Do you want me to stay here? Give it a whirl. Yeah. Okay. I see it. I'll come and let you know. What's that? Thank you. And then next day, you don't have my dog. Nobody seems to
understand like that's my people. Well, no, it's just all right. Let's just please remember what you think. Oh, you want to do it that way? The woman at 300. Yes. This is her the
giant birthday card. So, hi. How are you? You should sign it. Have you signed it yet? Yes. Right here. ancient. Yes, it's a birthday card. That's right. When we beautiful I straightened it out. I straightened it out.
I here Matt, you might want to listen to this. We parked the car across the street. As soon as I opened up the door, there's an electric plate right there and there's a big hole. Somebody steps on that, they'll really be like a divot in the
sidewalk directly across the street. What store biscuit? No, it's it's close to the new shop. The new coffee shop. Yes. And it's an electric box.
It's a square electric box. And there's a empty hole. A huge hole. It may be for one of the ones that I don't know. But I don't want so well. I've got this whole list.
Thank you. But I'm so happy. CFO today. You know, she was here, right? Oh, CFO. Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. John is
taking out his Come on, get John. Yes. Yeah. No, they gave us This is about
All right. Exactly. Anyway, stand. starting That's right. down here. That's a good time. Sharpen and uh I'm going to call this meeting to order. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Please stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I wish to announce that the 48 hour
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public, this meeting may be attended via Zoom. If for any reason the Zoom portion of this meeting fails or is disconnected, the in-person meeting will continue without interruption and action can and will be taken providing that there is an inerson quarum. Mr. Noble
here, Miss Greenblat here, Mr. Noiki, excuse Excuse. Uh Mr. Weber here, Mayor Fisoi here. Okay. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Um welcome. Um we are going to start the evening with item number
five, a workshop. We actually have two workshops. Uh I have an old version of the agenda, I just realized, but we have two two workshops this evening. Um we'll start with the sewer pump station with CME uh presenting Mr. Matlac and uh
we'll follow this with a second workshop. Sure. Give me one second. to say good evening. I can just go run or get it. Okay. Uh, thank you, mayor and council for having me. Uh, we're here today to
talk about the, uh, asset activation planning grant that Burough received. Uh, this is for 54 Ocean Avenue, also known as the the old pump station and pump house. Uh, located on Prominard uh, between uh Parkplace Avenue and Ocean
Park Avenue. Um just as a refresher for everybody, uh we talked about this a few times in previous meetings, but uh the bur received a $50 grant to be used for planning and design purposes um for the
reuse of unused an unused asset. So this this is a building. It's an asset of burrow. It's underutilized. So the purpose is to uh repurpose this building. uh something unfortunate. Um
currently I'm sure you all recognize this. Uh it's it's the temporary restroom building that is or trailer that's located next to this building. Uh it's it's up during the summer uh months. Um so that's that's the current
condition of of what the use of this location is. Um, so the burrow has decided that it's in their best interest to try to eliminate the use of the temporary trailer. Uh, if we can get rest rooms in the building, that'll uh
alleviate the need for that. Um, I met with the burough administrator, the mayor, public works director, uh, as well as as our architect who's here today, uh, to answer any questions if needed. Uh, we did a site visit inside the building. We looked at the existing
conditions. We looked at a couple uh potential layouts of uh how we could reutilize the space. And uh we came up with with one option, which I'll show you in a second. Uh the other layouts
that we didn't go with had uh less uh stalls and urinals for restroom um for men's and women's than what we could have fit. Uh had a smaller concession area. Uh so we we put some thought into a couple different layouts. Uh but
ultimately we agreed that uh this one that I'm going to show you right now is the best. So as you can see um to orient yourself the prominade is on the right side. Ocean Avenue would be on the left. Um you have two restroom buildings of men
and a women's. Uh there are uh two stalls and two urinals with two sinks in a men's room. Uh four stalls, two sinks in the women's room. Both uh restrooms have a baby changing station. Um then you have a couple of storage closets.
And then along the prominade is your uh concession area. Uh there's the concession area. It's intended that there's not going to be any cooking done at the concession area. that would require a grease trap, exhaust fans, uh different health
department requirements. Um but the intent here is to have it as more of a snack stand. Um bottled water, things like that. Um maybe sunglasses. Uh you could you could sell out of there. Uh it will have a three compartment sink,
which is per building code. Um, and then I'll show you a a quick rendering of of what uh the outside would look like. So, you've got the view from Ocean Avenue. Uh, the
facade of the building is uh intended to match other buildings that are in town. Um because of the the slope from the sidewalk up to the prom and having to have a level surface for all the doors,
uh we may need a railing there. Uh if we do, it'll be uh the intent to match the railing that's on the prominent. So what you can see here is the right side uh entrance to the restroom uh building the
restrooms in the building and uh on the back side is the prominade which has the concession stand and I'll show you what that looks like. So that's where the concession area would be. Makes sense. It's on route side. uh everything would be ADA
compliant um to be able to get to the concession area or the restrooms. Um and even on a murky, cloudy, rainy day, we've got some dedicated beach goers there. Yes. I'm sorry. Could you please repeat what
you just said? I said even on a cloudy, murky day, you have dedicated beachgoers. Uh so that is uh basically it. This this rendering here is just to give you a general idea of what it looks like. Uh
and it's maybe not necessarily to scale, but it's pretty close and uh it's it's just superimposed on the existing area. Um and any questions? Okay, Mr. Weber. Thank you. Thank you, Ben. Um, so it looks like there's a lot
of leveling out because when you approach this from Ocean A, I don't know if it's like just a bay, it almost seems like it's twotory building, but it can't be two full stories. What is the I don't know if you can go back to that slide that shows that um the backside it's
it's not two stories, but it's sort of Oh, it's enough to pull up a like a backup a truck. That's kind of what that was meant for then, I guess. Yeah. So, this building was a like I said, it was a an old pump station, right? Um, and
that was a a bay exactly to back a truck into unload equipment or load equipment. Um, and that's not in use anymore. will likely we will uh cover that up and you won't see the peg there. So there's
really only like crawl space amount of level below floor the current floor or crawl space or it's not even half the story two steps. It it doesn't have a a crawl space or anything. It has some some storage tanks underneath the building and things like that. So you
just level it out. Yeah, it would it would be leveled out. Uh it would probably maintain that same elevation. Okay. So, uh, it would you would still it would still look like that. You wouldn't raise the building or lower the building or anything like that. Uh, but you would
see the the door on the right side that would kind of be the new elevation all the way across. Uh, so all the doors would hatch. And I'll go back to the other show. Presumably the So you have a level area here um where all the doors are the
same elevation and it slopes down towards the side. Presumably the chimney would stay because there's hot water and there's something to make it hot. It may stay. We we haven't gotten to the the nitty-gritty of the design yet. Um we're
not showing it right here. Uh it I don't know that we necessarily need it. Um, so we probably if we do need it, you know, it'll stay, but we will. Thank you. Go ahead. I was just going to say, so is
that to scale the current image we're looking at because it looks like the um the pathway that you know with the railing around it is is not quite wide enough for the turning radius of a say a wheelchair. Yeah, it's it's not
perfectly to scale. Okay. Um but it will it would be meet all uh codes and ADA requirements so that you could enter and exit the building with a uh a wheelchair. So um you are staying within the
footprint that is already existing there. So you're not expanding or multiplying the building which is a good thing. Um how about lighting for night? What were your ideas? Good question. Yeah. So, we probably would have some building mounted lighting just for like
security purposes um over the doorways, but they would be um not flood lights. They would just be kind of downward pointing uh lights just to illuminate that it be the doorway. Okay. That's what I wanted to make sure that it wasn't going to be in the
resident's eye and then all that. Correct. And there would not be any flashing lights or anything like that. Just just being security. Okay. And it looks great. I mean, we've come a long way and I love the simplicity and I love bathrooms by the playground. So, bravo.
I just want to know now when when is this going to happen? Couple more quick questions or actually one observation. Uh what I also enjoy about this this uh view is we no longer have the bathroom trailer here. So, uh,
we're replacing that with a hopefully a very legitimate funding building. Uh, Ben, you mentioned to me what is the position now on heating and air conditioning of the building? Uh, the intention was not to uh heat or air
condition the building. Uh, it's it's seasonal. Um, if if the burough wanted, we could heat it so it could be used year round. uh air conditioning would not be the intent. And again, just my reaction, we'll we'll let the public weigh and we'll let the council weigh
in, but but I'd be inclined to consider heating so we could have a year round access for, you know, beachgoers in the offse. Are the other bathrooms heated? Yeah. Well, the one by the rain are open year round and they put heat in that so we can have one. Okay. And it's literally only a few blocks away.
you want to have two bathrooms open year a few blocks away. We got it covered with one if you This is true. That's a good point. We have to talk to like maintenance people and see is it super heavily used? Does it seem
like okay? Yeah. Okay. We have some time to decide. I imagine Okay. Before Well, what broad time frame and then we'll uh turn this over to the public. a broad time frame for us to approve a design and then you know begin
a process to actually uh evaluate opportunities to select the biders to find out what this would cost. What's a broad time frame? So um if we have an agreement that this is um the direction we want to go will
advance the design um to get a a complete you know building design. Um there are still other things we just have to investigate uh such as the underground tanks and uh we we did not include uh permitting in in this phase.
Um but because there's no building expansion, uh D permitting may not be required. So we're going to uh verify that uh and ensure that that we don't need any permits um before we move to the next steps. But uh ultimately the
the goal right now is to make sure that we are able to utilize the the grant for design and planning. Um and that's that's what we're doing. Once that is phase is done basically we have a set of
plans that is uh you know ready to go into the final design and bid uh phase uh and then we have to have construction uh down front. So, we don't have an exact cost estimate
yet. We're still working through that. Um, but we're in a range of of a, you know, probably around $400,000. You you mentioned D permitting, uh, EFA permitting as well. Any need to go
through that process? Yeah, that's that would be the one that I would think we'd have to, uh, make sure we investigate. Uh I don't think we need to do Cath permitting, but uh we haven't thoroughly vetted that out. So I won't say it's
definite we don't have. The other thing and you just referenced it moment moments ago uh the tanks underground. We're not talking about like oil tanks. We're talking about sewage container tanks. Yeah, they're like holding tanks for uh the pump
station use. And at this point, has anyone been down there to see what we've got, what we've inherited? Not yet. Uh, but they have not been in use for several years. So, uh, it's I I can't answer exactly what's happened. So, we'll we're going to
investigate that. There's no anticipated use for that space. We probably fill it in at some point. Okay. Any other questions? Yeah. So, we got this grant to study underutilized buildings. Um, but
now that we have a plan, wouldn't we go back to the state and try and get the grant? If you say it's going to cost $400,000, would it to convert this? Wouldn't we go back to the state for that? Is if if there's a grant program available that would fund something like this. Yes. I mean, I'm sure they don't have
Well, I'm not sure of anything, but um I would think they don't have this here. will give you $50,000 to come up with ideas for underutilized building and then not direct you to some other state grant. Yeah, exactly. Actually do it. That's part of what uh our our process
is to look for additional funding sources. Um people certainly reach out to the this funding source, the NJA, and ask that question. You know, what is the next step? How how can the burrow also get additional grant funding for the
implementation of this plan? This would be paid out of the beach fund, not taxpayer money. Correct. Unless we get a grant. Unless we get a grant. There you go. Okay. So, so Ben, thank you for uh staying within the footprint. You know, we went through this a few years ago.
I'm sure some of our residents remember uh there was at least an exploration of having a restaurant that would have had more lighting, probably had more activity, had a second floor at one point. Um this is I think much more what most of us envisioned. Um better
leveraging existing property without expanding and creating challenges for our residents. So I think this is a great starting point and I want to um give the public a chance to weigh in. more. Normally, um, we are built, our
agendas are built to ask for public comment after we get through all of the, uh, presentations, but I'd like to take a chance while you've got all your slides up to give the public that chance. So, I'll I'll open it up to public comment. Yes, Rick.
Please, and state your name. Put it to the side. We went back to the center. Somebody put it there. Okay. Rick Martell, 116 Newark Avenue. Just a quick question. If the storage tanks have to be removed, then do you have to
demo the entire building or how does how does that work in the sequence? Uh, that's to be determined. We haven't figured that out yet. Okay. So, there's a possibility you might have to demo the whole building. No, not necessarily.
They they likely would fill it in. Okay. question is for Ben basically um Linda Duffy 312 Renley is there any possibility I don't want you to change plans too much but because the park is
there um to have a family bathroom put on the park side and make the other two bathrooms smaller for the male and female only because I have been to that park with toddlers and it was hard getting out of the park to get to the
trailer to use a facility with a little child. I don't know if that's possible. So, we did look into that. Um, one of the issues is that by putting a door on the other side, uh, that has to essentially you would be moving that area that you
see there with the railings to the other side. No, there is it's not higher. It's at ground level on the other side. But, but you still need a a you can't have it have it be mulch. It has to be ADA accessible. So you need like a sidewalk area and that encroaches onto the park
and you have the swings that are right there. They would have to be relocated because you needed the certain fall zones surrounding the swing equipment. Um and it would it would result in you know additional work and I don't we didn't investigate whether or not the
there's enough space to move the swings but that's another additional cost and we decided we didn't want to take space away from the park. So if even if they added another walkway that entered from here out to get to
here that would be ADA because the park's not ADA because of the mulch. Correct. I'm just a thought because it's hard for parents to do that and Graham trans question Nancy. Nancy Meadow Ocean Park names since
1988 I've requested a bathroom for the playground for me who has no children. The fact that you think a parent with a young child that is in desperate need to
use the bathroom has the wherewithal to walk all the way around the building is just us missing the mark again. Um, if your goal is just to have another beach bathroom, okay, but I really
thought we were going to accommodate the little ones with people trying to scoop them up and get them to the bathroom. In addition, I really thought we would change the address because we know we're at the 900
block. And um, in this day and age, I don't understand. Um, I do not I'm not sure, but I don't know that we're required to have unisex bathrooms and they're not unisex
anyways, especially when little children are involved. And I'd really like to know who the Wii is because we decided to do this. We decided this is better. Who's the Wii? Thank you. So, thank Well, thank you. But only because you're somewhat
prompting a a question and a response. Uh the we are us presenting to the public at soliciting feedback. This is not a decision that has already been made. Who's the us? I'm sorry. Who's the US? Who's the US?
