I'll point out there's 46. I thought we were skipping the someone You're giving out. Oh, yes. Yes. read. I don't like
Is it a shot? Thanks, Joe. Oh, you're welcome. I am. Actually to order stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it
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continue without interruption, an action can and will be taken provided that there is an inerson quorum. Mr. Noble here. Uh Miss Greenland here. Mr. Dwiki here. Mr. Weber here. Mayor Mossi here.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Uh we our next item on our agenda would be workshops. However, I'm going to make a motion that we go slightly out of order and move to item six, presentations of bids, because we do have some folks visiting us that I'd like them to be able to get on their way and then we'll
proceed with the rest of the meeting. So, a motion to momentarily skip item five on the agenda, workshops, move to presentations and bids. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, you're skipping my stuff by dealing with
Yes, Mr. Rober has been skipped. His stuff has been skipped. Yes. Um, so item six, presentations of bids. Want to um open up with u a presentation led by the office of emergency management. Uh, and that would be Mr.
Norman Golarb, our OEM director. And we have a special guest joining us as well that I'll let Mr. Goldar introduce. Thank you very much, ma'am. Among several functions of Bradley Beach office emergency management, we are tasked with helping the public be aware
and prepared for natural death disasters such as hurricanes. We suggest for further information that you go to Bradley Beach website where preparedness information is located along with signup information for emergency notification system uh to receive mobile text and
email alerts. And if you would like to, we should have some handouts in the back that you can take with you. Um, our guest Joe Marti is a wellrespected meteorologist and the owner of Cupa Joe Weather and Drone based in Mammoth
County. He's a certified broadcast and digital meteorologist in social media, which reaches 750,000 people monthly. He also appears on New Jersey. Thank you very much.
Thank you. Appreciate being here today and being here in Bradley Beach. I was telling uh the mayor before that uh when I was growing up, I grew up in Union, New Jersey. Uh this was our spot. We went to the beach. I'm not lying. Uh we had our family friends uh the JO who lived in Rosel Park and we became friends with
them. We uh we came on down here to Bradley Beach. So, it's uh it's nice to be here and uh in in a small way, it kind of feels like home. Uh and it's of course close to my home. I live in Tin Falls, not too far away from here. Um, so I want to talk a little bit about hurricane season. Um, I feel like uh,
well, it's timely for a few reasons. One, we're in hurricane season. Two, when we talk about hurricanes, we really have to focus on the water, not the wind. And obviously what happened yesterday in Union and Somerset counties um was very unfortunate and rivaled what
we saw in Hurricane Ida uh in 2021 and then tropical storm Floyd in 1999 in regards to 5 to 8 ines of rain in just a few hours. Route 22 was flooded for 1 to two feet. We didn't see that here thankfully, but we did see about uh an inch and a half to two inches of rain in
most of M County. Um, just to turn on to maybe a little bit of a lighter note, this is a good uh trivia question. Uh, so if you're at the bar and anyone asks, when was the last time New Jersey had a landfalling hurricane? Does anybody know? Anyone take guess
Andrew? Which one? 1987 Hurricane Gloria. That you know, so a lot of people say Gloria, but it's not Gloria. I'm sorry. And I skipped over you. I know. I'm not I'm not making a good
first impression. Um, no, it was actually uh 1903 was the last time we had a landfall and hurricane in New Jersey. It was the Vagabond storm. It was a category 1 hurricane that made landfall in Atlantic City. Um, in other
words, we're due um Sandy because all these other ones were down being tropical storm strength like Sandy and Right. Exactly. Yeah. So, it's not like we haven't been impacted by tropical systems. We have Irene in 2011, Sandy of course, but technically a landfalling
hurricane. The last time was 122 23, excuse me, years, no 22, there years ago. Um, so when it comes to hurricane season this year, um, you know, the short story is we're expecting about an average kind of season for the Atlantic
hurricane basin. Well, that's great, but what does that mean for New Jersey, right? There could be 20 hurricanes or tropical storms. if they don't make landfall here, we probably don't care, right? And rightfully so. Uh it could be vice versa. We could have one storm. If we have one storm and it hits New Jersey, that's we're going to remember
it forever being an active year for us even though there was only one storm in all the Atlantic hurricane bases. So, um in terms of the forecast, this from Colorado State University, and you might think, why is a doubly landlocked state doing hurricane forecasts? Um like most
things in life, it had to do with where the money was. and that's where the money was for funding back in the 80s. Um, but in New Jersey, we look to have a 26% chance of a landfall and tropical storm or hurricane this season. Uh, for reference sake, we on average there's a
23% chance. So, we're we're pretty much there. It's a 1 in4 chance of being within 50 miles of the Jersey Shore. Um, there's an 8% chance for a hurricane to make landfall. Hurricane sustained wind 74 miles an hour or greater. Um, that's about the average, which is seven. And
again, we haven't seen a hurricane technically make landfall in 122 years here. Um, the last time we saw a landfalling tropical storm was back in 2020, uh, when we had tropical storm Fay and Tropical Storm Is here. And I wouldn't blame you if you forgot about
them because tropical storm Fay was so weak. I was in Brigantine watching the eye go over Brigantine and people were jet skiing in the bay. That's how weak the storm was. Uh, EAS brought a lot of wind but not a lot of rain. Um, so we might not remember that. Anyway, um so
in terms of how good these forecasts are, right, you can have any forecast. If it's not good, it doesn't matter. Colorado State University has a very good track record. Um there's a in terms of it's still it's on a negative one to one scale. I don't get I won't get into
the details, but it's a 0.59 in their accuracy, which is about the they're about 80% accurate in other words, which is pretty good when you're forecasting months in advance. Um, some factors for this year's hurricane season. Um, if you guys have been in the ocean the past
couple of days, you know it's warm. I was in the water on Sunday. It was great. That warm water, not only here in New Jersey, but in the central and uh, eastern Atlant, excuse me, central and western Atlantic. Um, really can be a hot bed for tropical activity. Typically, when water temperatures are
over 80°, we see uh, an increased likelihood of hurricane formation. Um, we're not in El Nino this year. We're not in leninia typically when you're talking about hurricane season. Um, you know, you're looking at those factors. We're in a neutral state. If you want to
be funny, you can call it lanada. That's what some people call it. Um, but that's what we're in for this year. And then we also look at something called analog years. You know, what are years that similar setups to this uh, you know, this year so far. So, Colorado State went back years that were similar to
2025. I'll read them all quickly. There's six of them here. 1996 that was nothing. 1990 Floyd 1999 that's when we had Floyd. Um 2006 we had we had hurricane Ernesto well offshore but it brought strong winds here to Bradley
Beach. Um 2008 nothing. 2011 which was Irene. Um and we know what happened then. And in 2017 um so you know hurricane season again about a one in4 chance of being impacted by a storm fairly directly. That doesn't
mean we don't get residual rain. We saw that in Ida in 2021, especially in the northeast corner of the state. Um, but you know, when I just to go back to the beginning with the 1903 hurricane, that was the last hurricane that came to shore in New Jersey. That had $263
million in damage in today's dollars. Well, what happened since then? Well, we had we had a hurricane 1944 that didn't make landfall, but was offshore that brought $741 million in damage. Then we had a 1962 Nor Easter which if you're in
some places of the Jersey Shore, especially in Cape May County, they would say it's worse than Sandy, $1.24 billion in damage. And Sandy was $ 38 billion. In other words, it doesn't take a landfalling tropical system to bring major impacts to New Jersey when it
comes to storms. And I like to say we essentially have a 12-month hurricane season because if it's not the hurricanes, it's the nor eers that we can get during the year that can bring just as strong as winds. I know we don't really get a lot of tidal flooding. We all back bays here, but they do bring to
the shore, you know, some parts a lot of the title flooding there. We always have to be aware and you know I'm very fortunate to know Norm and and Dan and Bob here and everyone at Bradley Beach OEM who's uh uh we haven't we haven't known each other for long but I feel like we've known each other for long and
uh and appreciate their relationship and it's always good to be here in uh in Bradley Beach. So I'll uh I'll just wrap up quickly about what I do with with my business here. Um there's there's three lanes of what I do. Weather advertising. I help businesses advertise uh through
weather media. Um like Norm said reach about 750,000 people a month in social media covering the shore counties. We're the only I'm the only place that covers the shore and the shore only. Mammoth County, as we know, kind of gets covered by New York City media kind of doesn't.
Um you know, Philadelphia stations don't cover here and a lot of newspapers. I used to work in newspapers, so I I love newspapers, but they just don't have the weather coverage that um that some of you know that I could provide. Um I'm also a commercial drone pilot, so I teach at Kane Ocean County College,
teach drone classes there, do drone footage all around the Jersey Shore, done over 40 towns, and I help towns just like here in Brownley Beach um stay coastal resilient and help towns reduce their flood insurance rate through community rating system program um where Brownley Beach is a flex seven. And in
your I know you have some small areas that are in the flood zone, you got to see a 15% discount flood insurance. The town of Avalon and Kate May County signed on with me last week um to help them in that as well. So with that being said, I'm happy to take any questions about hurricane season um or the rest of
the summer, how humid it's going to be. I don't know how much snow we're going to get next winter, but if you want me back in November, I can maybe tell you that one, too. But uh I appreciate the time and I'll take any questions you guys have. But thank you very much. Appreciate it. the council. Any questions? Great presentation. Thank you. Thank you
very much. Appreciate it. Another unusual gesture on on the council's behalf, but if any of our audience members would like to ask Mr. Marti a question, uh, raise your hand and we'll let you direct a couple questions. Nothing out there. Anyone on Zoom?
Okay. Once again, then thank you, Mr. Mark. I appreciate. Okay, let's continue with item six. And John, I'm going to ask you to kind of go in reverse order if you wouldn't mind doing your presentation on the fiveminute beach cleanup. Sure thing. Five minute beach cleanup. This is the part where I need a little
help from Michelle if she could put up that one slide. I gave the council one of these. If anybody's super curious, there's a couple of these, just a few, but on paper up in the front if you want to grab it. Um, most of you know I do environmental work and while I wouldn't
completely original to uh like it hasn't been done anywhere else. Uh the town that did this first in these parts is Seagurt and we have Councilman Brian Perry here from Seagurt and his two daughters um and they've done this in Seagurt and they could tell us how long
ago and how's it going and just tell us about the fiveminute beach cleanup um and introduce yourself when you stand up. So go ahead. Oh yeah, come on up. Tag team it. Well, thank you for everyone for having us. My name is Hope and I'm Charlotte.
Um, so yeah, we're from Seager. Like you mentioned before, our dad is Brian Perry. He's on council in Seeker. And we're super excited that the 5minute beach cleanup has reached Bradley. That's the goal for it to continue spreading all across the shore. Um, we got the idea for it when we were on
vacation in Costa Rica. And we remember seeing and just thinking that it was a really cool project we wanted to start in our town. So, we were just hoping that by making the beach clean up on our beaches, people would see it and be more encouraged to clean up the beaches than having to get the supplies themselves
and making the time themselves to do it. But they were along the board, they'll see it at least like five minutes of their time. All right. Now, wait, we're in Costa Rica now. It was no s and no. Fantastic. Okay. So, that is
fantastic. Oh, yeah. So, how how when did you start this in secret and and how how's it been going in your opinion? Uh, we started it in the summer of 2023 and then it's so last year was the first like full year of it being out. We think it's gone really well. Um, we when we go
to like collect them into the bags from the stands, we see that sometimes some things are missing, but like for a majority like the bags are being filled with trash or empty because they've been brought to the trashes that are out of the beaches here, right? That is awesome. So, I'm gonna
have some other people come up and do some color commentary, but thank you both. Thank you, Charlotte. I really appreciate you share this idea with us. I had heard about this elsewhere and they had baskets like the kind of basket you would get at the supermarket and I said, you know, this is New Jersey. I
think people are going to steal the basket. So, when I saw with the bags, I was much more uh enthusiastic about it. And we had a resident here in town, Evie Carella. Where did you go? There you are. Hi. Yeah. Hi.
So, Evie approached me and said, "Hey, I saw this thing in Seagar." Right. Yes. Uh, thank you for having me today. I I'm happy to be here and I was riding my bike uh last fall through Seagurt and I saw the program and as Mr. Weber said, "I had also seen similar
programs in other shore areas along the coast and thinking that the baskets or the buckets wouldn't work either." And when I saw that, I thought this is a great idea. We know that there are many residents in Bradley Beach who would love to uh you know have something like
this because I hear many times people you know I I should have brought a bag with me to clean up the beach or you know trying to bring a bag. Remember you bring a bag with them to clean up the beach while they're taking a walk along the beach. We know that when we have moreers the beach can get pretty messy
especially in the off season when they're not cleaned up uh by our you know our guys here that work in the town. So, I thought this was a great idea. When I presented it to I sent Mr. Weber an email. He checked with Seagurt and found this lovely family who's doing
it in Seagurt and off we go. So, we're thrilled that, you know, we're at that point where we can maybe get this implemented by the beach out there. So, I'm going to tell everybody how it's actually going to work. MTV. Um, so I talked to Bajio DPW. They're know the trash bins, the trash recycling bins on
the boardwalk, the wooden ones that contain both Inside of that there's going to be a hook on the hook are going to be these uh you know mesh reusable bags and that sign uh and put logo on it and it's the best part because like said
it was last fall when she came to me. Notice it's midsummer. Yeah. Um a business in town. It's love life handmade. They have the pottery. They teach pottery. It's like pottery and candles and Yeah. Um he came up. He said this exact same thing. Hey, I saw this.
