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Yeah. Yeah. Call the meeting to order. Uh, please stand for the pledge of >> allegiance. 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 that 48 hour notice is required under the open public meetings act was emailed to the Aspbury press, the co-star and the new coaster on December the 19th of 2024. That a copy has been placed on the bulletin board in the burough office and that a
copy has been filed with the municipal clerk. Please be advised public attendance for meetings through Zoom is a courtesy only. If for any reason Zoom fails or is disconnected, the inperson meeting will continue without interruption and action can and will be taken providing there is an inperson
council forum. Mr. Noble >> here, >> Miss Green >> here. Mr. Noiki >> here. >> Mr. Weber >> here. >> Mayor Gumzi >> here. >> Perfect timing, Council President. >> Thank you. >> Um, okay. We'd like we'd like to start
our evening on a on a fun note. We have a a presentation to make and we have I see we have a few folks in the audience here to support the one of the stars of the evening Jeanie Morettto. Um and before we make this presentation uh I
want to comment I think Jeanie is just like this bastion of um uh volunteerism. I mean you know we rather be very much value our volunteers. You know we can always use more. volunteers are such a an integral part of our community and
they do so much and Jeannie, you're just a great example of a person who's done so much for Bradley Beach already. So, with that said, I have a proclamation to make and uh we're going to take some pictures afterwards. I'm going to ask uh first the council to join us and then
I'm going to ask both council to join me now, but I'm also going to ask Jeanie's friends and supporters to join for pictures. >> So, first of all, Jeie, please. Yeah, come on down, guys. >> Please come on over. Now, oh, by the way,
>> Jeanie, I've had the pleasure of serving the past year with Jeie on the library board. And the library board members, many of whom were here, uh, asked me to make this same presentation to her last night at the library meeting because they wanted to have us a special
opportunity to thank her. So this is actually the second time you have heard this presentation, but we can probably use it a number of more times because uh we are very appreciative of what you've done. So got the council here. Let me lock everybody. Um the Burough Bradley
Beach proclamation honoring Jeannie Morettto of the library board. Whereas Jeannie Morettto has given many years of dedicated service to the Bradley Beach Free Public Library as a trustee since 2008. And whereas Jeannie Moretta provided
dedicated leadership as president from May 2022 to December 2025, offering energy and commitment that strengthen the library. And whereas because of Jeannie Morettto's efforts, our great little library has continued to grow and
flourish as a cherished community resource. Now therefore be it resolved that the mayor and council of the burrow of Bradley extend its deepest gratitude to Jeannie Morettto for exceptional service and leadership dated this 15th
day of December 2025. and Genie, we have a secondation for you. Everyone knows the reason there are two. Um, one of these and u and some of your members are figuring this out, but one
of these proclamations is going to be for your home wherever you care to display it. One is going to be mounted in the library as a as a reminder to all visitors of Genie's unique service to the library. So, with that said, give me a hug. Congratulations.
>> Let's get a a group shot here. >> I'm just You got to get hugs first. >> You're getting hugs from everybody. >> Get in there. closer >> in the back.
>> Good. >> I don't know what to say except thank you. Um, I'm not leaving the library. I'm still going to be a member of the friends. You can't get rid of me. >> That's good. And the library has always been a part of my life. As a little
girl, I used, my friends and I would walk to the library. And at the time, Walgreens didn't have a children's sections. It would just the back of it. And then we would go as little girls and giggle. >> That's all we would do. We girls stop.
Yes, she did. And the more she said that, the more we giggle. >> But I love the library. So, it's my second home. So, thank you. The only word I can say is flabbergastic. That tells you how old I am, right?
Thank you so much. >> You know it. >> Now you you can leave if you like even though we have an exciting meeting ahead of >> us. Okay. Louder. >> Now, don't go too far, council, because >> there's one other proclamation we didn't
have on the on the draft agenda. >> And Eric, you have it. >> And it's for Mr. John Weber. >> John Weber. >> Oh, yeah. Let's go back. >> Okay. >> John Erica was thinking about jumping
out. >> Yeah. I was going to like dress up his elf and jump out. >> I appreciate the sentiment. I need to get my reading glasses back. >> Okay. Um, ladies and gentlemen, most of you know John Weber. He's been a council
person here in Rally for This is completing his ninth year. >> It's John's fault that I'm in politics. >> It's John's fault that I'm in politics at all. >> He asked me to run with him six years ago.
