Oh, wait a second. chargers. Which one's >> so great organiz I just I just I just >> No, how are you? >> Good. >> Thank you. I will need to get
people. No, I would not do that. You take the doors off the both of those. We >> need a garage. Mayor, we better two attorneys tonight. That's what I just
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interruption and action can and will be taken providing that there is an inperson forum. Mr. Noble >> here, M. Greenblack >> here. >> Mr. Carr >> here. >> Mr. Nikki >> here. Mayor Dubetzi >> here. Uh let's see. Good evening everybody. We
have a a solid agenda tonight. I think we'll move through it at a pretty good pace. We're starting off probably with our high spot uh welcoming a new officer to our uh ranks at Bradley Beach. So item number five on our agenda I'll draw
your attention to is presentations and bids. And the f first item on that is oath of office for probationary police officer Samuel for so I think I will be leading that office.
>> You're welcome in please. Good evening everyone. My name is James Arnold. I'm the police chief here in Bradley Beach. Uh first and foremost, as always, I want to thank the mayor, the council, business administrator for your continuous support, your unwavering support of the police department. Really
means a lot to us. And just your willingness to to listen and understand our needs that we need for the community. So, very much appreciate that. Uh with that said, I want to introduce our newest regular police officer, Sam Forat. Sam came to us two
years ago as a class one at the recommendation of his older brother Adam who's here tonight. He was also a class one and class two for us. He's now a regular police officer in Marboro. So, thank you for the recommendation. Worked out very well. Uh Sam went on to be a
class two officer. He's been a class two for a whole year now. He's been exceptional. He's been well received by his fellow officers. I think he's going to be a great addition to our team and I just want to say welcome aboard and congratulations. Thank you.
>> Let me see what we've done here. Two copies. >> Two copies. >> All right. Just I'm going to read this and ask you to repeat after me. >> Yes. Yes. And do you have anyone to What
do you mean? >> So you will be raising your right hand, putting your left hand on the Bible. >> Please repeat after me. I say your name. do solemnly swear >> I, Samuel Forgos, do solemnly swear >> that I will support the Constitution of
the United States >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> in the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> that I will bear true faith and allegiance >> that I will bear true faith and allegiance >> to the same >> to the same >> and to the governments
>> and to the governments >> established in the United States >> established in the United States >> and in this state >> and in this state >> under the authority of the people >> under the authority of the people >> that I will faithfully >> that I will faithfully >> impartially >> impartially
>> and justly perform >> and justly perform >> all the duties >> all the duties >> of a probationary police officer >> of a probationary police officer >> for the Bradley Beach Police Department >> for the Bradley Beach Police Department >> according to the best of my ability
>> according to the best of my ability. >> So help me God. >> So help me God. and that is complete sworn and subscribed before me this 19th day of May 2026 She's going to put his badge on.
>> Okay, great. Get a badge. Thank you. He knows he needs to give a 10-minute speech >> now. Yes. First of all, I'd like to thank the mayor, the council chief for giving me this opportunity at such a young age. I'm very grateful. I want to thank all
the patrolman for helping me get here, teaching me your skills. Most importantly, my family for supporting me through all this and my brother for being mine, my role model, right? Yes. Thank you guys all.
Now, as I said, that'll probably be the highlight of the evening. Anyone who's here for that swearing in feel free to leave. And for those of you who are glutton for punishment and are going to stay for the rest of the meeting, we will continue to
>> No, I'm going to >> um we have resolution 2026-145 appointing uh of our probationary police officer Sam and I will make a motion that we approve resolution 2026 145. Second, >> Mr. Noble,
>> yes. >> Miss Greenlat, >> yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guptzi, >> yes. >> All right. Uh, the next item on presentations and bids is actually a presentation on a digital beach. And I
believe this gentleman is Kevin. >> Thank you. My name is Kevin Bright. I'm from Beach. >> So, just uh Mayor 30 seconds of background. Councilman Rich K was the one who brought this idea to my attention. I reached out to this
company. Uh they provide digital beach access. Uh I vetted them with other towns up and down Jersey Shore. Um the one people may be familiar with is Bentner which is just south of Atlantic City. They now are 100% digital beach um
using the services of this company. um asked him to come make a presentation to the man. >> Can we have a slideshow? Is it Michelle? >> Yes. >> Can she hear me? >> There we go. All right. Thank you.
>> And you got to go back please to slide one or two rather. There you go. One more. That's it. Okay. So, thank you uh everyone for your attention and I'm going to be as quick as possible. I don't want to make this any longer than possible than than necessary rather. But yeah, we are my
beach mobile. We are a digital beach. I call them tags. I apologize. I'm from the south. I'm not beach badges up here, I believe. Right. So, if I say tags, just understand that. Just accept my apology from the outset. But um we are basically the uh digital uh beach badge
provider um in New Jersey right now. We are an app called My Beach Mobile. Um you know unfort I guess for better or worse you know your phone is a part of your life um in this day and age and even going to the beach. I think most people you know as the icons show you
know if you're going to go to the beach you're going to you know use your park mobile app to pay your parking. You're going to maybe listen some music on Spotify Kindle. Um and so the idea is that the beach badges should be just as convenient and accessible for people um going the beach. So next next slide
please. So what we are um is a digital app and it's a proprietary app that allows users to use to buy and use um beach badges on their mobile device. Um, they are much obviously, you know, there are many advantages to them being the fact that
they're digital on your device. Um, you can't lose them, you can't misplace them. If you're bringing your phone to the beach, which probably most people do, um, you know, you're not going to forget them at home. Um, which is nice. So, it's just really a very simplified process. Uh, removes the necessity of
like, you know, showing up in person, picking up your your badges, etc. So, uh, it's obviously environmental, environmentally friendly. It's safe, convenient, and secure, and it just sort of simplifies the whole process. So, next slide, please.
So, some of the benefits are, and we'll kind of go through um there's a video further along that shows how the app actually works, but a couple of the benefits are that it's fraud resistant. So, we have a system in place that I'll show you in a minute where the screen um
you know prevent screen recordings and screenshots because obviously if you're using a QR code for something one of the concerns a lot of towns have is can somebody just screen record this or can somebody screenshot this and you know send to their friends so we have um technology to prevent that um we are
built for beaches um I don't know if everybody remembers Ziply they were a company that was around for a while or an app um they were made more for like general admission and they sort of adapted that model to to beaches and you know they were pretty prevalent um up and down the coast here in New Jersey,
but they weren't made for beaches. They sort of like shoehorned the towns and beach badges into their existing app. We built this app specifically for the purposes of making beach badges digital and also facilitating the sale of physical tags, which I'll talk about in
a moment. And the be the best benefit probably for everyone here is that it's no municipal cost. So, it doesn't cost the town anything at all whatsoever. The way the app works is we charge a small fee uh on top of the cost that we transfer to the town for the for the for the badges.
Next slide please. So presently we are in 10 uh beach towns. We started the this about seven years ago. So around 2019. Um Long Beach Township was our first town. We've been in that town. This is I think our fourth season there and we've
slowly added uh talents along the way. I think the most recent town is Briant team which just signed on this year. Um but we have you know obviously you know pretty good track record. We've been in business for seven years and it did take us a while to get our first town. So
we've had business um for about this is our fourth season coming into it now. Next slide please. And so here are some of our I was talking about anti- fraud and security measures. Uh the one uh measure that we
use is an IME detection system and that basically prevents users from sharing their login credentials which I think Netflix had the issue with that. Basically what it does is the app will record the IMEI number from the device you log in on and then you are allowed to log in on a separate device if for
example you get a new phone. Um but s is the original device gets locked within the database. So you can't, you know, if you share your credentials to a different device, that's permitted, but you can't then log back in on the original device. So it's a little, you know, a little bit of a piece of mind
that you're not going to get people sharing tags, I'm sorry, badges, um, you know, by just sharing their login. So it's another sort of fraud prevention. Um, we have, uh, we use what's called Stripe, which is our backend payment processing service. They're the biggest
in the world. We don't We handle the funds. We pass all the information from the app through Stripe's third party API. Stripe then takes the transaction. Um, you know, if the town decides to sign up, you have a bank account through Stripe. You have a backend portal that
you can access. You can see all the data in real time and Stripe will route that money to your account and then route route our feed to our account and we never touch your money. We don't have access to it and you know you can see everything happen in the back end. So it's kind of a trustless system backed
up by Stripe as I mentioned is the biggest uh data processor in the world. Um the dynamic inapp verification I talked about before we'll look at that in a minute. um basically prevent screenshots. And so unlike um a
web-based platform where you can just screenshot or you can you know forward an email you know this is a much more complicated and complex system to designed to you know keep everybody honest and prevent you know people from trying to get the system. Next slide
please. Some of the features are that it is offline capable. Um, you do need internet to buy your beach badges, but once you have them on your phone, you don't need uh internet to use them. So, it's designed to work if there's not internet available at the time of use.
Um, we have an animated uh QR code, which we're going to look at in a minute, which is part of the, you know, uh, prevention of doing screenshots. And, uh, we offer full training and support. And so, when we sign a town on, we will show up either in person or
through Zoom. to train your beach badge um checkers so they understand you know how the app works what they should be looking for. It's very simple but we obviously are you know around we're local. We're all from South Jersey but you know we're not you know it's another country we're here and we're here to help and and offer support as we go
forward. Um as I mentioned this is uh built for beaches and was founded by people in right here in New Jersey. Next slide please. All right. So, this is actually showing with each each badge screen. Um, so you can see that you're able to have
multiple um badges on uh one device. In this example, there's two. You can have four. You just swipe back and forth between them. It's a QR code and the button at the bottom says hold to animate. So, when you're showing your QR code to each badge checker, you just
hold that button down and you'll notice that there's an animation that occurs. It goes over the actual QR code. Again, that prevents people from screen recording or screen sharing because it has to interact based upon the button press. Um, the QR code is scannable. There is a scanning feature in the app.
So, if you have another phone, you can scan that. It'll query the database and then say whether or not the pass is valid. However, it's not really necessary because of the fact that if they can get to this screen and show a QR code within the app and it responds when you press the button, that's evidence in and of itself um that the
passes. Uh, next slide please. So, the app also has the capability to do transferring of beach badges and some towns like this and other towns don't like this. Some towns take the position that their beach badges are not
transferable even though you can, you know, just hand piece of plastic to somebody else. So, we we built the app to be like a an actual beach badge. So, we figure if each badge is going to be handed out, you should be able to buy, you know, six of them on your device, send two to your kids, one to your wife.
And the way it works is, uh, it does not allow two people to access the same badge at the same time. So, once you transfer that badge to somebody else, it's no longer accessible under your account. It'll indicate, it'll showing your account is being transferred, which is that middle tab up top. It's a little
hard to see, but um, you won't be able to actually access the QR code. person that you send it to will get an email. They'll click on the link in the email and then it'll be brought either bring up the app if they have it or be brought to the either Apple or Google store and they'll download the app and then those
badges will be on their device for the duration of the share and you can um select a different length of time for the sheriff. If you have a seasonal and again this is all configurable and subject to whatever the town you know desires but if you have a seasonal tag
sorry badge you can uh send it for like say a week to you know, your friend is right is using your shore house or somebody's running your shore house or whatever, you can transfer them. You can set an end date and then once that end date expires, the badge will come back to your account. It'll no longer be
available on their account. And then could you just I think there's a play button over the phone. If you could just move up, move the arrow up and hit the play button. Michelle, go up. Hit that play button for me. Yep. Go back to the last slide. Sorry.
Then go up to the actual QR code on the device. There we go. Yeah. So, this is the share screen. So, it goes kind of fast. I apologize. But basically, you know, you walk through, you click, you click in which tag you want to share, you put the
start date and the end date, you enter the email address, you click transfer, and it's done. You get a popup. It does warn you, look, if you transfer this, it's going to be unavailable for the duration that you select, but then it goes to the person's device. So, it's pretty simple. It's a few fields you fill out, click transfer, and it's
pretty much done. Uh, next slide, please. Okay. So I also mentioned that we can um you know we veter is correct the vendor is 100% digital. We've had some towns that do that. We don't have to be 100% digital. People still like to get their
you know plastic tags and something. So we um we don't have to supplant the existing system. You can be a complement to that system just to give people who want to use the app an opportunity to do so but not you know therefore removing somebody else's who wants to use you
know wants to buy a physical beach badge and we can actually facilitate the sale of beach badges in the app physical beach badges and the way that works is as you can see on the screen here um you'll buy them in the app and then there's a drop down do you want a digital or do you want a physical you
select physical there'll be a popup that says you're buying the physical beach badge, you have to pick it up and we'll the location where it has to be. And then when they go to the pickup location, so they'll come in to pick up their tag, it'll show this screen. Um, it basically the message there that
basically says don't press the activate button until you're ready to pick up. So if you've ever used like a a coupon where you click on the coupon in the app and you have like a certain amount of time to use it, this is the same situation. So basically once you're at the pickup location, you just show the
person who's giving out the beach badges, you know, the screen. You click the button that says I am at the pickup location. You'll click the activate button and that will confirm and then you'll see a QR code which will be animated. Um you know confirming that and that this is in fact each badge
purchase. You can see in this example there's two. There can be as many you swipe between them just like you would. Um, so basically we call this a live receipt and like I said, it's basically a way to verify that somebody has purchased the physical tag. Once they click that activate button, the thing
goes away. They don't have it on the phone anymore. They get the badges and then they leave and that's it. Um, obviously on the back end database and Stripe will see uh the records associated with it. So it's all still there, but they won't be able to come in the next day with the same thing and use it again, right? It's a one it's a one
time use thing basically. Uh, next slide please. So, obviously, you know, there's a couple benefits. Um, we can do different batch types. Um, we can customize the prices and the rules in terms of like the transfer feature. I mentioned some
towns don't want it, some towns do, some towns want limitations on how long certain badges can be transferred for, etc. So, we can work with the town on that and do it all the time. Um it's a very simple system in terms of like inventorying. It's much simpler especially for digital than what we've
seen in towns that we are in right now and how those accountings are set up you know sort of in the back end. And again as I mentioned there's no cost. It all comes down to the user paying the fee. Um and it doesn't cost them anything. Uh beachgoers like it because it's
convenient. Uh the pricing is transparent. We have you know real time customer service. Um, and it expands the options. So, there are people like me who I want I'm the kind of person I grew up, you know, with a phone. I always want to do everything on my phone, you know, but I understand there's people
who maybe they still want their their actual physical badge and they can still you use the app to buy that or you can still offer them via whatever the existing system is a discount to buy. And uh so we so if you sign up, you know, we'll basically have a meeting
with usually it's the administrator and the um finance officer and you know, we'll set up the back end. Um, we'll go over the whole system and how it works. It's very, very secure. We have, like I said, onsite support. Um, and we can help you with some marketing to try to
increase. I mean, obviously our benefits are aligned with yours or our motivations are aligned with yours because we want to sell as many tags, sorry, badges as possible and you do as well, right? So, the more sort of cross marketing we can do with that. We have a pretty well established Facebook and
some social media pages and we are posting this regularly to try to encourage people to use the app but also just generally buy each badges. Next slide please. So basically what sets us apart you know we're at this point the only app that
does beach tags uh badges are in New Jersey. It's the most secure app on the market. Um we have all went over all fraud and security features and everything works offline. We can customize it for you. We have very responsive customer service as Carolina
you've had many interactions which she's great. Um and we've been in business for six years and we've been developing and proving the app along the way. We obviously updated frequently so that's a good thing. Um you know so and we're local so we're in New Jersey and um I
guess last slide please. Um, so join us in revolutionizing the She said Carol didn't need to put this together. She said beach tag. I will put badges, but anyway. Um, I try to call them passes because that's like neutral. But, uh, that's that's the presentation. So, does anybody have any questions or is there anything I can answer for
anybody? Yep. >> So, um, >> you mentioned there's a fee. So, basically, anyone who purchases will pay a credit card fee, which now is pretty much standard for anything purchase as well. a fee for what is your fee?
