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MEETING SECTIONS:

Part 1 (Video ID: V2vbvWNFsY8):
- 00:03:02: Backyard Banter, Film Ready Reply, Carmela Story
- 00:09:22: Pledge of Allegiance, Meeting Open, Roll Call
- 00:11:30: 30+ Years Recognition Ceremony Introduction and Welcome
- 00:12:23: Morris Tam JR.'s 31 Years Recognition Speech
- 00:15:56: G's 32 Years of Service Recognition Ceremony
- 00:19:13: Michelle Wy's 30 Years of Service Recognition
- 00:24:52: Acknowledgements, Public Works and Municipal Clerks Proclamations
- 00:29:34: Budget Introduction, Municipal Taxes, Property Tax Breakdown
- 00:34:29: Tax Levy Increase, Cost Drivers, and New Revenue
- 00:42:23: Church Property Sale Proceeds Usage Explained
- 00:52:26: Council Comments on Budget and CFO Appreciation
- 00:57:24: Public Budget Document Announcement and Questions
- 00:58:12: Public Comment: Budget Hearing Date Correction
- 00:58:45: Public Comment: Bond Payment Terms and Investments
- 01:01:43: Motion: Budget Introduction Resolution Approved
- 01:02:14: Motion: Approval of Minutes April 21, 2026
- 01:02:45: Motion: Open Public Agenda for Questions
- 01:03:01: Ordinance Introductions: Zoning Correction, Dumpsters, Bamboo
- 01:11:04: Ordinance Adoption Discussion: Lead Based Paint
- 01:13:14: Public Hearing: Lead Based Paint Enforcement
- 01:18:54: Ordinance Adoption Vote: Lead Based Paint Approved
- 01:20:16: Ordinance Adoption Discussion: Fair Share Housing
- 01:22:09: Ordinance Adoption Vote: Fair Share Housing Approved
- 01:22:42: Resolutions: Consent Agenda Approved
- 01:23:14: Resolutions: Block Party Approval Discussion & Vote
- 01:24:52: Resolutions: Elementary School Shared Services Agreement
- 01:25:41: Resolutions: Dumpster Hauling Services Contract
- 01:26:15: Resolution Discussion: Parking Permit Fees Increase
- 01:32:15: Parking Permit Fees - $2 Weekday & Weekend Approved
- 01:32:31: Resolutions: Emergency Appropriations Approved
- 01:33:16: Resolutions: Cancelling Certain Balances; Accounts Closed
- 01:35:06: Administrator's Report: Budget Savings and Projects Update
- 01:44:19: Councilman Clark Reports: EC, Fire, and First Aid
- 01:45:59: Council President's Report: Tourism, Shade Tree, School
- 01:50:39: Councilwoman Greenblat Reports: Rec, Arts, Fletcher Lake, Blowers
- 01:56:33: Councilman Noiki Reports: Police and Silven Lake Update
- 02:06:26: Mayor Reports: Sylven Lake Update, Libraries, and Gas Blowers
- 02:09:28: Public Comments: Library, Beach, and Rec Updates
- 02:15:27: Public Comment: Alternative Solutions on Gas Blowers
- 02:18:59: Public Comment: Question Block Party Sunset Time
- 02:21:03: Motion: Move To Executive Session Approved


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Yeah. >> Yeah. I'm going to do backyard just >> what was this yesterday. >> How are you? >> How are you?

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That's me. >> No problem. >> Yeah, I reply to somebody about the film ready. They want to meet with us. >> Okay. I saw it, but I didn't. >> Yeah. I didn't know like >> that's I think you should give me the meaning.

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>> It's still ready. >> What is that name from? >> Is that Carmela? >> He's got a good story. >> Okay. Well, now there's definitely

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something. Well, I ran a >> record safety things. have a few other >> I think for the next we may get in the debt. No, I don't think so. >> No, I can pick it up.

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Yeah. >> Well, you must Yes, actually. No, 31. G is 30 and Michelle's >> 30. >> I'm just going to print it out at this point. >> Okay. I think you're enjoying this too much.

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>> You're enjoying this too much. >> Perfect time. Good. Erica TJ have the flashlight on the back. >> Your face is kind of flat. Is it really doing anything? because it's really it's

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improving now. It's horrible. >> We're going to put sunlight so I don't know. >> Just turn bright. >> Hit the flashlight. >> There you go. >> Thank you. >> Not going to make him. >> That's not going to light up the room.

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>> No, he had no idea. >> 30 anniversary. >> I'll move the order out of the way. You guys will >> Yeah. Okay. We're going to start the next order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible and >> Yeah. Well, we can all go home.

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>> There we go. >> Thank you, Erica. >> Thank you, Eric. >> And we are ready for roll call. Eric, open public meetings. I wish to announce the 48 hour notice is required under the open public meetings

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act was emailed to the Aspbury Clark Press, the co-star and the new coaster on December the 18th of 2025 that a copy has been placed on the bulletin board in the burough office and that a copy has been filed with the municipal clerk. Please be advised public attendance for meetings through Zoom is not mandatory

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and a courtesy only. If for any reason Zoom fails or is disconnected, the in-person meeting will continue without interruption and action can and will be taken providing that there is an in-person council quorum. Mr. Noble >> here, >> Miss Greenlat >> here, Mr. Cora >> here,

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>> Mr. Nikki here, >> Mayor Kubatosi >> here. Uh, welcome everybody. We've got a nice turnup tonight and I know why. We have some very important uh presentations that we're going to make in a minute. Uh welcome also to folks

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joining us on Zoom. Beautiful summer feeling day finally and uh I think we are all ready to roll. So we took the liberty of changing the order of our agenda uh this evening. Uh the big part of the agenda is going to be a workshop where we're going to talk a little bit

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about the 2026 budget. But before then we want to move right into some very important presentations. Um, and the council is going to come down to the floor because we want to recognize three Bradley Beach employees who have loyally, faithfully, dedicatedly served

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this bureau for 30 years and beyond. And you'll hear a little bit more about that in one minute. So, guys, you want to join me now? >> Yes. where >> that's okay. I'll just start with a pair.

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>> So, we're going to start with someone that many of you may not recognize, Morris. We know him as JR. Be careful like this. >> Okay.

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Turn around. U folks may not realize this. This is basically meant to be 30-year acknowledgement of anniversaries. This guy said to 31, right? So J.R. the folks tonight, you are you've exceeded 30. And all I can tell you is I've been with the

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burrow as a as a council person, mayor uh six years, a little over six years. In those six years, I have seen so much more than the average resident would see in terms of what our burough employees do to contribute to every aspect of our

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everyday life. A lot of you guys see uh our DPW folks maybe a little bit more because they're out on the streets. to work in our parks and recycling and all that. JR is a true leader among that wonderful group. So, I know we've got a

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number of his colleagues here in the audience tonight to to uh wish you well, but most importantly coming from me and from this council, uh the work you do for this burough and the fact that you've been doing it for 31 years is just amazing and really greatly appreciated. So,

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Tell everybody that I got to thank you for helping me. So I will I will read this to to you JR but it says Morris Tam Jr. in grateful recognition of over 30 years of unwavering loyal service to Bradley

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Beach and our residents. Your dedication, steadfast commitment, and ongoing contributions to our burough have strengthened our community and will leave a lasting and meaningful legacy for all. >> Thank you. >> Take a picture of you holding it. So

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that in the box for you. Okay. Okay, sure. >> Everybody that's perfectly fine. like our director of PPW. Find some way to get the to come to a house.

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And this is how we do it. G, I'll let you open the flashlight while you do that. Yeah, I know. I mean, again, I've known him first as a resident. Uh, obviously the last five, six years, mayor, council, um,

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this guy probably more than any single person in the burrow, uh, makes the council makes the mayor look good. I mean, everything he and his people do are very visible to our public. And we we you know it's normal in municipality

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to have individuals in the greater public criticize something about the burrows. I don't know how they always find things to criticize me personally about it. But the one person I truly never is criticized is the man standing at my right because everything he does

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is focused on Bradley Beach. How to make Bradley Beach better. how to make capital look better and maybe most importantly how to deliver excellent top-notch service to our residents. So Jake I personally got thank you so much

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for that 32. We got a we got a flag is uh all right let me let me finally this is in grateful recognition of over 30 years of unwavering loyal service to Bradley Beach and our residents. Your dedication, steadfast commitment and

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ongoing contributions to our burrow have strengthened our community and will leave a lasting and meaningful legacy for all. Thank you and could not be more I want to say one thing about JR. It's actually 35 years of service. >> Really? He was four years of seasonal

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part-time employment. So, he's been here a lot longer than all of us. Wow. >> Do we get uh children and wife? My son is got stuck in the train. He's coming here. Get him in here. Justin, we're going to do a box.

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>> Let's give Justin more time to Steve to prepare. >> He made it. >> We were all waiting. see the Lord. That's for sure.

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>> God bless their mother. >> Great. >> I like to say I'd like to say just one thing. It's 30 years of service and I and I appreciate this award, but the residents of the burrow allowed me to stay here for as long as I, you know,

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have been here and they put my kids through college and I couldn't be more thankful. >> Where is >> somebody's hiding? Now, who's maning the >> Michelle Wy? >> Another 30 years. As is it this far?

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This last month? Last. Okay. As of April, 30 years for Michelle Wy. Many of you knew Michelle uh back in the day when she ran the the front office, the window there. Uh finally many many years later you were

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allowed to hide in a really luxurious 20 after about 20 years. So now she's got a suite that looks way better than the mayor's office. And when I first came in as mayor I said hey this is a nice looking office and wish I get out. >> So anyway welld deserved well earned the

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the trap things that you have now. Most importantly, while I I mentioned our DPW brethren are, you know, just killing it out in the out of the world, you keep everything moving at home right here in the home office. And when I've talked to

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I mean, I've known Michelle for a number of years, probably even before I was on council, at least you and my wife were friends. But, uh, again, it's a learning experience being on council, being the mayor. It's a learning experience as to how much people do. And in a small town like Bradley where we have five or so

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employees in in our main office, they all wear multiple hats. So Michelle's doing weddings and licensing and uh you you just yesterday she was explaining how the gazebo works and how you know where people how people fund it and blah

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blah blah. And what amazes me is no matter what question I have for Michelle, she can answer. If she doesn't answer it immediately, she answers it within 15 20 minutes. The woman is a true answer person to everything we do in Bradley. And again, the average resident might not fully

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appreciate the roles that these employees play. But trust me, and I think the council would attest without these individuals. I've said to my wife, I don't need the mayor, I don't need to be here because these guys run the deaf. I just come in, give a little direction.

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Usually they they they tell me a better way to do it anyway, but uh these employees run this burrow and they run it beautifully. So Michelle, you're the kingpin behind home office. So >> thank you. >> Congratulations. >> And then let us give you

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a hold on these glasses. Unfortunately, Michelle Wy, in grateful recognition of over 30 years of unwavering loyal service to Bradley Beach and our residents, your dedication, steadfast commitment, and

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ongoing contributions to our burough have strengthened our community and will leave a lasting and meaningful legacy for us all. Thank you. Michelle from the staff just lost. Let me just get one picture. We're

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buying flowers after this part family. I can't wait. >> Get in there. >> Excellent. Get behind you, Jr. And the sh for a picture of this. >> Make sure you take that. >> Okay.

