false particular addition that erase the entire instinct. So what we are saying is don't your goals make sense here but do fall under
the federal government here all we do I myself and Matt Dory the VA and Paul we had a meeting where we had a zoom cop that was with the head of the DP and I said we need model you can't have every
municipality do their whole thing how we going to get in unifor 74 years and he said yeah we're going to talk to the you know the rest of the day you have you been see
this woman about parking my hope is my question is just like you think it needs that she's saying it means that you only get five or six months
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a couple of them. So, >> tell me which ones so I can do your >> 20 and >> those are both resolutions. One's an ordinance and you didn't tell me why why you weren't going to be here the rest of the week.
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good the mayor basketball. >> Make all the people happy. >> That's right. >> Bye. >> Thank you. Have a safe day. You're required to start two minutes early, so I look late every time I walk
in. >> Good to see you again, Jane. Hi, I'm Mitch. So, I'm >> Yeah, let's not do that. >> So nice to see you. >> So good to see you. >> So glad you're here. Yeah, >> the holiday the high holiday
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in-person meeting will continue without interruption and action can and will be taken providing that there is an inperson quarrel. Mr. Noble >> here, Mr. Greenblat >> here, Mr. Carr >> here, >> Mr. Nikki here, Mayor Gubosi >> here. Welcome everyone this evening. Uh, great
to see everybody here and get a little bit of a break in the weather compared to the 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 L resilient environments and landscapes and u this
is a very complicated topic. I don't know I know a handful of you are here specifically for this discussion. Um for the rest of you and folks 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. Um 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 stuff. 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 uh 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 the 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. Crane, you do. Okay, good. Um I I think it's too long to read the entire thing, but maybe what I'll do right now >> we run out of stuff then. You know, we
can certainly think there you but but >> why don't I'm gonna take a stab. >> I actually I actually have a formal statement I'm going to read uh 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 um 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. Um, but the the concept here, and folks, if you say if I say anything that you think I'm misstating, by all means, correct
me. But the concept is the uh the New Jersey DP, 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, pretty you heading pretty far south. We're 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 5 years and the environmentalist community is very well versed I think uh I've on this topic. I've heard from many of them. I'm sure there are some dialing in today to join
us. I see Mr. Weber is 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 NJD 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 none at all, could be 10 feet, but but the the highest probability, and they've been back and forth on this, is a 4ft
rise sea level. Now, if we if we anticipate that, it's logical if you're, you know, leaders of of the United States, let alone leaders of New Jersey. um 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 D 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 we're gonna 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 and so forth. Um 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 uh 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 they look to me they look a
little dark pinkish uh around the lakes at to the north Fletcher Lake into the South Sin. Not too much pinkish. pinkish is 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 FEMA levels. Now on the right is, and I I can't read the legend colors myself, but basically yellow is elevated flood planes. It we estimate it's
hitting 60% of Bradley Beach property. And the blue, you can see those blue surround our 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. Um, so significant difference, a 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 uh 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 a larger house which occurs in Bradley Beach. Um you are will
be effective July 20th if the legis 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 the footprint at all. But if
you spend 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 uh appraised value of your house, the assessed value. So because of this there's there's all kinds of debate the
environmentalists you know sweeping generalizations here I'm sure I'll be corrected by some of them tonight but in general they're very excited and very proud of this effort by uh the NJ 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 these regulations one of the things I'm going to comment went on in my own comments is the regulations uh the DP 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. The 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 6 ft 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 um 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 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 BP 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 fairly
we've designed it to be fairly educational so people around the state of New Jersey hopefully will read it and say, "Good points made, Brad the Beach." So that's my summary. U Jane, do you want to >> You did a beautiful job. You covered you covered everything. I I did want to explain a little bit more about the
renovations. Let's say the median home in Brownley 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 inundation 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 too that Governor Murphy uh passed 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 4T. 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
no, the yellow area, they changed the map about two weeks ago. It was it was 5T. I have one printed out that was 5 feet, but they changed it probably two weeks ago and they added the the yellow area and that is where they expect storm surges and extreme flooding. It adds 4
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 you covered everything beautifully. from
the wiki comments engineer. >> 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 it's 4T above FEMA elevation or 4T above their inundation map which
is what the yellow is. So there's a nuance there. So FEMA right now is like 9 ft. This is based on the you know old FEMA numbers. They're supposed to be coming out with new ones. So nine foot a flood elevation and there's a chance that can move to 10. So what that's
showing there if you know what the contours are of the town, what the elevations of the streets are, that's basically about almost up to Fletcher Lake and those elevations get up to around 17t in elevation. So if you're down at 10t down on Beach or Ocean
Avenue, you know, you need to meet a first floor elevation. roughly that 17 to 18 I don't know what the exact number is but it's 17 to 18 foot elevation would be your first floor elevation so you would have to have stairs going up to your house basically 8 ft of height
you'd have to make up stairs and some of our properties you know would be very difficult you look at some of them on the north end of town and these small lots um that the houses are so close it could really um create a you know difficult um maybe
even not able to develop those properties. So the ordinances, the zoning and all 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 cutoff date, any permit to build would 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 with 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 at Bradley 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 those. So, you would have to go through permits to change elevations of roads and show why you're doing it because you you create bathtubs effects if you start to raise
certain things but not other things, you place spill. Um so that all 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 well basically it's taken the caffer permit and it's
moved it all the way out to basically almost to fledger lake road. 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 these new maps. And so when you go get your rates for for flood insurance, they're going to base it on FEMA. Now, there is no telling that someone's going to change that in the future. But nationally, by law, if it's FEMA,