>> Yeah, so it depends on how much the tag I'm sorry beach costs. Basically, we pay um 2.9% plus 30 cents for every transaction that Stripe processes for. So, we pass that along to the customer and then we add a fee on top of that, an
hour fee. And I don't know off the top of my head, but I can send we have I can send to Matt the fee schedule. We just changed it this season and it's the same. It's a flat um it's a a flat um amount. I want to say it's actually the same. It's 2.9% plus 30 cents. I'm not
100% sure on that. But we can say >> on a $14 daily pass. >> So on a um well >> we would be putting it now on the beach goers to pay a fee along the credit card fee. >> Yeah. Well, our fee so the fee we charge
is inclusive of the credit card fee, you know, but you know, so basically we're taking part of that paying strike process and then we're keeping part of it. So it all comes out of our fee basically. But yes, it's being paid by the by the >> only one generally one fee. It's not
your fee plus fee >> because the law in New Jersey says you have to separate it for people if you're charging them. We do separate it so they can see exactly we're paying you know this amount of third party processing fees is how it's displayed and then we have our fee under that but it's you know but basically it's one fee to use
the app which is broken outside and I can tell you what that would be. I'm just going to bring up the my phone. >> Can I do a second question for you? >> Yep. Um, let me just do a
mortgage. So, it's a 10. So, $10. So, so on a $10 in this case, I'm using Margate and um it's my beach mobile fee is 73 cents and then the third party fees are 63 cents. to is 1136. So it's a
the total fee is $136, >> right? For one pass. >> Yes. Correct. >> Um so the other question I had is um when someone goes to the beach with their purchase electronic pass >> um it's a QR code that they show to the badge checker.
>> Correct. Yeah. >> And so then the badge checker needs a device of some sort. >> No. Um they are scannable and basically that's in the event there's any question it's sort of like a backup but when you have it on your phone basically there's a the QR code will pop up and they'll
hold the button down that says hold to animate and that will cause like a line to go down and animate the QR code and so once they show that they're in the app and it's responding to the touch input on the phone it proves that the pass is valid because they can't get to
that screen to show that unless so other words if you buy beach badge for tomorrow and it's today. If you go to you can't access it. You can only access tomorrow and then after tomorrow it goes away. Same thing for weeklies. Obviously seasonals are good the whole time. But basically as long as they can show that QR code and show an
animated press that button that's a self authenticating feature of the app that proves that it's valid. It's valid >> and we charge different rates. Oh no I guess we only season one for seniors and >> when we have different rates that also
somehow identified because now you can also share whereas with a with a beach badge you can see a senior tag versus a an adult tag there's a difference of color so you know >> yeah so they they will be indicated on the device and Margate sells um and Vner
does a couple beaches they sell um senior tags and in terms of the physical ones if you're buying a physical one you can pick up we just have a popup on the app that says you have to present photo ID at the time of pick up make sure that you're seeing it and then you get it because a digital one it look different
in the app but there's you know a lot of people are bringing their ID to the beach so it's kind of a little bit more of a tricky situation the digital badge than it is with the physical one but Bargate has been doing it and hasn't you know causing issues >> so if I wanted to jump the system and
buy all senior badges let's say and I'm not of of senior age then I want to share them with other people >> the badge checker would not really know if it was a senior No, they would know because it would be different within the app just like it would be different if it was a physical, right? But it's up to the checker at
that point to determine the age of the person trying to use it just like it is presently. >> Yeah. >> Questions. >> I'm just in general, I mean it's somewhat obvious, but your experience of your customers so far, what has been
their savings and benefit to them for going to the system? Um, I mean, I can't really 100% speak to that, but I could say that it's the just the convenience of having on your phone. I we so we've done we've been in business for this, like I said, our we started, I think, our fourth season. So,
we have three seasons. We've done like $1.7 million in the app so far across. So, people like the app and they want to use it. We have good reviews on Apple and Google Play. You know, it's a great question and unfortunately we don't have um like we
don't have a good method of getting user feedback. I wish I could answer it more specifically. >> You should you should ask your customers for that feedback because you know the obvious one are you know our front window doesn't have to sell badges, >> right? >> Nobody down at the beach collecting fees
and having cash in the window. >> Oh, you mean for the for the towns? >> For the town. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I think you meant for the actual >> Oh, no. For the town. >> Oh, sure. Well, yeah, that that's for the town. I mean, one of the biggest benefits is you don't have people on the beach with lots of money in their pockets. You know, have to like a lot of
towns do it differently, how they account for money that's being sold, you know, for bets. Some some towns do badges like right on the beach. You show up, the checkers have them and it's cash and here you go and then they have to somehow account for that on the back end. With our app, everything is digital, right? It all goes through the
back end. So, there's really no um it's really not an issue. We don't need any armored cars like taking on the >> It's part of the savings to do this. >> Yeah, sure. And it's also free. I mean, there's just no cost. It's just it doesn't have to replace the existing
system. I think that's important because a lot of people are just resistant to digital anything at this point. I totally understand that and they want it. But this is not about replacing existing system. This is just offering people who come to your beach another option if they counting of it all. Of
course, you can draw your reports directly from >> directly from Stripe. So, um you'll so if you sign up, you'll we will go over it with you, but you'll sign up through Stripe's website. You'll put in the uh bank account information for where you want the fund sent to. There's obviously a lot of other information they gather.
Then you'll have your own password and your own username and everything. And we don't even have access to that. And so that'll show you on there and you can export all the data. spread, you know, Excel spreadsheets or, you know, accounts badge checkers or the sales.
I'm walking, you know, with bags of coins. >> Yeah. Yeah. Now, this this eliminates that. So, >> and just give an idea, Councilman, I distinctly remember last year we had a great weekend and we had a bag of cash $72,000.
>> It's crazy, >> but a cheap ar all that has to be accounted for. So, so it does help on the finance side. It makes accountants much happier to have a system like this. It makes CFOs much happier, auditors much happier and also talking with the municipalities
particular vendor, you know, where they see a cost savings. It's not huge, but there's a cost savings. Now, you don't need to buy the badges. You don't need to buy the maybe do wristbands for dailies, things like that. You don't buy anything. So there there's a savings in in the the physical things that we need
to purchase now that every town has been purchasing for decades that all started. Um and and this eliminates all that. Um I will also tell you procurement wise and I explain to them that we would have to go out through through the proper procurement channels for something like
this. Um, but one thing that council will be interested in, one thing I thought we could do for this summer was a little pilot and just see how it works. Um, see how people feel about it. Um, you know, see how our beach bed checkers are at looking at the the
animated screen. Um, but you know, if you go to any movie concert, it's all on your phone. Everything is is on your phone nowadays. Sharing it is easy. And again, we could, you know, policy decision by the council. Should we allow people to share? Should we not allow people to share? They can turn that on
or turn it off depending on whatever the policy decision the council is. >> And you can actually just use it for daily badges in >> Yes, you do just daily. >> Yeah, we're happy to do. We used to offer that before we had any Long Beach Township. Uh, you know, they were the
first ones to sign up. So we're always like very grateful to them because it was very hard to get set up when we didn't have any talent existing customers. Um but we always offered that you know we do a limited pilot program limited to like thousand badges or whatever. Um we could definitely do that. You know we just turn them off
after the number of badges gets reached and you know everybody can make sure you get their feet wet and see if they like it and then there's obviously no obligation. Um you know so that's not considered but we think and you can reach out to the other towns. Um, you know, I think they they have good things
to say about us. So, we haven't we don't really get a lot of complaints. We get some inquiries, but we don't really get complaints. So, and then and the app in, you know, going on the fourth season now, we've never had an issue like a technical glitch within the app where we could, you know, something, you know,
catastrophic happen. It just doesn't happen. We've done a lot of business. It's held up well. It's it's been flawless. Um, yeah. So, it's set up very well. It's been it's been working great and it's a very robust system. >> So, are there other questions?
>> Just one more. So, if someone shows up and they say, "I want to get on the beach for today." Oh, you have to go all the way down to the, you know, the booth. >> They could buy it right there and then be like, "I'm ready to go." >> Okay. >> You know, I I envision it a lot more for the daily benches,
>> right? >> Um, that's why I was talking to Matt about uh, you know, There are people who like the physical badge like the annual badge instead. We know so many people who collect them. So we could actually offer like a package like get a digital and by the way you'll get a a physical
badge as well. My one question um would be in the enforcement side. Right now we have certainly going through the gate is the same whether or not somebody's looking for something on your wrist or you're holding them you're just holding on your phone. I also think that more
people get their badges as they tie them to the backpack when they go to the bathroom. Everybody's picking the phone. So, they always have them. >> But on the beach, um, as people like our seasonal officers are walking and they're just checking
things out. Yeah, I see that person has his hand. They won't be able to see that because there's not going to be something physical >> like physical on them, unfortunately. Yeah, that's a reality. They have to bring up their phone. Now again, you can have multiple, you know, badges on your phone. It's a quick, you know, swipe
through. You see five and you swipe through five and you're done. So, you know, that is an issue. Um, you know, in terms of that is a benefit of the physical tags that are badges that we, you know, unfortunately you have to bring up the but, you know, it's not as Matt was saying like you go to movies, you go to Eagles game or sorry, maybe
Giants, whatever you're getting Jets out of whatever you're, you know, and you know, this is I think everybody's kind of used to it by now. Um, and you know, so and so the way this whole idea came out is I was on I had two, they're like, it's kind of 12 and
15 now, but at one point my two boys were little and I think my youngest one was like three years old or whatever. I took them to Ocean City and we have beaches, we call them, tags, and I bring them and I forgot to bring them. It was just me, my wife had a headache or whatever. She stayed home and I get there and I get set up and I get down
all the toys and stuff and I see the checkers. I'm like, "Oh my god, no." Like I have to them all. We had done a lot while we had our stuff like ready to go. And so I thought I should be able just buy this on my phone. Instead, I put my head down. I feel like I was sleeping. I think the checkers like took pity on me because they felt bad for me
and just walked by, you know. But look, I would have bought them if I could have, you know, but I couldn't because I needed cash. I had no cash on me and I, you know, obviously I have to go back a while to get money out of the ATM, which, you know, when you have two little kids like that, it's not very ideal. So, it's just really meant to be more convenient. Um and again and no
cost uh to the to the town and I think it's you know a very big benefit for the for the user and I think it certainly justifies you know the sort of more cost and also it's part of the trend to get away from from cash. So you know last
year we instituted part for 100%. Um that had a couple hiccups here and there, but overall right chief there was was easy enough to enforce and people by and large are compliant because it's something that they do in
other beach towns as well. Um, you know, we're not the only beach town that has something like this and I think, you know, there's going to be more and more of the the trend going and it just helps us again to move away from bags of $72,000 in cash and yeah, just in the
process for that, you know, the police have to get involved and they bring it here, recount it and give back to the police and then they have to go to the bank and deposit it. It's just a very arcane way of of managing the town's finances. So any I have questions but
any other questions from the council? Um couple quick questions. Sure. One I I know you kind of put yourself on the spot when you were calculating the the charges but just the quick math as as I want to make sure I understood it. $10 badge. You had a dollar 36 addition.
That sounds like a lot more than 2.9% plus 30 cent. I was just wondering, does your phone tell you how that breaks down? Because >> I'm literally looking at the app, but it just has a line item for each of them. Um, >> what's the 2.9%. >> It includes a credit card fee, right?
>> Yeah. So% I have my readers back. >> It's u Yeah. So $10. So our fee is 73. So >> plus it's more 30 cents. You were saying 2.9 plus 30. I thought >> 2.9% on the transaction plus 30 is what
we pay for. So that would be the 63 cents because that's what the third party processing fees are and then ours is 73 cents. So ours is slightly more. Yeah, I I can send to Matt. We can send the whole schedule break it down exactly what it is. I just don't know off top of
my head. Unfortunately, we we have changed them. Um and this is like the before it was a whole much more complicated system where it's based upon the amount. was a certain percentage, obviously a higher percentage on a lower, but as you got higher in fe in cost, the percentage went down because,
you know, you're not going to charge like 20% of a $10 transaction is $2, but you only charge 20% of a $100 transaction. So, we try to figure out a way to make it so that way it's more of a sliding scale. >> Uh, I mean, I I think all of us, I think I can say unanimously, we'd love to move
away from cash. Yeah. The more we can, the better. We also have residents, especially seniors, who will never move away from cash. So, I imagine we're more of a candidate to have some sort of a, you know, hybrid approach,
>> but um so, so a lot of what you're saying is very appealing to you haven't mentioned it, but I presume, uh, this also really helps folks who have lost their season badges. Now, you know, it's easy to identify yourself that I don't know if they lost their phone or
something. Can we recapture that via whatever's on the uh >> yeah they could just log in on their new phone and they'll have access to all their existing but it is a good point because I can another personal like anecdote for me but uh you know my father-in-law rents a house down Ocean
City for a week and it comes with beach tag beach tag and then you know people were sharing the house but took them home by accident had to drive all the way back down and drop them back off you know so this this would eliminate that as I think I think the thing that I'm personally going to want to understand
better Yeah. >> are the additional fees because >> right now it's it's it's more than a 10% bump. So 13 14% bump over the $10. >> Gone from 10 to 1136. >> Well, it's 11. It's basically 11%
because it went from 10 right to 1136. But keep in mind part of that is because there's that initial 30% bump which is going to hit a >> No, I understand. Yeah, >> I understood. And even with the the typical 30 cents, 29 cents, whatever it is on the $10 badge that you got for a
credit card, you know, everybody that's using a credit card is going to pay that. >> Yeah. It's it's your additional fees I'd like to understand because again, if your additional fees are roughly 10% in our world, that's close to $20,000
because we have almost 200,000 each badge sales total, right? whereas our badges cost us a couple of thousand. Yeah. >> So I I just need to do that math to make sure we're not passing too much on to the consumer. >> Yeah. I I will send that information to Matt. I will I just put in four. So at
$40, our fee is $26. The third party fees are $1.56. So it's roughly, you know, it's a 4362. So it's $362 total on a $40 transaction. So we can probably get Matt we can work with these guys to just get that
>> I'll send you formula. Yeah. Yeah. That's not it's just something I don't know about. I guess I think it's it's must be very close to the 2.9% plus 10 cents because that's >> because remember charge for them and for the credit card companies per transaction.
