adequate notice of this meeting has been provided to the co-star the official newspaper of the burrow of bmar and the asra Park Press and notice of this meeting was posted on the bulletin board of the municipal building take roll call councilwoman Donovan here Council mckenny here mayor black pusco here
Council Rondo here Council Lis here you stand for the Pledge of Allegiance [Music] please remain standing for moment of silence for our troops their families and our First
Responders thank you the first thing on our work up is the Sustainable New Jersey black presentation hi everyone um I'm very very pleased to present today to the Bur on beh of the environmental commission this plaque
recognizing our bronze status for the sustainable Jersey program this was the result of a lot of hard work mostly by the people standing next to me especially Dian Bel Ed [Music] liot EXC
so sorry guys that was awful um who wants the FL now [Music] um yeah um we also want to thank the Belmar Police Department our school uh DPW and the bur all of you worked so
hard to get this accomplishment it was it involved a painstaking inventory of everything the burrow is currently doing towards sustainable and financially St sustainable practices for the veteran of the and every single resident and our visitors so thank you very very much if
any of you would like to say anything about this uh I'd like to thank the burrow for enlisting in the cause I think it's going to make for a better bmar and people have been really open to considering making things better which is a wonderful team feeling to have about our town I want to thank Chief
Scotch right over there and her o officers who really they're very busy over there they took their time to do some extra things for us want to thank the BR sta want to thank the Magical Garden uh people at the master G so we had a lot of help from the community and
that's so much appreciated so thank you everybody thank you okay next on the workshop uh our B administrator Kevin Kane is going to give us a brief update on grants it was a uh request at the
last meeting that we go over this so um he put together something to let you know what we've done in the past two plus years terms of Grants thank you mayor I just want to um as the mayor mentioned there was some
some inquiries as to our our grant so far so I put together a little synopsis of where we're at uh what we've received through today we received a total of over 3.3 million
in grant funding under mayor bu buckus Administration me just uh I'm just going to do a quick summary of these so in 2023 we received three grants $71,000 from New Jersey Department Community Affairs local Recreation
Improvement Grants for new basketball uh supports and hoops at Dempsey Park that was awarded in June of 2023 this thing is this thing on you can that's in now right okay let me get close here uh
$1,350,000 from uh New Jersey Division of travel and tourism Cooperative marketing grant for marketing support for the annual belmare Seafood Festival that was awarded September 2023 484000 from the New Jersey Department of
Transportation that was a Transit Village grant program train station um for safety Improvement project that was awarded in November 2023 then in 2024 we had uh
2,776 1826 uh in the form of 14 different grants uh the first one was a technical assistance from uh New Jersey office of Homeland Security and preparedness state and local cyber security Grant to upgrade and increase of burrow cyber
security and backup capabilities was award in January 2024 1, 54,1 184 from uh New Jersey Department of Community Affairs that was a boardwalk preservation grants program
for installation of a new permanent bathroom facility on the Belmore boardwalk at 16th Avenue Beach entrance is awarded in February 2024 $35,000 from New Jersey Department of Community Affairs from the American
Rescue plan firefight program for turnout gear washing machine and dryer that was awarded in March of 2024 technical assistance uh $10,000 value from sustainable Jersey complete streets technical census program for
complete Street plan that was awarded in April 2024 can you hear me if I just talk loud yes I'm just going to do that um $525 750 from New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection that was a Green Acres Jake law playground grants
program for construction of an inclusive playground at McClary Park that was awarded in April 2024 $22,000 grant for sustainable Jersy Jersey psng Foundation grant program for Green Team
support $67,000 from new New Jersey Department of Community Affairs for local Recreation Improvement grant for new light fixtures in the basketball courts at Dempsey Park awarded in May 2024 198,000 from Mammoth County Municipal
open space program for the resurfacing of the basketball courts and adding three new pickup ball Courts at Dempsey Park that was awarded in July of 2024 $10,000 for New Jersey Board of Public Utilities Community energy plan
grants program for de development of a community energy plan award in August of 2024 $77,000 from New Jersey Division Highway Traffic Safety drive sober or get pulled over Statewide Labor Day Crackdown for officer overtime
enforcement and education award in August of 2024 86,87 from Mammoth County Community Development block program for 88 compliant door replacement project at Burl Hall in t Pavilion you see the one
out here on the Sixth Avenue side is going to be one on Main Street and one at Tor Pavilion that was awarded in October 202 4 $299,000 from New Jersey Department of Transportation Municipal a grant program for South Lake Drive 6th Avenue and B
Street resurfacing project awarded in November of 2024 $7,000 New Jersey divion highway traffic safety drivve over or get pulled over ended the year holiday Crackdown for 100 hours of Officer overtime in