if you if we do have to meet all those requirements of real and you raise your house up, theoretically you will be better protected and perhaps your home will be better protected from storms and therefore your your insurance for 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 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 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 a 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. Um, 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. >> Council, >> 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 there 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 before you
know it. So so just to visualize this this is really um think of it this way it blows your mind. So if your your current property say is elevation 10, right? And our 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 four 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 of 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 35t height. Are we going to allow what rest 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 my house that I just built does not meet that 18t first floor elevation. I wish I would have known that. I don't know if I would have built it up to 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 we build houses to last 50 to 100 years. So the the intent of this is the right concept,
but how do you implement it? >> Any other thoughts? I guess one other thing I'll mention um and then we'll open it up to the public for comments or questions is um Councilman Noiki, myself and uh our business administrator Matt Dhy. We actually were given an audience
uh and had a Zoom call with a number of members of of the New Jersey D including the new acting director commissioner. >> Commissioner. Okay. um and and they could not have been more uh generous with their time uh receptive
to our recommendations. The the one piece of that conversation I I'd like to share with the public is that we very specifically I very specifically asked um is there any consideration given to creating from a central entity model
ordinances? Uh, and the reason for that is because right now every municipality, these 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 Aban, he and I can 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 D 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. I I'm I'm I'm I can't even say I'm optimistic, but I will say um I think there's a reasonable like the 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 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 maps so that we can see who's on Zoom with hands raised? Thank you. >> Anyone in the room that has any questions about real? >> You did a good job.
covered everything. >> Where's Mr. Weber? He was >> there. Yeah, I know there he doesn't have his hand raised, so >> Okay, now he does. Okay. Oh, we got a couple. >> M Mr. John Weber, former former councilman.
>> Can you guys hear me? >> 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 you 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 title. Uh there's other things in your resolution language that I I think it's been written you 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 bathtub 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 some
other way to do it, but 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 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 was a rental property. I lived here, but it flooded that property. At 8 a.m. the next morning, I drove on these roads on the infrastructure straight to
that property. It 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 bathtub 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 I mean, if I turned around and looked out my window, I could look at a house right now that's up a full story, uh, 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 and I just don't see it that way. So, um, I understand you're calling for more time. I do have one question besides the raising the height
limit of course is necessary if 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 passed along well over a month ago that places that are even really lowlying
like Ocean City, New New Jersey, even though they were against these rules, they started working on those ordinances on that ordinances and they ra 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 basements,
no mechanical equipment on the within the flood elevation. Um, some of these irregular lots we may um the smaller ones where they're the front of the house is already not compliant to zoning and they would have to put 8 to 10 feet,
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 of 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 with a fine tooth comb and look at this closely to see what what are the unintended consequences um to these lots to the mechanical equipment to the um you know
driveways uh setbacks etc. And so it's all 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 and we've not studied it yet. And uh John, you mentioned um 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 and Councilman Nikki, 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 >> may I add one more thing too? We're talking about title uh municipalities
also flubial 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. Um 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 DP 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. And 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 of from those waste surges and whatnot so that we can minimize the impact to the homes because you're still going to have these or to our infrastructure. So there is more to do
beyond just oh let's just raise our houses and that happen what happens. We we note in our resolution there are countries the Netherlands, Singapore uh 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 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. Well, 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 and some houses are shorter. Have we have we succeeded if a third of our homes have never been elevated? Now you're in 2100 and what do those what third of our homes do? Like I 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, my hand up. Yep. Uh Paul. >> Okay. Paul the Shankin.
>> Paul. Hi, Paul Nashin. 411 and a half. Lorraine. Thank you very much for this well-considered resolution. Um, as somebody who lost their home uh at West Ham Tim Beach, Long Island in
1982, it washed out to 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 and that is I have a little bit of questioning on the current uh real map. Um, is there any way to see
a more accurate um uh elevation survey or actually uh to um 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 your property, you know, to to know what your actual existing elevation is. Um, as far as those flood maps, 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, 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, >> yeah, >> have an actual that's why I'm saying somewhere in that 17 to 18 foot would be
your required, you know, um, first floor elevation, but I wouldn't quote me on that. And >> yeah, that's what I believe I already have. I was under the impression that I was, you know, my ground was 15 ft high and that my porch and first floor level
was probably 19 ft, >> but um I'd like to establish that. >> So you right. So two things. You could have your your property surveyed, but you could also you have to wait to see when we can get more information >> of course on a model that will give you
the actual elevation of that flood. Um you can actually bring up your parcel on their tool your you know lots and 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. Thomas J. going 6123rd Avenue above. A 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 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 you 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 power flood elevation 2 feet above FEMA, then we would be protected. Now, when FEMA changes the maps this year or next year, you got to be 2 feet above FEMA. Our residents would know what
they're looking at. Apparently, now nobody knows what we're looking at here. Um, I don't trust any science that that doesn't look backwards. I've never studied anything that 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 done jumping. I mean, it it it makes no sense. Now, the map that you
showed, they they adjusted it from 5T to 4T due to public outcry. Well, it's a minimal day minimous 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. That's 90 days review period is what they >> just um but we currently are working on 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 had. Uh 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 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 council. >> 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 uh we were told at the environmental commission meeting that don't look back that they're not looking back and the mayor you you you
referenced that also to looking back >> the the the tagline was everybody else looks back we're looking forward but 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. and 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 and you know but that's that's truly what it is. They got to look in their own mirror. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Yes, Mr. Sh behind you. I'm sorry. Excellent.