It's not per meges the percentage goes down. >> Yes. Yeah, because of those the initial do the initial transaction cost that's tied to that 30 cents, you know, that's much bigger deal if it's a, you know, a
dollar transaction if it's a fully transaction. >> The final question I you mentioned you automatically transfer the funds to each bank account that was established. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> Well, Stripe, our payment processor does
that because that goes directly. >> Do you know working through Stripe? Are are you also able to feed financial reporting systems like in our case we use admin? A lot of municipalities use admin but do you know is there some sort of a automatic transfer to to the
financial reporting system of the activity? >> I know that you can download spreadsheets. You talking about the data, not like not the actual >> if we had, you know, $10,000 of sales that day >> and the money shows up in our bank account,
>> right? >> Can you but is there an electronic feed to our or can we create an electronic feed to our financial reports? >> Yeah, the answer is yes. There they have APIs for that and service. So it's just
some some somebody who's technical who understands the API connections to be able to transmit that information. Appreciate that. >> That's probably my >> and you are your only badges. For example, we also have a current vendor who handles our badges also handles our
beach lockers. If there were other activities of us selling, renting, you know, collecting money from beach related activities, do you go beyond badges? >> You can. I mean, so right now we do the shuttle in Long Beach Township, the long shuttle and shuttle. Um, they're all
done through our app. And then we've also done uh like boat ramps. Um, we've done uh you know, we've done a couple other things like that. We don't get a lot of uh revenue from that. You know, they're not really used very frequently for those things. The shuttle actually
does get used a lot, but it's a very cheap shuttle, so it doesn't, you know, it's not a big in terms of like dollars. It's not very long transactions. Yeah, we could we could we can definitely talk about that. See what we do in the act. It's not a problem. >> So, as as Mr. Dhy said, we'll consider
this a little further or may look into a pilot course of the summer >> and if we do anything more formally, we have to do an RFP. But thank you very much for your time tonight. >> No problem. Thank you. I appreciate All right, moving to the next item on
our agenda are workshops item six and Mr. Ben. >> Give me one second. Zoom on this. >> Ben, as you set this up, do you know if folks on Zoom will be able to see that?
Okay, so that was very exciting and hopefully this one will be just as exciting for the police uh oath. Um, but uh we're here to talk about the burough's municipal public
access plan. Um, it's a plan that is required for every municipality in in New Jersey. Uh, it provides a a plan that that determines access to all public facilities. Uh, in the Burough's case, you have parks, the beach, your
lakes. Um, and and this plan describes uh how they are accessed. Um, and it needs to be updated every 5 years. The last one was updated in 2019. So, the uh D is the uh entity that reviews these
plans. They asked that it be updated. So, we're here to uh talk about that. One of the requirements is to have a public hearing. So, we're here to discuss this. And uh I'm going to pass it over to Austin Bazook from my office uh who prepared the the update. He's
going to go over a couple of the things that that we changed uh and uh some of the proposed improvements that that are coming in the the future. And uh Austin, you take the letter. Good evening everyone. My name is Austin Zuk. Um
so as Matt has been described, uh this gives an overview of the public access to primarily the burrow's beach. Um it details each access point in the burrow and some of the amenity amenities that
uh are provided at each access point. Your ADA accessibility, your moi mats, showers, restrooms. Um so what we did this uh so yes, the boat has a MPAP currently which as Ben said requires to be updated every five years. Uh this
update um the reason for the updates is because the uh the cult zone management rules that the D has out um requires compliance with the MPAP when they issue permits. So, for example,
your beach work uh most of the time they'll require a capper permit. Um and that they won't issue that unless you're in compliance with the municipal public. Uh so, a big um part of this update is to capture any future improvements that
may permits. Um so that way when the state does get up get up to reviewing that you're already in compliance with your administrative. Um so some of the uh updates we provided
were uh new GIS 8 and 1 half by 11 maps. Um previously they were you know a little uh not full page. Um, so with this we added we went through and we added all the moi mats, uh, your new
ramps, stairs, uh, showers along the waterfront. Um, as well as your handicap parking along the waterfront. Um, another portion of this update is to try and figure out uh is to determine the
community needs. Are there needs for more public access to the beachfront? Are there ways to improve your public access to the beach front? Um, so we did a little bit of analysis uh since the burrow is only about a mile in length, the the access points are sufficient. You know, there's 12 physical access
points to the beach um more to the promin. I think there's 14 or 15 directly to the uh to the pro um which you know also provide access to the beach but not physically to the sand. So this map
shows the 12 physical access points directly to the beach. Um and then there's a couple there was a couple other maps that we this is the most detailed map so that's why we show
this one. Um but we did just an overview map. your title tidal waters being the Atlantic Ocean uh and the lakes that are on the north and south of the burrow. Um
and then like a green acres map which shows all the the green acres property in the township in the burrow that's on the um other than the map uh we did some improve some of the language in the document itself to more line with the coal zone management rules and the
state's outline of these management plans sorry public act municipal public act um So there's some language updates. Uh this year actually the state uh adopted a new set of coastal regulations. Um so
that was another part of this update. Um and then yeah that's pretty much it for the document. And then we also uh so we also added in uh we had a meeting with Matt and the mayor and Paul um
to discuss some of the future improvements that we're going to include in this uh in this update. Um so those were also added that includes the uh Silven Lake and Bradley Boulevard improvements. um
road improvement programs, new ADA uh drop offs uh for the beach uh restrooms, uh improvements at the rec center. Um and basically the reason for as I mentioned before including all these updates is that in the future when these
new clients are moving forward and you do need permits uh from the state that you're already in compant with the with the rules and the MP um to give you another example for uh we've included the Silven Lake improvements
project because that will that potentially alter the boulevard. You want to change parking and then that change your access to the beach because you know, you have more parking spaces or less parking spaces for the improvements. So, that's really the the goal of adding these updates. Um, as Ben
said, these are required to be updated every five years um to account for anything additional the bure to do for updates on projects that were in the previous version just so the state uh is able to keep track and make
sure that um we also included the prominade extension. Um so that that permit uh actually just got yesterday. prois and notions.
Um that's all I got on you guys questions or comments. >> Actually just one for um I know it talks about um handicap access. Um does it we
need to specify the number of handicap parking? >> Uh no no. So right now we sell um uh handicap parking in the street in the general vicinity of we don't have to tell them how many >> okay how many actual spots there are.
>> What about the bathrooms? Do they need to be certified? >> No. So there's no like requirement um on the state level if the you know burrow wants to add more restrooms then that's something that we would incorporate into the plan that way when you get to building the restroom on the beach here
regulations. So right now we have all the restrooms that are existing along the waterfront are shown on this map. >> Also isn't the new uh restroom that is the old pump station that we are currently uh converting. >> Yes.
>> Is it as a new um facility? >> Yep. So that's also included on there. Um it's not it's not one of the uh it's not one of the callouts because it doesn't give you direct access to beach. Uh but there ish have an icon for the
restrooms that end up >> and there and we we have a description about it. There's a a whole written report about um that makes up the municipal public access plan. Uh and we describe the new uh restaurant facility
concession stand in that report. >> What about the ADA compiance related to the rec center to access the rec center? Uh so we we included that um as well but uh this document really focuses primarily on beach access but we
have as been said about the restrooms we did include the rec center in in the document as well and a little description on what improvements will happen to make sure that um just to capture all
>> so when this goes to the DEC do they typically start to challenge or question some of the added elements um that has been you know for instance the removal of parking >> so they'll have a chance to review and comment on I I don't know if they argue
about it because at the end of the day um and the D is going to review it but the the bureau is going to have to sign um and so so the state so it's uh I don't think there's going to be a bunch of push back on proposed improvements but there there is the opportunity for
the state to come on And one of the things that we we did include in in the report is that while uh the burrow wants to remove parking along Bradley Boulevard, it offers the opportunity to increase
public access to Silver Lake and connectivity between Main Street and Ocean Avenue by uh future improvements installing pedestrian walkway and bicycle lanes uh as well as uh striped crosswalks. across
Brad Bradley Boulevard because right now the only protected crosswalks are at Main Street and and at uh at the end of Bradley Boulevard where it meets Evergreen. So if you're coming from anywhere in the middle of the burrow to try and get to Silen Lake, there's
nowhere for you to cross the street away and you're adding some other elements and there's a balance of >> Yes. What's the uh time frame on this review? When's it being submitted and what does that schedule look like?
>> Um so now that we've had the public meeting, we can uh wrap up the final draft. Uh we should be able to submit it next week. Um DP's review is probably like 30 to 60 days. I don't think there is a set
review for like statuto review clock. Um might have to look into that and see if there's actually one, but as soon as the you know D gives their okay then it has to be signed by the bureau and signed by DP and finalized with the resolution. I know that we're
just off top popped in my head, we are looking at um putting in additional uh ADA ramps accessing the beach in the future. I know we've permitted two or three locations that we submitted for our capital permit and so those are also denoted as future improvements to
increase our ADA um accessibility to the beach. >> Correct. >> Thank you. >> One more. You had mentioned that the last one was done in 2019 and that D came to us and said hello you guys didn't
>> Yeah. It was a little late. So um I guess next time we should have a reminder that goes off. So instead of the proactive >> we definitely will because that could jeopardize. >> Yeah. I know when we submitted for the
capper permit for the prominade extension you actually went and said hey we don't have this yet updated will this impact us getting the cap permit for the prominard extension and the response came back no it wouldn't but please get that submitted as soon as possible so um
so we we got passed thank you D for that one um so that we're not holding up you know progress on we've got so much interaction with the New Jersey D related agencies that anything that we've had overlooked as a council
there's no way it's going to get by addition. So it's it's a obviously a good thing and it's a good thing that we're making progress on a lot of fronts. My only question and I think council's question might have answered it. I was struck by all of the handicaps
all the way at the line. Is that referencing a handicap ramp? whatever it is. >> Yeah. So, it's uh I'm going to scroll down to show our uh our uh legend, but yeah, it's handicap
rents. Um parking, moy mats, uh those are the three handicaps. >> The blue symbol is the actual >> the yellow ones are the handicap rams to the beach. So, so
again, questions just about I just want to make sure we're reporting it correctly. We don't have ramps currently at at every beach front and in fact we don't necessarily need them at a couple. On the other hand, as Councilman you just mentioned, we're planning to add three
towards the end of the summer, maybe right after the summer. Sounds like you have captured those three additional ramps. Yes. Here. >> Yeah, the three additional we've captured. >> Now, you did also mention As council car just said the moy mats ring as as we are
speaking we have three huge fronts that have 10 foot wide moy mats. So are are you cap capturing 10 foot wide as being the denotation of handicap or if we just have a 4 foot wide movie are
you calling that handicap? So I have all movements. >> All any mobile is >> Yeah. >> We're not differentiating between the 10 and four. >> Yeah. >> I I just knew that right now we have gaps in terms of handicap access, but
the blues wheelchair I believe, >> you know, I got >> we have probably more than we do at the moment, but we're we're gaining the blue wheelchair handicap parking, >> right? So the blue says handicap parking. The one that's cap blue half
yellow is handicap access. And the one that has like the sort of italiciz all the ones that I see on there. >> Yeah, most of them do. I think there's only about Thank you. This sounds like it's eons
beyond where we were six or seven years ago. So, the good news is that Burma's done a lot and the great news is you've captured it all for us. So, thank you for for the work you've done. Uh, no other questions. Um, Erica, let me ask you a question. Given that we need to
have a public hearing, is this sufficient? Yeah, I confirm that with the with them. >> Okay. And of course, anyone who does have questions, if you guys wouldn't mind sticking around for five more minutes when you're done. If the public has any questions of these
presentations, we could deal. >> It says public hearing here. So, you could just >> Yeah, we'll just do it as part of the >> whatever. Yeah. >> Questions on the agenda. >> We were safe in the way we did it, >> right? No other questions. So, shall we move on then to the second part of your
presentation? Sure, we can. >> Thank you. >> We can either do public questions now about this one now or or just wait till we're done with >> We can open it up for any questions on the agenda. So, we'll do it all. >> That's fine. >> Next one.
>> Mayor, do you want us to post the planet shirt on the website as well >> on the website? Sure. Where does it where does it live? Does it live on the website? What we're
referencing where people >> That's a good question. I don't know where does it live. I know where it is. >> Okay. So, the next uh thing we're I'm
here to talk about is uh the temporary pedestrian access. I don't want to zoom out too much or zoom in too much. I want to be able to see uh the whole plan. Okay. Uh temporary uh pedestrian access plan
for uh during construction of the prominade extension. Uh Austin mentioned and as you know uh the bureau just recently received our D caffer permit for the promot extension. Austin was very integral in that uh and we are uh
currently out to bid uh for construction. So uh this this plan is going to be implemented uh over the summer. Uh due to the uh funding restrictions we have to get the project
done this year. So we are uh kind of stuck to to have construction during the summer. So in order to uh facilitate construction and also provide safe access uh to the beach uh for everyone, we've we've come up with a pedestrian
access plan um shown here. So uh I guess the first thing I'll I'll show you is the existing crosssection of Ocean Avenue here. Uh it is uh about 66 feet wide I believe is the number. Sorry it's
a little little hard to see on on the graphic here but uh you've got two uh 13 ft travel lanes and then you have 20 foot uh parallel parking lanes. You can just kind of see the your your typical crosssection there. During construction
uh between the Second Avenue Grill and the existing prominade, uh we're going to technically narrow that that roadway. Uh the the traveled lanes where cars are driving, that will remain the same untouched. Still going
to have two 13 foot wide lanes. What's going to happen is we're going to take uh the row of parking uh against the uh sidewalk and the beach. um and use that as a pedestrian access point. Uh we'll
have it protected with with chain link temporary chain link fence um for for people to to walk through. Uh 10 foot wide uh so they're protected from the traffic uh and they're contained so they're not going to be jumping down
into traffic. Um, and we also leave leave a little buffer uh on both sides. Uh, 4ft buffer between the fence and and the travel way where the cars are driving and then another 6ft buffer uh
on the other side of the fence for uh construction to happen because they will be going all the way up to the and including the curb. Um, in the middle we're going to have uh construction gates uh access gates for
trucks to enter in and we we're planning on having a construction entrance kind of in the middle of the site. Uh so when vehicles need to enter the site, the gates will open up and they'll actually basically block uh pedestrian traffic
while trucks are entering. It's kind of like an additional safeguard. um to keep the the conflict between pedestrian uh traffic and construction traffic um you know
from happening. Um, in order to construct this, uh, there are two, uh, sets of stairs. Uh, one right next to the Second Avenue Grill that will be in the construction zone. And there's a, it's not stairs, but it's
just kind of a walk-on um, entrance closer to uh, Third Avenue, also in the construction zone. So since we're we're taking those away temporarily during construction, we're uh constructing temporary staircases on the other side
of Second Avenue Grill and then one temporary staircase at the at the uh existing prominade at Third Avenue. Um we we're also going to be providing uh signage for people kind of get them
used to it. Uh that the bathroom building here is going to remain dirty construction. Uh that the Second Avenue Grill is going to be re remain open. Uh so people on the beach that are are walking through these uh spots between
the dunes, they know where to go and what's available to them. Uh typically, and it's not shown in this aerial because this is during the winter, but uh we've got the beach lockers lined up along the dunes. uh
this hallway. So in the in the interim during construction, the beach lockers are going to be uh double stacked along closer to the the the road uh and prominade between Second Avenue Grill
and Evergreen and then also moved down towards uh Third Avenue um and towards that that temporary staircase so that the area where construction happening. People aren't trying to get to their lockers. Um, you
know, it kind of too close to that construction zone. >> I think I covered everything. >> Ben, where's the construction vehicle access again? Can you just >> Sure. So, this red box is is where construction is going to be taking
place. And then this kind of lighter red color and it's it's got a a green shading in it. Uh might be a little difficult to see. Showed up better on my computer screen. Um this is the uh construction entrance in the middle. Um
typically uh when when public works is is trying to access the beach, they'll use Evergreen Avenue. So that that could be a a an access point if needed uh for um the contractor, but that's that'll
get worked out with them during construction where uh this is the preferred access point. They may may decide they need to use this on occasion, but really the the uh the preferred access point is is in the middle in the construction site to keep,
you know, traffic off of the beach um and and keep it contained in that that area. >> So, could you also speak to um one of our strategies when they did the outfall pipe coming off the Silven Lake that spills out into the ocean? We had
stockpiled all that jetty rock um to be used to armor the the prominade and so and that's all stacked up just south of Evergreen. >> Yes. >> Could you comment on what we're what the contractor is going to have to do to move that stone um during construction
and during the beach season and how we're going to manage that? Yeah. So, it's it's just off the page here, but the evergreen pump station is right here, and the jetty stone is piled up right here. So, the contractor during
construction once they they install the bulkhead that uh is going to be the extension for for the prominade here, they're going to take this stone and bring it across the beach uh to this area so they can place it in front of
the bulkhead as a scour protection for that uh ful >> and that's going to be dug deep, right? I mean, that's down several feet. >> Yes, it'll be down several feet. You'll have a minimum of 2 ft of sand on top of it. Uh so once the project's done, you
will not see this jetty rock. Uh as a matter of fact, the entire promote has jetty rock buried under the sand. uh that was it was installed that way uh back in the early 90s I believe was the uh original construction. Uh and I know
that I've spoken to public works. They've once in a while encountered it when they're raking the beach. Uh but we're we're and they found it to be about a foot deep. We're safeguarding a little bit more. We're going to bury it two feet deep. Uh so that it's it's not
you're not going to see it, not going to encounter it. maintenance. Uh so so that's that's the plan. Uh but yes, dur during construction uh probably couple week process to take all of the
jetty rock that's stockpiled here and move it to to its final resting place there. Um and and that'll that'll get worked out with the contractor with the police department. The contractor is going to have going to be providing um you know kind of traffic control flagmen
uh during that process to make sure that people trying to to enter or exit the beach are not going to be inflict you know in conflict with these machines going across. Uh so that that's uh part
of part of the plan. So, does that um are the are the stones coming up to Ocean Avenue and back down or are they coming like on the west side of the >> It's it's yet to be determined by by the contractor. >> I presume there's no traffic on the east side of
>> Correct. No traffic on the east side of the buildings. Everything from the dunes towards the the beach is going to be untouched. That is what you call the plant protection strip uh as defined by the state and your the beach management
plan. Uh and all all the activities are behind the dunes between the the road and the dunes or potentially could uh could be accessed from the road as well. So, the ultimate vision of this extended
prominade, if you're at third, the corner of Third Avenue, is it just going to continue straight basically >> up south to the Second Avenue grill? Yes. >> And then is it going to turn back in? >> Yes. If you're >> just north of the grill, >> if you're on Third Avenue here, you're
going to be able to continue to walk in here uh along the front out here and then Yes. When you hit the the Second Avenue um crosswalk there, you're going to come straight uh down again to uh Second Avenue or to to Ocean.