December 2024 awarded in November of 2024 and $224,990 Lieutenant Joseph de Bernardo Memorial Grant Foundation uh grant program for the fire department personnel Escape safety systems that was awarded in December
2024 there's also uh additional amount of over $7 million that we've applied for that is still currently being under review that we should find out throughout the course of this year how we made out on that okay thank you uh very much uh just
one thing to clarify for the people a lot of the grants are things like basketball courts and things like that those things haven't come to fruition yet because there's a a process right that we need to follow before we do those things correct there's a process have to be budgeted for engineering and
everything so they're all in different phases as we speak okay I'm just anticipating questions that people might have on that um any questions from the council no I just wanted to add that I wanted to thank Millennium strategies and um our
business administrator C for helping with the um Belmar housing authorities uh grant for their Community funding I believe all of the paperwork everything is submitted and now we're just waiting for that funding to come
through okay uh last thing for petition just to bring the council up to date on a recent um article in a uh pseudo news site on the web uh concerning new positions that we have in
belmare uh which would be part of ordinance 20251 um they're technically not new positions meaning they're not new people being hired but we're trying to bring in line the the the the uh the facts that
exist now in terms of our Personnel bring it in line with what we have on our on our schedule so for example the three uh positions that were mentioned in the article was the EMS assistant coordinator okay on
the in the ordinance it looks like a new position but it is not a new position there's a person already serving in that position uh with that title but the title doesn't appear on the on the list of approved titles so we're we had to
add that um the second one the marina supervisor that is a new title but I don't know if everyone understands that these are just titles they're not necessarily filled positions so for example there are
things on here that we have as titles but we don't have people in those positions for example I just went through real quickly we have listed an assistant finance officer we do not have an assistant finance officer but it's in the schedule um the deputy
director of Information Technology is on the schedule but we don't have one so I mean those are examples of there are things on here that are just titles with salary Rangers but that does not necessarily mean that we have a person in that position and the last one that
was mentioned in the in a brief article was the U Chief lifeguard off season uh again this is just uh putting down on paper what has been happening in reality for the past number of years you know the chief LIF Guard works for a period
of time on salary and then there's a period of time before the season and after the season where uh any hours that are put in are paid on a uh an hourly basis so all we're doing here is we're just you
know documenting and putting on paper what the reality is so there's a uh the chief lifeguard works from Memorial Day to Labor Day and anytime uh before then or after then there's an hourly rate at which that person works this is nothing
new it's been done for years and years but we're just uh you know putting it down on paper so everyone sees what um what it is so I just wanted to explain that to the council also uh to perhaps avoid some questions that may uh come
about later on any questions yes so about the marina supervisor because there are some people that are already working at the marina that would be qualified to be promoted from within correct so I just wanted the public to know that that's an option also that there potentially would be
just a promotion for someone there to fill that position as OPP post to maybe bringing someone from the outside anyone who currently works for the burrow who thinks they want like to have that position then should file a resume just like everyone else does and they would
be considered okay any other questions okay then I guess we can move on to petitions I have not received any petitions appr of the minutes I have a
motion to approve the minutes of the February 19th meeting motion second Council M Donovan yes councilman Kenny yes mayor vusco yes councilman rero yes and
councilman Le obain reports of councel council woman the DIN and Discover it will be happening on Sunday March 9th um any interested businesses you are still open to apply to join you please email our
esteemed clerk here April um we already have over 20 restaurants and businesses who will be participating and once again there will be trolley for anyone who is participating uh it will start at 10th Avenue burrito where you can pick up your wristbands for the event uh for
more information you can go online the easiest way to find it is through our event calendar on for March 9th um we already talked a little bit about everything the environmental commission does but I do want to talk about that the uh burough engineer is working with the environmental Coalition along with
DPW to um professionalize and work further on that project right now he's working to look at all of our outfall plans and um our current system our current Outlet system to see what our options are as we Mo forward we're also still working with the Army Corps of
Engineers um I've had a lot of questions about that in the last two weeks we are really optimistic but at the same time we are aware that there the um Federal funding is in flux right now so uh we are hopeful though um the geese um I
just want to let everyone know we know that there have been dead birds around if you see one you can call um in belmare if you see one in belmare please you can call uh the police you can call DPW or you can email
