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continue an action can and will be taken providing that there is an inperson quum MR Den Noble here Mr gubitosi here miss Mahoney here Mr Weber here mayor Fox here good evening everybody uh Welcome to our 20th meeting of the year and coming down kind of coming down to the end of the year here um my commercial announcement to start uh we'll continue to emphasize that we should welcome this agreement and that it helps us think through things of different perspectives our voices should be constructive ones ask everybody to gauge their tone going forward for all neighbors certainly want to make Civility and decency and underpinning of all discussions uh we have tonight a couple of um a workshop and a presentation we have um one actually two um ordinance adoptions kind of on the same vein and the number of resolutions so let's just get right into it and we'll start with a discussion over Beach badge pricing for 2025 got a short four slide presentation that will hopefully come up thank you did you um get those to size of yeah thank you okay page two thank you page one just thanks to Sean heer and Michelle Wy for getting together next slide please okay going step down because I see we pie of paper no l this um so this this starts off with the comparison of beach badge pricing um 2024 we have Allen Hurst Avon Belmar butin yellow gravy Beach deal black mad Squad Ocean Grove seagert and Spring Lake uh the First Column is an average of weekly or um I'm sorry weekday and weekend pricing last year we were kind of on the top of that at $13 um you look at the bottom down below we did actually get 25 2025 prices for Ocean Grove and actually they are going to $113 sorry $13 um on dieses in 2025 and $100 on their um seasonals and 52 on there Juniors and seniors if you look at senior badges um we're pretty competitive on the senior side and on the junior side uh last year we were at $85 if you look at the other towns around us AV almost $100 deal 150 black Arbor 110 um seagard 115 Spring Lake 110 so we were kind of on the bottom end of that um one issue that uh at $85 in the season side and 37 on this junior and uh uh senior side uh one bit of feedback we got back from the people who sell these badges um it was somewhat problematic having a number like 37 to just go through the change process you know physically giving people change and stuff and as is could do anything to get us to more round numbers so but just a bit of input next slide next slide so this is a comparison it's pretty uh it's a lot of information but you kind of look at this preo and postco preco the fouryear average on seasonals was about a little over about 540,000 and weeklys was almost a million we broke all records with Co and that was a combination of a price increase and just volume and then we slowly started actually volume started coming down last year uh I'm sorry 2023 we sold about 95,000 badges in 2024 98,000 the interesting thing about that was our actual Seasons came down uh almost 10% and our dailies went up about 6% because we took a dollar on daily Badges and we sold $884,000 of that was 84,000 kind of right to the bottom line um so for the second time in 9 years we exceeded $2 million in badge Revenue which is certainly promising now clearly last year was an outstanding year for uh weather um one of the key interesting things was juneth um last year it was almost like a Fourth of July holiday see the chief nodding because uh the activity was off the charts um on the beach and in town uh and we actually that started our whole drive on on volume dollar volume in24 next slide please oh wait I'm sorry wait a minute one second could you go back just make sure I got the points there so season unit season unit sales are down 2024 weather was very favorable and um with the increase in price we exceed $2 million so I did make those points okay shall um so a lot of this information is redundant just dollars um all I did he was to say if we considered a $90 season and a $40 senior um senior and uh junior and assume that there's some erosion in volume um we hit about 2 milon1 2,60 versus the 231 for um 2025 again that's just based on an estimate of volume if we remain the same we' be at about $2 million um with if we see that continued kind of drop in volume and I um I'll make a point on that and I'll just cover these points below I think one of the things we've seen postco is we've seen a a slow movement towards people taking other kinds of vacations um and not just zooming in on the beach like they did during Co which that was her only kind of option you remember back in 2021 2020 2021 um so a couple things to consider um or any recomend recommendation one is I don't think we should um really touch our daily price uh I think 13 is a good number for the next couple of years uh our operating cost salary to continue rise with statutory hourly increases uh we are beginning to pay the cost of theave O Park uh outall projects and we have potential partial cost for any extension pump house could we could incur some cost there next slide I think this might be the last slide yes it is so um just the last slide this is this came right out of the budget um discussions really the point I wanted to make here was that um the bottom line on this is the fund balance analysis from 22 to 24 2022 we were at about 920 $919,000 that's come down about 25% over the two years to about 663 th000 which is still um almost 28% of our operating and revenue cost so it's still you know fairly healthy but it has been a number that's kind of come down over the last um couple of years but still a pretty healthy number so I guess the first point is are there any questions by the Council on uh Mr Mayor one quick question do we have any sense for other revenues and especially concession revenues are they likely to you know remain flat with these numbers or to increase overtime and I don't know how those contracts have renewed concessions are usually uh a couple of years um well you could probably usually two years and do we know there it's not think the 3% increases yeah in terms of the dollars if you're talking about or they're not they're not significant okay because I know the total budget's 2.6 million or so for the beef and we've got you know two million or so in uh Beach badge sales so I'm trying to figure out where's the other 600,000 concessions parking meters um nothing likely to help us cover some of the shortfalls on the Surplus is question no I don't see anything at this point you know I think the doar increase as I said earlier the dollar increase in 2024 got us $84,000 of just pure Revenue um so it was pretty that was that was a good thing uh otherwise we would have seen more erosion um the big thing with the beach as we all know is if we have a bad season in context of weather uh that's why we've always been conservative when we do the budget I think the budget this year is still a million 850 or 2 million I'm sorry a million n maybe for a badge Revenue we we've never taken it up to the last couple years what we've hit we just said you know as soon as we do that it'll jinx us and we'll end up with you know a much lower number and we have seen the unit volum come down uh on the on the seasonals um but um interestingly even with the price increase we saw our daily go up 11% but yeah I point point to a bad weekend um last summer I mean we we just didn't have it I mean we I think we had a couple of days that was it so we were very fortunate in that respect uh my one other comment was just playing with the numbers I thought the numbers you served up Mr Mayor were were pretty reasonable starting point and maybe that's where we end up um but bumping the badges to 90 for the seasonal and you know for the regular and 40 for the uh seniors uh but just to just have some fun with the seniors I know a year ago I voted for A2 or $3 increase in the senior badge to get us up to I guess $2 to get us up to 37 uh and then uh council president and Noble and and councilwoman Mahoney both voted no that we shouldn't have increased the senior badges so um the quick math is the thing I'd like us to at least consider is the quick math is if we were to bring the seniors down instead of up it looked to me like it's a swing of about if we brought them down to 35 back to where they were rather than up to the 40 uh the idea to the your point trying to keep it still relatively rounded $5 bill is easier than two singles um I think we'd lose 20 grand of the 60 that you were projecting would increase so was just the Matthew gave us I just I just adjusted it for going down um so we'd still have a 40,000 in and I wanted at least cost that up for the council's consideration could we consider getting the seniors back to where we were last year still have a 40,000 increase did we sell less senior badges last year the increase second because if we lower the price maybe we'll sell more Badges and that might no we sold uh we sold more last year 2023 we sold CU people are getting older I guess uh we sold 38.97 in 2023 and we sold 3944 in 2024 so the regular seasons went from 11239 to 9966 so that was that was the biggest drop was the seasonals but again we picked it up in um we picked up a ton in um in da Juniors uh Juniors were down same thing people are getting older the Juniors were growing up sense yeah Juniors went from 58 to 396 they went down about 100 and uh disabled just stayed about flat at 50 so um okay that's kind of the the tail of the tape I think what we've seen most of our badge pricing is uh uh is much more or and the revenue generated by the badges is much more tied to the weather as the N said um it's it's pretty elastic in terms of demand so for example when we do bump badges to Dollar usually we get a very similar volume you know a lot a lot of our history used to be what's everybody else doing and as the mayor pointed out last year everybody else was at 11 or12 we went to 13 and we still had a very good summer people aren't likely to for that $1 say I'm going to Asbury or Belmar so um so I think we're more to the extent we'd be at risk it's not that we're turning people off from coming if we bump something a couple bucks uh seasonal badges uh I think we're more at risk for just having bad weather yeah uh but in terms but my comment earlier about the seniors you know uh in hindsight if I have my vote to do over a year ago I probably would not have voted for the increase so I want to redeem myself at least by bringing up a can we consider a $2 cut on the seniors yeah my only point on