her versions of the existing good to go good evening it is Monday April 14th and it is a regular council meeting of the Beach Haven Burough Council would you please join us in 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 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 b Miller here mr mccaffrey here miss Snder here mayor Lambert here we're going to start the agenda tonight with resolution 113 2025 approving the promotion of Lieutenant Lisa Fay to the
position of captain in the Beach Haven Police Department and acknowledging the execution of an employment contract is there a motion to approve this resolution i'll make a motion i'll second it miss Anderson yes mrs ball Miller yes mr
mccaffrey yes miss Snder yes mayor Lambert yes so at this time we'd like to invite Lisa up with her family can you move that [Music] i do solemnly swearly swear that I will
support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the government established in the United
States and in this statement under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will faithfully and partially and justly perform that I will faithfully perform all the duties of the office of captain
Police Department of the Office of Captain Can I ask for a motion to recess motion to recess i'll make a motion second all right we are reconvening the public meeting it is 6:10 p.m
sorry finance report wait I have to skip the finance report don't have it in my pile here i have minutes for you um I have minutes for approval without formal reading the March 10th regular
meeting and the March 13th budget workshop everybody have a chance to review them okay is there a motion to approve the March 10th and March 13th minutes i make a motion to approve the minutes thank you i'll second all in
favor i any opposed motion approved ordinance 20256C an ordinance amending chapter 212 zoning definitions of the burough code of the Burough Beach Haven County of Ocean state of New Jersey to amend the definition of accessory buildings or
structures residential and retaining walls final reading since it is the final reading it's open for public comment anybody out in the audience here wish to make a comment [Music] seeing none um anybody on Zoom would we
no one has a hand up okay um anybody on the council like to make a comment no this is the 17th time we I know okay you got it right you tired of writing it is there a motion to approve 2025-6
i'll make the motion i'll second m anderson yes mrs paul Miller yes mr mccaffrey yes miss Snder yes mayor Lambert yes ordinance 20257C an ordinance amending chapter 57 beach protection article 1 protection of
beaches and dunes of the B for the burough I'm sorry in the burough code the burough beach haven county of ocean state of New Jersey to require all parts of a private dune walkover to be removed in the offse and planting native de vegetation on the west side of the dune
as a condition of continued use first reading as it is a first reading there's no public comment but would anybody on the council like to comment i love it i'm good i think we've kicked this one around a lot too yeah i I I
like to say I think it's time i think we all have we've talked about this for years and um some of us have thought we should do away with it all together and then we thought that didn't seem fair so we've come you know I think that those people
that have a valid permit and who do a good job planting their dune and maintaining their dune and rolling up the dune walkovers when you know within the timeline of the the permit um deserve to be rewarded and that is what
that was what we were doing we're not punishing anyone by not allowing it but it's important for us in my opinion to um to cherish our dunes and respect our dunes and this is a reflection of that thank you anybody else
i just I just have one question on the the condition of approval where it says that permanent applications will only be accepted if the property has previously been granted a walkover permit from the burrow of beach haven between the years 2018 and
2024 does that mean they can skip years and then come back and then tear off all the vegetation and then put another one up there's nothing in there that it has to be consecutive yeah I think it should be Yeah you're right thank you say that one more time so the way that it's written now the way
the way that the condition of approval is written is that you just have to have had one in the past from 2018 to 2024 it says nothing about consecutive so what if you know the dunes so we've identified all of these
folks and have a spreadsheet and that's the spreadsheet that you've all seen so there's no one hiding in the wings that had one in 18 and didn't reapply right but what if they don't have one for two years and then decide to have one and since they already had one like I feel
like they have one in 2019 that they're on the spreadsheet then if we have record of them they're on our list of doing Walmart but they haven't fallen off the list i feel like it should be consecutive or they lose that privilege okay that's the only
modification that I see so if they don't decide to have one next year but then they want one the following year that can't happen it has to be consecutively like you use it or you lose it okay but what if there's a storm and they're not
going to use the roll out during April and November because there's too much doom damage anyway and they you know a lot of people wouldn't have them consecutively that year they still get the permit in 2024 we didn't issue permits because of beach replenishment no you have if you don't have it for