I want to do this. And he said, I'd be willing to to bring it to town. I said, well, do you want to pay for a few signs? And he said, yes. So, we're going to do three spots in town, North, Central, and uh South. And if that all goes swimmingly, we'll open it up to
other businesses if other businesses want to, you know, put their lab their logo on a sign like this. And we'll ask a PPW to put a few more hooks and a few more reusable bags. But, uh, as far as I can tell, we're bringing this to the town. expense to the town. So, um, super
happy to steal an idea and happy to, um, yeah, have people help us get it done. So, that's kind of it. So, just shout out to to Mike and Olivia at Lovelight Handmade. They couldn't make it tonight, but um, they are basically paying for these signs. So, uh, now that we've done this officially, Yer has to do it
because now it's official. We've talked about it and now he says no problem and it'll be upset. That's it. I love this program. This is excellent. Okay. take pictures of yourself or something like that. So, um that's kind of it. Thank you so much to our
guest. If you want to stay, we got some good stuff coming up stuff especially, but no, there's some good stuff. But, um you know, if you got to go, you got to go. But thanks for having Thank you very much. And u let's see. I know uh want to go
back to at any point in time. No, I was going to say Mr. Mart. Thank you. Thanks Joe. Taking me out. Nice. Enjoy. Thank you. So, let us no longer skip the stuff. Let's I'll make a motion that we move to
item five on our on our agenda workshops. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Green. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Dutzy. Yes. Back to you, John. Okay. It's like the John show today. Um,
skip the stuff. This is uh refers to a kind of brand of ordinance that's sweeping the nation. It refers to takeout. If you order takeout food, um, you probably just want your food. There's a 90% chance you're taking it back to your home or to your office. And
um, you have all this stuff. What we mean by stuff is plastic utensils, napkins, chopsticks, uh, every condiment in a little plastic package known to mankind. Um, and you I don't know all you that well, but I know every single
one of you has a drawer in your kitchen full of this stuff, right? Yes, you do. Okay, you're nodding your heads. Um, because we feel bad throwing it out, but we didn't really want it. We didn't really need it. Again, you know, it's shocking, but there's a bottle of tier in my fridge. There's actually utensils in my drawer in my kitchen. So, we don't
tend to need all this stuff. Um, I think businesses add it because they don't know, right? So, Skip the stuff ordinances are about um making the default when you order takeout, you get nothing. You can have all of that stuff. You can have any of it or all of it. You
have to ask. So, if you were not taking it home and or you and you needed utensils or you needed the extra ketchup packets, whatever, you ask where you can get it. Um so, that's the concept on stick to stuff. Um oh, the handout,
which uh somehow didn't give myself one. um really quickly and we'll talk about a case study and then I will turn it over to a guest that we have um who is a local celebrity um oh no oh I got this shop and there's a couple up here wire um
different environmental group but I work with uh sometimes work with them um clean water action they had this skip the stuff ordinance in red bank they did it in March of last year after been on the books for six months in the fall
Clean water actually went to the restaurants and asked about it and they said how's it going and they, you know, basically tried to estimate how much less stuff these takeout businesses are are giving out. And bottom line is they're giving out 94% less stuff. So
that's again plastic utensils or napkins and condiment packages and all that stuff. I don't know what that translates to in dollars and cents, but if we have to give if we give away 94% less stuff, there's you're spending 94% less money on that, whatever it costs. So, um,
seems to be working really well in uh, Red Bank. And some people may know Brian Thompson. I'm going to turn over to him. He was an NBC reporter. He liked to report on environmental stuff. Um, he's retired and he's turned into an environmental advocate. He's on the environmental commission in uh, Mammoth
Beach. So, if uh we can turn it over to Brian for a second. You have the floor. Mr. Thompson, if you unmute. Oh, yeah. Michelle, if you can unmute so Brian can talk. That's how we do it.
hear you. Hey, just yell really loud. What do I do? All right. Hello everybody. How are you? Great. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to talk to you. Uh yeah, I've been very
active on the environmental commission in Mammoth Beach uh actually for about almost 10 years now. And uh I got us to uh and we're a conservative uh by the way Republican town. I I have not checked on the politics in Bradley Beach, but I can tell you that Mammoth
Beach uh votes Republican 99% of the time. And yet our commissioners were very forward thinking because we are a beach community because they are very sensitive to what happens to our beach.
in passing back in 2018 what was at the time the single strongest plastic ban in the nation when we banned plastic bags, plastic straws, and styrofoam all in one ordinance uh picking up what many towns
along the shore had done peace meal. And so when it came to skip the stuff for my council commissioners, it was a no-brainer. the environmental commission gave it its uh hardy endorsement and within a couple of months it passed and
it's working. I went personally to all of the restaurants. Okay, we're small so we don't have a lot of restaurants maybe like the owner does but I went to all of the restaurants uh in Mammoth Beach and asked them you have any problem with this? No. One was already doing it. Ad
deli was only giving it out if you asked. Um that was the old Andy Kay's for those of you who may have ever been to Mama Beach. Uh the kitchen witch, they were very enthusiastic about it, but they were also in the position where
um they had already initiated that, but they didn't really make sure that there were employees out of it all the time. So it was a curious situation. Uh but um that being said,
we have now seen this pass in some almost two dozen municipalities in the past year and a half. Red Bank was the first one of the modern era. And as you will see in that study John just
mentioned, yeah, it's saving money. And I don't know how many of you have ever been in the restaurant business or are familiar with it, but for a restaurant, every penny counts. And so that's what we're offering them. What we're offering the public is
plastic utensil free drawers and refrigerators without all those condiments that just pile up over the months and years. But we're also offering them a cleaner environment. You just heard somebody talk about picking up trash on the beach. Well, you know,
not everybody needs the plastic utensils. Even if they're coming to the beach with food, it might be hand food. You don't need a fork in a knife for you don't need the mayonnaise or whatever the soy sauce that they may throw in there. So, if you just ask for it and
need it, you're going to cut down and you can get 10 minutes maybe instead of five minutes of a good cleanup as people hunt and peck and search for something to pick up. And that's really the the
environmental goal here is to make it a cleaner environment. The financial goal is to help restaurants. As I say, we passed it in some two dozen towns now in the past year, nearly two dozen. All the way up to uh Hallworth and Bergen
County. Hoboken passed it. Jersey City passed it. Redbank, as you know, passed it. My Mammoth Beach. I just got it passed in Wong Branch about a month or two ago. They were extremely enthusiastic about it. So, it sounds like it's sweeping
sweeping the municipalities. Pardon me. said it sounds like it's sweeping the municipalities of New Jersey. And so what we're doing is we're changing a habit, but you know, a restaurant can simply put up at the at the cash register, they can put up if
you need pencils, ask. If you need condoms, ask or they can put it out. Uh that's what a lot of the fast food restaurants are doing now is they'll put the the uh items out. make a single selection because they know it saves
money. And for a restaurant, you know, we wouldn't do this if it didn't save them money. If we were putting a burden on them, you know, I I don't think this would go anywhere. I wouldn't be in favor of it if I were a restaurant owner. All right. Well, appreciate that. The
view from Mon Beach, I really appreciate it, Brian. Mhm. So, if any questions you have, throw away in the throw mapping or I can help you out. Brian, uh, thank you again for joining us tonight. U, my question is, you know,
rolling out an initiative like this, it's great for the environment, as you said, it's great for many of the restaurant owners as well. Uh, but where did you meet resistance? I'm sure there's been resistance along the way. Who pushed back and what was your experience there?
Um, no food assistance in Mammoth Beach. Uh, you will see in the study the 94% there were a couple of restaurants in Redbank as you'd expect who uh did have problems with this uh simply because it
was a change in habit um even though it was going to save them money but it was a small minority a very small minority. Um there was a council member up north in Cranford I believe it was who uh just
didn't feel his role of government to do anything uh basically uh and she voted against it um while the majority passed it. So you see little pockets like that.
But, you know, when you think of the good this does for both the business owner and the environment, we just haven't had that much resistance. And, you know, if it comes down to code enforcement, we strongly encourage simply educating the restaurant. Make
sure they they're new hires. They'll get new hires. Cash register just automatically think they're supposed to put it in. We we don't really encourage trying to find them. just make a visit if needed or the citizen can tell the restaurant. I've had to do that a couple
times in town like Long Branch. I say, "Hey, you know, you got an ordinance here. Just follow the ordinance." And they said, "Oh, didn't realize it." Thank you very much. That's it. All right. Well, thank you. Other questions or comments.
All right. Thank you once again. I appreciate your input, Mr. Weber. Back to you. Thank you, Brian. Thanks for taking time out of your evening. I know you're busy. Um, so that's kind of it on uh skip the stuff. This the workshop not passing any laws or anything like that. But I guess
it's your discretion, Mr. Mayor. The public or want to say let's let's you let's have you continue, John, with the DPW sheriff. They can do it in the public portion. Yes. Okay, sounds good. Um, you want to listen to this, Brian? This is a neat idea. Okay, I I talked about this. Maybe
I sort of threatened this. No. Um, a few meetings ago, uh, there was an idea. We're paying a ton for bulk to get rid of bulk trash. Uh, it's, you know, the said it was about $20,000 in the tipping fees, and that's not even counting the guy's time and the, you know, driving
out to the to the dump and all that. So, trying to figure out ways to re reduce that. And, um, there was this idea of just said, boy, if somebody was throwing out a shed, like getting rid of a shed, they're going to build a pool so they don't need a shed anymore or something like that. you take that shed and put in the DPW yard. People could bring good,
usable, clean things that they just don't want anymore. The kind of stuff that you put on the curb or, you know, the kind of stuff you may have to buy stickers, b stickers to get rid of. Um, and aio loved the idea, the environmental commission got behind this idea as well. Theio got so behind it
that he just gathered up scrap wood and stuff that he had lying around and they built a shed for almost no money. And there's this shed down at the the DPW yard now where you can take your recycling and stuff. So I was like, "All right, now we have a shed. I got to come up with some rules because we definitely need to be there to be rules. Sent a few
drafts of rules around. Um I'm just going to read them and um we'd love to hear from the public in the public portion. Um this is what we came up with and this is again a lot of us put our heads together on this one, but um these are the rules of it's called the share and shed. If anybody has a better idea like love to more catchy or more
marketable or whatever, let us know. But um the rules of the sharing shed are residents only. On only Bradley Beach residents can drop off items in the shed. Uh anyone from anywhere can take items from the shed. Only complete usable items in good
conditions can be dropped off of the shed. Nothing broken, nothing stained, nothing that needs assembling, nothing that needs work or quote needs cleaning. Um, nothing with flammable or toxic materials, no food or beverage items of any kind. Please bring them to the food pantry. Uh, no health or beauty products
or cosmetics. No clothing. Please donate it. Plenty of places to donate that. No mattresses or pillows. Period. Please use the bulk dumpster. And that is a lot of what we get in the bulk dumpster. Um, users take items at their own risk and assume assume all responsibility. And
the shed is only open when the DDWR is open. This very well may be a work in progress. We might start it and figure out a couple more rules that we need or something. Um, but if we're good to go on this, um, I'm gonna ask Matt to handdraw a temporary sign or something
like that or just come up with a temporary sign and if we settle on these rules, we'll make a permanent sign and the sharing shed will be open. One final idea I hope to um, enlist members of the environmental commission or anybody who wants to do it. I thought a great way to get stuff moving through it in and out
passes. I'll go down to the shed in the morning. I'll take a picture of what's there. Post it. Hey, there's a couch and there's a carpet and there's a whatever a stuffed chair. Come get it. And then hopefully it just goes through faster. Um then we went down to the shed and we were like in the
process of thinking up the rules. Somebody came in with a pickup truck that had multiple mattresses in it, but they had a couch, they had a rug, they had whatever. The mattresses went in the dumpster. This other stuff was perfectly usable. You know, you guys just put in the shed
and uh it's there for the take. It's already working basically. Uh and again, the goal is to cut down the bulk waste disposal cost and that's it. Questions of John? So, I actually made that suggestion as
well. environmental work. Thank you. Yes, it's great. It's great. You know, they have this thing and other don'ts. Um, anyone from anywhere can take items from the shed. Actually, don't you need to be a resident to go into the shed into the DPW site?
We what we thought about that. Um, the idea is if only Bradley Beach residents can take it's like a smaller pool of people and if we open it up to anybody, you're correct in a way in order for you to leave something at the, you know, to
dump it. Why else would you go and dump, right? Because you're usually leaving something here to up until now, like, you know, nobody's taking anything. Uh, you did need to be a resident. But I think with this, if the only thing you're doing is taking something from the ship, and that's one of the things we'll see
how that works. We think it's doable. Um, but that's why only people from Brad couldn't leave because that would be our on our dime to throw it out. So, we don't want people coming from other towns and getting nuclear stuff. Do that, right? And stuff is sitting in the shed for a couple of weeks, whatever, and it
doesn't go, we'll throw in the bulk dumpster. We're not that proud, but we think it's going to save a lot of money. Is it a size shed? You're talking about furniture going in. Yeah, if it's a couch and whatever. I wish I had the dimensions. I want to say it's about maybe it'd be a very small bedroom or a very large walk-in closet.
How about like seven by about 11 or 12 feet? So, depending on your, you know, when I was young, that would been a big bedroom and now I'm putting together my list of what I'm going to put in that chest. All right. Yes. Awesome.
That's great. And if we're successful, we may build a threetory building. Any other questions or comments for That's great. We use recycle. I love this. Yeah. Okay. Mr. Weber, thank you very much for leaving us for the past half an hour. So,
sorry. Residents, you will be able to ask Mr. Weber questions in one minute. We're going to just get through item seven on our agenda. Are you going to do the proclamation out? Yes. Oh, yes. Where is the under presentations? Presentation.
I don't want to give you that. I can pull you have another version. I have to go with It wasn't there. It was on the side of your uh I'd like us to continue uh item six on
our agenda. Uh reading a proclamation for National Night Out in 2025. Do I have that proclamation? Yes. Okay. Great. I have a proclamation. Okay. Uh I will read this.
National Night Out Proclamation. Whereas the National Association of Town Watch, NATW, is sponsoring a unique nationwide crime prevention program on August 5th, 2025 entitled National Night Out. And whereas the annual National Night Out
provides a unique opportunity for the Burrow of Bradley Beach to join forces with thousands of other communities across the country in promoting cooperative police community crime prevention efforts. And whereas it is essential that all citizens of the
Burough Brother be aware of the importance of crime prevention programs and the impact that their participation can have on reducing crime in the burough. And whereas police community partnerships, neighborhood safety, awareness, and cooperation are important
themes of the National Night Out Program. And whereas a celebration is planned for night, I'm sorry, for neighborhood watch groups in the burrow of Bradley Beach from 6:00 p. p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on August 5th, 2025 at the
beachfront on Ocean Avenue. I'll repeat that. 6 to 8:00 p.m. August 5th, 2025 at the beachfront. Now therefore be resolved by the governing body of the Burough of Bradley Beach to proclaim August 5th, 2025 as National Night Out
2025. Um and this is something that most of you are aware of. We the Burley Beach sponsor every year really our police department sponsors. Uh it's a fun night out for all. Typically hamburgers and hot dogs are cooked. I presume it be
something similar. Once again, it's just a great opportunity to mingle among residents, mingle with our police force. Um, and one little challenge the folks up here face is we have a council meeting on that same evening. So, we're
going to look further at that, but please make sure if it's at all possible, try to attend, stop by at some point. It's it's always a great time for all. Any comments or questions about national? I was going to volunteer to put the burgers
That's right. Take a council break for like an hour. I know. We'll call it executive session. Right. So, more to come on that, but whether the council can join or not, uh, I encourage all residents to join. Maybe bring a I don't know, phone to listen to
the council meeting. Um, okay. I don't know if my agenda Erica, is there any other additions to the agenda? No, that's it. Okay. I just want to make sure I lead us in the right direction. That was last minute one on Friday by the I um public comments and a question but
I'd like to move to item seven on the agenda approval of minutes. Like to make a motion July 1, 2025 council business meeting minutes approve be approved. Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. Ml. Yes. Mr. Noiki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gutzi.
