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But it's just is we're going a week, but two of the days are travel days, so we're really going there five days. >> Good evening. It is Thursday, July 30th, 6 p.m. of the Beach Haven B Council. Please

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join us in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all. >> Persuin to the New Jersey Open Public Meetings Act. Adequate and electronic notice of this meeting has been provided by posting on the bulletin board in the Beach Haven Municipal Building and on the Burough website legal notices page as required by law. Miss Anderson

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>> here. >> Mrs. B Miller >> here. >> Mr. McCaffrey >> here. >> Miss Snder >> here. >> Mayor Lambert >> here. I have minutes for approval without formal reading from the June 8th, 2026 regular meeting and the June

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25th, 2026 agenda. >> Is there a motion to approve these minutes? >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second it. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion approved. If I could uh real

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quick, at the last meeting, I did not u provide a little beach badge revenue report. So, I do have one. um uh ending at the end of June. Um our beach badge revenue for the end of June,

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if I could see it without my glasses, um as of the end of June is $450,270. Compared to the Beach Badge revenue report from the end of June 2025, uh for it was $472,130.

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So we are slightly under about 22,000 less than last year. So um hopefully our weather will do a little turnaround and we can do some catchup, but I wanted to give you that just a little bit of a a revenue report on that. >> Thank you. All matters listed under item consent

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agenda considered to be routine by the municipal council and will be enacted by one motion in the form listed. Any items requiring expenditure supported by a certification of availability of funds and any item requiring discussion will be removed from the consent agenda and

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discussed separately. All consent agenda items will be reflected in in full in the minutes. Resolution 174 I'm going to be removing from the consent agenda. I still have not received a final approval from Harvey Cedars that they're ready to move forward with this agreement. So,

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we're going to remove that one. 186 is approving an expenditure in an amount not to exceed $1 per vehicle uh for a code enforcement vehicles from the um county of Ocean Surplus. We're looking to purchase two um

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Chevy Impalas uh that we're going to be using for code enforcement. So, we're going to be spending $2 for two Impalas from Ocean County Surplus. 187 authorizing the Burough Beach Haven to authorize to advertise for bids for the

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purchase of a Barber um beach rake or the equivalent. 88 authorizing the execution of a revised shared services agreement by and between the burough beach haven in the county of ocean under the uniform shared services and consolidation act for fire

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inspection services and terminating the prior agreement. 189 is acknowledging the hiring of a part-time fire inspector for the department of code enforcement. 190 is approving change order number 15 dated July 1, 2026 for the 2025

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emergency operations center renovations project. This is in the amount of $153,347.37. This is a complete demolition and replacement of water and sanitary sewer piping throughout the facility. We were hoping that we could maintain the

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plumbing and sewer piping that was in the facility. Um unfortunately the harsh winter that we had um we just couldn't maintain it and we absolutely didn't want to take the risk uh after the renovation that we would have issues with the plumbing and sewer piping that

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was existing in the facility. So we are going to go ahead and fully replace what's there. 191 approving change order number 16 dated July 23rd, 2026 for the 2025

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emergency operations center renovation in the amount of 3 $3,423.94. These are costs associated with the replacement of steel stud framing framing between uh bathroom 17 and 21.

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Resolution 192 is approving change order number 17 dated July 24th for the 2025 emergency operations center project. This is a credit in the amount of $19,044.88 and this is associated with the

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replacement of the domestic water line. Uh finally, resolution 193 is authorizing an executive session to discuss items of potential litigation and this is pertaining to the Atlantic City Electric um battery energy storage system.

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Thank you. >> Okay, everybody have a chance to review the resolutions? >> Anybody have a comment or something for discussion? >> Sure. >> Yes. Um I mean not directly because

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doesn't really go into a trust and then back out again but um yes absolutely any items any beach related items yes could fund that. >> Anything else >> not happy about this?

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>> You know the the change order is as usual except the credits but >> it's a big one. >> That's a big one. We don't want to take a chance that we spend all this money on a renovation and then leave a cracked pipe behind the wall. >> I know that what happened in the winter

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>> the summer system was just shot. Absolutely shot. >> Accept it. >> Okay. Um is there a motion to approve the resolutions within the consent agenda? >> I'll make the motion. >> Second.

