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Call this meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> Yes. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
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taken providing that there is an inperson quarrel. Mr. Noble >> here, Mr. Greenland >> here, >> Mr. Carr >> here, >> Mr. Niki here, >> Mayor Gatoski >> here. Welcome everyone this evening. Uh it's great to see everybody here and get a little bit of a break in the weather
compared to the almost tornadoes we had a day or so ago. Um, we are going to jump right into what I think is a pretty important topic on item five on our agenda. As as most of you are aware, we scheduled a workshop tonight to talk
about uh recently passed by our departing Governor Murphy um regulations called Rio R E A resilient environments and landscapes. And u this is a very complicated topic.
I know I know a handful of you are here specifically for this discussion. Um for the rest of you and folks that joining us on Zoom, you know, varying there are varying levels of understanding not only uh out there across the public
but varying levels of understanding around by by legislators. I've talked to some of our legislators at the state level, uh, at the federal level and they are not deeply aware of some of the implications for real. Uh, our council
really has scrambled in the past month or so, maybe as far as two months to, you know, first become aware and and to dive into this. None of us are experts. However, uh as a council, we feel it's very important that that we representing
our residents make a statement and you're going to hear us discuss tonight a resolution that we've crafted with a lot of input from myself and my four colleagues uh that we plan to send to legislators, state legislators, federal
legislators, Senate House of Representatives, our governor. uh we're going to share it with the clerks of all municipalities along the uh the uh east coast of New Jersey. These these regulations really impact coastal communities and you'll hear more about
that. So, we just want to get a message out representing our views on this legislation. Um we're going to discuss it tonight. We've already crafted language. We want to share as much of that language as you guys can all tolerate, but we do want to make sure
that you're at least aware of some of the key issues that this this legislation this regulation presents. And by all means, when you leave here tonight, go home, get your favorite beverage, and maybe, you know, study it
for a few more hours. It's it's very uh uh very interesting, but there's we think there's still a lot of work that needs to come. and yet uh the the regulations should roll out officially if no one delays them on July 20th of this year. So with that as a quick
preamble um I we have a does do people in the room have copies of this resolution by any chance Mr. Okay, good. Um I I think it's too long to read the entire thing, but maybe what I'll do right now
>> we can certainly Thank you. But but what I'm going to take a stab I actually I actually have a formal statement I'm going to read at the end of this because I want to make sure Erica only takes uh formal statements verbatim to put in our
minutes. So I I personally have a formal statement I'm going to read at the end of this uh and I'm going to cheat from it a little bit right now to just give an overview and then ask my colleagues to weigh in. Uh but the concept here and folks if you say if I say anything that you think I'm misstating by all means
correct but the concept is the the New Jersey D department of environmental protection created regulations. They formulated these regulations over a number of years four or five years plus uh and they received feedback from the public over that time. I find our
council was not aware. I find I met with uh Mammoth County, southern Mammoth County mayors, 10 mayors of towns uh you know heading pretty far south were the most northern of the southern Mammoth County towns. Um and nobody knew about
this. So despite the fact that it's been out there somewhere in the internet for five years and the environmentalist community is very well versed I think uh I on this topic I've heard from many of them. I'm sure there's some dialing today to join us. I see Mr. Weber as
one. Um, so they they typically have had what I would say is a head start on understanding what the legislation's about. My summary, and I'm going to let my colleagues weigh in. My summary of this is that NJB is doing everything in their power to help the state of New
Jersey adjust our zoning for to anticipate climate change over the next 74 years. They have targeted the year 2100 74 years from today. And they've and science says in that year sea levels
are likely to have risen four feet. could be three feet, could be not at all, could be 10 feet, but but the highest probability, and they've been back and forth on this, is a 4 foot rise of sea level. Now, if we if we anticipate that, it's logical, if
you're, you know, leaders of the United States, let alone leaders of New Jersey, uh, to come up with a plan. What do we do? We can't wait till the year 2099 and try to figure it out. you know, the sooner you start fixing that anticipated
problem, the better. So the NJ uh DP has come up with regulations uh passed by the governor and uh these regulations basically regulate uh private property and we'll I'm going to hand it off to a
few others to talk about this but the general regulations say if you're going to have sea level rise that historically we we all the entire country the United States has looked at FEMA flood levels to determine water tables and how far deep you can build your house and so
forth. Uh New Jersey under these regulations is saying we don't want to look backwards. We don't want to look historically at FEMA flood levels. We want to look forward 74 years and say what are flood what are flood planes going to look like
at that time. Now Michelle Wy maybe you could put up a graphic for folks if if you hear me. There we go. Um, the flood planes, the FEMA flood planes are are captured in in the diagram on
the left. That is I know you probably can't see that great from where you're sitting, but that on the left is Bradley Beach under FEMA. And you see some highlighted, if they look to me, they look a little dark pinkish around the lakes at to the north, Fletcher Lake to
the south southern. Not too much pinkish. pinkishes raised flood planes, but most of Bradley Beach, as you can see, is that beige color. Uh FEMA says we're we're not, you know, we're at least uh a foot above female levels. Now
on the right is, and I can't read the legend colors myself, but basically yellow is elevated flood planes. We estimate it's hitting 60% of Bradley Beach property. And the blue, you can see the blue surrounding lake lakes
plural, but you can see they're much larger, probably twice the size of the current. What that means is left unchecked, a lot of property owners will be will be underwater at least twice a day with high tide. Uh so significant difference,
picture's worth a thousand words, right? significant difference between what everybody's using today FEMA looking backwards and and present day versus looking forward 74 years. So everything in these regulations
starts basically here. the regulations now say uh people have to anticipate these changes in uh in elevations and we'll talk about the details in a second but uh but basically if you're in some
of these higher flood plane levels or if you're in an inundation zone which is that blue area um if you're doing major construction on on your houses now or if you're you know for example if you come in you buy a small bungalow So you knock
it down to build a larger house which cursive rather uh you are will be effective July 20th if the leg if the regulations don't change you'll be subject to whatever the 2100 flood plane
maps say in terms of how much you'll have to elevate your house if you're building an addition there's a rule 50% rule basically that basically says if your cost of your not just an addition improvements So it might not be an addition. It might be improving your kitchen and your
bathrooms and doing whatever you do interior, but you might be building upwards. You might not be expanding your footprint at all. But if you spend the cost 50% of the value of your house today, the building, not your entire property, just the improvements. If you
trigger that 50% as a threshold, it triggers your your uh requirement to comply with these new regulations. you would have to raise your existing house if if you're going over 50% of the
appraised value of your house, the assessment value. So, because of this, there's there's all kinds of debate. The environmentalists, you know, sweeping generalizations, I'm sure I'll be corrected by some of them tonight, but in general, they're very excited.
They're very proud of this effort by uh the NJB because they're at least forward thinking and they're breaking out of the mold of this backward thinking only looking at FEMA which looks backwards. So they're proud of this regulations.
One of the things I'm going to comment on in my own comments is the regulations. Uh the D largely controls property owners. They don't regulate in largely they don't infrastructure. So you could be raising houses but they don't tell
you to raise your street levels. >> Your houses could be above water but the street may be underwater. They don't regulate uh for the most part infrastructure, sidewalks, uh telephone lines, electric lines. So you can you can see how you
could get a kind of uneven streetscape as one house does a major renovation and it's three or four or six feet taller than the houses flanking it. These are the things that I think this council will say and it does say right now in
our resolution u are things that need to be thought out better. We need more consistency in terms of how we make these changes going forward. We're not saying it's wrong. We're just saying it's not fully baked. We need more time to get more to get legislators involved,
to get the governor involved, to get the United States involved, uh, to provide funding for changes that have to be made. Uh, so there's a lot more work we feel needs to be done. So while we my word applaud what the is trying to do,
we don't think they can do it alone. And that's largely what our resolution says. The resolution is on our website. It's about five pages long. That's why we're not going to read it. But it it's designed it to be fairly educational so people around the state of New Jersey
hopefully will read it and say good points made throughout the beach. So that's my summary. U you want >> you've did a beautiful job. You covered everything. I I did want to explain a little bit more about the renovations. Let's say the median home in Bradley
Beach is about a million dollars now. Uh 700,000 would be the land. 300,000 would be the building. So if you spent over 150,000 and you were in the climate adjusted flood elevation area or the innovation zones that you covered, you
would have to lift your house. So and it's also cumulative. So you can only spend $149,99 over 10 years. And if you go over that, it would trigger you to lift your home. Um I did want to ask add to that
Governor Murphy uh this, as you said, January 20th. The New Jersey League of Municipality negotiated a grace period. Now, we have until July 20th. They also adjusted. It was 5T was the flood zone. They brought
it down to 4T. If you look at the map on the right, you can see the yellow area. That's now the four feet. The orange area was the 5T. So, not a huge difference, but a difference, especially if you live in the orange area. in the second map. And then the other area is
the inundation zone. The inundation zone is currently dry, but it's projected to be permanently underwater, flooded twice daily by high tide by the year 2100. And then like when I said the orange area or the yellow area, they changed the map about two weeks ago. It was it was five
feet. I have one printed out that was 5 feet, but they changed it two weeks ago and they added the yellow area. And that is where they expect storm surges and extreme flooding. It adds four feet to the current FEMA. So new or significantly improved buildings must be
elevated to the higher cafe as they call it level to ensure that they stay dry during future storms. But otherwise I think you covered everything you >> do Thomas. >> I could speak um for hours on this. Um
it's again you know the D is trying to get us to look forward and the models indicate that based on sea level rise as you noted that we will ultimately see these surges including high tide today
the um technical um requirement says it's 4 feet above the FEMA elevation but unless it's 4T above the FEMA elevation or 4T above their inidation map which is what they downloaded. So there's a
nuance there. So FEMA right now is like 9 ft. This is based on you know old FEMA numbers. They're supposed to come out with new ones. So 9 foot elevation and there's a chance that can move to 10. So what that's showing there, if you
know where the contours are of the town, where the elevations of the streets are, that's basically almost up to Fletcher Lake and those elevations get up to around 17t in elevation. So if you're down at 10 ft down on Beach or Ocean
Avenue, you know, you need to meet a floor elevation roughly. That 17 to 18, I don't know what the exact number is, but it's the 17 to 18 foot elevation would be your first floor elevation. So you would have to have stairs going up your house basically 8 ft of height.
You'd have to make other stairs and some of our properties would you know be very difficult if you look at some of them on the north end of town these small lots um that the houses are so close it could really u create a you know difficult um
maybe even not able to develop those properties. So the ordinances, the zoning and all of this, as the mayor noted, is of great concern. And so what we really need to do is, you know, get more time and get the legislators to look at this. But in the meantime, what
we need to do is we need to plan that this doesn't change and we have to go forward with this. And if July 20th is the cut off date, any permit to build, we have to go through the new process and meet the requirements of this. and
we do not have any ordinances set up to do that. So, if you don't have your building plans in by July 20th and you come in the July 21st and we don't have our ordinances in place and the process in place to get approvals, um you're going to be sitting waiting for
us to do that. So it is an urgent matter to either get an extension of time from the legislators and and the governor to you know basically give us a window of time or augment the rules or give us a window of time to be prepared to be able
to implement new ordinances um and to deal with what we have to deal with in order to continue to improve uh you know uh properties um here in the beach. Um, so, so mayor, not to correct you, but the one thing you said was it doesn't regulate the streets and all that. They
haven't provided any funding or advice on what to do with those roads. They do regulate this. So, you would have to go through permits to change elevations of roads and show why you're doing it because you create bathtub effects if you suck certain things and not other
things and place spill. Um, so that anything in that yellow zone would be whether it's a street any type of improvement public or private would have to be um go through the regulations and get basically so it's taken a capper program and it's moved it all the way
out to basically almost a budget. So it's a big concern. It's a big issue. Um developers are concerned about it. Um people have talked about insurance and in reality our insuranceances right now
are based on FEMA. They're not based on maps. And so when you go get your rates for for flood insurance, they're going to base it on FEMA. And there's no telling if somebody's going to change that in the future, but nationally by law, it's FEMA.
