Meaning call to order. Council member Bezerson here. Council member Chapman here. Council member Clayton here. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Mayor Moore here. Please stand for a silent prayer. Moment of reflection. You will now salute the flag. I aliance
to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisibley and justice for all as comply with the open public meetings act chapter 231 PL1975. Adequate notice
of this meeting has been provided in the following manner. The annual notice was forwarded to the Asbury Park Press, the coaster and the Star Ledger on January 16th, 2025 and posted on the bulletin board the same date. All notices are on file with the city clerk. You're non special event applications with the recreation director, Alicia Floyd.
Good evening. Good evening, Mayor and Council. There are six applications before you this evening. Three are returning, three are new. The new applications are from uh to Lewis to do an event where a truck will be parked in front of their
establishment selling items. Second one is for Cobra One bike blessing in Swingwood Park. And the third one is for the Levy wedding lunch which will actually be held at McLoon's but they want to use Atlantic Park for a bike
valet. Are there any questions on the applications? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Alicia. We're now on to Mars from City Council. Council member Bezerson, I just wanted to say I hope all that you uh lovely ladies had a
wonderful Mother's Day. Um, and I wanted to thank Councilwoman Ivonne Clayton and also Miss Cassandra Dickerson. Uh, they had the city sponsored a Mother's Day tea. And if you didn't attend, you missed out on something really
fantastic. And Councilwoman Clayton said they were going to have another one. And our deputy mayor was also there. We had such a wonderful time. So, we're looking forward to having tea and and little cakes and and mcruns all next year and I hope to see all of you there. So, thank
you, Councilwoman Clayton. You're very welcome. Thank you, Council Member Chapman. I have nothing. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Clayton. Yes. Um, this Saturday, the 17th is the last day that the Quality of Life and the Department and DPW are
sponsoring dumpsters. It's going to be located on Bond Street between 5th and 6. The hours are 10 to 4. So, here's your opportunity if you're uncluttering. Fifth and sunset. Thank you. You're
welcome. Between sunset and 5th. So, if you're uncluttering, getting rid of stuff, doing spring cleaning, here's your opportunity. Please come out and use it. Thank you. Thank you, Deputy Mayor Quinn. No. Thank you, Mayor Moore. Nothing. Thank you. All right. Moving on. Matters from the acting city
manager. Nothing. Thank you. And matters from our city attorney. Nothing for me. All right. Thank you. We are now in public participation. May I have a motion to open the meeting to the public? Move to open. Second. All in favor? I. 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 threeminut time limit for each speaker. Good evening. My name is Gabriella Cuchinatada. I'm at 2096th Avenue. Um, thank you for giving me this opportunity. Um, so we were made aware
of the infrastructure improvement plan that is going to negatively impact our home and the homes of all the residents that live between 6th and 8th Avenue between Kingsley and Web Street. Our house is a historic house that has existed with very, very few
modifications for more than 130 years. We still have beautiful blue stone sidewalks surrounding our property. While we are trying to digest the plan and we don't quite understand it to tell you the truth because it's really it's it's not explained, but we we looked at
it today. It is clear that widening of the streets to allow angle parking that actually reduces on our side of the street the parking spaces by one will take about 10 feet of our front lawn. This takes it the the sidewalk then almost like up to our front porch. This
plan will put our porch closer to the street, impacting our quality of life, reducing the impermeable surfaces in the area and increasing the flood risk to our property by removing important lawn area and placing our h house closer to the street. All of this will have
negative impact on our our property value of our house. So we want to know why were the residents not informed. We are asking for a public meeting for all the citizens of Aspberry Park to be allowed to weigh in on the plan and to at least have a discussion on how it
should be revised or if it can be revised. We are asking the city not to increase impermeable surfaces by widening sixth, seventh, and eighth avenues and increase the heat island effect that's already just happening by the massive construction in the area.