the seniors is um again the comparatives um avalance 55 um black Barber's 80 Madison's 30 they're low um ocean grow went to 52 it's from 50 to 52 seagert 70 and Spring Lakes 80 so clearly very competitive around um around seniors the only the one that's the aberration on that chart is B which is I think it's just volume they're they're they're the lowest on Seasons at 70 last year and the lowest on seniors at 30 U but their juniors are higher but um they're the only ones that are kind of out of that range everybody else we were at the low end of that um all those ranges between those let's see one two six seven eight towns so any other comments okay okay all right get open to the public for a few minutes any comments by the public yes greenb Parkplace app um did we have a surplus last year in the beach batch we just showed it I've got in l no but we eroded Surplus a little bit 50 Grand or so or do we you mean like a net Surplus no our Surplus went down and and how much is our Surplus uh 66 it's projected to be three 663 th000 okay and we spent more last year than we took in umit a little bit but you know these are projections of the number seven Comm but we'll see the number seven because you know technically you're not supposed to charge more than a cost to run the beach yeah yeah you're not supposed to actually for a budget our revenue and expense should equal yeah so yes yeah they should be equal so if we have a $600,000 surplus maybe we shouldn't be raising the rates but we're allowed to have a surplus now I know where you're going with this I know you do we have to also consider you know it could rain every weekend this coming summer and then we sell no beach Badges and instead of having the people in this room and the people at Bradley Beach pay for all those operations it's nice to Surplus that previous Beach badges paid for that's fair yeah on on a positive note we're one of the few tal that actually follows the rules on parking I believe where the parking Revenue into the beach most counts don't so that's includ us yeah most towns don't take the par we do Belmar does and only because they were sued um but you're supposed to any Beach Revenue Park supposed to go Beach all right thank you okay thank you somebody else raise your hand y me I'm 302 4th Avenue I did said the same thing last year um The Daily badges I guess I understand why you would want to increase those but for the season badges for mostly residents by the season Badges and we've had substantial increases in our taxes it's a nice way to alleviate the um stress that we have from a financial perspective of the it's a win for Council I would say if you don't increase the seasonal badges um because people are feeling the pain with everything from their taxes and inflation if there's a way to manage that cost without raising our cost without raising the season badges I think it would go a long way with the residents thank you y j I just had a question about the discount of $20 that only applies to the seasonal badge it has yes and that's it so really that's a $70 purchase for a resident here or anyone actually if we went to $90 yes okay okay great and um that cost the discounts last year cost us about 85,000 okay in the context of you know when you do the math we discounted $5,000 do we have any data on uh where the badges were purchased like was it a high number of Bradley badges or was it just across the board all over New Jersey we don't keep that data but we shouldn't we have that if they were sold through Community pass yeah that's service yeah no yeah yes that's a good point we should look at that and we should see how we stack up I feel like good question should be data should be out there and then what's the last date for the discount just so the public know last I don't know the exact date but last it says um December 2nd through December 31st is the holiday and then you go into January 2nd through the January 31st I think is that $10 off then $10 off oh so it's a sliding scale okay yeah great thank you very much sure and I don't know what December 31st is a holiday is it not yes so December 30th we should say de yeah I will change it because last year we had somebody come in and complain that we weren't here on the 31st and they couldn't buy their Beach guys closed all day that day the 31st no uh where you know what we might have been last year depending on what day that fell on yes Tuesday and till 4M so I don't know yeah yeah yes 12 um the method of collection we address that um it says cash or check is there any way we could use credit cards so we can keep less cash on hand inside boots for people I think we use Community pass right now uh not talking about the daily B I know you're not trying to no no no Community pass we Ed to purchase are you talking about daily badges yes we don't we have not used count of how many badges or brist slets are given out and at the end of the day that count is rectified just to match the amount of money in the drawer I don't know if that's done I have 10 yeah I understand what you're saying so we need to keep an account of that so no money ever gets lost or missing I'm not saying anything bad I'm just saying that money is much deter sometimes to people so if we used credit card or check maybe not credit card when we purchase them pre-season but at least a check how about ales a lot of people just I don't even have Alay but I'm try to get Alay when people use Community pass don't they get to the end of the process they pay their money they have something that shows they paid and then that to that don't use Community pass that's that's the way you would pay by credit card so just so that's achieving what you're talking about less cash in the booths they just go to community Pass App visitors would have commun Mas well if they want a daily badge they they can get them AE of time yeah I mean that's the whole right yeah I mean I'm Pro credit card I think every year we talk about that I don't know why we don't take credit cards a lot of places now are cashless a credit card yeah weely that I'm just saying if we have one system to use credit Parts I don't know why we need need another it's but I would think that people wouldn't know how to use it say language barriers sometimes they do have a credit card though yeah my mom has a credit card but she doesn't have a smartphone so someone like that that's what I'm just saying yeah I'll check with the other Bros it's a really good suggestion thank you very much yeah and just the other question of um cash the we have a beach manager he's not actually was GNA be here to do a presentation tonight but he's on vacation it's it's teachers conferences I couldn't remember um but he reconciled cash every day by Booth so there is a recile with the amount that he started with yeah that's what he does and who does it with him he's the beach manager he submits it to to reconcile something you don't need just one I'm a nurse I counted at end of every shift with the new nurse coming on narcotics it was a great system and if there was one thing missing it was a big deal so there is a way to reconcile everything but it should be done with two thank you thank you anybody else I sh oh sorry all right can I can you hear me can I can you hear me go ahead okay my question is does does does Community pass have a fee and how much does it cost the Barrow yes it has a fee I'm not sure what that number is we could get you that number well in past you you don't know from past years how much that how much they charge at us it's a small percentage I'm not sure what the number is but the numbers are big whatever the percentage is I think it would be good for the public to know how much that's costing us we'll get that number for you I don't know what that number is good question yes Randy 506 Third Avenue um we may be overthinking this a little bit the year that Lobster Fest went by the wayside there was a lot of chatter about how much it increased each bad Revenue so I did my homework I looked the year before and the year before the weekend we had Lobster pest it was very cool 550s overcast it was raining 3 weeks later it was 95 degrees and the beach badge revenue on that 95 degree day crushed Lobster Fest and I went back a couple other years and plain fact is the biggest impact on beach badge Revenue is 90 degrees it's that simple we could raise it the badges we could lower the badges doesn't matter that much we're kind of conting too much here a dollar increase is that a pro global warming comment John yeah it's 6t of snow in Colorado today I'm going there okay so like do we want to close this close but um we're going to have a resolution we have a resolution is 9040 right4 9040 right4 okay I thought you said 994 on my place 40 for the uh 90 90 for the um adult right yeah are I mean so I just would like to comment on what a few folks mentioned in the audience uh Mr Bell I agree with you 100% I'm sure you shared that analysis with me a number of years ago because it's stuck um weather Sun 90 degrees drives volume up at the beach uh unless you have covid then there's the second Factor but otherwise good weather um and uh Mia you mentioned just a concern about if we don't need to raise the prices you know don't try not to do it but make things make things as affordable as we can um what I would say is when you guys hear us talking and we say well this will raise revenue 60,000 we do have incoming costs um the the the outlow pipe and some other things that are significant 100,000 a year or so added to our beach costs because we borrowed money over 20 30 years and we're paying that back gradually um but everyone should know we're basically making these price assumptions tied to this year's volume and this year's volume was a pretty sunny year so Mr Greenberg when you said you know hey maybe we shouldn't be raising money at all and raising prices at all I was looking at it as we're probably cons being conservative we could be in the hole with with the numbers that we're talking about even though we're saying it's a 40 or $660,000 increase if we have an off year summer wise weatherwise we actually could not be raising uh our Revenue 60 Grand we could be losing money so me personally as I'm looking at it I I thought this was a reasonable approach because we're not going to have better weather I don't think than we had this year and the chances are we will be less and maybe a lot less so um I don't think we're being aggressive because we do we do all focus on our I do share responsibility to manage the revenue in that utility um I