>> So all of that then gets filled. >> Yes. And that is uh not part of this presentation. However, as part of the planning process with the burrow uh and and other projects, we have the Silk and Lake uh project, the Bulkhead project
that is on the agenda tonight for awarding the construction contract. The excess fill material from that project will be utilized to fill in this this area. That soil has been tested, certified that it's it's clean material.
Uh and that will will be able to utilize that that um material there, saving the burrow a lot of money on both projects. You don't have to haul away that material and then you also don't have to purchase the material to fill this in.
>> So there's enough to fill that entire space. >> Yes. >> At the elevation of the >> at the elevation. Yes. So the the final uh prominade is going to be elevated up to the elevation of the existing
prominade. It's about 14 ft above sea level. Um and then the beach below it is is in the 9 to 10 foot range that this you know provides extra protection for the residents uh in this area from storm surge. Um I'm sure you
know that this area was was the hardest hit during Hurricane Sandy. So this is a step in the direction of uh providing additional protection for the residents. So beyond that phase two will
take that prominade starting in on the west side of second road and then go back out once it continues south. >> So we have have a a conceptual plan we're we're discussing with uh burrow of Avon to
potentially run it all the way to the Avon boardwalk. Uh and that's in very preliminary stages right now, but that ultimately would be the goal to be able to connect the prominard to the board. Uh so we have a continuous board all the
way from Asbury Park down to Belmont which also protect uh from you know ocean surges and flooding. >> Yes. >> Because that is our weakest point along the >> B. Ben, could you just um rec encapsulate
the schedule? Where are we on this project right now? Um permit um bidding and what does that look like and when can we expect that something would when will this happen? >> So right now the project is out for public bid. Uh we have a bid opening
scheduled for May 29th. Uh we're anticipating being being able to award the contract at the June 4th uh council meeting and from there we'll work with the contractor, get his contracts executed,
get him to start ordering materials and we we could potentially start construction uh in late June or potentially right after the Fourth of July holiday of this year. Then could you also speak to one was referenced earlier, but I
want to make sure the public's aware the timing of when we actually receive D approval because we've been working this for months. >> Yes. >> And um what restrictions we need to deal with on an ongoing basis that are subject to that approval?
>> Sure. So we submitted uh you know our application to the the D several months ago. Uh we've been working with them uh as well as the NJDCA who is is managing the the grant funding for this project.
We have a boardwalk preservation grant. Um and we just received approval on uh yesterday. Uh we had had anticipated uh receiving approval. So we had already put the
project out for public bid um to to try and minimize any delays because we are under a time crunch to to get this project done. Um and the the permit uh conditions uh did not
give us any timing restrictions. Um if you remember or are familiar with the the uh Sil Lake flume replacement, that large pipe that was was replaced over the winter, they had very specific restrictions on when they could work because they were impacting the dunes.
With this project, we're not touching the dunes at all. Uh and and that is a a condition of of our approval uh that we are in compliance with your beach management plan uh which says that you
can't touch the dunes uh during summer months which we will not be. Uh and then also what what they required is um a survey of of species of plants and animals to make sure that uh the
construction does not any uh active plants or animals that that could could be uh protected under the beach uh management plan. So we are have already begun that process to
conduct get a survey conducted. Um we're talking to uh some consultants to who specialize in that. Uh we're talking to some experts in in the industry uh to make sure that uh any if if we do encounter anything there are ways to
mitigate uh either the the species of plant animals. >> So we have to complete this project by December 31st, right? >> Yes. >> Is that all? >> We have to uh expend the funds by December 31st. Uh so essentially that's
the same thing but technically not >> even the topography which is might not be able to get addressed until where is that going to happen? that that would all happen at at the same time. So the uh the way the project would be
constructed is they would install the bulkhead first, then they would fill in behind it uh and and bring the jetty rocks in and then they would install the the decorative things on top, your lighting, uh benches, uh trash
receptacles, things like that that you railings that you see along the line. So, just a quick question while this is all going on. Um, just to clarify, there there's there will be no parking from um Third Avenue down to the Second Avenue Grill,
>> correct? >> Will there be access for walkers, runners, um, and bicyclists? >> Yes. And sorry, I didn't didn't mention that. Uh, so there's also a temporary, uh, ADA compliant ramp. Uh, because, you
know, in this area, you have two levels of sidewalk. You come off the curb ramp from uh Ocean Avenue and you have like about an 18 inch raised uh sidewalk area. So
for people who are need ADA access who are coming down uh the the street uh they'll be able to get into the road through this uh handicap ramp at Third Avenue, travel along the roadway uh in the
protected uh pedestrian area and there'll be a temporary uh ADA ramp uh constructed in front of the Second Avenue Grill to get them up to that elevated sidewalk From there, they can walk all the way down to Evergreen and and that's where
it meets back up again with the um kind of the lower tier of the sidewalk. >> I always wondered about that sidewalk because there's no rail. It's just an open drop. >> Yep. >> Which doesn't seem so safe to me. I guess nobody's fallen off of it or
>> it's it's a code thing because it's only so tall. It doesn't need a fall protection. if it was taller. I I don't know exactly what the the building code requirement is, but that's estimation.
>> So, is the work going to be done 24/7? I'm not 247, seven days a week. Time frame. >> It's No, it's it's the way that typically a project like this happens is Monday through Friday.
Uh and then usually no work on Saturdays or Sundays. Uh Depending on on the the contractor's progress or maybe the burrow's uh preferences, uh you may want to allow uh construction
sometimes uh you know that are not uh for your ordinance. You have specific hours and days of the week for for construction. So um that would be up to to you whether you want to grant relief. I know that that was a specific thing that happened with the flu replacement
project to try and speed up uh construction was allowing relaxing your your start time uh to an earlier time um during that project. So we'll we'll evaluate that during construction depending on who the contractor is and
how his his progress goes. Um but that's not the plan right now. But right now it's Monday through Friday. >> I think that people need to understand is that once we receive a bid and we select a, you know, the most responsible bidder, um, he's going to have methods
and means of how he envisions how he can best build this project. And then you're going to have to work with them to achieve the goals of our that we've set to try to minim, you know, to minimize the impact to the public and and maintain access as delineated delineated
on this plan. So again, there's there's flexibility, but we've also tried to, you know, emphasize that we are maintaining this access to the beach at all times. Um, but we may need some interruption with police assistance even to manage the traffic, access to the
construction area, and we're going to have to work with a contractor to find the best way to do that. >> Correct. >> One last question. With this rerouting, when does that get set up? That's after the approval. Well, once the contractor is ready to
mobilize and start construction work, um that this will get put into place. Um you know, they're going to have to do that before they begin demolition of the existing sidewalk and and
>> Okay. So, it's not getting set up now. We're going to look at it. No, >> nothing happening. >> Not not happening. Contractors ready. >> I saw that. Yeah, this doesn't have to be set up until they're ready to go. >> The council president, that's a good point that each lockers will be set up
like you see on the map. >> Right. >> Right now, the ones north of Third Avenue are against the bulkhead itself. So, those are going to move out a bit as you see here. >> Okay. >> So, those have to be readjusted. >> Right.
>> I just wonder how many days in advance do they have to set up this rerouting before they can actually work? That's what they're going to have to talk to the contractor. >> Yeah, the contractor will will have to figure that out. Um, but this won't take that much uh long to set up. It's
probably only 10 years. >> Okay. >> When you mentioned earlier with all likelihoods and there's so many variables, I I hesitate to even make a sweeping generalization because there's so many variables that could change things. But you said earlier, just want
to recap this for our residents, likelihood is This construction starts after the 4th of July weekend. Is that fair? >> That's that's fair. >> I mean, could we'd love it if it could be earlier, even though we hate to disrupt Fourth of July weekend at the
short. What I want to keep saying, I've said in a couple news tonight, this is this sketch almost doesn't do justice how massive an undertaking this is for Gra Beach. This is an undertaking of
historical proportions. We're extending this prominade hopefully for the next 100 years. We talk about wheel projecting out sea level rise in the year 2100. This prominade should be there in 2100 helping combat sea level.
>> It will absolutely still be >> we've got top engineer. >> My point being this is a massive undertaking. We residents in Bradley, especially at the south end of town, are going to be inconvenience. And there's really there's really no way around it.
In our perfect world, we would have done this work last winter, early early this year. It it's taken forever. Between beach hammerance that we have to concern ourselves with, uh, endangered species of plants and
animals, birds, there's so many different variables in play. And we're thrilled and I think I want to say publicly that the New Jersey D has been great working with us and coordinating with uh with the federal government and we're following guidelines from all
these different agencies and and our engineers are doing a wonderful job bringing us as many options as you can and I wanted you to emphasize and you did thank you that it was yesterday after months of working back and forth and participating in phone calls and
raising all kinds of concerns about, you know, plants and animal species. And even now, even with an approval, there are caveats. Hey, if we find a nesting bird, a clover, if we find each amorate plants, we may have to interrupt. We
have to protect these endangered species. All the while, our clock is ticking that we need to get this project done by the end of the year. So, there's so many variables at play. And and again, this is a wonderful simplification, but I I just wanted to
confirm for everyone that this is a massive undertaking and uh I'm proud of everything we're we're set to accomplish, but it it's a little daunting. I mean, there's there's going to be a lot of disruption in this summer for Bradley. So, um I'm just going to
keep saying it, but but what I want everyone to know is this. We got the approval yesterday. We still don't even know who the successful bid is going to be or when they're going to start. We don't know if we're going to find beach emirates or or uh birds that are protected. There's so many variables we
don't know, but we are communicating the day after we receive D approval and we're going to continue to communicate as we understand who bidder is, when the work's going to start, council president, to your point, when dispensing will go up. We will have uh
talked with our business administrator Mr. Dohy. We will have a section on our website that gives updates as frequently as possible. So we are very much aware that this is going to be a major advance for the world. >> Yes. And we will do everything we can to
uh alleviate any any concerns or or correct anything that that happens during you know construction that needs to be corrected. Uh I anticipate we're going to have regular meetings with the contractor on site to to review um you know this this protection plan uh as
well as any other um you know difficulties that that the contractor may run into or or things that he might think are better alternative to to what u you know we can show on our plan. So so there's going to be a constant communication with the contractor with
the burrow uh and with the public. >> And just for the record, um there was a notification that went out to some residents about this. >> The issue was was that it went only to um beach um locker owners.
>> Okay. >> Two days two days ago Saturday >> information. So there so it was just kind of confusing. Some people on my street got it, some didn't. I didn't exactly know why. That was the logic. >> Purely beach lockers positioning
and anyone with a beach locker got it. Every neighbor next door to that person that didn't have a beach didn't get it. Again, we only received approval yesterday. We will be giving very broad, very thorough communications. We've been making that commitment as a council for
months. Unfortunately, we haven't had anything of anything solid to communicate. So, now that solidity is forming, we will begin aggressively communicating. And there may the um if you recall several months ago notices
went out from the DP um and from from the CME because but for permit purposes you have to notify within 200 ft of the construction area >> of the subject property >> of the subject property and we have property because of the um permitting
for the railings or handicap ramps that we may be putting in later on this year. So people all the way down a cliff may have gotten a notification. people along the stretch along the length of Ocean Avenue, but only so far back. And so people had questioned that as well. That's right. But I also want to
emphasize not only are we have we been coordinating with the the the D, the federal regulators, but we also within the Burough Bradley Beach. Um I personally went to the land use board and informed them of what the situation was with the funding and what we were looking to do here as well as the
environmental commission and um and the Silven Lake Commission also has been because of the tie the two projects using material. So there's been a lot of coordination internally within the burough um making sure that everybody's aware um any form of leadership or
commission environmental land use and the importance of us moving this project at this time. um in the unfortunate um situation of of disrupting the summer months, but we have the the grant is I'm sorry, Ben, how much is the federal grant that was secured?