If you if we do have to meet all these requirements in real house up, theoretically, you will be better protected and perhaps your home will be better protected from storms and therefore your insurance of flood would be less. But the adjacent homes, if
regulators, insurance regulators start looking at this and going, "Well, geez, we have to start changing our rules, they're going to lobby the federal government to change FEMA to be prepared for the future." But again, they're not trying to ensure you for year 2100. They're insuring you for the near term, for next year. So, that's why FEMA is
different than what this is forecasting. So, it's really a um it's a very complicated um model and um situation that we're in. And right now based on the rules and the state legislation is that we need to be prepared by July 20th
or we're going to be delaying construction. So we have a lot of work with the land use board and and we're going to have to put task force together rapidly in order to um plan for this and implement new ordinances to comply. >> Thank you. >> And I'll just add that you know we're
one of did you say 44 oceanfront communities. So we're not alone in this. Um and in fact the southern portion of New Jersey is at an even lower elevation and so they they've been a little more aware and more vocal about this um
challenging the science. So in this resolution we're not challenging the science of it u but we're really looking for guidance for support uh for planning and for modeling of ordinances so we can all work together along the coastline uh
and be as as protected as we can uh in our for our community. >> How do I not repeat what everybody else has said, but it's just important to note that we're not in opposition to this. Um, we support the intent of the
regulations. However, uh I think there's still work to be done with regards to providing some standardized guidance, coordinating infrastructure strategy, some realistic timelines uh you know because As a member of the land use board, I can see
the amount of work that would be required uh to properly implement um the proper um regulations and requirements to meet this and July 20th is going to be here. So, so
just to visualize this, this is really um when you think of it this way, it blows your mind. So, if your your current property say is elevation 10, right? And current ordinance regulation says that the maximum height we can build a home is 35 ft above the existing
grade. But now we're going to say your floor first floor has to be 18. So now you are we going to you only have then 20 17 feet to build you know home the height of a home above that 18 to
get to 35 if your ground is at 10. So all of our ordinances would have to change like the 35 foot height. Are we going to allow we strain the height to 35 ft off of existing ground or are we going to say no you can build to 50 foot elevation now? But now you have a bungalow next door and you have this
building next to you at 50 foot in height. So you're going to have these things like this going on. And so how do we manage all of that? And um so this is really the complication of this rule. And I think it's critical that we plan
for our future if we're going to build a new house, which I recently had done. You know, even though my house I just built does not meet that 18 foot first floor elevation. I wish I would have known that. I don't know if I would have built up the 18. But um the problem is
is that to raise those houses now and and and the investment that you make is going to be threatened if you 30 years from now, 50 years from now and rebuild houses to last 50 400 years. So the the intent of this is the right concept, but
how do you implement it? Any other comments? I guess one other thing I'll mention um and then we'll open up to the public for comments or questions is um Councilman Noiki, myself and our business administrator, Matt Dhy. We actually were given an audience
uh and I had a Zoom call with a number of members of of the New Jersey D including the new acting director commissioner. commission uh and and they could not have been more uh generous with their time uh receptive
to our recommendations. So the one piece of that conversation I I'd like to share with the public is that we very specifically I very specifically ask u is there any consideration given to creating from a central entity model
ordinances and the reason for that is because right now every municipality 44 coastal communities are kind of left to their own devices. We'll create ours the best we can knowing what we know and maybe if I call over to the mayor and Avon he and I could tag team or you know
whatever but none of us have any sort of general model language to use as a guide and the commissioner the brand new acting commissioner of the DP said he thought that was a good idea. He actually went as far as to say they might talk with the League of
Municipalities to do something like that. Paul is my witness. And if that should come to pass, that alone I imagine would have to extend the deadline for implementation because it would take months to to create those model ordinances and then municipalities
would need months more to to figure out a way to, you know, get the implementation going. So, I I'm I can't even say I'm optimistic, but I will say uh I think there's a reasonable like reasonable chance that we will be
granted some we the state of New Jersey will be granted some form of an extension because I think as more and more people are speaking out, our legislators and the D, they they want to do what's right and I think they will give us more time so that we can
get more of our so-called ducks in a row. That's that's purely my speculative assessment of the situation. So with that said, no other comments from the council. I'd like to open it up to the public. Um I don't have to make a formal motion. So anyone here uh or on Zoom?
Oh, Michelle, can you remove the map so that we can see who's on Zoom with hands race? Thank you. Anyone in the room that has any questions about real Where's Mr. Weber? >> He doesn't have his hand.
>> All right, now he does. >> Mr. John Weber, former former council. >> Can you guys hear me? >> Yes. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay, great. Um, I was giving people in the room a chance first, but um, thank you. I want to thank the council for a
very different resolution than the one that you first floated back in January. Um the fact that you're recognizing that this is happening and you're not questioning the science and stuff that's um good and for everybody's benefit the
u you hear the acronym real but a lot of times it's with this other acronym packed which was protecting against climate threats. um the packed part, those are a set of rules that affect everybody in land in New Jersey. Um a vast majority, I don't know the exact
number, but the vast majority of the land mass in New Jersey. And those rules were adopted in 2023. And the developers and all these people, they all said the same thing. It's going to stop development and it's going to no one's going to be able to build anything. And of course, since 2023, none of that has
happened because it hasn't slowed down development at all. These rules of course affect the title parts of New Jersey. So, um I'm going to nitpick on your resolution a little bit. Uh on the first page, that one whereas we talk about the 554 towns um in New Jersey
being very different. Well, this doesn't affect 554 towns. This affects I don't know maybe at best half of the towns in New Jersey because about half of the towns um are titled. Uh there's other things in your resolution language that I think it's been written you it seems
to me like it's been written assuming that everyone is going to increase they're going to achieve this height this building height level by pushing up the grade like by pushing up the land and I just think that's not how people are going to achieve this height level
they're going to build on pilings. Um, so all the talk about diverting storm water and all the problems with, you know, the fat tub effect and all that stuff, that's I I just feel like it's completely misguided because you're not achieving that height level by
pushing up the land. You're achieving it by building up presumably on pilings. I'm not a builder, so maybe there's another way to do it. I don't know. Um, a lot of people have made comments about, well, you're raising the houses, but you're not raising the infrastructure. Here's my take on that.
I don't think it raising the infrastructure matters as as nearly as much as as everybody thinks it does or maybe even at all. I'll give you a personal example for that. I had a house in Belmar in the lowlying part of Belmar, kind of back behind the windmill, that neighborhood back there.
It's kind of like 71's on one side and 35's on the other side. And um it flooded in Sandy in the middle of the night when that Sandy storm surge came in. It flooded the property that I had. It's a rental property. I lived here, but it it flooded that property. At 8:00
a.m. the next morning, I drove on these roads on the infrastructure straight to that property. There was no problem because when there's a flood event like this, the flood comes in and then it goes out. So, I was able to drive straight there. The bathtub effect, I mean, that doesn't really happen. The only place that happened was in the
middle of Belmar. And I mean only place that I know of in all of New Jersey is in the middle of Belmar where they had a lake without an outlet to the ocean and of course you know the ocean came over Ocean Avenue into that lake and that was a bit of a bout of effect there. So um I
it's not like you you can't get to these properties. So I don't think that raising the street is I don't think that's um such an issue. And regarding the mayor, some of your comments, again, I just don't think that having one house built at one level and the very next house is built at a different level and
the house next to that is like basically on the ground. Like, that's not to me that's not a problem. I mean, it's a problem from a flood standpoint. That's why we want to raise all these houses over time. But if I turned around and looked out my window, I could look at a house right now that's up a full story,
you know, and there's house you cars parking underneath it. and then the house next door to it is, you know, half that high. It's It's just not a big deal. I don't It's not People are making it sound like this is going to ruin our town. I just don't see it that way. So,
um I understand for more time. I do have one question besides the raising the height limit of course is necessary. The houses are going to have to, you know, the first floor is going to start higher. Of course, we have to raise the tip of the roof. But besides that, and
to me that's kind of a simple ordinance change, I I don't know what else we have to change in our rules. If somebody has an answer for that, that's great. Um, not necessary to pass the ordinance or not, but I just I feel like that's the only thing we're going to have to change. And I think I already passed
along well over a month ago that places that are really lowlying like Ocean City, New Jersey, even though they were against these rules, they started working on those ordinances on that ordinances and they they changed their height ordinance probably at this
point a month and a half ago. So, um I'll I'll leave it at that. If anybody has questions, that's fine. But I think uh I would love to hear what else we have to change besides our height ordinance. And that's it. Thanks very much. So John, just this is Paul. Just for a quick response to that,
what other ordinances are would be affected? Um, no basement, no mechanical equipment on within the flood elevation. On some of these irregular lots, we may on the smaller ones where the front of the house is
already not compliant to zoning and they would have to put eight to 10, you know, 8 foot high uh stairwell. whether or not that could fit on the lot or would that have to make that lot undevelopable. So then there would create a lot of zoning
variances. So there we've not gone through an evaluation of all these yet and that's what we need to do. But there's ramifications that we haven't even thought about that could affect things and and so we need to go through the finanes um to these lots to the mechanical
equipment to the um you know, driveways, uh, setbacks, etc. And so, it's all a consideration. And I'm not saying one or all of them are actual. I'm saying these are the things that we have to look at. We've not studied. >> And, uh, John, you mentioned Ocean City
or something, but to me, that's just an example of one municipality going it alone, and then Bradley Beach can get online and go it alone. And everybody's going to come up with something different. I think what we're trying to say as a council is all of our
municipalities, all of our residents would be better served if we took a breath, stepped back, armed with the the same goal, just took more time to come up with optimum uh alternatives that that municipalities
could consistently consider rather than everyone doing it on their own. And Councilman Wiki, you mentioned the regular lots, but as as I know you're aware, um you could have a you could have a very conforming lot that would still have difficulties with setbacks if they've got to add, you know, five or
six feet of height. That's probably six more feet of stairs going into the the existing setback. And so even with conforming lots, there could be challenges, John, well beyond height restrictions. So >> yeah. And one more thing, too, we're
talking about title um municipalities also flial municipalities are being affected. These are towns that have rivers and streams and also storm water management and um there this is part of the inland flood protection rule. So
this is part of the initiative as well. So all 564 municipalities are being affected by this. the the resolution language if if any of you are still interested after this meeting and want to look at it. Uh it's very detailed as I mentioned it's five or six pages. Uh
it's done that way on purpose uh to educate but the very end of it what we're really saying is D give us D and governor and everybody else give us at least another year to get better organized around crafting a a better
implementation plan. That's the bottom line of our resolution. But ultimately our legislators at the state level and federal level we need relief to help you know create you know the opportunity to try to more resilient protection um for those wasters and whatnot so that we can
minimize the impact to the homes because you're still going to have these on our infrastructure. So there is more to do beyond just oh let's just make houses and that happens. >> We we note in our resolution there are countries the Netherlands, Singapore,
well Singapore uh Japan that are currently making great strides in terms of their efforts to manage rising sea levels. Uh all of their efforts are driven by their federal governments. this our this current reg regulations
these focus on putting the burden the cost burden on individual property owners. So we'd like to see that paradigm maybe shifted a little to be more of a joint effort. Certainly uh I could see a world in which a solution could be uh private homeowners, private
property owners contribute to that cost, but I would hope that there's greater federal government guidance given uh andor uh uh requested to help make this outcome when we're sitting there, not us
personally, but in the year 2100 when our future generations are are sitting in Bradley Beach and some houses are taller, some houses are order. Have we have we succeeded if a third of our homes have never been elevated? Now you're in 2100
and what do those one third of our homes do? Like I just think if science is correct, we need a a more holistic solution that's going to serve Bradley Beach and all of our coastal communities
uh more consistently well. Yep. Uh Paul Hi Paul the champion 411 and a half rain. Thank you very much for this wellconsidered resolution. um somebody who lost their home uh in
West San Beach, Long Island in 1982 had washed out the sea and someone who has a home in Hoboken also which uh has gone through this starting with Sandy and is spending hundreds of millions of dollars
to try to solve the situation. Um I I I I thank you for looking for some more time to handle this intelligently. Um I have an immediate question that that is I have a little bit of questioning on
the current real map. Um, is there any way to see a more accurate um, elevation survey or actually to can private homeowners get a precision
altimeter to to measure their property to make sure that and and get it certified at a certain elevation? So, so you could have a surveyor actually survey the property, you know, the actual existing elevation is. Um, as far as this flood mass, um, I could not come
up yet with finding what the actual elevation is. I'm just trying to match it up to existing contours and trying to figure out what is that elevation is it because their their flood map is not just 4 feet plus on top of the FEMA. It's it's a different model. So
>> I don't have an actual that's why I'm saying it's somewhere in that 17 to 18 foot would be your required you know um floor elevation but I wouldn't quote me on that and this what I believe I already have. I was under the impression that I was you know
my ground was 15 ft high and my porch in the first floor level was probably 19 ft >> but then like to establish that. >> Yeah. So you can have your right. So two things. You can have your your property survey, but you can also you have to
wait to see when you get more information from a model that will give you the actual elevation on that flow. Um you can actually bring up your parcel under your you know lots and it'll show you where it is on their mapping and then it shows you in that inundation
zone but it doesn't give you the actual elevations. >> Thank you. Other comments or questions? Mr. Quinn, >> Thomas J. Co, 613rd Avenue. Uh, the previous speaker can request from his
surveyor a flood elevation certificate, which is always a good document to, you know, you got to pay for it, but it's a good document to have establishing your insurance rates and whether you are in a flood zone. And uh they they do measure the elevation from your basement floor if you have a basement. That's your
first floor elevation. But I would recommend that he get that. Um, I have a number of comments. I mean, this shows lack of coordination with the federal government. It's not the first time New Jerseyy's done that on a number of issues, but in this case, I mean, FEMA
is going to be changing their maps and I don't want to criticize without coming up with a solution. So, I've said if we raise our flood elevation two feet above FEMA, then we would be protected. Now,
when FEMA changes the maps this year or next year, you got to be two feet above FEMA. Our residents would know what they're looking at. Apparently, now nobody knows what they're looking at here. Um, I don't trust any science
that that doesn't look backwards. I've never studied anything where you didn't go back historically. And look, they're saying, "Oh, forget about that." You know, we don't want to be burdened by that. Let's be burdened by the higher insurance that we're going to be seeing. I mean, this doesn't seem like science says. It seems more like like Simon
says. The D is telling us to jump and we're not jumping. I mean, it it it makes no sense. Now, the map that you showed, they they adjusted it from 5T to four feet due to public outcry. Well, it's a minimal. They minimize change.