just want to bring the council back one more time to whether or not we should shave 20 grand off our revenue for the seniors of money and if I'm a loan on that that's fine but is anyone else interested in considering that I you're saying make it what make it 35 i' consider that I consider that and then raise 90 with a knowledge that we have the $20 holiday time for everyone you know for people to get their badges at $70 which doesn't apply to the senior badges but seniors are not discounted right yeah I think everybody over 65 is going to have to recuse themselves up just saying only voting for The that's funny you'll get here it's a great idea so right now we have two people on 35 it I'll I'll go for 35 okay5 okay that's nice okay let's move to the next thing which is presentation on best practices this is a requirement um Michelle if you could get the screen cooking here um our burough administrator will take us through the best practices it was submitted um a week or so ago this is just a high level summary of the of the U presentation yes thank you very much um so the uh best practices inventory um we can go to the next slide thank you so the best practice inventory is distributed every Year from the division of local government services and um it goes throughout to all municipalities throughout this state and it obtains Vital Information about the status of municipal government practices in New Jersey uh the 2024 inventory assesses each municipality's compliance with various laws and evaluates the implementation of fiscal and operational best practices the inventory answers uh provide taxpayers with an additional means of evaluating um the Burrow's performance and the inventory also identifies area with municipalities may require further technical assistance uh this year's inventory um had a possible 46.5 points and the burough scored 38.5 which does give us uh full funding for our final state aid um payment uh next slide please so each year the BPI features different topics the topics for 2024 included ethics Personnel budget Financial Administration capital projects transparency procurement cyber security Leed remediation shared services special Improvement districts affordable housing Redevelopment utilities and the environment next slide please so how the BPI is scor so there this year and again it changes every year this year there was a total of 52 questions amongst the three scoring categories um the division introduced 11 new scored questions this year and um it's broken down into the following topics core competencies which um had 41 questions best practices which has 11 questions and the unscored survey which is 17 questions the unscored survey questions are really there to help DCA get um gauge how towns are doing with different initiatives uh for example the unscored survey questions this year highly focused on affordable housing it focused on um lead remediation uh broadband internet services and special Improvement districts uh next slide please oh here we go compes address yeah hey this is Larry um Qui quick question on that the 17 questions is that kind of a lead indicator of what's coming in questions future years or categorizations exactly exactly so for example um with affordable housing they just kind of want to know how folks are doing on that front how far alarmed they are in the process with lead remediation that's a fairly new legislation um that was introduced I believe in late 2022 or mid 2022 so they're just assessing um basically what it does is it lets DCA know when municipalities are struggling to comply with something and then that's when they can offer techn um technical assistance they can offer Grant programs so it's really just their way to gauge to see how they can be more helpful to municipalities okay thank you no problem um core compet competencies addresses the statutory and Regulatory Compliance obligations uh they're worth one point each and best practices involves fiscal and operational practices um that are benefit to the municipality and those are worth half a point each uh next slide please so how did we do that's always the main question right so of 41 available points in core competencies the burrow received 35 points and in the best practices um which was a total of 5.5 points the burrow scored 3.5 um so of the total of 46.5 available points we got 38.5 next slide please so where can we do better um some of these we know and they're actually repeats from last year for example Financial deadlines uh once again the burrow did not meet uh deadlines to introduce the budget and adopt the budget and also for the submitt of the AFS additionally just like last year where we got DED um the has not installed a public electric vehicle charging station um nor do we have a hybrid or alternative fuel purchasing policy for new vehicles some um the other uh three DS we took uh one transparency uh it is now state law that municipalities must change their um payto playay laws to match the states in this case the burrow of Bradley beaches ours is stricter than the states so we do need to um fix that through governing body action so we now meet the states uh Personnel uh chapter 78 health benefits for employees this means uh basically it it applies to retirees of the burrow where um in 2011 Governor Christie signed a legislation um requiring that retirees pay 1.5% of their um retirement benefits uh the burough has not been collecting those funds um that is going to be remediated before the end of the year we already have the letters and mailings uh prepared to go out to the folks who are not currently contributing and then the last one um this was a little Thor to my side the burrow of shorty bonds for the tax collector municipal judge and Court Administrator are at the standard schedule as um recommended however they recommend that we do a stricter schedule a more stringent schedule and so we got deemed a point for not having a stricter schedule than is required next slide please so what did we do well these are categories will recored uh perfect 100% capital projects cyber security ethics procurement and shared services next slide please oh great so um a copy of the Burrows BPI in this presentation will be um found on our website tomorrow by going to The Bradley Beach nj.gov reports page and the last slide is just my name so thank you everyone thanks right so we submitted this and it's been accepted by state correct okay good great any questions Meredith the 385 how how does how does that score uh 35 out of 465 how does that compare to last year comparable do we improve it's a little apples and oranges because like I said the amount of questions and the points you can score every year change so um I would say it's comparable because uh last year we had the the same four DS and the two Financial deadlines and green practices categories um and then the two other DS we got like I said one is because we haven't changed our pay-to-play ordinance which is stricter than the the states to match the states and the other one is we are meeting the shorty bonds at the schedule you know required by DCA they just want us to go strictor so make that what you will okay questions thank you everyone thank thank you okay we move on to the next item which is minutes um approval of minutes for the October 23rd 2024 Council business meeting minutes about a second to Second Mr Noble yes Mr GUI yes m Hy yes Mr Weber yes mayor Fox yes approval of minutes for October 202 October 23rd 2024 executive session meeting minutes motion to approve second Mr Noel yes Mr gboi yes Mr Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes mayor Fox yes uh okay we'll move to the next item which is uh public comments or questions per pertaining to the 79 agenda five minute limit single winon speak on this any questions on the agenda yes you didn't ask for public comments on the um best practices I had one I would like to put in the computer if possible not in landscape but in portrait so you could read it you're scrolling back and forth on your computer you can't get it on the screen I don't know why it was put in there that way maybe it was a mistake could be put in in portrait instead of landscape cuz you're reading your computer like this oh it's power no it's Gotta it it goes in be just said it's gonna go up tomorrow so right I don't know I mean it's very difficult to read it because you have to literally move your P back and forth because you're reading how are you reading it it's not on the website yet no the last year one last year oh got okay thank you very much maybe this year got you anybody else yes Thomas J Coan 612 Third Avenue I have some questions on the bills list um on page one have and Le Services $1,350 it says that it's a special litigation expens do we know what that is okay on page seven we have OS Jan Easter and suser uh conflict Council for 10,9 137 I was wondering what that was uh that was um a internal Personnel related investigation oh okay thank you very much yes um Beth Kepler 504 Central Avenue um this will fall under the perview of the best practices um that was just spoken about under the ethics and also under um just like last time um the executive session reporing um the litigation this is another litigation you're being served Larry Fox and B Bradley Beach with the notice of for Cle I'm serving the burrow of Bradley Beach and mayor Larry Fox with this not notice of Court claim on behalf of myself and every voter in the burrow of Bradley Beach who was harmed injured and disenfranchised by the intentional actions and inactions of Mayor Larry Fox and his wants and violations of 52 us code 20511 this claim arises from the purposeful dissemination of information by mayor Larry fox question on the general election ballot for November 5th the video in question was posted on Facebook under the public government page belonging to and run by mayor Larry Fox titled Larry Fox Brad Beach mayor dated October 3rd as of November 7th this page has 5 followers the 2 minute and 12 second video starts with a greeting by mayor fox saying hello fellow Bradley Beach residents mayor Larry Fox here someone showed me some Facebook misinformation on the upcoming referendum on the ballot on November 5th now try to clear this up he States if you ask me I support the charter commission I do not there were long signs around town advertising voters to vote no on the referendum question which were paid for by Larry Fox for mayor yet Larry Fox voted in the affirmative for the passage of the charter commission formation to be placed as a referendum