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>> Can I see it? What is this? >> You have to look at it. >> So funny. >> I got to show you what I found. >> I don't think so. Oh, here it is.
>> Hold on. >> I'm just going to look over some of the old accounts. clean up that one. I don't know if you're waiting for anything really. like me before. I'll let you get there. >> Yeah, it's exciting.
>> You want to say 10 a.m. >> Oh, me think >> I have to go later later in the day. I'm just going to be over there for like an hour. >> Yeah. So I can either work
yesterday. >> That's right. You know, it's funny. Like I always thought they were down lower. Like I'd kind of unscrew them, but you mean like they go higher or lower? I don't know.
>> I try it. >> I think they go higher and you go to the left. >> Yeah, there is a big >> You go to the left. >> That's better. decades. >> They used to bomb >> it's it's there now. >> Yeah. People people live on it too or
>> Yeah. >> hotel and complex but every once in a while >> he's right there. Just when you thank these guys. >> Sandy Hook too. Every now and then they come to >> from World War I.
>> Oh wiki >> behind you. >> That's right. >> I'm right here. >> I think so. >> What? Great. Call this meeting to order. Please stand
for the pledge of allegiance. >> Allegiance to the cities of America to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I wish to announce the 48 hour notice
was as was emailed to the Aspbury Park Press, the co-star and the new coaster on December the 18th of 2025, that a copy has been placed on the bulletin board in the burough office and that a copy has been filed with the municipal clerk. Please be advised, public attendance for meetings through Zoom is
not mandatory and a courtesy only. If for any reason Zoom fails or is disconnected, the inperson meeting will continue without interruption and action can and will be taken providing that there is an inerson quorum. Mr. Noble >> here. >> Mr. Greenblat >> here. >> Mr. Noiki
>> here. >> Can you hear me? >> Yes. Mr. Carr. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubetzi >> here. And uh Councilman Dicki is very uh generously joining us today from Cabo. Is it Councilman?
>> Yes. Cabo San Lucas. >> Okay, there we go. So, thank you for joining us. Uh, welcome everyone uh here in attendance and uh we do have a handful of folks on Zoom as well. Um, we got a good full agenda and let's dive
right in. Item five on the agenda are workshops and there are none. Six, presentation and bids. I've asked uh the head of our office of emergency management, Norman Golar, to give us a brief overview of uh the past couple of
weeks activity related to snow and storms that the bureau has dealt with. >> Thank appreciate it. On Sunday, February 22nd, Bradley Beach was impacted by winter storm Fernandanda. days before the storm's landfall, we got started to prepare for its impact with
discussions and review for our preparedness protocols with Mayor VTOS, business administrator Darity, and municipal salmon heads. We then executed preventative measures in anticipation of the reported severe snowfall. On that same day, February 22nd, the
governor, New Jersey declared a state of emergency effective at 12 PM. During the duration of the event, the New Jersey Department of Transportation issued driving restrictions on our roadways and throughout the state. Our Department of Public Works made ready their vehicles
and put together a stamping schedule for the removal of snow on our roadways and municipal property. The snow removal was accomplished in phases during and after the snowfall. The police department activated the Bradley Beach notification system to our
residents which would continue before, during, and after that snowfall. The police department directed vehicle removal to allow snow plows to remove snow from the streets curb to curb. During the storm, the police continued to provide normal police services at all
times, including their communication center for incoming and outgoing calls on the telephone and on radio communication. The fire department and the first aid squad assembled crews at the first aid squad for immediate response to any call out as well as
standby for possible activation of our warming station or shelter at the firehouse. The fire company purchased and prepared meals for any burrow employees who were on duty during this event. The office of emergency management monitor the progress and the
progression of the storm. During the initial phase, OEM prepared for the storm by discussing preparedness and actions to be taken by the burrow. The emergency operations center was officially activated on Sunday, February 22nd at 5:15 p.m. The interdep
departmental coordination was conducted as well as notifications and coordination with outside agencies including MOM currently office of emergency management, American Red Cross, New Jersey Department of Transportation, JCPNL emergency notification system and
assistance to vulnerable population here in Bradley Beach. The emergency operations center was staffed until Monday, February 23rd at 4:30 p.m. At present, the M the Bradley Beach Office of Emergency Management is working with the Mammoth County Office of Emergency
Management and the State Office of Emergency Management Recovery Bureau by submitting all costs information to the state for possible reimbursement of expenditures by Bradley Beach for this event. the state of emergency was cancelled by the governor on Wednesday,
February 25th at 6 pm. >> Thank you, Norman. And uh Norm, a couple thoughts. One, first of all, I just want to thank you OEM. I'm going to speak uh later in the in the meeting about the the broad amount of support we you had
and we the bureau had not only from OEM, but from uh police, fire, first aid. Uh, and I'll get into more detail, DPW, of course, but just while you're standing here, would you mind introducing your colleagues from OEM? I think most of our
residents recognize police and DPW. They don't all know you and your team, but I want to give you a chance to just quickly introduce them. >> Sure. I have my two deputy coordinators here tonight who were with me during the whole event who stayed here at the operation center for at least 24 hours.
And that's deputy coordinator Pier Hill and Deputy Coordinator Dan Rag. >> And I just want to thank your team as well as the rest of our employees for a wonderful job over the past couple of weeks. >> Okay.
>> Yes, please. on a personal note and a professional note business is a pretty long line and I must tell you that the department heads here specifically the chief of police and uh department of public works and the fire company first aid squad and
your staff and you know management here we were fantastic you did a great job proud of yourselves um and uh the I know the county is pretty happy with us um we've been in communication with him for days and they're very happy with what we're doing and we're going to continue to do that and it's been a pleasure
working with you all. Thank you so much. >> Well said. >> Thank you. >> And actually, we not only have a chief of police, but our chief of police goes doortodoor, knocks on doors, writes tickets. So, we got we get double duty out of our chief of police. So, thank you.
>> Exactly. All right. Moving on to um uh approval of minutes. I'll make a motion that we approve the February 17, 2026 council business meeting minutes. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble? Yes. >> M. Greenblat? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carp? >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes.
>> Mayor Guboszi? >> Yes. Okay. Uh, item eight on the agenda, public comments or questions specifically pertaining to items on this agenda. Are there public comments or questions? Miss Meadow. Nancy Meadow Ocean Park Condominiums and
I would appreciate being shown the same respect to the address I have given that is given to other people like the Bartletts, Mr. McIll, Mr. Mcano when they just merely come here and say the name of their business. That's what I'm doing. Um, I'm here to dis to give my opinion
which I know you disagree with as a body of ordinance 2026-11. I'm going to state I think it is fact but I'm just going to go with it's my opinion that there's 365 days in a year
that we've been lucky for several years until this particular one to have very little of snow and that perhaps this town has been inconvenienced or not function for maybe seven days out
of these past few storms which were highly irregular because the first one had ice and the second one had fog. I understand that the burrow is trying to all of a sudden comply with
regulations that are beyond their control. I understand that the burrow puts its and this is all my opinion and my observations. The burrow always puts its employees and its businesses prior to
the residence. I observed public works working as hard as they could to move snow, but let's face it, it wasn't perfect. And it's hard to be perfect in that situation. However,
they come around. If you're on the side that gets plowed first, good for you. You're on the side that gets plowed second, that's usually about 12 to 18 hours after. So, here's my scenario. The other side of the street gets plowed.
My snow remover comes and does it when the snow stops. And then in this particular storm, I then wake up and when I went to bed, everything was cleared. I wake up and I'm not only plowed in,
I have my driveway markers broken and now you're asking me to come out and shovel two sidewalks and call my snow remover. Again, that's not a burden that we should have there. Personally, I find more safety in
shoveling out the sewers that are by my building shoveling out the fire hydrant. Um, if you're handicapped, you shouldn't be walking on the sidewalks anyways. And those little access I don't know that they're ramps or
cutouts. Um, so I don't I usually come here with a solution. I confess I don't have one, but I do not think that this resolution solves anything.
