I'm afraid she drives. >> Okay. more this year, but we still know. Yes, this is true. Settle down. You know, >> right? very expensive.
Oh, the tree. Um, definitely. I mean, I think it's only >> Well, I mean, it's better than I don't know. >> Yeah. >> Okay, that's good.
I took the choir. quite simple. What's up? How you doing? Yeah, you know, there's something else. I know plan ahead. It's like call the speaker to order. Please stand
please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I wish to announce the 48 hour notice as
required under the open public meetings act was emailed to the Ashbury Park Press, the poster and the new poster 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 inperson forum. >> Mr. Noble >> here, Miss Greenlat >> here.
>> Mr. Clark >> here, >> Mr. Wiki >> here. >> Mayor Gatosi >> here. >> Good evening everyone. Um, thank you for braving the cold. Those who are here and the cowards who are on Zoom, thank you for joining us. Um, okay. We are on item number five of
the of the uh agenda and workshops there are none. Item six, presentations and bids. We have one presentation scheduled for this evening where we're going to hear from Aspberry fresh market. This has fresh. >> Thank you. Um
>> now I have a presentation. I don't know. >> Just tell everyone your name. Oh, my name is Brett Morgan. I'm with Fresh Markets. >> Do you have a >> Oh, there you go. >> There we go. Okay. So, um so we're uh we're with Fresh Markets. We do popup farmers and
makers markets. Uh we do about 200 events a year in Mammoth County primarily. Um we uh we did a market here a couple years ago in Grand Beach and uh it it was really good and we um yeah we're interested in bringing it back. So
forward the next slide Michelle. So our mission is to enliven and enrich local communities through pop-up market experiences. Uh we started back in 2012 uh really in downtown Asbury Park with
uh well just identified beneath there was like like a group of people that lived there and really just needed like a little market. Um we started with about four vendors in a park and uh since then like I said we've grown uh into we have about like seven 8,000
vendors locally in M County in this region that uh routinely uh participate at our events. everything from uh local um like uh farms, food purveyors, uh artisan makers, honey purveyors, uh
really um any small type of like like handmade local type of business. Uh really uh we welcome and cater. So um you can go to the next slide. So there's just a couple of our core values. Uh we really pride ourselves on
building up local sustainable communities. Uh we like to uh empower we call it micro entrepreneurship. Um like I said we work we work primarily with small businesses that are just starting out um and looking really for a place to to grow. Um a lot of our customers
actually or a lot of our vendors rather started our markets. They built up a customer base and then they ended up going into like retail storefronts in Mammoth County. Um, I think a lot of uh vendors in uh Mammoth County started or a lot of retail uh corridors in Mammoth
County actually have uh vendors that started with us. I know Bradley Beach has like candles with us for years and now they're an anchor um in downtown Bradley Beach now. Um you can go to the next slide. >> Next slide.
So I touched on this a little bit. Um, so we started back in 2012 in Kennedy Park, right off of uh Cookman Avenue and uh we started uh really small. We grew to about 55 vendors in that park. Since then we um we've moved to Emory uh Press
Plaza on Emory Street in the downtown. So on Sundays, May through uh September, we operate a weekly market on Sunday mornings there. Um, we also operate a weekly Wednesday market at Bell Works and then do a monthly Saturday market there as well as some other seasonal
type of events there. Uh, we started doing an event in Point Pleasant last year that operated from Memorial Day through uh, Labor Day and then this year we're actually extending a little bit into September. Um, and uh, Madawat, we started a pilot market that was working
really well. So, we're going to expand on that one. So, um, we started as just primarily in Asbury Park, but like I said, we've grown, uh, outside of that. So, we rebranded in 2016 as Fresh Markets to really just, um, uh, fit with, I guess, our our our where our
location is and not just make it as centric. Uh, you go to the next slide. Um, so again, we've we've done markets in Bradley Beach, Redbank, Holland Ridge Farms, Asbury Park to name a few, Bell Works. Uh, we also have some other other
types of events that are nonfood and farmers market related like our vintage markets and a lot of again very local um local businesses, locally focused type of uh type of events. We also do a bunch of seasonal events like that. Right now we're doing some Valentine's Day pop-up
markets and um uh we do an October Fest event named Red Bank River Center and um and Triumph and River Theater. So um uh yeah, so we're we we do a lot of a lot of things in here. You can go next slide.
Um and this is just some of our our community. Uh this this deck's a little like I said, I think we have about 8,000 vendors in our system now. um our social medias, those are just some of our followers. Uh the numbers are actually a little higher now as well. Uh so a lot
of a lot of what we do is really we're able to bring a lot of people into the downtowns and that's why a lot of the a lot of the municipalities that we work with actually um they see their downtowns benefiting from uh from the traffic that comes into town. So they come to the market, then they go out to
eat, they go shop in town. So um yeah, go to the next slide. And um so again, this is just a little more about uh the types of events we do. Uh we do anything from around like a 30 like that 30 vendors in a market all the
way up to I know our bell works holiday markets can do almost 100 vendors. Um it uh we do some one-off popup events, but we also we primarily do like the seasonal recurring events and that's and that's really what we like to do because they build steady foot traffic into
these communities. go to the next slide. Um, so this is just contact information. Um, and uh, we're we're very, like I said, community focused. We're we're like tailoring what we do specific to, uh, to
where we're operating. So, um, yeah, I'm happy to answer any questions. >> Questions from >> um, I'm I'm very much in favor of the concept of a farmer's market and bringing into the areas local. We have
certainly a rural part of Mon County that we want to support. Um so I think it's a great idea. Um is you know I guess I'm concerned about number one the vibrancy of what you would do. Um and what is your typical you know summer
weekly um vendor totals of numbers for some of the smaller communities like in Asbury? Um, as Burberry, we do I think we can fit about 50 52 um tents on the street right now. So that's and that's that's packed every week. Um, Bradley
Beach when we've done it, we did last two years ago, I think we had um 40 to 50 um upwards. I think we could do about 60 um in Bradley Park. So >> we were in that general like between like 40 and 60 depending on the week.
>> And as you probably know, our tourism has a lot of events in Riley Park um crafts fairs and things like that. So, you know, to have a green market um you know would be a wonderful thing and you know I'm just concerned number one once
a week once a month is that really enough that people would rely on it um and know that it's coming because that's somewhat sparse. We um I think we put in this year uh if if you would have us
twice a twice a month we would uh >> just once a month >> but um I think um yeah I mean we can we can definitely adjust our season. Um a lot of times I know a couple years ago when we did it here we did once a month really just to make sure that people came out embraced it. Um I think when we
we had our uh like one of our big produce vendors set up right on the main street side. So it uh it was really just like I mean they had four or five tents set up there and it really was just bringing in people and creating like a hub right in that downtown. So >> right I mean we would we would want to
draw people into the community not have the green market or or farmers market compete with our businesses necessarily. Um so and I know that there are a lot of opportunities for creative uh culinary
and um you know baked goods and things like that that duplicate businesses that we have in town. Um, but there's there is an opportunity to really draw in and support the agriculture industry and bring it here locally. I guess my only other question
is about a CSA. Um, I used to participate in the CSA and I had to go down to there are a number of different locations to have a market where you can also go and have a regular CSA that you come and pick up produce. You know, that's called farm. is really a nice
thing to do. I don't know if you do that sort of thing as well. >> We as the organizers don't typically get involved in that, but sometimes our our farms do offer that. Um I know our anchor farm in in As Park will um do some they they probably are starting to
sell memberships for right now and uh and they either do like like the pickups or they'll do like a credit system where you go and you have like a running account. Um, so really we're we're open to that, but a lot of that is really dependent on on the farms and and who's like uh what they're I mean it's
essentially their business. So I love >> So you're not bringing anything in from um you know that's not locally grown. It's all our farms our farms are Jersey either they're growing it themselves or they're supplementing it with like other Jersey like um like if there's like a
blueberry like blueberries in season and a blueberry farmer is out harvesting and why not come to a market there'll be a farm that will basically like work out with them and bring it there's like the big co-op um I think it's a night height that they they'll purchase from and come
to the market >> so I'm going to give a few others so you solicit the local businesses to see if they would like to participate. >> We have in fact when we were when we were here in Bradley Beach two years ago, we actually let them participate. Um we didn't charge any vendor fees or
anything. Um >> we have the um you know um Brad Bradley um BBBC um and fact the president of that is here and and so they're really looking to see how they can encourage the local businesses to be more engaged. So I'd like to see a partnership with
that maybe going through the BBCA um Gary Englestad as our president. So so that would be an opportunity to help solicit those um local establishments to participate. So that would be a good, you know, thing to get that partnership to happen. >> And then, yeah, in the past, we've we've
partnered um I know when Paula was um was was running it, um we partnered uh with the DBBC and >> she just stepped down as an Actually, yeah, I was I was like I don't know if she was her term was up before. Uh yeah, but um but we
>> Yeah, we we've definitely worked worked with with you guys and look forward to continuing. >> Excellent. Thank you. Other questions? >> Um I know you're looking at a Saturday, >> correct? And um I know you said there's about 50 vendors. Where do the vendors park?