question on the general election ballot on November 5th the council body voted unanimously 5 to Zer in favor of doing so on referendum 2024 16 3 on July 24th 2024 as of November 5th uh 2024 at 9:00 p.m 1 hour after polls closed there had been a total of 542 views of his video communicating the aforementioned incorrect information about the proposed referendum then at the borrow council meeting on October 23rd 2024 during Council report councilman John Weber read on the record 2023 New Jersey provide statute titled 40 municipalities and counties later during the same council meeting um Rett Kaplan asked mayor Fox do you dispute any of the information council member just presented regarding a charter study commission to which mayor Fox reply I'm not going to dispute anything Council M Weber said Mr Kaplan asked for a retraction and mayor fox says asked if there if he agrees that there were discrepancies and mayor Fox responds um I think there might be a difference in it yeah when asked if he would issue an apology mayor Fox Saidi take it under advisement eight days later on October 31st 2024 mayor Fox issued a special newsletter via email to his subscribers Under The Heading of the burrow of Bradley Beach and the referendum yet another version of Mr Fox's interpretation of the facts mayor Fox was informed that the information he stated in his October 3rd 2024 video was inaccurate yet to this date that video Still Remains up and is visible any voting resident who was not subscribed to his maril newsletter would have had no way of knowing the information he continued to leave on his government Facebook Marl page was inaccurate and they have voted accordingly based on the misinformation he was putting out purposely with the intention of dissuading residents from voting in support of the referendum or being confused and misled by his inaccurate information mayor Larry Fox used his title position power resources and platform as mayor of borrow of Bradley Beach to put his finger on the scales money the water intentionally putting out misinformation disinformation to confuse and disenfranchise the voters of this burrow he wanted a specific outcome and he was clearly willing to do anything to procure his desired results at the disregard of the will and the voice of the people PE for an oath This falls under laws that prohibit election misinformation and voter intimidation federal and state laws protect the Integrity of the election process and ensure that voters can make informed decisions without being misled the specific federal law that prohibits the elected officials from knowingly disseminating false information about an electon is 52 us code 20511 this law is part of the national voter registration Act of 1998 and makes it a crime to intentionally provide false information with the intent to interfere with the election process that concludes thank you any other questions yes re place um on the benefits collections for the retirees said that's going to be resolved is that going to be collected in a rear as well for all the time they didn't collect I do not think so now how come if the money was owed to us we just didn't collect it aren't we still owed I'll ask the question I I don't know the answer to that we typically as a practice don't do that okay and question on the pay to play ours is stricter is it the state law that we have to downgrade it yes okay than you got see ocean p on the um I say this every year regarding 2024 d94 please do not approve it if I don't know what it does last year's newsletter said W's favorite event it is not that was a live what this does is Blu the atmosphere Mr environment make sure I'm not Little Miss environment um but it does and especially this year where we have no idea if we're actually going to get real L thought of having any sort of fire that we would deliberately create to me is really asinine and it's disrespectful and I'm so glad I don't live down there in case you do say yes to it and I'm realizing want everyone to think you're fun loving people but like really and along with that um I would say that we should table till next year 2024 189 and 20124 190 give no idea what our finances are we have a budget for next year um I just can't even imagine spending more money anybody else yes 304 a little disappointed coming to the meeting tonight and not seeing that our mayor is congratulating our mayor alette Mr alosi and our councilwoman elect sh Green Block so I will do it myself because we just had a big election day which is we're going to cover those things but that's not part of the agenda these these are questions to open the meeting congratulate um anyway so I'm hoping it's okay that I can comment on what is WR written for the executive session certain police officers versus B Brad Beach I think that's okay so a friend of mine passed something on to me and um it's from a online media Source called tap into I'm not familiar with it but I'm sure this article is in many of the other local papers I wanted to just say because of the due to the as a result of the election Mr gubitosi is not necessarily the Panacea for Bradley Beach's Financial LS in addition to the challenge of having to replenish our our diminished Surplus he's now challenged with what could be millions of dollars to our taxpayers as a result of the case between the officers and Brad the beach I was going to prepare a better statement but I started to highlight and said you know what I'll just read some highlights from this article um it was published on October 28th um written by a Matt dhy and he explained that there are four Bradley Beach police officers that are pursuing a lawsuit the potential Fallout could cost Bradley Beach taxpayers millions of dollars in Damages fees and penalties with substantial evidence suggesting systematic negligence at the highest levels of borrow leadership the attorney her name is Gina lzo I can pronounce it better than me she did send a letter to the burs attorney on October 15th outlining accusations against Bea former Chief of Police and the burs executive officials um highlighter I'm skipping actually what all the problems were more concern is the financial aspect of it which is we're happy we're going to have a new mayor um we congratulate him but I wanted it for public record and especially because his wife is here tonight also because again you cannot be the Panacea for what what awaits us should the officers proceed with civil lawsuit and the borrow loses in court the total damages and costs could amount to Millions the article continues the lawyer cautions that if the burrow loses in court residents may be left responsible for both Brea's retirement package and any damages awarded to the plaintiffs Box's handling of the situation could expose Bradley Beach to punitive damages could result in one of the most costly settlements or judgments in recent burrow history so everything else in the past may not even matter as we're faced with this challenge it's sad under the current system the fogner ACT grants substantial executive power of the mayor including responsibilities over Department operations credits argue that Fox's actions demonstrate the need for structural changes to prevent similar abuses of power in the future this is why the referendum was so important we need to make sure that nothing like this can happen in the future um while the officers have yet to officially file a lawsuit the letter signals a clear intent to do so should Bradley Beach fail to negotiate a settlement so regardless we're going to have to pay for something as a result of what's happened in this town which was the responsibility of our strong armed mayor um model leading back to um mayor Fox for taxpayers the stakes are high they may face millions in Damages if the officer's claims are substantiated raising um the imperative for comprehensive reform so in the end taxpayers are still left with holding the bag for the current and soon to be pass mayor's grave shortcomings so I just wanted this to be for public record because we are going to have a new mayor and he's not going to be the Panacea to um lower our taxes if anything they could continue to go up because we still have to not only deal with this these lawsuits which could be millions of dollars but also to replenish or diminish Surplus just wanted it to be on record and I'll probably come up and say this again from January to the public thank you thank you anybody else if not we'll move to the next agenda item person on Zoom that's okay Mar and Stillman no the other hand is saying that's marann spilman okay uh hello this is Maryann spilman uh 902 Ocean Avenue in Bradley Beach and I wanted to um I express my concerns about the 90 resolution where we are authorizing a uh Professional Services for CME for the uh development of the vacant building the pump house at 54 Ocean Avenue and my concerns are two uh first of all the I I don't know what the grant award States I don't know what the uh what compliance we have to have to uh uh meet the requirements of the grant award but my concern is that the wording on the application for that Grant award was not an authorized wording by the buau councel the authorized wording for the application Grant said that it would be for only rehabbing the existing building but the application itself said that we would be planning for a m Museum and a an additional bathroom so we were looking in our application grant for expanding the footprint of the building rather than uh complying with the resolution of the council that said we would be rehabbing the existing building only so my concern is when we got this grant for $50,000 for planning are we uh at any risk for non-compliance by not having uh a consistent uh uh application and if we then decide as I believe the council would like to do is to stick with its original uh uh resolution which was to look only at rehabbing the building if we do that and we've accepted this $50,000 Grant are we at risk for any kind of non-compliance with the terms that that Grant gave us so I think that's a legal question of compliance that uh we need to be sure that we're not going to be uh Set uh with a fine or having to give some of the dollars back because our uh we are not complying with the terms of the grant as it was awarded so that a non-compliance issue is my first concern with accepting that Grant the second thing is that we got a grant for $50,000 for planning yet we are proposing to pay CME $64,500 um we don't have $64,500 if we have a $50,000 Grant we should be sticking the uh the requirements for