>> You're next, sir. No problem. >> Hi, 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 I mentioned last week last meeting that this would be one area we could push back in 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 pomost
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 their 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'm going to 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 that on of that on the home office.
Uh I I think to some when I'm reacting to the word forceful language. We tried very hard to craft a what is generally I hope would be viewed as a 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, um, 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, uh 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 forceful 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, but uh, good point. But I I think our goal, and we've been through
this, but Mr. Quan referenced, we had a much different version of our very first draft of a resolution was probably crossing the line in terms of uh pushing too hard. At least enough of us, all of us basically fel felt that we need 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 for. 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 inviolent. 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 have questioned in the
literature whether it's appropriate to use a 25-year-old tool to make projections 75 years in the future. Uh another point you mentioned in the Netherlands um what they have done is they have uh taken land-based
measurements as a balance against satellite alimmetry 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. So 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 hopefully will buy for us. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you for hearing me. >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you. >> Hello. Well, my name is Danny Greenberg.
I live at 221 Newark. Um, and my wife and I are also recent purchasers of one of the lots from the church. Um, which we bought fully intending under the rules that we bought them under to build a basement of a 2 and a half story
house. Um, 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 measures proper approaches recognizing that the new rules by the DP are being attacked in from every
direction. Um they may the the legislature may actually enel 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 basements to 3 ft above mean high water as opposed to I don't actually I don't think there was a regulation before that was >> 13. 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 um and I I I would 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 of that. That's all I have. 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. Let me go back to my agenda. 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
REAL regulations and requesting model ordinance language implementation guidance infrastructure coordination regional resilience planning and an extension of municipal compliance deadlines. >> Second >> Mr. Noble yes >> yes
>> Mr. Clark >> yes >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> I warned everyone. I'm going to read a brief statement for the record. Um, 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 um I've been on council for 5 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 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 um
agree or disagree with us. We wanted to make sure you're all aware and and please continue to do your own research and add to the overall voices that are uh addressing this regulation. So, with that said, I'm going to move on to item six on our agenda, presentations and
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. Greenl, yes. >> Mr. Cart, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosa,
>> 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. >> With the the real >> Yes. >> I'm sorry. Did you have a question? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. Go ahead, please. >> Cuz I wasn't clear on stuff. Um, my name is Frank. I'm with the property at 321 Lraine. Happy happy St. Patrick's Day,
everybody. I listened to Mr. Nuiki'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 5T, 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 3 and 1/2 or 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 and 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 purchase 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. There you go. Okay. Uh, nonetheless, that said, there are processes in place. I I'll turn it over to Councilman Noiki
in a second regarding determining where you would fall relative to the the the new uh uh maps, the the real maps. Uh and ultimately you'll always have the opportunity to let's say you don't get an application in and you want to build
your house at the right level anyway. Um you you will have the opportunity to go to the land use to the extent you need a height variance but but Councilman Nikki you're closer to this. So >> yeah so uh again just to reiterate we can't give you guidance on what you should or shouldn't do based on what you
should build. Uh you have professionals that should be given advice and I'm not acting as a professional but but okay. So, so you have codes in place 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 Val 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. Yeah. 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 uh resilient home that I can build for the rest of your lifetime, your children's lifetime to the year 2100?" >> Well, I'll use your forceful language
that used before 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, it 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. It may never come. these predictive models. So, but again, what's driving all this is regulation. And so, you're building to regulation. So, it comes down to your timing. >> Okay. >> And even 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 think that's >> maybe I don't 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, which creates a whole another, you know, um something that would have to be considered. So, it's a complic that's what I'm saying. It's a complicated. >> It's a complicated situation. the where where they measure the 35 ft from is it from the street the curb >> it's the average grade of your
>> average grade okay thank you very much everyone thank you any other questions in the room uh I see a couple of hands I don't I don't know who's G Malik is it G >> G LLC >> LLC
>> GMA 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 Sim 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 this appointment?
