Okay, we're good. Good evening. It is Thursday, June 26th. The Burough Council agenda meeting is now in session. Please join us for the pledge of allegiance led by Mrs. Barmiller. 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 justice for all. Pursuant 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 on the Burough website and mailing the same to the Beach Haven Times, the Asbury Park Press, and the Press of Atlantic City. Miss Anderson here. Mrs. Ball Miller here. Mr. McCaffrey here. Miss Snder. Mayor Lambert here.
I have a May 29th, 2025 agenda meeting, a June 9th, 2025 regular meeting, and June 9th, 2025 executive session minutes for approval without formal reading. Everybody have a chance to look them over? I make a motion to approve the
minutes. I'll second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion approved. Ordinance 202516C, an ordinance amending chapter 204 water of the burough code of the burough beach haven county of Ocean State of New
Jersey to correct inconsistencies within the chapter. Final reading. Final reading. So we're going to open it to the public. Please uh confine yourself to three minutes and be sure to ID yourself. Anybody in the room? Seeing none. Anybody on Zoom?
No. Uh, anybody in the council have anything at all to say about this? Nope. Okay. Is there a motion to approve 2025-16C? I make a motion to approve 2025-16C. I'll second.
Thank you. Miss Anderson, yes. Mrs. B Miller, yes. Mr. McCaffrey, yes. Mayor Lambert, yes. Ordinance 202517C, an ordinance amending chapter 163, sewage and sewer utility of the burough code of the Burough Beach Haven, County
of Ocean State of New Jersey to correct inconsistencies within the chapter. Final reading. Again, final reading. So, it's open to public comment. Anybody in the audience? Anybody on Zoom? No. Okay. Seeing none, u council, anything at all? No. Okay. Is
there a motion to approve 2025-17C? I'll make that motion. I'll second. Miss Anderson. Yes. Mrs. Ball Miller? Yes. Mr. McCaffrey? Yes. Mayor Lambert? Yes. Thank you. All items uh All matters listed under item consent agenda are
considered 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
discussed separately. All consent agenda items will be reflected in full in the minutes. Resolution 164 is establishing fees for sewer parts and adopting version 25-01. 165 is authorizing the sale of surplus
property no longer needed for public use in an online auction. This is for general items, miscellaneous computer equipment, an old Kabota, things like that. 167 authorizing the Burough Beach Haven Police Department to participate in the
Defense Logistics Agency Law Enforcement Support Office 1033 program to enable the Police Department to request and acquire excess Department of Defense equipment. 168. Approving membership to the Beach Haven Volunteer Fire Company. 169
reappointing Sherry Mason as local registar of vital statistics. 170 reappointing Sherry Mason as burough clerk. 71 determining the form and other details of its note relating to the construction financing program, the New
Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to be issued in a principal amount up to 4 million and providing for the issuance and sale of such a note to the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust and authorizing the execution and delivery of such note by the Burough
Beach Haven in favor of the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust Construction Financing. Program 172, approval to submit a grant application and execute a grant contract with the New Jersey Department of Transportation for the state fiscal year
2026 road reconstruction project, Pearl Street, from Atlantic Avenue to the easterly end and Stratford Avenue from West Avenue to the easterly end in the amount of $468,18120. 174 is approving the purchase of a
sponsorship for the Fourth of July fireworks. 175 approving an affordability assistance in the form of a homeowner assistance agreement with an owner of an affordable housing unit located at 510 North Bay Avenue, unit 205.
176, authorizing a shared service agreement with the Township of Long Beach for Bright Harbor Healthcare, Social Work, and Behavioral Health Referral Services. 177 supporting Revolution New Jersey and its mission to advance the role the
history plays in New Jersey. 178 acknowledging the hiring of Jen Cella as part-time recreation coordinator. And finally 179 approving a resident request for additional handicap parking. Okay. A lot on the resolution list tonight.
Anybody have anything they'd like to discuss? No. What was the one that came up? 171. Yes. So 171 um I don't have a written version of the resolution, but the resolution is
simply authorizing us in form to make application to the New Jersey um water infrastructure environmental infrastructure trust to fund our upcoming water and sewer infrastructure projects. Um this particular amount
we'll be requesting in for four million. Thank you. Anything else? No. Is there a motion to approve resolutions within the consent agenda? I'll make the motion. I'll second. Miss Anderson? Yes. Mrs. Ball Miller?