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Be very careful. I thought this is great. I think this might be a good job with all three together. >> Okay. Perfect. >> The speech shows We got to work together. Okay,

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that was >> that was a lot of fun to uh get those folks up here and just give them a quick, you know, one minute recognition for 30 plus years of service. Um, but so

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many people just don't fully appreciate the contributions these individuals make and uh I think having this little ceremony. I want to thank our clerks for helping us pull together the the plaques themselves, Mr. Dhy for helping us organize this event. Um, and we really

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need to we really need to do a very good job continuing to recognize employees and the contributions they're making to the burough. Um, okay. So that said, let's get to what really is the uh most important element of our meeting today,

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and that is the uh 2026 budget introduction. Oh, I'm sorry. We have two more presentations to make. Thank you so much. One is a proclamation because it is also public works week and I'll turn

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to uh councilwoman Greenl. >> Thank you, mayor. Uh this is National Public Works Week. So whereas public works services provided in our community are an integral part of our citizens everyday lives and whereas the support of an understanding and informed public

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is vital to the efficient operation of public works systems and programs including water, sewer, streets, public buildings, solid waste collection, landfill, wastewater disposal, code enforcement and engineering to provide essential services to our citizens.

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Whereas the health, safety, and comfort of this community greatly depends on these facilities and services. And whereas the quality and effectiveness of these facilities as well as their planning, design, and construction is vitally dependent upon the efforts and skills of public works officials. And

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whereas the efficiency of the qualified and dedicated personnel who staff the public works departments is materially influenced by the people's attitude and understanding the importance of the work they perform. Now therefore be it resolved the governing body of the Burrow of Bradley Beach do hereby

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proclaim the week of May 18th to the 25th 24th 2026 as public works week building for today planning for tomorrow in the bur of Bradley Beach and call upon all citizens and civic organizations to acquaint

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themselves with the issues involved in providing our public works and to recognize the contributions which public works officials make every day to our health, safety, comfort, and quality of life. Thank you. >> Thank you.

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>> Now turn to council president denobyl read another pro proclamation focused in particular on a woman sitting down to my immediate left. >> Uhhuh. It is the fifth oh the 57th annual professional municipal clerk's week. Whereas the office of the

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professional municipal clerk, a timehonored and vital part of local government, exists throughout the world. And the office of the professional municipal clerk is the oldest among public servants. Not Erica though, she's our youngest. The office of the professional municipal

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clerk provides the professional link between the citizens, the local governing bodies, and agencies of government at other levels. And whereas professional municipal clerks have pledged to be ever mindful of their neutrality and impartiality,

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rendering equal service to all. And whereas the professional municipal clerk serves as the information center and functions of local government and community. And whereas the professional municipal clerks continually strive to improve the administration of the affairs of the office of the

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professional municipal clerk through participation in education programs, seminars, workshops, and the annual meetings of their state, provincial, county, and international professional organizations. It is most appropriate that we recognize the accomplishments of

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the office of the professional municipal clerk. Now therefore be it resolved governing body of the Burough of Riley Beach do recognize the week of May 3rd through the 9th 2026 as professional municipal clerks week and further extend

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appreciation to all professional municipal clerk clerks for their vital services that they perform and their dedication to the communities that they represent. Dated this 5th day of May 2026. and Michelle.

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>> That's right. And Michelle, our deputy clerk. >> Yes. >> Um, all right. Now, we will move to item six on the agenda, which is our 2026 budget introduction workshop. Everyone who joined us, thank you so much. >> Thanks, guys.

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>> Perfect time to stay. >> Happy Mother's Day, by the way. >> All right. So, uh, our CFO, Mr. Mitch Sim, has been introduced to the public before, but for those of you who are not aware, Mr. Sim joined us a couple months ago. Three months ago, Mitch roughly

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feels like it, but it's only been about seven. >> Okay. Almost two. Uh, nonetheless, uh, you are here tonight to help us introduce our 2026 budget. And I'm going to turn the floor over to you. Thank you. >> Lead the workshop.

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Blur one, thanks for coming tonight. Um, this will be the the introduction of the budget. Um, we'll be uh documenting the budget on the 5th of June. So, um, if you want to if you have any questions in the interim, there's going

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to be a slide with my email address on it at the end of the presentation. And, uh, you guys can email me any questions you have, I'll do my best to respond to you. And, uh, wait on the slideshow. And uh is Michelle aware because I hope

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so. Okay, she she's clean. She got a little ward. She's calling. >> And Mitch, before you start, let me mention something also to the public. Uh ladies and gentlemen, tonight as we introduce the budget, Mr. Simon's going to provide an overview of some, you

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know, broad overview of key issues in developing the budget. We're not going to speak specifically about detail line items in the budget tonight. But after tonight's presentation, whether it be later this evening or early tomorrow about a 100page budget document will be

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posted to our website. Uh the public will have 30 days to review that. As Mr. Sims said, you can ask him questions over these 30 days. 30 days from today on June 5th, we will have a budget adoption meeting and a public hearing

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and that can go as long as we all need it to go to make sure that we the council address any concerns, questions you have. But, uh, for tonight, this is really meant to be an overview, give everyone a sense of how we got to where we are, give you a kind of a bottom line

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on top overview, and then a lot of detail to follow. Like I said, 100page document tomorrow. >> Thank you very much. Uh, next slide. All right. So, this just is an overview of uh where your taxes go. You take you get your tax bill. Here's kind of the

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breakdown. uh 34% of your taxes go to the schools, 26 uh% to the county, 4% to the local library here in town, and 39% of your taxes go to for the uh

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municipal budget. And uh we'll be uh speaking to the municipal portion. Uh I'm sure you all understand as I wellinformed uh audience it's always here that the only portion of the taxes that we control that the man

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council controls is the municipal tax portion and that's what we'll be speaking about today. Go ahead Michelle. So this just kind of goes over what uh your local taxes to for uh our infrastructure and roadways, police,

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um our public works, our waste and recycling removal, um engineering, our courts, tax collection, the registar for marriage licenses, and certificates and all sorts of needs like that. Uh zoning, code enforcement, and uh I mentioned

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recycling before. Also, there's quality of life issues that we take care of here in town. Uh we have our burough parks, we have uh our excellent recreation programs, uh we maintain our our playing fields and and playgrounds and facilities. We have a council for the arts here that we

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fund through our municipal budget. Um we have a number of community events. We have the Memorial Day parade coming up for instance that's funded through the municipal budget. Um we have our excellent summer camp program here and of course the burn library. all that's a

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part of what we do as a parable. Uh go ahead. Next. So, this is kind of the the main uh takeaway here. It's it's the it's what uh we're actually required to present in this particular budget, which is the tax levy, which is going up about $400,000

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this year, which represents a 4.7% increase in your municipal taxes. um and uh uh versus versus last year um there's really not the other thing I wanted to point out is the tax rate is

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actually down uh but because as all of you know the values of their properties have gone up simultaneously even though the rate is down 5% because the values property values of 10% that nets out to about a 5% tax increase. So that's

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that's where we are on our uh our municipal taxes this year. I'm going to the next couple slides we're going to explain a little bit about uh what are the main factors driving uh the uh 4.7% tax increase. Go ahead.

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Um actually uh if you can skip forward to the next slide. I'm going to talk about that. I kind of I think it's a little better to talk about this one first. So, um, so the main appropriations that we have in this year's budget, the things that are really driving the cost

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increase is we had $350,000 of, uh, union retro payments that we had to pay this year. Um, we, uh, because a number of our union workers were working out of contract for a number of years, uh, unfortunately, prior administrations did not acrew

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enough money to to make those payments. What's supposed to happen is if you know that your workers are working without a contract in anticipation of the fact that they're going to have standard raises, you're supposed to put money aside to make those payments. Unfortunately, uh that did not occur to

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the extent that it needed to and as a result, we were $350,000 short in that fund. So, that's one of the major drivers. Um the other major driver is we had a a number of different lawsuits uh that we're also having to pay for this

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year in the amount of about $200,000 and um that we'll have to essentially pay for in this year's budget. And uh those lawsuits typically with a lawsuit if if there's a slip and fall incident

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or something like that, we have insurance that covers those kind of lawsuits. But if it's a if it's a salary dispute then the burrow is responsible for that. And um so we had to come up with those funds as well. That's a major driver. And then the last one which is

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not just affected in Bradley Beach and I don't know there's actually been a number of newspaper articles about this is there's an enormous uh increase in health care costs. I mean, families are seeing that, you know, whether they're insured privately or whether you're doing work, you there are costs that

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have been going up, but in particular, uh, the bureau is a part of the state health benefits, uh, program. And that saw about a 30 to 37 >> 37 >> 37% Yeah. 37 half% uh, increase this

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year across the board. So that's where we have uh this third number on the left side, the $497,000 in healthcare and medical costs. And uh so all things being equal, we're looking at about an extra million of costs. But like I said on the prior slide, we only

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had a $400,000 tax increase. Well, how did we do that? What are we we were able to generate additional revenue that we didn't have in prior years? And that's outlined on the right half of this slide. So we have

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uh healthcare difference card. It's part of our healthcare programs that gave us savings. We have a number of different shared services uh including shared port services where we negotiated new contracts. We increased some of the uh revenue that we're getting as a result

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of that. We also have a new shared service with uh Neptune City that's sharing $80,000 in new revenue this year. So that's part of that $100,000. And then below that, we also have a $50,000 shared service with Neptune City for a shared recreation director. So,

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that's a a new thing that just happened this year at new cost, new savings. Uh the other thing we did uh was we uh increased the number of our fines and had permit increases um resulting in about $100,000 in new revenue. Mayor, do you want to speak to that a little bit

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as far as uh the fines and permits? >> The permits. Yeah. Uh folks, may a number of these uh and of course Mitch, you're you're obviously new, but a number of these were implemented mid year or later in the year last year. The the Neptune City Court, for example, was

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implemented in November of last year. So, what these are showing are fullear revenue. Some of these may have contributed a little bit to revenue last year, a little bit, but the these are the fullear amounts. And in the case of uh fines and permits uh when when this

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administration this council was pretty new uh early in 2025 uh we realized through just trial and error that the bureau had not increased court fines in over 20 years. In fact there were two tranches. One increase

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had been 40 years earlier and the other set of increases have been 20 years earlier. Um so last year we did raised fines significantly for the courts, parking, you know, all kinds of uh not motor vehicle, not moving uh vehicle

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fines, but but anything related to, you know, around town. Um most of those fine amounts because of the 20-year lapse increase 50% to over 100%. I mean, a simple example was

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parking in u uh disabled spaces. uh uh doubled from $250 to $500, which by the way is the kind of call it the market rate. That's the fine you face in most other uh local municipalities. So um with that average increase above 50% of

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fines, uh we estimated that prior year fines have been around 90. Another 50 to 70% is another say 50 grand. And we had a similar scenario where we hadn't increased a lot of our permit fees just broadly in construction. Um similarly

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not over 20 plus years. Don't know why it just slipped through the cracks but we also increased permitting fees and a similar estimate got us approximately another 50 grand. So the combined total is roughly 100,000 of new revenue based on prior experience that we expect this

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year. I appreciate that. Um the last item on this list is healthcare waiverss. Uh one of the things that that that we implemented just in the past year is that we tried to incent our our cost per employee for to provide their healthcare and their medical is very

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very expensive. So, uh, we basically offered, uh, to pay a few thousand. I know it's less than >> $2,500 to just give someone a little extra incentivation to say, well, you know what? Instead of paying for the the healthcare here, I'll get on my spouse's

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plan is typically what people do. And I think we had about four employees that opted for that. So, you saw a savings there. Uh so um if you look at kind of the the cost drivers versus versus the revenue, we're

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kind of close to that that uh that increase there. There was obviously some other little in the budget. Um just a little bit here and a little bit there, but here are the main um the main drivers and and factors. Michelle, if you go back to the previous slide, please.