>> So we um we try and push I think the um actually Danny where >> Danny Cro, >> you want me to come up to the mic? >> Sure, please. >> Everybody. So,
what we did when we were here two years ago is that we had two places where the vendors could drop off and then we used in all of our messaging with our loading information to have the vendors park off
of Main Street away from the the site as best as we could. >> Okay. And are you getting your vegetables from New Jersey? Is it Jersey fresh? Is it mama fresh? A lot of the farms are growing directly in New Jersey. >> Okay. Because I know a few years back
you used um Hunts Point Market out of the Bronx in New York. >> That was that white truck and um do you still use them or you >> I don't know point. We um do you ever >> I don't think we've worked with Point. >> Okay.
>> That might not have been >> Okay. And then as far as the other vendors, are they is it always food based or is it like and is it all Jersey people? >> It's all Jersey. Um it's it's food art. We say food food purveyors and then
artisan makers. Um we really try and make it like if there's like a balance. We'll try and do more food than than like maker type of stuff. Um, especially if you're doing a one-off event, then it's a little more you can be a little like a Valentine's Day popup, like
people are there to shop for jewelry and other stuff, right? But when people are you're trying to build like customer base for like a farmers market, um, they might go and buy something one time, but then it's not going to draw them back. So, we're finding like the breads, the cheese, the produce, like those are the things that encourage uh like
re-engagement, people coming back week after week. >> Mitch, yeah, my concern was the first and foremost the local businesses. Um so I'm happy to hear about your engagement with the local businesses first. Um you know especially when we have
right across the street from there so see how they can be incorporated to give you the opportunity to be incorporated into the program. I think K peach started uh she was baking for uh one of our big bread
vendors at markets and she she grew out of that and started her own business and branded >> any success stories. Thank you. Thank you also just for this initiative. You know I know it's still relatively young decade or so but I also am a big fan of
fresh markets. I'm not going to sit here and echo what others have said, but clearly our focus is on our main street businesses. We definitely want to make sure you weren't competing. Uh we appreciate you taking the time just to share this overview
with us tonight. And I think uh as the next step, we will follow up and we just determine if there are ways that we could partner with the BBCA, with our tourism group. Uh like to make if we could move forward, like to make it, you know, in a way that that you share the
same objectives and goals for Gr Beach as we do above and beyond your own business enterprise just in making sure that we're benefiting Gring our businesses as well as our residents. >> So we will follow up. >> Okay. Thank you so much.
>> Thank you very much. >> All right. Uh thank you for that presentation. Item seven on the agenda is the approval of the minutes. And I will make a motion that we approve January 20, 2026 council business meeting minutes. Second, >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. Mr. Green,
>> yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor, >> yes. Item eight on the agenda, public comments or questions pertaining specifically to tonight's agenda. There will be a chance to ask other questions at the end of the agenda.
>> But for now, any anyone with questions? >> Yes, sir. I see. It's Gloria. >> Mute. There we go. Hi. >> We got muted again. >> Oh, okay.
>> Okay. There you I I just have a question again about the um uh the the agenda item with the special parking permits. Um it's February 3rd and I think the extension is to the end of February. I'm just wondering if you might want to
consider extending that until the uh the medical form is ready. Um because it's not ready yet and you have to go see your doctor and yada yada yada. And so just uh maybe consideration of that extending that deadline.
>> Yes. Uh the for the record the form is ready but we didn't want to begin distribution of it until tonight when we uh hopefully adopt the the ordinance. So uh the form will be available beginning tomorrow assuming we adopt the ordinance tonight. And uh and yes we can be very
flexible given the the you know off calendar year uh timing of this. Uh but we but folks have already sent in applications. I think in general we've been sending them back asking them to wait to make sure we had the right information. But at this point in time,
people should be able to send in as much of the application as they have. And to your point, waiting on the uh the attestation form will not be a problem. >> Great. Thank you very much for for that. And uh I appreciate your compromise on this. Thank you.
>> Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Uh yes, sir. Mr. Uh, Thomas J. Coan, 6123rd Avenue. I just had a question about ordinance uh 2026-7. Um, what made that come about?
>> I was told you have a garbage disposal in your house. >> Well, I get yelled at all the time when I go to people's houses and I say, you know, you shouldn't have a garbage disposal. When they say, "See, you're just the police." >> And not only And the official answer is,
uh, as you're well aware, we we have an ordinance that that prohibits garbage disposals. >> I know. We got to get the word out. >> We also have an ordinance, and it happens to be this particular chapter that lists a number of things that you need a permit for. One of which is garbage disposal. So, this amendment is
striking the words garbage disposal. >> Perfect. But it is giving us an opportunity to promote the fact that due to our old sewer system, we do not allow water disposals because that is the reason. That is correct. I I haven't checked with Mr. Noiki, but I believe
that's the reason. Um okay, that that answers it. Thank you for clarifying that. And I do want to thank the council for um ordinance uh 2026-2 uh bringing our code book up to
municipal manus law standards with regard to that position uh as it designate. So I think that's important. It is in the MLUL. It was not in our ordinance. And um I'm just wondering
about uh 20 resolution 2026-67. Like if this is a $6500 payment, why wasn't this made like two years ago, three years ago? >> I mean, now it's an $8,000 payment
because it wasn't made couple years ago. >> 68. >> Um I'm sorry. No, I'm Oh, sorry. I'm referring to the settlement. >> Yeah. >> 68. >> 68. Yeah. >> Um >> Oh, 68. It's You say $60,000.
>> I said 67, but I really did need u 68. Mononttoya- Marino versus Bur Valley Beach. >> It's an $8,000 set roughly. >> A portion of it are legal fees, too. >> I know. So, it would have been like 6,500. Now, it's like 8,000.
>> Why wasn't I don't know if you're aware, I don't know how much of the residents are aware, but we've had a lot of these very miscellaneous, it's relatively small dollar uh claims against the burrow
dating back to 2020 and 2021 and 2022 where various uh employees uh custodians primarily at the beach, a few beach badge checkers, roles like that, part-time roles >> uh that worked overtime back in 21 and
22 uh but we're compensated at straight time and a number of years later obviously that these claims have surfaced and we're handling them as they come out and as long as we can document that in fact they did work
overtime and they were not paid for it um we're we're reimbursing some people bring a lawsuit before they tell us and therefore we have to include legal fees a number of others we've settled just by let by them tell the borrow. >> So, some filed the tort claim and some
didn't. >> But but the uh >> these people did >> the poor treatment of the employees took place in 2020 2021. >> They just for whatever reason the bureau didn't pay the half time. They paid straight time for you know people were
50 60 hours. So it wasn't widespread but they're probably I have to go back and check but instead of one lawsuit for five or six people this one's two. >> We probably had five or six others. So there's a bunch more than this one. This is the only one that went to filed in superior court and got
>> No, no. The very first one we one of the first ones we settled this year was a lawsuit. There were six I think six plaintiffs. >> Greg, it was a >> there was six plaintiffs who um the payroll wasn't correct. They weren't paid their overtime and we verified that
through the records. Um and essentially what happened is there was six of them that made the claim and then obviously still work here. So they their co-workers. >> Sure. >> Hey, if you were if you did, you know, and so they've been coming through and we're hoping that this is this is the last one. >> Okay.
>> Is the hope, but we can't guarantee that. >> Yeah. No, it's the other thing, too, is the attorney's fees like the wage in our law. They're entitled to attorney fees. Sure. Play like this. So, this isn't, you know, a gift or us agreeing something. That's what the law says. If you don't pay attorney,
>> Sure. But if they just came directly without an attorney, you could could have been settled without the additional fees. Yeah, and as the mayor referenced, outside of the the seven that had were actual plaintiffs, there are there are at least at least four, I think up to six more who just came to
administratively and we just figured out what it was, agreed on with the employee, obtained the release, and made them what they were. Correct. >> Um, but you know, claimants are entitled to go there with the route. >> Sure. They have the right to file. Sure. But thank you for cleaning that up,
mayor, and clarifying it. Appreciate >> Thank you, Mr. Seeing no other hands raise, we'll close public comment and move on to item nine on the agenda, ordinance introductions. Um bond, uh now these are introductions.
