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He'll do that on Zoom. Yes, I'll put it up and show again. Emotionally we share agenda >> just like sitting down. I noticed.

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>> No, that one was like good. That is pretty funny. >> You didn't even look at it. But this is toward the end.

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And that's what's going on. That's the uh >> where does it say? >> It says last resolution for this evening. >> Just pass down please. >> What's this final resolution?

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All American has a couple changes. >> What? >> What's your favorite? >> What else is new? You saying what else is here? >> You're naked on my mind. >> This is This we didn't get in our

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cabinet. This is the one that we didn't access, >> right? Okay. for operate. >> Yes, that's it. Thursday. All this meeting to order, please stand

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for the pledge of allegiance. I >> pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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>> Sorry. I wish to announce that the flooring galler notice is required under the open public meetings act was emailed to the Asbury Park Press, the Coast Star, and the new coaster on December the 18th of 2025. That a copy of placed on the bulletin board in the burough office and that a copy has been filed

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with the municipal clerk. Please be advised, public attendance for meetings through Zoom is mandatory and a courtesy only is not mandatory and a courtesy only. If for any reason Zoom fails or is disconnected, the inperson meeting will continue without interruption. An action can and will be taken providing that

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there is an in-person forum. Mr. Noble >> here. >> Miss Greenblat here. >> Mr. Carr here. >> Mr. Nikki here. >> Mayor Guboszi >> here. >> All right. Well, good evening everyone. Thank you for joining us tonight. Thank you for those joining us via Zoom. >> Um

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>> we are about to embark on item five on the agenda workshops. But um for those of you who have tracked my council career and now my year plus as mayor, uh you know that I have a history of having had a lot of prepared statements, but

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for a good year and a few months, I believe I have not had any until tonight. I'm going to read a prepared statement just to start this meeting off. I'll make it quick. Uh it's not something I actually want to do. It's something I feel a bit compelled to do.

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So, um, I want to address an important matter concerning data security and residents privacy. It has come to the bureau's attention that emails have been recently distributed to members of the public by a former burrow official. Based on information currently available, it

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appears that the distribution lists used for these communications may have been derived in whole or in part from municipal contact information maintained by the bur. As a result, several residents and non-residents have been contact have contacted the burough

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expressing concerns regarding the use of their emails. The public provides personal contact information to the burough for the purpose of receiving information about municipal services, programs, and operations. We believe that such information should

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be safeguarded and used only for legitimate governmental purposes consistent with applicable laws, policies, and the expectations of our residents. Please note, my concern is not with the viewpoints expressed in these communications.

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Residents and former officials alike have every right to express opinions about burough matters, including the municipal budget and the actions of this governing body. Open dialogue and constructive criticism are critical components of local government. My

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concern is whether municipal contact information may have been used in a manner that was not authorized by the bureau or consistent with the purpose for which that information was collected. I want to be clear, the current administration did not provide

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access to any municipal email distribution lists for these communications. Accordingly, I have referred this matter to Burough Council for review and I have requested that our information technology professionals examine whether

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municipal data or systems were involved and if so, how such information may have been accessed. Protecting resident information is a responsibility we take seriously. Our residents must be confident that when we provide personal information that when

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they provide personal information to the bureau, it will be handled responsibly, securely, and in accordance with applicable laws and policies. We are committed to maintaining that trust and will take any appropriate steps necessary to safeguard burough data and

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protect resident privacy. I was forced to create this statement because um we've received and I personally have received complaints. I know my council colleagues have received complaints. I've had my own personal relatives that do do not live in Bradley

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Beach that received these emails and they called and said, "Where are these emails coming from?" So uh it's very important that everyone understand the burrow uh was unaware of this and we will now take uh any and all actions we can to determine if there were any

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breaches in our security. So that said let us move on to item five on our work on our agenda which is workshops. Uh and this is uh to be a a presentation or discussion rather on the municipal park improvement grant public

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hearing by Mr. Ben Aik from North Ben. Thank you, uh, mayor and council. And, uh, just waiting for a PowerPoint to pop up there. Thank you, Tommy. Um, here to talk about a, uh, grant

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application that we are applying for to Mama County. Uh, it's for a municipal park improvement grant. Uh, we're actually applying for two grants. one for for Bradley Beach, one for Alam, and

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I'll get into that a little bit more uh in a minute. Uh the the project generally consists of uh park expansion uh of of the Silven Lake Park. Um so, similar to the Silven Lake Bulkhead

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project where the uh roadway link is being narrowed uh to allow for the living shoreline and installation of a a walking path. similar uh improvements in this section uh starting at Madison Avenue going all the way to Main Street

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uh for uh installation of the the walking path uh landscaping improvements, benches, um things like that uh including narrowing of the road.

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Uh 2A still manageable 44 ft which is allowable for two-way traffic. uh farting on on the north side and bike lanes at the road. Uh next slide, please.

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Okay, so this is a a one to one matching grant or 5050 matching grant. Uh and the bureau is eligible for up to $500,000 in grant funds from the county. Uh so that would mean that you would have to spend

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you would have to have a million dollar project to be eligible for that $500,000. Uh so projects that are eligible under this grant application parks, recreation, open space, historic preservation, um new facilities or

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improving existing facilities and uh dredging uh of of a lake for example uh to improve and expand access to recreational areas. also eligible uh under this grant application.

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Uh next slide. So the uh as I mentioned there are two components to this. So the the one component is the expansion of uh the Sil Lake um park. The other is uh capturing

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sediment from um we'll call it the county outfall. uh which is uh drainage from Neptune Neptune City that comes from uh Memorial Drive and drains into Silvin Lake. That's the the majority of the drainage

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area drains into Silvin Lake. Uh it actually goes through a pipe that is located on an Avon um parcel of property um on the other side of Main Street. And it's with that parcel that we intend to

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put a a sediment filtration device. Uh so this is the the area right here where that that parcel is located. Uh the next slide. This is the area uh along Silvin Lake

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along Bradley Boulevard um near Main Street where we are looking to expand the uh the green space, install a walkway uh and replace some some uh landscaping, put in some uh new benches,

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trash recepticles, things like that. Uh next slide. So this is uh showing a conceptual layout of the proposed improvements. Uh on the left side there at the top uh

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in the kind of bottom left corner you can see where it says burrow of add-on by the sea. That's the area where the the large segment uh filtration device is uh going to be located. And then along Bradley Boulevard, uh Bradley

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Beach also has several uh stormware pipes that discharge stormware into the lake. So we're also going to be looking to put smaller sediment filtration devices along Bradley Boulevard as well to capture that sediment before it enters the lake.

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Um this is very very much in line with with the dredging aspect of uh the what the the park improvement grant um participates in. So we we feel that that

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is a a necessary component to the overall beautifification program of solar lake. Um if you and kind of in green there uh you can see uh street trees along the way uh

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you've got the the walking path that uh will be a pvious path similar to or matching the uh proposed path that we have are going to be having uh at the Silk Lake bulkhead project on the east side of the lake.

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And then uh next slide. So I talked about the installation of filtration devices, one large larger device on the add-on parcel, eight smaller ones along Bradley Boulevard. Um the reduction in pavement width of Bradley Boulevard, the pvious walkway,

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street trees, benches, other small amenities. Uh the approximate uh construction cost estimates for each municipality are there. Bradley Beach about $1.2 million. Add on about a million dollars which would allow each

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municipality to be eligible for that uh 50/50 match up to the maximum $500,000. Uh so that is the the objective. Uh that's the grant application we'll we'll be submitting. Um grants are typically

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awarded in uh the fall. Uh so we're anticipating around October of 2026 um award of the grants. Then uh we could begin design uh and and complete that as well as any necessary permitting uh

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probably in in spring to summer of 2027 and then construction would take place likely in fall of 2027. All right. >> And that's all I have. Uh was the council has any questions? >> Thank you, Ben. Questions for the council?

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>> You had mentioned uh the street trees. I know there's a lot of trees. Some of them are not in great shape along the lake. Um is it will all that construction require the removal of all the trees that are there? >> We would evaluate that during the design

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process. Uh it's possible we could save some trees if they're if they're in good shape, they're healthy. uh they're valuable to to save uh you know a valuable species. We would likely want to save uh those trees. If it's something that is

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not not the healthiest tree, you know, we we may want to take that down, replace it with something uh that that's more in carville with uh the area. Uh maybe kind of matching what we would uh will be doing uh on the eastern end of

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the lake. Um but that that'll be during the design process. make about determining anything and uh of course soliciting input from the uh shade tree commission >> and and Mitch I don't know if you're aware that the shade tree commission did plant from Main Street down to you know

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probably about maybe 500 ft of maybe a dozen trees already those would be outside of the construction area they would not have been impacted >> yeah I wasn't sure whether or not there would be oh the the need to oh they're in the wrong spot

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they would supplement ment those right further down and then in the other project that's going to construction um with the wall replacement there's tree planting that's going in there. So this grant will basically bridge any other tree planting that would be

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required you know or maybe or maybe we get trees again >> uh through the tree commission and not have to pay for them and be able to reduce the cost of construction down to that million dollars. Yeah. >> And and then and I think there the other thing that's kind of interesting here is

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that there is a tie between these two projects. So work the job that's going to begin constructing here this summer um between Madison and Ocean Avenue that there may be an opportunity to um get that construction cost down by by

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looking at those limits and being able to organize that and and get that cost so that we are within that million dollars 500 500. So that that's something that um I believe you were looking at. But >> yeah, we it's it's kind of there. We

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have a lot of uh projects going on in in town. A lot a lot of kind of juggling a lot of balls, but uh we have some uh we got favorable bids for our recent uh projects for the Silen Lake Bulkhead. Um and and so we have uh additional grant

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money with spare uh you know, so to speak. So we're we're looking at options of of how we can utilize uh the grant money to the maximum extent possible. Some of that may be uh some of these manufactur uh the sediment filtration

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devices um or extension of of other improvements um within these limits. We're there's kind of exploring that uh getting pricing from the contractor uh that's on board right now. uh and we'll you know aim to uh utilize that grant to

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the maximum extent and this grant >> and and you mentioned the word dredging when you were speaking to this grant and but and and the context of that was um correct me if I'm wrong is capturing the sediments before it gets into the lake

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and and just to clarify this does not include actual dread gene of the lake >> correct >> and and Although you can use full grant money to do that, my understanding is but that $500,000 matching this that is

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not enough to do the dredging project for Silven Lake and we're looking at other do other programs to see how we can do that. And that's I think that would be a common question people would ask. Why not use that money instead of doing your perturances to stretch the

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lake, >> right? and and I know the bureau has has submitted other grant applications specifically for dredging and that's more in the several million dollar range uh than than this grant would be. Um but

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like you said dredging is an eligible uh activity under this grant program but it's just the the amount of funding that's available is not enough to do a dredging project for Silven Lake. So, we are we're getting creative with with

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other ways to utilize this grant money um to filter out sediment before it enters the lake instead of pulling that sediment out of the lake after the fact. >> I think ultimately we want to do this anyway even if we dredge the lake. We need to do this because this prevents

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minimizes the amount of sediments coming into the lake, right? So instead of compounding the issue, continuing to compound it, this is a this is a mitigation to reduce what's coming to the lake and we still have to deal with the dredgy of the lake. >> Exactly. >> Other comments, questions.

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>> Just real quick, I wanted to follow up with the trees. There were a lot of um monoculture there. They did a lot of ash and they got victim they fell victim to the emerald ash bore and now what you see now are the brat pairs which are now

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banned in the state of New Jersey. So there's no great loss there. There are two interesting older mature London planes. So hopefully we can salvage them. And I did have a question for Ben. Um the walkway is pvious, correct? >> Yes.

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>> Yes. Okay. Similar to what they see have in Lake Como, I think around the lake. >> Exactly. It's the same product that you see there. Uh that's this but it's similar to like a track surface. Uh but it's it's porous. Allows your water to filter right through it. Great. Thank

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you. >> So, the current um grant funding for the project upcoming for Silven Lake Bulkhead uh is significantly over 20 the 20%. So, how how do we go about trying to utilize all those funds? Is it uh do

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you bid out additional uh services? >> We're in discussions right now with the NJ DOT to uh explore options of how we can do that. Uh, one one of the things we're looking at is a utility agreement with JCP now for upgrading the lighting

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along uh, Bradley Boulevard. Um, then there, you know, we're working with the contractor to see what how we can expand the limits of his project of his his contract. Um, so those are the things we're looking at and they have to be approved by the DOT um, to be eligible

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for reimbursement. I think the last thing is also for the funding for the match. >> There's a potential that we could use I bank money >> and that would be at 75% con of our share of construction at 0% financing interest 25% at AA which would

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be the cheapest uh way to borrow money versus just straight up bonding AAA >> for this 1 million too. That's what we're That's what we're looking into also. >> Well, for the 500,000 portion >> because because half a million is is the county grant.

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>> Bradley's pocket. >> No. >> No. >> So, the uh >> Well, so the the slide that was shown up there was the the two um the total project cost is 2.2 million broken up into 1.2 two for Bradley Beach, one one

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million for AB. Um each one of those portions of this project is eligible for a $500,000 grant. So up to a million dollars could go into this project. Um and that would come from M County. The

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the remainder would be uh the responsibility of both burrows. So >> So about 700,000 for Bradley and 500,000 for a >> Yes. And if if you know depending on on how much grant money is obtained uh and

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you know how much funding is available for the burrow uh we can look to reduce the limits if if that's necessary. Uh but that's we're we're of course going for the maximum grant value uh at this point. >> Any other comments or questions for Ben?