>> Uh, and he's probably regretted that day ever since. But uh but thanks to John, I'm here and uh I think John, you've left a bit of a legacy because others of us are here effectively because of you. So >> I'm going to read a little proclamation and then we're going to give you 10 or
15 minutes to uh give your comments or you know you can do that later. Burough Bradley Beach, a proclamation honoring Councilman John Weber. Whereas Mr. John Weber has faithfully served his fellow citizens as a councilman for nine years
from 2017 through 20125. And whereas Mr. Weber has performed of his own valition many endeavors to benefit his community and has been an active volunteer on several boards and committees dedicated to the betterment of life for the residents of the burrow.
And whereas Mr. whoever has given generously of his time and effort as a member of the burough council with diligence and effectiveness and has made a constructive contribution to his associates and to the community. And whereas Mr. Weber has served in a
critical leadership role as a councilman and former council president who has led numerous environmental initiatives for the betterment of Bradley Beach, the state of New Jersey, and perhaps the world. And whereas Mr. Weber has served as a liaison and adviser to critical
burough commissions including the shade tree commission, the flesher lake commission and the environmental commission. And whereas Mr. Weber has performed his duties on council with character and dignity emphasis on character. He will be both missed uh both
professionally and as a friend. And whereas Mr. Weber will retire from his position as councilman on December 31st, 2025. Now therefore, be it resolved on behalf of the mayor and council and employees of the Burrow of Bradley Beach, we wish to extend they extend
their appreciation for his service to the burrow and wish him well in his future endeavors. Dated this 16th day of December, 2025. And in addition >> Oh, you got
it. >> Oh, you have to. >> There's a little bit. >> Thank you. >> Hold it up. >> Oh, thank you. >> Yeah. >> Come back in here. What are you doing? >> I'm have to sign something.
>> Oh, >> all right. >> One more thing. >> Oh, jeez. >> Me, too. >> Hey, everybody. >> This was home with the flu. Where is she? Where's Nora? >> I mean, I know she's there, but where is
she looking? >> And that was >> Oh, I forgot. >> You got to be kidding me. It's the old map of Bradley Beach and it has the church next to you on the map and it's signed by everyone on the back.
>> Oh, thank you. >> So, has the little church in the woods on there? >> Okay. >> Prove that it was >> onehanded. Can you do it one hand? >> Oh, sure. >> Good job. >> So, would you in a minute make a few
comments? Uh, I was going to save it to the end, but hey, thanks. >> Um, I won't save it to the end. >> You want to? >> We'll save it to the end. >> What do we do with this? >> This is we'll put on the side for later. >> Okay, I'll do >> You're going to miss this. I could tell.
>> Oh, I just need to sign John's pocket. >> Okay, you got it. >> This one? >> Okay, I'll leave that there. Don't let me forget about So that was fun. Thank you all for uh joining us for those two proclamations. Two very important recognitions of
individuals who have contributed so much to Bradley Beach. Uh item six on on the agenda are workshops. We have none. Item seven on the agenda is approval of minutes. And I'll make a motion that we approve the November 25, 2025 special
council meeting minutes. Second, >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. Mr. Greenlet, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayor Pubosi, >> yes. >> Item A is public comments and questions pertaining to items specifically on the agenda only. There's a fivem minute
limit and uh one single instance to to talk. Are there public comments? Please raise your hand about agenda items. Mr. Uh Thomas J. Coan, 6123rd Avenue. Uh there's a couple things on here tonight
in terms of resolutions, mayor, which I wanted to address. Uh one is resolution 2025-357. Um I'm so happy that, you know, some of the proceeds, the net proceeds from the church sale will be going to our
affordable housing trust fund. um because you know it was ignored by Mayor Anglestat and Mayor Fox and no funds went into that account. So we are at a deficit and it's important that you know we we follow the rules and guidelines of
the affordable housing requirements of the state of New Jersey and this will really help and it'll it'll pick up some of the slack that was left by previous administration. So I I do uh it'll help us, you know, our round three obligation, we didn't get anything done and now in round four, hopefully we'll
be able to use these funds to to advance our our situation in certain in the eyes of the state. And then um I also wanted to thank you for resolution 2025-356. Uh I don't know if the public is really aware of the usurping of home rule which
is taking place from Trenton. So, um, this resolution opposing, uh, S4 736, um, is really important. I don't think a lot of people know about it, but it's going to take away home rule from zoning
