Yeah, it's certainly ready. We're on. >> Good evening. Welcome to the Beach Haven B Council meeting. It is Tuesday, November 25th at 6 PM. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance led by Mrs. Boner. I pledge algiance 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 here, Mayor Lambert >> here. I have the October 30th, 2025 agenda meeting minutes for approval without formal reading. >> Everybody have a chance to review. >> Is there a motion to approve?
>> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion approved. Um, ordinance 202528 is the 2025 salary ordinance to establish the base salary and ranges for
the officers and employees of the Burough Beach Haven. First reading. >> As it is first reading, there's no public comment. Anybody on the council wish to comment on? That's pretty straightforward. So, seeing none, is
there a motion to approve 2025-28? I'll make a motion to approve 2025-28. >> Thank you. I'll second it. >> Miss Anderson? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Paul Miller? >> Yes. >> Mr. McCaffrey? >> Yes. >> Miss Snder? >> Yes.
>> Mayor Lambert? >> Yes. >> All matters listed under item consent agenda are 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 discussed separately. All consent agenda items will be reflected in full in the minutes. Resolution 247 is the NJ Dacres program enabling resolution for our
Jake's Playground project. 248 is budget transfers. 249's authorizing an executive SE session to discuss our uh evacuation re-entry planning. 250 ex um authorizing execution of a shared
agreement with Ocean County for schedule C. 251 authorizing the sale of surplus property no longer needed for public use in an online auction. 252 authorizing the execution of an agreement with Ocean County for animal facility facility
services and 254 acknowledging the promotion of Robin Young to construction official. Is there anything anybody would like to have removed for discussion? >> Not me. >> No. Okay. Seeing none, is there a motion to approve the resolutions within the
consent agenda? >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. Miss Anderson, >> yes. >> Mrs. Ball Miller, >> yes. >> Mr. McCaffrey, >> yes. >> Miss Snder, yes. Mayor Lambert, >> yes. >> We have a bill list this evening in the
amount of $73,614.70. Everybody have a chance to review the bills. >> Okay. Is there a motion to approve? >> I make a motion to approve the bills. >> I'll second it. >> Miss Anderson? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Ball Miller? >> Yes. >> Mr. McAffrey.
>> Yes. >> Mrs. Snder. >> Yes. >> Mayor Lambert. >> Yes. >> That's all I have. Okay. We've reached public comment. Um, please hold it to three minutes and don't forget to come up, identify yourself. Uh, anybody in the room like to speak?
>> Mrs. Shy, >> stranger. Okay. >> Sue Sharky 10 North Delaware um, Avenue. I'm just here to say thank you to all of you. I haven't seen you individually. um on behalf of me personally and Compassion Cafe summer and fall were
just fabulous around here. And now I look around the burrow employees, you know, led by your leadership. The town looks fabulous. And just a real quick shout out upcoming on Friday with the library Kapplers and the museum along
with other things. It's just a great place to be and I want to thank you for that. Um, I'm really excited about the Jake's Playground that you know that's moving forward and um, as you're looking to spend on or or put effort into the next project, I'm always thinking
recreation. So, I'm really hoping for um hopefully Jen will continue with us and maybe get some more programming >> uh, for 2026. And um I know over at Walshfield the the gazebo disintegrated and had to be taken down or whatever
plans I I know things cost a lot of money these days. Don and I have talked about you know I think everybody has talked about that field is underutilized and Don and I have talked about um kind of a an asphalt not fancy asphalt running track. So maybe that's in the
long range plans. I'd love to see things without the field would not be disturbed at all. I think it would be a safe safe place for um new bikers to go, walkers to go, community, you know, you know, we
put up signs. This is this many laps, makes a mile, whatever. Um but, you know, whatever you're looking at it, replacing the gazebo, I know it costs a lot of money, so I'm not pressuring you to do that. And I know we're thinking thinking big. So, we we do a lot of
good. We do a lot of good. And I'm sure you hear um sometimes a little bit of bad or setback, but I just want to say keep up the good work and thank you. >> It is being replaced. >> I say it's on order. Correct. That's right. So much. >> Thank you, Sue.