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 to 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 the 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 none none documented. Now are there any
specific restrictions or requirements we've placed on Mr. side. >> Uh um before we hired him, we knew that he uh had other business endeavors u political in nature. Um they will not
touch upon Bradley Beach. They will not touch upon Bradley Beach and um you know she will fully disclose any type of financial and entanglement may potentially have that may potentially involve Brentley Beach but
in the past there have been none and currently there are none. >> 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 and 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 uh we've had numerous discussions I personally have had numerous discussions with Miss Larrison who's served for 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 have both agreed that we want her to stay on uh for a transition period. Um she had a recent death in her family. We were going to talk 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 to Mr. Baronbach is uh both parties are have expressed mutual interest in keeping her on and helping her uh helping uh Mr. Seam uh 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. Sim and Ms. Larrison are working on it. again. Um
we've had to deal with a a 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 uh pre hopefully by the end of this month. Uh and the uh the
cost out for the u local 152 u I have had that conversation with Miss Larrison. I've 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. Um, 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 u, and I'll send her a note this evening. Um, to u, 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 initial discussions that we had regarding um leaf blowers which we've have tabled um and originally when we were looking at the ordinance um it wasn't appropriate to put them both leaf blower uh 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.
>> Got it. Good job. 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 ofway. What kind of structures are we considering in the planting strips or right ofways? I
don't really can't think of any structures in there, but >> I I think it's a it's a catch-all praise, 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. >> Oh, sorry. gun. >> Uh, I was also going to ask Mr. Cannon
who helped distract this language. I know that was a good summary. Anything else to add though, Mr. Cannon? >> No, that's that's what it uh just brings bring structures within the right of way within within the gambit. It wasn't necessarily clear. So, >> yeah. And as as Mr. Carper 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 in our >> 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, rightaway improvement regulated by zoning regulation. It basically essentially put a checkbox for prior
approval on the road opening permit so that we catch so someone can't install a 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 sensitive issue itself. So that that's the actual genesis of it not just like a leak >> we thought of it was very practical. >> I appreciate it. As long as no one's building like statues in the planning
strips I'm I'm happy. So thank you. Great >> former. Thanks for the question and thanks Mr. Can for that response. Uh Tracy's iPhone has their 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 uh 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 afford. I think we can't not afford to do this. So I am very happy with it and I'm glad to see the um council doing this. Thank you. >> Thank you for your comment. >> Great. Thank you. >> Can you just state your address for me?
>> Oh 3044th. >> Thank you. Thank you for your comment, Mr. Davidson. Mr. Co. >> Thomas J. Coan, 6123rd Avenue. U regarding that question from one of the uh Zoom folks, uh what what is Mr.
Seam's previous employment? >> He most well, he's actually with us today. His most recent employment, he's been a a deputy CFO. What's the rate? >> Assistant CFO. assistant CFO um 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's River Township for about two and a half years
>> Tom's River Township so prior to that he has a separate consulting business I think that's what Mr. Fairbuck was >> Yeah, I believe so. But that that didn't have any impacts on your employment. Tom's very good. >> No, did not. >> Perfect. Thank you. And and I echo the
comments of Miss Davidson who was on the commission with me. It did come up a lot and it's been a very long time since we have a full-time CFO. So, the timing is right. Thank you, Mr. >> Thank you. Yes, ma'am.
>> I need time. I need 116 North 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. >> Yes. A few years ago, I inquired about doing one and we were told that um we had to end by six. >> That's because you guys are particularly rowdy. Yeah, not even 10 or 11 would
>> uh I I'm going to turn to the chief. Chief, do you have any knowledge of end times? >> I don't I don't believe it's six o'clock without having it in front of me. >> Sure. >> I think is like eight >> eight. Well, one one says 9:00. So, >> yeah. >> Okay. >> It's 8 or 9. >> Yeah.
>> Okay. So then we could possibly get an extension on that for a special occasion. >> 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 Newark Avenue.
>> The party people, >> she's thinking 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. >> 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. crazy. But but seriously, what what is your your interest in the
>> We do this annual Newark 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 6:00 to midnight 1:00 a.m.
>> Oh, you're here first. >> Ours says that no block party is on time. The block party cannot go uh past 30 minutes before dust. >> Yes. >> She can't have the road to close when it's dark. That's basically the rule.
>> 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 it's getting dark that time of year, but yeah, it's so it's 30 minutes before dusk. The the party cannot be before 12:00 noon. Must end 30 minutes before dusk and the maximum time limit is four consecutive
hours. >> So that that's the end. 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 >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And not have our residents hit by
>> cars who don't know what. >> Yeah. >> Um All right. Any other comments or questions? Seeing none, I'll move on to ordinances. Item nine on our agenda. >> We have um one, two, three, three ordinance
introductions. I'll remind everybody that with ordinance introductions, we do not offer public comment other than if you had asked a question earlier. U 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 by any chance? >> Not not a hired engineer. This is former engineer.
Yeah. So balance um 2614. Uh this is a u basically we had adopted this ordinance uh and passed it back in um uh September last year. This uh this is part of the overall program. Uh we have received $2
million from BEP 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 know, 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. Um we're going to advertise it here this spring to complete the avenue from Madison Avenue to Ocean Avenue. And so that we can instead of passing uh new ordinances and
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 um because we have one loan number from the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank. So we are trying to get this more transparent and more clearly organized that it's all under one ordinance and what you will see over
time is um the next one will be Ocean Park Avenue will be getting u moving forward with construction so and then Main Street and etc. So all 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 DP. So with what this piece is right here, 1.6 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.
