Do the pledge of allegiance, please. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Could we take a minute to plea of
silence? Thank you. Got it. Am I out of your way? Yeah. Okay. This m this meeting has been called in accordance with the provisions of the open public meeting act and that an announcement of the same will be
mailed to the newspapers and to the clerk of the burough bill. Minutes of this meeting will be available after board approval at a subsequent meeting. Roll call. Commissioner Sherik here. Commissioner Casterly here. Commissioner Orchard here.
Commissioner Rainey is absent. Commissioner McCracken here. Commissioner Msano here. Commissioner Robinson's absent. You have a quorum. Okay. I need approval for the minutes from the June 2nd. Anyone?
I'm sorry. Can't The sound isn't coming through. It's coming through a little bit. Well, you know what? We can't better if you hold the microphone this way. Well, I can only do so much. Can you hear that? Yes.
Okay. Thank you. Okay. We need approval for the minutes from the June 2nd meeting. Anybody want to make a motion? Second. Commissioner Shar. Abstain. Commissioner Casserly. Yes. Commissioner Orchard. Yes.
Commissioner McCracken. Yes. Commissioner Msano here. Okay. Has everyone reviewed the um the u all of the bills and at any questions? Just one. Yes.
Town TV. The first one that was for the new um laundry machine, the washing machine. Okay. So, it's like an appliance. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay, I'll move I'll make a move to
approve them. I'll second. Commissioner Shar. Yes. Commissioner Casterly. Yes. Commissioner Orchard. Yes. Commissioner McCracken. Yes. Commissioner Msana.
Miss Ellen's here. Are you okay? Got it. Thank you. Okay, we're up to request from the executive director. Okay, we're having a busy time uh
with the units and the change over. We just unfortunately had another tenant pass away. So, we now have four units. one unit will be ready at the middle of the month uh and interview the possible tenant and
Amy has to follow up. Okay. Uh as far as weatherization, uh they got back the company came back to us and said that they got an estimate
for the engineering portion of it more than double what they normally charge. They were expecting like $10,000 for two engineers for 5 days. They came back with $25,000.
So, we went and we're working on plan B, which would be uh this engineering firm wanted to provide training in New Jersey. They're up in New York. If the state agrees for them to sponsor
a training, they would do it and then we would get a free as part of the training, we would have the pre-insspection. Uh the other option is if that doesn't work out uh since there's uh about $250,000 in
money put aside for us that the board would then decide whether they wanted to contribute half and then and the company we're dealing with the nonprofit they would come up with the other half.
All right. 250 or half the engineering? No, half the engineering. Okay. Um, nothing's going to happen for the next few weeks. There's a big conference at the end of the month for weatherization type programs, inspectors.
So, we should find out in August uh whether they're going to have the training or not. And then I would ask the board uh to decide whether to contribute the 12,000 of the, you know, half the amount
uh for the 250. I think it probably makes sense. And forget it for everyone. The state had a couple more questions and we finally resolved them about the environmental inspection.
They came back. They wanted to know, do we have an oil tank? We don't have an oil tank. We've been using gas for they wanted to know if we had any type of combustles. They wanted to know what year the building was built. And it was of course
a question of the answer. So I'm waiting back from the engineering for for a date definite day to bid. That's all I have to report. Any correspondence? No.
Any old business? Any new business? Um, we have two resolutions on the consent agenda for tonight. Resolution 2025-10 is resolution to certify the audit of September 30th, 2024. And
resolution 2025-11, resolution authorizing the opening of the waiting list. Okay. We didn't have any discussion on it. We don't have to. I mean, if you would like to. Sure. The
last page has the findings of which there are none. Yes. I think we should just comment. Great job, uh, Paul and your team for the findings in this audit. No findings are good findings. Fantastic. So, uh, it's definitely, uh,
thumbs up to Paul. Yeah. Amy keeps me alive. Thumbs up to Amy. Definitely nice to read this report. I just noticed and It's not big dollars, but I just noticed we owe on a loan that was taken out 2006
$15,000 and uh $76 of that is interest. I didn't know and we do have the money if the terms of this loan would let us pay it off early to save the interest. That's that boiler loan and it comes what they do is they withdraw down the
funds right out of our capital funds every year. Like we don't even physically pay it. It just comes right off our capital. That's what I know we've talked about that in the past. I just thought, well, if we can save 7 700 bucks since we have Yeah. Yeah. 20 26 there's 5,000
this year's 10. All right, that was it. Nice job. Yes. Excellent. John, do we have to make a move for the resolution? Yes, I need a motion. Okay, we need a motion for the um resolutions to be passed. I'll make it. I'll make the motion.
