But we like I know it's an approval. Colleen, we're ready whenever you are. Go. Good evening. Welcome to the agenda meeting of the Beach Haven Burough Council. It's Wednesday, April 30th, 2025. Uh please join us in the flag
salute led by Mr. McAffrey. 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.
Pursuing 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. I have u minutes from the March 27th agenda meeting for approval without formal reading. I make
a motion to approve the March 27th minutes. Thank you. I'll second. Thank you. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion approved. Ordinance 20257C, an ordinance amending chapter
57, beach protection, article one, protection of beaches and dunes in the burough code of the burough beach haven, county of ocean, state of New Jersey to require all parts of the dune walkover to be removed in the offseason and planting native vegetation on the west
side of the dunes as a condition of permitted use. Final reading. Okay, it is the final reading, so we will entertain public comment. Um Sher, did you want to elucidate about the posts and some of the concerns that had come up? Yes. Um the posts do not need
to be removed. We are simply asking that the fencing, the rollway decking, and the signage be removed after October 31st annually. Okay. So before we discuss it among ourselves and the council, we'll open it
to the public for discussion. If you choose to come up, please make sure you identify yourself, name and address, and please confine it to three minutes. Thank you. Yes. I just had something written. Sure. I think that microphone works.
Hi, my name is Fralitki. I reside at 1615 South Beach. A I'm a 25-y year resident of Beach Haven and a stalwart protector of the dunes. About 10 days ago, I heard that the council was amending the dune walkover ordinance. I searched the bor website and reached out for information which was difficult to
find. When I did not find it, I was concerned or when I did find it, I was concerned and found that the proposed changes were being fast-tracked. Considering this was not an emergent public safety issue, I was I was kind of wondering what that was all about. I emailed each of you so I could understand your reasoning for the
changes being proposed, but got no response. Being an environmental committee in my other hometown, I realized your amendment seemed to have environmental implications. So, I reached out to the NJD. I expressed my concerns and questions. They promptly answered my questions uh over the phone
and by email. They sent their construction requirements, which are the current Beacho Haven code requirements. So, that's great. Uh and those are the requirements and and um and um construction requirements that I followed for our walkway. The proposed
changes in your amendment uh for new private walkovers are unnecessarily burdensome to to homeowners, requiring yearly removal of all fencing and subsequent reinstallation each year would be detrimental to the dune and vegetation. Requiring regular watering
of newly planted dune grass is not advised and considering the current drought warnings and the recent nearby wildfires would perhaps cause an issue. These requirements exceed all suggested NJD coastal zone management rules without any proven benefit and with the
D considering the increased disturbance and detriment. I also spoke with the land use attorney and was advised that the permit I was issued by the bureau had no stated limit and no yearly permitting requirement, only a fee which I have been paying yearly. There have been no
new D restrictions that have triggered your proposal addendum to the burough ordinance. As such, any changes or additional requirements would not affect prior approved permits. Any changes should affect only new permit applications. We installed our walkover
according to the permitting process at the time, all of which comply with current D rules and regulations and as a result should be grandfathered. To avoid potential legal challenges, I respectfully suggest that the council vote to table this proposed ordinance
2025-7C until a more thoughtful amendment can be written with current permit holders excluded and reasonable Dbacked rules for new permit applicants. I hope you'll increase your transparency by notifying affected residents of
upcoming issues, allowing them due process and input in the process. Please partner with us, the oceanfront neighbors, because we continue to protect our dunes. Thank you. Uh, first of all, if Sherry,
I thought you did respond. No. Yes. Yeah. So, I apologize, but I thought our burough manager had responded to you. Not to any of the questions on my email. I had a bunch of different questions like why why is this coming up now? like what what was the
issue that you feel that you have to go well beyond a D ruling or regulations or coastal management regulations and rules like what makes Beach Haven different from all the other coastal uh residences and and whatever municipalities up and
down the coast. I won't I'm not an expert and I I know probably just I just Okay, just let's um just let's give some facts first just about some numbers like there's about 80 oceanfront homes
currently and there's 21 private beach walkovers. In those private beach walkovers, depending upon the lot line of the individual owner, some of it is private, but some of it is also public, too. So, when you're going to the private walkover, it's not completely
private. It depends on the lot line of your individual home. I'm familiar with which lot line. I'm not sure if your lot line goes the entire dune or if it goes into our property as well. I don't know. However, going back to the numbers, if you have 80 oceanfront homes, we have 21
private dune walkovers currently right now. So what you are proposing is that we should allow and continue to allow every oceanfront homeowner, all 80 of them, a private dune walkover in addition to our
33 public public access points. So when we're we're on a barrier island, which the DP has very stringent rules and absolutely we'll be passing the real rules at the end of this
summer against June stabilization. So the reason did you give them the numbers that there's 80 that there's 80 oceanfront homes and you want to all 80 oceanfront homes to have private walkovers that is going to completely
destabilize the dune system according to the D but I mean this is where this is coming from you've got contacted the D for the regulations yes because according you know the regulations the con the construct they they allow one
walkover per site is allowed according to the D. Right. Right. But every municipality is allow I I I asked them municipalities we are allowed to pass our own laws for the public safety. It is a safety concern to not have our dunes at full
strength. Well, I can I can say this there. I I re I've been in the I've been here in Beach Haven for 25 years as I rebuilt my house. Congratulations. Well, you're going to pull the numbers game. We're going to pull. What I'm trying to say is I built
this dune walkover five years ago when I rebuilt my house and my builder had suggested that it might be a nice thing to have. I have young kids and whatever and it would take us to a place in the beach that you know was a safe place for them and and you know I said well okay
we we hadn't had it before but that that was nice. There have been times in the past which he indicated to me as a longtime resident here that there are times when these permits are not available but they are available now. So you might want to consider doing it. So we went to the expense of doing it. As a
matter of fact, we put in split rail fences because we thought it looked nicer. It was nicer than having the dune fencing. We wanted to do it in a way that was aesthetically pleasing the way that the burrow does it. So as a compromise the way that the burrow does it. Well, maybe. Sorry, I'm not finished
yet. We need to limit the public comment to three minutes, please. And it's not a back and forth. It's a comment and wrap it up. Council can respond, but not a back and forth. Perhaps what you might want to do is consider the fact that you have 22 current walkovers. And if you
want to restrict that and not have the 80 that you're concerned about, then maybe you don't maybe you respect the oceanfront people who have been paying their taxes and paying and and trying to do the right thing by protecting the dunes, which we all have been doing for
all the time before we had walkovers and and and now and allow us to continue what we have. But the ordinance does. We are we are No, it does not. Yes, it does. that you're you're asking us to to put take out another permit every year
for that privilege that we already have taken out approvals for. I mean, if if I had a permit on my house and built an addition on my house, would you ask me to take out another permit every year to continue that addition without making other changes to it? It doesn't make any sense to me, but I'll yield the floor to somebody else. Just to um elaborate a
little bit because you asked about the fasttrack and the only reason that this was being done was so we could get into the permitting process. It wasn't like trying to ram something. I did a little research on this and every town on the island handles this very differently. Some towns don't allow them at all. Some
towns cart blanch. Some insist that they be attached to the house and it's not like a roll out but actual walkway. So, I think the problem really came about a couple years ago after a storm and there was so much damage and when
our public works department came in and tried to, you know, clean things up, they had walkways hanging over. They had people's signs and post falling down and I think that's kind of where this got its start. Um, I have to I mean, you know, we've debated among about the
fences. Um, I don't see the problem with the fence. The D had the problem with the fences on the upper side of the dune. They said they didn't want the sand to collect there. I think the sand collects anywhere. It's a good thing. That's my personal opinion, but that's
not what the D said. But well, no. And I I've read, trust me, we've had Chris Constantino from the D. I had Lindsey Davis come and talk to us. And when they talk to us, they're a lot stricter than what they're saying when they talk to you because they're like, "You shouldn't be doing everything.
