parsonage or something they got all this money from HUD when nothing was selling for anything. >> So, but now it's really worth I mean I don't know. >> You're really making a mistake if you're letting everybody come in here and do

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that again. You've got highrises there and then Main Street, everybody hanging out. You lost all your stores because people were stealing all the drug stores. >> Okay. Is is the city promoting to bring

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in more homeless people and everything? No, absolutely not. >> Well, I hear they're dropping them off in the park. They know they can come here because they're going to have little facilities here. >> That's something we're dealing with more in the wintertime with code blue where

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we're the only town that has a code blue. So, do we get in dated Trinity and this year at uh >> I think with Trinity that when they do have criminals or whatever in there that they're not letting the police get in

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there and get them, you know? I mean, I don't know. It seems like it's going backwards instead of forwards in this county. >> In clos, we met with the head of social services and we're not waiting for September October to deal with code blue. We're starting that conversation

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now with uh Doug Schultz, the director, the city manager, assistant city manager and council people and with the county and other towns. So we are Bessie, we're we're we're on top of that. This is the

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first time and I've known you for so many years. I know where your house is. I never knew a house next door to you was in this type of condition. Is this owned by church? >> You know, remember when they bought this to the church? >> No. >> And I think it was one of the council

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members that made a crack yesterday because we almost won and then they said, "Oh, it was racist what he said or something." >> Okay. Is So, do you want us to give us the address or else I'll tell Adam? >> 91st Avenue. >> Okay. You got the got that address.

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Now, if it's being monitored by DCA like the DelMonte is, and it's under their control, we legally cannot go in there. >> Well, that's what I'm saying. The city would the city could have been in control of all of this, but they didn't

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want to be. So, if you call on them, they say, "Well, we can't do anything." I Well, the cops do come there. I mean, they're there. The fire alarm's off. They're smoking in there. you're doing drugs, you know, but I'm just saying it's not only just that. I mean, what

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are we doing? Are we going to encourage >> just keep encouraging more and more here? >> No, but let's the city manager give him a day or two to look into this particular address. Let's see who owns it. See if it's under DCA ministry. It's

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I mean, no, it's Lutheran Social Services. >> Okay. coming down themselves because my husband wrote a scathing letter to them and but I just said I'm coming here anyway. But um >> no problem. And again it's the first time >> taxes. I mean we're paying for all these

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extra police, all the fire, all these but you know all these people come in. Oh, they're doing good for somebody else. Somebody's making money and they're we're paying for everything. You know they're coming in. Oh, we're we're helping. They're not helping. These kids aren't going they're not going to

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anything. They're just sitting out there smoking dope and drinking or whatever they're doing. And you know that this isn't the city you you know you bring them here and you let them go. What are they going to do in the day here? Walk around? I mean they they need to really be making places that you know they like

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I don't know farm or area like or teach them something like I don't know just drug them up. I mean, these young kids shouldn't even be just doing that, handing them something free and giving them a drug, >> you know. >> Okay. Well, Bessie, you've got to do me

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a favor. >> Anything being done wrong by the house next door to you, you got to call >> What do you think? 184 phone calls. >> And this is the first time I'm hearing about it. So, I apologize for that, but

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shoot me an email. pick up the phone, call me, I'll call the city manager. But I mean, if they've had 184 calls, >> every police, >> I mean, they they should be paying alarms and everything now. Let them look into it and we'll get back to you. >> Well, what about what about all these

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tax exempt places that are coming up? That's what I'm really concerned about, too. Are we just letting you know this one thing, you know, I can my husband take or call on police and stuff like that. What about the rest of this city? Are we encouraging this? What about our

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t my taxes have gone up since I came here? 400%. And and and then you want more people that want don't want to pay any taxes. And then who's paying for it? The same people. I mean, you got people here that have worked all their lives for their

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houses and their taxes are more than their mortgage payment ever was. It's really tax theft as far as I'm concerned. It's really ridiculous. >> Okay. I We all But >> we all agree with you on taxes. >> So nobody can answer me on how many tax

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exempt I mean >> Bank of America that too wait everything for nothing. >> We can we cannot stop a non-exempt entity from buying a piece of property. I mean there's no law in America that

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says like hey Amy Quinn you can't buy that piece of property because you're you're you're not you're tax exempt. We we legally cannot do that. I mean, I didn't see this big infusion that you're talking about either. I mean, but I didn't know about this house

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either. Let us get some information and get back to you. >> Well, how do you really see that if you can't say we can only have so many tax properties here because we can't afford it? You can't just keep asking the same homeowner, give me more money. Give me more.