Okay. Second. Commissioner Shik. Yes. Commissioner Casterly. Yes. Commissioner Orchard. Yes. Commissioner Ramy. Yes. Commissioner McCracken. Yes. Commissioner Msano. Yes. Reports from the commissioners.
No one. Reports from the general uh public. Um, Anita Peekarelli, the uh resident that is uh your address again, please. Uh, first a uh 103 Shark River Avenue, apartment 59. Um, the resident that you
interviewed, is it a Belmar resident? Yes. Are there um so are there Belmar residents on the waiting list or the waiting list is done? Uh, we're looking to see if if any come in, they immediately go to the top of the list. So, right now the wait list has no more
Belmar residents. Is that is that what is that a true statement at this present moment? No. But uh three applications have gone out to local residents. I need another one. Okay. One has come back. Okay. In in light of the um big,
beautiful, ugly, hideous bill with the Medicaid and the SNAP cuts. Um is there anything the commission is trying to get ahead of to help some of the residents or get any information about? Is there anything in your plans to try to research or or help any of the
residents that will might possibly be affected? I don't know. Take that as a no. Okay. Um the air conditioners I assume everybody has their air conditioners then. Um there is one uh building one room I just looked out there and they had both windows were
wide open. Um no air conditioning. So they did do they get screens? Is there is there Yes. So okay. All right. I just think that might be a safety hazard, but whatever. All right, I'm good. Thank you.
Yes, I have questions. Uh Sandy Caputo 1705 surf the uh the windows. What um there there's going to be as she talked about inspections. When would that work then be done?
Well, number one, they have to come back with recommendations. If the windows are feasible, then we proceed from there. I'm trying to push I'm hoping to have it all done by the winter. That's what I would like to have because there were so many problems last year.
Um I know people were telling me depends on where they are in the building, but I know some some rooms really had a lot of problems. So it it um I'm hoping we could get this fixed before the cold weather. Yeah. So are we really?
Okay. I I I had another question. When if there is an emergency here and a resident calls police or ambulance, do they have a way to their own way to so they're in right at the Okay. Okay. They will have fobs.
There you go. Okay. Thank you. You're I have a question. Yes. General Jones, apartment 2K. Uh um there is a light that is out on the second floor as you go to the uh garbage disposal. I asked Mike about it. He said
that electrician has to come and fix it. It's been out for at least two two and a half months. Can you give me any feedback as to when that's going to be fixed? Where is it? Second floor. Second floor as you turn the corner going to the garbage disposal. All right.
And it's been out for a good two months. Yes, Maria Rondinaro, uh, your council rep. Um, I just wanted to follow up with Sandy's question. Um, because I was told that in the most recent situation, our police department didn't said that they
did not have the pod key to get into the building. Amy has just said she has given them all all every car should have them. I would follow up the chief of police. Okay, I will. All right, I will follow up and and see what that you know that's about because we
certainly want them to have that access. Um and then how many people are currently on the waiting list? Give or take in the 70s. We don't know how many are still interested uh
living or haven't moved out of the area. So, we don't know till we go down the list. You may have to wait for the for the response to come back after sends it out. So, it has to be open before people get calls to see if they're still um
interested or needing housing. Yeah, we're we're not going to open it until uh we've gone through the list and we uh have uh accommodated all the local residents, then we will increase.
Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Well, at this point then we have to go into executive session. Oh, we don't have We have do the um Oh, I'm sorry. Hold on. Oh, we not we don't have any. We're good.
Okay, we can adjourn. Yeah. Motion to adjurnn. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Whatever you need. All right.