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>> Oh, that's right. >> Maybe he's someplace exotic. Somebody's warming up some >> I think so what >> call this meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> Pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> I wish to announce the 48 hour notice was as was emailed to the Aspbury car
press, the co-star, and the new coaster on December the 18th of 2025, that a copy has been placed on the bulletin board in the burough office and that a copy has been filed with the municipal clerk. Please be advised, public attendance for meetings through Zoom is not mandatory and a courtesy only. If
for any reason Zoom fails or is disconnected, the inperson meeting will continue without interruption and action can and will be taken providing that there is an inperson quorum. Mr. Noble >> here, >> Miss Greenblat here. >> Mr. Nikki
>> here. >> Yes. Mr. Cor. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi >> here. And uh Councilman Noi is very uh generously joining us tonight from Cabo. Is it Councilman?
>> Yes. Cabos and Lucas. >> Okay, there we go. >> So, thank you for joining us. Uh, welcome everyone uh here in attendance and uh we do have a handful of folks on Zoom as well. Um, we got a good full agenda and let's dive
right in. Item five on the agenda are workshops and there are none. Six, presentation and bids. I've asked uh the head of our office of emergency management, Norman Golar, to give us a brief overview of uh the past couple of
weeks activity related to snow and storms that the burden. >> Thank you, Mayor. Appreciate it. On Sunday, February 22nd, Bradley Beach was impacted by winter storm Fernando. Days before the storm's landfall, we got started to prepare for its impact with
discussions and review of or preparedness protocols with Mary Katosi, business administrator, Darity, and municipal heads. We then executed preventative measures in anticipation of the reported severe snowfall. On that same day, February 22nd, the
governor of New Jersey declared a state of emergency effective at 12 p.m. During the duration of the event, the New Jersey Department of Transportation issued driving restrictions on our roadways and throughout the state. Our Department of Public Works made ready
their vehicles and put together a staffing schedule for the removal of snow on our roadways and municipal properties. The snow removal was accomplished in phases during and after the snowfall. The police department activated the
Bradley Beach notification system to our residents which would continue before, during, and after that snowfall. The police department directed vehicle removal to allow snow plows to remove snow from the streets curb to curb. During the storm, the police continued
to provide normal police services at all times, including their communication center with incoming and outgoing calls on the telephone and on radio communication. The fire department and the first aid squad assembled crews at the first aid squad for
immediate response to any call out as well as standby for possible activation of our warming station or shelter at the firehouse. The fire company purchased and prepared meals for any burrow employees who were on duty during this event. The office of emergency
management monitor the progress and the progression of the storm. During the initial phase, OEM prepared for the storm by discussing preparedness and actions to be taken by the burrow. The emergency operations center was officially activated on Sunday, February
22nd at 5:15 p.m. The interdep departmental coordination was conducted as well as notifications and coordination with outside agencies including Mammoth County Office of Emergency Management, American Red Cross, New Jersey Department of Transportation, JCPNL emergency
notification system and assistance to vulnerable population here in Bradley Beach. The emergency operations center was staffed until Monday, February 23rd at 4:30 p.m. At present, the the Bradley Beach Office of Emergency Management is
working with the Mammoth County Office of Emergency Management and the State Office of Emergency Management Recovery Bureau by submitting all costs information to the state for possible reimbursement of expenditures by Bradley Beach for this event. The state
emergency was cancelled by the governor on Wednesday, February 25th at 6 p.m. Thank you, Norm. And uh Norm, a couple thoughts. One, first of all, I just want to thank you, OEM. I'm going to speak uh
later in the in the meeting about the the broad amount of support we you had and we the bureau had not only from OEM, but from uh police, fire, first aid. Uh, and I'll get into it more detail. DPW, of course, but just while you're standing here, would you mind
introducing your colleagues from OEM? I think most of our residents recognize police and DPW. They don't all know you and your team, but I want to give you a chance to just quickly introduce. >> Sure. I have my two deputy coordinators here tonight who were with me during the whole event who stayed here at the
operation center for at least 24 hours. And that's deputy coordinator Pearl. and deputy coordinator Dan Randy. >> And I just want to thank your team as well as the rest of our place for a wonderful job over the past couple
weeks. Okay. On a personal note and a professional note, I've been in this business of a very long time and I must tell you the department heads here, specifically the chief of police and department of the works and fire
company, first aid squad and your staff and you know, management here. You're fantastic. You did a great job. You should proud of yourselves. Um, and uh I know the county is pretty happy with this. Um, we've been in communication with them for days and they're very happy with what we're doing and we're
going to continue to do that and it's been a pleasure working with you. Thank you so much. >> Well said. >> Thank you. >> And actually, we not only have a chief of police, but our chief of police goes doortodoors tickets. We get double duty out of our chief of
police. >> Delegate. >> Exactly. All right. Moving on to U. Uh, approval of minutes. I'll make a motion that we approve the February 17, 2026 council business meeting minutes. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Rebel,
>> yes. >> Mr. Carr, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. >> Okay. Uh, item eight on the agenda, public comments or questions specifically pertaining to items on this agenda. Are there public comments or
questions? Miss Nancy Meadow Ocean Park Condominiums and I would appreciate being shown the same respect to the address I've given that is given to other people like the Bartletts, Mr. McIll and Mr. Bano when they just merely come here and say the
name of their business. That's what I'm doing. Um, I'm here to dis to give my opinion, which I know you disagree with as a body of ordinance 2026-11. I am going to state
I think it's a fact, but I'm just going to go with it's my opinion that there's 365 days in a year. That we've been lucky for several years until this particular one to have very
little plowable snow. and that perhaps this town has been inconvenienced or not function for maybe seven days out of these past two storms which were highly irregular because the
first one had ice and the second one had volume. I understand that the burrow is trying to all of a sudden comply with regulations that are beyond their control.
I understand that the burrow puts it, again, this is all my opinion and my observations. The burrow always puts its employees and its businesses prior to the residence. I observed public works working as hard
as they could to move snow, but let's face it, it wasn't perfect. And it's hard to be perfect in that situation. However, they come around. If you're on the side that gets plowed first, good for you. If you're on the side that gets plowed
second, that's usually about 12 to 18 hours after. So, here's my scenario. The other side of the street gets plowed. My snow remover comes and does it when the snow stops.
And then in this particular storm, I then wake up and when I went to bed, everything was cleared. I wake up and I'm not only plowed in. I had my driveway markers broken. And now you're asking me to come out and
shovel two sidewalks and call my snow remover again. That's not a burden that we should have to bear. Personally, I find more safety in shoveling out the sewers that are by my building, shoveling out the fire hydrant. Um, if
you're handicapped, you shouldn't be walking on the sidewalks anyways. And those little access I don't know that they're ramps, but cutouts. Um, so I don't I usually come here with a solution.
I confess I don't have one, but I do not think that this resolution solves anything. And again, you know, I mean, I don't know. I come from New York. We don't
shovel things out. Um, but when I come down Main Street, a county road, and I'm watching public works taking care of that, and I watch them come down my road and pile everything into the corner, pile everything into our driveways. And
may I say, we are two, four, five votes. And this body knows the importance of each and every vote. And I urge you to not approve this particular ordinance,
but work at a better solution for the problem. >> Thank you, M. Just one clarification. I think you referenced 2026-11, but I think you're describing 2026-10.
11 is just blocking the sidewalks. It was the 10. That's a lot of the snow emergency measures. Um perhaps I didn't understand. I interpreted 10 as to the fines and 11 is to clearing the handicap access. I don't
>> just for the record. I think >> you know, however, the one that said I'm going to be fine if I don't shovel out two of my corners, >> whatever. Okay. >> Sure. You you wrote them. >> Um thank you.