for religious organizations and for nonprofits. So, I just in my mind use the church property as an example. We didn't purchase it. Uh, according to this, uh, it's 40 units an acre. That's a halfacre parcel. That would be 20
units, 40 feet high with minimal parking restrictions. So the land use board would have no say. The council would have no say. Um if this passes, this is just horrific abuse by trend. So, I
would advise everyone to contact Senator Gopal, con contact the Assemblywoman Donlin and Peter Paul and let them know you're going to be watching their vote because this takes away the rights that we in Bradley Beach. And this is why, you know, we have a Facebook page called
Preserving Bradley Beach because we want to preserve the little village that we live in. This would take away that right. And if you look at other religious sites in town, they could all be developed the same way. And uh and so I appreciate you doing this. And the
land use board will have a similar resolution. It's a model resolution presented by the League of Municipalities, which is also opposing this legislation from Trenton. So I appreciate you all stepping up and and doing this. Affordable housing is important, but to take away home rule, I
mean, I'm an affordable housing advocate, but I'm also a proponent of home rule and I want to protect it. So, there is a balance. This balance is not it. So, thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Sure. >> Okay. I just want to add one comment.
It's actually um the church property is 0 55 acres, so there would be 22 units. >> Oh, thank you for the correction. >> You're welcome. >> All right. Other comments? Yes. Good evening, Linda W312 in the afternoon. I wanted to address
uh 2025-348 approval of council business meetings and why we are making them at 5:30 now instead of 6:30. I don't know the answer. >> I mean, we had a workshop on it.
>> I know, but we didn't have any clarification of why I didn't hear it. I'm sorry. Because Actually, I did do some research and 57% of our working population in this town
drive to work. They drive to work 30 minutes away. They cannot possibly unless they work in a hospital 73 come to a meeting. You're kind of excluding the residents from being able to have their opinion and their voice at the podium which is more powerful than an
email to Erica. >> So, that you know first of all we haven't voted on this but we've discussed >> all kinds of times we've discussed 4:30 4:00 even u current meetings obviously
are 6:30 so we we discussed keeping at the same point um there are there are pros and cons including pros and cons impacting folks who can who can you know join our meeting so I think at this point you know we we agreed individually
through lengthy discussions including uh those involving our clerk who you a lot of this impacts her. Um and we've come to a point of recommending 530 and we'll pro again we have to vote on this but we'll probably
agree to at least try 530 and we've already said if that's not working for the public we will revisit it. Uh if it's working great and people want to move it earlier we'll we can consider revisiting it as well. The problem with 6:30 that most of us are are struggle
with um is when we have the late meetings and there are times where we have long meetings and when you're getting out not just not just the council and the public uh but our employees the people man zoom and our clerk when they're here till 10:00 11:00
it's it's just challenging for everybody involved. So, we wanted to try uh what we've all discussed individually is trying 1 hour earlier seeing how that works. >> It also impacts people um eating dinner. So, and the other thing is I'm just curious since we had all the closings on
the church property, what is the net cost proceeds for us? What's the town 200,000? You probably would have done more I think as far as affordable housing. That's my opinion. No, putting more in. >> So, what's left over?
roughly net proceeds after we pay off related debt and everything expenditures that we've had on the year roughly $2.7 million. >> Excellent. And where do we put that? >> It flows through it flows through surplus the financial accounting of it. um once it flows through surplus, you
know, once all the bookkeeping is done, as you're aware, we're talking about making a resolution tonight that will commit 200,000 of that to the U to the uh affordable housing trust. >> Do you feel that 200,000 is a substantial amount? I kind of think out
of all of that, we could have put more there. >> We could have we talked about Well, we've had residents request that we put all of the proceeds, $4.8 million in. These are these are u resident assets, right? The dollars that we're talking about. Uh we had others say put in 20%
of the net, which would be $540,000. Um we've had others say 10%. I mean, it's random. The whole discussion is random. >> I think speaking for myself, I'll let others weigh in because we, you know, we would have talked about this later, but
we address it now. Um, I wanted to make a a very strong contribution. Um, I think $200,000, almost a quarter million, is a very strong uh contribution uh indicating our commitment to affordable housing.