Um, we are asking the city not to reduce the front lawns of property owners along six, seventh, and 8th Avenue. We want the sidewalk in front of our house to be blue stone. Blues stone has survived 130 years. You can't say that for concrete. And it's it's still beautiful. People
comment on it all the time. We want no changes to our property lines on Web Street. It says that our retaining wall will be rebuilt from the the plan. I'm not quite sure why that is necessary. Um, we do pay $1,000 a year to rent back
the right away in that area. Um, we want that not to be touched. So many residents in the area and visitors that come walk by our property comment on just how much they enjoy seeing the flowers and how beautiful the property is. The changes will actually negatively
impact that. It will impact our gardens. Um, it just impacts the look of our house. So these we just think that overall just not at our property but for all of the other properties in the area it's going to have a negative impact and
we just would ask that that you consider at least having a public meeting when there are property that construction in place you have to notify the owners and I'm just shocked that there was no formal presentation or notification sent out. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. And
uh what you just said just came to our attention I'm going to say 15 minutes ago. So not prepared to give you an answer now. We will look into it if need be. There will be a meeting because I'm not sure if you're talking about the city right away. Your property right. It
is it is the city right away. Oh, it is the city right away. But but it goes 10 ft into my property. Okay. So that could be part of the problem. But let's let us look into it and we'll get back to you. Okay. Can I just ask a question? When you say the plan, are you referring the 2002 waterfront redevelopment plan? No,
I'm talking about the in infrastructure improvement plan that's dated. Frank, it's August 2024. August 2024. It's it's how many pages, Ben? 34 page 35 35 pages. It's titled infrastructure improvement plan
waterfront redevelopment block 42014306 infrastructure including blah blah blah. It's dated August 24. Yeah. Can you send one of us that plan? Gabrielle has already. So So we we It's We can't send it by email because Mary
got it from Where did Mary get it from? I got it from James. James has it. The construction development plan. It's not the revel plan. It's a different plan. Is this the infrastructure that's in the revel plan? But this is the engineering documents. It's probably the
infrastructure repairs, infrastructure upgrades. This is bumpouts and everything else that are not that are that come from originally the 2002 plan. Yes. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thanks. Thank
you. Thank you. I'm lost. Me too. Thank you. Good evening. Mary Valino, 1700 Web Street. First of all, I want to thank you all for what you do as always and the response. Eileen, thank you. Last
week, got back with me on an item. Um, picking up where we left off here with Gabrielle. This waterfront plan again dated last year, August of 24. It did make a notification and it listed all the people within 200 feet of
this program, but there was never any notification. And on January 27th, a no use sign went up and we are now living 4 months with web to Kingsley being unusable and unparkable. Question one,
will it be done by summertime Memorial Day is right around the corner. So question there. The plan also shows to the point taking land including 1700 Web Street. We currently have about 50 by 30 of lawn. And my understanding from
reading the plans that we're going to lose 25 ft from the current curb line coming up into our property line. It's going to leave us about 10 ft off our building. Not really not what we're looking for here. It also calls for 6
1/2 to 7 1/2 ft sidewalks. We are not Manhattan where we have 100,000 people walking our sidewalk. So again, a consideration. It also calls for a 16- foot island to be put on 8th Avenue. There are 25 foot curb cuts for the
delta in the views. These are projects that are on the board pretty much being approved at this point. They did not allow for green space. So that island ultimately is going to be nothing more than a dog relief island. To be very frank, there's no more grass left up
there. There's also calls for a drain pipe to come down Web Street. Uh I think today we looked at I don't know another 12 14 uh sewers which are necessary. Will we be rebuilding the platform on Web Street since we're running a big old
pipe into it? Again, your consideration there. So, we're losing green space. Cars will be parked basically at our front doors at this point. So, please consider reading that plan and maybe we can hear more about the impact. So,
thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Do you want to add anything, James? I would just say that uh the improvements that are planned were planned as part of the infrastructure for portion of the master plan, the plan. The plans that they're referring
to are the engineering drawings of those improvements that are now taking place. That's why the dates are different. But these are what was deciding the plan back in I think 2002. Okay. And this works ongoing now. Yes.