Yes. Like to make a motion to approve July 1, 2025 executive session meeting minutes. Second, Mr. Noble, I was not at that meeting so I will abstain. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Noiki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes.
Mayor Gubetzi, yes. Okay, now we will open it. It's item eight. We'll open it up to public comments or questions. Feel free to ask questions about any of Mr. Weber's presentations and workshops or anything else on the agenda. Yes.
Hi, I'm Nice try. That's my first one. You said your name and your address. I'm Heidi Serot. I go to Mama. Um I lived in a town where we had one of these sharing sheds. It was great. Um one of the things and I don't think I
heard you mention it was paint used paint. Um so it's something you might if you did mention I'm sorry. No, no, you are 100% right. I did not mention it. We said no flammable or toxic materials. Maybe we just put a little Well, I think if I recall, the one that
we had in our town did accept used paints as long as it was in, you know, good condition and sealed and whatnot and it was something people valued. So, I understand the, you know, the chemical aspects of it, but I just wanted to bring that up because you'll probably have people with paint and coming.
Okay. What town? It was in Windsor, Connecticut. Okay. Thank you. That's a that's a great suggestion. construction. Yeah, maybe even construction materials. Yes, I was checking lumber and other things like that. Okay. Yeah. So, you might want to call Windsor
and see what they're doing. I don't know. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other questions here in the audience comments? Yes. Neighbor 44 and a half avenue. Um I came to ask some questions and express um
some concern about the um ordinance to change article six in the department of public self safety division of police. Okay. And 530A
says in the pertinent part where it used to say there would be a police chief and 17 additional members of the police department, it's being changed to say the police chief and as many sworn regular members
of the police department as the appropriate authority shall be necessary to ensure the safety and security of the girl. So my first question when I read that was who is the appropriate authority? Who are we talking about? And
it looks like in B when they mention appropriate authority they say mayor and council. Is that what's envisioned in A. That is correct. Okay. Then the question that I have with
that is at this point with the the size of our police force established by ordinance it would take an ordinance to change it. Now I don't know how long and how cumbersome that is. Um, one thing that I
see that it does is it provides for public notice and input when you have to change an ordinance and it's a mechanism by which the council and mayor are both involved.
So, um I guess my question would be does this envision a process for how the council would participate in that decision and a process by which because I can see you could increase the police force or
you could decrease it, you know, and I think both actions are could be something of public concern. you know, the why, the reasoning, the when. Um, so could someone comment on that for me?
Yeah, let me take a stab at it. Anyone else can join in. Uh, so number one, thank you for raising this question because if if we just introduced the ordinance, we would not have public comment. So by asking the question, we get to ask public comment and
interaction. Um what we what we have learned through life experiences is that how we believe the current ordinance language which very specifically states we have 17 officers and it and it very specifically
defines a a pyramid with you know with there's a chief of police there's a captain two lieutenants three sergeants very clearly delineated pyramid and then there's this so-called bottom of the pyramid pyramid where you might have junior officers Um, we've had an unusual
situation of of late where one officer has basically not been available for a number of years. Uh, but he counts in a headcount of 17. U, there's reduced compensation that's been available because we've got shift
differentials and so forth, but so we've been burrow's been saving money, but we've been down an officer. U further in the ordinance, we're not changing this, but further in the ordinance, there's language that says we could hire up to 50 specialists, 50.
I think we have 10 or 12 because we can't find these young people. You know, there's we're going to talk about we the council and the police about casting a broader net to try to bring in more specials, folks who walk the beach. We
look for people smoking, drinking, tall tents, loud noise, all that stuff. We're very limited and as we talked about, well, what can we do? Because we're also constrained not by budget because we're managing within our budget, but we're constrained by the language of the
ordinance as it stands. And the council discussed in an executive session and uh our attorney has helped us craft the amendments. you see um that we said if we can create with our collective input you did question who's the who's the uh
governing the governing body is the appropriate authority with the mayor and the council all deciding to go up or down uh we wanted to give ourselves that opportunity because in this case we'd like to hire an additional class two
individual bottom of the pyramid low low pay to quarter back to $50,000 of salary. Um and especially as other officers retire, we would like to at least have the option to potentially build the bottom of the pyramid,
especially for a lot of the duties that we currently are struggling sometimes to cover just because we lack bodies. The thinking was uh provide this governing body with a little more flexibility as to whether or not we might want to if we wanted to adjust
staff a little bit. But of course with the police department's agreement, we would have the ability to do that. Right now we're just it's purely a headcount equation and we can't deviate from headcount. I I the thing the thing that that
concerns me here and again is the mechanism. You know, there are sunshine laws where input and discussion amongst the council is supposed to happen in public. So when you have an ordinance like this
that establishes the number, then it would seem to me that perhaps in a special circumstance, there should be an ordinance that changes that number or that is creative enough to say, you know, maybe adapt the ordinance to say if a particular officer is unavailable
for a period of time, you know, but again, that would tend to kick the discussion out of the public forum. And I and I'm the other I do want to point out is that that tiered system of you
have this office and that office already says that you can decide not to have there's language that indicates that you can make patrolman as opposed to those um those higher class officers. So you
do have some flexibility to move around function. And the other thing that was mentioned was that, you know, with the agreement of the police, and that's something else that it just seems wide open to me, you know, and and maybe um
an over solution to just say, okay, we're going to have an ordinance where the appropriate authority, and I would say you have to put right there every time appropriate authority comes out, just add in council and mayor or mayor and counsel at a minimum. Um, and we'll
see if that's would survive a challenge under a future mayor if we continue with the strong mayor formal government. But okay, can I so I'm going to turn this over to Mr. Kenny in a second, but just so you know, when you mention sunshine laws and and you know, back possible discussions,
not deliberating in front of the public. This is designed for exactly that. This is an ordinance introduction. It's clearly defining we would any decisions we make as a council have to be in public. So some of your concerns might
not be completely founded but rather than me going on I I'd like to turn over Mr. Can because we've spent a lot of time I have personally with Mr. just to make sure we got this language quotequote right so we could have the ability to better serve the public still
manage our budgets and not be constrained by language that's you know I don't know how how long does it take to change an ordinance if it needs to be changed you know like making it like making it 18 as opposed to what 34 days
in about 40 so this is the introduction Great. Did you? Yeah. So, you did a really good job of explaining the operational aspects of the ordinance. Um, so legally the appropriate authority is the mayor and council and notwithstanding um a legal
case that commented on that last year. That didn't change that. It simply that the ruling in that case simply said that the employee had the ability to rely on the apparent authority of the the then mayor who came in that decision. So, it didn't change appropriate authority. Also, appropriate authority is a term of
art. It's included in title 40 in 2018 at sequence which is how you hire police officers and the rights of police. Where is that? It's in title 40. Um title 40 of our I believe it's in statute. Yes. So police officers and their hiring
and removal is governed by state statute. The appropriate authority is that's the language from the statute. So the appropriate authority is something that's recognized across every municipality. Sometimes that's it doesn't necessarily have to be the mayor and council. It could be uh manager and manager form of government or it could
be other other people. Uh in this form of government it's the mayor and council. So the mayor the police officer cannot be hired here and we have not hired a police officer here to my knowledge without a resolution. So the um you're concerned about the um that a police officer could be hired without
public action. We can't do that here. The mayor council means that there would have to be a resolution to hire a police officer. Can can that can that be um the one thing I'm saying is while I I I am so comforted by your explanation and by
I'm sorry I also finish because I think it might help you too. Oh the reason why so it's important to have it flexible. So the current policing is is a market an industry just like every other right and at present um in the last several years there's been a
lot of changes in policing that has led to a lot of retirements and it's led to a significant reduction in applications of people who want to be police officers and so there used to be a line of special police officers here in town who would be in that maybe special police officer for years waiting for an open a
spot to open up right so that's one thing that's changed in terms of just in general in the market the other thing that's changed is that an agency doesn't necessarily uh have to sign off on a transfer anymore. Meaning that the police officers are free agents, so to
speak. That is a special that was a law that was passed three years ago, three or four years ago. That allows uh before you could not go to the academy and be sponsored by a stay with them until they released you. Police don't have to do that anymore. So, they can pursue the highest paying job like any other
industry, free agency. What that means for a small town of 5,000 people is that your uh younger and mid-level and particular special police officers um especially your special police officers that you have left are being hired away faster than we would be able to hire
them or offer them a job to go to the academy when these things come up. Um and so this is to provide the chief of police flexibility. So there's multiple controls on it as well, right? Because you can't just hire as many police officers as you want because you have a budget. So, this allows the police chief to determine, okay, I'm going to have
this higher paying officer may retire in September, and these two officers are available now, but if I don't offer them a job now, they're going to go to other bigger towns or other towns, right? So, the police chief is having great difficulty in reacting fast enough to hire people to replace people who might
be out on leave or the special circumstance that was mentioned earlier. And you no longer have that pool of special officers, all these people that were waiting eagerly for police officers doesn't exist anymore. your ordinance says 50 and you're down to 10 or 12. So, the pipeline of bringing new officers in
uh and the opportunity to hire officers and send them to the academy and sponsor them, which cost the bureau money on on the front end um and to be sure that they're going to work here. If we had to wait 40 days to change the ordinance if we wanted to maybe she wants to have 19 offices this year and it'll drop back
down to 17 based on our retirement, he can fit that in the budget. You follow me? Yes. So that's the reason that's the market reason for this. Yeah, the police chief missed out on two recruits recently. Um you know obviously we don't want we can't get into details of that but missed out on two recruits
um recently because this the special circumstance is holding the spot and the spots weren't available according to the ordinance. So there that's the market based reason and then as the mayor explained to the operational aspects of how they the council wants to operate the appropriate authority you know those
that's what's leading to this. stuff um and no no officer could get hired. Your point to the police um ranks could decrease by attrition um you know without the public knowing is likely founded right because you wouldn't know you wouldn't know they're not being hired. We don't necessarily announce
retirements or people we definitely don't announce people out for various reasons. So your concern in that regard I think is founded um you know but that I suspect the police union will let you know if he's standing in the back of the room if that happens. Could we could we I'm just asking if you could take if
there can be a second look taken at some of the language because then you might be change it to at least 17 and then if you really see that our town doesn't need that many police then you can take 34 days and change the ordinance. So at least we're not looking at a drop that
the public's not aware of. And I think I heard the answer to my other concern which was what is the mechanism by which the council participates and the public becomes aware and is that a resolution that's public?
There be a public vote to hire a police officer. We've been doing that for years. Fantastic. That that it was the discipline part we got. I I just would even even though you know like the the language is a term
of art when it says the appropriate authority and once you tell me well that's title 40 with the state then I feel very comforted if we could just clarify it each time it comes up it's in some of these provisions it will say
mayor and counsel in afterwards and it just when when a lay person wants to see what our ordinances far. I think it really helps. There was one other concern and I'm going to way over time. Well, you you really are way over time. I I I am and the explanations were
wonderful and detailed. Just try to I I will I absolutely will. I'm confused by the language in four. So if somebody when they get a chance can take a look at the language in form because it's the one place where it doesn't look like the
chief of police is looking for approval from the council. It sounds like the council is under the direction of the chief of police. It's it's the wording is awkward enough that I don't understand it. I'm done. Okay. Other questions? Thank you. Other
questions or comments from the audience here? Uh this is Greenberg. I see your hand raised. Hey guys, how's it going? Don Greenberg, uh 302 Park Place Avenue, Bradley Luich. Uh had a question on the Skip the Stuff
Bill for John. Hey John, as we know, the um Skip the Straw bill has been a miserable failure in the state because there was no educational component. Uh are we planning on doing an educational component with the restaurants? uh happy to do an educational component
and it's not so much a skip, you know, the straws, it's straws on request. And I think there's other reasons why that is not working. And just so people know, you're not supposed to get a plastic straw in New Jersey unless you ask for it. Um or paper or I guess. Yeah. So unless you ask for
it. So the um there's different reasons for that. It's because the rest of that law is implemented by the Department of Protection, but the straw part is under the Department of Health and they didn't have any rules for it and they're actually working on that. And literally like two years later after after the
fact that that law, it's going to be more than that. Um, several years after that law went into effect, the Department of Health is finally coming around to getting uh rules. So, but yes to education and I'm happy to, you know, have people help and switch on our committee to see what that education
looks like. Be happy to volunteer if you need to know. All right. Thanks. I had a question on the which one is it? The parking ordinance uh 2025-22. Am I reading it right that you can't
park in the uh beach lot for more than 2 hours? I don't think uh I don't think anything changed in the beach. So yeah, I've never seen it before, but it just seems odd that you have a beach lot that you can't park for more than two hours when people are on the beach.
So So Don, just to quickly answer your question, just we're not changing that. So you may be right, but but we haven't spent any time looking at it. We're only this is only focused on changes to the uh lot just north of Burough Hall. So,
we're not changing it. We can revisit that, but I don't know the answer to your question. Okay, fair enough. I mean, read through it. Okay. And yeah, cuz like the twohour thing just seems a little little tight, especially for a lot of the beach.
Yeah, I'm not sure. I'm talking about a lot on cliff and ocean. I'm not sure there's a limit that I get. Where are you seeing that in this in front of you? Cuz I was like, where do you see that? It says two hours. Hold on a second. Unless I was reading wrong. Hold on. I just They just took it down. Give me one second.
There's There is a lot. It's the uh It's the Yeah, I So again, I'm not familiar with it. Yeah, it says in reference, it's under a in reference to the mutual parking lot on the east side of Ocean Avenue from Cliff uh to the the northerly boundary.
It shall be unlawful a violation for any person blah blah blah to park or stand anywhere in such parking area for period in excess of two hours at any one time between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. That is odd. and people who are parking
there with Park Mobile are paying by the hour for all day. So, we're not enforcing that. I was not aware of that and we can certainly revisit that unless unless you're limited to those two hours. Can we change that now?
