This is more symbol that Mr. >> didn't exactly >> No, I don't think he was at the moment. >> No more. I hope it
look right by the silver and >> no I know that >> I don't know where you find this over these >> look at looked like
I think without thought she was going to get here on time. Yeah. like what the resolution said about the general
is not joining us. >> Yeah. legislation better. That's why Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mitch coffee meeting to order. Uh, please stand for the pledge of allegiance.
Pledge allegiance to the flag and the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> I wish to announce that 48 hour notice is required under the open public
meetings act was emailed to the Aspbury press, the co-star and the new co-star on December the 19th of 2024. that a copy has been placed on the bulletin board in the burough office and that a copy has been filed with the municipal clerk. Please be advised public attendance for meetings through Zoom is
a courtesy only. If for any reason Zoom fails or is disconnected, the inerson meetings will continue without interruption and action can and will be taken providing there is an inerson council forum. Mr. Noble >> here, >> Miss Greenlot
>> here. Mr. Noiki >> here. >> Mr. Weber >> here. >> Mayor Gubosi >> here. Perfect timing, Council President. >> Thank you. >> Um, okay. We'd like we'd like to start our evening on a on a fun note. We have a a presentation to make and we have I
see we have a few folks in the audience here to support the one of the stars of the evening, Jeannie Morettto. Um, and before we make this presentation, uh, I want to comment. I think Jeannie is just like this bastion of, um, of
volunteerism. I mean, you know, we Bradley Beach very much value our volunteers. You know, we can always use more. Volunteers are such a a integral part of our community and they do so much. And Jeannie, you're just a a great example of a person who's done so much
for Bradley Beach already. So, with that said, I have a proclamation to make and uh we're going to take some pictures afterwards and I'm going to ask uh first the council to join us and then I'm going to ask well council can join me now, but I'm also going to ask Jeanie's friends and supporters to join for
pictures. >> So, first of all, Jeie, please. >> Yeah, come on down. >> Okay, please. Oh, by the way, >> Jeie, now I had the pleasure of serving last year with Jeie on the library board
and the library board members, many of whom were here, uh, asked me to make this same presentation to her last night at the library meeting because they wanted to have a a special opportunity to thank her. So, this is actually the second time
presentation, but we can probably use it a number of more times because uh, we are very appreciative of what you've done. So got the council here. Let me block everybody. Um the Burough Bradley Beach proclamation honoring Jeannie Moretta of the library board. Whereas
Jeannie Moretta has given many years of dedicated service to the Bradley Beach public library as a trustee since 2008. And whereas Jeannie Moro provided dedicated leadership as president from
May 2022 to December 2025. offering energy and commitment that strengthen the library. And whereas because of Genie Mora's efforts, our great little library has continued to grow and flourish as a cherished community
resource. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the mayor and council of the burrow of Bradley extend its deepest gratitude to Gina Morettto for exceptional service and leadership dated this 15th day of December, 2025.
And we have a second reason there are two. One of these and uh and some of your members are figuring this out, but one of these proclamations is going to be for your home wherever you care to display it. One is going to be mounted
in the library as a as a reminder to all visitors of Genie's unique service to the library. But that said, >> let's get a group here. >> I'm just in there. Anybody else?
>> Close it. >> Action. >> Oh, good. >> I don't know what to say except thank you. Um, I'm not leaving the library. I'm still going to meet a number of the friends. You can't get rid of me. >> That's good. >> And the library has always been a part
of my life. as a little girl and my friends and I would walk to the library and at the time Walgreens didn't have children's sections. It was just the back of it and then we would go as little girls and giggle. >> That's all we would do. The lady would girls she don't stop to have you believe
and the more she said that the more we giggle. But I love the library. So it's my second home. So thank you. The only word I could say is flabbergasting. That tells you how old I am, right? Thank you so much.
>> Now you you can leave if you like even though we have an exciting meeting ahead of >> us. Now don't go too far council. Oh, there's one other proclamation we didn't have on the on the draft agenda and Erica, you have it
>> and it's for Mr. John Weber. >> We're going to go back down back down for this one. >> Oh, yeah. Let's go back. Okay. >> Eric was thinking about jumping out. >> Yeah, I was going to like dress up and jump out
the >> Get my reading glasses back. >> Okay. Uh ladies and gentlemen, most of you know John Weber. He's been a council person here in Valley for this is completing his ninth year.
>> It's John's fault that I politics. >> It's John's fault that I'm in politics at all. >> He asked me to run with him six years ago. >> Uh and he's probably regretted that day ever since. But uh but thanks to John, I'm here. And uh I think John, you've
left a bit of a legacy because others of us are here effectively because of you. So >> I'm going to read a little proclamation. Then we're going to give you 10 or 15 minutes to give your thoughts or you know you can do that later. The burrow of Bradley Beach a proclamation honoring
Councilman John Weber. Whereas Mr. John Weber has faithfully served his fellow citizens as a councilman for 9 years from 2017 through 2025 and whereas Mr. Weber has performed of his own valition many endeavors to
benefit his community and has been an active volunteer on several boards and committees dedicated to the betterment of life for the residents of the burrow. And whereas Mr. Weber has given generously of his time and effort as a member of the burough council with
diligence and effectiveness and has made a constructive contribution to his associates and to the community. And whereas Mr. Weber has served in a critical leadership role as a councilman and former council president who has led numerous environmental initiatives for
the betterment of Bradley Beach, the state of New Jersey, and perhaps the world. And whereas Mr. Weber has served as a liaison and adviser to critical burough commissions including the shade tree commission the pleasure lake commission and the environmental commission and
whereas Mr. Weber has performed his duties on council with character and dignity emphasis on character he will be both miss uh both professionally and as a friend and whereas Mr. Weber will retire from his position as councilman on December 31st
2025. Now therefore be it resolved on behalf of the mayor and council and employees of the burough of Bradley Beast, we wish to extend they extend their appreciation for his service to the burrow and wish him well in his future endeavors. Dated the 16th day of
December 2025. addition. >> Oh, you got it. >> We had this. >> Oh, nothing. >> There's a little bit. >> Thank you. >> Hold up, John. Oh, thank
god I had to sign something. >> Oh, >> now you beautiful. >> All right. >> Hey, Matt. >> Yeah. >> Oh, jeez. >> Come over here.
>> That was me. Me, too. >> Yeah. Hey, let's come home with the flu. >> Where is she? Where's Nora? >> I mean, I know she's there, but where is she looking? >> Oh,
what do >> awesome. >> Thank you. >> And that was good cuz it did forget >> your favorite. It's the old map of Bradley Beach and it has the church next
to you on the map and it's signed by everyone on the >> So that's the little church in the woods on there. >> R said it was one. Can you hear about
one make a few comments? Uh, I was going to save it for the end, but hey, um, >> I won't save it to the end. >> You know what? We'll save this to the end. >> What do we do with this? >> I This is We'll put it on the side for
later. >> Okay. All good. >> You're going to miss this. I can tell. >> Oh, I know. >> Okay, you got it. >> This one. >> Okay, I'll leave that. Don't let me forget that. So that was fun. Thank you all for uh
joining us for this two proclamations, two very important recognitions of individuals who have contributed so much to Bradley Beach. Uh item six on on the agenda are workshops. We have none. Item seven on the agenda is approval of minutes. And
I'll make a motion that we approve the November 25, 2025 special council meeting minutes. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. Mr. Green, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Katosi? >> Yes. Item eight is public comments and
questions pertaining to items specifically on the agenda only. There's a fivem minute limit and uh one single instance to to talk. Are there public comments? Please raise your hand about agenda items, Mr. Goen.
>> Uh, J Coan 6123rd Avenue. Uh, there's a couple things on here tonight in terms of resolutions, mayor, which I wanted to address. Uh, one is resolution 2025-357. Um, I'm so happy that, you know, some of the proceeds, the net proceeds from the
church sale will be going to our affordable housing trust fund. Um, because, you know, it was ignored by Mayor Angel and Mayor Fox and no funds went into that account. So we are at a deficit and it's important that you know
we we follow the rules and guidelines of the affordable housing requirements of the state of New Jersey and this will really help and it'll it'll pick up some of the slack that was left by previous administration. So I I do uh it'll help us you know our round three obligation
we didn't get anything done and now in round four hopefully we'll be able to use these funds to to advance our our situation in ter in the eyes of the state and then um I also wanted to thank you for resolution 2025-356.
Uh I don't know if the public is really aware of the usurping of home rule which is taking place from Trenton. So, um, this resolution opposing, uh, S4736, um, is really important. I don't think a
lot of people know about it, but it's going to take away home rule from zoning for religious organizations and for nonprofits. So, I just in my mind use the church property as an example. If we didn't purchase it, according to this,
uh, it's 40 units an acre. That's a halfacre parcel. That would be 20 units, 40 feet high with minimal parking restrictions. So, the land use board would have no say. The council would
have no say. Um, if this passes, this is just horrific abuse by trend. So, I would advise everyone to contact Senator Gopal, con contact the Assemblywoman Donlin and Peter Paul and let them know you're going to be watching their vote
because this takes away the rights that we in Bradley Beach and and this is why, you know, we have a Facebook page called Preserving Bradley Beach because we want to preserve the little village that we live in. This would take away that right. And if you look at other religious sites in town, they could all
be developed the same way. And uh and so I appreciate you doing this. And the land use board will have a similar resolution. It's a model resolution presented by the League of Municipalities, which is also opposing this legislation from Trenton. So I appreciate you all stepping up and and
doing this. Affordable housing is important, but to take away home rule, I mean, I'm an affordable housing advocate, but I'm also a proponent of home rule and I want to protect it. So, there is a balance. This balance is not it. Well, thank you very much.
>> Thank you. >> Oh, sure. >> Okay. I just want to add one comment. It's actually um the church property is 0.55 acres, so there would be 22 units. >> Oh, thank you for the correction. >> You're welcome. >> All right. Other comments for suggest.