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Okay. So I'm going to make a quick comment just for hopefully for the benefit of the public. The burough of Bradley Beach has been talking about trying to dredge Silven Lake for probably 20 years. Well, long before I I came along and joined the

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council six years ago. Um, and what you're hearing, you're not hearing that yet, that we're talking about dredging the lake. We will get to that. That is 100% our on our radar. Uh we have, as Ben mentioned, um submitted applications

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for grant funding for dredging, but what you're really hearing us talk about now, we're preparing the lake to be dredged because it would be silly to dredge the lake before you have these these uh siltation treatment devices in place, right? You take out all the siltation.

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Well, if you don't have these treatment, you know, devices in place, more siltation comes in. So whether it be uh the work we're doing on the bulkhead and the work you've seen us doing over the past year with Alpha pipe and gate and everything, we are preparing Silven Lake

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and the final straw to restoring that lake once we do all this other stuff is going to be dredging. So uh it's an exciting time I think for Bradley. It's a very expensive process as you hear all the different numbers we throw out.

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Tonight's a relatively small as as as grant funding goes. 500,000 for Bradley, 500,000 for uh Avon. Those are relatively small amounts compared for example to the to the uh bulkhead uh less than half of the bulkhead over $2

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million of grant funding available. Um and other work we've done the alpha pipe close to $4 million. So there's very significant expenditures already underway with more to come. and uh this governing body is doing everything we

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can to secure grant funding from a lot of different places with the help of our engineers. So I think we're making great strides. Still a lot more to go, but I want to make sure everybody understood the big picture as well. Okay. Uh Ben, thank you for that. Um

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before we move to voting for the resolution, I just be because normally we give the public a chance to comment on the agenda. I I am going to make a motion that we open it up to the public to to let them ask questions or comment uh before we vote. So that said, I'll make a motion to open it up to the

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public. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Greenblat, yes. Mr. Carr, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mayor Gubet, >> yes. Public comments or questions about the the project that Mr. Malac outlined?

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Yes, sir. Mr. Far. Good evening. Greg Farenbach 408 for Redwood Boulevard. Um, three years ago there were discussions with Paul the Lights of the Council uh regarding the ability to use these funds that you're searching under this

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application uh for dredging of the lake. And at that time the thought was that if you did two applications backto back uh the cost to the two municipalities

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um would be a million over two years and the cost to the county um would be $2 million over that period having $4 million to be able to do uh the sedimentation removal. Um

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the proposal that has been presented to you this evening um includes sediment control filtration. Um that has been a high priority of every meeting I've attended and of the private discussions

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I've had with members of the uh Silen Lake Commission. Um what has not been a high priority of those that I've spoken to um are um the sort of cosmetic improvements along uh Bradley Boulevard.

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Um, if any of you have ever been in the lake, if any of you have ever um had an orur go into the sediment in that lake and gotten a chance to be able to um

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smell the scent uh that is given off by the sediment, I think all of you would be much more interested in seeing um um the sediment removal bulk than the cosmetic improvements. And that is

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generally the feeling of anybody I've spoken to. And it seems as if we're losing another year of being able to put that $4 million package together for the purposes of spending some of those funds

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on cosmetic improvements. >> Thank you. Any other comments or questions? Anyone on Zoom? Okay, seeing no other comments or questions, I'll make a motion that we vote to approve resolution 2026-166.

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>> Second. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. Mr. Greenlat, >> yes. >> Mr. Carr, >> yes. >> Mr. Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. >> All right, we'll move on to our public hearing on the introduced municipal budget. >> Um,

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let's see. Um, just looking through the process here. Okay. So, we're going to want So, first of all, our CFO has joined us. Uh Mitch, I believe you will be making a brief presentation and then we'll uh open it

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up to the public for a hearing. >> Mr. Sims, I >> Okay, good. Just want to make sure. >> Well, part of the presentation I was going to go over was the uh was the amendment portion. So right, I thought we wait till we discuss the amendment

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portion to to bring that up. So >> okay with the amendment portion. >> Yeah. >> Okay. But I I thought you would make a presentation before we opened it up to the public so they would have an

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opportunity to ask questions. Um, procedurally, I just want to make sure I'm moving forward correctly. >> Um, I I really uh I mean the presentation I have prepared on the amendments so we I can speak to I can pull that up and go over a couple

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things, but just be a repeat of what we went on a. >> Okay. So, uh, Mr. can and maybe you can help me procedurally on this but our agenda is item six is public hearing on the introduced municipal budget. >> First bullet under that is motion and

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second to open the public hearing on the budget amendment to to the introduced municipal budget receive public comments and questions. So, we can certainly make that motion to open it to the public, but is the public going to have much of an opportunity to ask questions if we

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have not yet shared information with them. >> I don't know what you shared if we've introduced the budget, have we not? We're having a hearing. >> So, you guys published the introduced budget >> budget event. >> So, the first part is on the introduced

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budget that you did about a month ago. So that's what the public comment would be on. And then after that is the amendment to it. >> Yeah. I think you you'll definitely have to hold the hearing before the amendment. >> Okay. Uh okay. >> Whether you want to like give an overview or something before the public

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gets at the top. I don't know how many people I pulled the introduced budget offline and looked at it. Some might have. >> Yeah. No, some have. Sure. Yeah. But >> okay. Yeah, we can. >> The only legal requirement is that you open that up first before you amend it. So >> All right. Yeah. Our very first pullet

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says public hearing on the budget amendment. So I just wanted clarity on that, but it I'm going to open it up in a moment for comment on the originally introduced budget, not on the amendments. >> Correct. >> Thank you. Okay. All that said, thank

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you for bearing with me. Uh I will make a motion that we open uh the public hearing for uh comments or questions about the initially introduced budget. Second, >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Miss Greenl. Yes, >> Mr. Cart. >> Yes, Mr. Wiki. >> Yes, >> Mayor Gubetzi.

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>> Yes. >> Uh, audience. Yes, >> Rick Bar 116 Newark. Just had a couple of questions on the initial budget on Ski near my heart, the sewer. I saw that

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under sheet 32 which was on on our web website it had um other under other expenses there was a 59% increase over last year. So I'm just wondering

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where that came from. Um, and the second item was on the the debt service where we're paying 709,000 on the debt service off compared to the new items that weren't on there last year. So, those were my two question. I

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guess I the third question was that I I believe when you had the introduction to the budget, you had over 4% increase because I limited this. I forgot what the decimal was afterwards. But does that include also what the county and school would be? Okay.

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>> So what would be the total number? All yours are my questions. >> Well, I'll take a quick stab at summarizing but then I'll turn to Mr. S. But other expenses we've been through this to a significant degree because to your point it was a very significant

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increase. Uh overall the bureau had about a6 or $700,000 increase in healthcare premium alone. that was the largest driver of what you're looking at which was close to a $300,000 increase in the other expenses. Couple

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hundred thousand of that $700,000 were allocated to the sewer. So, okay, that's a huge chunk of it. Um, the debt service, I'll let Mr. Simon explain because I'm not sure what drove that. And the 4% increase I can easily answer.

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Four, it's 4.7 and it's only municipal. does not yet include county or uh school or anything else. So, will we get that number tonight or No, >> not tonight. >> Not tonight. Okay. Mitch, uh do you have >> So, yeah, the debt service is what you're asking about.

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>> No, it was just have municipal debt pays payable. That was 700 704,000. It was on sheet 27 sheet number page 30. Sheet 30.

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I'm sorry. Sheet 30 sheet 27 payment of bond um dissipating notes and capital notes. >> Right. I mean that that's is result of a number of the the new projects that we're that we have uh that we're doing

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now. Um uh $79,000. I mean, some of that sort of related to the acquisition of that bond anticipation on a large portion that had to do with the church and the um

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the uh the dem was it the demolition? Was that we talking about the sewer in particular? >> No, no, the Okay, perfect. >> Yeah, I don't I don't have the date in front of me, but it but it's very likely. >> Right. So this has to do probably with

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Lorraine. So that's the that's the yeah the largest portion of that is the is the bond anticipation note uh payments. There were a number of things that were wrapped up in that bond anticipation note. So it included um a uh

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a a bonds that we had in I believe 2023. It was the bonds that had the main street improvements in it. had the rec center improvements in it where there was a 50-50 grant split on that and also had the civil link improvements and that was a really large uh bond which was uh

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put it that so we started doing work on that project even though the bond works was a few years ago so much of the debt services related to that and then a large portion of death service is also related to the church on Lraine Avenue and uh with the with the death service

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related to the church on Lorraine Avenue Uh so we're not going to have that debt service in subsequent years because we are uh essentially because we uh profited on the sale of that property in 2027. We've set aside money in reserve

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>> to to pay for that. And with the interest and principal that we're looking at about $150,000 just for that. Uh the most of the other stuff was related to the main street uh the rec center and facility. >> No, it's just kicked in this year. those just came.

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Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. Other comments or questions about the introduced budget? >> Yes, sir. >> Um good evening. Greg Farenbach 408 Bradley Boulevard. Um on or about uh May

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25th, I sent the five of you um a list of 13 comments and questions regarding the budget. Um I didn't receive any response from um any of the members. Um I didn't receive a response from the division of local government services to

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it either. Um however I noticed that um three or four of the errors that I had identified in the budget um uh have been the subject of the amendment. Uh but there are a number of other questions

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that were in here um that I did not get any uh responses to. Um you've received those questions. Uh may I ask further responses or should I go through and ask each one of those questions again?

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>> No. Number one, I want to thank you for uh submitting your questions. Uh that is the purpose of having a a 30-day 28 day period for the public. So, thank you for it was eight or 10 as I recall. Uh I know Mr. Simons worked diligently on

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those, identified a handful of errors that you pointed out, especially on shared services with Neptune Township. He immediately identified to me that that was just an error that that we needed to restate. Uh >> well, it was in anticipation of $94,000

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in revenue that you'd never received, >> right? Because in fact, it's a share service where we are paying revenue to that city. >> So, so you flagged that immediately. We agreed with you immediately. I was under the impression we were following up with you and I apologize for not doing so. Uh

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Mr. time though. I know you went through that in pretty good depth, Mr. Fairbach's letter. >> I did. >> Uh, are there other, you know, I I'm putting you on the spot a little top of your head, but are there other of his questions that you can help address? >> Actually trying to pull up his email

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right now. I mean, I did go through each question and I appreciate hearing, but uh you pointed out a couple things that we missed and that we've remedied uh in uh in our amend amendments. If you have any other questions, I'd be happy to do

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my best to answer them. >> Um the first one is um the budget indicates uh utilite looking at the three funds current sewer and beach that there were 6 $16,000

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of over expenditures. Why would there have been such a large amount of over expenditures? Um the largest driver of those over expenditures was due to uh retro payments that that were made that were made over the course of the year. Um we

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did not have enough money in in funds in reserve uh in order to uh to make those payments uh in the retro case. You're you're familiar with the incumbrance requirement of the um uh

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division of local government services, the formal technical accounting directive. >> Sure. >> Um under those circumstances, you can't spend money that you haven't appropriate. So, how did the administration spend money that they

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hadn't appropriate? >> Look, I wasn't at the time. I wanted to say about at the time and as you know I've only been here for three months >> but the person you're working with Miss Larrison was >> yes she was so um I I don't know what

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kind of controls were in place at the time like I said you weren't in >> so Mr. S maybe you weren't here and at least at least I was here through the transition of COS u and Mr. Fair, I'm sure you're aware from prior audits, every year the burough house has some

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degree of overexpendure of of approach. >> Not to this level, >> but it happens is my point. >> Yes. >> And and controls often miss these things. 10 $30,000 $600,000 >> in in 2025

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when the budget was being set. We were only beginning to understand we the new council and the new mayor were only beginning to understand the what challenges we inherited from your and Mr. Fox's prior administration. There

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was a total of over a million dollars of expenditures that we had to address. We paid those uh we did make that oversight in terms of uh what reporting should have been done to the DCA, but one way or the other, we had to pay the unions.

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We had to pay Mr. Hson's lawsuit liability. with I've got a list of over a million dollars of salary and related expenditures that we inherited because they were left open-ended by the prior administration. So to your point, there was a there was a procedural law in the

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process, but the payments had to be made and we are acknowledging it very transparently and and we've had discussions with the DCA and they are giving us appropriate guidelines to appropriate funds in this year's budget which has created quite a number of

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challenges for us I must say for this year because of the fact that we went through that process last year without having the the funding or the approval. So you are correct. Procedurally we missed what we were dealing with was an

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insane amount of inherited expenditures from the prior administration. And I I commend us for the job we did even though to your point procedurally we did not at that time identified to the DCA. >> I don't want to go over the same ground

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again. you and I need to um have a face to face, but there were sufficient funds put aside for settlements based on a sufficient >> amount being given as opposed to the amounts that were given and you know

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about the dispute that existed between you and the previous CFO about what those increases should have been would have that discussion private. >> I'd gladly have this discussion. I've said that before. I'll say it again, but you continue to wait to these meetings

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to come up and address it. You have yet to knock on my door or say I am available. Let's talk. I I've said it before. I'll say it again. I I've sat down with you already and I've already explained what you call sufficient was very insufficient. I've explained it

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when you and I sat in that office. You nodded your head in agreement at that time. >> I didn't do it in agreement. I didn't frankly understand what you were trying to explain to me because it didn't make any sense in normal labor relations discussions that take place in New

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Jersey in the public sector. >> Um let me go on to another question. Um social security appropriations in the three funds um are between 23% and 38% higher. Why is that the case?