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>> Okay, Bessie, you made your point. We're going to look into it and give us a day or two tops. Hopefully >> hopefully what >> you want to Don't say it over the microphone. Come up and give Cassandra

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your telephone number, please. >> You come up here. >> We're going to give you We're going to give you We're going to give you answers. >> I I figure a phone call is better than a pigeon. >> You want me to hear you can have all the phone calls? 184 phone calls.

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>> I'd like to see them. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thanks. Okay. >> Move to close. >> Oh, >> no. >> I didn't want to be rude. Uh Chris Ol. I'm on Deal Lake Drive in Asbury Park.

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Um I'm with an organization called Save Our Structures, Asbury Park, SOSAP. We are a grassroots organization who recently joined forces with the Asbury Park Historical Society to be essentially their preservation and activist arm. Uh we are, you know,

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really interested in seeing the historic integrity and cultural integrity of Asbury Park preserved. And um to that end, I have some really exciting, literally hot off the press news that I'm getting text messages from my cohort

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about. Um about 3 months ago, we submitted an application over to Preservation New Jersey. Uh they have a list called the uh most endangered sites of New Jersey, 10 most endangered sites. And we're thrilled to announce that the

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casino building has been added to the 10 most endangered sites of New Jersey, which really helps elevate the public profile of this property and will hopefully enable us to have better negotiations with a developer in terms of preserving that very important piece

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of our architectural and cultural history here in Asbury Park. So, you'll be seeing more press on that in the coming days. And we just want to thank the council for your continued support of our work. >> Thank you very much. >> Now to close.

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>> Can I say something from here? I'm not very good at standing up. >> No, you have to. >> Okay. I live on um third in bond and I'm just wondering what jurisdiction or who it falls under. >> Can I have your name for the record too, please? >> Gabrielle Gabri. >> Thank you.

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>> Um I'm wondering what jurisdiction it falls under. The church that's on second in bond that's been um abandoned now for a while and it's kind of in litigation. And I don't know what's going on with it, but um basically there's homeless

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camping out behind there. They've cut a hole in the fence. They've have lawn chairs. They have shoes, clothing. Um it's garbage daily. They hang around there. The police patrol, but they're always hanging around there because they

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know they can hang around there. And they started a fire about two years ago in the fall that almost caught our building on fire. and there's nothing being done about it. There's no protections. You know, they're they're they're behind there and nobody's doing

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anything about it. >> Okay. >> So, it's inevitably going to be another fire or they're going to bring in, you know, rodents and I don't know, they're doing drugs over there. They're hanging out there. I I live there, so I walk by it and I see it every day. I see the same people. I've called the police

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several times. They just move them along, but they recongregate back there all the time. So, I don't know what's can be done about that. >> Well, I I know it sounds stupid and you're not going to like the answer, but keep on calling the

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police because we need that for many reasons. Number one, for your safety and number two, to make sure nothing bad does happen and also then to go after the owners and put that on your list for code tomorrow to go check to see if there's openings in the fence that people are going in and out. There's

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definitely on bond. There's Okay, there's between second and third there's a a hole cut in the fence. And like I said, they were putting cardboard up to sleep behind there at night. There's beach chairs. They're they're they're camping out there. My neighbors have

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called the police. They see them walking behind there. I see them in the morning time. I'm out with my dog 5:30 in the morning. I see them peeking over the fence looking for their other friends behind the fence. Like I said, it's going to be another fire there. or something really bad is going to happen because nobody is controlling who's