that planning within that $50,000 Grant so that we're not asking the taxpayers to pick up additional funds uh in addition the planning itself if it's just for rehabbing the existing building is a much smaller plan than that was which was proposed by CME at the last meeting which was a three times the size of the existing building and if we uh cut down to just rehabbing the existing building we should be able to do that within $50,000 and ensure that CME understands that it has to be within the $50,000 and no additional bonds or taxpayer money will be allocated to CME for that planning um the planning Grant itself is I mean what CME proposed is unsure is uncertain about what they're actually proposing in the planning process and a couple of things are uncertain in there but the most uh the biggest concern I have is with whether they are going to ensure in that planning process that we meet the the cfra requirements for whatever building uh we we do in that in that process so that I don't see in their planning process anything about what they're going to do to ensure cafra compliance on the part of the buau because that can be expensive if if that is is a part of the $50,000 Grant it should be specified what they're going to be doing and ensuring that we meet cfra requirements okay thank you um I can make a point on that phase one is $50,000 phase two is the permitting and bid documents which would be if we made a decision to go we have at that point um we we will exercise the planning Grant but that's not a if we put a plan together that does not mean we're going to proceed with a plan um the plan in the concept phase service phase and the design phase would be getting uh input from the council and from the public um but I think I think we're in alignment on how to proceed that we are in into one building number one two we understand the cafer requirements and um we gotten feedback from the Historical Society so I think we're in pretty good align this just one other thing Mr Mayor uh Miss Filman the numbers you quoted suggest to me that you might not have seen the most recent there's a revised proposal the council's received uh it breaks the work into two parts as the mayor mentioned a phase one which caps out of 50,000 that excludes um permit services and bid documents y and and uh and they've also C changed the language at council's request to take out any references to the Historic Society Museum um I believe expansion as well that as I think you know there's uh when that one diagram was presented to the council a number of us reacted suspiciously I think I personally said that doesn't comply with cfer if you're expanding South so a lot of the concerns you're raising some of them we've already at least addressed publicly and others you might not be aware have been addressed actually in the CME proposal itself uh Erica that proposal was that put on the website well the proposal no the resolution yes but you're not supposed to put proposals on the website that's that's not a best practice okay I thought if somebody wants it I I can give it to them that's not a problem but generally we do not post that kind of stuff on the website and I asked only because I asked the same question last meeting and great can said we could post proposals on you're really not supposed to do that okay I was listening to our attorney I I understand that but mman would you like a copy of that most recent proposal might address some of your concerns yes i' definitely like to to to see that most recent proposal and I don't know about this phase one and phase two is the $50,000 Grant only for a phase one and is there an additional grant for a phase two so very quickly for everyone's benefit I'm sure most most of our residents might not be aware of these recent updates um but phase one they the CME added a $500 charge for the uh coordination with the burough and preliminary project review and that was done to make sure that CME didn't go off and start to create you know variations that they thought might be of interest to us we said before you do any work at all you need to get the council's input uh and for that input session there's a $500 charge then there's survey and basem map phase Services 5,800 concept phase Services 7,500 and design phase services 36,200 that being the largest part design you had those four pieces up it's $50,000 even uh what a coincidence it ties exactly to the grant funding um so we are in a position to authorize that without without committing any burrow re sources beyond the the grant funding phase two if we decided to move forward and if we did we'd probably have to look for additional funding but phase two would be the permit phase Services 14 14,300 and preparation of bid documents 4,800 that totals another 19,1 so the number you mentioned earlier I don't have it in front of me but I know it was I don't know it was in the mid-60s I thought you said and we're really at a combined 691 would that come out of the beach fund since we're servicing the beach if if we paid for it yes but maybe we're not paying for maybe it' be grant funding or something else maybe additional gr okay there any other does that help yes thank you okay great miss bman I will email that to you okay thank you you're welcome okay I don't see any other questions so let's move to the next agenda item which is ordinances we have no introductions we have two adoptions tonight um second uh first is uh B ordinance 20241 it's Bond ordinance providing for General Capital Improvements in appropriating 66,1 00,000 therefore and authorizing issuance of the 1 mil8 bonds and notes to finance a portion of cost thereof authorized in and by the B of Beach County of M New Jersey um this is an adoption so I'll make a motion to uh open the adoption hearing ask for comments by the council first and then um open the adoption he so let's first get counc comments and then we'll adop I have a question actually once this is approved before there's any expenditures would that have to go in front of the council first for approval yes there's two two called stage Gates um that would have to take place yes correct okay any questions U Mr Mayor just confirming what I think um our CFO told us last meeting the uh the actual um funding up to 75% of the grant funding might be made available to us before we even had to borrow to to complete additional costs so is that a correct understanding could you say that again I didn't quite understand what so for example the prominade is roughly a $4 million Grant 4 million um and what I believe Mr Garts told us was that once we approve the bonding the bonding is as necessary to you know to cover our expenses to bur's expenses Mr gar g said s 5% of the grant funding could be made available to the buau uh to you know to cover our early costs and in any project at some point obviously we we would have to bond to cover the ring costs but a lot of the up upfront payments would be made by the U by the grant funding I believe that's what I heard him say too yes I believe that's correct yes is he here is oh he's he's on Zoom I didn't I said Mr GL did I say that correctly incorrectly 75% is normally taken care of after you award a contract can you hear me yes okay so if once a contract is awarded for any of the projects normally 75% is given to you up front each each Grant is specific on what they would do sometimes they'll Advance money if that what you request but 75% of most contracts are awarded up front and one thing you pointed out to us in the last meeting was that if we if we voted no on any of these we'd have to redo the um the bonding or resolution so my question is there is uh the Main Street project that I have I I raised some questions today uh with CME uh but if if we were to move to table that so we would ultimately approve it but table it until some additional questions were answered would that negatively impact Us in terms of the bonding resolution that we're looking at tonight you couldn't table a specific aspect of the ordinance you either take the whole ordinance or you take none of the ordinance uh I was saying not not the when you say the ordinance the what the resolution that we're talking about for bonding no the ordinance itself is up for discussion right now if I'm not mistaken okay but the ordinance okay so we we have the resolutions that we would want to T possibly want to table and table only to perhaps approve you know at a following meeting so the question is does that impact the ordinance adoption or can we if we adopt this Ordinance do we have to approve all of the CME projects uh by resolution now I believe we're going to have to table them anyway because the ordinance is going to have to be adopted and then the 20-day stopple would have to go into effect then we can um we we do the resolutions on agenda is that is that correct Mr G yes am I correct on that Ricky yes by law that's correct Erica thank you okay thank you for informing the council so okay so all of the upcoming the questions we the residents should know we've asked numerous questions on these various um projects of CME they've been very responsive giving us a lot of answers uh we were at least I was under the impression I think others were too that we were going to have to vote on uh the uh the actual uh resolutions tonight apparently we will not we'll be tabling all the resolutions so that makes it I think a lot easier because we needed at least I I'll speak for myself I needed more time on Main Street because there are some significant issues that still still had not yet been addressed the last meeting we got um we made the request for getting uh minutes of meetings or whatever might have been conducted for the Main Street uh committee and we did just get those minutes a few days ago maybe a week ago which was great but they were not complete there were other questions we had and and I was at least leaning towards not moving forward on that project till we had answers but now that makes it easy if we are going to table everything does this put I know that one of the projects has to be approved by 1224 the the uh the prominon does this put any of that in Jeopardy not this ordinance the next one will so the next meeting okay no no no the next ordinance the next oh the next ordinance okay yes it would and I know there was discussions with the state as as late as today on that they're starting to tap their foot a little bit with us but you said we're not approving any of the resolution no I mean the uh but the ordinance the they want to know if the or the B the bond got okay the