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Um I know that the salary and wage line have have gone up considerably um to the two years. So I >> between 2025 and 2026. >> That's correct. >> So I assume that the large the largest

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portion of that is just proportional to the salary which I don't think is is uh I don't think that is 23%. But I will say that we made those calculations based on based on the salary wages. So I I didn't go back to the previous years

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and say oh okay >> what did we spend this year what we spend this year I actually do calculation here are the salary wages here's social security contribution based on those salary wages and I budget accordingly >> um in the current fund uh four

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appropriations were identified um administrator's office finance department revenue administration where the salaries and wage accounts uh for those $191,250. What was the need for an increase of

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such a large amount? >> Well, I I go ahead. Well, um uh one of the first things is obviously CFO was hired. Um so that's that's the the largest portion of the expense. Uh so if you look at the salary and wage line

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item line line item under finance on sheet 12 I believe >> 123 maybe >> well okay that explains 53,250 >> but what about the 65,000 >> 90 is that line then you'll see that

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there's a company reduction in other expenses >> um because the other expenses that's where they were paying uh >> that was prior correct for Miss Larson >> that is correct so uh But we did actually have that line item actually load come down even more. Uh we actually

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paid Miss Larson about 15 or $20,000 out of that account already. So we're kind of double paying for it. Uh as far as the other um I think that the other increases is in the general administration. I think there's a large increase in the salary wages there,000.

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A lot of that had to we revisited some of the uh allocations that we had in the past, flooding the sewer and the beach and uh the current fund and uh it was a policy decision that was made that we were uh allocating somewhat too large

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portion uh to the utilities and we brought that back into the current plan. As a result of uh that change, we actually created uh additional cap space uh in our budget as a side, you know, benefit >> appropriations cap. >> Yes. Yes. We're able to modify the

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appropriations cap based on bringing uh uh appropriations that were previously paid for out of the utility funds into the parent. >> Um I'm sorry, one one comment. I just want to acknowledge to the public I'm intentionally allowing Mr. Barbach to go over because I think these are important

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questions for the public to hear. So typically we obviously hold folks to five minutes but again please continue with your questions. >> Thank you very much. Um um public events increased um 187% by 37,400.

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What changed there? >> Um we did talk about that. Uh I'm pretty sure that we were uh previously allocating some of the costs out of uh uh operating the expenses uh out of

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various line items and uh we decided to uh reallocate some of those funds out of just a specific dedicated fund for public events. So I don't think that's so much as an increase in spending um for public events. I think it's more

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that we uh grouped most of those expenditure than us. There probably is somewhat of an expense. I know I know there are some additional expenses related to uh we're spending a little bit more this year with the 250th anniversary. I know there's uh there are

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some expenditures increases related to that as well. I think there's a there's $18,000 fireworks display that we didn't have in prior year budget. presence. >> On sheet 39, it indicates that um there

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was I'm going to say a missed payment to the board of education in the vicinity of $585,000. Do you know what happened there? >> You know what? I saw that myself. I I don't know. I'm not I don't I didn't ask about it. I didn't I did see it better.

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>> Mayor, do you have any idea? No, other than you say miss, but it was presumably paid late or you're do we have any indications to pay it? It >> um it becomes a charge against your surplus for 2026.

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Um essentially a liability that you carried from last year into this year. So it wasn't paid last year and I guess has to be paid this year. But my own personal experience is that when you're a day late with the board of

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education, um you know immediately. So it's not clear to me what happened there. And I thought maybe you or Mr. Darity or um Mr. Sim would know. >> Well, I do know that at this point I don't know what was set up then. I know now that uh we're actually set up to uh

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I have actually set up as soon as I get the the bill from they they send the bill months in advance how much it owes >> and I actually so I actually have at this point set up automatic wire transfers uh coming directly out of uh our our current fund account directly to

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school. So those are set up. I you can't miss those payments at this I know we won't miss them this year because they're essentially already set up and >> but at least on that on that particular I will follow up with you personally and make sure that we address it. >> Okay. Um

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any of the other questions I have I'll raise later when we when I get a chance to meet. Thank you for the additional time. >> Okay. Thank you. Other comments or questions about the initial budget? >> Okay. Seeing oh Mr.

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uh Thomas J. Kan 6123rd Avenue. But I do want to compliment you on that budget because you did have all these hurdles and uh I just like to you know understand that insufficient funds were left to pay off the employees

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retroactive and and the obviously they were insufficient because they were using the amount that they thought the public employees deserved and not the amount that the public employees got. And

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that's the reason why the whole negotiation took two and a half years and over $100,000, well over $100,000 paid to the HR attorney who represented the town, not Mr. Canon. I want to clarify that it

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was someone else who obviously wasn't very good at their job. But to now come back, this this gentleman spoke before me to come back and say in sufficient amounts were left. They were not laughed. That is not a factual statement. And the employees were

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granted the sufficient amounts that they deserved and should have deserved two and a half years prior. So what you the hurdles that you jumped are unbelievable. And I can't believe that um no one ever said that we had a CFO

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for a very long time in this building who lost his certification to be a CFO, but yet the people in the public were never informed of them. Nobody was ever informed. I had to call DCA, have a DCA person tell me the reason he's not here

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is because he lost his certification. So again, the mess that you've had to clean up is amazing and it really just razes me that you're having an open, transparent discussion here, which was not something we had under the previous administration when documents were held

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back, numbers were held back, we weren't allowed to ask Mr. Garts any questions. I mean, it was a horrible thing. So, uh, I I do want to compliment you on that. And, uh, thank you, sir. >> Okay. Thank you. Any other comments or

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questions in the room? Anyone on Z? Yes. >> Evening 312 Rling. I would like us to move forward and stop going backwards and making all negative. We don't need to go there again. But I do have a question. Um, I do know you corrected

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it, but our salaries for the recck department. It's just Courtney, right? Because I do know she has other people working on the other side that have nothing to do with here. Correct. >> She has counselors that their salary, right, Mr. >> Yes. But those are mostly paid out of

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the V uh recreation trust where user fees to uh or uh that uh people pay to have their children in the tent. >> Yes. So, our camp counselors are paid out of the trust. They're basically. Yes. So the money comes in where people pay for the camp and then the camp counselors are paid. >> And so

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>> how do we ever know how much money is generated from the camp? >> We uh because I never really see that kind of stuff on >> we have we have that we have that >> I want to know what pays for itself when I'm asking.

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>> It does. If you if you want to um we can get you that that information. >> Oh, it's not that. I just want to know that it pays for itself. It actually pays for itself and then some. >> The camp does. The overall wreck department doesn't quite pay for itself, but we're it's paying by%

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>> 16,900 miscellaneous is just like wise, I guess, things to buy. >> Yeah, I'm not familiar with that line. >> That actually we reduced that line. Interesting you bring that up. I believe the initial line was 16,900. We actually reduced it by 10,000 in the amended

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budget. uh given that we were going to pay for most of those costs out of the trust as opposed to paying them back the right federal operating. >> So what constitutes paying out of a trust like you have guidelines that you can use for that? >> Well, there's a there the the municipality puts forth a dedication

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that says the things that are eligible for purchase with the trust and that obviously includes camp council salaries. uh things like um a lot of it is uh is you know items for the kids and you know but the way that it kind of

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works is some you know the recreation department is a is a service and there are some activities where uh there's essentially a net profit uh where you bring in more money than than it costs you to run the program and there's other

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there's other programs where uh you almost no money but but it costs more. So at the end of the day we're trying to get you know create a a good balance where uh most of this these uh programs are paid out of user fees. Um and and as

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as far as where the balance is between you know how much uh revenue we receive uh from a program versus how much we spend on it, it varies from program to program. I can't speak to the to the camp. The camp uh pro the camp pretty much does pay for itself.

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>> Great. That's all I Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Hey, mayor. Excuse me. Isn't Courtney's position also shared through this? >> It is our our rec center director Courtney Papus last year uh brought an opportunity to the burrow that she would

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work in a kind of dual capacity serving as our recck director as well as Neptune Cities. Uh and we entered into a shared service agreement with Neptune City. uh that is netting the burrow of Bradley Beach an extra $50,000 a year to offset

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her salary cost. So that that went a long way to getting us closer to a break even overall operating position on on the rec department. I think we're still shy 20 grand or so, but we were shy 70. So we're much closer to running break even overall.

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Okay, no other questions. Uh anyone on Zoom? No one that I see. Okay. I will make a motion that we close the public hearing. >> Second. >> Sorry. Who second? I second. >> Thank you. Uh Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr.

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Springlet. Yes. >> Mr. Carr. Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. All right. Now we will have the uh governing body discussion on the budget amendment. Mr. Simon, I believe now you will be able to walk us through that.

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>> Yes. I don't know me. Oh, there we go. I don't know if it opens, so this is a lot of stuff. A lot of these slides are are slides that I gave over in the initial presentation. Uh,

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not much has really changed. This just kind of goes over the the portion of taxes that are paid for the fields of your of your tax dollars that go toward municipal tax, school tax, county tax, library tax. Um, go ahead and go to the next slide, Tommy.

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Okay, go to the next slide. Okay. Um, I mostly just wanted to there actually was a very very very slight change in the in the in the uh in the tax rate between the amended budget and

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the uh the initial budget and the uh and the amended budget. So uh the local tax rate uh went from 03344, it's that middle line on the left side to 0.3346. So the tax on the average home went up

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about $2 as a result of that for the year. So it was mostly just kind of a rounding error. So uh so that went up uh a small amount. Um but the amount that uh and and the amount that the average assessed home will pay in additional

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municipal taxes this from between 2025 and 2026 is uh just under $160 a year. So that's uh the difference in the two years. That's for the average assessed home. Um, go to the next slide.

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And on this slide, I kind of I I went over this slide last time, but we added a few things as far as uh um one-time expenditures that we're going to uh uh utilize the sale of the municipal asset

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of the church toward. Um, and the two new things that and the most of the uh amendments to the budget, it's just kind of moving a little money around here or there. Um, but these were the major changes and I

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wanted to point those out. So, um, the first one being that, uh, there's been a little discussion on the on how much money was acrewed to pay for the the the retro, um, the retro pay for the salaries that we had to make up. Uh what

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we actually discovered uh just in the last uh month or so is that not only was money not acrewed for enough not only was there not enough money accured to pay for the retro salaries but there was basically no money acrewed to pay for

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the pension contribution required by uh Bradley Beach and the retro salaries for 2023 and 2024 were about $560,000. So the pension uh payment that we need to make to the state as a result that 560,000 is

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$90,000. So it's it's a pretty large expense for a small bureau. So uh we consider that effectively to be uh uh a one-time expenditure. So we are going to uh uh

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utilize some revenue from that from the sale of the church and that's at $90,000 in that uh second line from the bottom under 2023 2024 retro pension dance. So that's a $90,000 change in the budget that was significant. The second uh main

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change is that we budgeted for uh police radios in the amount of $350,000. Um, mayor, do you want to speak to the the the situation where we there might be a grant, it might not be. Sure. Sure. What we do here?

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>> Uh, so our chief of police sitting, you know, directly to my right has been uh adamantly, passionately explaining to me and and to our council u the desperate situation we as a burrow are in in terms

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of our police radios. Basically, and chief, if I get any of this wrong, please correct me, but basically we our radios are old and do not communicate with every other Mammoth County Police Department. So, if there

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is, I'm making this up, but if there is a chase, a pursuit of some sort, crossing town lines, we're not even likely to to understand that is happening because our radios don't connect to anybody else. We need upgraded radios. And as of a month or two ago when we were planning our

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original budget, uh we were we were told by uh uh our legislators and and at the state level that we had a pretty good shot at getting grant funding to support the cost of these radios, roughly 350,000.

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last week or so, within the last week or two, uh we are at least are beginning to hear rumblings from uh the governor's office that there may be severe cutbacks in funding and and now all of a sudden we've gone from being probable to being

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doubtful that we could re receive that 350. It's not it's not a foregone conclusion that it's gone, but we're we're believing now that it's unlikely. And for that reason, given that we have this opportunity to revisit our

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budgeting for 2026, we're adding a $350,000 line item that if we need to move forward and and secure these radios this year, and if there's no other grant funding available, and an alternative would be what we're doing here is

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budgeting 350 that we would fund uh as we're uh encouraged to do from the uh sale of the church, the proceeds from the sale of the church a capital asset that was sold and we made a profit to use for other capital assets. Radios in

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fact are capital assets. We can use those funds. This council has not yet decided if we will, but by budgeting for it, we're able to if we want to. We might still get grant funding. If we get grant funding, this will all just flow through to surplus. We won't spend

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anything out of our budget. If on the other hand uh we decide uh to uh to do a a bonding uh you some sort of take out some sort of debt for that 350. I don't know what the useful life of radios is

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five or seven years but we could spread that cost of say over five or seven years that will be another option for the council to consider. In that case once again we would not spend the full 350. So we may spend none of the 350. we may want to bond for that and spend a

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portion of the 350 each over, you know, seven or so years. Um, or we'll have the option once the council has the time to evaluate the alternatives to spend the full 350 out of the church proceeds. But I think what we're all agreed upon is we haven't figured out how we're going to

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fund it, but we want to make sure we have the ability to fund it because we really don't see our police department being able to operate without upgraded radios much longer than they already have. Uh and chief can I ask you to speak to that as well just to give very much no problem. So I I have voice to

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the governing body um that there is a there is a safety issue. So the mayor's correct that our officers are not capable of communicating with any town surrounding us or in Monamouth County.