>> Good evening. Linda Duffy 312 Brinley Avenue. I wanted to address uh 2025-348 approval of council business meetings and why we are making them at 5:30 now instead of 6:30.
I don't know the answer. >> I mean, we had a workshop on it. Uh >> I know, but we didn't have any clarification of why. I didn't hear it. I'm sorry because actually I did do some research and 57%
of our working population in this town drive to work. They drive to work 30 minutes away. They cannot possibly unless they work in a hospital 7 to three come to a meeting. You're kind of excluding the residents from the meetings who have their opinion and
their voice at a podium which is more powerful than an email to Erica. So I mean I you know first of all we haven't voted on this but but we've discussed all kinds of times we've discussed 4:30 4:00 even um current
meetings obviously are 6:30 so we could we discuss keeping at the same point um there are there are pros and cons including pros and cons impacting folks who can who can you know join our meeting so I think at this point you know we we agree
individually through lengthy discussions including uh those involving uh our clerk who you a lot of this impacts her. Um and we we've come to a point of recommending 530 and we'll pro again we have to vote on this but we'll probably
agree to at least try 530 and we've already said if that's not working for the public we will revisit it. Uh if it's working great and people want to move it earlier we'll we can consider revisiting it as well. The problem with 6:30 that most of us are are struggle
with um is when we have late meetings and there are times where we have long meetings and when you're getting out not just not just the council and the public um but our employees the people manning Zoom and our clerk when they're here till 10:00 11:00 it's it's just
challenging for everybody involved. So, we wanted to try uh what we've all discussed individually is trying 1 hour earlier seeing how that works. >> It also impacts people um eating dinner. So, and the other thing is I'm just curious since we had all the closings on
the church property, what is the net cost um proceeds for us? What does it have done more I think as far as affordable housing? In fact, in my opinion, you know, putting more in >> so what's left over?
roughly net proceeds after we pay off the related debt and everything expenditures that we've had on the shirt roughly $2.7 million. >> Excellent. And where do you put that? >> It flows through it flows through surplus the financial accounting of it. Um once it flows through surplus, you
know, once all the bookkeeping is done, as you're aware, we're talking about making a a resolution tonight that will commit 200,000 of that to the um to the uh affordable housing trust. Do you feel that 200,000 is a a substantial amount?
I kind of think out of all that we could have put more there. >> We could have. We talked about Well, we've had residents request that we put all of the proceeds, $4.8 million in. These are these are um resident assets, right? The dollars that we're talking
about. Uh we had others say put in 20% of the net, which would be $540,000. Um we've had others say 10%. I mean, it's random. the whole discussion is random. >> I think speaking for myself, I'll let others weigh in because we, you know, we
would have talked about this later, but we can address it now. Um, I wanted to make a a very strong contribution. Um, I think $200,000, almost a quarter million, is a very strong uh contribution uh indicating our
commitment to affordable housing. Keeping in mind, we're voluntarily committing resident dollars to this. So there could be somebody who steps up here after you. That's >> you can connect, but I'm not. I'm >> No, I'm I'm just saying it was it was a question of $5 million or zero or
something in between. And and speaking for myself, I wanted us to make it we the council to make a strong commitment to affordable housing. I've talked to our planner, Jen Jennifer Beam, who's right now in the throws of negotiating, if you will, uh, our 10-year plan, and I
said to her, Jim, would it be helpful if we made a contribution in terms of helpful in the negotiations with affordable housing? And she said, yes. I said, would a magnitude of the amount of 200,000, not everybody has >> just sold, you know, four and a half
million dollars or so of property. So some other municipality contributing 200,000 is viewed as oh my gosh, how did you find that money? We're very fortunate in that we had this one-time windfall of property sales. So she was thrilled at the idea of 200,000. She
said it would go a long way to help her in her discussions with the affordable housing and she said could we do it now? I had also asked could we do it next year and she said it'd be even better if we could do it now. So, uh, so to your point, there was a lot of thinking that
went into it. We can always put in more, Linda, but once we put it in, >> you can't take it out. >> We can't take it out. >> I realize that. So, did we ever pay back the sewer when we borrowed money from the sewer? Did we borrow money from the sewer at one time or the beach? Trusty,
>> we kind of do that every year. >> Paid them back. >> Under prior administrations, you're allowed to take it out without paying it back. I think the magnitude was like 50 grand. I personally was against doing that. Uh I know that prior administrations did that a couple times, but there was no obligation to pay it
back. You're allowed to transfer some funds. I I forget the formula, but it's like 5%. >> I was just curious. All right. Thank you. >> Okay. Yes, sir. Steve. >> Yeah. Steve Rosawick, 100 Avenue. Um
this is my comment directed to John. I want to thank you for your service. I remember we remember that about 10 years ago I showed up at your house and asked you to run for council and I was successful and you know we appreciate your efforts and your time and your
service to the community. >> So thank you very much. >> For the record Steve wouldn't take no for an answer. >> All right. Thank Steve it's probably because of you then that most of us are up here today. >> Exactly. All health. >> All right. Thank you.
>> Thanks Steve. Other comments or questions? Anyone on Zoom with a question or comment? Okay, we'll close the public session and move to uh item number nine on the agenda which are ordinances. We do have an ordinance for
uh for adoption, none for introduction and that is our bond ordinance. We've described this a couple meet couple weeks ago. Um these are dollars earmarked. We have to increase the amount of our original ordinance from
400,000 to 900,000 or I'm sorry 500,000 to 900 an increase of 400. And that's because the bids we this is all related to the sewer pump station on Ocean A. We don't expect to spend 900,000. However, the bids did come in around the low bid
was 630,000 give or take. Uh and we had only bonded for 500. So rather now we have to rebid and the bids are out now. We're collecting them soon. Erica, we're going to uh identify the bidder, the successful bidder when >> uh December 23rd.
>> December 23rd. So in anticipation of that, we we began this uh amendment of our previous bond ordinance uh to and we're putting a buffer in there. We don't have to we don't have to borrow this money, but we want to be able to borrow to the extent it's needed. Uh, so
we've amended it to be $900,000. And uh, with that said, I'm going to open it up to the public. Well, first of all, time out. Any quick council comments before we open it to the public? >> Okay. So, I'll make a motion. >> Thank you. >> That we officially open this up to the
public for discussion about the bond ordinance uh, amendment. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Miss Greenl, yes. Mr. Noiki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. >> Mayor Gubetz, >> yes. Comments or questions from the public? Okay, seeing none in the room, are there
any on Zoom? Okay, seeing none on Zoom, I will make a motion that we close public comment and uh we uh vote to adopt bond ordinance 2025-39. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble, >> yes.
>> Miss Springlat, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayor Hubosi, >> yes. >> Item 10 on the agenda is communications. There are none. Item 11, resolutions. There are three consent agenda resolutions. Are there any comments or
questions or any of these you'd want to vote on separately, council? Perfect. >> All right. I will make a motion that we approve uh consent agenda resolutions 2025 344 through 2025 346.
Second, >> Mr. Noble. Yes. Miss Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi? Yes. Okay. Moving to individual resolutions. Um the first one is 2025-347
uh establishing beach locker fees for 2026. And uh I'll give folks a quick overview here. We historically Bradley Beach historically long before any of us have been up here um has had a kind of a
two-tier structure. an initial um first time you're you're renting a locker, you pay in a a higher dollar amount. Uh over the years, it's been $400 or 300 and now it currently 2025 that initial locker
rental fee is $600. The subsequent years the renewal fee is $200. And this exercise typically is should we bump 600 to 620 and should we bump 200 to 210 or account for inflation account for the
cost of maintaining the lockers and increases in those costs. Um and I have at least uh chatted one-on-one with each of the my council colleagues here uh as to whether or not there might be value in moving to a uh an annual rental fee
period. One one number. Um the so so if we're inclined to do this, we would identify a single dollar amount that would more or less u every instead of calling it a renewal fee, it would just be an annual rental fee and it would
cover based on we have 550 lockers. We're limited to that from a storage capacity. Talked about that in earlier meetings. So we'll never expand. We Bradley Beach will never expand beyond the 550. Um, so it's pretty easy to do the math. If annually out, one of the
challenges we have with the current structure, if we have 10 new people come in and you know that get new lockers, they all pay $600. We may not build any new lockers in that year, they you know those people who pay $600, they get an
old locker, which is the way of way of the world. On the other hand, there could be a year where we have no new people and we have 20 new lockers because, you know, lockers break and get damaged and and need repair. And once again, even though the burrow incurs
that cost of new lockers, which do run honestly around $700 a locker box now, um uh even though we incur that cost because those lockers break down, we have no new money coming in. So from a budgetary standpoint, there's no
alignment. Every year we're guessing how many new lockers will we have? How many people will pay in this case 600 versus how many renewals will pay 200. So I did approach everybody and say, "Look, I I feel like it would make more sense to just, you know, kind of rip the band-aid
off, if you will, and and break away from from this long history, 20 plus year history of having two different tiers of lockers. The magic number in my opinion uh if you if you assume a six-year average
lifespan of a locker which is approximately what DPW shared with me that within six years lockers break down some go seven or eight some break down in three or four depending on climate and whatever but that's roughly it's 16.7%.