There this is the work currently going on on Kingsley 78 and a little bit of web but yes. Yes. And was it going to be was it going to be done before the I don't know. This is Starfield doing the work. I'm not sure
what their schedule looks like. Well, I'm not big on building anything in the waterfront during the summertime to begin with. So, we'll look into that. Let us get some more information and we'll get back to you. And if need be, we we can have two council people, the
engineer people from Starfield to meet here. It's a good day and time with you guys, but give us a couple days to figure it out. Thank you. I'm Frank Cooinado, 2096th Avenue. I want to follow up with what my wife uh
had talked about as the there was just a little bit of rain today and with the infrastructure uh improvements that's going on. We had for the little bit of rain the the streets were flooded. We even had to tell our neighbors up or our residents upstairs to move their car because the water was coming up to the
bottom of their door and it was going to flood their car and there was no notice that hey, you know, you might be impacted. Move your car. It's like nothing, you know. So, uh, and that was just a little bit of rain. But we've always had a problem with drainage in
that area. And with less land to to absorb it, we're going to even have we're going to have even more problems. So, I I I think there's a problem there. Um, the other thing is we're with the sidewalk and the everything moving
closer to our house, we're going to have we're potentially going to have some water flooding in our basement. We currently don't have flooding in our basement, but when you bring everything in toward our house, we're concerned that we're going to have some flooding in the basement, and that's not what we have now, and we'd like to stay that
way. Totally agree with you. And uh but the only thing I disagree with is saying that we had a little bit of rain today because where I live on 4th Avenue poured all day. And again, I'm not making light of the situation like the
past 3 years, it's been fall, winter, rain, and summer. We no longer have a spring. We have rain this whole like two months. So, it has been a killer. Uh I'm sure anything that's been planned has been planned. So, there is good drainage. again let us get together
figure out city right away whose property and exactly what's being done and we will have some type of meeting you know just bear with us a couple days till we can get everybody all the players together which means getting Starfield together getting our engineer
is Jay Harzold yes running this for us yes okay we can talk to him and we can start the process but uh it's not going to be within 24 hours. Okay. Uh Ben Hall, 307 6th Avenue. Just wanted to follow up on Frank's thing about the
drainage. I think it was Monday I came home and again it's been raining a lot, but uh I noticed the same thing. There was just a lot of water in the street around our houses. I'm half a block from him. Um, so I drove around the neighborhood and just up web street to seventh and web and eighth and web and all of the storm drains were clear and
there was no water in the street and it was just around that intersection of sixth and web. So I called public works and they said somebody would go look at it but more immediate because it has been raining a lot and I know that all of these other questions aren't going to be solved, you know, anytime in the next couple days, but just if someone could look into the drainage there because it
has been raining a lot. It is going to rain a lot and the storm drains aren't working now at that intersection. My basement flooded two years ago and that crazy rainstorm cost me a bunch of money. Everybody else has things to lose if things flood and the drains as they are right now are not working. So, I know they'll be improved, but if
somebody could look at that that ASAP, I think we'd all appreciate it. Okay, John, can we have DPW check that every day? Yep. And maybe it's because again, uh on the 3076th Avenue, but it's it's the storm drains at the intersection of uh 6th and Web. Got it. Um, they have
like those metal, they've been welded plates over the, you know, to stop stuff from getting in there. So, I don't know if that has something to do with it, but it was just obvious. I came home, I was like, I know it was raining a lot, but it's not raining now. There's a lot of water here. And then I drove around the neighborhood and all the other storm grains were clear. There was no other water against the curbs. And just around
that intersection, it was like this. And I'm like, if that's what's happening with a little bit of rain, if the rain comes down again, my basement's going to flood again. Something tells me the new storm drains haven't been hooked up yet. Yeah. some right. So, so it's just going to sit there or else go there. So, yeah.
So, if we have DPW check it every day with this rain. Yeah, cuz I drove all the other adjacent intersections everything was clear. There's no water in the gutters. The storm grains were working and just at six and web they were all full and not draining. So, I don't know what's going on. Jason said
they were covered because they because of the soil work. They didn't want soil to get into the storm drain. So they covered it with like cloth fabric to keep keep it and that caused the flow to really decrease and I think it's
notification so that there's an increased blood risk it would be good to which is there has to be a solution that balances us not flooding and not getting very good and to cover them with a black core cloth is standard operating procedure but not when it's starting to back up then you take it off and they
let it go down just to get the water out. Yes. So yes. Okay, that will be done. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Gloria Peretti, 3056th Avenue. To follow up on what Ben said, numerous times over
the years, I have taken my own rake and cleaned out leaves and garbage and cans in order to keep the flow of the the storm drain um open. So, if the city
could have some of their uh DPW workers whenever there's rain coming to just go to the corner of sixth and web and also the the the western part of six and web and then there's another drain also almost in front of Frank and Gabriella's
house that where the water accumulates as well. And when it rains really heavy constant as it is now in front of my house is like a river. I'm right next to Ben and it's like a river. In reference to the architect or the architect plans
for the um new infrastructure of the new sidewalks they're putting in. I was on Kingsley. Yeah, I was on Kingsley made a make a right on six. There's a new bumpout out there and it sticks out a
lot. I don't know who came up with that idea to make that concrete bump out so out into the roadway, but I I'm sorry, but that's it's it should have been left as it was so people can make a proper
right turn onto 6th Avenue cuz as it is now, you you you can barely see the curb. So, you got to go like way out to make a ride on sixth. So anyway, um the concret the new concrete side uh sidewalk, no not sidewalk, curb has
already been um installed. So maybe it's a mute point, but um I guess it's maybe they can study it going further. Um I hope a traffic study was done on that because uh it just doesn't seem normal. It
doesn't seem like a natural way of driving. Um that's it. In the August 24 plan that you brought to our attention, bumpouts were approved for that end of town. Originally, the council was against bumpouts. Bumpouts have been
proven to save people's lives because it's a less part of the street they have to cross. So, we've added bumpouts to that area. You're correct. Now, how far they're sticking out, I'll take a ride down there tomorrow, but I'm sure they got to meet every type of standard by,
you know, DOT and everything. Okay. But thank you. And you might be interested to know that the green team also started an adopt a drain program. So if there's a storm drain in your neighborhood that you'd like to help maintain, you can fill it out on the city's website and
help um make sure that those storm drains are clear so that debris doesn't go into the lakes. Pay your taxes and do our work. Also, we get a rebate. No, but you'll have clean streets. I agree. Thank you.