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going behind that fence. That fence is there for a reason. >> That property owner should fix that fence, >> right? Absolutely. And again, we we'll handle it, but you do not have to wait for every two weeks for a council meeting to complain. I mean,

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I'll give you my phone number. You can call me. I mean, 908-4891887. My home phone number is 732988-7915. It's one of my business cards. I'll give you a business card. Call me and I'll call the city manager and say, "Can we

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do something, please? Because quality of life does mean a lot to all of us up here because we all live in the city. We wouldn't want that next to our house either." So, uh, please don't wait. Uh, >> because I feel annoying talking to police all the time saying they're hanging out there. There's about a group

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of 10. You know, I saw one of the women going to the bathroom outside like there's trash left there. It's if people are nodding out, people are falling asleep on the sidewalk. It's it's a constant thing. >> I believe you and uh we'll get on top of

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it, but please feel free to call. >> Okay. >> Thank you very much. >> Thanks, Gabrielle. >> Adam, you should have social services and code go >> and police. >> Yes. Uh good evening uh Dan Shao Asbury

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Avenue. Uh to this lady's comments, why can't we have these, you know, dormant uh development sites? Why can't we require the developers to have on-site security for them to make sure that this doesn't happen? I mean, you know, yesterday my, you know, I talk on the

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climate controls garage on uh Asbury and uh in Memorial and they put in a new alarm system. my code didn't work so it went off and you know thankfully APD shows up two two police officers came so I mean that's the kind of stuff we

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should have here that we have to deal with this is there anything we can do to you know maybe some of these requirements when we approve these projects maybe the planning board wants to put in a provision that you got to have you know at least during the night

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onsite personal security and secure That's just a thought. >> I I believe there is stuff we can do and that's why I know it's a pain in the neck to say keep on calling. But the more it's like with a bar, the more calls we get against a bar, we can put in like, you know, restrictions on their

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license. The more complaints we get about a residence, I'm sure we can do some uh be it even if there's a hole in the fence, the city can go out there and fix the fence and put a lean on the property. So, there are things we can do, but again, I know it's a pain in the neck. the more people that call them in,

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the better off, you know, we are because I know where you live. I know where you live and I I wouldn't want to be going through this. So, and again, the list that uh Bessie gave me, Adam, this is obnoxious. This is obnoxious. And she

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got this from our police and fire department. I mean, and so the first thing I would do tomorrow is if I was you, I'd call the police and fire department and say, "Are there any more like nightmares out there like this?" Because this is obnoxious that 154 calls

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in like a 4mon period. And first time we're hearing about it, first time you're hearing about it. So why how can this happen? And again, we always say quality of life. We're not giving the residents quality of life with conditions like

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this. And I apologize to you, Dan. Apologize to you. And Bessie, I know I'll give her a call when I get home, but that that list is city generated. So why don't you have it? I mean, why why don't we have it? And it

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came from a department. So you got police and fire both. What other problems do we have? and then let's start addressing them, please. Thank you. >> Uh, hi everyone. My name is Bianca Beri. I own Lock and Shade, a salon on Lake

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Avenue. Um, I wanted to carry on with what Mike was speaking about about the parking from a business owner's perspective. Um, I was also at the parking meeting a few weeks ago. I'm going to try and make this very short in

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quick math. Let's not include parking tickets and not include surge peak hour pricing. Very quick math. My business alone brings in $30,000 a year worth of hourly parking from just

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our clients. And almost every business owner in town can say the same thing. I know you got I've known some of you a very long time. It I don't think it needs to be reiterated that the small business owners in this town and the service industry employees in this town

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keep this town going. We dedicate our lives, our entire livelihood is about how can we get people to come here. And it's so you can imagine the frustration when you put that much time and effort in to I've got my flashers on to drop

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off supplies at my business and I come out to a parking ticket. I was here for 5 minutes. Some of these acts are and I understand checking the time and checking the meters. How many times is the app glitching? How many times are the meters

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out? How many times he runs one of the most popular social media campaigns all about Asbury and he didn't even realize that he can email someone to get out of a ticket. For the most part when someone leaves a business, they just spent $100 on brunch. They walk out to their car to a

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$50 ticket cuz they're 2 minutes late. They're not going to spend the time going back and forth with the city council to get the ticket removed. They're just going to never come back here again. I understand it's a very layered issue and it's always conflicting what the customer wants and the business owner

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wants and the city needs. I I understand that. But if you just look at any single post about Asbury Park on any social media site and read the comments, what's happening now is not working fundamentally across the board for anybody.