Keeping in mind, we're voluntarily committing resident dollars to this. So, there could be somebody who steps up here after you >> and negative, but I'm not. No, I'm I'm just saying it was it was a question of we did $5 million or zero or something
in between. And and speaking for myself, I wanted us to make it we the council to make a strong commitment to affordable housing. I've talked to our planner Jennifer Bean who's right now in the throws of negotiating, if you will, uh our 10-year plan. And I said to her,
Jen, would it be helpful you made a contribution in terms of helpful in the negotiations with affordable housing? And she said, as I said with a magnitude of the amount of $200,000. Not everybody has just sold, you know, $4.5 million or
so of property. So some other munic,000 is viewed as, oh my gosh, how did you find that money? We're very fortunate in that we had this one time windfall of property sales. So she was thrilled at the idea of 200,000. She said it would go a long way to help her in her
discussions with the affordable housing. and she said, "Could we do it now?" I had also asked we do it next year and she said, "It'd be even better if we could do it now." So, uh, so to your point, there was a lot of thinking that went into it. We can always put in more,
Linda. But once we put it in, >> you can't take it out. >> We can't take it out. >> I realize that. So, did we ever pay back the sewer >> when we borrowed money from the sewer? Did we borrow money from the sewer at one time or the beach trust? together. Do >> we ever pay them back?
>> Under prior administrations, you're allowed to take it out without paying it back. I think the magnitude was like 50 grand. I personally was against doing that. Uh I know that prior administrations did that a couple times, but there was no obligation to pay it back. You're allowed to transfer some
funds. I I forget the formula, but it said 5%. >> I was just curious. All right. Thank you. >> Okay. Yes, sir. Steve. Yeah. Steve Wasawick, 100 Ocean Avenue. Um, this is my comment directed to John. I want to thank you
for your service. I remember we remember that about 10 years ago, I showed up at your house and asked you to run for council and I was successful and you know, we appreciate your efforts and your time and your service to the community. So, thank you very much.
>> For the record, Steve wouldn't take no for an answer. >> All right. Thank you. So, Steve, it's probably because of you then that most of us are up here today. >> All right. >> Thanks, Steve. >> Other comments or questions? Anyone on
Zoom with a question or comment? Okay, we'll close the public session and move to uh item number nine on the agenda, which are ordinances. We do have an ordinance for uh for adoption, none for introduction, and that is our bond
ordinance. We described this a couple meet couple weeks ago. Um these are dollars earmarked. We have to increase the amount of our original ordinance from 400,000 to uh 900,000 or I'm sorry 500,000 to 900 an increase of 400. And
that's because the bids we this is all related to the sewer pump station in Ocean. We don't expect to spend 900,000. However, the bids did come in around the low bit. It was 630,000 give or take uh and we had only bonded for 500. So
rather now we have to rebid and the bids are out now. We're collecting them soon. Erica, are we going to identify the bidder successful bid? When? >> Uh December 23rd. >> December 23rd. So in anticipation of that, we we began this uh amendment of
our previous bond ordinance uh to and we're putting a buffer in there. we don't have to we don't have to borrow this money, but we want to be able to borrow it to the extent it's needed. Uh so we've amended it to be $900,000. And uh with that said, we're going to open it up to the public. Well, first of
all, any quick council comments before we open it to the public. >> Okay. So, I'll make a motion. >> Thank you. >> That we officially open this up to the public for discussion about the bond ordinance amendment. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Miss Green. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki.
>> Yes. >> Mr. Weber. Yes, >> Mayor Bubetz. >> Yes. Comments or questions from the public? >> Okay, seeing none in the room. Are there any on Zoom? Okay, seeing none on Zoom, I will make the motion that we close public comment
and uh we vote to adopt bond ordinance 2025-39. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble? >> Yes. >> Miss Green? >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi? >> Yes. Item 10 on the agenda is communications.
There are none. Item 11, resolutions. There are three consent agenda resolutions. Are there any comments or questions that you want to vote separately? Council. >> Right. I will make a motion that we approve uh consent agenda resolutions
2025 344 through 2025 346. >> Start. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. M. Green. Yes, Mr. Niki. >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber. >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi. >> Yes.
