It is Thursday, January 29th. Welcome to the Burough Beach Haven agenda meeting. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance led by Mr. McCaffrey. 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. 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 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. McAffrey >> here, >> Miss Snder >> here, >> Mayor Lambert >> here.
We have uh the January 29th, 2026 community development block grant meeting and the January 29th, 2026 regular meeting minutes for approval without formal reading. >> Anything anybody wants to bring up? >> No.
>> Excuse me. Okay. Is there a motion to approve >> to approve the minutes? >> Thank you. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? I >> I >> motion approved. Thank you. 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 59, amending our shared services agreement for construction code enforcement services, the schedule A and schedule B. Resolution 60, updating the emergency
management council. 61, authorizing to advertise for bids for ice cream vendors. 62 authorizing execution of a shared agreement with the county of Ocean for participation in the regionalized SWAT and crisis negotiation team.
63 permitting a burrowwide yard sale. 64. Supporting legislation requiring ownership information when residential rental housing is purchased by limited liability corporations. 65. Authorizing the Burough Beach Haven to enter into the New Jersey Cooperative
Purchasing Alliance. 66. Approving a sidebar agreement with Teamsters Local 97 to assign a stipen for qualified plumbing duties. 67 awarding a contract to Corin Maine for the water and sewer department
parts. And finally, 68, approving an expenditure in an amount not to exceed $6,18.38 for the purchase of radios and equipment for the police department. >> Okay. Is there anybody who would like to remove anything for discussion?
>> No. Want me? >> Okay. If not, is there a motion to approve the resolution? >> I'll second. >> Thank you. Miss Anderson, >> yes. >> Mrs. Ball Miller? Yes, >> Mr. McCaffrey. >> Yes, >> Miss Snder. >> Yes,
>> Mayor Lambert. >> Yes, >> we have a bill this evening in the amount of $350,3582. >> Everybody have a chance to review the bills? One of the lower amounts we've had lately. So, >> um, is there a motion to approve the
bills? >> I make a motion to approve the bills. >> Thank you. >> Second. Thank you, Miss Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Ball Miller, >> yes. >> Mr. McAffrey, >> yes. >> Miss Snder, >> yes. >> And Mayor Lambert,
>> yes. >> For under general discussion, I did receive a request from our tennis attendant Anne Pascus. Um, looking for possibly some new legislation um to regulate the tennis courts to
prohibit the tennis courts to be used for pickle ball play. Um, so I did invite her to join us tonight to discuss it. Um, let me see if she's available. >> Ann, are you there? >> Yes, I am. >> Okay. And if you wanted to speak to
council about your request, go right ahead. >> Okay. Uh I've been a tennis attendant for approximately 10 years and over this past summer uh we had several incidences with um some out of town pickle ball
players. Our local players uh have just been wonderful and have not tried to use the courts during tennis hours. the out of town is we had two uh escalated incidences that our regular male tennis players
actually stepped in and took care of. So, with this happening and becoming more uh prevalent during the season, I was just wondering if we could amend the tennis ornament um ordinance to state
that there would be uh tennis only on the tennis courts or worded no, but make it an ordinance. So when myself or one of the younger uh staff members have an incident, we could call the police and
they could address the offenders. >> Any questions for you? No, I know uh obviously I play tennis a lot and I have seen this occasionally, but I know also too the fact that uh one of the net handles was broken this year because the pickle ball players were lowering the
net and it took two and a half weeks to get that back in. So the tennis players were without the court. It's just we there's signage all over the place. It's very obvious, but they're still not observing it and the attendants are getting a hard time over it. We have beautiful pickle ball courts and from
what I understand especially after our actions last year to change the times. The courts are readily available. I think people just don't feel like making the hike but it is getting problematic on the tennis courts. So that's why I know Ann had mentioned to me that she
was making this request. I understand. >> Yes. And you know what I forgot to add that we were over two weeks without it and it happened to be Fourth of July weekend. So that what you know the whole vacation the busiest part of our season but what we're experiencing this year
that didn't happen before if one of our courts was open and the tennis players were coming on pickle ball players would jump on and then not get off and wanted to play while the you know tennis was
being played. and we don't have any um any any right to call the police because it's not an ordinance. So, some of them got a little bit testy. So, we're we're just asking for a little help down there. >> I um Can you hear me, guys?