The governing body, the council. So you all were in on the design. Okay. No, we weren't. This is the first time we're seeing this work. But he this is first time for everybody to see it. And he was saying we decided I'm just No, no. We Okay. To be very very specific, Matt
Dhy, myself, and uh Baja Kaf, right? Met the engineer and they laid out a couple of options. Uh we three of us thought this of the three this looked the most feasible. Uh we did discuss entrances
off the playground. The concerns we had, one was taking away space, ADA compliant space. The other thing was we don't want it to just we the three of us didn't want it to just be a playground bathroom, nor did we want it to just be a beach
bathroom. Our initial thinking was if we're going to narrow the scope to ask Mr. Malik to present to the public to get this feedback, let's pick the one that we thought would be the most practical. This taking away no space from the playground. again, three older
gentlemen who were not thinking about young families thought would not be a problem to have doors simply around the corner. So, we're taking in this feedback and we will certainly reconsider, but but it was as simple as let's get something in front of the
public to react. Okay, I know who we are. Thank you. Okay. I love this idea, but I do feel as though you're going to do it, do it. You know, I really think a family bathroom
on the by the playground would be beneficial. I just um and I can I just think that if you have two I just think it would be the total package. I like
the I love everything, but if it's possible to get that just a family bathroom so they can go in and out and be in the playground, it would be beneficial. And there must be some way you can reconfigure the playground. And I don't think it's that expensive to
move a swing set. I mean, that's I think that's all feasible. I I guess to make sure we're all clear, the concern was we didn't want to channel all of the boardwalk pedestrians through the playground. No.
But you're saying have a separate family bathroom on one side and two bathrooms on the other side. Yes. The parents are in the bath and then the children, a parent or a child can run into that ba that family bathroom and then be in the
playground still and then you wouldn't have to worry about a gate going around. I don't like the gate on the side of the road because if that gate is act is not closed properly, a child could easily wander out there. You follow what I'm
saying? No. If we put if you put a gate here, so a family member has to walk all the way around here. No, they would they would walk around on the boardwalk the same way they walk out now. They would walk. Okay. Yes, it does. Okay. I thought somebody was suggesting to put a
gate here so they could roll in this way. What the bathroom with the concession stand is? Yeah, a a gate would be worse on that side because you have a retaining. Oh, no. I just think a gate by a street is very dangerous for children. But I just think if you just
put a family bathroom on this side of the playground somewhere where you can connect all the piping. Doesn't have to be real big, but just a family bathroom like you see at well the Atlanta Club. They have a family changing rooms or family
bathrooms. And it's just simple. It doesn't have to be real fancy, but it's just accommodating children in the bathroom. take away from it would have to take space from the existing bathrooms I would imagine. Yeah. The each bathroom would be half as big if we
did that. Okay. But the bathrooms would be half as big and we would have to take space away from the playground and and build another ramp and railing at additional cost on that side. No, we're just saying these are the challenges we we have. I understand. But
I I'm just thinking of little kids in that playground and then having to drop everything and run all around. It would just since you're doing it, I just think it's it's six of one and a half. Can I ask one other question just to make sure I understand it? If you're done, I think
I'm sorry. Okay, Ben, just to make sure I understand this. Right now, if someone were in the playground and they needed to use the bathroom, they would have to walk to the I mean, and it was the summer and that that mobile bathroom was there. And they have to walk. It's between the building and that lamp post
on the board. That's where they would have to walk to now, right? Yes. So, that doesn't seem like it's any further to walk into the building from there. That's the same distance. And before co before we had that temporary bathroom, right? We didn't have a bathroom there
before. Okay. So, where would people if they're on the playground, they had to go to the bathroom then before we put the temporary bathroom there. Where would they have to walk to? They would have to walk all the way down to the Well, either I don't know which is closer, the Lraine Avenue ones or the ones by the Cliff Avenue parking. Okay.
So, it's incredible improvement in the the amount of walking that people have to do compared a few years ago and it's pretty much the same compared to what they would have to do now. Is that just making sure I have that right? Okay.
Yes. Okay. Got it. Thank you. Ben, a related question. A lot of time in the bathroom. I mean, you have you have reason why you're there to go get in and out. So, if there was a smaller bathroom, Yeah. No, we're not I understand. We're not debating you. I
mean, I think more than one person has said they'd like a family easy access bathroom. And the decision we initially discussed with Mr. Malik and his team, the his architect, um was doors on this side of the building or doors on that side of the building, north or south.
There was we just didn't have a discussion about potentially a family bathroom on one side and and non-family on the other. We were trying to minimize the disruption to the playground. That being that being the space uh you know the the ramps that would be needed, the
flat ground that would be needed as well as um the concerns we had about people just everybody walking through the playground, adults to get to bathrooms. No, no, bathrooms on that side. You guys for the first time have suggested doors
on both sides is the concessions in the front. If you're leaving the plate I'm sorry and this is just another quarter. If you're leaving the playground, which is not, you haven't been like kids up there. I walk it every day. I know exactly how hard it is. I know, but you
haven't run out with little kids. The gates that not close to the swings. It's kind of in the middle. You have to open the gate, which is never functioning correctly. Run all the way down and you go to the the external bathrooms that we have. Now, it's an issue. If we put the
bathroom boards to the front, that's better only because you're not running through people in a concession way. You'd have to run around, not run or walk gingerly with your child around the people that are in line, which are in your way to get to
the bathroom entrance. So, if the concession's on the side that we have the doors, so be it. I mean, it's in session. We really want the concession. the last workshop that we had people's didn't really care about anything. So that's a bullet. I'm sorry. And you can
take just a few feet off of the playground. I do not think the swings are part of $18,000 renovation. Take a few feet off of the playground and put the doors on the other side. Right. Uh there's a hand raised in the
back. Two hands raise. I'm just yeah just a suggestion fall the champion for 11 and a half lane. Um obviously uh you can cut out space from the men's room to put in you know half of that area being the family room with
an entrance from the other side. The minute you put an entrance on the park playground side, you would open up the possibility of getting green acres funding because it would be an improvement to a greenacres funded playground.
Just a thought. It's a very good thought in the back. Hi, Victoria 19 Avenue. I guess I'm going to say first off before we go any further, why don't we see if we need capper approval before we start putting a card from the ports because that would
be another expense for caffer because you're so close to the ocean. So before we get too far into it, why don't we see if that's a possibility and what you need to do for money and assets. The other thing is the last time this was a topic conversation, you heard quite a few people who spoke who live in that
area about not wanting a concession. So by you putting in a concession, a grill, a sanka, this and that, you you heard the voice of the opinion live in that area. That's what we don't want. More importantly, you could put a vending machine next to it if you're just border. So stick a vending machine
in front of it just like the golf course. And lastly, if you're going to go through the propos the purpose of building bathrooms next to a playground, you should definitely have a family bathroom. That that's it doesn't make any sense not to have a family bathroom. How inconsiderate is that? You're inviting people to come to the park with their small children. They need a family
bathroom. So, if you're going to do it, just be logical about it. But again, I'm going to just refresh everyone's memory when everyone spoke about this before. We have a big opposition against the concession. And I don't mean the restaurant. I mean last time this was proposed recently last few months. So
just asking that that is kind of brought back to surface. Bathrooms, sure, but there's enough jammed on the north end of town by us. We have the parks, we have we have volleyball pits, we have the summer concerts, we jam a lot of stuff by us. So just take that in
consideration and the trash, the debris, the noise, and all that comes into it if you're going to put a concession stand there. Okay, it's my thought. Well, I just just want I mean I remember the opposition to the restaurant. people didn't want cooking and when we asked them would it be okay if it was just
like an ice cream stand or concession stand my recollection I know it was years ago is people thought that that was okay and please if I can finish up and then also people I get we get a lot of complaints about well there's nothing for the north end there's no there's no concession on the north end there's no
amenities on the north end so we're actually trying to do that um because we hear the opposite you know we don't we may not have a boardwalk you know the uh whatever the trailer, you know, this summer. We're actually just getting the uh bid out now. So, that could happen
again. So, we hear that. I I hear both. So, but if you oppose not even pack yourself with peanut butter and jelly and pack your water and your life is good. I mean, we care care about the residents, not not your community, not the tourism that you're jamming down our throats. You just care about the people who live there and people are going to
see it, smell it, and the debris and trash that goes with it. But I think if you're going to go through the effort of of revamping this for a bathroom, you have to have a family bathroom, especially that you're next to a park. Also, the aderonic chairs, for the record, old people can't get in and out of the aderonic chairs very easily. Like
a regular bench would be nicer to get in and out of. Just saying. Logically, if you ever tried to sit your bum in their chairs, old people, they get their ass stuck in it. Just saying. Thank you. Yes, sir. West team. Uh this is to
the consideration or thought of a concession stand. Is that going to be a federal employees or is that going to be a seek out a lease person to rent it? Uh so that's the question nobody's
ever talking about. If it's going to be a concession stand, who's going to be in it? Well, we would bid it out just like every passion on the boardwalk. Uh second concern to sort of well you said the ice cream lily ice cream at the top
end who is my understanding has a three-year lease, a pretty expensive lease and the burrow doesn't necessarily owe that business any privileges or not. But to put a concession stand or a competition to
them is that I'm say fair, not fair, but uh like I said, they're if I if I understood it correctly, they're paying in upwards of $30,000 a year to have that ice cream fair there on a three-year lease. Now,
Mr. Kennet, do you want to address that? Well, yeah, terminated shar choice, correct? Yeah, they voluntarily left on our choice. Their choice. So we had to have to make I mean they over bid.
Yeah. Well, because they couldn't make that money. That's well that was part of my put money. Yeah. Spend a lot of money and then bang all we're going to competition right down the road. But I mean also this wouldn't be done for
years. Yeah. Everybody's talking about bathroom. Nobody's talking about the actual operation of a concession stand and the viability of a concession stand being there. I mean I can tell you that the focus from all so I've been here for a while on different people I mean is really
there's the sessions that people like I think are great and we just try to keep them here at all costs and and then the money we can get try different things out but you see there's a lot of stable ones and we you know your governing body does does work to keep them here because it wasn't the stand there because it was
it was absent anything was absent for about a year or two and they finally came and that was Yeah. Without getting into the like private details about people's business. So we, you know, Matt tried very hard. I tried very hard to work with with them to try to figure it out. It just it just
didn't work out, unfortunately. Um, but they're also not crossed off our list. You know, in the future they we can figure it out, but we left it open with them, but they they didn't they didn't want to go back. All right. Thank you, Mr. Co.
Uh, Thomas Coan, 6123rd Avenue. U Mr. Malac, this is an amazing plan. Um, and I I only wish we' had it a couple years ago because it's a great place to start. Um, in terms of I know you haven't done the mechanical layout yet, but since
we're cutting up the building and taking space away for this family bathroom, I don't see a mechanical room for the hot water heaters. Um, you know, would that eat up even more space? Uh we would explore a tankless water heater that uh doesn't take up as much
space and uh it can be put above the the ceiling. Okay. And then are you envisioning this building to be all electric or would it have gas service for the hot water heater? Electric. All electric. Okay. And then are you envisioning it to be
two services, one for the concession and a separate service for the bathrooms to separate utility bills? Yeah. No, be just one service. Most likely. Yes. Okay. And then um uh
you know, just for council's notes, I I like the building. I think uh this is like 85% of what I thought we were going to get two years ago. Um, but I would love this back area here where the stroller is and behind the building uh
to be dedicated for for bicycle racks because that way it's out of the way. The parks right here. We keep more bikes from being uh chained to the railing at the beach. So, that would be my only note. Um, but this is very helpful to get it out to the public. Thank you,
Miss Kepler. Um, Beth Kepler, 504 central. Um, I really don't have an opinion. I think it looks great um either way, but just as a suggestion to maybe I don't know what the inside looks like or how the bathrooms are laid out if it's
individually used bathrooms or if it's stalls, but perhaps instead of building a whole and fashioning a whole new bathroom, put doors, entry doors to the existing bathrooms that are there on both sides so that you can get in and out from
either this side and then you wouldn't have to worry about being ADA compliant because you'd already have at that obligation on this side and then you'd have access on the other side and it would just be doors from both sides. But I don't know what's on the opposing wall.
Uh Mr. Malik, you could probably briefly describe the what the bathrooms look like today. Don't put two doors in the family bathroom. Uh today, today the bathrooms are are not usable at all. Um there are not even toilets.
They're broken toilets that have been um destroyed and and they're scattered all the floor. So the building right now is is not useful. Um and there's a loading area inside the building, too. Yeah. I mean, it's not configured today the way
you've drafted it for tomorrow. Correct. Right. So, it's a little misleading. You might think there are existing bathrooms that were refurbishing, but they I mean, whatever his existing plan is that he has planned, I don't know if it's a single use or multiple stalls, but if
it's a multiple stall bathroom, it would make sense that there could possibly be. Um, and Ben, there's you said there's changing tables in each side, right? Yes. Does that make it a family bathroom or just makes it a bathroom with a changing tables? Um I don't know that I
know the definition of a family bathroom, but it is Yeah, there would be a baby changing station for updating both men's and women's bathroom. Okay. And they would they would be, you know, the fold down style. Okay. Okay. Uh are there questions on uh
I don't know. Is there been is there a way to shrink this so we can see if there's Did you just call on me? Mia Mullen couldn't see you but if I can see your hand first. If your hand is raised then you can speak now please. Okay. Mia Mullen 3024th Avenue.
Um my question is has a water fountain been considered? Will there be a water fountain with the building? Yeah, there is a water fountain existing on Mia. Did you hear that? Yeah, I did. I just wanted to make sure that that was
considered. But then this point that came up with the changing stations. If you do the family bathroom, if it's uh feasible financially to do that because I understand it needs a whole another ramp to make it ADA compliant. People have to
understand what the finances are and it probably is worth spending the money given the arguments that were made tonight for having a family bathroom. So, if you did that, then you could save space by taking away the changing stations in the man's and the women's bathrooms and just have a changing
station in the family bathroom. Just another way to reconfigure it. Do you have to have family Do you have to have changing stations in every bathroom if you have a family bathroom? Just a thought to save space. You do need the changing stations in both
bathrooms. by law. So, so Ben, it sounds like a takeaway would be to have you and and the architect evaluate is it practical? Could we could we fit in a and when we say a family bathroom, are we talking about a single toilet, a single sink?
Are we talking about stalls? I'm I'm assuming that it's a a single toilet with that's large enough for a changing table and um a safe. Thank you. Before my time is cut, just really important
because some people are going to be happy with one decision and some people will be unhappy with another decision to present the finances of well here's how much more it's going to cost and here's what we have as far as the grants so people understand why a decision is
made. Of course, we all want pie in the sky, but someone's got to pay for it. So, and not all the money is going to come through a grant. I we don't know. So that that's really important before a decision is made. So no one feels as if a decision was made and they're mad, but
they don't understand why that decision was made. Thank you, Miss. All right. Thank you. I think it's great. Thank you. Okay. So good feedback. This again was Is there another hand?
Says raise your hand. Oh, I'm sorry. Uh Eva, are you raising your hand? Yes, I am. Can you hear me? Yes. So, I've been coming to Bradley Beach since I'm 10 years old, and before the playground, there were kitty rides and there were never bathrooms. Um, I have no issue
with a family uh bathroom or changing area, but I raised two little boys and when they had to use the bathroom, I took their hands and I walked them to wherever the bathroom was, which was either I think Cliff or Lorraine. At the end of the day, the larger percentage of
children are going to be coming off the beach. The playground is utilized during the day for an hour or an hour and a half. People go in and out, but the largest percentage of people are coming off of Park Place, off of Ocean Park, walking the boardwalk. The larger
bathrooms, I believe, should be for the larger volume of people. You know, I you you maybe will see 20 people in the playground, but you're going to see a thousand people on the beach. And we have not had bathrooms there ever in my recollection. So, if
you're going to build bathrooms, you want to build them so that the adults can bring their children off the beach, so that adults can use it. You know, it it needs to make sense. That's what I have to say about it. Okay. Thank Thank you for your comment.
