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action 10 and will be taken providing that there is an inperson Quorum Mr Noble here miss greenblat here Mr nowiki here Mr Weber here here mayor guzi excused welcome everybody thank you for
being here um as you can see mayor guto is not here this evening i' just like to up toate you um on the situation may groupy is unable to attend tonight's council meeting due to a severe and traumatic out ofate family emergency involving his son and daughter-in-law
the mayor has been tiously working for Bradley Beach to improve our community and while he tends to crucial Family Matter I told you I was going to cry the council wishes him and his family strength and comfort and we want to reassure you that the residents of Bradley Beach we will continue to work
diligently on their behalf and maintain the progress we made together so I'm just going to gather myself I'm sorry this is they're doing okay the kids are making it they're surviving but it's been really tough on Ann and Al and um
we're going to talk about puppies next so I'll be okay I promise so um we're going to start with some workshops and um the mayor and I recently discussed the dog regulation and um we want to revisit our ordinance
because um we're looking at getting a Bradley Beach development team together and being um you know inviting the dogs to the parks as part of it and I just want to read the regulation that we have currently which is chapter 115-2 G and no person owning harboring keeping or in
charge of any dog shall cause suffer permit or allow such dog to walk or run in the play area Park Boardwalk Beach or beach front in the burough except permitted as 123 d8h which we all know is when the dogs are allowed on the
beach from October 1st to of May 15th and that's when it's lawful to allow dogs and other domestic animals to be on the public each area of the burrow so they're allowed there about seven months and then I wanted to share with
you okay the task force and then after that let me just get my ads here together we want to have like an open discussion we want to talk about the pros the cons the benefits the the good the bad the ugly and um we're going to
have a committee that's going to to also cover this we just wanted to kick it off and and consider what it's what's the good part what's the bad part of having dogs in parks and um I going to start with some pros that
I I've researched and and we have a large population of dogs and the population is growing and um a lot of us enjoy our furry friends and our current ordinance restricts them from enjoying our parks and perhaps it's time to revisit this so the good parts is that
you get extra exercise and socialization the parks provide spaces for dogs and their owners to exercise and socialize and contribute to their physical and mental well-being and the community dog owners of often connect with each other in the Parks and they Foster a sense of
community and then increased Park usage it allows dogs in the Parks and they can encourage more residents to utilize these public spaces and of course reasonable pet ownership is crucial we have to make sure our ordinance is
enforced that we clean up and we uh ensure the safety of enjoyment of all the park users so um I don't know if I should open to the public for us or do you guys want to make any comments about this you know I think that um I actually
think there's more dogs in this uh in the burrow than there are children in um might be right but but with it I think the number one concern is health and safety and so no matter what we do or what we considers health and safety has to be first and that health and safety for the human population first and then
second for dogs and I think whatever we do and whatever we consider has to consider that as a Forefront and then see how we can work around that and what fits within those confines of what is what is you know healthy and what is safe yes for the community good point
Thank you and I I just wanted to mention that you know we um have these um resident advisory committees that developing and one of the resident advisory committees will be about the discussion of a dog park and if there's um an opportunity in the burrow and
that'll definitely be a discussion so this really is just about addressing identifying the parks that we have addressing all of the various parks and considering in some of these Parks uh the possibility of uh dogs on leashes
during uh you know with with some conditions during certain times events or something like that okay so that's that's what tonight's discussion is right right just an open just to kind of kick it off and just get some public feedback and some interest in the um
task force as well so I'm very she's a cat owner by the way just I need blow your mic too well no because it's actually too loud it's like I'm scared to touch that thing okay people can hear me I'm sure
um so I too I would be in favor of you know whenever we have an event in Riley Park technically not allowed so I would love it if we as the council if we have to do it for every event or if we just had to do it once a blanket but whenever there's a town sanctioned event in Riley
Park I think the whole no dogs in Riley Park thing should be lifted so people can bring their dogs they do it anyway so I feel like let's just make it legal um and because when there's an event with hundreds of people in the park I don't think we're going to have this problem of people not picking up after their dogs um you know I'm a former dog
owner I we have the best deal for dogs in probably anywhere around here because they're allowed on the beach off leash seven months a year which is pretty darn good um but that said obviously people still don't pick
up after they're dog on the beach um I would like to consider the I feel like an I'm glad you're here bajio maybe you can bear this out for me but uh the amount that we still I mean the town provides those mut nits right it's like you don't even have to bring your bag here's there bag in case you don't have
one um but the cost to the town has it not gone up like exponentially it's I feel like it used to be just like okay a normal amount and then clearly somebody goes up to the m mid dispenser and takes like 50 of them every time and you fill it and three days later it's empty uh
and that's sh on the beach front so I'm imagining what's that going to be like if we have you know parks and stuff available as well uh I am right we spend like a decent amount of money yes like more importantly you said order a certain amount you put them in and a
couple days later they're gone yeah uh so we'll have to consider that I mean I'm open to the idea of someplace else in town but I really like the idea of just letting them in Riley Park when we're having events um but I honestly think if we open up any one of the parks
or playgrounds or anything like that we're going to end up with uh the same dog waste problem because even if it's just a few percentage of people that dog owners that aren't picking up um it's everybody knows yeah yeah I also think the use you know
each park has different use some are passive where there's not you know children activities specifically and there's other ones that have playground facilities and where where children are you know toddlers you know playing you know in the dirt or on the grass on their hands and knees I think those
areas would be more restrictive to be able to accommodate both and so I think we need to look at the use of each of the parks in each of the greenway areas and identify locations that would be um you know appropriate for you know to let
you know to walk your dogs and whatnot um so um and then Unleashed and then whether or not you end up having a you know if you ultimately can find a a quote dog park or create one somehow um then there's other things that we need to look at such as um you know the size
of the dogs do you separate them um has everybody have their dogs you know do they have to be neuter do they have to so there's a lot of considerations and so this committ would be a great way to really you know get some people who really understand all those and MTH county has do Park so we can actually
learn from you know what has been done before and and gather that information to make sure we do it the right way well said yeah because um we do have Parks like Second Avenue I I see a lot of dog owners enjoying it and
technically they're breaking the law so I think that you know that would be a good place to start to say hey that's a good place to be um I know Riley Park you talked about that people talk about the prominade and I said well you know it's a
smaller walkway like you look at Asbury Park and it's so wide and ours is a lot more narrow and you say okay well you can't go there but you know you can go to Second Avenue and enjoy the grassy area over there so these are just things that we're kind of throwing out there just to get an idea and um I think I can
open it up to the public right now and I'd like to invite uh Dr hey up here Kathleen and um yeah yes please do up there just say your name and address she and I work at the um we volunteer together and we discussed this last week and the mayor had requested that she'd
get up and speak she is a licensed New Jersey veterinarian so yeah my name is can you hear me pull myath I live at 303 just address US yes that's I I live at 303 Fletcher Lake Avenue right near what I didn't realize
is is not a dog park right is this Tri land between second and third Avenue I didn't realize that was restricted but um the council some of the council members and the mayor asked that I come in as an expert just um inform you of
the potential I don't want to say cons but things that you should consider as you Workshop this topic um I'm not taking a stand necessarily I just want to let you know of what you should be thinking about the first there's three things three things the first one is dog
bites there's 90 million dogs in the US there's 4.5 million bites reported every year in the US so it's about 5% um the average uh claim Insurance
claim that's paid out is $58,000 that's average uh the people that are most frequently Bitten are children and anytime that you in increase the number of dogs and
people um you you increase the risk so I understand the desire to have dogs be at these big events that we have that you certainly are increasing your risk of dog bites kids don't know how to behave around a dog they'll run away and so on
and that's what makes them at higher risk and there's also people I have I'm a veteriner and I've worked I love animals you know I've worked my whole career I've been a veterinarian for over 40 years years um I have two siblings that are afid dogs so I think that needs
to be considered when you're workshopping this topic the next two risks and and Mr nowiki I think kind of touched on them a little bit are parasites there's two that are of concern that dogs carry that people can get there's others too but let's just
talk about these two hookworms and round worms uh those worm eggs are shed in the dog species even when you pick it up the eggs can remain uh after a few days they become infective where they can infect people and round worms are biggest risk
in children because they ingest the wormings they don't realize they're digging in the dirt or sandbox or on the beach the kids you my grandkids are on the beach they get sand in their sandwiches they're eating it and that's how they get infected and the worms go
to their lungs liver and even in the eye kidneys uh they can go to the brain and it can be devastating those worm eggs round worm eggs are very resistant in the environment and they can actually persist for months to years so something
to consider especially where children play where they're playing in the dirt digging in the dirt on like the playground equipment you have to be aware of that the next worm I'll just mention is hookworms and that's a risk
for all of us uh the hookworm eggs again they're uh they get on the ground they within 10 days they become infective they survive for three to four weeks um unless it's very cold or very hot and dry so they
love warm moist areas so the beach is a good place where you can get this and the way you get infected with hookworm is by walking barefooted or sitting on the wet sand or in the ground and I have to admit I've walked barefooted with my
grandkids in that Second Avenue Park and now that I know that everyone wants their dogs there I'm not taking my shoes off anymore they crawl in through your skin and they cause something called creeping eruption it's a very itchy rash if you sit on them they can burrow in
your butt you know in your skin wherever you have be skin or most frequently it's in the you know on your feet and it's usually associated with beaches but you know you can get it other other places as well so those are there's other concerns but those are the remain that I
think you need to consider well thank you very much for your time we appreciate that sure you know it's interesting after we spoke I I looked up on the um internet and it said even if from petting a dog you have um risk as well and um oh can I say one
thing I should have want me come back yeah sure okay um so you know people say I don't have wor you know my dog doesn't have worms but the uh Companion Animal parasite Council recommends that everyone deworm their dogs either put them on a prevent
heartworm preventive that also has hookworm and round worm preventive in it that's the best thing to do if not you should be deworming your dogs four times a year and people say you know I think a lot of people are not aware of this so aside from not picking up the Poo I'm
babysitting my grand dog this week and just walked three blocks and I saw three piles of poo two were in bags and just laid on ground the other one was you know I've done the beach clean up I find a lot of poo there I've seen people you know so it's people even though people
say well I'm good about my dog there's a lot of people aren't good about their dogs so that's the risk it only a couple people and that's a lot of poop that's right it's a lot of dogs poop every day and and the number of worms that are shed are thousands thousands tens of
thousands hundreds of thousands so that's the risk yeah was interesting like you you can that I just wanted to you know touch on that again I looked up what we discussed and I saw that you can even get this from penting a dog so little public service announcements here wash your hands thoroughly after Penning
an animal avoid penting dogs that appear sick or have any skin lesions don't let pets uh dogs lick your face especially around your mouth or eyes keep your dog up to date on vaccination and parasite prevention like you said and clean up up your dog promptly and dispose of feces
properly I also saw that a human bite is more harmful than a dog bite to a human so if you see Mike Tyson in the park make sure you just turn around and go the other way so um there's some interesting facts about that but you
know we do love our pups and like you said you have dogs too and yeah so would anybody like please come up hi come here say your name and address hi everyone I'm 62 mmth and I just um turned on and I was just
listening to the topic of workshopping so so um it's a topic near and dear to my heart I know the I just came on when you started your um I didn't get to hear everything you had to say about it but uh I'm a little nervous because this isn't really my thing to uh be the
