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No, he's been amazing. Sorry. So we have followers. Good thing is that doesn't make sense anywhere. Good times. Good times. without him. Everybody, please rise for the pledge of
allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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 new coaster on December the 19th of 2024 that a copy has been placed on the bubble board of the burrow hall and that a copy has been
filed with the municipal clerk. Please be advised public attendance for meetings through Zoom as a courtesy. If for any reason 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 in-person quarrel. Mr. Noble
here. Miss Greenblat here. Mr. Nikki here. Mr. Weber here. Mayor Gubosi excused. Good evening everybody. As you hear, Mayor Gossi is not here this evening, so I will be filling in for him. I have very big shoes to fill. I think he's a
size 12. It's my honor to be here and um it's especially my honor to start with a presentation with the oath of office for pro prohibition probationary police officer Stephen
Scott. Um Chief, would you like to say a few words for us? Uh first and foremost most I'd like to thank the mayor who's not here, the council, uh the business administrator, our burough attorney who all of you gave me the time to express
some uh staffing concerns that I had, some retention concerns that I had. Thank you so much for being so understanding, uh so nice to work with such a great team and led us here to tonight. So with that, I would love to introduce our 19th full-time police
officer, Stephen Scott. All right. Um, David Scott came to us from Point Pleasant Beach as a full-time class 2 halfway through the summer. Uh, he's been training ever since. He's doing a great job. He's going to be a great uh, addition to our department. I wish you
all the luck in the world. Uh, Stephen has a bachelor's degree from Keen University, grew up in the Brick Point Pleasant area. Um, and I look forward to working with you. I wish you all the best. Tonight is your night. So, enjoy it with your family and your friends. Congratulations. Welcome aboard.
Thank you. Okay, you're going to repeat after me. I, Stephen Scott, I, Steven Scott, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States
and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey. that I will bear true faith That I will bear true faith and allegiance and allegiance to the same and to the same Oh, okay. to the same and to the governments
to the same and to the governments established in the United States established in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people that I will faithfully that I will faithfully impartially
and partially and justly and justly perform all of the duties perform all of the duties of the class two of the class two against professional probationary Sorry. Probationary police. Sorry, that's my typo.
Special special. You got to erase already. Special law enforcement officer. Special law. For the police department. For the Bradley Police Department. According to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability.
So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. How nice treat. We'll do a quick household. Yeah. Oh, get out of the way here.
Right. Now, Chief, is it true that with patrol and Scott coming out, all the male members of the force are going to grow mustaches? Yeah. I don't know. Okay, I'm going to switch sides. Perfect.
Awesome. All right. question. I want to thank everyone along the way. uh the council police department really helped me out here. So, I really appreciate and thank you everyone for
being here. So, I'm going to do the resolution, Erica. Yes. Okay. So, I'd like to make a motion that we approve resolution 2025-280, appointment of probition probationary
police officer, Steven Scott. Do I have a second? Second. Probationary. Uh, Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Greenwood, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Gossi, excused. Well, as fascinating as our meeting is,
and I invite you to stay. I don't have to say that. Thank you. I'm not sure if Okay. Yes. Oh, my notes. Thank you.
his grandfather. Next up, we have a proclamation. This is September 11th, Remembrance Day. Have a good night, guys. Thank you. And um Councilman Wiki, would you like to take the honors?
Thank you. September 11th, Remembrance Day. Whereas September 11th, 2001 was etched into America's memory when 19 terrorists attacked us with barbarity unequaled in our history. And whereas while we
continue to recover from the loss of innocent lives, the spirit of the United States of America has been revitalized, giving way to expressions of patriotism. And whereas we as a community wish to honor the heroic service, actions, and sacrifices of first responders, law
enforcement personnel, state and local officials, volunteers, and countless others who aided the innocent victims of those attacks, risking and often sacrificing their own lives. And whereas from the tragedy of September 11th emerged a stronger nation renewed by a
spirit of national pride and a true love of country. And whereas we honor and cherish the memory of the thousands of innocent victims that were lost. And we extend our thoughts and prayers to the victims families and honor the heroic men and women who risk and sacrificed
their lives so others might survive. And now therefore, be it resolved on behalf of the governing body of the Burough of Bradley Beach to be proclaimed Wednesday, September 11th, 2025 as September 11th, Remembrance Day in the Burough of Bradley Beach and urge our
citizens to set aside September 11th as a day to mourn, reflect, and rededicate ourselves to ending terrorism and honor the victims of September 11th by reaffirming our commitment to sustaining our new found patriotism. will claim
this second day of September 2025. Next, we have the approval of minutes. I'd like to make a motion that we approve August 19th, 2025 council business meeting minutes. Second, Mr. Noble? Yes. M. Greenblat? Yes. M. Mr. Nikki?
Yes. Mr. Weber? Yes. Mayor Kubosi, excused. Next on the agenda, item eight is public comments and questions pertaining to the September 2nd agenda items only. If you have other comments, you can do that at
the end of the meeting. Does anybody have any comments or questions on the agenda? See Oh, yes. Okay. 3024th Avenue. Um, I know that we're approving something related to the monies being or the for the uh
rebuilding of the wreck center stuff. We've had this debate earlier in the year, but I wanted to ask if there's still a possibility to do dedicated pickle ball courts versus four courts perpendicular to a tennis court where
there's lines every two feet for a tennis player to not be able to see the court. And so if any opportunity to still change that, I know even if it's on today, I understand. I know this has been discussed extensively with the mayor and
this is the plan that we're going to go with and um it's the majority people that we've heard from and we're all that's just a question like who are the people? Yeah, because if you were to ask
a tennis player, not somebody who says, "Maybe one day I'll play tennis." I don't know how to describe it without being discriminatory, but I'm I grew up playing tennis. I love tennis. I wish I could still play tennis, but and when I go back to tennis, I don't want to play
on a especially a tennis court that has four pickle ball courts that are perpendicular. Most of them are um parallel whole lines, so it's not as not as tricky on the eyes, but you cannot see the tennis court. I don't care what the color lines are. You cannot see a
tennis court when there's other lines every two feet. It's literally every two feet. So, I just again just wondered what the opportunity is if there's still an opportunity to relook at that even when there we know we're going to resurface it. We know we're not going to
change the footprint of where the pickle ball courts are, where the basketball court is, where everything is positioned. So, I know that came into question. Was there room to kind of shuffle things around that being too cost prohibitive? But is there any way to You've discussed this with the mayor
previously, correct? Not one-on-one, you know, but everybody asked me and I was like, they're going to just put down it right on top of it. Well, Shana is the liazison to the rec center. So as the as the liaison I just want to share with you that after we had
this this initial uh conversation um and this was brought up by you and I think um Mr. as well. Two people, right? No, I I understand. So, I brought all of this information back to as the liaison back to the rec board and to the rec director
and they were very firm that that they don't want to eliminate the opportunity for tennis that there are people who come to play tennis and that they feel very strongly that they want to keep that opportunity there to continue for people to be able to continue to play
tennis. You know, that's the information I got back from them. It wasn't really for me to question it despite the fact that there were two very strong voices that came forward and perhaps others in the room. Um, I just have to ask them, the people who made the decision, do they play tennis?
Do they play pickle ball? You don't have to answer that. I can't answer that. But they're very specific sports and pickle ball people will play on a tennis court. It is true. We have one shot at this. This is it. Maybe 25 years from now, they'll do it again. I'm gonna be,
you know, 80 or 80. But I'm just saying we have one shot at this and I just don't want the survey of the people to be a person there when they're I mean I'm standing here today because there's a big pickle ball chain
going around in the town right now and everybody was like we got to do something about this. Well, you got to go to council meeting. So I here I am at the council meeting because I um just asking again for I guess the record so that I don't get cornered every time I go play pickle ball. Well, is it a distraction for the pickle
ball people? I thought it was more distraction for tennis. I say why bother with tennis court when you can have beautiful dedicated pickle ball. But the answer was what she said if people the ways now they striped it for bolt. It's stripe currently for both and
some people do come and play tennis over even though stripes. Okay. Well, I guess we're not people, but my sense is in there used to be there as to the record like a lot more people play pickle ball than than tennis, but you're saying some people
still do come in and play tennis. So, I think that's kind of basic not going to use it. So it's just I feel like it's a waste when you could have a community really benefiting at this one time shot. So it's a matter of the lines you're saying.