DPW bart.com please don't touch it um that is really really important um in happier news uh the parade is this weekend I hope everyone comes out uh we will all be there and I will hand it off
to M Kenny okay thank you so much yeah thank you mayor um okay couple things tonight St commission they are working on the ordinance the ms4 ordinance which is the ordinance that now says you have to have a permit to take any tree down on your
property so that is something that we are working on to make it a little bit more user friendly so residents can be aware of what's going on with that um shade tree is also in the process of renewing their membership to the trade tree shade tree Federation for 2025 uh we are applying for a grant that
is going to help digitize the tree inventory um so we're looking out for that too and talking about grants that would be great and the Arbor Day celebration is going to be Friday April 11th for fourth graders from St Rose grammar school and Valar Elementary School the rain date is April 14th all
more for info on that as we come up to that uh around Recreation Junior guards signups are closed we are full program for 2025 this year which is fabulous because it's a great program uh summer camp signups are starting March 13th if
you are a returning family with campers um that's the day that you would register there is very few spots open outside of that so if there are spots available please watch the website and reach out to Barry in Recreation if you would like to sign up for summer camp um
summer basketball signups start March 1st the Easter egg hunt is April 12th volunteers are needed if any High school students need any kind of volunteer hours this would be the time to do so I'm going to pass that on to the St Rose kids because they're always looking for
volunteer hours um and there's a new salsa class tomorrow at 11:30 at the Taylor Pavilion it is free if anybody wants to learn how to salsa it is an in class you do not need a partner and you could come out and if everybody likes it
that's going to make it a regular program for recreation uh a couple things around the school St Rose High School both the boys and the girls high school basketball teams made it to the shore Conference Final unfortunately the girls lost by just two points to Red
bent Catholic but the boys won we were triumphant again second year in the row boys basketball team won the shore conference against CBA tomorrow night is the first round of the states and it is home so try to get tickets against buron Catholic 6:30 across the street at the
auditorium in the gym um there will be a parade viewing party for St Rose High School right next to the high school if anybody's alumni and they want to watch the parade from there they can the St Rose High School pipe band and the cheerleaders will be marching in the parade as well as the St Rose
grammar school kids will be marching in the parade St Rose grammar school has their big yearly fundraiser their casino night at Jumping Brook which is March 7th if you want information about that or get tickets you can do so St Rose
grammar school.org PTA okay bmart Elementary School the band is also marching in the parade um March 14th and 15th is the School Musical suscal it's in the auditorium you can look out for tickets to that um they also want to
announce that they have opened up their pre program so registration is open for St Rose I'm sorry for Belmar and Lake comoo three uh three and fouryear old full day prek 9 to2 registration is going to be open there's fly about that
if you want information um in the back and skate park this Friday we're doing a d donate also to help fund raise for the skate park from 11 to 7 25% of sales go to friends of belmare skate park uh We've also applied for the local
Recreation Grant we're hoping that we are able to get awarded that grant for the skate park this year and we are also working on another fundraiser for June so look out for that and that is all I have thank you council president on the nrow thank you mayor um I understand
some of the businesses uh received um some letters about the flutter Flags after complaints were made by residents um currently that ordinance prohibits flutter Flags um however it is under review uh the planning board had um
several months ago given us some of their thoughts on how to revise um this ordinance it does need to be revised um councilwoman Kenan and I have already met um with several residents and businesses regarding this um and I do
hope that we're able to make progress on this that is something that will not only benefit um the the businesses but the residents as well um if you would like to be a part of that uh sign ordinance committee we'd love to have
some more people especially residents um to be on that so that we can make a a good a good decision um on how that rolls out um so if you can email April or you can email me um and Ron zaro um at
bm. and we'd love to get you on on that committee so we can answer some of the questions that our businesses have um I didn't know you want to say something no just go ahead okay hold on almost done almost done um for our
library uh March 12th at 6 p.m. is our soda bread contest uh we have filled entries for the white soda bread but we might still have openings if you want to compete in the brown bread contest I happen to like that the best um it's a delicious and fun event so please
register and join us and then also that the library is making a date with history this March featuring two great events from American history Saturday March 15th at 11: we'll have Amelia airheart and Saturday March 29th at 11
we'll have have Louis and Clark both will be at the Taylor Pavilion um you do need to register online but if you have any trouble with that you can call the library and they will help register you uh should be a wonderful presentation with historian actors and American