So for these items, um the public will not get an opportunity to comment. When we get to adoptions, the public will have an opportunity to comment. So we will just identify to the public uh the nature of these three ordinance introductions uh briefly comment on them
for public benefit and then uh move on to adoptions. So, first introduction is bond ordinance 2026-06. And this is a bond ordinance in the amount of $450,000 um earmarked for repairs uh on on the
beachfront in particular. Uh a number of our stairs and ramps are badly eroded um and corroded and you know broken. Uh so we need money to do those repairs as well as the plan is to install two new
ramps for handicap access um and to purchase roughly $160,000 or so of MOI mats. And these are the 10 foot wide moy mats that we first rolled out last year. We were able to put those in place for three beach
entrances. Over time, these the focus of the initial moi mats uh the 10 foot wide was really to facilitate handicap access, wheelchair access. Um needless to say, everybody likes 10 foot wide moy mats. Uh whether it's parents pulling
strollers with kids in them or elderly folks that just like to not have to walk around, people on their thing to, you know, walk out the sand. So, the goal is for handicap in particular, but again to benefit the rest of our uh beach visitors as well. Uh our long-term plan
is to have these temper white mats on all beaches. We have roughly 12 beach entrances. Uh we have three of them covered today. We're hoping to get depending on whether this passes two or three more beach entrances equipped with these mats for this coming
year. and and if this goes well and according to plan, you should see us roll out three more beach entrances every year going forward. Um so between the ramps and the and the moy mats, we're looking to uh bond $450,000. >> Any comments or questions from the
council? >> No. One of the things that uh the discussions was these are a little different the way they're designed. I know we've had troubles with some of the buckling that's happened which make it a little harder to get through. Also, the being wider is so much better. I know
many time it's it's basically a oneway road. So, having a 10 foot wide is much more definition. These are also pvious in that the sand just works its way through them. And when you talk to DPW about these mats
compared to the solid, harder, less wide mats that we have today, um it's a no-brainer. They are uh these are so much easier to manipulate. They don't get blown around by the wind. Sand goes through them. They don't have to blow off the sand or sweep sweep the sand.
So, uh, from a maintenance standpoint, they're much better as well. >> I imagine they're a lot lighter weight. >> Well, they're a lot bigger, but yes, per per square inch, >> right? Yeah. And then as far as the old ones, I guess we can auction them or something. >> I think we'll get, you know, I'm told
five cents on the dollar. So, no, it's not a it's not a huge savings. Although, >> the interesting thing that I've learned about the old the ones that that we've been using for years. Uh, a lot of towns actually don't use them for pedestrian
walkways. They use them for events on the sand. So, if you have a band playing for example, if you have I know some kind of contest of some sort where people are running around there because they're harder nature. But, um, you know, they're a little more difficult, if not a lot more difficult to manage
with high winds and ocean surges and so forth. The wider mats are also thinner, more porous, and they're much easier to handle. >> Yeah, I know people that have it on on their feet has been loving them, so I'm looking forward to it. >> All right. Um,
>> good question. Handcap ramps. You said there's two new locations that we're going to add these ramps, but do you have locations? >> No, the the locations I did say that because I'm really talking about two ramps. We have not decided on specific locations, and I would certainly share
that with council before we do that. Okay. So, I will make a motion if there's no further comment to uh approve the introduction of bond ordinance 2026-06. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Green, yes. >> Mr. Tor, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes.
>> Mayor Cubet, >> yes. >> Introduction of 2026-7 as Mr. Cohen highlighted for us. This is just removing the words garbage disposals from a list of items that we would permit for since they are not they are prohibited at the current time. So
it's really editorial cleanup. Any comments or questions? >> Does that mean in in the reverse that once we finish our sewer system upgrade then people we might be able to change it and people can put disposals in? That question is beyond my mere border,
>> but it's not out of the question, I would say. Um, okay. If no other comments though, I will make a motion to approve the introduction of ordinance 2026-7. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Greenblat, yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki,
>> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. >> Ordinance 2026-8. Um I'm going to ask uh Councilwoman Greenblat to do us the reason over the arts council. >> Sure. So the arts council uh kind of uh
was reinvigorated last year and uh last year we identified um uh for the ordinance seven members and two alternates. And the arts council at this point would like to have a larger group of people, a larger group of volunteers
who are invested in um the council as membership um since there is kind of a wide array of arts um opportunities for the council. So they're looking to go from what was seven um seven members plus two alternates to 13 full member
members. They don't want to uh distinguish between alternates and full members. They want to everyone to be equal and invested. Um so that's really what the change is. Uh and then there will be some um enhancement to the mission statement which is going to be
for any questions or comments about this introduction. Okay. See no other questions. I'll make a motion that we approve for for introduction 2026-8. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Green. Yes. Mr.
Carr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. Yes, Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. >> Okay. The next set of ordinances are for adoption and I will open each of these separately to the public for comment. Uh let's begin with uh ordinance 2026-2.
I'll make a motion to open that for public comment. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Relet, yes. >> Mr. Clark, yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Dubatosi, >> yes. Okay. public comment on 2026-2 uh which is basically the mayor being
allowed to name a designate uh to representative. >> Okay, seeing no no hands raised, I will make a motion to close public comment and adopt ordinance 2026-2. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Greenlat, yes.
>> Mr. Core, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. Ordinance 2026-3 uh focuses on the changes in the bylaws and our ordinance that the environmental commission has requested. Largely this
is uh recommendations made by the mayor but uh I should say appointments made by the mayor based upon recommendations by the environmental commission and so forth. Again, a lot of this is administrative and the commission has made these requests that are are legal.
Um, so I will make a motion that we open it to the public. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, yes. >> M. Bream, >> yes. >> Mr. Core, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. Public comments or questions? Okay. Seeing no comments or questions or
hands raised, I will make a motion to close public comment and adopt 2026-3. >> Second, Mr. Noble. Yes, >> Mr. Ringlet. >> Yes, Mr. Carr. >> Yes, >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes, >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes.
>> Item uh ordinance 2026-4 is uh basically third party payroll dispersement. This is an administrative uh nuance that we we had not provided for previously and our QPA made us aware that this is in fact a legal requirement
by the state. Um I will open it up for public comments or questions. Second, >> Mr. Noble. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome, Mr. Green. Yes. Mr. Park. Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. Yes. Mayor.
>> Yes. You bought a more time so people have time. >> Mr. Co. >> Just a little puzzled about this. We haven't had a third party payroll company. No, it's it's more about uh I think it's processing the taxes.
>> Yeah. Uh it's processing the payroll taxes. >> Payroll tax. It has to be done with a third party. You can't do it yourself, but we've been doing >> I think Yeah, obviously uh the details elude me, but it's a it's something we've been doing
properly. We're not at risk of fines or default or anything. However, we don't have an ordinance that tells us to do it. Perfect. >> So now we do. >> Yeah, it was actually one of the recommendations on the audit and so that's we're taking care of one of the recommend. >> Perfect. So we can just check that one.
>> That's right. >> Thank you very much. >> One down. >> Any other comments or questions? >> Okay. Seeing no further comments or questions, I will make a motion to close public comment and approve ordinance 2026-4.
>> Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Mr. Greenwood. Yes. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. Next. Ordinance 2026-5. This is the ordinance amending our uh chapter 9 of traffic specifically
pertaining to the special parking permits. I make a motion that we open up for public comment. >> Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. >> M. Greenlet. Yes. >> Mr. Carr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Niki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Kubosi. >> Yes. Are there any comments or questions
from the public? And that one gentleman >> glorious good >> com. >> Okay. Seeing no additional comments or questions, I will make a motion to close the public session and approve 2026-5.
>> Second. >> Mr. Noble, I'd like to thank Gloria's husband and I'd like to vote yes. >> Mr. Green. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noi. Yeah. Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gosi. >> Yes.
Okay, we've got through our ordinances in record time. Item 10 on the agenda is communications and we have two items to communicate. One are silver lake commission appointments. Uh I will read the names quickly. The civil lake commission members needed a month to get
all this fully organized. So we did not make these appointments at our reorg meeting. However, tonight I can announce that the new chair of the civil commission will be Greg Matthews from Avon. the vice chair Dennis Luba, secretary Marylu Farmer, treasurer Anne
Py, uh, and additional member uh, Kathleen Martin, and alternate Sharon Lupa. So, we are I am making these appointments, uh, retroactive, I guess, to, uh, January 1 or whatever. They're already functioning in these roles.
We're just making it official. Uh, the second item of communication is our own Kathy Lipid. We are adding a title to her long length of uh responsibilities and she's now officially will be recognized as a deputy tax collector.
And that concludes the communications. I will move to item 11 on the agenda which are resolutions. We have a number of consent agenda resolutions. And I'm going to say this now about the consent agenda and also about our individual resolutions. uh
without creating a quorum, but we the council members have had opportunities to uh discuss and ask questions of of me or of the VA and so forth on all of these items basically. But um I always want to make sure that in front of our public we have one more opportunity to
test any you know remaining questions. So my first question to the council for our consent agenda resolutions are there any ones that you want to vote out separately? Okay. Uh, with that said, then I will make a motion that we approve consent
agenda resolutions 2026-55 through 2026-62. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Mr. Greenwood. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gupatzi. >> Yes. We move to individual resolutions.
Same comment. We've all had the opportunity to chat with one another. Uh so a lack of questions doesn't mean there haven't they haven't been asked already. That said, uh 2026-63 authorizing the transfer of appropriations in the fiscal year 2025
budget. This is closing out a year end adjustment from last year. Any comments or questions? Okay. Okay. Uh I in that case I will make a motion that we adopt we approve resolution 2026-63. >> Second.
>> Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Greenlat. Yes. Mr. Park. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. >> Item 2026-64 authorizing and providing the issuance and sale of a $10 million63,600 bond anticipation notes for uh Burley
Beach County of New Jersey. left out the word beach there. County of New Jersey um of Mammoth County, New Jersey. And uh this basically is just bands are annual notes and the borrowing that we did last
year, we have to kind of rebarorrow that same money. They're they're interest loans. Uh very standard for the course, very low interest rates. So we're basically just refinancing the debt we had last year. Any other comments or questions? I'll make a motion then that we approve
2026-64. Second, >> Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Park, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. Uh the next three individual resolutions
are all um a awarding uh uh award of a proposal for general engineering services with CME Associates as well as two specific uh projects with them. And I'm going to ask Mr. Nikki, Councilman Nikki to give us a quick
overview as you work closely with CN. So um the first one -65 is a general engineering services. This is basically for on call services that would allow the burrow um for any situation that was to arise that we could take care of it
um ASAP versus having you know you know a small effort um and be able to get them mobilized to address that. So basically it gives a small amount of money. I think it's $30,000 um to be able to have that flexibility over the course of the year um as our general
engineer. The second one-66 is actually um associated with the Ocean Park uh Avenue sewer. We recently received a grant uh from the DOT for resurfacing of Ocean
Park. Back in September, we had approved uh CME to begin the design of those first two blocks from Madison to Ocean Avenue. Uh because of all the problems we're having the backups and the collapsing of the sewer. Um so we
authorized them. Our DPW was fixing the um you know from a maintenance standpoint uh the sewer for temporary measure. CME had began that design work for the sewer. At that point, we also reached out to the DOT, applied for a grant for the
resurfacing work. So, after the sewer gets replaced, we can actually uh do the repaving and curb work and um handicap ramps at the intersections with local aid money through grant money from local aid, the DOT that was approved. So this
dollar value of this grant or I'm sorry for this uh fee for CME is for them to do the design work associated with the resurfacing of the pavement after the sewers get built. So this is the way we've been doing all of our sewers. So
historically is we we go in we do we do the sewer replacement and then we we try to grant money from the DOT to do the resurfacing. And so this is following that same procedure. Um, so this is the engineering effort forcing to do the resurfacing. In addition, what we're
going to be doing is pushing putting this back through this feed back through the just to complicate it a little bit. Um, we have a grant from the DEP for all of our sewer replacement design. And so we're ultimately going to reapply this back into that grant to be able to get
the design money back from uh the D. So theoretically this will be at no cost to the bureau to do the actual design work for the resurfacing. Um so that's that one. And then the last one the dash um
67. Um this is for the MS4. MS4 this is a a storm water basically part of our storm water permitting uh that's mandated by the state uh D. We have to comply with state regulations and do certain mapping and calculations and
provide information to the of our overall drainage system to the um uh you know to the D. So this is a step in that it's mandated we have to do this effort. It's roughly $20,000 uh effort for CME
to do this work to u meet the requirement of the state for us to file an MSO permit. those three. Any questions for council? >> I just had a question. Maybe I'm not sure if now is the time to ask it, but um when we um I know we're going to go
forward with the second portion of Fifth Avenue sewer replacement and then we're also potentially simultaneously doing >> Yeah. So, so the sewer work um the design has been um performed and plans
have submitted for both the um from Madison Avenue to Ocean on Fifth Avenue. Um as you recall, we did the first part around the school. Um that happened um and we still have to resurface that in spring. Uh we're going to start that completion of that sewer work here in in
the spring and theoretically DP gets all their approvals in place. Uh we will do that rapidly and be able to try to complete it by Memorial Day. Again, depending on what happens with this weather, it could be snowing in May. Uh so we'll see. But that's the goal. And
then similarly uh the replacement work that I just referenced on Ocean Park that CN has already done. Those plans were also submitted to D and we're waiting for them to process those. And so that work that sort of replacement happened here in the spring as well. And so that's all part of that overall
program that Suburban's putting together. Uh but because CI had started that work already as our general engineer uh that work is being pushed back through uh back the water infrastructure bank and through suburbance contract so that that grant will pay for that work and so that's the
process that we're following >> that confuse you further. >> No I just want to reiterate your thank you for that that the MS4 is really it's state mandated we have a choice that's Okay. Thank you, sir. Um, with that
said, I'm going to take each of these individual resolutions separately and make a motion to approve 2026-65, which is for general engineering services with CNA. >> Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. >> M. Green. Yes. >> Mr. Park, yes. >> Mr. Noiki, yes. >> Mayor Gub,
>> yes. >> I'll make a motion to approve 2026-6 award of professional engineering services with CME for sanitary sewer improvements to Ocean Park Avenue. Yes. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Miss Greenblat. Yes. >> Mr. Park. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes.
>> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. >> 2026-67. The I'll make a motion that we approve the award of professional engineering services from CME for MS MS4 permit watershed inventory report. >> Second.
>> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Green. >> Yes. >> Mr. Car. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor. >> Yes. Item 2026-68. We briefly discussed this when Mr. Cohen asked his question, but this is in regard to settling approximately $8,000
of claims against the burough for overtime not paid. Any comments or questions? >> We think this is the last one. >> I have no idea. >> You know, it's a good question though because we it's just be a colossal waste of time
to try to determine you. You have to go to these indiv pay records for every month over a couple of years for every individual. And so we kind of wait and if somebody tells us we owe them, then we go and we look for that one person. We set up a little spreadsheet and we calculate did
they get paid over time or not. Uh and we just can't do that for everybody. So we don't have any other waiting in the wings that we aware of. Not that we're aware. >> I think that's the key thing. We don't know of any outstanding >> and we have done that for categories and
like the people like once we realized we had a problem with two like category points then we look at those let's do it for everyone for five years this year we're trying to balance >> good so no other questions I'll make a motion that we approve 2026-68
authorizing the settler pending litigation >> second Mr. Noble yes >> Mr. Park yes >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Dubatzi. >> Yes. If you want to take one minute to to go back, we've already approved item uh as part of our consent agenda
resolution 2026-61. That's the approval of the Bradley Beach Business Community Alliance to conduct their various community events in 2026. But our former mayor and our current president of the BBBCA joined us tonight. And Gary, I just want to ask, did you want to make any comments or
>> No, thank you for supporting with the got some the what I'm most excited about that we added this year. It's our first night event which will be on December 31st. We're working with Amy on that and fun. And the other one is the uh the
tour that we I'm talking to chief see if we can maybe do a figure eight through town. Make that a little bit longer. Do that again before the kicks in. But, uh, you know, all of these events, as I tried to make the point last night, they're fun, but with a purpose. Uh, so
do something, but it also has a collateral benefit to businesses on main street. So, thank you for your support. >> Well, thank you. And, uh, as Councilman Noiki mentioned earlier, uh, not only have you served many years as a councilman and mayor at Bradley, but
thank you for taking on this new role here. Obviously, you got big shoes to fill with with Paula stepping aside, but she I don't think she could have picked a better replacement. >> Well, there's a saying, be careful what you ask for, and I only be careful when you don't ask for it. >> So,
all right, we will move on. Uh, we are at item 12 on the agenda, which are announcements. Uh, there are nine. Item 13 on a on the agenda, which everyone anxiously awaits every meeting, the business administrative report. >> Uh, thank you, Mr. Uh, I do have a
little bit of a report today. Um, as you may have noticed, uh, we've gotten some snow recently. Uh, the Department of Public Works did a remarkable job, um, throughout the entire town, um, working
36, 48 hours straight, um, rotating shifts. Uh, we did find some folks calling out sick afterwards because they really did run themselves down um, in service to the community. Also, the police department, uh, kudos to them.
They also did a really remarkable job through the snowstorm, which was not a typical snowstorm where you get six to eight inches of snow and then you can move it aside. I mean, it was ice and it's been freezing temperatures ever since then. I think today's the first day we're above 32 degrees and we're
going back down tonight. Um, so, uh, you know, it's it was a tremendous challenge and our Department of Public Works stepped up in mass under the the phone's leadership and did a great job and again I think the police department also deserves a lot of credit for what they did. Um I also want to thank the mayor.
You know I've been here about a year now and and under his leadership and because of the way he looks at public employees uh the morale has increased significantly in the burough offices. So one of the things the mayor talked about
tonight was giving uh Kathy Lipet a title. um that may seem routine, but it means a lot to her and it gives her, you know, it validates and adds value to the to the job she does here. Um, and just
to give you an idea, on the Friday before the snowstorm, Kathy told me she was going to take her laptop home because she wasn't sure if she was going to be able to work on Monday. She wanted to work from home. So, she had a day off, but she knew ahead of time that she wanted to work from home. unsolicited
for me. She did it on her own. Um, also one of the the resolutions you all passed tonight was for a DCA grant. This was 2026-57. That grant is being written by Courtney Papis, who's our recreation director.
Um, she has taken on that responsibility of going out and getting grants and securing that money so that we can better serve the public. And that's what happens when you have better morale among the employees. Um they want to
serve the public. Um and you know it it permeates through all the employees whether it's Tiffany at the front um Laura who does payroll which again you guys just passed an ordinance today allowing that third third party payroll. We use someone called Prime Point. Um
Laura worship them. Uh Pam, Allison, and and Bill over in community development are also um high morale folks. Uh Bill was out um writing over 60 summones for people who did not clean their
sidewalks. Um and Patton, Department of Public Works wrote over another 20. So, as much as we we want folks um you know, we want to help folks after a certain amount of time, they need to clean their sidewalks off and we need to enforce
that. Uh and again, having that that drive amongst those employees is because we have better morale. Uh and then the last two in, you know, on this side of the building is obviously Erica who who does her remarkable job. uh and and you
can see that her, you know, her pleasure in working here has improved over the last year because of your leadership. And and lastly, the the the the queen uh Michelle Wy, who is going on 30 years uh in this spring, uh literally this entire
office uh revolves around her. uh she does a remarkable job for all of us and and again it's a testament to your leadership how much the morale has improved here in Burough Hall which again allows us to better serve the residents. So thank you.