Yes. Mr. McCaffrey? Yes. Mayor Lambert? Yes. Um I have resolution 173 2025. This is a resolution of the council of the Burough Beach Haven endorsing the housing element and fair share plan that was adopted by the Beach Haven Land use
board on the 23rd. Everybody familiar with this? I you know personally for me this one is difficult because we have been forced to take on this
uh fair share housing and if we don't there would be considerable price to pay but right now we're experiencing things with one of our uh buildings that has fair share housing and uh it's ridiculous because the homeowner fees are through the roof and the state
doesn't regulate that even though they'll regulate the cost of the unit. Um they mandate things. We get no financial help, but we're expected to pick up the slack. Uh there have been numerous construction issues from day one and the people living there are
trying to get it rectified and they're having a difficult time with that and the bureau is always caught in the middle with this and uh I just think the state needs to do much better job of listening to the municipalities. we don't even get to choose who would get those units and right now we have a
tremendous need for young families in this town and it's just a shame and there's nothing we can do about it but I just wanted to put my two cents in that I am not a big fan of this but if we don't endorse it there is a steep price to pay so anybody else yeah I agree with
you uh mayor especially since like you said every municipality is different every municipality has different needs needs for affordable housing. Yet, we have no say in this state program. It's a poorly run state program. It confines
municipalities in what they need moving forward for their own community. And although we are passing this resolution to protect our municipality and we have to because it's in the state constitution, the state needs to do a a better job at this. And everyone says we
need affordable housing. We need affordable housing. You need something that's done correctly and you have to listen to the players in the game. So, I agree with you 100%. Right back at you. Anybody else? No. Colleen, would you mind opening the floor for this? Oh,
certainly. Um, I forgot about that part. Would anybody like to speak to resolution 173 2025? No. On Zoom? No. No. Okay. Now, I guess we can make a motion uh to approve 173
2025. I'll make a motion to approve 173 2025. Second. Thank you. Miss Miss Anderson, yes. Mrs. Ball Miller, yes. Mr. McAffrey, yes. Mayor Lambert, yes. I have a bill list this evening in the amount of
$337,14140. Well, I like the fact that it said zero thing. Yeah. Not for long. Everybody have a chance to review the bills? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Is there a motion to approve bills? So moved. I'll second.
Miss Anderson? Yes. Mrs. Ball Miller? Yes. Mr. McCaffrey? Yes. Mayor Lambert? Yes. Uh for general discussion items, we are still looking at a proposed draft ordinance regulating our outdoor dining. Have you all had a chance to review the latest version? And did you have any
other questions? No, I think I discussed with you my concerns. Yeah. The only thing Did we clear up the the tent permit? The discrepancy. The discrepancy. Um
what she's referring to is that um being able to utilize a tent with the outdoor dining is now like a permitted use. Like it really can't be denied. But our current ordinance for tents and temporary structures says that the tent once permitted has to be taken down
within a certain number of hours, 48 hours or something. Um, and obviously that wouldn't be applicable here. So, I think we still have to add some language there that says it's exempt from we're going to have to break it down into a really tight subsection to say that if it's for an outdoor
dining permit that it would be exempt from that. I didn't. It's not in here. I'll add it. Yeah, that's the only thing. Um, I talked to I talked to uh Bruce, I talked to Sher. I think the biggest concern was the parking lot issue and
you know, we can our our parking ordinance can supersede that. Um, so other than that, that was my biggest concern too was the pardon. I think we've done a good job at writing it for that. Great. Anybody else on the council
have any to add? No. Okay. So, we'll bring that um for introduction in July. Okay. Um proposed ordinance um making 8th Street a oneway. I have Chief Marowski.