Everybody should be signing an easement, especially when the replenishment was going on." So, yeah, there is some contradictory advice going on. I understand that what you're saying. Anybody else? Uh, well, start. Yeah, let's clarify what the D said we should do. They didn't want anybody
within how many feet of the You have to come up to the microphone and and introduce yourself on record. So, when you're looking for the minutes, you'll My name is Murray Robertson, 707 South Atlantic. Uh 40 year uh 40 years ago, our family bought a home uh on the
water. Uh we paid a lot of money uh to have a a home that already had a private walkway. They were few and far between. Reason we had a handicapped person in our family that really couldn't get to the beach very easily. So, this facilitated that. And we still bring friends down. A number of them are
handicapped as well. Last year we used the uh the buggy which was nice but uh we we paid a big premium to have this and for you to give us hoops to jump through to make it more difficult to maintain it I think is overreaching.
Okay. I don't see a crisis here. That's why I asked what the D had said to you to do. And the second question I'll ask while I have my limited three minutes is did you consult with anybody? Were any consultants brought on or paid for by the burrow to advise you? Because all
I'm hearing is remove fencing, which is absurd. Any fencing on the dune is good for the dune. Es wind erosion is the cancer of the dune. Any fencing, coiled up, piled up, laying on its side,
anything builds up sand because the wind gets slowed down by the fencing and it drops the sand. It looks like a lot of walkways are sinking. They're not sinking. The sand is building up around them. So fencing on a dune is always
good. No limit, as much as you can put. So the suggestion of in the winter when the wind is the maximum to force the residents to take fencing off the dune is absurd. Watering dune grass is definitely not something to do. The
grass grows the roots go 15 feet down. Solidifying the dune. But if you water the dune grass it doesn't have to go so deep. So you have a weaker dune. Watering the dune in itself weakens the dune. The saturated dune is a weak dune.
Take a walk along the water line. When you're at the edge of the water, your feet sink in 6 in. But when you get up to the hard pack, it's a totally different story. A dry dune is a strong dune. Why would you water it? Not to mention, if it's over watered, the water runs off and that's more erosion. That's
water erosion. Sand erosion is number one. Dune fencing slows it down. and to re require people to remove the dune fencing. It's completely contrary to what is good for the dune. Second, you include removal of the signs every year.
The signs say stay off the dune. We pay for them. We furnish them. We install them. We fix them when the when the storm uh winter storms hit them. Why would you make people take down the signs? It's beyond ridiculous.
Excuse me. 30 seconds. 30 seconds. Well, I don't I don't know what else to say. I I'm going to walk on my There's another little document called the United States Constitution that I think you've all taken oath to uphold. We can walk on our land. Okay? We can walk on our land. We
will walk on our land. And you'll say, "Oh, well, you're not going to, you know, you can tell us how to protect the dune and walk on it in such a way that we don't damage the dune because any footprint is bad. Footprints make high spots where the wind takes the sand away. So, walking on the dunes is
terrible. We chase people off the dunes all the time as oceanfront homeowners. We plant the dune grass for decades that you've provided. We roll up our walkways as required. We're the we're the monitors of what's going on on the dunes. So to come and say, "Oh, we're
going to give you another hoop to jump through and the context. I've listened to what you say. I'd like to see these done away with. I don't want I don't think I think they're ugly. People have made a mess of them." Your personal opinion should not matter here. Okay?
Your purpose is to serve the residents of Beach Haven, not to insert your own opinions. How many of you, by raise of hand, actually own a private walkover? No surprise. So, give us more hoops to jump through so that we can continue to
use what we've paid for and we're entitled to use. I object vehemently to this nonsense of giving us more hoops to jump through. Thank you. Anybody else in the audience? Yes.
I did I did ask the question. Did anyone consult with a consultant? Were there any consultants brought in to tell you what to do? Just believe it was the gentleman from the D. So getting conflicting, you know. No, personally, no, we did not. There are
consultants out there that tell you how to You can stand at this mic. This is the normal Yeah. name and address. Thank you. Order, please. Order. Yeah. If you like. Uh, good evening. My name's James Lynch
and I live at three Berkeley Avenue in Beach Haven. And first of all, I agree with everything previous two speakers said. I can verify the fencing adds to the size of
the dune by saying two years ago, maybe two and a half, I put two strips of 4 foot high dune fencing toward the end of our walkway. And now there's about that much that I can
see because the sand as it plugs in just piled up right there. And in fact, last year I had to dig a little pathway there to get some of that dune fencing out so I could see where it was. So as as to whether these help the
dunes or harm the dunes, they clearly help the dunes. The last time I spoke before this body was when I was told I had to pay a $75 fee to walk over my property. Now that's been raised. That's now a $100
fee. At that time, I called it a tax, and I still call it a tax. I'd like to point out that a number of these properties have a deed that goes to the high water line. So that means the entire dune, as
we understand it, is part of the property of that oceanfront home. So whatever happens here tonight starts to involve private property rights and
uh as I said a number of the properties I'm not sure the exact number but these are people who pay taxes pay a lot of taxes who signed replenishment form for the dune
replenishment who signed waiverss giving away their property rights forever. Nobody gave any sign of appreciation for that. Uh and that's not that far in the past.