>> Well I appreciate that. I I we have great employees and prior administration as have said I'm probably not saying it any differently but u but it's not I don't think it just rests with the mayor. I mean, for example, we have this council that's supports one another, works together. We don't always vote the
same way, but we talk, we communicate, and we're always working on what I believe is the best interest of revenue. So, I think employees are energized by that. Um, two things. One, uh, I I want to add a few more kudos to your list. I didn't know you were going to call out
the employees tonight, but there were also a handful too, I believe, DPW employees who were planning to take that big plowed Monday off. They had already scheduled vacation time and they canled their vacation because they knew our
streets still had to get moved. Uh, and these are the little stories that nobody nobody knows, nobody hears. And unfortunately, I probably haven't always shared them with the public as frequently as I should. So, because you brought this up, I want to make sure we
we add on one that these all these employees work so hard to deliver for our residents. Um, the other thing Facebook's full of comments and sometimes criticisms of the snow that didn't get moved through got moved right into their driveway or, you know, we
should get a super duper plow that has an arm that drops down and who snow picks up and so forth. >> Yeah. Yeah. The pictures look really good. I researched it. >> Is that AI? Is that real? >> It is real. >> Five people said that he is very time. I'm sorry. >> Yeah, I got that one, too.
>> Is this real? Roughly expensive. >> The arm plus close to 180,000 and it breaks all the time. >> It breaks because there's too much torque on it. I thought you guys check >> and the plows have to drive too slow. So, anyone who wants to bring this up in a comment at the end of the committee
know that a plow has has to slow down to approximately 3 miles per hour to drop down the beginning of the driveway, pick it up at the end of the driveway. Uh, one, that puts a lot of torque on the arm, which snaps it off or breaks it. Two, plows at only two and three miles an hour can't push heavy snow. They get
stuck. So, they need to be going closer to 10 miles an hour to get that, if not a little more, to get that snow moving. Um we are all anyone who lives in a small town like Bradley Beach with no place to put 10 or 15 whatever we had a
lot of inches of snow. Uh everyone gets frustrated. Uh people complain to me they wanted reimbursement. They had paid somebody shovel their driveway and they wanted the burrow to reimburse them because the the snow was plowed back into their driveway. And I told one
person, uh, I'm the mayor and I had the clouds plus snow in my driveway three times. It's, you know, there is no hiding the snow. Meanwhile, they're all out 30, as you said, Matt, 30 hours straight. People giving up vacation time
or postponing it. Um, everybody has spoken and I had people call me to complain about a certain situation. Two different situations. I won't mention them other than to say they called me. I said, "Look, there's not that much we can do. You know, everybody's out. Everybody's working like dogs. We don't
have salt at the time. We didn't have this and that." An hour or so later, in each separate instance, I got a follow-up text saying, "Thank you, mayor. You know, DPW came and fixed that, and I'm sure it's because you said it." And I had to write back to each individual and said, "I wish I could
take credit. DPW just went back and did it on their own. They were aware of it. Ice patch in one, snow in another." Uh but we really have amazing group of people here who work really hard for our assistant. Mayor Englest comment. >> Um on behalf of our business members, I
know this is not it's more apples and oranges, but I was recently in Asbury and they closed Cookman Avenue to just do a massive cleanup on the sidewalks and the streets. I know it's a it's a town road versus our state road here on Main Street, but it's I think about Tom
Arnon last night bragging about all the things the county can do for you. notes together state road anything we can do to get those mounds between the sidewalks and the street on main street >> I mean
>> I know I know it's responsibility of business owners themselves but >> some of those things are just >> I mean maybe that leads us to a related comment and a question and uh Terry got here just in time >> sorry there real quick.
>> No, but Kevin B, I was going to comment about the the police. We're complimenting all of our employees. We we save this com compliment until you return. >> Sorry. >> But the uh the the police also were out ticketing. I've read on Facebook there are individuals that live have lived in
town for many years and and their voice on Facebook is this town never issues. This town never does any monitoring. And our police, including our police chief, I think he's the only Mammoth County
police chief who was out issuing tickets in the snow. But uh but our police issued roughly in this past weekend uh uh 200 uh parking tickets uh summones. Our code enforcement issued roughly 100
summones for sidewalks. Um I don't have the exact numbers but I got I got updates in the course of the the days and between the two groups we probably had 300 different summones issued uh for that two-day period and we were actively looking to tow cars uh had had
complaints of either have complaints that we towed somebody's car or we had complaints that we're not towing the car from the neighbors who want the car towed. It's a it's a fine uh rope that we walk here. But um I think again our employees all pitch in especially in
tight times like that but still and and if I could continue my report uh although before I continue my report but I just want to tell you as you need to be a better politician and someone thanks you for something you didn't do just take the credit.
So you're welcome. Um uh also lot Amy Baker uh formerly Amy Hall um you know she's our tourism director and today starts the jazz festival um it's a whole week of it but I can tell you that it's all sold out and you know last year when she did it they didn't charge. This year
they did and even charging it's all sold out. So it's a testament to the hard work that she's putting in as well. Uh and and as you mentioned mayor the the employees do love when the council come by. So, uh, they don't know Councilman Karp yet as well, but, um, for for the
rest of you, you know, um, the more interaction we can have, the the better they learn about you, the more invested they feel in this entire government. So, so thank you for taking the time and going by and just just stopping in and saying hi and checking in how either
Tiffany's doing or Laura's doing, Kathy, Erica, and the rest of the team. So, thank you. >> Oh, and one more thing. Uh, I'm gonna be out of here from I'm leaving February 11th to February 17th. >> Go get myself married.
>> I'm in a place where it's 85 degrees and sunny. >> That's spring training, right? >> Uh, so I apologize if I'm not going to be very responsive during that period. >> Enjoy. >> Congratulations on the upcoming lectures.
>> I'm a lucky man. >> Yes. She still has a little time to >> All right. Thank you, Mr. BA. And with that said, we will move from item 13A to 13B on the agenda, mayor and council reports. And I'd like to start tonight
with uh council president. >> Yay. Thank you, Mayor. So, the board of ed had a meeting and Dr. would like me to highlight one of the approvals that the Bradley Beach board of ed has now a partnership with the
fulfill backpack program. They connected with fulfill and based on their conversations with the Bradley food pantry to help address food security needs in our community. Through this partnership, students and families will
receive packages filled with nutritious, easy to prepare food items to support them during times when school meals are not available, such as weekends or school breaks. Furville works with schools and community organizations across Mammoth and Ocean counties to
help distribute these resources throughout the school school year. So, we thank them for that. On to the shade tree. Their meeting is actually tomorrow. But I wanted to thank Matt Doy, our business administrator, and Michelle, our deputy clerk, for taking
the time to meet with our new chairperson of the Shade Tree. Her name is Noel Weinberg. It was so helpful and um she's going to be a wonderful chair person. She now is familiar with the policies and procedures and it'll make
the transition a lot smoother for her. And with tourism. As you mentioned, this is the jazz festival of the week. Tonight, Marel Hidago is playing at the Elbow Room. Tomorrow, we have String
Bean at UVA. Thursday is Swing Dance with the Vintage Vibe at Darcy's. And then Friday and Saturday night, we'll be at the elementary school. It's a lot of fun. And um Amy Baker wanted me to thank the sponsors who are Darcy's Posh,
Mammoth County Tourism, New Jersey American Water, Coutura Realy, ZWalt Architecture, BBBCA, Vingo Paul Civic Association, NJPAC Community Engagement, Elbow Room, Brown and Brown, Hatch 44, and the Coaster.