person who's going to be the Debbie down the dogs so my daughter happened to be um a child who was M bit by as a six years old and it was a very nice neighborly dog I love dogs I have I have friends with dogs it's caused a lot of
damage to the dog to her her face which that's what they do because children at eye level with the dog I don't know if that was explained but if a child or an I happened to have a grandchild now there's two and a half years old but um just that eye level it was a nice dog and it happened she and it caused a lot
of um just a lot of issues and scarring and everything so I know that uh a lot of people love these dogs I'd love a dog park I just want to say I'd love a dog park a place where a dog came up but I have 2-year-old was toddler and I love
going to the events here I take her to all the events here and she toddles around and of course she's going to encounter dogs when they toddle around and if they're either on a leash or not on a leash and that's a pro you know I love the Riley Park events and I've run
after and there's so many people with dogs there it's just there it's again eye level the dog is on a leash and everyone's enjoying themselves and I always worry about especially since she's my grandchild and recently the last time my final thing about the dogs
are I can't even take her to the beach off seon anymore because I did take it to the beach uh it was September we're on the beach I made actually made a phone call to the police department just as just as a question not as a negative person but
I'm in the water we're there and the dogs are off leash and there's you know the owners are 300 yards away and the two large mediumsized dogs are now jumping on me and jumping on her in the water and the person who own the dogs
are screaming at me saying it's off season and these dogs are allowed to be off Le too bad for you so I'm here as a represent of a person who experienced child has experienced a do bite I just this isn't even my jam to be here and be
the T Downer on you know everyone because I feel like I am but I needs to be represented I'm not about I don't mind picking up dog who my neighbors have great dogs I have dogs in my house all my friends have a dog I don't mind any that but I do mind that I want to
bring my grandchild to enjoy everything that's available for her to enjoy to experience it and I don't want to worry about if a stranger dog is just happens not to like my grand child at that moment what you see all the time is B
Mar you hear about it all time is B it's quite PR you know interesting um it used to be they allowed dogs September 15 and there were so many people that were still on the beach that it was moved to October 1st so yeah if you ever see anybody with well think might say it was
October 1 been in that range I did I did I asked I said is there are they allowed to be off leash because it was very harassing to me know because I have two strange men you know I'm with the two-year-old I'm in the water the dogs are jumping on us and I'm like wow
this is not nice and it's not cool thank you for Shar that's just my that's my sharing moment ofk for Shar moments I'm on the opposite side of that's okay than appr app thank you
yes oh I know that it's octob yeah oh anybody else hi castano 604 gra Boulevard I'll be Debbie Downer number two okay um I'm a prior dog owner uh I'm a runner I've
been chased by dogs I've been bit by dogs I run on the prominade um dogs are usually not the problem it's the people that own the dogs and I think it's exactly for the reason the woman mentioned it's the entitlement culture a
lot of times of dog is is terrible um and I'm in agreement that we do not enforce dogs on the prominade when they're not supposed to be I I run all the time I see the cars the police cars they're parked right next to promonade
they're parked they're looking for something on the prominade I don't know what it is because the dogs are there and police aren't doing anything about it so with that said I'm all for dog parks I don't care if they make every
single dog a dog park except Bradley Park when I go to an event I don't want to hear a dog park I don't want to hear two dogs barking at each other and again I think it's the entitlement of I'm going to let my dog off the leash I'm
going to give them a Long Leash and it's not something that I want to watch or listen to when I'm at one of these events especially a concert let me see if I got everything oh and uh I do want to mention that I live
actually across the street from what I call the Bradley dog highway so this is the area of grass between the Bradley Boulevard curve on the south side and svin Lake hundreds of people during the summer walk their dogs there people
drive from out of town to walk their dogs in that in that spot and I think I think it's fine it's not really a park they want to use it to walk their dog it's fine it's not someplace I walk um but I think that that's a that's a good spot and I'm sure there's a lot of
other good spots but I would say keep the dogs and the people a little bit fart thank you yes that's great thank you okay um I
[Music] five more minutes okay 124th Avenue I was not prepared to talk about dogs but being maternal uh I feel that I have to share that I really have a serious problem
with Dogs Unleashed on the beach our son was jogging and he was bitten by a dog and skin was broken MH he had and of course he didn't had his cell phone on with him and the owner of the dog said
to him oh it's the first time it ever happened and since then he doesn't JG on the beach anymore that's his own person tell me for saying all this but anyway but and then he had to go and get all the
shots another thing that is concerning me about dogs on the beach and I don't want to deprive that of anybody but based on what the veterinarian talked about with the Fe with all the our kids
aren in that sand all summer how do we know we're not going to be infecting them with some of this I mean that is a serious concern and I don't know what how you're going to deal with it but I don't like the
idea of the kids playing in the sand and potentially getting seriously ill okay yeah this is why actually Dr heene told me that it was um that's why we do May 15th So within the two weeks with the
sun and the exposure most of the eggs but do they I think that's I I'm guessing that's why they did it yeah that's why we had that last week but I don't and the the round worm eggs are more persistent in the environment and I can't tell you how persistent they would be but certainly the hookworm eggs 3
weeks in the Sun uh should like you know should do you R I'm sorry can you rake the sand and collect all of that stuff I mean how some of it goes in but some of it doesn't and how about in the water I
mean you know all of that stuff being washed in the water what is the potential these are things we have to take into consideration I mean and I don't want to deprive anybody of you know but I think it's something a public health matter this is really great feedback we're hearing what
people are you know they're saying well s Lake might not be that bad the prominade Is Not Great Second Avenue is okay R Park maybe not so this is just we're gathering information and this is how we also know that these dogs are properly vaccinated right I mean then
maybe with a dog park we can better regulate that allowing people in is there a way that you can have a dog park where it's members only we could consider that too and then put a fee associated with it that's a great idea and and so that there's maintenance and
absolutely yes just to protect this is great really great feedback thank you eile okay uh Kristen hi um I understand people's concerns
about children and dogs and um the unpredictability um dogs don't have to be in a park for something to happen I was walking down the street with my dog and two J dogs jumped their owner's FR fence and attacked my dog and pinned her
down and almost killed her um that said um that said we live in one of the densest communities in New Jersey and the fact of the matter is there just even if you have a dog and there are a
lot of dogs a lot of people don't I hear people say all the time like your dog go to the bathroom in your own yard I don't have a yard I know plenty of people in this town who do not have a yard it would be nice and I love that we have the beach for seven months but it would be nice if there was a place where dogs
could go um to socialize to get exercise to do things like that um when it when we're talking about the mutm mits I think we should absolutely get rid of them on the beach I think people come and they take them and you know one day I'm there every day with my dog in the in the offseason they'll be there one
day they're on the next if you're not responsible enough to bring and chances are your dog's not going to the bathroom for the two first two seconds when it goes on the beach but if we were to allow them in parks and it's a much more contained area maybe we could have muts but I think a great way to save money is to get rid of them right now um with
regard to the diseases um you know geese Carri Gardia um the diseases carried by the seagulls that fly everywhere Sal Manila pppop plasmosis bird flu um all that stuff just gets ground under when the
when the Zamboni comes by but it doesn't change the fact that all those parasites are still in the beach as you sit there um you know but as councilman nowicki said you know there could be specific places that we could use to allow dogs um maybe the prominent on the
offseason um and different parks that we have um so I'd like to um examine that I'm sorry for anyone who's been um attacked by a dog there are lousy people in this world there are people who get out of their car and into their car at the end of the beach day and throw their garbage in front of my house one block
from the beach um and that's just human nature unfortunately so entitlement is one thing but lack of regard for other human beings and the environment is another and I don't know how we go about fixing that but it's something we're going to have to deal with um and those
are my comments thank you thank you okay Nancy if you could just Hal your applause um we don't really encourage people to clap or Boo and it's okay it's okay I I know people have been kind of clapping but we we just don't want anybody to be afraid to speak and
sometimes it just intimidates people so just hold your you can save them for me later if you want to anybody I'm sorry i' like applause oh I know we all like applause but you know if someone doesn't get it their feelings are hurt and I don't want
anybody to feel intimidated Nancy met Ocean Park Condos so so to summarize the biggest problem is the dog owner not the dog health is a
problem entitlement is a huge problem I'm a taxpayer my taxes go not only here I also pay state taxes they go and they go to the county and the county parks the county dog parks which are quite lovely
so dogs can go there I've been myself maybe I'm a dog um never um and step back even know I don't choose
to have a dog park here for so many other reasons but now let's step back and we have one I don't know where it is I don't know where it is seven months on the beach is not enough so I guess this is a 12 month dog whatever the current rules are not enforced about
dogs on the beach what makes you think they're going to be enforced with with a dog partner that's just another failure of something here in town and I don't think we need
to deal with that okay along with the lawsuits and this and that where we already don't have rules and laws enforced um I hate the dogs off a leash and I'm usually on the beach sitting there in part of November and the dog
owners are nasty and whether it's in July at 7 o'clock in the morning law enforcement ignores all of this so when you think about trying to please everyone make a compromise and G let's have a dog park let's also look
out here is the room filled with all dog owners how many of them care to even come tonight so you can PL me now okay thank you m so we are going to have a task force um there is a link on the Bradley beach.gov
site you could go ahead and sign up for that it's under Beach Bradley Beach development and I do encourage volunteers and this is a lively conversation this is great feedback from everybody and I appreciate everyone that has been here and got up and spoke and
shareed your ideas Bravo to everybody so we're g to go ahead and table the park mobile discussion um U mayor goosi would like to discuss that so we're going to save that for him when he returns and
then next is the host compliance granicus okay so I know we have a slide for this that um explains this I think um the host compliance yes we can briefly C
cover this Michelle may have the slide for the granus hostes app compliance Matt do you want to cover this one uh sure so uh post compliance um is simply a way it's a
tool for the burrow to be able to track um short-term rends so you know as airbnbs vbos things like that um because these are are put online primarily for
R we don't really have a tool inside to track to monitor it this would provide us with that tool so it would do two things at once it would increase our enforcement of existing ordinances that are on the books regarding short-term
rles and would also generate uh a little bit of Revenue for the burrow at the same time and it would also be collecting the um the the 3% fee so it would be doing some administrative right yes exactly
twin with the ordinance we pass last time for the tax obviously um no one pays their taxes unless there's some sort of enforcement um and so this double checks obviously people these are commercial interests they're all people that are advertising online um it's
transi accommodations is the definition as the ordinance if anyone who here last time we discussed that ordinance it applies the exact same kind of U rentals this is not renting to your cousin you know your garage apartment this is people who are actively advertising and
operated Commercial Business essentially in your neighborhoods and so they're allowed to do that because they own the property and this is America but you also have to pay your taxes um and so this is going to hopefully be a big piece of enforcing that occupancy tax so does does it actually collect the tax or
does it just ensure that does it just tell us like yes no this person paid the tax um my well so if the tax is paid through through the state they don't actually pay the tax through this software um but they um it does check to
make sure the M any Municipal fees and the taxes are being assessed because they're required to be assessed to the consumer according to the occupancy tax um and so they're supposed to be added on to the bill like that tax so that it's transparent with the person who's renting the the transient accommodation
and so um they do check my understanding is that they do check that sort of thing it's basically it's basically an algorithm that Aggregates these various websites so it's we're primarily paying for their software to that automatically does this through the internet right we
would never be able to do that ourselves to monitor uh and enforce compliance this I mean we talked about this a few years back wasn't implemented so anyone who's been here for a few years I see a few of you um has heard this before um