that year you only have it between a certain months and if you don't apply for it and you don't utilize it and use it then you lose it yes so as soon as you stop using it it's done yes perfect
what about Mrs smith who's sick one summer and can't you know doesn't get it together to Mr smith can get it together i think it's a little discriminator and we're not issuing new ones going forward correct if they haven't had one
previously there are new there are no opportunities for new i hate to call it grandfathering because that's a zoning term but um that is the way that it's written now that if you haven't had one previously there's no option to make application when Mr smith
not sells his ocean front the permit is granted to the next new owner because it goes with the property i know we've talked about it our attorney did not feel that that was appropriate that it follow the property owner but um it's
not specifically written in this ordinance and that's not something that we're looking to do right now let's just implement it the way it is right now the way it's written with the word consecutively added thank you i intend to and couple things this
ordinance is um what we call fasttracked it will have its final um adoption and public hearing at the end of the month it won't be moved to the May meeting um we are legally um allowed to do that we counted to make sure we're legal just so that we get this effective as quickly as
possible we already have folks asking for the permit so as soon as we hit our adoption date we're going to proactively send letters to those on the list to make sure they're aware of the new regulations they're aware of the application the new fee and the process and if we'd like we can do that every
year to make sure that Mr smith or Mrs smith if someone's not well they know that if they fail to do the permit that they could be in Australia watching their grandkids I don't know could be anywhere in today's world well I mean they have they know they have an ocean front they know they want the dune walkover they know they have they're not
going to use the house that's well then I I I don't know I I disagree then it's on them to know that they need to get a permit or someone and if it's it's on them with your taxes just like everybody else yeah I mean for other things I don't know to pay your taxes you have to pay your just saying
yeah so if you are looking to introduce it with a minor revision of the word consecutively is that what you're looking to do then make your motion clear Okay is there a motion to approve 2025-7C with the um addition of the word
consecutive okay so moved second that was okay say no okay miss Anderson you're a no mrs wall Miller yes mr mccaffrey yes
miss Snider yes mayor Lambert yes ordinance 20258C an ordinance amending chapter 95 fire protection article 11A Knox boxes in the Burough Code of the Burough
Beach Haven County Innovation State of New Jersey to clarify when a Knox box is required for commercial and non non-residential properties first reading again this is one we've kicked around for quite a while and we had our chief come in and explain it to us and fire
department um it's pretty cut and dry anybody in the council want to discuss this at all good no um if that's the case is there a motion to approve 2025-8C i'll make a motion
i'll second mr anderson yes mrs spiller yes yes mr mccaffrey yes miss Snider yes mayor Lambert yes ordinance 20259C an ordinance amending chapter 74 construction codes uniform the burough
code of the Burough Beach Haven County of Ocean State of New Jersey to create an exemption for bulkhead height for marinas located in the MC zone first reading okay again first reading no public comment um we had a Marina owner up here
last week or last meeting explaining the importance of this one anybody on the council wish to address it no no i was glad to hear from Mr allen you know shed some light on this and um I went down and looked at it a little just today actually and just to see and
it can understand it i can't I have no problem with it okay right i feel like anything that we can do with Marina is doing you know a small repair on a bulkhead and the 90% of his bulkhead is at four feet you're not going to do 10% 5T and you're not going to replace the
whole bulkhead that expense would be astronomical for a marina so if we can do anything to help them we're going to do it yeah yeah as I said last time I feel we've lost a lot of our marinas and anything we can do to help keep them is
a plus so is there a motion to approve 2025-9C i'll make the motion second Miss Anderson yes mrs ball Miller yes mr mccaffrey yes miss Snder yes mayor
Lambert yes ordinance 202510C an ordinance amending chapter 145 pickle ball courts municipal in the burough code of the burough beach haven county of ocean state of New Jersey to limit the sale of daily passes to the
hours of 10:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m daily first reading again anybody in the council want to discuss this one no no this one was actually brought to our attention by members of the pickle ball
community and the neighbors no I mean but it was actually a little bit anti what they would normally do but they did feel it made playing easier the neighbors were much happier and as far as we can see it's a win-win as long as they're happy I'm happy