>> There's anybody else in the audience? >> Can I pull chief up? >> Sure. >> I asked the chief if he would compile some statistics for us for the last two years. Um, so I just wanted to tell you how
much better this summer was compared to last summer. So that was uh we put together with some of the numbers. >> Great. >> Um, in 2024 we had 24,000 curbside warnings. Uh, this year 2025 we had 14,000. So it was a decrease of 10,000
curbside warnings. Uh, curfew violations, these are warnings for curfews. Uh 2024 it was 20,000. Uh this year it was 9,000. Down about 10,000. Uh the percentages are on there. It's a
54% decrease. Um property damage and vandalism that we can attribute to uh juveniles was uh 26 in incidences in 2024 and in 2025 it was uh nine which is a decrease
of 65%. um that doesn't account for all of the things that we couldn't attribute solely to juvenile issues, but um I know in 2024 we had a lot more damage to pavilions and uh dune fences and stuff
like that which was most likely done uh you know from juveniles because they would hang out up there. Uh we were a lot more proactive this year with that. Um and then the arrests for the juveniles it was um 31 in 2024 and 22 in
2025 which is uh nine less decrease of 29%. Um the uh one of the one of the things that I attribute it to is the guys are being more aggressive with writing curfew violations. Uh in 2024 we wrote 31 and
in 2025 we wrote 67. So we doubled that. Uh that helps. Uh we haven't had teen night which is a big difference. We're we're not running around chasing kids at night up on the beaches and you know trying to find them. We're not getting a big influx of people coming in from out
of town. It's uh seems like it's the kids that are here on vacation and a lot of local kids you know just from the general area. Um our CAD tickets overall are down about 5,000 uh from 2024 to 2025. So, um
the vandalism being down that much so uh that saves the taxpayers a lot of money with >> replacing the spindles at the uh at the pavilions and uh replace having the uh public works go out and replace dune fencing and and fix it, put it back up,
you know, the next day. So, >> this is great. Thank you very much for taking the time to do this and it's very telling. It's a It was a It was a big improvement from LA last year to this year. The guys noticed a lot. Um we we got a lot of uh comments from the public
about how much better it was this year. >> I've heard the same thing. >> I mean, just work working with teenagers alone, it's mentally draining when you have, you know, teenagers that are disrespectful to you as an adult. It's mentally draining on your on your >> on your person. And so just to not have
an influx from, you know, the neighboring towns and just dealing with our our own tourism and our own renters and, you know, our own local children, it has to be a big release of pressure on on our on our guys. So >> no, we we still have a decent amount of kids at the park, but it's nothing like
it was like this year, you know, on any night, we we might have 100 150 kids. Um, and you know, where previously there would be 500 kids there, >> right? And so We're just not running into the kids that are coming from Tom's River and coming from uh you know some
of the further towns. They're they're not coming down here because you know there's not as much of a drop. >> They're not just getting dropped off on the teen night and then we can have it. >> So that that's good. I mean I can't think of anything else that would significantly cause this decrease besides that.
>> Yeah. I mean teen not having a teen night has helped us a lot. >> So we're also not as spread as thin. we didn't get to hire as many as we wanted this summer. Um, so, you know, we weren't spread as thin either, so which was helpful. >> So, what do you recommend for next
summer now that we're planning the same? >> I would stick with the same. Um, you know, if if we stay in this, you know, you know, in this position, then maybe down the road we could go and uh, you know, put the curfew back up. I know some of you want to, you know, bring the
curfew back up to midnight and, you know, I'm okay with that. It's just uh you know I'd like to uh I'd like to at least give it another summer to try to get you know make sure things stay the way they they're going >> and keeping you want the park still open
and everything the same. >> Yeah, the park seems to be fine. It's not as uh bad down there now. >> Okay. >> The um you know even a lot of business owners said it wasn't nearly as bad this year. The kids weren't out of control as as they were. Um, yeah, we're we're uh
definitely dealing with like businesses a little bit better with uh they're getting more used to like the ice cream places. We haven't heard complaints about that when they have like a line of people outside. We're not bothering a line of people unless there's a problem and then when we get there if there's, you know, a bunch of kids hanging out
there, if they're done, >> right, >> getting their ice cream, we're time to go curfew. >> Um, but increasing the number of tickets we've written, I think, helped also. Are you thinking that you could reduce your summer specials from 30 to 20 >> going forward?
>> We we had hoped to be at 30. I think we were in the mid 20s this year. So, you know, if we could keep it in the mid to lower 20s, um would be would be good. We had a a good group of people this year and they were all, you know, good workers.
>> Good. >> It's hard to find right now. >> Yeah. It helps that you're not being bered by a 13-year-old, >> right? We're still still But it still happens. >> Yeah, it still happens, but not at I mean >> just we're not being outnumbered by >> Exactly. It's mentally draining.