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>> Miss Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Ball Miller. >> Yes. >> Mr. McAffrey. >> Yes. >> Miss Snyder. >> Yes. >> Mayor Lambert. >> Yes. >> We have a bill this this evening in the amount of 4,410,713.88. >> Yeah. Kind of a hefty one this time. Um,

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anybody want comment? No. If not, is there a motion to approve the bills? >> I'll make a motion to approve the bills. >> Second. >> Miss Anderson? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Ball Miller? Yes, >> Mr. McCaffrey. >> Yes, >> Miss Snder. >> Yes,

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>> Mayor Lambert. >> Yes. >> Under general discussion, uh, we're going to discuss under zoning the off street parking requirements. Uh, Jamie Bala, we're going to take that one. >> Sure. So, uh, this summer,

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Bill and I and Sherry are looking at the second half of chapter 212 zoning. So last summer we did a lot of revisions and modifications and took things out on the first half and that was with the specific zones. So now we've come into

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the uh off- streetet parking requirements and I wanted to have a discussion with council whether or not to see if we wanted to do any type of revisions on off- streetet parking requirements. So currently for uh residential

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for an efficiency unit, you have one bedroom, one parking spot or one and a half, excuse me. Uh single family dwelling, four bedrooms or less, two parking spots, and then five bedrooms or over

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three parking spots. So, we were considering now that we've actually have been seeing more uh sixbedroom houses on not that we're getting increasing lot sizes. We're seeing um a lot of sixbedroom houses on 5,000 square foot

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lots and less that we were maybe possibly thinking about increasing anything over five bedrooms to a four bedrooms requirement because um spot parking spot. >> Oh, yeah. Four. Yeah, excuse me. Six

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bedrooms, four parking spots. >> So, it's off street. >> Off street. Yeah. >> No, this is off street parking requirement. So, off the street. So, on your property, anything over five

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bedrooms would have a requirement of four bedrooms for four parking parking spaces. >> And Jamie, the stacked parking, does that how does that work? That counts because weed was saying that three doesn't really doesn't cut it. Does that

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mean I >> and so and you have let's just say you have a two-car garage or over two car garage you have those curve cuts they and you have >> so parking inside the garage and beach does not counters because we know that the majority are not parking in their garage.

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>> I get that. I know. Yeah. But in front of it counts. >> Yes. It has to be 9 by8. That's the requirement. I'd love to get away with um the two curve cuts. >> The two curve cuts. >> It destroys our >> That's something that we, you know, we can we can discuss, too. We're not We're

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right at that spot. Also, >> um as well, we were talking about, you know, some houses with an oversized lot. Sometimes two curb cuts does work. >> Yeah, I it does >> because if it's over 5,000 square feet, like the 6,000 foot house, it does look

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nice. you have, you know, you have two cur two garages and they're separated and that separation would include one off street parking spot. So there are cases that it does work and we're going to look at those calculations too because >> yeah, it's worth looking into. >> But the problem that I mean the problem

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is that we have I mean it's it's unfortunate, but these sixbedroom houses aren't you know people that are necessarily staying here year round and raising a you know family that would fill six bedrooms. it's, you know, more or less income properties and we're having some issues with, we always have

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issues with parking >> and, you know, you know, I always feel like sometimes bigger isn't better, but that's my own personal opinion. I'm just trying to keep that out. And uh, >> so I wanted to see if you wanted to entertain or, you know,

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>> I would entertain. >> Just think about it. Um, my next meeting uh is next Wednesday. So, if you want to think about it and, you know, give me an answer on that, but that's something that I would like to to see happen is an increase to anything over five bedrooms

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would have a requirement of four parking spaces. >> Yes. >> It makes sense to me because what's the biggest issue in this town? It's parking. And I've seen houses with three bedrooms that have eight cars associated with it. So, you know, as the bedroom

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number goes up, so does the parking requirement exponentially. And I think four would not be a big ask. >> Okay. So, then my second concern is the commercial parking requirements. So in 2012 the burough currently the current

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parking requirements is one off street one park one parking spot per every 600 square feet for any commercial building. So that would be any retail store and also a large restaurant. It's it's not

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you know really dependent on the use. It's rather just dependent on the square footage. In before 2012 that wasn't the case. the burrow had a whole kind of like listing of different parking requirements and for some reason because of the lack

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of parking the burrow in 2012 decided to just group everything together. So in 2022, we we did take a look at, you know, possibly maybe changing this, but we're coming right off the COVID pandemic and we didn't really want to kind of, you know, put any more strain or any anything on, you know, commercial

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businesses. But since I've been on the land use board for, I mean, over six about six years now, I've seen, you know, a lot of applications where they actually decreased their parking requirements because of this ordinance. And that

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didn't make sense to me. So, originally for restaurants in the old 2012 parking requirement, it was one parking spot per 125 square feet. And so I would like to see restaurants um to have a requirement of

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one parking spot per 250 square feet for them to be separated from all commercial businesses because most of them are larger, they have more employees, they have um more parking requirements, some of them have different venues and this

