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she's a senior in high school we get to look at each other across the page i know right thank you so much appointment your patience networks and reopen
very last right rich is here tonight sorry sha you want to hold on to the arts arts council proclamations we're going to do this last of all the proclamations okay i have the other proclamations i don't
know who's going to be reading what so I don't know these are the other proclamations okay all right is this the other one [Music] 6:30 call this meeting to order april 15 2025
uh stand for pledge of allegiance pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all
i wish to announce that the 48 hour notice is required under the open public meetings act was emailed to the Asbury Park Press the co-star and the new co-star on December the 19th of 2024 that a copy has been placed on the bulletin board in the burough office and that a copy has been filed with the
burough clerk as a courtesy to the public this meeting may be attended via Zoom if for any reason Zoom is Zoom fails or is disconnected the in-person meeting will continue without interruption and action can and will be taken providing that there is an inperson quarantine mr noble excused
green oh is she here oh sorry hey Jane okay she's here um Miss Greenland here mr nikki here mr weber here mayor Gubzi here and I'll recognize council woman
okay thank you U Mayor Gubiosi i would like uh to request that we move item number six presentations and bids as well as item number 10 communication the arts council appointments uh to this
point in the agenda second Mr double yes miss Greenblack yes mr nikki yes mr weber yes mayor Guboszi yes so now having moved presentations by the
way welcome everybody i see we have a standing room only group and uh it's great to see everyone here we'll try to move through uh the agenda as quickly as we can to that point we're going to discuss presentations and bids um and the first one on our list we're going to
save for last so we're moving to the Arbor Day proclamation council President Denovo do you have a copy of that i'm just trying to pull it up now but um can you do another one first and I I'll do that one next we can and if you if you don't have it
uh Mr weber Councilman Weber has a copy as well that would be wonderful yes that would be very appropriate thank you Councilman Weber what should we do the Arbor Day always okay proclamation
about recognizing Arbor Day whereas in 1872 the Nebraska Board of Agriculture established a special day to be set aside for the planting of trees and whereas this holiday called Arbor Day was first observed with the planting of more than a million trees in Nebraska
and whereas Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world and whereas trees can be a solution to combating climate change by reducing the erosion of our precious top soil by wind and water cutting heating and cooling costs moderating the temperature
cleaning the air producing life-giving oxygen and providing habitat for wildlife and whereas trees are renewable resource giving us paper wood for our homes fuel for our fires and countless other wood products and whereas trees in
our city increase property values enhance the economic vitality of business areas and beautify our communities now for now therefore we have resolved the mayor and Burough of Bradley Beach uh does hereby proclaim
April 25th 2025 as Arbor Day in the Burough Bradley Beach and urge all cit citizens to celebrate Arbor Day and to support efforts to protect our trees and woodlands be it further resolved the mayor urges all citizens to plant trees
to gladden the heart and promote the well-being of this and future generations dated April 15 2025 thank you Councilman while you're on would you mind taking our administrative professionals day proclamation sure
thing um Burough Bradley Beach proclamation administrative professionals day whereas administrative professionals including administrative assistants office assistants receptionists filling clerks finance specialists deputy clerks and other administrative support staff make up one
of the largest segments of the labor force in America and whereas administrative professionals play an essential role in coordinating the office operation of businesses government agencies educational institutions and other organizations and whereas the work of administrative
professionals today requires advanced knowledge and expertise in communications computer software office technology project management organization customer service and other vital office management responsibilities and whereas administrative professionals
day is observed annually in workplaces around the world to recognize the important contributions of administrative staff and whereas we recognize the importance and contributions of highly skilled administrative professionals to the success of office operations now
therefore be it resolved the governing body of the burough of Bradley Beach do hereby recognize April 23rd so not yet coming up as administrative professionals day and do hereby recognize and appreciate these administrative professionals and their valuable contributions to the workplace
and support their continued professional growth dated this 15th day of April 2025 thank you office professional thank you Councilman let me turn to Councilman Nikki to read our National Volunteer Week proclamation
whereas National Volunteer Week enacted by in 1974 by President Richard Nixon celebrates the spirit of volunteerism urging all Americans to seek opportunities to provide service to their community and whereas the Burough Bradley Beach is fortunate to have
dedicated volunteers who generously give their time energy and talents to help make our community a better place and whereas the work of these volunteers contribute to the quality of life in the burl in countless ways and whereas these
volunteers serve on a variety of boards commissions committees and extends to include many nonprofit organizations and whereas volunteers also share their time to help with various burrow sponsored events and whereas volunteering changes
the l the lives of volunteers in a positive way increasing self-confidence self-esteem and physical well-being offering the chance to make new connections and providing opportunities to learn new skills and abilities and whereas the Burough Bradley Beach
recognizes the volunteering improves quality of life and increases community participation and ownership volunteers are vital to our future as a desirable caring and productive city now therefore be it resolved the governing body of the burrow of Bradley Beach does hereby
recognize the week April 20th to the 26th as National Volunteer Week and expresses gratitude to all local volunteers for their tireless dedication and service to the community dated this 15th day of April 2025
thank you Councilman um now I will read the proclamation we have for National Military Appreciation Month and specifically the whereas in 1999 Senator John McCain introduced legislation to designate the month of May as National
Military Appreciation Month and both the Senate and House of Representatives adopted resolutions calling for Americans to recognize and honor US service members and whereas National Military Appreciation Month
NMAM is celebrated every May and is a declaration that encourages US citizens to observe the month in a symbol of unity and whereas NMAM honors the current and former members of the US armed forces including
those who have died in pursuit of freedom and whereas the month of May is characterized by six national observances which highlight the contributions of those who have served loyalty day on May 1st public service recognition week May 4th through May
10th victory Day in Europe aka VE Day on May 8th armed Forces Day on May 17th memorial Day on May 26th now therefore be it resolved the governing body of the Burrow of Bradley Beach to hereby proclaim the month of May as National
Military Appreciation Month and encourage all citizens to recognize the service of all current and former military personnel and to take part in all national observances dated April 15
2025 we have one more proclamation i'd like to turn to Councilwoman Greenblat great so do we I'm just wondering do we want to involve the appointment um we can do this one of two ways we have a very exciting um
announcement to make in general tonight and that is that um as many many people know we lost a really powerful force in the world of arts in Bradley Beach last year Julia Sandra Ren um and with her loss we were concerned that we might
lose the arts council which has been an integral part of our community for many years under Julia's leadership and uh I want to make sure I give full credit to Councilwoman Greenblat sitting to my immediate right uh for her efforts to help resurrect that arts council that
was starting to disintegrate a little bit Julia um so what we are going to do tonight is read a proclamation uh recognizing the arts council and and renaming of the arts council uh as well as I as mayor am going to be appointing
a number of members u to our re-energized arts council i'm going to read the name of those appointments now and perhaps if you all wouldn't mind as I read your name if you're here if you wouldn't mind just coming up to the front of the room and you know take a
very brief bow but stay here while we read the actual proclamation for for Julia Rand so the Arts Council of Bradley Beach a legacy to Julia Rand appointments include and I'm going to read uh one two three four five six
seven eight nine 10 names hopefully many or all of you are here the first person uh that I will appoint to the newly reformed arts council June Julian june thank you very much
second name Nathaniel Nate Richio he's not here tonight okay the next name Mia Mustasio mutasio mutasio the next name that we will appoint when Rosenlat is when with us tonight
she's coming the next member Olivia Miranda is Olivia with us okay the next name Jordan Hamoy the next name Lori Crime the next person Scott
Elchingham scott Elchingham the next person Carol Lester and finally Amy Hall ex official green I'll turn it over to you great um and I'd also like to Would you like to see okay so um we have asked um Julia
Ran's uh partner and wife Jackie Schneider who has been a part of the arts council um despite her best efforts um since its inception so um and I want to thank you all very much and it's nice to meet some of you um so this
is a a proclamation to rename the arts committee to the arts council of Bradley Beach a legacy to Julia Sandra Rand whereas on behalf of the burrow of Bradley Beach the mayor and council wished to rename the arts council of Bradley Beach in honor of Miss Julia
Sandra Rand and whereas Miss Rand passed away on June 21st 2024 she was a respected resident of Bradley Beach who demonstrated her commitment to our community with her theatrical and directorial expertise and shared her love of performing arts with the burrow
and whereas Miss Grant attended Boston University majoring in theater and directing before moving to New York City to pursue her dream julia's training included studies with UT Hagen at HP Studio the Royal Shakespeare Company and the American Globe Theater in New York
City she was an actress a director of theater and opera a playwright a producer an artist manager and whereas later in her life Miss Rand returned to her field of study and graduated from Mary Mount Manhattan College where she earned her bachelor of arts degree in
theater and then a master of arts degree in English from Monmouth University and whereas in 2012 the late Julie Shrek and former mayor of Bradley Beach wanted to bring the arts to the community learning that Julia was living in Bradley Beach
she asked her to start an arts council reluctant at first Julia agreed as long as she could produce Shakespeare at the gazebo on the boardwalk in the summer which she did and whereas the Arts Council also produced and presented ethnic festivals art exhibits
photography contests for young people and concerts featuring classical and musical theater singers now therefore be it resolved in recognition of the many contributions of Julius Sandra Rand to our community the governing body of the Burrow of Bradley Beach do hereby
rename rename the burrow of sorry the burrow of Bradley Arts Council to the Arts Council of Bradley Beach a legacy of Julia Sander it is with deep appreciation that this honor is bestowed and a continued community
effort to carry on the celebration of arts in the burrow of Bradley Beach dated this 15th day of April 2025 oh no i was gonna say it with Jackie oh absolutely is that okay okay my phone's starting to
Thank you mine's hidden away so hold on a second closer and just go a second carry this under my jacket picture so
thank you Okay thank you uh she was very proud of uh being here in Bradley and of course many of you know that her parents uh even Phil Yanovitz had Phil spa on Main Street for
many years uh Sandy Venom and Sandy uh I'll tell you the long story of the name change but that's not important uh but she worked side by side with her parents in the lunchonet but Phil as you know uh
at the first sound of the whistle uh he would run out rip off his apron run out of the store and go to the fire or or the emergency whatever and leave E with the store with everybody so uh it was
Julia's way of continuing to work for the Burrow of Red Lage and I was not going to be involved this was to be Julius but needless to say I couldn't stay silent and I became the music
director for the art so it has also been my honor and my privilege to serve the community for these past 12 years thank you so much hey once again to everyone who volunteered to take up the torch and carry on the the Bradley Beach tradition
of having a really powerful arts council and thank you for all the support you've provided us all these years any other comments or questions no thank you so much for the time okay people that are just here for that if you want to go you can go
your hair but I say thank you to all of the Okay and again we did go a little out of order just to accommodate uh our guests here tonight who are now forming this new arts council we're going to go to what's probably the main event for the
evening is workshops focused on Bradley Beach financials uh and our one and only CFO John Barrett is going to present uh workshops on a number of issues for us obviously lastly the 2025 budget most
importantly but also results from the 23 audit uh audit corrective action report and our 24 annual financial statement let's see here uh good evening Mayor Council and
good evening everybody i am so excited you all came out for some financial update here i'm the chief financial officer of the town i've come a lot of different towns and I've never seen this kind of turnout so I just want to thank you
finance that being said um I am here to talk about a few different things number one uh the 2023 audit uh before I got here was not complete uh I'm happy to say the mayor and governing body have a copy of that audit they're about to accept that audit tonight in addition to
a corrective action budget and the audit is conducted by outside auditors uh independent auditors that come out and and do testing and then compilation of financials 2023 was a rough year on many accounts uh I'm sure the local media uh covered those accounts i'm not here to
talk about prior CFOs or companies that were here i'm here kind of to look forward and as they always said in a car when you look at the difference between your rearview mirror and your windshield the reason why your rearview mirror is so small compared to your windshield is because what's happened behind you is less important than what's happening in front of us so I'm going to get you from
2023 to 2025 probably within about 10 minutes that might be nine minutes too long for most of you but I apologize in advance um in 2023 uh we had an audit uh that was produced by Bob Oliva and his team uh we have three funds in this town uh we have a current fund which
basically handles police public works uh beach utility and a sewer utility uh the financials that resulted in that uh were that our fund balance at the end of 2023 which the calendar year 123123 was 1.3 million for a current fund the beach utility was about
726,000 and the sewer was 1.8 8 million um that audit resulted in 11 audit comments and if you're wondering if that's a lot of comments it is and that's a problem um so when we got when I got here we had just done a corrective action plan for the 22 audit uh which
wasn't done previously to this administration uh and once again a lot of those audit comments were for uh repeat comments over the year um out of the uh 11 audit comments nine were repeat audit comments uh so those are things that we need to take care of uh
so that's 23 uh we are going to have a 24 audit it's usually performed within six months at the end of the fiscal year so by June 30th this year we should have a 24 audit completed and we'll see where we stand um that being said the corrective action plan is a little different than we pull a single acting
corrective action plan that's for federal government where you have to put more specifics basically uh some of the comments were that uh you know general fixed assets uh were not maintained on a current timely basis they recommend general fixed access assets uh be uh
maintained on a timely basis the corrective action plan is we're going to do that but unfortunately this happened in 23 so me standing here and telling you that that's been done uh that's part of the process we're going to make sure in 2025 that we have reporting done for
the 24 audit um so that being said the corrective action plan is in front of you for tonight that's similar to last time that we did the corrective action plan okay so let's fast forward into 2024 a little bit of a a better year in so much that um as opposed to 23 we're
actually able to reconcile the books with greater ease uh there were a lot of hand grenades and some other accounting practices and and recordeping that was kind of I say questionable and wasn't that bad practice in 2024 you had a new chief financial officer mr ricky Barts
who I'm happy to admit he's a friend of mine in the business uh and he did Yman's work to able to get uh the records from 23 and do the financial but you remember just to even try and do the annual financial statement was very difficult and he did accomplish that and I'm happy to say that uh those figures
um obviously uh were basically uh held up to audit because you obviously a rough year during 2024 now an annual financial statement is an unaudited document uh it's a a bunch of pages here that uh was filed earlier today and in essence it is uh prepared by the chief
financial officer sometimes by the auditor but in this case as a CFO this is what I used to do as an auditor back in the day the annual financial statement has basically a snapshot as to where our finances lie as of 123124 and I'm happy to report that in the current fund we have an unodudited
fund balance of about $2.3 million the beach utility uh closer to 900,000 and then the sewer for a little bit over 1.9 million so currently we are in in a good position to evaluate uh what the budgetary needs are for this year uh
basically looking back at the 24 year i'm also happy to report that your tax collector uh did her job and we have a 98.9% collection rate which helps things uh moving forward uh so the AFS has been filed that's a prerequisite in order to introduce a budget that's why we're here
tonight um the budget process is to familiarize all the folks that came out that otherwise would be kind of bored of the next cocktail party but you'll be able to tell them the budget process of a municipality i assure you so tonight we're going to be introducing a budget uh that budget uh was crafted by the