>> 4.275 million. >> 4.275 million and there's only a 5% match on this on this um grant that's paying for this through the federal government. Um and if we don't spend it by December 31st, we lose it and then
this project won't get done, which protects our community. So it's very important. Yeah, we endure a little bit and work together with the community to make sure we minimize the impact to someone. And for the public record, we are in the process of trying to identify
and apply for a next wave of grant funding that would enable us to further extend the problem. So we really have a lot of irons in the fire. I think we're making great progress, but I just want to convey it's quite a challenging
um you know, seascape beach, but very confident enough. We just have to work through a lot of variables. >> Yeah, we're calling this phase one of the project. So, phase two would be the continuation of
depending on how much uh funding the B is able to secure will tell us how far we can extend phase two. If there needs to be a phase three >> and that could be shared with That was one of the one of the funding
opportunities that that we're exploring is a larger scale grant to try and do a complete phase two. Uh you know, still yet to be seen whether or not that that will uh will happen. But that's these are some of the things that we're going
>> and Councilman Wiki mentioned to me a little while back. I think it bears repeating Paul uh roughly five miles stretch from the north end of Asbury to the south end of Belmar. This is the one gap in what is it, 1200 meters,
>> roughly,400 ft of no bulkhead um to to basically protect which is our southern um limit of the burrow but also the lowest point that was impacted right there from the southern lake um in the southern area of our community.
Yeah, that would that's this is key to um for resiliency of the shoreline and and by doing this also we also have the federal government that's looking to do um dune restor implementation all the way from Sandy Hook all the way down through Europe and that project is with
the Army Corps of Engineers and so our ability to do this and take care of this and and coordinate with what the Army Corps is going to do in the future is really important for our our security resilience for flooding in the future. Any other questions or comments from
council? >> Right. Uh Ben, thank you very much. We're in a moment we're going to open it up to the public for questions. >> And mayor, uh you're good if we post this on the website as well so that people can see the area. >> Absolutely. Uh in time we'll have a
separate call out area on the website. I think for now they probably you can talk to Amy Baker, but it'll probably be part of council and Mayor's got you. >> Well, we we don't have the spot yet. She's going to go,
>> but as soon as she does, she all right. Uh thank you U Arthon no longer CME for everyone's benefit. U and we are now we've now completed the u the two workshops. Uh
moving to item seven, approval of minutes. I will make a motion that we approve the May 5, 2026 council business meeting minutes. >> Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Greenlot. Yes. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. Yes. Mayor >> Gubos. >> Yes. Item eight on the agenda is now
public comment. Uh this is comments and questions specifically pertaining to tonight's agenda. And certainly you can ask questions about the plans we shared tonight with Artha. Yes, Susan. Hi Susan Harris Pacific Avenue.
This is so relieving. I have looked at some NOA models the water rising and you said 14T. Do we have any models projecting what
how much how that will save us in terms because that like there is basically a an open door for the ocean if it gets too high. So, and that was
but I I really appreciate it. I and for me myself and my family, we don't care if you start at 6 in the morning because I know what happens when this water gets out of control and it comes down the
street and it will be in front of my house block in two blocks in. So, I thank you for being able to secure this and how you deal with the Department of
Environmental Protection and all the really, you know, human things that we value. So, that's what I have. >> Thank you. Yes, sir. Mr. Greg Farenbach, 408 Bradley Boulevard.
Procedural question and a substantive question. Procedurally, um, if this is supposed to be a public hearing, uh, do you have to submit minutes of the public hearing, including public comment, to the D as part of this
application >> for the municipal public access plan? presentation. >> Yes, we will submit. >> Okay. So then the clerk has to produce those >> substantively. Um are there any properties that you
have included uh for public access that are public properties that are not on? No. >> Okay. So everything that you've included is it is already encumbered by the
lawsuit. Correct. Thank you. Thank you. >> Yes, this see park condominiums. I got a little lost in this which is on me.
Before this, I could walk down on our east side of the street of Ocean Avenue. When this is completed in this phase one, what you're calling it, are you saying I can no longer do that? Because
when you said we need cooperation from Avon and the joining and the >> we're joined. >> We got we got beyond. No, this is phase one. Phase one is extending where we are a little further thousand feet or so
>> rail >> but I'm just saying we go we you know >> so it's still a boardwalk you know it's a prominade that just will now go down to the second avenue grill >> and then then you'll continue on as you normally would in Tavon but then we got a little beyond this as we said we are
in early conversations with that one it may go nowhere there's zero commitment yet but we're in early convers conversations about could we conceivably close the gap completely by having Avon extend their prominade up. We extend ours the rest of the way so we meet at
the border of the two towns and then we would truly have one prominade that ran straight into that one. We're not not there yet. >> I mean we still we just walk on. >> Okay. >> It doesn't have a full head. >> Okay. >> I'm not that observant but thank you for
clarifying. The other thing I'd like clarified that I've asked I don't know three or four VAS not including you um on the bill list and I'll save my comments regarding the digital application for later and I cannot even
tell you what page on the bill list because once the meetings start it's pulled from the website and I can find it where I used to but there's a dispersement for $10,000 to a person who I shouldn't name a for change for the cashiers
as we go into the season, what are our checks and balances regarding getting that $10,000 back? Because without me saying it, we all know the problems. We know the various individuals over the years that caused the problems.
And I've never heard, do we have checks and balances? We don't see the deposits. And if you just say yes to me, Mr. Mayor, your word is good enough for me. >> Yes. >> Okay. By the way, I asked the same question. >> I have no doubt.
>> We we do we we have cash reconciliations every day by by unit delivering the cash. Uh a few years back you're absolutely right. We had concerns um and even the 10,000 we we still debate do we need that much? It's
spread out over numerous entrances. So it's more like a,000 or 1500 per entance. But we are constantly trying to reduce the amount of cash floating around. But right now, the auditor does no longer uh identify that as a control.
We we now have that under control. >> Thank you. >> But but I I would to to point it is nervous anytime you're giving someone $10,000 in cash. So we we do take it seriously. We do have checks and balances. And
>> do you have them at the table? >> What's that? the checks and balances in the tabs. >> We have the checks and balances from the moment that the mayor and council vote yes on this to the mayor. The money comes back deposit the cash. >> You're absolutely right, which is the
reason why less cash. By the way, I don't know if I can see folks on Zoom. So, are you able to shrink this? Other questions or comments? >> Yes. Stop.
>> Just being very protective. I mean, she publicly talking about a lot of cash being transferred back and forth. I'm concerned about the safety of these people and you're making this a public statement, but I don't want anybody to
get mugged or robbed or killed to get this money. So, it's beyond my jurisdiction, but I just had to get off my chest because it just it's scary. >> No, it's it's a and it's a very valid and very important concern, which is why it takes resources from our police
department. >> I mean, do they have to I mean, I'm sure I know they know what they're doing, but it scares me. I mean, I'm sorry. >> Scares us, too. >> Okay. Thank you, >> Eileen. Wasn't that many years ago they had five gallon pales of quarters?
>> I know. We're getting better. >> But we talked about this today. It is about the safety of these people. >> Yeah. Absolutely. Especially in today's society. >> I mean, it's crazy. It's scary. And every beach. >> Other comments or questions on today's
agenda or just the >> anyone? Anyone with a hand up on Zoom? >> Okay. Seeing none, we'll move on from uh public comment to ordinances. Item nine on the agenda. We have one ordinance today for introduction. As a reminder on
ordinance introductions, thank you gentlemen. >> Uh introductions, we will not have public comment. However, with every adoption, there will be public comment. So, introduction of ordinance 2026-30.
This is an ordinance amending chapter 393, which is special events. And Burl has struggled with special events for a number of years. Our clerk has educated me a lot to some of the challenges we've had. Uh, currently our ordinance allows
it requires a $2,500 fee for a special event. >> It does not allow refunds. So, if someone has a special event, some organization, and I don't know, there's a collective spend of $1,000 in def
supporting it, there's no refund. So, people come to us all the time and say, "Come on, $2500." And largely, we've either had to be free, wave the fee entirely or charge $2,500 with no uh no refund. So, and you know, Erica, it's
probably driven you a little crazy. certainly the state request >> but um but in meeting with a series of meetings with our department heads including the police and DPW uh our clerk uh tourism uh rec center we
had a lot of feedback from our department heads and what we came up with was a modified design from now on what's should we approve this you know and adopt it later there will be always a minimum fee we can can wave the fee
and we are likely to do so for Bradley Beach uh uh related uh entities say the PTO or the Friends of the Library or the fire department. But in general, all other uh activities will
have a $500 minimum if they just walk through Bradley Beach. $500. That's what the ordinance for introduction says tonight. That's called that level one of these. But then we have three levels above it. 2, three, and four. And they
are now 1,000, 2,000, and $3,000. So no more 2500. You could go as low as 1,000 for a modest amount of burrow related services. Police andor DPW andor our, you know, a a walk or run or jog or
whatever down the boardwalk might have people using our restrooms. that requires us to reimburse custodians for cleaning the bathrooms that people might use along the way. Uh uh removing garbage, taking the garbage to the dumps, paying dumping fees and what have
you. So a low-end minimum resource might be as much could be 500, could be as much as 1,000. Then the moderate is 2,000 and then high level of resource is 3,000. In no event will there be a refund. If if we miss if we say it's
1,000 and the cost end up costing more the following year if that event returns we'll bump their their fee. But but uh the one other important thing of note is only at the highest end the level four which is $3,000.
There will not be a refund. However, we will do cost accounting for any large event that we think is a $3,000 fee. There will be a cost accounting and we will have a requirement that says if our burough resources contributed total more
than $3,000, there will be an additional fee or an additional bill. Uh we think it's the best way to be fair to the broad continuum of organizations that want to utilize Bradley Beach resources. Um and yet we also want to do it in a
way that is as simple administratively as we can make it. So that's largely what we're going to uh discuss and vote on tonight. But uh that's primarily the overview. I want to make sure everybody's aware. So with that said, any comments or questions from the council?
>> I I think this more align with use and you know the expenses that the bureau might incur even when there's a pass through. I think it's still important that if there are events that we choose to wave that fee for that, we're still able to
do that. We that language is not changing. We still can but we were str we were torn between 2500. >> So at least now there, you know, the low end of $500 is generally in fact our clerk has been testing this for folks
this year saying next year we anticipate there will be a fee. And so far the general reaction has has has been neutral. >> Yeah. I'm just making them aware, you know, um next year there will in fact be a fee. Um it won't be 2500 and I've also
told them the 2500 was required all along. Um you know, but they've been they've 500 so far or you know, they're aware they use more burough resources. They are going to build more. So they've been okay. Okay. They just thought the
2500 was a little exorbitant and I think they're relieved that we're working with. >> Do we know what other other adjacent towns are doing? How they're managing it? >> I didn't. No, I don't. >> We don't know that at all. >> But there are nothing is
>> similar. I know it's similar. >> We just wanted to >> I don't know what the keys are though. >> Administratively simple. That also gave us some flexibility in how we charge people. >> Any other questions or comments? Makes sense. >> All right. Uh Erica, before we vote, I
do want to thank you because you kind of spearheaded this over the past year. It's taking us this long to get here, but thank you for your help. >> Okay. If there's no other uh comments or questions, and there will not be public comment tonight, but public will have a
shot at this uh at our next meeting for adoption. I'll make a motion that we approve for introduction ordinance 2026-30, special minutes. Second. Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Greenwood, >> yes. >> Mr. Park, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes.
>> Mayor Gubby, >> yes. >> Okay. Uh, we have three ordinances for adoption. The first is 2026-27. Um, this is chapter 450 zoning. Uh, as Mr. Canon explained at our last meeting
when we introduced it, this is really uh uh editing mistakes in referencing. Uh none of the language is changing nothing of substance change but we did not code this correctly. So uh Mr. Canon has
cleaned up the coding. Uh first any comments or questions for the All right. Uh let me open it up for public hearing. Uh I'll make a motion that we to the public. >> Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Green. Yes.
Mr. Clark. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. Yes. >> Mayor Gubetzi. >> Yes. comments or questions on our correcting our earlier errors. Okay, seeing no hands, I'll make a motion that we close public hearing and
adopt 2026-27. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. M Greenblat, yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. Uh ordinance number two for adoption of 2026-28. This is portable storage units and
dumpsters. Uh Councilman Clark, would you like to start a further discussion? >> So, this was a uh an amendment where we were um increasing the fees for the dumpsters, which hadn't been updated in several years. We created a new 90-day
contractor dumpster permit which alleviated some administrative overhead for having contractors have to keep coming back for renewals. Uh it also allows for the removal of dumpsters during snow or other types of emergencies.
We also made it um mandatory that all dumpsters regardless of the amount of time that they are spent in the streets all have to get dump have to get permits and pay for those permits. And also we also don't
allow for dumpsters on county or state. >> Also, Mr. Mr. But there was one um I understand very nominal adjustment amendment I guess that we wanted to consider tonight as to where we placed
the sticker. >> So so there was some questions as whether or not that needed to be in the ordinance or not. Um because when I had met with the community development they were like it
goes on the side. It's easy enough to put it on the side. And then there were some discussions. It's like, well, we should give it a window with everything else. Um, I've spoken to um our code enforcement officer who initially said we needed to have an amendment and then
he said no, we don't. So, to the extent that didn't seem like it needed to be part of >> right now, I'm just catching up because I did see our attorney, Mr. Canon, uh,
I guess guide us that he said it was the place he said we wanted to make that change that we could make it today if we wanted. Uh my only question is I believe the current language is pretty clear that the sticker goes on the dumpster. Do we do we need that specificity in
this ordinance? >> Um well I guess it can't hurt. I mean it was >> Mr. Canon already did that and sent it to me on Friday >> to put it on the Yes, he did the uh the change that he wanted. >> Okay. But so I knew that conversation
had taken place. >> Okay. >> Okay. So Erica, uh I think we're going to need to make a motion to amend the introduction. This is now adoption. Um for that language that Mr. Kennet shared
with folks, >> right? >> No. >> Why not? >> Because you already introduced it. that you're now adopting it and any changes you made in between that's >> it's a dimminimous. >> Yeah, it's a dimminion just indicate that it's been changed. >> Okay. So, Bill is going to turn you
there. So, >> it's good to have a lawyer when you need one, right? It >> sure is. >> All right. So, uh so even the council while we all debated the site, we weren't completely aware that this change had been made. Um so, let me announce it to the public before we open
up for the public hearing. There was a a very minor dimminimous change recommended by our uh code enforcement folks and they they said the the stickers, the decals uh that are getting placed on the dumpsters get beat up and
they said, "Can we have these permit stickers put on the on the house of the dumpster instead of on the dumpster itself?" The minimus changed. We've incorporated into the language. We don't need to have a separate motion on it, but I just want to make sure Everybody's
aware that this small change has been incorporated into the language. >> Yeah. It says shall be visibly displayed in a front-facing window of a structure on the property where said dumpster has been permitted for placement. >> And again, it's just everyone in code
for it's clearly spoke with me Friday evening as I was getting everything ready um and said I need the change. So we're going to send this over amended. So >> I saw the exchange. I saw that it was dimminimous. I wasn't sure. Yeah. Okay. All that said, any comments or questions
from the council? >> Mr. Clark, very very thoroughly. Thank you. >> Thank you. So, um, anyway, I would like to make a motion to open up ordinance 2026-28 amending chapter 348. Second,
>> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Ring, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Uh, Mayor Gubzki, >> yes. Any comments from >> What if there isn't a window? Like if I have a new house going up across the
street and dumpster nightmares, there's no window to place that sticker because windows yet. >> Does this I don't know how literal >> I've seen I've seen other people permit, you know, they put it they tacked it to the outside of the front of the
building. Any other questions or comments? Yes, sir. Mr. West 518 just what is for the non-contractor resident? What is the time frame that they can have? >> 30 days.