Eva, can you please state your ne uh your name and address? Yes. Eva Silbert, 216 Parkplace. Thank you. Thank you. Is it a possibility also to consider moving the entrance to the playground so it's closer to the building so it's less of a
walk? I mean, I don't know. Then everyone's got to go through the playground to go to the baptis. No, no, no. I'm just saying the entrance to the playground is a gate. So that's all. Yeah. I I think we've gotten enough feedback for tonight to get Ben and and
architects and by the year 2032 we should have Sorry, I can't hear you. But we're we're good for tonight. Okay. The goal tonight was not to tell you what the bathroom is. It was to get your feedback. Thank you for your feedback. and we'll have
another session. There's there's no rush on this. We're we're trying to expedite a good thing for the burrow, but we're not going to expedite it over your concerns. So, we'll we'll evaluate what we can do regarding a family bathroom, what we can do about ADA compliance without diminishing the uh the
playground area substantially. But with that said, uh we have another fun uh workshop. Mr. John Weber is going to present uh his thoughts about celebrating 100 years on the planet Earth.
Not exactly. No, this is about the logo. Oh yeah, this is about the logo one. But we do have a card. That's right. We have a card celebrating 100 years on this plan. Michelle, there you go. Cool. Sorry. Um
a committee got was formed at my request. I don't know if it was late 23 or early 24 um to unify the branding of Bradley Beach and you'll see why in a second. So um the last mayor had us appoint an actual uh commission. So you
go to the next slide, Michelle. And myself, I chose Councilwoman Denov because she's got a good eye and she's really enthusiastic about things. Amy Hall works for the burrow and is really good with uh graphics and and imaging and stuff. Kathy Smith who's here uh
also works in this field. Melissa Butler, Melissa Butler, some people may know her. She's a mom in town. She got three kids go to school in 2016 when I was knocking on doors to run for council the first time. She said, "You know what I think's kind of weird about the town? The marketing. It's kind of like all
over the place. It's the the branding is I said, "Yeah, you're right." And you'll see an example of that. her husband just happens to be a graphic artist himself. Uh Shane Butler and Christine Dickler joined us kind of later um but also has some really great um insights in this field. So
um actually let me go to the next slide so I know what's coming. Okay, so go to the next slide Michelle. Thank you. And so right now like I said the town's name it's it's all over the place. Um it's displayed in a variety of ways, variety of fonts. There's all these different symbols. There's different colors.
There's all this stuff. and I'm going to show some examples of that. Um, what I'm about to show you is that it nobody did anything wrong with any of these images that you're going to see. It's just that there was no guidance. There was no like, hey, this is what it's, you know,
in my mind, I said if there was some kind of incident and five vehicles all from Bradley Beach drove to the same spot, you would not know that they were all from the same town because of the way the everybody has a different symbol and a different this and a that. So anyway, uh, next slide, Michelle, and
people will see what I'm talking about. Um, it's displayed in all all different ways. Again, different symbols, different fonts. You can go to the next slide, Michelle. I have a lot of examples like this. Um, there there's more. Again, more symbols.
Uh, go ahead to the next one. And more symbols, more fonts. And even in the same, you know, public works, the last public works public works totally um different. And then keep going, Michelle, more. And there's more. One more. Maybe one or two more. One or two
more. Oh, this one. And I must say this is uh um the the one on the left, the the it's on the trailer for the hoola grill. Then the same thing is put on some letter head. But when the letter head's put in um black and white like in the lower right to me that just looks like a little hamburger or something. I
don't know. Um it's Anyway, you can go to the next one and um we have things like this and the next one. This is uh this is a personal dis of mine. This is my I just it's just me. Um so so go
ahead to the next slide. Oh, and there's one more for Yeah. And again, more letter like letter head and more fonts and things like that. So, um, go ahead to the next slide, Michelle. And so, when we got this committee together, we talked about, um, you know, a branding
and a symbol. We need some kind of icon of the town. Um, I didn't want something that's used by other local towns, waves and seashells because there's plenty other towns that use that. Uh, we wanted it some to be something that's unique to our town. Ideally, something that there's only one of in our town. Uh we
talked about different fonts and different colors. Um that stuff can convey meaning uh and also you know you want on the for example with a font not something that's just like a oh it's fashionable today or you know you're not going to be able to get that font you
know years from now. And then the biggest thing honestly with the with the font with the lettering is is ADA compliance. And this is really important in the digital age. Anybody that's worked on a website knows about ADA compliance. And that actually shrinks your universe of fonts a lot. Um, but
it's really important. And, uh, we had really good discussions about that. And, uh, I guess I'll talk about the font a little bit here. Um, we decided, you know, we're kind of leaning into the we're 125 years old as a town. We're leaning into the, um, you know, the history of the town, the everybody loves
the historic images, the photos up on the boardwalk, you know. So, we're like, okay, something that's kind of traditional, shows that we've been around for a while, nothing like futuristic uh and modern. And then with all this, we thought we do come up with a new symbol, a new logo for the town, there
should be a way for existing departments to use the town logo, but then whatever they have, again, if you're the police department, you're the fire department, where you have your own logo or first aid, you know, use the town logo and then you can keep whatever you've developed that also says Bradley Beach.
I mean we can have a goal for things like that. So um next slide Michelle and recognizing this Amy Hall who again works for the town. She realized we didn't really have anything. So she created this I believe I wish she
was here because um I think she created this from a a photograph and this served us for a while. Um the the concern with this image again in the in the digital age sometimes you're gonna have to print something really small and I think this if it went really small would look
probably kind of fuzzy. Uh you know imagine you you're looking at a flyer and this is on the corner of a flyer and you're looking at on your iPhone it would just be really tiny. Um probably look a little fuzzy. If it was really huge it would probably look a little pixelated. Um so then uh Amy had gone to
the next one. Go next slide Michelle. Um, so this is the same thing. And so, you know, we we had settled on the on the gazebo because it's unique to our town. Again, it's not a sea shell. It's not a wave that, you know, it's used by other towns. It is the one thing. It's in the middle of our town. It's unique
to our town. It is a place for people to gather. Um, if people remember not too long ago, it was it had steps and, you know, we knocked that down and we turned it into again an ADA compliant um building and it's a place where a lot of things happen in town. Um, so we did
settle on this. Um, I mean, you know, using the gazebo is what we're going for. So, yeah. So, the next one, these are some drafts we went through. We decided we wanted it to be the the fifth a gazebo. We had a draft like this. Keep going, Michelle. And then some things like
this. I don't want to talk too detail about each one, but keep going. And there's this same idea, but there's seashells in it. There's seahorses in it. There's, you know, our our names included. Um, bunch of different versions. There's this, you
know, we got the waves, we got the sun, we we got seaggrass. And, uh, I think at this point we're like, this is really colorful and it's really, um, kind of busy. Um, and I think, and Kathy, you know, jump in if you wanted to say anything. I think you were the one that
said it really has to work in like in black and white. Correct? Black and white and then we can move on to color. So, yeah. So we from from this is just to show the evolution of where we went. We kept going. So next slide, Michelle. Okay. So then Christine Dickler joined us and this we were probably like a um
months if not a year into this. But um and she came up with this and it's different. It's modern and it's you know the font's modern. It's got the arc over it. Um it was a departure from what we were doing, but people kind of liked it. But I think the the problem with this
one, remind me Kathy, is that you know the the shading the the fact that the gazebo is just done in shades of gray. That's for some reason it's not reasons that I probably don't understand. Are it's not going to work really well as a logo, right? The shading might fill it in if it was used small and then we were
concerned about the font being client. So yeah. So but there are aspects of this that we like. So we worked kind of off of this one. Um, so you can go to the next slide and we moved uh, Michelle, you can go to the next slide and we moved into something more like this. Again, now that the font's
changed, I think we're done with um, Georgia is the font. We kept the arc over it. We kept the grass. Um, there's it's more black and white. It's not gazebo stuff. It's not so much shaded. I mean, you go to the next slide and there's there's sort of variations on this, but
there's this there's this this is just lines without the shading. Um, it's not like a huge difference. And then go to the next one. Michelle had to put the chord draft on every single one of these. This one just had like thicker boulder lines and we saw, you know, just playing around with
how we like that. And then uh I think you go to the next one and this we sort of settled on. This is one that we really like kind of emotion. And I should say we are taking see Ben and thank you. We are taking some liberties with this because if you
know the prank gazebo uh I mean the fifth a gazebo the openings are if you're looking north and south. So if you're standing to the north of the south visit that's where the openings are if you're looking you know east or west if you're looking out where you
would actually see the the grass um it's it's closed right the openings are on the side. So we sort of turned it to make it seem like it's opened to the east or west. So, this gives the idea of you're looking out towards the dunes and the grasses on the side. Uh, and I think there's one final slide that has like
the same image. It has to um, yeah, kind of the reverse of the negative of it. Um, and so we kind of like this for a logo for Bradley Beach. Um, before people asking, this is nothing final. This is no, you know, nobody I didn't
list who was uh, who was working on this thus far. Um, and the next slide is I think we're we're kind of in unchartered territory because we've never done this before. It's like what's the next step? Are there some maybe tiny further refinements? Uh, do we have discussion, you know, amongst
the council and and and what else? And that's kind of it. Um, and that was just a sort of, you know, letting you into our heads for the last the last few months. And again, unfortunately, Kathy's the only one that was on the commission that could be here. Although, of course, Jane was on
it as well. So, I like to stop talking and let either of you chime in on on any of this and uh yeah, what are your thoughts? We did have one more version after that actually that we boxed in the um Bradley Beach and kind of connected it. So, we can do you have that one up
there? Can you go back to your slides, Michelle? Sorry. It's I I don't have it. Um and it would simply be the the Bradley Beach. Yeah, it was kind of boxy. I don't know why connected together. didn't have that for some reason. I'll find it. But yeah, but that's basically the idea. And I I love
the look of it. I think it's like a a sun rising or the moon rising. I like the um angle of the gazebo. We did have it closed up and I felt even though it's kind of, you know, cheating like it's not really open to the um east and west, but it's more welcoming like come into
our town. Um, you have the the dune grass which we love our dunes and uh that's very significant in Rally Beach and um it really represents a town. I think the gazebo rep represents a small town feel as well. So you say a lot with
this logo because it kind of encompasses that who we are and I think it's and and the history as well. Established 1893. So it's it's a lot going on there and it's very simple but says a lot. Yeah. Um, can we show the final one?
Isn't that it? Oh, sorry. Can you go one more slide forward, Michelle? Sorry. Yeah, there's another version of this. Oh, wait. One more forward. Sorry. Keep going. I think you're going backwards. Yeah, she's No, you're going backwards. Go forward. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Here we go. No. Yeah,
that's either one. And the thing about a logo too, it has to work both in black and then in white on the dark background. So we worked on that. I think Shane did a great job on the design simplified the the line work because again we didn't want it to be
too busy. Um and we love the font on this as well. And um yeah, it was a real team effort and took us a while to get through. But we took some time off in the middle. really represents the town. And I just
want to say one thing. I know I mentioned Christine Dickler that version she had everything after that Shane Butler had had done. So I neglected to mention his name. And these people worked as all volunteers and they put in their time and they put in their effort. And I'll say one final thing. Uh Amy
Hall has expertise in in this area. So she started putting it on merchandise and she had like just images of this on like a shirt and a cup and a glass and a bag. And so she's going to suggest some really other minor refinements that I think just make it better for donut
merchandise and I trust her on that. So um but yeah, everybody put in a great effort and good question. Sure. So the image itself actually becomes a square, right? Wherever you're going to put it, right? You have to have it's bordered as a square. I believe that she might be
able to do iterations where it can be shown vertically as well. I mean horizontally. Got it. As well. And then where would the um verbiage for any of the departments go in your vision? The
police department, the fire department, whatever. Any of the departments? John. Yeah. I was thinking, you know, if let's just say there's I was thinking letterhead or something, right? It's like this is in one side and says, you know, Bradley Beach. And also a thing like this. We're going to have
situations where just the image is separated from the word Bradley Beach. Like say we have letterhead and across the middle on the top it says Bradley Beach. We probably would just put the symbol of the the gazebo on this side and then whatever the police department used for their you know on on their side you know it's a shield. I think the
chief is displaying it right now on right there. It's just a you know similarly our department has one uh first day has one. So I would envision you know both could go up there but the point is that and we're not going to change everything and you know strip every logo you know tomorrow.
over time as we're replacing a sign as we're getting a new vehicle as we're get you know this if this became the standard then sooner or later we would just look like this unified branded town and I think that would be wonderful so that um that's the idea there that so on a vehicle let's say not on letterhead on
a vehicle or something like that would the department go like underneath it or would it just be a symbol and it would go wherever it goes I mean does this design accommodate being able to put uh the department uh as part of the logo. I
think that's one of the things that's still yet to be figured out like we this was important to get to this point the logo and then um there's a lot more that goes like you know how it's applied and you would again when would you separate just the image from the word Bradley
Beach if do we like the way Bradley Beach police is written on police cars right now? Things like that. Um can the two coexist? I think somebody would have to take a strong look at that. This this would start with the website. It would start with business cards, letterhead and then from there. So it's just you
know you start with this and then you you take it from there. So start with this we end with world domination. Unifi love. Okay. That's great. John, I'm a little disappointed you guys are going to put little seagulls like every
every other beast. Just joking. No, I wanted uh I just want to thank you and Jane and the volunteers we've had and Kathy, thank you. Uh just for u all the work you guys have put into this. I 100% agree we do have a
little bit of an identity crisis. So I I think this is wonderful. I I imagine I'm going to hear from the public shortly, but I imagine most people identify with the gazebo. Um probably like Sean, I would wonder, you know, how this will look in practice. Uh, Council President
Denovo was sharing some pictures that they've worked out showing this on mugs and on different types of merchandise, bags and what have you. It looks really good there, but how does it look on street signs? How does it look on the
police car? So, probably a little more, you know, discussion, but I applaud you guys for getting us this far. I think it looks really good as a starting point and, you know, more more work to come. Once again, as we did last time, um let's open this up to the public just to get reactions to everybody letting us
know what you think on a first pass of a design. Not everybody. I saw a lot of nodding and smiles, so I appreciate that. Thank you very much. That'd be nice. I just want to reiterate
the what Shauna brought up and name. Come on. Virginia 610 Brinley. Um I know starting out website and cards, business cards or something. I get that. But then what if it's a big
fail on the fire truck and the police cars and the So I do think the importance of trying to figure that out before we start branding everything is really important. So I just agree with Sha to push on that. Thanks the student
champion. Thank you for doing this effort. I I think uh it's needed. Um I still think though that you need to simplify a little bit more especially when you start talking about use on biblical departments and adding material there. I
I would try to simplify the image uh some more and I also would consider dropping the established 1893 date even though I am the president. Why is that? Why is that? I I don't
think that that's essential for the basic logo. And obviously that can be added um you know when when you want to make that point but this logo has to be used in a variety of ways and therefore I think it has to be abstracted a bit and
simplified a bit. Good feedback. Thank you. Thank you. Other reactions Mr. Co J. Coen, I agree with Mr. Nishkin's comments and thank you Weber and everybody who worked on it because it was a team effort and you know now
hopefully it can be part of our town and I always wondered why there was a cigarette boat in one of the logos you know like was it Brad Beach Baywatch or what? I couldn't figure it out. I don't know, you know, and then diamond plate
uh logos on the public works trust. I mean, but so this is a conjoined effort and and it's going to really help our branding. Thank you very much. Thank you, Miss Meta. I'm the detractive. You don't have to be. I do have to be.