historical theater and I'm very excited about Parade day and hope to see you all there thank you Council leis thank you mayor uh I just want to remind anyone looking for wreck baseball or softball signups are going on now
um the early bird special is until February 28th so if you can sign up this week for softball or baseball uh you might be lucky enough to have Council MC Donovan or myself coaching some of your kids um also some updates on the field
dock some good news the mobilization is happening now for the fuel dock Replacements so we should have barges arriving in the marina if they're not there already and they should be starting some of the piling work uh this week um hoping to have the f
on site by the third week in March so really good to see some progress going on there that's all I have mayor okay thank you um I also have something very positive to announce um a couple of weeks ago we were talking about Beach Badges and one of the issues that has
come up and it's come up in past years is um access to the beach for Veterans as you know we we have an ordinance which says they can get on the beach for free but they need to go to the to the um um the booth and get a a wristband
and then go on the beach and then if they come the next day they have to do the same thing and we kind of said you know how can we how can we you know correct this so that we don't have this happening all the time and you know we put our heads together and it was a
fairly simple solution uh which I'm going to announce tonight and which we're going to do a press release on but basically what we're going to do is we're going to um we're going to give veterans season badges for free so that
they don't have to keep coming every day to the boof uh once we looked at it it seemed like a fairly simple solution you know we just give them the badge and we say you know no fee on the system we had to check to make sure that our computer system could could handle that
but I think it's uh you know it's a it's a way that we can honor our veterans you know and and enhance their experience when they come to Belmore and they want to uh you know spend a day on the beach or a week on the beach or a month on the beach they don't have to keep coming
back um as I said there'll be a press release on this um the the free beach badges will be available for pickup at the at our blower wall uh starting March 3rd veterans you know will be asked to provide proof of service which they had
to do in the past such as military discharge or a DD214 when they're registering for the padge so I I think it's you know it's part of our ongoing uh efforts to to support and honor our our military veterans and I
think it's uh you know part of our designation as a a veteran friendly municipality so uh I'm happy to that we could do that and uh I hope they all have a great summer so uh I just wanted to make that announcement thank you
anything else uh this okay next is public session on the resolutions if anyone has a comment or question about a resolution on the agenda please step forward state your name and [Music]
address Neil Shea for 104 uh the resolution on uh supporting the law that would end the Public Notices in the newspapers
uh I'm I'm opposed to this and uh Governor Christie tried to get this law passed years ago and the Star Ledger uh led the uh opposition to it
and uh they succeeded and chrisy did not get it past Christie hated the newspapers and he wanted to kill them but he did not succeed now unfortunately the Star Ledger is not with us anymore so
uh this idea is being pursued again right now when the Free Press in America is under attack by the administration in Washington like never before in American history and I find that this is a bad
time to do anything that will attack the newspapers and lead to the death of more newspapers in the Free Press in America and I don't think that it's so much money that uh the town can't afford it
so I would I oppose that resolution thank you thank you for your input anyone else would like to comment on any of the resolutions okay have a to close the
public session motion second all in favor I I have a motion to approve the resolutions as listed on the consent agenda I'll make the motion
second councilwoman Donovan yes councilwoman Kenny yes mayor FCO yes councilman Rondo yes councilman lemis yes now we're on to ordinances the first one is ordinance
20251 this is ordinance amending and supplementing chapter 11 section 11.3 uh setting salary schedules this is open for second reading and public hearing if anyone wants to comment on the ordinance please step forward state
your name and [Music] address none can I have a motion to close the public I'll make the motion all in favor can I have a motion to adopt ordinance
20251 I'll make the motion second councilman Donovan yes councilman Kenny yes may mesco yes councilman rodo yes Council Lis yes next is ordinance
20252 this is an ordinance amending uh chapter 41 creating the Municipal housing leaon position do we have a um open it up for a second reading in public hearing if anyone has a comment or question please St
for motion to close the public hearing I'll make a [Music] motion all in favor and can I have a motion to adopt ordinance 20252 second councilman Donovan yes councilman
yes mayor bu pusco yes councilman rero yes councilman L yes next is ordinance 20253 this is an ordinance amending and supplementing chapter 5 Department of Public Safety specifically Article 1
sections 5-3 for the fire uh for the fire department this is open for public hearing if anyone like to comment please step forward I have a m to close the public hearing motion second all in favor I and
a motion to adopt ordinance 20253 motion second councilman Donovan yes Council mckenny yes mayor Basco yes Council Rondo yes councilman L yes uh next is