>> 30 days. >> No other comments or questions in the event. >> All right. I'd like to make a motion to close public comment and adopt ordinance 2026-28 amending chapter 34. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Mr. Green. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark.
>> Yes. >> Mr. Niki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. And ordinance 2026-29 bamboo invasive species plants chapter 120. Once again, Councilman Clark, I will turn it to you. So um where bamboo and
invasive plants uh exist in our burrow, we needed some stronger rules to control them due to the significant damage that they can cause to property. So the ordinance now aligns with recently New Jersey law um that they have passed
regarding these plan categories. Um very importantly redefineses the buffer zone from 5t to 20t. That's from property, sidewalks, easements, rightways, uh that any of the bamboo or the excuse
me the invasive plants need to be away from these areas. Um it helps also strengthens our enforcement capabilities and it also gives the uh town the ability to recover any of these remediation costs uh through the
municipal leans. So if we do have to come in and step in, we do have the ability of recouping those costs. Uh it's also really important to note that there is no grandfathering. It's not like, oh, I've had bamboo on my property and I can so I'm grandfathered. It's like no, if you have bamboo on your
property or any other invasive species, you need to abide by the ordinance. So any questions or comments in particular in terms of the buffer zones created to various boundary edges? Can you sit from
>> 5T to 20 ft. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. You can have if you have a 25 foot wide lot, you officially got rid of >> a 40 foot >> a 40 foot is >> would not be allowed to have it. You
can't you could have >> and I've seen I've seen some where there the same owner the same homeowner on >> adjacent lots and the bamboo crosses over from one to the other just because
you own happen to own both properties on either side of the property line you still need to get rid of >> council you also I know borrowed some thinking from New Jersey Mhm. >> Yeah. Well, some of it was uh the the
the types of plants that are defined in the invasive species invasive invasive species. Yeah. Little little different. Um so we wanted to make sure that we aligned with that. Also, one of the important things that New Jersey passed in that law was they
currently prohibit the sale of bamboo in the state of New Jersey. All right. So, thank you. Uh, I'd like to make a motion to open up ordinance 2026-29 for public.
>> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Mr. Clark, yes. >> Mr. Nikki, yes. >> Mayor Dubzi. >> Yes. >> Any questions? >> 518. instead of dollars. Somebody has bamboo on their property.
>> How long do they have to get it out? And how much >> they don't get? Well, the there are there are fines uh defined in the um ordinance. I have to go back and read exactly what that amount is. I think
it's up to $2,500. maybe some prison time, but >> community service. >> Community service. Uh so it is it's significant. Um it could be um but uh as far as uh certainly our
full-time code enforcement officer is out and about um being very proactive in identifying properties with bamboo uh in addition to getting feedback from um residents who have struggled with their
neighbors. um bamboo. So if you know of if you're aware of a problem uh I would definitely inform our code enforcement officer who will make an immediate visit to the property to get that remediated.
Additionally, this also the ordinance also allow forces a followup visit because one remediation usually is not enough. So there may be some maintenance that happens like to come back.
>> Yeah. Right. So you need to come back and say okay after a year the remediation work if not it needs to be done again. So they'll be tracking all of the remediation that is done and then also schedule the followups. >> Doesn't it also put the onus on the
owner of the property with the bamboo if it's impacted the other property? Yes. >> Yeah. One of the things that they defi is defined in the ordinance is bamboo property own. So it it's it's not just because bamboo is on my yard. It's where
>> so they've created a problem for their neighbor. They it's incumbent upon them to cover the cost. >> Correct. >> Which is can be significant. >> Correct. >> Oh yeah. Very much so. >> Any other comments questions? Anybody
from Zoom? Okay. So, I'd like to motion make a motion to close public comment and adopt ordinance 2026-20. Second, >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Greenblat, >> yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes.
>> Mr. Noiki, yes. >> Mayor Bubosi, >> yes. Moving to item 10 on the agenda, communications. There are none. Item 11 on the agenda, resolutions. We'll start with the consent agenda resolutions. Uh
the consent agenda resolutions 2026 146 through 148. Does the council want to discuss any of those separately or vote on it? >> Right. Then I'll make a motion that we approve consent agenda resolution items 2026-146
through 148. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Mr. Green. >> Yes. >> Mr. Carr. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Bubosi. >> Yes. individual resolutions uh start with 2026 149 approving an adult summer camp
program. Any comments or questions on this one? >> Well, I'm the leazison to wreck and um it's it's kind of exciting because no other towns do this. So, it's a little three-day camp program for adults.
So if you know if people are interested I mean we have so many community members who love playing pickle ball you know botchi maan all of these things you know we're definitely a tight community and there's there will be competitive play
and um you know kind of going back to childhood and being in a in a camp environment. >> Does that include color war? >> Yes it does. >> I just worry about all the injuries for our seniors. I'm sure they they'll sign a paper. Exactly.
>> I mean, they're kind of thinking people in their 30s, 40s, you know, when I mentioned myself, she's like, "Well, we can create a golden." And I'm like, "No, >> no, I keep my mouth shut." >> Did Did she mention how much it is? >> Oh, it's $175
lunch. >> Yeah. It looks like a lot of fun. I I'm in for the karaoke. >> And there's no sleepover involved. >> No sleepovers. >> She didn't say in the karaoke. I'm in. Oh, yeah. I guess I'll say it. I'm looking up the >> It's apparently a three one three-day
program >> the end of the of August. >> Yep. She can Courtney uh it's Courtney Papathus' brainchild. She's been asked by many seniors to uh to consider a senior summer camp. Uh so is this
something she could multiply and do multiple times in summer? But going to try it once. Uh it'll run into the evening so folks can visit downtown restaurants and perhaps bars. Um >> and includes free beach access for those days as well.
>> Yep. All all built into the fees. And our business administrator tells me it should be very profitable. >> Yes, correct. >> Yes. And you're already signed up. >> So u I think it's worth giving uh this campus a shot at something creative. Uh,
if there's no other comments or questions, I'll make the motion that we approve 2026-149. >> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Green, yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Miki, >> yes. >> Mayor Dubosi, >> yes. >> Uh, Mr. Do you want to take this one?
>> I don't have the details in front of me. It's uh 2026-150 awarding a bid for a civil link bulkhead improvement to Earthworks, Inc. Uh these guys not only our low bidder uh Councilman, but I know you are very familiar with their work and they've
been doing a great job on other projects. Civil Lake, I can comment on all that. Um so yeah, Earthworks is the apparently that earthfolded um bulk replacement from um on Valley Boulevard from um Evergreen to Madison. Earthworks
is the same contractor that did the ocean outfall pipe replacement this past winter. Um and we've had a good experience with him doing that work. Um DPW guards as well through the work that they did. Um and so they actually came
in as the uh parent role bidder. Um and and in reality so competitive because he still has work to complete of the gate and as well as the um restoration of the dune in the fall. I believe that gave him a competitive edge because he
already has familiarity with the lake mobilization um equipment that's has to be here. Uh so he was very competitive in his pricing um and and um I think it's going to be great to get this work done. We mentioned earlier when um been
presented on the prominade extension. The material that is being excavated to build the wall is actually transported and then used to fill in prominade. So it's really important that this project moves along not not wait. Um we need to
do that because we save hundreds of thousands of dollars of cost reusing that material versus disposing of it and buying new material. So, with that, um, yeah, I'd like to make a motion to approve the award of the, uh, sublink
bulkhead improvement to Earthworks. Um, second, >> um, Mr. Noble. Yes. Greenwood. >> So, I'm going to say yes, but I have a quick question. So, now that now that it's been a we're awarding it, when do we anticipate this project? So until
they actually kick off meeting with the contractor, I'll go over the details of his material past order and what his schedule is to do that work. Um planting won't happen the final completion of that job won't happen till the fall when they do the plantings of um uh trees as
well as the vegetation soil. Um so we don't know exactly when yet um but it will happen um somewhere over this next month. sometime maybe before the end of June start pro high probability because
he can actually start um you know demolition and um uh earth work etc and then you know again we want to coordinate that with what's happening down at the prominad so there's some flexibility in that and so we're going to coordinate that um s
will be coordinating that um based on those two contracts and when m the other. That's really a key piece of the puzzle. >> And is that also going to be um Monday through Friday at work? >> Yeah, as a standard um hours of
allowable work on Monday through Friday. Um and if there's you run into a problem, we can always accelerate um give, you know, some consideration. But again, based on where you know the houses and anything along there, you be careful with the noise, etc. that
I'm Yes. Um, Mr. Park, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Dubzi, >> yes. Um, Council Noiki, I'd like to have you take the next seat. They're all awarding work to Arthon, uh, for, you know, various projects all and around the same
area. Would you like to >> Yes. So um 2026 151 is authorizing award of proposal for professional engineering services with arth formally CME for civil bulkhead improvements construction based services. This is again uh this is
the support services for uh arthiana who actually inspect the work manage the construction uh that we have just awarded to um earthworks. So they will be responsible to uh process those invoices, inspect the work, making sure
that it meets the quality standards that we specified in the plans. >> Is suburban involved in this >> in this phase of it? >> No, no, this is nothing. This is nothing to do with suburban workers doing work on sewers. >> No, no, I'm aware, but I thought there
was some coordination. >> There's no sewer work. Suburban is not working on any contracts at Lake. Well, this is largely funded from the grant funding that we've >> Yes. And I think one failed to mention,
you know, the bids came in significantly lower than what the grant was. Uh there's, you know, roughly, you know, close million dollars that's unspent on that grant. Uh so we are looking at opportunity to uh do more work along the
um Silven Lake, expand that work as well as the lighting. We to replace the lighting from um from under to Main Street. And so that would be a contractor through JCPNL, which we're checking to see if we can in fact apply
that to the grant as well. And that's a zero matching grant, by the way. There is no funds from the bureau being spent on that project. It's 100% state funded by EOT. So it's it's a great contract that I've got to secure. So I I mentioned earlier when we when uh
Arthan was here presenting the extension of prominade now we have so many different variables at play but it's so critical that this work is is happening not only bulkhead but work we will be doing to uh take you know some of
whether it be sediment or or just you know dirt from the lake to use to to fill the problem. So, uh, it's amazing to me how these things are all coming together led largely by you. So, thank you. >> Yeah. Well, it's, um, it's it's been a
privilege to be able to do these projects that we talked about for a long time and actually see them come to fruition. And again, trying to minimize the impact to the public because that's really the challenge on all these is is construction is a dirty business and we we need to really manage closely
communicate what's happening, when it's happening, and try to minimize that impacts the travel as well as the residents of your town. We're very aware of that. So with that question
>> and the wildlife in the lake, right? >> Yeah. >> I've heard that. With that, I make a motion to approve u authorizing uh CMA through the uh support of the civil bulk
improvement control services which is 151 which is 151. >> Second >> Mr. Noble. Yes. >> M green. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. Mayor. >> Yes. >> Okay. And then 2026 152 authorizing an
order of professional services to a former CME for preliminary assessment site collection PSI for sil lake walking path and stom water improvements. So, we are applying for a grant um with um Avon. We're both
applying for a grant with Mouth County Open Space for um a million dollars um that will help with the storm water um treatment um prior to the water spilled into the lake. And so,
there's these things manufactured treatment devices that you install that basically water upstream collects into that filters and then goes into the lake. So it actually reduces the sediment that can actually get to the lake and minimizes it. Um and so there's
one of these large units is going to be placed on the property and we want to get funding to place one of these units on Avon's property across Main Street where all the water comes down from Jess County, Neptune Township, city of Neptune. 80% of that flow comes into the
lake and all that sediment that's collected along the way is spilling right now into our lake and that's why we have the problems we do. So this manufactured treatment device we're looking to get the county to provide a grant to us and to have on both to pay
for that um mechanical device and we also want to put those on the devices the at the inlets that are along Grand Valley Boulevard that go right into the lake as well. so that we can prevent the sediment from getting into the lake. Um,
our DPW will have to go in and vacuum those out like they do in the catch basin. That's a maintenance thing, but they have the equipment to do that. Uh, so this is just a very proactive measure that has been done as a standard um from an engineer perspective when it comes to
storing water and protecting sediments uh to get into water bodies. So this here is a um a fund a funding CMA to actually do quick environmental uh assessment and um preliminary
engineering effort to support the grant application to Mont County uh because they require certain information to be provided and this is actually um work that will be used in the actual design work the preemptive uh supportive grant
that will be a conceptual primary effort. >> Can you remind me after DPW takes that sediment out? What is it? >> Yeah. >> Um so some of it sometimes it can be used for um uh mulch and and landfill. So they take it to their yard, they dry
it and then they basically dispose of it or use it for mulching, you know, purposes. >> I like the technical deer. It's like a big coffee. >> Yeah. The the device is described, but
basically it creates a the vortex that your coffee does in your >> right. >> So with that, any questions? So this supports the grant motion to authorize the engineering
services to Ryan for the support of the storm water and path improvements 2026-16. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Ring, >> yes. >> Mr. Car, >> yes. Mr. Nikki, >> yes.
>> Mayor, >> yes. >> And should I do this one too? >> Um 2026 153 awarded professional engineering services. Um keep these guys in business for recreation center
improvements phase two. So, we just completed these fantastic uh playground improvements and we have received additional grant for $72,000. Um, and so there's a lot of work that still needs to be done in the rec center. The $72,000 that we were
targeting to do the um ball field. We do the ball field. There's some drainage issues out there. The fence in that area needs to get replaced. the goals for the the soccer goals that needs to get replaced. Um and so what we've done is
asked Aron to come up with a an approach to bring uh the improvements that we need in that area of the rec center uh within a $72,000 um budget. And so we're looking at um
again replacing fence fabric, replacing the bases. I'm working with DPW on some of this work as well because there's some of that they can do like airating the lawns and whatnot. So, we're trying to bring uh the improvements to the ball field area.
I don't think that's $2,000. And so what this here is is basically a um funding for AR to do the design of that work um and be able for us to get that completion of this next phase of the center completed.
>> And none of this is redundant if we go forward and consolidate DPW facility, right? >> No. No. Um and again, that's probably further out than than soon. And so what we're trying to Again, this is more of a
maintenance project versus a reconstruction. Uh so we look into basically good put everything in good repair and then we'll deal with those issues. Um we want to expand uh because the DPW relocation that's something that
you know you know the concept that was floated in previous administrations that's something that would be done and look at closer into the future. Um, also there's another grant that we don't um haven't um brought back yet that is being $100,000 that we got for pickle
ball or it's a removal of that greenhouse and uh that's in the back of the rec center and we haven't gotten the concepts that's and that's not doing that work that's avail doing that work. So that's um we've yet to see those concepts yet what we can build there.