and so we have um we turn over a code enforcement we're going to try try this again to integrate it previously um you did have someone who is actually researching the websites themselves who paying someone their salary or all wage in the case of a parttime person to do
this work and this is $133,000 Which is less than the benefits package for fulltime Public Employee so um economy efficiency thing it seems like the code department is buying in new administrator in so see how it
goes great um oh Linda hi I'm gonna open it up to the public is that okay yes I just did I'm sorry no that's okay I saw your hand going very I don't want this to be the locker um discussion but would that entail also the people that rent
out their units that that have lockers because those people on the ordinance kind of looks like they're not supposed to do that if they rent out it's not family or friends you know specifically as sitting here right now I have to tell you that the mayor did um as he did three years ago when this was presented
everyone did a lot of the leg work on this um so he I don't want to speak for him and I don't know the personal answer but my understanding is there is a number of add-ons on this soft we're getting the basic package and there's a number of add-ons onto it obviously it's like any other software package you
caning um and I know that it does have customizable aspects so like that's a particularized thing here at Bradley Beach and I think we could add that but I don't want to I don't know I wasn't in the mayor ran it so the mayor might be say a lot of times buy programs and
don't buy enough of the program or the whole package or part of the package and then when they realize that it's too late they have to pay double the amount to get the rest of the package but all right Linda three Linda do 312 do that um so I think it would behoove the whole
Council to to get together and look at the whole thing and maybe the course $22,000 more get another coordinate package you can attach the locker to it and also does it generate lists so you can send out cards you were delinquent you didn't get this we're g you know I
believe so yeah thank you thank you anybody else okay any comments or questions I was just going to reiterate what um the attorney said it was actually 2000 again for those of you playing along at home
it was that long ago mayor counc guos at the time and councilman seith and they had this idea it was 2020 by the time you know was up and running into like our Administration changed and I think the new Administration did not favor this so we never reaped the benefits is
my understanding so I'm eager to speak to Mayor gubitosi and find out what is different this time because he basically handled it both times and seems like a great idea seems like a really great upside if we can make it happen so we goward to it great thank you very much okay we're going to go ahead onto pres
presentations and vins there is none and next we will be approval of minutes oh want to make a motion to approve okay yes I was GNA wait for Erica but yes okay I make a motion to approve the minutes February 4th
2025 uh Mr Noble yes greenl yes Mr NWI yes Mr Weber yes mayor gboi excuse me now we're going to open up to Public public comments and questions pertaining to the February 18 2025 agenda items only any
questions anybody I yes um I guess it's a Contin continuation of my concerned about the ocean front and tonight it will be lockers what agenda item are you is
that uh the ordinance maybe you s about the ordinance introduction is that what it is yeah yeah long it's about subing the lockers no it's not about that it's about residents and lockers the resident The
taxpayers Who maintains the lockers as lockers maintained in BR Beach yes when you pay your fee that goes towards and moving St on Bradley BR
property correct and Public Works maintains those lockers correct yes okay taxpayers are paying for their salary taxpayers are paying for the land
correct I find it very difficult to understand why why the burrow somehow cannot make make accommodations to the taxpayers I'm not saying deny anybody Public Access because I know that's an
issue but why can't taxpayers have some type of priority on first come um some of the locker Lin I call it Locker alley have gotten so long that
it's actually closer to walk from your house carry your chairs from your house to the beach so I think it's time for somehow instead of saying we can't do it
find a way to say how can we accommodate our taxpayers not denying anybody the right to have it but I feel as though there should be some type of consideration for tax I think they're coming up with an
answer for you right now I hope I'll be so sure I mean that's a difficult in terms of discriminating between residents and non-residents if there you know look as the access of course you cannot with facilities there are exceptions to that rule for residents
versus non-residents particularly when there's a beach club or a building but not with respect with respect to essential facilities like you can't discriminate as the bathrooms right or something that everyone needs to use the beach that's the public the trust Doctrine you know you guys put them out
by the entrances inside the access area and it's not a particularly it's not like its own facility that my understanding is that they spread out at each block that's a really tricky gray area to get into with the public trust do in terms of telling residents that they get preference or don't because of
where they're located how spread they are out they are on the beach not necessarily an essential facility you know in general your point is well taken and the taxpayers do take care of them although I think it might come from the beach fund um it's not something I would recommend it's not something I want to
say it's impossible because you can Google it right now and you can see some of the exceptions but when you read them um they very much uh you are more of a beach club than they are lockers that are in the accessible area it's it's a very tough area I wouldn't recommend that you do something like that the way
you guys handle the beach do other municipalities accommodate residents first before they have um nonresident typle lockers Mr I'll tell you the the easiest way to do that without violating the public trust Doctrine um I remember being debated here and my understanding
that you can still come here is to have in-person registration for the lockers up front right that means that anyone can come to the window right and register for the beach lockers they can come from anywhere in New Jersey in but it's easier for the residents to get here and that's so you're treating
you're treating everyone the same um you know I think the burrow does do the in person I think there was talk a talk about online but then we kept it in person and that was a direct nod to the notion that it's easier for residents to come come down here on the first day first hour than it is necessarily for someone that I have been a resident
there on that day and I I had a little competition with some people who was going to be there first and I got there before he that that time and there were other people there before me and there were
non-residents because they knew the system well that's you know that's that's part of the public trust auction it's a it's a plus a minus you know especially you go to other places in New Jersey that are that are different than here with a massive public beach when it's much more divided but yeah I mean
that you know I don't recommend you get into the beach lockers the way they're spread out um you know but we are aware of it here you know that process could maybe think about it some more but that you know in terms of just structuring the process to be in person in here that's the easiest way we can make it
easier for residents to be here first although we can't guarantee it if someone brings a 10 you know Greg if you remember the LA ministration argued against that whole system because they didn't want people waiting out the cold and it was terrible for seniors and stuff so we went to the online community
pass so and that costs our US money as well doesn't it everything costs money I know but we had an in person all out long outside the way it used to be there wouldn't be a SE charge sure you can still pay in person yeah but you still
don't get yes excuse me but you don't get you don't get first come first serve type of privilege with the locker I mean that's it more than anything and it was actually a little happening it was fun it was cold but it was fun thank you any
thank you anybody else hi Brian Downey 619 4th Avenue uh am I allowed to ask questions um is it on the agenda item it's for sorry it's for the uh event that is darcos yes on
the agenda yes and you definitely may ask questions you may ask questions or make comments anything work for you what is status the status of what the tent and parking lot I'm GNA have our VA mat already give us the update on that so
Darcy's along with some other businesses in town were issued violation notices um back in December I'm sorry in January they were given 30 days to cure which is a reasonable amount of time uh the 30 days expired yesterday the
17th um so Darcy's the you talk about any other the structures should be coming down okay um so with that to approve a special event in the very place for the exact reason a violation has been issued and that violation was
not addressed is sending a disjointed message by the bur of Bradley Beach conflicting information affects people's trust otherwise I wouldn't really have a problem with it but due to the fact that they did not comply I'd say it's inappropriate thank
you thank you anybody else I see oh Linda Dy Linda ducky 312 Brinley I'm back to lockers okay um I did complain a few years ago that I used to have a Locker on for place I did move to Brinley I put
myself on the list for friendly I did pay the initial fee on Park Place and I have pay it again so now your ordinance has not been corrected to say what you wanted to say it still says the initial fee it's like initial is first right I
paid it twice that's wrong this needs to be Rec corrected so people know exactly what they're doing and what the town is doing because I do know of people in this town that had lockers moved from one beach to another and did they pay a fee this is a good question
a very good question do you know when you move your lock do you have to pay the Initiation fee again that's what she's saying it doesn't make a difference it needs to say if you can move a locker I didn't move my locker because I was told I couldn't right I had to get on the list for so I did that
so it's not an initial fee John um Council Weber told me was supposed to be understood that way but it's not written that way this ordinance needs to be adjusted before it's adopted we need to have a workshop on it also there are many
towns that allow residents first I've have the SE believe and it says at the end you know outside people can come after if there's anything left over but also different town charge different fees for Resident non-resident
also elmar has a discounted fee for seniors how convenient is said anyway the ordinance needs to be workshopped and not introduced tonight or voted on What towns have uh well I have this list here
are are they Beach Clubs is a beach club but they have like Jo B like there specific yeah there's a specific case that allow that allow I think this one is one is Asbury Park this one is delor
seniors are specifically authorized by the statute so you're allowed to give senior discounts military discounts um I don't want to go through the exhausted list but there are specifically enumerated discounts that you can give seniors is one of them the resident non-resident rate a lot of I I
suspect when you look down that list a lot of them are really a beach club that is Asberry Park's not a beach club I don't know what asbery park I I don't know where they're an Avon is not a beach CL think it needs to be readdressed and worksh so we get it
all correct you can't move you can move not a beach club in the sense that it's a a membership a beach club in the sense that it's yeah it's the residents it's a private it's yeah yeah I understand the town owns it pays for it with different money there's a way to set it up that
you can do it that way you know it would be very look to make aach we're just looking for residents to have Priority First right but the issue with the beach club and why I keep saying Club is because it's very contained and segregated from the remainder of the
beach facilities so I'm the village attorney for lock Arbor and they give preference to their residents but it's all contained in one building and the bathrooms are accessible to the public on the other side and so that is treated differently that's not possible here because you have the locker spread down
the whole beach run so spread down I mean if we put them on both sides it would be more contained but I'm just not arguing that that if you look at the case law that allows those instances it's just very specific as to where the residents are allowed to go and where the public is which is functionally
everywhere else um that was that was so maybe it's not impossible I don't want to tell you hey it's not possible because you can Google and see the exception this whole ordinance needs to be readjusted clarified more specifically about how it's paid and I don't think it
should be voted on tonight thank you very much and Linda I'll get tou with you tomorrow because you're saying that you paid an initial fee I did I'm not complaining about that now you want to move from one place no I did already I'm all Doney I complained about this three or four years ago I moved from one
streight to another I had a beach Locker I gave it up I put myself on the list they made me pay the initial fee again which I think is wrong but if you want to collect it adjust the writing the writing is wrong it says the initial fee
initial is first time fee doesn't mean initial fee for one street into another Street it needs to say for each or just initial it was always my understanding that that fee was for the construction of the locker no it's not no what I'm
saying is if that's applied to the construction of the locker if you've paid that now you vacate that Locker you go someplace else that's understanding it's it's an interpretation it needs to be clarified specifically so I you don't have people like me complain but what
I'm saying is you've already paid to the construction of a locker and you shouldn't let's just clarify this so nobody has to complain like thank you okay um yes try yeah that's
okay hi coincidentally two weeks ago I talked to Matt about the lockers not knowing it would come up he took my number and he was kind enough to get back to me a couple days later um this is the example I I gave to Matt and I don't know if it
applies or not when I lived in Middletown I took the train we had a very large train station parking lot in Middletown over a th cars and the way that it worked is residents of Middletown paid less than non-residents
to use that parking lot it's my view that residents of Bradley Beach should be able to get the lockers before non-residents and if possible when if there's if all the lockers are uh taken
for the are not taken for the residents then they could go to the non-residents who could be charged double the amount of money my listening is other towns have it we don't I don't think we want to investigate so so my request is very
