Yes, Thank you. Have everyone's attention. This time I'd like to call to order the 100th anniversary meeting. Everyone please rise to the flag of the United States of
America and to the stands one nation indivisible and justice for all standing for You see
by the dawn early so proud we at the twilight lastri and bright stars
through the fight for the we were so gallare bombs bursting
in proof that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star spangle yet for the land
of the free and the home of the brave. Thank you, Kelsey. If everyone remains standing, it's my honor tonight for our
invitation to introduce former mayor Tony, his grandson, father Anthony from St. Andrew the Apostle Church. Yes. Sorry.
Thank you, Father. On December 15, 2025, noted this meeting was emailed to their current post newspaper, Philadelphia Inquir, and duly posted on the B board of the municipal building. All requirements of the open public meetings act have been met in
compliance with the sunshine law. Roll call >> here >> this time I entertain a motion for approval of the council meeting minutes of February 26, 2026. Yes.
>> This time we'll go into our committee reports. >> Thank you. The only uh two things I have is uh the April meeting. We will do our first reading of the budget. And uh for
those of you that have young children, this is the final week of registration for prek and kindergarten at Delmare schools. So if you haven't registered,
please do so to be guaranteed spot. That's it. Councilman D'Angelo. >> Thank you. That's her report. The only thing he open
a couple mayors had exactly 100 council members sit history and according to our records a special election held in the bur of Delmare on Saturday
1926 and it was assembled at the school house whatever that was the first mayor Councilman Johnley Charles and John
they were the first council mayor. One year later exactly one year later they were all replaced. They lasted one year and nobody seems to know why. Um it may have been an interm election. I don't
know exactly why I went down. I checked the books. There's no record. No report. Unfortunately, the only records the county keeps records for the governor's election. It goes all the way back.
So, oh, and one last interesting piece of information. If anybody on the school board, our school board The very first resolution that came to the floor in 1926 was to call for an election to have the
voters decide whether they wanted to stay in Center Township School District or split and form our own school district. I don't know how it turned out, but that was the very first resolution ever came to the floor.
That's all I got. Thank you, Tim. Councilman Evans, >> thank you, mayor. It's always interesting to follow Jimmy up because he comes he comes prepared with with minutes uh with notes, I'm sorry. Um our community garden meeting was last
Thursday, Mayor. Uh we had a great success. I want to say a special thanks uh to Karen Wright from the counties gardener association. Uh we have about 10 sites of the 30 still available if anyone's interested. Uh they should call the barrel hall. Uh we we'll have the
gardeners in the garden this week at Park and Center Avenue after uh the Easter egg hunt. The Easter egg hunt starts at 11. It's over at 11:02. But uh we want to thank special thanks to uh the RPG Rotary uh Penny Green and
Vulcan bus for their outstanding donations towards this uh community garden. We also Chuck had a business alliance meeting on March 4th. That was a big success and we're asking all of our businesses uh to contribute to our events this year uh by by sponsoring
certain certain things and we were having floats in the parade and the only say is it took 36 years for someone to incorporate Belbar and spell it properly. Belbar on the coast was spelled without
the W or the extra L and that was done 36 years before ours. We have a great community when I look out all these people that I look up to and respected and their children are here today and I feel blessed to serve on this board.
Councilwoman >> Fina. They come up. Thank you. Councilman Thank you, Eric. Councilman Wilhham. >> Thank you, Mayor. Our great community. First of all,
It's a great honor to sit up here so many people that we've known all of our life in this town my whole life years aitt It's just very humbling to all the council members that are here
tonight. Say thank you. One of the things that I learned throughout my career people working with you especially I replaced him It is a great honor to be able to sit up
here. Just want to say special thanks to all of our employees over the years. All our employees make this download that we have fire departments to name them all.
That's what makes us great. Not to leave out the volunteer volunteerism today is next to nothing. But the volunteers we wouldn't do what we've done over the years without special thanks. In addition
council members, I encourage you to get involved. get involved in the community and get up here. These are things that are changing. Like I said, it's a great place to live. Great place to bring your family.
I can't say enough. >> Hey, Frank, in my report. >> Yeah. I just found out that Councilman number 101 is sitting here. I said we had 100 council 101 this list this list was made prior to
the November election. 101. >> Under my report I have for the police department for February, we had 988 calls, 37 investigations,
39 arrests, 29 motor vehicle crashes, and motor vehicle summons issue for 271. For the fire department for February, we had 105 incidents. Uh 38 in town, 35 out
of town, 32 on our highway, and they completed um 60 uh sessions of training. Our EMS, they had 243 141 in Belmar, 38 in Brooklyn, 31
highway, 33 mutual aid. of course and they'll be posted on our website. Um, also I'd like to thank everyone for being here tonight. Uh, we took a chance on doing this and we wanted to recognize
all the uh, past that were here in Belmar and um, I'm in my 48th year and I believe I worked with five chief of police, four mayors and 32 members of council.
I've been here. It's been pleasure definitely working for the Bur Belmar and to um our residents that are here just like they've all said up here what a great great town and um I went back with Joe
Patrusi was the mayor when I came here to work it was um and I was hired and Andy Poowski was a councilman that talked me into taking the tax collector job.
That's where it all began. Him and Joe Roberts. But I'd like to um thank everyone again for being here. It means a lot on 100. And we're going to get through the quick part of our meeting. Then we're going to get to the important part for tonight.
