meeting call to order council member Bez Anderson here council member Chapman here council member Clayton here Deputy Mayor Quinn here mayor Mo here please stand for a silent prayer moment reflection we'll now salute the flag I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the for it stands na indivisible as comply with the open public meetings act chapter 231 PL 1975 adequate notes 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 post on the bulletin board the same day all noes are on file with the city clerk we are now on to special event applications from Recreation director leysa Floyd good evening Mary Council we have
eight returning applications before you this evening are there any questions on any of them NOP Noone no okay good evening thank you thanks Lea thank you Lea all right I'm now going to turn over for Asbury Park
Fishing Club wait a second Jo joa did you have a presentation the connection talk about look it's up up we're do that during the agenda or you want to do that
now we're at the beginning of the agenda okay say what you said we're now on to as Ray Park fishing club's yearly donation so everybody knows part fishing club is fishing club in United States has
been the president since basically back to 1902 almost uh every year they have a fantastic flea market whatever you want to call it it's one of the best shows in the state about the East Coast you see
the convention hall berky car been nice enough to facilitate the past four years and he takes in the gate and the he gives out money so there's people here tonight uh who from Boys and Girls Club can come up little
and come fulfill somebody hear from fulfill well we reached out they don't get a check next year brother brother Big Brothers Big Sisters they will get a check
joh we'll take whatever squeeze in a little bit like you like each other community family am yeah I'm gonna read a quick letter a lot of hearty Souls Brave the Arctic winds on March 2nd to attend the Asbury Park fishing club's 32nd annual
fishing show the continued support we' received from steart of the Berkeley uh hotel and efforts of his director of sales Cory low and director of engineering Steve highy are crucial to the success of our fun raiser as our nation's oldest saltwater fishing club we appreciate the recognition from you
and your Council and endorsing our organization's mission to showcase the city of Asbury Park and its significance as a recreational fishing destination as in the practice of our membership proceeds from the fishing show are donated to many local nonprofits last December we contributed to community
Karma ASB Park Holiday Joy Drive and today it is with great pride that we represent the following checks to organizations that directly benefit the citizens our great City I'll just R all of them and then 2,000 to the Esra Park Little League 500 to the E Park Boys and
Girls Club 500 to the big brothers and big sisters 500 to fill 300 to Deb's Asbury board wal rescue and the others checks that we that the uh organization is donating is to the American loral society clean ocean action Shark River
trout tournament for children which sounds cool Long Branch PBA trout tournament so nobody get to keep that one Debbie wasn't feeling good so she
couldn't make it big brother did yep per and what Joey asked is like number one like you to say thank you but he said if you all take like a minute and maybe like tell everybody what you
do and how you raise money so maybe more people can donate to your CL so he thought that would be better than just saying thank you Joe we'll see you next year so take a minute each and just tell everybody what you do and I like you donate
money sir on behalf of the first of all on behalf of the as party Lo League we' like to thank Mr Jo we contines to keep him in our prayers throughout the year in this family we as part of leag we
raise money by doing a lot of things on the b w collect them with the cans and ask them for donations so we done quite a bit of work building up the as league and want to thank everyone that donates to our
leag and it's just a heartwarming feeling knowing that we guys still care of us and it say it's going after the TV Land if you have a website or something they can donate to mention that now also as league.org
Dr your of course um thank you uh to the a partici club and Mr Joe as well I'm from Bo M County um we provide you development services to about 300 kids just here in Asbury Park on day-to-day
basis and about 1,800 kids annually um you know services like Workforce Development stem programming tutoring Educational Services um a lot of our funds come through either Grant Services Federal funding um and then our CEO does a wonderful job of of fundraising and finding private donors um to help
support our work um if anybody is interested our website is www.bcm.edu we'll talk more about our work thank you again thank you thank you that's thank you very much for this I'm I'm on behalf of Big Brothers Big
Sisters of coastal Northern New Jersey we are a mentorship organization so we focus on providing treating and supporting on to one muring relationships that really um help or focus on Youth Empowerment um and if you want to find out more about us you can
go to www.men nj.org we do a lot of annual events that help raing we also umly the community to support us and we also always need volunteers so if anybody would likes to be a mentor can find out about that I say to and besides
sufficient BL the council thanks you all for the great work you do throughout the city all year all so thank you all oh I know I noticed that we are now on to Matters from Council Council mayor Bez
Anderson uh yes good evening uh I have a an announcement for from the um sen from the office of Senator Vin goel Assembly women U Margie donalan and also Lou and Peter Paul every Thursday the last Thursday of each month from now until
uh December they will have their mobile office at the senior center which is on Springwood and um if you haven't heard there is a new application for senior freeze anchor
and stay in New Jersey it's one application and you have until October 31st to complete it now if you have not received one if you would like to pick one up you may go to the mobile office office which is the 27th the last
Thursday of this month between the hours of 9:30 and 1:00 and pick up the application they will also assist you in completing that application and I also have gotten permission from our mayor and council members that we will be
offering as we did last year workshops and they will be here at the councilman's chambers and we'll be offering workshops to help you with that application so thank you thank you uh council member chap I have nothing at this time thank you thank you
council member Clayton I have nothing at this time thank you thank you uh Deputy Mayor Quinn thank you mayor Moore just another thank you to Joey and Casey pado thank you thank you and Matters from our City attorney uh the only matter I have on tonight is
the next item the public hearing on the SE connection so I may yep um at this point in the agenda we're going to have a public hearing uh which is required by State Statute and the city code regard regarding proposed increases to the
Sewer connection fees uh that are those are charged by the city for each new connection uh to the property to a property to the sewage system uh sitting with me tonight is the city's auditor David Ganon um Mr Ganon I
ask you some uh for some brief testimony before we then open this uh meeting to the public for a public hearing uh will you please raise your right hand so I can swear you in uh do you swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God I do uh Mr Ganon please state your name for the
record and spell your last name uh David Ganon g n n o uh Mr Ganon what is your professional title I'm must public accountant uh and do you hold any licenses or certifications from the state of New Jersey yes some licens as a Ser by public account by Jersey okay and
who is your employer I'm a partner in The Firm PE Conor Davis uh and have you've been retained by the city to perform auditing Services yes okay and as part of your responsibilities for the city uh does your firm perform a recomputing of the connection fees to be charged to new users of the city sewage
system when requested by the city yes we do and has your firm performed such a recomputation recently yes we have all right before we get into the actual computation your firm has done um can you kind of explain for benefit of the public what the purpose of a sewage
connection fee is so over the years in the history of the city's sewer system uh Capital expanses have been made to build and maintain the sewer system the cost of which has been borne by prior residents and rate payers of the city uh the purpose of the connection
fee is to put the new user the sewer system on a equal footing or even playing field with prior users as far as the historic costs all right now um asking for a moment about the connection fee amounts uh are there different connection fee amounts