simple we should investigate if this can possibly be done if it can possibly be done we should absolutely do it there's no way non-resident should have access to lockers I've already been on the list 3 years and I'm still number 15
thank you thank you re oh TJ go ahead sorry Third Avenue I had a question on 2025 d82 um the way this is worded
authorizing the professional Engineering Services tme for Fifth Avenue sanitary sewer repl so my question is are we now not reigning and replacing yes yeah I'll I'll address yes that's correct I think
I'll address that at the time we speak to that resolution I'll go over okay no I appreciate the clarification because it's much better it's a little more complicated than just that but yes yes and then on the next one 2025 d83 uh what are those NJ do improvements
on Fifth Avenue do we know yes I can go that as well I I'll discuss both ads great and then on the uh on the on the locker issue you know again I think Mr Canon touched on it it was when it was set up it was set up and profitable and
it should have never allowed for out of town residents to get lockers but again that's another administrative failure from a couple years ago it's going to be hard to fix it now to go back and say Hey you paid for your locker you can't have your locker um in Spring Lake the
lockers the lockers are are only for Spring Light residents um they don't use the beach money they use separate funds to Mr Canon's point so once you intermingle those funds or whatever it changes you know the whole situation so think it is unfortunate for br residents
that Out of Towners were ever allowed to get lockers but um yeah we're fixing a lot of stuff thank you we'll put it on the list thank you Excuse me yes um should we should I cover that now we'll do it when we get to it I think as
concerns trust yes re we your next I you I'm sorry Rick 116 just aside to this are there any plans for deal with any more lockers um at this point I think we have
almost 600 lockers um bajio our Public Works director is here you do we have 198 which obiously comes up with the amount that you said it's up to you guys if you want to build more I mean you know one challenges too is where to
store the cor well I know and I think it's Ocean Road they have some of the lockers up against the promade I know what I heard people didn't want that here because they afraid kids would jump on it go over the barricades and jump on
it and stuff like that but I don't know how much that it's an issue we certainly could be and that you know some other ones could be placed there if the decisions could be made yeah it's the storage in the winter time there's not a lot of places to store these lockers they have to clear them off the beach
for Hurricane purpos D is cracking down on storing stuff on the beach aren't they you know they don't want stuff on the beach or hurricane season so that's the other thing too A lot of times have had trouble find places to put a lot of stuff yeah right but thank you we'll take that in consideration uh Lan come
on up hello everyone Bartlett my husband and my son and I own M's uniform I just see your address to oh 312 Main Street or do you need my home address I that's fine okay good do you
need my home address Perfect all right I'm here regarding Darcy's Tavern and they're requesting special
it's for Sunday the day of the Belmar parade it's not even the Bradley Beach parade but I did talk to Matt this morning and I am a little little confused because right now they were given a letter by the town that says as
of Monday the 17th everything that is stored in their parking lot has to be down so it is what's day the 18th 19th and everything's still up so if you're you're going to grant them permission is everything still going to stay up for
the next two weeks when what I want to know is when is it coming down that's can I get an answer when they're or and also are they being f it says here in the letter that they're going to get fine correct so um as we
discussed sorry to put you on the no no no okay has a a code enforcement officer correct and it's their responsibility to inflence uh code violations um and they issued them the letter and it's up to the code
enforcement officer to follow up on that if um Darcy or any other business does not cure the violation that they uh that they've inited for so uh the co- enforcement officer knows obviously we drive he's not here today it's still up
uh he's not here tonight but he is here today uh it's one of the changes we made we now have someone working full-time okay code enforcement is one of the things I was going to mention U during my report um but we are going to enforce the uh VES ordinances the fines
everything will will be enforced um much like a police officer a code enforcement officer has discretion uh you know I I cannot compel them to to do anything yeah but we do trust them and they're hired to do their job and I can assure you that the
gentleman who hired Tim Murray will will do his job okay and for the record and it just just the property owner has been uh in contact with us and Cooperative so it's not uh like they haven't been in contact it's Cooperative but the stuff is still up well so I have to say this
the special events permit that's been uh submitted by the property owner is an acknowledgement of the bur's position that the tents that are there now are not authorized right well the buildings everything are not authorized no and that's what the zoning violation was for so you have to understand zoning
pertains to permanent structures and those had become permanent inst struct concrete and stuff and so the violation notice has been issued and and the proper not is entitled the 30 days to remediate that zoning violation which has expired today um the general has
been in contact and our our defer position is that just like any other business if you want to do something that's um temporary um and an event for a particular occasion that's why we have the special event permit so the notion that the property owner has submitted the special event permit is an
acknowledgement that the bur position as to the zoning is correct because they're seeking permission to do that now right um so I just want to put that out there because I don't want it to this to be SE like that the Cooper hasn't been Cooperative or acknowledg the B's position or isn't cooperating what we
asked him to do which was if you want to do something you have to submit the permit just like every other business and that's what he did here tonight so I want to put that context on this and we'll see if the tents disappear or they don't and the court process will take place but if necessary um but I wanted to put that out there because uh it was
the second speaker that came up and um I I felt like the property owners is being defiant and that is not that is not the case that's and on the record I love business in Bradley Beach I've been here for over 40 years okay and when they
went for their variants to add upstairs I was all for it if he they only would have taken that thing down from November to may you I wouldn't be up here but to have that parking lot sit empty all winter when all our business is on Main
Street there's other business people here we don't have parking parking is a premium in this town and I cannot believe that no one gave finds that that thing sat there all winter for five years enough is enough it was authorized
zoned as a parking lot and that's what it is a parking lot that's what it should be okay thank you Greg would you mind giving that clarification that I think you were about to give just by way of like what
the state had said so because of Co the state had allowed bars to extend their premises outside frankly to this to this day that's actually authorized by the ABC it's not authorized by the zoning of the town as you pointed out you were there for the hearing um that right led
to the approvals as to what the building is now uh what you have to understand from the government's perspective us sitting up here is that this is a property rights issue I I take it you're a neighbor of the tavern right and so that is what the zoning is designed
designed to do um and the special events permit is also designed to do to let you know as the property owner right and then you know what's going on so that there's some public notice and then you have your say so um you know I will mention it like the property owner could have reaction to a notice of violation
is perfectly fine to uh submit a land use application to then legalize whatever that setup is and that's when you get your like you were there last time so that's what we're trying to set up we're not trying to take so you know neighbor side in the zoning issue we're trying to make sure that the process is done properly so you have your say the
property owner has their due process and that and that sort of thing um but Theo has taken action to enforce the approval that you apparently sat and saw them give last time that's what's cited in that viation violation right now of the last code they were allowed to build the
second floor that was afterward dining yes so and and with the co the position I'll give you a couple years I went to the mayor two years ago and the mayor said to me oh the governor the governor no it's your it's the council's decision
it's not the governor's de there been a new mayor here for a couple month actually six weeks and there's already been a notice of violation issue week two to me because it's not fair they were showing special preference to one
business in grad Beach just one and all of us were suffering we we had people had to change their hours lost business wages it's not fair it really isn't the all I can talk about is today and you've seen you seen the
process issued and us take action based on the zoning approval ex everything you just said right is happening thank you so that's all that's all we can do for you and let I'm sorry it's not down today but that is what the maximum is and that is the position of the burrow that that is on top of it and whatever they have
to be fined whatever because I know if it was me they'd be coming after me well like I don't tell we don't tell the code enforcer what to do but a notice of violation has been issued and expired well but they have you have policies procedures I'm sorry s got you
can't just call out can't just call out all right I understand you're angry we're trying to help you your name and your address and you're more than welcome to speak stepen Bart 312 mainstream if you guys have policy procedures and codes are we dealing with like a
qualified immunity thing for code enforcement where he can he has discretion if it's written down in black and white it's is it the town's position and also your position that what is written down is does it really mean anything until the discretion of the guy enforcing
it I'm I'm confused I think you're totally misunderstanding no no no okay then please explain it to me if if the code enforcement has discretion when it comes to enforcing code and the code says if 310 Main Street can't have can't have their upstairs dining with a paring
lot that is required for 18 spaces granted well I'll spare you the details of how it should be 36 due to the occupate how what is the discretionary reason from the code enforcement and or the town or somebody with some perceived
position of authority where do they get off what what is the reason for discretion when it comes to this if the code is written and there's a violation that's clearly there what is the discretion for enforcement the discretion isn't about
um enforcement itself think about a police officer right police offers when they pull you over they have discretion if you were speeding and they they meet you they don't have to give you a summons they have discretion correct in the case of of Darcy because that's
obviously what we're talking about um a not of violation was issued back in the middle of January sometime they were given 30 days to cure it uh 30 days expired yesterday the question is you know do they start fing on the first day
after well that's really the discretion of the Cod so as as the attorney said uh the uh the ownership of dares has not ignored things they haven't blown us off have they done it as as quickly as that said uh no it hasn't obviously because
you can go there and see it if if they do bring it down what we are looking for with code is compliance we're not listening to necessarily find people and harm them financially we're looking for them to become compliant with the existing zone so if we can do that and
he has to get a couple extra days that's at the discretion of the code enforce offer I'm not telling the code enforcement officer hey give him an extra week give him an extra two weeks right but I'm also not telling them hey start hammering them with summonses on day understand nor did we tell him to
issue the notice violation we said to him this is the report here's the situation here's the approval you go take a look at it and he looked at that and he said that's a violation I understand that now with with the special with the permit for the parade how can you how can that be considered
with in a parking lot that is in current violation of existing code that's that's what I don't understand they want a special permit to fill the parking lot again but but with the park with the parking lot not being a parking lot that's a violation of the current code
so it's like it's very it's confusing because they're already breaking the rules when it comes to the variance that was passed through all the proper procedures and yet it just kind of okay it's it's okay it's just it's just very confusing so so zoning applies to
permanent structures so those things what's out there right now is a it's Concrete in the ground it's a permanent structure right and it couldn't be there that's the zoning violation right if you wanted to set up temporary accommodations for a special event whether you're a Tavern or the breakfast
place across permanent structure in the parking lot what is what who and what is stopping them from going hey that's a permanent structure that shouldn't be there it shouldn't be there at all shouldn't have been there for a very long time but it's still there so it's like I get the discretion whatever but
it's it's just still there and it's like is somebody going to make a move like what's the next we've already made our move we made the notice of the property owner to make the ball is the property owner's court for 30 days and now it's back in our court as 30 days from the initial for the notice of violation
which was yesterday so now it's past the 30 days correct the owner Property Owners can be cooperative to whatever Matt is going to call the code enforcement officer tomorrow or the the new code enforcement officer and tell them this is here's a spired notice of violation the public this is a public interest and they're
going to go out there and they're going to decide what to do specifically thank that makes sense thank you hope that help to explain it we're we we have the same position that you do we're not telling you that you're wrong that what's out there is a zoning valion we've already set the property own letter telling him not but we also just
can't run out there and rip it down just like you wouldn't want us you know ripping on your garage or something it's not in violation my point is the property owner gets due process so we can't run over that either right correct thank you anybody else