mayor uh and with myself in conjunction with the administrator to understand what the fiscal operations are needed for this year um the budget gets introduced and then in a few days probably by Friday we'll have this uploaded into the state portal and at that point the state portal also
known as fast sometimes known as slow but the acronym is fast um will actually generate a certified introduced budget that will be turned over to the clerk and put on the website for public dissemination so please for those of us in the audience who like to operate tomorrow is not a good day to open that
budget it's going to be here by Friday or certainly over the weekend those will be up on the on the on the website in addition to the AFS uh Mrick have you put that up on the internet i did great so actually the AFS for 24 if you want to take a look at it and uh ask any questions at a later date me personally
feel free i prepare it um in that being said uh our public hearing based on some scheduling issues with my schedule and obviously the governing body uh the public hearing on this will be on 65 June 5th at uh 6:30 p.m now at that point any members of the public can come
up and talk about events i went to a school board meeting one time where someone talked and spoke about budget of Staples on Bill's list and they said "I can't believe you buy $5,000 worth of staples every bills list." And he said "That's that's Staples the company." Uh that being said psychic municipal
budgets are sometimes hard to do uh having done this I'm 55127 it comes natural to me but it's a language that's not always recognized and therefore I offered this to the mayor and the administrator they took me up on it that on um May 15th at 6:30 in
this room I will be doing a public information session that's not an official meeting of the governing body that's John Barrett showing up as your chief financial officer and basically going through the budget document page by page and remember those bit of honey commercial they last request and they go page and the shooting you know everybody
would fall asleep you might fall asleep but if you're interested in municipal budget I would invite you to come out at that time uh to go through and I think it's very important because I guess in the prior years having read some newspaper reports and news media there was a problem with the budget getting done in this town uh so I don't want to
see any governing body fin by the division of health department services um this should not be a contentious debate uh this is simply a spending plan subject to change it's subject to the init the initiative of mayor and governing body um and at this point uh the budget that's about to be introduced
uh it raises uh the overall budget from one 11.4 million we're speaking about the current fund now 11.4 million to 11.9 million now you say "Okay how does that equate to taxes?" Because obviously at the end you want to get a punch line what's the bill going to be um in this
municipality uh based on this uh budget that we've crafted besides your local library going up by $70,000 in taxation which is a standard uh calculation based on assessed valuations our levy is going up i'm going to round up to 20 $229
$29,000 um which is year-over-year increase you say "Okay how does that happen and and why would we want to raise taxes?" Well no one wants to raise taxes in fact the mayor has been uh absolutely interrogating me on a regular basis with his red pen his accounting background to
in order to basically make sure we have a very sharp budget so that spending uh taxpayer dollars is very well valued and we're trying to find cost savings that being said we do have uh add that $230,000 rounded we have over $160,000 of additional costs have been
pushed down to this municipality uh $44,000 in health insurance costs for the workers which is somewhat conservative because the state health benefits has announced a 14% increase year-over-year both for the cost of the employees and the uh taxpayers and next year they're expecting double digit
increases that's obviously a pressure with regard to health insurance pensions $88,000 uh public employee retirement system and police and fire retirement system that gave us $88,000 uh some additions in capital improvements we do have a roof uh roof
we do have a leaking roof uh that we want to make sure we include here that's $12,000 more and then our regular debt service nothing like you would know as homeowners your principal and interest payments for debt incurred for the current fund and that basically is paying back infrastructure improvements
roads and and other things of that nature now with the strong collection rate of of 98.9% last year we can use that as a percentage to calculate the reserve front collected taxes uh another drinking game mentioned if you do want to use that term uh if you ever hear
that drinking at a party please make sure you drink corner government collected taxes basically is that percentage of the appropriation that says look we're not going to collect 100% of the taxes but the county and the school want 100% of their levy uh so the good news is with this high collection rate our reserve for uncollected taxes
is stable year-over-year uh which is awesome now with regard to the sewer utility it's basically flat year-over-year there's no uh demand for increasing uh sewer rates uh and the like we've been able to find uh the revenue with regard to the usage and
make sure that our debt service pensions and other costs are associated with that including salaries and wages and other expense now with regard to the beach utility um that is going to be something that when you look at this you're going to say listen we increased or part of the revenue structure not just usage of
fees but the appropriation of fund balance in the old accounting world of assets minus liabilities equals fund balance if it's a publicly traded company assets minus liability stockholders equity that is your fund balance as taxpayers and it's up to the governing body and of course the
administration to determine how they're going to utilize that while maintaining uh fund balance targets year-over-year this year uh the governing body in anticipation of uh doing the beach season opening uh they passed a resolution uh to appropriate
$225,000 worth of capital improvements and those were for things like beach mats and showers and other things that were important to the mayor and the governing body to make sure that those were in place before uh Memorial Day and I'm happy to report that those moving forward making progress um so just to
also tap on a couple touch some things if people ask some questions um the and of course with beach utility to clear up there's no increase in the beach piece what I know about right we're we're good on this all right i'm making a blank comment i didn't check yes all right good site that $5 increase on lockers
okay lockers we'll take because lockers are in demand and once again immaterial to the greater budget but we need to obviously maintain those um when we look at uh what one penny in taxation raises um it it equates to $243,000 in spending last year that
would have been $225,000 because you had an increase in your raidable base uh the uh net valuation taxable includes all of the properties that are taxable uh municipal buildings wouldn't be but clearly businesses residences and other things of that nature would be uh so we've had
an increase in our valuation now the 2% levy cap which was passed by Governor Christie uh Governor Christie uh back I think in 2010 he had that was sound but the taxes couldn't raise more than 2% year-over-year and there's also
exclusions to that that happen to include as I said what I mentioned before with health insurance pensions capital improvements and things of that nature so I just like to caution the residents obviously the governing body knows this that uh you know we try to keep our taxes flat year-over-year but
these downward pressures on spending certainly do have their effect on the overall spending um so the real question comes down to um how do you say uh how do you explain to residents in in Bradley Beach um basically where their
taxes are going so I'm going to kind of give you something that you know as far as a worksheet now we at the municipality we do not calculate the tax rate we are in control of the local levy which is what we're going to be eventually voting for and they will levy taxes and be collected but we actually
as a collection agency for the county and obviously the school uh and in some ways the library their municipal known tax um what we have an average assessment just for round numbers and it will be contained in this budget document once we post on the website so I'm kind of pointing here but I'm sure
you're not all here for this moment but this is the grand finale so get ready i said nine minutes maybe 10 okay uh but when we look at a property which has a million dollars in average assessment and we have to take something into consideration if your assessment was the
same in 24 as it is in 25 then your your local purpose tax would actually go down by over $175 that's the portion that they had control over now if your assessment went from 950 to a million dollars obviously that would be a little bit different uh
but the the state sheets don't uh give us any kind of flex flexibility in kind of put in your average but as I said everything else being equal your tax rate uh at this point will drop last year was 3 36.9 cents it's going to go
down to 35.1 cent or down basically 1.8 8 cents so rounded up about 2 cents on on maybe that taxation now once again that is a factor of your net valuation taxable it has gone up the governing body right now could uh if they so desired but I can tell you I'd be run
out of here not only by you but by them um because of that levy cap calculation that I mentioned earlier uh they could actually increase taxes uh over $440,000 which would have been close to a twocent tax increase that's legal they could have done it with a straight face
and said we're living within that 2% cap uh but as I said the mayor kept smacking my pen out of my hand every time I tried to even talk about uh raising taxes beyond what it is um so that being said um the public information session is going to be very uh beneficial to the
residents who may have no understanding of it i can assure you today that there is no stupid question um I I've been doing this too long it's a foreign language to some but if you are interested if you're coming for a drink of financial water I might give you a garden hose or even a fire hydrant
hose you walk out you're very satiated as far as water uh there's a bathroom outside I would offer to you but also I hope that it um you know there's no commercial size my mother used to listen to a W radio up in New York and there was
this guy came on on dome size an educated consumer is our best customer and that's what I want to make sure you as the governing body obviously I briefed them and they're absolutely on top of things uh and also uh any members of the public that say hey what does municipal budget look like um so that
being said there is no uh public comment associated with an introduction of the budget that you'll do today um but certainly for any of the other topics if there's anything the governing body would like to ask I'd be happy to answer that for you yeah I I'm going to open it up to the council in a second i I want
to provide one more second or two of overview um we are getting a late start on the budget process this year uh largely driven by the fact we spent the first couple of months resolving a union contract that was
unresolved for two years we needed to know what the new salaries would be that we would be paying the union employees before we could reasonably set a 2025 budget so I think the great news from a from the governing body standpoint is we were able to resolve the union contract
um we do have the financial uh implications for that which did result in increased salaries especially because keep in mind we we're going back salaries were largely frozen since 2022 so when we look at salaries that are
going to impact our budget in 25 there's a significant b you know 8 to 10% depending on who and where uh and if you thought of that over one year you'd say wow that's a lot but when it's over three years it you know rounds out to roughly 3% per year nonetheless we have
to absorb that in this year's budget process so uh a lot went on what I want to make sure I point out for the benefit of our residents is that um uh led by our chief financial officer Mr barrett we had a very open and uh very uh
aggressive process in which the council had five or so days to review the very first draft of the budget uh had questions mr bear made himself available to council members individually they asked more questions we bumped some numbers up we bumped other numbers down
um John I know we're not going to open it the budget to questions but one you mentioned a number of things about taxes you didn't actually say our estimated uh percentage levy increase are you able to share that with the public uh yeah actually the levy percentage uh we have
at 2.75% that's basically the increase in the levy of 229,000 uh divided by the uh prior levy from prior years so that's I mean obviously this document I mean just dovetail off that would indicate that um
the percentage decrease was 4.82 but you made a certain point to say that we need to take into consideration that people's assessments went up and in the state of New Jersey it's an adalorum tax it's at the value of your property so it's per $100 if you took your assessment of a
million dollars divided it by 100 times it by the 351 which is our estimated new tax rate that would come up with your local portion on your municipal tax bill and one other comment I'd make generally is um uh when we talk about this when we
talk about a 2.7% m or whatever that was municipal tax increase when you're paying your real estate taxes on your property roughly we the municipal number we're talking about the tax levy is
roughly 40% of your total tax bill there's another roughly 20% tied to county and there's another roughly 30 some odd percent tied to school and there's a little chunk in there tied to u the library as well but we what we control as in terms of setting your
taxes is uh roughly 40% of your total tax bill so that number should increase that portion of your total should increase about 2.76% or so uh so with that said as an overview uh any questions or comments from the
council I just say um I drank from the fire hose the other day um who sat down and and worked um and went through line by line and a very thorough job and I appreciate the time and and the um transparency and and education that I received and I would urge anybody who
has that interest to come to the meeting and meet with John uh for more detailed understanding because it is enlightening and uh to to really understand the numbers and how they work and what does it really mean um you know to your pocketbook and to you know to the bureau
so I just appreciate that time comments or questions yeah I just want to thank you for that May 15th session coming up and I want to know if your hands the mayor keeps smacking i I I can assure you I've threatened to quit a few times but he
cos me back into into the room so it was not easy uh it's I've worked with a lot of mayors it's always a positive when they have an accounting background and also they care about the community as much as he does so as a CEO it's been a pleasure to work with you Mr mayor yeah well thank you the the CFO tried to
limit me to 30 questions but we negotiated that I could roll up multiple questions into one as ABCD sub questions so thank you for that time another person who did some hand slapping of me was council president Denovo
um she saw this number that began over 3% which I felt we had done a pretty good job working that number hard and council president got us down what turned out to be another almost full percent so um so Jane I want to tip my
hat to you as well thank you i also wanted to thank Mr barrett for all the time you took with us as we went through line by line of this budget it was uh informative and instructional so I very much appreciate it i wanted to throw two questions out to you sure um
what percentage of the budget is fixed uh and what percentage can you control with fiscal prudence uh so I don't have those exact percentages but I'm going to give you some generalities so when we look at debt service for a municipality
that is uh non-negotiable uh we are paying back uh debt that was uh purchased or issued I should say in prior years for prior capital improvements so debt service is one of them one of the bigger part of your budget uh happens to be with regard to
your pension obligations um and just to give the folks a little bit of a background on that um for and certainly not to single out the police chief who happens to be sitting over there uh this but once again uh the pension system that he is in compared to say our
administrator his is the police and fire uh so that's always a large number uh in the current fund budget is $810,000 uh and for the allocation for the public employees that would be 218 or almost $220,000 uh so some of the things that
are uh certainly union contracts would not be discretionary it's not that we're going to buy a pen or lose you know buy a pencil um so ultimately your union contracts which are covered basically with independent contracts individual I should say and the bargaining units pretty much every employee is covered uh
so those are set out for the next few years um with regard to maintenance agreements uh sometimes our departments for instance Edmonds is our financial software uh they charge us a fee every year we're not that's not going to be someone to say hey listen we're not paying that this year uh so the reality
is when you home down uh there's very few categories with regard to the OE expense and for the benefit of the public there's two categories of operating expenses salaries and wages and other expense other expense could be uh uh car maintenance vehicle maintenance and things of that nature
where SNW or salaries and wages is the employee salaries across the town great thank you and one other question um and this is I'm actually going to add that to his question he's at 30 right now just I think I exceeded the 30
yesterday um can you explain very briefly where the net revenue from the sale of 319 Lorraine the site and the artifacts where it goes and how it can be used because that's going to be happening this year right so um so let's
take a look at that because I remember this gentleman here asked me that question my first night and we were talking about the halfhour presentation on six pages of a debt statement so um I don't know the exact specifics so let's use some roundabout numbers so uh there was a capital ordinance passed to
acquire and demolish that that uh structure uh and obviously um that is going to take place based on you know future progression um so there was debt service associated with that so in the example and once again just pulling numbers in generalities uh that you
issued a million dollars worth of debt and you were to incur say another half million with our cleanup costs and other things of that nature um and then uh you sold it for $3 million so we have three million as a revenue with $1.5 million
as a total expense once again those numbers out of my head right now so when you do sell that property the first thing you're you're going to need to do is retire the debt associated with that property so you issue borrowed money and they issue debt we got to retire that