depending on the type of property that is involved yes the L requires that connection charges be uniform within each class of users and the amount thereof shall not exceed the actual cost of the physical connection plus the amount representing a fair payment uh
towards the cost of the system okay and and in the in the city of Asbury Park how many different classes properties are there there are three different property classes class one constitutes the residential property uh class two represents the hotel or motel um
property in class three constitutes non-residential General okay and what what was the amount of the prior sewer connection fees charged by the city for these classes class one residential was $ 7,163 per unit Class 2 hotel or motel
was previously 3, 58150 per guest room in class three non-resident General was previously $35 per gallon per day and 7,163 for a minimum connection fee per unit okay and uh you said you did a
recomputation or your firm did a recomputation recently can you describe um describe that for the public sure updates were made to uh include Capital costs that were incurred during the most recent measurement period as well as reviewing utility records and water us
records to compute uh the number of service units uh and that results in the computation of the new connection F okay and uh based on that that recomputation um can you explain to the public what the proposed new connection fee rates are that your firm is
recommending for each class of users in the city we're recommending the new sewer connection fee for class one residential uh go from 7,163 to 7,171 uh we're recommending the class two uh hotel motel uh fee be increased
from 35815 per guest room to 3,585 50 per guest room and finally recommending a connection request three non res General uh from $35 to $352 244 cents per gallon or a minimum connection fee of
7,163 to 7,171 okay Mr Ganon do you believe that these proposed new connection feem Ms you just described um are uniform within each class of users yes and you believe that the proposed sewer connection fee increases otherwise comply with all
statutory requirements yes and final question as the city's auditor it is your recommend is it your recommendation that the city adopt these new connection fee amounts and apply them to all new customers who connect to the city sewage system yes um mayor and councel those
are the only questions I have for Mr Ganon I leave it first to you if there any further questions no so we can open it to the public right yes sir make a motion to open it to the public have a second second all in favor I I all right public
hearing for proposed sewer connection fee increases now open to the public any member of the public who wishes to speak please use the microphone state your name and address for the record your comments may only be about the proposed sewer connection fee increases seeing none motion to close
second all in favor I I all right thank you thank you ni job good night good night thank thank you we are now on to public participation may I have a motion to open the meeting to the public move to open second all in favor the 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 a record and there will be a 3-minute time limit for each speaker microphone in the back oh I'm sorry okay thank you I do have a handout for the the council I pass that up
I'll my than at the end do you want one council members and attendees my name is Edward Quigley I go by Ed uh in 2015 I had the shaft of a windblown beach umbrella penetrate my left eye and breach the brain
cavity I was airlifted to a hospital I died on the operating table but they brought me back so I feel like I have a mission in life to inform people of the dangers of windblown beach umbrellas and also I've
participated in the development of a safety standard with Asm the American uh Society for testing and materials and uh it has been adopted by the consumer product safety commission and is specifically directly referenced
in their new guidance uh I provided the council with uh more detail in the form of a a write up but uh in the past the consumer product safety commission had something that looked like this and it
told you to stick the shaft of the umbrella into the sand rock it back and forth and tilt it into the wind we had a team of Engineers from the consumer product safety commission do two years of testing on beaches and in Wind
tunnels and their determination was that no umbrella is safe without an adequate anchor device the screw type devices are not effective we're talking about something that provides 75 lbs of resistance for a standard beach umbrella
7 and 1/2t diameter on the canopy uh the new guidance from the consumer product safety commission looks like this and it does directly reference the safety standard uh what I am uh I have one more
piece that I might have given to the council excuse me um what I'm asking is that the Council consider putting signs at the entrance to the beaches
that make the public aware of this danger and there is in the handout that you've been provided an example of um such a sign that looks something like this it
uses the uh warning label that is prescribed by the safety standard for newly manufactured umbrellas and the warning label is a little bit graphic just like the the lawnmowers warning label that shows Cut fingers uh this shows a little bit of blood because
people have died and every year there are thousands of injuries so I you know bring it to the council for your knowledge and for whatever activity that you can do to make the public aware of the danger signs are a good start and
maybe there are other methods as well thank you thank you thank you very much I'm sure we'll be putting up the signs than thank you and you have my contact information you need anything forther thank you and uh sir yes extras
yes cost money thank you you're welcome good job thank you a little overwhelmed after hearing him talk Ed that was he was I never realized they were that dangerous anyway my name is Jacob Cohen wanted to talk for a moment about the
Holy Spirit Church that were're trying to convert or save on uh um Second Avenue I don't like the I I love the church you I grew up in Asbury we used to see the the people there Sunday
morning but you know in the 60s uh one family had a big sedan not everybody had cars now everybody has a car and that area there's so many properties that don't have driveways and and have multiple
dwellings and there's no place to park there now what they're trying to put in that church I don't know how it got this far to me I would have said save the building turn it into like artist lofts Big Art some renowned artists and give them a a studio where they could live
they got what 10,000 square ft of office Bas they're saying they're only going to use it during the week no nobody can assure it's going to be used during the week in a cafe we don't know what the hours are going to be and how it's going to impact I really think and then the
Galleria it's in a residential area this belongs on Main Street I love the church it should be saved but not with what you want if it comes down to it you're saving the church for quality of life issues for the people who already reside
there and and and there's got to be another way either that if you can't do it so you don't sacrifice the church for the profits of the developer and for people that love the building I love the building too but at what cost if you
approve this I feel bad for all the people that live in this area and I also would feel bad for all of you because I think you're going to have real serious regrets down the road when people ask you how did this get approved how how did you do this because there's no place
to park now and they did that traffic ass assestment that study I think it was in November I mean how do you do a traffic study in this area the week where people are traveling going to Thanksgiving and it's off season it's so deficient you really need to look at
this you should have your own people hire this and if if you want just knock the church down and build a few houses but I like the idea turning the church into beautiful art apartments for guys who create art with sculptors or artists
or Jewelers or glass blowers make it something artistic but make it a residence so you're you're not trying to put so much 10,000 square feet of office based I called the engineer they said well we only figured a couple of spaces because most offices are only open 9 to5
Monday through Friday I said how are you going to know that somebody with a a phone company or or somebody who is open 24 hours a day I think you're selling the people of Asbury down the river in this area where you've done such great
things and you're such great group and I bless you all and I want to wish you all everyone here a really blessed healthy happy Easter at or Passover peace be with you all thank you very much good evening uh this isn't
reference my name is Bob Stevens 704 Second Avenue uh this is in reference to what Mr Cohen uh has previously brought up to the council's attention and I just want to bring my uh my personal comments as well
uh I won't uh add to what Mr Cohen has already stated uh as far as the uh the structure that would be approved to be placed there uh first with the church building