>> Uh other comments or questions from the Mr. Uh thank you, mayor. I just wanted to comment on uh the adoption items for tonight. Uh I mean, as we deal with the resilient environmental landscape
regulations as proposed by D. Um, I just want to point out that this council is doing a very good job of addressing things through home rule and not through a wide brush painted across the state as to how things should go. So, I'd like to
comment on the uh ordinance that uh amends the uh driveway ordinance number 2026-18. Um, I did have one edit in that that it should it should not say uh larger
driveways curb cuts. It should say larger driveways on certain corner lots. So, I would advise that because the the curb cuts are staying the same. So, they shouldn't that shouldn't be done. Um, but in the next one about the subgrade
garages and and the way it deals with groundwater infiltration, I think you know if there's ever any talk with the D in the future about um how you handle home rule here that this is a perfect example of you understanding the environmental impacts that they affect
on residents and and doing something about it, not waiting for the state to do something about it. So, I did want to uh compliment you on 2026-9 and if you could just make the change on 2026-18 um that would be fantastic. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Mr. Other comments or questions from the public, anyone on Zoom. Okay, seeing none, we will move to um item number nine on the agenda, which are the our ordinances overall. And
we'll start with introductions. The introductions are uh new ordinances that we're sharing with the public. New ordinance amendments. Um there is not uh any open public discussion on an introduction. When we come back at a
later date to adopt any or all of these, the public will then have opportunities to comment. So, starting with ordinance 2026-15. Um, this is uh somewhat of a >> I'm sorry I'm looking over your shoulder
because don't we still have >> it? Okay. I apologize. >> No, no problem. I I didn't know if you needed to look. >> Sorry. >> All right. U for 2026-15. Uh this is an ordinance to uh that would
allow the bureau if if needed to exceed the municipal budget appropriations limit. The state sets uh municipal budget limits that are under the cap at 2%. Uh this is a fairly standard adjustment that that by ordinance every municipality is allowed to increase that
2% to an extra one and a half% to three and a half%. And that's basically what this uh language is proposing. So any comments or questions council? >> Most of these we've talked about individually. So you may have had
questions earlier, but we've addressed them. Uh I will therefore make a motion to approve the introduction of 2026-15. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Green, >> yes. >> Mr. Carr, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Buboszi,
>> yes. Ordinance 2026-16 U is u an ordinance that is referencing chapter one of our general code and specifically we are increasing fines
five I think it's five areas most of them are snow related uh fines for not clearing your driveway fines for leaving a car parked down the street um the reason uh that we are um going to vote
on this and hopefully approve it is because people our residents by the way in this last storm were great moving cars. It's phenomenal result. But um people who don't move cars are creating a significant health and safety risk for
their their fellow residents for our emergency response individuals, police, fire, first aid. Um, and there's only so much that the burrow can do to to engage our residents. You know, the communications,
um, we have police knocking on doors asking people to move their their cars. Seeing it from the mayor's position, these employees bend over backwards to serve our residents. I think it's a great job. It's their job. It's what they should do, but they do it very
well. All that said, there are people who do not move their cars and a 20 foot long car or 18 foot long car can actually block a snow plow from hitting 200 ft a linear feet of a curb because
of the nature of the plow having to approach that car, swing out wide, go around that car, come back in. By the time they're done, we've lost 150, 200 feet of curb space. And everybody knows in Bradley Beach curb space is very valuable. Um but not only that it can
create havoc and as I said health and safety risk. So among other initiatives underway uh I have asked the council to consider increasing a handful of fines related to primarily snow removal andor uh there's one for example that is uh
increasing fines for people who park in the special designated parking spaces for handicapped individuals. We already have fines for handicap violators parking, but the special parking permits that we provide, the bureau provides
handicapped individuals in town, that was a a modest fine. We're raising that more to the level of what a regular handicapped violation would pay. We don't want people parking in spaces reserved for handicapped individuals. So, um, any comments or questions on this particular?
>> No, I think I think you had also mentioned in our discussions that It's not the amounts that are being changed are also discussed with I think it was the judge other legal people who are looking at the
amount. So it's not just like >> yeah to your point councilman u there is a there is a a process the court these are fines adjudicated by a judge who sits right in my seat and u the court system has to approve any adjustments
that we request to be made in fines and we have gone through the preliminary portion of that getting preliminary approval once we should we approve this and then ultimately adopt then we final version to the ultimate adjudicator in the court system and that's the process
they should approve. If they don't then we'll have to revisit one more. >> Also just to point out that you know the some of these changes really are um hopefully a real disincentive.
It's not across the board increases. It's just for a number a number of different >> it's is it five? I think it's five of of many. >> Yeah. >> Five out of 250. >> Exactly. Exactly. >> But but they're important because they are real risks to health and safety. Uh
certainly the snow related ones. So if there's no further discussion, I'll make a motion that we approve the introduction of 20 26-16. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. Yes. >> Miss Greenwood. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes.
>> Mayor Guboszi. Yes, Paul. I love the way you paused for effect. >> Uh, okay. Uh, introduction for ordinance 2026-17. Uh, this is uh an amendment to this is one of three zoning uh ordinance
amendments we're going to present tonight. And this first one um I think of this as cleaning up an error. The the bottom line is a number of years ago, the council here uh approved a zoning
ordinance amendment that was intended to um help undersized lots. Owners in town of undersized lots are deemed to be non non-compliant, non conforming. And if you're a non-conforming smaller lot, by
definition, if you want to do any kind of adjustment to your property, any kind of construction, renovation, by definition, because your lot is small, you have to go to the ladies board. You automatically are deemed to need a variance. And a few years ago, we changed the ordinance around to say,
look, if you're making changes, if you're doing a renovation on a small property and you're staying within all the confines of our zoning ordinances, so your setbacks are good, your height is good, all, you know, impervious coverage and all all that, um, you do
not have to go to the landings board, which could cost folks well over $2,000. 2,000 is just usually the amount or 1500, the amount they put in escrow, but then they have to professionals could be5 or $10,000 and and it's just not
right. So, we were all we the council I was part of it. We were very proud of ourselves a few years ago for for making that change. What I did not appreciate until in the past week or so an architect came to us and said, "You
know, you said we could make renovations on smaller lots and we didn't have to go to landingsport, but there's language in here. I the architect am remodeling, renovating the house, redesigning it and
uh and I'm not having I'm not creating any variances. But there's language here that says you also cannot increase the original footprint and you also cannot increase the original volume of the house. So, for example, if this
architect wanted to expand the footprint of the house and do it within regulation, um, this little clause in this ordinance said you can't, you cannot expand it. And that I know because I was part of the team that worked on it, that was not
the intention of this. It was just an oversight. So, we've all had a chance one-on-one to share this and vet it. Uh, but I think what we're really doing here is just creating uh correcting and oversight where the intention is not to
penalize small smaller property owners. They should have the same ability to make a renovation on their property and they should be able to expand their footprint or expand the volume of their house as long as they are within all all appropriate regulations to prove zoning.
So with that as a quick overview, any other questions or comments? >> Cover it all. >> Okay. Next time I'll let one of you. Okay. >> In that case, I will make a motion that we approve the introduction of 2026-17. >> Mr. Noble.
>> Yes. Mr. Greenwood. Yes. >> Mr. Car. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Kubati. >> Yes. Okay. Uh 2026-18 is the second of three zoning ordinance amendments. As Mr. Koa mentioned, this
is in reference to uh driveways. Um, and we'll address the title in a moment, but um, what was identified by our land use board and Mr. Quan worked on this with Mr. Carp, our councilman who's also on
our land use board as well as Mr. Mayor, Dennis Mayor, uh, who's who serves as the vice chair of the ladies board. uh they came to us with uh this recommendation because there are on corner lot properties where often times
the driveways do not run down along the side of the house but instead if the house frontage is on a let's say east west street the garage entrance is often on a north south street behind the property and because the properties are
typically narrow you know 50 ft or or less wide um there are challenges with the angles of getting a car entering the property from the side street getting it getting two cars into a two-car garage. So what they came to us with is this
recommendation. Effectively um widening uh allowing the winding of driveways uh from normally it' be a 10 foot it would be a 12T curve cut 10 foot initial width but that 10 foot width of a driveway is
really challenging to to get into twocar garage. And they're suggesting that uh from I may be off a little bit from the property line you enter through the the curb cut you go through the apron and once you hit the property line you can
widen your driveway at that point to 16 ft to get yourself two cars into the garage you state that fairly accurately. Yeah, actually the uh the driveway between the curve cut and the property line is also uh instead of 10 ft would
now be 12 feet and then you would flare out to the 16 at the property line. It would previously they would need an ordinance variance for their driveway width on a on a corner lot because our ordinance requires that they enter
through the uh the long street. >> I have a quick question. You say the property line. So it's not the um setback. It's >> well the property line is you know the right of way in the right way which is the town property. Okay.