The individuals take care of their property. I pick up a lot of trash and carry it back to my house almost every morning. The The owners, as I said, the deeds go to
the high water line. That is very well defined. And if there are problems with particular housing, there are rules that deal with those individuals. Don't take this away from everybody. And I can't prove it, but
originally when these walkovers were established, 30 seconds, it was when these lots were sold. We're going back 50 years. And part of it was to allow the middle houses to have access to the
beach. So, it's private property. It involves the value of your property and it should not the burrow should have keep that in mind when they when you decide whatever you
decide. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else in the room care to speak? Sue Sharky 10 North Delaware. Um, as always, thank you for your service. I just have exception to Mr. Lynch. Um,
whether I was able to show appreciation, I have always appreciated the oceanfront homeowners protecting all of the rest of the the block and the island. So, I just wanted to publicly say you said there nobody appreciated that. We we do
appreciate it that the homeowners on the ocean front are able to, you know, nobody express appreci here. She is expressing on behalf of many, many um bayside and uh 100, 200,
300, 400, and 500 block residents. Anybody else in the room? Yes sir. Johnson 111 Holy Oak. I'm sorry. Hold that a little closer. Eric Eric Johnson 111 Holio. Uh I been in a couple of your other meetings and I was under the impression
that you're going to allow Dune walkovers which is great. I think as the people who spoke before me said this the fence does stock the sand. The sand builds up in the winter time. What I don't understand is how we got from
point A to point B. In other words, now we're taking down basically taking the whole thing down other than the post. I think that's a hardship to have to roll up all that fencing and put it back down. Dig it dig it back down and put it back down in the spring.
I don't know how that came about to be part of the uh agreement, but pictures said it's a safety issue. Hear that explanation? We have pictures. Unfortunately, we don't have them. But the problem with the fencing is that depending upon what type of erosion
happens on the wintertime and how much sand is deposited on the offshore sandbar by the change in the long shore current, we don't know how much of the dune is going to be taken away. And so when the fence wasn't taken away, the dune comes and then takes the fence and it's just dangling. So we don't know a
projection. And every dune and every homeowner, it's not like one straight line. It's a meandering curve. So the fence has to be removed because we don't know how far the dunes are going to be compromised and the fence is just hang over. We remove our fencing when that happens and your fencing is just left
dangling. So I have literally probably 250 ft I need to roll it all the way back up to my house on both sides. Well, I don't I'm I This is a compromise to me. I think they should all be eliminated.
This is a compromise to allow the 21 original people that had the dune walkovers keep the dune walkovers. However, there needs to be extra added protection for the rest of the community that depend solely on the dunes. So, this is this is the compromise.
I see. Maybe we can talk. So then I guess I would like to add one other thing. One of the other gentlemen before me mentioned that we pay a lot of property tax and we I think we certainly do pay more than our fair share as oceanfront homeowners. So I think if we were given
the opportunity to leave that fencing out, roll up the stuff on the ground, put that away, that'd be fine with me. But I can't say that I agree with your other way. You have the ordinance written now.
Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else in the room want to come up and speak to this? My name is Ann Allen, one9 South Atlantic Avenue. Um, I agree with everything the other people have said. And the thing for the life of me that I
don't understand that you can't see is how much more damaging it is to the dunes to keep removing the fence, putting it back. people on the dune digging on the dune that is far more damaging to the dunes than leaving the fencing there which as we have
established collects the sand. So you're you're actually want to implement something that is going to damage the dune when that's completely unnecessary. Thank you. Anybody else in the room? Sure.
Um, you know, say your name and address for the recording so we know who's talking. Oh, I'm sorry. Cralletki, 1615 South Beach app. Okay. Um, in reading through all of the D and all also a bunch of regulations from other municipalities up and down, you know, within 100 miles of here, um, I see that
they all seem to mention that, you know, if a proper property isn't particularly suited for whatever the permit is, you don't have to issue the permit. I mean, that's the whole idea of a permitting process, is it not? I mean, I'm on the board of adjustment in my own town and certain properties allow for certain
things and other properties do not. If in fact, um, you have a property where it those dunes continually wash out, maybe that is not a property that should have a dune walkover. Our property when we purchased it 25 years ago, um, our
dunes were about 25 feet, you know, wide. We lost about or 30 feet. We lost about half of that during Sandy, but we had no breach to our house. Our house was perfectly fine because we maintained and I don't want to can't use the word, but I was the dune whatever my daughter
would call me because I would allow no one on the dunes. Anybody who rented on either side of me, which were two family homes, I was up there and telling them, "Get off the dune. You can't be on the dune." And some people threatened me, but it protected us. I can understand
that if there is a particular situation where that dune fencing and the the the walkover doesn't work, then I understand. Don't renew don't renew a permit, but they already have a permit, but figure it out. But the thing is, you have the ability to approve or
disapprove a permit to inflict, you know, issues on a bunch of people who protect your dunes and have done nothing but paid your taxes and love this community. I don't understand why you would do that just because maybe you don't like it or you don't want it or you don't think they look nice or you
don't have one. I don't understand it. Like we are all community members here. We're all neighbors and we're not doing anything wrong. So take a look individually and if you have a problem with how something looks or it's not maintained or whatever the issues are, I
still don't understand the issues because everybody up and down the whole, you know, New Jersey coast are allowing them. and the D when I spoke to them and coastal management when I spoke to them they have no problem with it. So the fact that you do have a problem with it
and you think that is it is a problem for the community. I'm telling you it is not not according to the D and you may have one person who tells you something but look at the statutes. You have to look at the statutes. I do look at the statutes. Okay. And I I I'm fully aware
of New Jersey D say and I'm just saying maybe you need to make individual changes in some way but this is really ownorous. We're trying to do the best we can. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else in the room? Okay.
Yeah. If you're coming back for the second time, could you We still have people on Zoom that want to speak. So, should we um should we go to Zoom first and then do round two? Okay. Anyone on Zoom wishing to be heard on this topic? if you could raise an electronic hand.
At this time, I don't see any hands up, but um if you want to take some other comments and we'll give some folks time to figure out how to raise an electronic hand, I'll let you know. Come on up then. Okay. So, I heard Murray Robertson, 707 South Atlantic. Thank you. Uh Jamie, I
heard you loud and clear, right? You'd like to see them done away with. I hope the minutes of the meeting reflect that. I hope the minutes of the meeting when Kitty said she'd like to see them all eliminated and done away with that the minutes of that reflected because I saw it on Zoom. Your personal opinions
shouldn't matter. Jamie brings up tonight that it's about safety, right? The the storm the winter storms come, they take out the fencing along the toe of the dune, which is the burrow fencing, and then the private walkover fencing is left dangling. It did happen.