all right we're going to go on to introduce a new ordinance 202-10 this is an ordinance amending chapter 123 beach front areas and adjacent waters are the bur's revised General ordinances to prohibit the
subletting or assignment of beach Locker rentals this is a little housekeeping um in the current lease that you sign for your locker it tells you not to sublet it it wasn't reflected in the ordinance so we're adding this to the ordinance um
I would like to make a motion that we introduce ordinance 2025 DN we have some discussion absolutely I believe this is what the public comment was that perhaps we shouldn't pass this and that we should take this and rework this a little bit
and address it um so perhap we should table this well so I was about to say my question is this is just dealing with we're adding the thing about not like sublet in your locker okay point taken with tonight's comments I mean we
can add another time correct me if I'm wrong on this Greg but we can add another time take a look at the language of of you know not I'm not sure you have to do that because it's it's purposely left flexible because B is the fees are set by resolution so if you wanted to
make clear that the initial fee is only upon the first rental you could do that in the resolution setting the fees so like the ordinance isn't spe specific because you can see B says there's a resolution setting it all so it says initial fee annual rental fee but you could make that clear in the annual
ordinance that hey you know if you already had one it's not initiation but we can make that clear that's the way it's written and now it makes sense why Miss stuffy was complaining that so we're changing the part of the ordinance that doesn't deal with the fees and what the attorney is saying is
that in the part of the ordinance that does deal with the fee it says we set them by annual resolution so when we pass that annual res resolution that's when we can make it more clear that you shouldn't pay twice if you've already paid and address that and I think that makes a lot of sense so um in my mind I
think it's okay to go ahead with this that makes sense to me now so so I have one other question on this it does state that in this resolution it says um says renter and or immediate family we actually changed that we took that
out in the packet Absol yeah that's okay okay yeah talked to Greg about that and he already has fixed that as well thank you good find I should have let you know but I'm sorry but yeah I did talk to Greg about
that actually because a neighbor actually offered for me to put a chair in we all have that we send our friends up there go sit up the chairs and I'm like I don't want you know if with okay so that's good but I do think we should
do more work on this ordinance in the future but I do want to get the subletting into our ordinance and then we'll address the resolution the other part of the issue with the resolution definitely okay great you remember that so do I have a second to approve
the introduction of ordinance 202-10 second uh Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr nowiki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gubitosi excused okay next we're going to have a
couple adoptions of ordinances 20258 an ordinance establishing certain salaries of certain officers and employees of the buau of Bradley Beach in the county of Mammoth and the state of New Jersey and repealing any and all other ordinances
inconsistent here with um I'd like to make a motion we open this for a public comment right com yeah you have to make a motion to open com make sure she's doing it right please bear with us yes greenl yes
Mr nowiki yes Mr Weber yes mayor toi excused are there any comments from the public Miss on this on my U ducky 312 friendley I was kind of like nervous so you didn't open public comments for the lockers again
because that was an interest oh thank okay only because I I didn't understand this because people that have rental houses a lot of them have lockers right that's why we took out that one sentence
because they they can it goes with the residents okay because I didn't see that initially okay okay thank you if you want to talk more about it feel fre to call me yeah okay definitely okay thank you so um and anybody can call me everybody has my cell number just call
me with any questions okay so any other public comments on ordinance 2025 -8 okay I'm going to close the public comments and make a motion to approve ordinance 2025 d8 adopt adopt thank thank you no problem
sorry second second thank you Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr nowi yes Weber yes mayor kbos excused next we have ordinance 20259 the ordinance amending chapter 24 commissions and committees and chapter 270 Land Development and
chapter 425 trees of the buau revised General ordinances to enhance the operations and regulations of the burough shade tree commission like to motion make a motion to open to the public for comment second Mr Noble yes M
greenl MWI yes Mr Weber yes mayor kosi excuse any public comment I will make a motion we close the public comment and adopt ordinance 2025 -9 second Mr Noble yes M GRE um well I will
say yes um and I will also mention that there was further discussion about the shade free ordinance um uh and the um potentially in the future um really kind of having the shry commission um sit
down and rework how best to articulate the separation of the sh Tre commission from the enforcement because the lines are a little bit blurred still right I think that's very important um that the shade tree commission be an entity that
that um serves to benefit the community with the treescape um but not the arm of enforcement and um uh and I think that's really not flare at this point well we did change it from uh fines and assessments to fees and assessments
which they are currently doing fines are the responsibility of the code office right we change that okay right okay so I'm vo in favor of this yes great um Wiki yes Mr Weber yes mayi excused okay
next we have communications and I'll just go through each one um this is from mayor toi in reference to the employee healthc care waiver employee healthc care waiver established of $2,500 not available if spouse is also
enrolled in state plan the goal is to provide incentive for employees to take coverage with their spouse's plan and reduce the costs of our health care plan potential savings could exceed $30,000 next on the fair share Housing
Development fees this is is effective February 1st 2025 this ordinance is consistent with municipalities across New Jersey that that participate in affordable housing this ordinance and Trust has existed for
multiple years but was never activated this is the determination to make effective immediately was the decision of the mayor to ensure maximum compliance in support of affordable housing as we move forward fees
collected will used to advance the Burrow's affordable housing goals to purchase properties and renovate housing next the mayor shared with us a memo or a communication on alternate side of the street parking uh concerns were raised by
residents and these rules are intended to protect our residents and make sure that our DPW can clear our streets the buau will be enforcing this and the threat of accumulation of snow no specific number of inches is will
trigger enforcement next we talked about this earlier the Strategic uh task force community volunteers the um volunteers for commissions have been shared with the commission chairpersons there's been a lot of task
force volunteers signing up this is wonderful we have a lot of people volunteering and they are being assigned um May kosi was going to do the assignments this week but as you know he's out of town and he plans to reach out to each volunteer separately as soon
as he is able and then next of the removal of free on beach lock for waiting list it is a response to concerns raised by many residents who were frustrated because new signups were not being accepted now they can um add their names and they can check their
status on the community pass and of course suting lockers is not allowed and could result in the loss of the use of your locker which we covered earlier and then let's see 319 Lorraine Avenue I have an update uh we did identify an
Auctioneer we received a proposal out I will be reviewing the proposal with each council member in the next two weeks we hope to have the resolution for our next meeting and I will reiterate this will be done legally respectfully transparently and
inclusively so now the residents will have an opportunity to own a piece of Radley Beach history as well and that completes my communication next we go on to the consent agenda resolutions we are going to
table resolution 202590 we've been informed we've been asked to table it so I would like to make a motion we'll start with that first Erica yes okay I'd like to make a motion that we table 202590 approving the United engine and
truck company to apply for a coin toss permit do I have a second second uh Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr nowiki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gubitosi excused this is going it was going to be for July 4th so
they have time to come back and yes okay so meanwhile I would like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda resolutions 202-885-4325 authorizes the county of mouth mosquito control division to conduct aerial mosquito control operations within the
burrow of Bradley Beach um do we know if there's a need for the public to be advised what happen Matt and I discussed this today I'm sorry didn't give back C but it's been a crazy day but what that we do this every year and if there is an event where there is a massive amount of
mosquitoes the county contacts the police to let them know that they're going to be coming and treating will be notified in advance if there is going to be a treatment I don't think there's been a treatment for for years
but there's a reference to aial but is that like a plane or yeah yeah a plane or a helicopter so they need the county needs this before they can do that but if there was like a outbreak of West Nile virus or something they were trying to deal with they couldn't wait for a council meeting so they need this now as
long as I we um right we do this every year yes and as far as I know they've never done it they need this if they did spray get notified so would would the residents be notified if there was an aerial spray that was what my yes they will
okay me and the mayor have aoke running joke with the same question sha she said she gets that one a lot okay so um we had a second did I say uh is anybody gonna second for the rest of the
thank you uh Mr Noble yes greenlet yes Mr nowiki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gzi excused next we have individual resolutions so we have 202-9447 I know Matt wanted in on this one real
quick uh yes council president um I know that some folks have been asking about the corrective action plan for 2022 it's finally been done it's it's um you know we're trying to catch up on a lot of the financial issues that the
burrow have been facing over the last few years um that are that are well known to this Council and to many members of the public here um this is one step in that process there'll be more to come um but I will tell you that the way corrective action plans are
written um they're written very briefly and without a whole lot of detail um that's by design by our CFO who I think a lot of you met uh and had chance to interact with the last meeting he'll be coming back to additional meetings as
well as we get more into the budget season um but it's our goal to clean up the finances um as best as we can and be transparent with the public also best we can thank you Council thank
you any questions comments all right let's make a motion to approve 2025 d94 second Miss sovel yes M greenlot yes Mr nowiki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gboi excused next
we have uh uh anniversary uh in 2026 and um the first step is is encouraging the municipalities to um formulate a resolution and pass a resolution and then there will be um a
liaison that's signed and the Bradley Beach will be participating in this celebration in whatever way you know we determine is best for us wonderful so okay I'd like to make a motion that we've approved 2025 d96 that
Mr Noble yes M greenlet yes Mr nowiki yes Mr Weber yes may gboi excused next we have [Music] 2025966412 I think they did a great job and I'd like to make a motion to approve resolution 2025966412
[Music] [Music] yeah um can I just actually it should be 510 and that's been corrected on the website sorry I just didn't get a chance to I was about to yeah no it's 510 I apologize my brain was a little uh given
the hour that I originally posted 510 not 11 yes 510 okay good a second um Mr Noble yes Mr Miss greenl
yes Mr n yes Mr Weber yes mayor gboi excused next we're going to make a motion to table resolution 2025 approving a contract with Park Mobile LLC do I have a second to table this Mo this resolution
second Mr Den Noble yes M greenl yes Mr nowicki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gboi excused next 20259 approving a contract with grand to provide proprietary computer software and related Ser
support services for transient accom accommodation host compliance oh okay I'll get my act together yeah so you got the idea so um any questions comments on this I'll like make a motion to approve
2025 d99 Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr nowicki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gboi excused 20251 100 approving a contract with Shore Business Solutions to provide
copier printer hardware and support services through a state approved purchasing Cooperative I'd like to make a motion to approve question sure Mr administrator Is this different this is different than what we had on
the last meeting agenda correct correct so it's word this isn't an actual cont it's just like to go through a state approved purchaseing Cooperative but does that mean that we actually have a a vendor and an amount
and all that stuff yes yes this is a a resolution authorized in me as your business administrator to execute uh the proposal that came through a state contract for copiers uh printers and the maintenance of Le the equip is that
appearing on the bills list or is that going to appear on the future Bill list that's will appear on the bills list not today's bills list we haven't executed but future bills list yeah so do we know a dollar amount of this or it's not it should have been in your in your
packet yeah it should be the should have oh I only have the resolution up here okay um I don't remember there was a very nice uh we have like pictures and everything like that I just don't remember seeing a dollar amount anybody see a dollar
amount well actually my question from last time was do we know how many CP uh how many copers we are adding a few because there was not one in the um Community Development we discussed you and on and also the police department is getting a new one because theirs was
malfunctioning on a regular basis so um we're increasing the number of copy overall pred cop um and scanners um like that and then replacing the one in the main offence I apologize I thought you had to
electronically with your electronic pack there's not but there's not a dollar amount on that that thing that you're looking at right now Greg there's not a dollar amount yeah it's $1,458 for her month for 60 months but for for each C no no the whole package