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Um, so we are, if not the last, one of the last towns utilizing BHF radio, which is essentially a thing of the past. Everybody is on digital now. Um, a lot of it's being ran out of Palm County

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or on a state line. So BMAR, I believe, was one of the last next to us. They just uh went through a whole uh radio project. I think they are just about to hit a switch if they haven't already to go digital. Uh the cost for them was a

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little over a half a million dollars. Um we're looking to secure around 350. We've we've gotten uh estimates for all the equipment, our infrastructure, uh the police cars, uh your handheld radios, and it would also be able to

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provide handheld radios to, you know, fire first aid, our lifeguards, um as well as OEM. So, uh, there's a there's a major safety concern and not only can can we not speak with anybody

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in the area, um, BHF is, um, very susceptible to modern um, you know, technology. It can be interrupted very easily by Wi-Fi and,

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cell phones and computers. It's just even within our town only being, you know, close to a square mile, there is constant interruptions where the officers are not even able to communicate with dispatch, which is another major safety concern. They're

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inside buildings or down at the beachfront and they are not able to communicate. It's just not making it to dispatch. We've had Motorola is our radio company. They've come out, tested our antennas, everything so on so forth. It's just BHF is a thing of the past and

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it's just it's easily interrupted. So, it's a it's a major problem. It's a big safety concern. Uh that's why I voiced it to the governing body to see if there's something we could do uh moving forward. >> You you mentioned uh the that it's also for fire and EMS as well because I know

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I've heard um the same similar types where they're unable to communicate with nearby towns, the county. >> Right. Right. So, you know, we we obviously dispatch uh fire and first aid and once they get to the scene, they are communicating through our dispatch, you

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know. So, again, there's problems there as well. So, it there's a there's a serious safety concern and um think we've put it off for too too long. There's been some governing bodies in the past that just kind of said it was too expensive, but it's really becoming a major safety concern and officers are

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documented, you know, multiple times a week that they weren't able to communicate to dispatch whether it's on a traffic stop, whether at, you know, a fire call, you know, on the beach front, whatever it may be. But there is a concern there. >> Thank you, Chief.

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>> Yeah, mayor. I think the best analogy is the uh police department is working with black and white TVs. That's the technology they got. So this is one of the challenges of governing body managing a municipality.

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Stuff comes at you from left field sometimes. And this is an example that we the current council at least did did not fully appreciate until Chief Arnold brought it to our attention earlier this year. And even at that time, our bill was to not spend taxpayer money. Even at that time, we immediately reached out to

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our legislators, state, federal, any where can we find funding? And the short answer was we thought we had it. Now, we're not so sure, as I mentioned earlier. So, we need to make sure we we have an option to make sure our police have the equipment they need. the mayor

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coaches to add and this is not you know we've I like I said I've been going through and getting cost you know estimates for radios you know consoles um it's just not something we're just like hey just whatever it costs you know

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I I sat there with every vendor and I even brought you know Belmar over to look and see if there's some equipment that's currently our infrastructure if we can utilize some of that going forward and there is so you know I

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definitely like I said Delmare was over over a half million um you know there is some some cost that work cut because there is some equipment we can we can use >> the cost >> we try to get off the black and white

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TVs as we can >> uh other comments or questions where are we back to you that's where we're >> yeah so I was going to bring up uh I don't have it on the slide but the other like I said Most of the these are the main changes in the budget. Uh the other

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changes we we budgeted um in general administration, we budgeted an extra $40,000 uh from the introduced budget to this in this amendment uh because we uh uh hired a grant writer uh to talk about we've

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been kind of talking about grants that we're looking uh looking at. So we uh we have a grant right it's going to hopefully uh help us secure some of this funding that we're talking about now. So we added uh uh funds to that line item. Um

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we also uh which was come up before uh that was brought up we uh because of the share service with Neptune City for recreation we're able to reduce the salary wage line item line line item in recreation uh from $55,000 to 25,000.

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So, we saved $30,000 there. And um it's really um there's a we allocated a small amount uh more toward buildings and grounds for salary wages too. Um

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uh just as a result of staff changes that we made there. Um everything else is is pretty minor. Um, >> and as you pointed out, the changes from this version of the budget to the prior is a couple dollars a year perhaps, >> right? As far as impacting the the the

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local taxes, $2 a year, >> which is still roughly that same 4.7 whatever. >> It's still it's still 4.7 six >> 78 or 79%. So, >> okay. Um yeah Tommy if you could go to the next slide I think and then the

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slide after that maybe keep going. Yeah this is just information. Um obviously the budget hearing amendment resolutions is this evening. Um uh tomorrow we will post uh uh the amendments and the

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amended budget to the uh website where everyone can take a look at it. Um then uh on June 30th we're planning to have a special uh meeting where I think the only thing on the agenda will be the adoption budget. Um

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so that will be on June 30th and uh if you have questions uh might be there. So I don't know if anybody else has any questions or anything else. >> Council any other comments or questions? >> Thanks again m

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>> Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Sun. Appreciate it. All right. Uh I'm going to do the unusual thing of uh opening up to the public one more time. I know you're just hearing this stuff for the first time, but are there any questions about anything you heard regarding the amendments that we just discussed

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>> officially? I I'll make a motion that we open it up to the public. >> Second. >> Mrs. Noble? Yes. Miss Greenblat? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carr? Yes. >> Mr. Noiki? >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi? >> Yes. public. Any comments or questions about this most recent discussion? Mr. Co?

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>> Sure. Um I appreci I I appreciate you breaking out the one time only items out of that uh proceeds of the church. It's very important for the public to see that and I think it's a a really important factor in terms of what you're doing. Um, I really

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appreciate uh in the adjustments that were made uh the uh 200,000 for the affordable housing trust fund was not included in the first um presentation. Um but now it is in this worksheet that

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you you presented and um I I really appreciate that and I was wondering I wanted to ask um Mr. already. Um, now that once this budget is approved and that 200,000 is is set aside, um, is there any way we could contact Fairshare

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Housing, maybe a letter from you to say that we've done it because it is part of our affordable housing uh, plan and I want to let them know that, you know, we have we are following our obligation as presented and uh, hopefully we have applications coming up this year which

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should give us more units and and, you know, show that we've we've met our responsibilities to the state but I think if we if we now that this is out there in the public we have done we appreciate it thank you very much >> thank you other comments questions yes

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this meadow >> Nancy met ocean park condominiums leave you sitting here enough we'll get your questions Um but I'm seeking clarification um because I see that on this sheet we

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are talking 14 million in expenditures. Um our fire department is volunteer. Are they paid or unpaid volunteers? >> They're unpaid volunteers but we do pay

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for a lot of their equipment and >> Okay. >> activities. So, I'm just curious if you could clarify um it says salary under like midway down the page. Um fire prevention bureau

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salary and wages is going from 12,000 to 32,000. Again, it's spitting a bucket when you're talking 14 million. >> But that's not equipment. That's not >> It's not fire department either. >> Okay. We we have a fire inspector that we hired to move.

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>> No, that's for this is for the fire marshall actually. >> Fire marshall. It's not the fire department. So that's correct. >> Okay. So you're saying it's more like >> it's an individual that >> building across the street kind of thing. >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you for clarifying. >> Sure.

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If I can point out that the reason why that there was that budget change is that uh previous version of the budget the uh allocation for the salary of the fire um there was some confusion the fire marshall they kind of had the fire marshall under the fire inspection

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budget line item that was incorrect and we put it portioning budget. So that was more of moving of money than an increase in >> it may be true to just to comment that the amount of work that our CFO has done

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to organize the accounting >> to be able to better budget all these things and I know when I'm dealing with the capital improvements the history over the last five years stuff is all in different places and the amount of effort to try to straighten and I think a lot of that what people

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are hearing like this one particular are here in the accounting system. Things are not necessarily where they should be or could you know should have been. And so there is a lot of trying to straighten out and and um look at the accounting and understand where the numbers are and what accounts are being

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charged to and were they done appropriately. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's funny because uh I I want to just echo what you said Paul and that is that Mr. assigned brand new to us. Number one, a full-time CFO. And anyone working in the burrow, anyone up

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here on this council knows that uh we were long overdue. We needed a full-time CFO. Uh we welcome Mr. Sim with open arms. uh and I I I sometimes hope and worry that he regrets uh accepting our

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job offer because uh daily he comes to me and and identifies you know accounting that has been incorrect for years. Uh he's making adjustments that go back to 1920 and 1921 and 22 and

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certain bond ordinances and so forth. Dollars that were just allocated to the wrong buckets. Um, it's a significant cleanup process, but I'm very thankful. I think this governing body is very thankful that we have a full-time CFO because what I've learned personally, when you have shared services, it looks

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great. You you save money. You know, you're paying less for a shared service than you would for a full-time employee with with benefits. However, shared services, what I've learned, they're very talented, smart people, but they they do what they have to do to get the, you know, the

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accounting done and the budget forms filled in, but they don't spend a lot of time correcting flawed controls, uh, updating system. You know, you know, we've got a Edmond system that hadn't been reconciled to our, you know, our

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formal accounting for years. Edmonds would give us totals that were eight and $9 million, but our budget was 11 and 12 million. I mean, it was off by two and three million dollars because no one had been updating Edmonds for years. So, it's taking time, but Mr. Simon is

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leading the charge here and we all appreciate your efforts, M. So, thank you. Other comments or questions? Yes, sir. >> Jerry Fetti, excuse me, Jerry Fetti on my blowout note. Um, first chief, I'd like to uh commend you and your indie um

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and the police officers for doing such a phenomenal job working in such what you would call archaic system that you're currently working. Uh and I'd hate to see a situation where we have to wait for something to happen and then we say, "Oh god, why didn't we do it last year

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or whatever?" Whatever. And we have to second guess ourselves. About how long will that if that was approved today? about how long, chief, would you think it would take to put into place? Just curious, a rough estimate. >> Two months most.

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>> Two months. >> Yeah. >> So, I guess I I'm just going to ask the board if if that was approved today or could it be approved today? obviously contingent on the fact that if we can get a grant, we get a grant. But at least it puts it in motion. So we don't

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have to wait for the new governor, the new administration to play around with whatever they're going to do in in in Trenton. And it may or may not happen. And we may have to wait months for that. Can it be done where we can put it into effect? And if we get the grant,

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then it's it's done. But at least we know we have it taken care of. The short answer is no. We can't do it today because we don't have the budget. >> Once we approve this budget, >> well, that's what I'm talking about. >> Yeah. So, well, I'm being too literal. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah.

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>> Uh once the budget is adopted, we'll be in a position that we could approve it and then the question will just become what's the most efficient >> combination of of uh of spending. So, we all know I I think I can speak for the governing body. We all know how critical

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this is to the police. What we don't know is what's the best way to finance it. One, if we can get grant funding, that's the best. >> Sure. >> But if that doesn't materialize quickly, we got to give that a little time. If that doesn't materialize pretty quickly, then then we'll have to just look at

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what are the underwriting costs for the bonding, what's the interest for the bonding, how many years can we spread the useful life, and we'll look at spend 350 right up front and get it done with with proceeds from the church. or do we bond, spread it over, spend the cost

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over seven years, uh maintain the church proceeds for other capital expenditures, and we'll look at that shortly. So, we're not talking about dragging this out for months, but could be could be one month or two. >> Is there any ramification for spending

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the money and then applying getting a grant? >> You can. Yeah. >> Once you spend it, you can't, >> right? Unfortunately, will not reimburse. That's the challenge that we'll face is right. Thank you. >> Thank you.

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>> Just please. >> I'm sorry. 405. No. >> Thank you. >> Sorry. >> That's okay. >> Any other comments or questions about the amendments? >> No. Okay. Um, make a motion to close the the public hearing. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble? Yes. Mr. Greenblat? Yes. Mr.

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Corp? Yes. Mr. Noiki? Yes. Mayor Guboszi? >> Yes. All right. I will make a motion that we uh approve resolution 2026-167 introducing the municipal budget amendment introduction. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. Yes. >> M. Greenblat. Yes.

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>> Mr. Court. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. Yes. >> Pubosi. >> Yes. Uh thank you all for going through that with us. Uh hopefully we can now move fairly quickly through the rest of the agenda. Item seven, presentations and bids. There are none. Uh, item eight,

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approval of minutes from the June 4th, 2026 council business meeting minutes. >> Second. >> No, no. Someone else. >> Oh, sorry. I I wasn't here. >> I wasn't here. Okay, that's right. Mr. Noble. Um, I will abstain since I was not here. Miss Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Corp. >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Niki. Yes. Mayor >> Gubosi. >> Abstain. I also was not here. >> Okay. Now we're item nine on the agenda, which is public comments or questions pertaining to anything on the agenda. If you have comments or questions outside of anything on the agenda, you'll have

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to wait till the end of the meeting. >> Oh, comments or questions? >> Yes, sir. Had a feeling somebody was going to have a problem. Okay, >> I'm all new to this. My name is Mark Fman 15 Grimley Avenue. Been resident for over 30 years. I've just seen nothing

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but increase in all of just camaraderie and and just just the wealth of just um positiveness in this in this town since I've been here. So, thank you all for contributing to that. Um again, my first meeting here, so I'm not sure what the

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actually protocol is other than there's an item on here about Darcy's gift and uh we can see and learn soccer. Yeah, soccer fans, big soccer fan, family, friends, neighbors, and all that. Um, and the part where it says granting

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permission to 12:30 a.m. Um, I'd like to see that or I don't know if that's appropriate, but I'd like to see something like that happen cuz um, just with all the family, friends, neighbors, people outside of the town. I know u Darcy uh, they put on well actually

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Bradley Beach did uh, the kickoff for the World Cup. Anyone there? Good. All right. Uh Darcy's was there. Uh my daughter's soccer team was also there. They were represented. Uh she plays for she plays for like four different teams,

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but uh Bradley Beach did a outstanding job recognizing her and her team. So, I'm just excited for for soccer being here. It's a once in a-lifetime getting it all here. So, I'd like to uh you know, see whatever is needed for them to

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have a mission. Thank you for that. Thank you. >> I didn't realize these meetings go that long and I give you guys all credit for that. Thought I'd be up in five minutes and

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I'll be out. I'm missing the six o'clock game, but that's the budget meeting. >> Anyway, >> thank you guys. >> You got it. >> Mr. Councilman >> Portland um Randy Bell 506th Avenue by the beach.