But again, so this is the phase two good repair maintenance of the ball field because we want fence and a purchases for the fields. I think one thing that's worth noting only to again sing your praise as councilman but also uh just to keep the
public informed when this came across my desk a week or so ago and I was chatting with council the wiki we had a $72,000 grant that we're very excited about you know doing enhancements to the rec center but it
was tied to a much broader project scope that that did include uh drainage of the fields and again these are not regulation fields uh the total spend was probably closer to 250,000. We would have had to borrow the difference between 250 and 70 and we
just immediately started chopping it up got it down to a spend of 72,000 which is covered by the grant and the uh the soft cost roughly 10% in fact exactly 10% that'll go to CM coming out
of a priorized bond. So minimal cost to the to the residents. You know, we wanted to bring this into a budgetary and take an approach to actually deliver this within the grant and not take outside. We have a lot going on. We got to be
responsible here. So with that, I'd like to make a motion uh to adopt 202653 professional engineering services to Arthon for rec center. >> Second, Mr. Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Park,
>> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor, >> yes. Okay, I will take the reigns once again as we get to 2026-154 authorizing temporary emergency appropriations. I believe our CEO got these to our clerk
about 15 minutes before the meeting started tonight, but again, this is moving some numbers around just to make sure our budget works. Uh, any comments or questions? I will make a motion that we approve 2026-154. >> Second.
>> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Greenwood, yes. >> Mr. Clark, yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. Item 12 on the agenda, announcements. There are none. Item 13A. I am anxiously awaiting the administrator report. >> Uh, thank you, Mr. May. Uh, just a
couple things to report. Uh, I should be pretty short. Um, the polls um have been removed. on Main Street in front of the Shell gas station. If you remember, they were leaning significantly for a while. JCPL came and put in new poles, but they
left the old poles. Um, Verizon recently came in, removed the old poles, um, reattached their equipment along with whatever other tight telefony um, cables were up there onto the new poles. And um
now you'll see some bricks piled up. They outsource and they have a contractor who comes in and puts the bricks back in and puts the um the sidewalk back in place. So just wanted to publicly thank JCPNL and also Verizon um was pretty quick at coming out here
and addressing that for us. So uh I know at the last council meeting we did talk about the challenge with all the wires particularly behind homes. um you know, a lot of them are just left up there, uh abandoned. So, we're going to tackle that next. And through this,
exercise with the polls on Main Street, we've been able to develop some pretty good relationships with folks at both JCPL and Verizon. Um regarding the type of wires that are on the poles throughout the uh the Motor Vehicle Commission will be coming back to
Bradley Beach on Thursday, May 28th. Uh if you remember, we did this before Uh it's the mobile unit. Uh they'll do real IDs which again like last time just contact hall and we'll schedule it. At this point honestly a lot of people already have their real IDs want real
IDs. Um but we figured it it's another opportunity to do that. At the same time um you could also do your registration renewal uh non-driver ID. You know there are some seniors who don't drive but still want to have the identification. uh duplicate replacement title or
registration. All of those will require a uh appointment, but some things do not require appointment. Um you know, if you have old license plates that you just have in the basement or sitting in your pantry like I do, um there's an opportunity to return them. Uh but also
handicap veterans and purple heart placards are available um just for walk to uh to uh to make an appointment for them. Um tell us the date of the reality. >> Uh Thursday, May 28th. Uh back at the
firehouse again. It just seems to work really well. >> And how do we sign up for people sign up? >> Uh call Bor Hall. >> Yep. And u we'll have a sheet um for for the Real ID signups. Um some of
the other stuff you have to go on their website on the motor vehicle commission website for um registration renewal um other items that need a uh an appointment but for the real ID you just call which is why we've done this in the
past uh and again we've we've noticed that more and more people are are getting their real ID either through us or or answer. Um uh lastly uh and this is something encouraging you know the the public to continue to do. Uh I had a call actually
today from a gentleman who recognized that uh there was something um in improperly done with our beach lockers. Uh I went up to the beachfront. I saw it myself. He was right. I contacted our department of public works director and
it's going to be addressed over the next day or two. So, I would encourage the public um to to to if you see something that you think is is done wrong, please give us a call. We do make errors uh and we're happy to fix
those errors. Um so, again, I encourage people to either email me, call me, text me. Um and and we will do our very best to address them. >> That's all for me, Matt. >> Thank you, sir. Uh before we move on to the next item, Matt, I just want to call you out. I'm trying to
let people know a lot of folks up here and down on the floor do a lot to contribute to the burough success and as small maybe an item as it is those telephone poles that were leaning over Main Street for better part of three
decades. Um seemed like it should have been a simple task. It was anything but. And uh you and I started this thing a little over a year ago, maybe two or three months in. We contacted uh JCPNL
and DOT and everybody else. And it took a year of you more or less your head against a wall. But uh but thank you very much because thanks to you, we got that done. It feels good driving down Main Street and not seeing telephone balls way out in the middle of the
street. So thank you. Uh, okay. We will move on to the mayor and council reports. I'd like to start tonight with our council president. >> Oh, wonderful. Thank you, mayor. The brand new tourism had a meeting today and they had a couple of resolutions.
They approved Brian Austerin, the Bele show, and they also approved some expenses for the coastal kickoff, which will be the soccer festival world cup festivities. That'll be June 10th on Newark Avenue on the beach from 400 pm
to 7 that will include a soccer expo match with FC Lammed local sports vendors. Huge sports equipment drive new and gently used to benefit local charities. They'll have a DJ and food trucks and vendors and face painting.
So, it sounds like a lot of fun. The Bradley Beach Shade Tree had a meeting on May 10th. They had numerous applications. One was 804 Hammond Avenue. They were moving a tree on private property and they replace it
with another tree. 110 Hammond Avenue had a Bradford pear that was ruining the retaining wall and so they're going to remove that and replace it with a deciduous tree most likely of red bud which is nice tree here in New Jersey.
Five 410 Brley Avenue. They're removing a London plane in their planting strip. It looked like it was diseased and they will be replacing that with another tree further away from their sewer access.
And then they also 112 Ocean Park is removing a dead cherry plum in their planning strip and they will replace it with a greater birch. and 420 Burlington is tearing down their
house and raising the entire lot. So, they had some gum trees in the back of the lot and they're going to remove those. But the good news is that they'll be planting 15 trees as a replacement. 133 Lake Terrace had a dangerous tree
and um it was removed. They also discussed their spring planting which took place this meeting and their Arbor Day which we attended and I would like to extend a sincere thank you to the Bradley Beach Shade Tree Commission
for and everyone involved in the recent planting of 66 new trees throughout our community two weeks ago. The commission also celebrated Arbor Day along with the Bradley Beach Elementary students, teachers, our mayor, council members,
and the wonderful forestry staff. Several of those 66 trees were planted right on the school's campus, which is a beautiful investment in our students environment. And the New Jersey Tree Foundation was also joined by three
members of the NJD Forestry Service. Having that expansive breadth of knowledge on site was impressive. Our commission members walked away with some great pointers on the best planning techniques that they look forward to applying at future
events. Finally, the Shape Tree Commission would like to extend a huge thank you to our DPW for the incredible support they lend all year, but especially during this massive undertaking over the past few weeks.
They removed old trees, dug out stumps, and provided invaluable on the-fly assistance. And they were out bright and early filling the watering bags on the new trees at Sil Lake. So to the Shade Tree Commission, the NJ Tree Foundation,
the NJ DP, and our own CPW, thank you for your expertise and your tireless dedication to our tree canopy and making Bradley Beach even greener. Next, the board of ed is meeting this evening, but I do have some exciting
news for the third consecutive year. The Bradley Beach Education Foundation is awarding its annual scholarship to a graduating senior senior who got their start right here at Bradley Beach Elementary School. Each year, the
foundation scholarship committee connects with our high school seniors, and time and time again, they see that the strong foundation built at Bradley Beach Elementary School translates directly into high school success.
Tonight, we highlight a truly exceptional student, Mia Constantino. Mia graduated as Bradley Beach Elementary School's 2022 valadictorian and a graduating senior at Neptune High
School. Remarkably, she is already a college graduate. Through the intensive Poseidon program, Mia simultaneously earned an associates degree in social sciences from Brookdale College, all
while maintaining a stellar 99 weighted GPA. This fall, she heads to Rutgers University where she's on track to earn her bachelor's degree in communications by the time she is just 20 years old.
Many in town know Mia as a hardworking hostess at Darcy's where she balances her commitments and always handles herself with the utmost professionalism. On behalf of the governing body and the entire community, congratulations to the
Bradley Beach Education Foundation's 2026 scholarship recipient, Mia Constantine. And that completes my report. Thank you. >> Thank you, Council President. I'll turn to Councilman Wiki. Thank you, Mayor.
So, our police activity um between the periods of May 4th and May 17th. On May 10th, Main Street and Springwood Avenue, a 52 year old male from Bradley Beach was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance. He was also charged with driving under the influence and
several additional motor vehicle offenses. Patrolman Daniel Crowe made the arrest with the assistance of Sergeant Michael Tardio on May 10th. Also at the 500 block of Newark Avenue, a 30-year-old male was arrested after fleeing from
officers on foot during a field contact. Colorado was caught by patrolman Anthony Balamente after a brief foot chase and taken into custody with the assistance of Sergeant Sergeant Kevin Gale and the Avon by the C police department. He was
charged with theft, possession of an imitation firearm, possession of a weapon, possession of CDS, tampering with evidence, resisting arrest, and obstructing the administration of law. Colorado was charged and later lodged in the Mammoth
County Jail. May 14th, 2026, Bradley Boulevard, M and Main Street, a 32year-old female one point was arrested and charged with possession of a prescription legend drug possession of drug Alia driving under the influence in
several motor vehicle offenses. Patrolman Anthony Betmente made the arrest with the assistance of patrolman Daniel. Then on May 15th off Britney Avenue and Hammond Avenue, 62y old male from Spring Lake Heights was arrested and charged
with driving under the influence of alcohol. He was also issued several motor vehicle summones. Edward Edwin Hernandez made the arrest with the assistance of Sergeant Michael Tardio and that's the police. Um, tomorrow
evening at 700 p.m. is the Civil Lake Commission meeting here in this uh chambers. Uh, so please come on out if you want to learn more about Silver Lake. We've talked a lot about it today. Um, but there's a lot happening and again there's a meeting here tomorrow at 7. Um and then I just want to make
mention of our land use board uh they've been pretty uh active. Um I think the uh this board that we've brought together this um this year uh a lot of synergy, a lot of um really um great minds working together. Um we we've been able to um
really um exercise some very prudent and um great consensus on the things that we're doing with zoning and and towing the line. And I just like to say that I also just as TJ Con who is the uh chair of the land use board. He's done a
really great job leading uh that board and and into the future. There's a lot to do changing ordinances and u right now I'm pleased to just to share that. I think it's really going well with that board. So that's my report. Thank you.
>> Thank you and thanks for your volunteering on that language. I'll turn that to Councilman Clark. So the environmental commission is planning an event to on the theme of invasive plants. By the way, you know, the pear trees are invasive species.
>> They've now been banned. >> They've now been banned. >> Yes. >> So uh so we also have an invasive species in our maritime forest called the Japanese knotwood. And uh on May 30th from 9 to 11:00 a.m. there's going
to be a big notweed removal party. So uh it's really taking over the native plants of the maritime forest. We need to cut it by hand. It gets done several times. Uh you have to weaken it before you can pull it out by the roots. So, May 30th from 9 to 11:00 a.m. Um, also
as a note, the maritime forest was the brainchild of Captain Al and this would be a great way to honor his after his passing last month. Uh, so for the first aid, uh, the
operational period ending May 19th, they responded to 16 day calls, five minute calls for 21 calls. It's a busy one. and 12 for medical, nine for fire, one motor vehicle crash. Uh, of course, they're always looking for volunteers. They
offer free training for qualified individuals and anybody willing want wishing to volunteer. Uh, all that information can be found out on the website. Uh, they're also accepting applications for their cadet program for young people 16 to 18 years old.
Um also they uh additionally they had provided some uh medical overwatch for the tears foundation rockwalk that we had. Uh also I want to take this opportunity to recognize this week is actually national EMS week and I want to
thank all of the EMS providers for their professionalism uh their commitment. My special thanks to the dedicated members of our all volunteer squad and they've been serving Bradley Beach since 1933. For those of
you counting at home, that's 93 years. So, they're a pretty amazing group of people. >> That's it. Thank you, Councilman. >> Thank you, Mayor. Um, the Arts Council has been very busy. They met May 11th.
They also met yesterday, May 18th. Um, they're very busy planning their first annual arts fest scheduled for Saturday, June 27th at Riley Park. Begins at 12:30 and running through 10 p.m. Um it'll be an afternoon of live music, interactive
arts, dance programming, ballet performance, a gallery opening at Posh Real Estate, and an afterparty from 6:00 to 10 at Bubas featuring Sea and Sky songwriters. And among the songwriters is our very own Jade Maddock.
So, um, a local a call to local Bradley Beach artists. Uh, there's still time to participate in the visual art exhibit, Home is Where the Art is at Posh, which runs from June 27th to July 4th, and an artist opening reception on the 27th,
uh, the same day as the arts fest. The deadline for submissions is May 31st. Volunteers are needed to help pitch in on the day of the artsfest. Please reach out by email to the arts council uh to their arts council email which is arts council bradleybej.gov
or let me know. Uh no experience is required just enthusiasm for arts in Bradley. And don't miss two new workshops uh ballet for balance June 9th and 17th from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the fire hall. open to all ages but designed
to build strength and balance through the lens of ballet. So, thanks to resident Laney DeFranco who will be teaching these workshops and you can see the arts council website to register and the arts council uh will next meet on Monday, June 1st at 10:30 a.m. The WCK
committee, always a lot of activities at Wreck. Um Wreck met uh last week, May 11th. Uh hopefully you've seen the full spread of photos and the co-star from recreation's first ever Mother's Day flag football which was held May 8th.
Fun was had by kids and moms alike. And next up is Father's Day kickball. Friday, June 19th at the rec field 6:30 p.m. A $20 entry fee includes participation, t-shirt, and a meal ticket. Uh see the rec website for details and registration. The senior
club's next meeting is May 27th, noon to 3 at the Viazi Center. Maan open play continues every Friday 1 to 3:00 p.m. at the Byazi Center. New in the Neptune City location is Zumba. Uh Wednesday
evenings 7 to 8:00 p.m. $10 at the door to participate. As with all shared service programs, this is open to all Bradley Beach residents. Spring Botching Leagues begins the first week in June, uh, 6:30 p.m. with groups
on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Summer camp 2026 is bigger and better than ever with a robust enrollment. Courtney has managed to accommodate everyone on the wait list and a program that will run at full capacity. The
first day of camp is June 29th, and we recently mentioned the uh, camp throwback weekend, so I won't repeat myself. Um, and also there are still a few spots for Marine Science Camp, which runs July 27th to the 31st, Monday
through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for ages 5 to 14, and it's at Memorial Park in Neptune City. So, come visit the rec center. The playground is filled with children of all ages. The courts are busy and the field is being utilized by baseball and soccer enthusiasts.
the rec centers uh the rec committee's next meeting is Monday, June 8th, 6:30 p.m. at the rec center. And then my final leazison um uh uh committee is the Fletcher Lake Commission. They held their last meeting on May 14th. Flowers
have been planted by the commission by commission member Sal Galisetti along the Bradley Beach side of Fletcher Lake. A Fletcher Lake spring cleanup event is scheduled for Saturday, June 6th, 10:00 a.m. to noon. Please join them. Light refreshments will be served. Commission
member Bill Grafton has been speaking with Fish and Wildlife to stop Fletcher Lake. First, however, Clonet needs to determine if the oxygen levels are sufficient to support marine life. The commission is looking forward to bringing life back into the lake and support summer fishing. And a reminder
that a fishing license is required for all fishing, whether freshwater or in the ocean. One single set of lights are being installed on the westerly airator in the lake. At the end of the season, they will assess any impact on the lakes's biosphere. The bridge rails are
about to get a refreshed coat of paint by the DPW and post lights replaced once the painting is done. The commission will next meet on Thursday, June 11th here in this council chamber. And I'd also just like to announce that um thanks to the mayor and support by the
burrow. Um the burrow is dedicating Bradley Beach's first ever sand toy library box located at the Lorraine Avenue beach entrance. And the dedication will take place this Friday at 11:00 a.m. It's a community partnership of resident volunteers who
help build the box, design the sign, and steward its maintenance throughout the summer. So, please feel free to drop your no longer used SAM toys in the box for all to enjoy. And that's my reward. >> Thank you, Councilwoman. Um, let's see.