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and that. So again, it's just something that I wanted to bring up to council. Being on the land use board for these past years, I've seen the reduction in parking because of this ordinance. And you know, the argument is we just don't have the parking. Let's put everybody in the you know, the same boat and that's

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it. But I haven't seen that as as as the case. So I wanted to see if that would be um a possibility that you would think on that, you know, currently all commercial properties is one parking spot per 600 square feet, which in all the other

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municipalities they're not. that's not grouped together. You know, it's usually uh separated based on on the use, not everyone together. So, it used to be one parking spot per 125 square ft. I would like to see that not go to that, but a

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compromise at one parking spot per 250 square feet. So, just to give you kind of like a visual of that. So, like if you have a 2400 square foot restaurant, that's required to provide um only four parking spaces under our current

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ordinance. And if you were to increase that to one parking spot per 250 square feet, that would give that restaurant would have to require 10 parking spaces. Under the old ordinance, they would have to supply 20 parking spaces. So it's it's kind of a a compromise or you know

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we could something one per 300 square feet if you want to you know think about the math in your heads for a week and you know think about different properties or that could you know reduce their parking based on our current

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ordinance because I have seen it happen and uh yeah so as I'm rewriting this I just want to kind of revise it >> I mean we currently would be grandfathered. I see. >> Well, I mean, most of the businesses

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like on the boulevard, they're all pret they're all >> right. For me, >> but I mean places off the boulevard that has parking. >> Yeah. They can't reduce they just these ordinance would kick into place under like a 50% substantial >> improvement or new construction.

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>> Right. Okay. I I don't want to Yeah. is just going to be careful not to burden our business owners and restaurants too much just because it's you know >> yeah I understand that >> yeah I would >> most of there's like um like I think I

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think that too and I thought of that maybe in 2022 but it's I've seen you know businesses take away their parking because of the new ordinance like oh well you know I don't do that ordinance anymore so

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>> I don't think it's burden necessarily because if they already have it, they already have it. If they already have it in the grand so it doesn't >> Okay. >> You can't force it. >> No. I mean, even if someone would buy a place that and even redid it and didn't

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have any parking, they didn't have any parking to begin with. So, that would be, you know, something that would be taken into consideration. You can't create something out of nothing. certain properties that have more than enough, you know, now they

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don't have to anymore. And I've seen reduction of quite a few >> just think about it. >> Any questions? >> No, I may have someone looking. >> You guys are moving along in all this.

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Yeah, there's some really interesting chapters. I can't wait. So, I guess there's like a body piercing chapter. >> Who knew? >> Happened in such a long time. >> Static. Yeah. just yeah use one >> that's all we have discussion

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>> okay we move on now to public comment we ask that you please identify yourself when you come up and hold it to three minutes so we always start with the room yes sir come on very amusing right now. >> Yes, please. Thank you. >> Uh, good afternoon, council mayor. Um,

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it's nice to see you. Thank for the opportunity to join you guys. I'm Mike Feainer, the vice president of the Beach Haven Community Arts Program, and I'm with Carol, our president. Um, and oftentimes in today's world, we're looking at our to-do list. We check things off and we head off to the next thing and we don't take a moment to

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appreciate those that have helped us or support us. Well, CAP is celebrating its 25th year and putting concerts on in the green and a big reason why we've been successful is because of the support and the uh ongoing uh activities that the burrow and the staff at the bureau have

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done to help us. So, on behalf of our members of the community arts program, we wanted to present you guys with a small certificate that just says thank you very much and how much we appreciate all that you do to help us be successful in what we're doing with our concerts and the other activities. So, thank you very much.

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>> Well, thank you very much. Truly appreciate it. >> We appreciate you. Thank you so much. I'm a big fan of Thank you. We all are. Okay. Anybody else in the room care to

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speak? Nobody else in the room? Yes, sir. One up. Jerry Kman. I own a home on Pelum and I just read in the paper about the possibility of a pavilion being constructed in the uh park area. Could

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you please explain the purpose of that? >> Kitty, you want >> um use your microphone, Kitty? I Okay. Yes. Uh well, I I besides being a council member, I am um um on the Friends of Beach Haven, which

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is a nonprofit dedicated to um um improving our public paces and and and contributing to the community of Beach Haven at large. Um so we brought to the council um the discussion and then we

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brought to the council a proposal of giving a gift of f of um a pavilion. I I did put the boards out in the foyer if you to got a chance to take a look at them because I anticipated a couple people may come tonight that weren't familiar with um with what's going on.