>> It can be it was 10 ft. Now it can be 12. >> Okay. Even in the right way >> the curve cut width it doesn't change. That's still 12 ft. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> And when it flares out >> and it flares out at the property line. Got it. And then you can park two cars in front of your >> So that's after the rightway.
>> That is after the rightway. Any further comments or questions then about uh 202618 before I make? >> No, I think it it also allows for without taking away parking spots on the street because the curb cuts are still
the same. It allows for a much easier and more cars actually be parked on the driveway. Very good point. >> Okay. >> Are there certain I'm just wondering are there certain twocar garage um properties on the north south streets
where the actual apron is what is the width of the twocar garage. Uh if there must be pre-existing not that um there's plenty of examples that are done currently. >> Yeah. I just want to make sure you
adjust the title. >> I'm going to do that. Yes. Thank you. >> Okay. So, first, um, if there's no further comment or questions, I'll make a motion that we, uh, formally change the the title of this ordinance 2026-18
to change the words larger curb cuts to larger driveways. Really substitute the word driveways for curb cuts. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Greenl, yes. Mr. Carr, >> yes. Mr. Niki,
>> yes. >> Mayor Gubetzi, >> yes. And now I'll make a motion that we approve 2026-18 as amended. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Greenblut, yes. >> Mr. Clark, yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes.
>> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. Now, the next handful of these, I know Mr. Clark, you've been very involved in these. Would you like to Sure. >> Sure. >> So, this is the ordinance amending article two. um referring to subgrade
garages and basement. Um I think the important part of this was really to promote flood resilience. Um we've been allowing construction allowing these subgrade garages um which
have which we've seen have caused flooding um in the streets um as well as by the property owner with the garage as as well as the neighboring residents. Uh
so this um amendment uh achieves a few things. One, it adds a minimal uh a minimum amount of vertical separation between the lowest floor and the documented high water ground table. So that had never been
detailed before. We're also requiring a certification of the groundwater and the flood elevation for any application proposing a basement. Um, of course, it also disallows the low grade garages which of course have that inherent drainage
issue. Um, and we've also gone as far to define basement and sellers because we found that uh if we hadn't uh defined what a seller is, people would come in and say, "Well, you haven't defined what a seller is. I'm going to um give you my
own definition. So, it was very important to be able to define what a basement is, how much of the a basement uh is where more of the below ground is above the level and a seller is more below. So, the language in there
really helps to firm up the >> Any further discussion comments? Would you like to make a motion? >> I would like to make a motion to approve ordinance 2026-9. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Greenlat. Yes. >> Mr. Carr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Niki.
>> Yes. >> Mayor Gub. >> Yes. Uh, ordinance 2026-20. Once again, Council Carp will turn over to you. So 2026-20 um amends our noise ordinance and specifically sir
>> we have a new >> the revised agenda that I said >> oh the revise revised okay oh okay so so um I'm going to go to waste >> right waste um so this one is talking
about um uh how we're currently um depositing debris into the streets um we all know and ween that when landscapers are um and homeowners are cleaning up their yards, a lot of the debris is
blown into the streets. Um we want to be able to um address that because the blowing of that debris, including grass. This of course doesn't include when homeowners are putting um brush or or leaves up on the street. Uh this is
really uh grass clippings or any other type of waste. Uh It's it's winding up in our storm drains uh which then winds up in our lakes. It builds up silt with inside of the lakes also introduces anything that's been added to the lawn
regarding fertilizers, any other adverse chemicals and eventually goes into the lakes and the ocean. So, we really needed to address um the collection ordinance to be able to prohibit those actions which are harmful
to Any comments or questions? >> Mr. C, I just want to thank you for the the work you've done on all these, but this one especially. Uh, if there are no further comments or questions, >> I'd like to make a motion to approve ordinance 2026-21.
>> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Green, yes. >> Mr. Core, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. Mayor Guptzi. >> Yes. I'm gonna pause. >> All right. U for the next introduction 2026-22.
Once again, >> 21. >> 21. >> Oh, I'm sorry. 21. I'm going to turn that over to Mr. >> All right. Uh so, last but not least, please. Um this was an ordinance um in conjunction with the environmental
commission uh about uh limiting the use of gas power leaf blowers within our town. Um I've had the opportunity to have many discussions individually with our council and there's they raise a lot
of questions. Um so in lie of um talking more about it, I think it may make sense to have a workshop to be able to gather some uh feedback from the residents. Um so I'd like to make a motion to table this
ordinance 2026- 20. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Miss Greenblat, >> yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. All right, we will now move to adoptions. And for each of these, I will
open up to public comment. Um, the first ordinance adoption is uh 2026-9. And this is a um zoning ordinance, chapter 450 zoning, specifically our affordable housing uh overlay zones
where we at our last meeting uh uh introduced the ordinance. Then it went to the land use board for a consistency review and now we're at a point where we are ready to adopt uh
post any public comments. So any questions or comments before we open up to the public. All right. I'll make a motion that we open up to the public. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. Yes. >> M. Green. Yes. >> Mr. Carr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Niki.
>> Okay. He gave you the headshake. We're good, >> Erica. >> Okay. Uh, it is now open to the public for comment or questions. >> Okay. Seeing no cut. Oh, Mr. Co. Yeah, he's very shy. >> Yeah.
>> Um, thank you, Mayor Thomas J. Coen, 6ole 3rd Avenue. You know, I I just want to say that uh this has been a long time coming and uh it's been a lot of hard work for our planner. Uh Mr. Karp worked on it. Uh everybody's really reviewed it. Mr. Nikki worked on Councilman
Noiki. I mean, everybody is really uh I wish this was completed in 2025, but I'm happy it's being completed before the deadline today. But a lot of people worked on it very diligently. Uh fortunately, we weren't one of the New
Jersey towns with a lot of open space. Uh so we didn't have to engage in going to the Supreme Court to try to overturn the the usurping of home rule from our town. But again, uh it was a an open
negotiation with the planner, fair share housing, and the courts. Uh it it takes a while. It's not inexpensive to do it, but it was done correctly and will give us the protection on one side and on the
other side it will give us the opportunity to create affordable housing in our reach. So, um, and I think both what one thing that it's done is it's really raised awareness of the processes. It's been an open process at the land use board and here and we want
everyone to understand that, you know, we're meeting our state requirements and hopefully um we're going to get some units very soon. Uh we lost some in the past, but you know, I don't want to be burdened by what has been. Let's uh just
keep going. Thank you. >> Thank you. And on that note, uh it bears, uh recognizing your efforts publicly as well. I know you worked with our planner in the early phases of this kind of identifying what sales might
look like. You mentioned Mr. Cart playing an instrumental role in helping us get through a lot of the details of this, especially right down the block and lot numbers in each of these five zones. Um so it really was a team effort along with of course our professionals
our planner and the great news is um we are we have reached our settlement in round four and now professionally tonight once we approve this we will be making the deadline that was supposed I'm sorry March 15. So we get this done
a good solid week and a half to you know almost two weeks in advance. So, with that said, um I will make a motion that we close public comment and adopt 2026-9. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Green, yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes.
>> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. 2026-10 is um the amending of chapter 9 traffic for the bureaus's revised ordinances um to reise temporary parking
regulations during snow emergencies. Um, and this is, you know, this is in fact u clear cleaning up the the narrative around when to move your cars from walk inside of street parking as well as um
adding greater clarity around snow removal including removal of the snow from corner lot 88 ramps that Miss Meadow mentioned earlier. Any comments or questions before to the public? I just wanted to acknowledge Miss Meadow
and her comments and I appreciate uh your comments uh and yeah lack of suggestions and solutions to this because it is a very difficult these were difficult storms that we had. Uh I think many communities like ours have
experienced the same kind of thing. Um, in passing this ordinance, uh, what it does is it clarifies the responsibility, which is the responsibility that we know of, you know, the residents and the responsibility of the sidewalks. And, um, to to I apologize for for repeating
a quote that's been raised up here before, but um, let's not let perfect be the enemy of good. um you know, we could all always do better, but I think that this last storm in particular, we've learned from the previous storm. And um
and it's just been pretty spectacular. Albeit um you know, the the issue of what happens when plows are going down the street and redepositing snow back in front of people's driveways, which is very difficult to manage. But maybe
there are some solutions to that down the road. But I think that this ordinance itself at least clarifies what is required in an attempt to keep things safe. >> Very good. Any other comments or questions before we open to the public?
>> All right. I will make a motion that we open it up to the public for comment or question. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. Yes. >> Mr. Green. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Kubosi. >> Yes. Yes. Okay. 2026-10.
Questions or comments from the public? Okay, seeing none, just make sure. Seeing none, I will make a motion that we close public comment and adopt 2026-10. >> Second, Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Ringlet, yes. >> Mr. Clark,
>> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. 2026-11. This is an ordinance amending chapter 398, streets and sidewalks. And specifically, this is the one that uh is
prohibiting obstructions on the sidewalks. The the reason this was this particular amendment was created is because somebody positioned a portaotti smack dab in the middle of one of our sidewalks and uh code enforcement went to give them a citation and lo and
behold we didn't have an ordinance addressing portaotties or other obstructions in the middle of the sidewalk. We need to clear the snow but we didn't address obstructions. So that's what 20261 is doing. >> Any comments or questions from the
council? I think I think it's also important to note that uh as a dog walker that very frequently I see cars that are parked in their driveway and the trunk of their car are also coming across the sidewalks sometimes into the
driveway as well. So that addresses that issue as well. >> It's so obvious to I think to me certainly and I think to most lay people we have to have our walkways or sidewalks unobstructed and you know some people reference handicapped
individuals, some reference dog walkers, elderly, young parents with children, whatever. Bottom line is this is a public right away and we cannot have people cluttering it with any obstacles of any kind. So I think this was just an oversight in the history of Bradley
Beach and we didn't we weren't clear, but now we uh we will be clear. >> So if there's no further comments, I'll make a motion then we open up to the public for comments or questions. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Green. Yes, Mr. Clark. >> Yes, >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes,
>> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. >> Public comments or questions on 2026-11. >> Okay, seeing none, I'll make a motion we close public comment and uh approve the adoption of 2026 special.
>> Second. >> Mr. Noble? Yes. Mr. Ringlet? Yes. >> Mr. Cart? Yes. >> Mr. Noiki? >> Yes. Mayor Bubetzi. >> Yes. 2026-12 is an ordinance amending chapter 365 rental property of the burough's revised
general ordinances. Um this is largely updating uh the administration of our occupancy tax. We we already have in place an occupancy tax 3% u of revenue collected by short-term rental properties, Airbnb, VRBs, and so forth.
Um what we learned going through for the first year of trying to collect these uh these taxes is that we the bureau probably needed to add more clarity to the landlords to let them understand u you know what documentation we can uh
receive in support of uh their submission of their taxes. Um the time frames were not really aligned. You know we we've the time frame was that we would collect it by the end of the calendar year. Now we are planning to collect uh three months into the new
calendar year giving folks time to get the records straight and so forth. Also offering them, if you will, an opt out of uh submitting all that paperwork and instead of funding 3% of revenue that they have to document, they they have an
opt out where they can fund a flat $500. So that largely this is increasing administrative clarity for landlords. Comments or questions? >> All right, I will open it. I will make a motion that we open it up to the public. >> Second.
>> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Green, yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Buboszi, >> yes. Public comments or questions for 20126-12. Okay, seeing none, I will make a motion
to close public comment and adopt 2026-12. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Ma, yes. >> Mr. Court, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. For ordinance 2026-13. I'm going to turn it over to council
president Jen. >> Thank you, mayor. This is ordinance 2026-13 uh ordinance amending chapter 425 trees of the bureau's revised general and ordinances to enhance the operations and regulations of the burough's shade tree
commission. Just to reiterate, this is very similar. Um this was a request by the shade tree commission. When you have a construction permit, you get a yellow um sign to put in your window. So the shade tree has something very similar. When you get approved to have a tree
removed, you will now get a green to put in your window. This way when the chainsaws start up, not everybody's panicking and calling the shade tree commission and everybody else asking what's going on. So, um I think I'll
make a motion now to Oh, do you guys have any questions? >> Okay. I'll make a motion that we open it to the public for ordinance 2026-13. Second, >> Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Green, yes. >> Mr. Clark, yes. >> Mr. Wiki. >> Yes.
>> Mayor Kubosi. >> Yes. Comments or questions? >> Linda Duffy. >> Miss Duffy. >> I wanted to comment on the last one, but you didn't see my hand. >> I didn't put it up fast enough.
>> All right. Can Can you save your comment till uh the end of the meeting at this point? >> Yeah, I can. I just figured this out. Thank you very much. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. Uh any comments or questions for this? >> I just as there is none, I'd like to
close the public comment and approve the um or adopt ordinance 2026. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Green, >> yes. >> Mr. Cart, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes.
>> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. All right, that takes us through uh item nine on our agenda, ordinances. Item 10 is communications. There are none. Item 11 are resolutions. We'll start with the
consent agenda resolutions. Uh are any of these four items uh do any of them do any council members want to discuss or vote on any of them separately? >> All right. In that case, I will make a motion to approve consent agenda
resolution items 2026-70 through 2026-73. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Miss Greenl, yes. >> Mr. Cart, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. Okay. We have four individual
resolutions. The first being 2026-74 approval of a shared service agreement renewal with Neptune City for summer camp. And this is basically offering the uh resident rates uh Bradley Beach to our summer camp to uh residents of Neptune City. And we've done this every
year for a number of years. Uh any comments or questions? Right. I'll make a motion that we approve uh individual resolution 2026-74. >> Second, Mr. Noble. Yes, >> Miss Greenblat. >> Yes, >> Mr. Court. >> Yes,
>> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes, >> Mayor Guboszi. >> Yes. >> 2036-75 authorizing award of professional engineering services with CME Associates for Prominade uh soil testing and and
permitting uh subconultants. Um Mr. you know, Wiki, I I know you're you're far far away, but would you like to briefly comment on this? >> Yeah, hopefully the uh you guys you can hear me clearly.
>> Yes. >> And I'm not too delayed. >> Okay. So, um basically, we're looking to utilize um soils excavated out of along Boulevard um for the bulkhead project and we're going to reuse that material
and save,000 re that material not wasting it. But in order to do that, we wanted to have it tested to make sure that there was no contamination in that soil. It's not the soil from the lake, the soil along um behind the existing wall. And then we
needed to have environmental warings taken in order to show that the material was suitable to put underneath the front. Um so that's what that is. And we're also meeting the subconsent mu who used to be a um resident he's
been involved very much in the in the lake project as well as and we're he's a former deputy commissioner of the deep wildlife and we're getting some consulting advisory work from him to help guide us through
the myriad of um pering issues that were being encountered uh and moratoriums and restrictions. Um so he's helping us navigate that directly and supporting CN as well as the mobile silver projects.