as long as note of sarcasm in your voice as long as they solve the jam up problem I'm good with it okay anybody else no is there a motion to approve 2025-10 C i'll make a motion to support second
all right miss Anderson yes mrs filler yes mr mccaffrey yes miss Snider yes mayor Lambert yes colleen you might want to move it back just a little seems really sensitive and you have a very strong voice okay
202512 um this is a calendar year 2025 ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limit and to establish a cap bank njsa48 col4-45.14 first reading okay first reading so not open to the public
anybody up here want to It's kind of standard procedure isn't it I have nothing so okay is there a motion to approve 2025-12 i have a motion to approve 12 thank you i'll second miss
Anderson yes mrs ball Miller yes mr mccaffrey yes miss Snider 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 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 94 returning remaining escrow 97 returning piling bonds 109 requesting permission for a dedication by Ryder for the Burough Beach Haven Open Space Trust Fund required by
NJSA412-15.2 110 authorizing execution of an agreement with dynamic testing services for the provision of drug and alcohol testing 111 authorizing the lease of burough owned property not needed for public use
in an online auction pursuant to NJSA 48 col2-14 112 consenting to the issuance of amusement licenses for Wayne Wright Amusements LLC for the 20202 amusement games 114 approving change order number one dated April 3rd
2025 for the 2023 Road improvement project Fifth Street from Bay Avenue to Oceanfront and Burough Utility Replacement Project resolution 115 is allowing the budget to be read by title only 116 proclaiming the month of May as
Older Americans Month and 117 ex proclaiming the National Service Recognition Day and National Volunteer Week 118 self-examination of their budget resolution as required by DCA 119 renewing a contract with Delta
Dental for 24 months at a 5% rate reduction 121 authorizing the execution of a contract addendum number two to the service agreement with USG Water Solutions for full service maintenance and asset management program for our water storage vessels
122 is authorizing to advertise for bids for the 2025 handicap access ramp at the library and 123 is also authorizing to advertise for bids for the 2025 HVAC upgrades at the library 124 authorizing the execution of
our schedule C agreement with Ocean County 125 is form of emergency temporary appropriations resolution prior to the adoption of the budget NJSA4A 4-20
okay lengthy list is there anything anybody would like to have removed for discussion no okay seeing none is there a motion to approve the resolutions within the consent agenda i'll make a motion just a second second
who made my second kitty mike made a motion kitty second anderson yes mrs ball Miller yes mr mccaffrey yes miss Snder yes mayor Lambert yes so she um Councilwoman Anderson just had a
question so um the temporary here is adding additional money to our temporary budget that will still be in place and that we're operating out of until our formal budget is adopted so this one every year we are capped um our appropriations
cap municipal budget appropriations limit is um 2% if we adopt this ordinance it will allow us to increase our cap to 3.5 3.5% and share the calculation is in the ordinance and it
allows us to exceed the cap by a percent and then whatever we don't spend we bank it for a future year and those banks have saved us over the past couple of years when we were unable to stay below our appropriations cap because of
expenses we can't control we can tap the banks that we've held on to from previous years to meet that cap so they're critical that we um allow ourselves even if we're not planning on using it to allow it to be and to bank
it for a future year it's a safety net that all municipalities do makes sense sorry about that that's okay all right good better to know i have a bill list tonight in the amount of
2,120,9394 everybody get a chance to review the bills yes is there a motion to approve i'll make a motion pay the bills i'll second miss Xanderson yes mrs b Miller yes
mr mccaffrey yes miss Snder yes mayor Lambert yes okay at this time we're going to um talk quickly about the budget oh yeah i guess I should do that too let me go back and do the finance report sorry we'll do all
finance at once cash receipts in the current fund account for the period of March 1st to March 31st 2025 were 625,78.75 cash dispersements in the current fund account for the month of March totaled 3,192 $192,5506
cash receipts in the water utility account for the period of March 1st to March 31st were $11,19.35 cash dispersements in the water utility account for the month of month month of March totaled 62,656.98 cash receipts in the sewer
utility account for this period were $87,359.81 81 while the cash dispersements in the sewer utility account for the month of March 2025 totaled 102,28341 submitted by our treasurer Sherie
Bowler tonight is hopefully introduction of our municipal budget we spent quite a bit of time going through every line item in our operating and salary and wage sheets um right now our total appropriation
including our reserves is 16,28,14962 this is a 5% increase overall of last year we did see significant changes in our insurancees liability when increased 22.22% while our group health insurance