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Did you click around? >> Michelle, can you hear us? >> Mouse. >> Could you go backwards? >> Back too, please. All right, perfect. So, uh this is another aspect of the budget that we just knew that a lot of

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people asking questions about, a lot of people are curious about and uh that involves uh the sale of the church property. And I just wanted to go over a little bit about this uh because it it although it's it's pretty much revenue neutral for the most part in our budget,

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um at the same time, uh it's just an important uh source of revenue that we have. I just want to explain a little bit about uh about uh how we're utilizing uh the funds generated this.

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So um the top line is it talks about the sale of the church and essentially um by our calculations uh the total cost associated with purchasing the church property and some

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of the other expenses um is around $1.7 million. uh and uh the total sale which is under total proceeds in that orange column there uh over $4.8 million. So

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essentially our profits are somewhat over $3 million. So the one thing that we want to make sure and actually we're somewhat legally required to do this is the expenses incurred and the debt incurred as a result of purchasing the property. We're actually not just going

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to extend that out and make taxpayers pay that. We're essentially taking our profits and we're putting that back toward uh the the money that we borrowed in order to uh to acquire the property. So, for instance, in this year's budget,

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we uh we took $79,000 under under band debt retirement. We took $79,000 of of those funds and we paid down bond anticipation notes uh or money essentially that we borrowed uh in

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connection with the church and we pay that down. Uh the other thing that we're going to pay down kind of on an annual basis and it varies somewhat from year to year but it's about $125 $130,000 a year. That's $128,000 line item. And it's that the annual debt service, the

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essentially mortgage payment, I guess you could say, that the town has uh to pay annually uh when we acquired that property. We're going to use the revenue that we generated, the funds we generated to pay that off. And that way, we're not putting taxpayers on the hook for that.

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So, on the other side, we had about $3 million in profits. And uh we're working on, you know, how we're going to uh uh utilize those funds. And the idea is that this is essentially a one-time

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revenue source for the burl. And so we want to use it on one-time uh expenditures or onetime capital expenditures. And you see the list that we have. So we purchased a police car. Uh we're resurfacing parking lot. Um,

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we're spending $120,000 for DPW equipment. We're uh providing funds for uh muchneeded upgrades for the fire and first aid squads and buildings. Um, we're also um utilizing some of those

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funds for payback for the retrofas of lawsuits that we had from last year and costs associated with that. We're also putting $200,000 into our affordable housing trust, which still leaves us with over $2 million left uh out of out of that out of those funds that we can

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utilize for one-time expenditures in the future. That's kind of the breakdown. Mayor, I don't know if there's anything you'd like to add or expand on this. I'll add a comment, but I wanted to ask you to add a comment first, uh, Mitch, and that is, uh, could you tell folks what we're going to do with that roughly

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$900,000 total at the bottom? >> Right. That's a that's a good question. So, under total reserves remaining of $900,000, I had mentioned that um essentially the the bureau's mortgage payment, so to speak, and associated with the purchase

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of that property. We're going to put that $900,000 in a special fund because we've calculated how much those payments are going to be over the course of the next several years. And every year, we're going to take a little bit out of that fund and we're going to pay that off. And when essentially the property

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is paid off, there will be nothing left in that reserve. So that's that's the idea that I >> and and when you say we, it's really pretty much an arms length transaction as I understand it. We'll put that money in an account that someone else manages. They will effectively pay it off. So we we will not control those.

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>> Correct. So our our bond council and our financial advisors will make a determination of how much money that we set aside for that and it goes into a special account and once it goes in that special account the bond council the financial advisor basically instruct them to give payments at a certain time

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at a certain date and at that point in time we kind of wash our hands of it and take care of that for us. So, >> um, and the reason that I really appreciate our CFO putting this slide together is because last year, 2025, some really unusual things happened

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financially in this burrow. You've alluded to them. The the settlement of a 2 and a half year union contract with fairly significant retro payments, a couple of lawsuits that have been outstanding for a few years that settled that impacted salaries and wages. When a lawsuit settles because of

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discrimination claims or something, the insurance company pays that. When the lawsuit settles and the burrow has to admit that we withheld wages that should have been paid, we have to pay those wages. So these were old lawsuits. We

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collectively inherited these from prior years, but we had to pay them through salaries and wages which flow through the budget. So what was really important to me and and and thankfully our CFO put this together not only for the council but for our residents is it's really

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important that we did not use the church proceeds I'll call it inappropriately to subsidize uh any tax adjustments for the burrow because there's always a temptation if you have an inflow you

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still see here we have over I can't read the numbers but $3 million at that bottom mustard line. That's $3 million of of proceeds that we that we still have, I'll call it, left over from any budget activity that you're

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experiencing in 2026. And the reason that's important is because if we were to take more money, we could buy down the tax rate maybe to zero, no tax increase. But if we did that, it's a it's a one-time revenue infusion to bring down your taxes. Well, what

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happens next year? There's no more revenue. Your taxes go back up that that 5% and then another 3% or whatever it might be. So, everything that that our CFO has done to and to work with Janed Larrison, our former CFO, they worked

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together is to make sure that we properly account for the sales proceeds because that was a very unusual infusion of revenue one time and we want to make sure that we use it appropriately. And that's why it's important and why I called out that 900,000 because that

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money goes to pay off existing indebtedness. Normally, uh, Mitch, you educated me. We had eight more years of bond payments. It's not like a house mortgage where you sell your house and and you you close your mortgage, you pay off your mortgage. We sold the the

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church, we got the proceeds. We still had the bond debtedness and it was eight years. this dollar amount you've educated me to understand will pay it off in three years, but it'll be done by an independent agency. So, I'm I'm very

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proud of the fact that we're and I think this council takes a lot of credit in this that um that we're using the church proceeds onetime infusion, a lot of money, but we're using them appropriately and wisely to ultimately

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benefit the taxpayers. For example, one last comment on that note. I've had people say to me, "Oh, this is going to be great for taxes, the the sale of the church." And I've said from the beginning that is not the way it works. These funds after you pay off the debt,

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the rest of the funds, the so-called profit, keep in mind that's profit generated on a capital asset, the the church property. What we use that profit for is to pay down future capital improvements.

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And you see almost all this are police car, uh, you know, uh, parking lots, could be roof repairs, whatever. But we need to use it to pay down capital improvements. We're effectively giving our residents the benefit of those profits, but we're not doing it all in

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one year. We're doing it as capital improvements are needed. So that's the logic. And I thought this did a nice job of splitting it out for everybody. >> Yeah. And I might add to those comments because we're utilizing these funds to to buy these capital projects, it means we don't have to b so we we don't have

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to pay we don't have to pay any interest associated with these types of capital improvements. Whereas if we utilize it just for tax purposes and then we're continually borrowing as as municipalities do to for their capital improvements, we would owe the interest. So this is kind of a a really a very

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very fiscally responsible way to utilize this wrap. >> Any comments or questions from the council of our CFO? >> No. I I the one thing that just stands out to me is that we have a proposed tax increase of $400,000

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and of that $550,000 is from lawsuits and one-time union settlers. So that makes up the the increase without those one-time charges on the rates are down.

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>> Yeah. Yeah. And uh you know I don't want to underell the importance of having a massive medical premium increase too. >> Uh five or 100,000 give or take uh is record-breaking. Our attorney told me

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that in the town he knows the t the municipal increase was over 13%. Because largely driven by medical premium increases. So we we'd love to have a tax rate we'd love to have our tax levy increased low low single digits. 2%

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would be wonderful. 3% you know very good. Uh none of us started out happy about 4.7. However, given the obstacles that the burough has encountered, I think we feel very good about the fact that we're under 5%. >> I was going to say the same thing. I've

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heard of other towns going up 16% 20% so this doesn't look as alarming and I wanted to personally thank you for meeting with Councilwoman Greenblat and me 9:30 in the morning on a Saturday. >> That was really great. And uh you really

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helped us to understand the budget and see what we're dealing with. And I want to say thank you for your time. Well, and for everything you've done. Thank you. >> Yeah. Just a quick comment also. Um after you have had made the sale of the church properties and there was a lot of

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discussion in various public comment. Oh, where's that money? How much money is going to be left? $4.8 million. Oh my goodness. And mayor, I have to give you credit along those you know throughout that period of time you were doing minations of your anticipation of where

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things were going to fall. and you kept saying, "Well, we're going to have about two two and a half million left over." And here we are at 2.3 million. So, you you were on top of that. And I think with your leadership in that um and I think with Mitch's recommendations here of fiscally responsibly paying down um

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that debt the way we have, I think that's the right thing to do. And I think having that reserve in there that that you know to pay off the uh bonds over three years saves the burough plenty of dollars. the um $2.3 million of future capital investments. I just

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would want to say that we we had to take very um you know extreme prejudice in how we spend that money, what capital improvements are really important and necessary in the bureau and that we are very thoughtful of what how that's expended over the years and the future.

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Um as it sits there and crews interest that's a great thing. Uh but there are many challenges that we're dealing with with the budget overall and and not using that for tax increase. uh you know um a trade-off is because the right thing to do. So again um thank you for your leadership on this. Okay, great.

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Any other comments or questions? Uh normally we there's no requirement to open the introduction open. >> I think it's one more slide. Oh, I'm sorry. Please. It's the last slide. Michelle, I guess why you guys just have my email.

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>> Michelle, I don't know if you can hear us, but last slide. Was it one more after? >> Yeah, one more. >> Maybe two more. It's the last one.

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>> The very last slide. other way. >> There you go. >> There we go. >> So, uh I think I mentioned previously that uh the budget document in in to in whole is going to be posted on our website and um the public hearing uh is

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Thursday, June 5th. Uh so I look forward to your uh questions and comments um at that meeting and uh if you have any questions uh there is my email. I'll I'll do my best to get back to you and uh that uh that concludes my presentation. Thank you very much for

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your attention. Appreciate you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you Mitch. I I appreciate everything you've done. You're brand new. You jumped in both feet. Uh and I I think you got us to a really good place. So thank you. Um, what I wanted to now

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say to the public is you you haven't seen any of the detail. Literally, there is a 100page budget document that will be posted either tonight or early tomorrow morning. Uh, you'll have access to that document on our website. Uh, we are open to questions. I'll field

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questions. Uh, Mr. Sim will field questions as you have them. Um, normally we would not there's no there's no requirement to have a public hearing at this point and in fact you don't have a lot of data to work with. However, I do want to open this up now to the public

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just in case you have any general questions for us. Mr. Nashkin, >> not a question, just a comment. Um, June 5th is actually a Friday. >> Is it a Friday or Erica? Is that our date of June 4th? June 4th is would be the council meeting. It's going to be

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adopted. Which begs another question. Is June 4th 30 days or 29 days? >> You only need 28. >> Oh, you only need 28. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, I know. It's 10 minutes. >> Okay. They count the days.

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>> Thank you. Thank you, Paul, for that insightful observation. Uh Rick, >> uh stand them up, please. Rick Bartell 116 Newark just a question on the terms I guess of the bond that you're paying off in three years instead

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of eight years. So I don't know what the terms of the bond are. Why don't we just pay it off in first year and any interest in three years two and three you're saved. >> Um the answer is kind of you can't. Um the soonest that we can pay it off is I

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think >> three years. >> Three years. Yeah. So that's the structure because that was my first question. Okay. >> Yeah. It doesn't work like a home mortgage where oh let's make our principal payments ahead. So you're not you can't do that with this. >> This came up

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>> but the bond actually goes until 2033. Yeah. Well, he said in 8 years or 9 years. >> It is eight, but we're going to we're going to nip that in the soonest possible time, which is one. >> Okay. And Rick, there's a because only because you raised the question. I'm going to add one more bit of spice for

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all the accountants out there. U if we could have I think we would have gotten the full eight years because the current bond fixed 2% interest rate and we could have invested more money elsewhere more got more of a return.