And again, you know, no, no, no. I come from New York, you know, shovel things south. Um, but when I come down Main Street, my county road, and I'm watching public works taking care of that, and I watch them come down my road and pile
everything into the corner, pile everything into our driveways. And may I say, we're looking for five votes. And this body knows the importance of each and every vote. And I urge you to
not approve this particular ordinance, but work at a better solution for the problem. >> Thank you. >> This matter, just one clarification. I think you referenced 2026-11,
but I think you're describing 2026-10. 11 is just blocking the sidewalks. It was 10. That's a lot of the snow emergency measures. Is it >> perhaps I didn't understand. I interpreted 10 as to the fines and 11 is
to clearing the handicap access. I don't >> just for the record. I think you the one that said I'm going to be fine if I don't shovel out two of my >> whatever. Just >> sure you you wrote >> um
>> thank you. >> Uh other comments or questions from the audience? >> Mr. Quant. >> Um thank you, Mayor. I I just wanted to comment on uh any adoption items for tonight. Uh, I mean, as we deal with the
Brazilian environmental landscape regulations as proposed by DP, um, I just want to point out that this council is doing a very good job of addressing things through home order and not through a wide rushed across the state
as to how things should go. So, I'd like to comment on the uh ordinance that uh amends the uh driveway ordinance number 2026-18. Um I did have one edit in that that it
should it should not say uh larger driveways or curb cuts. It should say larger driveways certain corner lots. So, I would advise that because the the curve cuts are staying the same. So they shouldn't that shouldn't be done. Um but
in the next one about the subgrade garages and and the way it deals with groundwater infiltration, I think you know if there's ever any talk with the D in the future about um how you handle home rule here that this is a perfect
example of you understanding the environmental impacts that they affect our residents and and doing something about it, not waiting for the state to do something about it. So, I did want to uh compliment you on 2026-9 and if we could just make the change on 2026-18
um that would be fantastic. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Graham. Other comments or questions from the public? Anyone on Zoom? Okay, seeing none, we will move to um item number nine on the agenda, which are the
our ordinances overall. And we'll start with introductions. The introductions are uh new ordinances that we're sharing with the public. New ordinance amendments. Um there is not uh any open public discussion on an introduction. When we come back at a
later date to adopt any or all of these, the public will then have opportunities to comment. So, starting with ordinance 2026-15. Um, this is uh somewhat of a >> I'm sorry, I'm listening over your
shoulder because don't we still have bond ordinance 20264? >> It has been removed. >> Okay. I apologize. >> No, no problem. I I didn't know if you needed to look over. >> Sorry. >> All right. U 2026-15.
Uh this is an ordinance to uh that would allow the bureau if if needed to exceed the municipal budget appropriations limit. The state sets uh municipal budget limits uh that are uh under the cap at 2%. Uh this is a fairly standard adjustment that that by ordinance every
municipality is allowed to increase that 2% to an extra one and a half% to three and a half%. And that's basically what this uh language is proposing. So, any comments or questions among the council? >> Most of these we've talked about
individually, so um you may have had questions earlier, but we've addressed them. Uh I will therefore make a motion to approve the introduction of 2026-15. >> Second, Mr. Dylan, yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes.
>> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. Ordinance 2026-16 um is uh an ordinance that is referencing chapter one of our uh general code and specifically we are uh
increasing fines in five I think it's five areas uh most of them are snow related uh fines for not clearing your driveway, fines for leaving a car parked on the street. Um the reason uh that we
are um going to vote on this and and uh hopefully approve it is because people our residents by the way in this last storm were great moving cars. It's phenomenal result. But um people who don't move cars are creating a
significant health and safety risk for their their fellow residents, for our emergency response individuals, police, fire, first aid. Um, and there's only so much that the burough can do to to
engage our residents. You know, the communications, um, uh, we had police knocking on doors asking people to move their their cars. Seeing it from the mayor's position, these employees bend over backwards to serve our residents. I think it's a great job. It's their job. It's what
they should do, but they do it very well. All that said, there are people who do not move their cars. And uh a 20 foot long car or 18 foot long car can actually block the snow plow from
hitting 200 ft a linear feet of a curb because of the nature of the plow having to approach that car, swing out wide, go around that car, come back in. By the time they're done, we've lost 150, 200 feet of curb space. And everybody knows
in Bradley Beach curb space is very valuable. Um but not only that it can create havoc and as I said health and safety risk. So among other initiatives underway uh I have asked the council to consider increasing a handful of fines
related to primarily snow removal andor uh there's one for example that is u increasing fines for people who park in the special designated parking spaces for handicapped individuals. We already have fines for handicapped violators
parking, but the special parking permits that we provide, the burrow provides to handicapped individuals in town, that was a a modest fine, and we're raising that more to the level of what a regular handicap violation would pay. We don't want people parking in spaces reserved
for handicapped individuals. So um any comments or questions on this particular >> No, I I think you had also mentioned in our discussions that uh it's not the amounts that are being changed are also discussed with I believe it was a judge.
Um there are other there are other um legal people who are looking at the amount. So it's not just like we're pulling a number out of the air. >> Yeah. To your point, Councilman, um there is a there is a a process the court these are fines adjudicated by a
judge who sits right in my seat and um the court system has to approve any adjustments that we request to be made in fines and we have gone through the preliminary portion of that getting preliminary approval. Once we should we
approve this and then ultimately adopt then we send that final version to the ultimate adjudicator in the court system and that's the process they should uh approve. If they don't then we'll have to revisit one or more of these. >> Okay. Thank you.
>> Also just to point out that you know that some of these changes really are um hopefully a real disincentive. Um it it's not across the board increases. It's just for a number a number of different uh >> it's is it five? I think it's five
>> of of many. Yeah. >> Five out of 250. >> Exactly. Exactly. >> But but they're important because they are real risks to health and safety. Uh certainly the snow related ones. Um so if there's no further discussion, I'll make a motion that we approve the
introduction of 20 26-16. >> Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Corp. Yes. Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi. >> Yes. Paul, I love the way you paused for effect
with baited breath. I'm going to say >> uh Okay. Uh introduction for ordinance 2026-17. Uh this is uh an an amendment to this is one of three zoning uh ordinance amendments we're going to present
tonight. And this first one, um, I think of this as cleaning up an error. The the bottom line is a number of years ago, uh, the council here, uh, approved a zoning ordinance amendment that was
intended to, um, help undersized lots. Owners in town of undersized lots are deemed to be non non-compliant, non conforming. And if you're a non-conforming smaller lot, by definition, if you want to do any kind
of adjustment to your property, any kind of construction, renovation, by definition, because your lot is small, you have to go to the land use board. You automatically are deemed to need a variance. And a few years ago, we changed the ordinance around to say,
look, if you're making changes, if you're doing a renovation on a small property and you're staying within all the confines of our zoning ordinances, so your setbacks are good, your height is good, all you know, impervious coverage and all all that, um, you do
not have to go to the landings board, which could cost folks well over $2,000. 2,000 is just usually the amount or 1500s they have they put in escrow but then they have to bring their professionals could be5 or $10,000 and and it's just not right. So we were all
we the council I was part of it were very proud of ourselves a few years ago for for making that change. What I did not appreciate until uh in the past week or so, an architect came to us and said, "You know, you said we could make re
renovations on smaller lots and we didn't have to go to land use board, but there's language in here. I, the architect, amodling, renovating a house, redesigning it, and uh and I'm I'm not having I'm not
creating any variances." But there's language here that says you also cannot increase the original footprint and you also cannot increase the original volume of the house. So for example, if this architect wanted to expand the footprint
of the house and do it within regulation, um this little clause in this ordinance said you can't you cannot expand it. And that I know because I was part of the team that worked on it that was not the intention of this. It's just an oversight. So,
we've all had a chance one-on-one to share this and and vet it. Uh, but I think what we're really doing here is just creating an uh correcting and oversight where the intention is not to penalize smaller property owners. they should have the
same ability to make a renovation on their property and they should be able to expand their footprint or expand the volume of their house as long as they are within all all appropriate regulations with the zoning. So with that as a quick overview, any other questions or comments?
>> Covered it all. >> Okay. Next time I'll let one of you guys do it. >> That's okay. >> In that case, I will make a motion that we approve the introduction of 2026-17. Second, >> Mr. Noble. Yes, Mr. Framelet. Yes. Mr. Cart. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki.
>> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. Okay. Uh 2026-18 is the second of zoning ordinance amendments. As Mr. Co mentioned, this is in reference to um driveways. Um and
we'll address the title in a moment, but um what was identified by our land use board and Mr. Quan worked on this with Mr. Carp, our councilman who's also on our land use board as well as Mr. Mayor, Dennis Mayor, uh who's who serves as the
vice chair of the land use board. uh they came to us with uh this recommendation because there are on corner lot properties where oftent times the driveways do not run down along the side of the house but instead if the
house frontage is on a let's say an uh east west street the garage entrance is often on a north south street behind the property and because the properties are typically narrow you know 50 feet or or less wide um there are challenges with
the angles of getting a car entering the property from the side street, getting it getting two cars into a two-car garage. So what they came to us with is this recommendation effectively um widening uh allowing the widening of
driveways uh from normally it' be a 10 foot it would be a 12t curve cut 10ft initial width but that 10ft width of a driveway is really challenging to to get into twocar garage and they are suggesting that uh from I may be off a
little but from the property line you enter through the uh curb cut, you go through the apron, and once you hit the property line, you can widen your driveway at that point to 16 ft to get yourself two cars into the garage. Did I
state that fairly accurately? >> Yeah, actually the uh the driveway between the curve cut and the property line is also uh instead of 10 ft would now be 12 feet and then you would flare out to the 16 at the property line. the that previously they would need an
ordinance of a variance for their driveway width on a on a corner lot because our ordinance requires that they enter through the uh the long street. >> I have a quick question. You say the property line. So it's not the um
setback. It's the >> Well, the property line is you know the right way rightway which is town property. Okay. >> It can be it was 10 ft. Now it can be 12. >> Okay. Even in the right way with it doesn't change. >> Okay.
>> Yeah. >> And then when it flares out, how >> it flares out at the property line. Got it. >> And you can park two cars in front of your >> So that's after the rightway. >> That is after the rightway. >> Okay. >> Any further comments or questions then
about uh 202618 before I made the motion? No, I think it it also allows for um without taking away parking spots on the street because the curb cuts are still the same, it allows for a much easier and more cars to actually be parked on the driveway.
>> Yeah, good. Very good point. >> It's good. >> Okay. Are are there certain I'm just wondering are there certain twocar garage um properties on the north south streets where the actual apron is what is the is the width of the twocar garage
>> uh if they're they must be pre-existing not that >> um there's plenty of examples that are done probably >> they're not currently allowed but >> yeah I just want to make sure you'll adjust the title >> do that >> okay so first um There's no further
comment or questions. I'll make a motion that we uh formally change the the title of this uh ordinance 2026-18 to change the words um larger curb cuts to larger driveways. Really substitute
the word driveways for curb cuts. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. Yes. Miss Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Corp. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. Yes, >> Mayor Gubzi. >> Yes. And now I'll make a motion that we approve uh 2026-18
as amended. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble? >> Yes. >> Mr. Greenblat? Yes. >> Mr. Corp? >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki? >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi? >> Yes. Now, the the next handful of these I know Mr. Karp, you've been very involved in these. Would you like to
sure take the lead? Great. So this is the ordinance amending article 2 um referring to subgrade garages and basement. Um I think the important part of this was really to promote flood
resilience. Um, we've been allowing construction uh allowing these subgrade garages um which have which we've seen have caused flooding um in the streets um as well as
uh by um the property owner with the garage as well as the neighboring residents. Uh so this um amendment uh achieves a few things. one, it adds a minimal uh a minimum amount of vertical
separation between the lowest uh benchm and the documented I water ground table. So that had never been detailed before. Um we're also requiring a certification of the groundwater and the flood elevation for any application proposing
a basement. Um, of course, it also disallows below grade garages, which of course have that inherent drainage issue. Um, and we've also gone as far to define basement and sellers because we found that uh if we hadn't uh defined
what a seller is, people would come in and say, "Well, you haven't defined what a seller is. I'm going to um give you my own definition." So, it was very important to be able to define what a basement is. um how much of the um a basement uh is where more of the below
ground is above the level and a seller is more below. So uh the language in there really helps to firm up the um the ordinance. >> Any further discussion comments? Would you like to make a motion?
>> I would like to make a motion to approve ordinance 2026-9. >> Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Greenblat. Yes. >> Mr. Carp. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi. >> Yes. It uh ordinance 2026-20. Once
again, Councilman Karp, I will turn it over to you. >> So 2026-20 um amends our noise ordinance and specifically, sorry, >> we have a new >> the revised agenda that I said. >> Oh, the revive revised. Okay. Oh, okay.
So So um I'm going to go to twist, right? waste. Um so this one is talking about um uh how we're currently um depositing debris into the streets. Um we all know and
we've seen that uh when landscapers are um uh and homeowners are cleaning up their yards, a lot of the debris is blown into the streets. um we wanted to be able to um address that because the
blowing of that debris, including grass, this of course doesn't include when homeowners are putting um brush or or leaves on the street. Uh this is really uh grass clippings or any other type of waste. Uh because it's it's winding up
in our storm drains uh which then winds up in our lakes. It builds up silt with inside of the lakes. also introduces anything that's been um added to the lawn regarding fertilizers, any other adverse chemicals and eventually goes into the lakes and the ocean. So, we
really needed to address um uh the um collection uh ordinance to be able to um prohibit those actions which are harmful to uh water environments. >> Any comments or questions?
Ready? >> Mr. Carver, I just want to thank you for the the work you've done on all of these, but this one especially. U if there are no further comments or questions for I'd like to make a motion to uh approve ordinance 2026-21. >> Second.
>> Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Greenblat, yes. Mr. Corp? >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi? >> Yes. I'm gonna pause. All right. Um, for u the next
introduction, uh, 2026-22 once again >> 21. >> Oh, I'm sorry. 21. I'm going to turn that over to Mr. Carp. All right. Uh, so last but not least, well, it's from me. Um, this was an ordinance um in conjunction with the Environmental
Commission uh about uh limiting the use of gas powered leaf blowers within our town. Um I've had the opportunity to um have many discussions individually with our council and there's they raise a lot
of questions. Um so in lie of um talking more about it I think it may make sense to have a workshop to be able to gather some uh feedback from the residents. Um, so I'd like to make a motion to table
this. Um, ordinance 2026 20 one. >> I'll second. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Greenblat, >> yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi. >> Yes.
>> All right. We will now move to adoptions. And for each of these, I will open up to public comment. Um the first ordinance adoption is uh 2026-9 and this is a um zoning ordinance
chapter 450 zoning specifically our affordable housing uh overlay zones where we at our last meeting uh uh you know introduced the ordinance then it went to the land use board for a
consistency review and now we're at a point where we are ready to adopt not uh post any public comments. So, any questions or comments before we open it up to the public? >> All right. I'll make a motion that we open up to the public.
>> Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Greenblat. Yes. >> Mr. Carr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Okay. Mayor, >> he gave you the headshake. We're good. America. >> Okay. Uh, it is now open to the public
for comment or questions. >> Okay. Seeing no Oh, Mr. Coen, >> he's still going. >> It was a half. Let's do that. Yeah, >> he's very chatty. >> Yeah. >> Thank you, Mayor Thomas J. Coen, 6ole 3rd Avenue. You know, I I just want to say that uh this has been a long time
coming and uh it's been a lot of hard work for our planner. Uh Mr. Carp worked on it. Uh everybody's really reviewed it. Mr. Noiki worked on Councilman Noiki. I mean, everybody is really uh I wish this was completed in 2025, but I'm
happy it's being completed before the deadline today. But a lot of people worked on it very diligently. Uh fortunately we weren't a one of the New Jersey towns with a lot of open space. Uh so we didn't have to engage in going
to the Support to try to overturn the the usurping of home rule from our town. But again uh it was a an open negotiation with the planner fair share housing and the courts. Uh it it takes a
while. It's not inexpensive to do it, but it was done correctly and will give us the protection on one side and on the other side it will give us the opportunity to create affordable housing in Broward Beach. So um and I think well
what one thing that it's done is it's really raised awareness of the process is it's been an open process at the land use board and here and we want everyone to understand that you know we're meeting our state requirements and
hopefully uh we're going to get some units very soon. Uh we lost some in the past but you know I don't want to be burdened by what has been. Let's uh just keep going. Thank you. Thank you. And on that note, uh it bears uh recognizing
your efforts publicly as well. I know you worked with our planner in the early phases of this kind of identifying what overlay sales might look like. You mentioned Mr. Cart playing an instrumental role in helping us get through a lot of the the details of this especially right down the block and lot
numbers in each of these five zones. Um so it really was a team effort along with of course our professionals, our planner and the great news is um we are we have reached our settlement in round four and now officially tonight once we
approve this we will be making the deadline that was imposed of May I'm sorry of March 15th. So we're getting this done a good solid week and a half two you know almost two weeks in advance. So, with that said, um I will make a motion that we close public
comment and adopt 2026-9. Second, >> Miss Noble, >> yes. >> Miss Greenblat, yes. >> Mr. Corp, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. 2026-10 is um the amending of chapter 9 traffic
for the bureau's revised ordinances um to revised temporary parking regulations during snow emergencies. Um and this is you know this is uh in fact um clear cleaning up the the narrative
around when to move your cars for alternate street parking as well as um adding greater clarity around uh snow removal including removal of the snow from corner lot ADA ramps that Miss Meadow mentioned earlier. Any comments
or questions before I open it to the public? I just wanted to acknowledge uh Miss Meadow and uh her comments and I appreciate uh your comments uh and yeah lack of suggestions and solutions to this because it is a very difficult
these were difficult storms that we had. Uh I think many communities like ours have experienced the same kind of thing. Um, in passing this ordinance, uh, what it does is it clarifies the responsibility, which is a responsibility that we know of, you know, the residents and the
responsibility of the sidewalks. And, um, to to I apologize for for repeating a quote that's been raised up here before, but, um, let's not let perfect be the enemy of good. um you know, we could all always do better, but I think
that this last storm in particular, we've learned from the previous storm. And um and it's just been pretty spectacular, albeit um you know, the the issue of what happens when plows are going down the street and redepositing
snow back in front of people's driveways, which is very difficult to manage. But maybe there are some solutions to that down the road. But I think that this ordinance itself at least clarifies what is required in an attempt to keep things safe.