Yeah. And that's the whole point of it, right? You're saying it's the lines for tennis. The lines tennis, right? Usually when you do play on pickle, I don't want to screw anything up, but they're usually parallel. These are across because we're trying to get the four courts in which is great because there's so many people
that want to play pickle ball and that just makes it worse like not even conducive at all for a tennis player. It's it's like if you put five tennis courts on a football field. How are they going to call the the yards? I'm not I'm not a big football person, but you can't
just put another sport on top of another sport. So, everybody here is all excited about football. Can you imagine if there were 12 tennis courts on a football field? It just doesn't make sense to a tennis player. It's an opportunity.
May I help her out a little bit? Um, can you please come up, Ray, and say your name and address? Ray Festival, 604 Gravity Boulevard. If we were a forprofit business and you were charging money for people to play
pickle ball and tennis, there's no doubt in my mind how you would make more money. I think more pickle ball players at this point. Yeah, actually on both. I'm Adam Rinsky 1152nd Avenue. I've been here 28 years and I've seen one tennis player.
Uh and well, you know, yes, I play tennis, too. I do both. So, I'm not just a pickle ball player, but 100% correct. And at the end of the day, I've served on the record board. I put two children through the school. I love the community. I love to play. Hundreds of people are playing pickle
ball and like I said, maybe I've seen one person in 20 acres play tennis. So, as a community member too, we get people coming from other towns who come and join us. Then they spend time in the town. So, it benefits beyond just the pickle ball play. And Mia couldn't have said it better. Here's our one
opportunity. And if we don't do something about it now to correct the problem, we're going to miss it again. And you know, I'm afraid people are going to start going elsewhere because every other town is getting dedicated their football courts except oursel. So it would be nice to, you know, serve the
majority instead of the minuscule and that's where the difference. Are you comparing to other towns that have the space to be able to have tennis and pickle ball so they can have both? No. No. I'm comparing towns that have changed over a bit. Right. I mean, we we just got a very we
got a very strong response from how many people the wreck board, the recreation board, the recreation director specifically that indicated that there are people who play tennis. I'd like to see that. I would like to see pictures of that because we can show you pictures of the 50 so people on
every Saturday playing. Has she ever shown you pictures of these tennis? Is it a distraction to have the tennis lining um striping when you're playing pickle ball? Nothing's ideal for tennis or pickle ball. Is it distracting? It's not ideal for either. So truly, we're trying to
satisfy both. Totally get that, right? It's nice for both, but it's not good for either. I would say it's confusing more than distracting because sometimes you're not sure which line is which. Well, it depends on Yeah. Sometimes you're like, adjusted, right? We've adjusted because
we've had no choice. And again, you're making it many, many people making that adjustment for maybe one or two people come once in a blue moon versus literally every day you go down that courts, you're going to see people drag those nets out, set them
up, that's how much they want to be there. So, I'll still Mary. Okay. Thank you. Y Paul on the champion 411 and half rain. Um the 22 years I've been here um I've
never considered playing tennis here because your court was so lousy. So I mean I'm sure there are an awful lot of other people on Bradley Beach who love tennis and play tennis who've not even considered playing here. I mean I'm sure the serious tennis players probably join one of the tennis clubs in Spring Lake
or something like that. Um it it's a shame that we are so limited in our space. I mean basically we're fighting over a lousy little patch there. Um and I think we just right now we're stuck with that. U but I do hope
that this burrow will figure out how to get some more land to really have decent tennis courts. Um, I think you'll find that there are actually hundreds of people in this town probably loved to play if there was a good
Thanks Mary. Hey, just say your name and address one. Uh, regarding the pickle ball, we have 686 members on team reach for Bradley Beach
every Saturday and Sunday. And I have some photos if you'd like to see that. It is just so busy and people come and they play and they put up with the conditions because they love the game so
much. And we've developed a community within our community. It's been so wonderful that we've been giving through the rep free uh pickle ball lessons and this has been going on for a while. There's not free tennis lessons because
people want to play pickle ball and we on our own threat have over 35 members. We play all during the week. Now the camp is over. We were playing it early in the morning and then after camp, we use those courts no matter what
condition they are because we're so happy to have them. Ocean Grove has a very small area for their tents and they have compromised for their pickle ball people by putting
up portable nets that they don't have to set up. They build them now and you set up your time because it's very small. Um, if maybe we could consider that, I don't know if it's a greenhouse or what
it once was as an alternate place, put a tennis court there or whatever maybe we could do to utilize that that empty wasted space. You have the floor. I think everybody can be happy with a solution
and we're not willing we are willing to compromise. But again, any good tennis player, they're not playing on sports, right? And they are distracting for a tennis player. You really play tennis. You you don't want to have all those lines of so
please if you have to reconsider that. And if you can do anything about putting forth a better option for the pimple people, kudos. Thank you so much, Marian. Yes, Mr. Coan.
uh Thomas J. Fan 613rd Avenue, you know, at the meeting where Mr. Matle made the presentation about this. You know, I asked if we just abandon tennis, can we get a fifth pickle ball court and really just commit to pickle ball because, you
know, then we can have properly strike courts. I mean, there's a lot of people who cheat in the kitchen because the kitchen the kitchen is not painted properly. So, you know, they're kind of getting their foot in there and I don't like it. So, um, I really feel like if we really just committed to it, and that
was a great, uh, a great comment about, hey, you know, we should do something with the greenhouse, and maybe that's the better tennis court, but I wouldn't compromise on this. Uh, Palmetto Dunes Tennis Club in South Carolina and Hilton Head. It's one of most elite tennis clubs for a very long time. It's now
called the Palmetto Dunes Tennis and Pickle Ball Club, and there ain't too many tennis courts. So, uh, I think if we did commit to it, we do have a nice community and let's let's make a championship or see if we can get a fifth one, get more people out.
I will say also um that um there there is a a consideration to explore opportunities for where the greenhouse is. It's going to cost money. So, you know, that is a vision down the road to determine the best use of that space and dismantling that. That's number one. The
other thing is we right now have shared services with um Neptune City Recreation and um you know there might be an opportunity to explore use shared use of facilities as well. Um so they have facilities also. I believe they have
pickle ball and um tennis. Uh so there are some more things to explore with that. That'd be great. I mean if they could do the tennis, we'll do the pickle ball. We get five courts. That'd be awesome. Great. I mean, I almost got my head cut off when I came back to the wreck board
and talked about uh potentially let's just strike for pickle ball. Um, and you know, they emphatically responded back about tennis that there are people who play tennis. So, I mean, that was the what we got back from, you know, our professional who is the rec director.
So, I mean, just maximizing the utilization, you know, for the money we're spending on this grant and the additional monies, we need to get the biggest bang for the buck for the residents. Sounds like football is really good. But thanks for hearing us out. Thank you, Eileen.
I mean, she'll use Spongebob 4th Avenue. I guess I want to bring up the elephant in the room. Why are we keeping the greenhouse gas? That is such a major eyesore. It's looks like it's falling apart. I drove by the other day and I
saw Kabotas parked inside. What are they doing with that? It there's definitely plans for it, but we can only do so much with so much money. So, we have to just do what has to be done right now. But there is definitely plans to eliminate that and utilize that space.