It happened to me. It happened to the Denbies about 2 years ago. I got a call from Chris. Hey, you got to come cut back your fencing. I came down. I cut back my fencing. I cut back the Denby's fencing cuz they're elderly people. I don't know if you know who they are to
my left. This is what we do. We respond. What's the big deal? Has anyone gotten hurt? You're so concerned about safety. Has anybody been injured by a piece of dangling fence? You're not allowed on the dunes to begin with. No. So why so
why is it a you said it's a safety issue. I don't understand how you don't understand that the dunes are not just solely yours. They might be your private property, but it's not to for you to do whatever you want to do with I didn't say I want to do whatever I want. All I said is I want to continue to walk
across it in accordance with the permit that we paid for. We pay annually for inspections. You are we don't understand what the problem is. you giving us you're you're implementing your personal opinions which is overreaching. Oh, it's very clear. This is punitive. Okay. Very
clear. Okay. I think let's stay on track here. This is getting a little Secondly, you're you're giving us hoops to jump through. The the the what I read was you want certain plantings in accordance with D guidelines and that you wanted these plantings irrigated. If the D guidelines say that certain plannings
have to be on the dune and the dunes protect everyone like you just said, are you doing it now? It's the burrow's responsibility. I'm happy to help. Every time you've given us dune grass, we plug it on Sandy. We didn't have we had a pot fall over on our deck for decades. We've been
doing it. We've been complying. This is just a hoop to jump through because you don't like them and you don't want them. And that's overreaching. It's not. That's what we're objecting to. Okay? It's not a little deal. Irrigating is stupid. Taking away dune fencing is
completely contradictory to building up and preserving the dune. And if you want to bring up the issue of safety, yes, storms come, fencing gets damaged, and we fix it every single time. And no one's ever been injured. Thank you. I don't think anybody's arguing the fact
that, and especially if you're here tonight, I'm guessing you're very good stewards of the dunes. Um, anybody else? Gentleman, Mr. Lynch, you want to come back? It was in there. Hi, I'm James Lynch, three Berkeley Avenue, Beach Haven. to
go back to the same point as stewards of the dune, it should be reminded, everyone should be reminded that with Hurricane Sandy, the three main places that the ocean broke through to the streets of Beach Haven were at the
Shell and the two pavilions. There may have been others, but they were the three main places that the ocean water was going down the street to the bay. All mostly all the other damage was
Bayside and that point says the people that own the ocean front houses take care of the dunes. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? No. And then anybody on Zoom come
in? No. Okay. So, now it's up to the council. Anybody want to uh kick it off? I guess I'll start after Sandy, you talked about the breakthroughs, the three main breakthroughs. It broke through a lot more places in there and a lot of it
where it didn't break through was because of the vegetation. Okay. Um the pine trees, the bay berries, they held all that sand. Most of them you saw at the street ends. the people that were removing
these so they had a better look at the ocean or a bigger area to play. That's where it was breaking through. Right up the street from me, the middle of the block, the sand came all the way down the street. The street ends were fine. It stopped everything.
That's I I know what you I I kind of know where you're going with it. What we're looking at is to maintain those dunes. And if there's vegetation there, I don't think I'm not I might be mistaken, but watering all all the way
over the front of the dunes is not what um this is that we're trying to do. It's the back of the dunes where the bay berries and the pines closer to the house. Yes. Closer to the house that will protect. I mean, it's going to it's
going to wash out out front. It always does. And what happens with these walkways is all that all the fencing falls down and it's hanging and everything else. I mean, you have walkways that you put down. If you roll them up, you won't lose them. You may
not lose them, but there's always that chance that it's going to wash away. Okay? So, here's I'm just playing devil's advocate with that. So, if you roll the fence up and you roll the dunes the the walkways up, maybe not completely, but just so they're not
hanging or going down the beach where public works has to go up and pick them pick it all up. Um, I guess that was about it. If that's the case, why can't you organ
say from the top of the June? Okay. Yeah, let's We don't want to get into the back and forth right now. Um, anybody else on the council want to weigh in on this? Well, um, clearly no matter what we say tonight, um, I mean, well, I mean, unless we don't approve
it, uh, is not what you and any of you here want to hear. Um, regarding me having an opinion, and we all in this beautiful country of ours, we're all entitled to our opinion. my opinion of something, um, it may not like the shirt you're wearing, but it
doesn't it's not it's not not gonna affect the way that I vote. So, uh, if maybe at a meeting I did say that I have an opinion about something, um, you know, that I I'm entitled to do that. You we can or we can disagree on that.
Um, regarding um, I just like to thank you all for signing the document. Uh, we are all grateful for that. I didn't know that. You know, you know, I sorry that I've never thanked you before. Um, and I mean that. I'm not being facitious. Uh,
I do mean that. Um, our main concern, my main concern is to maintain our dunes. Um, we take our dunes very seriously, as do you. We don't live on the ocean, but we access the beach every day in the summer, as do
your families. We all pay taxes. I don't pay as much as you do, granted. Um I, you know, I respect your homes. You all do, I'm sure, do a beautiful job maintaining your homes. Um our ocean front homes are beautiful. Uh I do
disagree with you and the D has supported when when you call the D and when I call the D and when you call the D, we're all going to get different answers and you can call them tomorrow and the next day. And that's the truth. So that fencing we've been advised that that should come down. You we are not
taking away your your walkover. You've been you're allow you're continuing to grant you the permit to walk over the dune and you know it's just I I agree with
everything that Jamie has said tonight. Thank you. Anybody else? I just wanted to make one more comment about the fencing. Um, I know that you're you say that any fence is is good fence because it's collecting sand, but when you're collecting sand on one side, it's not
collecting on the other side. So, it has like a cave-in meandering effect. So, fencing all across a dune is not a viable way to stabilize the sand. We all know that the only way to truly stabilize the sand is the dune plants, which you destroy when you put your
walkways over it. Um, so any fencing anywhere is not good for the dunes. If it was, we'd be meandering fences all around the dunes and stabilizing that way. The only true way to stabilize the dunes is the dune vegetation, not
fencing. And fencing put anywhere adjacent to the walkways, although it may be collecting, it's not collecting appropriately. The only dune fencing is supposed to be at the bottom of the dune, not zigzagging throughout the dune. I know that because I sat through
many meetings with the Army Corps and the D walking up there with them as they're doing the replenishments many times. So fencing all fencing is not substantial for the dunes also. Thank
you. Thanks. Anderson, do you have anything to say? Uh, I would like to thank everybody for coming out and I would like to think that the oceanfront homeowners and the council can come to an agreement or a
compromise on the matter. I'm not sure why who who said we even need the dune fencing from your house to the beach, you know, access anyway. I mean, walkway. Why it needs to be fenced on
both sides? I'm not clear on that. I apologize for that. That's a specification established by the D. So maybe if you were able to roll it up halfway to your house. I mean the dunes are so broad right now. I know it's a lot of fencing and I have seen mangled
fencing hanging on the ocean and it's, you know, I'm sure it makes a mess in the ocean, too. It's not easy to remove, but um bottom line is I'd like to see us all work together on a win-win. Thank you for coming and expressing your concerns.