I've got a couple quick ones. One, as I referenced earlier, different folks contributing uh in all aspects of helping our succeed and thrive. I just want to give a little call out to our relatively new CFO, Mitch S. Um,
without naming vendors or whatever, but uh, Mr. Sim came to me the other day. He said, "Mayor, I got a questionable invoice here. You know, want to ask you about it." And sure enough, he flagged something that was an inappropriately build invoice to us. Uh, and he had the
awareness to not just, you know, stamp his name on it and and pass along the invoice. Um, and he helped us avoid spending $22,000 for something that was inappropriately built to us. So, uh, he's not here, but
I tip my hat to Mr. Simon. He's just been a great addition, helping us every day working through helping us clean things up, get things operating even even more efficiently. Um, wanted to uh also recognize our most
recent uh probationary officer, Samuel Forgate. Um, very impressive young man, Terry. I know you and the chief think very highly of him. >> I don't know if there's anything else you want to add, but I thought it was great having him and his and the support
from the PD and his family here tonight. >> No, he's just he's a really solid guy. He's proved himself as a class one and class two. He's definitely stood out amongst all the amazing people that we've had. So, he was a great choice. We're lucky. We thank you guys for for
helping us secure him because it it's it's a competitive field out there right now. And anytime we get somebody good, the other towns really start trying to poach him, you know, and we don't hold fault because as a small town, it's tough for us to hire until there's a
retirement or an anticipated retirement, which, you know, can be years apart. And to his credit, he had a couple offers um even at his young age and, you know, limited experience that were really trying to pull him as a full-time
officer. And he turned it down because he wanted to work here. He made it clear that this is where he started and where his brother actually has a twin sister who also worked as a class one with us. Um she was offered to go to class. She
to go to the Coast Guard and he's actually doing very well there. But, you know, he he turned those other places down anticipating that there might be a spot in the next couple years. He was willing to wait a couple years, you know, whether it's, you know, some of us are, you know, hitting that 25 30 year
mark and, you know, things possibilities down the road. So, it was nice that he to get him in and he he wanted to stay, but it's tough to, you know, hold that line when so many people won. >> I've learned from you and the chief how
competitive a market it is and the fact that he's such a a star in making and we were able to retain largely thanks to you guys communicating, keeping us aware of the opportunity to bring him in full time. So, thank you and thanks to the chief.
>> Yes. Thank you guys. Um, I want to mention a couple things from the library. They always give me a list of a thousand things. It's an amazing program that they put together every month, but just coming up over the next few days, even tomorrow, May 20th, at 1:30 p.m.,
Social Security and Retirement Income Planning workshop, anyone interested in planning for Social Security and retirement, 1:30 tomorrow. Also, uh, on Thursday, two days, May 21st, 3:45, if you have children in kindergarten
through 4th grade, and those children want to practice their reading, they can read to a dog, uh, which children love to do. 3:45, that's that's on Thursday, the 21st. Um, uh, couple more quick ones. There's a
yarn club meeting on May 23rd. That's Saturday at 10:00 a.m. and on May 27th as well as June 3rd, June 10th, 17th. Go back, check the website if you're interested in learning Marjan. Marjan instruction for beginners. The first one
again Wednesday, May 27th, and then there's a series of other days. Is >> there an R in that word? Baron. Maj Maj I've never played nor have I ever announced it very well but it is u
250th anniversary for the country we are in in the process of recognizing July 4th will be the official day but uh coming up on May 29th 9:30 a.m. We're actually going to have a 250th
anniversary sign uh flag rather provided to us by the county and we will do an official flag raising that morning at 9:30 in the morning May 29th. Public is welcome to join us. It's going to be brief. Maybe we'll have some, you know, Kool-Aid or refreshments, but it's
largely u the photo opportunity to tell the world Bradley Beach is recognizing our 250th anniversary. uh uh commissioner, county commissioner, director Tom Arnon will join us and uh uh the county clerk Christina Han will join us. So that'll be fun. If you're in
the neighborhood, please stop by Riley Park. And then uh most maybe most importantly, certainly for me and uh others here in the burough, Michelle Wy planning this Memorial Day weekend is almost upon us
and the forecast suggest rain. So, uh, I've already been getting questions, uh, you know, what do we do in the event of rain? The parade, the parade on Saturday is also accompanied by vendors on the beach. Saturday is Sunday. That it's
very likely that that gets washed out. We cannot reschedu. We can't get a rain day. All the participants in the parade have other plans. All the vendors have other dates and assignments to work elsewhere. So there's a, you know, if rain is bad, if it's light drizzle or no
or just cloudy skies, we hope to be able to proceed and have some festivities, but Saturday is surely. So keep an eye on the weather. Uh, but there is no rain day. And then on Monday, the actual memorial ceremony that we hold at Riley
Park, u where we recognize Bradley Beach's 20 fallen heroes, uh that is also, you know, threatened by the rain. Uh but we will have uh we've secured the firehouse to have an indoor ceremony. uh
we won't have the releasing of doves and we won't have a lot of the uh the ceremony around that as we go to the police and the fire monuments if we're indoors but we will have a gathering uh anyone who's you know interested in
attending just again track the weather we'll make sure there's an announcement that we might have to move indoors to the firehouse. Uh that concludes my announcements, my comments, and now uh I'd like to move to item 14 on our agenda. Public comments
or questions? Yes, sir. Mr. Greg Farbach 408 Boulevard. First, I would like to um express my appreciation for ordinance 220, I'm sorry, 2026-30
uh that you introduced this evening. Um I think that that is a valuable and important thing to do for the community. Um secondly, I'd like to commend the mayor and the council on taking a conservative approach to the uh funds
that were generated from the uh sale of the church that come out as municipal assets and dedicating them to the defeasence of uh debt service and the payment for capital purposes.
um over the next several years. Um I want to be able to correct um some statements that were made at the last governing body meeting. Um um what was stated erroneously
was that the reason for the need for $350,000 was that quote the previous burrow's administration did not set aside sufficient funds for the cost of the
UFCW settlement. Um, as a longtime member of this taxpaying community and as one who was intimately involved in the 2024 negotiations,
I would like to um understand and um and make the governing body aware of what they may not be aware of the extremely high cost of the UFCW
settlement and the reasons why those costs were not included in the 2025 budget. See, in both the 2023 and the 2024 budgets,
we reserved sufficient funds to be able to cover a reasonable increase for the UFCW contract. based on guidelines from the state of New Jersey and based on regional
settlements that have taken place, a total of around $200,000 was set aside from 2023 and the 2024 budgets and were encumbered
for the purposes of making those payments. However, um the offer that was made um within the state of New Jersey uh guidelines and
the market rate was not what was paid out. The contract that was negotiated cost the burrow almost three times. Yes, three times what was previously offered
by the burrow to the union and was reserved in those budgets. As stated before, the contract was settled and retroactive salaries were paid before the 2025
budget was introduced and before it was adopted. The governing body had more than sufficient time to have included any additional monies that may have been needed in the 2025 budget.
Why is it necessary to blame others for the costs that were incurred under this settlement? And why did the administration and the governing body not fund these excessive
costs when all obviously knew what those costs were before the budget was introduced or adopted? The contract was signed on the 9th of April
2025. The governing body approved it on or about the 15th of April, 2025. The budget wasn't adopted until May. It
would have been within your capability to have included any of what those costs were in the 20 25 budget. Retroactive salary calculations were completed by April 15th.
I'm assuming that's five minutes. >> Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> There's I have answers to all of those questions. I'm not going to get into a debate now. U Mr. Fairblock. You and I actually sat down in my office when I
was over there and I took you through pretty extensive detail of why the earlier numbers that were set aside encumbered. You referenced 200,000. It was almost 300. It was a prior administration encumbered close to 280,000
was shared with me as new mayor. Uh that was still half of You're right. you were saying three times, but it was roughly double what was encumbered that we actually had to pay. And I took you through a PowerPoint slides showing that the average increase over that fouryear
midpoint to midpoint span of the contracts was three and a half%. So what we're not going to debate now, you had your comments, I'll just make my comments and I welcome the opportunity to talk with you later. is that your
comment that uh the original offers were somehow reasonable. I think your exact wording was um reasonably it was a reasonable increase. Um you didn't settle a contract for almost two and a half years, sir. I don't know how reasonable
that is. At the end of the day, on an average increase of three and a half percent over four years, midpoint to midpoint, that by most standards is reasonable. However, it did require an extra $300,000,
give or take, relative to what was encumbered. So, gladly walk you through those. You and I could go on for a long time tonight. I I think we're both better served if we don't do that. I just felt it was necessary for me to at least provide a quick response to your
to your assertion. So, be more than happy to meet with you. Uh, if anything comes out of that conversation that tells me I'm somehow mistaken, I will gladly address that publicly. Admit that I'm wrong. I know I'm not, but I will gladly address that. Yes, sir. You'd
like to make just respond, >> please. Um, there are several things that I probably would like to go over with you, but when you have essentially an 11 12% increase in 2023,
an 11 12% increase in 2024, and um you have a regional settlement level of about 3.5. and you have the state set of guidelines of 2%
that comes to approximately three times nearly three times what was a reasonable offer. When you give a union more things than they ask for, it's very easy to reach a settlement.
And when a union believes that they're going to be able to do better in the future than they are in the present, they're going to buy the time to be able to do better in the future. >> Thank you, sir. And we should talk so I
can show you why I disagree. Yes, Miss Mad. I hope I get more than five minutes. Nancy Meadow Ocean Park condominiums. I'm just going to say this right out. Thank you for settling that contract.
Most of you were here. You did a lot of it. Maybe most of it. My biggest regret is for the employees we lost. because they had no contract for so long.
Mr. Mayor, you took my thunder away. But I'm pleased to learn that there is a Memorial Day ceremony because when I looked at where I might look to find out about it, I only heard about a parade of vendors. So that points to me
the dysfunction of our website. And I am, as I've said many times before, the doctor confirmed it. I have no patience. It has gone from bad to worse. And what would really I'm told to be patient. What would I think be most helpful would
be if I could have a time frame because how long do I wait? Um, now I did see parade signs down at Direct Center. I don't know how any of that's related, but let's drop that
signage. And Councilwoman Greenlat, you might want to check on your information regarding the senior meeting as I received a phone call from the president and I was told that it's the 20th and I think I heard you say the
27th. Um, again with the website, two times in two days, I had traffic complications that could have been put on the website. I didn't know McCabe was going to be closed and I didn't know Ocean Park was
going to have trucks going west on the east side. Again, a little heads up. We're so small. Great that you're working on the prominade. Can't you just work on these little things?
And for years, well, how many years? How long have we had handicap lockers? Four years. It's my understanding the ramps one per purpose is for handicapped people.
It is my and I mean mo um motionwise. It's my understanding one purpose of handicap lockers are for motion. It does not make sense to me to have my ramp on
the north side of my steps and my locker on the south side of the steps. Not all ramps are in the It's not one size fits all. And how many years do I have to say it? But we all know that I will repeat
myself and make no apologies for it because I have no control. regarding the digital presentation. Thank you for acknowledging that there are some of us who prefer to pay catch. I'm not clear
with that option if the gentleman was saying you still had to register on the app. So, if you just want to get a season, I I just literally would like clarification. Um, and I really want to well stripe is
good but they they get cost me but I really want to point out that we were told point was free. Calculate the fees you pay them every year.
We were told community pass was free. Calculate including the spill list how much you pay every year. And then on top of it, we were told Community Pass would not
pay would not charge locker users. Talk to a locker user who used a credit card and see what they paid. So we could in my head be charging more for the locker because we could take in that money ourselves.
So you can do that with the beach badges. I understand the move to not have cash. We're pretty much halfway there. Um, and I know you will pass this and I think it's a bad move and I think
it will cost us a tremendous amount of money. Maybe not the first year, but again, how can we reverse what's now become practice? You can't. And it you have a lot of angry people and yet they have no choice.
And you have people down. He's saying it's security. No, we can just give them the phone once they're on the beach. they can go leave the beach and give it to their other person who comes down with the things in the QR code showing.
So again, I know you'll pass it, but I beg you to look at your past and consider. Thank you. >> Thank you. Yes, sir. Mr. >> Thomas J. Goan, 6123rd Avenue. Uh, Mr. I had a question about this new draining
system. you you're proposing for coming in from Neptune and and our westerly areas. Um you mentioned that they had the equipment to maintain it. Did they have a sewer jet back or access to one? Is that is that the maintenance factor?
>> It's a it's a back the vacuum truck. >> And do we do we have a shared service on that or do we own >> I have we have a vacuum truck. >> Okay. So they just put that on a regular maintenance schedule and >> Right. here today with the taxes, >> right? Um yeah, I I find it very rich
the the previous uh speak two speakers before me um who couldn't settle a contract in 2 and 1/2 years and and you know he talks about uh reasonable increases but he doesn't talk about the unreasonable offers that were made by
him also without any input from the council that was done under the cover of darkness in a back room all the negotiations with no counsel So, you know, budgets were passed without
input from the council at all and you've done everything transparently. Um the the uh increases that were given were much needed. These people didn't didn't get bumps for three years almost. So, I just I just find it amazing how things
worked here. Um, you know, there was you never were really, we never really could understand what took so long. I mean, there's negotiation is really simple when you have parties that want to do it. Clearly, the previous administration
didn't want to settle and then to blame it and say, "Oh, they know it'll be easier to negotiate with the future." That is absurd. And I'm just I'm just horrified by those comments. But I did agree with one thing that I agree with the way you handled the money from the
church because we could never get a confirmation from the previous administration that that that would be held for capital improvements and the fact that it is is a wonderful benefit to the people of Bradley Beach. Thank you, Mr. >> Thank you, Mr. Cohen. Other comments or
questions in the room? Uh anything on Zoom? Any comments or questions? Okay, seeing none, we will close public comment and move to item uh 15 on the agenda, which is an executive session
pursuant to NJSA 10 col 4-13. Specifically, we'll address resolution 2026-155 uh in retiring into executive session to discuss Garrison vers Bradley Beach and
uh Major Ed versus Bradley Beach. Um Erica, do we have a time estimate? >> 30 minutes in there. >> So, we estimate we'll be in close session for 30 minutes. >> Okay. Well, >> it's just an update. I can't >> I try to be safe, that's all.
>> Perhaps no more than 10 minutes. So, anyone care to wait? We will we we uh convene momentarily, but roughly 10 minutes. >> I'll make a motion that we >> second. Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Green. Yes. Mr. Clark. >> Yes.
>> Yes. Thank you. >> Thanks for being here. >> My pleasure. a nice comment. >> Hi, I'm Caroline. Her daughter tomorrow. So, Wow, that's huge. You got to build
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