It's disgusting. And this grant also that we received was for the open spaces at the wreck facility, not for the indoor spaces. But not to change the subject, uh I was driving on Memorial Drive and that gate
from uh from the playground where they play ball was wide open and a kid could very easily have gone out on the tracks. So we have to be more diligent about that. Matt, are you And that's not the first time that's been brought to the town's attention.
Okay, Matt, can we make sure we get a note to the director about that? We'll do. Thank you. All right. Thank you. I said it. Yes. Okay. Great. All right. Any other comments or questions about the agenda items only? Say one more. Sure. I'll just come up and say your
name and your address, please. We're all friends here. Come on up. Mary Montana. I'm new to the We're going to get What's your address? It's I'm in Asbury actually. So, I'm actually looking for a house in in Brown
Beach. Sorry. We have an auction. Yeah, we have an auction though before. That's right. You can buy some land. Yes. I I just sent a picture to my pickle ball community that a pickle ball court at my house. Oh, okay. My opinion is that if you're
going to do the ports over, why do it, excuse my language, half ass and make it both, you know, for both. You're not you're really not helping the community. There's more people that want to play pickle ball and it would be better for the community. It would serve the
community well if you did it as. Okay. Well, thank you so much. It's important to hear from everybody. I appreciate that. I like just wondering could we strike just a thought strike for both but put the equipment have the equipment out and available so the
pickle ball people who proliferate don't have to constantly set it up and put it away. I don't know if that's an an opportunity or not. So it it it you know gives some difference to the um the courts being set up that way and then
for somebody who comes to play tennis to set it set it up. I don't know if that's an option. You said we export it. Okay. And do we have to have I guess the committee the commission wants the lines for the tennis courts. I mean that's the information that I got back. Um
Okay. I mean I'd love to share the information we got today here with them as well, right? And let them know the feedback from the public. Okay. That'd be really helpful because uh this is something we should consider. Thank you guys for being here. I appreciate that. And thank you for the
feedback. Anybody else? I see uh Maryanne has her hand up. Um, Miss Filman, just state your name and address, please. Yes. Uh, Maryann Spilman, 906 Ocean Avenue. Um, I have a question about the
uh bond ordinance for what's uh being described as improvements or renovations to the beach bathroom and concession. But there is no beach bathroom and concession. So, is there something? This is an add-on to after the beach
bathrooms and concessions are built. Okay. It's the pump house located at 54 Ocean Avenue. Uh we have presented this as um turning into two bathrooms. So, it would be for a men's room and a lady's
room with I think two stalls in each one. If I recall, three three stalls and a a small grab and go concession just um with sandwiches or ice cream. I don't know if you saw that presentation that was done.
No, I didn't. Okay. Um I think it's on the website what the plans are, but it's not expanding it. It's going to be remain within the footprint that's there currently. And the good news is that portaotty trailer will go bye-bye.
We'll get rid of that that because that's blocking I think your view of uh the ocean. So now that building would be finally utilized after decades of sitting derelict. Yeah. I'm asking about the money on this
because what it says is that these are uh going to be renovations to the bathrooms and concessions which don't exist. So what I'm saying those bathrooms and and those are going to be built first and then this is additional to what's going to be built in those
plans. Let me take that. Okay. Sure. So So the renovation it's not the building is being renovated to provide two bathrooms. Currently it's an old pump house for the sewer system uh that's no longer being used. But the building itself can be is going to be
retrofitted to accommodate the use of um putting in two bathrooms where you have a trailer bathroom there. Now that trailer goes away, we're going to put install two bathrooms as well as a concession area uh that will be generic that we'll be looking for um a vendor to
come into um for next season. So, the intent is to retrofit the existing building to accommodate two bathrooms and a small concession area. Okay, that's what this says. That's that's what I'm I'm questioning. That's
There are bathrooms in there. Okay. They're just the they're, you know, they're hooked up. There was a shower in there. There's a there's a toilet in there. So, there are bathrooms that do exist in there. So we can't use them because they're just they were for they were for the the the
workers and what from the sewer department back in the day, right? So it does have some plumbing there that needs to be renovated. Okay. But there's no concession either currently. No. And then but the intent is to provide a concession window that
would face the boardwalk. Yeah. You you you give a nice explanation for what this supposed to be, but I would like to see the writing conform to the the words written here to conform to what you just described is
renovating the pump house and creating bathrooms and concessions, but there there are no existing concessions some some form of preliminary toilets. So I think the writing just needs to be more
corrected. Point taken. I would agree with you. Greg, is this something that we need to do? I just I mean I don't think I'm not comfortable telling you can just change the bond ordinance. We'd have to write a bond
council again. Can't bond. Okay. Thank you, Maryanne. And um thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you. Okay. Anybody else? Lo, as there is none, we are going to proceed on to adoption. Now, I'm going to open these
up to the public before we adopt them, but I will read them first. They were introduced and now we're adopting them. So, this is bond ordinance 2025-26. Bond ordinance providing for sanitary sewer system improvements appropriating
$2 million therefore and authorizing the issuance of $2 million bonds and notes to finance a portion of costs thereof. Authorized in and by the burrow of Bradley Beach in the county of Mammoth, New Jersey. Now, I'd like to make a motion that we open this to the public
for any questions or comments. Second. Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Greenblat, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Gubosi, excused. No, it's over adoption. Okay. And uh if I I'll ask you a second. Okay.
I see there is none. I'd like to close. Oh, I'm sorry. Hi. Hi. Okay. This is in reference to this bond ordinance. Yes. Yes. Hi, I'm go through to mom. I'm just curious um how long the bond is for and
how much it will lay our taxes. So, so for clarity, this bond is a $2 million bond for design work for the sewer, but we also have received a grant from the um New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection of $2 million.
But that program basically we for cash we have to have a bond in place and then the grant comes over that and basically the bond um pays back I'm sorry the um grant pays back the bond and so ultimately we are not paying for any of this design work. It will all be covered
by a grant. That's great. Thank you. And 30 years is the answer to the 30. That's good news. Okay. Thank you. Uh any other comments or questions? Okay. I'm going to make a motion that we close
the public um comments and did you want to make additional comments? No, actually Paul just shared it. Okay. Wonderful. And uh and thank you again for your work on this. I know I know you're very instrumental both you guys on this uh this grant. We appreciate that. So I'd like to make a
motion to approve on ordinance 2025-26. Second. Mr. Nikki. I mean uh Mr. Noble. Yes. M green. Yes. Mr. Mr. Wiki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubosi. Excused. Okay. Next, we have Boden ordinance 2025-29. Boden ordinance providing for
renovations to the beach bathrooms and concession located at 54 Ocean Avenue appropriating 50,000 I mean 500,000 therefore and authorizing the issuance of 500,000 bonds and notes to finance a portion of the cost thereof authorized
in and by the burough of Bradley Beach in the county of Mammoth, New Jersey. I'd like to make a motion to open to the public. Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Greenlat, yes. Mr. Ninki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Guboszi, excused. Any questions or
comments on this? Oh, yes, sir. Final call. 6123rd Avenue. I just want to confirm if we answer. Um, this was the result of the uh planning grant that we received and the plans were all done
by CME based on the grant. So, that cost us nothing. Correct. That was $50,000 uh grant that paid for the design. Great. And then the uh the design work reflected the concession would have no uh cooking exhaust system. Um I just
wanted to clarify that was a big issue before. Correct. There's no grill. It's, you know, none of those mechanical systems to allow for a heavy kitchen. No. And the um this bond of 500,000 if you
utilize the whole thing uh is is really attached to the beach utility and not to the taxpayer. So just want to clarif and also you know the the the way the ordinance is written it is specific to 54 ocean. So I think it is actually fine
the way it is. But uh thank you very much. Thank you. All right. Any other Oh, is that her again? She There's a comment. Yes. Okay.