I do have to be because how many years have I said we have no branding? So great that we're getting there. I don't understand why we would be branded with a plastic building that is
Victorian in style. That is not what I think of as the history of Breton Beach. So I would be interested to know how the these hardworking people came to give us only one
object as a suggestion. When I think of branding, I also think of a tagline. I'd like to think you will be getting there. It is interesting to me that the person who, and I complained years ago,
who grabbed the gazebo when she was hired to put on things, actually puts a sand castle on her portion of the website. So, uh, that's sort of a little disrespectful for what was the direction
to begin with. Um, I don't think honestly other than we live at the beach and we have some doomg grass, which I remember was a whole bit of contention with when that was put in. I don't see where it says anything about
us. Um, I think it's also a great drawing, but I don't think it's going to translate well. Um, I think simple, less is more. Um, you know, and why aren't we
including the little kids at the school? Should be about Bradley Beach Breakers. That is inclusive. And I know I've said that to at least three of you. So, um, you know, I know I know that I've
lost. I know you're getting what you want. I'm just really disappointed after all of this hard work that everyone put into it that we're the plastic Victorian building. Well, just to to answer your question about the school, I I they have
their own branding. You know, you say it's the Breakers. So, they they have a new Why can't we mascot, right? They have a new mascot this year which is the seagull. What's the seagull's name? Can't remember the seagull. And then the colors were gold and green and then the
colors are blue and blue. And so they're sort of like where we are. They're not in one place as far as branding and marketing. So maybe it's they can join us and No, maybe we should have joined them again. I tried to put their wave in the
background too, but it got too busy. Yeah. So, we just got Listen, we just did a lot of work. Let's move on. More more comments. Um, I don't know if there's any problem. Again, I don't really feel strongly about it one way or the other. As long as no one's stealing our money, I'm good
with all the side. But I just want to say that we thank you for working hard and I just want to comment that it's elegant and I think it's classy and simple and I can see it on our beach badges already. And I just want to also
say how refreshing it is to sit here and we can all not have the same opinion and we can all laugh and joke and share our opinions and start to move forward and it really feels good and I just wanted to say that. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah.
Thank you. No other comments here. Anyone? Mr. Greenberg. Hey guys, Don Greenberg, 302 Parkplace Avenue sort of right now.
There is a roof back on my house. Um, so, uh, I just would say that whatever the final, um, design is, it should be amendable to color. I mean, black and white's fine, but you got to put a pop of color in there. Um, and uh, I just
think it needs a little more schmaltz. And if anybody needs a definition of that, you can look it up in the Yiddish English dictionary. I got it. More schmaltz. There's you got to have a lot of in that word.
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Greenberg. I see I see no other hands, so we'll close the session, but thank you all for your feedback. I actually want to give a round of applause even though only Kathy and D are here. Kathy, if you could work on the schmaltz
part. Okay, we have uh two presentations uh to do this evening. The first one we're going to uh join our municipal clerk as we read a proclamation for municipal clerk's week.
I love this. Are we all going down there? And you're gonna have to take a picture of yourself with us behind them. This is the 55th annual professional municipal clerk's week, May 4th through May 10th. Whereas the office of the
professional municipal clerk, a timehonored and vital part of local government, exists throughout the world. And whereas the office of the professional municipal clerk is the oldest among public servants, not ever. And whereas the office of the
professional municipal 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,
rendering equal service to all. Whereas the professional municipal clerk serves as the information center on the functions of local government and community. Whereas professional municipal clerks continually strive to improve the administration of the affairs of the office of the
professional municipal clerk through participation in educational programs, seminars, workshops, and the annual meetings of their state, provincial, county, and international professional organizations. Whereas, it is most appropriate that we recognize the
accomplishments of the office of the professional municipal clerk. Now therefore, be it resolved governing body of the Bradley Burough Bradley Beach, do recognize the week of May 4th through May 10th, 2025 as professional municipal
clerks week and further extend appreciation to all professional municipal clerks for the vital services they perform and their exemplary dedication to the communities they represent. Dated this 15th day of April, 2025. Thank you.
Okay. Thank you. Clerk speak because I might not otherwise have an opportunity to just brag about you for a second. And I've only been doing this job as payer for all I guess four months, right? just pass um
yeah four months to six days I can say now from a mayor's perspective when I see the you know how the sausage is made and all the work that goes into preparing for every meeting all the stuff that goes back and forth um Erica is a a crazy devoted employee works so
hard is so conscientious and the quick story I'm going to mention because it it describes this woman um heading into our very first meeting on January January 1st. Um, I got a text from Erica, Erica,
can can I talk at 12? No, I'm sorry, 11:55 New Year's Eve. It was 5 minutes before New Year's Eve and you know, I'm staying up with my glass of champagne bring in the new year and I get a text and I said I text back, can I call you
in 10 minutes every time I get the countdown. So uh but that just shows does matter time of day uh weekday weekend this is a very dedicated person and I just want to make sure you know there can be times where people get frustrated with the clerk and maybe
there's some issue about an open request but just understand this very very conscientious dedicated individual and I thank you personally if I could just ask everybody to also give a hand Michelle because she's we have one more proclamation to read
and council president denovo will do that. It would be my honor there. Okay. Burrow of Riley Bridge Beach proclamation national public works week.
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 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 these essential services to our citizens. Whereas the health, safety and
comfort of this community greatly depends on these facilities and services. Whereas the quality and effectiveness of these facilities as well as the planning, design and construction is vitally dependent upon the efforts and skills of public works
in officials. And whereas the efficiency of the qualified and dedicated personnel who staff the public works department 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 burough of Bradley Beach do hereby proclaim the week of May 18th through the 24th 2025 as public works week. building for today, planning for tomorrow in the burrow of Bradley Beach
and call upon all citizens and civic organizations to acquaint 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. Amen. going to make one more quick comment about our public works group. I think I'm preaching to the choir here when I say everyone appreciates everything these individuals do for us, for our
community. Uh and and we see them every day, whether it be helping us picking up garbage and recycling, uh taking care of our beachfront. I mean, there's so much they do. Um but what often goes unsaid and Mr. DHY is actually tracking that
for us this year. What goes unsaid is how uniquely talented these individuals are that they do work for the burrow on during their during their weekly schedule that we would often have to pay professionals to do. For for example,
they're going to put pavers in and repair pavers at on our rec center. Our engineer estimates that's going to save this burough $75,000. Um, they've built, as we're preparing for Memorial Day weekend and opening of our beaches, they've already built
handicap wheelchair accessible showers at the beachfront. They've uh moved a curb line in the uh in what in the parking lot that's going to be a pickup and drop off. Um, they're an amazingly talented, dedicated group of people, but
they do so much for this burrow. And I've had people say to me, "Well, that's that's their job. I mean, don't stop praising employees for doing their job. Um, I will say unequivocally, these people go well beyond their job. And they they really I've had engineers from
outside of the burrow say, um, who haven't worked with us before say it's amazing what your DPW people accomplish and what they do and the money they save. Uh, we we've got significant sewer challenges on one of our streets we're addressing as a burrow. We've been out
almost every day and certainly over a couple times a week um pulling sand out of this one sewer. Mr. Dh's been working on this specifically. Um and Baja Kavon told me the other day they pulled three truckloads of sand out of a sewer Ocean
Park on Ocean Park. We're we're racing to fix this. It's an emergency. But right now, these guys are out there virtually every day. Yeah. Helping this community. and it it does go above and beyond uh the typical job. So again, couldn't be a better time to recognize
the work they do, especially with all they're doing to help us prepare for the upcoming beach season and Memorial Day. So thank you to our DPW. Okay, I'd like to move on to item seven on our agenda, the approval of the minutes. Um do uh let's see, do I have a
motion to approve April 15th? Anyone care? make the motion and then I'll second. Oh, you weren't here. No, I was here. I just I'm trying to spread the the I would be happy to make the motion to accept the minutes of April 15th. And
I'll second. Mr. Noble, yes. Miss uh Miss Green, yes. Mr. Nikki, excuse. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Guboszi, yes. Anyone care to make a motion for April 29th approval of minutes? I will make a motion for April 29th uh special meeting
minutes to approve them. To approve them. I will. I will second. Mr. Noble. Yes. Miss Greenwell. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Excuse. Mr. Weber was not here. Mayor Gupetzi. Yes. Uh move to item eight on the
agenda. Public comments or questions pertaining to this agenda specifically? Yes. I would like to ask if you can just state your name and sorry Lan Bartlett
312 Main Street and I would like to ask Mr. Dy um what the status is on 310 Main Street with the um tent outdoor storage facility that's going on. Miss Farlet, I'm sorry. This
may not be related to an agenda item. I know but I can't speak about I can't ask Mr. Dar. You can't but there's a reservation for public comment on all other items uh at the end of our agenda. Uh I'll tell you in one second. Okay. It
is uh agenda item 14. So I have to wait till then. But I mean you could call Matt anytime. You have his business card, right? Do you want me to call anytime? Yes. That's what he's there for. He always answers the phone and he'll help you anytime. I don't want anyone to feel they have to wait for a
meeting. No. Right. I Yeah, I do speak I I have spoken to him and I've spoken to the rest of you, but I just thought that maybe it's been another month and I wanted to know what's going on. You should call him every day. Call you every day. Okay. Anytime. That's what
That's what he's here for. That's what we're here for to help help answer. I'm sorry to cut you off. We're just trying to find I understand. Thank you. And you have his card, right? I do. Okay, good. And anybody else needs it, too. He's he's great at answering questions. He answers my questions. I call him a lot,
too. And we're going to move fairly quickly through this agenda if you do choose to stay like that. Miss 124th Avenue. I was reviewing the bills list and I noticed that we are preparing for the Memorial Day parade
and events and I just want to bring to council's attention to make sure that you I don't know if you can or not but with the vendors uh last year there was a vendor that was selling um gel shots of vodka and I don't know if that's really
appropriate for our mun you know to be along on a boardwalk. I um so just be mindful of that. And they were selling shots of vodka. I can show you. Can I have a picture? If you would mind sharing that with Mr.
Dhy afterwards, just so he'll know the name of the vendor afterwards. But thank you. Yes, sir. brick 116 Newark. Uh this is one of my favorite topics is the
uh the tra the uh the trailer for Newark Avenue for the concession. Um for a number of years it's been going on like five or six different concession people there over the last number of years. And the only thing I'm requesting
is that when you do come up with a new proposal that includes food, we don't need just ice cream. We don't need just tacos. We just we just want food. And I think that um financially wise, when people come there, they're going to buy
hot dogs, hamburgers, French fries, that will more than make up for the amount they're paying on their lease. So, I think if you have a basic summer uh menu there, I think that will solve a lot of the issues about getting people to reup on their lease. All I have to
say. Thank you. Any other questions in the room? Yes, sir. Or ma'am, I'm sorry. Linda, please. Oh, remember now my name is Slack Ducky. I already commented on
that. talking retail really I I'm kind of confused right now but anyway um the beach badges I do hope we increase the s uh the amount from last year to make up for the possible difference of not
having as many people come but I think people will come anyway even if we increase it to $16 not saying that we should increase it to $16 but people will come to Bradley Beach no matter what it doesn't make a difference if it's $14 $15 they're going to come
because It's a family town. We offer a lot of entertainment. We have a beautiful beach and a lovely facade that we can walk on and the boardwalk is beautiful and it connects with all the other towns and Aspberry Park which the younger crowd likes to visit. So, please
entertain that. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Any questions in Zoom? No. Seeing no further questions, we'll move to uh item number nina on our agenda. Uh, ordinance introduction. I'll start this
one with ordinance 2025-16 uh supplementing chapter 115 animals of the bureaus revised general ordinance to include um pet waste and this is language provided to us by the state of New Jersey. Any uh comments or concerns
or question? Oh, I just Yeah, I guess a question. We already have an ordinance for this and we're just changing a little bit of language to make the state happy with their storm water or uh requirements, right Greg? Is that right? Yes. It's part of the storm water storm water
pollution prevention plan. It's required for your permit with the D. And so this is the model ordinance that they have to ensure the pet waste doesn't end up functionally in the water. Right. Just they don't like we call the pest pet waste and they want to call it something
else. That's it. was this is what is waste matter expelled from the bowels of the pet excrement. Okay. Instead they change it to means feces from any domesticated animal. Okay. So there's the you know big change. Yeah that's a
lot of detail there. They didn't they didn't like the great cannon model language in Roosevelt either. They made me change it there too. I thought I did a good job on that definition. Right. But I don't know. Yeah. Whatever. I guess it has a domesticated animal. So there you go. So
we could spend a lot more time on this. Yeah. That's the only thing I see change that that looks good. Okay. You want to make a motion? Yes. I'll make a motion that we uh that we uh approve the introduction of ordinance
2025-16 regarding chapter 115 animals and pet waste. Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Raylat. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Excuse. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubosi. Yes. Ordinance 2025-14. Do I have a motion?
Uh, yes. I would like to make a motion to uh We're going into um adoption say do a public hearing. So, make a motion to open a public hearing. Oh. So, I'd like to make a motion um to open to a public hearing uh for ordinance
2025-14. Do I read the entire ordinance title? I just said Okay. Um, amending article uh seven, arts committee of chapter 24, commissions and committees of the burough's revised general ordinances.
I'll second that. Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Greenlat, yes. Mr. Noiki, excuse. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Gubzi, yes. We'll open it up to public uh comment or questions. This is the one that we're just basically changing the name of the arts
committee to the arts committee a legacy to Julius and Rand and we're also adding two alternates and I see no questions or comments in the room nothing on Zoom so we'll make a motion to adopt to close
and to close public session and adopt. Thank you. You're welcome. Second Mr. Noble is a wonderful legacy for Julia. Yes, Miss Greenblat. Yes, Mr. Noiki. Excuse Mr. Weber. Yes. And thanks for doing it.
Mayor Gubzi. Thank you. Uh, Councilwoman Greenblat. This this was a very nice gesture and very important I think that we recognize M. Ran's contributions to the burough. I vote yes. Thank you.
Okay, we'll move to item 10, uh, which is community. I have to ordinance 15. I always miss the ordinance at the top of the Oh my goodness. Okay. Uh ordinance 20 2025-15 uh an ordinance amending chapter 335
parking regulated of the burough's uh revised general ordinances in order to implement the burrow's new park mobile system. Um I'll open that up to public comment or questions. Second to a second.
Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Greenlat, yes. Mr. Niki, excuse. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Gubetzi. So, I'm confused. I was under the impression the public should have the opportunity to comment before. Yes. I didn't comment. I mean, before we vote, right? Right. Yes. Okay. So, we'll hold
off on those yeses for a moment. Is there any uh question or comments? Okay. Seeing no further public comment, we'll continue the vote. Make a motion to close that box. Make a motion to close that.
It's all right. We're getting there. We're getting there. Can I ask a couple? Nope. Yes, you may. So, are we um are we planning to remove the street um the numbers? Yes. And we're going to be putting up some signage, right? Some
signage for that. Okay. And that's really and are we removing the the the pay stations at this point or waiting on that? So, uh, thank you for the questions. There's, you know, there's a a good amount going on right now, but port mobile is an app-based thing. We're
going to get rid of cash at once a uh we all think it's very, very good thing. It's very efficient. It's tried and true practice in surrounding municipalities. But we did have pay stations that required credit card and or and or cash you can
put in quarters, I guess. Um the the pay station signs, the big P for parking, those will remain. We're going to leave them because they're really good visible signs and they and they're in good shape. A lot of the equipment we have is is being removed uh to the extent it was
uh going to need to be replaced anyway. But part Mobile is an app-based u system. So, uh, we are going to paint their decal on every parking space and there's 400 or so, I don't know. Is that right, Chief? Yes. 400 plus parking
spaces. And we will strategically place signs. U been through this with Chief Arnold in pretty good detail. Um, but strategically place park mobile signs with uh with the QR codes so that residents can see them from a distance where those big east signs are for
parking. Chief, is there anything I'll leave it out on in terms of the signage? No, there'll be uh signs posted all along the beachfront and just as many signs as were already down there for parking and then like the mayor said, the Park Mobile's logo be spray painted
on every spot basically where the numbers are currently. So, we have to do those. We have to do the park mobile like Belarus. Yes, we do. You say we have to or because I think I thought we were talking about do we really have to have park mobile at every
spot, but I guess we do. Well, we do because if people don't follow the law and they don't pay and they say, "Well, I didn't see a part mobile sign on my spot." Then again, that's basically what we've learned through our homework with mobile. So, we need the the decal on
every spot, especially because the west side is freed, right? So there Okay. Any other questions? No, that's it. Thank you. Okay. Um Okay. So, I think we're good. Have I did
make the motion to close public session and adopt? Do we vote? No. I need I need a second. Second. Second. Okay. Mr. Noble. Yes. Mrs. Green. Yes. Mr. Nikki, excuse. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubosi. Yes. Now it's done. Now I can go to
communications. Okay. Um, two quick communication points. Uh, we're uh, uh, we are appointing a new OEM deputy coordinator, uh, Mr. Daniel I I was that I want to add
an Yeah. And Mr. has has a tremendous amount of experience in uh, emergency management. He'll be working with Mr. Mr. Norm Goldfarm, our uh our director. So, uh very exciting that he's willing to join
us on a volunteer basis. Uh and secondarily, um for 2025 budget update, uh folks are aware we have a new CFO. Uh she was actually just here as the meeting began, had to leave. But we the plan at this point in time, she is
coming up to speed on our budget. We're going to have a public hearing on May 20th. She will stay as long as needed, entertain as many questions as needed, and uh at that time, if there are no significant questions from the public
and or from the council, will plan to adopt the budget on May 20th. Uh that concludes the communications. And now we'll move to item 11, resolutions. We have a number of consent agenda resolutions. Would anyone like any of these discussed or
voted out separately? Okay. I'll make a motion to adopt uh to approve consent agenda resolution items 2025-164 through 2025-173. Second. Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Greenblat,
yes. Mr. Noiki, excuse. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Guboszi, yes. Okay. Moving to individual resolution section 2025-174, beach operation schedule for 2025. Um Important to note here, and hopefully
everyone in the audience is is aware of this, but we are slightly the the schedule's the same as it's been in prior years, the one exception is we're slightly changing the time that each badge checkers will be working. They
typically on weekends they would work till 5, weekdays work till 4. We're moving them uh uh a half an hour earlier. So weekends, for example, would be until 4:30 instead of 5. Uh the idea is we've looked at the data. No one
purchases beach badges in the last hour really of the day. Um people who are going to come late come at five o'clock, but they're not going to pay $13 or whatever for that one hour. Um but it also provides an opportunity for folks who might not uh you know be able to
afford a beach badge to get on an hour earlier. A lot of a lot of folks in town will wait until 5 to get on the beach and this will afford them a half an hour earlier entrance. So, um, that's the gist of 2025-174. Any questions or comments? So,
does that save us a little bit of money, too? It saves us a little bit of money, too. Okay. I'll make a motion to uh approve 2025-174 beach operation schedule for 2025. Second, Mr. Noble? Yes. Miss
Grabbl? Yes. Mr. Nikki? Excused. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Guboszi, yes. Okay. Item 2025-175, daily and weekly beach badge cost for 2025. The the current level, we've
brought forward the current level, which is $13 for the daily and $45 for weekly. Uh so the question is, are those the appropriate amounts? Should we consider changes? Questions or thoughts? How long have we been at that at that rate?
Definitely last year. Definitely last year and I believe the year before. And in 2020 we were at $13 daily and then we dropped it down. Yes. We dropped it down to 12 for a couple years. Yes. In the last two years maybe we've been back at 13.
Um I know the reason I started us at again for prompting this discussion but the reason I started us at maintaining the $13 level is because the beach utility is in in pretty good financial shape. Now, every year we're very dependent on the weather. If we have
sunny weekends, the beach is is flush with cash. Uh if we have a lot of rainy weekends or even uh weather forecast that the weather that the weekend's going to be rainy, people don't come and then the sun comes out, we lose revenue in any event. Um but we also have a very
substantial surplus at the moment. There were points in recent history where our surplus dwindled down to $50,000 five or six years ago. Uh right now we're closer to $700,000. So we probably have the well we definitely have the ability to
weather um bad weather basically. U didn't mean didn't intend that pun but it just came out. You said 700,000 about 700,000. And the other the other point worth noting is every dollar in beach badge daily prices is worth around
$100,000. So if we were to bump it up $100,000 more, take it down 100,000 less. Again, we have a 700,000 give or take buffer it should we need it. So uh my thinking was to keep the prices where they are. I agree with what Miss Duffy
said earlier. I do think our pricing is uh is very elastic and what I mean by that is if we were to raise it a dollar I don't think people are going to price shop and and go to another beach uh to save a dollar. So I I think it's less
about could we make an extra dollar? I think we could. Um we are tasked with the fiduciary responsibility of maintaining the beaches and getting reimbursed for that maintenance. uh not necessarily to you know add to our surplus or or to quote unquote profit
from it. So I was inclined to suggest we keep the beach cash prices where they are and I would support that. I like the idea. I think other towns in a similar situation just would say they could raise them so they would raise them and um I like the idea of not raising for a
year. And also did we um increase the the um the seasonal rates for this current year? Um that factors in if we did increase it there then we're getting more revenue in that respect. I want to say we stayed
the same on that. I don't think may have dropped seniors was yeah I believe yeah I think we kept seasonal and seniors we dropped them the amount we raised in the year. Yes. Yep. Okay. So it's basically a wash on on the season. Yeah. Good. I think it's very fair these prices. Yeah.
Uh we were leading the edge. I think we were leading edge. I think others were at 12 or 11 when we were at 13 last year. They may be catching up or they may be shadow pricing and matching or passing us. But looking at our utility, I think we're healthy financially. Okay.
So no further discussion. Are we comfortable with the weekly as well at that amount? The weekly, do we sell that many weekly? We don't, but the weeklies are relatively new and we're still sort of
trying there's weeklies, but yeah. Okay. I will make a motion then that we approve uh resolution 2025-175 daily and weekly badge cost for 2025. Second, Mr. Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Nikki, excuse. Mr.
Weber, yes. Mayor Guboszi, yes. The the next few of these uh I'm going to read through each one and and hopefully we'll decide quickly, but they're all related to our new QPA, encouraging us to adopt new purchasing uh cooperatives. So 20251 176
authorizing the qualified purchasing agent to receive certain bids in accord with NJAC 5 colon 34-5.1E hyphen procurement. Is there a second? I'll make a motion. Is there a second? Yes. Second. Mr.
Noble. Yes. Mlet. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Excused. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gutzi. Yes. 2025 177 authorizing the use of Sourcewell National Cooperative. I'll make a motion to approve. Second, Mr.
Noble. Yes. M. Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Nwiki. Excuse. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubetzi. Yes. 2025-178. Authorizing the use of uh Omnia Partners, formerly known as US Communities National Cooperative. Make a
motion to approve. Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Ringla. Yes. Mr. Nikki, excuse. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubosi. Yes. Mr. Weber, what's the one that you want to have conversation? 180. 180. Okay, great. Um,
2025-179 authorizing the Burrow of Brother Beach to enter into a cooperative pricing agreement with the Huntington County Educational Services Cooperative Purchasing. I'll make a motion to approve. Second. Mr. Noble? Yes. Miss Greenblat? Yes. Mr. Noiki,
excuse. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Gubetzi. Yes. So 2025-180 is authorizing the Burrow of Bradley Beach to enter into a cooperative per uh cooperative pricing agreement with the Educational Services Commission of New Jersey cooperative
pricing system. Mr. Weber, you did want to discuss this. Yeah, this uh I had a question about this because this was regarding um I double check electricity. Yeah, this wait is this one. This one doesn't say the
purchase of electricity. Sorry, I'm not finding the document. Why does it seem like a different Yeah. No, not not it's not there was Oh boy. What number was it?
It wasn't the resolution. Oh boy. Maybe it was 177. Sorry. Is it possible that there's when you resent all these out so they're all in one place. Is there one that was left out because there was a No. Okay. So then
um then I didn't attach each agreement on your second it's it was the agreement. It was the agreement. Yeah. The agreement is the one that talked about actually but it doesn't the resolution doesn't resolution doesn't. So just so people know my concern is that we've been working on this sustainable mammoth. It's an agreement
with seven other towns in Mammoth County to hopefully buy electricity cooperatively and save money. It's never panned out because the price of electricity keeps rising. I mean, there's no sense in entering into this cooperative unless we're actually going to save people money. Um, so I just
didn't want us to enter into this other thing if we're somehow obligated and the one that exists. So that's why I put a flag on that. But it's only the agreement itself that talks about electricity. You know what I'm saying? So I kind of don't know. Have you
resolved your concerns about that? That's educational services. That's the electrical line. That's okay. So then if it is at 180, then can we table that? Okay. I would like to table it. Do you want to make a motion? Sure. I'll make a
motion that we table resolution 2025-180 possibly till the next meeting. Second. Thanks, Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Greenlet. Yes, Mr. Noiki. Excused. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubossi. Yes. Um,
as folks are aware, we did lose the concession at uh Newark Avenue. So 2025-181 is authorizing us to advertise for bids for the Newark Avenue concession. And uh as noted by others, we'll make sure that it has a any
request that we make are are requesting uh an array of foods to be provided, not just for example ice cream alone. Is there a second? Second. I I have a question on that. Okay, please. Is there any way that if they do
have an array of foods that we can also request that there are some healthy foods because we have a concession on Second Avenue and there's nothing healthy there. Boy, I don't want to do a beach with you. You're in a bathing suit. You're in a bathing suit. You're gonna eat hamburger
and French fries. I don't know. We have some celery with that fried. I I think I mean I hear what you're saying. I think it's they feel like this is what I have to sell to make the money because we're I mean we could give the concession away
for less money and say sell healthy food. Um, not only not only variety, I know. I mean, it'd be great if we found a vendor like that, but we're sort of at the mercy of who bids on this thing. I think we we could say, you know, we could certainly encourage healthy foods.
Um, but, you know, to Councilman Weber's point, the folks are going to be bidding as concessioners trying to maximize their profitability. Uh, it might be difficult. They may not have large profit margins on quote unquote healthy foods. That said, I know my wife has told me many times, pliables can be very
healthy and they're big at the beach. So, we just can't dictate it. You know, we we need to see who the highest bidder is. We can tell. Can we ask the question if we do get to that point? I think we can put it in the Well, let me ask Mr.
Dhia who's got and Mr. Cannon both who have a lot of experience. Gentlemen, if we want to, again, we I don't think we want to make it a requirement for fear of discouraging bidding, but could we include in an RFP uh that you know, healthy foods uh are are an advantage?
We could ask our our new QPA. He'll make that decision. And Greg, have you also we definitely I've seen them with different ultimate QPA will decide, but I I've seen them different, but you can say ice cream concession or hot dog. We had a hot dog cart at one
point. Um, I mean, you can specify the type of food, but you pointed out the market concerns. The more specific you get, the less people are going to pay. So, and and generally speaking, for my experience, parents want chicken fingers and French fries.
Honestly, not all parents not all parents. And I don't want to even make those judgments. Although, you know, my parents were probably in your parents friend. I mean, just to include some healthy foods. Yeah. not exclusive. Well, we could ask in the bidding we say, "Yeah, give us your ideas on as you
submit your bid, give us ideas on what kind of healthy foods you could, you know, and maybe all things being equal, we could make that choice." Yeah. Again, it's going to come down to we're asking people to bid on a concession, they're going to want to make money, and we we'll certainly encourage it. Uh but if
somebody's offering us 10,000 more and their food's not as healthy, we're probably going to take their 10,000. Well, that's the thing. We have to ask QPA. I don't know if you didn't have the option of taking the one that's lowered than 10,000 if they do offer healthy food. Not if you didn't specify at the
beginning like you said, you know, if you put sub, right? If you specify you can only serve these five, six items, then yeah, you could do that, but you can have a tough the market difficulty is that healthy food support just like because they're
fresh foods. So yeah, that's the that's always the difficulty consumption. Yeah. The reason it's the French fries instead of fiber because it's easy. It's frozen and then you'd make it and then you don't you don't have shrimp. That's so that's why it cost you more less more. You will get it the same. Yeah. But
yeah, and again there there could I don't want to rule out healthy foods, guys. We're just right now trying to approve an RFP to ask people to Okay, there you go. All right. Okay. So, I'll make a motion that we approve
2025-181 authorizing uh to advertise for bids for the New York Avenue session. Mr. Noble, yes. M. Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Nikki, excuse. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Batosi, yes. Okay. 2025-182 designating handicapped parking
access and dropoff areas at the Burough Beachfront number one within its Cliff Avenue parking lot and two adjacent to the public beach entrance at the intersection of Ocean Avenue and Evergreen Avenue. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Miss Greenlot. Yes. Mr. Noiki.