first reading and introduction on ordinance amending section 18-4 three miscellaneous rates and services do we have a motion to offer for first reading and introduction motion
second councilman jonovan yes councilman Kenny yes mayor Buco yes councilman Rondo yes councilman leis yes uh next is ordinance 20255 this is an ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits
and to establish a cap Bank do we have a motion to offer for first reading and introduction motion second councilman Donovan yes councilwoman Kenny yes mayor bucka Fusco yes councilwoman Rondo yes councilman
Levis yes and last one is ordinance 20256 ordinance amending and supplementing chapter 19 traffic um adding section 54 low-speed electric bicycles and other means of motorized conveyances do we have a
motion to offer for first reading and introduction motion second councilman Donovan yes councilman Kenny yes mayor mesco yes Council Rondo yes councilman Lis yes that's it for
ordinances next is our general public session if anyone would like to speak please remember to state your name and address first Jo Jo man South Lake Drive uh just a couple quick things you mentioned the dead geese uh the geese kind of are back
in visiting in tremendous amounts lately around the lake I know we' hired a company to manage them are they still under contract or what's going on with them or get on that actually I was talking to him today we we hired a company called Birds
beware um Birds beware is the name of the company they usually are in a gray van if you see them he prefers to get here between 10 and one because then he say he's the most activity I meant to actually bring this up in my report um he had told me months ago that February
was going to be a rough month but that he's here he does also use um a boat or a drone in the water to continue to scare off the geese the problem right now are the brands which are the slightly smaller geese with the black hood uh they don't scare too easily with
the dog they fly up they fly around they fly right back uh they are migratory which is nice because it means they will leave at some point but um the dog is not the most effective way with them um unfortunately um but he's definitely there he also mentioned and I wanted to
bring this up specifically that he has seen evidence and has caught someone feeding the Gees exactly please don't feed the geese or any wild animals it just keeps them here and it's bad for their tummies it's it's
bad for everyone involved please don't do it um but yes we still have the contract he's still working it was always going to be a bad week because they month because it is they are wild animals you know is bird FL and geese is there a health issue other the annoyance
is there a health issue you should know about in terms of the bird flu or anything I mean I when I read the warnings there was um I wouldn't allow your dogs to eat any of course um I know and I we spoke to DPW and they
are making a point of checking the playground specifically to make sure they're clean and able to be used so we are very aware of that and keeping our residents Health in mind situation no but I do have an update um
councilwoman uh donavin and I met with um commissioner director Tom arnone and Sheriff Sean golden I believe it was about a week ago uh specifically on the EMS program that the county is currently
running known as MedStar and we have received some good information from them uh we're waiting for some more information from them and they're waiting for some information from us and pretty much that's where we're at at this point all right so um we'll have
further updates uh as you know at a future council meeting one last question uh about the budget I'm I'm not sure if I understand this this ordinance you're seeking an increase of 2.5% in the budget am I reading that correctly oh
that's a that's a a cap uh that every town is is subject to and then there's a procedure whereby we can we can extend the cap uh for it's hard to explain for amounts over the cap that we don't use in Prior years it's a little complicated
and and it really should have the um you know probably the CFO unless you want to take a step at it but we can we can have CFO the next yeah yeah just I could just briefly I reached out to the CFO personally because I wanted to know that myself and her explanation to me was very lengthly but basically basically
said there's been increases in pensions Insurance fuel uh a lot of the everyday medical expenses have gone up dramatically so I asked specifically because I was concerned about that myself that this is going up again um so
I we can have uh lorine KFA though explain in detail because she gave me a very detailed explanation ask about the bud just curiosity excuse me uh are you going to present the budget to the town before you vote on it or is it just by
law there has to be a budget hearing okay thank you any other questions comments it's for you good you guys Tom vulker 5278 Avenue
mmar I'd like to say a word of support to the ASB press and the co- star uh because they do give High I think good summaries after our meetings and I find them very helpful so just like to go on
the record there and uh my favorite subject the uh senior building and I didn't hear you might have addressed it but I missed it um I understand that it's your La Dennis Kevin am I
right uh yes the the the grant uh technically is under um our business administrator's name now as the recipient um and we've since submitted the paperwork that's been needed on the portal that HUD had for us um originally
it was confusing because it was the burrow that got the was the recipient of the grant but the name on that as the authorized user was Director D sandis so we needed to change that to our business administrator but we have been able to
successfully um turn in what's necessary um of what Hut needs so that they can send us the funding to fix that building yeah I thought what is 676 th000 yep $676,000 and what what H