Yeah. No, I I just want to say again, I think this needs to be rewritten before um it is uh it's written accepted by the board. I I have a general dislike for things that are not specific
and this is not. So what we're talking about is the renovation of the uh the pump house and I think it should be written that way to accommodate the specific plans for bathrooms and uh a
concession and that uh expense then is not going that's going to come solely from the bond. the plans that have been made for the renovation of the pump house. It's well, no, it's from the beach fund
will be borrowing money against the beach fund and this this $500,000 bond. We're probably not going to use the whole thing that will provide the money to do these renovations. Is that your question?
Yes. And what what is the what is the tradeoff on the beach fund? What would those funds or otherwise be going to? Well, we wouldn't be borrowing money if we didn't to build some, you know, we didn't need to. But the point is that um the beach
funds a separate fund. So, we're sort of borrowing against that. The way to put it, it's not taxpayer money. Yeah. It's not the point is it's not taxpayer money. If we were if this was for to build something in the middle of town and you know, yes, we'd be borrowing the money against the
taxpayers dollar basically at the current level. Okay. And the plans that are uh that will be referenced here um uh they I I hear that they will not have um any grills or anything like that, but they
will have as concessions. Of course, there will be traffic there because they have to bring their supplies in. and they have to take their trash out. So, there will be additional traffic on Ocean Avenue um because of this. So, has that been considered as well in the in the plans? Is there additional parking
going to be provided? Is there going to be space for the concession people to uh bring their equipment in and out? Yes, that's been considered. Yes. You know, there is a a permanent structure on the south end, the Second
Avenue Grill. That's a permanent structure. Um and then there's a trailer um midway along, you know, Hoola Grillil, I think. There's a a trailer that also has deliveries likely of food. Um and currently there is, you know, another
portable location where there's an ice cream truck and a food truck on the north end. Um so this is really to give the north end um an accommodation for uh bathrooms um in a building that's currently defunct. um while there are
portable bathrooms that are sitting on the prominade which is pretty unsightly. Um so that sorry yeah I agree with that. It's an effort to utilize this space to serve the community better that so that
that's where we we've gotten to this point. Yes. I'm I'm asking about whether there's going to be um special parking arrangements for the deliveries. The trucks that are there. They're they're self-contained. They don't bring uh
deliveries in and out. But I think Miss Greenblast's point was that there's two other big concessions for food and they manage it's fine and there's not any conflict with deliveries. They they probably get deliveries every morning. The Hulig Grill probably gets more deliveries because it's just a small, you know,
it's such a small um place. So the point is that they manage and you said special accommodation was made. It's going to be like a dedicated parking space. Yes. Okay. for that first. We got to keep moving on here. Thank you, Miss Spilman. So, um, at this time, I would like to close the public
portion and adopt bond ordinance 2025-29. Do I have a second? Second. Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Noiki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Kubosi excused.
Okay. Next, we have an adoption. Let's see. We're going to make a motion. Oh, wait. Let me read this first. Ordinance 2025-30, ordinance amending chapter 398, streets and sidewalks of the burough's revised general ordinances to clarify and
simplify the application and inspection process for sidewalk repairs within the burrow. Um, we introduced this in our last meeting and um I'd like to open this up to the public for questions or comments. Do I have a second? Second. Mr. Noble?
Yes. Mr. Green? Yes. Mr. Noiki? Yes. Mr. Weber? Yes. Mayor Gubosi excused. Any questions or comments? Okay. I'd like to close and adopt ordinance 2025-30. Do I have a second? Second.
Mr. Noble? Yes. Miss Greenblat? Yes. Mr. Nikki? Yes. Mr. Weber? Yes. Mayor Huboski excused. Okay. Item number 10 is is communications and uh we have full-time employee memo for multiple bureau departments. I'd like to congratulate the following employees have been
promoted to fulltime status. Amy Hall for tourism and communications. Allison Frell, community development administrative assistant. Paty White, court violations clerk. Jesus Mayor Hernandez, DPW laborer. And William
Young, cord code enforcement officer. So, congratulations to everyone there. Next item 11 is our resolutions. This is our consent agenda. Any questions or comments on these guys? No. Okay, great. So, I'd like to go ahead
and um I guess I should Do you want me to I don't mean to read them. Okay. I'd like to make a motion to approve um consent agenda resolutions 2025-281 through 2025-283. Do I have a second? It's okay.
Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Green, yes. Mr. Noiki, yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. But since one of these is for an outdoor cafe license, I just have to say my part about keeping the sidewalk clear for people with disabilities, anybody
pushing a baby stroller like don't block the sidewalk or feet, right, sir? Four feet. Okay. Thank you for that. That's your public announcement for today. Thank you. We appreciate that. Okay. Next, we have individual resolutions. I a lot of these are self-explanatory. I will ask
the council if they have any further questions or comments as we go through them. We're going to start with 2025-284, a resolution adopting the 2026 Mammoth County multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan. This is done
every five years. I know I have some OEM people here. Let's see. Norm Bob. Hi. And um this is a little bit of housekeeping for them. So I'd like to make a motion to approve 2025-284. Second, Mr. Noble.
Yes. Miss Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Noiki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Guboszi, excused. And next again is another OEM item which is 2025-285. adopting a new and updated statemandated
emergency operations plan and Mammoth County inter mutual aid and assistance agreement. I know this is a lot of hard work on you guys and I appreciate all the hard work you've been doing on this. I'd like to make a motion to approve 2025-285. Second,
Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Gralet, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Kubosi, excused. Next is uh 2025-286 authorizing engineering services with CME Associates for sanitary sewer design and preparation of estimated
construction cost for the first two blocks of Ocean Park Avenue about this one. Um I will just say that ultimately this um design cost will go back and be applied back against that grant uh with
D. Uh but because of the emergency nature of the the work on Ocean Park that we wanted we we decided to advance this um but we are either submitted uh to D for reimbursement as part of that program. Uh so that will be part of the
overall $2 million that we are needing to complete the sewer project for the rest of the so um but again just to try to move things along as quickly as possible. Um we broke this out separately to advance. Okay. Great.
I'd like to make a motion to approve resolution 2025-286. Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Greenblat, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Guboszi, excused. And then we have resolution 2025-287
authorizing award of proposal for professional engineering services with CME Associates for Prominade extension phase one. So is this also under the prominade grant? Yes, this is so um so a month six weeks
ago, eight weeks ago, we had a workshop where CMF presented uh a concept of the prominad which was a limited amount of effort to do some surveying uh conceptually what we would do along the length from um you know from um third
avenue down to second. So um this is authorizing them to begin that work in detail design so that we can understand um the more um in detail what exactly is going to be built, how's it going to be built and then um permitting etc. So this is beginning the design process.
So this is just for the one block at the moment. Yes, that's one phase correct and that's all that we're funded for. So you know it's one phase, right? So are we going to be mindful though of the larger picture of how we want to see the prominade traverse from
there south in case we wanted to jog in or out as we had talked about you know that was yeah that was discussed in the um concept phase that they presented that you know consider these other alternatives and so um that will you know as well as access how do you things
ramp in and out where's the stairwells that type of thing so that will all be u advanced um details for the first phase would be advanced but they'll keep coming back to does this work with the overall vision. So we do have are we going to establish
an overall vision and then back into that first phase is that kind of overall the overall length is there details of jogging it in and out what you're going to do with the lawn areas right like you know gap between the sidewalk and where the boardwalk is currently how
is it going to fit around the second avenue grill. How's it tie into that? Those details ought to be worked out. So what they provided was just sort of conceptually, hey, it's going to run off the sidewalk in this general area. here's where we're going to have, you know, access to the beach. Now, they have to actually engineer it to say what
can work, what won't work, and what are the options inside of that. And then once this design is um is provided to us, then we'll have an opportunity to either workshop it um and have public comments. Oh, absolutely. I I have a lot of I have some eyeballs on this one. So, yeah,
definitely. But the design fees is part of this as well. So, um I'd like to make a motion that we approve 2025-287. Second, Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Greenl, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Kubattozi, excused.