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Hey Eric. >> Hey. >> Um this is real simple. Darothy's has been partner of the town for 20 years now. Can we ask something? And then do it.

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It's time for us to be that partner for them. >> And I think you got a typo. It says June 14th. >> There's two of them. One of them is a uh what do you guys >> retroactive retroactive >> retroactive one is for the week.

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>> The other one should say June 25th. >> That's what I feel. >> Yeah, we're doing that one. >> Thanks, guys. Thank you. >> Other comments or questions? Yes, L. >> Good evening, Clar Council. I'm here

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about the DAR resolution 2026-1812 as well. Um, my name is Lisa at 621th Avenue. I literally my backyard is the 10th from the back door of Darcy's. Um, I am here as my neighbor has said and my

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other neighbor, I'm in full support of letting them have their TVs go on to 12:30. I will hear them. I would hear the yells and the screams, but that's okay. I'll have a tire day next at work. I love the excitement. I love the energy it brings to our town. Um, I love also

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listening to when they have live music. I can sit on my porch for free and listen to it as well. So, as being a direct neighbor of Jason, I've been living I've owned and reside in that house for the same 20 years has been there. So, I'm in full support of uh

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this resolution as being direct. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other comments or questions, Miss Meadow? >> Okay. I'm the lone desenter apparently. um speaking especially against 180 and

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181 if there's time. Um and I know how you all are going to vote because we've been through this before with several establishments. Um I normally stay out of things that are south of Hley. It's not my party town. You know, none of my business.

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They know what's best for them. Stay out of my business nor I know what's best for us. Um, I looked on the website to try to find the form that one would submit

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to keeping their business open till 2:30 in the morning. I didn't find it. I'm not saying it's not there. I'm just saying I didn't find it. I also looked under the ordinances to see the time frame that is allowed for submitting

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something to be placed on the agenda. I did not find that either. So, I'm going to say either get your acts together and figure this all out and make it easily available or stick to the process that's there

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that I did not see. But to constantly grant exceptions does not sit well with me. Maybe it's because I'm a Virgo. I don't know. >> Um, you set a precedent every time you do this.

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In my opinion, for June 14th, it should have been shut down. We have law enforcement. There was no permit. It was not there. I'm tired of hearing things are under

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the discretion of the police department. How lovely that you want to give them some safety equipment because you don't want to respond after an accident, after they need the equipment. I don't even want to discuss one-way streets. Do not enter because there's nothing that has

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done at least in my end of the town. So again, I know your positions on all of this. You've stated it all before. But not everyone wants to support this. And more importantly,

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where is your structure? Where are you following the process? And that is the bigger picture because this particular business as well as others. It's not really unique to them are going to come

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back again and again and always have receptions and you're going to have to do something retroactive. It's not right. It's not what you're there for. So, while you're trying to straighten other things out, and I do recognize those efforts,

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there's other efforts where your um energy can be placed. Thank you. >> Thank you. And just just to help you navigate a little, if you search special events, we do well, we do have a form, so I don't know why you couldn't find

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it. Again, I said I didn't see I didn't say it wasn't there, >> but there is process for everyone else listening. There is process and procedure. You have we'll connect you to it. >> I just want a new website. >> Understood. Thank you.

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Any other comments or questions? Yes, sir. >> Good evening. My name is Kevin Judge. I'm a partner at Dorsy's Tavern. I live in Wall. Hope you can hold that against me. And so I first want to thank you for not not only approving last Saturday,

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but also considering our request for extending the outside outdoor on the 25th. Um I'd also like to thank the residents who came here and took time out of their day to support us and for those who are in opposition and we

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understand the concern. So, you know, to the council, you know, we're just hopeful that, you know, similar to, you know, Governor Cheryl, who's kind of recognized that the World Cup in the US is kind of like a once in a-lifetime thing. And so, you know, she's willing

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to, you know, make some concessions to support, you know, New Jersey businesses. And we're just thankful and appreciative and hopeful that you'll also um consider, you know, some of our special requests, you know, during this short period of time. So um thank you

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and uh I will also add that whatever the decision is Darcy's will be in full compliance. So thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other hands? Any other questions, comments? Okay, seeing none, we'll move on to item

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10 on the agenda which are ordinances and there are none. Item 11, communications, there are none. Item 12, resolutions. We have a number of consent agenda resolutions. Does anyone on the council want to vote out any of those or discuss any of those

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separately? >> I just want to make a comment. I I went over with Erica before the meeting the 2026-169 for Mary's Place by the Sea. They start their walk at 7:30 a.m. and they have agreed, they know that they can't make

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noise until 8 and they are going to respect our ordinance of that. So, they won't disturb people at 7:30 on a Saturday morning. think >> at 8 a.m. they can crank the music. >> They can't crank it, you know. Respectful. Yes. Because I'm I'm sure people they they have not they've been

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very good. They've been here in the past and um they're reminded every year that you know people down and start at 8:00 with any type of >> and it's and they're coming down. They're not stationed here. So they're starting in Ocean Grove. >> Yeah. They start in Ocean Grove. They pass through

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wherever they end up and then turn around and go back the other way. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Any other comments or questions about the consent agenda? >> We're good. >> In that case, I'll make a motion that we approve consent agenda resolution items 2026-168

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through 2026-173. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. >> Yes. Mr. Cart, >> yes. >> Mr. Niki, >> yes. >> Mayor Luposi, >> yes. You know, when you weren't here, Yes. other people actually got a second. >> Okay, we'll take turns. Shauna, you're

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next. It's at the end of the line. All right. Uh, individual resolution 2026-174. This is approving a block party on the 300 block of 3rd Avenue for Saturday, July 11th with a ring date of Saturday, August 1st from 4 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Any

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comments or questions? >> Isn't this in conflict with the Mammoth count? Mama fans, the new one. >> It is. And some people are going to have to make a choice as to which one. >> Okay. Yeah. I didn't check with the chief to make sure that it was okay. >> It's all about the same.

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>> It's all >> Am I allowed to vote on this if I'm invited and I live on Third Avenue? >> True. >> I can't make it to the party. >> I can vote on it. >> You should vote for a while. >> I'm not within 200 feet. >> Well, you're I'll sing. But yeah, what

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about uh >> I won't be able to vote. >> No, that's okay. We got three We have three other people. >> My block and put it on. All right. So, we're going to have a couple of abstensions, but I'm going to make a motion. >> I'll be sending you invitations. >> We we I make a motion we approve

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2026-174 for the block party. >> Second. >> Um, Mr. Noel abstain since I live on Third Avenue. Yeah. Miss Greenblat. >> Yes. Mr. Clark, >> abstain. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mayor Guposi?

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>> Yes. 2026-175 authorizing the execution of a shared service agreement with the county of Mammoth for public safety answering point PSAP 911. Uh Chief, this is this is something we've had in place already.

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>> Yeah, it's like four-year contract, I think. >> All right. Any comments or questions? >> Make a motion to approve 2026-175. >> Second, Miss uh Mr. Noble. >> Yes. Mr. Greenblat. >> Yes. Mr. Cart, >> yes.

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>> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. Mr. Nikki, would you like to lead the next item? >> Sure. 26176 authorized an award proposed for professional services with Arthon forming Sunni Associates prominade

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extension phase one. So, um, we just recently took bids. We awarded a contract prominade extension, which is extending the prominade from 3rd Avenue to 2nd Avenue. Construction will begin some sometime after uh 4th of July.

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We're waiting for that information uh from the contractor that developed the schedule and he'll be sharing um a lot of communications with the burough significant communications mailings u QR codes on the boardwalk um you know

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keeping everybody posted on what is happening between second and third avenues when this construction begins. So there going to be plenty of notice uh and we're going to try to minimize those disruptions the best that we can and we're looking at options of how to do that with working with the contractor. So what this is this particular

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resolution is for Arthon to do the construction management inspection work and support of the communications etc for this project during construction. They did the design. This is the construction phase. So I would like to

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um make a motion to approve um 2026 176 for the authorization of order proposal for professional services to Artha. >> Second >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes, Miss Green. >> I would also just like to point out that

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it's critical to um educate the um badge checkers because they're not aware of what's going on and they've already started asking. There's a whole communications plan that's being done for all all the municipal, not just the beach, police, emergency, OEM,

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administration, so everybody's informed of what's going on. >> Okay. We're also going to have a QR code so people can scan it and can see the plans and see what's happening when. >> Right. Well, there the only reason I'm pointing that out is that they're the point of contact with the public and they've already started posting that.

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They just simply don't know. But my um my vote is yes. >> Mr. Corb. Yes, >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes, >> Mayor Guboszi. >> And before I vote, u I just to Mr. Greenblat's point, it's some of them do know because uh Sean Heer is our beach

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manager and he's been sharing with them, but he can only share what he knows and it's up to us to get them that information. That announcement uh with a lot of the detail, our plan is to get out tomorrow, right? >> But but he has had preliminary conversations. I vote yes.

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All right, Mr. Nikki, you're on a roll. You want to continue further? >> Resolution 2026 177 authoriz agent to award the Ocean Park Avenue sanitary sewer improvements phase one to Fernandez construction. Um

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there's actually two different um construction contracts. This is the first of the two. Uh so Ocean Park is going to be reconstructed between Ocean Avenue and Madison. We were having a lot of problems with this section. If if people recall last summer, a lot of

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backups, a lot of issues. We had to do a temporary replacement of of manholes and uh to undo clogs in the main line collapses. Uh so we did that. This is the first section of the overall program that we've got, which is the New Jersey

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Infrastructure Bank that we've been talking about now for a year. And um so this is the first contract to award that construction. This construction will not begin until after Labor Day. We're we're awarding the contract, but we're not

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going to begin construction till after the high season. We have enough going on in town with the problem, not extension, and we don't need to disrupt the sewer work. So, we're going to wait till after Labor Day to begin this work. Um so, with that, I'd like to um make a motion

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to authorize the award of Ocean Park Santory sewer improvements phase one uh to Fernandez construction. Second, >> Mr. Noble 177. 177, >> Mr. Noble. Yes, Mr. Greenlat. Um, I also just want to point out that the cost for

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this of $955,000 um almost $956,000 will be covered and not coming out of Bradley Beach's pockets because it's um it's it's um principal forgiveness, a $2

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million principal forgiveness. So that's going to cover both 177 and 178 for um Fifth Avenue in Park Place. >> Yes. That's that's a critical >> and that's very important. >> Left that for you to say because you were instrumental in helping us sign up.

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>> Right. Right. And yes, let's go for Oh, I did have one other comment. So, we're awarding both of these to Fernandez. Will they have two separate teams and the work will not slow down because they're going to be working? >> We will be working that out with them. But yes, they say they have the capacity to do both.

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>> Okay. U Mr. Court, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. >> And um resolution 2026 178, authorization to award the Fifth Avenue and Parkplace Sanitary Improvements

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phase 2 to Fernandez Construction. Phase one of Fifth Avenue was um down to Madison from Main Street. That work was just recently completed, repaved this spring. This is the completion of Fifth Avenue from Madison to Ocean Avenue and

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one additional block of Parkplace. About three years ago, a section on Parkplace was done. And so what we have is enough money um in this fiscal forgiveness to the infrastructure bank. And so we wanted to maximize that 2 million this fis this past fiscal year which ends

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July 1st. So we've incorporated those two blocks from Madison to Ocean Avenue with Fifth Avenue and one block of Parkplace and this work also will be done after September. It is with also with Fernandez as Councilwoman Greenb

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points out um and that yes they were the low bidder on both contracts and they've done the other work on Fifth Avenue. very happy with their work and so I'd like to make a motion to uh approve uh the award of the fifth avenue sanitary improvements to phase two of phase two

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to Fernandez construction. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Greenland. Yes. Mr. Cart. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. All right. Uh back to me. 2026-179.

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This is an individual resolution uh u looking to prorrate and reduce the annual license fee for the burough's new but yet to be completed and that's what I would underline for everybody yet to be completed beachfront prominade

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concession at Oakson Park AB and Parkplace AB and what's happening here is we originally had a concession uh awarded to to the high bidder 21,000 and change 212 Um and then uh they expected to be able

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to launch their concession early in the summer. The plan was Memorial Day. Construction is still ongoing. Uh the contractors hit delays. Um they're missing the start of the summer and even as we speak, we we don't quite know if

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the uh contractors even going to make our July 4th deadline. They had a they had a as I mentioned a Memorial Day deadline. Now, now it's going to be tight to get July 4th. Uh, so in order to work with our new concession uh that

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has a 5-year three-year contract, I think it's it's a multi-year contract. >> Um, we are agreeing to reduce their first year from 21,000 and change to 5,000. Uh, and this is just to get them started, get them introduced to Bradley

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Beach and our our uh, boardwalk and hopefully they'll have a good experience when we can get them into that building. Uh, and they will very happily renew at this at the rate they initially quoted for year two, which will be in excess of 20,000. Any comments or questions on

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this one? >> Do you know what the status is of what's been completed so far and what's remaining? I I saw the concrete was poured outside. Yeah, I mean we we we do know this the status to date is uh you know they poured a lot of the the

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sidewalks and they've um they've got uh they still need to do connecting for JCPNL right I think to the water >> that's been the biggest for the electrical upgrade for the concession that's been the biggest delay is get JCPNL in there they are currently doing tiling work they have all the fixtures

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there to put in the you know the urinals and toilets they're finishing tiling So there is a there there's I'd say a 10% chance that they would get there by 4th of July if that but it's it's probably going to be shortly thereafter because we need to get JCPL in there to upgrade

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that that electrical service >> and then and then longer for the concession portion >> or again that's all they could open those bathrooms prior to the concession being completed and we're talking we're looking at how we could do that. Um but again we don't have the electrical

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upgrade you know that's that's the key piece the contract for the public's knowledge the contractor is sharing with the our engineer that they believe they will be completed by July 4th um everyone else independent of that

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contractor who including Baja Capon our director of public works uh our former engineer miss Councilman Noiki they are doubtful so all we can do is push them as hard as we can. Hi guys. Uh push them

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as hard as we can and hope that they can get this done by July 4th. But as of this point in time, we're intentionally giving a dramatic discount in first year fees. So with that said, I'll make a motion that we approve uh 2026-179. >> Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Green. Yes.