Hello. Good evening. So, the uh one way came up on 8th Street. It's a just a 300 block. It would be the same thing as we have on 9inth Street. So when you turn off the boulevard, you would turn off the boulevard and go east uh west towards uh Delaware Avenue. This the
reason uh why we why I like this idea is that um number of things. So Aan Bay is a very busy area. The um you have two lanes on on the boulevard coming south that turns
into one lane right there. and you have one lane going north that turns into two lanes right there. And uh as cars try to pull out onto the boulevard there, it's always gridlocked. We always get cars that are partway out trying to wait for the other cars coming north to stop and
then you have the two lanes going down. People are uh you know packing into one lane coming south. It's it's always chaotic there. Um along with that you have uh the pedestrians who are leaving Fantasy Island and you have
uh new businesses in the past few years which weren't there you know I believe more than five five or six years ago. Uh you have Pliables and Kors Brothers on the northwest corner of Aan Bay and now
you have uh the pizza um Park Pizza I believe it's called um is on the southwest side of that of that intersection. Um given all that it it's a lot busier right there in that corner and uh the owner of Fantasy Island
approached me about it. when he first said it, I was like, that like that's not really something. And more I thought about it, more I thought it would be a lot safer. Um, changing it from a two-way street would also help with
as car right now as cars are going both directions on that 300 block of 8th Street, you'll have cars stopping waiting for a parallel spot to open up. And then, you know, they have to do all that. you have somebody who's coming off the boulevard who's getting impatient who goes around them into the oncoming
traffic um as another car is coming or as a car is pulling out of uh a parallel spot in the opposite direction um that always creates a problem. So if we did one way show going west had both sides of the road parking parallel same you
wouldn't lose any parking spots. You wouldn't lose anything and um it would create a pretty easy flow when you get down to the uh end of the street there. You can make a right to go towards Taylor Avenue which has a traffic light or you can make a left and go over to
Sixth Street which that has a traffic light also. So I don't think it I don't see any downfall in it. Um, I've talked to a few people about it. Just uh that was the idea. I like it. I was just had to drop Quinn off today at Penzones. Was
too windy. Hair was going to get messed up. So I went we crossed over and then when I was pulling left like I could totally see that as we was go as I was going south. You know people are trying to make a lefthand turn right there and
what you want to do is you want to try to make people you know do the lefthand turns at the light. So it it would make it a lot would flow better. But I also think what would also flow better is if we sync the lights. The lights I love that idea. I it's but
it was like a nightmare because so I had to pull in because I wanted to mail something and I had to and I never drive in Beach Haven. I I'm always on my bike but I was had to take her to work and when I you know reversed the one the sixth street light is not synced with the lights like by Murphy. So, it's like
a it's like a chicken act to try to get out in time. Like we all these lights need to be synced. So, everyone stops. The reason why they're not synced now is they they're synced when the county sets them and I believe they sync like every 24 hours or something like that. No, no, they've never been synced since the day
Tuesday since I drove to work. The worst is right here. They were never they when I drove home they were because I'm like these lights better be synced because they used back in the day you could see it. Every single light was synced. That should happen next year when they put the new traffic lights in because then they'll all be um I believe they're all
going to be controlled by one controller. But that would ease the traffic right there also because it that happens everywhere. It happens uh at Angleside and Center Street. When one of those is out of sync, you'll have all the cars are going. If center street's red and angle side needs to all be red
at the same time cross and then when they're not sync it's just it's a nightmare. It's it's an idea I just thought um if I asked you guys to think about it and consider it. Um I didn't think it was a very difficult thing. Few
signs, some paint on the ground. Um and if it doesn't work out, I guess we could always undo it later. Do we have to we have to do an ordinance? Yes, we have to do an ordinance. So, the chief has already provided his written narrative to Frank. Um, and then Frank has to do some engineering certific certification
and then it has to go to the county. So, we're already PS sync the lights. Yeah, we could probably add that. Don't the emergency vehicles have the ability to change? No, ours don't. Um, I believe uh first aid has something that they're able to do, and I'm not sure if it's
every light, but the ones that are that also throws out That's what I was going to say. That's That's what Yeah, that's what throws them out. That's really true, though. It is. Yeah, it is. I've seen I've been there when they I thought our lights would be so old that they couldn't they wouldn't have that technology. Well, I don't know that the old ones do, but certainly
I don't know. I've seen them go through. I've been there and all of a sudden the light turns. I'm like, so we don't know exactly if I have to have the county approval before we introduce or before it's effective, but we'll figure all that out. Um, if we look to introduce on
July 14th, it would be effective on August 31st. And he asks, "We like our lights." Yes, I'll write that. As an eighth street resident, a little inconvenient and, uh, but I understand completely. And that's the other thing with, uh, like you said, uh, for
residents, it shouldn't interfere with any residents because there's no homes on that block. There's no business frontages on that block. Um the one side is the water park and the other side is Fantasy Island. Fantasy Island is all for it. Um it shouldn't interfere with the water park in any way other than um
we'll have to put a sign there where they come out of their parking garage. Yeah. To make a righthand turn rather than left. But even I I don't believe many of the condo owners owners at the end of that street which that's would be two way down there. This is only the 300 block.
