Um, I sent out the minutes from last month. Can I ask for a vote on approving the minutes as we distributed them from? >> I'll make the motion to approve the minutes from last month. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carry.
>> Okay. Um, next is the just a little bit of an update about our existing grants. We have the green team grant which is um still we're still planning out the final piece which is the social media piece. Otherwise, we've completed that. We do have more literature if anybody's
working in a vet or going to your kids school or somewhere you want to just share some things. I have brochures. They're always in the trunk of my car if anybody wants some of them. >> Um, >> are you going to be at the fall festival? >> When's the fall festival? >> 25th of October.
>> First I've heard of it. So >> that's the Chamber of Commerce, >> correct? >> I didn't realize that. Somebody else approached me about it and I thought it was Tourism Commission. They were like, "No, that's Chamber of Commerce." No. No. Um, but one of the general overall goals is to start working together a
little bit more efficiently. So hopefully there will be less there will be less confusion going forward with those type of things. >> So is the Liber is not coordinating the fall festival. That's the chamber. >> It's the chamber, but I'm sure if you wanted more information, you can email Jenna and she'll connect you to the right people.
>> Is anybody interested in attending the fall festival at a table? Be there in some capacity. I was debating at this point, but I can send you the woman's uh email address. >> That'd be great. >> And it's on October 20th.
>> Where >> it'll be the car show and you know the whole >> I know that they were interested in doing a um beer tent or something like that over in Piano Plaza. I'm not sure what the approval process looks like right now >> if they've gone through with it. I think
um beach house technically doesn't need a special license for it. Like their geographic space somehow covers that. >> I don't know. It's not my area of expertise. >> I'll check it out. I'll let you guys know what I think if we can have a space. We were at the San Janeiro
Festival and it was really fun. It was nice to be in the community. um and just kind of like people that don't usually come to the commission, but we're there for the food. And so it was just nice to talk about what we're working on and different projects that we have going um
and answer people's questions about the environmental commission and what we do. So that was a really nice event. Um we also had our sustainable landscaping um which was covered by co-star. >> Oh, she's not co-star. This is Angie who was talking about the envir like our
resident who's >> Oh, okay. less excited. >> Totally fine. Thanks for um but I thought there might be somebody here from the Coast, but the Coar wrote up two really nice articles about we had a sustainable
um landscaping workshop for residents. We had capacity enrollment, 30 people over at Candid's garden and we spent some time there learning about sustainability and practices in your garden and make plants and um like all those you know elements as to how you're
managing your garden to make it be a part of a sustainable community which was a great day. Um and looking over here I is here um she was here last month talking to us about a project she's working on for the arts council. So, do you want to give a little bit more feedback or do you have anything
else you want to share? >> Yeah. So, I have the exact dates. It's going to be April 20th to May 30th and the reception is going to be on Friday, April 25 25th between 3 and 5. So if we
were discussing about having a workshop or some sort of event um I guess either ahead of it or right after so that we would feed into these two events. So in the reception so maybe I
was thinking maybe we'll do it on the 26 if possible. Uh so that's Saturday the day after. So we have a reception at the Belmar Center and then we tell everyone if you want to learn more about native plants tomorrow is >> 26th of April.
>> Yeah. Or of course even before it's just as well to get people to go to the other events. So we just feed on each other. >> What was the end date for that? You said May 30th. >> You said the 25th was the reception at
the art center. >> Yes. And 26 is the workshop. >> I mean, it's not it's >> I'm calling you a workshop. >> Yeah. T tentative tentative. >> And I I heard that we were talking about telling me attending.
>> Um well, I don't know about attending that particular event, but I have contact with him. So, we can figure out what we want to invite him to. If you want to do something, we can continue that conversation for sure. >> Okay. That's awesome. That would be a really good
attract attention. >> Sure. Yeah. >> So, but suggested that we see if the Taylor pavilion is available that day. We're going to kind of put something together like we did the last time and
uh you know kind of explore our options as far as what topics we want to offer or John Gibbons would be willing to do another presentation. He was there last time we did the sustainability because he's a local. So, we've been doing some things with like
Yeah, I I actually um I know someone from a naturalist from the Monmouth Park system. His name is Jason Goldman and he's doing a architectural design with native plants. >> So I think um in the terms of having
someone younger and dynamic and uh who actually can provide services to people in in town uh would be a good idea. Yeah. And another another suggestion is there's the um agricultural extension
agent out of Freehold and he has offered he does talks about native plants that's his area special. Yeah. >> So that's like another possibility we could see available >> since he works for the university that's his job. So there' be no cost there. So
that would be an attractive >> plus. >> Yeah. >> So I guess if people are interested or you have topics or speakers that you know something that you would like to include. We're just kind of brainstorming to see what we can do. So that's the that's the strength
and then sort of going into it and after it. So I want to keep the momentum to start a momentum and to keep it going. So I was thinking we were talking last time about a seeding um um workshop and I thought that we can do
that at the magical garden. So it would be very cheap. I would get the seeds. So we would it would really be very cheap and a very good idea for people. >> And then uh after the event we can talk
to um people from off foss. They're doing invasive species um webinar and things like that. So, if you could do a walk throughout town and some someone can explain to us what is invasive, how would we deal with it,
things like that, that would be an idea. And the other thing, Monmouth Park naturalist, I'm going in all sorts of places, but they don't have anything in Belmar and we even have that green area on the beach. So, I think that getting
in touch with them and trying to get someone here to do something. Sure. So, I know this is reaching for the sky, but I um yeah, and I uh clean up events, of course, we should um whenever we do
clean up events, we should mention this, maybe sales. I know it seems like a lot, but I think if we get at least a few done, it would mean something. And I know we discuss schools and stuff and in all honesty I I
feel like this is an overreach for me and I don't have time to also deal with schools. But I'm thinking that if we do all this stuff now in the fall, we can start working with >> what now that we have.
