That's great. Thank you. They didn't have many questions for me. on the side. What's the ideal structure? Any way you do it. Look at this guy. I mean, we know,
but you never know. also an individual maybe I was going to ask you well I get that score but what do we The essence of leadership at the end of the night was very kind
to not take advantage of what I came Certainly not me. Certainly not me. No, but it just a good time. But to come back and have it like starting to warm up, you got to see like the finish line.
three weeks ago. Too many people don't want to be good. Look at the weather. And so many I just
think it's not No, you want to looking. Well, you don't know what they're doing. You can still get on the beach, too. I know. You're a person. actually distraction.
It's called They were I saw the whole app. I'm so glad you're here. I'm just outside. I I recently got like a positive energy candle.
Oh, good. And he didn't Call this meeting to order. Stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. I wish to announce that the 48 hour notice is required under the open public meetings act was emailed to the park press the co-star and the new coaster on December the 19th of 2024 that a copy has been placed on the bulletin board in the burough office and
that a copy has been filed with the burough clerk. Mr. Noble here Miss Greenlab here Mr. Nikki here Mr. Weber excused. Mayor Dubatosi here. Okay. Welcome everyone this evening to our special meeting called for very
special uh reason. We're very excited about the proceedings that we uh have planned for tonight. Um uh we have completed roll call. So I'm going to move to item five on our agenda which is public comment. Uh please feel
free to comment about anything on the agenda or not on the agenda. You'll notice if you look ahead on the agenda, there is no scheduled public comment at the end of the meeting. Any comments or questions? Okay, seeing none, we'll move
on to our resolutions. Um, these are all individual resolutions. 2025-158 is awarding a non-fair and open professional services contract to Government Education Solutions LLC and appointing Janette and Larrison as our
temporary chief financial officer of the Burough Bradley Beach at an amount not to exceed $120,000. Discussion of comments from the council. Do you have comments? I have a couple of quick comments. I'll follow. How did you
know? No, no, no. You go. No, no, no. I want to follow up with yours. I want I don't want to steal your thunder. So, go ahead. Um, for for those in the room, for those possibly watching now or at a later date on Zoom, um, we've been through a pretty tumultuous week or so,
not much more than a week, I guess. Um, where we, uh, our last CFO, uh, resigned somewhat unexpectedly. There was, I will describe it as just strong differences of opinion. and uh we had to mobilize pretty quickly to find another CFO
resource and I could not be happier than uh to have found the person that we're going to hopefully vote for in a few minutes. But uh Janette Larrison uh is a CEO CFO in a number of counts has done this for many years. Um, I, as I
mentioned, I was fortunate to find her fairly quickly and u, I have every intention of voting yes on this when we get to it. But Jane, I'll turn it over to you. Well, I just want to thank you and all your hard work because I know there was a little bit of a question of
what was being submitted for our local 152 and um, Al was correct on his numbers and Janette has verified that as well. And I think after the local 152 had a lot of patience. It's two years they were waiting for this contract and
uh they were very dedicated. They could have went on strike. They could have walked away, but they didn't. And to think that they might have been short changed is truly tragic. And I'm glad you stuck to your guns. And I'm glad Janette, you agreed with his numbers. And um I want to thank you in advance
and I want to thank you again for really keeping eye on our employees. And you also do it for all our residents as well. and it is truly appreciated. Thank you, ma'am. Well, thank you. Any other comments or discussion? I'll just add to that that um when all this came to the
forefront um in my discussions with the mayor um it was important that we received a third party although we all had and I had looked at his calculations um and had high confidence in them. Um you never know what you don't know. And so I felt it was extremely important to
have a third party review those numbers and validate. You know, I think it's trust but verify and I trust the mayor, but we needed to verify and so again, I think that you took the right actions very professionally to ensure that we were doing the right thing for our employees and for the burough. So again,
thank you. Well, thank you all for the comments. I guess on that particular note, I'll say that I was very confident that I was accurate and I was cautioned by our attorney, by members of this council to still get a second
professional opinion, which I absolutely did. So, uh, for all these reasons, I'm really just thrilled that we're at a place now where we can move forward and continue continue to do good work for the burough. So with that said, I will make a motion that we approve resolution