bonding not the they will be okay if bonding and then we can start looking at approvals and all those good things okay any other questions if not I'll make a motion to open the adoption hearing for 2020 2024 10 second uh Mr Noble yes Mr gbos yes M Mahoney yes Mr yes mayor Fox yes Ricky I might have a comment no I'm good I was Ying at my dogs yeah any questions okay there's no questions so I'll move to adopt 2020 20 2410 close the adoption hearing sorry both those things you can do them both for one time second Mr Noble yes Mr kosi yes Miss Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes mayor Fox yes okay uh Bond ordinance 20241 Bond ordinance providing for Beach Capital Improvements and appropriations of 5,215 therefore and authorizing the issuance of $845,000 of bonds not to finance a portion of the cost thereof authorized in and by the Bureau of Bradley Beach in the county of M New Jersey start with any Council comments are there any Council comments I'll start with Miss money's comment question I think I got I think I got my my answer so we as long as we approve the bonding then we can move ahead with the project we'll meet the deadline for starting the project according to the state cor for the for the for the uh uh very good no idea other questions if not we'll I'll make a motion to open the adoption hearing for 20241 second Mr no yes Mr gubitosi yes Mr Hony yes Mr Weber yes mayor Fox yes any questions as to 20241 yes Thomas J Coan 612 Third Avenue um I just wanted to clarify that if there's overruns where this fond is utilized uh this construction of the promade uh that those that will be paid for out of the beach fund and not out of the general fund because it's okay so the taxpayers are not really paying for this correct great thank you well any taxpayers who use the beach they will yes there's no questions on boards okay I will then move to close the adoption hearing and approve 20241 okay Mr Noble yes Mr OSI yes Miss Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes mayor Fox yes okay thank you we'll move now to Communications Communications on police promotions uh of um Sergeant Sergeant Gale Lieutenant um solaro I think those are the two on there the communications yes she I mean oh we already did that one that was okay and I'll make a comment as to when that official swearing it is in my comments okay um consent uh move through resolutions we have two items on the consent agenda the bill list of number 7 2024 and 2024 194 approved annual bonfire for November 29th 2024 and think a comment so for the annual bonfire um I've noticed that the this is f it's really at the 4th Avenue Beach that is an erosion Hot Spot it's like the wor it's the narrowest beach we have in can um think it's too late for this year we don't have DPW folks here uh but I would and I believe that you know bulldozing the sand and moving it and all that activity it just makes the sand looser and it's just washes away or blows away easier I would consider moving this around if it's too late for this year I hope we will consider moving it like evergreen or somewhere in the North End uh in future years because I actually think having the bonfire there contributes it to being sort of a ER Roan hotpots I have to talk both Public Works and and fire about all the variables understand put the idea out there now Y no that's a good point we can follow up on that absolutely do we plan to have the bonfire if we don't get rain right now uh we are not as part of the designated one of the designated towns that um are restricted um as of three days ago so I I think it's something we got to just continue to Monitor and look at you're saying we are restricted town no we are not restricted meaning what there are some towns that have very tight restrictions around any doing much anything no outside right but we're not one of those towns right now and our key criteria for those for the for people who aren't tuned into this is OEM and um primarily OEM and the police monitor very closely the weather forecasts uh and particularly the wind forecast um and if I think two years ago or three years ago we actually canceled because there was a East Wind and it was over 15 miles an hour and we just said it's from the safety perspective we're not going to do this and we didn't reschedule because that time of year rescheduling anything is a royal challenge so um you know that's the way we proceed this year and and I think the new variable is the um the lack of precipitation but you know we have a number of meetings to this so we will man you know we'll manage that accordingly oh I do have one build L question um so on page eight it's New Jersey national gas it lists a bunch of bur owned places obviously but 317 line is one of them and I don't ever remember seeing this on other Bill list unless I missed it and I like to read all the bill list that's only $11 but my point is the gas has been capped off there like I watched the guys come and cap the gas off at the house that's on the church property so why are we getting what it's a service charge just for in there okay um just jumped out of me there all $111 of it question okay I'll make a motion then to approve the consent adust second again um Mr Noble yes Mr gboi yes Mr yes Mr Weber yes mayor Fox yes okay individual resolutions second um 2024 19 oh I'm sorry 2024 195 establishing the 2025 seasonal be could you read this one Erica because you filled in the blanks on this right yes I can sorry I'm going to ask the um the clerk to just read it to make sure we got the the numbers correct let's see whereas the mayor and Council have recommended the following sale dates and prices for 2025 seasonal Beach badges be it resolved that the cost for the 2025 season Beach badges are as follows adult $90 senior citizen 65 and over $35 Junior 13 14 and 15 years $35 now therefore be it resolved the adult seasonal badges will be sold at at a Holiday fee of $70 if purchased between December the 2nd through December 30th of 2024 before 4 p.m. in addition the adult season badges will also be sold at a pre-season fee of $80 from January the 2nd of 2025 through January 31st of 2025 before 4 p.m. all other categories of season badges will be sold at the regular price be it further resolved that certified copies of said resolution will be forwarded to the CFO the beach manager and the burrow administrator do I have a second Eric a question are the dates good because somebody you asked earlier about this yes I yeah I just said December uh second second to December 30th I think we did it last year yeah change that no we didn't change it last year and we ran into a problem with the resident why we weren't selling Beach badges okay second oh okay Mr Noble yes Mr gboi yes M Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes mayor Fox yes 2024 196 authorizing Municipal clerk's office to advertise for requests for proposals for professional appointments for calendar year 2025 make a motion to approve 24 1996 second Mr Noble yes Mr gboi yes M Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes mayor Fox yes 2024 197 authorizing a shared service agreement with the township of Neptune for salt storage facility make a motion to inove 2024 197 second Mr Noble yes Mr gboi I guess my only question uh this is a a Conant that we've done a prior years yes that's been okay thank you m Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes mayor fo yes 2024 1998 approval to submit an award extension request for La 2023 ma Bradley Beach burrow 5th Avenue improvements 13 to the New Jersey Department of Transportation make a motion to approve 2024 198 second Mr Noble yes Mr gubitosi yes Miss Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes mayor Fox yes 20 24 199 chapter 159 resolution requesting approval to amend 2024 Municipal budget by inserting items of Revenue and appropriation accordance with mjsa 40a 4- 87 make a motion to approve 2024 199 second Mr NOA yes Mr GUI for the record I don't know if the Public's tracking this but it looks like Mr may could you confirm we're adding $7,800 in grant funding that we didn't include it in the original budget offsetting that with the appropriation I yes that's correct that's corre so the good news is everybody we're getting another $7,800 for um re recycling tonnage Grant and a New Jersey body armor Grant uh totaling 7,844 uh and that's good news small money but every every little bit helps I vote Yes okay thank you u m Mahoney yes Mr wber yes mayor Fox yes um 2024 186 187 1888 189 and 190 we're going to make a motion to do 200 sorry do 200 resolution 200 table refund the refunding ofing bonds resolution why don't I have 300 you need your most recent resolution that I put up up there I put it in box on the agenda I'm sorry that's okay here you're authorizing issue refunding bonds Radley beach in county of Mammoth New Jersey and providing for the form maturities interest rates other details there of for the sale there of Mammoth County so this is the I have no idea what's happened but so we did the or ordinance last meeting do introduction adoption on the refunding of bonds that hold re calibrating the bonds this is a resolution to support that the agenda that I left for you that's the one you have executive okay so you should have another I'm sorry should be1 you should have 200 yeah sorry I 200 had executive session have you make a motion yeah to approve 20242 thank you uh Mr Noble yes Mr GOI yes okay uh Miss Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes mayor Fox yes okay again uh 2024 1867 188 189 190 um I know uh people might be rolling the rise and wondering why we're leaving this on the agenda I've asked to leave it on the agenda even though we're tabling it to just keep this in front of us these are important projects and people want to refer to the kinds of projects that in that in the bond ordinance um these are the um 8,500 or so um of bond awards that we've got from a county state federal level and our next meeting will hopefully be working through these resolutions to get into height your so I'll make a motion to table one make a motion to table 2024 186 187 188 189 and 19 seconds Mr Noble yes m Mr koszi yes Miss Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes mayor Fox yes okay next agenda item is uh there are no announcements so mayor and Council reports uh let's start with uh council president denov all righty then so the shade tree had a meeting last night November 6 and they had four applications 315 Second Avenue remove one tree plant one tree 63 fth Avenue remove one tree plant one tree 