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However, there are very specific sanctions legal uh reasons why we're not allowed to arbitrage the rates on public fund financing. So we had no choice. Okay. So, I just had another quick question. The 900,000 that's going into

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the reserve for the reserve, you said an out an outside council takes care of how that's all done. Do they invest that money? >> I know that you No, no, no. Please go ahead. >> Uh

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there are because we're not allowed to arbitrage them. Essentially, what we're not allowed to do is this is essentially like tax-free debt. So, we can't make we are not allowed to profit off of it. Okay? So, if we were to take that, oh, that 900,000 oh, let's put a CD and get 4% on it, right?

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>> Illegal. The feds would be all over us. So, uh you can't do that. In fact, they there are special funds that the government has where you have to match it with your interest rate. And in reality, even though uh the interest rate is 2% because we actually were

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essentially we were paid I don't know exactly what it's called. We kind of paid some money in advance for paying the bond. The interest rate is more like 1% is how it's calculated. So, you essentially have to put that um that money into an escro account that

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has effectively the same interest as as we borrow the money. So that 900,000 is a discounted present value of an annuity at an effective rate of 1% because that's the effective interest rate we're getting even though the bond notes says

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2%. It it's convoluted, but bottom line is it's arms length from us. Once we break that check, Bradley Beach doesn't touch. >> I understood. I just wanted to know whether we could make any money on that 900,000. Okay. Be nice if we >> like the way you think, Rick.

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Other questions from the audience here before I turn to Zoom. Okay, Zoom. Any questions on Zoom? Okay, seeing none, we'll we'll close the the public comments and uh let's now move to uh

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approve resolution 2026-131, which is the introduction of the 2026 budget uh to be read by title only. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Mlood. >> Yes. >> Mr. Park. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Buboszi.

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>> Yes. Okay. Thank you everyone. That that was the important part of the evening. I think the rest of this should move relatively quickly. Uh item seven, approval of minutes. I'll make a motion that we approve April 21, 2026 council business meeting minutes.

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>> Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. >> Miss Greenlack. Yes. >> Mr. Carr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Kubosi. >> Yes. Item eight on the agenda is public comments or questions pertaining to any items on the agenda. Only general questions we'll we'll have at the end of

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the meeting. Any questions on the agenda, comments? Okay, seeing none, we'll move to uh item nine which is ordinances. We have two ordinances for introduction and >> we have three.

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>> Do we have three? page. >> Okay. >> So, uh the first uh item on is ordinance 2026-27. It's the ordinance correcting ordinance number 2026-9 as to the misnumbering of

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chapter 450 zoning. Basically, earlier this year, we passed an ordinance amendment to to amend chap zoning ordinance chapter 450, but we got the numbering wrong. So, we're not changing anything in in in content. Uh, we just

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have to get the numbering right. So, this is really kind of an administrative change. Um, Mr. Cannon, is there anything I should add or is that largely it? >> No, no, that's it. It's just to help them codify it correctly. There's a reserve section, so it fits in there. >> Okay, perfect. Any comments or questions?

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Uh, okay. Seeing none, I'll make a motion that we approve for introduction ordinance 2026-27. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Greenblat, >> yes. >> Mr. Park, yes. >> Mr. Dwiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gossi, >> yes. Okay. Uh, the next two ordinance

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introductions have both been led, the development of these have been led by Councilman Karp. So, uh, Mitchell, I'm going to turn it over to you. >> Thank you. So, uh, this is, um, ordinance 2026-28, amending chapter 348, portable storage

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units and dumpsters. So, with this ordinance amendment, we're tackling a few updates. One, we're increasing the fees for dumpsters as they also haven't been updated in several years. Um, evidently, Bradley Beach has been a really cheap place to do business. We're

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just trying to make it fair and equitable compared to all the other fees. Um, there were also mentions of sidewalks and dumpster locations. So, we made sure to remove the word sidewalk from the ordinance. Uh, normally when you take out an ordinance uh take out a

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dumpster um permit uh there for 30 days and you can renew them. Um, one of the things that has caused some administrative overhead was you build a house and you need a dumpster there for more than 30 days. So, there's now a new 90-day contractor dumpster permit um

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which is three times the price of the 30-day permit. So, it saves a lot of administrative overhead and time and um having to come and renew and uh also check out whether or not the ordin the uh permit is being properly displayed. Uh there's also problems that we ran

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into during the winter time. Um, I know I had it around my house where there were dumpsters in the street during the snow removal and there were some roads which were almost impassable because of the mounds of snow next to the dumpsters. So, this ordinance also addresses that to be able to have

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dumpsters removed uh when there is a declared emergency. Um, also uh previously you needed a dumpster permit if it was more than 2 days. Uh now any dumpster will need a

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permit and uh also uh we now codifi we now specified that we can't have dumpsters on any state or county roads within side of it. Brad um uh I just wanted to make one note of something. There was a typo in the paragraph and a

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omission uh for paragraph J which is now paragraph I. uh we forgot to remove the word sidewalk from that paragraph and the important part of is prohibited was missing. So um I said those changes that were changed

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>> that was sent out to all of you and the revised ordinance was posted on the website earlier today. >> Thank you Erica. >> You're welcome. >> Any questions comments from good work. Yeah, my comment is just that uh you along and I know you work closely with

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Pam Valentine and uh Bill Young maybe on Bamboo, >> but you're one the fact that you took the initiative that you brought this to such a a great uh finished product and that you work so seamlessly it seemed to me with our employees. I thought, you

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know, awesome work and very demandable. So, thank you. >> All right. So without any questions, I'd like to make a motion to approve the introduction of ordinance 2026-28 amending chapter 348 portable storage units and dumpster. Second, >> Mr. Noble.

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>> Yes. Miss Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Court. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubos. >> Yes. >> You want to leave? >> Sure. All right. So, next one is ordinance 2026-29, the ordinance amending chapter 120

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bamboo and invasive plants. So, um, we need to strengthen and clarify our existing rules on bamboo and invasive plants. And if you live near or next to somebody with bamboo, you'll understand the significance of this. Um, these

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species can cause property damage, infrastructure damage, and then have it go over to your neighbors property as well. um they just create ongoing nuisances and lead to really costly repairs. Uh

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evident um additionally the state of New Jersey actually now bans the sale of bamboo and invasive plants uh which we were also reflecting in our ordinance. So this ordinance now aligns better with the new New Jersey laws regarding the

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plant categories. So we really specify the different types of bamboo and invasive species. We're also redefining the buffer zones. The buffer zones, you know, how far away were the bamboo from property um lines, sidewalk, easements, rights of way were 5T. There are now 20

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ft. Um this also establishes uh enforcable containment and removal standards. Um because what's going to happen is when um bamboo is identified and removed, the um code enforcement will then come back in a year to see whether or not that it has been

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remediated. If not, it needs to be remediated again. Uh, and also importantly, if the homeowner is unable to make those remediations, it also allows Bradley to go in, make those uh, remediations and recover those costs

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through municipal leans because the cost of doing that, I know my neighbor had it done, was upwards of $5,000. Um, and it's also important to note that there's no grandfathering. It's not like, well, I have bamboo, so we can still we don't have to do anything. Well, that's not true. You still need to

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now adhere to the new bamboo um regulations, and that 20 ft is the the major part of that enforcement. Um, and of course, you can't buy bamboo in uh New Jersey anymore, and it still remains prohibited to plant any of these invasive species or bamboo uh anywhere

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in Bradley. >> Questions? Am I am I correct that it also protects the neighbors and if there's any work that needs to be done on the neighbor's property then it's the responsibility of the initial um bamboo owners. >> That's correct. >> And it's a significant work.

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>> Yeah. And one of the things that we do in the ordinance we actually define bamboo property owner. Uh, I'll say that a number of years ago, three maybe three or four years ago, I was involved in drafting the burrow's first invasive species ordinance and

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took great pride in it at the time and three or four years later, I realized how inadequate it was. So, thank you very much for the work you did. As I read through your version, I I appreciated how much more you covered than I was able to do three years ago. So, thank you.

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>> Any other questions? Well, I'd like to make a motion to approve the introduction of ordinance 2026-29 amending chapter 120 for bamboo and invasive plants. Second, >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. Miss Greenblat, >> yes. >> Mr. Carp, >> yes.

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>> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. >> All right, we'll move to ordinance adoptions. Now, for adoptions, I'll remind everyone that uh after the council has a brief discussion, we'll open up to a official public hearing. And if uh the public has any comments or

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questions, uh you'll have that opportunity to to ask. So um ordinance 2026-25 is the ordinance supplementing the bureau's revised general ordinances rel and this is all for chapters 274 related to leadbased paint inspections.

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Um effectively what we did here is we added the ability to charge for these inspections. We just did not have a a cost for the inspection. We hired an individual to conduct these inspections, then realized we couldn't charge for it

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uh because it should have been in the ordinance. It wasn't. So, this is somewhat of an administrative adjustment to make sure we have a fee uh structure in place. Any comments or questions? >> It looks like money also goes into a trust fund for it, right? That um a fee

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is assessed. >> I wasn't even aware. >> Yeah, I don't know. I read something that there was a $20 per unit to a trust fund in addition to um to the the fees or that was in >> it's it's structured to make sure it

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covers it. So I'm sure you're right beyond that I don't know what Mr. Canon, do you have any idea what how the trust fund piece of this operates? >> I according to statute, but I couldn't tell you exactly mechanically when it's

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part of the statute. >> Okay. So, we we've got statutory language covering this that gets the answer. Uh, so any other comments or questions? >> Good. >> No. All right. Uh, I'll make a motion that we adopt uh ordinance 2026-25

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regarding lead based paint inspections. You want to open it up? >> Oh, I'm so sorry. Got I got sidetracked by the trust question. >> I threw you off. Sorry. >> Uh and now I'd like to make a motion that we open up to formally for a public hearing. >> Oh, second. Yeah.

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>> Say Mr. >> M. Green. Yes. >> Mr. Corp. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. Mayor. >> Yes. Public show of hands, questions, comments. Mr. Can you >> When you mean trust fund, you mean lead hazard control assistance fund?

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>> Yeah. >> That helps remediate lead in multif family buildings that substandard housing that would otherwise not be remediated. >> Okay. So, a component of our fees goes to this broader >> statewide goes to cleaning up lead all around the state in places that would might not otherwise be able to afford or

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otherwise qualify under that assistance program. >> Perfect. Thank you, sir. Uh, no. Oh, there's a question. Yes. >> What? Similar to the rabies fund, like you pay into the rabies fund for your dog and then they use your rabies for

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the same kind. >> I don't know. We have >> same stat. >> Yeah, >> it's correct. I read that this morning. Um uh Linda Ducky bring me a new How are you going to roll this out since um we have many virtual units in this town.

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So, who is going to be going out? Are you sending and and addressing these people that have rental units? Are you going to send postcards? Because we do have a lot of people that rent, you know, under the table. >> Uh our Let me ask Mr. Dhy, our business

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administrator, do we have a plan? I I know I've been told we have time to implement, but do we have a plan yet as to how we'll roll it out? Uh it's under the function of the code enforcer. So the code enforcement handled it along with blue environmental.

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>> So so they have a list of properties and they'll adjust those properties. >> Yeah. Yeah. And not enough bread at each of the pretty small town. It's not going to be much. >> 51% rent. Now I know we do have a lot of condos and stuff in town but um a lot of

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them are you know back houses and as such. So, I mean, think about a lot of rentals, you know, like I'll use 301 Main Street as an example, right? That's not going to be a concern. Like, as you mentioned, >> that is a >> something built 1930, right? That's

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going to be a concern. Um, but >> anything before 78, correct? >> Yeah. Just as if you don't register as a landlord, how are you going to um check on them? Well, if people are operating illegally, you mean?