yeah no no all all of them together includes the the lease and the maintenance of the equipment how many months do it say 60 months and up to 25,000 Pages a month and then there's an overage rate okay
it's a it's an office copy got thank you for indulging me absolutely um I from last time so we in the middle of the second yes I will second um Mr Noble yes Mr greenl yes Mr
NWI yes Mr Weber yes mayor kosi excused next is 202- 101 terminating qualified personing agent Kimberly P for reasons of econom and efficiency discussion I'd like to make a motion to approve 202-
101 Mr Noble yes M greenlet yes Mr nowicki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gubitosi excused next is 2025 102 approving a professional service contract with PM Consultants LLC and appointing PM
Consultants LLC as qualified purchasing agent at a cost not to exceed $10 ,000 I'd like to make a motion to approve 20251 or2 can I interrupt you for one second uh this resolution was um
updated to include the individual's name who's going to serve the qpi and that's not in the one that's sitting in front of me right here [Music] okay it's it's our current CFO no it's
uh it's not not Brenda sprigman will be the named qpa so this is approving a Professional Services contract of PM consultants and appointing Brenda sprigman of PM Consultants as the qualified purchasing agent we need to name the person by name
cannot have just a private company so I just wanted to mention Brenda sprigman SP r i GN for the record thank you all right and I have a second second Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr Nicki yes Mr
ever yes excused next is 202- 103 authorizing the settlement of pending litigation before the superior court of New Jersey Mammoth County entitled Herrera Lopez at Al
versus bur of Bradley Beach at docket number M L1 180723 do I have a motion to approve so 25 when I bring oh I will make that motion did you need a motion or a
second make a motion I I hear people talking we do something here okay motion to approve okay 2025 d132 and thank you uh Mr Noble yes m greenl s n yes Mr Weber yes mayor gboi excused okay next
we have 202- 104 I am going to abstain from this one as I do have a conflict I'm going to pass this off to councilman we sure um we've already had a lot of discussion about um dary's Tavern tonight they are coming in for a special
permit I just want to get some clarification first um because I was I'm driven by so it sounds like in the discussion the tent is still up but the code enforcer has been there and it's I mean a brand new code enforcer who is enforcer who's going to visit this
property tomorrow sounds like right correct and and and when we say T it's the um the skeleton but there are other uh items on the property as well there's a fence um so it's not simply the tent itself there's a a whole collection of other
items that would have to also come down so but are we we assuming that that's all going to come down and um oh because all right on on the second on March 2 they're not looking to erect a tent or anything like that it's just to use that space that's correct I that tent will
not no tent okay park that's correct but correct me if I'm wrong if they wanted to put up a temporary tent right for their special event they could assum assuming they meet all the other fire and all the
requirements yes right yeah just like anyone else do specially the notion is is that we had we told them just putting layman terms we told them now allowed to have these permanent tents and fences and structures out here so outside the scope of your approval for
owning and and the business owner naturally it's obviously an expanded premise just makes more money and um wants to do this for special events have special events at their business like other like other businesses do in town and we pointed out that that is okay but
not on a permanent basis temporary basis and if the traffic needs to be stopped you have to pay the deposit like everyone else who has to SP they're pend a $2,500 deposit to cover any police coverage or any any other things that are needed just like any other business that that has this thing and they seem amenable to that at this moment I don't
know why the tend is it down today um but we'll find out tomorrow it looks like so my main question is we've heard from business Community along Main Street and um I guess the concern is that they delay and this remains up for the next two weeks till the second so
they can use this facility on the second so is there a way for us to um tie this resolution that contains their ability their compliance with meeting the Zone I'd prefer to keep the two tracks separate two separate yeah I'd rather
not tie them together I don't want to make it like the governing bodies influencing the code enforcement officer um to do one thing or another but you know look obviously it's an issue of importance you have multiple residents here complaining I don't suspect that if that tenth is up in two weeks that the
property the process is he going to get a ticket and have to appear to municipal court so then so then fines would come into play poti uh yeah Ian typically the prosecutor says what are you doing take down take down the tent pay a fine and now that you had to come in here you have to pay a fine too that's usually you know that's the next step of
enforcement you know beyond that you know you have a municipal judge who is going to if it's there conviction issues a sentencing up to $2,000 fine for each violation and it goes from there in the worst absolute worst case scenario um and and and I want I don't want to say
that this is going to happen here because the prober has not been defined and and has been reasonably Cooperative to date um you know you you go to court and you you know I've had to do it here to remove elevated decks and other zoning violations that un need with businesses
um but that's the that's the ultimate we want to avoid that right right because that means that you are you know you're forced to take that means that we've gotten to the point in the process where you are the government is now on one of the neighbor sides and is going and because that's the point it's been breed um we try to avoid that at at all costs
obviously but we don't want the perception that we're giv taed approval to no I don't want I don't want anyone to leave here with the notion that we thought that this was okay or someone was turning a Blind Eye of this they did have an extension permit you guys had authorized the relaxation of zoning uh under the state of emergency but the
state of emergency is gone now and uh the ABC permit is a separate regulation that has nothing to do with your zoning and so you know that's that's where we're at um you know it wasn't someone you know it wasn't favor being done here the person did have legitimate legal reasons why he could have that that prop
could have that tent up but those don't exist anymore right so also want to be cooperative with our businesses on a temporary basis meeting requirements zoning is always the toughest area right if you don't pay your taxes it's very simple everyone else paid them and everyone's upset with you in zoning maybe you think this is okay maybe your
neighbor doesn't it's a it's a different animal so everyone has to have their due process um and you know in the end you know after all that adjudication is done you know the end result is that the local government is on one neighbor's side or the other because that's how it's been adjudicated and then you know
we try to avoid not done for multiple reasons expense of litigation and other things but okay and one other thing Greg um the fines for the the situation that's there now those could be like per DM right yeah like okay potentially so
just so everybody knows code enforcer doesn't f anybody the code enforcer is the person that would say to the judge you know this is the situation it was corrected it wasn't a good analogy is a police officer signs your speeding ticket Yeah the code enforcement officer signs your zoning by violation but you
end up in the same place this guy speeding sitting right next to you in court and the judge deals with all of it here um I I I hope we don't get to that that point but that's that's the process from here okay so on resolution 2025 104 which is a resolution approving Darcy's
Tavern to serve outdoor food and beverage in its parking lot on Sunday March 2nd 2025 for the St Patrick's Day Parade the Belmar St Patrick's Day I would say uh I will make a motion to approve this resolution do we have
second I'll second um Mr Noble I'm stay M greenl yes Mr yes Mr Weber yes mayor goosi excused next is 2025 105 the bill is for February 18th 2025 I like to make
a motion to approve 2025 105 Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr noi yes Mr Weber yes mayor gboi excused next is -82 authorizing Award of professional Engineering Services with CME Associates for Fifth Avenue sanitary
sewer replacement this was previously tabled on February 4 2025 I'm going to throw this over to councilman ncky thank you so as brought up by TJ con questioning your during the open comment period um so the situation was this back
in December a contract was awarded to Fernandez construction to line sewer from Ocean I'm sorry from Main Street to um Fletcher Lake Road um basically that 600 block 500 block of Fifth Avenue um
and then also included in that was resurfacing of that um Street of Fifth Avenue from Fletch Lake down to Madison because the street from on the 600 block had already been resurfaced uh by American water when
they did a water replacement when we s when I saw this back in January um it was a flag because all the documents that we reviewed I reviewed said that we were going to replace all the sewers so when I went back and looked at the previous resolution
somehow that got through that there was a consideration to do a lining versus replacement but the commitment to the burough all streets were going to have replaced sewers so um basically what we've decided was in order to do it
right way that we needed to um stop that contract for Fernandez construction delayed I should say and remove the lining from that contract and delay the notice that proceed for the resurfacing of Fifth Avenue we've also asked um
which this particular resolution is for us or CME to provide us the cost of the engineering work to actually replace the sewer main from Main Street downtown Madison and then Fernandez construction
then we we will advertise that in the near future scheduling the construction hopefully after school's out so we won't disrupt the school um schedule on Fifth Avenue in Brimley and be able to then once that's completed to the summer
months be able to resurface that road um and that will be our um completion of that that particular piece of Fifth Avenue the next resolution after that I'll just go on to that just to say it um that was a new grant that we received
from DMT for the resurfacing of the rest of Fifth Avenue from Madison to Ocean Avenue and then we would also not blind that sewer but we will also do the design work to replace the sewer all the
way to Ocean Avenue and there's also additional money to advance I should say the contract on Parkplace Avenue last summer we did a section of Parkplace Avenue replacement and so there will be money in this
particular contract to do the design of that next piece of Parkplace Avenue down to Madison um and again depending on the survey and everything else um what the limits of that construction will be we will provide that information once we do start to do the engineering so um
basically we're correcting something that was almost Advanced of our linning which is not what was promised with the residence and we are are going to do a full replacement of that sewer um and we will continue that program as we go forward a full sewer replacement for the rest of the system on the on the main
streets as we go forward in the future and and Paul was the contractor for if they were okay with the that change that you correct correct and we're hopeful that you know he'll participate in bidding that next section of of of that of that orense we replacement as well so
um but yes they were cooperative and our ability to do that our c is also identify that there is a um less money to be spent on that existing contract for that resurfacing um so they're we're working that out as well with um back through Matt's office to make sure that
we're balancing the books on the work that's to be done the scope and making sure that it's and that's all reflected in these two proposals and and just to be clear also the sewer um infrastructure uh maintenance plan is is targeted to head north along the the
streets of Bradley Beach so Park Place those few blocks were more an emergency situation with a problem and I think that's the reason that they're we're also considering that additional block on Park Place yes because we've already began Park Place so we want to complete
Park Place in its entirety and then move on to the next our next road which and then we'll double back correct right again these are the burrow roads we also have you know Ocean Avenue Main Street which is Main Street do ocean a is the county um you know and also um Brinley
is also County Road so so those we have to coordinate with those other entities and so that this is sort of we're marching down through the you know through the town to take care of these streets and so likely the uh the portion from um is it Madison to Ocean Avenue
will take place in the fall so the design will be done will begin here and then depending on um the availability of um coordination we probably would want not want to do that construction until the fall at the earliest um it could
turn into spring but we don't have that construction schedule yet right we just don't want to infringe on this the summer on the the area that's closer to the ocean correct correct so that's going to be coordinated and this actually ends up working out well the school is we'll be have school out and
minimize disruption as we um come down Fifth Avenue wonderful okay good I'd like to make a motion to approve 2025 d82 second Mr Noble yes Miss greenet yes Mr
nowicki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gboi excused 2025 83 authorizing Award of professional Engineering Services with CME Associates for n improvements on fth Avenue Phase 2 and Park Place avenue
previously tabled February 4th 20125 I'd like to make a motion to approve second Mr Noble yes M green yes Mr Nicki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gzi excused next is announcements we have none and next
we have the administrator report oh you're up Matt a few things to report back on um tonight we're going to go into executive session I'm going to brief the members of the Council on the negotiations so far with the Local 1 uh it's our hope uh that the members of
local 152 will um vote on the the uh the deal sometime next two weeks and uh that'll give us enough time to come back to council uh to vote in public on May March 4th u a new agreement with loal 52
um but I'll be I'll be briefing that today on the on the details of it in executive session um I wanted to uh give a shout out to my hometown of Belmar for being gracious uh in coming to The Bradley Beach with their police officers