the $3 million now the uh say that 1.5 million net in this example uh some municipalities in the past would have taken as general revenue hey let's revenue all of a sudden fund balance goes up by $ 1.5 million and elected leaders will beat their chest saying
"Hey look what we did." But the reality is this that when we do receive that type of money we have to reserve it on the balance sheet as reserve for sale of municipal assets um it then becomes a policy decision now I'm not going to say you would do this but let's say a new
governing body were to see that reserve they could say "Hey listen let's reduce taxes by $1.5 million." And all of a sudden you have a decline in your tax rate and everybody you know does the happy dance and then next year you realize that that was onetime revenue that needs that can't get replaced and
you start selling the building that's now not your new business right so my suggestion uh to the mayor and the governing body certainly the administrator is that once that net reserve shows up on your balance sheet if it comes out to 1.5 million it's prudent for the governing body to kind
of use it as a tax stabilization fund if if the penny on your taxes is close to you know4 million dollars then maybe uh for the next few years maybe six years you might include a portion of that revenue into the budget and basically offset but once again to do that EKG if
your tax rate goes up your tax rate goes down i'm all proponent slow and steady wins the race you know I'd like to see that because obviously I just showed it $160,000 outside of any kind of contractual obligations has has risen your expenses year-over-year uh so
that's really where you have the options and that becomes a policy decision between you and the mayor uh as to how you want to utilize that my advice in public and in private was keep it as a tax stabilization fund it's not titled that on balance sheet it's the reserve for sale assets but utilize that over a
period of time when you do have say big increases uh I I'm not getting political here because I don't pay your taxes and I don't live in town but when we look at the federal government and certain things that are happening with tariffs and cost of goods sold and uh gasoline prices a few years ago spiked and there
was no relief in the in the cap calculations for that so once again if there any kind of hard material costs that are fluctuating to the incoming tariffs or anything of that nature that's maybe when you take a look at that and say it might be prudent to start using a portion of that in order to mitigate taxes and once again
repeated the money is not going to go anywhere it's going to be in your coffers if you're going to be earning interest on that 1.5 million in that scenario uh but once again how do you deploy that money uh I would advise you to do it over a thoughtful period of time thank you
okay and John any good questions or thoughts okay um as as u John as you mentioned we won't be taking public questions or comments about the u about the budget introduced budget correct right uh but
but there will be an opportunity to ask questions about the other comments the uh the audit and the uh AFS in a few minutes um so with that said we'll move to um following item five the workshops
we have a an item resolution 2025 i'll make a motion that 141 i'll make a motion that we adopt um approve resolution 2025141 the introduction of the 2025 municipal budget uh to be read by title
one second Mr noble yes yes Mr nikki yes Mr weber yes mayor Kubosi yes u item seven on the agenda approval of the minutes i'll make a motion that we approve the April 1st
2025 council visiting minutes second Mr noble I'll abstain since I wasn't at the meeting last time uh Miss Green yes mr nikki yes mr weber yes mayor Gatossi yes we are now at item eight on the agenda public comments so
we'll open it up to the public for any questions you have or comments you have related to any items on tonight's agenda including the workshop too in the app um I had some questions after reading through the 2023
corrective action plan um and first I'll start with the comment it was nice to see that all the cash reconciliations were there um I have to say it was mindblowing to see Providence
Bank had 23 accounts Carney Bank had six accounts and PMC had 15 accounts and I wanted to ask the CFO is it normal for municipality to have so many accounts but also in so many different banks i have to get on the
microphone to the side i apologize uh so uh every uh bank account that we have say at Provident Bank um there was a migration from PNC prior to my arrival so there's a few dollars left in the old accounts that we're trying to clear over
um but yes every bank account uh is associated with a fund uh so whether it be uh sewer operating sewer utilities I'm sorry sewer capital uh general capital uh the beach utility so there's a number of accounts and what stinks about that is I got to reconcile them so
I'm not too happy about that on a regular basis but when uh you were to co-ingle funds USA all one general bank it kind of becomes a reconciliation nightmare uh Red Bank many years ago uh have another CFO there so you have to look up I won't say his name but he
thought it would be a good idea to do that and they couldn't unpack what happened during that year uh so right now I would suggest that while we have the other two accounts uh at PNC and uh what was the you mentioned provident Provident we're keeping I'm Carney
carney yes so those are the ones that we are actually migrating away um the majority of our transactions are at Provident Bank okay so that's pretty common um like I said directly after you'd like okay thank you
um with all the different trusts is that something that I as a resident can request statements of for like the last couple years that would be uh in essence an answer for the clerk to answer as part of Oprah
um in the annual financial statement on sheet nine uh you will see all of the accounts listed their amounts uh I don't know any hesitation on that uh but I would offer to you this uh open requests are obviously timeconuming and sometimes people want and I not you i've never met
you i'm just I'm not talking about any town elsewhere than Bradley Beach okay sometimes we have residents who uh will just open records for the sake of harassment for the sake of a power trip being disrespected in public at a council meeting hey screw you i'm going
to open your whatever okay um I would offer to you that if you have any questions with regard to the accounts give me a call i'll be happy to I'll be happy to walk you through we have them all in PDF um certainly we're happy to to share them with you but as I said the
outside independent auditor uh is also obviously looking for uh irregularities you know those type of things so rest assured that whether you or anybody in this audience that you have an outside council Bob Oliver and his team who have confirmed accounts
have had proved out the deposit in transit at the end of the year reconciling checks you have somebody reviewing that for you so if you're looking for data as far as what our balances are I'll refer you to the AFS which is currently online which will have all the trust fund balances all
that good stuff um so if there's any questions feel free to call me or email me at the CFO email address I would love to help you because I got to tell you this wonderful clerk over there uh let's just say she does a lot of work over i always like you know sometimes I had a
resident who uh operate all the legal bills in the town and I went to me and the clerk's office said "Well can I help you phone this in a homeless?" He said "I just need this one vendor." I got in five minutes here you go once again I would hope that give us a call first me directly open to transparency you know
it's not I have no dog in this uh I appreciate it it's not something we've been used to having so that's why I'm asking these questions and that's also the reason why I suggested to the mayor and governing body as well as the administrator to have that public information session because whatever comments been shipping up here over the
years uh it's not going to continue under my watch i started out as a governmental auditor for municip school boards i was solicited by the state to go to distressed cities i got assigned to two distressed cities independent as as an auditor I mean as a CFO and got them out early because you just can't
fudge the number you got to be transparent local thank you so much um and let's see when this might fall under one of the same answers you just gave when we
look at um these old expenditures on like from the the AF that's up is that 20 that's 2020 right if you look at expenditures on there um that are questionable are you able to get receipts are you able to
see the receipts so that if I did call you to ask you what like where that went are you able to help me figure that out yes my mother said never answered yet yeah um so our Edmond software uh has
some capabilities if you were to really look at once again I would invite you to that budget session I'm going to do because I'll make it I'll make it as you know covering a few different things um but ultimately the annual financial statement has summarized expenditures
the budget document actually shows what was paid or charged last year so cash out the door open purchase orders every single dollar that comes in and comes out of this town either has a purchase order or a deposit receipt and those are reconciled on a monthly basis so if you
said to me listen I want to see uh I don't know every expenditure in the animal control trust I would ask you what years you want to do it and it easily based on the infant software we have up to nine years before they encourage it and put into another or whatever they call that all
those records are preserved as permanent records but for the last nine years I can go into my office right now and go where I can expense detail report of anything you want okay so I guess I'm not questioning what you'll
give me but do you think you'll be able to provide that from what you're seeing in 2023 and 2024 so here like what happened and Sure so you asked me for and I apolog I never
met you before i say it's terrifying um but but ultimately any kind of expense detail uh I can acquire with regard to evidence okay um now as far as going back as I mentioned the beginning that the rearview mirror is a lot smaller because what happened behind
us I'm not here to relitigate whatever has happened here forward but certainly at any point in time for the last nine years and certainly audits going back to the incorporation of this town that you have some information that you'd be able to pull out and do whatever you want with it but as I said call me first
because I don't want you hitting Eric's up here yeah you know I'm really happy to help you and if you're looking for something I can help you get to where you need as far as taking a shotgun thank you so much i really appreciate it are there other questions in the in the
room show of hands i see Herb kenny herb are you there i am can you hear me yes sir i I have just one quick question and it's um a little
bit of a question but it's more of a recommendation um the people who know me have been pretty outspoken the last couple years of how the state of New Jersey is so lenient on to allow allowing a 2023 audit to be released in
2025 and then look at corrective actions that never get finished um I would strongly recommend um mayor that the council and Mr barrett create actually an action plan um of how you're going to
address the corrective actions um you know the state you know accepts such a ridiculous response um from towns basically saying okay you need to do this and your corrective action is okay we will do it um but there's never
anybody assigned to do that job you know put a date on when it will be completed and or say what they're going to do to complete it um I really think you know this town has gone through you know with Mayor Fox no action on any of these um
corrective actions but it would be great if Mr barrett and the council and the mayor can put together an action plan and actually update us that you're actually completing these plans um it just seems every year the list you know just continues to grow with nothing done from the prior years so I just think it
would be great if um you know you could update the town that you've actually checked this off instead of you know just sending back some dubious response that we're going to do it um that's just my recommendation if I could mayor uh I agree I agree with the caller or the person on Zoom uh it
is frivolous it is hey we're going to do it we suggest this but the reality at this point is I'm more concerned about the audit of 24 to be presented to you the governing body uh honor during the summer so we can see what happened during 24 because ultimately I I have a
prior CFO who was here who obviously was a former municipal auditor registered municipal accountant and and would have taken consideration as to the audit comments uh he was not here to receive the 23 audit comments and right now the focus is really has to be on what the
results of operations were for 24 what things were not covered and what things that will become comments or management letter comments to us at the municipality and I assure you that um I I took over Hamilton Township many years ago they had a $79,000 fund balance over
years I turned it to 10 million and I also inherited over 55 audit comments and the audit was two years late uh we got that down to zero audit comments that's what I like to do very few things I get more enjoyment about but clean audits don't tell my wife i understand that but you know every year we hear
that response that Well you don't want to we don't want to go backwards you know we we want to worry about going forward so I understand your rearview um mirror comment but you know sometimes we just never get out of the rearview mirror so I appreciate your visibility
and your time it's a lot more than we've had in the last three years thank you and Mr kenny um as you know I am myself an auditor by training many years ago uh I 100% agree with you part of our
challenge as a m municipality has been just catching up the audits last two years 2022 and 2023 were so late in arrival that by the time we received them we were already beyond the period that we could take corrective action as
as Mr bear said we are anxiously awaiting the 2024 audit which should arrive June 3025 it should be completed sir i'm sorry to interrupt should be completed within six months they've extended that to August uh so I was told that during the end of the summer we are preparing giving them the financials uh
in the meantime and encourage them to get here to kind of make amends for these delays that have happened in prior years and and we will as a as a uh governing body make that commitment that we will have specific reporting out as to what actions have been taken we want to get to the point Mr barrett described
of having zero audit comments in the subsequent years any other comments or questions yes good evening everyone lan Bartlett 312 Main Street and um here we are i was
here two months ago and 310 Main Street is still not settled so um I want to know how you can put forth a resolution when you have a court g case case against them pending can you answer me that question can
anybody answer me that question what what resolution are you supposed to be you have a resolution on the docket tonight no I'm sorry you said 310 yeah 310 million that's that's star season so I have no problem
with Well I do have a problem i have a problem that that shell is still up those outdoor buildings are still there and I don't understand why this is having a substantial financial impact on all
businesses on the three and 200 block of Maine and you obviously don't care about us you're showing special preference to one business okay now I do I do know that you couldn't
spot zone or whatever it's called and you lumped in Marinolas and Ubas and it says right here that Marinas and serve food and beverage in certain parking areas and it says the same thing for
UVAs but in Darcy's it says the whole parking lot how is that possible you're breaking your own codes he doesn't have a handicap parking space place there uh what else it just goes on and on you are
in violation with the ADA compliance you need a handicap parking space am I wrong sir because you could tell me if I'm wrong maybe I I got wrong information from the ADA well I I think the only you know just to help you understand the
process tonight um when you say you know we are in violation or we are we are responding to an application that's been made by each of these businesses as to whether or not we are willing to create a special event that enables them to get
to the land use sorry that that has been up there for five years now it started for COVID and then no one take all winter we could have had parking all winter why do you allow it to stay up all winter when it's not in use i don't understand for the life of me please
explain it to me Miss Mr mayor i don't know and and one very another thing was last Saturday or Sunday I'm in Bradley Beach and the staff is parking their vehicles under the
tent parking is horrendous in Bradley Beach you know that and I said it before two months ago when I was here you weren't here Mr mayor i said "You want to put it up in the summer put it up in summer." I know a lot of people don't agree with me but for summer yes but why
is it sitting there all winter and not being used and my business is suffering you could come look at my books Mr auditor because my business is suffering and there's a bunch of people here that their businesses are suffering for it i
am down okay so can you help us out why are you showing special preference to one business just answer me that question first of all we haven't voted secondly we're not showing special preference okay a business made an application and
they applied for parking another applied for back of their vote okay I'll I'll rest it there but the other thing I'm going to ask of all four five of you by Jane jane always like Jane she's a fair person i wanted to poll everyone and say
do you think this is fair the inequity and the unfairness to the other businesses all in Bradley Beach is not fair can I pull you Jane do you think it's fair what's going on i don't I think right now it's com it's comments
and Okay okay so my last comment is please I know I'm upset but it's been going on for years i started this thing in September with emails to all of you i think you weren't there many sir and you two weren't there but I started it in
September because I knew at in November it was over that they were going to take it down so I asked you not to vote on Darcy's tonight you can vote on Ubis because they're only using a couple parking spaces you can vote on Aarella's
because he's in the back back of his building but do not approve our seat it's not fair can you let us make some money thank you thank you
the comments yes enough is enough 5 years my name is Dr will i own 38 316 Main Street Bradley Beach my family has directly owned property since 1920 Beach so I know Brady Beach well
main Street is a vibrant area but if you don't have parking the area is going to go downhill asbury people don't even go to Asbury sometimes unless I say live in a town because parking's horrendous normally the state has said "Okay
75% of the outdoor space if you have parking go you need 75% the rest of it you got to use a parking space you should have a handicap spot darcy's has none of that bradley Beach asked Darcy's
nicely please take down the stuff during the winter cuz it's not being used but for some reason they don't want to spend a nickel on making the neighbors happy and taking it down they So our business are hurt my tenants hate the parking