>> I I I did talk to Sher about this because my first my first inclination was do we really need an ornate about this because I feel like things have been kumbaya, things have been working well. But after speaking to Sher and thank you um Ann for speaking up tonight
um and for being with us for 10 years. Um after hearing what went on last year based upon the broken crank and then Sher said they they there was chalk lines drawn that DPW had to clean it off. Um the crank was broken. We had to replace
it. There was some you know play missing at at a crunch time in the season. And you know, again, you know, one or two bad or four bad apples spoil the bunch. So, um, I just I think that I'm I mean, I'm fine with this and I think sadly it
would help. So, >> anybody else? >> No. >> Looks like the only way that you could you have any authority is Yeah. >> with an ordinance. So, I would say yes. Sadly, you know, >> I can't imagine pickle ball people being, you know, argumentative.
But, um, unfortunately, if that's the case, then, uh, we would probably have to put some type of ordinance in so everybody plays nicely. >> Genie Jamie, I have to say I don't think that is appropriate to say, and I don't play pickball and I don't play tennis,
but I don't think that is professional thing to say. As much as I respect you, with all due respect, >> yeah, I think I'm just holding a grudge because of my skate park. That's also a >> Yeah, I know. Well, that's, you know,
Lori, >> I don't have a problem with the ordinance. >> Okay. I will get something drafted and then we can consider moving forward and then obviously it'll come up for um public hearing before it gets adopted. >> Right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Mrs. Pascus. Yeah.
>> Appreciating it. Okay. Thanks. I have. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Are we moving on now to public comment then? >> Yes. >> Anything else I'm missing? Okay. All right. We're going to open the floor to public comment. Please hold it three minutes. Don't forget to ID yourself.
Sue Sharpie, 10 North Delaware Avenue. Um, thank you as always that I always want to say thank you. That's why I'm here just because if you have to be here, I try to drag myself here. Um, as far as that pickle ball ordinance, I I'm just thinking devil's advocate. Last year, I think it was last year or two years ago, we tried to keep the pricing
the same between tennis and pickle ball. We tried to do all this parody kind of thing. So, it seems like there should be more of an umbrella kind of ordinance that loosely says you can't skateboard on the basketball court, you can't play
tennis on or rollerblade on the pickle ball court. So rather than do this one pigeon hole thing, maybe you can come up with a broader thing. If we had a skate park, you couldn't fly a kite on the skate park. So something just that it should be
>> its intended use that would have muster. But most of all, I think you've got great employees. Most of all, you want your employees to know that they their level of stress should immediately, you know, be under control with the backing
knowing that they can call their supervisor or and or the police is kind of what I think. So rather than just make this pigeon hole, cover everything at the same time, >> right? So thank you. Thank you. >> Anybody else in the audience?
>> No. Is there anybody else online who would like to speak? Anyone on Zoom wish to be heard for public comment? If you could raise an electronic hand. I don't see any. >> Okay. Seeing none, we'll close the floor to public comment and move on to final
remarks by council. And Mr. McCaffrey, you kick it off tonight. >> Very good. Uh again, I would like to put out a thank you to public works and the police department and uh everybody else that helped with u the snow removal and
the emergencies that went on. Uh and also I would like to uh let everybody know that the Southern Regional Boys wrestling team won the state championship again. This is their fourth year running. So congratulations to them.
>> Yeah, congratulations. Awesome. That's it. >> That's it, >> Mrs. Snyder. >> Thank you. Um, I just want to start off by just saying to the public and council knows I'm I'm taking a little time to
visit my daughter and son-in-law and granddaughter in Austin, Texas. And I will obviously I'm here tonight and I will be zooming into the next meeting. I apologize to the public because I like to be there in person. and I have a pretty good track record for attendance, but I do want to just let you know that
um this should be it for me and I appreciate your understanding. Again, thanking the DPW. I mean, I I took a ride out the other night when like after it stopped snowing to I needed something from stupidly I went out and beach haven
was fine. My god, the township, nobody plowed and thanks to our guys, they went ahead and plowed the county roads for us. They did such a great job. I mean, as always, we're forever in their debt. I want to thank them and all our first responders who really, you
know, take the brunt of it. Thank you. That's it. >> Thank you, Mrs. Anderson. >> Uh, couple of things. I saw the seasonal beach badges today. They're beautiful. Everybody needs to save up for their
celebr celebratory 250 year firework beach. And uh Sue, you're in the audience. You did a remarkable job at Be Our Guest. It was so heartwarming. Yes. Everybody just loved it. Every every everybody um I enjoyed it very much and uh thanks
so much so highly of you for all the work that you do. Um I have a couple questions. Um but that's not part of public comment, right? >> Final comment. >> I was going to ask about ebikes. Do we have laws coming up for those? Yeah, the