>> That's all right. Actually know more about >> So I'm going to segue from that talk about patchwork for wildlife because doing that kind of walking around the town. Petro for Wildlife is um it's a
lake home organization and what they do is >> that Matthew was I'm sorry. >> Oh, we Oh, thank you. We need my glasses. >> Thank you. >> It's okay. Um it's uh John Gibbons
founded this this nonprofit and he has this huge garden in Lake Palmo where he demonstrates sustainable landscaping and also has native plants. Um but what he what he expanded it into is a neighborhood yard recognition program where you recognize your neighbor's
yards for the positive practices that you see. um the lack of invasive plants, the propagation of natives, the management of the yard. And so we expanded this into Belar and they're also doing it unpleasant in Redbank this
year where we have already um last year we recognized six neighbors yards. We have another eight yards that we're already looking at that we walk through kind of like looks like we're casing the joint but really we're just yard um making little notes about what people
are growing. Um, we reached out to the master gardeners also because there are some master gardeners that have really fantastic yards in town and we will be planning for a December rec awards recognition program. But it's really a way to kind like what Billion is talking about to kind of make a small
difference, spread the word and give people resources and positive feedback about what you're doing. So that's that's >> So can can we get the list? Is it is the list public? It's also the Belmore Arts Center now has a native plants. I just I just
planted it a few weeks ago. >> Congratulations. >> So, we we have like a we're in the process of introducing ourselves to these neighbors. So, until the people the homeowners actually talk to all of them, I don't feel comfortable sharing.
>> Okay. I don't know if BC is an option. >> I can walk you through it. >> Maybe once once you recognize that. Yeah, we have to ask if it's okay because one of the things that we have like a sort of a a menu of questions and one of the questions is is it would you be open to visitors to your yard like
people to come and see would you be open to sharing your yard as a a model where you that's awesome. >> Um okay >> so maybe we do the award at this event in April. Uh, we'll I'll talk to John.
>> Hey, what's up? >> Um, okay. So, switching off to Silver Lake. Do you want to talk about Silver Lake? >> I don't know that I have much to say other than I met at the lake one day and we took a walk around. So, you and I met
with uh Gary and Billy Public Works. We identified the uh trees that should be removed or plants that should be removed. >> Um, Yeah, I'm sure >> we had some input from the neighbors. >> We did
>> and we had a little back and forth there. >> Yeah, >> but it was productive. It was a good productive uh afternoon. >> Um >> we mostly just covered the eastern end of the lake. We didn't cover the western end of the lake too much because there's not a lot of um plants that have grown
on their own other than >> fragmites. >> Um the lake is supposed to be sprayed again. We're supposed to remove the fragmitees. We were very clear about that that they should you can cut the fragmitees that need to not let them fall in the water. Need to be removed.
>> Did you talk about that with Billy while you were with him? >> Yes. >> Okay. So, should I reach out anyway to reinforce that? I want to know >> that on the list. So, so then Elelliana and I after the last meeting, we met down by the lake and we walked around to identify invasive plants as opposed to
native plants. And so, one of the things we talked about when we met with Billy was to identify trees that should be left >> as as opposed to just his his input was that he'd rather just remove them all.
>> It's easier for them to just remove them all than to try to Why? >> And we disagree. Because of the equipment and the manpower required, it's easier to just get them all out. >> All the trees. >> Well, not all the trees. Obviously, not
mature trees that are already like fully grown, but like mostly the honeyloust trees. There's been so much discussion about >> um speaking of all of the plant down there. I don't recall seeing any reply to my
email asking about to you guys and shade tree about identifying all the species down there. Remember that for the um army corps while we had the army corps meeting that was one of the things on the checklist was identifying all the species that are
down. >> Yes. >> And I had sent an email. >> Shade tree has a list that's already prepared. >> Fantastic. Gary would know where to find it because he knows where everything is. >> Well, I think we have to get the list to the army coordinate. >> Okay. There.
>> Yeah. Because I know for sure like during our meeting I sent an email to a couple people asking about it. Yeah. Yeah. >> So, >> so the last thing was that when we met with we talked about I'd like to identify like which trees to leave specifically and he goes, "Oh, I'll do
it." But when we went down there, he did not do it. He had like spray paint spray paint the trees to leave. So when I went with Ilana, I took surveyor's tape and I wrote for cinnon and I labeled the tree and then honeylou and I labor.