2025-158 awarding the nonfair and open professional services contract to government educational solutions. Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Greenblad. Yes. Mr. Niki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Excuse. Mayor Hubosi. Yes. I'd like to uh pause
here just for a minute because um Janette, I I mentioned to you if you'd like to just stand up and quickly introduce yourself to folks. Sure. Sure. love to get used to. So, my name is uh as I mentioned Larrison. I've been in municipal government for 20 years. I've
done all facets. I have multiple licenses, CFO, um a purchasing agent, municipal clerk's license. I've also been an instructor for Ruckers, for um government, for tax collection. I have my tax collection
license, too. I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, so I just went for everything. Um, so I'm very excited to come and work for you in your town and hope that I can help to write
some of the, you know, the listing shift that has you've been experiencing. I am very open to any, you know, questions or comments, anything that you have that I can help with. You know, you can reach me through the email that the, um,
burrow is going to set up for me. And, um, you know, always at your disposal. I do not work for the community. So, whatever you need from me, I'm happy to help and I hope that I can help, you know. So, that's why it's a temporary situation and we'll we'll see how that goes. Well, thank you very much. There's
no move that way. You'll be a great help. And, uh, Miss Larrison plans to jump right in where the prior CFO left off. As most of you recall, we just a week or so ago uh, introduced our 2025 budget. Now, there's a process involved
in just posting that budget to systems that only our CFO can access and she's prepared to do that uh sometime after this meeting. Uh and shortly thereafter, that may be a week or maybe two once she's had more time to come up to speed
on our budget, we will be hosting uh some form some form of a meeting. It might be an open house and maybe a formal council meeting. Um but we want to make sure she's available to deal with questions from the public and we that out over the next week or two. So,
with that said, thank you again. Welcome aboard. In fact, thank you for the time. We'll move on to resolution 2025-159 approving a professional services contract with the Canning Group LLC appointing Shan Panning as qualified
purchasing agent at a cost not to exceed $10,000. Um, comments or questions? I I'll make one comment. Sure. Um Mr. Canning is uh if anyone who gets a chance to see the proposal we put together and his resume uh is uh has an
amazing set of credentials. He also was highly recommended to us by Miss Larrison uh who she has worked with him for many years. Um and uh and as you will see in the course of the evening, the the previous
um QPA uh was part of the previous CFO's firm. So when our CFO resigned, the prior QPA resigned as well. So uh we're very thankful to Mr. Canning for also jumping into the brereech and again to Mrs. Larrison for recommending it to us.
That said, I'll make a motion that we approve 2025-159 approving a professional services contract for the Cany Group LLC. Second, Mr. Noble? Yes. Miss Greenblat? Yes. Mr. Nikki? Yes. Mr. Weber, excuse. Mayor Rubzi. Yes.
2025-160 is the resolution terminating the qualified purchasing agent Brenda Sprigman of PM Consultants LLC. Any discussion? Uh, seeing And I will make a motion that we uh approve
2025-160 terminating the qualified purchasing agent Brenda Springman of PM Consultants. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Greenlat. Mr. Noiki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Excuse. Mayor Gubosi. Yes.
2025-161. a resolution accepting the termination of PM Consultants LLC as uh the temporary chief financial officer of the burrow. Um any discussion? Okay, seeing none. I'm sorry. I'm just
wondering if you can give a little bit of information of how we got to this point this CFO the private CFO just so community can understand better. Yes, I I I can to a degree at least. Uh
I referenced it earlier but we had a significant disagreement in terms of the processing of our union's retro checks. Um we just had an impass. We reach an impass in our
ability to work together to reconcile differences that that uh myself and uh and this firm had identified and um you know rather than work through the
further he felt that it was his his need to resign uh and I was willingly accepted that resignation. So beyond that, you know, he's got a professional career and uh I'm not going to cast dispersions in that direction. We just
agreed to disagree. What I will say, we agreed to disagree very strongly on this issue that was raised about the retro payments. In terms of the work uh that was performed uh for as a CFO, I thought
the work was outstanding and I was very pleased with Mr. work. So, I hope that's sufficient because that's about all I can share. Um, if there's no other questions or discussion, I'll make a motion that we
approve 2025-161, a resolution accepting the termination of PM Consultants LLC. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Miss Greenwood, yes. Mr. Noi, yes. Mr. Weber, excuse.