So using 15% of our current fee structure, 15% of of new lockers would be $600. 85% the remaining that would just be renewal revenue collected. Um 85% of 200 the current renewal fees that
weights out to be $260. I've done that math. So, what I suggested and I'd like us now to discuss, I've suggested to the council that we move to a a flat fee structure, one annual rental fee. Uh, and I I think the number should be $250, a little bit
less than that math I just walked you through. The idea is there would be no inflationary adjustment. Folks uh that are renewing now at 250 would I'm sorry, 200 would move to 250. any folks coming in now and in the future
would be coming in at 250 as well. It makes more sense from a budgetary standpoint. It makes more sense from an alignment of, you know, when you pay 600, you don't get a brand new box. Now, when you pay 6 now, you don't pay 600 and you just get whatever boxes are available. So, I like this idea, but we
can certainly talk about, you know, bumping the existing fees as well, but um let's open it up to discussion. What do you guys think? John, I left you a voicemail. Well, I >> we didn't have a chance to talk. Yeah, >> I got back to you about that. Um, we crunched all these numbers and uh seems to make sense. Yeah, we're not we're not
making any new lockers. I mean, though we not making new ones unless they're replacing old ones. So, um that does make sense on 111, but you're the numbers guy and that's why you're up here. So, trusting you crunched all the numbers and Sure. >> So, this program began somewhere around
2005 or something. Not sure, but I I recall because I was I was one of the first people getting a locker. So, the the structure made sense then because we came from no lockers. So, they had to build the lockers. And that's kind of how they structured it. It wasn't like a bond. It was a matter of a a lump sum
fee that you pay toward the building of the lockers. And now that we're looking to make some changes going forward with the whole program that we're doing to implement in 2027, um maybe now is the right time to simplify the process because certainly
one fee um is just easier for accounting purposes. It's easier for uh for you know financial fiscal year purposes. It's more efficient uh and um you know it just might be a better option. And
then you know each year we evaluate the fees and we can actually starting for 2026 uh determine uh all of the costs uh you know and then the fees and we want to kind of break even. That's the intention.
Uh so we can make changes for the following year if we find that that's too high or that's too low. Um we can make changes to that. to your point, from a budgeting standpoint, we never know how many new uh renters we're going to have in a year. So, the budgeting is a little, you know, you know, you miss a
little here, you make up a little there. Uh it will be easier to just estimate our total cost and divide it by the 550 lockers. If we have all of them equally priced budget-wise, >> yeah, we haven't had a lot of turnover in lockers because our waiting list was
frozen and so people who had lockers had a good time. However, if there was an individual who just came in, say last year, and paid their $600 versus somebody who got in back in 2010, say, and paid their, you know, 500, 400,
whatever it was at that time, you know, the would there be consideration to reimburse people some portion of that $600 if they only got into the program last year and paid 600? That doesn't seem equitable necessarily. that as
somebody who may have paid $400 10 years ago. And so I think that's something we need to look at. You know, >> I believe it would only be a handful of people because like you said that the list wasn't moving. You weren't moving up. Nobody was moving up. You know, everybody I hear said, "I'm on that list
for seven years." So, um, yeah, I think this is a it seems like this is the year of you're fixing things and this is another thing that needs to be fixed and I think this is a better approach for the future. >> I think this pricing structure does make more sense. If we were starting with a
whiteboard, I don't see the need to, again, the $600 that we have in place today doesn't give you a brand new locker. It just gives you a locker that could be 5 years old. Um, and Paul, to your point, you know, I'm not sure. I
mean, we'd be talking about some sort of an increase anyway over the existing 200 renewal. Um, I'd be very open to looking at how many people have come in and gave us recently 600 or $500 or whatever 3 years ago it might have been. And if we can come up
with a formulaic way to do that, I I personally, just speaking for myself, would have no problem figuring out a a formula. But I don't want to be held hostage to this structure because of, you know, figuring out some transition issues. >> I would agree. I think I think moving to
a um one fee is the right thing to do, but I'm just thinking there may be that, you know, unicorn out there of one or two people who just came into the program in the last year that that's really not affordable. Yeah, we're going to have a similar refund policy issue
that we we have to figure out um when we when we move to our new policy of um preferential treatment for Bradley Beach residents. So when folks who have been renting are that are not current residents um are no longer able to rent
here um you know we're going to have to figure out a some sort of a refund policy at least for relatively new uh folks who have come in. >> It seems like it would be almost like the same situation. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> But um but I don't I mean, I I think it
makes a lot of sense, and I know we've talked individually, but if if you all agree, then, you know, I'd like to propose that we move to an annual just an annual rental fee. No, we get rid of the terms, you know, initial and and
renewal and just move to an annual rental fee for 2026 of $250, which is which is about a four or 5% targeted reduction. So, if it's anything, we're slightly bringing down the aggregate. uh budgeted revenue by about 4%. But I
think I think you know that just otherwise we'd be bumping to 250 4%. I I thought two to 260. I just think 250 is a nice number to start with. What um I'll make a motion that we set an one time I mean an annual fee that is
consistent across all for $250 for 2026. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> M green. Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber. Yes, >> Mayor Gubetzi. >> Yes. All right. Those math things sometimes take longer. So that was >> So the resolution just needs to be
modified. Uh following. >> Yeah. So Erica, yeah, the wording right now it has a two-tier. If we just said instead of new rentals, we just said annual rentals of lockers $250. I think that's all we need. >> Yeah.
>> Mhm. >> Okay. Item 2025-348, approval of council business meeting dates for 2026. I'll make a motion that we approve the council business meeting dates for 2026. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Miss Greenblat. >> Yes. Mr. Nikki,
>> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> I did abstain because I'm not going to be here, but yes. >> Mayor Kubosi. >> Yes. Um, and by the way, you know, we we address this in the public comments, but just
for the record, um, we have meeting dates that are that are carefully manicured to make sure we're not hopefully we're not conflicting with existing holidays, Jewish holidays, and so forth. And and as uh, Linda brought up earlier, we are going to try to start
meetings at 5:30 in the new year and see how that works. And if if there's a lot of public outcry, you know, we will certainly consider uh changing that again. But we're trying to just create greater efficiencies for uh for everybody involved, including residents who can get stuck here late late into
the evening. So, we're moving it up one hour. Um should have discussed that beforehand, but we covered it. We learned a little 20 item uh 2025-349 is the awarding of ATM machines. Our
current contract is 6,000 uh the new proposal and it was the only one we received is 6,500. So not quite a 10% increase but uh 6,500 is the new uh proposal and I make a motion that we uh approve 2025-349
>> Mr. Noble. Yes. >> Mr. Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. 2025-350 is a is a individual resolution related to the right and mammoth uh formerly SCAT and uh you know this is set up that
we were in a position to approve it if we wanted to. However, uh what we've heard from our seniors is that this is not a particularly um uh valuable program. No, no one is either eligible to use it due to income restrictions or cares to use it. Uh we checked and we're
actually we have only have one individual apparently in town that does use it. So uh I'm going to make a motion uh to withdraw individual resolution 2025-350 and and therefore not extend our contract next year.
>> Mr. Mayor, if I ask a question first reasonably confident that we can find out who that one person is? >> I'm not reasonably confident. I don't know if we can. >> Do you think we can find out who? >> We could ask mom from the county. Like ask the county. Yeah. I mean, just to not leave that person hanging. >> Yeah. If we can. Yeah.
>> And the plan is also to come up with an alternative to to that potential. >> If there is the the plan right now is to not continue to spend roughly $10,000 a year for one person to take a bus once a month. But to the extent we can identify that person or find a better program
that is more as a pay as you go type of thing, you know, we definitely would be uh open to that. We we want to pro increase services especially to the seniors, but this is not proving to be a valuable service, >> right? And I and I'm a proponent of a service like this if it's utilized, but
as I think I've said before, I'm not sure how well uh communicated it is that people within the community are fully aware that it exists. Um, and I wasn't aware that there was a um an economic income element to it as well. But and I
think if we do look to to provide some sort of a service that would mirror this um if we can also make sure that we broadcast it to the community. >> That was originally the plan. Now we don't have we don't know what that other service is. But this service the senior
leadership team led by Gene Ley this morning told us this was a waste of our money. So uh so our starting point is to discontinue this particular service where we could always recont we could always reestablish this service if there
was good cost to do so >> or we can identify a new service. We definitely want to provide you know valuable and and transportation in particular this particular service does not seem to be you know meeting our needs.
So, with that said, I I make a motion that we withdraw uh 2025-350, which would have extended our contract. >> Second, Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> M. Greenblat? >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi?
>> Yes. 2025-351 is authorizing an agreement with Avon by the Sea to share goose control expenses for Southern Lake. We already have this agreement in place, so this is just extending it for another year. Any comments or questions beyond what we've already covered in discussions?
>> Seems very successful. >> I hear nothing but good. >> Things are great. Both both colleagues Fletcher as well as Sulman. It's it's critical that we have these services because the alternative is you know you know guava everywhere. It's just not not sustainable.
>> And we share 50/50 with Avon. This is for Silven Lake. So we share 5050 with Avon. So, I'll make a motion that we approve 2025-351. >> Second. >> Mr. Dyl, >> yes. >> Miss Greenblat, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi,
>> yes. 2025352 is authorizing the Shore Athletic Club to conduct a 5K race on Saturday, December 27th, a couple days after the Christmas Day. Uh 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. And my understanding is there are no Bradley Beach resources. That's
correct. >> required. Mhm. >> So, any comments or questions? >> I'll make a motion then we approve 2025352. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Miss Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosa.
>> Yes. >> 2025353. A resolution opposing the closure or relocation of the Mammoth Medical Center Hospital in Long Branch. Uh this resolution was presented to us uh for our consideration to both and it it's
largely focused on the fact that Mammoth Medical Center would be relocated out of Long Branch. Uh and if you haven't had a chance, you could certainly read through this to understand the concerns that that raises uh from a tax base for Long
Branch, but from a medical services standpoint, available to the community and and taxing of those services it could put on other communities. So, uh, the council is is, um, you know, here to vote on whether or not we want to support, uh, the a resolution that
opposes the closure of Mammoth Medical Center. Um, any comments or questions before we vote? >> Yeah, I'm just saying that the um, what I've read about this is that it's not necessarily going to close. that would have um a change of services, limited
more limited services and the new facility is being uh built out in Tenton Falls, six miles from that location. And so from you know from a geographic perspective you know somebody in Deal maybe would now not go to W branch T falls maybe further and they would now
come to uh you know to here to you know to Jersey Shore. So that could put a burden theoretically um additional burden into our hospital locally. Um but it's interesting that um you know Congressman Palone came out um opposed
to this whatsoever. And then there's other legislation um in the House right now suggesting that the um not to close it but to maintain crit some critical services in that hospital.