>> Okay. Moving to individual resolutions. Uh the first one is 2025-347 uh establishing beach locker fees for 2026. And uh give folks a quick overview here. We historically Bradley Beach historically
long before any of us have been up here um has had a kind of a two-tier structure. An initial uh first time you're you're renting a locker, you paid higher dollar amount. Uh over the years, it's been 400 or 300 and now currently
2025 that initial locker rental fee is $600. The subsequent years, the renewal fee is $200. And this exercise typically is should we bump 600 to 620 and should we bump 200 to 210? Account for
inflation, account for the maintaining the lockers and increases in those costs. Um, and I've at least uh chatted one-on-one with each of the my council colleagues here uh as to whether or not there might be value in moving to a uh
an annual rental fee period, one one number. Um the so so if we're inclined to do this, we would identify a single dollar amount that would more or less uh it instead of calling it a renewal fee,
it would just be an annual rental fee and it would cover based on we have 550 lockers. We're limited to that from the storage capacity. Talked about that in earlier meetings. So we'll never expand. We Bradley Beach will never expand beyond the 550. Um so it's pretty easy
to do the math that annually. One of the challenges we have with the current structure, if we have 10 new people come in and you know that get new lockers, they all pay $600. We may not build any new lockers in that year. They, you know, those people who pay
$600, they get an old locker, which is the way it way of the world. On the other hand, there could be a year where we have no new people and we have 20 new lockers because, you know, lockers break and get
damaged and need repair. And once again, even though the burrow incurs that cost of new lockers, which do run honestly around $700 a locker box now, um uh even though we incur that cost because those lockers break down, we have no new money
coming in. So from a budgetary standpoint, there's no alignment. Every year we're guessing how many new lockers will we have, how many people will pay, in this case 600 versus how many renewals will pay 200. So I did approach everybody and say, "Look, I I feel like it would make more sense to
just, you know, kind of rip the band-aid off, if you will, and and break away from from this long history, 20 plus year history of having two different tiers of lockers." So the magic number in my opinion uh if you if you assume a
six-year average lifespan of a locker which is approximately what DEW shared with me that within six years lockers break down some go seven or eight some break down in three or four depending on climate and whatever but that's roughly 16.7%.
So using 15% of our current fee structure, 15% of of new lockers would be $600. 85% the remaining that would just be renewal revenue collected. Um 85% of 200 the current renewal fees that
weights out to be $260. I've done that math. So, what I suggested and I'd like us now to discuss I've suggested to the council that we move to a a flat fee structure, one annual rental fee. Uh, and I I think the number should be $250, a little bit less
than that math I just walked you through. The idea is there would be no inflationary adjustment. Folks uh that are renewing now at 250 would I'm sorry, 200 would move to 250. Any folks coming in now and in the future would be coming
in at 250 as well. It makes more sense from a budgetary standpoint. It makes more sense from an alignment of, you know, when you pay 600, you don't get a brand new box. Now, when you pay now, you don't pay 600. You just get whatever boxes are available. So, I like this idea, but we can
certainly talk about, you know, bumping the existing fees as well, but um it's open up to discussion. What do you guys >> We have a chance to talk. >> I got back to you about that. crunched all these numbers and uh seems to make sense. Yeah, we're not we're not
making any new making new ones unless they're replacing old. So um that does make sense, but you're the numbers guy. Trusting you crunched all the numbers. >> So this program began somewhere around
2005 or something. Not sure, but I I recall because I was I was one of the first people getting the logger. So the the structure made sense then. because we came from no lockers. So, they had to build the lockers. And that's kind of how they structured it. It wasn't like a
bond. It was a matter of a lump sum fee that you pay toward the building of the lockers. And now that we're looking to make some changes going forward with the whole program that we're doing to implement in 2027, um maybe now is the right time to
simplify the process because certainly one fee um is just easier for accounting purposes. It's easier for uh for, you know, financial fiscal year purposes, it's more efficient. Uh, and um, you
know, it just might be a better option. And then, you know, each year we evaluate the fees and we can actually starting for 2026 uh, determine uh, all of the costs uh, you know, and then the