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Mr. Car. >> Yes. >> Mr. Willy. Yes. And >> yes. Okay. Here's the first of our two Darcy's resolutions. And this one's a little curious. Uh some folks might not fully appreciate that we are retroactively

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approving uh Darcy uh to that they can stay open for business until 2:30 a.m. back on June 14th, whenever that was two days ago. Uh and the reason we're doing that is because the c we didn't have a council meeting by the time they came

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and asked for the special event. uh uh you know approval on our part. There was no time for the council to convene and do that. So uh and this is we're told perfectly legal. Uh Mr. Dohy hold the council members who were available.

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Myself and Miss Denobyl are not able to vote because we live in close proximity to Dorsy's. But the other three council members have given at least preliminarily have given Mr. Dhy uh their approval. Uh and now we are voting to ratify that approval. So any comments

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or questions? >> I think it's just important to point out that this was for uh it was uh they would normally have to close at 2 o'clock instead of 2:30 in the morning and this was indoors. >> Indoors and one half an hour and one half an hour. >> Any uh any no other comments or

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questions? Uh I can Jane and I both cannot talk. So if we want to >> um you'll have to take this one, you do the next one. >> Okay. Um, I'd like to make a motion uh uh to approve 2026 180 ratifying permission for Darcy's Tavern to remain

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available for business until 2:30 a.m. on June 14th, 2026 for the World Cup event. >> So, that's it. >> Menov, I um have to abstain because I live within 200 feet, but I do have other multiple items that may appear as

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a conflict of interest that I wanted to share. I've hired Frank Morris in the past. Frank Morris Construction. Fabulous work. Um, my nephew Aiden actually worked at Darcy's and he loved that job. And follow me closely. My partner is partners with one of the

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partners from Darcy's in a separate endeavor. So, for those reasons Oh, and I live within 200 feet. I will abstain. >> Thank you, Miss Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cor. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi.

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My partner does not have a partner. Sorry, you >> I do live within 200 feet and I also must abstain. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Item uh 2026-182.

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We did >> 181. No, >> no, 181. >> We're on to 181. >> 181. >> Yes. Next. >> So, someone must do 1814. >> Sure. Uh, so this is um 2026-181 Grand Theft Commission for Darcy Tavern

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to operate outdoor televisions until 12:30 a.m. or until 15 minutes after the US World Cup game on Thursday, June 25th, 2026. >> Uh, any questions? Any comments from the

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council? If not, I've got some. Well, >> yeah. No, Captain Karp. I know you and I had some discussions on this. I've also spoken to the chief of police and and and I I appreciate all of the res residents coming out as well as the owners and you know it's an interesting

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thing. It is once in a lifetime thing you know here with the US Cup here. Um there's times when there's certain people um you know we had some issues uh with parking out on Main Street in the past with other businesses and and we worked those situations out um and and

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Darcy's accommodated agreement to go back parking. Um and it was also came to my um the knowledge that this past Friday um I think it was Friday. Yes. There was a there was a game and um Darcy's chose to not open for dinner

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because out of respect for the community because they did not want a congregant of of of people coming to that game and staying until, you know, beyond the 10:00 and and having to deal with a large crowd. Um, so they chose not to

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open the outdoor venue. Um, and I thought that was very respectful of the community being that they did not have that permit and understanding that they need to be a good neighbor and to go through a process for special events. So, I do appreciate that and that they

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came with this particular event. Um, there's always going to be opportunities for special events. This is pretty special. It's US Cup. I'm not a major soccer fan, but I have been watching some games and and and they are exciting. Not as exciting as the Knicks, I gotta say, but again, this is special

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for the community to gather, to come together. Um, and you know, again, looking for ways to, um, minimize the noise, maybe keeping the sound down, uh, things that you can do. Uh, because once those soccer people get together and and US is kicking butt and scoring, you're

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going to hear chance USA. You're going to see people hugging. You're going to see um, an excitement in the and and there's going to be noise. And so we are we we realize that and I you know from that respect I I do think that this is an important community event if we can

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um again be uh respectful and respect the police department that will be patrolling but also you know continue to respect the community when it's not a uh a special permit to do this and that Darcy remains

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as a good giving neighbor and that we can then in return be you know cooperative. So that's my comment >> and I just want to add to that which and I know you're going to speak in a moment um which is that the three of us were speaking one-on-one um significantly once this question came to us and taking

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very seriously the need for safety um recommendations from the police department uh an understanding of the community and to what degree um the nearby residents might be affected by it, disturbed by it, in favor of it. Um,

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and so, you know, with that, I think we sort of came to an understanding to make this decision for this one-time event. >> Okay. Uh, I'm going to go to classes as I wrote all this down. Um, so I've um

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carefully considered Darcy's request to extend the outdoor operations until midnight for the upcoming USA soccer match despite the current ordinance prohibiting outdoor activity after 10 p.m. As part of my decision-making process, I got on my bike and I started

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biking up and down Second Avenue, Third Avenue, 4th Avenue. I don't think you were home. Um, this was uh last Friday. So, I was knocking on doors and uh speaking to the residents because I wanted to take a temperature of the room of the people who would mostly be

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affected by that um decision. Um, I will say that the overwhelming majority of the residents I spoke to expressed support for granting this one-time exception, citing Darcy's long-standing presence in our community, the unique nature of this event, and

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their desire to see local businesses benefit from the increased activity associated with the match. I had one person who told me about what happened on Friday night when Darcy's had made the decision to close where they were like, you know, that it's not just Darcy's that benefits from this. It's

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like, you know what, they decided, you know what, they weren't going to come down to Bradley Beach. So, they weren't going to go to the beach the next day. They weren't going to have breakfast uh at the one of the restaurants in town. So, it's there is there's a waterfall effect that happens because of these

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types of decisions. Um, but at the same time, I think it's important to remember that when businesses ask for exceptions to our rules, that their overall record of following these rules matters. And consistent compliance helps build the trust with residents and the burough

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officials. And that trust makes it easier to consider special requests when unique situations like this arise. And it I think it certainly rises to the level of a unique situation. Uh my support for this request shouldn't be seen as a guarantee that every

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request that comes before us will be approved in the future. Uh I think instead it reflects the unique nature of this event. Um along with the strong support of the people that I spoke to as well as the people that are here and it's my belief that a one-time exception

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is reasonable under these circumstances. Um I hope Darcy's ownership Thank you for coming here. uh views this exception as an opportunity to continue to be a good neighbor uh operate responsibility responsibly and be mindful of the nearby

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residents and so for those reasons I do support granting you >> so you want to make a motion >> so um can I actually well you know what let me let's do that first um so I'd like to make a motion to approve 202681 granting permission for Darcy's Tavern

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to operate until 12:30 or 15 minutes So actually we're now in the point of voting but I there was a comment that I wanted to make. >> Oh yes. >> Which was to make a minor change to the verbiage in the resolution. So this does not affect the decision but it's a minor

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change. >> Yeah. >> Um because there's something a little bit wonky I think. Um so let's just go to 2026 181 and see if this change can be made. It's dimminimus which is um

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uh what the second to last paragraph it says uh no the third to last paragraph um whereas the burrow council finds it to be in the best interests of all Americans for Darcy's Tavern to be permitted to operate. That's a little

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wonky to me. Um, so I'm wondering if we can change that and simply say um the mayor and council uh I'm sorry um the burough council finds um uh finds it beneficial for Darcy's Tavern uh to be

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permitted to operate and we make that change um Mr. can without being uh >> do you want to take all the fun out of my job? >> Our little joy by myself in my office on >> our attorney's a big sucker and it's just and player actually.

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>> So I make a motion to approve the amended version of 46 and I'll second that. >> Yeah. Um Mr. Noble, I'll abstain again. I mean you know why. >> Miss Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Yes.

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>> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi >> abstain. >> Can I ask Kevin a question? >> Just procedurally maybe I miss. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Go. I'll talk to >> No, no. Just my my question for you is you was that last motion um to make the

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amendment because it's separately we've got to approve the amendment. >> Oh, what was the impression with Did we do both and approve it? >> Oh, it's dimminimous. >> Can they It's dimminimous. Just yeah it's just a resolution you can change it on the clock. Very good. >> Very good.

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>> Uh is there I don't know if you had uh discussed anything with the police department or anybody else about security that at that time you know like when everybody is screaming and leaving and exiting. >> Um we have we have um I can't Tom is

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really our operational partner. We did give the chief a list of all the dates that you know we we would like the police presence. >> Okay. I'm pretty sure that's one of them. >> Trying to work real close and and I

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would say given the opportunity um the team has been great. Chief's team has been great in terms of coming to support and you know being being good partnership. So I'm glad to hear that. Thank you so much. Anything else? Nope. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you.

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Okay. So, we will move to 2026-182, the uh temporary emergency appropriations. These were just some final edits that Mr. Sign has shared with us with any comments or questions. >> No. >> No. >> All right. I'll make a motion that we

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approve 2026-182. >> Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Carp? >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosa? >> Yes. >> Item 13 on the agenda, announcements. There are none. Item 148. Finally, we get to the most exciting part of the

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evening, the administrator report. Uh, thank you, Mr. Mayor. My short report on this, uh, this. It's nice to have you back, by the way. All the employees in Burough Hall. Uh, happy to see the mayor back. And again, happy birthday. Mayor turned 59 years old, you

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know. Uh, I I I want to just mention what a great job that Mitch Stein has done on the budget. Um, you know, aside from preparing the budget, he's also been working with Department of Community Affairs on this and um, as the mayor mentioned on a regular basis,

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Mitch comes in uh, and expresses to us little things that he's finding. So, unbeknownst to us, he's essentially doing an audit, a uh, you know, a forensic audit of the budget and and the years in the past that brought us to

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where we are. So, um it's nice that he's doing this now because it should be much more smoother sailing with our finances and our budget uh in 2027. So, thank you for that. Uh lastly, uh I'd like to make myself as available as possible to the residents and the members of the

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governing body. Uh unfortunately, I'm going to be out of town. Um >> you're getting married. Name that address, please. Uh I'm gonna be out of town. uh out of the country.

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So I will not be available really at all uh from the 20 from the 20th until the 1st. So June 20th to July 1st. If you don't get any calls back from Matt D already, I apologize in advance, but we'll get to them in July.

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>> As always, Matt, >> that is it. All right. Thank you, Mr. Dordy. We'll move to um mayor and council reports. Can I start with our council president? >> Absolutely. So the tourism uh commission had a meeting this week

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and they approved multiple resolutions. One was for um the talent for the Saturday in the park which is Riley Park every Saturday this summer uh July and August. They also approved the jazz and blues series the talent for that and that is in Riley Park on Wednesdays.

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They also approved um the all the activities for the 250th celebration which is going to be July 1st in Riley Park. They approved the Brookdale series which is the music on Newark Avenue every Thursday. And they also approved

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DJ J which will he will be at the gazebo every Friday. And they also approved Opera by the Sea which will be July 6th and July 17th at the gazebo. And they also held their first annual soccer expo

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that you talked about earlier. It was excellent and it's something they are going to do every year from now on. Especially next year is the women's world cup. And Amy Baker, the tourism director, wanted me to share a few important dates. So write these down and

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mark your calendar. First, on Thursday, June 25th, they're celebrating the Global Beetles Day with a free tribute concert by the Wag in Riley Park from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. And on

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July 1st, on Wednesday, they're going to kick off our nation's 250th birthday early with an afternoon of family fun at Riley Park from 300 p.m. till 6:00 p.m. features live entertainment, historic demonstrations, and activities for kids, followed by a community kite flying down

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at the beach, 7:00 p.m. And then also finally on Thursday, July 16th, TJ, write this down. A blood draw. It's a critical community blood drive at the firehouse. Supplies are extremely low, so please register on our website

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calendar. You will get some merch. Donors will receive a commemorative 250th anniversary t-shirt, plus a $10 Starbucks Wawa card for blood or $20 if

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you donate late. Next, we have the Bradley Beach Shade tree shade tree commission had their meeting June 3rd. They had two applications. One was 205 Central Avenue. They're removing a dead dying

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tree which is also a Bradford pair in their backyard and they will replace it with another tree. And also at 301 Second Avenue, they're removing a dying ash tree and they will replace that. And then finally, we have the board of ed.

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They have a meeting tonight and um they will be it's regarding the appointment contracts for our superintendent and principal Dr. Michael Haididerberg. It's kind of exciting because they want to do a multi-year reappointment until

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2030-31. He's a wonderful, wonderful principal and superintendent. And also they're going to reappoint David Tanzala who is their business administrator and he is just great too. And um they're also doing some personnel reappointments. And

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also, this is interesting, the superintendent has recommended the submission of a formal resolution urging Governor Mikey Cheryl and the state legislature to provide immediate fiscal relief from doubledigit unsustainable

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increases in public school employee health care premiums. So, we're all feeling that. And then just a little note from the superintendent, also known principal Heidleberg. He wants to recognize our entire community who generously made the Washington DC trip

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possible again year after year. From the coin drive and car washes to the kids selling snacks at any event and so many other fundraisers, our family, the staff, the volunteers and community members all came together to ensure

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every student has this opportunity. and visiting our nation's capital is a meaningful educational experience and it is truly one of the highlights of their time at Bradley Beach Elementary School and it would not be possible without the

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efforts of so many dedicated Bradley Beach school and community members. And that completes my report. Thank you, Mayor. >> Thank you, Council President. And I'll turn now to Councilman Clark. Thank you. Um, first aid squad. For the operational

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period ending June 16th, 2026, the squad responded to 11 day calls, five night calls for a total of 16. 13 were medical, three for fire, one involved a water rescue, and two were for motoral vehicles. The squad requested mutual aid

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from Avon. They provided uh two ambulances, medical overwatch, and personnel for the Bradley Beach food pantry pickup. They satisfied 99% of their assignments. Of course, they're still looking for volunteers for the squad. They offer free training for

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qualified individuals. Anyone wishing to volunteer for the first aid squad. Applications can be found on the burrow's website. And they're also accepting applications for their debt program for young people 16 to 18 years old who are interested in serving our team. Short and sweet.