So I think that there's they're trying to strike a balance of somehow and I think a resolution could in fact help um at least from our perspective incursion towards a balance. >> Yes. >> Other comments or questions? >> Okay. I will make a motion that we uh
approve 2025353 resolution opposing the closure or relocation of Mammoth Medical Center. Second. >> Mr. Noble. Yes. Miss Greenblat. >> Yes. Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mr. Weber. >> Yes. Mayor Gubosa. >> Yes.
Uh okay let me find this main >> uh you have the >> we are basically >> well thank you >> okay so resolution >> 2025-354 land use board uh appointment update a
number of months ago we lost our environmental commission u chair um and she was our a member of our land use board and uh we now have identified uh Daniel Bagley as a member of the
environmental commission to serve on the uh land use board. So uh this is uh an authorization of me appointing Mr. Bagley to our land use board on behalf of the environmental commission. So I'll make a motion that we approve resolution
2025-354. >> Second. >> And thank you >> Mr. Noble. Yes, >> Miss Greenblat. Yes, >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes, >> Mr. Weber. >> Yes, >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. >> 2025-355 extending all 2025 special parking
permits until February 28, 2026. Um, many of you may recall that a meeting or so ago, uh, we had already introduced an ordinance that was going to make some substantial changes to our special permanent parking. That's the handicap spaces around town. A number of
you here tonight I know spoke out uh raising concerns about that. We tabled the adoption. We did not adopt. Um we do still want to revisit the current ordinance. So this resolution is basically extending the permission that
has already been granted to people in place for 2025. Extending that normally it would expire at 1231. Uh it's extending it through the end of February. So, the council has another couple of months to determine if we want to make any uh adjustments at all to our
special permit parking. So, any comments or questions on that? >> All right. Um, I will make a motion that we uh approve 2025-355. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble? >> Yes. >> Miss Greenblat? >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes.
>> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Kubosi? >> Yes. 2025-356. Uh this is opposing uh bill marked S-4736 and advocating for home rule and local control of planning and zoning
decisions. And again uh this resolution was provided the language the template was provided to us by the League of Municipalities. Our attorney Greg Cannon who is not with us tonight his partner is but uh he helped us draft this. U many municipalities are raising the same
concerns with this bill that Mr. Coan addressed in his comments largely. Um, this bill would usurp home rule. Like we, you know, we have a land use board and we look at properties in town and we collectively and through the land use board, uh, we have really strong
procedures in place and policies and guidelines we try to follow to determine where we should create new opportunities for affordable housing. This would effectively give a lot of that authority to certain non forprofits and uh take it
away from local municipalities. So our resolution tonight is is saying that we oppose uh the loss of home rule and we think Bradley Beach should still maintain control over where we uh build affordable housing. So any comments or
questions? Yeah, I'd like to add that um there is no assembly companion to this bill. So, it's a bad idea. I definitely agree that we should do this resolution. The leaks against it. That's a very a good indication, but there's no assembly companion. I reached out to our assembly
uh representatives and you know that hopefully that's an indication of where they're at in Trenton. There's no shortage of bad ideas that come from the New New Jersey Senate if you've listened to the news lately. Um, and maybe this is one of them, but the fact that there's nothing on the assembly side doesn't mean it's not possible in the next month cuz the legislative session
goes for a few days short of the of of a month from now. And um, it would be possible, but you know, watch it like a hawk, but it's good news that there's no assembly version. Other comments? >> Well said. Yeah, I I just want to thank you for adding this to the agenda. This
was brought to my attention during the League of Municipalities and um as the league said, this is egregious assault on municipal autonomy and um we have a density issue already to to usurp our land use as our land use chairman
mentioned is um a problem and it would be more dense and there's no parking allocations. there's they can actually go another height and they would not need a variance. There would be no use variance that would just be permitted.
So, um I just want to thank the council for standing united in the defense of Bradley Beach responsible development and democratic process. And I also want to commend us that we've done the most for affordable housing in the history of Bradley Beach this year because of those
development fees. We've collected money for our affordable housing trust fund that's never been done before. In addition when we're contributing from the sale of 319 Lraine is also going to that. So I just want to say thank you for that.
>> Any other comments, questions? Okay. Um I will then make a motion that we approve 2025-356 which is opposing uh Senate Bill 4736 and advocating for home rule. >> Second. Mr. Noble. >> Yes. Miss Greenlat. >> Yes. Yes. Mr. Noiki.
>> Yes. >> Mr. Weber. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. >> 2025-357 directing that $200,000 in proceeds from the sale of 319 Lorraine Avenue be deposited into the burough's affordable housing trust fund. Um, obviously I had
a chance thanks uh to Linda's question earlier as to try to explain how the $200,000 number was derived. Um, I think I think we all feel it was important to make a a a strong contribution. Now, could we have made more? Yes. Could we
have made less, yes, of a contribution, but I think $200,000 uh, as I mentioned, our planner is very excited about that. She thinks that'll go a long way to help her cause as she, uh, represents Bradley Beach in round four of the affordable housing negotiations.
This is all part of finalizing our 10-year plan. um this is not limiting us. We can certainly make additional contributions in the future. This is taxpayer money though and therefore we don't want to put more into the trust than is
necessary at the time that we need more. We certainly can revisit that. But I think it it's a very strong sign that we are very supportive of the uh you know the affordable housing in general and in uh building u funds in our trust. Um
before I ask us to vote on this, I I'll add one more comment and that is that I I did check with our community development folks to say, well, how much we just we just opened our trust. It was already established. We were not collecting fees uh development fees
until J uh February 1st of this year. And I honestly was not aware of how how much we had collected. Uh, and I I found out today that year to date we've collected approx approximately $60,000
in our trust. Uh, and the way these deposits come in, half of it's up front and half at beginning of construction and then the other half is paid at the end of construction. So of most of those projects are in the middle. They have
not paid the second half of their fees. Two of them are complete. So, I'm told that in our first year of having the trust open, we've basically locked into uh about over $100,000, maybe $110,000
or so in our first year. So, with 110,000 we will have earned once those projects complete and this 200,000 at the end of year one, we'll have close to $300,000 in the trust. So, with that said, I'm going to make a motion that we
that we approve 2025-357 to direct 200,000 of proceeds into our trust. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Miss Greenblat. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi? >> Yes. >> 2025-358.
Authorizing the transfer of appropriations in the fiscal year 2025 budget. anyone who's looked at this, there's an awful lot of numbers moving from the right side to the left side, vice versa. Uh, this is all put together by our CFO. And the idea is um in the
world of municipal budgeting, you don't want to spend more than you've appropriated in one bucket and have uh underspent uh relative to an appropriation in another bucket. So, she's basically moving numbers around to make sure that that our budget is compliant and we don't have to file
emergency relief requests. Uh, very standard process that occurs every year. For what it's worth, I I've looked at the numbers that everything I see looks reasonable. Uh, but she did, you know, the detail and she's not here to answer
questions. But, uh, but, uh, does anyone have any questions? Well, in a big picture, it looks like a lot of the salary compensation or um social security, etc. So, so is that is that because of the union differential is that a big part of this?
>> A big chunk. Yes, a big chunk. Um it's a very complicated, you know, mechanism that we the burrow of Bradley Beach have and and other municipalities have. But, um but our um our financial systems are programmed. It's not that we sit down
and say, "Hey, for this particular transaction, allocate 10% to the beach and 20% to the sewer utility." Uh, it's all pre-programmed. So, in our case, we had a really large hit above and beyond what the budget system expected when we
paid close to 600, probably around 600,000 of retro payments when we settled that union contract. Uh so there's like an overload on the system as that new money came in that hadn't been some of it had been budgeted for but not all of it. And so it al it it
over effectively overallocated salaries in certain areas. On the other hand, there were areas that we had appropriations set up that we didn't max out in. So she's moving those dollars around to make sure we're we're not violating, you know, we're not
overspending our appropriated amounts. So that's where we stand. Everyone comfortable. Again, I my CFO is going to spend more time with us. Our CFO is going to spend more time with us uh with me end of this year, but most
importantly into next year as we finalize 2026's budget. So with that said, I will make a motion that we approve 2025-358 authorizing these transfer of appropriations in the 2025 budget. >> Second, Mr. Noble. Yes, Miss Greenlet.
>> Yes, >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes, >> Mr. Weber. >> Yes, >> Mayor Gubos. >> Yes. 2025-359. We have a pretty extensive billist for for December 16th. Uh comments or questions on the bill.
>> All set. >> I had submitted a few questions and my questions were answered. Um I don't know if it's worthwhile to share my questions. >> Sure. Um, so on page 21 of the bills list, I was looking at the New Jersey natural gas um, uh, the fee of 2011 129
and change and that was um, a damage that occurred during the demolition of 319 Lorraine 3. Yeah. Um, that was that gas smell, >> right? >> Um, so apparently >> they charge us for that. We smell gas and they charge us to come and
>> No. No. Apparently the gas line was um impacted during the demolition. >> Yes. >> Right. And there was some confusion as to which parcel and the demolition company I guess did not know there was a gas line there. >> Um >> so that was that question. I was also
you know kind of overwhelmed with uh three pages of CME charges because we have so many infrastructure projects going on concurrently. Um and I asked if we can get a better accounting system so we can really take a look at a you know an Excel grid and see what is what is uh
charged to which of the projects we're working on so we get a handle of where we're going with this. >> Yeah, I do attend uh meetings occasionally most of them um on on Tuesday mornings with our BA and the engineer and go through a lot of this and we brought that up. Matter of fact,
today um a couple things. There's so much work going on in this town right now that we have to get make sure we have a good handle on the schedules as well as making sure um where they're at in their expenditures and um but but what they explained today was they are going to get that to us. Uh but they are
within budget and there has been no no contract yet that has been um encroached upon. So they are um their services are percent complete so are compliant with the dollars spent to date. So >> right >> so I'd like to see that detail as well.