what happened it was just instead of saying Belmore Housing Authority coming out of the Congress office it said burrow Belmore so that threw the whole thing with HUD into a different which why we had to be the re recipient and belore housing authorities a
subrecipient at this point I just asked is it one your list of exact Grant on your list no why wouldn't you have it on there technically it's not our grant it's Housing Authority Grant but because
of that change in the name when it was submitted that's our only involvement with this so so our involvement is with HUD to make sure the money comes and then the entire amount goes to the Housing Authority it's a pass through through us and uh when you expect to
send out the bids for that we we're still waiting on the on from HUD as far as the the actual Grant itself it it's still in process through HUD at this years appreciate anything you can do to speed that
up those bids will be going out by the bmer Housing Authority so that would won't be us um going up for the bids it will go through the Housing Authority I think it wasn't included because it's not in our you know we're not getting that in our general fund we want to make sure it's we're very clear that that is
earmarked um for the Belmar Housing Authority that should be under elusive grants okay no it's under grants not funded yet by the federal government thank you thank you information how to do disadvantage trying to follow
Tom uh I've got two things to say tonight I'll be short the first is I was walking by the pipe on Ocean Avenue on 7-Eleven that poll most people don't know the the value of it but it's
probably the single oldest historical artifact that we have in town could be a couple others um and what I noticed was stickers store stickers on that
pipe now that pipe has been there over a hundred years and ply I've counted the stickers 41 and there's other stickers so I got
curious I went down to the uh palls on 16th Avenue not a single sticker on their picnic benches or on their sign so I I don't think the owners are taking the stickers
and running up that pole and sticking it out there but maybe if they want to Market their business not to use stickers years ago we had this problem with Surf Taco and I don't recall if we
had an ordinance or if we just had the code enforcement person walk in and say no more stickers advertising your business especially when they put it on that that pole I mean that is so iconic
to the burrow of Belmore it just shouldn't be done and I'm sure the teams don't do it I think it's competition some of those stickers are up there pretty high um second thing I wanted to mention oh I forgot to tell you 207 South Lake
Drive there um live next door to uh Joe and he's right there are uh the Canada geese coming back because this is February mixed in with those geese
mostly are migratory they're going to be leaving soon because they got to get back up to the Arctic Circle for the nest season and they got to get up there by the end of March the ones that remain here are the
resident Gees look exactly the same as a migratory Goose you can't tell the difference those ones that stay here year year round the resident Gees all hatched on that
island because the basic uh biology or thing that the geese do is they live where they hatched the resident geese in Belmar never knew never know Hudson Bay they've never been up to the Arctic Circle why
would they leave now it's too far away so what I'm saying is and the Department of Public Works is going to cringe oh I also want to say that the lights that they use very very effective
my praises to Colleen Su she did such a good job last year and they were very effective very effective but but you're not going to stop the resident geese with those lights from nesting on the island again
so we're going to have to go back out to the island like we did last year and if you gave me right now a map of the island I could point to you where those nests are going to be cuz she's going to
Nest right in the same spot she did last year now if you go around Silver Lake right now you're going to see all the there's like I think I counted today 45 geese they're in a flock in about three weeks they're going
to start pairing off the ones that pair off are your resident geese and then about a week or so after that there's just going to be one Goose the other one is going to be on the island sitting on a
nest and if we can oil the eggs then we don't have any hatch therefore the gentleman that you have coming to do the goose work which I did for about 12 years with the dog I'm so upset that
those lights work so effective because you don't have much trouble it was with that dog for 12 years but the dogs only scatter the geese and they're going to come back they're going to come back each time and
you can scatter them tomorrow the the value of the dog is the month of May and early part of June because the goslings hatch and that's when the adults start to mol their feathers and the adults
can't fly the beginning of June so if you take the dog then I used to put him on a kayak when we go out in the lake and get them to fly in the air they know instinctively
that it's getting more and more difficult to fly so they won't come back to Belmar during June July and August because they can't plop other than that the rest of the months that dog just scatters them and they're going to come
back so uh if Billy was here I'd have to I'd like to have a meeting with Caitlyn I think we met last year to set up a schedule to go out to the island there going going to be about six or eight Nest I'm sure and that's going to that turns into
about 40 42 eggs last year I think it was 48 yeah and we don't need 48 ping because they'll live for about 15 years and so you have a problem for 15 more years having the dog that's that's great