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>> Very good. I'll turn to the other end of the table, Councilman Dwiki. Thank you, mayor. Um, police activity report on June 3rd, 2026, uh, 500 block Bradley Boulevard, a 38-year-old male from Highlands, New Jersey, was arrested and

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charged with possession of a weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia and tampering with evidence. Detective Lieutenant Anthony Murray made the arrest with assistance from Sergeant William Major. He was processed and later lodged in the Mammoth County Jail.

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On June 6th, Lake Terrace in Ocean Avenue, a 33y old male from Tucker, New Jersey was arrested on an outstanding warrant from Asbury Park. Upon his arrest, he was found to be in possession of a knife and charged with possession of a weapon. He was later transported to

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the Mammoth County Jail. The Torman Danny Crow and Detective Rory Bancha made the arrest. And on June 10th, 601 Main Street, a 32year-old male from Freehold was arrested on an outstanding warrant from Lakewood Township. It was also issued a burrow ordinance and

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turned over to the Lakewood Police. Patrolman Anthony Bad Lamente made the arrest. During this time period, the police investigated six motor veil crashes and responded to several calls for service. Thank you, Chief, and to your team.

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um on Southern Lake. I'd like to just report tomorrow at 7 p.m. in this chamber is the Southern Lake uh commission meeting. So, come on out if you want to hear about all the work that's going on with Silven Lake and what the status is and how the u how they are looking to see how to get that

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lake dredged as well. So that's tomorrow at 700 p.m. And I just want to make a little public service announcement that is um the construction for the Silven Lake on the bulkhead on Bradley Avenue. Um nothing's happening before Fourth of

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July. We do and the same thing with the prominade and we do not have the actual dates yet uh for the start of construction or any impact to any of the traffic or movements of traffic. as soon as the contractor um gets those

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schedules to that to us, we will be communicating that information out in detail. Uh but right now uh no construction uh is going to impact anything until sometime after 4th of July. And that's my report.

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>> Thank you, sir. Council woman great. >> Thank you, mayor. Uh the Fletcher Lake Commission met on June 11th. Uh Fletcher Lakes's annual spring cleanup was a great success with 30 community members enthusiastically attending. Approximately half of whom were

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youngsters, families, and a national honor student participating in community service. Uh thanks to WAWA for contributing coffee, to stop and shop for contributing donuts, and Bradley's DPW for bags and gloves. The cleanup

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produced two rusted bicycles, one tire, and 15 full bags of trash. Great news about Fletcher Lake. After Superstorm Sandy's tragic degrade of its aquatic ecosystem uh in 2012 with infiltration of

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seawater, the lake has come back better than ever with greater oxygenation to support aquatic organisms and fish. The DP has given a green light for fish stocking, which will take place in the weeks ahead, adding bluegill sunfish,

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channel catfish, largemouth bass, and fathead minnows to the lakes's underwater life. Watch for details as commission plans to celebrate this event publicly. And thanks to Clonet, the coastal lakes observing network out of Monmouth University for supporting

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scientific data and its continued sampling to guide stewardship of Fletcher Lake. The commission will next meet on Thursday, July 9th in this council chamber. Uh the rec committee cancelled its June meeting in preparation for summer camp. Be advised that the father's day

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kickball event has been cancelled due to low enrollment. The senior club's next meeting is June 24th, noon to 3 at Mr. Shrimp to celebrate everyone's birthdays before they break for the summer. They will be they will pick back up again in September. and ma open play runs every

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Friday 1 to 3 at the Aza Center. Strength training Monday mornings at the Neptune Community Center is at 10:00 a.m. and step aerobics Mondays and Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. Both are free of charge. The rec summer camp

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program begins Monday, June 29th and runs weekdays 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. through August 14th. Pickle ball courts and the recreck facility will not be available while camp is in session. Recreation is planning a first ever camp throwback weekend, a 3-day adult day

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camp to run August 27th through the 29th, 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. It's $175 per person. The fee includes lunch and complimentary beach passes for all participants as well as a camp shirt and

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lanyard with perks from shops, restaurants, and bars throughout Bradley Beach. Also, there are still a few spots open for Marine Science Camp, which runs July 27th to the 31st, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for ages 5 to 14 at Memorial Park in Neptune

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City. The rec committee will skip its July meeting, but will next meet on August 10th, 6:30 at the Rec Center. And finally, the Arts Council last met June 11th. Be sure to attend the first annual Arts Fest Saturday, June 27th at Riley

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Park, beginning at 12:30 and running through 10 p.m. Programming includes a professional dance group, live music, including Bradley's own string band, as well as James Maddock, line dancing, an interactive drum circle for kids and adults, art for youngsters, and more.

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Between four 4 to 6 PM, Posh Real Estate will host a local art show reception featuring 14 Bradley Beach artists with refreshments from Stock Room. The day ends at the UVA's Tiki Bar where a lineup of area musicians will gather to

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perform for an afterparty. Arts Council merch will be distributed at the Artsfest. And please check out the Arts Council website. Let them know if you can help volunteer on the day of the event on the 27th. and watch for lawn signs for a full event schedule.

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A new work workshop, Ballet for Balance, ran June 9th and will continue on the 17th, uh, which is tomorrow, 10 to 11:30 at the fire hall. This is open to men and women of all ages, and it's a class designed to build strength and balance through the lens of ballet. The first

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session was well attended with the promise of a regular program this summer. Thanks to our local Laney DeFranco dance instructor and see the Arts Council website to register. Also this month, Abby Khan will run another freespirited music improvisation play

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shop this Thursday, June 18th, 7 to 9:00 p.m. at the Biazi Center. The Arts Council will next meet Monday, June 22nd at noon at the Biazi Center. And that's my report. >> Thank you, Councilwoman. I am going to begin my report with my most uh intense

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uh data summary provided by the library. This this library I I I I'm joking only in that you know there's a ton of stuff they give me to read and there's just no way I can spend your the rest of your evening reading all of this. But it's phenomenal the amount of programs they

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have. Please go to their website. I'm going to I'm going to highlight a couple of things that jump out at me especially u as we head towards the end of June and into through July and August. Um there is a photography contest that's been going on. It it concludes June 30th. Uh

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if you have children under 12 or adults, I don't know they're discriminating against teenagers here, but uh you can enter the photography contest deadline June 30th. Um there's also summer reading uh unearth a story uh June 22nd

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through August 5th and you get prizes for reading. It's for adults and children. Uh register online. There are um various games, Legos and other types of games uh that are available on a weekly basis. Mondays Mondays are Legos,

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Thursdays are uh crafts for kids and so forth. Um just one or two other quick ones. June well no 13th I missed June 20th is the Spanish English conversation group. They meet at 9:30 in the morning and on

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June 23rd at 4 p.m. there's a a program called Bugs Bugs I Love Bugs. Uh and it's an art workshop but you get a close look at a variety of insects and spiders and and this list goes on. It's it's fascinating and it's something for all ages. So, uh, if you have any interest

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at all for yourself, your family, young children, uh, check out our our library website. Um we also um have a few things going on as you're well aware on on not only the

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prominade the extension but shortly following will be work that we'll be doing uh related to Silven Lake but it's all at that southeast corner of the of the burrow and it's going to it's going to create some havoc for residents and uh beachgoers in that southeast corner

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of our town. Um, we plan, we have something drafted and we're making final edits and trying to add some graphics, but we're hoping to get uh we're planning to get uh communication summary. It's right now it's a three or four page document, a PDF that we will

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be uh getting out in various forms across social media, Facebook, and a newsletters. Uh we'll have paper that we'll distribute to the library and have some at Burough Hall and maybe one or two other places for seniors that are not uh as familiar with uh you know

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using our website or or computers in general. Um so you know we're going to try to go at this multimedia and we just want to get everybody to understand not only what we know now we're going to communicate as we learn. You know some some contractors are just being hired.

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They don't yet have time frames for doing various facets of their work. But as we learn what their time frames, we will communicate uh because we understand what an important undertaking this is for the burrow and and the implications if we don't do it well and

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communicate well the challenges it could create for our our residents. Um Mr. Mr. Noiki, while I'm on the topic of the prominade, um there was one thing I wanted to ask you about and that is uh could you just give the the residents a two-c overview of the uh environmental

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inventory and reviews that are being done on the beach front right now today as a matter of fact just to make sure that we're compliant with protecting the environment. >> Yes. We have a what's called a CAFRA permit which is the coastal permit for

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from the end who drew the DP and the biggest concern was uh with the D was um the migrating birds um the oyster catchers and the pepper clovers uh they're endangered species that um could potentially be present uh somewhere

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along the beach. I know there's been sightings like up in Asbury down in Belmar on on the oyster terries they have these long red beaks but the concern is is that they're not that they nest and so if there's nesting that could um construction activities would

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potentially u you know disrupt that and so they are protected species so we would have to adjust um similar with the uh you know piping clovers and and then there's also a um a species of fauna which is called the beach amaranth which is a plant that grows in the dunes and

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that's endangered and so we have to take uh care um that we're not disrupting any of those plants that may be growing in the proximity of construction. So what we have is we have a you know a rope that runs on the dunes that basically

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defines that area of for the uh beach amarith and so we're going to have monitors uh during pre construction and during construction that will come out and there actually started today looking at um the area uh to monitor uh

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investigate to see if there was any um nesting or any sightings of the amaranth and that will continue throughout construction. ruption because what we don't want to do is violate uh our permit and you know um disrupt those endangered species. Um that's part of

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our beach management plan that we should do these things and the D has worked with us to allow the construction to happen uh because of the limitation of funding. So that's why we're actually doing this work during the beach season which we would prefer not to. We would

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much rather do this work during the winter, but our funding is expires on December 31st and that's a federal grant which actually goes back to COVID funding is where that money came out of interestingly. And so that end of that program is December 31st and we cannot

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do any work or send in any bills at that point. So all this work has to happen now. we have to protect the endangered species and we have to monitor for that to make sure that we're not interrupting um if they happen to be nesting. Um so with that that's what's going on and we

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and and the other thing that we're going to be very careful not to disrupt is our the two-legged creatures walking to the beach and trying to maintain that people traffic to the beach. And so we're going to try to minimize everything we can do that impact temporary when access gets

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disrupted at a location that um we will provide temporary access or again communication is everything. So it's not just the endangered species. It's the two-legged creatures that we need to communicate with too. We'll also be monitoring for noise and air, you know,

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um any anything like that that has to do with the environment. uh making sure we're in compliance with our ordinances and and standard practices and >> and I I asked Councilman Noiki to share that with you because I I want everybody to understand um not only is there a lot

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of work happening and we we you know what's going to be visible to everybody is is the crowds and the and the lack of space and all the you know the machinations will go through to provide walking lanes and stuff for folks. What's far less visible is how much goes

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on behind the scenes. And we're constantly, we, the council, our engineer, police, our DPW, we're constantly interacting with all these different authorities, whether it be the the New Jersey D, uh, federal government, uh, grant funding

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opportunities that we're pursuing. Uh, it's it's it's amazingly complex. And uh and so far I want to tip my hat to this team because you guys are doing a great job u um you know kind of keeping your your uh your hands in a bit of

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everything. Um that con so that again that concludes uh the quick update on the prominade related will becoming communications uh shortly thereafter on Silven Lake. Um and my final comment is

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June 30th. We said this earlier, but just as a reminder, we're going to have a special meeting on June 30th at 5:30 p.m. uh to uh adopt the budget. That is our plan at this point. So, uh more to you know, more to be communicated on that, but mark your calendars if you're

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interested. Back, you're here tonight and still here tells me the people left might be interested. So, with that said, my comments are concluded and we'll turn to item 15 on the agenda. your comments, the public's comments or questions.

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Anita, my name is 116. No problem with me. One quick question and then the main one. Chief, what's the absolute latest time that a block party can go? >> Right until Yeah. Half an hour before.

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>> Half an hour before dusk. >> Okay. Moving on. No more 2 am parties for you. >> We'll just have to keep them at our house. >> Um I don't know how many people here are

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on Zoom or how many people in general received the email that you addressed at the very beginning of the meeting. Um how do we get that to stop? It's I the

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return email address looked a lot like a real Bradley government email. I had to look at it a couple of times till I realized that it wasn't quite right. Um it's really an invasion of our information and our

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privacy. And I know that you guys have nothing to do with this, but how do we get this to stop? >> We we're going to explore that. I mean that is certainly our goal to make sure if it's possible to have it cease and desist that that will happen. U but

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there's as you can appreciate so many legal ramifications. I've already briefly discussed this with Mr. Cannon and our labor attorney uh Mr. Roth. Uh we're also going to conduct as I mentioned internal IT review just to see

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if we can determine how this data was uh acquired. Um, but we I don't have that answer for you. I don't yet know if we can make it stop, but at a minimum, we're going to talk about it openly and transparently in public. So, that person

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might think twice before continuing. >> Okay. And if you could just let us know what it recommends for us. I mean, do we just block it? Do we >> respond in as unscathing a way as we can or not?