They didn't do anything for us. And also, I mean, it's uh there's there's just not much of a difference at all. Um the the other thing no one's talking about is that when you build a house, you have to get freehold soils. You have to get the uh county planning board.
Now, you have to get a general permit from D. That's got to be another three or$4,000 and minimum 90 to 120 days. So, it's like, you know, people say, "Oh, it's no big deal. Oh, you should really fund uh they should fund the D more.
They could get it done quicker." Wait, what is this? A money grab? We shouldn't even be applying for these permits. But no one's talking about that. >> It's a 90-day clock. >> It's a 90-day clock. Wait, that's without them asking for an extension. >> That's correct. 90 days review period
all day. >> Um, but we currently are working on our ordinances. We are a home rule town and we we have been doing the ordinances on the basement. We've been making many many changes. So, we're looking at it and and we're here and the uh let's see
what else I have. Um you know, I I do disagree with the way this was done because there's no legislative approval. The people we voted for didn't approve this. I mean, this is no way to run government. So, I appreciate what you're
doing. I support the resolution and I want to thank you for looking out for the residents of Bradley Beach. I mean it's it's almost it's at least a third of the town and many people don't know. So thank you very much mayor and counsel. >> Thank you. >> I just want to make a point of
correction that they the scientists look back and they look forward. So they're using research of historical data as they model what they anticipate they see. So it's not a matter of not looking back. >> We were We were told at the environmental
commission meeting that don't look back, that they're not looking back. And the mayor, you you referenced that also. This isn't looking back. >> The the the tagline was everybody else looks back. We're looking forward. That doesn't mean they don't also look back. >> Yeah. That's their tagline. But, you
know, I mean, we know what happened in Sandy. That's as bad as it's been. I've been here for a very long time. And I actually testified at the open public hearings on this. And the problem we have, if you go to the FEMA map, is at the north and south end. I've said it in this room before and I will keep saying
it. It's the state's water that's inundating us at high tide. It's not the ocean. It's not sea level. So, they don't want to deal with it, you know, but that's that's truly what it is. They got to look in their own. Thank you very much.
>> Thank you. Yes, Mr. >> You're next. Peter Sharp, 301 Second Avenue. Uh, thank you. Um, let's see. First of all, I have to say I haven't read the resolution for which I apologize. Uh, but I'm going to make comments anyhow. So, if I start going off in the wrong
direction somewhere, please rope me back in. Um, I think there's general agreement that, uh, the land use board would be under the gun to meet this specific timeline. And, uh, mentioned last meeting that this would be one area we can push back and resolution. It
sounds like that is being done. What I didn't hear from the front of the room in the introductory comments on this was any kind of push back that is being done on the basis of the pocketbooks of the homeowners here. Uh flood insurance was
mentioned. What about regular homeowners insurance? Once you find out that an insurance company once they learn the replacement cost for a home has to incorporate this new construction which is going to be more expensive. So everybody's going to see a big step increase in the ordinary insurance rates
for this. Um let's see. Construction costs are going to go up for the average homeowner. Um, property values may go down once people realize, holy cow, if I buy in Bradley Beach, I may have to spend a ton of money to do the renovations that I want. Um, there's
just, you know, no end to how this could affect the finances of the residents of the Bradley Beach. I'm just hoping that even though I didn't hear it earlier, there is something in this resolution, some forceful language about the impact on of that on on
uh I I think to some point what I'm reacting to the word forceful language. We try very hard to craft what is generally I hope would be viewed as supportive resolution, but yes, it's five pages of at least four pages. Maybe
there's a, you know, we do whereas, whereas, whereas, therefore, now, therefore, well, maybe four pages are whereas, whereas, whereas, highlighting virtually every issue you just raised, uh, politely because a lot of it is speculative. For every person who we've
talked to that says this could adversely impact the value of your home, somebody else argues that it wouldn't. I personally, I'm just speaking for myself, not the council, but because we're trying to appeal to the majority to get people to give us time.
We did our best to craft this in a way that it's it's not too inflammatory. And by the way, you and others in this room, on Zoom, um you're going to read articles in newspapers and magazines, on Facebook, and some people very inflammatory. This is a horrible thing.
Other people super super, you know, pro >> difference between inflammatory and forceful. It's okay to be forced for the sake of your citizens, >> right? Well, you know, by all means, um, let us know what you think after you've read it. Good point. >> But I I I think our goal, and we've been
through this, but Mr. Quinn referenced, we had a much different version of our very first draft of a resolution >> was probably crossing the line in terms of pushing too hard. At least enough of us, all of us basically fel felt that we
needed to spend more time with this. We actually had the conversation with the D and the more we all evaluated, the more we felt what we really need is time to do it, right? That's what we're asking. >> I understand and I trust your deliberations come up with the best
language. Um, may I use my last minute to make one more forceful comment? Um, I've heard it said here that, you know, we're not questioning the science and I see the science word in capital letters as if it's in violet. You don't have to read
too much in order to come up with some potential flaws in the study that led to this finding by the Department of Environmental Protection. Um, you can read about satellite alimemetry and how it's really kind of a tool in its
infancy. It's only 25 years of useful data and even now they're trying still trying to solve problems with ocean anomalies due to currents uh clutter when they measure along shorelines and some people are questioned in the
literature whether it's appropriate to use a 25y old tool to make projections 75 years into the future. Another point you mentioned in the Netherlands um what they have done is they have uh taken
landbased measurements as a balance against satellite alimemetry and they find out that yes ocean levels are rising but not at the accelerated rate indicated by um alimemetry but rather at a more constant rate leading to lower
rises. >> My point in saying this is not to solve the climate debate here. Okay, we're not going to do that. But my point is to say that you know there is always room for discussion in these things. I think there are some balancing points that
need to be made against that and uh I hope that that'll be part of the larger discussion in the next year which you do a little bite for us. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for >> Yes sir. Thank you.
>> Hello. My name is Dan Greenberg. I live at 221 Newark. Um, and my wife and I are also recent purchasers of one of the lots in the church. Um, which we bought fully intending under the rules that we bought them under to build a basement
and a two and a half story house. That's why we put so much money in. I'd love to see you guys slow down a little bit. I'd love to see um you know measured proper approaches recognizing that the new rules by the DP are being attacked in
from every direction. Um they may the legislature may actually and all them entirely. We don't know. Now that doesn't have to do with the science but what it has to do with is taking time. Um I know there's also a related resolution um which has had its first
reading I believe that prohibits uh basement uh garages as well as raising the level of basement to 3 ft above mean high water as opposed to actually I don't think there was a regulation before one foot um speaking as someone
who is hoping to build a beautiful home for the rest of his life here in Bradley um I'd like to see that resolution kind of take its time to go through the process as well because it's related. It's all of them. Um, and I I I just urge and encourage you while recognizing
the science, recognizing the debates in the science, and recognizing that none of this may even take place, um, please take take a measure. That's all. Thank you. Other comments or questions from the
audience here? No one else on Zoom. Okay. Uh, I think we then are ready to consider a vote on this resolution. Um, would anyone care to make a motion?
>> I'm happy to make a motion. I make a motion to approve resolution 202686 supporting the goals of the New Jersey resilient environments and landscapes re regulations and requesting model
ordinance language implementation guidance infrastructure coordination regional resilience planning and an extension of municipal compliance deadlines. >> Second >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Miss Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki.
>> Yes. Mayor Guboszi, >> I warned everyone. I'm going to read a brief statement for the record. Uh this is, you know, purely Al Gubz's uh take on on on this vote. Um we are not here to challenge the science behind real regulations. The risks posed by sea
level rise and climate change are well documented, and I commend the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for initiating a forward-looking process to safeguard the future of our residents and our communities. That said, regulations alone do not address
infrastructure that do not address infrastructure and do not provide for government funding cannot achieve the outcomes New Jersey needs. For real to be successful, the state must foster strong communication, collaboration, and consistency, bringing together
regulators, state legislators, the governor's office, uh, and our federal legislators in a coordinated and transparent effort. This is especially critical for our more than 40 coastal communities, which must work from a shared vision for zoning and land use.
That vision should be supported by practical model ordinances that promote alignment and collaboration rather than encourage fragmented independent efforts across municipal boundaries. We must also recognize that the cost of
climate preparedness cannot rest solely on private property owners. A comprehensive solution must include meaningful public investment. Preparing for conditions projected in the year 2100 requires shared responsibility with
government playing a central role in funding and implementation. Finally, we must avoid a peacemeal approach in each community where individual homes are elevated without regard for surrounding infrastructure resulting in mismatched roads,
sidewalks, and neighborhoods. Our planning must be cohesive, equitable, and designed at the community level. Ultimately, what this council is saying is simple. We agree this work must be done, but to succeed, we must do it
right. And with that said, I vote yes. Thank you. Okay. Thank you everyone. That that that was I've been on council for five years, mayor for a year, so six years total. That was possibly one of the most
challenging topics because it's a statewide topic and we we don't often we our Bradley Beach Council don't often find ourselves addressing statewide topics because you know we're focused on Bradley Beach, but this is one where all of us felt that the more we discussed
it, the more research was done, you've heard from folks here that everyone's dove pretty deep into this. Um, we really felt it was very important to bring this to light. Whether folks in this audience on Zoom or or not even attending tonight, uh, agree or disagree
with us, we wanted to make sure you're all aware and please continue to do your own research and add to the overall voices that are uh, addressing this regulation. So, with that said, we're going to move on to item six on our agenda, presentations of bids. There are
none. So we'll move to item seven, approval of minutes. I will make a motion that we approve the March 3, 2026 council business meeting minutes. >> Second. Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Greenwood, yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi?