Excused. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Guboszi. Yes. 2025-183 authorizing right of entry for temporary work area in connection with uh Silven Lake flume replacement project. Uh uh Councilman Noiki has been
working on this, but uh Mr. Dhy, can you spend a second describing this to the public or should I? Um yeah, this is um wooden box that's in the southern part of town. And this is going to
permit the NJ um E the ability to use part of the beach that's behind the current pump station that really is underutilized as a staging area for sand. Yeah. The equipment will be on the Avon
side, but the sand will be on the Bradley side. Because they're doing this repair work for that outfall pipe, they need a place to put their equipment. It's a temporary easement and therefore a fairly common place in the engineering world. And last question, this hasn't
started yet. Correct. Correct. No, it'll probably start in maybe October, November, and be done by March. Okay. So, uh, at the top it stated today, but on the bottom of the second page it says beginning October 20th, 2024. Should we change the date on that to like
something more modern? It should be 2025. We should Well, we don't think the board's going to start till October 2025. Okay. Because it says October 20th, 2024. So, wait, bottom of the second page, the last thing says grant of right
of entry. Uhhuh. And there's a date of October 20th, 2024. Okay. That's why I asked I was wondering if it started in All right. Does that say 2025? Okay. John, you said on the last page, right?
Is that No, the bottom of the second page. Okay. Uh certified. I think the reason why it says 2024 been sitting around for all. Oh, okay. Erica, there's another reference on the very last page. I certify that on 2024.
Okay. I did not hear that res if you don't change anything and just keep it 2024. They're not starting until October 202. I'll change all the 24s to 25s if that's what you're on the on the right of entry. Yeah. Well, that must have So
those are D4 rights of entry. So that must have been when they first sent it to saying it doesn't have to be council. It doesn't really matter practically speak. So just leave it. Don't amend it. I would just leave it. Okay. I think uh I think we should amend that you're certifying it on a date in 2024. We
should certify it when we do it. 2025. Yeah. My certification. You mean the certification says 2024? Yes. Okay. No problem. I'll change that. I'll send you the word, can I? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, so um make a motion to change the the
date to 2025 for the certification. Is there a second? Second. Yes. Mr. Noble. Yes. Miss Green, yes. Mr. Noiki, excuse. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Guboszi, yes. And make a motion uh to approve 2025-183
um temporary work area in connection with Silven Lake uh as amended. Second. Mr. Noble? Yes. Miss Greenblat? Yes. Mr. Noiki? Excused. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Guboszi. Yes. 2025 184 authorizing a grant application
to the New Jersey Economic Development Authority for up to 50,000 for pre-development planning to renovate the retired utility building at 54 Ocean A. And this is, as I understand it, a formality. This is a housekeeping. Yeah. The previous administration didn't do
this properly. So, the grant's already been awarded, but it was never asked for or received. So in one resolution you are asking for and receiving the grant from NJA. Thank you for that. I'll make a motion
that we approve 2025 184. Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. Miss Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Excuse. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubosi. Yes. Item 2025-185 is the bill list uh for May 6,
2025. Any questions or comments about the bill list? My questions were already answered. Thank you very much. All right. I will make a motion to uh approve 2025185 bill is for May 6, 2025. Second.
Mr. Noble? Yes. Miss Green? Yes. Mr. Nikki? Excused. Excused. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Guboszing. Yes. Item 12 on the agenda, announcements. There are none. Item 13A, administrative report. There is none. Is
that correct, Mr. Birdie? Uh, yes. Uh, the only thing I would love to say, uh, Mr. Mayor, is uh, this coming Sunday is Mother's Day. So, I'd like to wish all the moms and stepmoms and grandmoms, aunts, and all the women who are moms in this land in their lives a very happy
Mother's Day. Thank you very much. May I say something, please? Thank you. So, I lost a very significant person in my life. April 23rd. Um, the universe lost a very awesome woman. And I'm not just saying it because she's my mother.
I'm saying it because she was an awesome human being. That being said, I would like to thank everyone that reached out to me, emailed me, and sent me a card, called me for your condolences. And I would like to thank all of
you because you showed up at my mother's service. Um, it was unexpected. So, thank you. Okay. I got to put my crown. I don't remember whose daughter I am here. Uh, just thank you everybody. Thank you.
Okay. Uh, we will now continue with 13B, the mayor and council reports. and I'll mix it up a little and ask uh councilwoman to start. Okay. Um I'll start with my longest one and I apologize. Um I'm the liazison for
recreation. Recreation has a lot of activities going on and I feel it's my responsibility to share the activities when they're relatively close in time frame. So um the wreck um there has not been a wreck meeting um since our last council meeting. Um, the
glow-in-the-dark Easter egg hunt held on April 19th was a big hit. Parents were very appreciative of this event for older kids. Father's Day kickball is scheduled for Friday, June 13th at 5:00 p.m. at the Wreck Field. Signups are now
are open now and will close on June 3rd. Uh, please be sure to register as they need a headcount for shirts and teams. There's no charge for that. Uh, summer camp 2025 registration is open for the weight list only. So, the program is basically full. Um, but anyone
interested is encouraged to still sign up and get on the wait list as they hope to be able to get all of the kids in the camp program. And a reminder about ongoing events. Um, Maan meets every Friday at the BAZI Center from 1 to 3:00 p.m. Open wreck runs Thursdays until
6:00 p.m. and Fridays until 7:00 p.m. The senior club meets Wednesday, May 21st at noon at the Bey. They'll also be enjoying a lunchon at the Asbury Culinary School on May 15th. Last month, club members enjoyed a musical guest and
really loved it. So, another one is scheduled for June, which is also the month they celebrate everyone's birthdays for the year. Morning pickle ball has just completed its spring session as of today. Afternoon pickle ball runs from May 13th to June 3rd with
two time slots, 400 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Space is still available. Spring botchi runs from May 6 to June 24th. Summer league registration opens on June 16th. Salted yoga will host five
sessions this month. Check the calendar on the recreation web page for dates that it program is no charge. They will also be hosting a clothing swap May 18th at the rec center. The rec department team teamed up with Salt Salted Soul and
the Environmental Commission to bring our third annual clothing swap to town again. Yoga on the field from 9:30 to 10:30, weather permitting, and the swap from 10:30 to 12:30. There will be food, music, and crafts for kids. Bowling night is planned for Wednesday, May
28th, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Bradley Bowl. It's $12 per person and includes shoes and a two-hour bowl. Registration for that opens today. Please go to the rec homepage for details and to community pass registration. The rec board's next
next meeting is Monday, May 12th, 6:30 p.m. at the rec center. And all are welcome. The arts council met Friday, April 25th. This was their first council run meeting and an initial organizational opportunity to set its leadership. The new arts council will
have two chairs and two co-chairs, one focusing on performing arts and the other on visual arts. June Julian will serve as chairperson for the visual arts and Nate Richio will head head up performing arts. The arts council web page will be updated shortly with
announcements and activities. The Arts Council will hit the ground running with some planned events this spring. The Bradley Beach artist um the Brad the Bradley Beach artists present Summer Pallet, an art exhibit at Posh Real Estate June 7th through June 14th. An
artist reception will be held on Saturday, June 7th from 4 to 6:00 p.m. There will be a book talk launch and signing event for Bradley Beach author Lorie Crime's newly published Chasing Bruce Through the Back Streets and
Beyond. This is Bruce Springsteen um at Posh Wednesday, June 22nd from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Calling all beach artists, all Bradley Beach artists, Clean Ocean Action is hosting a gala benefit Saturday, June 14th from 5 to 9:00 p.m.
at Windows on the Water in Seabbrite where the Bradley Beach Arts Council has been invited to participate in a silent auction pop-up art exhibit. All artists are invited to participate. Proceeds of donated art will go back to the Clean Ocean Action and the work toward their
work towards ocean conservation. The next arts council meeting is scheduled for Friday, May 16th at 2 p.m. on Zoom. And finally, the Fletcher Lake Commission has not met since our last council meeting. Commission members have purchased flowers for for spring
planting around the lake. A Fletcher Lake cleanup is planned for Saturday, June 7th from 10:00 a.m. to noon. This will be a joint effort of the communities of Bradley Beach and Ocean Grove in Neptune Township. Refreshments will be served. Many thanks again to the
Bradley Beach DPW who have graciously provided gloves and bags for this cleanup. This initiative is being organized by U. Member William Grafton. The commission is looking ahead to partner with nearby communities with oceanfront lakes to promote recreational activities and appreciation of its
natural resources. The Fletcher Lake Commission is creating a marketing brochure highlighting the history of Fletcher Lake, its amenities, and ways to join in supportive activities. Thanks to member Bill Grafton for spearheading this initiative. The plan is to have a
coordinated effort between the Bradley Beach Lake Commissions and those of Asbury Park and Avon, working together with the historical societies and local governments. The next commission meeting is scheduled for this Thursday, May 8th, at 6 PM. And that concludes my report.
Thank you, Councilwoman. Let's go to Council President Denovo. Thank you. Uh the Shade Tree has a meeting tomorrow, so I will cover that at our next meeting. Tourism has their next meeting in June. Um they're very busy setting up a lot of activities for the summer, so
I'll report on that. And then next is the Bradley Beach Board of Ed had a meeting April 22nd. They had discussion items of sustainable jersey recognition and grant. They also had district and board goals update and they also had an
AVID presentation and uh the teachers did the presentation with wearing t-shirts said it's a great day to teach and you could feel their love for teaching and their students and um it brings me to say that this month May is
teacher appreciation month. So when I think about teachers, I think about mentors. I think about guides. I think about sources of inspiration. So make sure you thank a teacher this month. And that concludes my report. Thank you. Thank you, Council President. Councilman
Weber. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So, she just walked out, but the BBBCA uh and Paula, they had their first Brad Talks. It's like a TED talk, but there's nobody named Ted involved or Brad for that matter. But um they had the the initial
one had Christine Quinn who used to be the um speaker of the New York City Council who has had a place in town for a very long time and it was pretty good. It was a good event. Um I took a ride on the fire truck. You probably read that the fire company got a new firetruck and
we all took a ride on it. Did you guys talk about that before? No, we all that was really fun. It was a lot of fun. The firefighters decide we had to take a ride. Um on a fire truck very entertaining. Uh, I appreciate that. So, DPW, you actually already heard how hard they're
working and all the stuff they're doing. Um, stuff at the beach front. They're doing these handicap access pick up and drop off areas. Um, but I think I last time I mentioned that we were having a problem with bulk trash. Bulk trash is costing the town a lot of money. And uh,
I was talking with Vagio and I said, you know, I wish there was a place because a lot of times people put things out that are they just don't want them anymore. They're perfectly good, usable things. If it's a I don't know whatever a gas grill or you know people put out good usable stuff sometimes and if you're lucky somebody takes it and if you're
not lucky then you got to buy the stickers and it cost you and you put it and it goes into the bulk trash. But I said to Baja I said what if there was a shed at the yard where people could bring like good usable stuff and the shed closes and locks and you got good usable stuff and people just drop by and like oh yeah that's good and usable. I
need it and I'm going to take it and it doesn't go into the landfill and whatever. That was my idea. But I said, you know, to make it perfect, we would need somebody to be getting rid of a shed so we could just get a used shed to do it. Baju and his guys, they built a shed with buying next to nothing, no new
materials. They had all this stuff lying around from other jobs. And they built a shed. And we're going to have a shed. And I think we need a a name for the shed where like your good usable stuff you can just drop off and it won't go into the landfill. And hopefully somebody else will take it. And if it sits in the shed for five months, we can
throw in the we can throw it away. I don't care. Um but we're going to try the landfill less. So that was just great, innovative, and um I'll say frugal work on their part. It was good. Um and thanks for facilitating and helping out with that. Uh let's see,
code department. Um I think couple meetings I don't know environmental commission and from some other places I heard we were getting some complaints about um people throwing a lot of garbage on the train track side of their properties and um code enforcement was
on it. Uh some property owners got a notice of violation for that very thing and they have a certain amount of time to clean up that trash. I don't know if that happened because I went away for a week but um if not they're going to go see the judge. So, it's unlike, you know, same anywhere else in town. If you
had like garbage all over your yard or sideyard, you would probably get a notice of violation for that. So, um, environmental commission met last night. You already heard about the the clothing swap. So, that's another way we can keep stuff out of landfill. So, I have a flyer for that clo clothing swap if anybody wants to take a picture of the
flyer or get the details off that if you need it. Um, and oh, that is that is happening on the same day as the townwide garage sale. just that weekend. So, it's a Sunday of that weekend. Um, environmental commission is al continues to work on sustainable Jersey to get
certified at the sustainable Jersey tab for this year. Uh, let's see. And then I think the only other thing I have is that you heard me talk about the 100 year old birthday. Correct. Correct. Last meeting. Two people that weren't here. We have a person in town that's
turning 100 years old uh next week. This thing on the table there is the giant oversized and homemade by me birthday card that pretty much everybody that works for the town has signed. A bunch of other people have signed it. If you haven't signed it, please come up and sign it. I have two insert pages that
went to the school. Every kid in the school that was that knows how to write their name wrote they they wrote on this card. It's going to be like a multi-page birthday card. It's going to be really cool. On the birthday itself, this the days got switched a little bit since the last time I announced this. So, let me
be be clear. Uh, on May 15th, this is the birthday itself, there's going to be a procession, fire trucks, okay, fire truck and whatever the truck, this is that steel. Um, just to go by this person's house on the 300 block of Third Avenue and just to make a lot of noise
and wave and I think we'll stop the trucks and whatever and we'll go into this person's front yard and sing them happy birthday. Uh, they did they thought all of this in one day was too much. So, the following day we will read a proclamation. uh we'll go back some of us I guess the mayor we'll go back and we'll read
proclamation um while they're having a party just with their families so please come out there is a Facebook event I don't have everybody's email but I emailed a bunch of people I'll post it again right be community just to get a head count so we kind of know uh I'm assuming you're doing traffic control chief to figure out where people Okay so
if you want to join the procession of vehicles behind the fire truck you can do that go by this person's house and wave and and then wish them uh someone sing happy birthday That is the extent of my report, Mr. May. Thank you very much. Thank you, Councilman West. Oh,
sorry. The time. Thank you. On the day itself, 4:00. That's the 15th. Thursday the 15th. 4:00 is the procession going by. I figure Where are we meeting? Uh, well, that, you know, I don't know where all these cars are lining up. That's why. Um, where do you want them that to
happen? Well, TBD, if you want to just walk by to the 300 block of Third Avenue and figure it out. Um, but I follow the firetruck. How's that? John, will you post something on Facebook? Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we have a Facebook adventure, so people can get the details
on there. That was the kind of thing I was letting Matt figure out because he's really excited about getting the fire truck going. So, detail people need. All right. Thank you, Councilman Weber. Um, so our librarian, uh, Ashley Foglia,
gave me a list of things that would keep us here till about midnight. It's very impressive what the library does. I'm going to point out three very specific things and then just quickly note a lot of other programs, but quickly, the three specific things I want to make sure everyone's aware of.
One is this is the fourth year now that the uh, library is is hosting uh, one beach, one read. That is May 13th at 6 PM at the Bradley Beach Firehouse. So May 13th, 6 PM Bradley Beach Firehouse.