So that's um but again this is tied to this prominade project because that material used at the prominade otherwise it was took away directly. So this is the reason we
wanted to justify two parts >> and this is one piece of what I would describe as a pretty complex ecosystem of engineering projects around and on Southern Lake our not only the prominade
extension uh the alpha pipe u there's a the bulkhead there's a number of moving pieces councilman Nikki has been instrumental in guiding the burough through all these projects and making sure we align funding and align
engineers. Uh it it it's a yman's effort, councilman, we all appreciate what you've done to kind of navigate Bradley Beach through the maze. Um but this is just and the resolution we'll be talking about next, but this is just one
piece of helping us put all the puzzle pieces together. So, thank you for your effort on this. >> Uh if Yeah, I was going to say >> so. Um Paul, I I had an opportunity to speak with um Councilman Noiki about this, but I just had one other question.
So if this material is suitable um and clean, it gets transferred over during the course of the Silven Lake Bulkhead project, gets transferred over to uh some location uh along the prominade or along the beachfront area where the
prominade is uh if it needs to kind of sit there. because a lot of things have to kind of be aligned in terms of both projects. Right. >> Right. The timing those two um first piece is we need a capper permit for non extension that was submitted back in
January and we're awaiting that capper permit from DP that will allow us to put material over there as well as actually construct the permanent. So that that's really the critical piece of this equation. First that capper permit and
then they will also um give us any restrictions or any necessary specifically with your stockpile material. You put it solution and fence around it protect it. You put it in an area that um you know basically they can
sit and wait for the uh use of the construction. So that could potentially actually be put there during the course of the summer season, right? >> Yes. Um yeah, right. Right now we have a bunch of stockpile materials in the
alcohol. Um we have stockpile rip rock that's piled up there that also used for the extension. Um so that will be moved over to that extension when that strategy gets defined by the when
that work. >> We have just so the burough knows we have residents of the bur we have fairly significant project work. We have a over $2 million grant on to to repair plus money possibly committed by the burough
to repair the bulkhead. We have a $4 million grant for the prominade extension, $3 million or so in grants and loans on the alpha pipe. You add it all up, it's a lot of money, all working towards fixing that that broad
area, Silven Lakes renovation as well as the prominade, which is a key resiliency point, you know, that is the low point in Bradley Beach for ocean surges. So, uh, if we can extend that ocean bulkhead, uh, that'll give us greater,
you know, safety from from flooding. So, but there's so many moving parts and that's what I alluded to earlier that Councilman Noiki is, you know, helping us align this. A simple example of of his observations that are guiding us is u this particular
uh resolution where we're talking about uh measuring the sentiment in a certain area that we might be able to use for booking. If we were to cart this sediment away or this soil away, I don't know the exact number, but it might be $100,000 $200,000.
Then if we were not coordinating this, we would have to secure Phil for the bulkhead project that might cost us 100 or $200,000. So by this effort largely led by Mr. in the wiki might be saving the burough $300,000
just and it's the type of thing that a lay person like myself would not have thought of. So, uh so Paul, I I cannot thank you enough on behalf of the burough for your leadership in this space. You've been you've been great. Thank you. Uh that said, all the praise
aside, um where do we stand? We need to make a motion to approve 2675. >> No, I'll make that motion. seconded. >> Um, Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Green, >> yes. >> Mr. Park, >> yes.
>> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gossi, >> yes. >> Paul, I'm not buying that. You've got a delay. I think you're falling asleep on us. >> And he was just talking. >> No, my internet gets spotted. I keep
going in a little bit and so and my power draining very rapidly. So, >> okay. You're in you're in Mexico. You're entitled to a little siesta. No, no problem. Um, okay. Item 2026-76, authorizing the chief financial officer
to transfer funds to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for the Silven Lake outfall gate replacement. This could be an hourong story. Councilman, I'm going to give you I'm going to make one more comment and then I'm going to give you two minutes
to summarize what this is about. But um but uh questions have been raised. This is a lot of money, $700,000. Um, Councilman Noiki will explain why in a second, but one question asked of us, and we've checked this repeatedly with our CFO, we do not need to do a
verification of funds for this particular item. I just want to go on public record confirming that that is not required. Um, Councilman, once again, you want to give us a twominute overview of what this is about? >> Yes. So this is the gate that controls
the water from the lake out to the ocean. There's this structure that fail several years ago um that basically controls the water flow um we've spoken about this previously. We've asked the D
to include this project through the vehicle gate into the outall project allowing us to take advantage of the existing contract that's out there minimizing cost more efficient uh by using that contractor to add that work
to his contract and do it here in the spring. We'd already passed the um the ordinance uh for this u and increase in the dollar value that $700,000 in a per year council meeting and that cost is
shared between us and so it's a $350,000 of actual cost to the burough $350,000 is actually we're sharing that cost. >> Thank you. Any other comments or questions from the council?
>> All right. I will make a motion that we approve 2026-76. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. M. Greenlet. Yes. Mr. Carr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. Item 2026-77. I'm going to turn over to uh
Councilwoman Green. >> Thank you, Mayor. Um 2026 277 is ratification of resolution uh 22671 Darcy's St. Patrick's Day event reschedule approval. Um this is uh a
ratification uh to reschedu the event which this is actually retroactive. Uh they were uh planning a St. Patrick's Day event this past Sunday and it was coinciding with uh St. State parade in Belmar which was
cancelled and so Darcy's had asked if they can do their uh event on Saturday the day prior and so uh both uh councilman Noiki and Councilman Karp and I were the three uh governing body
individuals who had approved uh this uh and so um this is this is now uh just codifying and ratifying that this took place on Saturday and it was approved by three members of council. So I I look to
approve uh resolution 2026 277. >> Uh Mr. Noble, I have multiple items that could be perceived as a conflict and I live within 200 feet. So I'm going to recuse myself. >> Uh Mr. Greblat, >> yes. >> Mr. Carr, >> yes. >> Mr. Jun Wiki.
>> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> I also live within 200 feet and I will recuse myself. >> So that motion passes. Uh we will move to item 12, announcements. There are none. Item 13A
that we all wait for anxiously and review the business administrator report. Mr. Dory. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, I want to second what um what Norman expressed earlier. Him and Bob um really
were fantastic through this last storm. Uh police department did an exceptional job. Um Department of Public Works came in. You know, people left vacations early to make sure that they weren't stuck somewhere or caught in traffic at home. Um, but I would also tell you that
a lot of it has to do with the residents themselves. By, you know, moving their cars to one side of the street, by listening to the police department, the police department contacted businesses and asked them to close the road, right? All that helped us get the streets
clear. So, um, you know, it truly was a team effort, including the residents themselves. So, I do give kudos to our our OEM, our police department, our uh Department of Public Works, but I think it's also important to to recognize the residents themselves that made play a
major role in ensuring that the town looks so good, you know, 24 hours after. Um, also I want to just certainly not correct uh Councilwoman Greyblat, but just to um amend her statement. The
Belmar Lake St. Patrick State parade wasn't cancelled. >> It has been postponed to Saturday. First time ever. It's going to be on a Saturday. Saturday, March 20th. So hopefully uh the mayor and council from Brley Beach will uh join us
in Balar for a >> for a good parade. >> Uh start making one right now. >> Start making one. >> Yeah. >> Uh I have a pickup. You can sit in the back of the pickup truck. can run on
>> can run on a fire a fire truck. Um so I just want to give a a very quick update as to some of the infrastructure. Uh as Mayor Gubossi mentioned um Councilman Nikki um is is absolutely remarkable
when it comes to the engineering aspect to get these projects to where they need to be. Um, some of the ones that I know are are top of mind. The first one is the pump station. Um, it's referred to as 54 Ocean Avenue, even though there is
no 54 Ocean Avenue. Who knows? That's not a real address. Um, but they have done all the demolition work inside. They've started filling the tanks underground. Um, so we are pushing as hard as possible to meet the mayor's
deadline of Memorial Day weekend, at least for the bathrooms to be operable. Um, and you know, the weather certainly didn't help, but we think we're on on pace to to get as close, if not hit that that opening day. Um, the prominade uh
the uh the prominade extension, everyone knows about the little more than $4 million grant for that. Uh, Department of Public I mean, the uh the Department of Environmental Protection is currently reviewing our permit. Uh we're almost done uh with the design work to actually
start start to go out to date. So, we're going to go down, you know, both paths at the same time. We're not going to wait necessarily for D approval. Uh we're going to start the the process to go up to bid and get a contractor to
extend that promise. Um the the as mentioned before the the gate is um is moving along well at the u silver lake. Um and those are the real update the only main updates I want to give to the council on the uh the residents today
regarding some of the infrastructure projects. So thank you. >> Very good. Thank you. I must comment I am continually amazed at your knowledge of >> I'll be honest you uh uh and this is tough for a politician but I'm going to
be honest uh I make up most of it and I say it in a convincing way so it is very believable. Sometimes I use my knuckle to even point >> except he seems to know a lot more about parades and alcoholic beverages >> than most politicians.