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And I just I'll just start with I did prepare some some some words just so in case you had this is the first you've heard about it. I would like to clear some things up. Okay. >> Thank you. >> In 2003 um our parks committee which

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consisted of a Beach Haven residents and two council members including Mayor Lambert and myself did a comprehensive survey of over 1,900 people. And of that survey, 74% wanted more shade and many um expressed

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an a need for improved maintenance of our existing parks and increased programs. Um we have this a talk of a an a new p pavilion and or an additional pavilion has been going on for quite some time in

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this in Beach Haven. Um so it just seemed the timing was right. When people think of parks, I get it. You often think of um you often focus on the green space. Um but successful green space and parks are not just places, you know, to pass through. They there are places that

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invite community and uh to to gather and connect. And this pavilion would do just that. A shaded pavilion is more than a structure. It's it's more of a room. Like think of it almost like a living room. And this this pavilion would provide that. This beautiful it would be

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on grade level um thoughtfully designed with an architect um that is very aware of the historic significance in our historic district because Veterans Park is the center of the historic district. Um

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I'm all about historic preservation. I'm the co-chair of the um historic preservation commission and I'm a founding member of it and we worked really hard to establish a historic district in Beach Haven and value

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value the the um the homes within. So this this pavilion would be an open air pavilion um that would have many assets. It would support public health by adding protection from sun exposure. Number one, it's a great source of

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shade. I know in an article that I also the article I read, it it mentioned um that somehow this would I don't know harm or or impact the shade trees that we have in the park, but really we have very few shade trees in the park. It like almost

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none. We have some black pines and we have a couple cherry trees which have no benches underneath. You know, I've tried to plant some crepe myrtles which aren't really doing that well. It's a very very harsh climate. talked to many landscape architects and landscapers and if you know anything

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about um gardening, you know, it's it's just a very harsh climate. I mean, I'd love to see a lot of shade trees in there, but it's just really not set for success. Doesn't mean we're not going to plant some trees in the near future, but um this pavilion would provide number one a great source of

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shade. Um it will provide um not only protection from sun exposure but improve accessibility um for older for older adults and kids. Kids who just want to have a place to rest and it provides a location for educational programs um veterans

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ceremonies, more community arts programs if the farmers market could be in there. Um community celebrations um beach haven graduation. anything and everything. Um, and here's the bonus. Friends of Beach

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Haven does not want to use taxpayer dollars. So, this would be a gift to Beach Haven. Um, I guess the bottom line for me is that, um, I personally believe that a park's greatest value lies not only in the land that it protects, but its inabil in its

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ability to bring people together. To me, that's very important, and that's what this pavilion would do. Shade structures and gathering spaces make parks usable and welcoming for everyone. And most important to me, they provide a comfortable space for people to um to

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build community. So that is where we're coming from and the reason for um building this pavilion. It is. It is. If you look at the design of it, it is designed with um and I put some flyers

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out there that the printed flyer that please take one home with you and feel free to call me if you have any questions. I'd be happy to talk to you about it. But, you know, we're building this with the design in mind. keep taking into consideration um the look of the angle side, the look

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of the Baldwin, some train stations in Beach Haven, and with the exposed rafter tails and the roof pitch and the architectural components, it completely meets the design guidelines of the historic preservation the the district.

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Um, and it, you know, it it's it's on the ground so the you know, you can just run through. It's in open air so you can see through it. And I know that um the community and Cap who are here um

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Mike and Carol are here tonight and they're not crazy about this idea and the location of it. Um but if we took the one down that is there now, we would have to completely regrade it and it would be exponentially

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more expensive. we we just can't afford to do that. So, this would be a walkway coming down from um the existing gazebo around the flag pole with some planter um some hydrangeas and then straight through into this pavilion. So, it would

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be cohesive kind of working together and it takes up um according to our burrow engineer not much more than 2% of the park that's there. It's 30 by 60. It is not it's really a size of a tent that you might

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rent for um a family function. It's not that big. So it is it is a building and it is a structure and it does sometime as I said you know open space. Um sometimes you think just

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keep it that way but within green acres guidelines and and open space philosophy you need some structures in those spaces in our parks that make sense and contribute to public health and the needs of the community. So that's what

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we're doing. Um, if I may ask, how would that affect the current activities in the park such as the uh music that we have Wednesday nights and the ability to sit around openly anywhere we want to enjoy that or the um

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lens to what the frequency is of vendors there selling artwork, etc., etc. How would that affect those activities? Well, I mean, I'm going to have a different opinion than Carol and Mike, I'm sure. But I my opinion is that CAP doesn't have to use this at all if they