Jamie. Okay, you're all done. Okay. Um, just one more thing. Oh, go ahead. I would like to thank everybody for, you know, coming out and helping us with the replenishment and giving your uh property up for that. Um, we're not
trying to punish anybody here. We're we're allowing the walkways to continue. I mean, it's we appreciate that that you're there and you know that the dunes are there
because it protects us. It's well, anybody that has a house beyond the dunes, it also protects you, right? So, thank you for, you know, whatever you do up there, cleaning up and every and your um planting of the dune grass and
everything. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So, I guess it's my two cents to come in. Um, I did a lot of research on this back in I think it was November when we first broached this subject. And it's interesting because you said when you spoke with the D, I know as Kitty said,
we're getting all these different stories honestly because like I said, I spoke with the Lindsay Davis. I know Chris Constantino was in contact with Sherry. They told us something different. And honestly, I wouldn't mind if we wanted
to revisit this. Um, in fact, I mean, as you've said, Lori, to see what else is going on. It would be great if we could get somebody from the D to come and sit down here with us because there's a lot of contradictions going on right now. Um the fencing issue, like I said
before, didn't make sense, but that is something that they specified. I believe that was in writing um about the uh north end or I'm sorry, the west end of the dune fencing collecting and the south that they didn't want that. And I said before, it didn't make sense to me,
but we're kind of bound by D rules, too. D rules obviously are a little bit vague. Personally, um we all know how important the dunes are and as they my fellow colleagues up here have done, we thank you. I you know, I'm sorry if that
wasn't clear earlier, but we're all beholden. But of course, as part of the whole package, it is your responsibility with your doom front to make sure you are our first line of defense, plain and simple. And I was here during Sandy. I was here in ' 62. Trust me, I know what
happens when the ocean breaks through and it's not pretty. And you know, if you go back to Beach Chamber in the early days, we had a boardwalk. The 44 hurricane blew right through this town. And that's when we realized how important the doom system was. And that's when the whole thing was established. So, you know, it's a
no-brainer. Now, trying to protect it and protect everybody's homes is the bottom line here. Um, I have some questions about some of the things. So, I don't know. I would be willing. The problem is I know that they're anxious to get the permits out
because Yeah, I I don't want I am not I'm not all due respect to it tonight. I'm um not agreeing with um pulling this and one of the primary reasons is because the 21 walkovers is a compromise. We
still have 60 other oceanfront homes. We live in the a We live in the age of I want this. I want this. I want my house three stories. I want my house bigger than yours. I want a pool. I want a pool. Oh, that I want a dune walkover. I want a dune walkover. So, we can't have 80 dune walkovers. Yes, they make sense
in love ladies or when you have like, you know, an 80,000 square foot house and no public access. In some of these walkovers, you can sit stand on the walk over and jump to the public access point. So, it you're right. It doesn't
make sense for everybody, but to isolate individuals and say, "Yes, you can. No, you can't. You, that's not you can't do that when you're talking about the dunes and you're talking about the protection of the entire community behind the dunes, not just one piece of the dune." So, with all due respect, I we need to
pass this ordinance. We need to move forward with this because we do not we're we're too densely packed in Beach Haven. We can't have 80. We can't have more than the walkovers that we have now. In the one street between I don't know what street is between. I think there's four. There's public access.
One, two, three, four, and then public access. You could jump from one to one. How can you say that's stabilizing the dunes? How can you say that's good for the dunes? You can't you don't I'm not asking I'm not asking for a a literal conversation.
Um so no I don't I am not for we need to move forward with this. Unfortunately not everyone is always happy but however our main goal is for the safety of the community and that's where I stand. Okay. Well always modify in the future.
Well that would be my question. you know, is there a way to modify? Because I do think that we limiting is the way to go because I don't think we need to have all houses with them, but I think the ones that are here, I understand what the concern is with um the fencing
and all that. So, so many messages, please don't yell from the audience. Please don't yell from the audience. The floor has been closed. All right. So, we have an engineer. Do you have a motion to approve or do you have a motion to Okay. Is there a motion to
approve questionc the permitting process? Explain to me. We want to get this done tonight. Yes. So these guys can get their permit by the end of the week. I'll send out a packet with a letter with an application attached explaining everything that we
discussed and they can make application. So, we have to we it's all it was vague. I have to admit that some of that stuff was vague. Was the floor open, right? I read it. All right. Yeah, let's hold on. Now, this is just a council discussion
at this point. Just let me just clarif ordinance. The only thing that me there's no irrigation system I have the ordinance right in front of me. The only thing that's mentioned about watering is on the west side of the dune and water regularly to ensure proper success of
the vegetation. That's when you replant something you have to water the roots until they stabilize. It's 30 days I think that is because when I planted dune grass when I planted the top of my street we had to drag the hose from the ocean from home owner. Thank you. Um and
watered it until they were stabilized. I think it was 30 days. That was it. That's what this is. That's directly from the guidelines from the DP. You always have to water a plant before they stabilize. That's Yes, you do. Okay. On the east side, the dune grass
grows because of the salt and the moisture, but on the west side, it's very difficult. And you know, anyway, we can't clean. All right, so let's just move on. It's 6:45. We need to decide whether we're going to vote on this or not. So, all right. Is there a motion? Not for me. I'll make a motion to
approve ordinance 20257. I'll second it. Miss Anderson? No. Mrs. Ball Miller? Yes. Mr. McCaffrey? Yes. Miss Snder. Yes. Mayor Lambert, no.
That's a pass. 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. Final reading. Okay, it is the final reading. Would anybody like to speak on this in the public? Anybody on Zoom? Um, we're gonna Margie McGlenn.
I'm sorry. Were you in your room first? No, I'm on. Sorry, Colleen. Nope. Go ahead, Margie. State your name and address. Hi, Margie McGlenn, 122 Fairview Avenue. And I just wanted to give a little bit of background as well as um few reasons why
I think this ordinance should pass. So, u I was a member of the parks committee which Kitty chaired and I I chaired the subcommittee that was dealing with um pickle ball, tennis, other other sports and we were trying to address the
crowding that occurs at Nelson. And it's a situation that you know two years ago you had as many as uh 40 people waiting to play while 24 were on the courts. So there's six courts. So, if there's 40 people waiting to play, you actually
have to wait for 10 games to finish before you can go out and play again. And anyone who plays a racket sport, I mean, tennis, you don't wait at all. You have a match for an hour, an hour and a half. Um, and you know, pickle ball people know that waiting will occur. But, you know, the best uh situation is
when it's no more than three or four games to finish. So as we had assessed this situation, we had a lot of discussions at the council meeting about can we put in more pickleball courts. We are not asking for that. What we did was we said let's make the best use of what we have right now, which is six
absolutely beautiful courts. We thank the gay burrow for those. And so we put in place a pilot that the council approved where we said, "Okay, we sell seasonal passes for people that want to play a lot. We sell weekly passes and we
sell daily passes. And so we said, what if we try to spread out the players? Let the seasonal passes start at 8 am, but don't sell daily passes until 10:00 a.m. That way, people who start at 8 are starting to leave around 10, and people
who show up at 10:00 can stay till open play is done at noon, and they could stay later because the courts are then open for anyone. And we agreed to collect data, which the attendants uh helped us do. And um the net result is
that we had significantly less crowding and we also had fewer complaints from neighbors which I know Colleen and a few others have asked along to me. And I'll just give you one statistic. So we monitored how many people on average are waiting uh to play at 9:00 a.m. And
let's just do the month of July. That's the busiest month. The number was 12. So you wait for three games to finish which is ideal. How many people were waiting to play at 10:00 a.m.? Well, it was up to 24. So, you wait for six games to finish. Well, that's not so great. But then a lot of those people who had been
there at 8 left and the people who showed up at 10, if they were there at 11:00 a.m., they only had 16 people waiting to play. So, you you waited four games. And so, the data showed that it had a positive effect. We got a lot of
positive feedback from players and it made the best use of the courts we have. I know some people said, "Yeah, but I couldn't bring my guest to play until 10:00 a.m." Well, neither could I. But we managed through it and they had a better experience coming at 10:00. So, I would strongly recommend that we
continue this policy and we continue monitoring the wait times and see if anything needs to change in the future. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Nobody else. Okay. And we already did
the audience. So, is there a motion to approve? I'm I'm sorry, council. I I didn't ask, but I know we kind of all agreed last time. It was a Yeah, this was at the you know, really The pickle ball people are happy. Yeah, Jamie's happy. The neighbors are happy, too,
which is very important. Okay. Is there a motion to approve? I'll second it. Miss Anderson? Yes. Mrs. Ball 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 are 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 105 is authorizing the Burough Beach Haven to enter into a contract with M International, Inc. Resolution 129 is authorizing an
executive session to discuss potential litigation. 130 opposing the New Jersey protect protecting against climate threats packed in the resilient environments and landscape rules real 131 is approving the Fourth of July
fireworks display. and 132 is approving membership to the Beach Haven Volunteer Fire Company number one and membership to the New Jersey State Fireman's Association. Is there anything that anybody would like to have removed for discussion?