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>> I'm not saying that, but yes, they are. >> Well, if they're not registering as a landlord, they're not operating legally. >> So, then you don't have that. That's what I'm saying. How is this going to be enforce? >> That's a whole another level of enforce all the houses. >> Yeah, there's a >> So, if you don't register as a landlord, you don't have to pay this.

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>> If you don't register as a landlord, you're going to get fined multiple. >> I'm not saying that. I'm just saying you see it going on. >> Well, if you see it going on, have to report it if I'm not ratting on my neighbors. It does happen though and it's going on.

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>> But this this happens all the time. We find But so we can't we can't tell you how we're going to find people who are illegally operating, >> but we do find people. >> So I know you do find people, but you look around. You can look around in probably your own neighborhood and see

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what goes on. >> All we the the our current procedures won't change if if that's what you're asking. Our procedures are designed. We have various ways of identifying folks that are not complying. Uh I know Pam Valentine not that long ago, a month

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ago, gave me a list of I don't know if it was five or 10 property owners who she identified as illegally operating. They you know they were not registered landlords, but they were renting their property. So we we find these people, but but to your point, unless people rat

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out their neighbors, we may not find. So the code enforcer isn't going to be the person walking around and seeing all this. >> Well, sure the code enforcer goes out and enforces code, but you know, when someone doesn't register as a landlord, it's not simply that they're not paying the the burrow for their landlord

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registration. That means they also don't have a certificate of occupancy or fire don't have a fire inspection. You could have live electrical wire. So if you know something that's going on like that, it's not rat in your neighborhood. It's not my job to do that. >> No, I understand it. But if you're

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telling me that you know that in your neighborhood here, >> I'd ask you to tell us to protect your neighbors. >> So we have X amount. So you could tell who has a rental property by their sewer tax because you pay double. That's one way to check. And people

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rent, they don't rent, they give it to their kids or their family comes down for the weekend, they stay there. So there are many um situations when it doesn't apply but there are many situations where it should apply and is it that's my question. I'm not trying to

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raise doubt, but there is a lot of >> You're asking how will we better police >> Yes. >> this and the short term is we just wanted to begin an inspection process, but over time we're trying to enhance all of our procedures. Also, we're

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paying $200, I believe, right, for the insurance. I think it's a dust inspection >> and then a $25 administrative fee for Pam to like photocopy something and put in a file. Why is that so high? And on top of that, you pay the $20 to the

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state. >> I mean, again, these are more or less standardized pricing that municipalities everywhere. That's what happened. >> Nobody has done a study. you show her your insurance form. She just checks it off and throws it in. >> Your concern is noted.

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>> All right. Thank you. >> Any other comments or questions? >> Yes, Mr. Coanch. >> Uh Thomas J. Coan, 63rd Avenue. Um this is a perfect example of the state

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mandating something. State mandates landlord registration. We have to do it but we don't want to raise taxes. So we charge administrative. Same with this leadbased paint. State demands it don't give us any funding for

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it. We have to pay for it. So that's the reason for the administrative fees. I want to be clear about that. Also Mr. Canon I believe that um state licensed multiple dwellings which are inspected separately are exempt from the leadbased pay inspection. Is that true? I believe

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they're DCA regulated. They've they've already been inspected for lead based paint significantly for this law. >> So if we take them out of the equation, there's a lot fewer units. Is that correct? >> And and the ones built after 1978. >> So we take them out also. >> Yes.

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>> Okay. Great. Thank you, Megan. >> Thank you. Any other comments or questions? >> Okay. Seeing none others, I'll make a motion that we close the public comment and adopt 2026-25.

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>> Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Miss Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi? >> Yes. Okay. The next ordinance is for adoption 2026-26. And this is amending chapter 451, fair

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share housing affordable housing of the bureau's revised general ordinances to revise the chapter's name and to properly reference the burough's affordable housing overlay zones. Um and just as a a quick overview of you know we've already talked about this at

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introduction but when we established we joined round four participated in round four of affordable housing and as part of that commitment as part of the negotiation we identified overlay zones in the burough and affordable housing was happy burough

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brother beach was happy we went to codify that and we realized that we have a chapter 451 1, which is not a zoning chapter, but it was chapter 451 that stated that defined our prior overlay

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zones. And now that we had new approved overlay zones, they needed to be in chapter 450. We put them at 450, but at the same time we had to introduce or shortly subsequent we had to introduce

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amendments to 451 to take the old overlay zones out of 451. So again this is an administrative uh correction if you will to how how our ordinances had earlier I think in 2017

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been structured. Uh we just identified it when we struck our deal with affordable housing. So any comments or questions about this one. Uh having no other comments or questions, I'll make a motion that we open it up to the public for a public hearing. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, yes.

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>> Mr. Green, >> yes. >> Mr. Cart, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. Uh any comments or questions from the public? Okay, seeing none in the room or on Zoom, I'll make a motion that we close

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public uh hearing and vote to adopt ordinance 2026-26. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, Mr. Springblot, >> yes. >> Mr. Court, yes. >> Mr. Nikki, yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. Item 10 on our agenda,

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communications, there are none. Item 11, we have resolutions. Uh, starting with our consent agenda resolutions. Are there any items on this consent agenda that anyone would like to discuss or vote separately? >> We're good. All right, then. I will make

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a motion that we approve resolutions 2026-132 through 2026-137. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Mr. Greenlat, yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi,

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>> yes. We have a number of individual resolutions starting with 2026-138 approving a block party for the 400 Mammoth Avenue, the 400 block for Saturday, July 11th, 2025 with a rain date of Saturday, July 25th, 2026 from

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5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Um, any comments or questions about this rockus walk party? >> Sounds awesome. Please approve it. >> Yeah, get the vote. I No, I >> I think she'll uh decide.

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>> Do I need to abstain? >> You probably should. >> Okay. Grace, >> our attorney signing our land use attorney. >> Perhaps Mr. Yeah, >> actually last year. So,

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>> Erica, set another way. Is anyone up here allowed to vote on this? >> Uh, you you and you. invite. >> So, so, uh, Councilman Karp or Council President Denoval, any comments or questions? >> No, we're good. No, all

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>> If, if two of us vote no, they lose. >> All right. I'll make a motion that we approve 2026-138. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Uh, Miss Greenblat, >> abstain. Mr. Court, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> abstain. >> Mayor Gubos,

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>> yes. Going 26-139 approving a shared service agreement renewal between the Department of Public Works and the Bradley Beach Elementary School through seasonal ground maintenance services. As you guys may recall, we struck this agreement last year. It's a shared

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service $2,000. Our Department of Public Works does the maintenance of the laws. >> Any comments or questions to renewing it? >> So, the school's happy with their service. >> Apparently, they are. Yeah. The superintendent used to be out there with the long arm, Dr. Hannart. So, he's very

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appreciative of that. >> I can tell you when I emailed him and asked, yes, he was very, very happy that resolution on the agenda. >> Yes. So, um, so, uh, I guess we will move forward with I'll make a motion that we approve

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resolution 2026-139. >> Second, Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Greenl, yes. >> Mr. Car, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. Mayor Gubetza. >> Yes. Resolution 2026-140 is authorizing an award of the contract for bid number

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26-13 dumpster hauling services to Maza Recycling of Tinf Falls. Any comments or questions? >> Has have they been our vendor before for this? >> Yes, we're years. >> Okay. No other comments or questions.

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I'll make a motion we approve 2026-140. >> Second, Mr. Noble. >> Yes. Yes. Greenwood. Yes. Mr. Carr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. Okay. 2026-141 approving parking permit fee rates to be

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charged by Park Mobile LLC on behalf of the Burough Bradley Beach. Now, this is going to take a little bit of discussion because um what I want to make sure the public is aware of is the fact that we've had uh an hourly parking meter

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rate of of $150 an hour. dollar$150. >> No wonder nobody comes to Bradley Beach. >> $1.50 per hour to park along Ocean F. Uh we have we have not increased those fees

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over a couple of years at least three. Uh it's been a $150 per hour. And uh as our beach budgets have grown tighter, as we look for other forms of revenue, uh it one of the things the council has begun to discuss and to evaluate are

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should we be increasing our parking meter fees from the current $1.50 level. Other neighboring towns uh council people have shared with me uh get upwards of $2 and $2.50 50 cents and I gather some beach uh property in Aspbury

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is $3 an hour. So, uh the question for us is and um before any of us propose anything, um you know, I'll throw out a number and then let's all react to it. But I was thinking we probably the Bur Brother Beach probably should be looking at a rate closer to $2 an hour from the

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150 we're at today. That should generate if we were to move that forward somewhere between 40 and $60,000 depending on if construction interrupts any of that parking that it could be a 40 50,000 let's call it um

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increase in revenue. I I would serve up that number um in part because I think it's justified in terms of you know providing beach services but also I want to be respectful of u not increasing those amounts exorbitantly. I I want to

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make sure that you know folks you know continue to have uh equal access whether they are residents or non-residents to our beaches. Um I know there's been some discussion that we might want to consider split rates. Some other municipalities charge a lower rate

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during weekdays and then they charge a slightly higher rate uh on weekends. So any So I'll just stop there. Me personally, I'm I'm leaning towards a flat $2 weekday and weekends. Uh but others comments or thoughts? >> I agree with you. It seems it's going

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rate. Um $2. I do like maybe a steady $2. I don't, you know, I know Aspbury Park does go higher. Um Manisquan charges $20 a day and 15 during the week, but it's a flat fee. So, it's nice if people just want to spend a couple

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hours, they can go for that. So, um I do think $2 is very fair. >> I like the round number $2. It's, you know, I will take it um through for through both week day and weekend. And you know, Dr. $2 is not outrageous. So, I think that's uh you know, deal with

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that. >> And it's comparable to other towns. It's that that our increased rate is everybody else's low rate. So, it's not like, oh, Bradley Beach is now the most expensive. Also 50% of our revenue for comes from weekends. Um so if we did

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increase it just on the weekends, it really does affect a large portion of our um visitors who come and pay for the parking. Um and so uh I also agree that uh 50 cents across the board, $2.

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>> And I have a question. What is um what is the parking time frame? Is it 9 to5? >> 9 to 7? 8 to 8 to 7. >> Mr. Dhy, do you know off hand? >> I don't know. >> Pardon? >> Do you know off hand what what are the

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hours between which we charge for parking? >> I have to double check, but I think it is like 8 to 7. 8 to 7. >> That's probably the maximum. >> Yeah, for sure. >> I mean, you could say Belmont charges till 1 in the morning. >> So, you can go to Yeah, we don't have

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Yeah. >> Yeah. And the nice thing about Park Mobile is you can always adjust that on the line as opposed to a sign. Print the sign. Yeah. >> This you can just adjust as as the man castle seat. >> You know what's nice too is that we do have free parking offered too if you

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park just on the west side. And it does say they charge from 8:00 a.m. or we 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. >> I think is what we do. Yeah. But we do still have free parking. So there is options for people. Does Park mobile off uh charge a fee, a user fee? >> They do. there's add-on to our whatever

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our rate is. >> So there's the uh annual or the hourly rate as the mayor mentioned $150 and then there's uh the service charge to you know the credit card companies but out of that $150 uh yeah park takes a percentage for administering the program for us

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>> administrative and so what's do you know what the fee is? I'm just curious >> four bucks three bucks >> but it's a dollar figure fee plus the percentage for credit card use. Yes, it is a demo. >> And you can you can only use credit card. I guess you can use a debit card. If you use a debit card, you can

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>> use credit card. Yeah. Or Apple Pay, you know. >> But a debit card. >> There's still doesn't matter what you use. So, >> I guess that's what's great about them is anywhere you go now, you see Park Mobile. I asked my nephew, "Do you have Park Mobile?" >> Of course I do. >> Because everybody is

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>> Bradley Beach was a little late to the game. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, but it's it's >> We wanted to make sure it worked. >> Yeah. little hiccups I ran into last year was, you know, let's say you took your wife's car up and you didn't have the right license plate. You put Park Mobile in but had your license plate. So, you

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would get a summon, but we would always clear out. Um, so, so we ran into those little little hiccups. >> I think it was a learning opportunity for everybody. Now, I know how to add a vehicle to the app. >> Any other comments or questions?