Not now, but So, Don, you're only supposed to read the underlying part. I read everything, baby. Um, the other question in number one, it says you can't park in a stall for any longer than two hours. Is that just When you say stall, does that mean just an
outlined parking spot on the street? I think a stall is a space. I again, Don, are you looking at things for changing or you just No, I was just looking at the first paragraphs on the on the ordinance. It just seems odd that it was only two
hours at any parking stall. So like you can have some like Newark you have a stall in front of your house and you can't park there for more than two hours. Yeah. Captain can you speak to the twohour stall limit
is I know that applies to Main Street for example. That's yeah I don't know if that's how where that is or how that's um in there. We don't enforce um time limits on Ocean Avenue or the north of lot. We enforce the paid
parking. And then on the west side, it's it's not forced at all. Main main street is always two hours and we do our best to address that. I don't know how that maybe change or something that was overlooked at some point.
So basically it's in there but it's not enforced. Okay. Yeah, but but um in part B numbers like two, three, and four where I see the word stall, there's no time limits on any of those. Well, if you look under violations A
number one, it's the first paragraph under rules and regulations. Third sentence 205 2025-22 9-3.6 6 A1. I'm serious. Oh, sorry. So, there's two things. There's the
stall, which I believe is a space, but the 2hour limit, it says it won't park in excess of two hours at any time in anyone parking space. And then re in reference to the municipal lot
and in reference to the municipal parking lot again on the north side versus west side around Burough Hall. Let's see. Right. Yeah, that that one I understand. This isn't this is on the first page of the ordinance and stuff on top. So, it's really just that that lot
that's on the ocean. Well, okay. Yeah. Again, um we're not changing what you're saying tonight, but we'll look at it uh without without understanding it in a broader context. It's hard to explain
whether it's right or wrong. I can say it cannot be right related to Cliff Avenue parking lot. That's just something that's been there forever. Nobody noticed it. But but the other rep Yeah, except you. Thank you. But uh the other reference to stall, it seems to be
referencing what I'm reading quickly are parking lots around Burough Hall limited to two hours and we're going to continue that. There will be a two-hour limit on stalls spaces around Burough Hall. Okay. Uh yeah, that I get. This one is
though in number one it says any one parking stall and has nothing to do with Burrow Hall which is further down in the ordinance. I totally get the Burrow Hall thing. Okay. It says as follows. So what follows are articulating um the the
various locations. And so I think the error for us is the you know Ocean Avenue K Cliff Avenue block. And again that's we need to revisit that. It's not it's
not part of the scope of these amendments. We did not implement that. So totally got it. We can come back. It's one of those things I get that's just been there forever. Get it? Yeah. No, we didn't even look at it. Our entire focus has been on how and we'll talk about this later. How do we make
parking work along Main Street, especially to the extent we use Burough Hall parking as public parking and how do we balance that with the demands of our own employees? So, thank you for highlighting that. We will revisit
other comments of questions. Nothing. John. No, that's a that's a point. Erica, can you move again? That's the cursor. Yeah, the cursor. Okay, so we will uh move over with the
introduction for uh I'm sorry, we're on public comments still right now. Anybody else? Any other public comments? Okay, moving on then to ordinance uh item number nine, ordinance introductions. Uh there will be no p no now there will
be no public comment on the introductions. Uh you will have an opportunity to address the council uh at adoption, but I'll make a motion that we approve the introduction of ordinance 2025-22 amending chapter 9 traffic of the
burough's revised general ordinances to create specific public access to our parking in the burrow wall parking lot. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes, Mr. Greenwood. Yes, Mr. Noiki. Yes. I I do believe we need to address
the other items that we just mentioned. So, yes. Yeah. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Koszi. Yes. Before we move on, I I asked Michelle Wy if she could share with with the audience what what we're doing and
now that we've at least voted to introduce uh give a quick overview of what this will look like. Michelle, are you okay? So, everyone can quickly see. No, go back yourself to the first page. Yep.
Thank you. Um, you can probably orient yourselves quickly. The top of the screen is is the west by the railroad tracks. You can kind of see Main Street at at the bottom in gray. And uh let me kind of direct everybody to the column right in the middle that effectively is
the parking spaces along Burough Hall. They're all marked employee only. And what's going to happen is those will remain employee only. Um but they will be limited to 5:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. After 4 p.m. those become available to
the public. So whether it be people shopping in the afternoon, going to dinner in the early evening, those will be public available spots with two-hour limits. What's really kind of critical is is the green and the white that follows because
initially a number of months ago, this council introduced an ordinance that was basically going to take all the spaces in the middle and use them for uh employee parking and visitor parking and other uh other burrow related
activities. And there was a there was an uproar from a number of our businesses, from many of our residents saying, "Wait, you can't take away all the public parking, guys. We need this for Main Street." So, we have tabled that introduction that that ordinance that
was introduced uh for a couple of months now as we work on this plan B. And with the cooperation of our police department and our uh volunteer fire department, what we've come up with is we are adding, as you can see at the top of
those two columns to the right, we are adding three additional employee parking spaces in each row. So, we're adding six employee parking spaces there subject to the same limit two uh I'm sorry, the employees are there from 5:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m. After that, they also become public subject to two hours, but our police department said we really were okay relinquishing the 15minute parking that was on the street. So, if you see
that horizontal row at the bottom left of the screen, that frees up six to seven. I'm illustrating six here, but six to seven parking spaces that were limited to 15 minutes. So, effectively, and and now those will become subject to
2hour limits. Once again, people can shop, they can go to restaurants. So, we're replacing the six bus we needed to accommodate employees with six spaces on the street. Uh that is still subject to state DOT. Our uh Chief Arnold is
talking to the state. They said we're going to have a resolution later requesting the DOT change. Uh we're getting the the clear go ahead that we'll be able to do that. So I think the very good news for uh Bradley Beach is that we will now we'll still have the
same total spaces available during the day for public parking. Uh in the evening we will have all of these spaces, the original 28 that are in the middle of the diagram plus six to seven more on the street. So we'll have 35 or
so public available spaces for for restaurant dining in particular or you know late afternoon early evening shopping. So uh and again my thanks to uh police department and to our fire department who have also made some spaces available to the burrow on the
fire department premises. So that is a summary of what we intended to approve. Uh Mr. Greenberg highlighted some other flaws in the the ordinance, but the focus of the changes are depicted here. And Michelle, if you could advance the screen page,
Michelle, this this is just what the parking spaces in the middle of the That's three and three that I identified that will be employee only. You can see they're very clearly marked. We could not put up signs in the middle of the parking lot. Again, the way of plowing and
maintenance and so forth, but very clear marking for the public to know that 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. these spaces will be uh used for employee use. And Michelle, advance one more screen. This is the real life picture of what as
of this past weekend uh the relaying that was done. This is an aerial photo of that same parking lot that I just depicted in the green and white. Uh you can still see that at the top of the screen is Main Street and there two blue
marked handicap spots. They did not change at all. But as as you can see, the three at the ends of the two middle rows there are the ones marked employee own. So I just want everybody to have a sense for what the council is approving
tonight with 2025-22. Thank you, Michelle. I think we can go back to regular screen and I'll move forward to uh introduction of ordinance. I'll make a motion that we introduce uh
ordinance 2025-23, which is a bond ordinance providing for sewer improvements along Ocean Park Avenue, which is appropriating just under a million, $975,000. This will include
uh so-called soft costs, which are largely tied to design and permitting uh as well as hard cost for construction. And the reason this is happening uh quickly along Ocean Park is because we've got a borderline emergency and we
have for a month or two uh where we're having significant sewer issues on this threeb block stretch of Ocean Park. So this is our effort to quickly move to remedy the problems with the sewer in Ocean Park. There's no uh
Okay. Um how long has has this issue been going on? at least a few months about that. Do you know more specifically? No. Yeah, it's gotten worse and worse over the last few months. So, historically, there hasn't been problem with this over the past few years.
I just got here in January. We're not You're not Okay. Okay. But, but I would tell you that Department of Public Works has to get out there at least once, sometimes twice a week just to vacuum out sand, dirt to keep the line flowing. Otherwise, it
starts backing up into people's basement. Yeah. And Sha, you know, because you and Councilman Miliki are doing so much work on sewer infrastructure projects in general, but this hadn't accelerated because
emerging conditions. So, I'll make a motion that we uh that we approve the introduction of 2025-23. Second, Mr. Noble? Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Wiki? Yes. Mr. Weber? Yes. Mayor Dosi? Yes.
Okay. Uh also for introduction is ordinance 2025-24 um large vehicle trailer storage. What is basically happening here is we are trying to gradually improve uh various
issues related to parking within the burough. Um, in this particular instance, uh, we're trying to constrain the parking of very large oversized vehicles to outside of, uh, the, uh, the front yard. Uh, what's it called? The
front yard. Elbow. Thank you. U,, so that if you do have a large trailer, tractor, trailer, that kind of a thing, you've got to park it on the side or the back of the house. As of this moment in time, you could conceivably park in the drive in the
front of your house right near your driveway. And we're trying to be a little more respectful of neighbors and others who would be concerned with the optics of very large these are oversized and described in the ordinance uh
vehicles, trailers, storage type vehicles. So that's what's happening with this particular. Any any questions on the council? I think this is a good thing. Nobody wants a sunlight out front of the house. That's right. And this is about air and light, too. You know, if you're sitting
on your porch, you don't want something blocking your air and light. It's also updating, you know, they called it a camp car. And literally, a camp car is uh a a a train car. It's a housing for employees of a railroad. So, I don't
think we have any camp cars parked in driveway. So, now it's a little more clear definition. I I use some of the verbage, too, from Spring Lake and I talk to other council people. So, this is just updating a few things, cleaning house in this ordinance. So, I have a couple of questions. It's
my understanding that this the genesis of some of these changes were related to a chronic issue that we had in town with property. Is that where this was trying to address? This might have uh helped us move this along and open our eyes a little bit to it. But yeah, this is very common with
other towns too, like I said. So, I'm just using some of their verbiage just to update some of our ordinances. I mean, even previously, you can see some of our ordinance, you know, they just need work and they they're kind of fluid and changing and so we just try to update things and keeping with the time.
Some of these haven't been changed since 1974. So, no, I'm all for it. I'm just wondering if some of the genesis of this was in response to an issue that's ongoing currently in the burrow um with a propensity of construction vehicles
out of property. Um, and if that's the case, I think this has enough teeth to really address that problem. I don't know if that's related or not. Um but you know um uh President uh council president Denoval and I um have both
been advised of um an issue that's been going on for over a year now and um there seemed to be some loopholes in trying to address the problem with a bunch of neighbors that have been really very um respectful um in trying to sort of work around a problem and I don't
think this this is will resolve might be a first step or something but this is in the right It's definitely in a good direction overall in the burrow. Yes. Um but you know very easily, you know, if if someone is operating a business out of their home, whether their
vehicles are identified or not um as commercial vehicles, but it's clear that there's a fleet of vehicles, if they're parked from the front of the house to the back of the property and doing all of their business for all these whatever business it might be, they can still do that, right? because it we're talking
about from the front of the house forward, right? Greg, you want to comment on this one? I mean, commercial businesses are governed by also separate parts of the ordinance. This really
relates to large vehicles, boats, everything. Um, I'm not entirely familiar with the situation that you're you're talking about. Um, but this this would prevent it from basically parking large vehicles in the front yard. I'm not sure if that completely addresses the situation you
guys are talking about. Um, we can talk about it after the address. No. Um, but right now there's really nothing preventing um really anything in the front yard unless it's for commercial purpose. You're using it like a yard pretty much. You have to really be using
it for a business purpose to trigger the other regulation. So if if if someone um has a business and has a number of vehicles that are related to that business, if the vehicles are not listed as commercial vehicles, they don't have identification that says what the
business is. Um and they're parking filling up their driveway, parking on the street in front of um their home and other homes around the block, moving the vehicles around regularly. Many complaints. I mean, I had kind of requested to get some information on how
many actual complaints have been made. Um there's kind of a loophole with code enforcement because they don't recognize that they're commercial vehicles, but clearly there's business. Um and it's been a problem, you know, that I don't think anyone that sounds this is this is uh I mean
that sounds like a deeper zoning analysis. I mean, I can tell you that there's commercially registered vehicles parking on the street. They're not they're not allowed to be there any ordinances that are written. um this ordinance less than focusing on the commercial or private nature of the
vehicle really or or boat or camper or whatever you know there's a lot of different descriptions of things in there really focuses on size um you know I'm not sure if that addresses this issue or not or if there's like you know mini vans I'm not sure what that situation is but there's there's things
to address the public street obviously um and there there's just lots to that this is just basically prevent you can park in a 40ft boat to the to the sidewalk pretty much or a camper or places where you should find someplace else to store it or they're commercially available to store it. But if you have a
if you have a passenger vehicle whether it says you know ABC house cleaning on the side it's a minivan that's going to be allowed to be parked under this ordinance although there may be other issues if there's a lot being operated. Those are more zoning issues. How about a flat bed? If it's longer
than the the size in of the trailer that's listed in there, then it would not be allowed to be parked in in the front yard envelope. But this ordinance focuses on the size of the vehicle or trailer or boat or camper. Doesn't really do the business.
It doesn't it might be insufficient to address what you're talking about. Great. Certainly wasn't written with that in mind. There are also limitations. Council woman mentioned roing cars around parking some of them on the street. There are restrictions on over
vehicles being parked on the street as well. Oh yeah, you have you have a myriad of those already in place. Yeah, there I don't know if I reproduced it all in that ordinance, but they're below that in the in the code the police regulations. I think part So the part I I 100%
recognize that council is aware of and has force some change based on my specific instance looking at the entire community. Um, you know, I guess what we have to contend with is how far do we
go? Do we say you can't park your vehicles that are not commercially registered on your own property? I don't know that anyone be very difficult to enforce. I think on the other hand being consistent with our policy that already exists with
dumpsters cannot appear in the front yard as well. Um this is at least the first step in you know managing the uh the appearance of the neighborhood for all involve so
if you have an F-150 and you're operating a business got your name on the side you you could park that in your driveway under this ordinance. So I didn't know I didn't think that that was the because you got 10,000 whatever whatever the foundation is. Yeah. It's significant. It's a truck.