also increased 17.36% although we had these significant increases we were able to dial in our budgets our operating expenses only increased 5.18% while our salary and wage increased 4.68% so after our meeting with our CFO
we're happy to announce that we will not see a tax increase this year over our prior year we're going to hold our tax rate steady at 413 in order to balance the budget we're using 691,000 more in surplus than our prior
year baseline to fund the budget and 27% of our budget at this point is being funded by surplus in the water utility uh we have an increase overall of $68,81743 making the total appropriations in the water utility
budget 2,21,31743 and the main driver of this increase is debt service we are undertaking quite a bit of a water main replacements um we have a 25-y year plan that will probably a 30 be a 35-y year
plan but to eventually replace all the water manes in the burrow it needs to be done yeah the sewer utility appropriations 1,725,000 an increase of 120,000 overall
and also for a debt service that is new to the that budget do you have any questions about the budget numbers no no okay okay the municipal budget of the Burough Beach Haven County of Ocean for the fiscal year
2025 be it resolved that the following statements of revenues and appropriations shall constitute the municipal budget for the year 2025 be it further resolved that the budget will be published in the Beach Haven Times in the issue of April 24th
2025 and the governing body of the Burough Beach Haven does hereby approve the following as the budget for the year 2025 and I'm going to roll call miss Anderson yes mrs ball Miller yes
mr mccaffrey yes miss Snder yes mayor Lambert yes notice is hereby given that the budget and tax resolution was approved by the council members of the Burough Beach Haven County a motion on April 14th 2025 a hearing on the budget
and the tax resolution will be held at the Burough Beach Haven on May 12th 2025 at 6:00 at which time and place objections to said budget and tax resolution for the year 2025 may be presented by the taxpayers or other
interested persons congratulations the budget is introduced uh under general discussion we had one item to discuss a proposed ordinance number 2025 13C uh regarding the historic
preservation advisory commission uh this one just a little bit of a matter we're going to ask Mrs snder our resident HPAC expert to just clarify it was it's not a big deal but she's not she and I know as soon as someone sees anything you know
they want they think it's going to be more of a um a burden for them and and more being told what to do but as our ordinance sits is written now well let me just back up a little bit in 2018 New Jersey um the New Jersey um registration
to historic places adopted several changes to the uniform construction code now in New Jersey um you don't need a building permit for um what they refer to as general maintenance which which includes a new a
roofing siding and replacement windows um uh let me how to explain this so if um if a local historic preservation ordinance which we have states that these types of work require historic
HPAC review by local by a local HPAC which it does um it requires review regardless of other permitting requirements that means it's not a full application it's it's a phone call and we we just want to make sure with the
building department there's it's it's harder for them and this just is a law and it is a rule and it it you know we already have the ordinance we just um want to make sure like we're trying to do with all of our ordinance to to button them up to make sure that they
are easier to read and more understandable for homeowners so if you want to replace your roof and your siding you will not have to go to a full meeting um we you probably won't have to go to a full meeting let me say that you will just fill out the two PL page
application which simply is going to be what are your building materials that we can put it in the file it can be over a phone call we could do a tech review um if you want to use something that we don't approve of and this has to be done anyway when you go to the building department know people always do and
they say "Do you do I need a building do I need uh permission for this?" and she leave always says give um Kitty or someone on HP pack a call just to make sure that your building materials are within the design guidelines this ordinance if this um
this addition to the ordinance doesn't change that we already have it this just makes it um more understandable for people to to see what's happening in terms it's not going to change what you have to do today or after it's passed it's this it it will remain the same
will not mean that you have to fill out the full application with streetscape photos or any of that you don't need a lawyer you don't need an architect none of that it's really simple it's just so that we have um we can make the public aware that
they do need to use materials that are acceptable within our design guidelines we have a house right now and it's an important house it's contributing it's right on the park on Angle Side um with they did not get permission for their windows or their siding turns out the
windows are gorgeous and they would have been approved anyway and the siding um most likely would have been approved but um that's important you know it's one of our most important it's a very important home in the historic district so we just want to make sure we have a bit of a