Seeing none, is there a motion to approve the resolutions within the consent agenda? I make a motion to approve. I'll second. Miss Anderson, yes. Mrs. B Miller, yes. Mr. McAffrey, yes. Miss Snder, yes. Mayor Lambert, yes. I have a
bill list this evening in the amount of 2,918,81382. Everybody have a chance to review the bills? Motion to approve. I make a motion to approve the bills. I'll second. Miss Anderson? Yes. Mrs. B Miller? Yes.
Mr. McCaffrey? Yes. Miss Snder? Yes. Mayor Lambert? Yes. Under general discussion, you have proposed Friends of Beach Haven projects. Um, Kitty Snider, you're the sponsor for this one. Well, um, I we are lucky tonight to have the
Friends of V Haven Friends of V Haven President and Vice President. So, I'd like to have them, and I asked Sherry about this ahead of time, if they could just come up and give you some information as to one of the projects that we are hoping um, we'll have your support for. Good evening. My name is
Ken Rubin and thanks for making the time for us today. And I wouldn't brief and I have some really good news. I think I have some really good news for the board. It's come to our attention that a generous person has offered to make a donation to the friends of Beach Haven
to enlarge the pavilion at Veterans Park. Uh that person is agreeable to pay for the design and the rebuild of the pavilion. It's at the early stages. uh we really haven't given a lot of thought to it at this point because it's very
early but we have some ideas and one idea we had was that the uh the pavilion itself could to an extent mimic the way the Angleside Hotel was designed. So the Angleside Hotel was located obviously a
Veterans Park on the northbound side. The pavilion obviously is going to be much much smaller than the hotel. But the idea was that in some way it can draw us all back to the time when the angle side was there by the way it looks. We also had the idea of the
interior of the pavilion having pictures of that time in history. pictures of the hotel, pictures of people socializing at the hotel because as you all know really the social life in Beach Haven surrounded the two hotels, the Baldwin and the Angleside between the Gilded Age
and you know the 20s and 30s. So that's the initial thoughts. Uh we're excited about it, but we can't really move forward unless you all tell us it's something you're interested in doing. So, I'm really here tonight to see if
that's something you want us to move forward with. Um, uh, the person is willing to provide a gift. It's a true gift, uh, to the friends of Beach Haven. Um, we're excited about it and we also have some ideas as to why we think a
larger pavilion might be necessary. Sally's giving some thought to that. Hello, Sally Pub, 125 Center Street. Um and I am here with Ken um as a board member of the friends of beach haven. So um I think the pavilion that we have now
is lovely. However, we have an opportunity to number one improve or expand the space to um accommodate the events that are already going on there such as the beloved concerts on
Wednesday nights. So imagine the band having more space, maybe a bigger band to show up. Um secondly, more events would take place that currently would not fit in the existing space. So for example, we could have yoga or exercise
classes in a bigger pavilion or we could have art classes for kids. All of this would really just allow more people to enjoy Veterans Park. Um the third uh is a direct result from the community
survey that we conducted and that is to increase the shade within our parks as of course the sun is um you know damaging to our skin and other things. So to increase the shade we would propose that the pavilion have um more
seating um that which is lacking today. So that extra seating would allow all of us to have a have an iced tea and sit in the pavilion and just enjoy the breeze of Veterans Park. Um, and lastly, and really just tying into u what Kenneth
said that this park is the centerpiece of our historic district. I believe it's a centerpiece of our town and it is with uh what a great opportunity to bring up uh the pride uh of all of us in in our
town by in our burrow by beautifying um Veterans Park via the pavilion. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Sally. So really what we're simply looking for is we're not looking for any guarantee. We're simply trying to get your view on this because it's a chicken
or the egg thing. We can't move forward with the person willing to make the gift until we know you have an interest in proceeding. Obviously, whatever is built there needs your approval. The design, everything about it needs to be approved by council. But the point is, we really can't move forward till we know whether
there's an interest in proceeding. So, that's really why we're here tonight. So, thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Um, can I just say something? Sure. Absolutely. So, I mean, I obviously support this project and the potential for this project. I think it's it's a
it's good news. It's a gift and um I think I can't imagine being against it just because it just why would you be? Um you know I can picture a wedding in this you know in a larger pavilion from Cap's perspective. The bands is a larger
band shell larger vantage points. Um it's a win-win for both of us. Um, it's, you know, I know in Harvey Cedars and in Barnagate Light, they have both expanded the size of their pavilions because people are in our
parks. People are using them and we don't have any seating in the one we have now. And we need more shade, shade, shade, shade. Everybody wants more shade. So, this would be a multi sort of multi-purposes, you know, at Christmas. I can just see, you know, I mean, there's so
many the potential is just endless. And I think it would be a beautiful addition to the town. And with the generosity of a very generous um lover of the town, I think it I I ask you to just give us an opinion whether you'd like us to move
forward with this before we spend any money within architectural design for no reason. So we need your support and I ask for your support. Oh, I have no problem supporting it. Um, I would also ask we do something about the sound system in it. I think that
would be a big help because there's nothing worse than standing there at those ceremonies and not being able to hear. Um, I think there will be a bit of a engineering aspect with the sloping the way it is now and having to do that. But I don't see that as insurmountable.