It's a truck. You know the I don't mean uh you know it's a commercial truck. There's very little you could use it for other or a camper. The vehicle you know this wasn't intended. You're just operating a contracting visit an F150. You can park
in your driveway with decals on it. You know I didn't want to limit that kind of work. this will move all the big boats out of people's front yards. So the question is just how far does this council want to go with restricting and and are we you know
would we as a group consider going to a point where attorney advises might not be enforcable that you can't necessarily say it's your property you can't park any of your vehicles on it even if they're not commercially registered. So
this was presented uh by Mr. Canon after discussion with with at least me I don't know great talk to anyone else but I thought this was a a good first step in at least managing the front yard. Yeah. Let's see if this gives our code
officers I guess the tools they need to do what they have to do situations will see. Okay. Fair enough. I will I also will note that when I um
was researching is doing this um in terms of the some a lot of towns some many beach towns that are farther south of here or closer you know or like barrier islands you're just not allowed to have this at all on property here you're not have boat backyard front yard whatever there's you know other
significant fire concerns and things like that um this is somewhere almost everyone has one where you can't have it in your drive that you have more than a 17 or 23 foot, which basically is a is a level bed that you can't have in the front yard, but they'll let you put in
backyard and sideyard. Um, but you know, um, this is not this is a very common ordinance in beach house, period, in the front yard. The other ones are a little mixed as to whether you got the property or not. Some abandoned entirely. Great way to put you in Scott, but for the research you've done and you've
shared a lot with me, so I asked this not only for my own edification, but in case you know anybody else is interested, what's your perspective knowing what you know about other towns and the research you've done? We're trying to improve.
We're trying to be better. Is there still room for further improvement or are we getting to a point of uh where where it might get to be a legal conflict? I think it's perfect. This is perfectly reason. This allows you to keep, you know, if you have a jet ski or a small skiff or something that you
might take out very often, right? Or or or it's more akin to trailering, right? Like let's say slip for jet ski, right? You can keep that in your driveway because it's under the 23 ft. But if you have a 26 foot boat that you don't want to buy a slip for, you don't want to pay wood storage for, you can't keep that
fixed, you know, and block your neighbors, you back on your driveway with pretty much, you know, I think it's a reason very reasonable compromise between what I saw online from not allowed to have any code on your property at all in storage in residential zones um to, you know, this is if you have the if you have room on your property on the side or the rear to
hide it, then you're free to do that. you have something reasonable, you can keep it there. But you can't keep, you know, a 40 foot boat with four outboards in the driveway next to your neighbor, you know, which is, I think, reasonable. Thank you. Any other comments or questions?
I'll make a motion that we uh approve the introduction of ordinance 2025-24, large vehicle trailer storage. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Green. Yes. Mr. Nikki? Yes. Mr. Weber? Yes. Mayor Guptzi? Yes.
Ordinance 2025-25 chapter 5 hiring a police officer. We actually had the opportunity to have fairly lengthy discussion on this. Earlier this coming everybody back to trying to give the council the the appropriate authority which is the mayor
and the council um the ability to build the base of the pyramid by hiring in potentially uh you know additional personal what the current ordinance allows. Any comments or questions?
I think that mentioned one was minimum of 17 officers is not a bad consideration because what is that minimal minimum size and so I think that that's actually
something could be considered putting in so that way yes so it doesn't give the chief the opportunity to just operate at 16 we need to and holds 2017 at a minimum.
We may be able to address I thought of that too like but in the budget process we would probably address that to do the math for for them to reach in their budget and all you know he's said oh we're going to drop down a couple officers we would notice that in the
budget process I mean I think they push back on that I don't disagree that the more definition we have the clear it is to all of us us here our residents Um but it the more definition we have the
less uh flexibility we have. So if the chief were to come to governing body in some unusual circumstance and say I don't need to replace this person. I'd rather uh give this other person a promotion and use that money to spend here for
these reasons. There might I'm just suggesting there might be a reason in the future where we would want to have that flexibility. We would still have this discussion in in public. I would think you're looking at the downside. The upside I think having to give that
flexibility I'd like to put up that you know is a minimum size of force and not leave it up to something that could just operate over time and budgetary issue that the goal is 16. We need to hire
but so what's your concern though that we might be understaffed because I don't think the chief I don't think that he would allow that to happen. So we could, you know, I guess what's the catch of that? How do we less flexibility for us? I think that's the challenge. And the chief, but again, I don't think
there's any motive I can even anticipate where us or a future council would just secretly try to diminish all the salaries are still the same, but we have less policemen. That would be that would be the scenario, right? I don't think I don't think we would go there, but I
just want to make sure that we recognize that you know that flexibility does need that opening that a reduction of police force and I think the spirit of this is that he can hire more not hire less
and and to create flexibility for all this is also agree that the resolution to have to hire I think we've addressed that concern so I'm okay with that so I'm okay with the opening up to the flexibility and um the slippers of the reduction
would be a concern so long as we somehow are borrowed from that and aware that we don't want to reduce our force you know I think that's important I was just going to say I would imagine that it's based on the population size
generally um and you know the fact that we're also a tourist town so um you know our changes if our population increases, you know, I don't know. I mean, I I'm kind of in agreement with Paul about
having no let no fewer then, but if it causes, you know, any um constraints as you had mentioned, you know, that's something and I and I do think that it's not just the size of Bradley Beach. We have growth, significant growth happening in the city right across Memorial Avenue.
So that it's not just about our population, it's about the surrounding community population and the need for you know policing with that growth of the adjacent communities. I mean, no one is arguing, including me. No, every discussion I have is how can we
increase policing, but five years from now or 10 years from now when none of us are sitting here and maybe maybe you never know and some police chief says to some new mayor and council, we really need to decrease that for some reason, we have
to change the ordinance at that point. You can do it within 34 days. No, again we can do that. As pointed out earlier, uh the goal here was simply working with Mr. Canon and chief to try to come up with something that would give us all that flexibility. Nobody's worried that
we're going to forget, oh, we used to be 17, but now we, you know, now we're at 16. We kind of we forgot. Uh Mr. Kennon, you know, I don't think this is a risk. That said, uh would you have any concerns with uh creating language that
says we're still targeting a minimum of 17? Yeah. Um I feel this might happen, so I just started writing it. Um says the uh the department will consist of a police chief and at least 17 sworn regular members of the police department
but as many sworn regular members of the police department as the appropriate authority may dee necessary to ensure the safety and security of the sound at least 17 sworn regular members of the police officers or as many
I think we're changing our hamstring and ourselves a little. We said the other way. Let's let's reverse it the other way. I can reverse it the other way. But I think we're getting uh how about this? Uh and as many small regular members of
the police department as the appropriate authority shall be necessary to ensure the safety and security of the burrow. But in no event shall the police department consist of less than 18 members including the police chief. Okay.
Okay. Why are you saying Just to be clear, it was the current language exclusive chief. Yes. And then we go down to the bottom, we carry that language to the patrol that it would be as many patrol officers may be deemed sufficient necessary by the
appropriate authority, but in no event shall there be less than 11 patrol. Again, I think we're unnecessarily limiting ourselves, but yeah. Um and plus earlier Greg the the
ordinance used to reference 17 excluding the chief. So we got to make sure that we're consistent. Are we including or excluding? I'm okay. I did give it a try for you. Is is everyone okay with moving forward
as as originally planned in produc? Yes, we have to have it at least. Okay. Okay. Thank you for that protection. Yes. All right then. Uh thank you for all that discussion. Uh I I think based on come in full circle. We're back to
feeling comfortable with this revised ordering. So, I'll make a motion that we uh approve the introduction of ordinance 2025-25, chapter 5, hiring a police officer. Second, Mr. Noble, yes. M. Greenwood, yes. Mr. Nikki,
yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayori, yes. Okay, we are moving to an adoption of an ordinance and this will allow public comment. So, uh, let me
make a motion to open it to the public for comment. Second. Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Greenblat, yes. Mr. Noiki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Kubatosi, yes. and I'll open it to the public for comments on bond ordinance 2025-9
uh which again is uh borrowing that we are uh advancing in order to do repairs on Fifth Avenue. Any comments or questions? Okay, seeing no comments or questions, I'll I'll make a motion close public comment and adopt bond ordinance 2025-9.
Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mwatt. Yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Gubatzi, yes. Also up for adoption and also for public comment, Ordinance 2025-21, ordinance amending chapter 160, which is
basically updating our construction uh code uh uniforms certificates of occupancy um of the burough's revised general ordinances to update and increase certain fees. I'll make a motion open it to the public for comment or question.
Okay, Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Noiki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Gudosi, yes. Public comment or questions? 5-21. Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Green, yes.
Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Kito, yes. Moving to item 10 on the agenda, the communications. Uh, the communication is a liazison appointment memo for the Revolution New Jersey and the Mammoth
County 250th anniversary. And specifically, the memo to Burough Council ident identifies the following. The following two individuals will serve as liaons and represent the burrow for the Mammoth County 250th anniversary
program. And those two individuals are Andy Hall, our tourism director, and Mr. Paul Nashkin, our historical society chairman, Mr. Dankin, is with us tonight. So, thank you, sir, for volunteering to be one of our lessons.
And thank you to Amy V wherever she is. Okay, moving on to item 11. We have resolutions. Um, we have two items on the consent agenda. Would anyone on the council like to vote, have any discussion or vote either
of these out separately? I just want to um say that this is a long time coming and thank historical society. Well deserved. And there is actually now I'm looking
for 2025-241. You have it. You have it. Would you mind reading it? The actual resolution. Um 241. Sure. Uh I'm asking Councilwoman Green to read
this because it does recognize Mr. Shepherd's contributions to the burough and uh that is obviously back. Sean, you have it? I do. Okay, great. Uh, resolution 2025241 appointing Paul Champion as borrow
historian. Whereas, uh, historic preservation is relevant for communities across the nation. And it is important to cate celebrate the role of history in our lives and the contributions made by dedicated individuals in helping to preserve tangible aspects of the the
heritage. And whereas historic preservation is an effective tool for managing growth, revitalizing neighborhood, fostering local pride, and maintaining community character while enhancing livability. And whereas Paul Mashkin has been very active in
preserving artifacts and memorabilia for the history of Bradley Beach for the historical museum and by displaying items of historical significance to Bradley Beach. whereas Paul Mashampin has conducted historical research regarding the history of Bradley Beach and volunteered many long hours of his
time to do so. So now therefore be it resolved, the mayor and council wish to appoint Mr. Nashampin as the burrow historian and wish to express their appreciation for his meritorious service, loyalty, and dedication to the
history of the burrow of Bradley Beach. Thank you, Councilwoman. here to make a comment, sir. I'd like to thank the mayor council very much and I'd be proud to fill this position. Thank you. Thank you.
Okay. So, moving on now with the two consent agenda resolution items. Uh we are not voting them out separately, but I'll make a motion that we uh approve 2025-240, the approval of for Special Olympics New Jersey to conduct a 5K race on set on
Saturday, November 15th from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. pass through only and for appointing Mr. Paulin as our bur second. Mr. Noble, yes. Mlet, yes. Mr. Wiki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Hibosi,
yes. Moving to individual resolutions 2025-242 approving and I should say a number of these are QPA related um just continuing to tighten up our uh procurement processes. So 2025-242
approving certification of the US equal employment opportunity commission I'll make a motion to approve second Mr. Noble yes green yesiki yes Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubosi. Yes. 2025 243 approval. I'll make a
motion to approve the approval of an increase in the bid threshold pursuant to NJSA 40A col 11-3. Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Green. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubosi.
Yes. 2025-244. approving uh author and authorizing the use of purchasing procedures manual and vendor manual. I'll make a motion to approve. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Noiki.
Yes. Mr. Green. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayori. Yes. 2025-245. This is authorizing the procurement of vehicles and accessories through New Jersey state contract 23-
fleet- 34933 pursuant to New Jersey state contract division and purchase of property. Make a motion to approve. Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Greenwood. Yes. Mr. Noiki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubosi.
Yes. Okay. 2025-236. for the public's benefit. We've had some emergency repairs on our HBAC unit in the Carmen Bazi Center. Um, so we've already actually enlisted a contractor to fix the air conditioning there. This
is authorizing an emergency HBAC unit repair at the Carmen Aazi Center. Make a motion to approve. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Gutzi, yes. And then after that repair, we had
another emergency on our HBAC unit also at the Carbi Center. Uh that is 2025-247 authorizing a second emergency HBAC unit repair. I'll make a motion to approve. Second, Mr. Noble.
Yes. Met. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Guboszi. Yes. Resolution 2025-248 authorizing emergency storm drain and roadway repair at Evergreen and Central Avenues. I will make a motion to
approve. I have a question please. Do we know what this was um caused by this was a sewers were all replaced there. Yeah. Let me ask you if our business on that the emergency storm train and
roadway repair every essential. Do you recall what specifically? Yeah, there was a sinkhole out that police came out for a day. Is that unusual? I mean that
so they didn't replace the storm replace the sanctum unless there's some obvious you know contract and it was emergency authorization as well. So for a second I'll second.