>> That would take an hour. It was lunch hour. >> I wish there was a forest there. >> So I identified the trees with red surveyors that they should leave. Whether they leave them or not remains to be seen, but all to find out. >> Yeah. The the other thing that I haven't
brought up because I didn't want to ruin it is that I haven't seen a goose on Silver Lake in like a month. I've heard you flying over. >> I haven't seen a goose on the lake. >> They're in North Park.
>> That's where Park is okay though. People don't get mad about park. No, I'm not happy about that. They should move over there. >> Send them to Spring Lake. So they're not >> Billy seems to think that the reason why there's no geese in the lake is because of the dog. >> Yeah. >> But I find that hard to believe because
the dog is only there for like an hour a day. >> Well, as I as I recall, the number of geese, we felt the big change like a week or two before the dog started. Remember? I'm sure the dog helps and doesn't hurt, but like as the research we all did and Colleen did a
year and a half ago, it was all of the parts together. It's never going to be hard. Yeah. Right. Does Billy know about your labeling? >> No. >> Okay. >> He'll see it. You can't miss it. >> Yeah. >> Does he know it's the ones that stay in? >> Does he know?
>> This is going This was a fun turn. >> Um >> I noticed when you walked around today like you can't even see the lake from the far side. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> You can't even see. They're so high. >> Yeah. Well, there's patches where it's very thick and most of those trees should be
removed, but not all. That was our part. >> Yeah. And Bill agreed. He said they were going to work on this in October. >> They said they would probably do it before Halloween. >> Yeah. I was at the playground with my kids and got an earful of invasive species. I was like, see all these plant
seeds? >> They're really thick. The frages is really what we were talking Japanese is extremely invasive and hard to do with >> question not being on the silver commission. >> Would it be appropriate to have like some kind of written request to public
works about what it is you want them to do and not do? Like I'm it sound like it was a verbal discussion. It was like well is he going to do it? Is he not? Would it make sense for us to output although it's so early to mention the output something like the public works department has discussed please do this
to try to make like a paper trail >> well especially if it's been labeled like just to let them know >> I'd like to let them know we labeled the trees but we had a meeting at public works with the shade tree commission there was a whole discussion with a handshake agreement about going forward
who was going to manage the trees around the lake um and we met they they wanted to actually look at it with Bill and not just send a memo to him, you know, so that we would have a common I think look at what we were doing and be able to say
>> and part of it is the no area that they they stopped like maintaining like 3 foot to the edge of the lake which has caused a lot of um overgrown stuff which means some of their equipment is no longer safe to manage in that area. So
there was like a lot of little nuances and having a back and forth conversation that were helpful I thought >> and having our council here to follow up is always a helpful just emailing him now. That's what I'm doing. Just like I'm just emailing him now and letting him know. I think starting off as less
formal I think builds a better relationship. >> I kind of feel the same and also the line of authority is not that clear as to who decides. We're offering recommendations as a commission, but we're not the final authority.
>> I'll copy and I'll copy you on the comment. So, >> I think it's just great news that we did that for you. Hopefully, >> build on our working relationship. >> Um, okay. Done. And the other piece of the silver lake I could share I guess is that we're working with the US Army
Corps on this planning um process which is a year-long process we're getting material as they requested. We sent them a whole bunch of information. We had like a a Zoom call a week or two ago and even though the federal government shut
down they have not. So that was to me a relief to hear that the Army Corps is still working. So I guess because they're part of the military, they're not shut down. So they will be they're going to be back in touch with us next week and let us know further.
As a result of our meeting, we we're reaching out to M University to possibly do some of the water studies that they need done. Um and we're trying to reach out to other like clues that they gave us as to what further information they need in developing this comprehensive
plan, which is a plan that the bureau use to see funding and uh council Donovan has another funding uh lead that she found just today. Yeah. >> So hoping that we will and I I did talk to the grant writer about keeping his eyes open as well to see other things
that we can apply for. So we will continue to about the resolution of the federal budget because there was that earmark for us in there. So we'll see with that. And one of the other things that was cool about that is when we were at Clonet, which is that meeting with
all the lake, uh, and all the towns, um, the lake commissions, they there was a grad student who presented their work, um, where they were able to take samples of the water in a couple of the different lakes and do a readout of all the different living species inside of
it just based on the water sample. Um, and so one since one of the requirements for the Army Corps grant is well one of the requests is that they we have an outline of that exact thing. I reached out to Jason over at Mammoth University at Cloneet and asked if that student would be interested in doing it here.
Now they've moved on, but they can still do it. So now we're trying to figure out when that can happen, which I think would be really cool. Um, not just for the Army Corps grant, but just in general. That was that was one of the coolest presentations we saw, like having that. Yeah. Um and I think that's something the public would be interested in too, like
um as for the grant today, well, tomorrow we're supposed to meet, we haven't set a time yet, but um it's through it's a uh let me try and get there's a lot of acronyms in this email, but there Mon Mont Monontlair University
is piloting a uh let's see, solutions for municipal energy and sustainability grant. Um, and they're looking for places that are looking into water quality, living shorelines, that type of thing. And they want to partner with us.