itself um I'm I'm a preservationist but if it wasn't placed on an historic uh registry I mean it's a building the people that go there that's the church the church the word church
doesn't mean the building it means the people uh that's biblical term uh and right now there are no Services there so it's a building how could it be best used certainly not a cafe as Mr Cohen stated uh you know we live right there
we've already got problems with that corner uh dance club and how that got approved I have no idea it used to be a bar now it's a dance club till 2:30 in the morning uh called the coronita and they have a restaurant there which used to be pipos that uh that does operate on
weekends but you've already got that traffic flow already the residents at live there as Mr Cohen stated that there are many without driveways if you go out there any any day there are people coming back home right now that can't park you've got
alternate side parking so that takes up half two days a week you know I I mean this just it it adds up and that's just the the F the first part is the parking issue and with how many units they're going to build
and then with the building itself a six-story n 98 now it's down to 883 a six-story building right there is that because it's connected to Main Street you this is a gigantic project and already as we all know parking is the
issue but there are a lot of other issues you've got uh these additional uh venues for you know coffee shop and all these that's business this is an R1 District this is not business now you're
opening up that door for R1 I the business district to keep on going block by block by block I don't know if anybody else on Council experiences that but this is what we experience and this is this is March we deal with this in
the wintertime you can imagine in the summertime we see people parking and walking to the beach on Maine and and 700 block you know it's it's without saying that this is going to be a big problem and once it's done it's done you're not
going to take a six-story building down uh I'm I'm finished thank you thank you thank you hello thank you for your time my name is Mike Neil I'm from 700 Asbury AV um I'm up here for the same reason as
this church this is a lot of nonsense in my opinion uh the biggest problem is the fact that you're giving these developers a tax credit towards to take away from the children of Asbury Park it's absolutely insane to have a 30-year tax break for these developers who were
coming in to just build and make money off of our backs what are the children going to do when they need to go to school my kids thankfully are out of school now and I'm not as worried but it's just not fair to anybody bigger problem is taxes why are they getting a break when none of us are I bought a
house I fixed it up built in 1906 I'm trying to bring Asbury back to what Asbury was my taxes doubled I don't know why anybody else who's trying to build a condo to make a fortune should get some sort of credit for whoever is going to move into that building it's absolutely
insane if that's the case my two family house is actually a two- family condo and who up there is going to give me a tax rebate starting today because it's insane that people could just come into this town you're giving them The Leverage to oh we want to build up business to help better up the community
how are you bettering the community by causing traffic causing areas where nobody can park having people pay more taxes having the people who are moving into these condos get a break for no particular reason except they're coming in to buy something it's just unacceptable I mean I I just don't get
how the town feels and and you've done it up by the beach you did it all of these other big condos that are coming in you're giving all of these developers tax credits that is stealing from everybody else who lives in this community it's unacceptable it just can't happen
there's no way that you can build in another 80 units on a block that can handle I don't know four homes it it it's insane I mean what else is going on here's my other problem with the town my taxes just went up I made three calls
today to the police because I'm tired of the junkies that are on the corner of Asbury and and bond or on the corner of swell and bond doing their drugs we know the house they're buying them from on so it's two houses in everybody knows it the police know it but they don't go in and break it up so then these junkies go
and sit there I make a phone call they move two blocks down now they're in front of your house over on second half sitting in front of the church that you're supposedly going to fix up but where is the money coming from why do we the taxpayers of Asbury Park who are
trying to better this community have to pay the bill for somebody else to get rich on our money the other credit is also because you're saying affordable housing make these condos give them 20 to 30% of affordable housing you're already over your credit limit for that
there you have enough affordable housing in all of adbury Park so this is kind of a Croc to say oh we need this for for the poor people you don't care about the poor people you want money in your pockets thank you very much for your time hi Dina Cohen of kuanana Club of Asbury
Park I'm not here to complain or ask anything we were supposed to get a proclamation tonight and I was just inquiring if we're still getting that because I didn't want to approach the bench or anything because I have most of my members here from the club sorry if
this was inappropriate or not allowed anthy from they were we were told we were going to be first on the agenda and some people have to leave sorry that's my apologies is it is it ready it's no we don't have it here tonight I
apologize do I apologize that's okay when do you need it April 4th okay you'll have it tomorrow we can okay and we'll we'll read it okay to get the signatures you'll have it and at the next meeting we'll
read it into the minutes okay thank you very much sorry I apologize John a man of the Court thank you sorry everybody ier my minutes somebody El well now you can go home and thank you for all you do
take one for each greetings everyone um my name is Rachel Don Davis and I'm a resident of Manalapan Township to Apollo Road if you need it I'm also the public policy and Justice organizer for water spirit and uh yeah thank you good good evening
everyone thank you esteemed members of the city council um confused as a mom County resident as well I propose an ordinance aimed at reducing waste and promoting sustainability within our community we've all seen these things we
may have them we may get them we not we may not want them at all um and that's what this first ordinance I'm proposing would do would actually skip the stuff the skip the stuff ordinance would encourage businesses to offer Alternatives such as reusable bags uh or
compostable materials and incentivize consumers to bring their own reusable items there is a state Bill working on this but in place of that passing and sort of as that goes through we've always been able to look to asbery as a leader um and as a Trailblazer so we are asking you to pass
an ordinance to actually put this in practice in your community um as we continue to face the global climate crisis this proportionately it's imperative that we take local actionable steps to prevent environmental prot to promote Environmental Protection and care for our common home um by passing that ordinance asber Park would not only
be taking a significant step towards sustainability but also leading the way for other to do the same and second because I only have two minutes um I'm also proposing a resolution in support of a new jersey green Amendment which is scr 43 ACR 1119 the New Jersey green
Amendment seeks to recognize and enshrine the right of all residents to a healthy environment within our state constitution specifically it guarantees the right to clean air clean water a stable climate and healthy environment for all and future generations and by
passing this resolution the city of asur would join the growing movement to secure environmental justice ensuring every person regardless of their socio economic status or geographic location has the right to live in an environment that does not harm their health or well-being this resolution would not
only reflect the values of this community um but also would send a powerful message to the state legislature which we need this campaign is growing and it's multifaceted it's intergenerational and extremely diverse I would it would highlight Asbury Parks again leadership and advocating for
policies that prioritize public health and the preservation of our natural resources which are the foundation for both any sort of viable economy as well as the quality of life so the green Amendment really is a vital step toward ensuring that future Generations inherit
a healthy environment right now they cannot see uh for they don't uh Envision a foreseeable livable future for themselves and it's really up to leaders like you to demonstrate that you care um because they're increasingly not having children as a result of this and they're