There's a couple hundred,000 therefore uh inspection work um and contingency. Uh and then there's also a um the construction is 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 DOT for the 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 of 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 what what borrowing rates are we going to have and 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 the Fifth Avenue from Ocean Avenue to Madison for the construction and inspection. And what you just summarized
in a couple minutes uh took our bond 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 you didn't mention, Councilman, is um thanks to the efforts
of yourself and Councilwoman Greenblat, 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 the uh New Jersey Infrastructure Bank. So, based on
principal forgiveness, that will pay for the actual construction, $2 million. So that will end up pretty much covering the cost of both the um Fifth Avenue and Ocean Park. So and 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. 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 the 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 and um you know, Sean and myself, Council Greenblad
and I worked on this for like the last year. So, it's really been a great uh program and we're excited about bringing the and sharing all of it and putting it out and have the engineer come. Uh 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 a little you know heads up Main Street is got has to happen sooner than later and we're looking at Main Street in the fall to let the cat out of the back but that's going to be pretty disruptive but that's really critical. There's other work that's going to be happening on Main Street in the future. She cares that.
>> No, actually false said at all. >> Okay. So, with that, thank you, C. So, u So, with that said, any other questions or comments for the council? Councilman, you care to make a motion?
So the motion is uh for bond ordinance uh 2026-14 amending in part bond ordinance 202025.26 adopted on September 2nd provided for the santory sewer improvements expand the scope of the improvements to include the Avenue Parkplace uh sewer replacement.
>> Um second at all >> I'll second the introduction of that >> Mr. Noble. Yes. Green. Yes. Mr. Carr. Yes. Mr. Nobody may be. >> Yes. Okay. The next um ordinance for introduction is ordinance
2026-22. And I will turn to uh Councilman Clark. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mayor. 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 of ways which also includes uh curb cuts. So, it was just uh in order to close a loophole uh to help uh enforcement and any comments or questions.
>> All right. >> 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. MLA. Yes. >> Mr. Park. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubos.
>> Yes. Ordinance 2026-23, which is an ordinance amendment chapter 314, nuisances public of the burrows 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 bureau address um folks who may just decide to camp out on public property and stay overnight. Um, this helps give
our police department uh 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 council and mayor you guys considering this. It's 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 is 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 you run into persons that are just they don't want any help and you know they could set up camp you know on the beachfront
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 screen 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. >> Mr. Denov, >> yes. >> Miss Greenblat, >> yes. >> Mr. Cart, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes.
>> Mayor Gubetzi, >> 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, um, 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 CAT bank. Um, obviously, we discussed this a couple weeks ago, but any other comments or questions? No.
>> Okay. >> Okay. Seeing none, I'll make a motion that we open it up to public comment. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble? >> Yes. >> Miss Greenlat? Yes. >> Mr. Cart? >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki? >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi? >> Yes.
Um before I open it to public comment, I I realized that we we've got a reference to chapter 451, but I skipped that intentionally, but in case anyone's following along at home, um we never did. U >> it's been removed. >> It's not my copy. That's fine. >> I'm stuck. I gave Didn't I give you a a
new copy of the agenda? >> Uh I do 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, ignore chapter 451, folks. You're going to have a really wonderful 451 lesson in a few weeks from now.
>> Uh okay. So, back to uh ordinance uh now we are on 2026-16 amending chapter 1 general provisions of our ordinances. Um, >> we got a week. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. >> Room back.
>> I got I go on vacation 4. >> I'm just so excited. >> Skipping 451. I They lost control. >> We're in the adoption stage. Just made the most. >> So, yeah. And I have opened it to public comments. >> I don't think there's any comments. Yes. >> Where all the hands? All the
>> Okay. No comments publicly here. >> No, nothing on Tracy's iPhone. It's not her cursor. 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. Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. Moses. >> Okay. Ordinance 2026-16. I'm going to turn this one over to Councilwoman Greenblat. >> Great. Thank you, Mayor. Um this um
ordinance 202616 is um amending chapter 1 general provisions of the burough'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 handicap 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 perhaps you referenced it as
I was looking away, but there's most of these are back snow related, but there's one that's related to the special permit parking. It's a significant increase. I don't have it in front of me, but the dollars are roughly $60 moving us triple that perhaps >> right from 62 to 274 violation. And the
274 is intended to be equal to any other offense where someone parks in a handicap spot. These are private handicap spots that were not moved at the at the same dollar amount as public official handicap spots. So, uh 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. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Guposi. >> Yes.
>> Any comments, questions? >> I have a I have a question. Um I did a lot of snow removal over on Wall Brinley 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 is 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 so you know I saw the instances where their 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 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 where where the apartments are, >> you know, you get 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, told and and what have you and you know it's kind of difficult for people to just you know foresee just a thought. >> Yeah. >> It depends what sometimes. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Any other comments, questions on Zoom? Okay. So, with no other
questions, um I'd like to make a motion to close the public public comment and to adopt ordinance 202616. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. Yes. >> Mr. Green. >> Yes. >> Mr. Carp. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mayor Gubosi.