there it's hard i have When I have a rental coming up they go "Where's your place?" Oh it's there oh parking sucks oh it's miserable you know but Bradley Beach has to say "Okay summertime is great to get outside but during the
winter be fair take the spot down take a few bucks take down the permanent structure the fence and the back building and let people park during the winter be fair don't be a pig about it for a few bucks you're making a lot of money outside you serve good food good drinks but you know you have to be fair
to everybody else okay that's what I'm saying be fair and you're not fair you just don't you want to have that place 24/7 365 days a year and that hurts us you know just be a good neighbor that's why I'm saying right now you're not a
good neighbor you just be excuse me you know you just want all the money and you don't want to spend a little Excuse me the address comes to us not to the what you have to address us that was that was the I faced the wrong way right
sorry that's okay no problem okay you did a good job that's it thank you what was that dr bill B are there other comments in the audience yes sir ryan hi Ryan 619 4th Avenue um
I'm going to reiterate some of the things that are been said here um in uh in January January 14th we had a meeting here right uh and it was present by and uh can you please state the topic of the discussion for of that meeting
and who was here for this webin um there about 12 or 13 uh uh business owners property owners um right around Darcy's on main street including yourself property owner street on fourth uh topic conversation was the parking lot at
Darcy's and the fact that it was closed off and what was the general consensus of that group um that Darcy's should be found in violation of existing zoning uh because they weren't providing any parking as required to in their uh
variance uh required to have 18 parking spaces and they were providing zero and they were found in violation yes yes they violation in January and they still are in violation correct okay um let's see
and it's still there obviously and who issued the notice of violation uh code okay and uh so it's not necessarily these people this council no panel okay uh but you're they're going to be the
ones that decide and I Okay um so I guess I just wanted to clarify that for everybody in case they didn't quite pick up everything so we established that they are in a violation so um I'm gonna refer to the people that
were here at that meeting as a community people i think that's pretty fair um and I would like to define the word community for you guys just so you guys can wrap your head around and it's people with common interests living in a
particular area a group of people with common characteristics or interests living together within a larger society and a body of persons of common and especially professional interest scattered through a larger society and
I'm going to divide define individual which would be a single human being as contrasted with a social group or institution a single organism as distinguished from a group or intended for one person so we are basically you guys are
basically making a decision on whether you're voting for the community or the individual in my opinion so thank you very much thank you are there other comments yes sir i just I have a comment about one of the other restaurants and it makes sense for me to
follow the Darcy's could you stay 409 but like I said I want to talk about one of the other restaurants so it makes it makes sense for me to follow all the Darcy's votes so if there's more Darcy votes I happily see to them first
are there other comments or questions okay okay yes sir stephen Barllet 312 Main Street um I work and live next door so every day we get UPS every day we get customers parking is at a premium i've said this
many times before it's just like you have the business with parking that's not being used that's a ripple effect on the entire town you lose one spot it's
nuts so to keep granting these um resolutions or proposing these resolutions it's every time it's affecting parking more and more and more and it's just it doesn't make much
sense for there to be a parking lot if that's not used as a parking and I get like people like the bar they like their sports ball and soccer is great okay but if if it's affecting other people who are completely innocent and absolve any
of the doings of the town and the um wants and needs of a particular business and that is a that's detrimental to me that's a problem and the town needs to address it according appropriately to where it's beneficial for everybody it's gone on for a very
long time i get it whether there's outside things that have been said and discussed most people I don't know i I can only presume what fill in the blank but it's got to stop it's like it's kind of ridiculous that's all you know balls to
your court guys thank you other comments yes sir andy Bartlet 312 Main Street where is that now when they got permission to put
the upstairs and the open deck on there were supposed to be 36 parking places they had it reduced to 18 now you're reducing to nothing uh oh
that's oh the actually you really want to get technical the deck was supposed to be an open air deck now they enclosed it for 12 month use that increased the parking lot
uh handicap did that we don't have that yeah and the uh the outside deck was supposed have a maximum of three tables with four persons each you go
their count right now there's more than that up there so they're getting away with that they're just increasing their occupancy and taking away the park thank you thank you i have another hand on Zoom alice Martin okay just looking anyone else in the room we'll come back to you real quick again I'll follow all
the Darcy's Alice Martin um can you hear me okay i joined late so forgive me it's more of a question um that I'm just curious about there's a lot of
restaurants in town that have no parking how is it different you know and and I love all the outdoor spaces love all the restaurants i walk to them all so parking is not really an issue for me but if you look at Delpantis Scratch all these other restaurants that don't have
any parking how is that any different than eliminating parking from some of the larger restaurants that have it i mean I do think we need more parking and but I think part of that solution is probably something like you know a parking lot on Memorial where some of these empty spaces are where people
could just walk over so I'm just curious is there a reason why certain restaurants have to have parking but others don't it's it's very very specific to please everyone it's specific to our zoning requirements ordinances so for example
there are many buildings that you mentioned that have no parking and were have been grandfathered to this day as one restaurant leaves and another restaurant comes in if they don't have parking and they're grandfathered u they don't have to provide parking on the other hand other buildings have had u
parking and you know and under our ordinances are required to have parking to some degree uh depending on the tables depending on various measures but the answer is going to vary well property by property okay yeah I was just curious because it
it seems it's only certain restaurants that have to have the parking available it starts out everyone has to but then it comes down to facts and circumstances of what's available all right thanks any other comments or questions we
comment on that uh I'm sorry sir we're trying to keep limited to very quick okay please just you know about the restaurants but since Darcy's taking over the restaurant they expanded the business so that's a big difference than having a regular restaurant with so many
people now they expanded business so it even takes up more parking because they have a bigger business now almost the size of the parking lots like 50% more lease thank you Revette did you Yes re sorry 409 Brimley uh I'm here to speak
in support of the Paganos application and I very much hope that the very legitimate questions that have just been raised about Darcy's I'm familiar with them i have friends who live next door i know the problems there i just hope all of that doesn't cast the negative shadow
over the Pano's application for those who don't know the Panos came to Bradley Beach 40 years ago i know because I had a rental house around the corner they kept me alive that summer i'll spare you that story they have been integral and critical to the development of the
restaurant business in the town to me they're an example of how you do everything right in the town the space that we're talking about i was surprised to see that this is listed as a parking issue to me the two-day tiki bar as those of us who requit refer to it it
wasn't a parking issue i didn't even know there was parking there apparently it's a couple of parking spots what it really is is just a notch in the back of a building by the way they own the properties on either sides it's the sort of forgive me not so attractive back of
a restaurant that you see on an alley in many other places on the other side of the alley it's a large parking facility that I've never even seen full there's plenty of parking there so it's not an issue of parking it's not an issue of noise as far as I know because I've been in there even
when they've had music and they sat us literally next to the guy on the guitar playing some songs I like some songs not so much but it was fine it was great so to me rather than penalize them and and say you can't have this I think he should be commended i think he should
get an award for turning around his face and good for Mrs pagano to this day yes 40 years later makes fun of me for falling asleep at 2 in the morning in her restaurant thank you thank you comments any
further yes sir 506 Avenue um everybody's questioning about parking and and the one business in town is closed from Halloween and a little earlier and they put a chain across the parking lot
and there's about 30 parking spots in that that lot that probably be used for other people businesses and nobody complains about that this blows my mind thank you are there any further comments before we
close public discussion no okay thank you all very much mayor if if I may just on um going back to our CFO's presentation on May 15th uh there is a scheduling conflict there's a land use board meeting at the same time at
6:30 here on May 15th so just sort of bump to figure out the schedule how's the 14th look what do you have 14th 14th is open all confused with is the spring boxing league i promise you I can
beat the outturn out i don't know about that i don't know the 14th it is so for the public the 14th and we'll obviously put it up on a website as well publicize it if Madame clerk says it's good thank you thank you Matthew for bringing that
to our attention good 14 okay we will we will beach again like to thank you all for having me today it's really important to us business owners in town and been here for a long time has uh
stated 40 years now in Bradley Green uh we're you know to have this uh meeting tonight it's it's necessary and and we appreciate it all we would like to get set up for the summertime make sure that we could hire people to uh to
work in the uh outdoor dining [Music] area we've been in town for over 40 years that's what we do we've been here we've tried our best not saying I'm better than anyone else not saying that I've done anything wrong just a big influ we only look for the we only want
to be keep approving the town uh we have a great little area back there it really it doubles as a town square honestly people go there to meet they meet their neighbors they didn't even know who they were a couple minutes before that they
enjoy themselves they have dinner they walk home or ride their bicycle it's uh an area that has become essential to us especially since co it really has been difficult since then people don't stay out as long as they
used to people don't spend like they used to seems like people still kind of tipp it about going out and being inside and being a summer area being a summer restaurant and having most of our business during that time of year can be very beneficial for us to have something
of this nature obviously uh it doesn't add as much as you would think it does to our capacity most of the people that would be coming anyway instead of going inside just sit outside honestly our inside part my bartenders inside are getting a little bit aggravated sometimes that we
um we uh appreciate it again and honestly I just want to make one comment if it's at all possible i know that this is uh scheduled to be until the uh zoning board meeting of July 15th i believe the issue that we have is that if you know
perhaps something comes up where it's not going to be you know it's not too detrimental to the project but it's just enough to let them deny the zoning at that time the next meeting for the town would be in August I believe in August 5th for council on August 21st for
zoning that becomes an issue with hiring if it's at all possible again I know that there's a lot of asking but if it's at all possible to be able to get that extended to at least a fifth for the next zoning board meeting in case we need to do another bump up for a month for a special permit uh if we say yes
I'm very sorry to be so presumptive but again we really like this town we all been here we've been here 40 50 years if nothing i can't say anything bad about it you guys have fed us you guys have been good to us involved in really nice
and understanding and have taken this in as family and we don't want to abuse anything we wouldn't abuse anything we wouldn't try to abuse anything and I speak for myself and I'm sure a lot of businesses in town we really just appreciate all you guys have done for us
and hope to continue to you know keep it going not 40 years thank you i will ask once again are there any other questions or comments anyone out in the hallway back there that wants to be recognized
anybody in the hallway i just wanted some clarity what business in New York sir what business are you speaking of west okay because the story sounded very familiar to to the Darcy's situation as well i was a little confused you I mean the service has a town square people go there and meet people go there and enjoy themselves people go there and have
dinner i I don't see a great I see a lot of similarities between the two i see get your name and address please my name Andrew check uh star New Jersey 31642000 great thank
you thank you how do you spell your last name c H E K thank you i just I appreciate the fire hello Mr miguel tom McIll
guys thanks for letting everybody come in and I I really appreciate the um the the opposition i mean it's good mr miguel you have to address the mayor i'm sorry address the mayor you got to talk
to us i'm sorry Mayor that's okay you're not used to doing this you're doing but I I appreciate um the feedback from all the uh people you know the three uh Bartletts and uh Brian you know I know
them very well and I'm hoping to work with them in the future uh about this um but it's it's it's it's a really important item the parking um I
know parking is an issue however I'm wondering if uh our customers aren't the ones that really have to go find another parking spot you know that's that's the reality of it and
I hope that we can all work together the mayor the council uh and I appreciate the mayor and the council bringing this to me on uh you know pretty short notice and we we put it together and we're here to do whatever we can to make Bradley
Beach better and and and to hopefully work together with all the businesses around me i'm there at 365 if somebody says they haven't they tried to uh speak to me they haven't tried hard enough because I'm there all the time and anybody can
please no comments i'm sorry are you sure I let her no please continue just come and speak to me and we can try to work it out that's all I have to say thank you thank you other comments back outside the room
that they want to raise a hand that I can't see are we good okay in that case we will close okay go ahead please no
nice try need 116 North York Avenue i'm here on behalf of UVA we've all celebrated many great occasions together and to clarify the space that the tiki that the tiki bar that MUA takes up isn't parking
space it's it's a like it's like a notch and where they used to keep the garbage cans and stuff the parking lot in the back is still completely available all the spaces are available so it's not the same thing and losing the tiki bar would be
would be a disappointing thing for us for the summer i don't see any other hands going once going twice okay we are going to move on to ordinances item number nine on the agenda um we have an introduction
tonight for ordinance 2025-14 it's an ordinance amending article 7 arts arts committee of chapter 24 okay um the arts committee of chapter 24
commissions and committees of the burough's revised general ordinances to rename the burough's arts council in honor of Julius Sandra Rand and adding alternate members to the arts council uh is there comments or conversation um I
just want to share that this is really to update where we're going with the arts council um with seven members we've added two alternates and one exeicio member so that and of course the renaming of the arts council thank you
any other comments or questions okay i will make a motion then or would you like to make a motion i'll make a motion uh to approve ordinance 2025-14 second Mr noble shauna I'd like to thank
you so much for all your work on this this is a wonderful thing yes rain yes mr nikki yes mr weber yes mayor Gibosi yes okay there are no ordinance adoptions tonight and we've already covered item
10 on the agenda the communications so we'll move to you have uh 15 ordinance 15 what did I miss that's 15 oh okay sorry that's okay um or ordinance 2025-15 another introduction um amending
chapter 335 for what's we are now titling parking regulated basically this particular amendment is changing the language that exists today in our ordinances related to parking meters because if you haven't heard parking
meters are going away in Bradley Beach this summer we're moving to park mobile you download an app on your phone uh you do a transaction by your phone meters are gone pay stations will be gone uh and this is amending our ordinance to
reflect that language um any comments or questions i have two questions so are we actually going to be removing the physical meters that are on the ocean front that is the plan yes okay and um just to clarify will there be one zone
for all of the summer parking yes so that kind of simplifies it you don't have to put a zone in correct correct any other comments or questions no i'd like to make a motion then that we um that we approve the introduction
of ordinance after you may announce his phone i left their phone in the restroom someone leave the phone in the restroom does anyone know Danielle Dor
okay want to place that okay we'll leave it on the uh table someone's going to figure out they place it at some point and I was right in the middle of a very exciting motion to um approve the u introduction of
ordinance 2025-15 uh amending our chapter 335 parking regulated okay there's second a question on that specifically or you can unfortunately we're on introductions uh we don't have
public Mr noble yes yes Mr nikki yes Mr yes mayor Gutzi yes now we will pass item 10 communications on the agenda we've already covered that and move to
resolutions starting with the consent agenda resolutions are there any comments questions voting any items out i had a question um and uh we are regularly um approving uh pass through
walks and runs on the ocean front and um uh and I guess most of these passroughs do not require any kind of a um composite is that correct that's correct right and I just want to ask the question do some of these actually incur