scared um there is growing support of this at the state level as well um you know all sides of you know across the political Spectrum um and so this is just an opportunity to share the information with you tonight unfortunately a couple other people who were supposed to be here could not um
but I'm happy to be a resource and I also have a business card if you wanted to take that as well thank you oh thank you very much and uh let us look into it and we'll get back to you absolutely but thank you very much for doing this thank you mayor council members Brian Thompson
some of you know me from uh when I retired a couple of years ago and I made sure that I did my final broadcast from uh the boardwalk here in Asbury Park because it's one of my favorite cities I'm wearing an appropriate
jacket I hope uh you appreciate that because I certainly do uh I love this community I serve on the board of uh the Asbury Park Theater Company uh I'm also a uh uh environmental commissioner where I live in uh Mammoth Beach and I serve
on the board of uh The Advisory board for Beyond Plastics a National Organization that uh its goal is to reduce the Plastics that are uh quickly infiltrating our bodies I just want to endorse everything that Rachel just said to you uh especially about skip the
stuff I've been in correspondence with a couple of you about that uh we would love to see you go ahead and adopt that as soon as possible uh we are working on the state level as well however right now we have close to 20 communities including mine of Mammoth Beach who have
adopted uh skip the stuff uh just last night I was in hallworth which became the first community in Bergen County uh to pass uh a construction dust ordinance that contains uh the microplastics that you get from sawing vinyl siding PVC
piping and TX or AET type uh Boards out in the front yard and all those microplastics go dispersed into the air that we breathe the water we uh drink or fish in uh as well as your Gardens uh everybody should know that if you have a
garden there are microplastics in it and those microplastics are getting into your plants so there is a lot of uh action that you guys can take and women excuse me but uh that all of you can take uh there's a lot happening on the
state level as well e which is a product uh uh uh packaging reduction especially with plastics uh that could use endorsements from communities like yours to show the leadership that Asbury Park is known for and uh at the same time uh
I was at the assembly environment committee which uh just two days ago passed by a five to-do vote a uh super fund climate super fund uh proposal again uh asking your legislators and you have some very Progressive legislators
here in as Asberry Park uh to move quickly to endorse all of this with the backing of the Asbury Park City Council so my time is up I thank you very much for listening and I wish you all the best and I love this community thank you
thank you for all you've done in the past and thank you for like finding a great Hobby in retirement and this a COR of a hobby but it's a crusade you think my wife wanted me around the house all that time I'm sure we'll be joining joining you on
this hello everybody Matthew whan asre Park Chamber of Commerce 10-11 Main Street I just have two quick events that the chamber has coming up that I want to make the council and the public aware of the first one is tomorrow uh we have a special event that's a networking event but it's also a screening of a new the
trailer for a new documentary series specifically about Asbury Park it's called from the heart of Asbury Park uh it's hosted by Billy Terell who many of you know he's a uh he's a musician a songwriter a record producer who got his start here
in Asbury Park back in the 50s he's very passionate about this and working on getting it picked up by PBS so there's going to be a special screening at the uh Habitat for Humanity ReStore over on Memorial uh tomorrow at 6 PM uh it's free open to the public we'll have light Refreshments if anyone would like to
come the other one is at the end of the month on March 27th we have our business expo the asber park Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Jersey Shore Chamber of Commerce is doing a business expo at the Berkeley Hotel um and that is from 5: to 7:30 on the on March 27th
and it again free and open to the public so come by see what our businesses are doing thank you very much thank you thank you and uh if anybody doesn't know Billy Terrell and most people don't you should Google them uh what an unbelievable history he
wrote a book uh I'm a big fan of his when I read the book I said you know you should make this into a miniseries so he went that route but now he's doing like history events in asur park in the past and he grew up on Howard Johnson's made it in the music business was on his way
skyrocketing got drafted went to Vietnam opened up an orphanage over there that he still goes back to but very big in the music business and uh standup comedian just a fantastic person and please Google them and please if you can support them support them but fantastic
person's fantastic history thank you hi um I'm chayla Lopez I am extremely new to this I've never been at a council meeting um I'm probably the youngest one in here um however I did grow up in Asbury and I do come unorganized I'm so unorganized but this
is just I felt like I just had to come up here and speak um I'm a resident I lived in Asbury my whole life um I started started in First Avenue with my parents moved out when I was 18 um I went to asbery schools um so I am an alumni of asbery from bradle elementary
to the Middle School to the high school um I have children of my own three girls who attend Asberry schools I have nephews and nieces who attend asbery schools and I am also a tenant and a resident of Asbury I live at 518 Asbury
Avenue by the beach um so I can relate and resonate with this like wholeheartedly um I do think it is just bizarre to even think about um opening those condos up and our schools already get getting the proper funding that the children need um there's not a lot of
program for these children um a mom like myself already struggle paying these high rents that we pay um and then on top of that having to try to find somewhere safe for my child to go after school for after care so I can keep a 9 to5 to barely keep my place and pay you
know it's already expensive it's hard these children have nothing to do um I do try to take um advantage of putting my children in free recreational things but all in all there's just not enough being offered um we go to the library there's you know nonprofit
organizations like um write poems now I'm like getting nervous here um but I do try everything um I deal with the parking issue as well I live in a spot and I don't get not even one assigned parking so it's either in conditions
like the snowstorms to the weather or I'm a woman it's scary night time I have three children I'm parking three blocks down having to walk with three children grocery bag sometimes snow there's no parkings for me because everybody from New York wherever Outsiders are coming
and pushing us out um I don't have a parking for a home that I pay high rent to live in um it's not fair it's not safe um asber is known or what I believed it to be growing up and even now is a blended place for a bunch of different people to come together and
work together a community and it doesn't feel that way anymore and it really saddens me like I get chills in my body because it's just what I'm seeing over the years and again I'm only 29 but the difference and how fast it has H is
happening is just unbeliev unbelievable I want people to actually like stand on morals and principles and Humanity you know and not just be money driven and it's just business business business um again I'm very passionate about this I'm
willing to do whatever I can possibly do to help this prevent this from happening um I don't know if it's another meeting um I just actually found out about this at 4:00 today and made my presence here um Library day is for me for my daughter's today so we went there I had
to make dinner come here so it's a little late um but I am confident that if we schedule another meeting I have a lot of support who are willing to show face also going to have to ask you to wrap up okay um but yeah that's pretty much all I have to say that I could just
think off the top of my head again I'm not organized I didn't write anything um but thank you for hearing me out and hopefully you know we can keep Asberry what asbery is and protect the children and stop you know them from getting into things that's no good for them thank you
very much I i'mna I was okay I gota say something are we still allowed to to go okay so hi my name is Satan I live on 704 Second Avenue I'm also here to talk about I'd be remiss to not bring up that
I think what's going on with the church um I'm nervous super in disagreement with it honestly I think it's kind of gross uh what's being planned for it it's it's hard enough already to to park to live in town and it kind of feels like un is asbery not going to be happy until they've Stripped Away every last bit of what makes asbery Park Asberry