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don't want to for the for their for their concerts. I want them to. I'd love them to, but I the gazebo is still going to be there. And this space could just be for people to sit in and watch the concert. It's, you know, you could put a chair in there. It can fill it up just

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as you, you know, would sit in that space in the grass. you could sit in in in the pavilion to watch >> and also um >> there's a lot of other different functions in that park, >> right? >> Especially on the shoulder seasons and

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like I mentioned in a previous meeting, we have a lot of activities or we have a lot of things that the fire company does there. Have you ever been to those festivals there? It seems like everyone's always walking around the perimeter and then there's like some chairs and stuff in the middle, but

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there's really no kind of like cohesive central part to bring the whole park together during those events. You always have the bands in the current pavilion there and everyone's just kind of like, you know, walking around and actually in 2018 when I started council and you came

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to me about, you know, can we do like, you know, let's put more money into our parks. We want to beautify them. this is the center of the historic zone like >> all our parks. Yeah, >> let's do something. So, this has been, you know, a long time. >> Long time. >> So, we were trying to think of something

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that would like cohesively bring that park together. And I mean, if you've seen pictures of this pavilion, >> which I haven't, I apologize. >> It's is it's beautiful. I mean, it's it's a gorgeous facility. I think that it's going to be very well utilized, especially with the festivals that we do

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have in that park as a central location for people to come into the center and not just keep kind of doing that, you know, circle around, circle around. And I think it's it's a it's a beautiful addition uh to the park, >> the activities that would, >> excuse me, and when would the

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construction start or begin and end relative to affecting the enjoyment of the summers? It's not going to be in the summertime. We would never. >> Well, we're hoping that it'll be built this winter. We have uh done a soil boring test and um the architects are

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supposed to be getting the full set of plans. We couldn't invest the money till we had the approval approval of council. So, we are um hopefully this early next week we should have the full set of plans to be able to go to bid and um our

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our goal is to have it done by you know middle of April. So, at the latest. So that would never would we cons, you know, have it done in the summer. That would be a bad idea. The other concern that I know people have and and has has

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come up and I I um is the emergency in a storm the we've used the park for emergency parking because it's high and dry. That would be continue. I mean, it's 30 by 60. I've talked to the chief. He's here tonight and he doesn't see a problem with it. it doesn't will impact

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um the ability to put thorough vehicles and residential vehicles in that park to protect them. So, and it's it's somewhere where we could, you know, store I don't it would just so it's not a concern. I've spoken to the emergency um management team as well or one of the

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members and it's not that won't be um it won't be impacted. It will remain the same. farmers. Uh the farmers market could be in there when they have the um the um I mean I'm not a fan of the flea market. I got to tell you and everybody knows I would like to get rid of the flea market. I don't think it brings

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anything to this town. I'd love to see curated art shows and you know I I don't mind the um um I love the artisan market on Friday, but that's a whole other story. Has nothing to do with the pavilion. I do digress. But um that won't change. Um, it'll

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just, you know, be shifted around a little bit. It's it's 30 by 60. It's not 300 by, you know, it's it's a big park, so there's plenty of room. And those I know of, you know, it sounds like you're a fan of those events, the flea market,

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but most of the flea market is the vehicles that the vendors bring. And I still don't think they should stay there. I think they should unload and leave, but that's not going to be affected. I have mixed views on that. Anyway, >> yeah, that's just my opinion on that. Has nothing to do with the pavilion, but um

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>> anyway, I hope I've answered some of your questions. >> Question relative to the park itself, unless it has it out there, which I have not read, >> where would the pavilion be uh situated? >> Well, you can see on the you'll be able to see that. Yeah. And it's

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>> layout. Okay. So, it's pretty much um if you're coming down from Don, do you know how many feet it is from the flag pole? I can't remember. >> I have access. >> And if you enter the driveway as you go

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in where cars are parked. >> Yes. It would be to the left of the driveway. Uh almost equidistant from where the platforms go to >> here. You got I'll show you. >> Yeah. And then we'll move on because we really do.

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>> So basically this is the driveway you come in, >> right? >> And the pavilion's here >> and that's the existing pavilion and the flag pole is here. So it's almost equidistant from there to there, from there to there. >> Thank you very much. Thank you.

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>> I appreciate that. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Anybody else in the room? >> No. >> Okay. How about on Zoom? Anybody on Zoom? Don't forget three minutes, please. And don't forget to identify yourself.