manpower um or labor to the burrow no not pastors not at all even when they do a turnaround within the burrow no once or twice we've been surprised but as a rule but as a rule no
and and for the record we are planning on revisiting this ordinance at some point to um well the ordinance that governs special events to determine if there might be a better way to address that in the future thank you but as a rule our clerk is very thorough in her
interrogation to make sure that we're being ridiculous everybody just so you all know no police or DPW resources or or else we wouldn't have this comment any other comments or questions okay i'll make a motion to uh to approve
the consent agenda resolutions 2025-142 through 2025-145 second thank you second um Mr noble yes m green yes mr noiki yes mr weber yes mayor Gubosi yes
individual resolutions uh starting with 2025-146 the audit of the corrective action plan for 2023 any comments or discussion i I'll just make the comment that I agree 100% with the call Kenny who said we should have an action plan and that
we should be following up with that i think that was a great recommendation I will agree with that observation and also note that um everyone should know that the state requires the corrective action plan within two months of us the
council receiving the audit and uh historically it's been closer to a year before the audit was received and then in the case of 2022 it was almost another year before we had a corrective action plan so we are catching up
cleaning up and going forward 100% agree with the comments made earlier that we must be much more attentive and responsive as we uh address the audit results that are presented in the future um but I I think I made the motion but just in case do does someone second my
motion to uh I didn't get a second yet you make a motion okay thank you Mr noble yes green yes mr noiki yes mr weber yes mayor Gubosi yes individual resolution 2025-147 audit certification and group
affidavit for 2024 and this is basically stating that the council members have all read the audit comments in the 2023 audit is there I make a motion that we adopt second approve mr noble yes m
greenblot yes mr noiki yes mr weber yes mayor Guboszi yes uh individual resolution 2025-148 supports submission of application for New Jersey Department of Transportation Transportation Alternatives Program comments or
questions uh it appears to me that this program would ensure um a bicycle path on Main Street or recommend a bicycle path on Main Street as we go forward that was my understanding in reading it
yeah it's an applica it's a approval to file a grant application i didn't read the details it might be I'm in favor of a bicycle path i think it's very important so and I think that it addresses that so I guess that was really my question that this really
supports um uh implementing a bicycle path i don't think it's a separate one it's the striping currently like what we have because you don't have enough width really to have a separate bicycle lane so I I believe it's about supporting what the same format that we have right
now the arrows yes the arrows basically sitting there which is not so safe no but there's not enough room to to do the standard bike lane same okay same as any other comments or
questions okay i'll make a motion that we u approve 2025-148 the submission of the application second Mr noble yes m Greenblat yes mr nikki
yes mr weber yes mayor Guboszi yes um okay the next item is is a fairly unique resolution i want to take a moment to explain it to the public um but resolution number
2025-149 recognition for fallen hero John A quinnland i don't know um people in our community may know the Quinnland family very well others of you may not have any idea who we're referencing tonight but as you all know Bradley
Beach has a number of war memorials in town recognizing our fallen heroes men and women who gave their lives uh fighting for in support of our country uh Mr uh and we have over the past few months as a council worked through very
specific criteria what does it take to get to have your name there are many men and women who give their lives for our country every day what does it take to have one of those names put on a Bradley Beach memorial and over the past month
or so uh this council has gone through a fairly arduous process of identifying what those criteria are u and part of the reason for making sure we went through that very thoroughly was because it obviously when we recognize the Bradley Beach fallen hero that person should have a fairly strong connection
to Bradley Beach um I'm going to read this resolution because we are in the process of voting on whether or not we should recognize John A quinnland as a fallen hero in Bradley Beach if we are to vote yes on this we would add his
name to a war memorial that would be placed in Riley Park whereas the Burough Bradley Beach is committed to recognizing and remembering our fallen heroes men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country and whereas Chief Warrant
Officer John A quinland aged 36 died in service in Afghanistan on February 18th 20 2007 while serving as the pilot in command of a Shinook helicopter in support of Operation Enduring Freedom
and whereas Chief Warrant Officer John Aquin served in every major American offensive since 1990 from the first Gulf War to Somalia and Afghanistan and whereas according to eyewitness accounts Johnny Quinnland flying with no visibility through an
unexpected winter storm lost an engine but kept the Chinook nearly upright as it plummeted to Earth saving the lives of 14 people and whereas the burrow of Bradley Beach has established eligibility criteria by which to identify US fallen heroes who
represented Bradley Beach in their military service via residency and/or via their participation in our community over an extended period of time and whereas the parents of chief warrant officer Johnny Quinnland purchased a
home at 418 Mammoth Avenue Bradley Beach New Jersey in 1982 where John spent his summers as a young man worked summer jobs in Bradley Beach including out of Bradley Beach local business and always called Bradley Beach his home now
therefore be it resolved that the mayor and council of the burough of Bradley Beach County of Mammoth state of New Jersey hereby recognize and memorialize Chief Warrant Officer John A quinland as a Bradley Beach fallen hero whose service and valor shall be remembered
and honored by the burrow from this day forward is there a second i make the second Mr noble he will never be forgotten thank you uh yes Miss Greenblat i would also like to say
I've known the Quinland family for many many years and um I remember the day when um they got word that their son's uh helicopter was um uh went down so um I am very appreciative of this and I say
yes Mr nikki i just want to commend the the council and the mayor for for taking this action and and I think that this is what uh the month of May is all about um basically talking nation into earlier and recognizing our fallen heroes yes Mr
weber yes mayor Gutenzi yes okay individual resolution 2025-150 um this is awarding the bid for the demolition of the Methodist Church at 319 Lorraine Avenue uh is there
comments or questions are there I have a couple of questions um so I'm looking at the three lowest bids that I believe um it's been recommended that we retain those bids in the event that we need to move from the first uh lowest bid um so
the the lowest bid I mean there's a there's a big disparity in um the the site preparation and cleaning which is kind of odd um it it ranges from 25,000 down to 8,500 or
14,000 i'm I find that very interesting there's also a big disparity in the top soiling um uh with in the grading process uh from the lowest bidder of 3500 to the other biders at 9800 and
15,400 so I'm just surprised to see those disparities um in addition um the lowest bidder uh there's an irregularity that a written price doesn't match the numerical unit price the second lowest
bidder also had a disparity um in that it was the bid was not submitted intact in in accordance with the bid specs um and then the third bidder and all of these bids are fairly close in cost um the third bidder had absolutely no
dispar no irregularities so those are just things that I wanted to look at um if we award the bid to the lowest bidder and um I I don't know does this irregularity get reconciled somehow i'm
under the impression but perhaps I'm wrong but u CME our engineer had reviewed this I don't know Paul if you were involved but I know Mr dhy was so if both CMA reviewed it and our uh our attorney Greg Cannon who's on reviewed
it then you're actually obligated to give it to the lowest bidder i understand that my question is it's there's an irregularity that the written price doesn't match the numerical unit price has that been reconciled it doesn't disqualify the bid it's not as if it gets reconciled or not because they return the bid in they can't make
it amendments to the bid after they're turned in but it's not a deficiency to throw the bid out so you're required by law to approve it and and even though the ladies and gentlemen the numbers in this one bid the low bid did
the details that Miss Councilwoman Greenblad identified do not add up they don't sum to the total but but we've been told that they must honor the low bid price so we're keeping the other two bids at bay um I know we're rejecting
the other three higher bids but we're keeping those bids at bay in case there's an issue well at this point we're just to award the low the low bid right but I think that it was recommended to retain the other two low bids i don't think that's part of our
resolution that that was CMU's recommendation based on evaluation but the resolution is to award that in your other question um it's not unusual for you see contractors bidding and putting their profits and costs into different numbers because how they actually develop their proposal may not be
consistently um where they put their costs or how they pick their labor or their equipment and so there is always that variation in the various bits and and I believe um Matt is correct that you are required to um alert a little bit unless there's a a
violation in that bit specifically thank you i'm sorry I had to excuse myself i returned the cell phone to its rightful line well done well done and mayor if I may um it's over here um Paul this would include the grading plan so the
neighbors will now be protected uh yes there was a grading plan included in the actual demolition plan to grade out the property um as well as you know protection around the property and and various environmental controls dust control etc um and then CME will also
have an engineer on site several times you know over the course of the demolition process ensuring that um those measures are being followed and implemented as well as a soil as well as a soil erosion permit is put in to the freehold
conversation conservation district thank you for your work on this i appreciate it that's great thank you yeah I think the goal is to have this completed by Memorial Day so it will occur during the month of May so everybody be aware and we will share information as to once
that gets awarded and then scheduled information will be posted and shared on what that process is going to be and prior to the demolition we will have a public auction u that folks individuals companies whatever will be able to bid
on artifacts from that building if there's no further discussion I'll make a motion that we approve individual resolution uh 2025-150 the demolition of the 319 Line second
Mr noble yes mr gray yes mr noiki yes mr weber obstain mayor Guboszi yes okay individual resolution 2025-151 approving the collective bargaining agreement between the burrow
and the UFCW local number 152 to be effective January 1 2025 to December 31 2027 any discussion i would say it's a long time coming yes okay on that note I agree with you and I
will make a motion that we um approve individual resolution 20251 second Mr noble yes miss Greenblat yes mr noiki yes mr weber yes mayor Gubetzi yes
item 2025-152 approving a lease between the United Engine and Truck Company and the Burough Bradley Beach for the lease of a fire truck for nominal consideration um and um just so everyone knows what we're doing on this
particular vote our volunteer fire department has purchased with their own funds a truck but to in order for it to be insurable under the burrow's policy uh the burrow needs to lease this vehicle for $1 and uh and this is
apparently very common practice as we've been told by the insurance broker our risk broker who works with the chip insurance fund so any questions or comments i will make a motion that we approve
2025-152 approving the lease between United Engine and Truck Company excuse me in the burrow second Mr noble yes m greenblat yes mr nikki yes mr weber yes Mayor Gubosi
yes now the next three resolutions are what most of you have come here here tonight to listen to and u number one I want to make a couple quick comments these are three separate resolutions and they are separate a few of you mentioned you know whatever that we're we have
plans that to lump all three together i obviously these are three separate resolutions so the council can vote separately for each restaurant uh others of you mentioned uh concerns about um you know understanding we the
governing body of Bradley Beach understanding our community understanding the needs of our residents and individuals needs versus res needs and businesses needs and so forth um what I I couldn't interrupt I didn't want to interrupt any of your comments
at the time but I do want to make sure before we vote everyone's clear on what it is we're voting on tonight um we are not approving or not approving variances these three restaurants all and the reason they're three on our
agenda tonight these three restaurants are all uh uh submitting applications I had to get the right word submitting applications to our zoning board our land use board um and the land use board is the only
authority that can approve whether or not you use parking uh for outdoor dining or whether you need parking at all someone mentioned why are restaurants different or why are properties different the land use board alone has that exclusive authority we do
not so I don't want to dismiss anyone's appeals on either side uh the restaurant owners a lot of the other businesses who are adversely impacted by you know this potential uh process that the
restaurants are going through what I want to make sure everyone's clear about is we we the council agreed to put these resolutions on the agenda because because we care about our community we care about our businesses and the
businesses can't get answers from the land use board until the the latest July they may be able to get them in June uh I I spoke with the u the land use board chair and they said their agenda is such that they probably can't get all these
applications in until we get to the July 17th meeting that's why these businesses have applied through January 18th you heard one business owner say "Can we even uh extend it beyond u uh I said January I guess on July July." Thank you
um so what we are voting on is whether or not we we the burrow of Bradley Beach continue to enforce our existing zoning laws they're going to be enforced but the next step in zoning is to go to the land use board it's not to come to us we
don't decide whether folks use parking for whatever they use it for what we can decide is whether or not we provide a bridge to that zoning hearing to that land use board hearing and and we don't have to we're all going to find out in a
moment how we all vote but as I look at this me personally thinking how I'm intending to vote or likely to vote i'm thinking do I want to shut down the business now whatever it is they're requesting do because zoning says close
that parking lot zoning says do not have uh dining behind your building do do not have it in that little niche behind UVA zoning says that do not do it zoning says for Marianas your tent is too big um I have to decide as as a member of
the governing body whether or not I think we should just strongly enforce zoning as it exists today and that would mean making all these businesses shut down do whatever they're stop doing whatever they're doing until they get to this the land use board and my
alternative is to say give them a reprieve of a couple of months that they can continue to do what they're doing understanding that when they hit the zoning land use board I'm sorry I keep using the wrong term when they hit the land use board if the land use board
says no parking it's no parking it we have no say over that all we are deciding right now and we'll get to the vote in a second is deciding whether or not we should give these businesses an opportunity to continue doing what they're doing until they get heard by the land use board i just want to make
sure that's clear because we've got very passionate people on both side of this issue and obviously however these votes turn out half of this room is not going to be happy but please understand we're not approving and we're not shutting
down outdoor dining we are simply providing an extension till these individuals get to the land use board so uh pardon me for being a little long-winded but I'll move to item 2025-153 which is approving Marendulus
restaurant to serve outdoor food and beverage in certain parking areas on its premises during the opening of the 2025 summer season which uh per the resolution takes us through July 18th that's correct any comments or questions
or discussion mayor oh I'm sorry may Okay i just want to reiterate too that the will not be fined at all from now until July 18th as well is that right if if we vote to
extend it we would pause the fines if the burrow would pause the fines if on the other hand we vote not to extend it the fines kick in immediately and whatever other requirements you know have to be met or fines continue thank you
and and the fines to date that have been implemented that will still remain into effect but yet be can be suspended until the the 18th correct so just to reiterate the fines that have been issued from um whenever it was in
January that um the tents needed to be taken down um up until April 15th those fines will continue to be enforced oh what's going to happen fines that have been issued summones that have been
issued stand um they'll be paused for for the land use board to determine whether or not they're going to approve variances um but no additional fines will continue through this period if we vote to extend this period to July 18th
and once they hit July 18th you know our our jurisdiction is done um and it goes back to the land use board and our zoning processes and I also just want to say um you know COVID has hit so many uh
elements of our society so hard and I think that it really hit the restaurant industry in a way that restaurants are challenged to begin with in the best of circumstances um restaurants are uh community gathering places um and that's
not to uh diminish any of the businesses um that are also places that we all value within our community i'm very much in favor of small businesses and local businesses um um and I definitely hear the voice uh of the parking situation um
especially when there's a large parking lot that is sitting there uh intentionally required to provide parking spaces um so you know in in the case of I you know in the case of Darcy's my own personal perspective is
is that in the offse um that parking lot should be available in the summertime uh perhaps otherwise but I think we do recogni and certainly that's not my decision but that's the land use board's decision but um I think we have to recognize the value of outdoor dining