Anybody else like to be heard? Motion to close. Second. All in favor? All right. We're now on to the minutes. I have the executive meeting and regular meeting minutes for the April 23rd, 2025 meeting. Do I have a motion? Move it.
Second. Council Bezerson? Yes. Council Mayor Chapman? Yes. Council Clayton? Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn? Yes. Mayor Moore? Yes. We are now on to the consent agenda resolutions. All matters listed on the consent agenda are presented collectively to the city council and 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 214 through
2025 219. Do I have a motion? Move it. Second. Council Preserson. Yes. Council Chapman. Yes. Council Mayor Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. Moving on to individual resolutions. I have resolution 2025220. Resolution approving payment of bills.
Move it. Second. Council Benderson. Yes. Council Chapman. Yes. Council Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. No. Resolution 2025221. Resolution authorizing the purchase of janitorial supplies for the beach department. Move it. Second. Council Baz Anderson. Yes. Council Chapman. Yes.
Council Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. Resolution 2025222, resolution identifying of menu items as per the subsequent developer agreement between the city of Asbury Park, Madison Asbury Retail LLC, and Asbury Partners. Move it. Second.
Council Bas, yes. Council Chapman, yes. Council Member Clayton, yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn, no. Mayor Moore, yes. Resolution 2025223, resolution authorizing emergency heat repairs needed at the senior center. Move it. Second. Council Bas. Yes. Council Mayor Chapman. Yes.
Council Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. Resolution 2025224. Resolution authorizing payment for emergency bypass rental needed at the lake. Move it. Second. Council Bezerson. Yes. Council Chapman. Yes. Council Clayton.
Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. Resolution 2025225. Resolution authorizing payment for emergency sewer repairs needed. Oh, apologies. I No. Yes. Emergency repairs were needed at Deal Lake. Move it. Second. Council member Baz Anderson.
Yes. Council Chapman. Yes. Council Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. Resolution 2025226. Resol resolution authorizing the emergency influent pump repairs needed at the wastewater treatment plant. Move it. Second. Council Anderson. Yes. Council Mayor Chapman.
Yes. Council Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. Resolution 2 2025 227. Resolution authorizing payment for emergency influent pump repairs needed at the wastewater treatment plant. Move it. Second. Council member Bezerson. Yes. Council Mayor Chapman. Yes. Council Clayton.
Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. Resolution 225228. Resolution authorizing the purchase of a new fire department vehicle and related equipment needed. Move it. Second. Council member Baz Anderson. Yes. Council Chapman. Yes.
Council member Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. No. Mayor Moore. Yes. Resolution 2025229, resolution authorizing the annual renewal of Veritone Redact application software for the police department. Move it. Second. Council Baz Anderson. Yes. Council Chapman. Yes. Council Clayton. Yes.
Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. Resolution 2025 230 resolution authorizing the annual renewal of the manager prosperity ehr software for social services. Move it. Second. Council BZ Anderson. Yes. Council Chapman. Yes. Council Clayton. Yes.
Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. Resolution 2025231. Resolution amending the contract with Short Point Architecture for services at the new fire department headquarters. Move it. Do I have a second? Council member Bezerson? Yes. Council Chapman?