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>> All right. I will make a motion that we approve uh resolution 2026-141 for Park mobile. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Mr. Greenblat? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carr? >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki? >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi? >> Yes. >> And it's $2 for weekdays and weekends, right?

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>> For both. >> Okay. >> Okay. 2026-142 is authorizing temporary emergency appropriations. This is a request from our CFO uh just to make sure that Bradley Beach keeps the uh the wheels on

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the bus as we drive down the the road. So, any comments or questions of our CFO on this one? >> All right, I'll make a motion that we approve 2026-142. >> Second. >> Um Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Springlast,

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>> yes. >> Mr. Cork, yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. and in our new CFO's ongoing efforts to make Bradley Beach a stronger financially

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uh sound accounting structure. We have 2026-143 cancelling certain balances and closing out capital accounts. And again, this is pretty much part of your cleanup uh efforts, Mr. SC. So, any comments or questions for our

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CFO? So we went through a big exercise previously with all these accounts and whatnot. So these are just some day orders that we had to take care of. We've known we've known for a year that we've got a lot of extra accounts but u some and

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audit reports have highlighted it to us and uh a number of well actually Mr. Mr. side. Maybe I just ask you to give a quick overview as to why these couple of accounts that you've identified. >> Right. They're just, you know, it's money that we that we had funded money

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that we have allocated to projects we're just not going to complete. So, as a result, we say, "Okay, we're we we uh we have $75,000 to this project. Uh we spent $70,000. We have nothing left to do with this project. There's $5,000

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left over. We're going to put that money back to surplus." So that's where we go. >> So it's closing, I hope. >> Yes, that's correct. Cancelling is the terminology. It's closing. I hope that's correct. >> And and I've been hearing off and on about this for at least a few weeks, if not if not longer. But you've been kind

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of painstakingly going through account by account to figure out if if we can't close them out, >> right? >> So thank you for that effort. So part of the cleanup uh finally coming to a close. If no other comments or questions, I

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will make a motion that we approve 2026-143. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> M. Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi? >> Yes. >> Okay. Move. We That concludes

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resolutions. I'll move to item 12 on the agenda, announcements. There are none. Item 13A. We all anxiously await the administrator report. Mr. Doherty. >> Uh, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh I'm going to a little late to report if that's okay. Uh but I some very good news to

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report. Um uh on the topic of finances, one of the things that's very important to Mayor Gubinosi and his administration is getting as much money as we can out of every dollar that we spend. Uh and I can report that the sewer project on Fifth Avenue and the paving uh is

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finally complete and it was completed $224,000 under budget. If you know anything about uh municipalities or county government or state government, anything on budget is fantastic. Anything under

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budget is really unheard of. Um but I know that that's since day one that's been a priority for uh for Mayor Gossi. So it's nice to report that. Uh additionally, we have some other uh contracts uh or projects that are hopefully going to go under contract soon. They're out to bid. uh the Silven

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Lake Bulkhead uh project uh that is out to bid. The opening is going to be May 12th with hopefully a contractor for the mayor and council to consider an award to on the 19th. Um the other part of Fifth Avenue phase 2, which goes towards

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Ocean Avenue and parts of Park Place, uh that bid opening is scheduled for June 2nd, which uh it'll be tight, but we hope to have that on for the June 4th award. And then uh Ocean Park Avenue uh that is also going to be a uh June 2nd

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bid opening. Um we hope the award on on June 4th. Um those are our significant infrastructure um projects. Uh I can tell you that one of the the hot topics in town, especially this time of year, are beach lockers. Uh Michelle Wy, who

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received her award earlier, um has done a remarkable job. All the beach lockers have been rented. Uh we were able to take 54 people off the waiting list. Um there were 36 new locker leases. Uh locker numbers should be coming out

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sometime next week. Uh and there are still 475 currently on the waiting list. So, um obviously the banner council are are moving forward or have moved forward with an ordinance to change uh the the

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folks that are eligible for locker is moving forward. Um and hopefully that'll help reduce that waiting list even further into 2027, but in 2026 um think things are moving along very well. Um Verizon, you'll see them out on Main

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Street. Uh they're doing some projects where they're removing old cable, old copper cable. Now you have all this um fiber. Uh we've also been in discussions with them about those two poles that were cut um about a quarter of the way

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down where JCPNL removed their wires. This is in front of the Shell gas station in the northern part of town. Hopefully that'll get done at some point this month. Um but uh between JCPNL and Verizon uh both of them working well with us but um you know neither one of

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these are outages. So their primary concern when it comes to allocating their resources is to go work places are out have outages. So if someone wants to go up there and cut a wire faster um the uh uh pump station is progressing

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well. Uh the bathrooms are coming along well. I I walked through the concession airspace today with the successful uh concession vendor who was awarded at the last uh burrow meeting. Um I think they're going to open up

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maybe sometime end of June is what they're looking at. They have dozens of concessions throughout the whole state of New Jersey. This one is going to be more of a a grab and go type of concessions. Um there's no gas there. There's no hoods. they're not going to be really grilling or making food there.

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Um, so think of, you know, drinks, ice cream, snacks, um, bags of chips, pretzels. That's going to be the type of >> deli can they have deli sandwiches and things like that. >> I I don't know. They did talk about a panini press. Um, but I I don't know.

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There's it's not a very big space for, you know, a typical deli with what that would offer. Um but um no, we didn't really get into the spec of sandwiches like that. Um and I do want to just mention two other things if I can. Um

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you know, I want really appreciate the mayor. Um when we brought Mitch on, Mitch sign that is not Mitch. Um, when we brought Mitch Time on, this is the first place he's ever been a CFO. And he was coming into a financial

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situation that has really deteriorated in the previous four years. So, we're still unwinding this. And Mitch has been working Saturday, Sundays, in the evening. Uh, if you know Mayor Gossi, he works every evening. So Mitch was, you

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know, on the phone with them. Could have been Saturday night, Sunday nights, it didn't matter to get his arms around this and as the mayor mentioned, really get into the trenches and the details line by line. And you know, the the municipal budget is pretty complicated,

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particularly when you have a beach utility, you have a sewer utility, you have a general fund, right? Or current fund, then you got parts of the current fund. The presentation he gave made it look pretty easy. Um, but I can tell you that there was a lot of labor and effort

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put into it. Um, and you know, while he might not have been the traditional person to hire in his position, I think without a doubt, he's proven himself overwhelmingly these last last 30 days really of tackling this behemoth of a of

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a budget. Um, I mean, I I share with the mayor when I was mayor in Belmar, we never had these issues. Not nothing close to it. everything was much better accounted for whether it's in Edmmonds or actually in the bank accounts uh than it had been in Bradley Beach. So, um hopefully moving forward will be smooth

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sailing. And it also, you know, we we we did mention the three folks before, Jr. and Bagio and Michelle. And I can tell you from my experience, I've only been in Bradley Beach a little over a year, but I have about 20 years experience in municipal government, state government, and folks like that don't stay around

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unless they have a strong dedication for the community they serve in. So, um, you know, Bajio did mention that, you know, working here put his kids through college, but it's that type of effort that you see every day in a small town like Bradley Beach that the residents

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and I know I'm lucky to work with them. Erica feels the same being lucky to work with them on a daily basis. So, all three of them really are tremendous. Uh, and to wrap up, uh, mayor, I know this is also important to you. The Mets game was postponed today in Colorado because

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of snow. >> So it's cold here and and it's serve the purpose of putting M's fence out of their misery for >> they can't lose it. >> They cannot lose. >> Two questions. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. >> Oh, I have two questions for you. Um,

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with regard to uh the next sewer projects, the Ocean Ocean Park and Fifth Avenue phase two, even though we are going to be awarding in June, are we just to confirm we're waiting to start the work for just after the summer? >> Um, council, what are your thoughts?

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Yes, se September after the summer season because those those two uh sewer projects are from Ocean Avenue to Madison on Ocean Park as well as on Fifth and it's just going to be too disruptive to the um timing on Ocean Avenue and County Road. So, we'll be

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doing those um in September. >> Okay. And then a less important question is the former pump station at some point when we ribbon cut out there, are we going to give it a name >> instead of pump station? I'm afraid I haven't told you this but it's the Did

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you tell her Mr. Mayor is Sher You guys do have an opportunity to name it >> naming rights. >> That's not a bad idea either. >> 50 what is it? 51 Ocean Avenue. Well, we call it 54 Ocean Avenue, even though that's not its address.

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>> I don't know where that came from. >> But no, we should absolutely do a ribbon cutting >> and naming it. >> You make a great point. We could name it something. >> Yeah, I'm sure about >> the AT&T pavilion sponsor. Yeah.

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>> Thank you. >> Does that conclude your >> Yes, sir. That's all. Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Mr. Dhy. All right. Uh we will move now to mayor and council reports and we'll start with councilman Clark. >> Okay. Um the environmental commission

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everybody was in the Ruba or otherwise they did not have a meeting so there was they didn't have quarums. >> Um >> uh I also uh met with uh the community development uh people for construction and code enforcement. That's where we collaborated a lot on the bamboo and

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dump ordinances. Uh for the fire department for uh last month, the department responded to four day calls and two night calls for a total of six uh five alarm activations and one exploded power transformer. The

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department conducted one departmentwide training and there were no requests for mutual aid. Uh they of course are still looking for volunteers for the fire department offer free training and anybody wishing to volunteer through the fire department may inquire through the burough's website for the first aid. The

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operational period ending May 6, the squad respond responded to 14 day calls and six night calls for a total of 20. Uh 16 are medical, three for fire, one motor vehicle crash. There was no out of town mutual aids requested and they didn't uh request any mutual aid. Uh

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they did have one drill for safety and education of the members on spinting and collaring patients. Uh there were a total of 120 volunteer hours and they are still looking for volunteers for first aid uh offering free training. Uh anyone wishing to volunteer for the first aid squad. Applications can be

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found on the bureau's website. Uh and also don't forget about their cadet program for young people 16 through 18 years old who are interested in serving our community. >> Thank you, Councilman. Uh we'll turn to uh Council President Denobyl. >> Perfect. Um I'm going to start with

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tourism. There was no meeting, but Amy Baker would like me to share to mark your calendar. June 10th, the coastal kickoff on Newark Avenue between 4 and 7:00 p.m. There's going to be food, face painting, DJ family-friendly games for

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kids. There will be an expo match for semi-pro soccer players and uh FC Mammoth and they'll have also games for prizes for the kids. And we're holding a new and gently used sports equipment drive at the event for benefit uh local

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organizations. Again, that's June 10th, 4 to 7. And then on June 25th, we're going to celebrate Global Beatles Day with a concert in the park to kick off the summer season. So June 25th from 6:00 to 8. Get ready to sing along to

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all your favorite Beatles hosts. Next we have uh Shade Tree. They have a meeting tomorrow, but today kicked off the planting. 66 trees are going into our burrow. We're going to be just flush

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with trees. This Friday, Arbor Day, the mayor will be at the school and um we will be doing a presentation to celebrate the day with the elementary school students. And I'd also like to thank Councilman Nwiki for including the

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Shade Tree Commission in the Silven Lake planting and the Main Street planting. They are the the the commission is striving for biodiversity. In the past, we had a monoculture of ash and pear. Ash fell to the emerald ashbor