So, I will be there Friday night for sure and hopefully I'll get to catch some of these other fun activities this week. And just on a side note, I did meet with the Southern Mama elected women along with Councilwoman Marine Blat on last week, Thursday, January
29th. And uh we get together and we talk about different things in different towns. We share ideas and sometimes we commiserate a little bit too. Of course, not us anymore because everything's just so dandy. But we do want to welcome
Neptune City. We now have 12 towns that get together and 25 women are in this southern mammoth elected um women and it is just so beneficial to talk to them and get ideas and share practices and policies as well with them. And um I
want to say welcome to Neptune City, Rachel, Kimberly, and Pamela. And thank you very much. That completes my report. Thank you. I'll turn to council. >> Thank you. See, I have two short reports and one
lengthy report. Um, so I'll start with the short reports. Uh, the Flesh Lake Commission has not met since our last meeting. Their next commission meeting is scheduled for February 12th at 6 p.m. here in this council chamber. The Arts Council has not met since our last
meeting. Uh they did just submit uh to the burrow their 2025 annual report. I just want to confirm that with RBA. >> You received that? >> Yes. >> Great. Uh I think the financial component is still on its way. Uh and
the next uh meeting scheduled for the arts council is Monday, February 9th at 10:30 a.m. in the BAZI center. The public is welcome to attend. Uh the rec committee has not met since our last meeting. Uh senior club's next
meeting is Wednesday, February 25th, noon to 3 at the BAZI center. Maan open play runs every Friday 1 to 3 p.m. also at the Byz. Senior game time Tuesdays runs the first and third Tuesday of each month. Bring
your own game and join in with friends at the Byz. And the following recurring events take place at the Neptune City center and part of our shared service agreement. The glitter and glue crew geared for ages 2 to three meets every Tuesday and
Thursday morning, 11:30 to 12:15. Ballroom dancing for intermediate dancers meets every Wednesday at 5:45 p.m. There is a $12 per person fee at the door. Uh, open indoor pickle ball
runs Saturdays at 10:00 a.m. Senior strength training runs every Monday morning 10:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Step aerobics all levels welcome Mondays and Thursdays 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Senior game
day, Wednesdays noon at the uh Neptune City Community Center. Quilting for those who already know how to quilt and would like to continue a project with other quilters in a larger space. They meet on Mondays at 5:00 p.m. And pingpong is offered every Wednesday
evening from 5 to 8:00 p.m. and it's open play. And all of these are free with the exception of ballroom dancing. Uh mark your calendars for radio bingo March 21st 6 p.m. at the fireball featuring the music of the '9s. Tickets
are on sale now. You can purchase tickets from anyone on the lady's auxiliary or email Courtney Papus. Construction continues at the rec site with the completion of paperwork, the playground and all new services are complete. Court striping plan for the
end of winter. There's a still limited access to limited public access to the facility and a grand reopening will take place in early spring. The rec committee's next meeting will be Monday, February 9th, 6:30 p.m. at the Neptune
City Community Center. That's also open to the public and that's my support. >> Thank you, Councilwoman. Turn to Councilman Sh. >> Thank you. >> Um I uh I met with the environmental
commission last night. Uh they continue to work in concert with the town and various committees to ensure all of our events are as as possible. Uh they're currently scheduling beach sweeps with the next one being in April and organizing the removal of our invasive
knotweed from our maritime forest. Uh they actually found another invasive weed found on the dunes and plans have begun for remediation of those. Uh they're also spearheading some efforts to reestablish the dune protection strips as the dunes we know are critical
for the protection of our boardwalk and more importantly our homes. Uh for the first aid squad, their operational period ending uh today, the squad responded to 16 day calls and 11 night calls for a total of 27. 13 were travel,
14 were fire calls. There were no out of town mutual aid requests. The squad also requested their own mutual aid. They also conducted a drill for the safety and education of the members for lifting and moving patients. They also participated and helped staff in the
January jam fundraiser to benefit the first aid and fire departments which was an incredible success. Uh, of course along with our D and I also saw pictures on Facebook of our mayor going up and down the street with his snowblower. Um,
they were also um colllocated with the fire department at the firehouse and they staffed both ambulances and treated patients during the storm, transporting one to the Jersey Shore Medical Center. Uh they total volunteer hours for that month was 384.
Uh of course they're still looking for volunteers for the first aid. They offer free training for qualified individuals and anyone wishing to volunteer for the first aid can find applications on the burough's website. Uh they also are accepting applications for their cadet program for young people 16 to 18 years
of age who are interested in serving Bradley Beach. for the fire department's month ended January 31st, 2026. They responded to 14 day calls, two night calls for a total of 16. Nine were fire alarm activations, four were natural gas
leaks, two water burst pipes, one burning odor. Uh they also conducted one departmentwide training. Uh the department also deployed a snowstorm standby crew for 32 hours in conjunction with Bradley Beach OEM and the Bradley
Beach EMS. Uh there were no requests for mutual aid from other fire departments and they fulfilled 100% of their assignments for this operational period and also happy to report that the department inducted one new fully certified firefighter to their ranks. Of course they're always 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. And lastly, I'd like to take a moment to remind the entire community for our upcoming burrow blood drive, which will be held on Tuesday,
February 17th. The drive will take place at the firehouse from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. As we all know, blood supplies often run low during the winter months, and your donation can quite literally save a life right in our area. So, to keep things
running smoothly and to avoid any long wait times, uh asking residents to register in advance and uh by the They've been able to add in some incentives. So, they've got some gift cards, coffee cards, and the cards will be for some sweet treats from some of our local shops. Registration is
available right now on our website. Just look for blood drive right on the homepage. >> Thank you, Councilman Cart. And I'll turn to Councilman Wiki. >> Thank you, Mayor. uh the Bradley Beach uh police department uh activity. Um
through February 2nd, um detective Christopher Wilson arrested and charged Christopher Roberts in Bradley Beach with theft as a result of an investigation where Roberts was taking clothes from a shared laundry room. Between uh January 19th, 2026 and uh
February 2nd, uh the Valley Beach Police Department also investigated four motor vehicle accidents and responded to several calls for service regarding that. snowstorm. I have I have some data. So, the police department actively enforced the burl's alternate side of
the street snow parking ordinance 9-11.1. Approximately 216 motor vehicle summones were issued for not abiding by the ordinance. In addition, there were approximately six vehicles that were issued summones for the 48 hour parking
ordinance. It is imperative that the residents of Bradley Beach abide by and follow these ordinances during a snowstorm. By doing your part, this helps the Bradley Beach Police Department and Department of Public Works as well as the rest of our fire department and first aid squads uh
to, you know, clear the roadways and in a safe and expedient manner. If not, you know, our our health and safety is in jeopardy. So, all residents are reminded that important information regarding impending snowstorms is posted on the Bradley Beach Police Department Facebook
page, the Bradley Beach Town Facebook page, and B Brady Beach website. Reverse 911 alerts were also sent out to residents reminding them of the ordinance. Residents can sign up to get alerts by
going to Bradley Beach uh NJ.gov, our website. Once there, click departments and sign up for alerts and emergency management section. That's the emergency management section. So, there's no excuse. You read on Facebook, oh, I didn't know. I didn't get text. You know
what? you need to sign up and um participate otherwise you're going to get to feed etc. Um something that's really important that has happened here in the state of New Jersey um this is for all residents to be aware the state of New Jersey has enacted new safety
regulations for ebikes to keep our community safe and informed. The Bradley Police uh each police department has highlighted the most critical changes below. So what is required? For the first time, most ebike
riders must now have a valid license. So, ages 17 and above, a driver's license, or ages 15 to 16, a specific motorized bicycle license. State registration. All ebikes must be registered with the New Jersey Motor
Vehicle Commission. An insurance liability uh insurance cover uh insurance liability insurance coverage is now required. So licenses and registration fees are waved for the first year. Fines for
non-compliance will begin in six months. So also important restrictions. There's age limit restrictions on operations. Children under 15 are prohibited from operating an ebike. Regarding the speed and power of ebike,
the new ball applies to all ebike classes, pedal assist, throttle, and high powered. Regarding the sales and models, online ebike sales are banned statewide for one
year. Modification kits to increase bike speeds are now illegal. So, the Brandon Police Department uh we f uh will focus on public education over the next six months to help our residents transition to these new standards. This is extremely important and people
are going to end up getting their ebikes taken away. If you're probably caught out there riding one without proper licensing, so be aware. Also, I'd like to report on Silven Lake Commission when we identified the individuals. Thank you, mayor, on on the appointments. Um
there's ongoing work at the lake. The uh the ocean alcohol pipe uh construction is still ongoing, but it's slowed down because of the severe weather we've been having. And so that we are actually looking to um extend the construction season further into March. We were
hopefully going to be done in February, but it looks like it's going to continue into the month of March. Uh so that's being coordinated through D. Um as well as the U bulkhead improvements along Brandon Boulevard. Those plans were submitted for permits and we're awaiting
those permits any day. So hopefully that those will come in and that project will be advertised for construction and awarded by uh by early April. Um so this work is ongoing and it's going to um you know move forward here this year. So that that's not important there. Thank
you council. I've got a number of things I want to at least alert people to. One is um we have found out people were complaining that they didn't anyone who's renewing or signing up for a beach locker. Um number of people uh were
bothered by the fact they didn't get a notice from the burrow when their neighbors and their friends did. Uh and we had a handful three or four or five complaints. Uh enough so that we went to community pass the administration entity
that that everybody logs into. And what we found was Matt you can confir confir service but something like six out of 750 notices that went out. I don't know why we had that many notices because we don't have that beach lockers but 750
notices went out 150 didn't get through according to our reporting entity community best. And then they told us the reason it didn't get through is because those individuals had clicked a little button in their email saying stop sending me junk mail. So they I don't
know the terminology but they opted out. They opted out of messages. So people who were I raided with the burough's administration uh we had to explain to them no actually you've opted out and we cannot reach out to them to say hey you've opted out if you know you're
missing this. So, this is my public service announcement. If anybody out there is waiting for their beach badge uh invite uh beach locker invite, uh please call the burrow and make sure that uh you're not opted out of those
messages. Um, another thing I I alluded to this earlier, but you know, no no world is perfect when you've got narrow streets and one-way streets and cars that don't and houses that don't have driveways, so cars parked on the street. You know, we are a small
community. We're tightly packed. We're a very dense community. Most of us love that about Bradley Beach. But when when you dump 10 or 12 inches of snow on us, it's quite it's quite problematic in terms of getting ground and safety and so so forth. Um, the thing that concerns
me is when I see on u Facebook or friends or my own family criticizes Bradley Beach for not enforcing. Uh, nothing could be farther from the truth. You've heard the numbers tonight. We 100% are enforcing, but beyond that, I
just want to let people know on February 17th, we will officially have it's it's all drafted, but we didn't have any time for tonight. But we are at at my urging going to be voting on increasing fines for snow related traffic violations. Uh
parking fines will go up dramatically off the side of the street. Parking fines. Uh clearing of sidewalks or lack thereof will go up dramatically. Um and this is all just part of a plan to just keep driving enforcement to the to the
best of our ability. Uh so people who say oh Bradley doesn't enforce, we enforce. We just have some people who are encouragable and will not move their cars. So those people will be fined and ultimately towed. Um
there are um a number of ordinances that are in introductions that are in the works. I just want to give people a heads up. One is our gift policy. This may seem inconsequential to some. This was devastating to others that you know
as uh as I was closing out my first year as mayor at the end of this here. Um, you I became aware that the state of New Jersey has a very strict policy prohibiting basically acceptance of gifts of any size. I looked this up on
chat GPT and AI and they said, "Yeah, New Jerseyy's got the toughest law in the union in the United States. They do state of New Jersey does not allow uh gifts of any kind." Then there is this little fine print language that does
allow for certain very very subjective um criteria. I don't like subjective because how do I ask our employees to abide by these criteria when the criteria say you can accept a a insignificant gift? They don't define
insignificant. One person told me it was $25. One person told me it was $400. They don't define the the word insignificant. They say you cannot you can accept an insignificant gift as long as uh there is no quit pro expected.