No. Council Clayton? Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn? No. Mayor Moore? No. Resolution 2025232, resolution awarding a of a contract to Millennium Communications Group for security upgrades at the wastewater treatment plant. Move it. Second. Council member
Bezerson, yes. Council Chapman, yes. Council Clayton, yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn, yes. Mayor Moore, yes. Resolution 2025 233, resolution authorizing TNM Associates, the oversight, grant management, and general coordination services of the Madison Asbury Retail LLC Paramount Theater Restoration
Project. Move it. Second. Council Bezerson, yes. Council Chapman, yes. Council Clayton, yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn, yes. Mayor Moore, yes. Resolution 2025234, resolution authorizing construction phase inspection services to TNM Associates for the Transportation Alternatives Program Main Streetscape
improvements project. Move it. Second. Council Bas. Yes. Council Chapman. Yes. Council Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. Resolution 2025235. Resolution authorizing construction phase inspection services to TNM Associates for the safe routes to
transit intersection upgrades and traffic signal installation at Cookman Avenue and Bond Street. Move it. Second. Council Bazerson. Yes. Council Mayor Chapman. Yes. Council member Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quint. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. Resolution 2025236. Resolution authorizing a substantial
amendment to the city's community development block grant annual action plans for fiscal years 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024 for HUD activities administrated by the city of Asbury Parks Department of Community Development Block Grant Program. Move
it. Second. Council Bazer, yes. Council Chapman, yes. Council Clayton, yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn, yes. Mayor Moore, yes. Resolution 2025237, resolution of the mayor and council of the city of Asbury Park acting as a waterfront redevelopment entity granting a two-year extension in
accordance with resolution 20226 as amended by resolution 2023 235 and resolution 2024 1999 with regard to the operation of the Northeast Food Truck Court within the Green Acres parcel located upon the property designated as block 45502 lot 1.25 on
the tax maps of the city of Asbury Park. Move it. Do I have a second? Second. Council Bezerson. Yes. Council Mayor Chapman. Yes. Council Mayor Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. I have an addition to the agenda. I have resolution 2025 238. Resolution authorizing appointment to
the housing authority. The appointee is Sheila Brazil for an unexpired term to expire on April 30th, 2028. Second. Council member Bezerson. Yes. Council Chapman. Yes. Council Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. We are now on to ordinances
for introduction. I have ordinance 202510 2025 cap rate ordinance with a public hearing date of May 28th, 2025. Move it. Second. Council Bas, yes. Council Chapman, yes. Council Clayton, yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn, yes. Mayor
Moore, yes. Resolution 202511, or capital ordinance providing for the Cookman Avenue and Bond Street intersection improvements and appropriating for $640,000. Therefore, authorized and by the city of Asbury Park in the county of Mammoth, New Jersey with a public hearing date of May 20th, 2025. Move it. Second. Council
Bazar. Yes. Council Chapman. Yes. Council Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. Ordinance 202512, bond ordinance providing for various sewer system repairs appropriating $5 million therefore and authorizing the in issuance of $5 million 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 May 28th, 2025. Move it. Second. Council Baz Anderson. Council Chapman. Yes. Council Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor
Moore. Yes. Ordinance 202513, Ordinance of the City of Asbury Park, amending and supple chapter 2 entitled administration and establishing the position of director of police and prescribing the duties of said position with a public hearing date of May 28th, 2025. Move it. Second. Council Mayor Bezerson. Council
Mayor Chapman. Yes. Council Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn. Yes. Mayor Moore. Yes. All right. Moving on to second reading and public hearing. We're chapter five, right? Uh administrations chapter two. Okay. Yours says five. Mine says five.
Five is beach. Mine says two. Okay. Well, yeah. Whatever. Yeah. Five. Five is beach regulations. Two is administration. Tell me what I have. Yeah. All right. So, on second reading, we have ordinance 20259, ordinance of the
city of Asbury Park, amending and supplementing chapter 5 entitled beach boardwalk and beach regulations to prohibit motorized vehicles on the boardwalk. I'm going to turn over to our attorney, Kevin Starky, for a brief overview. Yes, I I um this ordinance if adopted would prohibit um motorized
vehicles uh on the boardwalk would include motorcycles, mopeds and the like. Um there is one change from the first the version on first ordinance first reading. Uh there's an addition. It's for clarification and I'm going to read it for the record. It says it's an
exemption. Also exempt are any motorized vehicles used for trash or recycling pickup or as authorized by law enforcement. um that can be included. That is a non-material change. So you can proceed with second reading tonight. Thank you. Do I have a motion to open the meeting for public comment on
ordinance 20259? Move to open. Second. Public comment ordinance 2029 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 2025-9. Seeing nobody. Motion to close. Second.
All in favor? I I All right. Do I have a motion to adopt ordinance 2025-9? Move to adopt. Second. Council Bazar. Yes. Council Member Chapman. Yes. Council Member Clayton. Yes. Deputy Mayor Quinn? Yes. Mayor Moore? Yes. That is all for tonight. Do I have a motion to adjourn the meeting? Move to adjourn. Second.
All in favor? I. Thank you everyone. Have a good night. Thank you. Okay.