>> Very good. Any other comments or questions before we open it to the public? >> All right. I will make a motion that we open it up to the public for comment or questions. >> Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. >> Miss Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Corp. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes.
>> Mayor Kubosi. >> Yeah. Yes. Okay. 2026-10. Questions or comments from the public? >> Okay, seeing none, just make sure. Seeing none, I will make a motion that we close public comment and uh adopt
2026-10. >> Second, Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ringlat, >> yes. >> Mr. Gar, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. 2026-11. This is an ordinance amending chapter
398, streets and sidewalks. And specifically, this is the one that uh is prohibiting obstructions on the sidewalks. The the reason this was this particular amendment was created is because somebody positioned a portaotty smack dab in the middle of one of our
sidewalks and uh code enforcement went to give them a citation and lo and behold we didn't have an ordinance addressing portaotties or other obstructions in the middle of the sidewalk. We need to clear the snow but we didn't address obstructions. So
that's what 20261 is doing. Any comments or questions from the council? I think I think it's also important to note that u as a dog walker that uh there's very frequently I see cars that are parked in their driveway and the trunk of their
car are also coming across the sidewalks sometimes into the driveway a little bit as well. So that addresses that issue as well. >> I mean it's so obvious to the I think to me certainly and I think to most of lay people we have to have our our walkways
or sidewalks unobstructed. And you know, some people reference handicapped individuals. Some reference dog walkers, elderly, young parents with children, whatever. Bottom line is this is a public right away and we cannot have people cluttering it with any obstacles
of any kind. So I think this was just an oversight in the history of Bradley Beach that we didn't we weren't clear, but now we uh we will be clear. So if there's no further comments, I'll make a motion then we open up to the public for comments or questions. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. Yes, Mr. Greenlat.
>> Yes, >> Mr. Carr. >> Yes, >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes, >> Mayor Guboszi. >> Yes. >> Public comments or questions on 2026-11. >> Okay, seeing none, I'll make a motion we
close public comment and uh approve the adoption of 2026-11. >> Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. >> M. Greenblat? >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark? >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki? >> Yes. Mayor Gubetzi. >> Yes. 2026-12
is an ordinance amending chapter 365 rental property of the burough's revised general ordinances. Um this is largely updating uh the administration of our occupancy tax. We we already have in place an occupancy tax 3% um of revenue
collected by short-term rental properties, Airbnb, VRBOS, and so forth. Um what we learned going through for the first year trying to collect these u these taxes is that we the bureau probably needed to add more clarity to
the landlords to let them understand um you know what documentation we can uh receive in support of uh their submission of their taxes. Um the time frames were not really aligned. You know we we've the time frame was that we would collect it by the end of the
calendar year. Now, we are planning to collect uh three months into the new calendar year, giving folks time to get the records straight and so forth. Also offering them, if you will, an opt out of uh submitting all that paperwork and
instead of funding 3% of revenue that they have to document, they they have an opt out where they can fund a flat $500. So, that largely this is uh increasing administrative clarity for landlords. Uh comments or questions?
>> All right, I will open it. I will make a motion that we open it up to the public. >> Second. Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Miss Greenblat, yes. Mr. Corp, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. Public comments or questions for
20126-12. Okay. Seeing none, I will make a motion to close public comment and adopt 2026-12. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Greenlat, yes. >> Mr. Park, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi.
>> Yes. For ordinance 2026-13. I'm going to turn it over to Council President Jane Den. >> Thank you, Mayor. This is ordinance 2026-13 uh ordinance amending chapter 425 trees of the bureaus revised general and ordinances to enhance the operations and
regulations of the burough's shade tree commission. Just to reiterate, this is very similar. Um this was request by the shade tree commission. When you have a construction permit, you get a yellow um sign to put in your window. So the shade tree has something very similar. when
you get approved to have a tree removed, you'll now get a green sign to put in your window. This way, when the chainsaws start up, not everybody's panicking and calling the Shade Tree Commission and everybody else asking what's going on. So, um I think I'll
make a motion now to Oh, do you guys have any questions? >> Okay, I'll make a motion that we open it to the public for ordinance 2026-13. Second, >> Miss Denobyl. Yes. Sister Greenblat. Yes. >> Sister Carr. >> Yes. >> Sister Nikki. >> Yes.
>> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. >> Comments or questions? >> Linda Duffy. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Miss Duffy. >> I wanted to comment on the last one, but you didn't see my hand. I didn't put it up fast enough.
>> No. >> All right. Can you can you save your comment till uh the end of the meeting at this point? >> Yeah, I can. I just figured this out. Thank you very much. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh any comments or questions for this?
>> I guess as there is none, I'd like to close the public comment and approve the or adopt ordinance 2026. Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> M. Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Carr. >> Yes.
>> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi. >> Yes. All right, that takes us through uh item nine on our agenda, ordinances. Item 10 is communications. There are none. Item
11 are resolutions. We'll start with the consent agenda resolutions. Um are any of these four items uh do any of them do any council members want to discuss or vote on any of them separately? >> No. >> All right. In that case, I will make a
motion to approve consent agenda resolution items 2026-7 through 2026-73. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. Yes. >> Miss Greenblat. Yes. >> Mr. Court. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki.
>> Yes. >> Mayor Gubachosi. >> Yes. Okay. We have four individual resolutions. The first being 2026-74 approval of a shared service agreement renewal with Neptune City for summer camp. And this is basically offering the
uh resident rates uh of Bradley Beach to our summer camp to uh residents of Neptune City. And we've done this every year for a number of years. Uh any comments or questions? All right. I'll make a motion that we approve uh individual resolution
2026-74. >> Second, Mr. Noble. Yes, M. Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Corp. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> 2026-75.
Authorizing award of professional engineering services with CME Associates for Prominade uh soil testing and and permitting uh subconultants. Um Mr. you know, wiki, I I know you're you're far far away, but would you like
to briefly comment on this? >> Yeah, hopefully the uh you you can hear me clearly and I'm not delayed. Okay. So, um basically we're looking to utilize um soils excavated out of um
along Bradley Boulevard um from the bulkhead project and we're going to reuse that material and save um sever,000 by reusing that material, not wasting it. But in order to do that, we wanted to have it tested to make sure that there was no contamination in that
soil. It's not the soil in the lake, it's the soil along um behind the the existing wall. and that needed to have environmental borings taken in order to show that the material was suitable to put underneath the prominade. Um so that's what that is and we're also
engaging a subconsultant um um Marty McHugh who used to be a um Brandy Beach resident. He's been involved very much in the in the lake projects as well as the proomenade and we're he's a former commission uh deputy commissioner of D fishing
wildlife and we're uh getting some consulting advisory work from him uh to help guide us through the myriad of um permitting issues that were being encountered uh and moratoriums and restrictions. Uh so he's helping us
navigate that um directly with the D and supporting CME as well as the overall Silven Lake projects. So that's um but again this is tied directly to the prominade. It's underneath the prominade uh project grant uh because that material is being used at the prominade
otherwise it would have been um shipped away um directly. So this is the reason why it's justified to be part of the prominade project. >> And this is one piece of what I would describe as a pretty complex ecosystem
of engineering projects around and on Silven Lake, our not only the prominade extension, uh the alpha pipe, um there's a the bulkhead, there's a number of moving pieces. Uh, Councilman Nikki has
been instrumental in guiding the bureau through all these projects and making sure we align funding and align engineers. Uh, it it it's yman's effort, Councilman, and we all appreciate what you've done to kind of navigate Bradley
Beach through the maze. Um, but this is just uh and the resolution will be talking about next, but this is just one piece of helping us put all the puzzle pieces together. So, thank you for your effort on this. Um, if >> Yeah, I was going to say,
>> so, um, Paul, I I had an opportunity to speak with, um, Councilman Noiki about this, but I just had one other question. So, if this material is suitable um, and clean, it gets transferred over during the course of the Silven Lake Bulkhead
project. I guess transferred over to uh some location uh along the prominade or along the beachfront area where the prominade is uh if it needs to kind of sit there because a lot of things have to kind of be aligned in terms of both projects.