Um, I would I would assume that most of them when it's busy come out and go one way or another to a light avoid it. No, I mean you're right. It is a traffic nightmare. I'm just saying that now I used to come right down 8th Street to go
home, but now I won't be able to do that, but that's a minor thing considering the safety aspect. I like the idea of it. But if this was like two or three years ago, I would say no. But once we cleaned up Delaware Avenue and got the the parking off of
there, now you can make it is a wider area. And yeah, and that worked out great. Yeah. And this this will really help. We've had a lot of positive feedback from people um who said how much they like Delaware Avenue being safer for riding your bikes back and forth to the business area. Yeah. Because a couple years ago, you would
never send two two lanes of traffic down there. But I think I think it's a great idea and it's great for uh safety issue. I think that's why I also when he first mentioned it to me, I was like, "No." And the more I sat there talking with him, I was like, "You know what? It's it
really seemed like it would flow." So, I think it's a great idea. Yeah, I'm on board. Did you want to go to number three, too? Um, security for private businesses. Um, at first I wanted I thought this was going to be a good idea to help some of some of the uh problems that we're
having. Um, but the more we talk about it, I I kind of want to put this on hold for a while and see if we can do it a different way. I've talked to a few of the businesses that that were um that are the reason why this came up. Um, for instance,
7-Eleven, um, Skooners Warf, Bay Village, Bay Village actually now has a security person out there. Um, but the original thought on this wasn't to have like a security guard or like a an offduty police officer or anything like that. It was to have
even if like at 7-Eleven, even if they had somebody who just whose sole job wasn't being a clerk, they could have somebody over by the candy aisle because that's where they seem to have their problems is when kids come in, kids are, you know, pulling stuff off the shelves and walking out
and you have one person there at the register who's trying to watch what's going on over there. It could just be a clerk who kind of, you know, almost like like Walmart, most stores have um what do they call loss prevention officer? They don't, you know, they're not police officers or anything like that. It's
just somebody who can call, get a description of of the person who just stole something, maybe see what they Yeah, that's just like keeping it moving, keep it moving, keep it moving. Let's keep Maybe only let a certain amount of kids into the store at one time. Um, you know, I don't want to put
anything extra on the businesses that we don't have to. Uh, I would like to see them do it themselves. So, I'm going to write up a letter and and try to explain what I'm looking for out of it. So, with the ordinance, it was hard to put into
words that we want this for when you're busy because we don't want it doesn't necessarily have to be all the time. Certainly, it doesn't have to be all year round, but even the few weeks between Memorial Day and Fourth of July, there's a few weeks of LOL there where
you wouldn't need it. So, it's it's hard to put that into words. Um, you know, h how to explain how to force a business to do something like this and and I don't want to do that to them, but um So, you're going to tweak this? I'm going I'm going to try to talk them into
doing something on their own first. Okay. Um public outreach like this is our these are these are my suggestions. This is why, you know, it's not our responsibility to be, you know, hands-on 247 in your private operation. You know, we will we're here to protect and to
serve. However, like these are my suggestions that you that you need to do. And the last time I was here, uh, we had the one shop owner from Skooner Warf who said that we were never up there. Um, I went back and talked to my guys and they had coordinated with Tino, who
is their, um, groundskeeper. That's all they need is somebody like somebody like that. They they talked to him a hundred times over that holiday weekend. So they they were up there and then I called him and I told him about it and he's like, "Well, I never saw them." And so I asked him, I said, "Well, were you inside your
store?" And he said, "Yes." Well, how would you know? So that that's been taken care of. Um, but if I can kind of get them to have somebody more present, uh, they they've put some, uh, barriers across some of their openings, which
seems to help a little bit because if you're up there after those barriers are up, then you're not supposed to be up there. It's it's pretty easy to see. But, uh, I know we've had some my the officers have had some discussions from
Queen City Marina owner. Um, he wanted an officer to because people were going onto his property after, you know, after the bars were closing and I'm like, I can't I can't post somebody in that giant property to stop people from going in there. Um,
so we're working on it. We're I'm going to try to address that in a different way. And years ago, people the business owners used to just hire somebody. I I we talked about that last time with uh 7-Eleven used to hire security. Skooners