They're interested in putting us in the round for that grant. And basically, they want to do all of the work and not charge us anything, which is a beautiful, beautiful thing. >> It's like this little unicorn just came in. >> What was the sustainable energy and energy?
>> Yes. Uh, let's see. Sustainable. >> Yeah. Go ahead. >> Solutions for municipal energy and sustainability. Um, and so they're talking about blue carbon projects. Um, and which what may be interesting is that um, it'd be
interesting to see they're also doing green carbon too. It might be interesting to talk to them about a few different aspects of what we're doing down at the lake. >> So, very exciting. Sounds fair. >> Yeah, it's good stuff. Um, I'm gonna
switch over to sustainable Jersey and the community energy plan. Um, and I thought he's been kind of working on this. So, so a couple things. Um, the energy audit is moving along. We were having a hard time getting from we have a third party
energy supplier in addition to the traditional uh JCPNL. And so, we were finally able to get all that information. So, we should see a timeline soon as to when they can start the energy audit. So they would go out into all the buildings and really then come back with a plan to make
recommendations of how we can improve our energy efficiency and the things we should be doing. So um we're excited to kick that off and get that get that moving forward. Uh we also I talked a little bit last time about the community energy planning grant which is a $10,000
grant um for ways that we can become more efficient um and really move towards green green energy um or clean energy and um we've identified all the departments. There's quite a few of them in town that we're going to meet with
ranging anything from fire and police to um even building code and those kind of things because the grant would allow us to plan it could just be changing res um codes within the town that will point us to greener buildings all the way through
to you know electrical electric or energy efficient equipment that we can use. So, we're going to be meeting individually with all the departments, talk about their priorities, talk about what the grant requires, and then see if we can find a match because we really feel like if they're really motivated to
deliver um some of these goals, and we have a way to help them get that, that's going to help us really drive it forward. This is a planning grant, so it really just comes back with a plan and then we'd have to go find funds. But Sustainable Jersey is really great about connecting us to other sources and ways
that we can apply for grants. So, uh, we should be meeting with them in the next couple weeks and then, um, be able to move forward with recommendations and at the end before we make our decisions, we'll have an open meeting to the town so that they can look at a lot of the,
um, recommendations and really align with which ones we want to prioritize um, for the grant. >> Yeah. Yeah. One of the questions I guess I I have about that is whether we want to include the school Well, I was always confused why the
school wasn't in our building, but it's actually a separate >> like they don't audit that building either. Remember we talked about that earlier because I guess it's technically not a town building. Is that correct? >> That makes sense. >> Yeah. Board of it. They have a separate
budget, separate tax, everything. That makes sense. >> One of the things I really want to do is have a joint BOE and council meeting one day. Even if it's not like the town council meeting, but have a separate meeting that's both because >> I think the more we work together, considering the impact of the budgets
and the taxes, the better. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. >> I think there's more ways we can work together. I think what hurt us last time when it came to a lot of the cleanups and things is that they work on pretty long lead times with their plans. So, we just need to connect back because they're doing so much in the school. So, if we want to do things early on, if we
want to get them involved with um the work you're doing, too, I think we just need to give them enough time so that they can fit it into other things because they're, you know, they plan a lot of their trips and things early and cleanups and those kind of things fall as part of that. Yeah, I know from working in schools that it's usually a year in advance
sometimes for some of the field trips and things and but if there's a way for us to kind of support what they're doing following their curriculum. >> Yep. >> Then we then it's more helpful than if we just run in and say, "Oh, it's Earth." You know, so >> I mean they were very interested. They sent out everything last time. We got
kids the first round. We didn't get a lot of kids. I came to the cleanup from Manisquan and other towns. So I feel like we have all the contacts there. It's just a matter of trying to do it in advance. >> Um they can fit into their schedule. Um, okay. So, next is um Sharper
Cleanup. Do you have any stuff to share? >> Sure. >> Um, I missed the last meeting, so I will point out that we had a wonder back in August, the end of August, we had a wonderful um river singing event that
was I wasn't able to be there due to the rescheduled was away that day, but we had a two volunteers from the Sharp River Cleanup Coalition and a couple of volunteers from the American Lural Society. They had 20 registrants. I have pictures that I can share with folks
after if anyone wants to see it, but um families with kids all lined up at the shoreline on the west side of McClary Park down those stair down the stairs over there. Um and they found among other thing, you know, uh found among
other things u um blow uh a baby blowfish, baby sea robin, and a baby kingfish among just a bunch of little killies and stuff like that. Um so supposedly everyone had a good time. Um and the feedback from the American
Literal Society for that event that was kind of three-way sponsored by Environmental Commission um Sharp Coalition Literal Society between that event and the one over in Neptune City which is also well received that I think there's a high interest in doing more of
those next year. Um, and just when and how to do it something we can work, you know, not not a high priority to figure that out right now, but just generally I think they would they're interested in doing more work here with their outreach and education folks, you know, with
Captain Al the restoration core that did the living shoreline work in Sharp River Hills. They're and the worship crowd tag has done here on the mountain side, but that has a site in them. you know, they operate in some ways in Turk River, but
not in all the ways that they could. They have, you know, river singing and educational stuff mostly over in Sandy York and other places like that. So hopefully that's something that we can expand on when it comes to trying to leverage our co-sponsoring that event
for whatever purposes that might serve the environmental commission. Let me know. We didn't I didn't do like a social media post for start coalition after the fact. like everybody because I was just so busy at the end of the summer. But I have photos and a description of what happened. So when
the time comes we're doing like a end of the year slide deck of all the stuff that we did and were involved in I have I have that information. >> And the other place we could use is sustainable jersey because that gives us the documentation that they're looking for in order to get credit. So that'd be
great. >> And I think you had that. Didn't the coast pick that up too? You had to post or some somewhere I saw it to post something. >> Well, I I posted I posted stuff from the event from Medson City, but not on social media for the stuff in Belmont.