Right. >> Right. the timing of those two. Um, first piece is we need a caffer permit for the prominent extension that was submitted back in January and we're awaiting that caffer permit from D that will allow us uh to put the material over there as well as actually construct
the prominade extension. So that's that's really the critical piece of this equation first is to get that capper permit and then they will also um give us any restrictions or any necessary means. Typically, if you're going to stockpile that material, you put soil,
you know, soil erosion fence around it. You protect it and you put it in an area that um you know, basically you it can sit and wait for the um uh use at uh on the prominade construction. >> So, that could potentially actually be
put there during the course of the summer season, right? >> Yes. Um yeah, right now we have a bunch of stockpiled material from the alpha pipe. Um we have stockpile of uh rip wrap you know rock that's piled up out
there. Uh that also is going to be used for the prominade extension. Um so that will be getting moved over to that prominent extension when that construction gets um defined by the D when we can actually do that work. >> Thank you.
>> We have just so the bureau knows we have residents of the burough we have fairly significant project work. We have a over $2 million grant on to to repair plus money possibly committed by the bureau to repair the bulkhead. We have a $4
million grant for the uh uh prominade extension, the $3 million or so in grants and loans on the Alpha pipe. I mean, you add it all up, it's a lot of money all working towards fixing that that broad area. you know, Silven Lakes
renovation as well as the prominade which is a key resiliency point. You know, that is the low point in Bradley Beach for ocean surges. So, uh if we can extend that ocean bulkhead, uh that'll give us greater, you know, safety from
uh from flooding. So, but there's so many moving parts and that's what I alluded to earlier that Councilman Noiki is, you know, helping us align this. A simple example of of his observation center guiding us is um this particular
uh resolution where we're talking about uh measuring the sediment in a certain area that we might be able to use for the bulkhead. If we were to cart this sediment away or this soil away, I don't know the exact number, but it might be a h 100,000 $200,000.
Then if we were not coordinating this, we would have to secure Phil for the bulkhead project that might cost us $100 or $200,000. So by this effort largely led by Mr. Nikki might be saving the bureau $300,000
and it it's the type of thing that a lay person like myself would not have thought of. So uh so Paul, I cannot thank you enough on behalf of the burough for your leadership in this space. You've been you've been great. Thank you. Uh that said, all the praise aside, um
where do we stand? Do we need to make a motion to uh approve 20675? >> Second. >> No, I'll make that motion. Sha seconded. >> Um Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Green, yes. >> Mr. Court, >> yes. >> Mr. Niki,
>> yes. >> Mayor Hubosi, >> yes. >> Well, I'm not buying that you've got a delay there. I think you're falling asleep on this. >> Correct. Okay. >> No, my my um my internet gets spotty and I keep you guys going in and out a
little bit and um so and and my power draining very rapidly. So, >> hey, you're you're in Mexico. You're entitled to a little siesta. No, no problem. Um okay. Item 2026-76 authorizing the chief financial officer
to transfer funds to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for the Silven Lake outfall gate replacement. This could be an hourong story. Councilman, I'm going to give you I'm going to make one more comment and then I'm going to give you two minutes
to summarize what this is about. But um but uh questions have been raised. This is a lot of money. It's $700,000. Um Councilman Noiki will explain why in a second, but one question asked of us and we've checked this repeatedly with our CFO. We do not need to do a
verification of funds for this particular item. I just want to go on public record confirming that that is not required. Uh Councilman, one once again, you want to give us a two-minute overview of what this is about? >> Yes. So, this is the gate that controls
the water from the lake out to the ocean. There's a um structure that's failed uh several years ago um that basically controls the water flow. Um we've spoken about this previously.
We've asked the DP to include this project, the the actual gate into the outfall project, allowing us to take advantage of the existing contractor that's out there, minimizing costs, be be more efficient, uh, by using that
contractor to add that work to his contract and do it here in the spring. We had already passed the um the the um ordinance uh for this uh an increase in the dollar value of that $700,000 in in
a earlier council meeting. And that cost is shared between us and Avon. So it's a $350,000 of actual cost to the burrow. $350,000 is actually Avon's commitment. We're we're sharing that cost 5050.
>> Thank you. Any other comments or questions from the council? All right. I will make a motion that we approve 2026-76. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. Mr. Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Carr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Kubachos.
>> Yes. Item 2026-77. I'm going to turn over to uh Councilwoman Greenland. >> Thank you, Mayor. Um 2026 277 is ratification of resolution uh 22671 Darcy's St. Patrick's Day event
reschedule approval. Um this is uh a ratification uh to reschedu the event which this is actually retroactive. Uh they were uh planning a St. Patrick's Day event this past Sunday and it was coinciding with
uh St. Patrick's Day parade in Belmar which was cancelled and so Darcy's had asked if they can do their uh event on Saturday day prior and so uh both uh councilman Noiki and Councilman Karp and
I were the three uh governing body individuals who had approved uh this uh and so um this is this is now uh just codifying and ratifying that this took place on Saturday and it was approved by
three members of council. Uh so I I look to approve uh resolution 2026 277. >> Second >> second. >> Uh Mr. Noble, I have multiple items that could be received as a complaint and I
live within 200 feet so I'm going to recuse myself. >> Uh Miss Gblat, >> yes. Mr. Carr, >> yes. >> Mr. In a wiki, >> yes, >> Mayor Guptzi, >> I also live within 200 feet and I will recuse myself.
>> So that motion passes. Uh we will move to item 12, announcements. There are none. Item 13A that we all wait for anxiously every meeting, the business administrator report. Mr. Dohy. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um,
I want to a second what u what Norman impressed earlier. Him and Bob um really were fantastic through this last storm. Uh the police department did an exceptional job. Um Department of Public Works came in, you know, people left
vacations early and make sure that they weren't stuck somewhere or caught in traffic heading home. Um, but I would also tell you that a lot of it has to do with the residents themselves by, you know, moving their cars to one side of the street, by listening to the police department. The police department
contacted businesses and asked them to close early, right? All that helped us get the streets clear. So, um, you know, it truly was a team effort, including the residents themselves. So, I do give kudos to our our OEM, our police
department, our Department of Public Works, but I think it's also the to recognize the residents themselves um that made played a major role in ensuring that the the town looks so good, you know, 24 to 48 hours after the storm. Um, also I want to just uh
certainly not to correct uh Councilwoman Greenblat, but just to uh amend her statement. The Belmar Lake Como St. St. Patrick's Day parade wasn't cancelled. >> Excuse. >> It has been postponed to Saturday. First time ever. It's going
to be on a Saturday. Saturday, March 20th. So hopefully uh the mayor and council from Brley Beach will uh join us in Balar for a >> for a good parade. >> Are we gonna have a float? >> Start making one right now.
>> Start making one. >> Yes. >> Uh I have a pick sitting the back in the pickup truck. BWS there. You can ride on their >> fire. >> They ride on a fire a fire truck. Um so I just want to give a very quick update
as to some of the infrastructure. Uh as Mayor Gatossian mentioned, um Councilman Nikki um is is absolutely remarkable when it comes to the engineering aspect to get these projects to where they need
to be. Um, some of the ones that I know are are top of mind. The first one is the pump station. Um, it's referred to as 54 Ocean Avenue, even though there is no 54 Ocean Avenue because everyone knows that's not a real address. Um, but
they have done all the demolition work inside. They started filling the tanks underground. Um, so we are pushing as hard as possible to meet the mayor's deadline of Memorial Day weekend, at least for the bathrooms to be operable.