Next is 2025-288 authorization to award the recreation center park improvements to Shore Top Construction in the amount of $340,275. And this is the one that we had. The measurement had to be corrected. It got corrected. So, I'd like to make a motion
that we approve resolution 2025-288. Mr. Noble. Yes. Miss Greenlet. Yes. Mr. Nikki. I just like to comment that, you know, based on the public opinion regarding the um pickle ball courts versus tennis
courts and the consideration of that. There is some, you know, the question was was there time? And I think if we go back and we can award this, but you're talking striping of those courts. So there is an opportunity if we really had to make that change and not provide
tennis. There is a moment here that we have, you know, still a month or so to make that change and and not go forward. So I think we got to absolutely be confident in what we're doing here with tennis. Yes or no? Um and and that decision ultimately we need to circle
back with the administration, correct? and make sure that we're doing the right thing here for the overall community and is there an option to put tennis on a protest court somewhere else or additional you know pitball court somewhere and and an overall plan. Um
but I I will say yes to the warning this um because we still have a moment that we can still change that if we have to. So let's make sure we do our due diligence again. Thank you. to do and did I don't think so.
Yeah. Okay. Wonderful. Okay. Excuse. Next up is 2025-289 awarding a fair and open professional services contract of Phoenix Advisors LLC to conduct a financial analysis of the burough sewer utility to establish
appropriate connection fees and explore privatization private priv privatizing the sewer utility. Um we've talked about this quite lengthly. I think we're good with this. I'd like to make Oh, may I add one comment to this? I
just want to publicly thank Rick uh Balome and uh Jud Shushius for their help uh in um the sewer system itself and also coming to uh accept Phoenix as the winning uh bidder. So I just wanted
to publicly thank them for all their all their work and effort. You hear that Jim? Kudos to you. Thank you very much. Answer Rip. Oh, there he is. Yeah. Oh, great. More than just this is an analysis that we're going to
try and and consider consider the asset versus um the improvements that we're putting and the investment that we have in our current system and whether we want to eliminate a utility that we currently have. Yeah. Uh they'll come back with a
report. present it to the mayor council and then as a governor Bob you'll decide what's best for the uh for the beach is there a time frame on the report uh is finished 60 days sorry gentlemen 60 days yeah from the first meeting
yes I would say we made our job a little more difficult in this analysis but achieving uh grants that we got from the D so we'll be very interested to see how this actually weighs out what is the best thing for the rate which way does this go? So, it's really
important that we do this uh for due diligence to make sure we're making the right ultimate decision for the residents. Who are the rate payers? Great. All right. I'd like to make a motion we approve resolution 2025-289. Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Gralet, yes.
Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Guboszi, excused. Next is resolution 2025-290 approving amended settlement agreement resolving the matter of Hston versus the
Burrow of Bradley Beach DACA NIL 3790-24 pending in the Mammoth County Superior Court. I'd like to make a motion to approve 2025-290. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes.
Miss Green. Yes. Yes. Mr. Noiki? Yes, Mr. Weber. Yes, Mayor Guboszi. Excused. Next, we have 2025-291, a resolution accepting the fair market value determination of the New Jersey Department of Transportation and authorizing the execution of a temporary
site work agreement relating to the replacement of an ADA curb ramp by the New Jersey Department of Transportation as Main Street and Lorraine Avenue. That's a question. Yeah, absolutely. Are we just giving them an easement? Are we selling them a tiny piece of property?
It's an easement. Okay. Because it says when you read the document like Well, it does say something about like sale of property and so that didn't make sense. So, it's an eman significant improvement in pain.
Is this on? So, this is on the corner of Lraine and Maine and it's what on the the 701 the north. So it's on the northwest corner of right here on the corner of the Okay. Yeah. You got to keep in mind main
street is a state highway. So is responsible for maintaining that. They're doing ADA ramps all over the place on the state highway. I'd like to make a motion to approve 2025-291. Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Green. Yes. Mr. Nikki.
Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubosi excused. Next we have 2025-292 authorizing execution of the subdivision plat for 315 through 321 Lraine Avenue and 606 Madison Avenue for
recordordation and perfection of the burough subdivision application to Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Greenlood. Yes. Mr. Noiki. Yes. Mr. Weber. I'm gonna abstain.
Mayor Guboszi excused. You did that and I didn't have to tell you to. Wow. Oh, wow. Okay. Next, I'd like to make a motion to approve 2025-293, authorizing the solicitation of bids at
an open public auction to be held September 16th, 2025 at 6:30 for the sale of four burrowowned residential lots, each with a required minimum bid with and with the burrow reserving the right to reject all bids where the
highest bid is not accepted. Do I have a second? Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Uh, Miss Bringlet, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber. I'm going to abstain. Mayor Guboszi, excused. Next, I'd like to make a motion to
approve 2025-294 bill list for September 2nd, 2020 by you made motion to for that one. We don't have to do it. Got weed. Okay. Sorry, I didn't realize that. Sorry. I told everybody up here except for you.
So, sorry about that. Okay. Okay. Um, thank you, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mrs. Grablat, yes. Mr. Niki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Guboszi, excused. Item 12, announcements. There are none.
13A. Administrator report. I'll be very brief, Council President. One thing I'd like to report to the to the council and the public is we had an outstanding conclusion to the uh beach
revenues for the summer. So, uh, we topped $2 million, reaching $2,21,000. That's just beach revenue. That's, uh, the sale of beaches doesn't include lockers or parking. So, just wanted to report that. And that's my report for
the night. Thank you. Brief and effective. That's very good. Okay. Next, we'll start with Councilman Nikki for his report. Start the other way. Oh, I can do either way. Okay.
Um, we start with um from the fire chief. Uh, for the month ending August 31st, 2025, the fire department responded to 10 day calls and eight night calls for a total of 18 calls. Two were working fires, 10 were fire alarm
activations, three were mutual aid assists into Asbury bark, two were carbon monoxide alarms, and one was a natural gas leak. The department conducted trainings on our first two engine structure fire fundamentals and radio communications.