and how it does um uh provide to to the community um so that's really what I wanted to say yeah I would say I would agree with you Councilwoman um CO asset many many businesses but in the same respect not just dining but all businesses and uh the inability to go to
a a a restaurant that is a takeout restaurant and not have available parking out in front because of the popularity of of and and desire to park in front to go to an adjacent one of these restaurants Darcy's compared to a Jos's or to Wenito's or um it's a
problem um again I'm I'm sort of you know I'm disappointed that the businesses themselves couldn't come to a a solution on this um that maybe they could have went to the Darcy went to the plum uh and and said "Hey can I rent parking from you to help solve my problem during the winter months that
were that were dealing with this um and that the things that were in place that were not never taken down throughout the winter um actions could have been taken to have been a more friendly neighbor however I do understand that um I love to sit outside and eat um um I also love
to go and hear outdoor music which is not going to be allowed under this um this this this um resolution outdoor music would not be allowed um because of the noise disturbance um so it it is still a restraint um but I do feel for
the other businesses and the and the people who live on on Main Street or adjacent as well so this is a very very difficult um question it's not simple uh which is right um if you wanted to go and apply to hey our zoning is in place
you are not compliant um but then we have three businesses that are all and so do you exercise one hand to to address this completely or do you look at each one individually under under the expansion of Darcy's it has unique issues as brought up and I recognize
that too so it's this is a very difficult um decision and and um an extension and I feel for the the land use board which mayor and myself also sit on so we are going to be dealing with this um eventually as well in that land use
board so um but I just want to let everybody know that that this is a not a a simple yes and no yeah and for me personally I want to assure the individuals who referenced the meetings that we had with they had
with Mr dhy and I did not attend mr dohy spent a lot of time debriefing me and I I fully appreciate the challenges that other businesses I mean she faced uh like Councilman Noiki in in our perfect
world the businesses would be you know able to work together um and have resolved a lot of the concerns just to make it good for all businesses i guess where I where I'm where I'm coming out personally is the businesses are vital
part all businesses are vital part of our main street um I want to do whatever we can do as a council to minimize the disruption to the their various business models and I know by saying that whichever way we vote we're going to disrupt some businesses for at least a
few more months until these three restaurants get to the land use board so uh Mr weber any comments no no sir okay i I make a motion that we approve uh
resolution 2025-153 approving Marendola's restaurant to serve outdoor food and beverage in certain parking areas on its premises during the opening of the 2025 summer season mr noble yes
miss Greenwood yes mr nikki yes mr whoever I just want to say I haven't heard anything negative about this parking area being used for restaurant so I will vote yes mayor Kubosi yes
okay item and resolution number 2025-154 this is approving the Pagano's UVA restaurant to serve outdoor food and beverage in in their rear parking area comments or discussion
second i'll make a motion to approve 2025-154 can we Sorry Mr noble yes Mr greenblat yes Mr nikki yes Mr weber i also have not heard a lot of or anything negative from this B being used for outdoor dining so I will also vote yes
mayor Guboszi yes whoever I'm anxious to hear how you vote on this item since you've heard some negative item Please we have quiet please [Music] okay
all right ladies and gentlemen we just had a quick caucus as you might have noticed because I was just informed that I probably should abstain from voting on this because I happen to live close to Darcy's um and our lawyer has has
instructed that not only I should abstain but uh and it's amazing that this didn't come up sooner because I've been talking about this for two weeks uh council woman uh council president Denovo should also abstain so we will only have three um three people on the
council able to vote on us tonight uh so I can't make a motion what one way of the other you want me to so I would like to make a motion um on 2025 155 approving Darcy's Cavern to serve outdoor food and beverages in its parking lot during the
opening of the 2025 summer season from 4:15 uh to 7:18 i have a second um Mr noble as the mayor mentioned I do have to abstain miss Greenblot so I'm the lucky one um
uh with the condition that um uh that Darcy's has um violated um the the zoning um and is currently violating it um the condition that they are going to be responsible for the violations up
until the 15th of April um I will also vote in favor um and my vote would be yes mr nikki no mr leather uh I have heard a lot of um about this particular spot not just
in this room heard from neighbors I've heard from businesses and I am also going to vote no uh Mayor Gossi I must abstain okay um moving on i resolution number 2025-156 authorizing the award of
professional engineering services to Suburban Consulting Engineers Inc please keep it down okay people who remain in the room please
keep it down folks brian can you ask calm down thank you um item 2025-156 authorizing the award of professional engineering services to
suburban consulting engineers for a grant application including technical assistance and loan forgiveness for the burough's sanitary sewer infrastructure replacement project um discussion on this so I'll start the discussion uh Paul Noiki and I have been working on
this um uh grant application um so just to give a little bit of background um in 2018 thereabouts under the Engle administration uh the burrow went forward with its uh sewer infrastructure
uh replacement program and it started at the south end um and it's it's a process that's going through uh six phases so phase two with the exception of Fifth Avenue uh has already been completed um
and phase two had a significant number of cost overruns um Fifth Avenue is currently contracted to proceed with sewer replacement in the summer and that's from Main Street to Madison Avenue uh cross streets and the
remainder of this will take place in the fall um along with one block on Park Place between Fletcher Lake Avenue and Madison so that will be a sewer replacement that's taking place so as many of you are aware we have had chronic sewer backups in town on Ocean
Park Avenue most recently um Park Place and other north end streets in particular um which has been a a chronic nuisance to residents um so through the Clean Water State Revolving Fund the borrow has an opportunity to participate in a grant program that has the
potential to save us up to $4 million in loan forgiveness and another $2 million in technical assistance with our sewer infrastructure plan so this amounts to $6 million in principal forgiveness in addition to 75% of the remaining costs
at 0% interest which is quite significant um this state fund has been available to the burrow for the past few years um uh based on affordability status unfortunately it has not been utilized so that's millions of dollars
that have been lost um additionally our affordability status has changed beginning this year as a consequence of higher resident wealth which has occurred particularly over the last few years uh our relationship with Suburban
Consulting Engineers who work very specifically with this grant is enabling us to be grandfathered into the prior affordability for the grant giving us potentially two years of forgiveness um and the $4 million that was just mentioned we're in the midst of applying
for this grant in Suburban's Health the resolution to approve $32,600 will help complete the grant application with requiring supporting technical information we've been advised that we will ve very likely receive both grants the money appropriated for the
application this uh $32,600 can be retroactively folded into the technical assistant grant and forgiven we plan to have an information session on the scope of this project once the grant is received and look forward to community engagement and
again I just want to say that Paul and I have been working very closely together on this and because of his stellar engineering background Paul has been able to make sense of it for a lay person like me has enabled um reducing the cost even for this application
process um of manpower and has made sense of a lot of it so I thank you Paul and you can add whatever I might have missed well council woman actually green bound this grant application to a relationship she had developed at at the
League of Municipalities um you know we I was aware that there was money out there i'm disappointed that for years that no money was ever gotten we had to bond and actually fund out of our municipal budget out of the UT um sewer
utility to pay for these projects and here there is money has been money available uh for years and so um I commend um councilwoman for actually having the hood spot to go out and get that and then bringing it to the mayor and then engaging myself and um
hopefully we will be successful in getting this there's no guarantees um but um the project report will be able to be used we'll be able to actually at no cost to the burough ass soon we get the technical assistance uh uh grant um we'll be able to design the rest of the replacement of the rest of the sewer
system 60% of the rest of the of the burough sewer system at the design for zero cost it would be a $2 million grant paying for that which is tremendous um so um kudos and hopefully we are successful in obtaining this uh the work
that suburban does we'll be able to use no matter what happens going forward uh but this will enable us to really put together a good plan what is the next five years how do we finish what we started and complete the sewers replacement full replacement on the on
the north side of town as well as Ocean Avenue and Main Street so this is really an important project and hopefully one continues as uh over the next several months on on what um how this all comes together and emphasis on what Councilman Noiki just said replacement that's a
really big word in our vocabulary because a lot of the u opportunities we have to to um improve our infrastructure give us the option to either replace the infrastructure with brand new pipes or line the hundred-y
old infrastructure which is I'm told by engineers good for maybe 20 25 years but ultimately we've kicked the can down the road and we're still going to have to ultimately replace the the sewer so um we as a governing body we've said this before I'm hoping we'll continue to say
this we are very committed to over time replacing the sewer structure not you know not lining it and looking for quick fixes so uh I also want to applaud these two to my right and left uh Councilwoman Greenblat and Councilman Noiki they
really have led this charge we don't have the money yet we're we're authorizing tonight to spend $32,600 for this engineering company who's bringing us this opportunity to pursue it further to hopefully nail it down but if they succeed as you just
heard moments ago it on a cost for us the Burough Bradley Beach will have a minimum expenditure of $20 million it could be as high as 30 million as we go forward to replace our own sewers through bonding and so forth this one
action if they succeed um would bring us $6 million towards that 20 to 30 million and anything we borrow up to some limits we'll find out what uh at 0% interest or three quarters of what we borrow at 0%
interest so it's potentially um you know record setting for Bradley Beach if if we can pull these dollars in so thank you both for the efforts you've made so far if I may add mayor um I just want to say this is a really
great example of of teamwork shauna just got elected and I said "You must go to the League of Municipalities it's a great place to make connections." And she went and she made this connection at that that league and um bravo to her and to Paul really great work on this and
it's a pleasure to serve on on the council with you both and of course John too [Laughter] that didn't go without saying way back so yeah would have you like to make the motion
to approve i'll make the motion to approve the 20256 2025156 uh authorizing award of professional engineering services to suburban consulting engineers uh for a grant application including technical
assistance and loan forgiveness for the burough sanitary sewer infrastructure replacement project erica you have to document it was a joint motion okay well I don't think I had it in front of me i'll second there we go um Mr noble yes mr greenblat
yes mr nikki yes mr whoever new council people this is why we put you on the team yes yes and uh the final uh individual resolution 2025-157 the bill list for April 15 2025
any questions comments uh items to be voted out separately mayor if I may there were some questions on the previous bill list i forget which council member was asking about it about the Nakian would it be okay if I address that now please okay so um can you sorry
can you remind us did we pull that from the last list we did we actually pulled it so then does that mean it's on this bill yeah okay go ahead do say what you're a lot of questions okay all right so the first one on it was um for
$3,55 it was for the oceanfront prominade this is coming out of the beach capital uh account it was a bond ordinance back in November of 2024 um the invoice shows that uh Hold on one
second here we go sorry sorry i got all this [Music] um uh they project coordinated uh they the site meeting prepared uh parking overlay plan prep and attended site meeting uh prepared plans improvements
to Ocean Avenue promination research follow-up with Monmouth County traffic engineer adjusting and printing out aerial for Ocean Avenue parking uh project coordination research phone conference with county engineer and project coordination and research for a total of
$3,55 and again that came out of the uh Beach Capital um ordinance is that for the stuff that that DPW is doing now beach no I don't know exactly i just know the ordinance or the the invoice and what it was what it was against i don't know
exactly what it was for so sorry um the second two uh one's for $500 one's for $4975 they are both put against the current fund and they were in support of the Fair Share Housing Council um
basically the folks that were doing all the research um Jen Bean and her her team um they relied on the uh on the docking to provide them with with detailed information of what properties were available in that um the second one
501 Lake Terrace $370 that was actually out of an escrow it's out of the the land use board escrow so that did not come out of uh any any burrow funds uh and the last one uh another $500 this was just for
general engineering um that they were do with general engineering hold on one second for this one um they prepared a plan uh they completed the sanator sanitary sewer map
and also prepared ocean Avenue uh color aerial map and they worked on um a parking for Jerry uh again that was yeah but that was um that last one was going against the uh the plan
so those are the the explanations for those uh those invoices and and where they were they were coming from in the budget i had a couple questions on this bill's list all right i just want to clear that up from last time please okay um page one of the bills
list Applied Concepts Inc stalker Radar Trailer is that And that was in $9,270 was that related to not to the Park Mobile plan was it uh uh which page page one stalker radar
trailer that sits on the road yeah yeah that's that's a um that's the new radar oh here it is from 2024 so 9 That's like a whole year story it's
$9,000 yeah we purchased it in 2020 no so yeah I think that's the mobile that's the mobile unit that basically will detect speed so you can put it on the street and be able to say here's what the the speed is of your vehicle going down the street first one we've
ever had i mean it's always under and that just came out of page four annual Google Workspace $8,140 a maintenance agreement and contract is this something that we're actually using is this a like the Google
Workspace that I'm thinking of or something google Gmail and all the other things that Yeah so all of our emails are on Gmail um some of us use Google documents some of us are still fighting in the
past with Word and emails but yeah this is what the staff uses okay and I guess the final question I had was on page eight and it's a special counsel in the tune of $5,75 and those attorneys right attorneys and I'm just wondering uh special counsel if
it was related to uh any litigation or Oh sorry i mean page seven being chartered page King Munch and Collins page eight what are you saying where uh King Munch and Collins page 8 special
counsel 5705 michael Collins is the uh attorney for the charter study charter study commission okay yeah and if you remember you guys passed a resolution back in January um allocating $35,000 for various
expenses okay thank you i appreciate it those attorneys that are expensive all right okay no bill on that note any other questions or comments about the bill list and anything to vote out separately i'll make a motion that we approve
2025-157 billist for April 15 2025 second Mr mr noble yes greenwood yes mr noiki yes mr weber yes mayor Gubzi yes item 12 in the agenda announcement there
are none item 13A the administrator report Mr dohy it's only 10:30 great sorry um one one uh uh unfortunate uh topic we
are tackling is the sewer line on Ocean Park Avenue um I don't know if anyone here lives on Ocean Park Avenue but uh it is a problem uh you're going to see our Department of Public Works out there uh at least um jetting and for lack of
phrase sorry sucking uh material out of the sewer line uh the sewer line is shot and until we're able to fix it as part of a larger scope it's going to be uh ongoing regular maintenance um we are bringing a camera that will go down into
the sewer it'll be a fascinating video uh to see where the brakes are and where the laterals are and other issues we have um so we're going to probably fly that entire neighborhood let them know let them know to call us if they are having some issues um because there's a
good chance that it is the responsibility of the burrow if something is backing up and put into your house unfortunately um and and you know when you think about the responsibilities of municipal government it's keeping people safe and keeping
things along um is is that um second thing I know is that is that a shared service with the scope in the lines like I know we used to like Asbury has that case capability and we used to borrow their truck is that similar so uh on occasion we'll borrow Neptune okay and
they've been great about us using it however in this case we are going to need a contractor um because we need it quickly so if we ask Neptune and they get there sometime in you know end of the month we need it like next week okay so so it's going to be pretty quick uh
and lastly uh I'm going on vacation so uh I will be out of pocket this coming Friday to next Wednesday uh so if any any complaints any issues just call the chief of police uh and uh I'm going somewhere warm and
sunny one of them here uh I only tell you that to make you all very jealous um but I wish everyone a very good Passover and uh and happy happy Easter everyone as well thanks have a nice Thank you sir okay