Um, and um, you know, the the weather certainly did help, but we think we're on on pace to to get as close, if not hit that that opening day for Mayor. Um, the prominade uh, the uh, the Prominade extension, everyone knows about the
little more than $4 million grant for that. Uh Department of Public Work, I mean the uh the Department of Environmental Protection is currently reviewing our permit. Uh we're almost done uh with the design work to actually start start to go out to bid. So, we're
going to go down, you know, both paths at the same time. We're not going to wait necessarily for D approval. Uh we're going to start the the process to go out to bid and get a contractor to extend that problem. Um the the as
mentioned before the the gate is uh is moving along well at the um at Silver Lake. Um and those were the real updates the only main updates I wanted to give to the council on the uh the residents today regarding some of the infrastructure projects. So thank you Mr. Mayor.
>> Very good. Thank you. I must comment I am continually amazed at your knowledge of Belmar. I'll be honest with you. Uh uh and this is tough for a politician, but I'm going to be honest. Uh I make up most of it. I say in a convincing way, so it is very
believable. Sometimes I use my knuckle to even point >> except you need you seem to know a lot more about parades than alcoholic beverages than most politicians. >> It's extensive study and training, sir. >> Well, thank you, sir. Um that said, we
are now at 13B on the agenda. Mayor and council reports. We'll start with Councilwoman Greenblat. >> Great. I also just want to point out and make an announcement if unless I'm stepping on your toes. >> Go right ahead. >> That we now have signs on Main Street that say 25 miles per hour. And so Main
Street is officially 25 miles per hour here to for >> and the signs are not in the middle of the sidewalk. >> Um the arts council met uh yesterday, March 2nd. Uh, mark your calendar for a music improvisation playshot Thursday,
March 5th. That's this week, 7 to 8:00 p.m. at the Beyz Center. Led by Arts Council member Abby Khan. The program is is a guided and collaborative music making experience. Instruments will be provided. All levels from little to no experience. Welcome.
Come join this fun expression of community music making. Doors open at 6:30 and the event is free of charge. Their next meeting is scheduled for Monday, 6:30 p.m. at the Bey Center and the public is welcome. The Fletcher Lake
Commission will next be meeting on Thursday, March 12th at 6 p.m. here in this council chamber. There's no current news to report and I'm going to relieve everyone of all of my um recreation events that I always repeat um and
reference the website. So, um, uh, some upcoming specific events, uh, Radio Bingo, this is for recreation. Radio Bingo runs March 21st, 6 p.m. at the fire hall, featuring music, the music of the '9s. Go to the recreation website to
purchase t tickets for admission. Mark your calendars for the glow-in-the-dark Easter egg hunt, March 27th, 700 p.m. at the rec center baseball field. Rain date is Saturday, March 28th at the same time. Uh the senior club is having a
makeup meeting this Thursday, uh March 5th at the banquet hall at 12:00 p.m. and their next meeting is Wednesday, March 25th, noon to 3 at the Bazin Center. Majan open play runs every Friday 1 to 3, also at the Bazin Center.
Um, Bradley Beach and Neptune City have a shared service agreement for recreation. So, please check the recreation website for all the programs running and open to Bradley Beach residents. Summer camp 2026 registration will open um uh on March 16th. Camp runs
from June 29th to August 14th. It runs um Monday through Friday 9 to 3 p.m. Be sure to register early as last year's program filled to extended capacity. New this summer, Bradley Beach in Neptune City will host a marine science camp for
one week this summer, July 27th to the 31st, Monday to Friday, 9 to 2:00 p.m. for ages 5 to 14. This will take place at Memorial Park in Neptune City. Applications are currently open and if you visit the recreation page on the
burrow site, uh you'll see details and registration information. Uh once again, construction continues at the rec site with the completion of paperwork. Court striping is planned for the end of winter as well as an exciting grand reopening of the facility in early
spring. There is still limited public access to the facility. The recreation committee's next meeting will be Monday, March 9th, 6:30 p.m. at the Ne Neptune City Community Center. That's Millet. >> Thank you, Councilwoman. Move to council president, Mrs. Denov.
>> Thank you, Mayor. Tourism has a meeting next week, but the director, Amy Baker, has asked me to remind everybody to mark their calendars for March 14th and 15th is the 8th annual Shamrock Hunt. Sha Tree has a meeting tomorrow.
Unfortunately, they do not have a quorum. So, chairperson Noel Weinberg has postponed the meeting till next week, March 10th. The board event had a meeting on February 17th. The board approved funding for phase one of a new
playground project at the school. This will be supported through a combination of local district funds and the District of Community Affairs grant they were awarded last year. This represents an important first step in updating their playground facilities in a responsible
and fiscally balanced way. They also recognized and honored Jennifer Pingore, the governor's educator teacher of the year. They also recognized and honored Nicole Covert who was the educational
services pro professional of the year. also acknowledged was the second marking period high honor student roles, high honor u students. It was wonderful to see so many students and families present to celebrate their hard work and
academic achievements. And personally, I like to thank Alyssa Guzo. She um invited me to the school and I read aloud to the students today, the second grade. And I've read a book called My First American Friend written by Ranata
Loose, a former Bradley Beach Elementary School student. And that completes my report. Thank you. >> Thank you, Council President. We'll turn to Councilman Carl. >> Thank you. So, uh, for the Environmental Commission, we attempted to have a meeting last night, but unfortunately
they had some last minute cancellations. Didn't have a quorum. Uh, so they're looking to reschedule for next week. Uh for the fire department for the month ended February 28th, 2026, the fire department responded to 12 day calls and
eight nine calls for a total of 20. Seven fire alarm activations, two natural gas leaks, three burst water pipes, one carbon monoxide alarm, one elevator rescue, three downed or sparking wires, one electrical fire, one mutual aid assist into Asbury Park, and
one assist uh resident with a ladder. The department conducted one departmentwide training and also deployed uh snowstorm standby crew for 24 hours in conjunction with the Bradley Beach OEM and Bradley Beach EMS. Uh there were no requests from mutual aid
from other fire departments. They're still looking for volunteers for the fire department. Offer free training for qualified individuals. Anyone wishing to volunteer for the fire department may inquire through the burrow's website. For the first aid squad for the latest
operational period ending today, the squad responded to 10 day calls and six night calls for a total of 16 and six were for medical, 10 were for fire. There were no out of town mutual aids requested. The squad requested one mutual aid from Asbury Park for a motor
vehicle accident during snowstorm Fernando. Why did we start naming your snowflakes? Um uh the squad um uh collaborated with the fire department staff both
ambulances with seven members who answered 10 calls for service transporting one patient to Jersey Shore Medical Center and they would love to thank the fire department police and the department of public works for their assistance during the storm. Uh total volunteer hours during the period were
16 and they fulfilled 99% of their assignments for the period. Uh they are also looking for volunteers. They offer free training for qualified individuals. Anyone wishing to volunteer for the first aid squad. Applications can be found on the burough's website. And also
remember they're still accepting applications to their cadet program for young people 16 to 18 years old who are interested in serving our community. And that's my Thank you, Councilman. Is Councilman Dwiki still with us?
>> Yes, I am. >> Do you have a That's Yeah, my video is off, but that's okay. I um quick report on the police department. Um we all made it uh through the snow and are happy that most of the town adhereed to the snow parking ordinance, which made it much easier for our fantastic DPW to
clear the streets. Hopefully, we are done with the snow. Haha. Um, regarding activity since the last meeting, a local resident was arrested for simple assault. A Brick Township man was arrested and charged with driving while
intoxicated and several other motor vehicle violations following a traffic stop. The stop resulted uh from speeding as he was well over the new 25 mph speed limit that we have now on Main Street. Uh the Bradley Beach uh Police Department arrested three individuals on
active contempt of court warrants and investigated one motor vehicle accident between February 16th and March 2nd. Uh regarding Silven Lake, uh we did have a meeting on the third Wednesday of the month and uh it was a very productive meeting. We reviewed all the projects,
kept everybody informed and um we also had a technical um attack meeting with all the uh consultants and the American latoral society and Mammoth University and are looking to see how we are going to be able to advance the sediment
removal i.e dredging of the lake and we're looking at ways to fund that and how to uh move that phase of the project forward. So, more to come with that in the future. Uh, meanwhile, that's my report and thank you.