So they're supposed to be furnishing that to us. >> Right. I mean when we're given the bills list um just for the public to know you know we don't know the ins and outs of all of the details. So very often I'll question things just so I have an understanding because um you know I'm
assuming that you know the store is being minded properly and but I'm making the approval or not you know on the Phil's list. So always questions. >> Okay. No, but uh and thank you for saying that just for the public's benefit to know that you know that
you're keeping an eye on that. Okay. >> Um, if there are no extra uh discussion points, then I'll make a motion that we approve 2025-359. The bill is for December 16, 2025. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. Yes. >> M. Greenblot. Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes.
>> Mr. Weber. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. 2025-360. Approval to apply for a fisc year 2026 legislative grant for recreation support. This is actually just uh
finalizing the the $100,000 grant that I actually announced a couple months ago that Senator Gopal and our uh uh and uh Margie Donlin and Lan Peter Paul secured for us uh earmarked
unofficially earmarked for uh hopefully for expansion of pickle balls next year. So, this is just uh paperwork that we need to process to make sure we receive that grant in 2026. Any questions or comments on that? >> Okay, I'll make a motion we approve uh
2025-360. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble? >> Yes. >> Miss Green? >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi? >> Yes. Uh item 12 on the agenda, announcements. There are none. Item 13 A, mayor. Well,
actually we should do administrative uh report first. I would think the VA report. >> Do you have a position administrative report? >> Please please leave. I'm going to reverse order here. >> Uh uh yeah. So I'd like to update the mayor council and the public on some of
our projects that are underway. Um so I asked our burough engineer Ben Matlac to put together then just a short summary of everything. So um the Fifth Avenue phase one sewer project is now complete.
Uh the comfort concrete work is complete and the resurfacing of the road will be done sometime in March. Uh Main Street the design for the new Main Street is 70% complete. Preliminary plans will be submitted to outside agencies for review
by the end of this month and construction is tenatively anticipated in October of 2026. Fifth Avenue and Parkplace phase 2 uh this is for sewers. Uh the design is complete and the plans were submitted to
NJD for funding through the I bank which is now under review. I bank funding will be added to existing New Jersey Department of Transportation grants to fund the project. Anticipated construction in the spring pending I bank approval. Uh Ocean Park Avenue
design is 75% complete. Plans were submitted to D for funding through the I bank. Also uh Department of Transportation grant was awarded in the amount of 278,000 for paving work. The I bank and NJ do
grants will be combined to fund the project. Anticipated construction in the spring pending I bank approval spring of 2026. Uh the rec center construction is 85% complete. The site is winterized and will be completed when temperatures
allow probably sometime in April. Uh remaining work is the sport court color coating, striping and installing benches and picnic tables. The uh prominant extension design is 40% complete. Uh preliminary permit plans will be
submitted to D by the end of this month uh by end of December. Uh the Silven Lake bulkhead plans were submitted to D on October 16th. Uh the permit approval is anticipated sometime in February. The
project will be bid and awarded prior to the October 11th, 2026 deadline. April and cons April 11th, 2026 deadline and construction is anticipated to be in September of 2026. Uh the Silven Lake
outflow control structure uh an application was submitted to D on October 30th of this year. Uh plans and technical specs are under review by D to incorporate the replacement of the outflow structure into the outflow pipe
contract. an agreement in place between DP Avon by the Sea and Breley Beach to replace the outlet structure which is anticipated to take place in January pending DE approval. And last, the restroom building at 54 Ocean Avenue uh
project is advertised for rebid now uh with the bid opening anticipated for December 23rd, so next week. And that's an update on all the projects as Councilman Nikki mentioned before. And I
can tell you that having a engineer on the council and an engineer that's willing to uh work with me and educate me is a great benefit for this administration. >> You're here and uh I'm going to later propose that the rest of us get
engineering degrees. >> It's not too late. Uh, Miss Green, >> mayor, I just wanted to ask, can we can you forward a copy of that to us? We thought >> this is proprietary. >> Yes, ma'am. I will do. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Business
Administrator. >> Business. >> Uh, let us now move to mayor and council reports. And uh, I will start with our council president, Jal. >> Okay. Mine's going to be very brief because the board event is having their meeting this evening. So, I'll report on that next meeting. Uh, tourism had a
meeting this morning. They're gearing up for the jazz festival in February. So, please mark your calendars. It'll start Tuesday, February 2nd, all the week through Saturday, February 7th. Also, the um Shade Tree Commission had their
meeting December 3rd. They had two applications. 303 Second Avenue will be removing one tree and planting one tree. In addition, 104 Brinley Avenue had an application to remove three trees and they will be planting three as well as a
replacement. And their current account is $17,000. And that completes my report. Thank you. >> That was very quick and concise. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Councilman. I would Yes. First, I'd like to invite up uh Chief Ron Minsky to
report on the fire. Um he's here in the audience. So >> we have our chief of the fire department, I should say. Hello, Ron. >> Hi. Uh Ron Minsky, fire chief, Bradley Beach. Um the reason I wanted to come
give my report uh in person today is because being it's the uh the end of the year, I wanted to thank the mayor and council for all the support um that you've given us uh throughout 2025.
um particularly uh Councilman Weber who uh who served as our liaison prior to Councilman uh Nikki. Um in the 21 years I've been a volunteer firefighter and first responder in this town, I don't think I've ever seen as much uh
collective support from the five members sitting up at the at the days that we've received uh this year. So I wanted to thank you for that. Uh I also want to thank everybody uh also here at the table. You know we we can't do our job without all of you here uh from the
burough clerk uh burough administrator uh attorney uh particularly Chief Arnold uh who make sure that every one of our scenes is safe when uh when our people arrive uh to answer the call. Um
uh that being said, I want to give you uh our fire and farmer report for the month ending in November. Uh we had uh 10 day calls, nine night calls for a total of 19. They consisted of one smoke
condition, uh 11 fire alarms, five carbonoxide calls, uh one cover assignment into Asbury Park, and one natural gas leak. Uh we had three uh work details and community events uh for
the month. Uh we had the uh Santa in the park, the tree lighting. Uh we also had the bonfire on the beach and we conducted our annual uh Scott pack mass fit test for all of our members. Uh we conducted two trainings during the
month. One was our live burn at the fire academy and we also ran a training for our uh cadet program. Uh we also welcomed two new firefighters into the department uh during November and uh one
of them is enrolled to enter the fire academy in January and the other one will be attending the fire academy uh next fall. Also, I'd like to announce our uh annual Santa run uh on December 23rd. Um
anybody who wishes to drop off gifts for the Santa run, the boxes will be available at uh Bow Hall and the um police station. Uh again, I just want to uh extend my gratitude for uh everything you've done for us this year.
um you you all understand how challenging our job is and and uh just want to tell you how valuable your your support was this year. Thank you. and and chief, >> before you leave, I just want to say uh
the fire company that includes the department uh collaborated so much with the burrow in providing us some additional parking on your you know lease property uh 10 additional spaces which freed up uh parking space for the public. So we really appreciate the
collaboration we've had. You led you spearheaded the drive to spend your own funding not tax not existing taxpayer money to purchase a new not a new engine but a very nicely conditioned engine. So $78,000
>> that came 80,000 that came from your own funding. Uh you did not ask the bureau to help fund that. And again, I I want to make sure our taxpayers understand that when they're making donations to our fire department, you guys are using those funds to, you know, to help the the burrow as well. So, thank you for
all of your efforts. >> More more good news on that front. Uh the same fire department that we bought that blue engine from uh offered to sell us uh a significant amount of surplus hose that they had. Um so, uh great. uh
Brian Green, our engine foreman, who's who's in the back there. He and I will be going back out to Pennsylvania this coming Saturday to uh pick up uh some hoes that we've bought with uh donation money as well. So, >> and hopefully your trip back will be less.
>> Yeah, be a lot less. You won't need to save the driver of a burning vehicle as we did last time. >> Uh and then finally, I just wanted to say thank you for not stealing Santa while we had the tree lighting. Uh, the fire company got a call with Santa Claus
basically on their truck and you could have taken off with Santa, but you've managed to get him over to >> worked it all out. >> So, yes. So, thank you for that as well. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Chief. I have to offer Chief Arnold if you want to read your police report. You know, there's a there's a
theme going on here. Sure. >> Sure. Yeah. Come on up. I have I have a hard copy here for you. Save my voice. Hello. I don't have my readers in my office. Would you like Oh, Mitch has some here. >> That's 14 fonts.
>> We all have great ones. >> All right. Well, first I'd like to piggy back on Chief Minsky's uh words. John's been I signed your picture there. It's been an honor working with you. Thank
you for all the support with the police department. And again, I'll repeat what he said. The council, the mayor, this has been the best year so far. So appreciate all your support for the police department. Really appreciate it. >> All right. So our police report December
2nd, William Gordon Jr. here of Tom's River, New Jersey, was arrested and charged with possession of crack cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia, and several motor vehicle offenses as a result of a motor vehicle stop by patrolman Daniel Crowe and
patrolman Ian Ambrose. Uh we also used Wal Township K9 unit uh to assist in the investigation. December 4th, Philip Alessandro of Neptune City and Mark Salado of River Edge, New
Jersey were both arrested and charged with being in possession of drug paraphernalia. Aleandro and Salado were stopped by patrolman Daniel Crow and found to be in possession of drug paraphernalia during the motor vehicle stop. Patrolman Anthony Balmente, patrol
woman assisted with the arrest. December 8th, Christopher Roberts, Bradley Beach was arrested and charged with one count of theft. Patrolman Shaun Johnson and patrolman Edund Hernandez handled the investigation and the arrest.