chief is here. If you want him to speak to it, it might be good to put it on the record for the public. >> Would you like to? >> Uh, so as far as the ebikes go, uh, we know that the state has made a new law, but the biggest question is that motor
vehicle hasn't quite caught up with the state law yet. So, there's a lot of questions still. Um, As far as what kinds of ebikes, motor vehicles going to let you register, that's kind of up to them. They have to figure out how they're going to do it for ones that don't have
VIN numbers and stuff like that. So, we don't we don't have answers for a lot of that stuff yet. As far as um the rules for the people who are going to be riding them, uh that's it's pretty clear. Um there's a like I don't know it off the top of my head yet because it's
still pretty new, but it's um it's all related to age and you have to have a driver's license to operate one and you know I I believe it's if you're under 17. >> Yeah. 15. If you're 15 Yeah, >> you have to wear a helmet and stuff like that. >> 15 you can get a moped license for all
of them. Um but there's no more classes anymore. We had the class one class or A, B, and C, however it went, but that's gone. I know we posted it on our Facebook and stuff like that, but the the questions that are being raised are all >> more motor vehicle type questions that
we can't answer yet. >> Ex and the insurance companies also have to catch up. They have to write policies to cover things. >> There are a couple insurance companies out there that are doing policies. I' I've seen people post uh things that of different company names that they're using. Um >> Right.
>> It's always interesting, right? >> It's always interesting the way they do it. No, >> but how is that? >> I just have a question. I mean, with the, you know, the juvenile laws, >> how is that going to work? >> You can still write a juvenile motor vehicle infractions. That's not a It's never been an issue. So, I mean, if a
kid's driving a car without a driver's license, you can write him a ticket and then he loses his license when he gets a ticket. >> Um, they can, you know, get tickets for anything that's under Title 39. I mean, that's why uh, you know, a 17-year-old who has their license can get tickets.
So, >> so all those violations will fall under laws that have already been written. >> Yep. A lot of them will, I'm sure, there's going to be some cleanup once they >> right, >> you know, figure it out. But motor vehicle is really the the hurdle and we don't have any answers for that yet. And
it's it's I know a lot of people on our Facebook page um are commenting uh you know thinking that it's Beach Haven doing it, but it's it was a state thing. It wasn't us. It was a state. >> I think that people need to realize that when a state law passes, a state law
trumps everything else, county and municipality. So whatever the state does as far as law, that's the law of the land. The all of the counties, all of the municipalities have to follow suit. So, it'll be interesting because they did there is a sixmonth grace period that started January.
>> Yeah, I believe it's it's >> January 14th. >> Sometime in July, I think I think I saw the date of July 23rd is when the grace period's over, but >> so it'll be interesting to see if they maybe push that grace period, but as of right now, we don't we don't know anything. >> We don't we don't know. We haven't been updated on anything. And uh like I said,
the the biggest hurdle is going to be motor vehicle because everybody everybody knows how they work, >> right? I was excited when I saw the new laws that was like, "Thank God," you know, and I mean, for those on your Facebook page, I mean, if it was up to us and up
to the towns, there would be a lot more laws and a lot sooner because it's we need >> it's just a matter of time before there's a lot of disasters. And it's I'm glad thank god they're at least trying and
>> just just to clarify it's there's no m 15 is the minimum age for any electric >> I know >> apparat Yeah. So it's it's going to be difficult. >> I think there I think it's going to be treated kind of like mopeds. >> Um >> I just don't I honestly don't know how
it's going to be handled by motor vehicle. That's that's our big thing everybody's asking how you >> just a quick question. What would you do if you think a kid's about 12 and you you know how do you you know can can you just pull him over? How does that work? >> We'd have to have we'd have to have
reasonable suspicion to believe you know to be able to stop the vehicle. So, um, >> and they don't have >> we wouldn't just go around, we're not just going to go around stopping, you know, same thing with cars. If >> you you have to have a, you know, reason to stop a vehicle and it's it's going to
be treated as a vehicle and um, you know, all the same rules are going to apply that we apply to vehicles. So, we're not just going to be driving. If everything they're saying goes through, will they have everyone that drives a an electric bike will have to have license in their possession or a
permit or whatever? >> They're going to have to have a they're going to have to have at least a moped license or what whatever they call it, whatever they decide to call the license that they're giving them. And um you know, the one question was about how
we're going to know if they're licensed, the moped is registered and stuff. I would assume they're going to have to do something like a license plate like they do for a motorcycle and like they did for mopeds. >> Yeah. >> But again, >> hey folks. >> Yeah. Don't buy your 12-year-old any bike.