Park it's it's gotten the people who live here aren't Canon fodder for gentrifying for the sake of you know the the sort of like wealthy Elite who want to come in and destroy it and it just kind of feels it's icky it's already got such a bad reputation from you know a long time ago that I feel like everybody is trying so hard and working to stay in
the community I've been here for 10 years I was in Ocean Grove for a while before that been in asbery you know living here for three years now at this apartment it's it's just kind of sick to see that the people who actually want to stay here who have been here are being sort of disregarded in the fact that there's there's nothing that it kind of feels like there's nothing that we can do do other than be here and show up and
and pray that it doesn't happen I want something to happen building almost burnt to the ground two weeks ago because nothing is happening it's not that I think it should stay in limbo forever but I think that whatever is done shouldn't come exactly at the expense of the people who already live here who care I don't want to leave what's going to happen is if that
happens there's no parking it turns into a nightmare if every night of the year is like a show at The Stone Pony summer stage people are going to move they're going to leave and you're going to be sitting with empty buildings where no one can park and no one wants to be here I don't think that anybody wants to feel like they have no choice but to move when it comes down to something just for
the sake of selling a couple of you know apartment buildings or office space that's all thank you hi I'm Laura Chapman I live at 1408 Park Avenue and again I'm here with the rest of you folks fighting this horrible
thing that you want to do to the town um I know my taxes have gone considerably and I live on a postage stamp piece of land I don't have a driveway my poor nexter neighbor he's in his 70s and he has to bus at one of local restaurants to make
money to pay the taxes because they just keep going up and up and up and now you're giving these developers tax breaks you're giving the people that can afford the million doll $2 million condos tax breaks if they can freaking afford a $2 million condo they can
afford to pay full taxes like the the rest of us and that's all I have to say okay and I'm not like going on that subject but I don't know hopefully you heard what council Anderson said before that we're going to be doing a series of
uh programs here where like your neighbor who's 70 and is working and busing there's a senior freeze a lot of people don't know about so he might be eligible for that so you can please let you know I'm not trying to change the subject but there's a lot of people in
as Park that don't realize about the senior freeze and it is available and the price went up where it used to be say 95,000 now you can make up to $150,000 a year so it's a great program for people to get into I think Beth should just I think a
lot of you are here understandably so for the development by and the the Holy Spirit church and I'm wondering if it would help if Beth would just describe what we're voting on and then can give you my thoughts on it which are going to be in disagreement but if you could just
give because there there feels like a lot of misinformation we're going to stop the public session right I mean I've never GNA like okay okay okay close mind hearing it and then we continue the public session maybe it'll clear few things that
anybody has to say uh that the council decides it's never been done before where you're opening up no after after everyone speaks Beth can describe what we're voting on and I can give my thought thoughts we can do it how we always do it described it at the beginning I think I I I think I suggested that well I don't remember
being voted down move to close nobody else has anything they want to say good evening Tom deseno 3600 Route 66 in Neptune um years ago decades ago when Asbury Park was in un fortunately in its worst
times I could understand we had to do pilots and give developers breaks to attract them here because they weren't coming um and that's how we ended up with the deal at the beachfront and I understand if you still have to give Pilots at the beachfront because those contracts that you may be obligated to honor uh were here before any of you got
on the council now there may be some ways out of it but for right now it may be that you have to honor those it's the fact that you're giving Pilots to new developers we don't need to attract developers now we're beating them back with sticks uh they don't need incentive to come here they're standing in line to come here and the idea that we've got a
school system facing a $13 million budget shortfall and yet we're still going to give Pilots where that's which says you don't have to pay the school tax for a number of years uh it's crazy that that that's still being considered today where you're not contractually
bound to do that uh and it just shouldn't even be considered now I got nothing against the developer who came in and bought the church I mean that's what developer just going to do right a tiger is going to Tiger you can't blame him for being a tiger the the one fault lies with the lousy Bishop who sold it
and the awful Parish priest who sold it those are the enemies here the the developers not the enemy it's those guys um and and I they won't give me an audience to tell them to their face they don't won't speak to me anymore um do uh but it it's very um it's it's very odd
to see a council even consider and I know that that's not being voted on tonight I know tonight you're just voting on sending it to the planning board but this is where it's this is where the the the the shout should start before you even do that and every time it comes up they should come back and
Shout at you again because I it's it you just can't understand that you would even consider doing that when you've got this big shortfall in the schools that you're going to say we're going to give another developer a tax break and um there should be consequences to politicians who do that especially
politicians who ran saying I'm against all these pilots and they're not going to vote to do one so probably the best consequence is if anybody who votes on that and and gives a pilot when we're facing a $13 million short for the schools they should have their face on a
billboard all over town and just on the outskirts of town because I already counted them and looked into it and what the price would cost your face should go on a billboard with a sign that says I took the kids school money and gave it to a developer and then a phone number that where they can call and hear me
tell them the rest of the story that can't fit on the billboard but that should be the fate and and and coupled with that why do we not have an historic preservation ordinance I'm not talking to miss uh Anderson abz abz Anderson I apologize you haven't been there long enough but the rest of you have been
here for a very long time you still don't have an ordinance but miss miss abaz Anderson the clock is ticking you on that it's ticking so you need to get one of those before Mount Carmel which I give less than 10 years turns into condos thank you
anybody else likes to be heard or else we're going to close it I already spoke I don't really have nothing else to say um but I forgot about how I get tickets for parking I don't know if that's something that how what I get tickets for a parking sometimes I have nowhere else to park I don't know if there's a thing where those can be waved somehow
but they're that's a that's a police department issue we we can't fix tickets now that's how we go to jail me okay well where told trying to put me in ja tickets too hello I'm Chris Aken I live at 913
fth Avenue uh across the street from 908 which I hope we'll also see a whole lot of housing uh go up soon I would welcome some new neighbors and some affordable housing I think we need more units of housing I agree the school needs more support there are the vagaries of the public school Finance system which I
would encourage everyone to go to the school board meeting tomorrow night to hear about and there our hands that are tied on what can be done with Pilots versus property taxes which I think the deputy mayor will let us know about but the more housing in this town the better because the prices are going to go
through the roof year after year after year if there's more Supply that's going to help address the problem if not everyone's going to wind up selling for a high price to the very same people that we're talking about who were filling up the streets with
parking thank you anybody else motion to close second you you only get one one at the app yeah all in favor No
No's we did close but we'll re open hi everybody Joseph I am the developer for the Holy Spirit Church so you guys can put your blame on me I wanted to discuss a few different things uh and the first thing and and the most important thing is I I'd like
to thank the council for making this a uh a public decision I think this is very important for the community to get involved uh the people that live in Asbury Park should join together and collectively make a decision on what the best path forward is for this