On December 10th, Miles Hedley of Bradley Beach uh and Armier Caruso were both arrested on December 8th, stemming from the same incident. Hadley was found to be a fugitive from justice from the state of
Georgia and was also in possession of Joe Parelot. He was charged as a fugitive from justice and later transported to the Mammoth County Jail. Caruso was found to have an active warrant from the Mammoth County Prosecutor's Office. He was arrested for contempt of court and transported to the
Mammoth County Jail. Sergeant Michael Tardio handled the investigation and made the arrests. Uh December 11th, Gregory Patterson of Asbury Park was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine and several motor vehicle violations. Trollman
Anthony Bmente made the arrest during motor vehicle stop with Pat Peterson. Sergeant Kevin Gail assisted with the arrest. And lastly, between November 23rd, 2025 and December 15th, Bradley Beach Police Department also investigated seven motor vehicle
accidents and responded to several additional calls for service. >> That'll complete my report. >> Thank you, >> and thanks for all that you do, Mayor. >> Yeah, I was going to say, Chief, while just while you're standing there, uh I think we all want to thank you. I'm
going to lead, but we all want to thank you for the the the character and the and the strength of leadership that you've given to our police department. Uh it wasn't that long ago, you know, we we kind of all got a little rattled by some of the challenges the department
faced and uh you've been wonderful to work with. My first year as mayor uh and again it's strength of character, strength of leadership that's really appreciated. So, thank you very much. administrator. >> And on top of that, thank you for writing 20 tickets to yourself.
>> 30 and I'll report on first aid. Um they're not here with us this afternoon this evening. Um for the operational period ending December 16th, the squad responded to nine day calls, four night calls for a total of 13 calls. 11 were
for medical, two for fire, and one NVA. The squad congratulates Kyle Hagermanerman on successfully passing the New Jersey Department of Health's EMT course and wish him luck as he prepares for his national registry certification. Congratulations also go out to Ariel
Minsky, Leah Kern, Ashley Nearin, and Brian Kan on the successful completion of the American Red Cross medical responder and basic life support course. The following members reertified their American Red Cross emergency medical responder and basic life support course.
Ron Minsky, Jennifer Pierce, and Joseph Walsh. On behalf of the membership and the offices of the squad, we would like to wish you all a very happy holiday and a safe and prosperous new year. The squad requested no mutual aid for this operational period. The squad fulfilled 100% of their assignments for this
operational period and we are still looking forward, here's the advertisement, for volunteers, for first aid squad. So, you know, free training for all all individuals. you can go to the website and apply. And then just very quickly on Civil Lake Commission,
our meeting is tomorrow at 7 o'clock here. Um and there'll be an update on all different projects. So if you'd like to come on out, I'll weather the cold and um we'll see you at the uh commission meeting tomorrow. >> Thank you, Paul. Councilwoman Greenblat.
>> Uh great. Thank you, Mayor. Um the Fletcher Lake Commission met November 13th. The fall cleanup at the lake generated 16 bags of trash thanks to all the participants. Uh Fletcher Lake cleanups will regul will be regularly scheduled ahead for both spring and
fall. Bradley Beach and Neptune will be creating a shared billing agreement for goose remediation services um and make for a more efficient payment process for our vendor. The next commission meeting is scheduled for January 15th at 6 p.m. in this council chamber.
Uh the rec committee met Monday, December 8th. Uh just some ongoing activities. Maan open play runs every Friday uh 1 to 3 p.m. at the Bazi Center, but there's no ma on Friday, December 26th because of the Christmas
holiday. The senior club enjoyed a wonderful holiday lunch on December 11th at UVA. Senior Game Time Tuesdays runs the first and third Tuesday of each month. Bring your own game and join friends at the Beyz Center for fun and
community fellowship. The glitter and glue crew meets every Tuesday and Thursday morning from 11:30 to 12:00 p.m. It's geared for ages 2 to 5. Uh, and for the holidays, the Bradley Beach Grinch will be on hand for family
holiday portraits December 20th, noon to 2:00 p.m. at the Neptune City Community Center. All Bradley Beach residents are welcome to participate. It's $5 per portrait. Uh this is a walk-in event. No pre-registration required.
As mentioned uh by both um our BA and Councilman Nikki, construction continues at the rec site with the completion of paperwork. The playground and all new services are complete with court with court striping planned for the end of winter. There is still limited public
access to the facility. A grand reopening will take place in early spring. The rec committee's next uh meeting will be Monday, January 12th at 6:30 p.m. The arts council met Monday, December 1st and yesterday uh December 15th.
Thanks to Abu Data for the Shabbat Project, an opportunity for musical performance, a musical performance by Arts Council member Gwen Rosenblack this past November. It was a beautiful and well attended event. The Arts Council is in the process of reorganizing its
membership and making plans for an exciting year ahead. Anyone with an arts background or interest is welcome to reach out to the Arts Council for volunteer consideration. You again, you can go to the Arts Council website and reach out to them. The Arts Council will next meet on Monday, December 29th,
10:30 a.m. at the Beyz Center. Public is always welcome. And uh this is the third night of Hanukkah. And I just want to wish uh everyone who celebrates a very happy Hanukkah. >> Thank you, council owner. I save the
best for last. >> Aren't you giving your report? >> I would I thought about doing it, but I'm I'm going to close with a couple comments, but >> but Mr. John Weber, your final council meeting after nine years. >> I have a lot to say here, and I want to apologize for I kind of was thrown off
guard with all the gifts and stuff. I'm like, wait, I'm gonna do it at the end. I thought I'd be sitting up here. So, um, sorry I didn't say thank you or anything then, but uh, so there will be a load of thank yous, but I have to start with my family. Of course, my wife and kids, um, have been nothing but supportive, uh, and tolerant of all
this, and tolerant really is the operative word here. You know, when I started this, I well, when I first ran, I had a 5-year-old and I had a seven-year-old. And plus, our house was under construction. We had no working kitchen and I'm running for office and we were couch surfing for part of that
fall just the way the construction projects go. Um, but I guess I made it onto the council. Um, you know, as far as my kids, I'd say they really they turned out great. I'm really proud of them probably because they spent more time with their mother because I was busy doing all this council stuff. Um,
so it's a good thing and can't thank my wife enough for that. Even tonight Bridget was here but now she's at a board of ed meeting. Like that's where she's at now. Um, but again, I can't thank them enough for all their support all these years. Um, so for all of you, I want you to know that I read every
word, every ordinance, every resolution, every contract, every document. I read every word. Erica probably could >> I can verify that. >> Um, I just I think it's what you all expect and it's what you deserve. Um, now understanding it all the first time
and, you know, remembering it all is that's another story. Um but honestly if I didn't understand something especially uh you know in my first term I would ask questions and boy I asked a lot of questions. Um and in my first term asking a lot of questions was looked at
kind of unfavorably. Um, so you know, so much so that people some people decided to level some uh completely untrue and baseless accusations uh in the form of a lawsuit hopefully to get rid of me cuz I was the guy that was asking a lot of questions and and I have to talk about this now because you know who cares now
but the general public never really got the full story on this. When these accusations were leveled, the town took the completely appropriate action of hiring an attorney from outside the town. They had no connection to the town. investigated this um and you know what that investigation found that
nothing happened and it was all put in this report and the public never saw the light the public never saw that report cuz it it was a personnel issue it never saw the light of the day and um so it's just I feel like saying that now you know it was investigated nothing happened nothing illegal nothing um yet
there was still a lawsuit and it you know cost the burough money and that's the kind of thing that just makes me shake my head out about all this but on balance of course it's been really great. But then the same thing happens to a different councilman a few years later. Um and that's, you know, sort of like, geez, when when are we going to
learn? Um anyway, there are some things I didn't like about my first term. So I put together a team in 2019 and ran and we won. All of us won. All four of us won. Um so thank you to the people of Bradley Beach for that, seeing through
certain things. And uh as I like to say in the beginning of 2020, we had two good months. Two and a half good months. Um there was there's some staff changes. Not because anybody was fired because I think some people knew that we were there was going to be four of us up here
asking questions. Um and you know, so you have a brand new CFO and a brand new bur administrator. And I you know clerk, >> huh? You are admitted to the clerk shop. Okay. New clerk. That's a new uh and you know that's what we faced 20 March of
2020 with. I honestly I think the day that everything shut down was like David Brown's second ban on the job. Like it was crazy. >> Um so we had to learn how to run the government and conduct our business in the shutdown environment pretty much like everybody else in the country. We got through it. Um I was actually the
council president that year. It was the first year for Zoom meetings. Um, the only thing I did as council president was surprise mayor Gary Angles at his last meeting and give him a plaque. I popped out of that door there. I was hiding in that room. He didn't know it.