item we just had item 13A item 13B the mayor and council reports let me start with Councilwoman Black great okay so I have some long reports and I apologize um the Fletcher Lake Commission met last
Thursday April 10th uh the commission meeting began offscript with the chairperson announcing that Bradley Beach has turned a corner that it's responsive and collaborative and a big change for the Pletcher Lake Mission and I just want to share that because those
were the campaign points that both uh Mayor Gubossi and I were running on and uh it just gives me a lot of personal uh pride to um to hear that from someone who may or may not have voted for us um
so be advised that Galaxy Geese has been contracted to mitigate the goose population around Fletcher Lake their role is basically to shoe the geese away a recent post appeared on social media calling out the removal of eggs from a nest and attributed this action to the
burrow as a liaison I want to be clear that the burrow does not advocate tampering with nesting eggs or any harm to the waterfell around the lakes ocean Grove members are looking into funding from an NJD watershed and
land management grant to install floating gardens in the lake this is not only beneficial to the quality of life that the lake supports but a natural aesthetic um member Sal Galiseti will head up spring flower planting in the
upcoming weeks on the Bradley Beach side of the lake um while the commission is considering the possibility of installing lights for the lakes's air raators and fountains it has yet to actually vote on the matter or receive the necessary estimates for the cost in doing
so a Fletcher Lake cleanup is planned for Saturday June 7th 10:00 a.m to noon this will be a joint effort of the communities of Bradley Beach and Neptune specifically Ocean Grove refreshments will be served for those participating thank you to the Bradley Beach CPW who
has graciously provided gloves and bags for this cleanup keep an eye out for more information this is an initiative being organized by Bill Grafton who's a Fletcher Lake member uh the commission will be looking ahead to partner with nearby communities with oceanfront lakes
to promote recreational activities and appreciation of its natural amenities while lakes straddling both ends of our burrow the two commissions hope to get together to organize shared interests the Fletcher Lake Commission will be putting together a marketing brochure to
highlight the history of Fletcher Lake its amenities and ways to join in its supportive activities it is their hope that this will be a coordinated effort between Bradley Beach and the lake commissions of Asbury Park and Avon and on this I also want to thank um Paul
Nashkin from the historical society for providing such interesting information on Fletcher Lake the next uh commission meeting is scheduled for Thursday May 8th at 6 PM uh the arts council met Friday April 11th it was a wonderful opportunity for
the new commission members to come together and share ideas to all those who volunteered to participate in the arts council please be on alert that you will be hearing from them shortly your ideas your help uh and energy will all be needed to transform the Bradley
Bradley Beach Arts Council to celebrate the arts and highlight our wealth of local talent the next arts council meeting is Friday April 25th at 2 PM and I also again want to thank Mayor Gupatossi um for being so supportive of the arts in Bradley
Beach uh the rec committee uh met yesterday evening April 14th the glow-in-the-dark Easter egg hunt originally scheduled for April 12th was postponed due to inclement weather the new date is this Saturday April 19th 7:30 p.m at the rec center um at the
baseball field students in grades 5 and up are invited to participate summer camp registration is open this is a banner enrollment year for the summer camp program with 121 registered campers and only four spots left this so early
in the season uh Bradley Beach is for fortunate to have fulfill provide lunch for the program three days a week also note that Bradley provides scholarship to seven students one per grade and this year there were 20 scholarship signups
last year there were there were something like uh only as many signups as they were able to give scholarship grants so clearly um uh as I as I put here suffice to say Bradley's summer wreck program is a big hit um student ba
the student baseball softball clinic scheduled for spring break has been cancelled due to low enrollment um we have been advised that the OEM is applying for a grant to obtain a generator for the rec center this will add to the facilities available in the burrow for emergency
use as a shelter a reminder about recurring events uh Majan meets every Friday at the Bazi Center from 1 to 3:00 p.m open wreck runs Thursdays until 6:00 p.m and on and Fridays until 7:00 p.m the senior club
meets Wednesday April 23rd at noon at the Bey Center and some activities for spring morning pickle ball began today and runs through May 6th afternoon pickle ball runs from May 13th to June 3rd with two time slots 4:30 and 5:30
the fee is $20 for the four-week session registration for May opens on April 21st spring Botchi enrollment opened yesterday April 14th it will run from May 6 to June 24th there is so much demand that the program filled up before
noon anyone who didn't get didn't get in can add themselves to the wait list via community pass and may be contacted to sub or replace someone if anyone is willing to captain and manage the league for an additional day during the week they may contact Courtney uh at the rec
center uh to discuss options salted Soul Yoga will run on April 26th 9:30 a.m at the Lraine Beach there is no charge to participate uh almost done um bowling night is planned for Wednesday April 30th 6:00 to 8:00
p.m at Bradley Bowl it's $12 per person and includes shoes and 2-hour bowl registration is currently open wreck is hosting a Mother's Day paint and sip event Friday May 9th 7 to 9:30 at the Firehouse Banquet Hall the fee for
participation is $50 per person and includes all materials registration opens late next week and will be listed on the Rex department homepage the Memorial Day weekend fair on the oceanfront is still accepting vendor applications please contact Courtney
Papus with interest in participating please go to the recreation homepage for details and community pass for registration of recreation events the next wreck board meeting is on Monday May 12th 6:30 p.m at the rec center and that concludes my report thank you
Councilwoman and Councilman Weber thank you Mr mayor um we're going to talk a lot about trash and uh first hey thanks for hanging with us everybody this was a this was a long meeting um so on Saturday there was the Clean Ocean Action Beach sweeps which was run by the
organization Clean Ocean Action but our Bradley Beach Environmental Commission members kind of run the run the show and it was a wet and kind of soggy and probably kind of sad show because the weather is really bad this year but for those that came out thank you people that come out and have interest in in um
cleaning our beach um keeping on the subject of trash [Music] um I have asked he just left i asked to find out for the train tracks what is owned by New Jersey Transit and do they
have any interest in cleaning that up because it's basically a mess what's on burough property what's on private property i feel like we need to figure it out i've been told New Jersey Transit will not come and clean it even if you ask it nicely um so our fine DPW this was a while ago this was not recently
but they uh took the training because they need to get trained you know how you train to not get hit by a train while you're cleaning on the train tracks um and the DPW folks took that training and they clean the tracks a while ago i'm kind of personally against that because I want to make New Jersey
Transit do it like if it's your property you have to clean it up but um apparently our DPW supervisor can't stand the trash so much that he just wants to to do it um also and this has been brought up you know through the environmental commission we're looking at this uh and there's some cooperation with the code department because there
are some instances where it's probably private property and people are just letting things go over their fence on the on the train track side and you can even drive down memorial and it's pretty bad so I'm looking to address that multi-prompt pw code all of that working
together and that's going to be Matt's job so good thing I I just told him that and John quick interruption uh Baja Kafon the director of public works told me that two of his folks who are um code enforcement are in fact enforcing code oh right for those houses
there's two um yeah two of the DPW they are parttime are part-time code officers which is good so that helps it all work together um the sad news is that if you decide to do this cleanup along the tracks the New Jersey Transit makes you get a train spotter and it costs like $1,000 a day or something ridiculous so
it's really it's a mess and that's mess to clean up the mess um anyway so for DPW continuing on you've seen their work at the beachfront they're getting ready for those um handicap accessible showers and things uh that's pretty much as far as I can tell close to being done at
Evergreen and is proceeding um up north towards Cliff um the last brush pickup for you to put brush out at the curb is May 12th so get your brush out to the street um it's kind of it for town i I
want to know who likes a good birthday party come on everybody okay who likes to sing happy birthday okay who has ever gotten to sing happy birthday to somebody that's 100 years old not it oh Barb Penny has yay okay
that's right all right there so this is the story on this is you know you run for office you get voter list and you look at voter list and you you know you knock on doors and whatever but if you get this list from certain from the county it has birthdays with it and as I'm doing this multiple
times I noticed wow there's some people that have lived for a long time which is the really nice way to say that um and I noticed that there's somebody in this town that's going to turn a hundred years old in May and guess what we are gonna make a big deal out of it and you are all gonna be part of this yes yes
applaud applaud it's gonna be great you're gonna love the house 50 years ago they've had a house in town for 50 years kind of like they moved here you know after COVID or something and 50 years it's amazing um I'm going to make a giant card i'm kind of working on it right now but
we're gonna I'm going to bring it to the next meeting where we're going to sign i'm going to bring to the school we're going to sign I'm going to bring it to the seniors i'm going to sign it so every if you have a meeting of more than two people call me and I'm going to bring the card and everyone's going to sign it um we are this is the part I wasn't sure about i'm working through
the daughter the hundredyear-old party it's not a surprise but yeah so it's May 16th the birthday's May 15th the party the family's going to gather at their house on Third A on May 16th and they wanted they said "What about like a little like a mini parade like a procession of I was like I don't know
about that." And this guy was like "Yes fire trucks police cars the whole thing." So Matt's in charge of that okay i think you be able to join the process procession after we do a procession we're going to do a proclamation from the mayor or
whomever declaring the the day you know her birthday a special day in Bradley Beach and then I believe hopefully a hundred of us or however many we're going to stand in this person's front yard we're going to sing happy birthday to them while they're on their porch are you with me yay this is like a feel good thing i'm super Yeah super sweet to make
this happen it's going to be a group effort if it all happens so thank you and thank you in advance would it be more in the evening time oh sorry great 4 4:30 in the afternoon so we're going to get hopefully you know people at the end of their workday we're going to get
as many people as possible so um stay tuned for that there'll be some some an item in the town newsletter uh coming up so have some more details we will have one more meeting we will do the actual proclamation here after at the following meeting so it'll happen and it'll be at
the following anyway um and uh just want to say happy Passover happy Easter to everybody and thanks for hanging with us for a long meeting appreciate it thank you Councilman and and while Councilman Weber's working on that 100y year anniversary departing the rest of the council will be working for Bradley
Beach right doing all the all the hard things um on that note Councilman Hoiki okay uh a police report um we'd like to note that April 13th to the 19th is National Telecom Communicators Week but we
recognize and thank our dispatchers the crucial role they provide both the public and the department it's a difficult job dealing stressful calls for help when people are in panic and quickly organizing and sending the help they need dispatchers also have to keep
track of everything that is going on including our officers in extremely dangerous situations all while keeping their cool police officers get thank you for your service um on occasion when you run into them on the street or you happen to come across them at an event
or um or they pull you over on on the road thank you for your service um but everyone seems to forget to thank the dispatchers uh and since they are rarely seen and they work behind closed doors so if you have the opportunity um reach
out and tell our dispatchers uh you know thank you for your service um we also want uh the public to know that the uh DEA Drug Enforcement Agency takeback event is occurring on Saturday April 26th from 10:00 a.m to 2:00 p.m this is
the opportunity for the public to dispose of unused or unwanted medications here at police headquarters uh we cannot take any needles or inhalers um and electronic smoking devices must first have the batteries removed uh any other form of over-the-counter or prescription
medication is fine uh for further information follow our social media or feel free to contact headquarters for details as far as police uh activity news uh since last council meeting um we have to report a a 21-year-old man from
Newark was arrested and charged with burglary and theft stemming from a stolen motor vehicle investigation uh the vehicle was stolen in November 2024 and upon locating the vehicle the detective bureau was able to obtain forensic evidence linking the man to the crimes warrants were out on the subject
for several months until he was ultimately arrested and committed to the county jail um also a 16-year-old juvenile was issued a summones for driving without a license and the vehicle's owner an adult out of Bradley Beach was issued summones for allowing
an unlicensed driver to operate his motor vehicle the investigation started when a 16-year-old juvenile left the vehicle running and unlocked while running errands at which point it was stolen the vehicle was later recovered in
Asbury Park and the police determined the owner had allowed the unlicensed teenager to utilize the car for errands that's against the law a 58-year-old man from Belfford was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia following a field contact
the subject was seen acting suspiciously around unoccupied parked motor vehicles and upon contact he was also found to have an active content of court warrant um in addition an officer from our K9 unit was deployed to Azray Park to assist the Mammoth County Sheriff's
Office in a narcotic search and motor vehicle uh the K9 had a positive alert um and also the Bradley Police Department also arrested two individuals on an active contempt of court warrants so um gentlemen extend to the force uh
thank you for your service um I was just uh my report for the fire department will come the next meeting but I just want to say it was a fantastic fish fry last Friday it was a great turnout um great fish and little co-law and if you weren't there you
missed a great little event um and the first aid squad also assisted in that um event um so their report for the operational period ending April 15th the squad responded to nine day two nine day calls and two night calls for a
total of 11 calls uh 10 were for medical one for fire the squad provided medical overwatch for a run of Palooa from Asbury Park through Bradley Beach as well as providing medical overwatch and staffing assistance for the fire department's annual fish so somebody
asked earlier whether or not these events so evidently first aid did on that particular event um provide some service on overwatch uh the squad requested no mutual aid for this operational period the squad fulfilled 100% of their assignments for this operational period we are still looking
for volunteers for the first aid um we are we offer free training for qualified individuals anyone wishing to volunteer for first aid squad applications can be found on the burl's website we are also now accepting applications for our cadet program young people 16 to 18 years of
age who are interested in serving the community uh please sign up and my last report is the civil commission uh their meeting is tomorrow night i just want to report that we had a meeting today uh with the office of emergency management
as well as Mammoth County and um Neptune Township regarding the the greater uh storm drainage area so all the way from Lake Alberta and and um Neptune Township drains all the way down through
to Silven Lake and so they were very interested in what we were doing uh with lake improvements and we've been trying to coordinate upstream what is going on and so we had some very interesting outcomes of that meeting um looking to see how we can better partner with our
neighbors as well as the county um and um trying to identify exactly where those sewers go and how we can um help each other with the studies and um how to control water flows whether it be quality and or quantity uh so that was a beginning we're also going to be looking
at Fletcher Lake um and making sure that we are coordinating with that lake as well as well with um the township and county looking at upstream and and looking at this with a broader um perspective of what we can do for hardening and resilience so that's my
report thank you Councilman i'll begin my report by echoing your comments the fish fry was a lot of fun and uh great I think it was a great turnout the fish was very good and uh you know continue to encourage others to
join in the future um most of you are aware of our maritime forest that a number of years ago uh we dedicated the the area to uh former mayor Julie Shrek um what uh we are just beginning to pull
together is a um a ceremony that will be held again uh honoring Julie Shrek but really uh just updating the maritime force we have signage that we're going to add that'll provide a small picture and a brief bio of the mayor um her
family plan most of her family plans to attend including her daughter who has probably not been back to Bradley Beach and John how many years long time it's been a while well actually she was she I know last year was last year or two okay
so but she kept the low profile she did this time she'll be out there for kept her head hopefully you know she will enjoy seeing her mother recognized in this way the date uh please mark your calendars june 27th at 5:00 p.m more to
come on that but um that should be a very nice event um a lot of work happening at our beach we've talked about this before i won't beat it to death other than to say uh DPW is doing a great job implementing wheelchair access facilities that will take showers
10- foot wide Moby mats on two of our beaches Evergreen and Cliff um including these drop off pickup and drop off areas working with engineers of Avakian to make sure we get county approvals and so forth so we're also going to cut back um