to assist me and the chief here and also accommodating me and the uh director of Public Works as well we're trying to fine tune as much as possible the operations of uh both the police department and Department of Public Works and our friends in Belmar have
been very helpful also want to give a big thank you to the Neptune Department of Public Works whove been very helpful to uh director theone and the NW here uh it really goes to show how important these relationships are so when you have a a good chief of police and a good ppw
director they're able to leverage uh resources and other communities to the benefit of the folks in BR Beach uh and in return like for instance on March 2nd when there is the bmore lake com St Patrick Day Parade you'll see members of
the Bradley Beach Department of Public Works and members of the Bradley Beach Police Department also in Belmar assisting that as well so uh it's it's great for the residents to know that your directors of the Departments have good relationships with other directors
and other towns as well um want to mention I I mentioned the last time I was here we want to have a report about JazzFest uh unfortunately am Paul is not able to be here today but she will be here opening at the next meeting but by all accounts it seemed to be a
resounding success even got on the the front page above the old in that illustrious weekly newspaper the co-star um so so I want to congratulate Amy on doing a great job um also uh two more things we've been working with
jcpnl on some of the polls on Main Street uh if you notice particularly in the northern end there are some polls that look like you know with the wind the last couple days that they were going to come over uh so it's taken a little bit of time and we're working with Department of Transportation as
well to uh to get those uh poles uh replaced not fixed uh but completely removed and replaced at that time because the amount of electricity those poles um Carry there may be some interruptions in service uh in in the very localized area around those poles
and well know this primarily the business owners on Main Street um ahead of time and lastly and one of the things that we want to try to um get more notice of is uh positions of employment here at the bar so we have a part-time
violations clerk position open in the court uh it pays $20 an hour uh and it's three days a week so it's open to everyone but we always want to make sure that the residents know about these positions as well um that's all for me
council president any questions from the council for me no just just want to comment that the jazz festival was amazing amazing it was yes and glad that you're making friends because we've been hearing about the Leaning poles of Main
Street for I years you're making friends man I mean I don't complain about things like that but some people have mentioned it we do have to give cred to MOSI as well I think he was very persuasive with that replacement as well so to him as
well absolutely absolutely he doesn't take no for an answer so that was good and also just a reminder I have my business cards up here they have my cell phone on uh don't feel like you need to wait to come to a council meeting if there's any issues or concerns on your mind uh please give me a call or email
me and I'll try to get back as soon as possible thanks okay okay thank you very much Mr Del next we have the mayor and Council reports we'll start with councilman have a very short report um
basically I just wanted to invite um residents out to the sil Lake commission meeting tomorrow it's here in this uh this very room 6 o' and um they be speak speaking about the various projects and status of those um but yeah every everybody's welcome to come to that
meeting um if you're interested in what's going on around the lake that's my report thank you councilwoman green BL okay um the Arts Council met on February 7th they're in the process now of
Outreach to individuals who have been identified for membership there are five spots open and a plan to add two alternates we are hopeful to solidify the membership within the next few weeks and submit the membership to the mayor appointment the council will also be
reaching out to all of those who expressed interest in the Arts Council and organize them by Arts interest these volunteers will serve as advisers and play an integral role in the Arts Council programming the next meeting of the Arts Council is Friday February 28th
uh Fletcher Lake commission met on Thursday February 13th this was their first meeting of the year the commission will plan its reorganizational meeting in March and approve its membership and terms they have also approved the receipt of funds reimbursed by the
Bradley burrow for 2024 this includes the yearly stipend and reimbursement for boost control services the commission noted that there are many violators of the prohibition of electric vehicles on the bridge and have asked that the sign currently on the Bradley side be
replaced with a larger sign this has been conveyed to the administration the Ocean Grove side does not currently have signage about this issue and Neptune's mayor Lane is initiating the same he serves also in the Fletcher Lake commission um in the coming months the bridge will be stained to create a
better barrier to protect the natural wood they will select a transparent stain with a low tint color yet to be determined uh both the Bradley and Neptune sides are initiating a contract with Mike Campbell of Galaxy geese for the year ahead and the next commission
meeting is scheduled for Thursday March 13 at 6 pm. the rec committee met Monday February 10th their bylaws were amended and approved unanimously by its board only major minor changes were made the
silverball arcade M Middle School event originally scheduled for this Thursday will be postponed due to anticipated Implement weather I believe the forecast has since changed but in any case um possible rescheduled dates are Thursday
March 6th in the evening or Friday March 14th daytime as there is no school that day details to follow radio Bingo which takes place Saturday March 8th at 7 p.m. is a soldout event it is being co-sponsored with the Ladies Auxiliary
and the fire department please be advised that it will take place at the fire hall adjacent to the fire station and behind the Bazi Center a reminder that majan continues to meet every Friday at the Bazi center from 1: to 3 p.m. open wreck is on Thursdays and
Fridays for kid homework play games get crafty and watch movies after school Thursdays till 600 p.m. and Fridays till 7 the next senior club meeting is on February 12 I'm sorry February 26th from 12 to 3 at the Bazi Center the rec
department will be hosting a monthly Bowling Club to to begin in March no first date yet set but it will be um run one Wednesday evening per month 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. $10 per person includes shoes and unlimited bowl there will be a
student drop off associated with this event at the rec center enabling parents an evening out grammar age students can expect movies popcorn and fun under the supervision of adults summer camp 2025 enrollment begins in mid-march Bradley
Beach resident get a week of priority and specific dates will be announced soon the next Rec board meeting is Monday March 10th at 630 p.m. at the r Center and that concludes my long report beautiful thank you Council and M
thank you uh I'll read the first aid squads report uh for the period ending today February 18th the squad responded to 10 day calls and Five Night Calls for 15 calls 10 were medical five were for fire call the squad is pleased to
announce our newest edition uh to our ambulance which is 8856 a stricter Starcher power lift I don't really know what that means a St Stricker starer power Striker Striker Striker
Striker okay it's got a CK instead of a okay Striker somebody knows better than me power Li this will help the squad prevent back injuries by hydraulically lifting our patients onto the ambulance it is also safe for our patients as the uh stretcher is locked to a track
preventing it from dropping the squad welcomes uh new our news member Sith Castillo Castillo um there were no out of mutual Aid requests the squad requested no Mutual aid for this operational period they fulfilled 100%
of their assignments for this period And as always they're looking for volunteers for qualified individuals there is free training uh you want to do this you can find an application on the bur website and they are accepting applications for their Cadet Program for Young People 16
to 18 years of age who are interested in serving their Community uh for the rest I will say JazzFest was really great initially I was like why are we doing a tourism thing in the middle of the winter whatever it was awesome I I only went one night and I heard both nights were
awesome so kudos to everybody that had something to do with that hope that happens again quite Frank it is really good um the brle beach Environmental commission continues to work on sustainable Jersey they're going to have I'm going have the date of their next meeting so I'm not going to bother
guessing at that U but they continue work on sustainable Jersey like I said which is a system where you accumulate points for doing good environmental things um and I think by the end of the month they're going to tell sustainable Jersey what we're going for and then for the rest of the year we're actually going to document all those actions that we're
doing that are good for the environment and get those points and become yet again a sustainable Jersey town and that concludes my report thank you councilman the board event has a meeting this evening so I'll report on that next meeting uh the Bradley sh commission had
a meeting on February 5th there was one application at 510 momth Avenue to remove one tree and replace it with one tree they had they established uh staggered terms for their
members and they're current balance of their account is $1,736 the tourism had meeting February 11th it um reviewed the Bradley Beach Jazz Festival which I'll cover in a short time and they had a couple
resolutions they're going to be in the mammoth County guide book this year and their current balance and their trust is $ 77,78 and I just wanted to give a massive thank you to Amy hall for running the
JazzFest 2025 it was a brilliant idea and uh it was a resounding success and it's a testament to Amy's vision and dedication it um she put countless hours into making this event a success and we're all so grateful for her efforts
and the music was amazing the atmosphere was fantastic and she had wonderful sponsors that helped contribute to this a wonderful event Ohana Rising Darcy's Tavern New Jersey American Water Rapaport flooring Seawall architecture
Posh real estate mam County tourism and Luna ver and she also had some wonderful volunteers including Jane denoble shaa greenl Julie Titus uh Adalie Hall Georgie eer Olivia Davidson
Mo Jensen Lieutenant Josephine zaro she had um the Bradley Beach Elementary School students would help people find their chairs it was very cute and they help them upstairs also the custodians were
helping Ed and Phil Dr heidleberg and um Morgan mlar Gonzalez was also volunteering and of course Anthony lepra he is the musical genius at brownley Beach Elementary School and he was amazing it just was a magical evening
and we look forward to it again next year and we're even talking about bringing some jazz players in during the summer since it was such a big hit so that completes my report so this time I would like to welcome the public with any questions or
comments Jeff come on up Curtis 2023 Avenue of rying beach I want to talk a little bit about about round four and the affordable housing um I want to know if the city's going to be transparent about what has to be done um and I'm going to just raise three issues
tonight there are a lot of questions and concerns that a group of us working on the affordable housing have about how Bradley Beach has participated in remaking the process over the last decade so a report was produced in
2017 that several of you were sitting on adopted that we should have created a Housing Trust Fund it didn't create the fund it didn't so to say that we're going to go forward now and by June have another fair share housing plan we need to know
if there's going to be any teeth in it this time um or whether we're just going to play the game that we're going to create document but we don't really mean what we say in the document as a result of not having a Housing Trust Fund we've been designated that we have 64 substandard units of housing which we
don't know yet whether we agree to that or not but if we do have substandard units of housing we don't have any money to help senior citizens or poor people in town to fix up the house and therefore they're going to be subject to a developer who wants to come in and buy the house and develop it or turn it into
Airbnb and we're going to lose that affordable housing unit um because we have not been responsible in what we have done with affordable housing today and three of you as I said were on that document uh that was created I want to
know if the council is willing to reveal what in their uh next step in the February step what are you telling fair share housing you're objecting to or you want to change the numbers of the 6430 if you're going to change those numbers
are we going to be allowed as the public to know how your the planner is arguing that or whether the planner is just going to do it in secret again um and is the process going to be open and is it going to be transparent um we also also want to
understand whether the code official even knows the substandard housing in this town and will that be made public so that we can get together and figure out how we help people who are living in some substandard housing get access to funds they need a new boiler they need a
new roof or they need something else we have the capability to be able to get it to them um that is not in place right now and so finally in this round the town is supposed to identify a person that is going to monitor the affordable housing units so if they get created
they're going to be staying affordable housing we're not going to get stuck like we got in Asbury Park where money was given to some people under that guys they turned it into airbnbs and you know lo and behold we lost affordable housing so those are my questions for tonight I hope we can be
transparent and I hope the city will respond to requests of information when we need to understand on behalf of the public what's going on with affordable house this town thank you if I je before you leave um if I mayoun president Greg can you help answer this question
because um you know the question is about you know saying the planner is doing something in secret I mean my understanding is that the planner sort of it's a negotiation right now between our planner and and fair share housing or the state as far as the number of units no no I saw the old process okay
so so we already accepted those numbers um at our last meeting in January because the deadline to do so is was January 31st they're published on the dca's website in our resolution accepting them the planner now has to create a housing plan in element to satisfy those numbers there's no more
negotiating or arguing with fair share over what the obligation is that was the entire last process now um there'll be a we've agreed to the numbers so we're not challenging them um and the the goal now is for our planner to go through so you have to remember those are done with the