Uh sandwiches will be provided. The Friends of the Library will hold a book sale on May 16th, 3 days later. The low at the lower level of the library u in the program room and May 17th outside on 4th Avenue by the bookshed. So those are
two things that happen almost every year like clockwork. uh let's get out and support the library and the friends of the library. Also important to note that the library will be closed May 26 through June 2nd. They're replacing a lot of most of the carpeting in the
library. Uh and that's a big project because they got to move bookshelves and they got to move books before they move the bookshelves. Um so that's uh you know about a week long project. But May 26 through June 2nd library will be closed. Beyond that, I'm not going to read these, but there is just an amazing
list of uh photo contests. Well, basically what I'm going to say is go to the library website and look for all the kid activities. But if you have kids, know people with young kids, photo contest, Lego clubbing, board games, read and play, penny pincher party, the
uh the pet sense, and and the list goes on. It's really amazing how much these guys take on in a in a given month. So, I just want to make sure I covered that. Um, we did have uh mayor's wellness walk. It was my first walk as mayor. Uh,
I'm proud to say I lapped the field. No, not quite. But I walked brisk as briskly as I could. And uh, we had a very nice walk that was on April 27th. We're going to have a a number of walks following one a month for the next four or five months.
Um, and uh, it's a nice, especially if it's a nice afternoon, nice weather, a chance to for me to chat with a lot of the residents. Uh, uh, this was up and down Main Street, so we got a chance to stop at the movie theater and some other things. And I gave folks whatever updates I could at the time. But, you
know, I encourage everyone to keep an eye on the calendar when we announce mayor's wellness walks as we go forward. We'll have different experts join subsequent walks. uh experts in different areas of health, self-defense, and so forth. So, it it should be an
interesting time and and I'm very anxious to meet and chat with uh other residents who might want to join us. Um the uh the uh on May 28th, Mr. Dhy, do we have the business town hall? Yes. And is it 4 p.m. 5:00 p.m.? Can't recall.
So, they're four or five, but it is at the firehouse. We have a lockdown, so Okay, cool. So, a little more to come on this. We've we've announced it with Miss Gavin. BBBCA is aware of this. Um, but we are going to hold uh possibly the first ever first ever at least I'm aware
of of a a business's town hall. So, we wanted the businesses to have a a voice and Paul Gavin kind of planted the the seed with me. Uh, and Mr. Dh is making it a reality. Um, we're going to invite the businesses in town to come and speak with the mayor. uh could probably have
one other council member join me. Mr. Dhy can join. 4 p.m. I'm sorry. It is 4 pm. Oh, 4 pm. 4 pm on uh 28. May 28. But the idea is to get businesses to give us feedback, tell us what we can do to improve the burrow for the businesses.
Um and I'll probably invite one other council person to join me along with Mr. Dohy if you can. But you know, whoever can come will have access to uh at least a handful of us to just gather feedback and uh do some planning hopefully to improve opportunities for for our
businesses. Um I want to talk a little bit about the fire company because they have been very busy over the past few weeks. Uh as council uh member uh uh Weber mentioned, uh we bought a new fire truck. We we did
get rides around town. Uh, council president Denovo kept giving people the thumbs up and people kept waving new trucks. So, it was fun. Uh, but most importantly, the fire department, they regularly raise money. We've been to the fish prize. We've uh, you know, they've
collected money in various occasions. They have they have built up enough savings uh that they actually came to me as mayor and said, "Mayor, we want to buy a new truck, $75,000." And I was waiting for them to say, you know, can you help us uh budget-wise?
And they did not say that. Instead, they said, we're going to pay for it out of the funds that we've built up over the past few years. So, the fire company with their own funding, they did not ask for a taxpayer dollar, purchased a $75,000 truck from uh Broton,
Pennsylvania. Now, that's important to know because they had to drive out just outside of Pittsburgh to get to Broton, Pennsylvania. six or so hour drive each way. And as they um as they went out there, actually as they were coming
back, they had the new truck. It had no water in it. You know, the traveling light, no water. Uh a car in front of them on the highway in Pennsylvania caught fire. Oh, and we put this in the newsletter, but anyone who didn't read the newsletter, it's a fascinating story
because here Bradley Beach Fire Company, four members of our company that went out to get this truck following a car innocently on the road ahead of them. The car starts smoking. U the car pulls over, the fire truck uh troop, not only the fire truck, but uh the chief's car.
They were in two cars now. They all pull over to just check out the vehicle. As they get out of the uh out of the truck and the and the chief's car, the smoke turns to flames and the woman driver is sitting in the car. She's not getting
out. Probably a bit frozen, bit uh terrified. Um uh Chief Mitzky gets out with a with a fire extinguisher, pull pulls the woman out of the car, says, "Get out of the car quick." She gets out, he gets under the car, and he puts out the fire. So, uh, our Bradley Beach
fire department put out a fire out in the Boone area of Pennsylvania, just outside of Pittsburgh. And, uh, we got all kinds of credit from the the the local fire and first aid when they arrived. And by the way, it took them about 20 minutes to arrive because they
were in the boonies. So, uh, we know we get credit for s we the fire company get credit for saving um, the car, but they probably possibly at least saved this woman's life. So, it's a fascinating story and I want to make sure I shared it. Um, a little bit closer to home, um,
the uh the the fire company and EMS and our police rescued my wife from uh carbon monoxide poisoning potentially. She was being poisoned. We had we had a carbon monoxide leak at our house. Uh, and I had been out for most of the
morning. So, my wife was feeling the effects of it more. She was getting a headache and neck ache and thought she had menitis or something. I came in a little later in the day, sat down with her, and the two of us are watching TV, and she's complaining about her pain. I wasn't feeling any symptoms yet, uh, and
our alarm goes off in the house, carbon monoxide poisoning. Like, that can't be right. Well, sure enough, uh, our basement registered, I don't know, a normal level is somewhere between zero and 10. Our basement registered 500. So, that's not good. And in fact, my wife
was suffering from, you know, early signs of poisoning. Uh, our EMS, uh, gave her pure oxygen for 40 minutes and, uh, within a couple days, she was feeling fine again. But their response time was incredible. It was with within five minutes of getting that, uh, alarm,
they were at our house. And then closing the fire company on a very good note, beyond saving lives, which is a great note. Uh they also hosted a couple weeks back uh I I didn't write down the date, but uh an Easter egg hunt and that was a huge success. They uh they they had a
couple hundred kids join um they spread it all out, all the hidden eggs in the sand on the beach and the kids had a great time, the parents had a great time. I got a chance to just go down and cheer them all on, but it was a lot of fun. So so many thanks to the fire department for all the work they did
over the past few weeks. And with that said, that concludes Oh, yes, Mr. Weber. Councelman Nikki sent me his reports and I forgot to read them. No way. Yes, you may. Please. I've concluded my report. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And
apologies to Councilman Miliki. So, for the first report, um, for the operational period ending today, the squad responded to 24 day calls and nine night calls for 33 calls. 26 were for medical. Uh, six were for fire and one
was for a motor vehicle accident. The squad provided medical overwatch and help with setting up the Easter egg hunt. And the squad requested no mutual aid for this operational period. They fulfilled 100% of their assignments. And of course, they're still looking for volunteers. They offer free training for
qualified individuals. Anyone wishing to volunteer can find applications on the Bros website. And they have applications also for their cadet program for people 16 to 18 years of age. And now on to the police report. There are dates on this
one. April 14th, 2025, Newark Avenue. Maria Murd, 60 of Bradley Beach, New Jersey, was arrested and charged with possession of heroin, possession of cocaine, and possession of drug paraphernalia. Patrolman Anthony Baldi and patrolman Edwin Hernandez may be
arrested. And on May 1st on Main Street, Sergeant Major observed a dispute in front of Darcy's Tavern. Upon investigation, Sergeant Major identified Jihad Pierro, 37, of Neptune, New Jersey, acting disorderly and causing a disturbance on the roadway. Mr. Panero
was placed under arrest for disorderly conduct. The search of Mr. Panero's personal uh incident, the search of his person uh before the arrest revealed him to be in possession of cocaine and a knife. And as a result, Mr. Bern was charged with disorderly conduct, possession of
cocaine, possession of control dangerous substance with intent to distribute and unlawful possession of a weapon. He was later transported to Monmouth County Correctional Institute. Patrolman Edwin Hernandez and patrolman Shan assisted with the arrest. An officer from our K9
unit was deployed to Neptune Township to assist in the tracking of a wanted subject that fled during a motor motor vehicle stop. And the Bradley Beach Police Department also arrested two individuals on outstanding active contempt of court warrants and
investigated eight motor vehicle accidents between April 15th and May 4th. And that's only a one pager. So that is the police report of the police department and Councilman Nor. Thank you very much. Sorry about that. That concludes it. Okay. Thank you. With that
said, we we can conclude item 13B C mayor and council reports. move to 14 public comments or questions. These are now questions that apply to anything in the world. And let me start with Miss. Oh, thank you.
Thank you for waiting. 312 Main Street. I apologize for before and and although I do love to speak to Mr. Dy, I wanted to be public. So, um, last month we were I was here. I
know you all heard me. So my question is we're now into the fourth month and what is going on? Um so if you recall uh Darcy's was issued a violation back in February they
had a court hearing from the beginning of April that was adjourned correct until uh tomorrow actually May 7th court hearing. uh they have not applied for any uh variances yet with the land
warrant. Um they were issued another notice of violation today. They'll be receiving for uh enclosing a second floor deck uh on their property that was issued by Ted
Yaki, our zoning officer. Um so that's sort of where we are with them at this point. Okay. So, the cooperation isn't there, obviously. Um, all right. Uh, um, I just have to say what one note because, you know, it's all about the
parking with me and it should be with the whole town and we did an order for the Bradley Beach Police Department and they came Monday to pick it up. So, they call me. I'm not going to mention who it was, but he called. He says, "Is the order ready?" "Yeah, it's ready. Come on
over and pick it up." Next thing, the phone rings. Lanne, uh, there's no parking out front. Can I pull the car in the back and could somebody open the back door for me and run it out? And I said, "Sure, I can." So, again, that's where we're at. There's 18 parking
spaces. It's supposed to be It's zoned as a parking lot, and I just don't understand why all that stuff is still there. I don't know. Nobody wants to help me. Okay. We'll see what happens. We'll see what
happens. It it could possibly be adjourned again tomorrow, though, right? Uh it it could be adjourned again tomorrow. Yeah. And and then we're into another month. Like how long would that go on, man? Like how how many how long could they adjourn? Can their attorney
adjourn this? That's up to the judge to make that decision. You know, they own property, too, right? So, we're kind of caught in the middle here. Our processes give you your right to have your say and the pro the other property owner have the right to have I take it you're a neighbor. Yeah. I'm Yeah. Right next
door. Yeah. I mean that we these processes protect the both property owners. Right. You you'll have your Sure. But January 14th is when the first thing letter notification was issued. We're now four months into it and nothing's been done. And I've been told
by people they're just stalling. They're just stalling. They're just going to break everybody's butts. Okay. Is that right? That's fair. That's real fair to all of the people in Bradley Beach. Everybody in Bradley Beach sticking it
to us. Okay. So, I guess I have to wait. But I wanted it on record that this is what I'm hearing. And enough is enough. How much longer? It's zoned for a parking lot. They were already approved for their outdoor dining upstairs back
in 2012, which I was for. I'm for business, but not when you have a structures and uh not even a tent, the skeleton of a tent sitting for 12 months out of the year. All right, I have my say. I'm
sorry. Thank you all. Thank you. Any other comments or questions? Yes, Miss Kepler. Beth Kepler, 504 Central Avenue. Um, I'm all about
transparency and um, I'm just wondering and in the interest of fairness and equity why the issue with the parking that's being discussed wasn't an issue because co and these things were
implemented back in 2021 and now we're five years into it and we're only addressing the last four months. which has been since you've been here as mayor and prior to that during the prior
administration when Larry Fox was here and the chief of police was Leonard Buida who happens to be in the interest of full disclosure Lan Bartlett's brother why that wasn't raised before
well and and just to make sure we we you're fully informed Um, a lot of this ties back to COVID and uh uh Greg, you could probably explain better, but the governor basically the state has continuously extended for the last up
through this year now through November of 2025 continuously extended the premises expansion permits. When did that change? It changed during COVID that you could move your operations outdoors. At first, it was an emergency issue. They just pass it was December they passed the
law. They still haven't issued the guidance. They they have 24 more days apparently. I don't know how they're going to do that because they haven't published it. Supposed to have published that for 60 days. So the the rules on what DRC's is actually allowed to have haven't been written yet by the state
under the ABC which largely guides what we do here for zoning. And they were legally out there because they applied for the temporary permit. They have dispensation from the ABC. and until very recently um they were they was
legal out there and then now it's technic it's technically the emergency has passed but they still haven't issued the guidance as to what they're allowed to do with that newly licensed and expanded premises. So you can go on the ABC website. I check every single day um
since January 14th, frankly, when Matt and I this all this started in under this current administration. But they haven't issued the guidance. So I I don't know what to tell you at this point. you know, how did you My point My point is not My point is is that it's
only become an issue for this particular business, the Army Navy store, where there's been, you know, multiple times where this has been raised and it wasn't raised prior when prior to Mayor Hubosu.