development we have two options it's single family houses or this Redevelopment okay and if we go with this and if it ends up going with to six single family houses there'll be six beautiful single family houses but I want to let everybody know what that
actually means and let's talk about the pilot okay I understand everyone's concerned about the pilot as you should be the taxes are going up and everyone says well why is the developer get a tax break well in this situation developer getting a tax break because there's a lot of give back to
the community that cost money and the most important thing is 18 affordable houses or income restricted houses on the east side of Asbury Park New Homes which really doesn't exist okay and the the pilot or
the taxes on it it pays around $400,000 a year okay that is equivalent to or maybe more than the six single family houses so when you look at them you know Apples to Apples and compare them well what do you guys want you're not going to get any more tax money with the six
single family houses but with the Redevelopment you get 18 uh 18 affordable housing or income restricted dwellings as well as a repurpose of a historic structure um and that's the two options
the six single family houses are the opposite of affordable housing they bring negative -6 affordable housing units to the east side you're talking about two to three $ million homes right so how does that help the east side of Asbury Park how does that help the Asbury Park Community at all I hope
everybody over here makes the right decision tonight and understands that and thinks about that and really understands what giving a pilot actually means to a developer okay that pilot allows those 18 income restricted dwellings to be built that pilot also
allows that building to be restructured so I think that's something that everybody should know the parking it's a problem but big problem well but you should no no there'll be no cross conversations please the parking is a problem in the city of Asbury Park period okay the parking for this
development still gives around the same number as the main street Redevelopment plan so that is a main street that Redevelopment plan has been set forth for God knows how long that we are giving 0.9 or or 085 spaces per unit
which that is the main street Redevelopment plan parking study and that's that's what they you know that's what they want for parking so it's not much less than that okay thank you all right now anybody else motion to close
Mo close second second all in favor I all right we now on to the minutes I have the sorry okay apologies yeah I got something to say but I am GNA Ask Beth to come up here because I want her to correct anything that I say is wrong it's going to somewhat be similar to
what joh Hannah said the two well let me clarify by saying the first thing that we are voting on tonight is to send this to the planning board to determine if that area is in a need of Redevelopment that is what we're voting on we're not voting on a pilot we're not
saying yes to this development although arguably by sending it to the planning board we're giving an unofficial blessing but we are voting on sending this to the planning board to say is this an area in need of Redevelopment so I just want everybody to be crystal clear on that but I'm going to go into
some of the other points because they've been brought up and look I'm not going to do parking because I'll acques is the parking on this project great no so I will acques the parking issues but I want to talk about a couple of issues and Beth I'm just going to ask you to be at the mic because if somebody says I
said something wrong you're going to correct me if you don't mind just go there okay the two options on the table I'm also going to preface I also have a child in the Park School District who goes to Bradley Elementary and he's in fourth grade I've missed Tommy Dano at
any of the Board of Education meetings in the last six years that I've been at them so everybody who cares so much about the kids of Asbury Park and the Asbury Park board of education budget I'm sure I'm going to see you on Thursday okay great great here are the
two options on the table as Joe said six Mansions we're cutting down the church and you are going to have six Mansion Mansions each mansion worth approximately approximately $3 million no
affordable nothing no church no affordable no nothing six mansions on this block you will it it will likely not affect your parking because they will have driveways the city will get with no pilot on these six mansions and this has been run by our tax assessor so if you
have a problem you should contact Eric don't contact me the total conventional taxes Mike's a tax assess Mike ER he just runs our Eric who runs our numbers Mike is our tax assessor but you should talk to Eric because he's the one who gave me these
numbers the total taxes for these houses would be $278,000 a yearly the city would get $95,000 a year and the school would get $140 right that's that's that's the makeup am I saying anything wrong Beth
okay if we do the development the not approximately 90 units we save the church 19 18 or 19 of these units are either affordable or income restricted meaning those would be homes for people what we've seen is Affordable units
generally have kids that they send to the Asbury Park School District so this would be building 18 or 19 units for families in Asbury Park who send their kids to the Asbury Park School District in theory in theory so with a pilot the city the the City would get
$313,000 way more than the 95 and the county gets 15 the county for the record gets the short end of the stick no matter pretty much which way you slice it but certainly with a pilot the county gets the short end of the stick so just so you know the city is getting with the
90 units I'm not arguing with you all on parking I just don't think we should design based on parking but I'm not arguing with you on it the city would get $313,000 a year towards taxes and the county would get 15 we would preserve the church and we would have 18
affordable units which would provide housing for families that are in Asbury Park who send their kids to the Asbury Park School District Six mcmansions provide $95,000 a year in taxes provide $140,000 a year in taxes for the schools so I just want
to make we are not voting on that tonight we are not voting on that tonight but I certainly know that people have talked about it people feel passionate about it I feel passionate about it you feel passionate about it we may disagree on it but but those are the factual numbers unless Beth corrects anything I say that is
incorrect okay okay that's it that's it I'm done I have no no correction to offer and the description of what is on the agenda tonight which is just to authorize the planning board to conduct the study to determine to make a recommendation as to whether or not the property is an area
in need of Redevelopment that is the only action on tonight's agenda which technically does not uh Advance a specific project in any way but I think the deputy mayor is correct in that it uh it serves as a a sort of a message
about support for the project and I have to do one other alternative and then this is it I promise I know he's going to kill me one alternative just because everybody cares suddenly about the kids of Asbury Park in the school district they see you all tomorrow night the other alternative is taking the pilot
money and giving the school district the amount of money they would have gotten with conventional taxes and even if we do that the city still gets more money through the pilot I'm going to give you those numbers the city would get $173,000 let's say we donated $140,000
for the school because people care about the Asbury Park School District and the county would get about 15 so there are three different ways to do this to ensure that the city of Asbury Park gets more money than it did in conventional taxes and then can earmark money for the
school district did I say anything wrong that no the city has that you guys have the power to say earmark money for okay I'm done I promise I promise okay so I'm going to disagree with Mr Dano I'm going to disagree with Amy I'm going to disagree with Beth because everybody's
saying if we pass this tonight it doesn't mean squat that's BS if we pass this tonight it's game over and we talked about this in Clos exec and people agreed to that Beth agreed to that because it's sending a message to the developer who should get a message
either yes or no it shouldn't be kept on kicked down the road and it's also sending a message to the planning board all they can do is like change things and then send it back to us and the three that vote Yes for it or the four that vote Yes for it can rip it up and
throw it away and it's game over so sending this to the planning board tonight is not just a formality this is the vote that matters if this goes forward or does not correct me if I'm wrong I can go ahead this night I think