>> Thank you, Councilman. And please get back to the golf course as soon as you can. We appreciate you joining us tonight. Uh, okay. My report. Uh, it'll be quick. Um, I really Well, number one, uh, just so everybody knows, we have a new
concessioner. Uh, a bid was just awarded for, uh, the Second Avenue Grill. More to come on that, but uh it's a five-year contract. Uh and it's a couple of residents in town who are very excited about the opportunity. They're going to
work with the prior uh le uh to figure out if they if they want to, you know, do any deals purchasing any of the equipment that's uh in the Second Avenue Grill now. But we went down myself and Baja Cavone um met with them today and
they're very excited about joining the Bradley Beach community of concessioneers. So looking forward to giving you more of a direct uh introduction to them once once they finalize all their contracting. But uh but they are in fact contracted with us. So we're we're very pleased to have them
join us. Um I really want to build on what our uh business administrator Mr. Dohy said about the snow. Not just the most recent one, but the couple storms we had in rapid succession. Each one we we mentioned is probably the only one
we'll have like that in five or 10 years. Then we had two in two weeks. Um, and I'm going to start really, Matt, where you left off saying that our residents made a huge difference in uh the success of the burrow in clearing
our streets. it it was night and day compared to the the 10 or 12 inches of snow we had dumped on us a week or two earlier. Um and so number one, you know, uh start with the with the key the key to success and that is our residents.
Our residents were great. Now, how did we achieve that? One, we have a lot of really conscientious residents. Two, we did have our police literally going doortodoor as as snow was beginning to fall, knocking on doors. First of all, identifying license plates, figuring out
who the owners of various cars were, then knocking on those stores to say, "Hey, you got to move your car before you get a fine or perhaps towed." Um, and uh, case in point, it was reported to me after that effort was made by the police, Newark Avenue, which was one of
our more challenging streets in the prior snowstorm, had perfect compliance. zero cars parked on the south side as the snow began to fall. Uh, and that that is just huge in terms of what that enables our employees, DPW especially,
to do. So, kudos to the police for doing that early prep, knocking on doors, kudos also to the police. If you're not signed up for reverse 911 ones, I really encourage you to do that because uh, Chief, you guys really stepped up. you've always been great at
communicating, but uh I know you and uh and uh Captain uh Terry um created new uh 911 messages, reverse 911s in the interim period when we're flipping over from phase one, which is you move your
cars off the south side or the east side to the north side and the west side. Uh you guys created some new messaging which I thought was incredibly uh uh well done. just the ease e ease of communication. Many residents complimented me. I I try to take no
credit. Uh you guys do such a great job and again you did that totally uh independent of of the rest of us. So I think that messaging not only the early but then the the moving from phase one to phase two really gave our our residents the guidance they needed to to
comply with uh with what are really challenging regulations. No question. Um, also want to mention the folks probably understand this, but to the extent you you're not aware, snow snow like we've had over these last couple of
occurrences, we have employees that are working 24 to 35 to 40 hours straight, non-stop. I mean, we're bringing food donations to DPW, uh, and DPW sharing that food with other first responders,
OEM and, uh, and our police, of course. Um, but they are working through the night in in many instances. And, you know, there are folks who say to me, well, that's their job. Well, yeah, it is their job, but the amount of commitment that is given to the these
jobs is is really noteworthy. Um, we do have uh a couple folks, two storms ago, one or two that I'm aware of this storm that actually surrendered vacation time to make sure they could be here to help their colleagues moving the snow and, you know, and getting this all done. Um,
I I mentioned OEM, police, DPW. I want to put in a plug for our director of communications, uh, Amy Baker, who's often involved in helping us with a lot of the communications as well. Um, and I want to also mention that uh our
own Pat Allen this particular storm was out with one of our smaller I don't know the names of the vehicles but uh uh what is it the Kobe or what's >> Bobcat? Well, like yeah, Bobcat
basically um clearing corner areas where uh you know, we've had a lot of push back from the community, corner lots that have AVA ramps. Pat Allen was out doing his best to clear as many of those as he could with a small equipment Bobcat. So, um Pat Allen and others were
also helping our police dig out a few cars that needed to be towed. One I think was sitting in basically in the middle of Binley Avenue. Um, and we did actually have to tow five cars, but tow companies will not take a car if it's
buried in snow. DPW coordinated with our police. DPW dug the car out sufficiently the tow company could get in and our police supervised the removal of of those five cars. So, it's a massive effort. And I say this because there are people regularly who say, "Give this
more thought. How can we do this better?" And I'm in the middle of the the thought process. Uh number one, our professionals have this pretty much down to a science already. Um and I, you know, I do my best to add two sets here or there, but I don't know that there is
much more thought that can be given to it. I I beg people to come to us, bring us your new ideas. What can we do better? And we did tweak it. We did get police knocking on doors. We had to police with loudspeakers telling people to move. We added some new messages. So,
can we improve? Sure. Did we improve? I think we did and I think our residents did. But the folks who say give it more thought, please help us because I've we've given it as much thought as I think is humanly possible. And by the way, everything I hear about neighboring
towns is Bradley Beach has shined in the results we've delivered compared to some of the neighboring towns. I won't mention any where any any folks here might have been former mayors and my understanding is >> we know that's right Mr. Dhy but uh but
my understanding is Bradley Beach has shown in comparison to many other neighboring towns. So thank you again to all of our employees. Finally my comment is there are folks who from time to time say we value our employees over our residents.
Uh, I'm going to point everybody to this sign that Bradley Beach proudly serves our residents. Our employees serve our residents. So, anyone who says we value employees over our residences, it confuses me to hear that statement
because yes, we value our employees because they serve our residents. And you know, there are going to be folks here out in the world around us that might disagree with that, but I just want to make sure that I'm clear in saying that our employees are the
backbone of Bradley Beach and I think they do. Do we all make errors from time to time? Absolutely. But I think our employees do a phenomenal job overall. With that, I will close my comments and I will Yes. >> If I could add on to yours because um I agree with you. One thing I did forget,
you know, and it's easy to to see the phenomenal work we department does, Department of Public Works, but I would also tell you on the Friday before the storm came, I instructed the office workers to take their laptops home to be prepared to work on Monday and Tuesday because I didn't know if the offices were going to be open. Um, and Michelle
Wy coordinated that effort. So even though the offices were closed to the mayor's point, the employees were still serving the residents working at home bringing home work to process payments
to process um uh time cards, payroll, um construction documents, it was still getting done. So um even though um you know kids may have had off from school um while our employees were at home, they were still working. >> Thank you. So, uh, with that said, we
will conclude the, uh, mayor and council reports and I will open it up to public comment questions about any topic on your mind. >> Are there public comments questions? Yes, sir. Mr. West. >> Uh, good evening. Bob West team, New
York Avenue. Uh in regards to your ordinance introduction 20 2617 learning under science lots uh where is uh the language that you sent is kind of beautiful and sound very
helpful and nice for the residents right so as as an owner of an undersized lot and somebody who has been through process and was a victim of variance applications so the the
the way you're describing it is almost impossible. If you have an undersized lot and you have a house that is within five feet of your setbacks and you want to ex extend it whereas you might be
like voluometrically or what have you still not passing this level coverage comes into an issue because you're almost over your coverage before you even begin percentage wise. I mean
>> I mean you might be but there are lots the case in point that I referenced they were able to expand but we had language saying you can't expand >> right okay >> you can also you can conceivably have a one-story house that uses the same exact footprint and becomes a two-story house
I just want you to note like I said you have small property don't >> No you're right you know uh you're saying it just keep that in the calculations in mind that sometimes it's not it's not uh setback it's coverage which permeable surface that becomes a
real problem and you want to extend uh I I moved out 7 ft off the side of my house. I still have about 12 ft of lawns on my side, my side lawn, but by percentage wise I went over 2% on my
coverage and had to go through this homerous process that I'm still actually still finishing up. It's about a year and a half. I still we haven't completed 100%. Plus the 2% probably >> there's I 100% agree with you. There are
the larger your lot. You know, you talk to folks in other towns that live on three acres. I mean, they can do a lot more on their property than we can. Uh and the smaller the lot goes, you know, the the less room you have. No question. But but you may not realize this, but a few years ago, you and anyone else on an