Well, how does an individual know and how do you even judge uh if if our clerk is great at responding to Oprah and somebody brings her a plate of cookies? Are they expecting her to continue to be great responding to Oprah and therefore there's a good proquo? It it can you can
go down a rabbit hole with this stuff. So, that's my way of apologizing to all of our employees because uh right at Christmas time, I I effected a no gifts policy because we just didn't have the
time to, you know, create any any caveats or guidelines. However, now in our next meeting, we will have guidelines that will allow our employees to receive small items. $25 limit will
uh food items, not gift cards, not cash, but uh anyway, you will see a policy forthcoming and uh all of the employees that have occasionally gotten a couple of cookies or whatever that they'll be eternally grateful if you reconsider them because I think some people were
actually turned away with their trace of cookies and that was unfortunate and that was my fault. Um I want to uh I want to get to what I think is an important thing. I don't have a lot of detail on this. Well, two things. One is everyone's aware of the state health
plan. Uh, our employees are enrolled in our 40 some odd employees and their premiums went up 37% this year. And with that 37% increase, that brought our 1.1 million expenditure to about 1.5
million, an increase of $400,000 in cost. And to put that in perspective, that's about 5% of your tax rate. So, If you were at a 3% rate, you'd go to 8% to cover that extra cost. We are, you may
hear more about this, but we are uh going to participate in in a thing called the difference card, which effectively lets the burrow selfinsure some of the medical claims that uh normally would be funded by the medical plan. U we believe that the bureau
financially is probably going to break even on us. We should not lose money. We may make a little savings. On the other hand, these 40 or so employees should save a dramatic amount of money. It's probably a one-time fix. It probably won't work a year from now. I'll spare
you the details, but know that we're doing everything in our power to uh do the best we can to mitigate the impact not only on the burrow and our residents, but also on our employees because the level of these healthcare costs is astronomical. And finally, there's a a bit of legisl
emanating from the uh the EPA, the Rio >> D, New Jersey DP. I know very little about this. I've just been googling it. I was called to a a meeting of mayors, uh southern Moth County mayors, so Avon,
Delmare, and South Spring Lake and others. And they basically began to educate me more about this thing called Reno, R E A L. Basically in a in a high level summary from a lay person uh the D is saying hey
in the year 20100 sea levels are going to rise water tables are going to rise we have to use projections for 74 years from now to to impact current zoning and basically the
way it impacts current zoning is largely setting criteria that depending on where you are in these projected flood zones the year 21 100 uh people may have to you know if you're if you're demolishing 50% of your house uh you so many times
in Bradley someone buys a house levels it builds a brand new house if you do that you're going to be measured against new flood planes that are 74 years in the making that could one increase cost dramatically two decrease property
values try selling that house to somebody else when they now find out they're in a flood plane that may exist 74 years from now and it may even impact people's ability to get insurance because the insurance companies are going to look at are you in a flood plane? Well, yes, you're going to be
mapped not anyone in this room but I I Googled this. I check GPT this and I was told that over 60% of the properties of Bradley Beach will be adversely impacted by this. So, the reason I'm telling you this now as early as I can, I just found
out about it, share some information with my council members, uh, talking to other municipalities. If you want to go online and look at Kate May County, 16 municipalities there have already filed resolutions. We will have a resolution at our next council meeting opposing
this legislation require requesting that uh more research be required and that we uh there's another statistic I read that uh there's maybe a 177% probability of these projections being
accurate and yet we would adjust our zoning laws today. So, you can tell I'm quite biased against this and I know very little, but the more I learn, the more anxious I become on behalf of our residents. So, uh, we as a council are looking into this. I urge all of you as
individual residents to look into it. Again, I don't even know what the acronym stands for, REAL, real D legislation. It's been approved by the D already. Um, but my understanding is the state legislature still would have to
approve it. But we will be actively working to raise our voice especially coastal communities who will be uh adversely impacted by this. That concludes my comments and now I will uh open it up to the public. Are there comments or questions about anything at
all on your mind? >> Hello meas um speaking as a council member. Thank you for, you know, increasing our our volume of people and um I'm just curious. I
believe we are redoing revamping our website. Um this was when it was an update on that. Um uh just I just think a nice landing page for the arts council to share events and um and flyers and
upcoming events, that sort of thing. >> Yeah. Um I'll give a general general update. Uh Amy Baker is is in fact updating our website. She's already shared with myself and the business administrator graphic enhancements to just make it look better and organize it
in a certain way. But we're looking at boxes that would scroll this way or open that way or whatever. Uh we're not yet looking at content. So it's early stages. Um we that is I would call a next phase and is going to start to
bring content ideas to us and we'll share with council just to make sure you know we're all more or less aligned. When we get to a point where we can share with the public, we will long before anything gets finalized. Um with that will come more discussion about how
we integrate all of the different commissions and committees including including air. Uh Mitch Karp over here to my right is guru in the world of websites among other things. She seems to be a guru in many areas but uh Mitch
has volunteered to work with Amy. Amy and Mitch have had lunch if you wanted to comment on what you >> Yeah. No, I know she's uh there was uh some monies that were put aside that were allocated for the person to do some uh revamping to the site. There's a
whole list of goals that Amy wants to achieve with our site between uh UI, user experience, um uh being able to have the different committees. So yesterday when I was meeting with the environmental commission, we talked about how do we
get the minutes for the environmental commission up on the website. So to make that process easier um also the searching ability which really doesn't exist on our site right now is searchable. Um so all of the things that she wants to accomplish are very well
outlined. So that's kind of the next step. So the the consultant has taken the first step really attacking the home page where everybody which is one of the most important things and then we take some subsequent steps once we
>> and the other quick comment uh and I'll let you continue with other quick comment is our alternative we're looking at brand new websites because we we're all dissatisfied the council many of our residents with the current website uh and Amy said give give her a chance to
revamp this thing and roughly we'd spent $4,000 instead closer to 20,000 and it's so I'm very impressed by the preliminary graphic work she's done working with the the current website owner. But did you have a followup? >> No, I'm not really. I was just wondering
if that something moving forward. Um the arts council is also wanting to, you know, be transparent and post our meeting minutes and agendas and that sort of thing on a page and just have have a a page that people can go to to find out information about.
>> Other committees and commissions minutes now. So, I'm sure it won't be it won't be optimal, but I'm sure we can find a space relatively immediately to to accommodate you today to post minutes and things like that. You may have to click three times to get to it. I mean,
I can't commit to a wonderful user experience. Excuse me. But uh but please let uh well just if you would just drop me and Matt Dordy know if you can get him before he's heads out to the tropics. Uh you
know you can get to Amy. If not I'll get to her but one way the other we'll get you. >> So and then uh we have newer members. We just want to update the information that's on the web page. We can just send it to Michelle to Erica. >> Send it to Amy.