>> Yes. Uh item eight is public comments and questions specifically pertaining to this agenda. If you have comments not pertaining to this agenda, please hold them till the end of the uh the meeting. Uh, so anyone with any comments or questions regarding tonight's agenda?
>> No one. >> The agenda being >> the agenda would be real. >> Yes. >> Sorry. Did you have a question? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Go ahead, please. >> Because I I wasn't clear. Um, my name is
Frank with the property at 321 Lraine. Happy St. Patrick's Day, everybody. I listened to Mr. Noi's comment in regard to possibly raising the height of people's homes. I believe his name was Paul is in the neighborhood where we are
going to be where he has a much taller property. We want to comply and and I guess intelligently so we don't have water in our basement in regard to the homes we're going to build. And I don't know how to be in compliance with if you had
your permits in by July 20th on the future. So, if we're not going to lift our homes up to 5 ft, but if we are 2 or 3 feet above the seasonal high water mark, can we have our homes, you know, a foot or so taller where it wouldn't be
impeding the neighborhood because the homes around us are much taller and the property that we purchased was where the church was, which had a three and a half or a 4ft wall and then the church itself was much higher. So, I think it's just an oversight on the fact that we are now
at grade and we're very very close to the high water mark. What Dan was saying is um about not being able to have a basement which is really important for us and that's why we purchased the property. So I'm not necessarily saying what you guys are saying is incorrect or
in 25 years from now if the water doesn't rise then does everything change and if not we want to comply but what is the smartest thing for us as new home builders you know because there's four of us that purchased those properties and we want to do what's right but yet
in the same token we're kind of you know our our plans are together we have architects and we have we went through uh what what Mr. TJ said in regard to getting all the information that we needed and you know the the soil uh borings and everything and just don't
know where to stand right now. So, if you can help with that, that would kind of be my question because we'd like to move forward. Uh we've been renting here for 5 years and we'd like to build our home but not do it a foolish way where later on we might have to either raise our house, we'd like to do everything
correctly first. Well, number one, uh, we we very much appreciate your situation. Number two, if you think we have that answer, you know, >> we're all kind of figuring this out as we go. >> U, nonetheless, that said, there are
processes in place. I I'll turn it over to Councilman Noi in a second regarding determining where you would fall relative to the the new uh uh maps, the real maps. Uh and ultimately you'll always have the opportunity to let's say
you don't get an application and you want to build your house at the right level anyway. Uh you will have the opportunity to go to land use to the extent you need a height variance but but council you're closer to this. So yeah so again just reiterate we can't
give you guidance on what you should or shouldn't do based on what you should know. You have professionals that should be giving you that advice and I act as a professional but but okay. So, so you have codes in place today >> today >> that you can have permits submitted and approved you know by by you know July
20th and then you can build to those standards after July 20th based on those real rules staying those rules our ordinances will have to change um and then where you fall where your exact property is and what you're figuring out
what you want to build there um I would ask my um consultant to look and say what is those real elevations and and see if they can provide you that guidance and say what would that first floor elevation be? What are my options to doing this? Um because again, are you
going to take all of your mechanical equipment if if you're down, you know, not do a basement put and then hang all your air conditioners and everything in the air? What is their advice based on this? And that's what you're paying them for. So, I would go and say, what are my options pre and post? And then what can
I do to if you're going to get this approved before July 20th, what can I do to ensure that I have the most um resilient home that I could build for the rest of your lifetime, your children's lifetime to the year 2100. >> Well, I'll use your forceful language
that you against you that you said you built and you wish that you had known prior. So that's what I'm trying to avoid is, you know, to to be compliant, but yet in the same token be um conservative in the sense of being, you know, being clear of what would, you
know, possibly be a mistake of having, you know, water in the basement on a on a flood. I mean, Sandy was 2012. So I mean, it's been a distance since since I've seen water in the town. But yet, in the same token, I understand. Can it come? Yeah. Is it absolutely coming? We don't know.
>> It may not be in our lifetime. I mean never correct these predictive models. So but again what's driving all this is regulation and so you're building to regulation. So it it comes down to your timing. >> Okay. >> And then how much you want to do to be resilient pre or post July 20th.
>> Well that's where it comes into where you'll let me have my house almost as tall as Mr. Paul that lives in my neighborhood. >> So I I think that's where you may be able to do that. I don't know how tall your ceilings are. You know all that comes into play. >> Well we're stuck right now like you said before at 35 ft. and and you just don't
want to take, you know, a nice roof that you have and it's really only possibly a foot or so because we would want to come up to where we're we're out of the >> which then you'd have to come in front of this planning board to be able to say, "Hey, we want to vote a zoning variance to go higher than 35 ft." Yeah.
>> Which creates a whole another, you know, um something that would have to be considered. So, it's a complic that's why I'm saying it's a complicated >> complicated situation. The where they measure the 35 ft from is it from the street, the curb? the average grade of your >> average grade. Okay. Thank you very much everybody.
>> Thank you. >> Any other questions in the room? Uh I see a couple advanced I don't know who's G Mus G >> G LLC. >> G M A LLC. Your hand is raised. You have
the floor. >> Um this is Gregory Farenbach from 408 Bradley Boulevard. Um, I wanted to uh comment on resolution uh 2026-94 authorizing the appointment of a
permanent CFO to a statutory term of four years. Um, uh, is the governing body aware that, uh, Mitchell sign is the owner of Clear Edge Political Consulting LLC?
What controls are being placed on the proposed employee to segregate the financial professional CFO responsibilities from his other non-financial professional political endeavors?
My second question is while the annual salary is being shown in the resolution um what will the other elements of the compensation package be? Third,
with the appointment of a permanent CFO, what is the status of government educators contract? Will Janette Larrison's role end with disappointment? Fourth, the 2025 AFS
is not yet on the website and has not been filed with the Division of Local Government Services by the due date of March 10th, a week ago. When will it be filed and posted on the website?
And lastly, with another change in the CFO, may I please be advised when my request of over a year ago for a cost out of the UFCW local 152 contract, when will it be
available? Thank you, >> Mr. Fair. I started taking notes late. Just quick highlight the first two questions you asked. Um the first one was dealing with segregation of the financial
professional CFO responsibilities from the other non-financial professional um political endeavors that would be carried out through Clear Edge political consulting LLC. and a second.
>> Um, what are the other elements of the compensation package other than the salary which is set forth in the resolution? >> Okay. Um, I'll do my best to cover these. So, segregation of responsibilities as far as I recall I believe there are
not documented. Now, are there any specific restrictions or requirements we've placed on Mr. S? Uh um before we hired him, we knew that he had other business endeavors u political in
nature. Um they may not touch upon Bradley Beach. They will not touch upon Bradley Beach and um you know he will fully disclose any type of financial entanglements he may potentially have
that may potentially involve breach. But in the past there have been none and currently there are. >> Okay. Thank you. Um item two the other elements of compensation. Uh there are no other uh elements of compensation
tied to salary or bonus. Um I would consider compensation also including like medical benefits or pension eligibility things like that. uh and his contract is designed as our other professionals who are not in the union to parallel what's available to the
union. Uh the Janette Larrison role is um we've had numerous discussions I personally have had numerous discussions with Miss Larrison who's served the past eight or so months or I'm sorry closer to closer to nine months 10 months as
our CFO. Um she verbally she and I both agree that we want her to stay on uh for a transition period. Uh she had a recent death at her family. We were going to talk about two weeks ago. Uh as recently as this morning, she and I traded
emails. Uh she's coming in tomorrow finally. That was her first availability. As I will be on a flight on vacation, I won't be able to talk to her directly. Mr. Dohy will have conversations. We've asked her to put together a contract for us. So um I
guess the best answer I can give Mr. Barbach is uh both parties have expressed mutual interest in keeping her on and helping her uh helping uh Mr. Seam sign uh transition into his new
role but we don't have that for formalized yet. Um as far as the AFS my understanding is our auditor has helped prepare that and now Mr. Simon Ms. Larrison are working on it. Again, uh
we've had to deal with a couple of uh you know, personal family issues uh that have delayed us a little bit, but we expect that to be completed within the next two weeks, pre hopefully by the end of this month.
uh and the uh the cost out for the uh local 152. Uh I have had that conversation with Miss Larrison. I provided all of the uh salary information including the retro payments
uh detail, you know, Excel spreadsheet level detail of the retrospective payments that were made uh related to the back pay owed for over two years, two years and a quarter maybe uh of salaries uh to resolve that contract
dispute. Uh but in terms of the actual filing of the document, uh I need an update from Miss Larrison. Again, I've shared a lot of information with her. She has not yet requested additional information, but I will follow up with her within probably a week from now. As
I mentioned, I'll be on a plane tomorrow. Um and I'll send her a note this evening uh to uh you know, just to try to pin that down for you. But at this point, I don't have a date. Thank you for those responses. >> Okay, thank you for the questions.
Other questions, Mr. Weber, >> John Weber. >> Hi, I have questions on ordinances 20 and 22. And is number 20, is it just that simple
that we're prohibiting people blowing or raking or sweeping whatever like stuff into the street like leaves and whatnot into the street? Is it just that's the way I read it, but is it just that so simple? And where's this coming from?
>> It's just it's just that simple. Um it's it's it started off with some mental discussions that we had regarding um leaf blowers which we have tabled. Um and originally when we were looking at the ordinance um it wasn't appropriate to put them both leaf blower which
hasn't been considered yet as well as the waste from the leaf blowers in the same ordinance. Um but we wanted to continue on with regards to the uh waste management of blowing um debris into the streets and then into the storm sewers.
>> So good job. >> It's just that >> appreciate it. And on number 22, this is talks about you have to get a permit for a structure in the planting strips or right ofways. What kind of structures are we considering in the planting strips or right ofways? Um, I don't
really I can't think of any structures in that. >> I I think it's a it's a catch-all phrase, but this came about due to a loophole um due to the fact that the um uh code enforcement were not able to
enforce um uh the regulations against curb cuts. So, if somebody made a curb cut that was too wide, um it couldn't be enforced. So, this allows that enforcement to happen. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Uh I was also going to ask Mr. Canon who helped us draft the
signage. I know that was a good summary. Anything else to add, Mr. Can? >> No, that's that's about what it uh just brings bring structures within the right of way within the gambit. It wasn't necessarily clear. >> Yeah. And as as Mr. Carter said it it
was brought to our attention by our code enforcement that and zoning that they attempted to address concerns about curb cuts and they found out that we didn't have the authority. >> Uh being more specific it's not just you know some legal theory. Right. So we um
require road opening permits for work within the right of way. And unlike a UCCC permit, like if you were building a shed, the UCCC permit would automatically ask our employees for the prior approval, aka the zoning permit.
But the street opening permit currently doesn't have an administrative function to seek the prior approval. And so, um, this ordinance then allows us to put prior, uh, rightway improvement regulated by zoning regulation and basically essentially put a checkbox for prior
approval on the road opening permit so that we catch so someone can't install larger than is allowed curb cut which causes parking and aggravates the neighbors to no end. Um, >> so that that that's the practical reason how this came up is we don't actually have a checkbox for prior approval. Um,
and while we haven't had a mistake um, yet they were concerned about that because obviously that's a sense of leaders issue at time. So that that's the actual genesis of not just like a legal we thought of. >> It was very practical. >> Great. I appreciate it. As long as someone's building like statues in the
planning structure for that response. Uh, Tracy's iPhone has her hand raised. Hi. Uh, can you hear me? >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Um, I just wanted to comment on the hiring of the a full-time CFO. As
somebody who was on the charter study commission, I am thrilled to see this. Um, it is something that came up a lot uh in our discussions and also our discussions with employees. uh not only
the revolving door of BAS but the revolving door of of CFOs was a problem too. So I think this is a great move. I know that maybe people would think it's something we can't afford. I think we can't not afford to do this. So I'm very happy with it and I'm glad to see the um
council doing this. Thank you. >> Thank you for your comment. >> Tracy, can you just state can you just state your address for me? >> Oh 3044. >> Thank you. Thank you for your comments, Mr. Davidson. Mr.