Yeah. Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Greenwood. Yes. Mr. Noiki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Dubetzi. Yes. Resolution 2025-249 authorizing general engineering services with CV Associates for Silven Lake
outlet control gate replacement. uh comments especially from Mr. Council. Any comments here? No. Um little explanation on this. There's there's a series of projects that are critical to the lake. Um this particular one is the outlet gate which
basically controls the water flow uh you know either holds back the water in the lake or allows water to pass out to the ocean. And that gate is you know pretty old and we actually two years ago had a failure of that gate. And um EPW ended
up going in there, you know, temporary repairs on it. We had engineers look at it. They assessed it. They helped define how to fix it temporarily. Um, and now over the last two years, it continues to uh fail. Um, and then they we fix it
with, you know, plastic and measures. And so right now we we know that and you heard from the report earlier uh regarding hurricanes and whatnot. Um this gate is critical to the uh health and safety of the community, prevent flooding as well as the potential of
that gate failing and all the water leaving the lake threatening all the habitat and wildlife as well. So it's a two um known problem you overflowing the lake andor the lake empty. So this is a critical piece of the infrastructure and it needs to get fixed. Uh it was
actually um identified over the last two years and so we need to move on this um addon is going to be sharing with us on this project and we're looking to see how we can get this done with either grant money or um with the outfall project that's the ocean outfall pipe
that's being replaced by D this fall we're looking to see how we can actually find partners to help get this done on the worst case we're going to have to you know bond or borrow to get that work done but um this is getting the engineering done first we've got to move
it and the permit process so that we can actually uh hopefully to in construction sometime this winter or later this spring. So it's it's going to take a process to get it done through DP. Any other comments, questions? Okay. I make a motion to
approve the 2025-249 authorizing the general engineering services associates for Southern Lake outlet control gate replacement. Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. Miss Greenland. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubesi. Yes, quick comment on
2025-250. Um, this is us, the council, the governing body of Bradley Beach, uh, making a request to the state DOT to allow us to move those 15-minute parking spaces to 2hour limits. Uh so 2025 I'll
make a motion that we approve 2025-250 authorizing request uh to the DOT New Jersey DOT to change the time limit of parking spaces on the west side of Main Street in front of the police department. Second, Mr. Noble, I just want to say a quick
thanks to everybody. This was a team effort between the businesses, you, the uh chief of police, and this I've been looking for this to be done for the last 10 years. So I really appreciate this and I'm going to say yes, Mr. Greenwood. Yes, Sister Nikki. Yeah. Also, I just want to say it's a
great balance between community and and the federal employees and, you know, public safety. How how we got this done. It's taken us some time, but I think it's a great uh solution. So, yes, Mr. Weber, the state's going to make it take longer. Um, but some businesses are really going to be happy. I'm glad we're
getting this done. So, I vote yes as well. Mayor Gupet. Yes. Okay. 2025-251 authorizing the retention of expert witness WJH engineering for zoning enforcement in the matter Garrison at L
versus Bradley Beach at L docket number ML len 3458- 22. Mr. Canon, is this worth a one minute summary of why we're doing this? should burrow engage in a lawsuit by title Garrison versus Bradley Beach um
has to do um with zoning violations on the property. The case that I'm part of the case that I'm handling um as we discussed my best efforts to resolve the matter satisfaction of all parties we have to continue with litigation and therefore I need an
expert outside the burough to um appine on the zoning violations that exist on the property. Very good. Thank you. And this is case. It's from uh the document numbers on there. The last two numbers in the year it was filed. Okay. Oh, so 2022. Thank you.
Yeah. I mean, any other questions or comments? Okay. I will make a motion that we approve individual resolution 2025-251 authorizing the retention of the expert witness. Second. Mr. Noble. Yes.
M. Greenwood. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Hubzi. Yes. Item 2025-252. This is authorizing the settlement of pending litigation before the Superior Court of New Jersey, Mammoth County,
entitled Paul versus Burrow of Bradley Beach, document number n 2713 24. Uh, any comments or questions? Um, I'll say something. So I'm, you know, new new to the council, uh,
relative to this, which I believe is the last two digits, 24 reflects 2024. Um, so this was ongoing, I guess, in 2023 and 2024. Um, so I've gotten myself up to speed on this issue and I, you know, feel that I've gotten enough information
to be able to I think with any settlement, it's just important to restate that two sides are meeting somewhere in the middle. Neither side is you know, uh we're not we the burrow the council and the governing body are not
acknowledging blame uh the uh you know as in any case the the litigant is settling there's something less than their own thing. This is a matter of meeting in the middle doing what we all think is in the best interest of the of the public each and and frankly the payout for the
burrow is $2500 which is the deductible that's the money that comes out of the burrow. So right, I think that's an important point is that um you know this isn't something that was just decided here at the burrow. There's an insurance company
involved and and they believe that this is the appropriate way to handle this matter as well. So our our out of pocket is $2,500. The burrow's out of pocket is $2500 and and the entity that's actually paying the money um has recommended this as a resolution to the matter. I will add I
think it's important to say that this administration, your administration is settling lawsuits from past years and not new ones, we're settling the old also say, you know, similar to council woman too was not on the council at this
time and for you council and yourselves bringing us up to speed on this and sharing the documentation so that we could actually be able to will help find the balance and support the resolution of this. Thank you. So, no further comments. I
will make motion that we approve uh resolution 2025-252 authorizing the settlement of the pending litigation. Second. Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Gubet,
yes. Okay. Final item on our resolutions is the bill list. It's 25-253. The bill is dated July 15th. Any comments or questions? I reviewed it. I had no questions. I have one item. Um there's a charge by
TM Associates with the ocean outfall um project and I know that they had completed their design previously and the charges may be fine. Um I just wasn't aware that they were actually currently working on on the assignment. I'm not sure if these are old charges or
current. Um but there is going to of the defendants to go forward. Um so I'd like um to be able to um administration could actually check and and see what those charges were for and um also what the statuses of the agreement all all the
costs that they did on that ocean outfall project are being shared cost sharing with Avon. And so I want to just get a status of where are we at with all of that and um this is an opportunity just to take a look at that charge as well and and so are we all bundled up
with that work uh to date um prior to construction and in the path forward under construction. We need to take a look at that. Um this is a different engineer than it's not CMA it's TMM and so they're not engaged in other projects and so I'd like to get I think the bureau needs to take a closer look and
say what's remaining in that contract uh their construction and their role with PPP and how much money we made and making sure we have a budget still available basically expended today. So on this particular chart to stall it or take it out of here just let's figure
that out before another check. Okay, where is this charge? Page nine. Page nine. Yeah, page 20. And it may be, you know, appropriate, but I think we just need to double check that on where they're at with their
wrong services through 620. I don't know if that's meaningful at all. So, I don't I don't have the I don't have the u the invoices. Okay. So QA was out of there were our
council panel was not here last week when that question was asking about that status of that work. So I think we just need to button that up and let's take a look at that before we is it any indication because it says alcohol soft
yeah that's design cost but their design is complete so I just don't know what that activity is and and I'm more concerned about the cash forward with their contract and making sure that you know the main budget um and what work are they doing out currently there shouldn't be really much effort
Um, so, uh, so the question, the dollar is $646. Um, the question we, and we could go either way on this, we could go either way. Uh, do we do we approve payment and circle back and say, okay, what was the
$600? It looks like it's tied to an ordinance from 2022, which was when the design was took place in 2022 23 per submitted from the contract. And that's why I'm I'm sort of questioning it. Or if you prefer, you could make a
motion that we carve this out separately, vote on the rest of the bill, and and we suggest we make make a motion to carve this out and then vote on the rest of the second. Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Green, yes.
Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Gos, yes. noting that we will follow up with TMA to just understand what the services T8 sorry and now I'll make a motion that we
approve the rest of the July 15 2025 bill with the exclusion of that one charge Mr. Noble yes Mr. Nikki yes Mr. Weber yes Mayori yes
okay item 12 on the agenda uh announcements. There are none. Item 13A that we all wait for eagerly every meeting, the administrator report. Mr. Do. Yes, sir. M. Uh, thank you. I want to bring the mayor
council up to date on the demolition at 319 Lraine. Uh the uh building has been uh knocked down and um they are going to start carting away the uh the remains um
this week into the next week with the goal of having the entire site um cleaned up with new top soil fertilizer and seed application by uh the end of the day on July 20th. So hopefully by
the end of this month, the entire site will be uh cleared and ready to go. Um and when I say ready to go, we're going to look to start marketing the lots. So working with Sean Canning, our our QPA, as to how we auction off these lots, um
we think it's important to start marketing them to uh get as much of a interest as possible in the four lots. Uh right now tenatively uh we're aiming to have an auction at the second council
meeting in September. Uh we think that plenty of time to again market whether it's in things like homes and land uh also do press um but to try to get as much interest as possible to generate as much revenue for the taxpayers here in
Bradley Beach. Uh next we hired a new code enforcer. Um, right now everyone performing code enforcement duties does it as a part of another job they do. So, for instance, we have two members of our
Department of Public Works who also act as code enforcers. They're more reactive. Um, the gentleman we hired is going to be active. Uh, so they'll literally be driving around looking for code violations. Um, we are not
interested. We hope that he never writes a summons or issues any fines. We're simply looking to bring people into compliance with the existing code that's on the books through a variety of ordinances um some of which this this
council's been a part of. Um so he will be out there and he's going to be very aggressive in um bringing folks into compliance with existing code. Um, next we've also brought on uh an intern uh young woman who's going to be going
to college uh this coming I guess the end of August. We've only got it for about six weeks. But it sort of triggered the idea that we should really start looking towards bringing more interns into the municipal government here in Bradley Beach. There are a lot of smart, talented young people who live
in Bradley Beach. So, we'd love people to, you know, forward names and suggest folks that are either at the end of their high school career or somewhere beginning or in their college career uh that would be interested in the many
different facets of municipal government. We'd love to hear from from residents if they have any suggestions. Yes, sir. Where do we find this intern? Pardon? Where do we find this intern? Oh, the current one. Correct. Um,
someone I know uh said, "Hey, my granddaughter is looking to intern and she's interested in studying real estate business." Um, we right now are putting together a landlord registration. Uh, and you know, it's one of those tasks
that is challenging for our current staff to to tackle because they're already doing other things. So, this way it's a limited time frame. It's a it's a specific task for this intern. She's gonna complete it. Um she's
very well verssed on the computer just her generation is much better than most of us. Uh so you know it's those type of tasks that we'd like to assign to interns. So as opposed to just coming into municipal government have specific things whether it's in the building
department um could be in the recreation department um whatever other departments we have where you know we have those needs for for tasks that have specific uh start sounds like a great project for an intern. I just ask is you know should
we be reaching out to places like university or Brookdale or whatever did they come from a specific you know school or program I guess not but just maybe you think about how you reach out to those schools right in this case uh this young lady is
going to start Montlair State University uh again end of August but we are uh going through the process Michelle has been very helpful with this to reach out Brookdale and to reach out to university. We have some sort of standing agreements
with those two entities already and Brookdale. So, so I think we can build on that as council was saying and Matt to your point about bringing in this one. You and I discussed just earlier today we probably could use one
or two more because we peak of the season we do have backlogs in certain areas. A lot of it is just processing paperwork and we can we can use people who have some technology expertise as well to help us. Yes sir. Um also want to update the
mayor and council. Um last Monday, eight days ago, there was a hearing on an appeal of the zoning permit for Darcy's outdoor dining. Um, under the state statute, anyone who's able to appeal
that that permit, uh, someone did appeal it. Um, the day of the hearing, um, they withdrew their appeal, which they're entitled to do. Uh, the hearing officer still wanted to go through the process because, um, it was a public hearing.
Uh, went through the process and made his determination in writing. um and he determined that the um zoning uh permit was proper and that the town did uh follow the proper procedures.
Um beach revenue I don't have an exact number uh but we're doing very well. Uh I can tell you that u the July 3rd 4th 5th 6th Thursday to Sunday the weather was great um we generated over $150,000
in revenue. Um, one of the things that really stood out was about $117,000 in cash and coins. So, um, one of our goals, uh, is to move to a cashless,
uh, beachfront next year. Just give you an idea of some of the process of when we deal with cash. It all gets counted on the beachfront. Then it goes to the police department. Then the police department brings it to the front office. It gets counted there again. then it goes back to the police officer
who takes it to the bank. Um, which obviously is not a very efficient process. Um, so that's a lot of Atlantic City first. Uh, so hopefully uh by next year we'll
be completely cashless up on the up on the beach. Um, we mentioned Ocean Park Sewer. Uh lastly, just want to mention that um and I think we mentioned this before that the court administrator uh Patricia
McIll is retiring. Um we had a variety of outstanding applicants uh for the position. The mayor and I interviewed uh several of them, five of them total um just this uh yesterday. and along with our current judge and two other
administrators in Mammoth County. Um, and you know, a lot of folks may not know Patricia McIll, which is a good thing because that means you've never been in court. Uh, but she has done a tremendous job. Uh, we run a very efficient court. Um, you know, when you
talk to other towns, uh, they look at how well the Bradley Beach court is run and it's a testament to her. So, um, it's, you know, we're going to take our time, but make sure, um, we find to make sure that we find the right person for placer. But it's our goal to have that
right person sometime in August certainly by the end of August. That's all for me. Any questions from the council? Yes, ma'am. I just want to Oh, I'm sorry. Comment. that I know two people who live
across the street from 319 and I just want to say that they um really commended the process of the demolition company. They thought they did a wonderful job. So it's important to share good stories um because I'm sure
there are often many alternative stories. Um so and in addition there was a resident who I guess you greeted at his store and he was very happy that you came by. So, I commend you for, you know, walking the beat on Avenue and
communicating with the residents. I think that's really important. So, thank you for that. Thank you. I I try my best so they don't come up here to this, right? Um, and I just wanted to ask about the new code enforcer. Is is this individual um full time, parti? Uh right now he'd
be considered uh uh seasonal uh with the idea of of you know making him full-time um after this after this summer. So seasonal full-time at the moment. Uh seasonal part time. Okay. Um, one of the things that that
I've always discovered, um, is, you know, when you hire folks, it's nice to have a little period when you get to know them, they get to know their position to make sure that that it's going to be a good thing. So hopefully
by the end of knowing that, um, thank you for 319 as well because I know it's a demolition is a dirty job and there's a lot of community concern around it and it's gone, you know, smoothly for a deconstruction project. So, thank you for shephering
that through. Um any any information or um on the um Park mobile, you mentioned the beach revenue. How's the Park mobile working? Any any feedback on that? Uh the park mobile is working well. We are running into some instances when
folks don't put in their right numbers and letters of their license plate. So, if you're off by a digit, uh, you get a ticket. Now, the good thing is when you can show, hey, I was off by a digit. I did pay. Uh, that ticket does
go away. Um, so, uh, there's a little bit of operator error uh, by the end user. But, um, that that and also if folks have pre-programmed cars and they have three cars in their park mobile, uh, they may have driven
the different one. it's the default. They just go to park mobile. They think they paid and in fact they paid for a car that's sitting in their driveway. So, um, we've run into some of those issues, but overall it's it's working really well. Thank you. And one other thing before I finish and
I want to thank Bashank for this. The demo company was able to save the bell in the uh in the church uh and that bell's ultimate house uh home will be uh at the school. So, uh right now looking
at the condition of the bell, see if we got to clean it up, not clean up, see what's kind of things we need to do to a bell that's god knows how old. Uh and then and then bring that to the school, our Department of Public Works, you know, mount it properly on some type of
a concrete pad so we can continue to uh continue to to have a a home here in Wasn't that funded from the school? Maybe Mr. can share that information. So interesting. Yes. I couldn't hear the question.
The bell. Bell. The bell. How what's the history of the bell? The history of the bell. The bell was purchased by the children of the parish in 1900. They collected the pennies and bought the bell. Um and
basically uh we thought it would be most appropriate to put it in the schoolyard. Superintendent agreed. Um, and I want to thank you for uh helping get it out. The demolition
people had a difficult time doing it, but they they did a good job. Um, in order to reduce the amount of money, um, that might have to be outlaid by the bureau on this, um, I already started
fundraising. And actually, uh, we have over $1,500 that we can apply towards things like a bronzeformational plaque or any kind of work we have to do in the color to make it more appealing.