>> Amy Amy. Yeah. any changes on the side currently, she'll >> and me only because I've been through this with Amy already. She has standard operating procedures that she's looking for, you know, single point contacts. Would you be her single point contact
for the arts committee? She doesn't want five different people on the arts comm our email is just monitored pretty much by myself and >> as long as one of you wears that hat >> and that that's I say that to every
organization. So she'll get, you know, conflicting guidance from two people from any any given commission. >> Okay. I have communication on >> Perfect. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I'm also assuming that the new members for appointments that will go to you
after we changed for government still. >> Any other comments or questions? A couple. a service list 518 New York Avenue in in regards to the
snow as resident of Newark Avenue. I got something to say. Now, I'll preface this by saying I have nothing more nothing but the highest admiration appreciation. Uh it is a tremendous storm. Newick
Avenue is tight and tiny and residents are stupid. Now, I will say that on the 500 to 600 block by 9:30, it was almost I would say 99% compliant.
Maybe one car was not moved. Uh if you go there today, parts of this new area, six block would be relatively almost in passive. There's still a tremendous amount of snow. Um
and the only I wasn't even going to say anything until I heard, you know, glowing reports and response. And there was even somebody on Facebook on third or fourth Avenue at 9:00 posting, "Oh my god, my It's wonderful. My street
is absolutely clean. It's great. It's come. And at that point on Newark Avenue, we had probably one or two initial passes of a small cloud. Uh not till late in the afternoon
did we get a major pass by. So, and again, can't change the size of the street, can't change the resident's behavior. Although I said they we were pretty much compliant. The cars were off the south side of Auto Street. They were
supposed to be gone. They were clean, but we did not get visited by a lot of the plas at uh two times. First the little Ranger plow, he got stuck on one corner because there was so much snow. Then the next size large
Mason dump Chevy pickup. He got stuck because of the amount of snow that was there. And it's still there's still a lot there. I said that the at the 600 block and again this is resident two cars apart on each side of
the street. You will find most people won't even go up the street now because it's that close. You feel you're going to take somebody's mirror off. So I just just wanted to say as as a resident it's like I said they did a great job. They did
the job that they had to do for the amount of it was a big storm. Fast hard as a res. >> Well, I think we all appreciate the comments and and I'm aware of various spots in town, Newark Avenue being one
of them where uh residents did call me, you know, text me directly and just say, "What's going on? Why aren't you in Newark?" one or two other spots like that. Uh at the time I reached out to Baja on the phone our director and he said so this may contrary to what you
just said but he said we can't hit it until we get these cars taken here. There were too many cars on Newark at that time. Now they ultimately did get there but it was uh it was a nightmare because there's so much snow so little space and then you know uh you know to
share another little bit of education that the shared with me you know there are people who say well okay why they go around that car well one it's the streets are that wide and they've got to move snow it's not just getting a truck around it you know they've got to move a lot of snow
with that and then to somehow get in that around before they get to the next car, you know, they're in danger of damaging the vehicles themselves. So, I'm not discounting a thing you've said. Uh there is a there is an element of
this is just a heavy duty storm that there's just nothing we we can do. >> I've said I would encourage you to do the same if there's a specific thing we could do differently and maybe it's sending out little bobcats and still trying to move the snow, whatever. Um,
you know, please make recommendations. I I welcome recommendations. Nine times out of 10, what you're going to be asking to explain to me why we can't do the things. We try to evaluate everything we can. >> All right. I mean, you know, most of the problem is the size of the street and
the residents. Like I said, between on the five and 600 block by 9, one of the PD patrols came by and a few people were taken out and he's saying, you know, 9:30 we're coming to do tickets. So, there was one car This person was down the street. I'm not
sure where they are, but we're looking for them. By 9:30, 5 600 block. We're good. I think might have been one car right at the beginning of 500 block 400. Couldn't quite see. There were probably still cars down there that were weren't
quite moving, but we're we're going to keep enforcing, keep buying tickets. We're raising fines. Uh, and we're going to educate. I tried to print, uh, an example of a notice that will go with tax bills. We
might now it may not go out till it's April and it's sunny but you maybe people can put it up on their bullet points or something but very specific you know procedures that people are expected to follow but as you can imagine it's really hard to contact folks they're not all residents you know
they're at darcies or whatever I think a lot of lessons were learned during this storm >> I do have a question though as residents of course we're responsible for the sidewalks Um when it comes to the corners
um which is who's responsible for that as well >> and they'll get fined. We uh I I won't name specific property owners, but but there's one very visible one that uh was going to get fined because they uh
had not, you know, done the appropriate thing and we were able to get in touch with them because we didn't know what's going on and they managed to quickly react. That's the other thing, you know, um I'm saying this just so everybody out there
hopefully uh you know, people They don't hear me directly, but um people want there to be these hard and fast rules. We've got an ordinance. Follow the ordinance. Move that snow. Tow that car. And but for the most part, we do
enforce. In fact, I would like to say we do enforce period. That said, there are exceptions to every rule and there are times where like in like for all of our residents, we gave them an extra 72 hours, right? That for sidewalks because
the sidewalks were ice over. Now, we could have handed out made the burrow a lot of money in fines. We could have handed out another 300 tickets for sidewalks. We did not enforce because we knew people couldn't get rid of the ice. It was too cold. Of course, there are people complaining about walking their
dogs and their icy sidewalk. So, there are times where I'm going to make the wrong call on that or DPW, the police will make the wrong call, at least in any one person's mind. But in general, we're just trying to be we're trying to work with our rules and at the same time be flexible where we think it's
appropriate. We don't have a perfect solution. >> Oh, yeah. Like I said, and you can't change the size of the street, but like I said, that area was compliant with cars, yet we still didn't see a lot of
>> and and you say 500 600 look good. Which where would you say can't you can't get through now? What lucks? >> Well, now that I guess you're allowed to park again. So now people are coming back and parking on both sides of the street. So I know today right at the top
right top of 600 right main street there were cars on both sides of the street and >> you just had trouble getting through now. >> Yeah. I mean I went through because I have better depth perception. I know people who would not have ridden through that, but they thought they would either
lose their memories or take off. >> That's how I feel when driving every day. >> Yeah, I just wanted to put that out there. >> I'll mention it again to be and now as you see when cars are back, it's even harder. >> Now, it's hard >> now. You really have to be, you know,
super focused on particular small area. >> Now, they said a Bobcat might work in that. Thank you for your time. Thank you. >> Others. Yes, Mr. >> Thomas J. Co at 612 Third Avenue. Mayor,
I'm so happy that you mentioned uh the real program that the D bureaucrats in Trenton are trying to push through. Um if you could please forward me whatever your resolution is. Um, I'd like to present that to the language board
members uh for the same support so we can let you know our Senator Gopal and Assemblywoman Peter Paul, Assemblywoman Don know it's time for them to do their job to really protect us and make sure this is just as ridiculous as the
legislation that said there's going to be special zoning of 40 units an acre for religious institutions and nonprofits. I mean, we did a a resolution for that one, too. I mean the things coming out of Torrent are absurd and you bring up the best point. It's the insurance because the insurance
companies are going to have to insure you on the replacement cost based upon the new requirements which far supersede the national requirements of FEMA. I mean we're writing our own requirements to penalize ourselves for something that
might happen 75 years from now. I mean it it's it's beyond absurd. So, thanks for bringing it up and uh we should really tell the residents by the beach we should get on the phone to Mr. Gopal and Miss Peter Paul and you know Miss Donald let them know this is this is I mean I've talked to many people in
Masquan and Spring Lake are very very concerned about maintaining their insurance and then in this already strict insurance environment and then also maintaining the property values it's simply not fair and a lot of people don't know about it. people are out
working. They don't have time to but thank you for bringing it forward and letting the public know and we do need to step up because once it hits you, you're going to be screened. >> We'll have a lot more information to share with the public in two weeks, but u as I mentioned, I only came up to speed a week or so ago myself. The other
mayors you mentioned, man, Spring Lake, they were both in the meeting and uh they were ahead of me. They had they they were very well verssed in with problems with real enough sort of scare me into doing my own research but give it two more weeks and and the council
working on it and Erica has shared additional language that came from this from the state was it >> I think it was the county >> the county so we have more information we'll we'll distill it and disseminate over the next two >> um because I attended the public hearing on this which was done on Zoom and for
some reason man they didn't give me an extra one minute over the five minutes like Erica does. I mean, they cut me off right at five minutes. I was done. But you could see, you know, it's bureaucrats not really listening. Um, if the state took care of their own water,
okay? Like from the Garden State Parkway and Route 34 and Route 18 and Route 35 and Route 71, that water comes to us in a storm event from the west and we have to battle the ocean. So, we get it in all our tributary ponds and tidal ponds
worse than anyone else. But the state takes no responsibility. I couldn't build a warehouse or a shopping mall and not retain the water and let it out at a certain amount. They just let it go. But yet, they want to dictate to us how it's supposed to look. And it's it's not and
that's exactly what I said at the public hearing. Take care of your own water first and then come and tell us how it works. Thank you, mayor. >> Thank you, sir. You know, they get any matter than the previous administration. >> Wow. Say,
>> are there other comments or questions in the room or on Zoom? >> Okay. Seeing no other raised hands, I believe that will conclude our meeting. I'll make a motion to adjourn. >> Second. All in favor? >> I
meeting a I know. Sorry. >> Did you get that email? >> Yeah, I Google them. So, I guess it could be a problem. >> You got that right. So, yeah. >> Okay. I'm just I'm only concerned he's off the
body more for >> you. All of the people Yeah.