>> Co. Thomas J. Coan, 6123rd Avenue. U regarding that question from one of the uh Zoom folks, what what is Mr. Seam's previous employment? >> Well, his most well, he's actually with us today. His most recent employment,
he's been a a deputy CFO. What's the >> assistant CFO? assistant CFO uh uh within the past year or so completed a four-year program studying to become a CMFO has passed his exams with flying
colors and was operating as an assistant CMFO in what town sir >> Tom River Township for about two and a half years >> Tom River Township so prior to that he has a separate consulting business sure >> I think that's what Mr. verifies. >> Yeah, I believe so. That that didn't
have any impacts on your employment time. >> No, did not. >> Perfect. Thank you. And and I echo the comments of Miss Davidson who was on the commission. It did come up a lot and it's been a very long time since we've had a full-time CFO. So, the time is
right. Thank you, M. >> Thank you. and the area 116 Avenue. I have a question about numbers 92 and 93. Are these on the agenda because they're asking for later end times or has the
required end time been moved later? >> The block parties. >> Yeah. A few years ago, I inquired about doing one and we were told that um we have to end by six. because you guys are particularly rowdy.
>> Yeah. Not even 10 or 11 would do it for us. >> You're right. >> Uh I I'm going to turn to the chief. Chief, do you have any knowledge of time? >> I don't I don't believe it's six o'clock without having >> like eight >> eight. Well, one one says 9:00. Yeah.
>> Okay. >> It's eight or nine. >> Yeah. Okay. So then we could possibly get an extension on that for a special patient, >> but it still has to stay within I think it's 4 hours. >> Yeah, the 4 hour time frame. >> Okay.
>> So your question is for the crazy people in New >> party. >> She's thinking 1000 p.m. to 2 a.m. >> 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. >> Crazy crazy is a vague term. But but but
seriously, what what is your your interest in >> Actually, we we do this annual New York Avenue party at the end of the summer and it's grown significantly over the years. So, I looked into doing it on the street and it usually goes from 6 to
midnight 1 a.m. >> Our says no, no block party is not a time. The block party cannot go uh past 30 minutes before dusk. >> Yes, it does. >> So you can't have the road to close when it's dark. That's basically >> Oh, see that's what at the time that I
called it was the 6:00. So I guess >> I don't know what time that time of year, but yeah, it's so it's 30 minutes before dusk. The party cannot be before 12 noon. Must end 30 minutes before dusk and the maximum time is four consecutive hours.
>> So that that's the answer. >> I don't know. Thank you. >> Thank you. I did not know those details myself. >> Actually makes a lot of sense to not have the road closed in the dark. That's >> not have our res. >> Yeah.
>> Uh all right. Any other comments or questions? Seeing none, I'll move on to ordinances. Item nine on our agenda. We have um two >> three ordinance introductions. I'll remind everybody that with ordinance
introductions, we do not offer public comment other than as you asked the question earlier. Uh the council will briefly discuss each. When we get to adoptions, we will open it up to public comment. Uh and of course when we introduce ordinances, you have at least two weeks, sometimes more depending on
whether it's a zoning related ordinance or not. Um to study this, you know, research it further and then come back when we're uh meeting to adopt. So again, uh there will be no public comment for introductions, but I'm going to start with uh bond ordinance 2026-14.
And do we have an engineer on the council any chance? Not not a hired engine, former engineer. >> Yeah. So final ordinance um 202614. Uh this is a u basically we had adopted this ordinance uh and passed it back in
um uh September last year. This um this is part of the overall program. Uh we have received $2 million in D to finish the design of the rest of the sewer system. Half the sewer system has been completed. This is completing the rest of it from Fifth Avenue um all the way
to Lake Terrace, including Main Street and Ocean Avenue. And so this is the design was a $2 million that was passed back in September. um because we are putting all this into a program and we're going to be issuing uh contracts by Avenue. Um you as you
recall last year we just completed Fifth Avenue from Main Street to Fletcher Lake Road to Madison actually. And so now we are going to be issuing a new contract. We're going to advertise it here this spring to complete Fifth Avenue from
Madison Avenue to Ocean Avenue. and so that we can instead of passing uh new ordinances and having all these things jumbled of this program, um we're going to be ultimately borrowing money from the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank to pay for the construction. We also have
DOT money that's paying for the resurfacing of the roadways. And um so what we're trying to do is put all this into one one ordinance u because we have one loan number from the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank. So we are trying to
get this more transparent, more clearly organized that it's all under one ordinance and so what you will see over time is um the next one will be Ocean Park Avenue will be getting moving forward with construction. So and then Main Street and etc. So all of these will be coming on. We will continue to
amend this particular ordinance to add on the next section of construction contract. And so one day in the future, you'll see, you know, here was Fifth Avenue, here's Brimley, here's Main Street, and here was the cost for every single one of them, and it will all be contained into this one ordinance. What
grants we're getting for it, what we're borrowing from and authorizing through the bond to um basically fund the um to ensure the loan that we will ultimately get from the D. So with what this piece is right here, the 1.6 6 million is for
the construction of the Fifth Avenue from Madison to Ocean Avenue. We're hopefully going to advertise that here this spring. We're waiting for D to give our final sign off. And this basically this bond will basically allow us to advertise and then borrow from the New
Jersey Infrastructure Bank to pay for this construction. It's a $1.6 million. It's a couple hundred,000 there for uh inspection work um and contingency. Uh and then there is also a um construction
of roughly $1.5 million. Um and what we are doing is um going to be getting grants to offset that. And that's why there's an authorization, if you read deeper into this, the authorization number is 1.1, not 1.5 because we do have like a half
million dollars of grants from the DM for resurfacing. So, it's it's there's a lot packed into this and by doing it this way, organizing it, we'll be able to look at this as we go forward with this program. And then I've also asked the mayor that what we want to be able to do is a workshop here very soon uh
here in April that we could actually present the entire program, all the sewer replacements, what we're looking to do, what the timing of that looks like, and how we're and which contracts we're going to move forward with and what the costs are on those. So um and what this whole thing looks like and
what does it mean to ultimately you know the rates and and how what what borrowing rates are we going to have how does it affect the rate payer down the road and so that's going to be coming and then this ordinance is specifically for adding Fifth Avenue from Ocean
Avenue to Madison construction and what you just summarized in a couple minutes uh took our bondage our bond council a couple of extra weeks to summarize in writing because there are a lot of complexities and moving pieces here. And
what we didn't mention, Councilman, is u thanks to the efforts of yourself and councilwoman Greenlight, uh we've secured not only pretty good grant funding, but the borrowing is a pretty good rate as well. So, >> yeah. And we we actually qualify for $2 million of principal forgiveness from uh
New Jersey Infrastructure Bank. So, besides principal forgiveness that would pay for the actual construction, million. So that will end up pretty much covering the cost of both the um Fifth Avenue and Ocean Park. So at the end of the day, we won't have to borrow
anything for this first phase of completion of fifth and uh the first segment of Ocean Park >> and to the extent we want to we need to borrow in the future. You've secured a fairly good interest rate. >> Yeah. So the way the infrastructure what we qualified and got grandfathered into, we no longer qualify at post July, but
we got grandfathered into a program that allowed us to borrow at 0% interest for 75% of the construction cost and then bond rate at 25% of construction. So it's the cheapest money that we can find um and and beats the bonding. So it's it's a great program and um you know
Sean and myself council by the way we've done this for the last year. So it's really been a great program. We're excited about bringing the sharing all of it and putting it out and have the engineer come. Suburban Engineering is the ones that are going to be leading this initiative and they're going to be
presenting on this and um you know real you know heads up Main Street is has to happen sooner than later and we'll get Main Street in the fall not to the cat on the back but that's going to be pretty disruptive but that's really critical because of other work that's going to be happening on Main Street in the future.
>> No actually Paul said it all. Okay. So with that, thank you council. So uh so with that said, any other questions or comments for the council? Councilman, you care to make a motion?
So the motion is for bond ordinance 2026-14 amending in part bond ordinance 2020256 adopted as September 2nd provided for the sanary sewer improvements. expand the scope of the improvements to include a park placement.
Um, >> second. >> I'll second the introduction of that. >> Mr. Noble, yes. M. Green. Yes. >> Mr. Carr. Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Kubosi. >> Yes. Okay. The next U ordinance for introduction is ordinance
2026-22. And I will turn to Congressman Clark to provide. Thank you. Um, so as you know, anytime a property owner wants to change the use of their property or building construction or otherwise uh alter the
building, uh, an application needs to be made to zoning. And the amendment to this ordinance regarding chapter 450 of zoning closes a loophole that we talked about a little earlier and uh now requires an application to be made for zoning for any additions or alterations
in public easements right ofways which also includes uh curest so it was just uh in order to close the loophole to help enforcement any comments or questions Well, not seeing any, I would like to
make a motion to approve the introduction of ordinance 2026-22 amending chapter 450. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. M green, yes. >> Mr. Park, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Bubosi,
>> yes. Ordinance 2026-23 which is an ordinance amendment chapter 314 nuisances public of the burrows of revised general ordinances to prohibit sleeping camping and overnight occupancy on public property. Um this request came
to us actually from our chief of police uh just just to help the burrow address u folks who may just decide to camp out on public property and stay overnight. This helps give our police department a little more flexibility in terms of how
they manage such occurrences. Chief, is there anything you'd like to add? >> Uh, no. I just appreciate the council, mayor, you guys considering this. Basically, you know, obviously our our first goal is to assist anybody that, you know, maybe is homeless or dealing
with mental health, things like that. We have plenty of resources available to us through the county, through the state. Uh, but there is occurrences where someone just adamant they don't want any help. Um or, you know, maybe they've been banned from, you know, shelters,
whether it's criminal behavior, just bad behavior, so on so forth. And there's just sometimes run into persons that are just they don't want any help. And, you know, they could set up camp, you know, on the beach front, anywhere in parks and public property.
and we're just kind of once all those avenues are exhausted and we try to help these people, you know, we just have nothing to fall back on. So, we just for those types of instances. >> All right. Thank you, Chief. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Uh, any other comments or questions from the
council? >> All right. Seeing no other comments, I'll make a motion that we adopt ordinance 2026-23. >> Second. >> M. Noble? >> Yes. >> Miss Greenblat? >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark? >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. Mayor Dubeti.
>> Yes. >> Okay. Now we get to the adoption of ordinances and this is where the public will have an opportunity to comment on each and every one of these items. So um a after the council has any additional comments. So uh ordinance 2026-15
is the ordinance that we introduced a few weeks back that uh allows us to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limit and to establish a cap bank. Um, obviously we discussed this a couple weeks ago, but any other comments or questions?
>> Okay, seeing none, I'll make a motion that we open it up to public comment. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble? >> Yes. >> Mlat? Yes. >> Mr. Park? >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki? >> Yes. >> Mayor Bubosi? >> Yes. Uh, before I open it to public eye, I I
realized we've got a reference to chapter 41. I skipped that attention, but in case anyone's following along at home. Um, we never did. >> It's been removed. >> Okay. It's not my copy. That's >> I'm g Didn't I give you a a new copy of the agenda?