So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, uh, Mr. Jordy. Thank you. I was going to make a similar comment to that offered by Councilman Greenlight. Uh, that construction project was a massive undertaking in the middle of a
residential neighborhood. I I know it didn't have its moments of challenge. um residents calling you with concerns, complaints, um you know, just about the dust or about how much water was being applied to control the dust or or
various things. uh watching you from my my courage on the road. I thought you did an amazing job especially being out and with the people talking to people just as council green mentioned I saw that happen on numerous occasions and um
and for all the challenges that came your way you handled them very well. So thank you for all that effort. Appreciate it. I appreciate it. Okay, that concludes the administrative report. It is time for mayor and council reports and I'm going to start with Councilman.
Go ahead. All right. Uh, everybody skip everybody. Skip the step. Skip the step. Listen, everybody loves our DPW and they do a great job. They make sure all your garbage and recycling gets out of uh out
of your yard every week. So, I want to ask people to help them by flattening your cardboard boxes. You are only taking up more space in either the K Cabota, if that comes by your house, or
in the uh even in the truck. Um, if you just leave your cardboard in its box form, flatten your cardboard boxes, please. Uh, you know, you say, "Ah, it's just one box and it goes into a big crusher." Yeah, but if 500 people leave their boxes on the front, it just at the end of the day it just takes up all that
much more space. So flatten them. Um, on the uh theme of good news or people saying good things about uh people, we got another very nice letter from uh a resident on Newark Avenue that wanted to compliment uh Mike at the DPW because uh
he simply requested when he saw uh Mike down at the DPW yard. He said, "Hey, we got this crooked street sign and it's been crooked for like years and I've tried to fix it and I've never I don't know what this guy tried to do to fix it and get it fixed by the town court." Um
but WW came and said yes and they fixed it. So that was great. Um congratulations Paul. It is super ironic that you were bestowed this uh honor at this meeting but it's welld deserved and congratulations nonetheless. And uh
finally everyone's going to hear from me on the church because I've been silenced on this for years. Uh and not anymore. So the last administration really went out of their way to silence me on this issue. Um but just to recap for everybody um you know in 20 because a
lot of people in town it's been so long people are like what why is this a controversy? How did we get to hear what happened? You know 2019 the mayor council at the time voted to buy the church. It was unanimous. It wasn't controversial at all. Uh and why did we
do that is because 500 people signed a petition to save the church. Uh we had a council meeting in this room that was standing room only and everybody except for one person was saying this church. And just even more context, it was the day after election day in 2019 that the
Camp Meeting Association of Ocean Grove, who owned it, put it up for sale. And that was really disappointing to me because I was like, I I just ran for election. I just knocked on almost every door in this town. And then have a team of people that knocked on every door in this town. It really would have been great to know that you were going to
sell this thing and then we could have asked people like, "How do you feel about that?" We, you know, got the pulse. I thought we got the pulse when 500 people signed a petition and packed this room and all that stuff. But um so I think you know the idea of course was to turn it into a community center. Um and I think you know the thought process
was was some of the following. Um our public facilities are really lacking. Uh and that's actually being charitable about it. Um, and you know, here's some of the real things that have happened in this town since we bought this church,
which to me highlight that we really could have used some extra public space uh, and a really nice community center. We have an arts council that has nowhere to put on the play. Shakespeare at the Beach was has been cancelled several
times because they put on Shakespeare at the Beach in the middle of summer and there's like 95 degree heat and they just had to cancel. Um really would have been nice if they had a place to move to and get that done. Um North Council, you know, they uses this, they use the
school for other performances, which really nice. The school lets them do that. Um I think that's not such a great idea for safety reasons. Um having hundreds of people in the school on for weekend performances kind of makes school security a heck of a lot harder
uh in the following week. Um it would just be better if the arts council had a space of their own. so to speak. Uh kids in this town, you know, kids in this town, I got kids, you know what they do after school a lot of times? They go to the library. Why do they go to the library? It's because there's nowhere
else for them to go. Um I have had adults tell me I was running for council that they don't use our library because there's so many kids there in afternoon. Um just would be great to have those kids have a place to go during CO.
Again, I have kids. sent them to recreation camp in the summer. And during CO, our recreation camp, they would have to send kids home if they're drained because our recreation center wasn't big enough to accommodate all the kids inside um with the social distancing rules that they had to
follow. So, would have been nice to have a bigger space for those kids to go. Um we have this great thing in town now we didn't really have back then, but songwriters on the beach. We've been really lucky. It doesn't really get rained out, but imagine if it was just pouring and all these people were looking forward to seeing some of these
artists. It would be great to have them have a place for them to go uh and have those performances. Um, we have a historical society that really doesn't have enough space to store and display all their artifacts. That has been a controversy in this room time and time
again. You know, the Aussie Center, they're kind of getting kicked out and all that stuff. Um, we don't have a place to show a movie, but we used to have a place to show a movie. the ATI center. I've used it myself. It wasn't great, but it worked. Um, at first some of that space was given over to the code
construction in offices. Um, first time with the knowledge and permission of the council, made the space a little smaller. You can still use it to show and whatnot. Uh, the second time it was done without the knowledge of or the consent of the council. Um, so now there's no it's no longer big enough to
set up 50 or 60 chairs and show a video or have a speaker or have a slideshow or anything like that. Um, sure we can ask the fire department and they're great. They have the largest when they can, but they can't always. They rent out their space for money. They need the money.
They need their rental income. And um, it can certainly cause a conflict for them when the town asks for their space and uh, and they want it for free. um with this, you know, idea of a community center. You know, we never really fully
explored the idea of leasing the space to somebody once it, you know, was fixed up and used um other towns have arrangements like this where they rent out their public spaces for weddings or events or they lease it to some kind of vendor or something like that. They pay us and when their lease is up, we still
own the building and our lease probably paid us to pay for improvements. um these things these kind of arrangements happen in other towns. Um foreshadowing the process uh where we knew this was going to be mismanaged um for years came right in
the beginning in the real estate transaction. Uh normally in a New Jersey real estate transaction the seller pays for asbestous removal but we didn't have a realtor involved who would have looked out for our interests um despite myself and other people arguing that we should have a realtor involved in the process.
Um, so at the end we had to pay for the asbestous removal. We're probably the only buyer of a property in the history of the state of New Jersey that paid for asbestous removals. Um, so obviously some people soured on the idea
of a community center somewhere along the lines. Um, I can't help but imagine that developers got in the ears of certain people and convinced them that it'd be much better to develop this property. Um, you know, some people would say look at the tax revenue the town's going to get, but everyone needs
to know that the the ratable chase, which is what I call that, the idea of de developing land so you get more uh properties to tax, the ratable chase is always always always a win proposition. Um, we have person on the council with 25
years of experience in construction management and they said there is no way, no way, no way, no way that fixing up that church cost $10 million. Absolutely no way. But even if it was going to cost $10 million
uh and the town voted not to spend it, that is the point in the whole story when I think we should have said, "Let's go after grants then so people won't have to spend money turning this into a community center." Um let's face it, there's grants for everything that would
have taken place in that uh community center. There are grants for recreation. There are grants for youth activities. There's grants for activities with seniors. There are grants for open space. There's grants for historic preservation. And these grants exist at all levels of government, local, state,
and federal. Um, I know for a fact that Congressman Frank's office has a staff person that is dedicated to nothing but grants and they would have gladly helped us if they were asked. And I know for a fact that they were never asked.
So of all the things that were mismanaged in the four-year saga of this church, um what bothers me the most is that people in the town did not even look for these grants. In fact, they said, "Here in this room, there's no grants. There's no grants." Um it was as
preposterous as it was dishonest. And you know, I know I think differently about this than a lot of people in town. Again, like I said, I'm raising kids here, but people have just moved here in the last four few years or people that just decided to finally come here um after having a summer home for a long
time. I guarantee that those people came from a town with a very nice community center. Um I don't even have to ask what town they came from. They came from a town with a community center. And uh so I understand people think about it
differently. I absolutely a different opinion again because I said raising kids here. So, um that may not be the last of it, but that was a big long thing about the church. So, appreciate you all indulging me in that. Um sorry some of the regulars weren't here to
hear all that, but that's my report. Thanks very much. Thank you, Council. The Arts Council met Monday, July 7th. Uh the arts council is hosting art workshop entitled Color My World.
Tuesday, July 29th at 400 p.m. for students in grades 2 through 6. Registration is required. Please go to the library events calendar. Um, a porch popup art exhibit will be held on August 23rd, 10:00 a.m. to 400 p.m. at James
Bradley for the sound meditation program at 1 p.m. There is currently a call for all local artists to submit your work. No fee to participate and all visual artwork is welcome. Finally, the arts council just rejoined Monmouth Arts and
will utilize the member benefits of this county arts organization. Okay. The Fletcher Lake Commission met on July 10th. The Fletcher Lake Commission wants to express its appreciation for the coordinated efforts by both Neptune Township and Bradley
Beach DPWs and mayors in effectively managing its lake levels during the early July storm. Swift and smart action quickly curved any possible flooding. The commission looks forward to meeting with the Silen Lake Commission to discuss concerns and best practices as
we see increased weather activities and wershed maintenance. They've canled their August meeting and will meet again in September. Uh, and now on to recreation. Uh, the rec camp had an awesome game of kickball last week. Cops and counselors
versus campers. And guess who won? Cops. Campers. Wow. In a 10 to6 victory. Thanks to the super amazing uh PE uh police department for coming and playing with the kids today. Today they got a visit from Ocean Oceans
Rock. Campers learned all about the ocean and even got to see and touch some coral, sharks, glowfish, and stingrays. Each camper got their very own ocean fossil to take home. Maan open play runs every Friday 1 to
3:00 p.m. at the Bazi Center. Radio bingo will be held on August 2nd, 600 pm at the fire hall. This rec event is co-hosted by the ladies auxiliary of the Bradley Beach Fire Department. Tickets are for sale are on sale now. Please contact Courtney Papus to purchase your
ticket. Be sure to check July's salted soul yoga program which can be found on the rec web page under beach yoga with salted soul. Recreation continues its fourth annual back- to-school bingo where any school age child can come to
the Bradley Beach Rec Center on August 17th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and play a few games of bingo. Every child in attendance will go home a winner with a great uh with a great appropriate backpack filled with school supplies. The rec department has purchased 150
backpacks which were generously donated by the Bradley Beach residents. Now they need to fill them. An Amazon wish list was created for those who would like to support the effort. Donations can also be dropped off at the Bradley Beach Recreation Center. The rec board's next
meeting is Monday, July 11, 6:30 p.m. at the rec center. And finally, I just want to uh send a personal shout out and thanks um to the governing body, mayor and council, for approving uh the
Monmouth Avenue block party permit. Um Paul and I were both in attendance there. We had 120 uh residents. It was a wonderful community event. And we also want to thank the police department and the DPW for helping set up for this. So,
thank you. That's Thank you, Councilwoman. I'll turn to Council President Denovo. All righty. Tourism met uh July 8th. The season has officially kicked off and it's going very well. They have also set the dates for pirate day, August 16th. They also set the date for Viva Brown
Beach, which will be September 13th. And Jazzfest for in February of 2026 will be February 6th through the 8th. The current balance in their trust is $91,000. They have so many great events that Amy
wanted me to share with you. Uh Tuesday nights doing swing dance lessons at the beach. Tomorrow, Jazz in the Park featuring String Bean, our very own Brad. Thursday, Brookdale um beach concerts. Friday you got DJ J at the beach. And
then this Saturday they have dual fiddles with Euro Bandit in the park. And also um Thursday I want to add too she's Amy created this new thing bubble show with face painting and music. It's geared for young children. It's in Riley
Park at u between 3 to 5. Shade Tree had their meeting July 2nd. They have two applications. 600 Ocean Park Avenue is removing one tree, planting one tree. 309 Brinley is removing three trees, planting six trees. And I want to thank them for that effort. And um they're
going to do the burrowwide tree planting September 28th. Their trust account is now $15,200. And um board of ed met uh June 24th. I did not get to report on that last time because I had laryngitis. So they um appointed David Tanzola once again as a
school business administrator, board secretary. They were awarded a grant for $88,000 to create an ADA compliant playground. And they also discussed about the church bell and they're looking forward to having that in their school grounds. And
um they also continue that tradition of collecting coins and now they use it to go to Washington DC. So, it's been a wonderful tradition and I want to thank Paul again for preserving a piece of Brown Beach history. Thank you.
Thank you, Council President. Councilman Wiki. Okay. We have police activity u the last two weeks a charged with a disorderly conduct of defiant defiant trespassing after the police respond to report of a squatter
on Main Street resident's porch. A 19-year-old subject was charged with possessing a false ID after police found him possession of fraudulent New Jersey driver's license, making him over the age of 21. Another local resident was charged with defiant trespassing after
police responded to an unwanted guest call for service. An Ocean Grove man was arrested and charged with theft after he was observed stealing a cell phone out of a bag belonging to a beachgoer who was rescuing. Another beachgoer observed this and notified the lifeguards who in
turn notified the police. Our special officers located and detained the subject and the investigation revealed he did in fact steal the phone. Police want to remind everyone to please keep all your valuables well hidden and hard to get to. And always be aware of your
belongings and report any suspicious behavior you might observe. So just don't leave things out on in the open on the beach. And hopefully you don't valuables down there with you. But um there are people out there working about and keep your eye on your things. Uh
with the assistance of the Adbury Park Police Department, a subject was also arrested on an outstanding warrant stemming from an assault incident. Uh the individual had been on the run for about a month before finally being apprehended. Our K9 units were deployed
for the annual fireworks event and uh to ensure a safe environment, uh the show went on without any incidents. And um the police also arrested two subjects on active contemporary court warrants uh during the last two weeks. And that's the uh police activity
report. Um first aid uh would like to report that the operational period ending July 15th. Uh the squad we responded to 15 day calls, eight night calls for a total of 24 calls. 12 are for medical, nine for fire. Three calls
involved water rescues. The squad provided mutual aid to Avon, Ocean Grove, and Neptune. The squad provided medical overwatch for the following fourth July fireworks display, the Army 63 National Guard, band concert park, and the Jack Wright memorial lifeguard
swim, Saturday and Sunday conducted one drill for the safety and education of the membership. The squad requested no mutual aid for this operational period. the squad filled 100% of their assignments for this operational period and they're still looking for volunteers
for the first aid squad. Uh we offer free training for qualified individuals. This is the advertisement. Uh any anyone wishing to volunteer for the first aid squad applications can be found on the port website. And then I'd also like to uh report on silver lake commission.