>> Okay. >> Um, so I've got the same kind of content like nice pictures of Yeah. >> little creepy crawls in people's hands and kids all lined up. Um, so we've got that. I just didn't already I didn't put it out like after the fact on social media just because it was the end of the summer. We had too much going on. So
that's thing number one. Um thing number two is that Shark River Cleanup Coalition had its annual fall cleanup last weekend. I met some volunteers that came to join us tonight where all my residents interested environmental related things. Um but long and short of
it, it was the most beautiful October day that I've ever seen in my life. And that may or may not have >> worked against us in getting volunteers, but we we had volunteers um coming up the shoreline in Belmar, but both
picking up uh trash within McCclary Park at L Street Beach and down along the shoreline west of McCclary Park down all the way to the end. Um and you know successful and that was in partnership with Clean Ocean Action. So they do their beach sweeps every year as I'll
get to in a minute and they try to blast spring 2025. We tried to do it at the same time and have the sharp river clean up clean at the same beach sweeps, but it didn't really work out because they're not timed right. They do it at they just do it in the morning, but we try to do the river clean up at low tide
because beach sweeps is all along the actual shoreline of the beach. So, we did it two two weeks early this year. We may or may not do it again in the future in coordination with one weather, but we'll see what happens. There are reasons
So that happened last weekend. Speaking of beach sweeps, if anybody's interested, this is just Clean Ocean Action Clement Coalition. Their beach sweeps event is October 18th, so it's coming up. And if anyone's interested in participating, there are two or three
stations along the um along the shoreline in Belar Beach. So if you're interested, go to clean oceanaction.org and check it out. that um something to note for the future in the spring
um when they do it again they have a station that's like or something like that it's one of those stations that overlaps greatly with the shoreline cleanup we did first a >> you know like that >> same area same area and they probably
send that their station is you know they like send people all the way to the end of the shoreline so they probably had people going and picking up garbage in at least some of the same areas that we did. So, that's something we can consider in the future. >> Good night, everyone.
>> Some action for their strength because basically they're doing the same thing right next to there. They might not be sending people as deep into the, you know, bushes and stuff like that that we bush, >> but they're doing almost the same thing.
>> So, something to think about for the future. I think they had it like one or two weeks after our event. So, they like send people over there doing the same thing. Um >> I wonder if it would be good for us to just talk to them and really understand kind of what they're doing and because we did run into that with the schools with kids signed up for that. So, it
would be nice to understand like is there a way for us to partner or is it better that we stay separate that kind of thing. >> I based on my experience of partnering them with SROCC, I can guess as to what they'll say. they would love to partner, you know, they want all the help they
can get. Partnering does sharing credit on social media and saying, "Hey, be co-sponsor to this event." They're fine to do. Um they handle the reg they handle all the registrations if you partner with them. They want to do it through their website. Yeah. Um, so if
if that is something that we if engagement and like getting people to like sign up for something, they're on our mailing list, it's probably not as big of a deal for BEC, for the environmental commission, but SRCC, that was something we want to do too for like community engagement. Um, but what they
do do is they roll up all the they give you this legal pad size thing, a checklist of all of the stuff you're collecting. They roll up that data from the whole New Jersey shore and try to report on that, right? So like they have to scale the data of what they're
getting every year, what kind of garbage, like where is it coming from? So they could report out that with the the plastic bag ban like New Jersey did that we saw the amount of plastic bags you're picking up in the trash in the bays and on the beaches go way down. So
if people are, you know, that is a reason for us to partner is, you know, like it doesn't matter who cleans up, someone picks up the garbage. But if >> we were partnering that that would contribute, that information would contribute rolling up to
provide information about whether or not bigger initiatives to try to reduce the sources of the trash that we're actually seeing it and what gets picked up out there that give feedback for legislation. So if there's like a ordinances to reduce uh myar balloon
releases, right? And we're seeing more of those go around. We see the that it actually results in fine and less of that stuff which ane anecdotally I'll say also is true. Like we don't find them on balloons anymore clean up very very rarely and if they are they're like super old like they've been there for
five years. So that would be a reason to be partner is that we're contributing to that scale effort to collect the data about the cleanups not just do. Here's my question about that because I I learned from from somebody in public works that the burrow submits um a
record of what they collect just in our within our boundary but they only can count what they know of. So that's why they would come we have a clean communities person and he would came to our cleanup and he tally all
that stuff. So if we partner with what happens to the who tallies the garbage and does it go all in one statewide database or does can we farad out the piece that's in our cabin >> that that I I don't know who they
interface with like at the top with that data they just explained it to it explained it to me just like I explained to you guys that like that data is used to try to provide feedback. >> But do they keep track of whose scam they got? >> They they do everything. Okay. So, you got to fill out you get all the individual cards for the person that