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and we had 200 trees die. And then the pear trees only last 20 to 25 years and now they're banned because they're pairs are invasive. >> Yes, they're on that list as well. So um hopefully we'll get a lot of um you know the 10 20 30 where we don't have too

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much of one species genus or family and uh we we can uh start that nice biodiversity of trees. So that's all good news. Oh, and speaking of good news, I couldn't wait to tell everybody so I put it on Facebook. I'm incredibly

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proud to share some wonderful news regarding our burough school district. Bradley Beach Elementary School has been officially designated as high performing by the New Jersey Department of Education. This designation is the result of a rigorous review under the

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state's accountability system, which evaluates schools across five key areas. To earn this title, a district must score 80% or higher in every single category. While our district has been

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working toward this for a long time, a recent review confirmed that our scores have risen to 83% meeting and exceeding that final benchmark. As board president Elizabeth Franks, or Dr. Dr. Franks as we know her

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noted achieving this status has been a primary focus for the board and the administration for the last 10 years. This is a massive milestone for our community. And I want to congratulate the superintendent and principal Dr. Michael Haidenberg, the board of

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education, and especially to the dedicated staff and students whose hard work made this possible. This achievement confirms the great things that are happening at Bradley Beach Elementary School and it sets a positive direction for the future of our

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burough's children. And uh tonight is the board of ed meeting and they are going to finalize their budget. And I want to also share a couple things. I'd like to thank the Southern Mammoth elected women. We had our quarterly meeting and it was uh elected women from

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Avon, Belmar, Spring Lake, Spring Lake Heights, Neptune City, Wall, Seagurt. We have um we have council presidents now. We think we have two three mayors in our our group there and we we share ideas and um services. We talked about that as

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well. In addition, I attended the New Jersey Film Expo at the Meadowlands last week and uh we are going to have a meeting with them and talk about the ins and outs of being film ready. So stay

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tuned. I'll keep you informed. And that completes my report. >> Thank you, Council President. I'll turn to Councilwoman Greenbot. >> Thank you, Mayor. Um, I'd also like to add uh just having met with uh Amy Baker and uh Paul Champion that uh July 1st,

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which is a Wednesday in the afternoon, the burrow will be celebrating um the uh country's 250th and it'll be a really fun celebration with more details to come. Uh, so for my council reports, uh, recreation, the rec center held its

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grand reopening this past Saturday with a ribbon cutting, pickle ball, face painting, and treats sold by the PTA. The courts were busy with pickle ball players and children enjoying the new playground. Many thanks to Courtney Papus, the burrow, and our engineers. Recreation is hosting Mother's Day flag

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football this Friday, May 8th, 5:30 at the rec field. Registration is 20 to $25 per person, which includes food options and a t-shirt. Come join the fun and celebrate mom. The senior club's next meeting is May 27th, noon to 3 at the

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Bazi Center. Maan open play runs every Friday, 1 to 3, also at the Bazi Center. Spring Botchi League signups opened yesterday and probably filled within the first two hours. I think the program runs uh June through July 6:30 p.m. with

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Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday sessions. Go to the recreation department's page of the burough website to register. Uh summer camp 2026 runs June 29th to August 14th, Monday through Friday, 9 to 3 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

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Registration is closed and camp is full, but if you're interested, be sure to put your name on the wait list, which will be determined on a first come, first- serve basis. Um, enrollment will be updated midmay to early June. There are still a few spots open for marine

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science camp, which runs July 27th to the 31st, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for ages 5 to 12 at Memorial Park in Neptune City. The recreation committee's next meeting is Monday, May 11th, 6:30 p.m. at the rec center.

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And my arts council report, the arts council met uh yesterday, May 4th. Uh fun was had this past Sunday at the acoustic coffee house singer songwriters showcase at the perfect purr. There was a steady stream of people about 60 all told who came to enjoy an afternoon of

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local music. Thanks again to the perk for graciously hosting the event and arts council member Carol Lester. The first annual Artsfest is Saturday, July 27th at Riley Park, beginning at 12:30 and running through 9:00 p.m. It's an

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afternoon of live music, interactive arts, and dance programming, ballet performance, a gallery opening at Posh Real Estate, and an evening of singer songwriters at Bouvas. A call to all local Bradley Beach artists to participate in the visual art exhibit,

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Home is Where the Art Is Posh. Uh the exhibit runs from June 27th to July 4th with an artist opening reception on the 27th. The Arts Council is accepting submissions through May 31st and you can see their website for details and

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submission requirements or you can reach out to Mia Mutasio who is leading up the arts council. Thank you, Mia. Uh anyone interested in helping on the day of the arts fest, please reach out by email to arts councsil bradleybej.gov. No experience required, just enthusiasm

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for the arts in Bradley. Their planning meeting for the artsfest is scheduled for next Monday, May 11th. The Fletcher Lake Commission has not met since our last council meeting. They will next meet on Thursday, May 14th, in this council chamber. And I prepared a little

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bit of um my perspective uh since we were asked what our point of view was regarding gas leaf blowers. I know that um the resident who asked I don't believe is on uh is on Zoom, but for the record, I would just like to share my

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perspective. Um uh while I'm generally in favor of seeing the removal of gas leaf blower use, primarily because of greenhouse gas emissions and their impact on our environment and health, I have the following concerns regarding passes passage of this restriction at

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this time. One is timing. Putting this restriction in place while we are in the landscaping season places real undue hardship on landscapers, their contracts with customers and their ability to be able to invest financially in new equipment or change their model and rake

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or sweep. A change in protocol may increase manpower numbers and add time to each job. This pivot would be better implemented with time and planning before the landscaping season. Um, putting our money where our mouth is. If we legislate no gas leaf blowers for

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residents, we need to do the same in our public work works protocol. This represents an outlay of capital in switching out equipment and/or changing practices which may require greater manpower and time. And finally, state legislation. Uh there's a bill in the

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Senate and Assembly, uh Senate Bill 623 and Assembly 4666, which are currently considering a phased approach to ban two-stroke gas leaf blowers with a 2-year phase out of sales and a 4-year phase out of use. This bill

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would also fund incentives for businesses to transition equipment up to potentially 50% of the cost. Why not support this bill and hopefully implement across the state of New Jersey with planning and support? My initial approach to this legislation for Bradley Beach was to have a workshop and

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meaningful discussion among constituents and neighboring towns who have implemented these bans, their challenges in enforcement, their success and best practices, as well as with landscapers, groups that support environmental and health initiatives, and my fellow

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residents. And that's what my perspective is uh at this point um with regard to the gas leaf blowers. Thank you. >> Thank you, Councilwoman. I will turn to Councilman Noiki. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh police activity

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for the period of April 19th to May 3rd. My time is off. On April 21st, 2026, Main Street and um Main Avenue, 51year-old man from Neptune, New Jersey, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and

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several motor vehicle violations after he became uncooperative and began yelling profanities during motor vehicle stop. He also had an outstanding warrant from Asbury Park. Um, patrolman Daniel Crow, patrolman Anthony Better Lamente,

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uh, made the arrest. On April 23rd, 701 Main Street, a 31-year-old man from Bradley Beach was arrested on two outstanding warrants. He was later released after posting full bail for both warrants. Detective Gregory Pansa

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made the arrest on May 3rd, 700 block of Main Street. A 38-year-old man from Ocean Township was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and several other motor vehicle offenses. Patrolman Dale Crow and patrolmane made the arrest. In addition, the police

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department investigated several motor vehicle crashes and answered several calls for service. Um, regarding uh Silven Lake, um uh our BA had addressed the uh bulkhead going out to advertisement. We also just found out

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today that our permit, the dam safety permit for the outlet gate finally was approved by D. We had submitted that about five months ago and uh D's now approved that permit so that the D with the outfall project that was being done on the beach. They're going to change

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over the contractor. It looks like he the contractor was done. He's not done. He just um went dormant because of the uh environmental restrictions on that contract. Um and so he's going to now re potentially be mobilized very soon to do the gate work. Uh we're going to end up

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D will be negotiating that uh with um advice from um Burough of Avon as well as Bradley Beach on how we and when are we going to do that work. So that's going to happen and we've been talking about this for about six months. So this is about again a critical infrastructure project that controls the water uh

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leaving the lake. So that's really important. Um, in addition at Silvin Lake, we have what's called the TAC uh technical um advice advisory committee uh that's made up of uh Mammoth University, the electoral society,

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engineers, environmentalists um and both bureaus and they are advancing looking at um how are we going to um submit for permits for uh the dredging of the lake ultimately and we're looking for how to get funding for that dredging. for the ultimate solution

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of the lake. Meanwhile, we're taking care of all the infrastructure elements, but the actual dredging, removal, and building of living shoreline and beneficial reuse of that sediment from the bottom of the lake, either disposing of it or using it uh to um will be those

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plans would be getting developed and being shared with the community uh in sometime in the next several months. So, again, um we're continuing to advance and and make progress on the lake. So, that's my report. Thank you, Councilman. Just on on that note, I mentioned this I

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think last time you gave us an update on Southern Lake, but I'm going to say it again probably a few more times over the next few meetings. Um what we Bradley Beach are in the early stages of accomplishing is is truly historical in what we are doing to

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Silven Lake because Silven Lake has sat for over 20 years with with every every council person, every local politician lobbying for ways to dredge that lake because if you don't dredge that lake, it will die. It it in many spaces it's

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one foot in depth. We joke that, you know, it's a religious experience to see ducks walking on top of water, but in fact they're walking on sediment. Um, and Paul, when you mentioned the TAC committee, that's 15 or 20 people that

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meet every couple of weeks, you know, once or twice a month with engineers and uh environmentalists and lawyers and and council people, uh, the mayors of Avon and Bradley. Uh, this lake has never had this level of attention that I'm aware

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of and I I just can't imagine it has. We've already secured working together with some of it on our own, some of it the prior administration, Mr. Larry Fox, u some of it current, uh, some of it through Avon. We've already secured grant funding that's very sizable in

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nature to to repair the the bulkhead on our side of the lake. um to extend the prominade. Um and that prominade again a very uh critical um uh protection for the burough of

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Bradley Beach at the south end of town because it right now that is the low point in in town and uh we are susceptible to ocean surges there. Back in when Sandy hit flooded the lake, it flooded all the properties around the lake. Uh

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these are truly historical uh undertakings and I'm I'm very excited about the fact that we've got all these experts and and uh evolving sources of funding to get all this stuff done. The challenge will be and I'm going to say this a few more times. We are very

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likely to have disruption during our summer uh especially at the south end of town, southeast corner of town. and and if there was any way around, we are this council is super sensitive to those concerns. Nobody wants to have any

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construction taking place in the summer, but a lot of our funding uh expires at the end of this calendar year. There's stuff we need to do. We would have started it five months ago, but we needed all sorts of D approvals and so

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forth. Uh the good news is we seem to be moving forward. The bad news is some of that work is going to take place during the summer. As soon as we know when we will communicate it to the public. There is there is no cover up. There is no desire to keep anything from the public.

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We truly don't know in c certain instances if we're even going to receive approvals. And if we should receive approvals, we're not sure when. Uh we are looking at going out to bid. We're there's because we are trying to keep the the ball moving. But uh as soon as

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we know information, we will share that with the public. Uh flyers, uh open communications, newsletters, uh website postings. We're talking about setting up a separate area of our website that folks can go to for regular updates. Uh

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we are very much aware that there will be disruption during the beach season. We want to minimize that to the extent possible, but that is a significant issue for all of us and of course our residents. Um, I I I am amazed that uh Ashley Fogley,

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our librarian, who I am the liaison to the library. Um, and for every council meeting, she gives me a list of a million things that the library is doing. And every council meeting, I read five or six of them because I want to give folks a sense. But please, if

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you're looking for activities for yourself, for children, for grandchildren, for aunts and uncles, check out our library website because it's amazing uh the amount of things they do. I'm going to read a few of them. Um one is we have a photography

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contest that the the theme of it is history. Uh children zero to 12 can the zero might be a little young, but children up to 12 years old can uh enter it. Uh, and it's limited to one entry per person, but photography about history. Uh, submissions can go through

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now through July. Um, and there are weekly programs, Mondays, Legos and games. Thursdays, drop in crafts for kids, pickup crafts for kids and adults throughout the month. Um, I'm skipping skipping. There's a lot here. >> One each one.