paper trail and that we're following the law and this is the law as it stands we just want to make it a little more clear that's it kitty how do you how does HVAC enforce things like that it's hard because you kind of have to drive around and call Pat O'Donnell and say "Could you please check on that to make sure
this like with this house for example and it it's talk about that you know it just it was a mistake on it was a mistake that was made it's good it's fine because this they are using materials that that we would have most likely approved right
clearly everyone but it's hard because they don't that's in the historic district knows that they're in the historic district even when things are passed from like families and stuff is there a way that they know or they can be within this you'll see that there's a I wanted um other towns Hadenfield
Morristown they send letters to homeowners they in different ways right and so I wanted to make sure have uh Mr our attorney Bruce Padulla draft a letter so we can send it out and Mary Cla could speak to how we can send it out we can stuff mailboxes we would
we'll hang it in the building department we'll hang it you know in the post office we'll we'll send it out so that people understand no big deal but here's how it works you don't need a building permit per se but you still do need um HPACE uh approval
um because you you always need a certificate of appropriateness whether or not you know and building department wasn't aware of it i went to a seminar recently and um there was an attorney there Janine Bower who is an ex an expert in the state on um historic
preservation law and um she brought it to our attention kate May's aware of it many other towns that have historic district so it's it's a good it's protection for the homeowners and historic district but it's not stringent
and it's not an additional burden it's already supposed to being be being done this way but sometimes they're not going to get it and then we just say "Hey what's going on we're using and here's piece of paper can you just fill it out and bring it to the building department?" That's it
thank you anybody else no thank you Mrs snder that I think cleared everything up um did you want to wait to introduce this or are you looking to have an introduction done today since it's is a a written document and is I mean it's up to you i'd love to
have it introduced if we can do that if you want to go ahead and present it you can well I mean anybody would have a couple meetings to speak absolutely and if anyone's on Zoom or listening I mean I call me i mean I'll answer any questions I can
um do you want me to read it by titles you know sometimes when we're doing a general discussion we just we do let the audience if they have a Yeah so this might be a good time to see if there is anything that anybody would like to address as far as this ordinance that's a great idea no how about on Zoom
anybody have anything to say about this particular ordinance historic preservation no okay great well go ahead ordinance 202513C an ordinance amending section 41-6 of the code of the Burough Beach
Haven to clarify construction activity that requires a certificate of appropriateness notwithstanding such activity may not require construction permit first reading okay I think we've already discussed it is there a motion to approve 2025-13C
well I will make a motion to approve i'll second miss Anderson yes mrs ball Miller yes mr mccaffrey yes miss Snder yes mayor Lambert yes that's all I have for today okay we've reached the public comment portion of
the meeting and if you'd like to speak please raise your hand when you come up ID yourself and please hold it to three minutes oh okay gina Locki 2019 South Bay Avenue um first I want to say how impressed I am
with public works the amount of work that they have done on our beaches is impressive uh it's a losing battle the beach and I walked it today it was really sad but it's amazing what they've done um that was it on that the only
other thing I wanted to bring up uh the beach taxi is a wonderful thing that you're offering people but I was wondering I read the uh the dos and the don'ts basically on the website and it says that you take the people and you
must drop them right at the at the street that you bring them up on which would be Holy Oak or Nelson or something my thought is though what do those people like like you're not allowed to take their chairs off the buggy and that but how is that really helping them
because then they're have to walk to wherever carrying a chair or whatever and I was just wondering if that could be looked at again um I know in the past uh they were brought to their family you
know at their street we can answer those questions yeah i don't know what we deal with the ins and outs of the operation for a few years now mhm they they've never really been allowed to bring them to their family the rule has always been the same so if they have been that's
been kind of breaking the rules um based on conversations with our beach patrol chief it's really not safe for the taxi to be driving north and south on the beach with the passengers through crowded beach you know through crowded
beaches so in the past couple years we've had you know only certain beach entrances that are available for the taxi to access so those were the beaches that we've been using um they don't just deposit them right at the bottom of the ramp they'll drive them onto the beach