I don't remember ever once seeing Lanne Bartlett approaching on behalf of all of the businesses in that area and raising a tissue of parking and her brother who's the chief of police and during his tenure and Mayor Fox their tenure it was
never an issue but now it is an issue and so I'm just making that point and making it clear because a lot of people don't understand the familial relationship between Miss Barlet and Chief of Police I'm not asking for you to weigh in. I'm just stating it on the record because a
lot of people don't understand. In fairness, we heard from Miss Bartlett and that business a long time before they came to this room last month or whatever it was like we heard from her. I don't remember it. But I'm saying we like maybe you
have the council they email the council. But I'm saying I just see a lot of harassment coming in about you know what's going on this what's going on this month and I just don't remember that being an issue. I don't remember Mayor Fox being badgered month after
month about what was the status and why wasn't that being addressed again the state law has changed I I mean like the like like Greg said so it only was this year where you know for five years I mean it's not it's
not something that I've heard recently in fact I've had to look this up several times over the years as to what the current status of the premises expansion perman the permanent solution it's in limbo at this point so they have passed the statute as part of the municipal
land use law that attempts to govern this um but the guidance from the ABC as to how you have to set up that premises is not they they have until May 30th under the law that was passed November 30th of last year six
months so in large part we don't have answers because we don't have we're not you know we're the ABC tells the bar what to do fundamentally that's very important what you're saying and that you're putting that out there and explaining that because a lot of it is not up to this
council and is not up to this this this legislative I have to be honest with you in large part I think the the law that they recently passed I mean it I think it violates the whole rule provisions of the constitution that's not an issue here for today but fundamentally the state has taken this issue out of the
locality's hands in large part which is why we didn't really have any recourse for a number of years and now we're not sure what the we're not sure what the recourse is frankly sitting here right now I have had I I can tell you that I've spent 12 hours this week researching discussing with the land use
board attorney the professionals here exactly how you administer this because there is no guidance at present that's published and I thank you for that and I think that was a very important point to be I mean what we're trying to do as you heard D said is like you know fundamentally it's not really up it's
this is a decision or arbiter between the neighbors and the establishment property owners judge and the courts at this point in the for those zoning violations municipal court yes if there's a land use application that I we don't know which direction it's going to go because it's not even clear really to the applicant what they're supposed to do at this point to be honest with you
and I appreciate that that's a very important point to have been brought out okay because the plan well I can you know it's it's an objective opinion and it's a it's factual thing and that it's not
the fault of this legislative body and it's out of this legislative body's hand at this point. So I just want that to be clear. Yes. Thank you for your comments. I I I would just add I I don't think it it's been a bit of a perfect storm. I don't think it has anything to do with
familial relationships. This is just me on record. Um, it's been a bit of a perfect storm because as as Greg just pointed out, for for four years, we've all had our hands hands tied and been hamstrung. Um, but there was also, Greg,
the the bill passed by and signed into law at the end of last year by the governor which basically said it sounded like the headlines said uh outdoor dining it's okay now. And I think that that happened in October with very
little guidance behind that. Um, those who wanted outdoor dining said, "Woohoo! We've got it." Those who didn't said, "What the heck's going on?" And what we're now finding is folks who, you know, as Miss Farley pointed out, who are concerned about outdoor dining
occupying parking spaces, they are now coming forward and saying, "Hey, time out. before you permanently approve this, you know, make sure you listen to our side of the story. Meanwhile, the folks who are lobbying for outdoor dining are pointing to the legislation
saying, "No, we have this right. We, as Mr. Kenna said moments ago, we we as a as a legislative body and as a administrative uh entity, we're kind of stuck in the middle. The two side the two sides are are debating." And that's what I wanted to be brought out. And what we are doing and Miss Parlor, I
just wanted to address your comment. We are doing what we can within our authority. So, we are providing notices of of non-compliance with our zoning. We haven't gotten to the point of sending in the police to tear down tents and what have you. We're trying to work with both with both parties, but we are
hearing your concerns loud and clear. Okay. And I just have one more I'm sorry to respond to Miss Kepler. I did call Mayor I'm sorry. I did call Mayor Fox and I he came into my business with my
husband in 2022 and I said to him, "What's the deal with the tent? How long is it supposed to take up?" And his answer to me was, "It's up to the governor." I went, "Okay, it's up to the governor." I heard that the whole that time that was
definitely correct. And then in September, I emailed Jane. I emailed John. I emailed MC mayor. You weren't the mayor at the time. I emailed Mayor Fox. I emailed everybody. I said, "What's the deal?" And everybody, I
think Erica responded to me, too, because I said, "When's it coming down?" And they said, "November 30th. That's it. It's coming down." So, you know, it had nothing to do with my brother. Okay. I've been there for
I've been there for 43 years and my husband and I. Murray's has been there in that location since 1972. Okay. You never heard a peep out of me. No one's ever I don't complain about anything. But this is like
overkill. Like when And again, I'm going on the record and stating it. I don't have a problem with the tent or the outdoor dining or the music or anything. What I have the problem with is it's a parking lot. No one in Mammoth County
uses no restaurant and I've done my research and you all want to do your research. There is not one restaurant in Mammoth County that uses their entire parking lot for outdoor dining. M I'm ready for matter. I think it's something very spoken. Yes. So my like I
said my concern is processing this paperwork. I just wanted to you came in and you talked about prior approvals and all that sort of stuff. Correct. I just want to tell you that this the statute that I'm talking about talks about using a parking lot for this purpose up to 75% of up to 75%. That's that they're using
the entire Okay. So, you're aware of that, right? Oh, absolutely. Because the law has changed since this has all gone along. It's part of the confusion. People assume it's also the problem of the handicap parking space that's there for the business that's not being used. I think it's called the um that's
required in the statute now too that that 75% and including at least one space. So let's that's I just about you know I just want to just be I'm glad that you're aware of that change in the law but but here's so here's the conundrum right so let's say that that first of all it's
not clear it's a zoning regulation or otherwise right but they still have to be approved by the ABC so whatever the premise is whether it's 75% 50% whatever it is you still have to say where you're putting the bar where you put the table where you putting the chairs and they haven't written any guidance on that for the next 3 weeks so that's the
difficulty that our professionals and the people that work your face is, you know, you can come in with ideas for this, that, the other thing. However, it's not clear that the ABC is going to say okay to any of this either. And so, we're basically using our municipal levers, the zoting, and the things that
are within our control to do what we can do. But there's all this other stuff that's going on outside of our control. So, I don't want to overpromise or what have you. I'm just glad I'm glad that you're aware of that. No, I'm totally because that may be the best we can do. Honestly, I I'm at the point where we
were all good neighbors. Now, people give me the finger. People are calling me names. This is terrible. The last I mean, this has been going on for years when I The last three months have definitely I'm you know, no one's always angry at me, but I can see the anger. I'm going to be the bad guy. Okay. You want me to be the bad guy? I'll be the
bad guy. This is It's ridiculous. And all I'm saying is why the whole parking lot? I just don't understand why the entire parking lot is being used. I understand. I'm going to respectfully tell them not to comment on that because at some point that might be a question here or the land use for it or
otherwise. But you're you're you're getting too big for Bradley Beach. Maybe they have to find another place, move somewhere else. I I I don't know what the answer is, but you know, it's the parking is crazy. And that's that's the that's the deal. They were approved for
upstairs by the back. They got a variance build upstairs. They're outdoor dining part 12 and their approval was to have 18 parking spaces and a handicap bar. So that's what I'm going on. So Greg, we probably we probably should move on. But look, just just know that
we hear you. We have nothing to do. I did reach out to Bay Fox and we just want to make sure that the process that's run gives you your due process, gives the owner and and right now sitting here at this moment I'm not entirely sure what that is given without the guidance. Thank you. That's where we're at. I appreciate
it. I do it for Magguire 610 a um I'm glad I'm not the only one with a something negative to talk about tonight. Um, I understand we are all celebrating this new administration and
how lovely it is to move forward and we don't want to talk about shaky things sometimes, but I am for transparency and I do feel like something got through the papers two weeks ago and I just feel the
need to talk about it on public records. So, I wrote something up here. Um, the CFO, Mr. Barrett. In the article about two weeks ago in the Coast Star regarding his resignation, it mentions Barrett's
resignation from the position was delivered through an email at 12:01 a.m. on April 17th, which copied over 15 burrow employees and cited a disagreement with Gubosi over retropay calculations from a recently settled union contract as reasoning for his
premature departure. The email included attachments of salaries, payroll, and importantly retropay for employees. So, I'm assuming these payroll numbers are public. However, I'd imagine it's super unprofessional to have attached these
payroll amounts to a list of employees in an email. Is that's what happened? Okay. The article also stated that Barrett viewed Gubos's calculations of employee retropay as erroneous, stating the mayor's decision to move forward with
paying Burough employees based on those calculations is not acceptable to me and my team. I'm not even going to question who his team was because I have no idea who his team was. Like, is there a team or do we just hire a CFO? But I don't want
to run out of time just yet. I am um let me do this. Okay. I am glad that our new CFO Janette Larrison was able to doublech checkck those numbers and confirmed that your numbers were correct, Mr. Mayor. But you must know
this leads me to questioning everything Mr. Barrett went over from the past. Because while Mr. Barrett stood up here telling us not to look in the rearview mirror telling me directly he won't litigate what happened within the former administration when I asked about
receipts and also boasting that our former CFO Mr. Guards was his good friend and did a good job. I'd like to remind everyone for the record that Mr. regards our former CFO told me three times via our clerk Erica because he
never spoke to me directly that there were no responsive records as to where our co money was deposited or where it was spent and never made himself himself accessible to anyone but Larry Fox and friends. So with Mr. Barrett discussing
Mayor Gubossi's numbers being incorrect and stating to the co-star that Mayor Gubossi has too much pride to admit he was wrong really shows the unprofessionalism and nonsense that sounds so very familiar to our former
administration. It seems to me that John Barrett may have been quite a setup by the former administration as to protect a lot of the financial issues we have been asking about for the past several years. A cleanup, if you will. The article in the Co-Star also stated that
Mr. Barrett sent the budget to the DCA. I understand that this is the process, but I would like to highlight that the DCA was terrible to our community over the past few years. They aligned with Larry Fox's behavior and ignored many residents. They also find the council
and never find our mayor. I really question his motives here. Having done some research on John Barrett as CFO, I can say I found some negative news about him working in Hamilton Township and Jackson. He has recently sued a mayor of another town
stating harassment and retaliation. Sound familiar? His behavior with those emails and trying to say Mayor Gubosi was wrong lends to the appearance that he was getting ready to follow a very similar playbook we all have seen in at least the last two
administrations. So, thanks for staying on top of those numbers. Mayor Gubossi, um I do have a few questions. Will Miss Larrison um do a review of everything in the past as well, even though Mr. Barrett had already done that. And
although I know you guys were impressed with all of that, I have a lot of questions and I don't trust I I just don't trust. So, will she be reviewing past stuff? And is she also reworking the budget and resubmitting that or are
we working off of what he did submit? It's probably a little bit of both. I mean, a lot of the budget itself was developed by myself and and others. So, uh you know, department heads and so forth. So some of that you know she'll
accept because we approved it. On the other hand there are other questions around u I don't know entries made or not made uh uh more accounting oriented that she is revisiting to make sure she's comfortable with the budget. So, and that's why she's uh reserving May
20th to open it up to questions because she wants to have another couple of weeks to make sure she's comfortable with u all transactions that have taken place. And I'll expand that. Not only Miss Larrison is looking at it to make sure everything's copacetic. Um but
she's brought with her. We we've hired uh someone she highly recommended to take the place of the QPA and he's asking a lot of really good questions and not just about first four months of my administration but prior administrations as well just to make
sure they both feel our accounting is clean and and well done. That's interesting. So, as a QPA, I'm assuming it's a he he would look into purchasing. He would look into like what was purchased in the like how money was
spent. Don't get me wrong, they're not conducting an audit. They're not looking at No, we need one. No, but they are making sure transactions are put in the right buckets and if there's anything unusual looking, they are certainly flagging it and asking us about it. It's
more a question of is that a capital expenditure? Should it have been coded that way versus this way? They're not looking for fraud or anything more substantial, but right now, as I understand it, uh it's early in the process, but Miss Larrison so far seems
comfortable with our data, but she's got a few more weeks to to look at it. Okay. And as far as Mr. Alawa's, um audit, are we getting that soon? I don't have timing from him yet, but my hope is normally it' be due in end of June. The
state apparently has already extended that deadline to August, right? We're going to ask Mr. Olaw to work as hard as he can and make sure we're getting him all the data he needs so hopefully he can deliver it before the end of August. Now, will he get He's working off of
data that Mr. Barrett gave to him. Correct. Some of a lot of it's Mr. Gave to him. Is there any way to have Miss Larris? I know it's budget season and I know there's so much, but I I just don't
trust that now. And I it's if he's just going to work off of numbers that came from people we didn't trust or didn't even treat us with respect, I'm you know, time with them. I appreciate your your your caution, but you know, we have accounting records, we have
documentation, they're getting comfortable with the data we have, but no one has said anything to me about needing to recreate it from scratch. It's more like just making sure it passes the sniff test and it's in the right buckets and we're moving forward.
Okay. Thank you. Other questions? Yes, sir. Champion 411 and a half lines. Um, I wanted to mention the auction of 319 Lraine. I thought there'd be some report on that from the council. Um, I hope it
went well for the burrow. I want to thank the burrow for donating some of the historic items that were requested by the historical society to us. And, uh, I appreciate it. For those of you who don't know, um, we requested two
small stained glass windows and two major stained glass windows. Um, and we are getting all those out. Um, although it's costing us quite a bit of money and we have to get professional stained glass uh removal company to come in,
remove them, create them, and um, in fact, the two large ones are going to temporary storage in Long Branch at their historic museum, Church of the Presidents. Um they are another um group
that received quite a few of the the objects including a lot the remaining stained glass. Um the company that I'm hiring is costing us $7,000 to remove the windows. Um I have the Long Branch Historic Museum is going
to share the cost at least 50%. Um the remainder um will be coming from the his Bradley Beach Historical Society and I am looking for donations from the public um and also possibly from the
burrow. Um I will start it off by uh pledging at least $1,000 towards that remaining $35,000. Um, as you might imagine, this is an amount that u our small historic society
uh needs help on. Um, the two smaller windows, one of them is going to be displayed as soon as we can. Um our back room is almost in the state where we can um reinsert the
existing Methodist church display that we have and add the stained glass window, small stained glass window and it um it it will I hope to some extent mitigate the loss of
our grandest and most historic building which we await the demolition Um, I hope it will not be um before we get the stained glass out and I assume that you'll give us the time. We're scheduled
for the week of May 13, May 12th, I believe, and I'm trying to get them in as early as possible that week. At this point, I believe we've been asking the engineer about the potential to delay the demolition process just to allow
people like yourselves to remove some of the more difficult artifacts. There's also beautiful large wooden doors that have to get removed and there's a lot of work behind it. There was a there are a lot of elements that were not in the auction roll that I hope you're going to at least get some interested salvage
companies to possibly come in. The main supports for the sanctuary itself are those columns are actually really quite something. Somebody should get those and we'll certainly see what we can do. There there are a lot of items not even
sold that were that were advertised for sale that didn't sell. Not to mention others that weren't advertised. As I mentioned to some of you, I do hope to talk the demolition company into trying to get the bell down without destroying
it. And as I mentioned to some of you, I've discussed with principal high possibly placing that bell on the school grounds. He was very interested in that opportunity. The bell was, as I mentioned in the last council meeting,
was donated to the church in 1900 by the children Bradley Beach who raised the money for it. And um and also the cornerstone there there are some elements that we would would like to talk to the demolition company on. So I hope that we can make
arrangements through your office. Let's do that and we should do that quickly. Thank you for your time and um hopefully somebody will come through and be an angel for us and uh try to you know get
these windows out. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Any other comments or questions? Yes, sir. Mr. West, one quick question, Mr. Weber. Yes. in your new shed which which I
think is a good idea that if you're going to recover stuff unused stuff so the landfill I'm very pro recycle and reuse and all that stuff the concern is I assuming this is going to be on the north end DPW lot right that's yes
that's always it's kind of happening uh just my concern is this is not going to turn into a junkyard of people getting stuff and Fred who's up there now monitoring is he now going to be in charge of say that's good that's junk this is who's going to
decide I mean you know this this barbecue grill kind of works so somebody might be able to use it but you know end up with mountain of junk that's why it's a shed and if it doesn't fit in 8 ft by 12 ft it's not going in there and like I
said after and this is the stuff that you got to work out figure how many it's in here x you know whatever there's a time limit and after that if it hasn't nobody's taken it then it turns into garbage and then people are just going to have to accept that but yeah we have
to yeah because way I don't want to pay for a sticker to get rid of this barbecue grill and say it works here I would be happy if would be the determiner of what us guy does by the way they'll still pay
for the sticker Oh yeah it's not free it is Yeah, thanks. Any other comments or questions? Anyone on Zoom? No. Seeing no further questions, I will and there is
no executive session tonight. I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Second. All in favor? I meeting ajourned. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.