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We will follow up one on what's you we're just tip of the iceberg at this point. >> Okay. >> It's very unusual. It's important. A lot of people complain. A lot of people have specifically questioned, did we somehow

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>> allow that data to become available? >> It could be something as simple as happens in corporate America. People even take email lists and contact information and stuff with that. >> Yeah. >> But I don't know. It's just >> we're going to find out if if there's

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anything we can do to formally legally stop it, we will. >> Great. We appreciate it. Okay. >> I'm sure we all will. >> And may I can to to Anita's point in in the email that is sent, it says Bradley Beach NJ, which is all of our official

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emails. So it's it's very close to cloning our emails as well in a way to trick people into think that it came from the burough government, >> right? The Gmail is what really gave it away, but the beginning of it was just

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exactly like everybody's >> official. But you'll you'll see that with other like um people that are out there scanning, right? You you'll open something or say Apple, you're like, "Oh, I got something from Apple." And really it's you know ADC123appgmail.com

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right? So if people spoof them um and and you're right it's easy to get confused and it's highly inappropriate. >> All right. Any other comments or questions? Yes sir. Mr. a shamp and a half Luren Avenue. How you doing?

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Um just to inform the council that last week um TJ Cohen and I both took part in a Zoom hearing with the New Jersey u um Historic Preservation Office. Um it was

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hearing on New Jersey Transit's application to put in raise platforms in Bradley Beach. Um uh for those of you who are not aware, what's been going on actually in plans for quite a while now

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is New Jersey Transit proposes in putting in raised platforms in both the outgoing and incoming tracks um which will be 270 ft long on each side and will be 57 in high with railings on top

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of that. Um they also are proposing some minor changes in lighting around the station and also some electric services, but there's really going to be nothing done to the building itself.

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However, these platforms um I pointed out to the historic commission u I guess know the title is the historic preservation office um that these really are going to block the views of the station from the west from Memorial

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Drive. When you come into town you won't see the station you'll see a raised platform. Um and basically uh this I agreed with the historic um uh preservation offic's um um initial

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letter to New Jersey Transit that this was an encroachment on a historic registered property. Um and basically u the hearing was to find out the details on this plan and and what they would do to mitigate any of this. Um, I suggested

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that I thought that this was an overscale project. Uh, there I questioned whether they needed platforms 270 ft long. New Jersey Transit felt it was needed in order to um open all the doors on all five cars on a five car

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train. Um, I pointed out to them that that they've only been opening at most two cars coming and going. Um usually they move everybody down to both cars long before they get to Bradley Beach. There are at least five stations which

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have to be serviced only through two cars. Um also um they were unaware of whether Aspbury Park and Belmar our nearest stations had raised platforms. We clarify that the fact that Aspbury

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does have rel platform on the outgoing side and has what's known as a mini hot platform on the incoming side which services um any ADA compliance regulations. They're able to get wheelchairs up into a train through

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that. I suggested um that um since there were only 150 people a day in peak season coming and going through the Bradley Beach station, I had not realized it was that low >> that this was bit of an overkill to do

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these huge platforms. Um and basically I think the council agreed um they had some long discussion and they changed um their um their language and they gave a

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temporary denial to the application um and asked New Jersey Transit um to justify um um both the the volume of traffic, the demands of that and and whether um a mini high won't be

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sufficient to to meet the needs of the AD compliance. I don't think it'll stop this project, but um basically it's it's ra questions that New Jersey Transit has to answer to. Um the community should be

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aware of this. Um uh this is going to be quite quite a large impact really on on that station. Um uh and it's an extremely expensive project. I I don't think we bear any cost in it, but I I've heard the figure of $14 million. Now, I

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suggested to them that this may be overkill that basically it certainly it would have a historic impact as far as imped impeding the views of the station. And also, there was some questions of

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whether it would actually um reduce the ability of the station to uh service the incession restaurant that's in there now. They were putting in drop off areas that

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might have impeded the outdoor dining. Um, so I'm hoping they're going to take all this into consideration. I thought you'd like to know. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> As our historian, thank you for representing Bradley Beach. >> Mr. Glenn,

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>> Thomas J. 612 Third Avenue. Paul the champion gave very forceful testimony at that Zoom meeting was really really good and he definitely spun them because I don't think they expected such detail from his presentation. But one thing that did come out is that they're going

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to be doing a lot of lighting changes. And if we look at what we have now and what we're looking to do on Main Street, um when Main Street was done in 97, a lot of the same lighting fixtures were used in the railroad station. So, I don't know if we should reach out to New

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Jersey Transit and try to coordinate the lighting that they're going to use with the lighting that we're going to use on Main Street so we keep a continuum. Um, that was one thing that came out. The lighting was very, you know, a big deal really. So, I don't know what we

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have planned for Main Street, but it would be good to reach out to them, see what what type of uh, you know, spectrums of light uh, you know, historic the the fixtures they had looked like something we would want to use, but again, I think that we can keep continuity. That would be fantastic. Um,

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I did want to check with Mr. Canon. I see have a close session tonight. Um I I apologize I didn't print out the resolution, but are there any other um members coming? Just the council and you. >> Just the council and me tonight to discuss uh the potential settlement

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Garrison versus Bradley Beach. >> Okay, great. >> I'll be visiting the land use board on Thursday night. >> Okay. >> With you guys and I I I set that up with Ann Marie already. Okay. >> Spoke to her extensively about it. >> Fantastic. Thanks so much. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Mayor. On that on that note

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regarding Jersey Transit, Matt mayors, have we received any notification from Jersey Transit on the project? Because they typically reach out. They're planning a project about their notification. >> Um, no. As you mentioned, it's the uh

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it's a comment period for them. Um, I don't know if they they didn't reach out to you, right? >> They haven't started any work or anything like that. Um, >> no, their comment period runs till June 27th. Do they have do they have a study that's available?

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>> Uh no. Uh the idea is um I believe that station by station they're going to bring all of them up to ADA compliance. >> So is this the envir is this the environmental document that they're looking at right now prov

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I can pass on to you plans that they currently have that they've submitted. Um it it it really the world should be interested not just in the platforms but also um there are some changes to the sidewalk areas and the narrowing of the

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roads of both Brinley and Lraine Avenues >> at at the just after the tracks >> right there's bigger implications they're going to do platforms that that could affect with overpasses underpasses and all sorts of things. And on their website, they have a an aerial view of

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what it's supposed to look like. And they say construction is looking to um take place spring of 28 to spring of 29. >> Yeah. So, I would thought they would be giving us a not an official notification >> of the project coming to Bradley. the very first we're hearing about it. But

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again, I I I do understand that their >> their goal, >> whether it's Bradley Beach, Belmar, Spring Lake, is to bring all of their stations up to ADA compliance. And that means elevating the platforms. In this

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case, 57 in, other cases it may be 48 in, just depending where. Um but this is something that um that we've been involved in this in the past. So I I totally understand what they're what they're doing and why. >> Yeah. >> So but we have to look at that really

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closely to to make sure that we get our commentary in and you know affect that design if in fact it's going to come if Paul's not successful. >> And again the public comment period um runs until the 27th >> of June. >> And Paul you said you you can share the

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plans you've got with the council. >> Thank you. Okay, >> Mr. Shook show on 105th Avenue, Bradley Beach. Uh, as mentioned previously, I was here back in January asking the question. I came here at the

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last M council meeting and I wasn't able to get an answer. So, I'm going to ask you now. When are we going to correct George Albert's name and put him in the correct war? Vietnam war, including Korean War,

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>> as he deserves. >> I I can tell you we don't have a date. And the reason we don't have a date is because when you brought that to our attention, first thing we did was ask how much is it going to cost? Roughly $1,000. So, it's not it's not cheap. But we and I then said

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>> what we spend in this hour. I said to Michelle Wy, "If we're going to spend that $1,000, let's make sure everybody else's name is correct. There's another name there. It lists only a last name. Doesn't provide the gentleman's first name." Then I asked, "What are what are the what was the eligibility criteria

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that got a name on that list? No one could answer. Apparently, you weren't able or willing to help provide that background. So, we >> the names that are on there are the people that served during that war. just like you have World War II. >> But how do we know that that is a

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complete list? I guess I >> Where's the research? >> It's not a complete list because I guarantee you there's a lot of women that aren't even up there >> that served our country that lived in Bradley Beach. >> Well, I think in some ways we're on the exact same page. I just want to make

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sure we do it right. If I change one name now and then a month from now, >> change name one just change one name. I'm saying change correct them all. >> I want to do that. Is that going to be >> so actually to to your to your point one of the this was actually my first

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meeting that you were here and one of the things that I had done is right after the meeting is I had reached out to you personally I had called you up and I had and maybe it's even a text message that I had and I said listen it sounds like you have a lot of information that we don't have can we

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meet and discuss what are the changes and you said you didn't have the time >> the town doesn't have time for me I don't have time I was making the time. I was making the time for individuals that deserve to be up there correctly. I mean, we have four different plaques and

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none of them are correct. >> And whoseever fault that is, we need to find out what the source of that information is. I'm not going to change one name unless you sign in writing. We'll never change another name because we don't know if these are accurate.

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You've pointed out one mistake. How many other mistakes are there? Don't do the mistake. >> And you're not willing to help. >> Yes. I'll let you know that right now. Just like in this book. I mean, this was handed out on Memorial Day. >> Yeah. >> Which should have never been done

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because I mean, you have a draft dodger, William J. Duffy, and he admits that he's a draft dodger. You have another one that the stolen valor. He says he served in V. >> I think your comments are very inappropriate. >> No, they're not inappropriate.

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That hurts me when someone says that they served in Vietnam and they never did. That hurts. You're taking away from all those people over there that gave their lives and those that got wounded just like me. >> Who's saying they served? Explain to me

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why. >> I mean, it's written right here. He's a councilman, former council president and your Memorial Day committee chair, Norm Golart. >> Where is it? Vietnam right here. It's written right here in black and white.

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Don't you guys tweet this? Your names are all over here. >> Vietnam era. >> Does it say Vietnam? >> There is no era. >> Yes, there is. >> There there's people that said what you call that they were in the era, but he doesn't even specify that he's in

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the era. There's no specification. All it says is Vietnam. All right. And you have other people that come over here and uh turn around they said that they're in part of uh you know uh national guards or whatever.

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I mean he doesn't even have that. >> We are very willing to do everything we can to make all this information accurate. But to highlight one individual and tell us to change the entire truck. I need to understand the history. Some Bill you were probably

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here. You probably helped create this. What is the what is the data that was collected? How do we know how your name is on that list, right? You served in Vienna. I did, >> but you didn't live at Bradley Beach. What made you eligible for this? Because you subsequently moved to Bradley Beach. And if so,

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>> are people that live in Bradley Beach >> today? What if someone moves here tomorrow who served in Vietnam, who served in Afghanistan? >> You don't have to add them on. >> Okay. And now you see my point. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Well, thank you. I mean, you if

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you're going to name one person, you got to name them all. This is what I told you guys last night. You name one, you name them all. Or you don't name them all. >> Tell us how we name them all. Tell us how we name them all. Please, you don't have to do it. Just tell us how we do. >> I'm not going to tell you. That's your decision. You have to make that.

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>> I don't know how to make that decision. >> Thank you, Bill. >> I can't guarantee you it's going to change, but thank you for persistently challenging. Same thing like the previous administration, the administration before that said the same thing. They all said the same thing.

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>> Understood. And it's still messed up. >> Yep. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Miss Meta. dancing out with Marks. Um, really appreciate your opening remarks

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tonight. I might be what you're referring to, but I can give you this information. There are two employees here who have personally violated my privacy. I have brought this up with the previous administration.

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So, I don't know what kind of hunt you're going to go on, but there's a start. I also want to thank you for making the effort. Success needs to be defined, but making

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the effort to straighten out the mess and maybe lighten it a little bit that we're in. How many years? And I know two of you were up there. One of you maybe

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have I complained about Edmonds and us not using it right and a little bit of blaming everything on Edmonds. How many years, and this goes back two years, two years, >> have I explained

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the lack of transparency in giving us a chart of accounts and the poor detail on the villis and the poor classification? >> At least seven years that I've been sitting. >> Thank you. We agree. Oh my gosh, what a moment. >> Seven years. >> This is bigger than the Knicks.

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>> Knicks won the championship. Who knows what happened? You even want to know that I got into basketball with 73 years. >> Shows how old I am. But you can get that from the people that violate my privacy here. Anyways, point being

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I just really commend the effort to try to write this process. Um, it's going to it's going to take a long time and I don't know that one CFO has the attention to detail. Um, because it just goes on and on and

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on, but it's like it finally clicked. Although I will admit, we used to have a CFO that did the payroll also and got rid of Prime Point. But um it would be nice for the public to even

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see a little bit of progress made not in terms of the budget even in terms of the bill you know when it comes with office maintenance which office when it comes to building supplies which there's a lot of baby steps that can be taken and I

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really do um want to encourage you to continue on that path. So, thank you for getting to this after a year and a half. >> Thank you for your comments. Any We only have a couple people left in this room. Can there be other comments?

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>> Anyone on Zoom? I see none. Okay, we will close the uh public session and move to executive session. U Mr. Cannon, what what's the estimate of time for the executive session? approximately 25

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minutes and we'll discuss the pending litigation of Garrison versus Bradley Beach, document number 3458-22. Uh, no one except the council, the bureau administrator, the clerk, and myself will be in the executive session.

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>> Thank you very much. I'll I'll make a motion that we adjourn to executive session. >> Second, Mr. Noble, yes. >> The Supreme Le, >> yes. >> Mayor Gumozi, >> yes. And the resolution states in case it goes over.

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So good. Thank you. And he says they said the whole time and I said