at that beach entrance and you know they're not supposed to be lifting and helping because it's really not um a good thing for our people to be moving other people's equipment for liability reasons um so people should be bringing
a companion that can help them lift their things in and out but we don't just deposit them at the end of the ramp we'll take them to their spot as close to the ramp as possible allowing for other people to come on and off and um those rules were kind of put in place
for the safety of the other beachgoers and our taxi drivers there's a whole lot of reasons why those kinds of things are happening um this year might be a different story as far as how many entrances we can use the like you
said our our DPW guys have been doing a lot of work to kind of um increase the width of some of our beach entrances so that's a discussion that still needs to happen with our DPW superintendent to see you know what changes can be made with that
um but really those are that's kind of how it's had to be implemented implemented in the last couple years because like I'm on Kford not that I use it I don't need to use it but I'm on Kford and the closest one is Nelson so if my family is on Kenford and somebody
gets driven to Nelson how do we get it the family comes to Nelson the family then then we have a parking problem or they can bike or there's other ways maybe I could help clear us up me and the chief have gone to all the beach entrances and I think there was only
what about five or six where they couldn't get down so they're widening all the beach entrances the reason Yeah the reason why they're not going all the way on the beach is because if they go all the way on the beach and drop the people off then they go back to pick them up they
can't get to them because of the crowds so that's why they were sort of leaving at the beach entrances but they'll be able to go within one block either way i think we checked all the entrances and within one block of where I mean if this this is blocked off they can't get to it
they could either get to it from the next street north or the next street south yeah i just wanted to bring that up thank you last summer the beaches were so small that we had an instance where the taxi came over the walkway and
couldn't turn around without the water no because people were there i mean you couldn't you had to drive them drop them off and back up over the walkway because there was no place to turn it around or anything it's very dangerous when the
beaches are that crowded thank you 3263rd Street and I just thought I'd preface what I'm going to talk about by saying that my family came here in 1910 we've been here over a hundred years and I'm there's still members of my family
like me who live here i have a vested interest in this town and I'm very concerned so what I wanted to bring up is that I I'm concerned about 210 North Bay Avenue what we used to call Casiffs
and behind it was Crimes Forest i live on that street i observe it and I've learned a lot about it i've spoken to the D to Rosario construction who's the LSP i've talen to them many times i've
had my questions answered i've learned a lot but now we are at a very important part originally there were eight buried tanks on that property uh within the last year four of them have been removed
by DeLasio Construction there are questions about how that was done there's no doubt about that there uh and keeping that in mind we're at a critical point because they just brought the exact same company's heavy equipment and
parked it on the property to go to work on the last four tanks that are buried there now I spoke to uh the representative I know from Rosario Construction two weeks ago with the guy from the DB and they admitted they did
find benzene on that property so my concerns are validated uh so they're going to start again on the other four and I think there what's what the problem is
is 2 to three foot down there is where the water table where the water table is that's just the way it is in that part of town i went and talked to the buletting company who put in the pilings for the two houses that they let build
there and they validated it was two to three feet so that means that if there's contamination it can move sideways it isn't like the mainland where it goes straight down we have a different situation i've talked to I've talked to
attorneys uh this is something that people who do um real estate law know about there's ways that they have to research to see if there's underground streams i don't know if there is in that property but D should know this stuff i
am concerned that we're starting a new part of it there's a lot of kind of shady parts of the first part that's done and all I want to say is me personally I'm going to watch them they're they know me they're going to see me watching them
and I'm asking for other people in town get a cup of coffee and go down there and see what's going on they don't know what's in those tanks they don't know whether there's still liquid in them or whether it's leaked out into the ground but these this is a serious business
this is a health risk it is a health risk and um we can't just I don't believe we can just turn it over to the D i think we have it's speech haven we need to pay attention to it ourselves thank you thank you thank you Kathy
i know Kathy as you know I did go down and I did speak with them and they were doing the ground probes so when I came to the building department Sher you were with me and they said and this was about maybe a month and a half two months ago at this point um they did say they were