>> Yes. Moving to ordinance 2026-20. I'm trying to save my voice tonight so I can party in tropical locations >> and it's not for two weeks, 5 days. >> I'm going to ask I'm going to ask Mr. Carp, Councilman Carp, to once again handle 2026-
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 and eventually winds up into lakes and then the ocean. Um any questions from council? >> Um again a comment. Um our uh environmental commission came to us as well and I know Mr. Carve you were involved some of those early
discussions. Um and you mentioned you alluded to this earlier but the focus was on gas blowers from a noise standpoint but but possibly equal concern around the the the actual you know depositing of the debris into the
storm drains. 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 amendment on noise for the gas blowers. Uh, but for tonight
at least, we're able to deal with the waste. So, thank you for taking that action. >> Any other questions? All right. Then, I would like to make a motion to open this up for public comment. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Mr. Flet, >> yes. >> Mr. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki.
>> Yes. >> Mayor Gubetzi. >> 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 uh branches branches uh leaf pickup where you put it. So, this doesn't affect that. Um, and you know, it's very common
to see landscapers who are cleaning up who blow all of the debris from the driveways, the sidewalks, and they blow it into the street, and then they blow it to the neighbor's 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 don't want to be friends with the chief on it that way.
>> Can I just get your name and address, please? >> Sure. 320. Uh, well, we live at 104 Brinley, but we bought the property at 321 uh Lorraine. >> Okay. And your name? Oh, Frank. A L O I A. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you, Mr. West.
>> Hi, Bob. There just to clarify that. So now adoption of this actually makes that illegal to do that. Correct. >> Yes. 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 want 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 than any other violation that you might observe. You know, um you know, if our police, our
code enforcement, if anyone sees that happening, they'll act uh 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, um you know, the bureau would be able to take action on it. Could could you get a copy of that ordinance in in like a print out that I could anominously stick on? >> Well, they're actually they're they're
posted to the website. So, they're all assuming the person doing this website. >> Oh, no. You can print it out. >> All right. Mr. Tony, didn't you also mention that there's an app that is available for making plates complaints?
>> Yes. Yes. Uh what was the name of that? >> So there's an app as well. >> Okay. >> Go Alert. G O V A L E R T. Go Alert. >> It's a little difficult to find it though today, right Mr. Dying? 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 go to the police department, public, things like that. >> So you don't have to call, you don't have to >> just just let us know. >> Alert. Um, could you just remind us what
day this actually does go into effect as we're reading it today? >> Like when can the >> 20 days following publication? >> How many days? >> 20 days. >> Yeah, they thought >> publication. When does publication occur, Erica? >> The day after we adopt
>> publication will occur on Thursday. >> Okay. So 20 days from Thursday it will be effective. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Well, actually it's 20 days from the adoption. >> Oh, okay. from a doctor. >> So, April 7th, I believe, is the 20day stop period,
>> just in case this neighbor blows on that specific day. >> You got that? >> Yes. April 7th. All right. >> Any other questions, comments? >> 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. >> Miss Greenblad. Yes. >> Mr. Cart, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. Mayor Guboszi. >> 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? >> That's good.
>> Okay. In that case, I will make a motion that we u uh approve Consent agenda resolutions 2026-8-87 through 2026-93. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Miss Greenblat, >> yes.
>> Mr. Carr, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Kubosi, >> 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 a motion that we approve 2026-94 confirming the four-year appointment of Mitchell uh seam as chief financial officer for the burrow of Bradley Beach. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mblat, yes. >> Mr. Carr,
>> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. And now our new chief financial officer. Would you mind standing, taking a bow, introducing yourself to our community? 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 something 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. Uh 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 mention
number one or Mitch number two? >> Read Mitch and I'm Mitchell. >> There you go. >> Now you tell us. >> We need a resolution or >> I got your Mitch on your shirt. That's okay.
>> Mitchell. Thank you, Mitchell, for confirming this. All right, we will move to individual resolution 2026-95. Um, I'm going to turn this one over to Councilman Noi, actually the next two to Councilman Noiki. >> Okay, so um resolution 2626 uh 202695
approval to submit an award extension for um FY 2023 LTPF, Silven Lake Improvement Project. This is the replacement of the uh wall that we had um multiple meetings on the bulk pad that runs along Bradley Boulevard from
um basically from Ever the intersection of Evergreen to Madison Avenue. Um the plans permits are in place. The 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 were submitted to them back in January and we are waiting for their approval so that 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 jeopardize the funding. So, with
that, we are extending that date 3 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. Nova, yes. >> Mr. Greenblat, yes. Mr. Carr, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> 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 5 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 what 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 municipal access plan. We submit it to the DP and then the D reviews that office comment and then ultimately we'll approve our plan. Other agencies depend upon this as well and 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 a five years. Um, and so we need to
update that plan. And so with that, I'd like to uh motion that we approve uh resolution 202696 authorizing uh professional services with CME Associates for 2026 municipal access plan updates.
>> Second, >> Mr. Noble. Yes, M. Greenblat. 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. Noi. >> Yes. >> Mayor Yubatzi. >> Yes. Item 2026-97 is supporting Assemblyman Siki'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 own of the owners, the size of the families and so forth. Um 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 uh 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. Miss Greenblat, yes. Mr. Carp, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. Mayor Gubosi, >> 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 u 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 you know percentage uh just to you know create greater programming more revenue for the burrow. Uh however I
believe we have not had a bidder now twice. So now we are free we the bur of ra 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 I'll make a motion that we approve 2026-98. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. Yes. >> M green. >> Yes. >> Mr. Car. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. Mayor Dubetz. >> Yes. Um, next is 2026-99.