628 Newark Avenue remove two trees plant two trees and 313 second remove one tree and it is dead and um let's see they have currently $1,600 in their bank account we're kind of revising their ordinance just updating oh there's a new member um Noel Weinberg is now a regular member and Tom Gavin has stepped down from the commission now let's see what else do we have the oh tourism the tourism commission has been working with both the recreation department and the bur of Bradley Beach for special events to create its first indoor outdoor Market the Mary Market the market will be held at the recreation center from 10: a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday December 1st there'll be over 30 vendors refreshments and LW mus music the annual Bradley Beach tree lighting will also be held Sunday December 1st will include hot chocolate cookies live music and the classic rewind band horse and carriage fries plus a visit from Santa I want to congratulate the board of bed members Felicia s saki richet aain Elizabeth Franks and Katie s D they are um they've been reelected as Board of bed members they actually ran unopposed but they still held a candidates forum and Tracy Davidson of the Bradley Beach Elementary School I mean elementary um Education Foundation I said that right Education Foundation okay she hosted it and it was a wonderful event the um they they talked about their ideas their inspiration their proudest accomplishments and um I I just want to thank them all for their hard work and I also like to thank the residents I I see quite a few residents here tonight that also attended I know Mar goosi you were there uh John Weber I saw you there it was a really great event and um it's a wonderful thing that we have this school in our in our burough and these people work very hard for us and I I just want to say thank you and again congratulations to all of them for being reelected and that completes my report thank you council president councilman toi my first report is as the liaison to our Police Department provided to me by Captain Terry Browning um as for activity since our last meeting an area man was arrested for hindering apprehension after he provided police with a false identity to try and conceal the fact he had an active child support warrant a traffic stop revealed the driver to be intoxicated and one of the passengers to be in possession of a controlled dangerous substance cocaine both were arrested and charged accordingly officers from our K9 unit provided security sweeps sweeps for the Belmar Fall Festival as well as um a track for missing juvenile out ofon City the juvenile was located in a neighboring town uh don't forget our special swearing in ceremony for uh Captain Browning and also uh jine solero as lieutenant and Kevin Gail as sergeant it will be held November 13 at 5:30 pm I'm sure the mayor will provide more detail um and you know as I read these reports uh periodically uh I'm always struck and I want to make sure others are struck by the fact that our K9 unit is pulled into all so many neighboring U municipalities to help others because we've got such a unique uh Force here in Bradley developed by a handful of our own officers so um you know when I read this again tonight about doing a suite for the Belmar Fall Festival uh it always strikes me of how how lucky we are and how unique we are to have those resources but uh oh my other comment Sil L commission there is a meeting to be held here in burough Hall on November 20th Wednesday 7 p.m. and uh every meeting with s lake has been very interesting over the past six months um because stuff is really starting to happen in terms of them uh you know their updates and securing funding and uh moving forward with a lot of projects impacting Soven lake so anyone who's available November 20th 7M Wednesday please feel free to join thank you okay thank you Council money hey um the environmental commission did not meet on Monday because we had nothing to talk about the land board will meet on November 21st at 6:30 pm are we gonna have the lorine a church on there yes on the agenda it is on the agenda oh len a church is on the agenda that's my report thank you cilman okay uh I want to start out by talking about the election and if everybody out there exercise the right to vote they get to thank the poll workers because it's a it's a long day it's a 14-hour day for the pole workers there's like 10 of them probably eight or 10 of them there but I will say it's an even longer day for our clerk Erica and I would like everybody to join me in a round of applause for Erica elction but you got to run the um let me tell you I was tired so it's a very long day so to recognize that um and you know I I want to congratulate the candidates uh it's hard and you know we had more than just regular candidates this year we had a a study commission so it's hard it's hard to put yourself out there like that and it's hard if you're not a candidate but like you like person a and you like person B but then person B says something not so nice or maybe untrue about person a and then it it that that's hard on you it's hard on you as an individual it creates Conflict at you and it creates conflict in our community so uh I'd like it'd be great if everybody gives each other some Grace and uh make some gestures to heal those wounds and infractions and uh um and we move forward as a community so um and one of those gestures that you can make is maybe even saying sorry to somebody so all right and if you're really into all this political stuff and you want to hear one more speech you can get to hear the president the president of the student Council of the Bradley Beach Elementary School because that person will be speaking at the Veterans Day event and I'm sure the mayor will talk about that event if that's on Monday but don't miss that um I want to say the Fletch relay commission they meet a week from Thursday they right here that's going to be on the 14th at 6 PM right here in this room I want to read the first day thing and that's not on paper that's over here so first a report for the operational period ending today Squad responded to 10day calls and eight Night Calls for a total of 18 calls 13 were for medical five were fire calls Squad provided medical OverWatch for the Jersey Shore rescue missions 5K walk uh they requested one mutual aid from Avon for this period and the squad fulfilled 99% of their assignments for this operational period I'm going to talk to them about that 1% and I will find out what that's all about as always there're still looking for volunteers uh fre training for qualified individuals anybody that wants to volunteer can find the application on the B's website and they now have applications for a Cadet program for people 16 to 18 years of age uh and they will take care of training them uh I want to say congratulations to Lieutenant Josephine solaro Sergeant Kevin Gale Captain Terry Browning I will not be at the swearing and ceremony and the rockus After parties that is happening I've heard uh I'm going to be out of town so I want to thank them here thank them for everything and congratulations and uh I think that is it not important thank you counc okay I have a few comments um first um you've heard it from a few people already I'd like to congratulate all the candidates in this year's local elections that's Board of Education it's the charter commission it's the governing uh body positions both mayor and Council win or lose stepping up to a community service like this is a real challenge as um councilman Weber attested uh the strong turnout in this election is a sign of our continued Health as a republic but also um you know the strength of our Democratic institutions I I do want to express specifically my gratitude to Erica to the as an election official pole workers and volunteers who oversaw a free fair safe and secure election uh I you know please what wish me in joining joining the success of our new leaders uh who are now coming up in January and officials at all levels of government uh is a wonderful country we live in um I'm sure there were um people that didn't like results from a national down to a local level and that's part of the Democracy we live in uh you then pick yourself up and and you move to um continue to try to improve the Democracy it's uh that phrase forming a more perfect union it holds very true in this um in this setting of our country so uh it's it's always a um a great um situation where we move through a an election and and kind of start a new so congratulations to everybody win or um so I want I do want to mention the Veterans Day event um which is the 11th and 11th 11 and 11 um uh there is rain forecasted from midnight to 6:00 a.m. but the sun's going to come out at 9:00 a.m. so the good news is it looks like we might get 35 inches of rain um that's good news and also the good news will be that it should be sunny that's always a great event um and justr encourage everybody to try to attend uh 9:00 11:00 1111 at 11 at 11 yes there's a lot symbolism in the time and the date and so uh also mentioned before was a ceremonial formal swearing in for the three new police promotions will take place next Wednesday November 13th at 5:30 at the Bradley Beach Firehouse uh that is for Captain Browning for lieutenant solaro and for sergeant Gale we're looking forward to that um I'm sure the plan is well in place and moving right away long so um anybody who attended Chief Arnolds it's uh it's a very um upbeat positive um event um a lot of these folks have worked for years to get these get to these positions you will have law enforcement people from all over the county we'll have people from the prosecutor's office we'll have some elected officials it's a it's a really um cool ceremony and uh encourage people to come I think we pretty much had we had a couple hundred people I think um for your event uh um Chief so encourage everybody to attend that um let's see what else a couple things on um Library U November 14th Wellness book club uh living green with the heart by Gary Brown um check the website for um for that uh a couple other things for the library they continue really look at the weekly programs they have the Lego Club board games um throughout uh the 12th of November they have the beauty of butterflies the 14th of November I mentioned the wellness book club uh Tech help on November 18th for anybody who has issues with ebooks audio books uh they will help you with that family bingo on November 20th sewing demo how to make place mats on November 21st good