cleaned up that rolls up to a station and they add up all of the things and make all that up further. >> I I don't I can't think of a reason why it would be bad to double double report that. So, it's like >> I just wouldn't want to lose the data if we needed to. That's all. But if we could double report it, that would be
great. >> Um the the correlary to that though is it's harder. It's more it's annoying to try to collect that much like granular information. you're there with like a picker and you're trying to do that, but >> it it serves a purpose. So like there's
a there's a there's like a price to be paid. Instead of just giving kids a bunch of pickers and they're filling garbage bags and dropping them off and running, which is what they did at our event, >> you're telling people like make teams and have someone that's subscribed, you're sitting there and you're checking off stuff. >> It takes more time as
>> it has benefit. whether or not that we want to get involved in that and telling all the trainees like here's a flipboard um is something we can think about. So pros and cons. >> Yeah, definitely. >> If you would like to find out uh with firsthand experience what that is like,
please sign up for on the 18th. Um but anyway, so that's everything I have for SRCC in particular and bay cleanup stuff in general. Good. >> Yeah, that's great. Um, okay. Do you
have anything to add? >> Um, I will add real quick that, um, well, the we all worked on that grant submission uh, for that coalition of towns under Mammoth County to the state. Um, so that grant went in today. Thank
you guys so much for all of your help on that. Um, and it was a really cool exercise in putting together all the work we've done, the clean energy program. um Silver Lake entire project, even back to Verizon with our list of all the endangered species down at the
boardwalk. So, um it's cool to see us all of that work over the last two years kind of come together and be able to be reasonable these different ways. So, thank you all. Um the other thing I got news today that um the Army Corps of Engineers New York is going to dredge
the entrance to the Shark River inlet Channel uh starting on November 1st through the 7th 24 hours a day for that week. Um so apparently they're putting the sand on the Avon side. So that's going on. I think that's pretty
interesting. >> Do they do that every year? Because I see it there every year. >> At least twice a year. Yeah, I've seen it there. I just >> They jump it right in front of the columns. >> Oh, really? >> I didn't realize that. I was like, "Oh, fun new news." Um >> New York that does that. >> Well, we're in the New York district, so
it's our Yeah. >> Um besides that, um I think we It's vaguely related. The Main Street Bridge, we've got a quiet update that Tuesday, October 14th, will be when they close
that for repairs for a bit. So, Um, this is a temporary one until we get to the three-year one. >> Um, >> temporary for five months or whatever. >> Technically temporary. >> They don't know, right?
>> Right. I mean, the last thing I saw was like February or something. Sorry. Um, I'm trying to think if there's anything else directly applicable to here. I don't think so. But um thank you guys.
>> Do you have anything you want to share? Welcome. >> Well, thank you. I'll just introduce myself. I'm Angie Shioone and I live on in terms of colle >> um and I guess I'm kind of passionate about some of the advocacy stuff that
you all working on. Um I think I'm one of my only neighbors that does spray their lawns and I'm really into that. I was thinking about some of the recognition work that you're doing around sustainable landscaping and wondering if like that could be included as a part of it. Um so that's something I was thinking about and then moving
into Purple Martins um which is a native bird species that um needs to exist within a mile of water and they actually co all the humans at an indigenous drive and they need us to put the gourds up and so I have like a huge setup in my yard of of the gourds and you can
actually hold the babies because I don't mind being held. Wow. So, >> is that you at the West End? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Seas. Seas has him, too. >> There's a sep. [Music] >> Okay. Okay. >> I don't think it's ever touched those.
>> But it's cool. So, birds. Um, and just thought, you know, down the road. >> Oh, so you came. That's why I recognize you. You came to my house >> to see the beats. I'm looking at you. I'm like, I know this. Yes, >> we never dig. It's a small town after all. But yeah, I just wanted love listening
to all that you guys have done. It sounds like so much. And if I can help in any way. I like to do things. >> Yeah. Well, if you're interested in the patchwork, the you know, the yard recognition program. Yes. We could use some more spotters. If you want, we'll invite you to do the walkthrough. You can take a look and, you know, reach on
and he has a wealth of knowledge about plant identification. So, >> yeah. >> His garden is Candid's garden. It's on 18 and you know, I can give you You want to check it out and see what it looks like. >> It's got classes and everything that >> Yeah. And you said there's some master
gardeners. >> Yep. >> So interested in that side of things. Great. >> We have a community garden. >> I look all the time. Yeah. So beautiful. You guys are doing a great job. >> So we're meeting on several days from time to time. >> Oh, great. Great. And another thing I
was just thinking about as you were talking about schools is like I know like my son my son is in high school now and like they have key clubs. I don't know. Are those like do we I just I was like >> we have the the we've got reached out to the science club, environmental clubs,
those kind of things. >> The key club is another good one. Yeah, I forgot about that. >> What is the key club? >> Volunteering. >> It's like all about community service. They just do community service projects. I know that. >> Perfect. >> Cool. That's a good one to add. >> Is it Mayquin High School or Randy this
year, but >> Okay. But I bet has one too and certainly we have friends. >> She's also one of several people who contacted me about um our vendor mixing the recycling and the garbage. So >> through I am digging through that.