Uh, 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. Uh, 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 10 foot wide. We have them basically on 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 5t
wide uh or 4t wide. Um so uh we conducted uh bids for this for these mats uh between this resolution and the next one. I'll cover this story quickly. Um, 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 u to adequately meet
standards that were required in our bid specs. uh uh we had an engineer come out to assess the the mass. The engineer provided us with his opinion documented that they that that lowcost bidder did not adequately meet the standards
required in our bispexs. Uh therefore the next resolution will be to reject the lowcost bidder. um 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 whereas >> if you could just make the I will >> make the adjustment on the resolution then give it to me.
>> I'm gonna give it to you soon, but I'd like to read it to you. Um, and and Mr. Cannon, if you you might want to help us with this, but the third whereas the bur received two bid submissions by that date at 11:00 a.m. It says as follows.
Now, we we're only listing the bidder who we're awarding the business to. What I'd like to do is strike and I welcome comment from the council. I'd like to strike the words as follows. and after 11:00 am, insert wording that says,
"However, only one bidder adequately met the standards required colon." And that would then lead us to the the table. Um, you could also replace the word two with one acceptable bid, >> received one acceptable bid. That also
sounds reasonable. One >> I would say one responsive and acceptable bid is that's the legal term of art. 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 typo there. >> Okay. So then, so let me re rest this conversation. Um following the that whereas the burrow received one PN's
number one responsive and acceptable bid uh submission uh submission by February 24th, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. as follows. >> Keep the grid as it is. Right. >> Sorry. >> Keep the grid as it is.
>> Keep the grid as it is. Y Okay. Um now one other so I will make a motion a second to uh 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 10t 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 mats should cover three more beaches, which will be roughly half of our total beach entrances u 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 UPA 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 24th, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. as follows. Colon. Uh, do I have a second? >> Second. >> Miss Denovo? >> Yes. >> Mr. Green? >> Yes. >> Mr. Court? >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki? >> Yes.
>> Mayor Gubosi? >> Yes. Now make a motion that we approve resolution 2026-9 as amended. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> M. Green. >> Yes. >> Mr. Corv. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi?
>> Yes. The next resolution is a 2026-100, our 100th resolution of the year. Um, and this is authorizing the rejection of a bid submitted by Uccess Rack LLC for
their bid number uh 26R-11 beach access matting system. And we do have a written documentation. and our engineer uh uh joined myself and our business administrator for a demonstration to sh to basically demonstrate compatibility with our
existing mats and uh it was uh 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 make I will make a motion well first of all is there any nomination?
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 Recre LLC. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Mlat, >> yes. >> Mr. Park, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes.
>> Mayor Gubetz, >> 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 I will keep mine short um, sweet, one of which 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. >> You know, I also >> I think it's the old lie you told us
here. >> I'm a politician. I've t 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 have been no presidents that trace their heritage back to Italy. But St. Patrick himself does
>> trace his heritage back to that's the one that counts. >> That's the most useless award I've ever said. >> Is that the extent of your >> That's the extent of my excitement. >> Well, thank you, sir.
>> We will move on to item 13B on the agenda, which is mayor and council reports. And tonight, we will start with Councilman Mitchell. All right. Thank you, Mr. W. Uh, for the first eight squads 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 wishing to volunteer for the first aid applications can be found on the bureau'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 uh 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 open request or otherwise needed. Uh the environmental commission will hold their next meeting April 6th at 7 p.m.
>> And that's all. Thank you sir. Uh Councilwoman Green. >> 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 music of the '9s. 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. Rain 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 BASI Center. Majan open play runs every Friday 1 to 3:00 p.m. also at the Bazi 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 open 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 to 2 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 West Wesley Lake Commission on shared concerns and practices. Bill will also continue to maintain collaboration with CLET, Monmouth 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 Galisetti will be purchasing and planting flowers on behalf of the commission and to adorn the lake. The
Fletcher Lake Commission will hold its next meeting Thursday, April 9th, 6 PM here in this council chamber. And uh my final uh leazison 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 Bazi Center led by arts council member Abby Khan. Approximately 15 guests came on a rainy evening from as far as Tom's 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 p.m. at the Vazi 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 Denovo. >> 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 Newark Avenue as
well. Then we had the meeting for the Shade Tree Commission met 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 Derty. But how lucky are you to work with a powerhouse of women who keep this community running?
>> They kind of carry men. 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 show this 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. my report. Thank you. >> Thank you, council president. And that I will turn to councilman the
wiki. We'll just ditto on all that in just that you know >> women make us all better. So that's all this. Um on that note, I just want to report on Civil Lake Commission. We'll be meeting here tomorrow 7 pm 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 evidently had 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 proper term of a swan is a swan baby.