The department participated in two community events, the national night out which was great and the Bradley Beach 5 acre race 5 acre 5K race um felt it was five acres. There were no requests for mutual aid from other fire departments. The
department fulfilled 100% of our assignments for this operational period. I'm happy to report that the department received one application for membership as a firefighter. So that's fantastic news. Uh we will be looking for uh silicon for volunteers to the fire department and offer free training for
qualified individuals. Anyone wish you to volunteer for the fire department may fire at the burough's website. or the police activity report. Um, a subject was arrested and charged with obstructing the administration of law after police responded to a complaint of
an intoxicated sucket wandering in the middle of the street. Also, a subject was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after police responded to a subject who was being combative with the lifeguards over being removed from the dangerous waters. He
continued his unruly behavior when police arrived to investigate. He was additionally charged under the burough ordinance of interfering with a lifeguard. Police arrest the two subjects on active contempt of court warrants and investigated five motor vehicle accidents
and first save for the operational period ending the second of September. responded to 10 day calls, nine night calls for total 19 calls, 10 were for medical, five for fire calls, three calls involved water rescue. The squad provided mutual aid to Azra Park. The
squad requested no mutual aid affiliate this operational period. Total calls for the month were 47 three events. Squad fulfilled 100% of their assignments this operational period. We are still looking for volunteers to the first aid squad and also offer free training for qualified
individuals. Anyone wishing to uh volunteer for the first aid squad. Applications can be found on the burl's website. And then lastly on the report on Silven Lake um there was a uh commission meeting um three weeks ago um
and we went over the status of the improvements that are um underway uh design and being planned. Also, um we had a a technical uh committee that met last week and we were informed that the
Department of Defense uh came through and awarded uh Mammoth University and Litorial Society a $200,000 grant to continue the planning activities on living shoreline and restoration of the lake. So that that was the um really
that original $200,000 was what was the beginning of all the work at at um Silven Lake. And this is another $200,000 to help complete the studies uh that we're going to need to be able to advance the projects um for the
following phases um including the potential the water quality channel or what people are frequent dredging um at some point in time. So this is good news. This is again additional grant money. It will continue to advance. And then also I just want to announce that there is also a special council meeting
uh next week Monday specifically on Silven Lake uh regarding the proposed improvements at Silven Lake as well as Bradley Boulevard. Uh so that's uh between uh I believe 6 to 8 correct. Um that's going to be advertised on Thursday. Yes. Um officially and it's
already on the website. So um just to let everybody know to come on. Thank you. Go. Next we have council. Uh I never know if I say council woman, council person, whatever you're comfortable with. So
regarding uh the fle Fletcher Lake, um a Fletcher Lake cleanup will take place in early October. Details will be forthcoming. Um the next commission meeting will be on September 11th at 6 PM in this ch council chamber and public is welcome. Uh and I just want to share
that um and this was something that was on the bills list but the um the lights for the the single air raator that the Fletcher Lake um commission was going to install. Unfortunately, they do not fit the air raator. So they're it's being
returned. Another set of lights will be purchased and those lights will be installed next season uh 2026 when the air raiders get turned back on. So I just wanted to let everyone know that um the record has not met since our last
council meeting. Uh ma open play runs every Friday 1 to 3 at the Bazi Center. Salted soul yoga continues through September, our local summer. Check the yoga schedule on the recreation web page for details. The senior club meets up in
September, Wednesday the 24th at noon. Their meetings take place on the fourth Wednesday of each month at the Bazi Center. Fall Bachi League will be running. Details will be announced shortly. Uh keep an eye on the the recreation page on the burough website
for all of their activities. I have seen a bunch of things that have been uploaded. Um, recreation will be hosting its fourth annual trunk or treat on October 26th in the m municipal parking lot from 1 to 3 p.m. Signups are currently open. Follow the link to the
rec page of the burough website to participate as a decorated trunk handing out candy. The rec board's next meeting is Monday, September 8th, 6:30 p.m. at the rec center. Uh, the arts council met Monday, August 25th. They celebrated
their summer season with a very successful and well-attended porch pop-up arts exhibit Saturday, August 23rd at the James Bradley, where 15 local visual artists displayed their paintings, drawings, and photographs. Special thanks to the James Bradley for
graciously hosting their space. The council is planning a townwide event and celebration of visual and performing arts next June 2026. in addition to smaller venue events throughout the fall and winter. The Arts Council will hold its next meeting Monday, September 15th
at 11:00 am in the Byz. And that's my report. Council Weber. Thank you, Council President. Um I will also be somewhat short here. First, congrats to uh provisionary officer
Scott. Uh, any meeting where we start off with all of our finest in their dressed whites and then half of the police forces. Good meeting. This one made the quick change though. Did you notice? Anyway, great great way to start the meeting.
Um, the environmental commission uh we had an event removing notweed, the dreaded Japanese notweed, the invasive plant from the maritime forest. That happened a week ago Saturday. About 15 people came out. They removed like 30 bags of notweed. It was a huge amount. The weather was nicer than the first
time they did it. I was not there. So, thank you to everybody that did hard work. If there's anybody here, but somebody's pointing I I Yes, I was not there. U but a lot of hard work was done. Uh I got to thank DPW because they make sure that that stuff gets carded away and doesn't get sent to the
landfill for a week because it's like an invasive plant. They don't want to spread it more. um based on the administrator's fantastic report about beach revenue. We also have to thank our DPW there because um it's just you can't have numbers like that without a great local beachfront and that's those guys
are working really hard. Um all those people make a lot of garbage and um our guys carded away. So, thanks to them. And I just have to point out that once again, we've had a discussion in this room about how to best use our limited public resources and our limited public
space in this town. If only we owned a piece of land as a town and we could do some of the things that people are asking for. This is uh we keep having this conversation and I think we came up with the wrong answer. So, um that is it. And and Madame President, I have to say, I know you still have to give your
report, but we're clocking in at 67 minutes here, but this is a record. So, thank you very much. I'll keep my report. Thank you. Yes, we're we're keeping things moving. This is good. Thank you, Councilman Weber. So, um, as far as my reports, the
Shade Tree has a meeting tomorrow, so that's done. Bordered, I have to give kudos to these people. These are volunteers, and they work so hard and they they're doing a beautiful job with our school. They had a retreat on August 19th and they focused on reviewing
progress over their five-year strategic plan evaluating key priorities and setting both district and board of education goals for the upcoming year. A few highlights of that they are going to continue to see positive trends in student achievement. The district is
aligning curriculum initiatives to further improve outcomes across all the grade levels. They're strengthening partnerships with families and the community, ensuring transparency and collaboration and also planning for
future facilities security enhancements and wellness initiatives. And these initiatives are all part of their continued work towards improving student success and preparing our students for high school. And again, we thank you for all your hard work. And uh speaking of
hard work, wow, tourism, they wrapped up an amazing season of entertainment. But wait, there's more. They are going to do a fall concert series. It will start on September 13th from 4 to 6:00 p.m. all
the way through October 25th. So, the local summer begins. So, yeah, kudos to Amy and the commission. You guys did an amazing job and uh we look forward to more music in our in our beautiful burrow of Rally Beach. And at this time, I'd like to
open up public comment. Any comments or questions? Um just come on up. Just state your name and address. Ray, come on up. Just say your name and address. Festival 604 Bradley Boulevard. My comments and presentation tonight are
about the council's 9825 meeting dedicated to Silvin Lake. I'm standing here at the meeting tonight because my request for equal time for myself and others to present at the 9825 meeting dedicated to Silven Lake was denied. Like any issue, there are always two
sides expressing diverse and differing opinion. Given the present conditions, I'll do my best to share some of my views tonight and on 9825. For residents standing with me who believe the Barrow's plan to narrow Bradley Boulevard is not the best way to save
Silven Lake. Barl's plan is not in the best interest of the residents living on the street and for others that frequent the street. Because I do not have enough time to share all the information here tonight, I will be in the parking lot after the meeting tonight to share the full presentation and to strategize with
you about how we can collectively use our a loted time to debate and dispute the plan the plans presented by the professionals. A new sign was posted in the council meeting room earlier this year. It's behind you. Take a look at it. The barrel proudly serves you, our
residents. The residents are not just unhappy. They are very unhappy. We are very unhappy because the barrel has brought forward only one solution to the problem delivered by the professionals working for them that are doing what
they're told to do. We are also very unhappy because much of the information has no data behind the science and is misleading or exaggerated. It's clear what the residents want. There is no ambiguity. We're asking you to do the right thing. Repair the bulkhead wall
without narrowing the street. Narrowing Bradley Boulevard is a permanent change. If the council votes to narrow Bradley Boulevard, it will forever change the neighborhood we love and live in. This is unlike any ordinance that lowers the speed limit or deciding when we can ride bikes on the pavilion. This change
cannot be undone. Many families have lived along the lake for decades, enjoyed unobstructed views of the lake and visitor and the visitor traffic it welcomes. Other families like mine specifically looked for a home on Bradley Boulevard with the wide street and lake view. An informal survey of the
home owners facing the lake was unanimous. Don't narrow the street and don't install a sidewalk. That was unanimous survey collected by uh Mr. and Mrs. What is driving this radical change, I ask? And why have the professionals presented only one option?