>> Yeah, there was one week where a lot of different people contacted me about that. So I don't have anything to give you about that but I'm looking into it trying to figure it out. >> I checked today. Unfortunately I was like looking >> I know. Unfortunately, that's one of those things where I don't think it's the just generally nationally that
uncommon for vendors to do that. >> And then I think sometimes it's like people wherever they get the garbage gets sent or the recycling gets sent doesn't accept it anymore. I think there's a lot of different factors that I'm sure you are all well aware of, but I'm trying to get something out of
>> I think I told you I called the recycling folks and they said they definitely shouldn't be doing that. We can't take it cold. Then I called the garbage uh republic or whatever and they were like they were like oh it's a new guy on the on the beat this this time
>> okay I'll watch next time >> seems like a pretty basic thing to not get wrong with the recycling and the recycle somebody >> well them to come back >> somebody between uh river road and third told me this on B and then I was walking
my dogs one morning on B in between third and fourth And I watched the guy. One guy got off on this side of the truck and the guy got off on this side of the truck and the garbage and the recycling were both there. He took the garbage and then he grabbed the recycling. He looked at the
other guy. He goes, "This one too?" And he goes, "Yeah, that one too." And I was walking the dogs and I tried to take a video and the dogs were like so like I couldn't get a picture but >> video. Yeah, >> he was definitely asked. He definitely
asked like his boss like this one too and he's like yeah just take them all. >> My friend MB said they took her compost and put it in. >> Oh yeah. Come on. You know that's not >> right. >> Don't they get paid by the pound? >> Okay. So um do you have any questions or
just >> Yeah. Um well I'm still I met Matthew uh the cleanup. >> It was very nice. Um so but we're here um we want to be part and we want to help uh whatever we can do as well.
>> My concern is the Shark River and McCclary Park. It's a disaster. Uh the Shark River, the Bulkhead is all graffitied. I I I can't believe that that's okay. And it's now before in the beginning of the summer it was a little
graffiti. Now it's all throughout the wood everything. And you know, I notice it because I use that park and so I want to know what we can do or I can do or you know the you know the town to change
it to fix it. It's it shouldn't be that way. We don't live in the ghetto. We don't you know we live in a really nice small town and that shouldn't be allowed there. So that's one of the reasons. U Park you were saying about the geese. So how did you get the geese out of Silver
Lake? because there there's like tons and they're huge. It's bigger than dog poop sometimes. >> Oh, I thought it was the geese myself. >> No, no, they're big, too. But that doesn't bo you know there it's like everywhere. >> So, is that where the geese have gone? >> I guess
that field by the just like you know it sort of looks like it's incomplete the park. You walk, it's pretty nice. Then you see all these weeds and junk and then you know I called about the benches. There's still benches without names, right? So I called out to try to
get a bench and of course I would maintain that bench beautifully. >> No, we can't do that anymore, you know? And yeah, they don't do that anymore. And there's a few benches that are just deteriorating there and and you can't >> I'm going to look into that one because
there is a I mean there's a weight list of people who want benches generally for the boardwalk but >> right I don't even care. I would do anywhere I >> but I mean yes and getting benches generally speaking at the marina has been an ongoing
>> Right. >> Yeah. Um >> but there's a bunch of them on m in mccclary park. It's not >> I'm writing notes here. This isn't me answering text messages. I do no um I just always want to be clear because I feel like it looks so rude, but this way I totally understand that.
>> Um Okay, so benches. >> Okay. Um that's interesting though. And you should be able to put I was laughing. I'm like I feel like every other piece of stone and bench in
Belar has a name on it at this point. >> It does. And yet there's a couple that aren't that we want that bunch of them. And and you know what else? Like that bulkhead. It's it's a shame because it's falling apart. >> It's falling apart. There's kids on
bicycles and I live on River Road. I love my where I live. I see the sunset sports, but there's kids that walk right on the right in that little What is that? That um the metal where I was cleaning the other day. You told me not to clean there.