had security. Morrison's Morrison's had security. Um, you know, Fancy Island now has security. Chicken and the Egg does security on their own. Um, I I don't think it's something we have to force them to do. I think it's something we need to just convince them it's a smart move for them. It would be advantageous
for them to hire somebody. So, well, as long as they understand, too, that our police department is here for the town and not specifically to safeguard certain businesses. That's the crux. I mean, it wouldn't be fair for us to have our officers posted inside Fantasy Island the whole night, right? And, you
know, they they've always gotten that and they've they have security. So, um, if I can get everybody else to understand, maybe we can make headway that way and go from there. They should all do that ride around with you, Chief. Then they would see what all goes on in
this town. And it is literally all over town. And as you say, we're short on help again. and we don't have enough officers to cover everybody's individual needs. So, you doing neighborhood watch on Tuesday? Uh, I probably will be here. I don't think there's any reason why I
won't, but we'll have we'll have somebody here for it. Yeah, there was no one here Tuesday. Nathan neighborhood w no officers or no uh citizens? No people. Okay. No citizens. Yeah, I was outside waiting for the officers to come through, but no
one came. I will uh you know we'll post it again on online to see if everybody can be made aware of it. It it's it's in the past years it's only been you know usually between Fourth of July and you know Labor Day you'll have a few
people show up at the first couple when there's a problem and then by the end of the summer they don't they don't show up anymore. So all right thank you very much. Great. Thanks, Jim. That's all we have. Okay.
Uh, saying we're done general discussion, we will now open the floor to public comment. Um, please hold it to three minutes and be sure to ID yourself. Anybody in the audience like to speak? No.
Yeah. Anybody on Zoom care to speak? Not really. No. No. Okay. Seeing none, we'll close the floor to public comment and go to our final remarks. And Mrs. Ball Miller, looks like you kick it off tonight. Great. Um, I'm just going to
announce that neighborhood watch meets Tuesday at 6 PM. You can come in through the police entrance. You can come and voice your concerns with your local neighborhood officers. I just wanted to say thank you for the
public works. The beaches look amazing. Um, even though we did have a round of beach replenishment this summer, doesn't look like the beaches have unfortunately increased in size, it's still yet the beginning of summer, so we still will
have some uh placement from the offshore sandbar, but it doesn't look like it as large as, you know, we hopefully anticipated. So, but they still look amazing. And I was in the office on Monday, and it just amazes me. It's always good to say to
hear thank you. So thank you ladies. I mean it's just a revolving door of people coming in with issues because of you know the influx of people which is guys everybody works well together and so thank you for that as well. Thank you and uh um good luck to our police
officers for the upcoming week. Just take a deep breath because it's coming. It's coming. We will have the sheriff's department and uh help from other towns too for the fire. Good. Great. Good. Because uh next week is the 4th of July which falls on a Friday which means that
people will will be arriving earlier than Friday to enjoy the week. So I'm just asking everyone to ble to please be safe, be considerate to your neighbors. Please be aware of the uh curfew that you're for your children that it's 9:00 off the beaches and 10:00 off the
streets and please help our officers with that. And other than that, enjoy your holiday. Thank you, Mr. McCaffrey. You follow that? She covered everything. Just uh everybody have a good Fourth of July and be careful out there because it
it will get crazy. Thank you, Miss Anderson. No, I was just going to wish everybody happy 4th, too. And uh to say thank you to everybody at the burrow and our town, public works, police management. Um, I've only been in six months and it I said it was going to
be a learning curve and it's definitely a learning curve, but um, I'm thankful we all get along and and talk about stuff and work things out. Thank you. Um, again, it was all very well covered and happy for it. And just for the
parents out there, I know, you know, everybody thinks that their child would never do anything. Please ask your children where they're going, who they're going to be with, and make sure they're in by curfew time so everybody can have a nice, safe, and happy fourth. Is the Can I just add one more thing?
Certainly. I just wanted to remind everyone that we are having um our annual bike auction. We have about 50 bikes to auction. Uh we're going to do that on Tuesday, July 1st at 10:00 a.m. in the parking lot right here be behind the municipal building. And uh
Councilman McAffrey is going to be MCing and Miss Anderson will be assisting zel or Venmo or cash only or cash or check. Cash or check. Cash is king. Thank you. Thank you. Is there a motion to adjurnn?
So moved. Go ahead. Oh, that's it. Thank you. All you need. You don't need to second it. Meeting adjourned.