>> Uh, I have two and I'm using the wrong one. >> Mark up our original copy. >> That's right. You took one home to make Okay, never mind. >> So, more chapter 451. Folks, you're going to have a really wonderful 451 lesson in a few weeks from now. >> Um, okay. So, back to uh ordinance. Now,
we are on 2026-16 amending chapter 1 general provisions of our ordinances. Um, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. >> I know you want to go on vacation. >> I'm so excited about
>> skipping 451. I I lost control. >> Bring the adoption stage. Just made >> I have opened it to public comment. >> I don't think >> Yes. We're all the hands all day. Okay. No comments publicly here. I hope nothing's
going to stop her. >> That's a start. >> Okay. Uh so seeing none, I will make a motion that we close public comment and adopt uh 2026-15. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> M. Green. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes.
>> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Okay. Ordinance 2026-16. I'm going to turn this one over to Councilwoman Green. >> Great. Thank you, Mayor. Um this um ordinance 202616 is um amending chapter 1 general
provisions of the bureau's revised general ordinances to revise and update the local supplemental violations bureau schedule. Um and this is largely uh uh a few changes in parking violations
related to uh special parking for handicapped uh spaces and also um updating uh violations for uh snow snow parking uh and just based on the experiences we had this past winter. So
there are significant increases in these and it's because really of public safety. Uh so is there anyone who has any questions? No, my com I have one comment and that is I didn't have to reference as I was looking away but there's most of these
are snow related but there's one that's related to the special permanent parking it's a significant increase that I don't have in front of you but the dollars are roughly $60 moving triple that perhaps >> right from 62 to 274 violation >> and the 274 is intended to be equal to
any other events where someone parks in a handicap spot These are private handicap spots that were not moved at at the same dollar amount as public official handicap spots. So that was the goal of that particular. >> Thank you for sharing that. Um so if
there are no other comments, I would like to make a motion uh to open this to public comment. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Green, yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gupzi, >> yes. >> Any comments, questions? I have a I have
a question. Um I did a lot of snow removal over on 104 Bland because that's where we live. If you go on vacation or something and and you know what do you do? Like in other words, you know, you want to move but yet you're you're
wrong. But you know, in that case, what what can you do? Is there any place that you could put your vehicle if you know that maybe a storm is coming or like the mayor's going on vacation for a week or two and it just so happens to snow? you know that that you innocent I mean innocently left it but because we live
next to the apartments next to us and I see that the vehicles are there and we dug people out you know and so you know I saw the instances where the cars weren't moved and you know we moved our vehicles and we helped a lot of folks over there but you know just a thought for you guys on you know can they call
in you know my car can't move or whatever the case might be. So, I know running into the same exact problem and knowing that there was a snowstorm and we were going to be gone, I left my keys with my neighbors, right, >> to be able to move the car because just saying I'm away and leaving the car
there >> is not a sufficient excuse to >> we did, you know, we we helped folks with that, but where where the apartments are, >> you know, a lot of the folks you don't know just that, you know, you might wind up with, you know, because some comments
online were, you know, tow them and what have you and you know it's kind of difficult for people to just you know foresee just a thought >> any other comments questions okay so no other questions um I'd like to make a motion to close the public
public comment and to adopt ordinance 2026 >> second >> Mr. Noble yes >> yes >> Mr. Cart yes >> Mr. Wiki. Yes. >> Mayor Bubosi. >> Yes. Moving to ordinance 2026-20.
I'm trying to save my voice tonight so I can party in tropical locations. >> It's not for two weeks to five days. >> I'm going to ask Mr. Clark, Councilman Carp, to once again handle 216. >> Sure. Thank you. So, ordinance 2026-20
amends chapter 286 regarding littering, solid waste, and recyclable collection. Short and sweet is in this amendment we have added the provision to prevent people from blowing, sweeping or otherwise placing grass clippings, leaves, dirt or any other debris into
the street uh catch basins, storm drains or any other component of Bradley's storm water system. Uh we know that we want to do this because it blocks up the storm drains. It puts um undue um waste into our storm water management system
that eventually winds up to the lakes and then um any questions from council >> again a comment u our uh environmental commission came to us as well and I know Mr. how you were involved. So those early discussions um and you mentioned
you alluded to this earlier but the focus was on guest blowers from a noise standpoint but but possibly equal concern around the the actual you know depositing of the debris into the storm chain. So um I compliment you on the
fact that you took the noise and the waste and you separated them. We are in another meeting or two we'll be having an ordinance on noise for the gas blowers. Uh but for tonight at least we're able to deal with the waste. So thank you for giving that action.
>> Any other questions then I would like to make a motion to open this up for public comment. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Green, >> yes. >> Mr. Carr, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubzi, >> yes. I have a question.
What is the difference in between when on the calendar that you want us to put home you know branches or whatever in the street opposed to what you're saying is that people are actually like you know putting the stuff into the storm drain opposed to us putting it into the street for pickup. So this doesn't
affect any of the um you know when you put your um branches >> branches leaf pickup they put it. So this doesn't affect that. Um you know it's very common to see landscapers who are cleaning up who blow all of the
debris from the driveways sidewalks and they blow it into the street and they blow it to the neighbor street so it's not in front of their street. It's now in front of somebody else's street. >> Okay. Yeah. I agree. I agree. I don't want to be friends with the chief on a bad way. Can I just state your name and address, please? >> Sure. 320 U. Well, we live at 104
Brinley, but we bought the property at 321 uh Lorraine. >> Okay. And your name? >> Oh, Frank. A lawyer. A L O I A. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you, Mr. West. >> Bob West new. So, just to clarify that.
So now adoption of this actually makes that illegal to do that. Correct. So if we have a few neighbors, which I do, who randomly or continually clear out their property and other and
their neighbors property and send it down the street so it's away from theirs, what would one point to do? >> Well, it's almost like I mean it's a great question. I imagine a lot of
people are having a similar question. Um probably no difference in any other violation that you might observe. You know u you know if our police or code enforcement if anyone sees that happening they'll act accordingly. Uh
obviously we don't we don't always have a person in place for catching any violation. But if you or anyone else were to mention it to code enforcement, uh, in this case, uh, you know, the burl would be able to take action. >> Could could you get a copy of that
ordinance in in like a print out that I could anonyomously stick on? >> They're they're posted to the website. So, >> yes, that's assuming the person doing this goes to the website. >> Oh, no. You could print it out.
Okay. >> M didn't you also mention that there's an app that is available for making complaints? >> Yes. Yes. Uh what was the name of that? >> Okay.
>> Go Alert. G O V A L E R T. Go Alert. >> It's a little difficult to find it though today. Uh it's a couple clicks into the website. on the website it's very difficult to find but on uh Apple store
>> Apple store uh Google it's an app and it's easier on your phone because then you can take a picture and it geolocates it just send it to us and we'll automatically distribute it whether you go to police department so you don't have to call you don't have
to >> just just let us know >> gov alert Um could you just remind us what day this actually does go into effect since we're reading it today? >> Stop. >> Like when can >> days follow publication? >> How many days?
>> 20 days publication. When this publication occur the day after we adopt >> publication will occur on Thursday. >> So 20 days from Thursday it will be effective. >> Right. >> Well actually it's 20 days from the
adoption. >> Oh from adoption. So, April 7th, I believe, is the 20-day stop period, >> just in case this neighbor blows on that specific day. >> On that day, >> yes, April 7th. >> Any other questions?
>> All right, then I'd make a motion to close the public comment and approve ordinance 2026-20, amending chapter 286, littering, solid waste, and recyclable collections. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Ray, >> yes. >> Mr. Cart, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor,
>> yes. Item 10 on the agenda and that concludes ordinances by the way. Uh communications, there are none. Item 11, resolutions. We have consent agenda resolution items 202687 through 202693. Does the council want to
comment or vote on any of these items separately? >> Okay. In that case, I will make a motion that we um approve consent agenda resolutions 2026-8-87 through 2026-93.
Second, >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> M green. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. Okay, moving to individual resolutions. We are extremely excited about the next
item 2026-94 um because this is in fact uh confirming the appointment of our new CFO uh who will be a full-time CFO and the bureau is very excited to have him come aboard.
Uh but before uh we vote any comments or questions? Okay, seeing none, I will make motion that we approve 2026-94 confirming the four-year appointment of Mitchell's uh scene as chief financial officer for the burrow of Bradley Beach.
>> Second, >> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Greylet, >> yes. >> Mr. Core, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. And now our new chief financial officer. Would you mind standing
introducing yourself to our community? I've got an opportunity to speak with the mayor, meet a lot of the employees over the last couple days, and um I'm real excited to be uh uh here to help the community with the finances. And uh I got a chance to speak with the mayor
about some of the things he's wanting to implement in the future going forward to uh really get things uh going the right direction and I'm excited to be a part of it. So I really thank you all for the opportunity. >> Thank you and thank you for joining us tonight. It's great to have you with us.
>> Mitch, just for what is the proper pronunciation of your last name? >> A sign. >> Sign. Okay. >> So So are you Mitch number one or Mitch number two? Are we >> agreed? He's Mitch and I'm Mitchell. >> There you go.
>> Now you tell us. >> All right. >> Do we need a resolution? >> That's okay. >> Thank you, Mitchell. >> All right, we will move to individual resolution 2026-95. Um, I'm going to turn this over to Councilman No. Actually, the next two,
Councilman Noiki. Okay. So, um resolution 2626 uh 202695 approval to submit an award extension for um FY 2023 LTPS Southern Lake Improvement Project. This is the
replacement of the uh wall. We had um multiple meetings on the bulkhead that runs along Brady Boulevard from um basically every intersection of Evergreen to Madison Avenue. Um the plans permits are in place. plans are
completed. They are at the DOT. Anytime you have a grant and you're doing um work underneath one of the agencies, they review everything. Those plans are submitted to them back in January. And we are waiting for their approval so we can go to advertisement. The grant
stipulated that we would have to award by April 12th, I believe, was the date. And so although we're being told that the approval is imminent, we want to make sure that we don't jeopardize this grant in any any way. So we've asked the
DOT to extend that grant uh so that we could have an award um once we received their comments and not jeopardized the funding. So with that, we're extending that date three months out. So that's June 12th or something like that. So,
um, with that, um, I'd like to, uh, propose we adopt, um, resolution 2026- 95. >> Second, Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Greenwood, >> yes. >> Mr. Park, yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi,
>> yes. >> And 96 as well. And then 96 authorizing award of a proposal for professional engineering services with CME associates for the 2026 municipal public access plan MPAP um updates. So we are required every five years to update what is our
municipal access plan. This basically defines um what where we have parking where we don't have parking where uh how do we provide um ADA compliant access to our public facilities along the beach um where improvements are we going to be
doing along the beach? What access points, which ones are ADA, which ones aren't, what are we proposing into the future? Um, so all of this information is compiled into what is called a municipal access plan. We submit it to the DP and then the D reviews that,
offers comment and then ultimately we'll approve our plan. Other agencies depend upon this as well. They look at, you know, things in there that we may say are are restricting access, that type of thing. So it really defines um our
municipal requirements um broadly across the bureau. Um so again, this is uh expired. It's five years. Um and so we need to update that plan. And so with that, I'd like to uh motion that we
approve um resolution 202696 authorizing order >> professional services with CN associates with 2026 municipal access plan updates. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. Yes, Mr. Greenland. Yeah, Mr. Clark. >> Yes. And I just also want to say that I
think it's important because if we don't do it, the D will do it for us. And we want to maintain that control over how we act, how we provide that public access. So yes, >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. Item 2026-97
is supporting Assemblyman Sawiki's legislation a bill I believe A417. This is requiring ownership information when residential rental housing is purchased by limited liability corporations. It's basically uh when you
have a limited liability corporation a lot of times it uh it obscures or hides uh the underlying owners making it difficult for sometimes for municipalities to understand the nature of the of the owners size of the families and so forth. Uh so this is you
know basically attempting to pierce that that veil. Um and uh the assemblymen reached out to municipalities everywhere I presume asking for their support. uh our council I believe uh feels that this is strong legislation. So we are passing
we are going to vote on passing a resolution uh to support his efforts uh in the assembly. So any comments or questions on this? >> Okay. Uh seeing none, I'll make a motion that we approve resolution 2026-97.
>> Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. Mr. Green. Yes. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. Yes. >> Mayor Bubosi. >> Yes. 2026-98 authorizing negotiations for recreations support vendor competitive contract
under New Jersey statutes. Um this our rec center uh has has conducted two RFPs asking for uh you know bids to uh take on a role where uh an independent vendor would hold classes uh
yoga whatever uh at our rec center and pay us a you know percentage uh just to you know create greater programming create some more revenue for the burough. Uh however I believe we have not had a bidder announced twice. So now we are free we the rather beach are free
to solicit you know vendors and you know strike a deal. Um and that's what this resolution is authorizing. Any comments or questions? >> Okay seeing none uh I will make a motion that we approve 2026-98.
>> Second Mr. Noble. Yes. >> M green blood. >> Yes. Mr. Carr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Niki. >> Yes. Mayor. >> Yes. Um, next is 2026-99. Um, I'll I'll briefly explain this, but then
I I I think we'll want to uh I'll make a motion to make a minor edit to the language here. Um, but what 2026-99 is about, it's authorizing a contract for beach mats. Um and we have beach
mats in place today uh that are techwide. We have them basically have three beaches. Our goal over time is to extend them to all beaches. Uh primarily useful certainly useful for handicapped individuals especially wheel wheelchair bound. Uh but beyond that, young parents
with kids and strollers and whatever, uh just just general people walking two-way traffic, a lot easier on a 10 foot wide map than the current ones we have, which are piping wide uh or 4T wide. Um so uh we conducted uh bids for this for these
mats. Um between this resolution and the next one, I'll cover this story quickly. U we had two two we had we bid this Uh we rejected the first round of bids. We bid it again. Uh with the second round
of bidding, we had uh two biders. The low bidder uh actually there were questions about their ability to uh the wording would be uh to adequately meet standards that were required in our bid specs. Uh we had an engineer come out to
assess the the mats. The engineer provided us with his opinion documented that they that that lowcost bidder did not adequately meet the standards required in our visex. Uh therefore the next resolution will be to reject the
lowcost bidder. Uh the next bidder uh does adequately meet our standards and this resolution is to authorize the awarding of that contract to the the second bidder. However, uh Erica, there's just a little
language that uh uh Councilwoman uh Greenblat brought to our attention and uh it's in the third warehouse. >> If you could just make the >> I will make the adjustment on the resolution and give it to >> the I'm going to give it to you as soon as I'd like to read it. >> Yes, please.
>> Um and Mr. Canon, if you you might want to help us with this, but the third whereas the B received two bid submissions by that date at 11:00 a.m. It says as follows. We we're only listening the bidder who we're awarding the business to. What I'd like to do is
strike and welcome comment from the council. I'd like to strike the words as follows and after 11:00 a.m. insert wording that says however only one bidder adequately met the standards required colon and that would then lead
us to the the table. Uh you can also replace the word two with one acceptable bid. received one acceptable bid. That also sounds reasonable. One one say one responsive and acceptable bid. That's the lead.
>> One responsive >> and acceptable. >> Yeah, that's the easiest way to revise it to be clear. We originally listed both when we got two bids and then it wasn't determined later that one wasn't acceptable. That's why I think that's the nature of the type of
>> Okay. So then, so let me restart this conversation. Um following that that whereas the bur received one prince's number one responsive and acceptable bid uh submission
uh submission by February 24th 2026 at 11:00 a.m. as follows. >> Y keep the grid as it is. Right. >> Sorry. >> Keep the grid as it is. >> Keep the grid as it is. Y Okay. >> Um now what are the So I will make a motion a second to change that language.
One other thing I want to make clear to the public, the this gives per item cost. These are items are sizes of mats. So a 10 foot wide by 33 is item one. A 10 foot wide by 50 is item two. Um the
question might be out there, how many items are are we buying here? Um and in year one at these prices, we're spending approximately $180,000. Uh we have to get shipping. shipping is going to be a couple grand um but roughly $180,000.
Uh these bats should cover three more beaches which will be roughly half of our total beach entrances uh given the three we already have covered. So, and it's structured this way on a per item basis because what we uh
uh our our uh QPA structured it this way so we would be able to avail ourselves of these prices not only for this year but for next year as well. Next year we may have different units but we'll get the same pricing. So, with all that
said, before we vote on this resolution, I'm going to make a motion that we change the wording uh as I mentioned in whereas number three to to strike uh to the number two u and replace that with
one responsive and acceptable. that will continue the word bid submission singular by February 24, 2026 at 11 a.m. as follows. Cole, do you have a second?
>> Second, >> Miss Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Green, yes. >> Mr. Clark, yes. >> Mr. Noiki, yes. >> Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. Now make a motion that we approve resolution 2026-9 as amended. >> Second,
>> Mr. Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Greenblat, >> yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. The next resolution is 2026-100, our 100th resolution of the year. Uh,
and this is authorizing the rejection of a bid submitted by uh Access Rack LLC for their bid number 26R-11, each access matting system. And we do have a written documentation. Our engineer uh joined myself and our
business administrator for a demonstration to sh to basically demonstrate compatibility with our existing mats and uh it was u opined by our engineer that the demonstration just was not was not successful and that they did not meet the standards required. So
for that reason uh we are uh I will make a motion. Well first of all is there any following question? So with that reason, I will make a motion that we approve 2026-100 which is authorizing the rejection of the bid submitt from Access Rec LLC.
>> Second, >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Mr. Greenwood, >> yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Dubet, >> yes. Okay. Um, item number 12, uh, announcements. We have none. Item 13A,
the exciting part of every agenda, the administrative report. Mr. Dhy, >> uh, yes, I will keep mine short. Um, sweet. Want to wish the council and all the members of the public a very happy St. Patrick's Day. I'm glad I can be
with all of you here tonight. >> Ty rocks. >> You know, I also find the only lie you told us here. >> I'm a politician. take many but I I do want to mention I do want to educate as often as I can mayor you know that it's an important part to me that there have
been 23 people a little more than half of all the presidents of the United States that can trace their heritage back to Ireland unfortunately mayor there have been no presidents that trace their heritage
back to Italy but St. Patrick himself does >> trace his heritage back to him. >> That's right. That's the one that counts. >> That's the most useless report I've ever >> he is that the extent of the
>> That's the extent of it tonight. Well, thank you, sir. Um, we will move on to item 13B on the agenda, which is mayor and council reports. And tonight, we will start with Councilman Mitchell.
Right. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, for the first aid squad's operational period ending March 17th, 2026, they responded to 11 day calls and three night calls for a total of 14. Eight were for medical, six were for fire calls. There were no out of town mutual aid
requested. Um, the squad hosted the third grade grammar school at the squad, giving them a look into what their squad does. And the total volunteer hours for this period were 48. Uh they're still looking for volunteers for first aid. They offer free training and for qualified individuals. Anyone who wishes
to volunteer for the first aid applications can be found on the burrow's website. I also had the chance to meet with the department of community development. They're heavily into ramping up um all of the registrations for landlords which includes tracking
and collecting of the municipal occupancy tax and ensuring compliance for both. Also, a simple change recently made to the dumpster application form and enhanced enforcement. It's clear that if you walk around town, you'll now see all the dumpsters are properly
covered when not in use. If John is still there, he'll be very happy. Um otherwise the uh department is looking forward to having all the construction files scanned in during the upcoming months to alleviate the physical storage issues but more importantly make it easier to find and
share documents when subject to an over request or otherwise needed. Uh the environmental commission will hold their next meeting April 6th at 7. >> That's all. Thank you sir. Council agree. >> Thank you mayor. Um uh the recreation
committee met on March Monday, March 9th. Um upcoming wreck events, um tickets are still available for radio bingo March 21st, 600 p.m. at the fire hall with the musical to90s. Tickets are $12 per person. You can go to the wreck
web page to purchase tickets for admission. Uh additionally, additionally, tickets will be also sold at the door. Middle and high school age youngsters are invited to participate in recreation's glow-in-the-dark Easter egg hunt March 27th, 700 p.m. at the rec
center baseball field. Ring date is Saturday, March 28th, same time. The event is free. Uh the senior club's next meeting is Wednesday, March 25th from noon to 3 at the Byza Center. Majan open play runs every Friday 1 to 3 pm. Also
at the basis center, Bradley Beach and Neptune City have a shared service agreement for recreation. Please check the recreation web page for all programs running and open to Bradley Beach residents. Summer camp 2026 early registration opened yesterday, March
16th for the Bradley and Neptune for Bradley and Neptune City residents. For all others, registration opens April 1st. Camp runs from June 29th to August 14th, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. Be sure to register early as
last year's program filled to extended capacity. New this summer, Bradley Beach and Neptune City will host Marine Science Camp July 27th to the 31st, Monday through Friday, 9 to2 p.m. for ages 5 to 14. This program will take
place at the at Memorial Park in Neptune City. Please visit the rec page on the burough site for details and registration. Court striping at the rec center is planned for midappril with a grand reopening event in miday. More details to follow. The recreation
committee's next meeting is Monday, April 13, 6:30 p.m. at the rec center. And now on to the Fletcher Lake Commission who met last Thursday, March 12th. The commission has appointed Bill Grafton as treasurer, replacing longtime
treasurer Pam Reinhardt. Many thanks to Pam for her years of service in this role. She will continue to serve on the commission. Bill Grafton also serves as liaison to the consortium of area coastal lakes having recently met with the Wesley Lake Commission on shared
concerns and practices. Bill will also continue to maintain collaboration with CLET Month University's uh coastal lakes observing network for environmental monitoring. Solar lights have been purchased by the commission which member Mark Rosenthal will be installing on the
bridge to Ocean Grove with hints of spring in the air. Member Sal Galetti will be purchasing and planting flowers on behalf of the commission and to adorning the lake. The Fletcherly Commission will hold its next meeting Thursday, April 9th, 6 PM here in this council chamber.
And uh my final uh leazison on report is for the arts council who met uh yes uh who met on March 2nd. A warm and lively music improvisation play shop took place Thursday, March 5th at the Byz Council member Abby Khan. Approximately
15 guests came on a rainy evening from as far as Tons River to join in. Many thanks thanks to Abby for her facilitation and musical leadership. Plans are underway for the Arts Council's first annual arts day June 27th at Riley Park. Anyone interested in
volunteering to help with the event, please reach out by email to to arts councsil bradleybej.gov or go to the web page on the burrow site. Both seasoned artists and art enthusiasts are welcome. Their next meeting is scheduled for Monday, March
23rd, 6 pm at the Viazi Center. Note that this is an evening meeting and as always open to the public. And that's my report. >> Thank you, Councilwoman. Uh, council president. >> Thank you, mayor. The board of ed is meeting tonight, so I'll report on that
at the next meeting. The Bradley Beach tourism had a meeting on March 10th. They are looking forward to the soccer festival as it kicks off the World Cup festivities. >> You got that? So, um, mark your
calendar. June 10th on Newark Avenue Beach from 4 to 7:00 p.m. They'll have a soccer expo match with FC Mammoth, local sports vendors, huge sports equipment drive, new and gently used to benefit local charities, live music, and a DJ.
and they also discussed their summer Saturday concert series and they're going to do the Thursday night concert series on the beach at New York Avenue as well. Then we had the meeting for the Shade Tree Commission on March 11th and they didn't have any applications, but
they are gearing up for the spring planting. As you know, there was a grant and they're going to be planting 66 trees throughout the burrow. And they do have the month slated, which is May, but the date is not established just yet. So stay tuned for that. And then on a
personal note, I would be remiss if I didn't mention International Women's Day was this month. And I look at the staff here when I walk in the offices and it's all women except for illustrious business administrator Matt Darity. But
how lucky are you to work with a powerhouse of women who keep this community running? >> Yes, dear. >> They kind of carried that. In addition to the staff, we have women who are department heads, police
officers, firefighters, first aid, lifeguards, and volunteers. In fact, some of our volunteers are presidents and vice presidents and chairwoman. And I could go on and on. Even our residents. Amazing. So, as we celebrate the women running the shows month, it's
worth remembering that just over 100 years ago, the scene in this burrow would have been unrecognizable. Back then, women weren't allowed to leave these offices, staff these desks, or even cast a simple vote.