it's a matter of messaging um because the the way that this process has been been set up is that this is not uh the council wants to take a public vote in order to express your support or lack thereof for the project uh having the
site move towards the Redevelopment project is the is the natural or the Redevelopment designation the natural next step if the project is going to proceed so my point earlier is that while this Tech you know authorizing a property for study for redevelopment
doesn't technically authorize any particular project but given the context that we're in with the history of this project and and the the nature of tonight's discussion which is uh a vote in support or not for the project through the Redevelopment designation uh
authorization or not I I do think it's it's a very strong message and it really serves as a it's like a proxy for an up or down vote on the project as it currently exists and whether it will proceed through the Redevelopment process I could say a couple funny
things but people wouldn't know the it's like being no I think we've said that this it would be like having slight Co I mean there's no such thing you either have Co or you don't have Co I mean so it's it's not if this goes forward it's game over it isn't game over over in the
sense that if there's three no would the developer have maybe some legal ramif or would we have legal ramifications if we voted to send this to the planning board which for the record we've already had legal ramifications because the planning board voted down his by WR six Mansions
but let's just putting a pin in that one for a minute so let's just say we vote that this goes to the planning board let's just say it does and it comes back to the council and somebody on the council is like you know what it's too dense or you know what the parking's too
atrocious it can still go down so when we say we are sending it to the planning board I certainly am comfortable saying that that is a movement a strong movement to we support the project but it's but it is not a yes 100% on the
project that is that is not a fair thing to say I totally disagree with you and we're going to keep on doing this all night I guess no no no the public is done speaking public is done speaking we have a public us okay well that's
how Council meetings are run uh this is a little bit of a bizarre council meeting um you know for anybody to say well we send it to the planning board and can come back and we change my mind we've been talking about this since
2020 so I mean if you don't know where you're stand on this now and you say well maybe the planner bird will say there's not enough parking I'll change my mind I just don't buy that I totally agree with what Mr Hanah said that it's very nice that the council is doing this in public I wish in 2021 it was done in
public so some City employee didn't go back and tell you the mayor killed the project which is impossible to do because one vote one vote one vote one vote one vote one vote I get one vote how the mayor could kill the project and I got sued over that then you were told
something wasn't the truth and no problem and yes did I vote the wrong way on the plan board yes did we fix that immediately as soon as it brought to our attention yes so I mean again I'm happy this is being done in public again it's
been going on since 2020 2021 22 23 24 now we're in 2025 and if any council person up here now does not have a strong inclination and thinks like well maybe like Joe blowing on the planning word may say something that might change
my mind I just find that very not going to happen okay okay that's any other Council people go to the agenda all right we are now on to the minutes I have the executive meeting and regular meeting minuts for the February 12th 2025
meeting do I have a motion move it second council member Bez Arison yes Council mayor Chapman yes council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Mo yes we are now on to the consent agenda resolutions all matters list on the consent agenda are presented
collectively to the city council 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 item shall be removed from the consent agenda and considered
separately on consent agenda we have resolutions 2025 1224 through 20251 129 do I have a motion move it second Council mayor Bez Anderson yes Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore
yes we're now on to individual resolutions uh resolution 2025 130 resolution authorizing the payment of bills move it second Council mayor bezon council mayor Chapman yes Council May Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 131 resolution
establishing a new SE rate schedule connection fees for the city of Asbury Park New Jersey move it second Council mayor berson no council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayore yes resolution 2025 133 resolution authorizing the
purchase of two-way radios for the Department of Public Works move it second Council mayor Bez Anderson Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 134 resolution authorizing purchase of ammunition for the police department move it second
councilor Bez Anderson Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 135 resolution authorizing a contract with resue products International Inc for Fire Department training move it second councilor berson Council mayor Chapman
yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 136 resolution authorizing the execution of a de deed easement with the county of Mammoth and the Asbury Park Housing Authority for the maintenance of traffic signal at the
new Firehouse at 200 Memorial Drive move it second Council May berson yes Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Mor yes resolution 2025 137 resolution awarding a contract for 2025 Sunset Lake Pond management Mo second Council Bon Council
mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 138 resolution amending the contract with FMP Associates for lsrp services at the DPW garage second Council berson yes Council
mayor Chapman yes Council May Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Mor yes resolution 25139 resolution authorizing professional service contract with aari iino for professional architectural services of the boardwalk restroom rebid mve it second Council Bez Anderson
Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 20251 140 resolution authorizing professional service contract with Kyla mcmanis Associates for the fourth round housing element and fair share plan affordable housing planning Services move second
Council berson councilor Chapman yes councilor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 141 resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of Asbury Park to enter into a professional service agreement with public resources Advisory Group for the
provision of RAB administrative services for kav nans Delta at Asbury Park block 4306 move it move it question second s go ahead just explain that to
me Mr Fe be able to give a overview of the my name is j fod I'm from Dorth Paxton um LLP we are uh Redevelopment and bond Council to the city um these three items 141 through 143 and the
following three items 144 to 146 um relate to um Professional Services administrative Services associated with the upcoming red velopment area Bond financings um affecting the uh Waterfront area for the reimbursement of
um infrastructure costs the first three for public uh what's the name prag is how we refer to it public resources Advisory Group um they are the party that would be charged with administering the collection and forwarding on to the
bond trustey of all those special assessments that are collected over the course of time so they're basically a loan administrator if you want to call it that for the payment of the special assessments there a separate contract for each one of them and um they uh you know they would be paid a fee over uh
each year in which they're doing those Services uh the next three items 144 through 146 uh for bjh advisors they are tasked with making the financial projections that are that that
substantiate the likely stream of the um special assessment payments that will be uh security those Bond ises and if we don't have them in place let's say that all of us say no well then the services well for the first one you would have
administrative difficulties you know matching the payments to the bond issue for the second set um the marketing of the bonds might be impaired if there is no analysis of that sort and you may of course choose a different uh provider to
provide that service uh there there they have been both Services have been used in all of your prior uh transactions of this sort thank you these services are needed and we hire the professionals and we don't pay them the master developer
pay so this cost us nothing but our professionals have the eyes on them okay thank you I just wanted clarity thank you thank you thank you all right Council May berson yes council member Chapman yes Council May Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor
Moore yes resolution 2025 142 resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of Asbury Park tends to a professional service agreement with public resource fire regroup for the provision of rap Administration services for Somerset block 4105 move it second Council mayor bezon