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>> Can I speak? >> Uh, we had someone with their hand up. Susan. Susan Ringi. >> Yes. Hello. Good evening. Um, I still want to talk about the Veterans Memorial Park and I do think that it brings

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people together as it is right now that it doesn't need to be changed and as I said in my letter um not every open space needs another structure and sometimes preservation is the greatest improvement of all and unlike

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most parks we have an uninterrupted block long visa through the heart of Beach Haven Historic District. In a town where every parcel of land is precious and nearly every view is framed by buildings, this broad open Leon prevents

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provides a sense of space, history, and tranquility that cannot be recreated. I respectfully urge you to reject the proposed pavilion and instead preserve the park as it has been serving the community for generations. As an open,

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flexible, beautiful green space whose greatest strength lies in it in its simplicity, some things become more valuable with time precisely because they remain on change. Thank you. >> Thank you.

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>> Thank you. Anybody else on Zoom care to comment >> on anything? Doesn't have to be about the pavilion. Anything at all? >> That other person who was speaking. >> Can you hear me? I don't know if you can hear me. I don't know how to unmute.

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>> Was that you, Bobby Sadler? Sandler. >> Yes. Yes, it is. Yes. >> Okay, go right ahead. It's It's your turn. >> Okay. I just uh I heard the arguments. I understand uh the arguments pro and that you your your main thrust of it was that

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it was going to provide more shade and as far as every other aspect of the positives they they all exist and they continue to exist. It still brings people together. I know one council person was saying well I don't really

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like the flea markets. That's the thing about the park. people that like anybody that can that can reg use the park. People use it for all these different things so that it's a beautiful thing for the community. People can disagree about what they like and what they don't like and they can come there and enjoy

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it. I am just struck by the beauty of the fact that there's this open field. That's the way it's been for hundreds of years, just an open space. But in the middle of one of the most beautiful surrounded blocks of old uh Victorians in the heart of downtown in the historic

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district, you have a gazebo that absolutely matches the feel of the town. And by putting a large structure in there, whether it's 2% or 10% or whatever, you if you want more shade, plant more trees. And it's not a big

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issue more shade. Um, I don't think that that's an that's worth building this structure. As far as it being free, it's not free because it has to be maintained. And that means insurance, that means uh utilities, that means

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rebuilding things. And uh so it's not free. It's going to take up it's going to change the view and the and the openness of it. And I just am thrilled by how many ways people have used that

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park and enjoy it. When they want shade, they put up tents. When they want uh to come to the uh concerts, they park their cars, they bring their seats. It's just completely an open pallet for enjoying. So my there are arguments on both side

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which I consider relevant and important. But everyone I've spoken to that have just found out about this, every homeowner didn't know about it and is against me. So my I have only one very important question. What would it take?

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How many people would have to come and speak or sign a petition to slow this thing down and have it be reconsidered? What does it take to do that? Or is it already a completely done deal? >> It's done.

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Okay. So then there's no point if it doesn't make me feel good about just speaking if it's a done deal. So there's no way there is no way there's no amount of of upswell or or you know cuz there's there the amount the percentage of

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people that even knew about it is so minuscule and if if the homeowners on mass were >> interested enough you're saying that's it there's nothing they can >> Mr. Mr. Sandler, I I'm just going to

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make just one, you know, comment here really briefly. I I kind of take an offense when, you know, you're saying that this is been talked about or this and that and lack of transparency. I also read in um the letter someone else in

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the letter that I read. All I did, >> but I didn't say that. Don't take offense with me. I didn't say that. All I said was that the people I've spoken to didn't know about it. Okay, Mr. Sandler, first one. >> And the burrow, we put out agendas. Um,

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we've been talking about this pavilion for months now. We we're the only municipality that has the opportunity for anyone to zoom in and watch the meetings that are held at 6 pm for everybody to attend. And there's been

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countless months that I'm staring at nobody both in the room and on Zoom. So I I'm kind of take I just taking a little bit of fence that you know this is just a surprise to everyone. If you want to keep in contact with things that are

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happening in town, we make every opportunity to make the public aware of everything. We are easily contacted. You can email us. Some of us have our phone numbers out there. We are easily approachable. So, I'm just kind of

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having a hard time with this conversation. So, I'm just going to respectfully stop talking. >> Okay. If I may interject something here because uh Mrs. um Rangers, you and I have had, you know, some back and forth uh correspondence about this. And to

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Jaime's point, and I understand what you're saying that you feel as summer residents, you were not given any ample opportunity, this this particular council, I think, has been the most transparent of any I've ever seen in Beach Haven. We even moved our all our meetings back to six

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o'clock because people complain they couldn't come home from work in time. We have, as Jamie just pointed out, we're the only town that allows Zoom. You can Zoom us from anywhere in the world and interact. the other towns will videotape it but you don't get to interact. Um we have done everything possible the