undersized lot, you were deemed non-conforming and anything you wanted, you needed a variance. Now, if you can do work, re renovation type work, and not create a new variance, you can do that and not have to go to landing
sport. That was the big accomplishment that we were trying to protect uh tonight. But uh but to your point we did not reduce you know setbacks or impervious coverage or any other regulations >> is that it's that coverage calculation that really becomes a problem sometimes
when you want to build a little bit I know so much setback I still have setback and I'm in compliance with setback but coverage by 2% caused this whole problem. >> Okay. >> All right. Well thank you thank you for your
miss. Did you have a comment? I did, but I was letting under stinker. >> Okay. Do you want me to recognize you? >> I'll wait. >> Okay. >> Uh Rick Rick Holland 116 Newark. just regarding the uh blockage of the sidewalks. Does
that also apply for like hedges that are obstructing the sidewalk and the planting strips where the people have put various objects out there that so hoping that that's all going to be thought of when anybody walks around and
looks at uh >> looks at these issues. >> Two separate things. the the sidewalks not are are not this ordinance did not address the planting strips but the sidewalks it includes everything hedges whatever if something's overgrowing onto the sidewalk it has to get trimmed back
planning ships different we do have restrictions on planning ships some things are grandfathered that's all thank you >> yes sir Hi, Peter Sharp 31 Second Avenue. Um, let's see. On the topic of the real executive order that's being published
on the shore communities, I guess a meeting or two ago, there was some talk about formulating the resolution that could be sent uh to Trenton to describe the economic impact that this would have on shore communities and the large
volume of work that would impose on some committees here in town. Didn't hear anything tonight, but I was just curious to see where things stood with that. >> Uh, great question. I I did announce that a few meetings back because I wanted to let folks know it's on our
radar. Um as a result of my announcement of that, our own Bradley Beach Environmental Commission came to us and said, "Hey, can you give us time to evaluate and to make recommendations to the council?" So, we decided to push
right now that the plan is to have that um a resolution created by our next meeting, which would be March 17th. That's the plan. It's not set in stone yet. We have to see how it evolves. We are having regular conversations. Just had one a couple days ago with the head
the heads of the uh New Jersey D. Um we're talking I'm talking to other mayors. We're talking to other you know uh we're talking to u uh the uh League of Municipalities. So there's there's a lot of activity of
foot. Uh, but we really want to get it right as we make formal recommendations back to the D and to our legislators. Uh, I guess what's most important is I I really applaud you asking this question because real R E A L I encourage anyone
who lives in Bradley to at least start to read up on this, Google search it, ask questions about about it through AI because there really could be significant implications for shore communities throughout New Jersey. Um we expect we don't know for sure no
guarantee but we expect to uh we're hopeful to address it in our next meeting on the 17th. >> One one further comment then um I know time is short for this because the time frame for this is very tight. Um I know there's probably a lot of thinking that's going into the environmentalclimate
aspects of this that may take a while. Another avenue would be just to recognize the fact that this presents a uh a brick ton of work for the uh the land use board to comply with this in such a short amount of time. That alone by itself could be uh cause for push
back in a more timely basis. Just uh throw that out there. I was attended a very good land use board meeting. They discussed this at length a lot of the pros and cons and attempted to pass a their own resolution on this. I think it got hung up because a lot of the members
were conflating the environmental climate impacts versus the actual practical matters. >> I think either one serves as a basis for push back. Uh unfortunately because of that uh conflating resolution didn't get passed. Um I hope we can proceed on that
basis if the uh if things proceed slower than we hope. >> Thank you very much for your comments. >> Yes, M. Davidson. Tracy Davidson 4th. I'm just here on behalf of two of the nonprofit organizations in town. Um the first is
the Javi Beach Education Foundation. We are having once again our third annual uh scholar foundation scholarship. It is a $500 award um for a graduating high school senior who graduated from Bradley Beach Elementary School. So that would
have been in 2022. Um I have emailed all of the extending district high schools um the applications. You can also pick up the application at the library. I'm hoping we can put a few in the thorough just if
they want hard copies. The scholarship is open um whether you're going to college or a two-year college, a trade school, um a personal training, a professional training program. So, it's pretty pretty wide a net there. So, we encourage anybody um parents out there
to encourage their students and if you know anybody um neighbors or friends, please please encourage them to apply. Um the other organizations I'm representing is friends of the Bradley Beach Library. On Thursday the 5th, they
they are sponsoring a um a dining out to support a dining to donate fundraiser at Applebee's. Um you can go for lunch or dinner. Um and they will donate 10% of your bill to the friends of the library.
Um there is a flyer you must bring. They did not give us any kind of link to the flyer because they want us to donate but they are making it difficult. So, you can pick up a a flyer. I believe it's Inboro Hall here or at the library. Um,
you must bring the flyer. You can't show your phone. Um, but we would all appreciate that that support. I don't think people realize how much money the friends of the library um gives to the library for their funding. um almost
everything for the 250th um that you've seen probably all the all you probably got a expansive list this time of things that they are sponsoring. We sponsor all of it. We give three $300 scholarships to graduating eighth
graders. Um we are doing this year for the first time Dolly Parton's imagination library where um birth to age five um students uh children will get a a book uh I think it's like
monthly we are sponsoring the um we are sponsoring that as well. So, we do give a lot. I know we fund raise a lot, but um sometimes I think people don't realize that where that money goes to. We are funding a lot in the library. So,
um if you can come out and go to Applebee's, uh it's, you know, there there's lots of things on the menu you can get. Not so bad, but thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yes, Miss Better. Nancy Meadow Oceans.
This is in absolutely no order. I failed to say and I realized you took the vote regarding the snow and getting we plowed in and everything else. The reason my snow remover comes as soon as the snow starts is because there are
three essential workers there. There's a nurse who has to get to Jersey Shore, a teacher, and someone from JCPNL and we have to get out. So to get plowed back in really kind of makes life a
challenge. And um regarding anyone, I'm your anyone. I know that I own up to it. one of many. >> Well, I'm me. Don't speak for others. Um, I've said over the years, and I'm going
back to the Anglest administration, that your service does not end at our borders. It extends through the county, through the state to DC. So, I bring that up
because McCabe lost power during the last storm. Luckily, I didn't. But then I lost power because they had to cut my power in order to repair JCPN. Let me be specific. Had to cut my power
in order to repair McCabe. That's life. That happens. Everyone needed their power to be repaired. However, the fact that JCPNL would tell us at 1:30 in the afternoon that we'd be
repaired by 11:00 p.m. when in fact one of us drove to the JCPNL offices and then got the truth, which is that we would be repaired in a few hours. So my my request is that with all of us
and all of our connections, somebody needs to reach out to JCPNL and at least voice that we would like some accuracy and just not just not an arbitrary answer. That being said, you brought it up.
Shame on you. 54 Ocean Avenue. What does it entail to rename it? I'll be simple. 954. What are the procedures? What does it entail? How many How long have I been saying this?
These wonderful employees that we have, could we get an answer and then perhaps consider renaming it? Because at some point equipment's going to go there. How are they going to find building 90, building 54?
Um, you know, just saying like of all the little things in life, can we fix some of them? If we can't alphabetize the website, can we give it to Mrs. Pinaur's third grade class and have them alphabetize the things so we can find things?
Can we communicate that the ma that the governor put us under a state of emergency when it happens? That's a big and difficult thing to fix. But bite by bite, step by step can enhance our
situations here. And I am thrilled to say kind of sticks in my throat that given that the police department finally addressed cars during alternate side of
the street parking after how many years. Perhaps all these other things that are not being addressed there can be addressed cuz they've now proven that they can address things and we don't need new ordinances. You
didn't even clarify moving a car. They just did what they're supposed to do. And that makes me have confidence that they could do more of what they're supposed to do.
And you know, glad you reminded people to bring home their laptops. Should be standard operating procedure because they'll get paid for the day. So, I've been in those situations and you know, maybe all of that needs to
be tightened up as to our expectations because just because you know, we are in a vulnerable longitude and latitude. Um, we are going to always have climate emergencies and it would be nice if they weren't like panicky. You just knew what
to do. So that's it. Have a nice evening. >> Thank you for your comments. Other comments or questions from this group? How about Zoom? Any comments or questions on Zoom?
>> Do we lose Linda? >> No. No. >> All right. All right. Well, seeing no other comments or questions, I will make a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I being adjourned.
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