The homeowners are overwhelmingly against the pharaoh's proposed changes. Bradley Boulevard is not a collector street. It's a major collector street. Bradley Boulevard in Bradley Beach is classified as a major collector street. This designation comes from the New
Jersey DOT and reflects the role of the road plays in the local traffic. The New Jersey DOT 2019 data identified it as a major urban major collector with a speed limit of 25. The other major collectors are Brimley uh are Bradley Beach of uh
Brimley Avenue, Ocean Avenue, and Main Street. In Bradley Beach, there is no difference in the minimum street width between a collector street and a major collector street with a standard set at 44 ft. With Brimley Avenue grandfathered with a width of 40 feet, four feet below
the min minimum, it makes no sense why the barrel would reduce the only other east west major collection collector street to the minimum standard. Straightforward solutions to overcome decades of neglect. The councilmen and professionals continue to emphasize that
the issues with the lake are complex, but they're not. Three items are in need of repair. The lake has a malfunctioning or non-functioning gauge and release water into the ocean. This is like your toilet not being able to flush. The lake outflow pipe to the ocean has structural
integrity problems and is at risk of bailing. This is like the sore pipe from your house to the street not uh you know not working. The lake has a bulkhead along the north side of lake that's collapsing. This is like the neighbor's retaining wall falling entering soil and eroding Europe. This is decades of
neglect. decades and lack of maintenance by Bradley Beach and Avon, not having to do with anything in this room. This goes back decades, has led us to where we are today with multi-million dollar projects to uh fix the problem. The root cause of the problem, I have attended many Silven
Lake Committee meetings, many Bradley Beach Council meetings. Not once have I ever heard anyone talk about the root cause of the problem. Finding and knowing the root cause of the problem is the only thing that will prevent this from recurring. Silven Lake is filled with sediment. The sediment enters the
west end of the lake from Neptune and other tanks. There are only two solutions. Filter the water or stop it. Since stopping it is impractical, we're only left with one solution. You have to filter the water. Although it's never been specifically stated or communicated
in this way, I believe the barrels professionals are in agreement with the corrective action. If we don't filter the water, any actions taken to improve the health of the lake are for not and we will be kicking the can down the road, leaving the problem for our children to deal with. And I will
continue this one week from today. Thank you. We look forward to seeing you there. Ray, any other uh questions or comments? Anybody? Mr. W. Uh Thomas J. Coan, 6123rd Avenue. I just want to thank the mayor even though he's not here
uh for his hard work on uh resolution number 2025-290 uh the superior court settlement uh with uh officer Hston versus Bradley Beach case. Uh this is another example of uh
cleaning up what would have been uh done under the Larry Fox and Lita machine and it's more work that everyone had to do. It affects our pockets. Even if the joint insurance fund is paying for it, our premiums are going up due to the mismanagement. So, just want to make
sure the public understands that there's a lot of work being done to clean up what's taken place before and we do admire it and we'd like to thank the council and the mayor. Thank you. Any other questions or comments?
Chip Frederick, 744th Avenue. Um, there are like several broken white pole bases on main street exposed wiring. Is there a plan for a meeting? Yes. In fact, I had a meeting 8 a.m. this morning here to discuss that. What a coincidence. So, yes, we're we I have
a quote that just I sent you the email. We're um going to replace the lights and um we have grants for that as well. And we also have insurance because a lot of them did break and they're old and they're falling over. So, yes, they're going to be replaced and they're going to be beautiful and LED and modern and
yeah, and and it's going to be very similar to the double lights that you have, but um it won't be such spillage. It'll be more direct down to the sidewalks. In the meantime, can you cover some of that with road cones because some I think one has a road cone some that are open exposed trip hazard.
Can we address that? Yes, business administrator. Yes. Okay, that's good. Thank you. All right. Anybody else questions? Oh, Miss Gavin. Yes, Paula Gavin, uh, 106 Evergreen. I just wanted to make sure everybody in town
knows about two upcoming events. Uh, the first is local summer on September 7th, which is a co-hosted event with the Burrow and the Bradley Beach Business and Community Alliance. It's open to everyone. We're hoping to make it the huge block party on the beach. gonna
have games and some fun and really want to have everybody come out to celebrate this great talent. And then on September 17th, we are hosting a mini golf benefit tournament where the PTA and the students of the Bradley Beach Elementary School. So, we're looking for great players and whole sponsors. And again,
it'll be a lot of fun. So, we're very proud to be doing that with the school. Yeah, summer is a lot of fun. I've gone I can't make it this year. I'm sorry to say that. We'll miss you, but we hope you for a great weather and I did sign up for a forome. Great. So, I'm looking forward to that trophy.
Thank you so much. Thanks for all you're doing. So, the just to be clear, the uh local summer on the 7th is what time and exactly which beaches? At Brinley Beach. Brinley. Okay. Thank you. Signs all over. And then the 17th is at due to the generosity of the shipwreck
mini golf. They're donating the space and we hope to have 72 great golfers and a lot of fun. So, Looking forward to and the alliance's property. Thank you all for your leadership. Thank you. Okay. Anybody else? Um I see one person. Sorry, I can't see you from here. Oh,
Bob. Hello. Just state your name and your address. Just un Okay, try it one more time. You're still muted. Okay, just unmuted. Hi. Am I good? Yes. Bob Patton, 207 Evergreen Avenue. Thank
you, Jane. Um, I was pretty moved by what Ray Castellano said only for the fact of there's a lot of questions on how the dollars are going to be used. Um, and the ecosystem. We talked about the temperature of the water. I've been to a couple Silven Lake meetings. The
fact is is the lake is 2 in deep in certain points. At the bottom of that lake is brown mud and the sun hits that brown mud and heats the lake up. If we really are worried about the temperature of the water, it's not narrowing the streets and trying to stop the water flowing there, it's you put five or six
feet of water depth in there so the sun doesn't heat the bottom of that that lake and we will have an ecosystem that works. And I would just like to say that every single dollar we have should be focused and including future dollars over many many years to get this
dredging as a priority. The gates we know we have to fix the alpha pipe. We know we have to fix the bulkheading. We know we have to fix, but every every dollar we need should be fixing the ecosystem of the depth of that lake. And I just don't understand why we're
getting this big drift into shrinking Bradley Boulevard and putting the natural shoreline in. Yes, those are attributes that could contribute to the future, but what we really need to do is spend several million dollars and dredge this lake. And there's all kinds of
different numbers we can run. Um, I I've asked Paul, I've asked Ray, I've asked many people, where's all the numbers on a page? So, I can see how that 2.4 is being allocated. My understanding is the 2.4 was 3.2 that got knocked back to 2.4, but it should really be used for
the bulkheading and then the dredging. Well, it's not allowed to be used for the dredging because it's only for the bulkheading. So, why can't we break out the cost of these? Why can't Ben break this stuff out for us? Um, you know, I would love to see the numbers. I would love to go through the math, but I just
there's nowhere it's available. And I just think walking to a project that we've talked about for years, as de as Ray said, is decades and decades of neglect. Paul's doing incredible work to bring this to the forefront. Thank you, Paul. Um, we're getting to the point
where we have to do something. We know there's deadlines here, but I really think it's gotten I went to the lake meeting where they all a sudden they didn't focus on the ecosystem. They didn't focus on the dredging. Avan didn't even want to hear about the dredging cost. They just want to make sure we were going to narrow Bradley Boulevard and put a natural shoreline
in. That's my takeaway from this. And I think we've gotten really sidetracked into making this the big issue. The big issue isn't Bradley Boulevard. The big issue is dredging this lake over many, many years because we can't afford to do it now. And I would like to have that
discussion on September 8th um in a meaningful way. And I was a little disappointed to see a couple days ago that we made this a council meeting rather than a just a focused workshop where people are limited to five minutes because this is a long discussion. There are many facts and lots of data that we
don't know. So I'll I'll stop there. I don't want to run over my time. I don't want Jane to yell at me. But I I I do think there's a lot of data here and fairness to everyone that needs to be discussed. Um I do think that there's a a great community here that's all trying to get answers. Paul, thank you very