Mayor Gossi, yes. 2025-162 amending burough bank account signitories. Any discussion? This is something that that has to be done at this point. Correct. And um was wasn't
actually up to date. Correct. Uh primarily not up to date because we're changing CFOs, right? that wasn't uh I think the former CFO from we are administration was still the signatory right that's way that is why we're changing yes
so it really is just you know housekeeping house cleaning and uh hopefully after today we'll be totally up to speed um any further questions or discussion okay uh I will make a motion
that we approve 2025-162 amending burough banking signatorries. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Miss Ringlet, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, excused. Mayor Gubetzi, yes. Uh
2025-163 approving a contract with Gov Pilot to provide proprietary computer software and related support services. Questions or discussion? Well, as you know, I'm not very excited about this. um you know the opportunities it can it
can provide to us for more greater efficiency of information. So um I think you had indicated that the council will have access to this and public will also yes I'll elaborate on that. Oh go ahead
and elaborate. Okay. So, uh I I don't want to steal too much of your thunder, council president, because uh council president Denovo and I were in uh Atlantic City for the lead municipalities back in December. And uh
we we met the folks that operate Guff Pilot. And by the way, Guff Pilot is our um the firm that handles a lot of our administration today. But the two of us were very concerned. We expressed our concerns to them because um uh their
predecessor firm uh SDL portal was much more transparent to the public, much more accessible to the public. The public was able to look up uh all kinds of information on their portal and go pilot I think it definitely surprised me and I think said the same for the
council president. They said well we have modules that offer really good access to the public as well. the prior administration had asked them to shut those down. So they are now we are rehiring them renewing with them but
we've asked them to open up those other modules. So uh to council woman Gblad's point not only the council members but every resident will be able to go onto this website and you know be able to understand status of properties around them or in in the burough. So I think
it's a it's a capability that has always existed. We just were not taking advantage of it. we will going forward. And like you said, the transparency, it's so important. Sometimes you want to just look up your house and see how many times they had a permit, what happened, and you couldn't do that. You'd have to
open your own information and um sometimes you see a neighbor working on something, you think, "Oh, that doesn't look like it's, you know, might need a variance." So now you could just go on this and you could look at it and not have to get an Oprah. So it's more efficient, it's more transparent, and um
I'm glad it's back. And I know it's a different company, but this will help a lot of residents. I'm very happy with that. And and we, you know, I at least uh question whether or not we should consider returning to the SDL portal, which I also just enjoyed as a you the
access to that as a resident, but uh Gov Pilot is very highly regarded by our employees. They they're already utilizing all their modules. They're getting great data, great support. So it really became a blue, you know, point of mine to consider any change once we knew
they could open up the modules for full transparency. So may I ask if it's reasonable to have a workshop where they present how it how it functions or is it relatively self-explanatory? I think it's totally reasonable that you
asked and I think we can absolutely try to do that a little down the road though because I would say it's probably a lower priority but certainly before the end of the year we we'll try to do that. Um would someone else like to make a
motion 2025 163? This is interesting. I've been the show question. What would be a time frame of this? They they are implemented. We're uh renewaling a contract, but the modules I think is flipping a switch. Flipping a switch.
Yeah. All the data is there. So, okay. I'd like to make a motion that we approve 2025-163. Do I have a second? Second. Oh, shoot. Yes.
Mlet. Yes. M. Yes. Mr. Uh, Mr. Weber, excuse Mayor Guboszi. Yes. And now, as I mentioned to everyone, there is no uh additional comment this evening. We are at item seven on the agenda, which is
adjournment. I will make a motion to adjourn. Second, Mr. K, you hear the public comments at the beginning. Should we should we ask for second? Okay. Oh,
okay. Um, are you adjourning or what do you know? I swear. Okay. Thank you. I thank you everyone. We got so mad at Right. What does that mean? Yeah.