fees and we want to kind of break even. That's the intention. Uh so we can make changes for the following year if we find that that's too high or that's too low. Um we can make changes to that. >> To your point from a budgeting standpoint, we never know how many new
uh renters we're going to have in a year. So the budgeting is a little you know you know you miss a little here, you make up a little there. Uh it will be easier to just estimate our total cost and divide it by 550 lockers if we have all of them equally priced budget
wise. We haven't had a lot of turnover lockers. Our waiting list was frozen and so people who had lockers had quite some time. However, if there was an individual who just came in, say last year and paid their $600 versus somebody
who got in back in 2010, say, and paid their, you know, 500, 400, whatever it was at that time. you know, would there be consideration to reimburse people some portion of that $600? You only got into the program last year and paid
$600. That doesn't seem equitable necessarily that as somebody who may have paid $400 10 years ago. And so I think that's something we need to look at. You know, >> I believe it would only be a handful of people because like you said that the
list wasn't moving. You weren't moving up. Nobody was moving upbody. way I hear except I'm on that list for seven years. So, um yeah, I think this is a it seems like this is the year you're fixing things and this is another thing that needs to be fixed and I think this is a
better approach for the future. >> I think this pricing structure does make more sense. If we were starting with a whiteboard, I don't see the need to again the $600 that we have in place today doesn't give you a brand new locker. just gives you a locker that
could be five years old. Um, and Paul, to your point, you know, I'm not sure. I mean, we'd be talking about some sort of an increase anyway over the existing 200 renewal. Um, I'd be very open to looking at how many people have come in and gave us recently
600 or $500 or whatever three years ago it might have been. And if we can come up with a formulaic way to do that, I I personally, just speaking for myself, would have no problem figuring out a formula, but I don't want to be held hostage to this structure because of,
you know, figuring out some transition issues. >> I would agree. I think I think moving to a um one fee is the right thing to do, but I'm just thinking there may be that, you know, unicorn out there of one or two people who just came into the program the last year that that's really
not affordable. We're going to have a similar refund policy issue that we have to figure out um when we when we move to our new policy of u preferential treatment for Bradley Beach residents. So, when folks
who have been renting are that are not current residents um are no longer able to rent here, um you we're going to have to figure out some sort of a refund policy at least for relatively new folks who have come. >> It seems like it'll be almost at the
same situation. >> Yeah. >> But um but I don't know. I mean, I I think it makes a lot of sense. I know we've talked individually, but if you all agree that, you know, I'd like to propose that we move to an annual just
an annual rental fee. No, we get rid of the terms, you know, initial and renewal and just move to an annual rental fee for 2026 of $250, which is which is about a four or 5% targeted reduction. So, if it's anything, we're slightly
bringing down the aggregate uh budgeted revenue by about 4%. But I think I think you know that just otherwise we'd be bumping to 250 4%. I I thought to 260 I just think 250 is a nice number to start
with. I'll make a motion that we set an one time I mean an annual fee that is consistent across all $250 for >> second. Mr. Noble. Yes. >> Mr. Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber. >> Yes.
>> Mayor Gubetzi. >> Yes. >> All right. Those math things sometimes take longer. So, >> so the resolution just needs to be modified. >> Yeah. So, Erica, yeah, the wording right now has a two-tier. If we just said
instead of new rentals, if we just said annual rentals of lockers, $250. I think that's all we need. >> Yep. Mhm. >> Okay. Item 2025-348, approval of council business meeting
dates for 2026. I'll make a motion that we approve the council business meeting dates for 2026. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mle, yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, yes. >> Mayor Kubosi,
>> yes. Um, and by the way, you know, we we addressed this in the public comments, but just for the record, um, we have meeting dates that are that are carefully manicured to make sure we're not hopefully we're not conflicting with existing holidays, Jewish holidays, and
so forth. And and as Linda brought up earlier, we are going to try to start these at 5:30 in the new year and see how that works. If there's a lot of public outcry, you know, we will certainly consider uh changing that again. But we're trying to
just create greater efficiencies for uh for everybody involved, including residents who can get stuck here late into the so it one hour. Um should have discussed that beforehand, but we covered it.