We have Assembly here and he's going to have a proclamation for us and he's going to talk and then we have certificates and gifts for our mayor's council chief of police. Okay, the rest of the meeting
at this time I'll open up to the public the public portion. Anyone has anything to bring forward please come state your name and address hearing nothing we will close the public portion all business
>> new business >> certainly cl Matter on the agenda is 034-26 an ordinance of the bar county of Camden, state of New Jersey establishing a new chapter 344 entitled lead base paint the code of the barrel.
It's an introduction. Mayor needs a motion second and a roll call for introduction. >> Entertain a motion. >> Roll call. >> Yes. Yes. >> Resolution
362-26. >> Entertain the motion. So roll call. >> Yes. >> Yes. I place the name of Madison Schubart. >> Yes. >> Resolution 3726olution.
to participate in 202 call. >> Yes. >> Yes. Entertain a motion. Second roll call. Yes. >> 37426
motion call. >> Yes. Resolution 375,5 >> this time my pleasure to introduce Assemblyman Bill Melan. Good evening everyone. It's a true pleasure to be here. In fact, we had an assembly voting session today uh that
ended at 6:15 and somehow we got down here. Uh and if you think this meeting is going long, our meeting, our caucus meeting started at 11:00 a.m. Our voting session started at 1 and we finished up at 6:15. So, uh that's Trenton. Um, so, uh, I wanted to be here
today as a resident of the Burough of Belmar, uh, to just really to to send my well wishes and congratulations on this special night and this special year really. Uh, I I'll just say this, it's this this town's been so crucial and important to my family, the Mowen
family. Uh, my my father was raised here. My my grandparents moved from Gloucester City to here uh, in the 1950s. And um and certainly I'm proud to be raising my two kids here with my wife Nicole uh here in town. Um as you heard
Councilman D'Angelo say, when you think back to 1926, the history and the municipal election that occurred in order for that to have occurred, it was an act of the state legislature uh that was that was passed earlier that year. It was chapter 111, I believe it
was, that created incorporated the burrow of Belmar and permitted then the election to occur in in creating the town. Uh what's really interesting and you'll probably read about this if you follow the local news. Uh that act and
and that year was pretty important for this part of Camden County because as Councilman Gandler said with Center Township really being broken apart, it created We're celebrating the 100th anniversary of Belmar, we're also celebrating the 100th anniversary of
Renee, Mount Ephraim, and Lawn. And so if you take a step back and think about that, a 100 years ago, we were all together in one really one municipality. And so we're celebrating a lot this year. When you put that with our
nation's 250th, there's a lot that's going to be happening this year. I encourage you all to take the time ensure that your family's taking part in that. Whether it's the World Cup, the semiquesentennial, the Major League Baseball All-Star game, uh South Jersey
is going to be a part of all of that. And to have us in town being able to celebrate the 100th this year makes it extra extra special. What I'll also say is that I think that um what's very interesting is that Mayor Solder was
sworn in as the president of the Camden County Mayor's Association. And so you think about that being the 100th year of Belmar's history. I think all of those things coming together is really special. Um it's it's nice to look around the room and see so many uh
former uh members of council and burough employees. Um and then also look around and see perhaps some future elected officials too. I'll tell you lastly that I got my start in public service and I'm proud to say this. I grew up in Runnom was a Triton high school grad, but one
of the first things I did was join the Belmar Police Explorers. Uh, and so I got to serve with folks like Chris Wilhelm and Jared Walton. Um, and um, and then we we took different paths in public service. But it's those opportunities that are unique to towns
like Belmar that create the interest and ultimately what you see in front of you with the folks behind me serving and myself as well. And so those things together, we should be extremely proud of what we have here in town. And just count on me as a partner in ensuring that we continue this tradition and the
history here. Uh it's truly a pleasure to be here. Uh and mayor, with that said, one of the things I was able to get while I was in Trenton today was a state ceremonial resolution. Uh that's a joint resolution uh from the New Jersey
State Senate and the New Jersey General Assembly uh that's uh signed by both the Senate President and the Speaker of the Assembly uh that commemorates this occasion uh there's a lot of words on here I'm not going to read
but I do want to just mention there 100th anniversary inoration Senate Assembly of the state of acknled Okay, at this time and the certificate that we're giving out of recognition
to the person in recognition of your dedicated service leadership and valuable contribution to public At this time to 1999. Council
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legacy. I'd like to give you Before we get back up to finish our meeting this The information we have here very over the years before we go up. I'd like to
chapters Okay, before we uh turn, uh just a minute to thank all the former mayors, members of council, chief of police, their families and representatives, their loved ones for being here tonight.
Thank you to um Kelsey for the beautiful singing of the national anthem. Thank you to Dave Dilks from the Camden County Emerald Society with bag fights. Uh thank you also to Miss Felmore for being here tonight and to Father Anthony and
for the beautiful invocation. Much appreciated and for assembling Melon being here and uh presenting our proclamations to Burma. Uh everyone's invited back to the BFW on
Essex Avenue for refreshments of some food for everyone to eat. So please feel free to stop by on Essex Avenue BFW. At this time I have there's no further business. >> I entertain a motion for
>> German. Yes. >> Very good. Thank you all for coming out to the hund. Have a lot going on this. >> Could we Could we have if they're still here for a picture the former um council
people may if you go to the back