>> It's extensive study and training. Well, thank you, sir. Um, that said, we are now at 13B on the agenda, mayor and council reports. We'll start with Councilwoman. >> Great. I also just want to point out and make an announcement, unless I'm
stepping on your toes. Go right ahead, >> that we now have signs on Main Street that say 25 miles hour. And so, Main Street is officially 25 miles per hour. You're too >> And the signs are not in the middle of the sun.
Um, the Arts Council met uh yesterday, March 2nd. Uh, mark your calendar for a music improvisation play shop, Thursday, March 5th, that's this week, 7 to 8:00 p.m. at the Bey Center, led by Arts Council member Abby Khan. The program is
a guided and collaborative music making experience. Instruments will be provided, all levels from little to no experience. Welcome. Come join this fun expression of community music making. Doors open at 6:30 and the event is free of charge.
Their next meeting is scheduled for Monday 6:30 p.m. at the Bey Center and the public is welcome. The Fletcher Lake Commission will next be meeting on Thursday, March 12th at 6 p.m. here in this council chamber. There's no current
news to report and I'm going to relieve everyone of all of my um recreation events that I always repeat um and reference the website. So um uh some upcoming specific events uh Radio Bingo,
this is for recreation. Radio Bingo runs March 21st, 6 PM at the Py Hall featuring music, the music of the9s. Go to the recreation website to purchase t tickets for admission. Mark your calendars for the glow-in-the-dark
Easter egg hunt March 27th, 7 p.m. at the rec center baseball field. Rain date is Saturday, March 28th at the same time. Uh the senior club is having a makeup meeting this Thursday uh March 5th at the banquet hall at 12:00 p.m.
and their next meeting is Wednesday, March 25th, noon to 3 at the Bazi Center. Majan open play runs every Friday 1 to 3 also at the Bazi Center. Um Bradley Beach and Neptune City have a shared service agreement for recreation.
So, please check the recreation website for all the programs running and open to Bradley Beach residents. Summer camp 2026 registration will open um uh on March 16th. Camp runs from June 29th to
August 14th. It runs um Monday through Friday, 9 to 3 p.m. Be sure to register early as last year's program filled to extended capacity. New this summer, Bradley Beach and Neptune City will host a marine science camp for one week this
summer, July 27th to the 31st, Monday to Friday, 9 to 2:00 p.m. for ages 5 to 14. This will take place at Memorial Park in Neptune City. Applications are currently open and if you visit the recreation page on the burrow site, uh you'll see
details and registration information. Uh once again, construction continues at the rec site with the completion of paperwork. Court striping is planned for the end of winter, as well as an exciting grand reopening of the facility in early spring. There is still limited
public access to the facility. The recreation committee's next meeting will be Monday, March 9th, 6:30 p.m. at the Neptune City Community Center. That's my >> Thank you, Councilwoman. Move to council president, Mr. Denovo. Thank you. Mayor
Tourism has a meeting next week, but the director Amy Baker has asked me to remind everybody to mark their calendars for March 14th and 15th is the 8th annual Shamrock Hunt. Sha Tree has a meeting tomorrow. Unfortunately, they do not have a
quorum. So, chairperson Noel Weinberg has postponed the meeting till next week, March 10th. The board of ed had a meeting on February 17th. The board approved funding for phase one of a new playground project at the school. This
will be supported through a combination of local district funds and the district of community affairs grant they were awarded last year. This represents an important first step in updating the playground facilities in a responsible and fiscally balanced way.
They also recognized and honored Jennifer Pingore, the governor's educator teacher of the year. They also recognized and honored Nicole Cobert, who is the educational services pro professional of the year. Also
acknowledged was the second marking period high honor student roles, high honor uh students. It was wonderful to see so many students and families present to celebrate their hard work and academic achievements. And personally,
I'd like to thank Alyssa Guzo. She um invited me to the school and I read aloud to the students today in second grade. And I read a book called My First American Friend written by Ranata Moose, a former Bradley Beach Elementary School
student. And that completes my report. Thank you. >> Thank you, Council President. We'll turn to Councilman Clark. >> Thank you. So, uh, for the Environmental Commission, we attempted to have a meeting last night, but unfortunately last minute cancellations didn't have a quorum. Uh, so they're looking to
reschedu for next week. Uh, for the fire department for the month ended February 28th, 2026, the fire department responded to 12 day calls and eight nine calls for a total of 20. Seven fire alarm activations, two natural gas
links, three water pipes, one carbon monoxide alarm, one elevator rescue, three downed or sparking wires, one electrical fire, one mutual aid assist into Asbury Park, and one assist resident with a ladder. The department
conducted one departmentwide training and also deployed uh snowstorm standby crew for 24 hours in conjunction with the Bradley Beach OEM and Bradley Beach EMS. There were no requests for mutual aid from other fire departments. They're still looking Volunteers for the fire
department offer free training for qualified individuals. Anyone wishing to volunteer for the fire department may inquire through the bureau's website. For the first aid squad for the latest operational period ended today, the squad responded to 10 day calls and six
night calls for a total of 16. The six were for medical, 10 were for fire. There were no out of town mutual aids requested. The squad requested one mutual aid from Asbury Park for a motor vehicle accident during snowstorm Fernando.
Starting snow um uh the squad um uh collaborated with the fire department staff both ambulances with seven members who answered 10 calls for service transporting one patient to Jersey Shore
Medical Center. and they would love to thank the fire department, police, and the department of public works for their assistance during the storm. Uh total volunteer hours during the period were 16 and they fulfilled 99% of their assignments for the period. Uh they are
also looking for volunteers. They offer free training for qualified individuals. Anyone wishing to volunteer for the first aid squad applications can be found on the bureau's website. And also remember, they're still accepting applications to their cadet program for young people 16 to 18 years old who are
interested in serving our community. >> Thank you. Councilman, is Councilman Nikki still with us? >> Yes, I am. >> Hey, Councilman, would you like >> Do you have a report? >> My video Yeah, my video's off, but that's okay. I'll um quick report.
Um, we all made it through snow and are having most of the time of year snow parking ordinance which made it much easier for our fantastic PW streets. Hopefully they are done with the snow. Um, regarding activity since last
meeting, a local resident was arrested for simple assaults. A Brick Township man was arrested a child with drive while intoxicated and several other motor vehicle violations following a traffic stop. The stop resulted from speeding as he
was well over the new 25 mph speed limit. The Brandy Beach Police Department arrested three individuals on active contempt of court warrants and investigated one motor vehicle accident between February 16th and March 2nd.
Regarding Silven Lake, we did have a meeting on the third Wednesday of the month and uh it was a productive meeting. to review all the projects. They were really informed and we also had a technical attack meeting with all
the consultants and the American latoral society at Mon University and are looking to see how we are going to be able to advance the sediment removal. Dredging of the lake and looking at ways to fund that and how to move that phase
of the project forward. So, more to come with that in the future. Um, meanwhile, that's my report and thank you. >> Thank you, Councilman, and please get back to the golf course as soon as you can. We appreciate you joining us tonight.