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>> I'm getting to One Beach one. Ready? >> That's the important one that I've got. uh on May 12th at 6 PM, one beach, one read. Have you seen Louise Deles is is the book by Katherine Ryan Hyde. Uh that will be at the Brother Beach Firehouse

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again May 12th at 6:00 p.m. Um there is another one beach one read at the Bradley Beach Elementary School May 14th at 1:40 p.m. Again, if you have children who want to read a children's book, make try to make it to the Bradley Beach

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Elementary School. Uh there's a social security and retirement income planning workshop for folks uh contemplating retirement. Uh giving ways to optimize your social security and reduce taxes and hedge for inflation. Uh and there's

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so much more. Children reading to dogs, children helping to practice their reading, but of course making it fun because they're they're you know interacting with with dogs. Um and there's a yarn club and there's ma jang and so much more. So go to that Bradley

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Beach uh public library website. There's also tons of online resources, ebooks, u e magazines, streaming video, and so forth. So lots going on at our library. Uh I did not do it justice, but but go to the website if uh if you're at all

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interested. Um I also came prepared to give my thoughts as uh as councilwoman Greenblad mentioned. Uh we agreed that you know if the feeling struck us we would sh we didn't vote last week if you recall or last meeting if you recall

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there was an ordinance that councilman Karp uh decided to withdraw because he did not have the support from council it was related to the gas leaf blowers. Um I I committed that uh I would read my thoughts. So uh here are my thoughts uh

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and regarding my thoughts regarding a possible ban on gas sleep blowers from our mid for the period midmay through September was roughly four and a half months. Uh first I want to thank Councilman Karp who worked hard to develop legislation that he hoped would

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serve all. I learned a lot from his efforts and still at our last council meeting I was prepared to vote no on the proposed seasonal ban on gas leaf blowers. The goal reducing noise and improving summer quiet is valid. Electric blowers are more quiet. Other

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concerns were raised regarding emissions from gas leaf blowers. While not related to noise, I did consider these concerns. However, my role is to weigh those benefits against the potential cons that we would create. First, uh our draft

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proposal was limited. It applied only to gas leak blowers for roughly four months during the the summer while other two two-stage engine equipment would continue year round and gas blowers return in the fall. Second, landscapers and small business owners made clear

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this would hurt their livelihoods. Electric electric equipment could take significantly more time and requires more costly batteries and charging. Productivity losses for landscapers would be significant. Third, these restrictions could raise costs for

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residents and/or reduce available services to residents. My research indicates that roughly five municipalities have bans on gas leaf blowers in New Jersey and that roughly another 15 have seasonal restrictions on gas leaf blowers. This is roughly 20

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municipalities out of 564 total municipalities in New Jersey. This said, the state of New Jersey is still considering broader, more comprehensive solutions, possibly with a 3 to 5year phase out period and financial support for affected businesses.

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I think it will be more prudent and more effective to attempt to resolve environmental concerns with two-stroke engines at the state level rather than attempt local partial, meaning limited, measures to restrict the the use of gas leaf blowers. In my opinion, as a

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potential amendment to our noise ordinance, the pros of limited quiet time in the summer months did not outweigh the cons of economic challenges we might impose on businesses and the public. For these reasons, I did not believe the benefits outweigh the drawbacks and I shared my concerns in

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advance with Councilman Cart. That just concludes my statements. For better, for worse, that was u the rationale that I shared with Councilman Karp. So otherwise that concludes my comments and now uh we can open it up to the public.

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Uh any comments or questions? Please limit your comments or questions to five minutes and you can speak to any items whether they are on the agenda or not. Mr. Bartell >> Greg Bartell one second. We were really just since you mentioned the library

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just wondering the status of the front door. Is it a library? Anybody heard anything or what they were doing with that? I think oh a year ago, maybe even longer, they said mentioned something like the cost for new ones was like over $30,000. I don't know if that number is right in my memory, but has anybody know

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any update of what you're doing? I I don't have a current update. I know as of a number of months ago uh I have moved off of I'm still officially a member of the board but I have a delegate so I haven't got to the last few months of meetings. However,

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the number was closer to a 100,000 and there were a lot of Yeah. And there were a lot of issues. They hired an architect that was going to help them with design. Do you have >> Yeah. So one of the things we do every Monday is we have a summer staff meeting. So Ashley um who runs the

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library and she updates us on the stuff and um more recently they've been concerned with the roof and some leaking. So as the mayor mentioned they do have an architect that also has to uh they've engaged with a historian regarding the uh the building itself. Um

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so there's no nothing new to report on the doors. Uh the doors are amazing but they are 100 plus years old. So, um, we're going to make sure we take our time to preserve them and do it the right way. Um, but to the mayor's point,

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it's it's this is a costly endeavor, but certainly worth it to preserve that history. >> They are operational though. You can go in through the front doors. >> Yeah. You >> you didn't realize that because I know for a long time you weren't allowed to. >> Now you Oh, okay. Thank you.

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>> Thank you. Other comments or questions? Yes, Nancy. Nancy Meadow Ocean Park Minist um I want to underscore how appreciative I am with the money you found and added

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andor increased. I'm delighted that we're charging more for parking at the on Ocean Avenue because you should have charging more for beach passes. I do wonder because I asked not you

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because it was two BAS and I think I only dealt with one financial person who put in the budget that the fees from the parking go to the current fund which I never quite

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understood because you know ocean's supposed to go to the ocean utility >> they go to beach >> okay >> they're all in the beach fund now we both of them there. >> Thank you. That was not shared with me perhaps everyone else. So that's a good

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thing. So I'm thrilled. Um and always increasing revenue was great. And I think you're very even though I disagree with a lot and I'll underscore that word. I do think you do your best to be good stewards of our money.

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So, that being said, and I've complained about this to two people, and they're tired of me, and I grant that, but they're not as exhausted as I am. We spent money on a new sign for Main Street for the rec center.

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Purpose of that sign, in my opinion, is to inform people on the street of upcoming events at the rec center. I'm pleased to say that it was changed somewhere between Monday morning and

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this meeting from an expired event. It's my understanding from this meeting as well as previously that summer camp is sold out. I don't find it a good bang for my buck

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that we are not advertising a Mother's Day event that's this weekend, but we're advertising summer tape. I can't wrap my head around it. And this happens after every event. There's some

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lack of specifics or thoroughess that happens there. And that's in other areas of the town and other departments or whatever. So, while you map out our future and continue to do the great job with things that help my life, um I hope

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you can address the little teeny things that really should not take much of an effort. And that being said, I know that this is being impatient. Is there any update for railing at the tennis courts or are we not there yet?

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>> It is in the cement already. >> Oh, really? Why didn't you make me go look? >> I figured you would send me a picture of it. >> No, you should send me a picture. >> Uh, Mr. Capone jumped on it when we asked him, could we get a rail in there?

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He said it should be there already. >> That's excellent. Thank you. >> Like you say, it's the little things, right? >> It is the little things cuz I'm just one person and not much time ahead and um it is the little things that make my life

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better. and you do handle big things well and I do acknowledge that. Thank you. >> Well, we are trying. Thank you. >> I acknowledge that too. >> Other comments? Yes. Mia. >> Hello.

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>> Um Mia Natasio one cave. Um I just have some food for thought on the topic of the gas powered leaf lovers. um kind of important to me. So, I just wanted to read a few paragraphs that I put together. And I'm sure it's cold back

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there. Um okay. So, I'm here to make some comments and suggestions as a result of the guest leaf blower resolution being withdrawn. I was excited to see this topic being addressed on the agenda a few weeks ago as it's a topic that has

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concerned me, excuse me, for a number of years after reading about how harmful the exhaust and high decel levels are to the environment, animals, and people. I'm sure most of you are aware of this. I'm assuming the main reason we're

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withdrawing from exploring the topic further is the financial burden the landscapers would have to take on by having to replace their equipment. I was disappointed that the opportunity to start conversations regarding the gas blowers was put on hold, but I would

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like to offer a suggestion. Perhaps the environmental commission or a focus group can put together an informative report that can educate any interested residents and landscapers addressing the use of the gas leaf blowers and their

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overall impact in our community. Perhaps some small compromises can be made. For example, maybe a homeowner and their landscaper can discuss the degree of blower removal of grasses and leaves that that needs to be removed from their yard. Maybe a full-time homeowner is

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willing to provide a battery powered blower to their landscaper. Maybe there can be a collective solutions to improve the degree of lawn debris removal. I believe there are residents in our community where the noise and duration of the blowers causes them a degree of

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irritation even when they are inside and they would welcome these types of conversations. There are residents that haven't thought about it but would be open to learning more. There are residents that are content with the way their property looks and don't want to rock the boat. I don't want to harm our landscape or or

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their business. I don't I don't know if they all know and or accept the possible long-term health effects that gas leak blows may have on them. I just want to suggest that we don't drop this topic entirely. And even without a resolution, we can educate, inform, and engage our

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residents, landscapers, and their customers so that even small changes to their workflow may reduce the amount of noise we have to endure. Lastly, of course, it would be great to see the resolution on the agenda again. someday. It's going to most likely be a long wait

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for the state of New Jersey to get around to passing a statewide ban. And thank you for listening. I just wanted to share my thoughts. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, I will tell you that um at the Environmental Commission meeting that didn't happen because they didn't have a

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quorum. That was topic number one. All right, I got distracted. >> Sorry. >> This is either my right side or my left side, but there's always someone not >> questions. >> Any other comments or questions? If service,

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um, this is not intended to rain on anybody's parade. There's going to be a question slatement regarding the uh block party 400 bond schedule for from 5 to 9. I thought in

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previous talk block parties were to end half an hour before sunset which on that date is about 8:30. So other residents were told that their parties had to end. So that would put

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that party at 8:00. So just as question this one's called Well, not like I said, I don't necessarily want to ruin anybody's party just in the previous statements that has come up. >> No, I think whatever our ordinances

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said, none of at least I don't think any of us voted on this knowing it was intentionally going beyond what our ordinance is. So the I'm just curious, Terry, do you know? >> I don't know that one off hand. We'd have to look up, but I can certainly look up the things we would say.

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>> I mean, it's a very good question, Sunset. >> Other people were denied their lot for that reason. So, just a statement question. So, >> okay. Uh, Mr. Dhy, can we just make a

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note to follow up on that? >> Yeah, maybe not tomorrow. We just follow but we'll make sure that we I don't think there's any thought of not complying with the >> certainly and and you know I think once it starts getting dark this has to shut down so pretty sure

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>> by the way you're not invited >> I know >> thank you sir any other comments or questions in the audience I guess no. Uh any comments or questions on Zoom? No, I'm looking there and they're looking at me this way. >> All right. I see no other comments or

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questions. So, uh next item is executive session. >> Uh Mr. Can >> Mr. Ken, how long do you think the executive session should last? >> 10 minutes according to Mr. Dy, which I agree with. >> All right. So, I'll make a motion that

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we move to executive session and let the public know we expect to return in 10 10 minutes or second. >> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Yes, Mr. >> Cor. Mr. Mayor. >> Yes.

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>> Sorry. >> They lowered it for us. >> They lowered it for us. >> It's hot.