much for all you're doing. Um, and and and Shauna, but I really think we got to focus on what the issue is, and that's dredging that lake. And every extra dollar we have and budgeted forward should be used for future dredging. And then nobody's talking about the
maintenance of the shoreline. Our DPWs cannot do this maintenance when the the the grass starts growing eight, nine feet tall. So, I think there's a lot of things that need to be opened up. So, I just wanted to say that and thank you everybody. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on that and just just for some clarity. So the
reason why the meeting for the A without having a council meeting that that all the council could be there then we would um we have to do it that way in order to other because we have quorum. So the only way we could get all council present as quickly as possible was to
call for a um special counsel meeting and so that's why that decision was made that way and it also allows for every resident to be able to speak for five minutes. you know could you imagine you know 50 people come out that's five minutes a piece that's 250 minutes I mean you know so we we do have to have
some controls around you know giving people affording them the ability to come up and speak and and to be prepared to speak for five minutes five minutes is a lot of time um so come with your thoughts come and and we'll bring as much information as we can to share on the cost as well to make sure the engineers are bringing the um the
information so that it can be you know uh brought up at the beginning of the meeting and um and post anything that we have that we can get out there in advance. I I clearly I clearly understand that, Paul. But I I do think u Rey put together a lot of work, a 25page
PowerPoint presentation. I think at least you should sit down with him to go through that with him. I think that's fair because he did a lot of work from an engineering standpoint, did a lot of data collection, and I think it's very worthwhile that a couple of the council members should sit with Ray. If you don't want to do it at the meeting, sit
down with him separately because I saw it and he's really put a lot of work together. Thank you, Bob. Thank you. Okay. Um, next we have Kasa Grande. I think Carol. Oh, Carol. I see your hands up. Just unmute and say
your name and your address. Okay, I'm unmuted. Uh, 424 Mammoth. Um and um I may have uh possibly should have brought this up in the beginning, but because it was an agenda item, but two question, a couple questions on the
rec center. Um one is I just want before I ask my question is um I support the pickle bowlers. If you just think about the math of it, you can have uh four courts with four people, 16 playing pickle ball, uh with people lined up, you know, waiting to jump in on games
when you go there and look. So, it would be great if we could meet with the this rec center setter person who's decided that uh tennis is kind of like a higher priority than pickle ball. But it'd be great if we could meet with that person and see where that opinion um how that was formed. But um the question I have
is is more on the funding. Is that a grant that's funding that uh and is there a place where we can see exactly what we're getting for that $340,000? on that. Yes, it's a grant that is there multiple grants. Yeah, there's actually more than
$340,000 with the grant, but I think it's up like almost a half a million dollars in grant money and and the construction is $340,000 and and the Delta main is being I think it's $80,000 being spent on equipment uh new equipment for the actual playground.
So, um all that is being covered by the grant. Great. Thank you. You're welcome. Can I just make a couple comments? Sure. What I heard tonight, it wasn't that any recreation the recreation director didn't make any decisions. She simply provided information that helped inform
other people's decisions. So, just to be clear on that. And um regarding the lake, I do just want to say right, I definitely heard you. The other collector streets, Brinley, Ocean, and Main Street, all those streets have sidewalks on both sides. And I want people to imagine for a second that you're sitting up here. you have this
really wide street in town that doesn't have a sidewalk and there's a plan to put a sidewalk there and let's just say you know the the wiz, you know, you guys prevail and you don't put a sidewalk there and god forbid somebody gets hit by a car and then a judge says, "Now
wait a second, Bradley Beach, you you had a plan to put a sidewalk and you didn't do it." I mean, you have to imagine you sit up here for a second. Imagine that you're sitting up here. We have to think like that. People will sue the town for anything. of course getting hit. You know, I heard some other um some other folks tell me about how safe
Bradley Boulevard is. They got accident reports and that's great. It's good. It's a data point. Um of course it's a straight it's a safe street because no streets cross it. Every other more or less east west street in this town has, you know, a four-way intersection and quite frankly very hard to see around
and and all that stuff. So um it's it's a safe street the way it is now. It's going to be safer if there's a sidewalk. Um, from my understanding, part of the plan is to fill the walls as that's an assumption. That's not a fact. That's an assumption. It's not first of all to
respond to respond to your finish up. You brought it up. Not true. Not at all. We need order here. That's fine. You can ask the mayor for five more minutes. I just had one other thought. Part of the plan is to filter
the water coming into the lake. That is part of the plan. It's always been a part of the plan. Always been part of the plan. As far as dredging lake, dredging a deep spot in the middle of the lake, that has always been part of this plan. Um, if you ask me, of course, the lake's warm, it's shallow, it's we can't add 5T to the
lake without flooding people's, you know, um, front lawns and stuff like that. So, digging the channel down the middle. The question is, what do we do with that material? They've come up with a plan, put it on the side, build kind of a graduated living shoreline. Um, and
I mean, it's been a problem for a long time, and I'm kind of in this world, but I haven't had nothing to do with this. So, it seems like that what they've come up is is pretty good. And I'm going to add to it. You want to cool the lake, plant trees by the lake, and I don't want to hear about, oh, you're blocking my view. Plant trees. It's going to provide shade. It's going to cool the
lake. That's going to be a really important improvement. Um I think we've had great dialogue with folks that we've heard people and um I you know we're going to all going to go on the eighth and um I'm just you know these are just my observations about what I'm hearing
about I don't live on the street so I kind of don't have a dog in a fight so I'm just providing a bit of observation and thank you miss Oh yeah temporary just for today. Um, so next we uh Oh, anybody else? That's it. Okay.
Oh, Mia, wait, did you Okay. Oh, earlier. Okay. With comments. Okay. 3024th Avenue. Are the rec center meetings public? Absolutely. Okay. And where are they posted? Because I was looking at the website. If you um meet up,
I think on the rec center website, I think it indicates um when they are post one since the last meeting, but there is one scheduled, right? Well, they they skipped um well, they had skipped a July meeting, but they had a they had an August meeting. Um when's the next meeting?
The next meeting is 7 already. Yes, I did, but I will share it with you again. The next meeting is Monday the 8th. Okay. And where is What time is it? It's at 6:30. Is that the same time as Yes, there's a conflict. Yeah. And where is the meeting?
At the rec center. At the rec center. Right. It's always the second Monday of the month. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Um, say something. Yes. Hi, Lori Busco Avenue. I just want to address the sidewalk issue. So, you're only going to
have a sidewalk from Ocean. It ends in Madison. What happens from Burlington? I know it's phase two, but the the the fence that's been there was phase two and it's been there for 5 years. So, what happens if somebody gets
hit by a car? Are we not responsible for that? Why not just make the sidewalk the whole way through to Main Street? I think that's a great idea. Don't have to necessarily build out. It's going to be 20 feet. Then it comes back out again for another
6 ft. So 26 ft from the edge of the of the lake and then it goes back in 20 ft. So it looks like this. Why not just take the 6 ft, have the 14 ft. I mean, we've been living with the fence anyway. It's another 2T. and then just have the
sidewalk all the way through. I think it's a great idea to have sidewalk. Well, it's going to stop at Madison Avenue until Bing, which may or may never happen this. Well, the the goal is to get funding to do that because the current grant for
the bulkhead will include um that work for for for the the the between Madison and Evergreen, but it won't we don't have funding yet to do the rest of it for I know that's what happened with with snow fence that was supposed to be
done four years ago. It didn't happen. So, why not just do the sidewalk all the way through? Why not think that way? You know what I'm saying? We'll look at it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Any more questions or comments?
Excellent. Um, next is the executive session. There is none. So, I'd like to make a motion to second. All in favor? I know it's very impressive. Very good. Very good. Really?
I lost you know Yes.