aware of it and that you know they were trying to stay on top of it um I don't know at this point what else needs to be done but until it's cleared by an LSRP nothing can be done on those
parcels okay anybody else in the room care to speak no when is um how is progress going down there what's the timeline well right now with the remediation pardon just test
and come back and test oh yeah yeah i mean it's a long process look at BJ Haven Auto it goes on for a long time long time so yeah there's there's not going to be any tanks this coming is there anybody on Zoom who would like
to comment don't see anyone okay seeing none we'll close the floor to public comment and we will go to final remarks by council and looks like Mrs bon Miller you get to start us off tonight oh wow um I don't have much to say it was
nice to see uh everyone here for our our new captain Lisa Fay it was it's a welldeserved i look forward to working more with her i was just telling um Lori Lori sorry Lori it's been a long
day that you know 20 years ago when we Lisa and I were at the Bagel Shack you know she's making coffee I'm starting out my teaching career who would have known that 20 years later I would be sitting on council and she would be accepting the world's captain for the Beach Haven Police Department so it's
just uh time time's a thief but I wish our all the luck and for everyone else in town uh the kids are off next week in town so be wary of them you know once the temperatures creep up a little higher they get a little crazy so please watch out for them and I hope everyone
enjoys uh their spring break and whatever religious holiday that you are uh with your families and friends and that's it thank you Mr mccaffrey yes i'd like to congratulate uh Judge Jim Jim Daniel for his retirement when um I was
with the police department he was our prosecutor and later on he was one of the commissioners so congratulations congrats the other thing I would uh want to wish everybody a happy Easter and everybody please be safe thank you Mrs snyder uh yes also
congratulations to Lisa she's tremendous asset here in Beach Haven and um really wish her all the best uh wish everyone a happy Passover and a happy Easter thank you for coming and uh enjoy your spring
break Jamie yes I will miss Anderson I don't have much to say thanks for coming um hope you come again it's nice to see faces in the audience and participation thank you uh again congrats to Captain Fay that was exciting always nice to see
um last month at the League of Municipalities they spoke on the homestead well now it's called the anchor uh stay New Jersey and the property tax reimbursement apparently a lot of seniors are having issues with this and they well they said you know
they would have somebody come down and and speak with us if need be and then the lady said to me afterwards she's you've got a great great resource in St francis Center so I stopped there and they are more than happy and in fact we were going to link our website but did you ever get any info um all the
information that we have available on the triple program is listed there um are you looking for a link to St francis on there they said remember we were just going to put something on there that they could I was able to find all my own information but I don't have St
francis senior services there i could do that oh that's Yeah here's the here's the great thing is that all you have to do is call them make an appointment go up and they will do this with you or you can even make an appointment and they will come to your home so please don't get overwhelmed with this good to know
yeah that's that's and and they get you know a financial benefit because it's a a service so it's a win-win for everybody um and I was going to do this last time but the meeting ran for three hours so I cut it out quickly um you know we've always known what a great emergency response team we have here in
Beach Haven how fortunate we really are and you know we say it but it's hard to really uh imagine until you're the one that needs it which happened a few weeks ago and um I wasn't home at the time and my mother um all the alarms were going off and she thought she smelled gas and
there were all kinds of things going on and when I got home she was out on the porch and the gas company was on the way and I called Chief Ellander and he said "No you definitely need to get call 911 and get everybody here to check the house out." So we did and it was it was just amazing to you know it it was funny
a couple years ago we had the discussion about the sirens i know Dan Allen was on there he goes you know everybody complains about them but when it's your house you want to hear that thing going off and you do and you know they're coming and they did and officer Ellen Ber was the first on the scene he was
wonderful um then Chief excuse me Ellen Burgerer and then Chief Ellander came right away also and then the fire department Lieutenant Spiel and Wasmer and the crew was um Mr buffumo Mr celich the first aid was Captain Wickcraft and
Lieutenant Pasqual and I said it's very reassuring we've known for a long time how wonderful our response team is here in Beach Haven but thank you all very much when it's your house it was a great to see everybody and very professional i truly appreciate it happy Easter happy
Passover happy whatever you're celebrating that month and is there a motion to adjurnn move thank you meeting adjourned have a great night thank you