too um did any eggs hatch last year of the 48 after we oil them like it prevents all of them from hatching if you oil once maybe but we went out four or five times and by that time yeah they're
they're done and the the the the the female will sit on that Nest until she has to make a decision do I stay here or do I starve obviously she gets off the nest and she's out of
season and that's where we used to take the 12 years of the dog we were down to just four geese in Belmar but I guess something happened we didn't boil them often enough um and
they're back okay um the one more thing I heard about the uh the season badges for the veterans great idea but what I might do
if you can get them an iconic looking badge that's different than the other season badges so when they wear these season badges people will recognize that they're a veteran whenever I see someone
wearing a hat or a shirt you know that they're in the military I always always say thank you for your service so if on the beach they're wearing this badge that is a military badge that they can see you know they I hope that the people
on the beach would you know thank them you know Tom vulker did me in thanks Tom that's it all right thanks anyone else I would just like to say if it's okay thank you mayor McGovern for your continued effort with
with the geese in Silver Lake and um I I hope that one day I'll I'll get to Addle the eggs with Council Donovan but um and and be part of the solution um but I I know it's an important issue it's important to the residents especially
now that we have you know bird flu is such a a you know in in our face we should have a an event out of the egg event I have to tell you I I was like I've got this may like I'm going to go
out there I'm going to be the one it's an umbrella and you kind of open it at the geese to scare them off some of those geys are really big and they get really mad and so I went from being like I've got this due literally hiding behind one
of our DPW guys it was it was a moment which it called for some self-reflection words but it's a it's a really good important program up okay neth Avenue and with the uh with the price of eggs it's too bad
to low Val I don't want those particular eggs right now uh the electric bike thing reminds me of something always wondered about if say somebody on the boardwalk with their
motorized wheelchair I mean how do you tell it's not a electric bike that's not allowed or it's a an accommodation for person with disabilities the ordinance the ordinance had a pretty clear definition of an
electric bike yeah they're completely different from a wheelchair we wouldn't we wouldn't be enforcing a someone with an electric wheelchair can absolutely be on the beach on the board so uh pretty soon the biggest greatest
destroyer of the domestic peace in belmare is going to be coming back and I'm not talking about loud cars loud music L parties I'm talking about the leae blowers so we have members of the environmental committee here and I just
want to say that I appreciate their efforts to do something about the leaf blower noise because it's it's outrageous and it's totally illegal it violates the noise ordinance I don't see how or why it is tolerated so that's my
opinion on that uh pretty soon there'll probably also be the truck with a poison circling around Silver Lake poisoning the fragm mies uh I would ask if maybe that could be avoided because we don't need more
poison and at the last cleanup of the lake I took my heavy rake and I red out a section with the frag mighties and that section did not grow back nearly as much as the other sections so I think
you we volunteers employees whoever we can pitch in and with muscle power we can replace the poison that's my suggestion uh one last thing the curbs
around on the fth Avenue and D Street in particular I don't know if they were painted on uncured uh concrete or anything but the the paint the yellow
paint is peeling off horribly is there something being done about that is that is a is a contractor at fault or the burrow uh we can look into it I mean I know I know the the triangle Park where we where we meet off and that was only
done like two years ago know and they and and the paint is coming off I've never seen anything like it um I did flag that for um DPW uh last week and we can also bring it up to our our Barrow engineer because as they start to do
other uh streets you know we can point that out that they need to make sure that the the paint L more than two years for a long time I've never seen off a curb like that and I like when I'm walking I like to pick up litter as I go so I don't have
to look at it again on my way back but you try to pick up one of those big big paint chips and it just crumbles in your fingers so you really can't pick it up vacuums if you take a big shop back around you could vacuum it up and that's
a serious suggestion that the DPW look into cleaning it up TR thank you okay thanks any other comments hi uh my name is sori I am from uh I don't live here I'm a small business
owner uh I own uh pedicycle we are a kind of a party Bike Company um I used the bike term loosely it's like a 14 person kind of like car I don't know if you guys ever seen them they're in like Nashville they're in Austin um like six people on this side six people on that
side everyone pedals um just looking looking to essentially get in touch with I don't know VA or somebody about just getting his ball rolling um I sent an email to the municipal clerk uh April and if you were on it as well but I'm just trying to get the ball rolling we're in Seaside Heights we are in uh
Beach Haven and it's just a fun thing I'm trying to bring to the town and if we can get something together and get it working um I'm here for questions or whatever but I'm just looking to get the ball rolling and see if uh it's a possibility for us to get uh with Bel