council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn no mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 143 resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of Asbury Park to enter into a professional service agreement with public resources Advisory Group for the provision of RAB administrative service
for 1101 Ocean Avenue move it second Council mayor berson council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 144 resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of Asbury Park to enter into a professional service agreement with bjh advisers for
the provision of RAB Administration for K kavans Delta block 4306 second Council mayor berson council mayor Chapman Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor MO yes resolution 20251 145 resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of
Asbury Park to entered into a professional service agreement with bjh advisers of the for the provision of RAB Administration for Somerset block 4105 move it second Council mayor berson yes Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinton no mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 146
resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of ASB Park to enter into a Professional Services agreement with bjh advisers for the provision of RAB Administration for 1101 Ocean Avenue move it second Council berson Council mayor Chapman councilor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes
resolution 2025 147 supplemental resolution authorizing the issuance of one or more series of additional non-recourse Redevelopment area bonds Waterfront Redevelopment area infrastructure project of the city of Asbury Park in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $7 million in connection with a project being
undertaken In the City by kof Nan Delta at Asbury Park urban renewal C and as a portion of the non-recourse Redevelopment area bonds of the City previously approved pursuant to a resolution duly adopted by the city council on February 20th 2013 second Council mayor bz Anderson no
council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 148 resolution authorizing the issuance of one or more series of non-recourse Redevelopment area bonds block 4105 in infrastructure project of the city of Asbury Park and
aggregate principal amount not to exceed $28 million in connection with a Redevelopment project being undertaken In the City by Somerset Asbury Park urban renewal LLC move it second Council mayor berson no council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn no mayor Moore yes
resolution 2025 149 resolution approving change order 13 for Memorial Drive Improvement project move it second Council May Bon Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resol 2025 150 resolution awarding bid for
printing services move it second Council mayor bz Anderson yes Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Stephanie mayor Quinn Amy Amy yeah uh yes craft Mas mayor Mo yes resolution 20251 151 resolution
establishing fees and regulations for the 2025 Beach season move it second Council mayor bz Anderson yes Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 202152 resolution of the mayor and City and Council of the city
of Asbury Park County of Mammoth New Jersey authorizing the planning board for the city of Asbury Park to investigate whether an area within the city should be designated as an area in need of Redevelopment regarding block 271 lot 3 701 to 705 2
Avenue do I have a motion move it second Council mayor Bez Arison no council mayor Chapman wait a minute please and the reason I'm saying no is because I do believe that the area is is what is being built or proposed is too dense there isn't enough parking and
we have to be concerned about the residents who live in that area so unfortunately I'm sorry Council mayor Chapman I'm going to vote Yes and I'm going to vote Yes because even though the mayor says we
should know what we're doing at this point that we should have a good idea of how we're going to vote I've struggled with this for 5 years I struggled with this as I drove here today but when I look at um and listening to all of you with your concerns about parking and
Pilots I also think about losing this historic building um adding extra affordable housing and I am voting yes to move this to the planning board council member Clayton I've been agonizing with this up
until just now and I've been on the fence because I want to preserve the church I want the affordable units but I don't want what it's going to
bring to the neighborhood so although it pains me I'm voting no Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Mo no we are now on to ordinances for introduction ordinance 20258 ordinance of the city of Asbury Park amending and
supplementing chapter 5 entitled beach boardwalk and beachfront regulations to establish fines for tents on the beach with a public hearing date of March 26 2025 move it second okay you got a second second yes okay because of the
presentation made by the gentleman at the beginning of the meeting should we look at this better and postpone this maybe two weeks even even though it's only an introduction but I mean are we going to have enough knowledge about oh
umbrell eyes this is only T add it's only T it's only T okay if it's only T and it's not umbrellas no problem go ahead okay moving forward yeah okay Council mayor bz Anderson yes Council mayor
Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes all right we're now moving on to Second reading and public hearing uh first up we have ordinance 20256 ordinance of the city of Asbury Park authorizing the execution of a financial agreement with Somerset
Asbury Park urban renewal LLC concerning property located at block 4105 lot 1.01 uh 155th Avenue on the city tax map within the Asbury Park Waterfront Redevelopment area and granting a tax exemption Jim you want to come up and
give a excuse me a brief explanation once again for the record Jim Fon D Paxon of the U City's uh Redevelopment Council can everybody in the back here okay right thank you Jim
Fon uh Dorth Paxon City's Redevelopment Council apologies for talking so low so uh this item and the item that follows uh both relate to a um project that is a uh proposed 27 $74 million Redevelopment
project known as or to be known as inspired by Somerset which will be developed by an affiliate of Somerset Development LLC at 155th Avenue which is block 4105 within the city's Waterfront Redevelopment area uh the project
includes 112 residential condominium units approximately 9,000 squ ft of commercial space 237 parking spaces in an internal parking structure and related amenity space and common areas I'm told that the site of the project is currently used as a surface parking lot
um the um proposed uh agreements the financial agreement and the special assessment agreement um in tandem um have a net effect of causing the property owners which include the subsequent purchases of those Condominiums to pay a total amount that
approximates the total amount that would have been paid in property taxes uh in full property taxes in the absence of a tax AB bment uh the city receives as pilot payments under the financial agreement an amount that approximates the amount the city would have received as the city's share
of full property taxes and the remaining amounts which are payable as special assessments by the property owners are used to pay debt service on the bonds uh which we just voted on um that Finance costs of infrastructure improvements uh
throughout the Waterfront through Development Area thank you thank you thank you have a motion open the meeting for public comment on ordinance 20256 move to open second all in favor I public comment on ordinance 20256 is now open any member of the public who wishes
to speak please use the microphone state your name and address for the record your comments may only be about ordinance 202- 6 seeing none motion to close second second all in favor I do I have a motion to adopt ordinance 20256 move to adopt
second second Council mayor bz Anderson no council Chapman yes councilor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn no mayor Moore yes ordinance 20257 ordinance of the city of Asbury Park in the county of M state of New Jersey providing for the special assessment of the cost of
certain Wastewater storm water roadway streetscape utility and other infrastructure improvements constructed on or be benefiting block 4105 lot 1.01 150 5th Avenue on the city tax map which are located within the Asbury Park Waterfront Redevelopment area and
establish a mechanism for pay of the cost thereof move it second this was a motion to open for public comments so all in favor y public comment ordinance 20257 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 20257 move it second we already did that motion close motion to close motion to close all in favor I all right do have a motion to adopt ordinance 2025
second Council berson yes Council mayor Chapman Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes if that is all for tonight do have motion to adjourn the meeting all in favor thank you everyone have a good night you too