Uh, okay. My report, uh, it'll be quick. Um, I really, well, number one, uh, just so everybody knows, we have a new concessioner. Uh, a bid was just awarded for, uh, the Second Avenue Grill. More to come on that, but uh it's a five-year
contract. Uh and it's a couple of residents in town who are very excited about the opportunity. They're going to work with the prior uh le uh to figure out if they if they want to, you know, do any deals purchasing any of the equipment that's in the secondary grill
now. But we went down myself and Baja Capone u met with them today and they're very excited about joining the Bradley Beach community of concessioneers. So looking forward to giving you more of a direct uh introduction to them once once they finalize all their contracting. But
but they are in fact contracted with us. So we're we're very pleased to have them join us. Um I really want to build on what our uh business administrator, Mr. Dohy said about the snow, not the most recent one, but the couple storms we had
in rapid succession, each one we we mentioned is probably the only one we'll have like that in five or 10 years. I only have two or two weeks. Um, and I'm going to start really, Matt, where you left off saying that our residents made a huge difference in uh the success of
the burrow in clearing our streets. it it was night and day compared to the the 10 or 12 inches of snow we had dumped on us a week or two earlier. Um and so number one, you know, uh start with the with the key the key to success and that
is our residents. Our residents were great. Now, how did we achieve that? One, we have a lot of really conscientious residents. Two, we did have our police literally going doortodoor as as snow was beginning to fall, knocking on doors. First of all,
identifying license plates, figuring out who the owners of various cars were, then knocking on those doors to say, "Hey, you got to move your car before you get a fine or perhaps towed." Um, and uh, case in point, it was reported to me after that effort was made by the
police, Newark Avenue, which was one of our more challenging streets in the prior snowstorm, had perfect compliance. Zero cars parked on the south side as the snow began to fall. Uh, and that that is just huge in terms of what that
enables our employees, DPW especially, to do. So, kudos to the police for doing that. Early prep, knocking on doors. Kudos also to the police. If you're not signed up for not reverse 911s, I really encourage you to do that because uh, Chief, you guys really stepped up.
You've always been great at communicating, but uh, I know you and uh, and Captain Terry U created new 911 messages, reverse 911s in the interim period when we're
flipping over from phase one, which is you move your cars off the south side or east side to the north side and the west side. Uh you guys created some new messaging which I thought was incredibly uh well done. Just ease ease of communication. Many residents
complimented me. I I try to take no credit. You guys do such a great job. And again, he did that totally uh independent of of the rest of us. So, I think that messaging, not only the early, but then the the moving from phase one to phase two really gave our
our residents the guidance they needed to to comply with with what are really challenging regulations. No question. Um, also want to mention folks probably understand this, but to the extent you you're not aware, still
still like we've had these last couple of occurrences, we have employees that are working 24 to 35 to 40 hours straight non-stop. I mean, we're bringing food donations to DPW uh and
DPW sharing that food with other first responders, OEM and uh and our police of course. Um but they are working through the night in in many instances. And you know, there are folks who say to me, well, that's their job. Yeah, it is their job, but the amount of commitment
that is given to the these jobs is is really noteworthy. Um, we do have a couple folks two storms ago, one or two that I'm aware of this storm that actually surrendered vacation time to make sure they could be here to help their colleagues moving the snow, you
know, and getting this all done. Um, I I mentioned OEM, police, DPW. I want to put in a plug for our director of communications, Amy Baker, who's often involved in helping us with a lot of the communications as well. Um, and I want
to also mention that our own Pat Allen this particular storm was out with one of our smaller I don't know the names of the vehicles, but what is it? The Kobe or what's >> Bobcat? >> Well, like Yeah, Bobcat basically. um
clearing corner areas where you know we've had a lot of push back from the community corner lots that have ADA ramps. Pat Allen was out doing his best to clear as many of those as he could with a small equipment Bobcat. So um Pat Allen and others were also helping our
police dig out a few cars that needed to be towed. One I think was sitting in basically in the middle of avenue. Um, and we did actually have to tow five cars, but tow companies will not take a car if it's buried in snow. DPW
coordinated with our police. DPW dug the car out sufficiently the tow company could get in and our police supervised the removal of those five cars. So, it's a a massive effort and I say this because there are people regularly who say, "Give this more thought. How can we
do this better?" And I'm in the middle of the the thought process. Uh number one, our professionals have this pretty much not to science already. Um and I, you know, I do my best to add two cents here or there. But I don't know that there is much more thought that can be
given to it. I I beg people to come to us, bring us your new ideas. What can we do better? And we did tweak it. We did get police knocking on doors. We had to police with loudspeakers telling people to move. We added new messages. So, can
we improve? Sure. Did we improve? I think we did and I think our residents did. But the folks who say give it more thought, please help us because I we've given it as much thought as I think is humanly possible. And by the way, everything I hear about neighboring
towns is Bradley Beach has shined in the results we've delivered compared to some of the neighboring towns. I won't mention anywhere any any folks here by the former mayors. My understanding is we Oh, that's right, Mr. Dory. But uh
but my understanding is Bradley Beach has shown in comparison to many other neighboring towns. So, thank you again to all of our employees. Finally, my comment is there are folks who from time to time say we value our employees over our residents.
Uh I'm going to point everybody to this sign that Bradley Beach proudly serves our residents. Our employees serve our residents. So, anyone who says we value employees over our residences, it confuses me to hear that statement
because yes, we value our employees because they serve our residents. And you know, there are going to be folks here out in the world around us that might disagree with that, but I just want to make sure that I'm clear and saying that our employees are the
backbone of Bradley Beach, and I think they do. Do we all make errors from time to time? Absolutely. But I think our police did a phenomenal job overall. >> With that, I will close my comments and I will Yes, >> if I could add on to yours because um I agree with you. One thing I did forget,
you know, it's easy to to see the phenomenal work does, Department of Public Works, but I would also tell you on the Friday before the storm came, I instructed the office workers to take their laptops off to be prepared to work on Monday and Tuesday because I didn't know if the office was going to be open.
um and Michelle Wy coordinated that effort. So even though the offices were closed, to the mayor's point, the employees were still serving the residents working at home bringing home work to process payments to process um
time cards, payroll, um construction documents, it was still getting done. So um even though you know kids may have had off from school um while our employees were at home they were still working. >> Thank you. So uh with that said we will
conclude the uh mayor and council reports and I will open it up to public comment questions about any topic on your mind. Are there public comments questions? Yes sir. Mr. West. Uh good evening Bob West team New York.
Uh in regards to your introduction 2026 17 undersized lots uh where is uh the language that you said is sound beautiful and sound very
helpful and nice for the residents. All right. So as a as a owner of an undecided lot and somebody who has been through the process and was a victim of variance applications. So the the the
way you're describing it is almost impossible. If you have an undersized lot and you have a house that is within five feet of your setbacks and you want to ex extend it, whereas you might be
like voluometrically or what have you still not passing this level, coverage comes into an issue because you're almost over your coverage before you even begin percentage wise. You know what I mean? I mean you might
but there are less the case in point that I referenced they were able to expand but we had language say you can't expand. >> Okay. >> You could also you can conceivably have a one-story house that uses the same exact footprint becomes twotory house. >> True. >> All right. I just want you to note like
I said you have small property. No, you're right. >> Yep. >> You know, uh you're saying that just keep that in calculations in mind that sometimes it's not it's not a setback. It's coverage permeable surface that becomes a real problem when you want to
extend. Uh I I moved out 7 ft off the side of my house. I still have about 12 feet of lawns on my side, my side lawn, but by percentage wise, I went over 2% on my coverage and had to go through
this homeous process that I'm still actually still finishing up. It's about a year and a half. I still have yet to completed 100% because of this 2% of coverage issues. There's I 100% agree with there are the larger you're lying.