And you know, if it's a gift, I I I couldn't say no. Very attractive gift. Yeah. And usable. Yeah. I I agree. Um I know that no Veterans Park is really the center center of town and although the
grass looks beautiful, it's just grass, you know, and right it needs something else. It needs to be added on to that. The grass will give the color, but you do need to continue the beautifification of the park. It's I think vibrancy. Yeah, exactly. I think it's a great focal point. I see a lot of things that
could happen there. Not only, you know, cap concerts. Maybe we could have, you know, teenage bands play there, something like that. Or we could have the Compassion Cafe play there. I mean, there's a lot of opportunity or dance, you know, dancing
there. There's a lot of opportunity for uh for that pavilion. And when you know it's too windy and tal, you've come up to Veterans Park. So, and how could you say possibly no to a gift and people that work hard on this design? So, thank you for all your time. Yeah. And uh I
definitely support it. Thank you. I'm good with it, Mike. I've got enough to say. I think I'll take that as a guess. It's great. I I think it it is too small of a pavilion to really do too many many
things. We're going to move forward. Thank you. And if you can incorporate seating, you know, with some ramps up to it, so people with walkers and wheelchairs or special needs. Oh, absolutely. has to be ramps on either side. I'm imagining the band stand sort of thing being in the middle with open
air seating or something on each side. I don't know. Saka to us. Thank you. Thank you very much. One other thing that we are just since you asked uh working on and um I've talked to Sher about this and and Steve and um we are expand I
mean it was part of our original plan. We're just expanding the two corner beds on the east side to um and we're friends of Beach Haven. The town is going uh Steve's going to run extra little bit longer extended railroad ties and we're going to be putting in the soil and the
edging and the plants to have our goal will be to um enlarge the beds and create a certified butterfly and pollinator garden. Um the beds are so close to the dunes that experts think that it's a perfect location to be able for mon migrating monarchs. Um the
owners of How to Live, Sandy and Vic, have generously offered to um fund much of this project and I believe that we're going to be able to dedicate one of the corners to um Frank Little's son who we we ourselves and everyone at the Barrow
raised money in his in his memory. So, um, we're and we're trying. Sandy's reached out to Beth, our teacher at Beach Haven School, and she's very interested in, um, I'd love to get, we need to get the kids involved. It's a great project for kids and, um, and that's it. So, I mean, anything that
brings children in and butterflies and pollinators. I mean, that's all good. Yeah, it's all good. So, okay. Thank you. Um, that was it. That's it. Okay. Ordinance. Pardon? Yeah, we're looking
at a proposed ordinance um potentially repealing an ordinance for um repealing the chapter that regulates registration of vacant and abandoned property. I know I've had some discussion with some of you and you wanted to do a little research before tonight's Yeah. And I I
apologize. I did I totally missed that bullet point. So, I did not get a chance to read 14C. Okay. So, I don't really feel equipped to disc, you know, how I like I need to read it and dive into it. And I I apologize. I did I missed that. I don't know how I didn't have my glasses on. I missed that bullet point.
So, I'm not ready to discuss that. So, you okay with that? Yeah, I'm fine with Okay, then that's all I have. Okay, then we're open to public comment. Uh again, three minutes. Please identify yourself. We always give the audience first crack.
Sue Sharky 10 North Delaware. Thank you for all you do. Um, a gift with no strings is a great gift. And so, thank you, Kitty. Thank you, Sally. Thank you, Ken. Um, I I embrace and love historic
charm. I don't know how I feel about modeling after the angle side. We got that property because they didn't pay their taxes. I'm not I'm not sure that's something we should emulate. Maybe some turrets, but maybe not the That's just what that's what hit me.
Like if I don't pay my taxes or they're going to, you know, model something after me. Um, I hope that I I'm going to uh just carry on something that Sally touched on, arts and crafts and um dance party and you said some oh yoga and
that's I'm really hoping that the recommendations by the recreation committee are kind of made into fruition and some programming for um all sorts of different ages this summer. Um, I hope
I'm assuming one of you you'll comment on um the Jake's Playground. Okay, good. And I just I want to um bring two very important uh dates to everybody's attention. Uh Compassion Cafe is opening
May 13th. It's our fifth year. Who'd have thought? It's our fifth year. We have about 92 employees and for the last We've never paid rent. We started at Barry's and for the last four years um we've been at the Sea Shell and we pay no rent there and they just invite us to
operate this wonderful nonprofit. Um we have about as many volunteers as we have um employees and it's it really is just a community effort and then I'm the next thing I needed a bullet point you'll probably mention heritage day. Don't forget you'll put somebody mentioned
because that's May 17 16 17 17 17th Thank you. Good. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Anybody else? John, John Hamilton, 319 Fairview Avenue, Beach Haven.
Um before I before I give you my true remarks, um I was so pleased to hear about the pavilion. Uh I think it's a wonderful idea. Uh people have heard me speak in the past that I think we need more activities for our teens. I I was
very happy Jamie mentioned a band for teenagers. Uh maybe we could even bring a dance to Veterans Park inside a a larger We're trying pavilion. So that that's that's wonderful. Um I don't know if you have seen this. I I read it in
the paper uh last week and it was disturbing to me that the office of legislative services reporting to the governor is proposing two bills S4158 and A4816.
Both those bills basically would remove beach tags and and the burrow or any municipality for charging for beach tags. And they're proposing that anyone
could have unlimited access to the beach if the tide mean water line is is is lower than the mean or the tide water line is lower than the mean. And I started re looking at this and saying
this is just going to number one they it's hard for the beach checkers to implement it and number two it's just going to we we're going to have our budget next next month and it's just going to cause all the municipality to increase their
taxes and uh I know a surf city councilman which was in the article last Wednesday a ser council men wrote a letter to our our our regional senator and assemblymen uh opposing this and uh
Colleen I think maybe an idea is mentioning it at the Ocean County Mayor's Association. It was mentioned at the last meeting. Oh, it was okay. or may we just do something in an advocacy opposing this, you know, with our with
our with our county and and state and regional representatives. I just I I just I was very disturbed when I read this article. That's that's the first time hearing. Thank you. No, it it was brought up and u I don't think anybody
was in favor of it at all for many reasons. Anybody else in the audience? No. Anybody online? No. Okay. So, we're going to close the floor to public comment and um I guess
we'll do our final comments now since we're going into executive session. Um Mike, since you did the flag salute, you get the first honors. Okay. Um I guess wish everybody uh upcoming Cinco de Mayo
and all the mothers happy mother's day. Other than that, I don't have much anything. Okay. Thank you, Kitty. So, should I can I Sure. I So, um I'll give you my time. This is a little lengthy, but I we I I think we would
uh we we it's certainly worth mentioning. We were really really lucky um the Baron Beach Haven. We were awarded a grant um for a all-inclusive playground in at um Nelson Nelson Avenue
Park. This is a grant that we've all worked really hard on. I in in 2023 I attended my first League of Municipalities um in Atlantic City and after attending um the Greenacres open space presentation. My head was spinning.