Tomorrow is our meeting. Um, as you noticed, we were talking about projects earlier today at the s uh the silver lake outlet gate. Um, there are multiple about half a dozen different projects that are going to be going on at the lake. Uh, so come to the meeting tomorrow if you'd like to hear more. Um,
but there are also um we'll be doing some workshops here in the near future based on what comes out of the commission recommendations and the projects as they as they get started to get developed. And then we're also looking to have a public awareness session probably early uh August uh that
will highlight the projects and the need and purpose of what needs to happen um for Southern Lake restoration. So it's it's a big program. Um it's going to have to uh critical for the health of the lake and the future of that lake. So, um, if you, you know, are
interested, please, uh, come out tomorrow and stay tuned for the upcoming information that we put out there, it's our report. Can you just ask what time the Silver Lake commission meeting is? Uh, 7 p.m. 7.
Yes, it's here. Yeah, it's it's here. Thank you, Councilman Wiki. Uh, for my report, I want to start out by also congratulating Mr. Champion. Uh, just It's an honor to be part of the governing body that was able to make you
uh the appointment to be our student. So, thank you for everything you do for our um I did want to mention a couple things. One, uh a month or two ago, we assembled a financial task force that group of
eight individuals. I see Peter here. I see Rick here. Anyone else? At least two of our eight members are actually here tonight. Thank you. But we are making slow progress because there's an awful lot for us to organize but u but only
recently we've uh we've collected some very important information from PNC bank we're continuing to collect more and from some other matters and anyone who may recall uh Fred even report one of the concerns raised was that we had these 26 accounts that the burough
didn't know about I as mayor coming in did not know about but we discovered it and we are tracking the history of those accounts. So, uh making slow but steady progress. I just want to let everybody know. Um our business administrator mentioned
this, but I want to uh reinforce that we are beefing up code enforcement. Um and with with a night towards the newest hire, Matt, as you mentioned, moving him from current part-time to a full-time position, uh we really want to begin to
do a better job of uh being more consistent in and have our followup on code. Um, and a very important early project that we are uh asking our new person to take on is in fact the coordinating with post compliance. And
for those of you who may recognize the name, Post Compliance is the entity that tracks Airbnb vehicles and other entities that do short-term rentals. We have an ordinance
that at least begins to uh monitor short-term rentals, gives them guidelines for operation. For example, that they have to have six and a half day stays uh that they have to complete landlord registrations and so forth. Um problem with our ordinance is it's
voluntary compliance. If people don't tell us they are a landlord, that they are renting their property, we're only going to find out if you know if a neighbor complains or something. But we don't have a way to overtly aggressively track that. Post compliance is a is an
entity that tracks advertise listings for short-term rentals and they track when we hire them as we have they track all rental activity short-term rental activity in Bradley Beach and they identify right down to the address who's renting and then they match up their
tracking against our landlord registration list and what we expect to find is 50 or 100 uh fs strengthing that are not registered landlords. So, uh, we're getting close. As Matt mentioned in his report, we hired an intern who's
going to help us make sure we've got a list that can be used by host compliance to do that match. But that's a very significant undertaking that I'm proud to announce the burrows making really good progress. Uh hopefully within the next week or two, we'll have that match
completed and we'll be able to automatically send out notices to those who are not compliant because all of their addresses will be uh coded into those compliance. They will be able to send automatic letters of non-compliance to those individuals.
Um my next few things are I realized I was writing out things I wanted to mention and one theme one overriding theme of this is the amazing collaboration and coordination uh this bureau has received
from our employees and our volunteers you know led by the police and DPW fire first aid OEM. So, I just want to say that please note that as I go through this quick checklist of things I wanted to mention, but it it's I probably
didn't fully appreciate it as a resident. I probably didn't appreciate fully appreciated as uh councilman for the past four and a half years. And I probably uh didn't fully appreciate it even in my first six months as mayor, but I just continue to be amazed at at the collaboration we have among our
employees and volunteers. For example, July 4th weekend, phenomenal event. I mean I was there with family with grandchildren. Um there were all kind what people don't know what I personally have not seen is the amount of coordination and collaboration between
all those entities OEM uh police fire first aid I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody DPW of course um identifying areas that you know where the command post would be and how they'd have people in certain designated areas how they manage the the traffic in and
out and so many things it was very impressive I mean I think I I was handed a 15 or 20 page binder by Bob Pel who's sitting here. So, thank you Bob. But the amazing amount of coordination done by this group and Norfar should mention as
well. Um was just phenomenal and of course the the event itself was was great entertainment for all. Um moved to the concert in the park this past weekend. Just a phenomenal show, a beautiful evening. You know, the weather cooled down. It was so comfortable.
Great entertainment. But once again, you look around and DPW the work they did setting up, breaking down the police and so forth, but just phenomenal effort there. Um, you know, I wanted to uh uh call out the parking. I mean, we talked
about it earlier how we re rearranged parking. What people don't really appreciate is the police were involved giving up the 15minute parking spaces. the police service can still involve reaching out to the state to make sure we you get all the uh formalities approved there. Um DPW and the work
they've done helping us figure out the configuration of the parking, figuring out what how where we put signs, where we don't put signs, fire and first aid giving the burrow access for burough employees to some of the parking up by the banquet hall. the collaboration among all these individuals is just
amazing and so few people probably have a full appreciation of that unless you're me right in the middle of all this. I just want to call all of these people out for the work they've done. Maybe u a very small illustration of collaboration and and sacrifice by our
employees uh is what I say for less. But we now have we the burough of Bradley Beach have a shared service agreement with Bradley Beach Elementary School. That might sound a little odd. You know, you don't typically think about sharing services within Bradley Beach, but the
uh the superintendent there, Michael Haidderleberg, came to us and said, "Hey, would you guys consider a shirt service with lawn maintenance and maybe snow removal and things like that that you, the burrow, do for the burrow? You don't do it for us, but we currently
pay, for example, $4,000 for lawn maintenance." And they itemized it. you know, this much for mowing the lawn, this much for moving trash, this much for mulching, but they're currently paying $4,000. And they said, would DPW be able to take any of this on? I talked
to Baja Kabone and he said, "Yeah, my guys without overtime just built into their existing schedules, my guys are going around town with all the right equipment, we can stop at and deal with the needs for the elementary school." And uh we didn't quote unquote price
that out or anything. We just said to the elementary school, listen, you're paying 4,000. Would you pay the burrow 2,000? You're saving 50% of your cost. You're saving taxpayers school taxes $2,000.
And you're giving the burrow revenue of 2,000. You're saving our residents taxes from the burrow the equivalent of 2,000. So, in total, we're saving taxpayers $4,000, thanks to the outreach by the elementary school to ask us if we could
collaborate. And thanks to the the the selfless, generous uh coordination offered by our DPW, Basha Kapone, and his team because uh even though it's small dollars, I think it's a powerful just realization how people in this burrow are working together to help the
burrow. So, uh, with that, I'll I'll conclude my report, but I just want to make sure everyone understood the support we have as a bureau. Uh, with that said, I will move to item 14 on the agenda, opening up to public comments and questions.
Rick, I'll make this quick. Ricky, 16th Avenue. Uh, three things. First of all, just everybody know that there is now food on the weekends on the concession stand in New York Avenue with the trailer and his prices are very
competitive as composed as compared to some of the other concession areas. So, it's something to look at. Uh, second of all, I want to thank uh for the going out of the bids for the um financial
analysis for the sewer sewers here. So, I know that's uh the budget scheduled to come in on August 6. And lastly, just to keep it open for everybody, just want people to understand that I'm still looking at trying to get the telephone
pole wires uh looked at and uh you know, phone call made to Ocean Grove probably way down on the list of things to do to start maybe doing something in that area. That's it. Thank you. This is administration.
Did you at least get a sandwich named after you at the concession? Because I think he deserve that. You should ask him after. I uh No, Anthony is very is he only works he works during regular week. I think he's an attorney. So, he can't he can't do there during the uh can't open
it up during the week, but he's he's al also trying trying to amend the menu uh to have breakfast there. He has some breakfast items now, but going to be very uh flexible on trying to see what people want to buy and then they'll they'll have that.
Great. Well, two things. One, our VA I think did you Yes. about the wires. Yes. Took the ocean. So, um it wasn't done by the municipal government. It was actually an individual who took
it on themselves. Municipal grassroots way of doing it. And um they started with one block, one side of a block and little by little they made progress throughout. So we don't want to mess with that. We want to
do everything at one time. But but we're already talking with them about how they were able to massage that because again on a telephone pole um there could be a variety of different cable providers.
I mean I would say electric's on all the way on top. out of the way, but there was Verizon, you could find some Sprint lines, WorldCom, MCI, if anyone remembers them, like they're still out there. Um, and there is a process to get
them cleaned up, which is a good thing. So, um, you know, Ocean Road can do it, but there's no reason why we couldn't do it by So, so we are working on it, but it's not as if the municipal government did it. So, we're we're going to have to do it
as as I I think the most effective way was the way they did it, which is, you know, going directly to the the BPU and then working through whatever companies are still around to remove those dead and also the ones that aren't dead to
clean them up so they're not sagging the tank. Rick, one other quick comment. As of this morning, uh we've been in touch with the concession on New York Avenue because there actually are a couple of um u applications they still need to go
through. I've talked to the owner directly. Uh in fact, one of the issues is they need to upgrade their electric and the burrow I've communicated will absorb that cost for our per hour concession here. But because of a couple of quick inspections that still need to
be done around different elements of their operation for their own safety, health net safety, they probably won't be cooking this weekend. They will they the expectations they will be for the rest of the summer, but it's going to be tight for this weekend. Just so you know, just so you're not disappointed
when you that that Rick burger burger. Yeah. Okay. Uh other questions or comments? Yes sir. Hi Bob West 518 New York Avenue. Two quick questions.
Seasonal code enforcement. Does that mean our year code? When you say he's a seasonal part-time code enforcement, he's currently a seasonal part-time employee agent. Okay.
And his job is code enforcement. As mayor mentioned, the goal was to make him full. Okay. When he's not here, we have other individuals enforcing code seasonal suggest. Yeah. Second, this is a generalized question.
Does level the water level at Silvin Lake seems extraordinarily low when you walk past the lake? Is that the normal level? Is that going to be the normal level? You know, there's there's significant problems with the lake. There's up to 7 foot of silt and
sediment that's collected over the years. That's part of the problem. The lake is very unhealthy and so a series of projects we're looking at to improve that. Um the water level is controlled based on you know rain storm events. Um and then depending on whether or not
we're going to have significant rainfall, we drop the water level in order to accommodate the flow coming in and we know that there's a dry spell. We basically we retain water. DPW manages the lake level. But the biggest problem
is that there's so much silt in that lake and then you only have so much freeboard above that. Um, and so what's happening is the bottom of that lake is, like I said, it's filled up to up to approximately seven feet until you know minimizing how much water we can actually store in that lake. And so
we're looking at all the projects that we need to do to basically restore the health of that lake, including looking at a water quality channel or some form of excavation. So So would the target level be higher? No. ultimately.
Well, what would happen is your bottom of the lake would get deeper and so you'd be able to have a deeper water level for maintaining a the top water from the bulkhead to the water level now
to fourt. So, is that making it lower now? Well, there's water that leak, but we've also put plastic up there trying to Yeah. So there is a management water level management but there is a optimum level of water that needs to be maintained in there and a certain height
on that water and so you know what two days ago we're expecting a big rainfall that was coming. So they allow the water level to drop because we know there's going to be a big storm event. Sometimes that storm event happens and sometimes it doesn't. So it's a management issue of
just the biggest problem is is that the none of the depth and so but so if you took the silt away the water would be deeper but the top the level water would still be 4t down right you want to maintain it based on a certain freeboard based on the potential
storms that coming in and and and to be quite honest we're not sophisticated enough with the understanding of the overall wershed coming down from Neptune Township and and Neptune um city um all the way from Lake Alberta waterfill
comes down um as well as coming from Bradley and so that whole watershed has an impact depending how waters you're in Alberta and um Moth County and the Neptune council are actually studying to try to figure out what is going on up
there and how that water is impacting us and so it's it's a more complicated problem than just the It's about what's coming into the lake and and how to manage. Joe is curious compared to like Fletcher Lake where the water's averaging one to two feet below
below the top of So are you saying what the bulkhead by anywhere the west side like the north end along Bradley Boulevard there? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But if you do Ocean Avenue you have less
of a head than you do up at at by um Main Street, you have a lot more freeboard at Main Street because the road is up higher on the ocean. But if you think about the elevation, you know, you have a higher wall at Main Street than you at, but the water level is basically at the
same elevation. So you do this variation water level. Okay. All right. Just always come down to the lakes over the me. Other questions or comments from the audience? Anyone on Zoom?
I see no one. I will Mr. That was quick. Paul the champion 41 Avenue. One final word about the church. Although I'm sure the subject is going to come up in the future.
John, thank you for venting a bit after being kept silent. too long. Um, for the public and the council, John only told half of the story. As far as grant money, you don't want to know
right now what I was told about grant money by the former administration, which was very available. We knew it and they kept kept anyway. Um in addition to the bell, um
one of the projects that the historical society is taking on is we're um taking a whole load of bricks from the site uh which we're going to clean up and we're going to be um fundraising with them. And there's already a great deal of
interest among former parishioners of the Methodist church. I wish they'd gotten really involved years ago. You might be able to say that they seem to have been in the dumps from the beginning having their parish really taken away from them
by United Methodists. uh but they're now showing up and uh in daily communication with several of them. We're very excited about having an event and the historical society will have one fairly soon where we will show
all the different artifacts that we've pulled out of the church. Thanks to the council and the mayor for letting us do that. We have two small stained glass windows. We we will be displaying the two large ones that we paid have taken
out are too large to display and they will be in storage hopefully if not forever. But uh until we have a place where we can show something that's 15t tall by 11 ft wide um
most of it storage. However, we pulled out a lot of other things including, as you know, the cornerstone pews and we also had artifacts from 10 years ago before the United Methodist Church
lost the church to the camp association and that exhibit will probably be in the next month or two. Thank you again for all your help. Thank you. Now seeing no further hands, comments, questions, I will uh close
public comment and move and and there is no executive session. So I make a motion to adjourn. Second all in favor. I thank you everyone. I ate all the
He was slowly trying to open it quiet.