sight triangles make it you know easier to see more safer so a lot going on at the beach we're getting ready for Memorial Day there um went to uh two functions at the Bradley Beach Elementary oh I'm sorry
Council President Denovo we're saving you the best for last i was wondering i'm like what happened it's okay but yes I jumped again you've got to sit next to me so I have a better reminder of I will be there next time i promise well you are
you will be the best for last but I'll finish my report i'm on a roll here as you can probably tell i can tell um the um uh I started mentioning the Bradley Beach Elementary School jane that's what triggered me i'll let you talk are you planning to speak to the elementary
school at all yes yes okay i will steal your thunder other than to say I attended a wonderful play it was great um and these performances by our elementary students are awesome if you can sneak away and watch an hour and a half or so or two hours of a play it's a
lot of fun um Fallen Heroes uh many of you may have received a letter from me um asking if anyone's interested to consider making donations to our fallen heroes trust uh you heard tonight we um have identified
John A quinland to join the list of our fallen heroes we will build we have a large boulder picked out it's really I think very impressive looking uh stands probably four or or more feet tall uh in a triangular shape it'll have a brass
plaque that's 30 in by 20 in it will name again uh the heroes that are currently captured on our World War II monument uh 12 names I believe 12 names there and a Vietnam veteran who died as a fallen hero uh and we will add Mr
quinnland to that list for this new monument that will be placed at in Rally Park so [Music] um that was important for me to make sure I got out just in case anyone does care to make donations uh we're trying
to avoid spending taxpayer money and the thing I wanted to make uh mention of about the budget discussion we had today that um that I think is very good news i just want to remind people you heard our CO talk and you heard uh council woman
um Greenblat ask you know what parts of our costs are flexible what are fixed and you probably heard a vast majority of them are fixed um between salaries and uh debt service and so forth um what no one mentioned but I want to make sure
you're all aware we are also looking at ways to increase revenues so where you can't decrease uh expenses you try to increase revenues and that also keeps our taxes down and we are in the process of u uh creating sign agreements shared
service agreements uh adjustments to fines that I mentioned in the past that haven't been updated in 25 plus years um all in right now we estimate that in a full here that'll generate another 300,000 well we've already signed up for that'll generate another 300,000 of
revenue which is roughly 4% of your taxes so if we were to look at next year starting out at a 3% tax increase this new revenue could offset that increase completely a as an example so um just want you to know we are all working
diligently to make sure that we manage your taxes as effectively as we can and we do have some good revenue lined up in the future and with that said I have now saved council president Dean Denovo for last i promise I'll be brief uh the
meeting tomorrow night I mean um next week April 22nd so I'll cover that then um the Shade Tree Commission had a meeting on April 2nd they had a few applications um people are removing trees but they're planting trees so that's good news arbor Day is coming up
so mark your calendar april 25th 400 pm the eighth grade graduating class is invited to help plant some blueberry bushes in Pollinator Point which is located on Second Avenue and Beach Avenue so please
attend their fall planting will be probably in September they're going to not do the spring one because a lot of times trees are not happy after they're planted with the dry summers so they're focusing more in the fall their current fund balance is
$14,736 and uh speaking of the school our one of our favorite classes the third grade classes I will be going there and giving them a tour of the trees on the school property i do that every year i work with Jen the art teacher and then they get inspired and
they do art artwork and they also know how to identify trees after we're done so I give them a volunteer sticker so they can spread the love of trees um tourism they had their meeting today they approved their bills list and they
also discussed upcoming events which includes Earth Day i got to get back to this and let's see hold on standby i was multitasking which never works uh Amy Hall where's to
go here we go it will be Mark your calendars for this one because it's a great event it's the fifth anniversary of doing the green fair um May 4th it's a Sunday in Riley Park from 12 to 4 p.m the event has over 35 arts and crafts
environmental vendors there'll be food and live music with a local Grateful Dead cover band called The Grateful Men this year's event showcases the Mammoth County Park Systems interactive nature on the move a live beeh beehive with Ray
the beekeeper crafts for the kids a book swap and even a bubble garden so please mark your calendar um the trust fund is approximately $72,000 currently and I believe that covers everything and um I
just want to say thanks to everybody you know I had lost my mom two weeks ago and you know it's tough and but I had so so many people the residents the the employees the volunteers come together and just send me so many well wishes
that I just want to say thank you we are so blessed to live in a beautiful town with with beautiful people and I I appreciate everyone and thank you thank you Council President okay we will move on to item 14 on the agenda which
is public comments and questions about anything you want yes this was my very first meeting ever wow decad not one dog poop comment
i'm joking come back that's proof that it's different here than it is on Facebook because that's where you read about dog food any other public comments yes with that uh yes Rebecca 49 i wanted to offer my high praise for the three council
members who handled the restaurant votes the way that they did it is refreshing uh and these days often we're the exception and the rule to see government recognize people who do things the right way and hold to its task those who need
to do better so excellent job on that that said something else that I have bit my tongue very hard on for years now since the church thing first went down i'm sorry I have to unload i think this prohibition against the mayor and
council members participating in discussion and vote on something that is within x00 meter of their house is absolutely idiotic i didn't understand when the church thing first broke i want John Weber to be part of the process there's
no conflict of interest hang on hang on hang on hang on there's no conflict of interest for me i know he lives there we all know he lives there if he doesn't have any financial interest in whatever the project that might go there what do I care mayor council president Jane do
you are two very important people in this government and you couldn't participate in a discussion on an issue that had this room on fire tonight that's just dumb to me mr noble how far do you live from Darcy's um I have
multiple conflicts with Darcy's so I I cannot vote but it's my just because I need somebody to explain this to me as as if you were talking to my nine-year-old daughter so is there some limit on how many feet you have to be from somewhere 200 yes so who came up
with that number what is the name of this hang on what is the name of this law yeah we'll let our attorney and and is there no exception or argument that can be made for a town that is what 6 square miles so I'm drawing how many hundred
feet around each of your houses i want Al Gubosi to be the mayor of all of Bradley Beach not the mayor of all of Bradley Beach except the 200 what 200 200 circle whatever around his house it just seems ridiculous to me so Bill thank you for saying that so you you probably saw me run to my computer
because I I wanted to verify that i mean generally the 200 foot rule but but it it's really a smell test right what what is what is a conflict and what is not on this one it's it's very easy because the the Supreme Court in New Jersey has defined it they said any governing body
official that is a member of a governing body if they have an interest if their property is within 200 feet that smells bad they should not be voting and there is a case on this specifically and I can give it I can give you the case for this yep absolutely
it is Gowski g A R A B O W S K by the Township of M Monontlair it was the court that decided on his 200 foot yes they they ruled uh essentially
it was it was a similar application but the owner of the property was on the land use board there and and they voted on an application and it was appealed and that's essentially what we want to avoid someone from Dorsy saying "Well the mayor shouldn't have voted on this he
lives there maybe he doesn't like the fact that there's parking and someone and and we're right back where we started in costly litigation so it has been defined by the Supreme Court unfortunately I tell you to take it up with them but that's impossible right well I look I can you know I've got time
to vent my my eye in different directions and I appreciate you engaging i just don't understand why I should care where Altosi lives i know where he lives right why are you taking from the voters the ability to sort of process okay I get that the mayor lives however
so does the mayor want something bad to happen to the Darcy's property because he lives close by it's very counterintuitive to me did John Weber want to put a bordell or a gambling den in the basement of what used to be the church because he lives right next door no I mean I'm not saying I agree with the rule but let me just Anyway I've
taken up everyone's time no I I mean I think it's it's I'll be quick to it's it's a good exactly what I just said and I I think you're you're right to question it someone standing in the back from Darcy's says "Well the mayor voted that way because he doesn't want say it was
loud music he doesn't want loud music and that's why he's voting that way." And that's exactly what they could say so you're saying it one way and you're right but the other from the other side they could easily say "No he is a conflict." That's what they're trying to avoid and for for the record uh this
happens all the time on the land use board as well not I haven't had it happen as except for Councilman Weber with Church but part of the challenge even though we all want to voice our opinions one way or the other part of the challenge is what our attorney just said
uh we are very strictly uh educated to recuse if there's any potential appearance of a conflict now I understand what you're saying trust me I'm the person who would like to vote and can't but just as our attorney said in the world of land use and for that
matter right here on this council even though we want to talk we are told we are putting the the burrow at risk of a of a lawsuit no I understand look I understand your position and again I'm just you know I'm tilting at the windmill so again thank you for engaging me on it other questions or comments Mr
nash paul the champion 411 and a half Lauren Avenue um obviously the resolution tonight on the demolition of the church I found very moving um very sad for this town um we're losing something that we
shouldn't have lost uh would have been a terrific asset to this town and shouldn't have cost the taxpayers much money at all um I'm not going to dwell on ancient history but we got a bad deal of this
when it was turned into a political issue and we had a administration which in many ways really failed this town um anyway um there was mention of an
auction and that auction in fact is going to be both online and live um I think the viewing starts on April 23rd um and the online auction I think starts up soon after that the live
auction is on April 30th at 100 p.m and I encourage people to take part in this auction and uh preferably to come in and see it live uh even if you don't bid on anything it's a last chance to see the
sanctuary of the church and the large shepherd's hall that adjoins it unfortunately the burrow is not going to allow people to see the rest of the building um but those two rooms
are the greatest largest rooms in Brad Beach historically they were always this the center of this town and they're going to be gone by Memorial Day um the auction itself the items many of
them um have been removed by a um a bidder who originally had a deal with the former administration and started to remove some of the stained
glass windows and also um many of them the stained glass windows have not been removed um there's a very short window of time between the auction and May 12th for biders who actually bid on
these stained glass windows that are still in place to actually have them removed and this is posing a problem u the original u who was interested in a lot of the stained glass windows was the the Long
Branch Historical Society and the Church of the President's Group and I went with their president Jim Foley um and the auctioneer a week ago to take a look and to sort of talk about what items they actually were going to
be bidding on and everything has changed from what they originally had been planning on bidding on they're now not planning on bidding on many of the major windows that uh we thought that they were going to be bidding on that are
still in place well the the historical society actually had um wanted to um have two of those windows and were told actually by you Matt that those were unavailable because they were going to the Long Branch
Historical Museum in fact they don't want those two windows down so there there's an issue on not just on um whether the historical society will have to bid on those windows or whether they can be granted
um and more importantly how are we going to remove those windows um it could be quite expensive to remove and I'm appealing to the community um to make donations to the historical
society to help us um save these windows if they are not purchased by us or by other biders who don't want to pay the money to have them removed they're going to be destroyed and the two large windows that I'm
interested in are the two most historic windows as far as Brad Beach is concerned one is the window that has an image of Sarah DS which John Weber knows all about although he was never allowed to vote on any of this but basically
Sarah DS was the the president of the women's Christian tempers union in New Jersey and uh was quite active in the Methodist church she has a window with her image on it and and that's fairly
fairly important to the town that I did the other one is a beautiful window in the Sher Hall which was dedicated to William B bradner and for those of you who know the history of the town william B bradner was actually along with
Bradley the founder of the town and Bradner developed the whole north end of the town down in McCay and was actually started developing it a good 20 years before Bradley started dividing up lots anyway those windows shouldn't be
destroyed and we're going to try to get them out but there's going to be a little bit of financial difficulty so I appeal to the bureau to the community um if you wish to donate to us you can go to our website bbhistory.org
you'll find that there is a donate place and you can make an electronic donation or you can write a check to the Bradley Beach Historical Society and address it to care
of to us at at Burough Hall 701 Main Street um please let's not have all the historic artifacts destroyed and that brings up just a couple of more things
um the church bell um nobody seems to be capable of getting that down and I'm hoping that that we can work a deal with the demolition company themselves to somehow get that down without smashing it i think the burrow might want to have
that um for some future location who knows it just seems a shame to lose that bell it was a a great symbol of this town for many many years and just to give you a sa story on
it it was actually donated by the school children of Bradley Beach in 1900 um they all collected their pennies um and basically purchased that belt so anyway um enough said um please come
to the auction thanks thank you thank you other comments Mr co j Co 612 Avenue um Miss Green I just had a question about congratulations on this grant application the 32,000
because it's being it's for the sewer is that going to be paid for out of the sewer fund and not the general tax repair fund it will ultimately it'll be covered by the grants yes but it's going to be
paper out of the sewer and should we receive the grant it will the grant will go back to the sewer and and then on this OEM generator for recreation I I thought there was like a good publicity we got a generator from the sheriff's office like in November that OEM got was
that not for was that for I mean the firehouse has a generator um I don't know i don't know what that one was for or where it is what's the location i was I was advised by Norm Goldfarb at the recreation meeting about this generator
so I don't think it's a generator that we've already received so I'm not sure one on Facebook with like pictures with the sheriff's office and OEM and we got this generator what's the question TJ was it on the bill they're from the same generator or do we
you know again I'm just trying to figure out where it's going to go I don't know yeah I don't know what shot what was your source it was Norm Goldarb at the I can I can ask him and get back to you he norm for the record did tell me that he
did acquire a generator I don't know if we're talking about another generator though that that's why I'm asking okay can we be specific but that that'd be great we'll find out he did acquire one u someone else it is used i I think it was used from the sheriff's office or something you know something Yeah it was
a good thing so yeah um and then I I do want to um congratulate you on on Mr barrett's work and also um I I really look forward to getting on schedule with the I was hoping it was going to be July but now he said it'll be August for the
2024 audit the state extended August he may complete the audit before um it's interesting we've gone past the date and they never get fined so I don't understand yeah you know but thank you very much and we're getting there thank
you other comments questions yes quick question lois Walter 123 Lake Terrace i appreciate all the work you did to get the grant or the work that you're doing to get the grant for the sewers is is my understanding that that's for the south
end of town is that for the entire town it's for the entire town the plan has been for the entire town it began at the south end of town because it was the lowest elevation the south part of town is like basically 40% of town been done started in the south so now we have a
working correct right thank you and one of our challenges as it got more and more expensive the the sewer uh infrastructure you know improvements enhancements um the cost got so great that there was
pressure on on the burough council to find less expensive ways to continue the enhancements including I mentioned earlier lining the sewers and we are unanimously in agreement that we're not going to line anywhere uh we're going to continue to replace these hundred-y old
terracotta pipes perfect thank you any other comments questions anyone on Zoom seeing no hands I will close public comment uh there is no executive schedule session scheduled for this
evening so with that I will make a motion to adjourn all in favor yes