idea for pretty Thanksgiving and then December 12 holiday concert with the Florian shant Jazz combo all that's on the website so I'd encourage you to look at that we've got probably one of the most active counties active libraries in the county and they do a great job Recreation um I've mentioned this before I'll just go through the the tick list of Mat movie Monday chair Yoga Table Tennis Tuesday wck kids dance club every Tuesday homework helpers every Wednesday open wreck Thursday and Friday from 3:00 to 7: Maran Friday from 1 to three and then I want to just mention uh last weekend I think last weekend I think it was uh last weekend October 25th maybe it was two weekends ago I'm losing track here uh the ghoulish Gathering um The Jackal Lantern contest at the re Center was a huge hit the walkway was lit up with pumpkins uh there were prizes best looking Jacko Lantern it was a great uh scavenger hunt a dance party and ma um that was followed by a couple events on Sunday the 27th the trunk Retreat third year in a row uh very exciting uh a lot of activity U candy music face painting um that was followed by the parade uh and also um the day was the Bradley boo event which occurs with trick-or-treating on Main Street uh and a number of the businesses um participate it was a Gorge this weather has just been uh just crazy the amount of people on the beach uh yesterday and today was just um for November 7th is crazy but these events were just the weather was just perfect and um we couldn't ask for a better um setting um council president Den Noble mentioned the upcoming holiday season is upon us uh we've got a a special surprise on December 1st that I'll fold in abeyance till then if you come to the event you'll get the Christmas experience or the I'm sorry the holiday experience Christmas my my bad use of words um and I think that is my report so with that I will turn it over to can I just say something really um so a really good clerk is nothing without her Deputy I would be blost without mine sometimes so can everybody give a round of applause to Michelle who's back there hope you heard that Michelle next slide Michelle okay um we now move to um believe it is public comments yes public comments does anybody have any public comments yes Avenue um can you just share what the time is for the um Poli Notions 5:30 5:30 thank you um I did not hear any mention of um um a Hanukah manur lighting taking place this year in the past years we've had uh a very nice event usually with it was I think done in coordination with the local synagogue yes it is and it was quite nice and I'm just I haven't heard anything about that uh I'll follow up on that because um as as you probably know we had a transition from um on rabbis and um typically Rabbi kelman was pretty um aggressive with this updating of us I just haven't I'll follow up um I'm sure we're going to have that the thing I don't know if we're going to have is the [Music] um f no the ice sculpter that was his big thing yes which was a challenge for all of us because we had a tote that thing around town when the warm weather got warm so I'm kind of hoping that the new Rabbi Isn't So ice sculptor centry I I will say that the first night of Hanukkah is on Christmas uh day yes but there are eight nights so it doesn't have to be that ni yes thanks okay thank you any other comments yes thir Avenue mayor I was wondering the state uh New Jersey Transit announced that they had funded over $10 million to redo our train station for handicap accessibility do you or the PA know anything about the status on that um I don't know a current status they did some of that work months ago um for a period of about a week but I'm not sure what additional work they have to do we can follow up on that okay and then um in doing some research into that uh I ran across a report from New Jersey DOT Bureau of research and they list the uh list of top 20 Crossings foreclosure in New Jersey and number nine is uh North Jersey coastline Evergreen Avenue Bradley Beach New Jersey so are you aware of that could you rewind that to what report and this is a a November 2022 report of the New Jersey DOT Bureau of research and uh I ran across the while I was looking up things for the train station so uh I would hope that we could do a traffic study or let the people at the south end of town know that if you want to go south now you're going to have to drive all the way to Sylvania uh on Main Street to go south what does mean definely closing if it's on a list it's just on a list it's on the list of 20 Crossings for closure so I mean we need a little more information on it that's my point you know uh they list a a lot of them on the North Jersey coastline so it's probably a maintenance issue or traffic flow issue uh but it would mean less horns would be blown so that might good and U do we know when the 20 23 audit will be available it's now November I know we were told October time frame uh I spoke to the auditor they are in the throws of finishing it there are a couple balances that the auditor and the CFO needed to go through uh his overall comments were um we should have it um we'll clearly have it this month but that um he was very encouraged by um the work he did with the CFO and the tie outs and how things look relative to we look forward to that on the December 15th meeting that would be uh I don't know if we present we don't present for I don't think sure the Auditors have always come in and presented um and then there're open for questions and that's the way we've done in the past I don't think that is the case Mr I've not I don't recall Mr alawa coming in to do a presentation but I will ask that question um yes Mr snoods did it Mr wot did it I don't know why Mr ol would do it um it's a very important document um do we have any idea about the 2022 corrective action plan when that'll be available as as I think I've said in the past they're going to combine the 2223 together oh Oh you mean we're going to have two corrective action plans at the same time when we have we're have one corrective action plan for the two years for the two years yes and um you know I I I just would like the uh councilwoman elect uh Miss greenl to be uh I would appreciate it if she was included at the December 15th meeting and sit with the attorneys and everyone up here and get a package uh as a councilman in madisan when I won I was in the building two days later I had business cards I was introduced to the clerks I was introducer department heads that I'd be working with I was welcome and I would appreciate we could begin that process here in the burrow Bradley Beach for the next meeting I was allowed to participate in the meeting up until I was sworn in I just was not allowed to vote um I think it's time for inclusiveness in town I appreciate it that thank one thing yes the meeting on the 11th oh the 11th okay 15th Sunday don't come here on December 15 yeah the 11th if we could do that on the 11th I would hope mayor that that would be possible to be inclusive thank yes hi I'm bar Kenny who's extrem brly almost my um I just like to congratulate everybody My Own Way um the um five people who were elected to the commission it's uh Tracy Davidson R Kaplan Don greenbergj right and um sh and Al mayor thank you you know work on miniums I really do believe that like say things make it up eventually something gets done so I come out here and thank um Miss green black for comments regarding Hanukkah because I know I've mentioned this before and now here we are in the middle of valy we got nothing going on and here's the thing the borrow pays for certain events and other ones it bounc back to who are the main participants it's unfair and I would Au quite honestly think it's illegal so that being said while you're working on figuring out the agreement or non-agreement or getting an agreement with Meals on Wheels and all the other things that we seem to be inunction about could you consider a holiday policy I'm kind of one of those all or everything because I don't like to judge so um you know rep that you say you don't like the judge I don't like the judge I'm not going to choose which holidays are important um that's not my place but I would think the people that spend our money and are legally responsible for us and want us to be inclusive it would be their place to make the policy so I'd like to request that you do that in a way that would honor all of our diverse community because if you look at our demographics we're not just all the same but we probably have a lot of the same ideas and feelings and levels of importance thank you thank you yes 504 Central Bradley be I'd like to um publicly congratulate our new Council woman the screen glad I'd like to congratulate and thank all the members of the commission and our Board of Ed of new members but I'd like to read something particularly for our new mayor elect ladies and gentlemen today We Gather to celebrate a remarkable achievement and a new chapter in our community's history it is with immense pride and heartfelt joy that I extend my warmest congratulations to our newly elected mayor coun in gubitosi from the very beginning Mr gubitosi has been a beacon of dedication integrity and unwavering commitment to our community his journey from helon into mayor is a testament to his tireless efforts his vision for a better future and his deep rooted love for the people he serves throughout his tenure as councilman Mr gubitosi has demonstrated an extraordinary ability to listen to understand and to act he has been a champion for our schools a defender of our environment and a voice for those who often go unheard his leadership has brought about positive change and his compassion has touched the lives of many as we look to the future we are filled with hope and excitement we know that under Mar os's guidance our community will continue to thrive and prosper his vision for a more inclusive vibrant and sustainable Community is one that we all share and we are confident that he will lead us with wisdom courage and Grace mayor Gros we say thank you thank you for your dedication your hard work and your unwavering commitment to our community we are proud to stand with you and we look forward to the many great things that lie ahead congratulations alui hears to a brave and prosperous future for us all thank you thank you okay no other comments so we will make a motion to close this meeting and open the executive uh 20240 reor executive session Mr Noble yes Mr guzi yes M Mahone yes Mr Weber yes mayor Fox yes thank you all have a good evening