>> Nor but so those will be probably hatched here in in the month of early early May. So so that's pretty exciting. >> Okay. And then um on the police activity report uh for the reporting period
February 28th to March 15th on March uh 1st 5th 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. Was also issued several additional motor vehicle summones.
Patrolman Daniel Crowe made the arrest. On March 4th, 200 block McCabe Avenue, a 21-year-old female from Long Branch was arrested on an outstanding traffic warrant from Upper Freehold Municipal Court. Patrolman Daniel Crow made that arrest. Also, March 5th, 2026, 6:15 Main
Street. A 63-y old male from Neptune was arrested and charged with defiant trespassing. He was processed and released on a summons complaint. Offic Shawn Johnson made the arrest. On March 9th, 2026, uh Ocean Park Avenue and Madison Avenue, a
32 year 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 and
Madison Avenue, a 41-year-old male from Bradley Beach was arrested and charged with driving under the influence while operating a motor vehicle. Was also issued additional motor vehicle summones. Patrolman Daniel Crow made that arrest with assistance from
Sergeant Michael. Also on March 9th, March 9th was obviously a busy day. um 200 block of Newark 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 beach police officer in on his arm causing redness um redness bad printing. Um
and um and then on March 11th, 2026, a 36-y old male from Long Branch was arrested on an outstanding warrant from Long Branch, New Jersey. A patrolman Anthony Battlei made that arrest. So, thank you for all the service of your
officers, chief. And that's my report. >> We have this. >> Thank you. >> Signet. Signet. >> Swan baby. Sigy. >> Oh, it's a signet. Signet. >> That's what I thought. Signet. Remember that. >> Are we done? I'm done. >> Okay. Sorry.
>> Continue to debate if you like. >> Thank you, Councilman. 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 furrow 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 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 to host. They they truly did sit in the mayor's chair and slam the gavvel calling the meeting to order 20 times.
Uh a lot of picture taking, but it it was a lot of fun. Then they got to explore the fire trucks and the >> jail >> the jail canine. >> And and 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. And 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, 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 uh tickle the No, that's >> that's not anyway. anyone who wants to dance. March Tuesday, March 24th, >> 5:30 p.m.
>> And Mr. Kenny, you're invited to join us, too. >> Colonial to dance, my friend. >> No, I want to dance. I can't play the piano. 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 re 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, four 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 I'm sure it's not a type. >> L I O N. I don't think it's a tab
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, you don't trust me.
>> So, um it's related to the lunar new year. >> Oh, thanks Mitchell. >> Okay. Um, and finally, I just want to mention we we talk about these in any given ordinance, but we have a we the Burough Railich 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 add one that I just thought of, 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 repaved. Uh the the puddling has gone away. Uh we've resurfaced I should say and we will be lining pickle ball, tennis, basketball. Silvin 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. uh 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 give folks an order of magnitude grant funded for the bulkhead as well. Um the uh the outflow,
did I say outflow already? I think I did. 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 a May time frame. >> We're waiting for the capital moment. >> Okay. But when we get to that, that is
roughly a $4 million in grant funding. Uh and that will be extending the prominance 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 and the bulkhead that the current ocean lack of bulkhead. Councilman Noiki today talked about sewers. Um we are in the middle of or early stages of but contractors are there now working on the
bathrooms and 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 uh men's bathrooms, women's bathrooms, and concess concession area.
And finally, the last one I could at least think off top of my head, um, we are in the very early stages of Main Street. We have close to $3 million in grants already, uh, awarded, uh, 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, you know, create some of the renovation work. Uh ADA compliant sidewalks, uh pavers, 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 funded 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 tell you, it's a it's, uh, 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, uh, 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. 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. to follow 116 New York. Just a quick question
>> to council president uh the Noble the time of June 10th. >> Yes. >> What time is that starting? >> 4 p.m. >> 4 p.m. >> Till 7 p.m. You had him at DJ. >> Oh, okay. That's great. >> That's it. Thank you.
>> Any other comments or questions? Mr. Coen, >> uh, Thomas J. Co, 123rd Avenue. Um, I I just wanted to thank Mr. Canon and you, Mayor, for uh your followup 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 you know hopefully we can we can work from there. Um I did I did have another question for Mr. Cannon and I want to just let me rephrase that. Um to Mayor Canon
the mayor here calls to that. >> How is your beayshore area handling? I mean you have a you know some coastal title lands in >> um we do but almost all the housing saved two it only affects two houses in
a township. >> Okay. >> Because every because 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 in our beach got washed out, but we're really way like all the houses are built on the cliff. So they're pretty pretty high up high up, >> right? >> So it's not that not that much of an effect. Um but I mean, you know, everything you guys talked about here is true.
>> And um I had a question for Mr. Dardy. Mr. Dardy, you negotiate a lot of contracts, but how come your contract didn't give you St. Patrick's Day off? He forgot to check the calendar. >> I guess so. >> I'm a very poor negotiator.
>> Thank you very much, Mr. >> Mr. Glenn. 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 um I'll make a motion
that we go into public session. >> Second. >> Mr. Noville. Yes. >> Ma. Yes. Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Hubosi. >> 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 27. Do we all go to Erica's office? Mr. Mayor, thank you very much everybody. Enjoy your vacation. We'll see you soon. All the same
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