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To speak solely from a business owner and employee standpoint, I have my employees. Yes, some of them are going through the very arduous process of trying to get an employee parking permit and then they still have to pay $30 to $40 a day to park because they get to

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Lake Avenue, which is where they've been designated to park and all the spots are taken or it's the first street to get closed every 5K, every Santa Run, every block party. Not that I don't want these things. I do. I think they're wonderful. But to tell all the employees they can

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only park on Lake Avenue, one, it's a detriment to all the Lake Avenue businesses who need their to have their customers somewhere to park. And two, when they get there and the spots are taken now, they have to park somewhere else and pay full price. I'm sorry. I

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would like to just finish. >> I'll let you finish your paragraph. >> I I will just today is a perfect example. I came in to work and again for the a multi multiple times this month there's cones out in front of all the parking spots in

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front of my business. Not from the city, not from construction, from construction workers who are reserving their spots while they go to lunch. I have to come out there myself and move the cones. There were several solutions brought up at that parking meeting. I'd be happy to

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reiterate them. I'm hoping they was brought to your attention. I think the most distressing part for me about that meeting was to hear that when they were asked for accountability, where is that money going? Why is that money not being given back to the business to the not just the business

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owners but the community like what are we doing? I was told that that revenue is not about the revenue. We're charging that much money so that people leave the parking spots. How do we square that with all the business owners in town who are breaking

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their back trying to convince people who already can't afford groceries and rent to come spend the money here for the day? >> Bianca, I'm going to have to kill your time. >> I appreciate your comments and we'll look into everything and uh I say I

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think it should be a regulation that there is a grace period. That's something we can do. That's a policy decision. Uh and we'll look into other concerns. So, thank you. Mayor, if I >> can just make a comment. We did double

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the grace period. So when someone says that they went over four minutes and they got a ticket, that's not true. I just don't want to say what the grace period is, but it has been doubled and four minutes, six minutes is not true.

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>> Okay. But I I think some of the points are >> I have I can show it. >> Okay. >> No one's lying. >> Okay. Okay. Look, there going to be no cross conversations, please. So, I'm going to make a motion to close. >> Move to close. Second. >> All in favor?

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>> We're going to look into everything. And some of the complaints are, and I've heard it myself, like, uh, it seems like soon as somebody puts on their flasher and goes in the door, there's a vulture waiting to pre. And again, like, you

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know, we could be a little bit more sympathetic to the business owners who are unloading stuff into their store. >> Yeah. >> All right. We are moving on to the minutes. to have the executive and regular meeting minutes from April 22nd, 2026. Do I have a motion?

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>> Move it. Do >> have a second. >> Second. >> Council Bezerson? >> Yes. >> Council Chapman? >> Yes. >> Deputy Mayor Quinn? >> Yes. >> Mayor Moore? >> Yes. >> We're now on to the consent agenda resolutions. All matters listed on the consent agenda are presented collectively to the city council and

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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 to any particular item, then set item shall be removed from the consent agenda and considered separately. On consent tonight, we have

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2026 192 through 2026 200. Do I have a motion? >> Second. >> Council Berson, yes. >> Council Chapman, yes. >> Deputy Mayor Quinn, >> did we add the flight? >> That's won't be at the end. It'll be individual. >> Yes. >> And Mayor Moore, >> yes.