Um, cuz Gary would sit here alone and run the meeting and we were all on Zoom. Um, anyway, so, you know, um, I'm happy that the nature of being council president has changed. More is asked of the council president and more is delivered
by the council president. So, it was a good and a good positive change. Couple meetings ago, Gary Anglestad, speaking to him, said some pretty nice things about me here, um, presumably because he couldn't be here tonight and it's a tough night and it's also freezing cold out. Um, Gary and I didn't always see
things the same way and maybe I was a little bit hard on him sometimes, I would say. But in the following years when he was no longer mayor, I found myself a little bit nostalgic for Gary Angus. So, it's good to see him around town and it's good to see that he is still
contributing uh in his ways. That's uh it's really good to see. Um so, back in 2020 in the co co year, you know, our current mayor and you're the one I'm going to single out here. Um so, we'll be all here all night if I talk nice stuff about all of you, but um you know,
this guy was a new councilman in 2020 and he was the hardest working councilman and he was also getting the most done. So, I said, "You got to run for mayor." Um, and he did, and we know that that didn't work out in 2020. But seeing you in the job now, Mr. Mayor, I
know uh that I bet on the right horse. I was right. The voters happen to be wrong on that one, but I was right. You were the right guy for the job. So, um, you're proving it now uh, every day. And I just what people are saying is really tonight at this meeting is kind of a testament to that. Um, want to speak a
little bit about this council and the government here in Bradley Beach. I go to a fair number of town meetings for my job and usually they're little little small towns along the shore and the amount of information given at other town meetings is nowhere near what
Bradley Beach provides. So this is like really good news for everybody. I know not everybody thinks it's this way, but truly my perspective from seeing all these other towns, Bradley Beach meetings are by far and way more detailed than in other towns. I've seen more detail on the bills list. There's
more details on the agenda. I mean, sometimes the agenda is just like it's just one page. It's just really short. And um I even had a reason to look back at old bill lists a few a few months ago. I was looking at old bill list and we even provide way more detail in the bills list now than we than back then.
Um but even what we provided back then is more than some towns give. I'm telling you, some towns just like they put a number on on a resolution and that's like they vote on it and that's that's it. It's uh kind of crazy. Um, so be thankful that your government is providing a good amount of transparency and information, but do not let them
backslide on any of this, okay? That's your job. Um, one thing that has surprised me about the job is the way I feel about the police. Um, I never really thought about it before sitting up here, but uh, I quickly realized that there's a good chance if if you're dealing with the police, it's a there's
a good chance that it's the worst day of your life. uh not because you you got caught for something wrong, but um you know either like you c you crashed your car or your how spouse just had like a a heart attack or a medical emergency. You know, a huge part of their job is meeting people often for the very first
time on the worst day of their life. And I think they do a great job with what they do. Um I'm glad that they are now allowed to get to know us because that's been really great. I've really enjoyed that this last year. And my hat is off to those on the course who uh spoke out,
who acted out and who would and which led to big changes in this town that have been really really important. Uh of course the same goes for fire and first aid folks. Uh they are likely showing up on the worst day of your life. Um but the big difference and very profound
difference is that they are volunteers. Uh, I've spent a good part of my career working with volunteers and you know to have the longevity that you have for some of the folks on on on either squad. Um, it's it's extraordinary. It really is. And the fact that you're bringing in
new people still and we just heard about, you know, I think a half a dozen of them tonight. Um, that is really really remarkable. So, keep it going folks. Yes. and uh everybody in this room and everybody in this town. We should continue to do whatever we can to help our our fire and first aid however
we can. Um I want to thank the staff and you're like one of the only ones here. I guess Michelle maybe can hear this, but um you know they're really great and I think they're in a really great place now. Um once they stopped being told that the council was the problem, I think they they kind of they started
liking us, you know, like and it's feeling mutual. You guys are you guys are great. So, um I just don't think I have sat thank the staff enough uh over these last nine years. So, um I appreciate all the the support that people in this room, if they're here now
or not, but people have shown a lot of support and I appreciate the attention that you have given to your own government. This is what democracy looks like. It's people showing up and and they show up in Bradley Beach. They show up a lot. I used to say like we have 35 people here if there's nothing
controversial on the on the agenda and um sometimes it look me like really what 35 people so and then of course it grew from there once we got into the controversy. I have a quick to-do list for the for the mayor the incoming mayor and council. So make sure you're included in this. Um it's simple. Don't
worry you don't have to write this down but it's move the bonfire. Fourth Avenue beach is too small. Um go to one of the big wide beaches. Uh, we're going to close the gaps in the dunes. Dunes are great. They protect the town, but dunes with 13 separate 50- foot wide gaps.
It's kind of giving us less protection. Uh, we're going to close them up. There's going to be a nice walk over to get up over them. Some of them are going to have the ADA switchbacks. Some of them are going to be have vehicular, you know, crossovers so you can drive over. Um, but we're we're going to close those
gaps in the deal. So, and and you all are going to help. Okay. Laughing. Um, and finally, you know, this room, this is a hard one. This room, this room in this deas, okay, god forbid, somebody in a wheelchair gets elected to this office, or even worse, somebody gets elected and then they have
a horrible accident or something. What are we going to do about this? Um, I don't have the answers. We got smart people up here. Um, you know, I don't know how you fit all that in this room, but something's got to be done, and I think you are the team to do it. So, that's my little little to-do list
there. Um, a couple things I'm proud of. I'm proud of the logo change that we just finally exacted. Fun fact about that, the very first time I was running for office, I knocked on somebody's door in Newark and after I gave him my spiel, I'd be like, you know, is there anything that you think should be different in this town or would you like, you know,
besides parking because I knew that was coming. Um, this person said, you know, the the marketing of the town, it's kind of weird. It's kind of all over the place. And I was like, yeah, you know, you're right. And they I kind of open up my eyes to that. And um yeah, I worked on it for nine years cuz it kind of other
things took precedence and uh but the opportunity arose um and we worked on it this year. It was really just a great committee. I just coordinated the meetings. The hard part was getting everybody together. They did all the hard work. Um I'm also proud of the sharing shed. Another thing that's just this year, but it's like a
community-based waste reduction effort. I kind of love the idea. Um and I'm actually proud of the way we have conducted ourselves up here. this crew and crews before them. Um, I'm proud we stuck together and we kept some bad things from happening in this town. That
definitely didn't happen. Uh, a little bit of advice on politics in general. Not everybody likes everybody. Okay? It's just human nature, right? You like some people, you don't like other people. Like, that's just the way life is. But I will say do not let other
people enlist you in their dislike of another person just because you know because you're their friend and I don't like that person. Form your own opinion. Get to know people. It's a small town. We we we can't afford to be any other way. like, you know, don't be a jerk in
real life or online, especially online, because there's a really good chance you're going to stand next to that some person online at the bakery or just, you know, sit next to him in a restaurant. So, you know, don't be a jerk. Be nice. Um, I'm looking forward to my chair, my
next role as chair of the environmental commission. I think that's how I started. I was I was that before I started this, so I'm just going back to that, which is kind of nice, full circle. Um, and of course I'm not going anywhere. So I will see you all around town. I probably forgot about 15 different things to say, but thanks
again everybody. It was a great great last meeting. Thank you for the gifts. I really was unexpected and at a loss for words cuz I had all this ready to go. So um I really appreciate those. I'm going to treasure that map and this thing. So that's it. Thank you. Thank you. I'm
going to leave. Hey, thank you, Councilman. Um, I'm going to make a couple quick comments and uh and and get get it to public comment. But number one, just so everybody's aware, uh Amy Hall, who's for maybe three months now been officially our director of
communications, is well on her way to redesigning our website. She showed me a a mockup of it today. To me personally, my opinion looked great. Uh still working on content. There's a long way to go, but but uh with just a couple months under her belt as a full-time
communications director, uh she's making great strides. So, just give everyone a heads up that that's on the horizon. Two on my list, the weather's been crazy, really bad. Anybody reading anything on Facebook has seen criticisms and comments and and some some applause
to DPW for the great job they did getting getting snow moved around in our small town with no space and cars that don't park alternate side of the street as they should. Um I referenced this earlier, but Chief Arnold himself was out issuing tickets for cars that had
not moved. And I thought last I had heard it was 20. He told me moments ago it was up to 30 that he personally issued. Uh on top of that, people recognize us, said, "Chief, what are you doing out here writing tickets, but this is Bradley Beach, you know, it's relatively small town. We get our chief
of police out uh writing parking tickets." Um, someone on Facebook asked, you know, c can we post official number, and we can, but last I heard, just for the record, we were over Chief, Last I heard, we were over 150
tickets issued. Is that still >> right about 150 >> about 150 tickets issued for alternate side of street parking. And I was told by our code enforcement officer that he's issued uh 19 violations for unclear driveways, just in case anyone's
wondering about that. >> Sidewalk. >> Uncleared sidewalks. Sorry. Yes. Uh and apparently because it's freezing out and there are still some sidewalks he hasn't gotten to yet, that number may increase next uh tomorrow as he continues uh evaluating folks who have not yet
cleared their sidewalks. Um but that weather also impacted the tree lighting, but we pulled that off. Uh uh we had to delay the first the lighting of the first day for Hanukkah a day and and but we did have that tree that uh manora
lighting. Uh it was terribly cold that day and we still had a wonderful turnout. Uh I I love that that the entire community supported both the Christmas tree lighting and then uh a few days later uh the manura lighting. So uh just just wonderful events I think
happening in Bradley Beach. Um I wanted to mention that uh and I see three folks in the room that served on our charter study commission. Um, number one, thank you guys for the work you did in that regard. Um, during that
time frame, as we were talking about whether or not we should uh change the form of government, uh, I think you all universally identified that there were guard rails that this form of government needed to consider. Uh, I have just recently asked Mr. Coan to actually lead
the charge, working with you, his his colleagues from the uh you from the charter study commission to bring to the council your recommendations and TJ you know with you I think leading that charge I know we'll get it done quickly recommendations that the council can then consider for actually creating
additional guardrails for uh this form of government going forward in Bradley Beach. Um Mr. Weber, I I want to make my own little comments about you. Number one, as I said earlier, uh John is
responsible for me now sitting here, but for me being in in public at all. And I think in turn successors, other folks who are up here, either directly through me or direct or through you are now here as a result of you. So, um people say
politics is a thankless job. I can tell you it is not. You do get your share of abuse, no question, but it's not a thankless job. And in fact, um, it's, uh, it's created a great friendship for me. >> So, I want to thank you for, uh, the
friendship that came out of my foray into politics. Um, you were a coach and a mentor. I'm a lot older than you, but I knew nothing about politics. So, uh, Donn even told me how the proper way to knock on doors,
>> you know, knock boldly and firmly and just two times. don't you know not you know yeah I mean right down to how to campaign uh but so much more John and I I really do appreciate it so old dogs can be taught new tricks and I do
appreciate it uh and then u so your service for nine years to this community is amazing to me um and I hope our friendship continues many years beyond that and then finally I just want to say to everybody this is our last meeting of
the U I I want to say very uh happy and healthy holidays, Christmas, Hanukkah, every holiday that is on the calendar. Please enjoy it.