Um I heard uh Amanda Sap who was the director um and she first mentioned I just I learned about Jake's Place or Jake's Playground and the money that the state really wanted to give out. um they were very anxious to give their money away. I brought it to the attention of
our newly established parks committee, which by the way is not the chair. Colleen and I both served on that committee as council members. Um so I guess maybe we chaired it together and didn't know it. Um and they really were excited about
it. Honestly, if it had been up to me, I I probably would have dropped the ball, but but not the parks committee. They just love the idea. They love the idea of Beach Haven being home to an all-inclusive playground where kids of all abilities could play together and interact together. Uh we decided not to
rush the process because uh it was a lot. It really was. It had a was a lot involved with the application and we waited a year to apply. Don Caxis and Sally Bablati uh worked tirelessly um together with Sher Mason who gathered
the key players and put our team together. In fact, I think one of your first meetings with the team was in the bathroom. Yes, it was pouring rain and windy at Nelson in a rainstorm. Yeah. Um Allison and I never can say Allison's
last name. Ayana. Ayanna Conn uh from Owen Little and Associates worked a long time on the application together with Mike Noak, a design consultant with MRC Recreation. Thank you both. Thank you both. Of course, the design was created with the oversight and input of the
state. Sally and Don developed an online survey which was required um to solicit community feedback. They went above and beyond. Flyers and banners um were all around town. Sue Shy, a gold star member of our community, also a member of the
parks committee. Yes, you are. And the director of Compassion Cafe, also pitched in to help. Um, really, really key and important. Thank you, Sue. This fully funded, inclusive playground will provide a place for children of all abilities to play together. Um, hopefully kids will make lifelong beach
friends in this park. um and at the same time gain an understanding of the challenges others face while just being kids. So, I'm really proud of all of us and I'm really grateful like we should be proud of ourselves and thank you. Thank you. One other thing, May 17th is
Heritage Day. Um we're having a house tour um and a cocktail party. We have six beautiful homes and museums, a cocktail party. It's 11 to 4 for the tour and 4 to 6 for the cocktail party. Um, there are signs all around town and
posters and there's a QR code on each one to gain access or you can visit friendsofbehaven.org for for the information. Is there anything else, Ally? Good. All right, that's it. And um, just remind everyone, I know Jamie's going to
mention the PTA cocktail party, but um, I know Debbcraft is having a fundraiser at Burden Betty's this weekend for the AMS for um, in the squad. So, I'd like hopefully everyone will attend. That's on Saturday. Thank you. Thank you. Okay.
Um, Mr. Anderson, short and sweet. Thanks everybody for coming. I just want to say for the record that I wish we had given more time to the Dune Protection Ordinance and um I think we really let some people down uh sadly
and I'm really glad they came up to speak. I don't know why we couldn't have waited a couple weeks or another month to get it done. I don't I maybe I don't know enough about the permitting process or the timeline there, but um well, unfortunately, some of them have already
installed their walkovers without a permit. So, yeah, I just feel like there wasn't enough clarity or conversation or communication and I really it sounded like it was kind of shoved down their throats to be honest. This is the first time we talked about it. You've talked
about it since last September. That's all. That's it. Okay, Jamie. Um, yes, big big weekend. Friday night is the Beach Haven PTA fundraiser at the Engleside. There might be a few tickets left. Um, but I'm
not exactly sure if it's sold out or not, but there is the Maritime Museum fundraiser at Bird and Betty's on Saturday. And, uh, that's always a lot of fun, too. and they're both uh great benefits. One for the school, one for the maritime museum. So definitely come
to the maritime museum one because I know that that's always enough room for everybody. But if there's a few I'm so sorry I said for the emergency squad. It's for the maritime. Yes, the maritime museum. Oh dear god. Oh no. Sorry. Oh god. I'm No, I didn't. What was I thinking? It's for the maritime museum.
Oh, sorry. Yeah, it's it's it's a great time. in the fireman's I was I was going to bring that up on Saturday. Oh my god. And that was last Saturday but it was forecast is not promising again. I don't know what happens if it gets rained out again but keep a good thought but go
ahead. Sorry I forgot about that too. I'm sorry last weekend. every weekend is I feel like is with events every weekend as we're kind of cruising into summertime, which is one of the reasons why if we're asking
for permits for the summertime, we can always pass an ordinance and then we can always amend it. We can always amend it. Um, so if you want to meet with maybe start a committee with those members and get all of their ideas and then come back to council and then tell us what
their ideas are and maybe we can amend the ordinance. But as far as going 80 walkovers is absolutely ridiculous. Is there a mayor's round table coming up? Well, there was, but we had one person sign up, so we decided No, I mean I
guess that's a good sign. People are happy. So, um, everybody, I don't want to, we still have executive session. I did want to also mention, this is really important. On Friday, May 16th, we are going to run an open house with Atlantic
City Electric to discuss the battery station out here. Um, you will be able to come and meet with the representatives and you can ask them any questions you want and we would strongly urge everybody to do so. Um, if you're
not familiar with it, it sits right where the Atlantic City Electric property is across the street from the CHEG. It's a lithium ion battery and there are concerns. We are we have spent months in meetings with those concerns and we're
going to discuss them again tonight in executive session. But please educate yourself and certainly plan on coming out on that. What is it's 3:00 to 5:30? What's the date again, Colleen? Uh it's um May 16th. Is it is it 3:00 to 5:30?
And it's going to be in the firehouse. Correct. Yeah. Oh, okay. So, and we will you'll hear more about this at the next meeting, but we just want to please mark it on your calendar and please get everybody you know to come out and ask all the questions you can possibly think
of. It's very, very important. And on that note, um is there a motion to adjurnn for executive? I just want to say real quick that firehouse and we forgot to mention it and I know we just said it but it's it's so important that the community support them because they do depend solely on on fundraising to be
able to do such a great job that we were very very lucky to have them. So really quickly too and I meant to do this and I get distracted easily. Um, Kitty, I see Sally, Sue, I was on the committee, but I had very little to do with that particular aspect, the Jake's
playground, and they have worked tirelessly. Um, I know we were going to talk about it tonight, and I said, "No, this is her baby." Because she was at all the meetings. I was not. Sally is at the heart and soul of our parks and recck committee and obviously friends of Beach Haven. Um, our guru. I know what
we do without you. I don't either. And Shark is always a mainstay. What do you call a gold star member? So, thank you. I think she is. Can is there a motion to adjourn for executive session? I'll make a motion. All right. Thank you. This time we are
going to um head into executive session. I anticipate being in the closed session for approximately 1 hour. No formal action will be taken during the closed session and no formal action will be taken afterward. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Thanks Ken.
At this time it is 8:06 p.m. We are reconvening the public meeting. Okay. Is there a motion to adjurnn? Motion. I'll make the motion. Second. Thank you so much. Meeting adjourned.