>> Well, tell that to people. >> I know for people that bought that for Christmas as their Christmas present. >> Yeah. I'm just like, >> word of advice, >> you can still ride them on private property, but private properties, as long as you have permission from the property owner, >> they can be on private property. But
>> yeah, >> you know, other than that, they're going to have to follow the state regulations, >> whatever they might be. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Do you have anything else or you >> should we post Do we have we posted that on our website, Sher? Just so people
>> Yeah, it's on the police page. >> Thank you. >> Did say that. Since Susan's here, we'll let you know that what we um part of the consent agenda tonight was to get funding for the playground down at Nelson, too. So, that should be happening before.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. I mean, Sher, do you mind filling them everybody in on that? You and I talked about Jake. >> Yeah. Tonight on the agenda, we join the New Jersey Cooperative Purchasing Alliance. Um that way starting tomorrow we can go ahead and issue purchase
orders to go ahead and get the playground equipment ordered. We won't need to go to bid for the stuff because it's on these co-ops. It's under state contract. Lead time on the orders will be about 6 to 8 weeks and then we're going to start installing. So um yeah,
after tonight 6 to 8 weeks hopefully we'll see some movement there. I did I believe you told me Sherry that there are a couple areas that won't be uh eligible for the co-op like the bathrooms and a couple other thing like two things I think two areas >> the bathroom renovation and the fence
but we can put those together and do a quote for those because they will be below the formal bid threshold. >> Yeah, which is awesome. >> Really like to see this and hopefully we'll see it by summer.
>> Exciting. Thank you. >> Are you done? Okay. Uh, Mrs. Bo Miller. >> Um, I just wanted to uh talk about this storm. I'm always talking about I love a good snowstorm, but it's really
nice to know how our town reacted. Um, I was very confident that we would be able to handle this storm and we we were. I mean, I wanted to say thank you to public works, the emergency management team who kept us constantly notified.
Um, police, fire, and the first aid squad. We don't realize, you know, there were emergencies that they had to take care of and through severe weather, they still persevered. So, it's I'm just very proud of all of them, and I'm proud to say that, you know, they're from this
town and they did an excellent job. Thank well at the risk of repeating everybody. Um kudos and our deepest gratitude to our entire team that was our emergency management team Adam Ellander I know the chief captain Fay uh
George Salazar is Robert Chambers I'm not >> and they monitored the town 247 I know I came in on Saturday and they were all at it and they did an admirable job. um police department and we'll we'll talk a little bit more about our uh issue uh
because again they did a phenomenal job getting out to people and making sure everyone was safe. Public works I can't say enough. I mean they were amazing. And again people with the driveways please understand for safety they're going to clear the streets first then
either email or call the number. Nobody will answer. Leave a message and if you're if the tape is full then email. but they'll get to you. If you have a critical need, like last storm, we had somebody who needed to get out for dialysis, call the non-emergency police
department number and they will direct public works specifically to you ahead of some of the others. So, we do have a contingency plan and again, fire first aid. I know at least one fire call came out during the storm that I could hear and we don't hear first aid. So, we really are extremely fortunate in this
town to have such a great group of people. Thank you. The one issue that came up that we realized there was a little bit of a gap and it was just one we discovered by accident was that as people were experiencing power outages they were calling Atlantic Electric but Atlantic Electric was overwhelmed and
they weren't notifying the town. So the town didn't really know who had an issue. So vi I mean I'm getting calls and emails and when I spoke with um Adam he was like no I didn't know that and I know the chief wasn't aware either because Atlantic Electric was too busy
to let us know. So going forward what we would like everybody to do is if especially if you're a senior and you're alone. Please also call the non-emergency police number so they know to check on you if necessary or you can check in back and forth with them. But
we don't want anybody out there by themselves with no power. We did have one lady who was uh relying on her oven, which of course isn't safe. So the other thing is that they were able to direct. We knew one street in particular had a lot of seniors that was out and they were able the police and emergency
department were able to direct the Atlantic City electric trucks to them. So please, we got to keep in touch. Don't be afraid to call and don't assume Atlantic Electric is letting us know because they're not. Um, other than that, you know, u hopefully we've seen
the last of these storms. We've had two pretty major ones this year already. And again, thank you for an admirable, incredible job. Um, and that's about it. So, um, on that note, is there a motion to adjurnn? >> I'll make a motion to adjurnn.
>> Very good. Thank you. Meeting adjourned. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Have fun.