You talk to folks in other towns that live on three acres, I mean, they can do a lot more on their property than we can. Uh, and the smaller the lot goes, you know, the less room you have. No question. But, but you may not realize this, but a few years ago, you and anyone else on an undersized lot, you
were deemed non-conforming and anything you wanted variance. Now, if you can do work, re renovation type work, and not create a new variance, you can do that. have to go to Ling. That was the big accomplishment that we were trying to
protect uh tonight. But uh but to your point, we did not reduce, you know, setbacks or impervious coverage or any other regulations that it's that coverage calculation that really becomes a problem sometimes a little bit so much setback. I still
have setback I'm in compliance with setback, but coverage at 2% causes a problem. All right. Well, thank you. Thank you for your Did you have a comment? >> I did, but I was letting others speak.
>> Okay. Do you want me to recognize you? >> I'll wait. >> Okay. ing the uh blockage of the sidewalks. Does that also apply to like hedges that are obstructing the sidewalk? Various objects out there that So, I'm
hoping that that's all going to be thought of when anybody walks around and looks at uh looks at these issues. >> Two separate things. The sidewalks not are not disorders did not address the plant, but the sidewalks includes
everything hedges, whatever. overgrowing onto the side. It has to get trimmed back. We do have restrictions on planning ships. Some things are grand. >> That's all. Thank you. >> Yes, sir.
>> Hi, Peter Sharp 301 Second Avenue. Um, let's see. On the topic of the real executive order that's being imposed on the shore communities, I guess a meeting or two ago, there was some talk about formulating a resolution that could be
sent uh to Trenton to describe the economic impact that this would have on shore communities and the large volume of work that it would pose on some committees here in town. Didn't hear anything tonight. I was just curious to see where things
>> uh great question. I I did announce that a few meetings back because I wanted to let the folks know it's on our radar. Um, as a result of my announcement of that, our own Bradley Beach Environmental Commission came to us and said, "Hey, can you give us time to
evaluate and make recommendations to the council?" So, we decided to push right now the the plan is to have that um a resolution created by our next meeting, which will be March 17th. That's the plan. It's not set in stone yet. We have
to see how it evolves. We are having regular conversations. Just had one a couple days ago with the head the heads of the uh New Jersey D. Uh we're talking I'm talking to other mayors. We're talking to other you know we're talking
to uh uh the League of Municipalities. So there's there's a lot of activity of foot. Uh, but we really want to get it right as we make formal recommendations back to the D and to our legislators. Uh, I guess what's most important is I I
really implore you asking this question because real R E A L I encourage anyone who lives in Bradley to at least start to read up on this, Google search it, ask questions about about it through AI because there really could be
significant implications for offshore communities throughout New Jersey. Um, we expect, we don't know for sure, no guarantee, but we expect to, uh, we're hopeful to address it in our next meeting on the second. >> One, one further comment then. Um, I
know time is short for this because the time frame for this is very tight. Um, I know there's probably a lot of thinking that's going into the environmental/climate aspects of this that may take a while. Another avenue would be just to recognize the fact that this presents a
a brick ton of work for the uh, land use court to comply with this in such a short amount of time. That alone by itself could be uh cause for push back in a more timely basis. Just throw that out there. I was attended a very good land use board meeting. They discussed
this at length a lot of the pros and cons and attempted to pass a their own resolution on this. I think it got hung up because a lot of the members were conflating the environmental climate impacts versus the actual practical matters. I think either one serves as a
basis for push back. Uh unfortunately because of that uh conflating resolution need to get passed. Um I hope we can proceed on that basis if the uh if things proceed slowly to move forward. >> Thank you very much for your comments.
>> Yes. >> Tracy Davidson4. I'm just here on behalf of two of the nonprofit organizations in town. Um the first is the Bradley Beach Education Foundation. We are having once again our third annual uh scholar foundation
scholarship. It is a $500 award um for a graduating high school senior who graduated from Bradley Beach Elementary School. So that would have been 2022. I have emailed all of the ascending district high schools um the
applications. You can also pick up the application at the library. I'm hoping we can put a few in the thorough just if they want hard copies. The scholarship is open um whether you're going to college or a two-year college, a trade
school personal training, a professional training program. So, it's pretty pretty wide net there. So, we encourage anybody um parents out there to encourage their students and if you know anybody um neighbors or friends, please please
encourage them to to apply. Um the other organizations I'm representing is friends of the Brady Beach Library. On Thursday the 5th, they they are sponsoring a um a dining out to support a dining to donate fundraiser at
Applebees. Um you can go for lunch or dinner. Um and they will donate 10% of your bill to the friends of the library. Um there is a flyer you must bring. They did not give us any kind of link to the flyer because they want us to donate
because they are making it difficult. So you can pick up a a flyer. I believe it's in hall here or at the library. Um you must bring a flyer. You can't show your phone. Um but we will appreciate that that support. I don't think people
realize how much money the friends of the library um gives to the library for their funding. Um almost everything for the 250th um that you've seen probably all it probably got expansive list this time of
things that they are sponsoring. We sponsor all of it. We give three $300 scholarships to graduating eighth graders. Um we are doing this year for the first time Dolly Parton's
imagination library where from birth to age five um students uh children will get a book I think it's like monthly we are sponsoring the um we are sponsoring that as well. So, we do give a lot. I
know we fund raise a lot, but um sometimes I think people don't realize that where that money goes to funding a lot in the library. So, um if you can come out and vote after these uh it's, you know, there there's lots of things
on the menu you can get. It's not too big, but thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yes, it's better. Nancy Meadow Ocean coming in. This is in absolutely no order. I failed to say and I realized he took
the vote regarding the snow and getting replowed in and everything else. The reason my snow remover comes as soon as the snow starts is because there are three essential workers there. There's a nurse
who has to get to Jersey Shore, a teacher, and someone from JCP and out and we have to get out. So to get plowed back in really kind of makes life a challenge. And um regarding anyone, I'm
your anyone. I know that. I own up to it. >> Many >> well I'm claiming me. Don't speak for others. Um I've said over the years and I'm going back to the Anglestad administration that your
service does not end at our borders. It extends through the county through the state to DC. So, I bring that up because McCabe lost power during the last storm.
Luckily, I didn't. But then I lost power because they had to cut my power in order to repair JCPNL. Let me be specific. Had to cut my power in order to repair McCabe. That's life. That happens. Everyone
needed their power to be repaired. However, the fact that JCPNL would tell us at 1:30 in the afternoon that we'd be repaired by 11 p.m. when in fact one of us drove to the
JCPNL offices and then got the truth, which is that we would be repaired in a few hours. So my my request is that with all of us and all of our connections, somebody needs to reach out to JCPNL and
at least voice that we would like some accuracy and just not just not an arbitrary answer. That being said, you brought it up same 54 Ocean Avenue. What does it entail to
rename it? I'll be simple. 954. What are the procedures? What does it entail? How many How long have I been saying this? These wonderful employees that we have. Could we get an answer and then perhaps
consider renaming it? Because at some point equipment's going to go there. How are they going to find building 9, building 54? Um, you know, just saying like of all the little things in life, can we fix
some of them? If we can't alphabetize the website, can we give it to Mrs. Finger's third grade class and have them alphabetizing things so we can find things? Can we communicate that the ma that the governor put us under a state of emergency when it happens?
That's a big and difficult thing to fix. But bite by bite, step by step can enhance our situations here. And I am
thrilled to say, kind of sticks in my throat, that given that the police department finally addressed cars during alternate side of the street parking after how many years,
perhaps all these other things that are not being addressed there can be addressed because they've now proven that they can address things and we don't need new ordinances. You didn't even clarify moving your car.
They just did what they're supposed to do. And that makes me have confidence that they could do more of what they're supposed to do. And you know, I'm glad you reminded people
to bring home their laptops. Should be standard operating procedure because they're getting paid for the day. So I've been in those situations and you know maybe all of that needs to be tightened up as to our expectations
because just because you know we are in a vulnerable longitude and latitude um we are going to always have climate emergencies and it would be nice if they weren't like panicking you just knew what to do.
So that's it. Have a nice evening. >> Thank you for your comments. Other comments or questions from this group? How about Zoom? Any comments or questions on Zoom? Make a motion to >> adjourn.
All in >> favor. Clean this off. >> Oh, my pleasure. Appreciate the question, >> dude. How about that?