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agendas and I would also like to suggest that there's a form on the website I think it's under uh council mayor and counsel >> that you can be alerted when a meeting is coming up and then you get the agenda and it's also always listed on the

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website. So, it is it is hard to hear that we didn't know and like you should have told us. It's like we can only do so much. It's out there. It's available 48 hours ahead of time and we would urge you to do that. Um I realize some people may not be aware of it. We will do maybe

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a better job trying to get it out there, but that's the truth of the matter. It is there for anyone and everyone. It has been for the last at least eight years since I've been on council or six years, excuse me. Um, we are encouraging that the friends of Beach Haven and the

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community arts program meet and discuss the location. Again, I believe they already have a meeting set up and we'll see where that goes. But yes, I the pavilion is most likely going to get built at this point. Um, personally, I was hoping for a rebuild of the original one and we were told that couldn't

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happen. So, we're going to let the the two main players in this try to work it out. But that's where we are. And again, please please all of you off season, on season, whenever, take two seconds out

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of your day to click on that agenda. And if there's something near and dear to your heart, please weigh in. We would appreciate hearing it at the time, but once it's done, it's kind of hard. >> Thank you, Jim Schumacher. Um,

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you you can hear me, right? >> Yes. Go right ahead. >> Okay. I have to tell you, I think it's a great idea. I love the design. I think it's going to be a a great asset, and I applaud everybody involved in the parks

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commission, if that's the term, that have really reached out to try to uh improve all the park. So there's always people that want to bring things up like this and then there's the other people

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like myself that I think it's a great idea and I wanted to let you guys know that. And in echoing um one thing I think the mayor missed one key point about your meetings which I've been involved in local government for a lot

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of from a lot of different aspects of it. You can YouTube every Beach Haven Council meeting by signing up for Beach Haven. And if you miss the meeting, you can just listen to it. So, you are one of the most transparent councils. You're

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also one of the most approachable council people. Um, so I applaud you for that and I think you have to be recognized for that. >> Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Anybody else on Zoom?

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I don't see anyone else. Okay, >> seeing none, we'll close the floor to public comment and we are going to go into executive session, but before that we will do our final remarks and we will start with Mr. McCaffrey tonight. Uh, I really don't have a lot to say.

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Um, other than summer seems to be going very well and, uh, I'll have to put a lot of, uh, the thanks to our public employees, whether it be the police department, public works, lifeguards, badge

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checkers, the whole bit. They're making my life a lot easier up here with uh, the meetings and stuff. Just one thing that came up this week was um just the other day you had the superintendent of public works. Somebody approached him and they were

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ducks in a storm drain. >> He actually opened up the storm drain and spent some time there. The mother had walked walked along and I think five or six of them dropped in >> the storm drain. >> He got one out there went with the

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mother and they took off. So he had finally gotten the other was it five of them out and the water company found the people who people called up and said that the duck was in the backyard and they re reunited all the ducks in the >> happy endings

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>> which it just shows that's the way the people that we have working for this town. >> It's a great story. >> Other than that be safe and we're halfway there. >> Just pretty much said exactly. Um Kitty

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uh thank you everyone for coming tonight. Um you know it's good to have a lively debate. I'm glad to you know not everyone agrees with everything and everyone and um I certainly welcome any communication. Feel free to call me. Um

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you can get my number from the um from the main office and I'm happy to speak to anyone at any time about any concerns. Um just I really want to give a shout out to our water department because with this EOC project, which is crazy,

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and all these, you know, um extra costs. I just want to thank them for saving us uh $19,000 by doing the work themselves. They did all of that that work and they they're working really hard and our public works department, the beaches are, you know, they work, everyone works really hard

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and our beach crew, God bless them. I had a tough day yesterday, but it was um really we're lucky to live here. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Anderson. as a thank you to our burrow, everybody at the burrow, council members, fire,

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police, first aid, beach staff, now I'm sort of involved. It's, you know, it's it's a big to-do and they do a lot. So, um, I got a nice thank you from the cap presentation and it, you know, it's nice

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to be recognized. Um, I want to encourage everybody, our residents and visitors alike, to be mindful of the volume of people we have in town. It's, you know, we're overflowing. So, be careful, slow down. You got to put those eyes on, back your

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head, watch for bicyclist and electric bikes, etc. And I wanted to say if you've not been to Compassion Cafe, it's What did I write? It's at the Sea Shell Motel Monday through Thursday 7 to 11. It's a

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hometown heartwarming experience. And I wanted to recognize Jen Cella, who is our parks and recreation director. And she's got some uh she's done some great things with the kids this year. And I guess you have more next year. >> Yeah, the movie was last week.