>> It was definitely a better summer. >> We'd like to thank you for your hard work. You make you make our job a little easier. >> I appreciate you. >> And tell the men and women of the department that good job. >> Thank you so much for Thank you for together. That was really It's really
helpful. Thank you very much. >> Anybody else in the audience? You guys are saving yourselves, right? >> I forgot to say the firehouse also. So, somebody should say that. >> Oh, yeah. There's so much going on. I was just gonna, you know, but yeah, I'm
sure everybody will hit it. Um, how about online? Is there anybody on Zoom? >> Nope. Okay, then we will close the floor to public comment and um we are going into executive session, so we'll do our final remarks by council first. And I believe Mrs. Barn Miller, you get to
kick it off tonight. Um, okay. I'll just be really uh quick. As Miss Shy said, there are a ton of things going on for this holiday season. Beach Haven is the greatest place to be
for the Christmas season. There's um a ton of events. Please check uh social media. The Visit Beach Haven and the Beach Haven Chamber on Facebook has constantly been updating on the weekly events. The majority of them are this
week. Starting off with we have the um fire department craft show bazaar from 11 till 5. >> Yeah. >> About and also they're selling Christmas wreaths there for a fundraising.
And I I don't know what time cap I'm going to save Kapplers for you because I don't know exactly when this I know the ice car has been moved to Saturday. And then the horse >> sat Friday. >> The horses are Friday 46, >> right? Caplers looks amazing. They and the whole town looks amazing. So thank you to the uh public works for all of
your your decorations and stuff like that. Everything looks Everything looks amazing. >> Um yeah, so that's it. >> I'm going to save it for everyone else so I don't steal everybody's >> Mr. McCaffrey, you already did. >> I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I have a wonderful
Thanksgiving. >> That's Yeah, that's that's a privilege of going first. Um, yeah, down Kapplers they have uh Carol's with Michael Corass who's very good singer who grew up here. >> Um,
then we get to what's it the the 6th of December we have the community arts program with the tree lighting. I don't think we have a meeting till after that. I never like to mention that. Get my seat >> and everybody have a wish everybody a
happy Thanksgiving. >> Mrs. Snider, >> thank you. Um yeah, I mean just Jamie kind of said it all, but um >> specifically on Friday it is 4 to 6 at Cablers. They're only doing the horse and buggies one time, one day this year, one night. And they're going to have an
ice sculpture and that's Mike Corless on Saturday night, I think. >> Yeah. 3:30 to 5:30 is the ice country. >> And then I'm also we're I'm doing samores in the park from 4:00 to 6:00 at the same time on Friday night. And then the museum is doing some more they're going to do fire pits and samores
Saturday I think in the afternoon. I'm not sure the times on that. So hopefully everybody will come out and decorate your house. You can join a lake contest really doing a great job >> contest. And um I wanted to thank the public works department because the town looks
great. They did such a nice job. It's so cute. >> One day I went by and the tree was in the park was like it looked like the lean tower and then the next day it was nice and straight. I guess the wind. >> Yeah. And wish everyone a um a very happy Thanksgiving. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Mrs. Anderson. >> Um all I have is I know Susan mentioned there's an event Friday afternoon at the library, right? I think it's from 12 to 4. Um, games for the kids. >> It's Saturday, I think. The >> Oh, is it Saturday? >> Yeah, I think the library is Saturday.
>> I thought so. >> My bad. My bad. Yeah, but Patrick will be there, right? Saturday. >> Writing a book. I think that's wonderful. >> Oh, yeah. >> Whoever can come, I hope >> we'll show up and support him. I think that's great. And, uh, thanks to everybody at the burrow for all they do.
You never know what goes on behind the scenes. I'm learning. and uh happy Thanksgiving. Have a good one. >> Thank you. Well, it's all been said. Yeah, the town looks great. Bhole, the streets, the parks, all fabulous. Thank you, Public Works Chief. Thank you for
the statistics. I think that really was very telling and uh good direction the town is going in. Um please remember all the festivities. You've heard all about them several times. I just grabbed the sandpaper. Usually that covers a lot of it. Um and um please shop local. support
our local businesses and happy Thanksgiving. I think that's it. So, um on that note, I guess we will adjourn to executive session. Yes. Um we are going to be in executive session approximately 45 minutes. Uh we don't anticipate
taking any formal action in close session and we will not take formal action in the public when we return either. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for having me. >> Thank you. All right, >> guys. Thank you guys for
>> We are reconvening the public session at 7:08 p.m. >> We have a motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> Oh, thank you. >> All right. Meeting adjourned. Thank you very much. >> Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. >> Yep. saying to you.