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>> Moving on to individual resolutions. I have resolution 202621 resolution authorizing payment of bills. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Council Bas. >> Yes. >> Council Chapman. >> Yes. >> Deputy Mayor Quinn. >> Yes. >> Mayor Moore. >> Yes. >> Resolution 2026202. Resolution

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authorizing the city of Asbury Park to accept the donation of 12 ostrich beach chairs from ostrich chairs to be used by city beach attendants. >> Move it. >> Second. Council >> Bazerson. Yes. Council Chapman. >> Yes. >> Deputy Mayor Quinn. >> Yes. >> Mayor Moore. >> Yes. Resolution 2026203,

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resolution authorizing the award of a contract to Kyle and McManus Associates to provide consulting planner services for the city and authorizing the execution of an agreement for professional consulting planning services associated therewith for 2026. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Council member Bezerson, yes.

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>> Council Chapman, yes. >> Deputy Mayor Quinn, >> yes. >> Mayor Moore, >> no. Resolution 2026204, resolution authorizing the award of a contract to Kyle Mcmanus Associates to provide affordable housing planner services for the city and authorizing the execution of an agreement for professional affordable housing planner services

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associated therewith for 2026. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Council Baz Anderson. Yes. Council Chapman. Yes. >> Deputy Mayor Quinn. >> Yes. >> Mayor Moore. >> No. Resolution 2026205, resolution of the city of as of the city council of the city of Asbury Park authorizing the execution of a contract with Garden

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State Fireworks, Inc. for a 2026 Independence Day fireworks exhibition. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Council Anderson. Yes. Council >> Mayor Chapman. Yes. >> Deputy Mayor Quinn. >> Yes. >> Mayor Mort. >> Yes. >> We have a few additions to tonight's agenda. First up, I have resolution 2026

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206. Resolution to amend the 2026 calendar year budget. >> Move it. >> Second. Council member Bezerson. Council Mayor Chapman. Yes. >> Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. >> Mayor Moore. >> Yes. >> Resolution 2026207. Resolution authorizing installation of a 7 foot high sculpture soccer ball by

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Arts 14C, Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit organization at the Train Station Plaza on Main Street from June 1 through September 6, 2026 in celebration of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Council Bas. Yes. >> Council Chapman. Yes. >> Deputy Mayor Quinn.

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>> Yes. >> Mayor Moore. Yes. >> Resolution 2026208, resolution authorizing a renewal of annual shot spotter formally respond subscription services for an additional three-year term through June 29, 2029. >> It second.

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>> Council member Bezerson, yes. Council Chapman, yes. >> Deputy Mayor Quinn, >> yes. >> Mayor Moore, >> yes. Resolution 2026209 resolution authorizing submission of a planning and design grant for PAS pilot testing and feasibility study at the Aspbury Park wastewater treatment plant.

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>> Move. >> Second. >> Council member Bezerson. Council Mayor Chapman. Yes. >> Deputy Mayor Quinn. >> Yes. >> Mayor Moore. >> Yes. >> Moving on to ordinances for public hearing and second reading. I have bond ordinance 20269. bond ordinance providing for roadway improvements to Langford Street appropriating $1.5

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million therefore and authorizing the issuance of 1,10,474,000 in 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. Uh do I have a motion to open the meeting for public

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comment on ordinance 20269? >> Move to open. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> public comment on ordinance 20269 is now open. Any member of the public wish speak please use the microphone state your name and address for the record and your comments may only be about ordinance 20269.

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>> Seeing the motion to close second. >> All in favor. >> Do I have a motion to adopt ordinance 20269? >> Move it. >> Second. >> Council Berson. >> Yes. Council >> Mayor Chapman. Yes. >> Deputy Mayor Quinn. >> Yes. >> Mayor Moore. >> Yes. >> That is all for tonight. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Second.

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>> Oh, sorry. Because did you explain at the beginning that we can't do the budget? >> No, I did not. >> Okay. So, explain now why we can't do the budget. >> Okay. So, uh tonight was supposed to be the budget hearing for the adoption of our budget. Um the state has not yet

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approved it. They asked for some amendments to be made to that budget. So, that was passed with resolution 2026206. that will be provided on the city website tomorrow morning um in full and that will be passed at the following council meeting the uh fourth Wednesday

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in May. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. If that's all, do I have anything else? >> Motion to adjourn. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Thank you everyone. Have a good night. >> Thank you.