and see if we can make work good any questions anyone else actually can I just say one thing real quick uh that Mr Shea brought up with the ebike ordinance I just wanted to say um Council one City chief Scott and I worked with that along with our bur attorney and one of the things we
wanted to make sure to do is make sure that by these type of motorized vehicles from motorized scooters to bikes weren't being used also pretty specifically on the boardwalk in the lake paths so um we worked hard on that so to our attorney
and uh if anyone has any further comments on it please let us know 18 um thank you very much for the summary on the grants um do appreciate that and thank you councilwoman rero for clarifying what happened with the
housing because when it wasn't mentioned by Mr Kane I was going to ask about it but you took care of that and you also took my thunder out which I do appreciate about the flutter Flags Okay like maybe we can go uh about the stickers and issue some um code
enforcement things on stickers and on the list of other things that we maybe don't enforce that we could enforce that would benefit the residents versus potentially hurting our businesses thank you I suggest you know as a general comment to people that if you have an
issue with something uh in that order just let us know you don't have to wait to a to a council meeting to come up and speak um you can send us emails um and you know and it's it's good to get it in advance because then we can start to to see what the uh you know the feelings of
the public are about some of these things so you know feel free to contact us if there's uh something that you want us to know hello Sarah tantillo 505 13th Avenue um I was wasn't able to attend the last um council meeting but I just want to give a shout out to the to the
public responders the emergency responders um at for the fire that was on 14th Avenue which is directly across the street from my garage and it was really horrifying to see it was really um inspirational to see how many people came out to fight that fire so quickly
and just did a really great job and I just want to thank everybody who was involved than that um it was really devastating for my neighbors obviously um I'm separate topic I do have a question about the low the low energy
bikes um I had spoken earlier about uh bicycles in General on the boardwalk which don't seem to be mentioned in this ordinance so I don't know if you're going if you're planning on having a separate ordinance or if it's just a matter of signage or whatever but today
was another one of those days where it's warm out there's a lot of people on the boardwalk and there's always somebody who just bikes up right behind people with no warning on a regular bike for no reason when there is a bike lane on the street that they could be biking on so I
would just hello we can hear you so again I just think it's a safety issue there's a lot of people walking on the boardwalk these days and you know it just is something we should really look at sign is down sign is up in the summer right between hours whatever whatever
but during the regular you know when it's the minute it be comes 50° out everybody seems to want to take a walk and you know we'll take take a look at that sorry did you hear that so part of this was an amendment to the origin
original ordinance that's already out there on bikes and vehicles recreational you know biking Vehicles we do a part of the ordinance says that you can have a bike on the boardwalk in the offseason so between Labor Day and Memorial Day at
certain hours of the day in the winter you are allowed to ride a bike on the boardwalk so that is something we would have to I guess re-evaluate that that's we're also discussing how we might need to update the sage for the boardwalk in
general where gentleman can wait in the lake path too to make sure people know that they can't cuz that problem with those rips up the the path itself so hi Greg Melina 1304 ocean um just a
uh I know it's probably not something that the town did the the uh the rebuilding of the fenders coming into the harbor that company Simpson and brown I don't know if anybody's been watching they have done a magn ific job and I was
just wondering if the town of Belmar being that it is sort of coming into our Marina you know that way uh could just send like a little thank you note or something like that the companies Simpson and brown there I guess there are not that many companies that do something like that but I'm I'm a walker so I've been
I've sort of been watching it as it's happening it it was incredible it was incredible the work that they did and just a very professional job okay pass it on to our finished now they are they done oh they're
finished they were there for quite a while they did it take a look it's wild thank you anyone else okay April can I have a motion to close the public session motion second
second all in favor okay uh next we have resolution 2025 51 a resolution uh authorizing to adjourn into executive session whereas it has been determined by the burough Council of bur gmar that
it is necessary to discuss the following specific matter at its regular meeting in the absence of the public which is contract negotiations where as the open public meetings act permits the burough Council to exclude the public from that portion of a public meeting during which
such matters are discussed now therefore be it resolved by the burrow Council as follows that the council shall forth with recess into a private executive session from which the public shall be excluded to discuss the above reference matters that the scope of the afores
said executive session shall be limited to the above matters as stated that those matters discussed in executive session shall remain confidential until time as the need for confidentiality no longer exists as determined by the burough attorney and that minutes of the
Clos session shall be taken and kept free from public view until such time that