>> Yeah. I clean there all the time anyway. I should send it to the mayor because I'm always cleaning that area always. >> So the grand yes >> the grant I mentioned before that we had all contributed to that I specifically called the bulkhead around there as one
of the priorities. So I mean the problem with bulkheads is that they're expensive but it has to happen. That's degrading. It's a safety issue. So for me in the bulkheads in particular and mccclary park in general should be a very large
focus area both for the town I think also for this group once we I mean silver lake is obviously taking up a ton of our time we will discuss wanting to shift it a little bit towards that way >> um both because there's work that can be done there in the immediate to make it nicer >> um so much about silver lake is very
long-term planning but with clear park I feel like there's a lot that can be done immediately to make it nicer it's such a pretty you You know, I mean, I want >> And a beautiful sign. How about a beautiful welcome to Belmore sign? >> Thank you. Would you like to see my pictures of the
entering burrow of Belmar? And and and then I'm going to send it to someone in the town. I have his name. >> It's people who rent their houses. >> There's junk. There's actually a dead bird that's been there a a week. >> Oh, >> a week.
>> So, I'm going to send that. I I took a picture today. Just tell me generally where? >> Oh, right. >> I got an email 18th, right? Isn't it? Uh, Belar Boulevard. >> Yeah, that's 16. >> Oh, 16th right there. >> 16th of Elmore. 16th and 71.
>> And the river. >> It's horrible. >> Hold on. Let me just see. Oh, >> so this is very um >> Okay. Yeah, that's the dead bird that's
been there. I I have a million pictures and this property like they don't clean anything. They Those are my two doggies by the way, Bear and R2. But they don't they don't clean. It's a mess and nobody does anything about it. I
don't know. I don't know what I can do about that. But >> I'm assuming this is on the eastern side, right? Not the western side of River Road. On this side on the sidewalk side. >> Yes. side. >> Okay. >> There's dead bird
>> right in that. Mhm. >> Yeah. And and this is a summer rental. I mean winter rental. They never clean up anything anywhere. >> Sorry. Also on the west side of River
Road, they cut the grass maybe twice a a season. So what the town will probably tell you is that technically that is >> state property. To me that mean doesn't to me I think it gets to a point where
it mean is state property we should just go in and cut it because >> it's it's the entrance. >> You're right. And I see them going by with their >> mowers. >> Yeah. >> And they're just riding like
>> over the garbage. And there's tons of I mean and I'm gonna tell you we we're cleaning up all the time because that garbage ends up in the river. >> That's a really good point. >> That's what bothers me the most. It ends up there and it's beautiful. You were talking about birds. I love watching all
that, you know, it's just so amazing. And then I'm thinking, okay, well this today I called about recycle. It was just blowing over. >> Oh, such a problem over there. And when you drive by too and then it causes Yeah. traffic. Yeah.
>> I mean but um Yeah. So I want to be helpful. I don't just want to complain. >> I want to do whatever. I remember we did, you know, and then life gets busy. Like even today my like don't go like we have to go. We have to go.
>> Make me your contact. We'll be friends. >> Okay. And how do I make you my contact? just put you know we're after the meeting I'll give you my >> So what can we do about like the paint I mean the graffiti that's
>> the graffiti is hard cuz we're talking it's on the bulkhead >> on the bulkhead on the >> from the beach side I mean >> right >> that's impressive fortitude on behalf of >> I'm telling you for low tide >> I was even saying you know what I feel
like going across and seeing who's like catching over the actor but >> I mean we were Do you remember it was a good year? I feel like it was when I first came on and someone over there like surreptitiously cut down a tree or something. >> They're still hanging over the side. The
two trees that they cut down. >> Yeah. Just someone on the river road there cut two trees and they're just leaning over like this. >> And that's the the roots of those trees is what's holding the sediment together despite the fact that those ball cuts are deteriorating. So that's >> that.
>> Oh, by the way, I'm sorry. This is the This is some of the It's now on the >> the stairwell going down to the >> It's even on there. >> I see what you mean. Yeah, >> it's everywhere. Yeah. And look, the
same name. I don't know. >> Look at the tag. >> S KY Y. That's who >> you might be able to identify the individual. >> Yeah. This is us cleaning. >> Also, I was suggesting instead of the dress that never maintain >> Oh, look even more. which is mostly
weeds. It's not grass. >> Why can't we put either railroad ties or something where they don't have to cut the grass? >> Well, I believe that there we did put in a grant application and do that and didn't get the that grant, but that's also been on the list to address. So,
the town's aware of that and is trying to address it. >> Yeah. >> Um because it'd be nice to do >> because people do walk. They said they're not supposed to, but they walk. They do. And that would be a nice way to connect the towns, >> right? the people who come in and we go there, you know, and they're on their
bicycles. I see it all the time. They're they're taking their life in their hand. >> I've seen it people on like beach cruisers like rolling down. >> I actually take pictures and say, "I'm going to send it so they can see." Trust me. And young kids, I see a lot of young kids >> and now with the ebikes becoming more
prevalent, you worry about that. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Right. So, I mean, I know this is out of the place, but I'll get your comments. >> Yeah. How do you know who is your council person? >> Well, we're all council. That's what all of us. There's not a district situation.
>> Exactly. >> Okay. Thank you. Um and I guess that that concludes our agenda. You have any questions? Okay. All right. Thank you very much. >> Okay. >> Can I sign up for anything? Like can I
give you your contact information? Yeah, sorry. I know I came in a little bit late, but I'm Julia reporter. I started being a co-star. I originally was on Spring Lake Avon at Seager. Um, and I recently got moved over to Belmar.