Please maintain your health. Uh be safe. Uh share time with your loved ones. Uh have a wonderful New Year celebration. And I I I look forward to uh year two for most folks on this council. John with you the exception and Mr. Karp
sitting in front of me joining us up here come January 1. So happy holidays to all and and uh happy new year. Now with that said, I will open it up to public comment.
Is there public comment? >> That'll be great. It's the end of the year, right? and we're going to be talking about the new year. Brian Crane, 512 Larian Avenue, apartment 1, fire department member and also EMS active member. Uh Mr. Mayor and council, I
thank you for this opportunity. I also appreciate the opening comments that you made, Mr. Mayor, on the importance of volunteering. I'm here today to uh make the uh mayor, you and your council aware that on January 1st, in partnership with the first aid department, the Bradley
Beach fire department and first aid departments are continue to look for dedicated neighbors uh to join our ranks in 2026 and fellow residents and surrounding communities uh are also available for membership. Uh this is your chance to
the members uh to the public listening to gain life skate saving skills, serve your community, and make a real difference. Those interested in becoming a member of either the Bar Bradley Beach fire department or Bradley Beach first aid squad, you are invited to attend an
informative lunch and learn session on January 1st, 2026. That's Thursday, between the hours of 2 and 4. We will be serving lunch at the Bradley Beach Fire Department banquet hall at 8:15 Main Street. What you will get from this event as informative lunch and learn is
full membership details, training requirements, member benefits, facility tours, and most importantly, powerful testimonies from our current members. We do request that RSVP. Information about this event can be found through our
support at the burrow on the at the website. our partner, our friendship at the public library. This information has been posted. Also, our member uh partner uh we're associate members of the BBCA, Miss Paula Gathers, who's assisted us in advertising and our electronic sign
board that you see on Main Street. We ask you to RSVP uh to this event because we are providing lunch. Thank you for the opportunity and again the uh for you recognizing the importance of volunteerism in the community. Of course, you're all welcome to join us if you're in town that afternoon. come meet some of the newer members. We continue
to recruit. I'm a member of the recruitment and retention committee in the fire department. And it would be nice if you had the opportunity to swing by and and say hello to of course our long-standing members who put many years, decades of of service, but also some of our newer members and of course
some of our prospective members who come to the informative lunch and learn January 1st to the pool. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Other comments in the room, questions? Show of hands. Yes. Uh I'm sorry, what's the name? Tia Dan.
>> Tia, are are you a >> Yes. Uh thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um I just had one question. Um, when you were discussing resolution 2025-347, I heard Councilwoman Denobyl speaking to
someone on the council and she mentioned that they were um, they weren't moving on the Beach Locker wait list. And may I ask for her to confirm who she was speaking to and whether anyone on the council is actually on the beach locker waiting list? >> Um, send your address.
>> I'm sorry. Um 147 um Cookman Ocean Grove. >> Yeah, you were you were I think you were talking about Paul. >> Yeah, Paul. >> Yeah. >> I think I'm number 35 on Everdream
>> for years, right? >> Two years. >> Yeah, for two years. >> Okay. So, you recognize that you were on you you you you're on currently on the waiting list and so you voted in favor of ejecting numerous non-residents from their lockers. Um, and you you do
understand that you're benefiting from that vote. >> Well, I actually um Well, you don't have to answer. >> No, >> thank you. >> I have a beach locker. >> I have a beach locker. And yeah, it's uh
your point is taken. U is there anything else here that you care to >> ask or comment on? >> That's it. Thank you very much. >> Okay, thank you. >> Yes, >> Mr. Glenn. >> Uh Thomas J. Co, 6123rd Avenue. Um I I
do have a question for Mr. Dy. Um you mentioned Main Street on the engineering list. Is is that for new sewers? >> Uh no, the main street is uh streetcape. >> Streetcape. Okay.
>> Curbs, uh sidewalks, lighting, uh trees, uh benches. >> Project we've been talking about for years. We got a million4 grand for it. >> Okay. But it's not necessarily I mean cuz I just wanted to talk about uh the sidewalks because over the years there's
been this huge thing about oh we got to rip up the papers they look terrible. Well um I got a certified veil violation from the burrow um to fix my side which should have been fixed. So $1,250 later
they're fixed. And the day my guy came, he did bids for three or four other people um on Main Street who got the same notice. Apparently, a lot of them went out with the December 19th deadline. And it's amazing how great it
looks. There were there were six other squads doing PA repairs on Main Street. And there's nothing wrong with the pavers. So, I just want to establish that we're not replacing the pavers. Uh cuz >> I when we when we discussed this as a town,
>> we looked into that. We thought about the whole like papavers, not papavers. >> Sure. >> Um do something else. I mean, I was on the committee, right? And the was on the committee and >> we considered the option of just not replacing the papers and he said the
cost of the actual brick is like the one of the low lower parts of the cost of the whole job. So we're going to replace the papers. And the other thing he said, papavers made now >> are not like papavers made 25 years ago and they actually will last 40 years.
Whereas the ones from 25 years ago, they weren't told that. >> I mean, we got to keep this out in the public because now >> the pavers cost me $15,000 in 1997. I'm expecting to get 30 to 40 years out of that product. Spring Lakes was done at
the same time. Belar was done at the same time. They're not replacing their papers. I don't understand why Bradley Beach to to the point. This is maintenance. This is fantastic. These pavers will last a lot longer. Our tree walls were made bigger to accommodate
the roots. The pavers are settled down. Now, if we maintain things, we can get value. That's why I like to drive cars to 200,000 miles by taking care of them. So, I think we need to look at the the lights are definitely deficient. Uh, I'm
helping to work with the BBBCA on the benches. That'll be fantastic. We can get that done privately. So, um, but I I I really have a bug about the papers. There's really nothing wrong with them if they're maintained. And I want to compliment the code office for for writing the violations because they
should have been written a long time ago. But I guess everybody's been waiting to get the new papers, Mr. You know, that's that's probably what's going on. But I'm hoping that doesn't happen. And it it's going to be a very big expense. it's been very disruptive to the businesses for whatever term that
is. And uh some of the designs that they did um I I did a a walkound with a member of the BBBCA. We went to multiple towns. Manquan did pavers with with concrete on each side and that's what we were pitched. Uh and the concrete has
has not settled at the same level. There's trip hazards all over the place. So the pavers here, if we repair these trip hazards, like should have been done a long time ago, um we can get a lot more advantage from this product. And I
am going to miss having these conversations with you, Mr. Weber. I really But uh it's been a lot of fun to watch you handle yourself up there so well. And uh I want to, you know, wish you more joy on college trips and other
fun things with your children because that's what you should be doing. Thank you. You've made an imprint and it's your imprint will go forward. >> Thank you, Mr. M. >> Uh and Mr. Co, just for the record. Um you mentioned the paperwork and your own
your own notice. um for the residents. I I want to I guess I want to draw a little dividing line. One side of that line is we are enforcing through code enforcement repair of pavers that are trip hazards
and 16 properties have already completed their repair and another 70 give or take have been noticed that they need to repair them. So we are repairing pavers up and down Main Street. That doesn't necessarily mean that we are or are not
going to ultimately replace pavers because our engineers are doing an evaluation, a study uh of uh ADA compliance and and uh the the leveling of our uh sidewalks.
So, for example, after we do some of this work, some of these repair jobs, we may need to dig it all up again and and make them ADA compliant or actual sidewalks. Some of them don't abut to door doorways appropriately and so forth. We're waiting to hear uh to get
the engineers report. We don't know, but we may have to pull up papers that are being repaired currently. The choice was, do we wait and allow people to trip and get injured while we wait for the engineering report and while we wait for the funding and so forth to do the
ultimate uh enhancements on Main Street? And my decision was no, we don't wait. We get people fixing papavers that are trip hazards today. So, I just wanted to distinguish for you the fact that because you and others are fixing your papavers doesn't mean they're going to
be in place a year from now or two years from now. Well, I mean, in my mind, in 2037, you should look to change these papers. But, but I mean, again, Bradley Beach in 1997 apparently got faulty work done if
if this is a problem now. I mean, we don't seem to ever get the true value of the things we're doing. And that's what upsets me. This program of having these pavers repaired is fantastic. Uh, the full-time code officer is doing a great job. Obviously with the snow and the
barking and and and this also it should be done. And really the simple part is you asked >> and people are doing it. I mean the town doesn't have to absorb the cost of this. >> But you're getting into future design which we don't know yet. So I just
wanted the record to show that we're not agreeing that because you or anyone else on main street repairs your papavers those papers will now remain for another 10 years. I don't know that answer. I want to be clear. >> Okay. Um, but I thank you for the
program and thanks for, you know, does look better and little maintenance things that we do improve it. The benches I hope you the million4 will go to the lighting. The lighting absolutely needs to be replaced. Um, the the technology's gone so far and I'm hoping
that would be the next thing >> and understand that the million four is basically for a phase of Main Street. We're not going to complete all of HUD with a million four. So we have we have a lot of work ahead of us including design and as you say delivery. >> Okay.
>> Thank you ma'am. >> I see no other hands. Any hand? No. Seeing no further comments I make a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. All in favor? >> I thank you. Merry Christmas.