state formula and you know I'll give you an example in some towns uh they indic that you could put housing on the medians large medians right because it's really just done from like an aerial so our planner is going through the fine toothcomb checking out making sure all the properties the state has identified
are actually properties that can be built or what have you they're applying the vant land adjustment which is uh in the prior rounds of Kaa there's a number of different mechanisms by which the town um modifies those numbers which are relatively well established they're not
really arguable as I mentioned before that the arguing is kind of over um windshield surveys freak land adjustments um there's a number and they're listed specifically in the resolution that we've adopted on the last meeting of January which is on the B's website as well um because that was
part of the the we had to publish it s I say for your reason a lot of this was done like in litigation and the public didn't really know what was going on so this this the new act the fourth round kind of flips that on its head if you agree with what the basic formulas then you just you just kind of skip to the end of the process of fair share going
through through deductions you're entitled to publishing um everything now up front instead of at the end um and we don't know where that's going to land it really depends on the planner's work at this point in time um I I the housing
plan and own it must be uh aired before the planning board and the Lage board here I should say because it's merged so there'll be a hearing there as well on the housing plan and element just like any other aspect of the master plan um and I don't know what the final number will be but there will definitely be a presentation on that and how that the
the housing element essentially says how the burrow is going to meet whatever that final number is um some of the rules on what counts to meet that final number have changed in this fourth round um with respect to group homes and types of um uh treatment houses or dis
disabled houses for disabled people so the planner is taking all of those new rules into account but um yeah I mean your Point's well taken and it was all done in litigation in executive session mostly in the past the ACT uh has brought that right to the front so we've already announced what we accepted what
we're doing and it's all published on it's all published that's what that's what the act the new act uh required can I just add one other thing my understanding is that that 64 number where they say that it's a the current need and there's like all the substandard housing I read those State documents and they say something about
well their definition of substandard housing is housing without full kitchen facilities and housing without full bathroom facilities and I just I can't think of any places in Bradley Beach that have that don't have like indoor
plumbing and full bathrooms and kitchens I mean maybe maybe one place on on maybe one I can think of one place but that's about it so is that like I'm just wondering if we're that's the number we're going to end up with that 64 number because I read those State documents maybe I don't understand it
but it just seems like that doesn't apply here I don't know we don't have any houses like we understand the documents to say that it's there should be money available in the trust fund in any of your town that if a person who meets the income guidelines and they're
pretty high I mean it's not we're not talking about very low inome people we're talking about moderate income people too that if they need a loan or something to fix up a house and they can't get it because they don't have enough money the city should have enough money to be able to help a person
replace the boil replace whatever it is and you know that was what the Housing Trust Fund was created for 10 years ago no there we know we don't have any money in that but what I'm saying is I thought the state was coming up to that 64 number by saying there's so many places that don't even have kitchen facilities and I just
don't know of any places like that so the the new act requires the child to back that with the bond and so that has been I I can't give you the details of that because you know one I'm not the affordable housing 30 for the town so when this presentation comes out I'm sure to explain it all um as well but
um they may be recovering uh fees that we have not collected in the past as part of of this of what we're doing here for our new comp our new round of compliance so the the your elected officials have I I don't want to go into the details yet until we you know we
don't want to Prejudice ourselves because right now we're in the window for to get potential objectors um however the elected officials that you've elected are very well aware that they would need to back up that housing rehab and they do have a plan so that that doesn't fall on the taxpayers or
Bradley Beach um which we'll be going forward as well we find out that plan um I well after the objection deadline passes um that would be the housing the housing plan element and that the March deadline you you looked at is that the
March one I believe so that's when we start doing it and then they have to have public hearings you have you have the list a which one which one of those time frames do we get to know as a public the June 30th date for adopting the
binding resolution and the housing element and fair Shar plan that is the the plan that would explain how you would meet your we get to see the plan before this it gets bound on us I believe so I believe there's a hearing before the L use board you can't adopt a housing element or or it's part of the
master plan so there should be a public hearing I look I'm not the affordable housing but I believe the affordable housing uh we law weer law group um yes a law group and they're going to say that they can't reveal anything because they're a law grp do we have a person in
this town yet who is responsible to administer affordable hous the municipal housing I don't have no idea I don't think was assigned yet we don't have one yet so that's part of it as well um will that be decided by June it's got to be decided by June but that's when you're
bound can the public participate in this process before we're bound we I believe we will introduce an ordinance and we it will go to the planning board for a hearing and then it will come back here for I believe two hearings on the housing element thank you any other questions
comments Paula H gin 106 Evergreen Avenue but I'm here as a volunteer for the Bradley Beach Business and Community Alliance board and I'm proud to be accompanied by John Ryan from fins who's one of our 14 board members volunteering their time and energy
but what I want to do is to thank the mayor the council the staff for a collaborative partnership that is really going to enhance our businesses our residents and our nonprofits we're very proud of our 265 members but we particularly want to thank the community
for supporting our local businesses for supporting each other and supporting our nonprofits so we do believe that a connected Community is stronger together and I'm really grateful on behalf of Sean and the other members of our board for the new memorandum of understanding
thank you so so much thank you Paul anybody else here have a question Oh Mr Coan uh Thomas J Coan 62 Third Avenue um I would like to uh I appreciate your comments Mr Dy on the corrective action
plan um you you nailed it pretty base document um it's the 2022 corrective action plan which we didn't get in 2023 and we didn't get the benefit of it in 2024 but now we have it in 2025 so I
mean it is such a basic document Mr Barett did good job but I I'm puzzled as to why this could not have accomplished a lot sooner I would recommend that every Bradley Beach resident read it for its Simplicity um and then I would also like
to address the affordable housing a comment I'm so excited that residents now want to come out and support of 4 hous um the the reason we don't have a trust fund is due to the administrative failures Gary inad Larry Fox we not
administering a document that was created in 2017 to create the fund to build off the fund so we would have the money now and now everyone's worried about affordable housing we should have a ton of money in
that account to be able to assist our residents and it's this continued administrative failure which has been put up within the St so I'm really happy that other people are engaged and I'll be happy to share um I stood at meetings of the planning board I stood at meetings of the council asking every
time where's the affordable housing component where's the and we were told oh no we don't need one mayor angelat was on that planning board mayor Fox was on the planning boards it should have been done we should have got units at three1 me we should get units at autot Tech um and this fund should be very
strong so we could actually do what we're supposed to so I'm very excited that other residents now are excited about it and I'm happy to share my emails to fure housing from 2017 requesting why these units weren't put in they didn't care but now they care so
I it's a crazy system but uh let's get it right this time and I'd be happy to volunteer to be on any other committees regarding the total housing a different narrative be share housing will say about that okay please do not speak unless
you're okay let's not engage we can talk we can make a nice committee and everybody can talk nicely and politely to each other thank [Music] you Erica okay we have one more question or a yes um I'm gonna go to B I'm sorry
I didn't see e so we're with bri can you hear me oh I can't hear you okay I think that's good say your name and address hi briet Maguire 610 Brinley AV I just wanted to
ask a question regarding the back pay for the overtime of the beach employees um that got passed tonight is that is that um total situation now taken care of or are we
still needing to owe more employees um yes uh there's there's one additional employee so I assume you looked at the resolution M McGuire I did and I I was just questioning because I remember back
in 2022 when this was a huge issue with the $300,000 that was being questioned in the salaries and wages that we were told by the ba at the time that that 300,000 was to
pay a lot of this back pay overtime and I realized it was only about $40,000 on that resolution tonight so I'm just wondering if there's a lot more employees we owe or you know 300,000 and
40,000 is a big difference so uh so there's six employees total there are five who joined the litigation who are part of the the resolution there's another who's owed a total of about 10,000 well not about it's
$1,363 and some cents um and so the total cost to resolve this issue to the burough uh will be $503 63 um and that that takes care of that that issue I don't specifically recall the
$300,000 being budgeted but um there I there was a lot of numbers thrown around over a lot of years so forgive me yeah yeah no it was definitely um just a point I was fixated on at the time so um but that's okay I
mean it didn't cost us the 300 I just want to give you the full answer so fined up so it's uh 50 from the bur it's 50, 363 and then uh The Joint Insurance Fund of the B has agreed to pay $35,000 in
attorney's fees to the uh employees attorney as a part of the settlement so that um and for transparency with the public that's the settlement uh it's $75,000 to settle litigation and another $1,363 to another employee that was not
part of the lawsuit but obviously still has a claim at this moment that we'll be cleaning that up as well okay thanks so much I'm glad that was all finally settled with them thank you problem
Eileen thank you Bri just a quick than you oh okay I'm sorry if you want to just do it quick thank you go ahead I just want to thank you I can just only imagine how much work the council has done to get us to this point and thank
you it it's so it's just refreshing thank you and I appreciate the thanks it means a lot to us and we all have been working very hard obviously it's very apparent you're working 247 and it seems as though you working on the it's it's
believe I it's my honor I'm sure it's everyone's honor to be here and um as our Council our mayor says we're probably serving our residents and we're proud to be here too it's obvious thank you oh Nancy yes I'm
sorry um for what she said about your work and all you've accomplished in less than two months but um brought in me up and you how my brain goes every time if you don't mind get just come to the podium
then if you're we talk about payroll so those years I just say your name I thank you so when we talk about payroll we know where my brand goes so those figures that you mentioned that is is this a correct statement that is the money that is
going to the employees it does not address any payroll taxes or other taxes that are due on those wages I believe I believe it's the gross and I think we're paying them through
payroll I think we're issu that will be taken care of for the employees whether we issue it through payroll or they get a1099 it will be a cting right but if it goes I'm just saying that there's payroll taxes yes which we like any
other business pay on abortion so that figure is not the only figure it's not the final figure from the bur Bradley Beach there will be additional figures to pay is that correct I have to ask the CFO
specifically maybe maybe there's employer side payroll when we process that do you know that their gross wages this is their gross wages social unemployment disability but
remember these These are wages that they were owed oh I'm not I'm not denying them um so it's really up to the employee a settlement so I'm not actually sure how we're paying them I mean remember this they brought more claims than just the payroll once it became a lawsuit so there was
discrimination claims so to the extent that the employ I'm going you know it's up to them to pay their taxes right I mean you know I don't know how we're paying them if it's compensatory or if it's going to be paid as though the wages were supposed to be paid originally not entirely sure about that but suffice to say that the employees
would be responsible for filing well I'm not concerned with the taxes that they pay I'm concerned with the matching portions that we as the business we pay it's encumbered at 53 363 so that's all inclusive but that's where pay that's the bottom line number that comes out of the
budget you'll see more payrolls M more payroll problems being resolved coming soon that's a whole other discussion you've been discussing it for a long time so I thought anybody else so before I make a motion to to Executive session I just
want to say thank you thank you for being here thank you for your questions your comments your concerns we work for you and we're always open for those questions don't feel you have to wait till this meeting you can call Matt you can call any of us and um we'll work
things out and please keep Alan and his family in your prayers and your thoughts and I'll keep everyone updated as we hear progress on their healing and um I'd like to make a motion that we go into executive session second to disc gu what oh local 152 negotiations more good
news thank you m some people don't like to this is true yes M yes Mr NWI yes Mr Weber yes mayor gzi excuse