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>> Yeah, it's cute. So, I think there's something tonight. But, uh, she's having a lot of fun with it and it shows and it's it's nice. And I'm not going to comment on the pavilion. I think it's well, I am going to comment. I think it's a very attractive building. Um, it seems

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proportionate to the park. Um, and although we did think it was going to originally replace the existing one, I guess there's going to have to be room for two. And um it will get a lot of

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views I think >> and not nothing has to change. >> Nothing has to change >> except for the addition of the beautiful pavilion, but all of the events can remain the same. >> That's it. Thank you, Mrs. Bald.

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>> Sure. Um, I just wanted to just uh inform the council on the public about a project that is going to be happening in the next couple years. I had the uh pleasure Anderson and I and just Mason had the pleasure of sitting with Jim

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Dugan who is the vice president uh of Morai Land Trust. He's the res restoration coordinator and we're familiar with Morai Island. I know that I'm not very familiar with the the land trust, but I know Morai Island. I've paddled around it many times. Um I know

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that the wildlife on there, but I you know I've also seen over the years the erosion that has come because of the of the the boats and whatnot. And I see them they tried the geo tubes and the you know reclaim the bay, tried and oyster reef and replanning this or that.

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But um they finally uh are in the works with this uh living shoreline. And this has been uh 20 years in the making. And it's a rubble mound living shoreline breakwater that's going to extend on the

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western side of of Morai Island. And I'm excited about it because it's kind of like uh something from the start to the finish that we'll be able to witness to see if living shorelines really are going to be able to be utilized for

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these types types of projects. So we did meet with uh Mr. Dugan. And in late August, early September, you're going to see five uh monitoring platforms that will be installed to measure waves, tides, current, and boat weights off the western shore of Morai Island. They're

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not large platforms, but you will see them. And it's you know the uh engineers from the US Army Corps and the engineer research and development center all these you know federal agencies are actually going to be monitoring this data in order to build this living

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shoreline. So it's kind of preliminary data and then they'll start building probably maybe next year or the year after within a two-year span after they you know collect all this data. So it was a very

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interesting Mr. Ver informative he was aation >> um and I did uh we did post on the website there was an article in the sandpaper the Morai land trust marks 25 25th year and there's a wealth of

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information in there all about the project and a couple of their um meetings that the public is welcome to attend to learn about the history of Morai Island and the project it itself. So, and you can donate to it. >> It's coordination not only with the Morai Land Trust, but like I said, the

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US Army Corps Engineer Research and Development Center, um, of course, the the state organization, New Jersey D. And it's, you know, primarily funded by the the federal government, and then, you know, Morai is picking up some of the costs as well. But it's going to be

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interesting to see this progress in the next, you know, five years. >> Amazing how much that little island has changed. Yeah, it's >> really surprising. >> Yes. So, also in in the article, there's a special anniversary meeting Sunday,

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August 2nd from 5 to 7 on the third floor of the Yach Club and it's a presentation on the land trust history and the Morai story as well. The public is uh welcome to attend. Like I said, this article from the sand paper is also posted on the DAR

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website. So that's what's happening. >> They're letting you on the third floor. That's like a big deal. >> Thank you. Uh to kind of piggyback on that, the Morai Land Trust had their uh annual fundraiser, Bay Bash they call

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it, and it was highly successful. I know Helen was there uh dishing out the ice cream and a lot of the businesses the donations were wonderful and um they raised a lot of money and this is a super important cause because the protection affords the south end of town. Can't stress that enough. So

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they're doing an extremely worthwhile job and we hope they keep it up. >> Well, fingers crossed. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Um the CAP award was a surprise. I'm sorry. I should have gone down maybe and uh done the picture, but um we want to thank them for their thoughtfulness and

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everybody said exactly what I was going to say. No surprise. Um it's been a busy summer. We want to thank police, fire, first aid, public works, beach patrol, and I even have Burough employees on there because I know you ladies are every day when I go in, you're constantly up and back, up and back

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halfway through. And let's fingers crossed that we make the other half without anything major happening. So, um, thank you all for coming. Thank you all if you're on Zoom. We appreciate your participation. And, um, is there a motion to adjourn?

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>> Well, at this point, actually, yeah, we're going to go into executive session. So, we're going to, um, leave the public session. We expect to be in the executive session about 1 hour. No formal action will be taken in the executive executive session and no formal action will be taken um, when we

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return to the public sess session either. All right. Thank you. >> All right. We are reconvening the public session. It is 7:43. Um, go right ahead. >> Is there to adjourn?

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>> Second. All right. Meeting adjourned. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Have a good night. Sherry, is still