We stand here today because of the women who sacrificed their right just for the right to speak in this room. They didn't just fight for a ballot. They fought for the future we are currently living. A future where we have two women serving on this council
and a dedicated female staff driving our community forward. To all the women in this burrow today who keep it running, we owe you a debt of gratitude. We support you. We are proud of you. And we thank you.
Thank you. >> Thank you, council president. And then I will turn to Councilman Nikki. We'll just ditto on all that that you just said. We're going to make us all better. So that's all I have to say. So um on that
note, I just want to report on Civil Lake Commission. We'll be meeting here tomorrow, 700 p.m. in this room. Um, and if you haven't been around the lake lately, um, you should take a ride by where the little island is at Bradley Boulevard and, um, Burlington, and there's an island out there. The two
swans, our resident swans there are evident they have mated, and they are nesting on the island again this year. Last year, they had, I think it was like nine uh, babies and some of them got eaten by turtles or foxes. Um, but um, they I think five or six survived and so
anticipate that we'll have more d um, swans um, I guess the proper term of the swan is a swan baby. >> So dag gates but so those will be probably hatched here in in the month of early
early May. So so that's pretty exciting. And then um on the police activity report off the reporting period February 28th to March 15th on March uh 1st Fifth Avenue in Main Street, a 33 33 year old
male from brick uh New Jersey was arrested and charged with driving under the influence while operating a motor vehicle. He was also issued several additional motor vehicle summones. Patrolman Daniel Crow made the arrest. On March 4th, 200 block Avenue, a 21-year-old female Long Branch was
arrested on an outstanding traffic warrant from Upper Free Municipal Court. Patrolman Daniel Crow made that arrest also March 5th, 2026, 6:15 Main Street. A 63 year old male from Neptune was arrested and charged with defiant
trespassing. He was processed and released on a complaint. Patrolman Sean Johnson made the arrest on March 9th, 2026. Uh Ocean Park Avenue and Madison Avenue 32 32year-old female from Milstone Township
was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Uh she was processed and released on a summon complaint. Sergeant Michael Tardo made that arrest. On March 9th, um Ocean Park Avenue, Madison Avenue, a 41-year-old male from Bradley
Beach was arrested and charged with driving under the influence while operating a motor vehicle. He's also issued additional motor vehicle summones patrolling Daniel Crow made that arrest with assistance from Sergeant Michael 30. Also on March 9th, March 9th was
obviously a busy day. Um 200 block of New York Avenue, a 47y old male from Bradley Beach was arrested and charged with aggravated assault on police on a police officer and simple assault. After being taken into custody for simple assault, um he bit a police uh rather
each police officer in on his arm causing redness. Um, no, sorry, bad printing. Um, and um, and then on March 11th, 2026, a 36-year-old male from Long Branch was arrested on an outstanding warrant from
Long Branch, New Jersey, a patrolman Anthony Betterment made that arrest. So, thank you for all the service of your officers, Chief. And that's my report. >> Fabulous. Thank you. >> Remember that. >> Are we done?
>> Okay. Sorry. >> Continue to debate. >> Thank you, council. I appreciate that. Um, okay. I'm I'm leading with what might be the most exciting topic of the evening among as we compete for audience
attention council comments because this burrow with these individuals I guess councilman you could not join us but the rest of the council and all of our employees hosted the elementary school third graders and they have uh
they're right now studying uh the US government they they knew who the president was they understood enough about the structure of the government and they wanted to understand Bradley Beach government and they sat right here in this chair of young boys and young
women all aspiring to one day become as successful as we are. I say that tongue and cheek, but they were just a wonderful group of kids to uh to host. They they truly did sit in the mayor's chair and slam the gavl
calling the meeting to order 20 times. Uh a lot of picture taking, but it was a lot of fun. Then they got to explore the fire trucks and the >> jail >> the jail. >> We asked how many want to be mayor one day and I'd say half the room raised
their hand. Suckers, you know. But uh but it was so much fun and the kids had I think they had a great time. I think they told us I wasn't there, but I hear they did say what an awesome day it was. So, we've done this historically over the years. Uh, and of course, we're
going to continue to do it every year as we go forward. But that was, uh, first and foremost my number one announcement. Um, I do have two announcements for our library. Uh, normally in in these sessions, uh, our librarian, uh, Ashley
Foglia gives me a list of like 32 events and I don't read them all because there's just too much. But I said go to the website because it's amazing the amount of programs the library offers. Today she specifically asked me to mention two events. They are both dance
related. I'm looking at a couple folks that I know are awesome dancers that might want to attend both of these. And anyone else of course that wants to tickle the this side. Anyway, anyone who wants to dance March
Tuesday, March 24th, >> 5:30 p.m. >> and Mr. Kenny, you're invited to join us, too. >> How do you know to dance, my friend? >> No. >> Well, I dance. Well, in case anyone wants to learn
colonial historical dancing in in celebration of America's 250th anniversary, they should meet at 5:30 p.m. at the Bradley Beach Firehouse. Get off your feet and dance your way through Revolutionary era America. Dance was the
ultimate social interaction of the time of the American Revolution. and learning the popular dances is the first step in experiencing history. This event is sponsored by the friends of the Bradley Beach Library. Space is limited, registration required. So again, March
24th, next Tuesday, if you're interested, contact Bur Hall. We'll we'll get you to the right people or contact the library. On Saturday, March 28th, 4 days later, at 10:30, must be in the morning. Um,
living the traditions of lion dancing. This is at held at the Bradley Beach Library. Come enjoy an educational and interactive presentation detailing the rich culture and heritage of lion dancing. I don't know what lion dancing is,
>> but Lion. >> I don't think it's a typo because it says it two or three times. Don't just witness the dance. become the heart of the lion and lead the parade in this high energy hands-on cultural experience. Again, registration is
required. So, though you don't trust me, >> so related to the lunar new year, thanks. >> Okay. Um, and finally, I just want to mention we we talk about these in any given ordinance, but we have a we the
Bur brother have a lot of capital improvement projects going on. I I may actually drop one here. I hope I did not, but uh I'm going to have one that I just thought, but I just want to make sure the world knows. So, we've got a lot going on and it's all really good, exciting stuff. Varying levels of of
completion. Some of them barely started, but number one, rec center, we are we've done a lot of renovation there already. We've repaid. Uh the puddling has gone away. Uh we've resurfaced, I should say. And we will be lining pickle ball, tennis, basketball,
Silven Lake. We have crazy amounts of work, you know, kind of on the docket on on radar uh in various stages. Some are just beginning, some have not yet begun, but we're repairing the uh the alpha pipe that's been going on for a while. That's a that's like a $3 million
project, give or take, largely uh funded by grant funding. We are uh repairing the gate at Silven Lake. Repairing the will be repairing the bulkhead at Silven Lake. The the gate is a roughly $700,000 project. The bulkhead is a couple of
million to get folks in order to grant funded for the bulkhead as well. Um the uh the alpha did say alpha or anything the uh prominade extension our boardwalk we're going to extend it south we are working on timing of that we hope to
solicit bids probably the main time frame for the capital >> okay but when we get to that that is roughly a $4 million in grant funding uh and that will be extending the prominade south that is also a very significant resiliency effort because that is a low
part of Bradley Beach So we we are subject and our residents are subject to ocean surges that may you know get beyond the the dunes and the uh the bulkhead that the current portion lack of bulkhead. Councilman Nikki today talked about sewers. U we are in the
middle of or the early stages of but contractors are there now working on the bathrooms at what will be bathrooms at what was the old sewer pump station near the children's playground on Ocean Avenue. uh they are filling in the vaults that were, you know, big empty
rooms that housed uh sewer pump equipment. They've removed the equipment. They're filling those in. We can't have sink holes, so they need to be filled in. Uh they are also, I believe, doing de demolition work to, you know, wipe out the old interior to facilitate men's bathrooms, women's
bathrooms, and concess concession area. And finally, the last one I could at least think the top of my head, u we are in the very early stages of Main Street. We have close to $3 million in grants already uh awarded, 2.9 million to be
exact. Um and uh and we have planning that's been commissioned and largely completed by CME, our engineers. Uh and once that planning is completed, we'll be able to start to actually uh create some of the renovation work. Uh ADA
compliant sidewalks, papers, uh street lights, benches. We engaged the BBBCA to help work with us on the benches. So basically, a lot of stuff going on. I haven't tried to add it all up, but it's probably $10 million of grant funded or close to grant funed activity, if not
more. So, uh, a lot of really good stuff. Uh, largely not paid for by our taxpayers. So, we're very excited about all of that. Uh, I'll tell you, it's a it's a bit of a challenge managing it all, even with engineers helping, and that's why I'm thrilled that we have the
council we have because all of these folks at one point or another have dove in and helped us keep these things moving along. So, uh, that concludes my report, but be before we move to public comments, um, I want to give you a heads
a heads up. After public comment, we're we are going to go into executive session. We're going to, uh, discuss and and, uh, and vote on uh, a resolution that will likely be appointing new
concessioners at our Second Avenue uh, concession. I see them sitting in the audience here and you guys have been waiting very patiently. Um bear with us after public comment. We'll we will hopefully be in and out probably 15 minutes of of some discussion we want to
have. Uh and then we'll put that to a vote. But more to come on that. Right now I'd like to move to 14 on our agenda. Opening up to public comments and questions on any item you care to discuss. >> Yes, Mr.
Clark 116 Newark. Just a quick question. The uh >> to council president uh the Noble the time of that June 10th. >> Yes. >> What time is that starting? >> 4 p.m. >> 4 p.m. >> Okay.
>> Till 7 p.m. You've had him at DJ. >> Oh, okay. That's great. >> Thank you. That's it. Thank you. >> Any other comments or questions? Mr. CL, >> uh, Thomas J. Coan, 6123rd Avenue. Um, I
I just wanted to thank Mr. Cannon and you, Mayor, for uh your follow up on the submissions that I sent in regarding the uh change of form of government. Um, you know, your responses were excellent and, you know, I I know it was brought up
tonight by another member of the audience and people are watching and I think it's important that we move forward. But thank you for your interactions. I'm hoping that after the budget is completed that we can have the time to really dive into it. But Mr. Canon's responses were excellent and know hopefully we can we can work from
there. Um I did I did have another question for Mr. Canon and I want to just let me rephrase that um to Mayor Canon. Um, I'll let the mayor here. Um, >> it's really close to that. >> How is your beayshore area handling the
real you have a, you know, some coastal title lands in? >> Um, we do, but almost all the housing see two, it only affects two houses in town. >> Okay. >> Because every um the beach area in our town is called Cliffwood
>> because it was a wooded cliff. So the houses are really like they're 20 they're 20 plus almost all of them. Like for example during Sandy our public infrastructure down below like we're in the in the title and our beach kind of washed out but we're really way like all the houses are built on the cliff so
they're pretty pretty high up >> pretty high up. >> Okay, great. >> So it's not that not that much of an effect. Um but yeah, everything you guys talked about here is true. >> And um I have a question for Mr. Dy. Mr. started. You negotiate a lot of contracts, but how come your contract
didn't give you St. Patrick's Day off? >> You forgot to check the calendar. >> I guess not. >> I'm a very poor negotiator. >> Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. >> Mr. Go. Thank you. Other comments or questions in the room? I see none.
>> I see none on Zoom. So we will now move to um item 15 on our agenda which is executive session and in that executive session we will discuss resolution 2026-101
um which uh I'm sorry 102 which will be the uh the bid on the second avenue concession. So uh I'll make a motion that we go into public session. >> Second Miss Noble. Yes. Ma, yes. >> Mr. Clark, second, >> yes.
>> Mr. Milwiki, yes. >> Mayor Bubosi, >> yes. >> Uh, so ladies and gentlemen, anyone who wants to remain, by all means, you feel free to leave. We'll probably be 10 or 15 minutes. We will be back then to vote on resolution.
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