20 item uh 2025-349 is the awarding of ATM machines. Our current contract is 6,000 uh the new proposal and it was the only order received is 6500. So not quite a 10% increase but uh 6,500
is the new uh proposal and I make a motion that we uh approve 2025-349. >> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Greenwood, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. 2025-350
is a is a individual resolution related to the right in Mammoth formerly SCAT and uh you know this is set up that we were in a position to approve it if we wanted to. However, uh what we've heard from our seniors is that this is not a
particularly um uh valuable program. No, no one is either eligible to use it due to income restrictions or cares to use it. Uh we checked and we're actually we only have one individual apparently in town that does use it. So uh I'm going
to make a motion uh to withdraw individual resolution 2025-350 and therefore not extend their contract next year. Can >> I ask a question? Reasonably confident that we can find out who that one person is? >> I'm not reasonable. I don't know if we
can. >> Do you think we can find out? >> We could ask from the county. just to not leave that person. >> And the plan is also to come up with an alternative >> potentially >> if there is the plan right now is to not
continue to spend roughly $10,000 a year for one person to take a bus once a month. But to the extent we can identify that person or find a better program that is more as a pay as you go type of thing, yeah, we definitely would be open to that. We want to pro increase
services especially to the seniors but this is not proving to be a valuable service >> right and I and I'm a proponent of a service like this if it's utilized but as I think I've said before I'm not sure how well uh communicated it is that
people within the community are fully aware that it exists um and I wasn't aware that there was a um an economic income element to it as well >> and I think if we do look to to provide some sort of a service that would mirror
this um if we can also make sure that we broadcast it to the community. >> That was originally the plan. Now we don't have we don't know what that other services but this service the senior leadership team led by Jean Ley this morning told us this was a waste of our
money. So uh so our starting point is to discontinue this particular service where we could always recont we could always reestablish the service if there was good cause to do so or we can identify a new service. We definitely
want to provide you know valuable in transportation in particular this particular service does not seem to be meeting our needs. So, with that said, I I make a motion that we withdraw uh 2025-350,
which would have extended our contract. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> M green. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi? >> Yes. 2025-351 is authorizing an agreement with Avon by the sea to share goose control expenses
for SA Lake. We already have this agreement in place, so this is just extending it for another year. Any comments or questions beyond what we've already covered in discussions? >> Seems very successful. >> Thank you. Nothing's a good good both
Fletcher as well as Sen. It's critical that we have these services because the alternative is you know everywhere that's just not not sustainable >> and we share 5050 with Avon. This is for civil link. So we share 5050. So, I'll
make a motion that we approve 2025-351. Second, >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Miss Greenblat? >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi? >> Yes. >> 2025352 is authorizing the Shore Athletic Club
to conduct a 5K race on Saturday, December 27th, couple days after the Christmas Day. Uh 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. And my understanding is there are no Bradley Beach resources. That's >> correct. Required. Mhm. >> So, any comments or questions?
>> I'll make a motion then we approve 2025352. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble? >> Yes. >> Miss Greenwood? >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Bubosi? >> Yes. >> 2025353. A resolution opposing the closure or relocation of the Mammoth Medical Center
Hospital in Long Branch. Uh, this resolution was presented to us uh for our consideration to vote and It's largely focused on the fact that Monk Medical Center would be relocated out of Long Branch. Uh, and if you haven't had a
chance, you could certainly read through this to understand the concerns that that raises from a tax base for Long Branch, but from a medical services standpoint available to the community and and taxing of those services it could put on other communities. So, uh,
the council is is here to vote on whether or not we want to support, uh, the a resolution that opposes the closure of Mammoth Medical Center. Um, any comments or questions before we vote? >> Yeah, I would just say that the um, what
I read about this is that it's not necessarily going to close, but we have a change of services, limited, more limited services. The new facility is being built out and fall six miles from that location. And so from you know from
a geographic perspective you know somebody like invest locally. Um but it's interesting that um congressman came out um opposed to this whatsoever. And then there's other legislation um in the House right now
suggesting that the um not to close it but to maintain crit some critical services in that hospital. So I think that there's they're trying to a balance of somehow and I think a resolution could in fact help at least my perspective encouraging towards a
balance. >> Yes. Other comments or questions? Okay. I will make a motion that we uh approve 2025353 resolution opposing the closure or relocation of Miracle Center. Second, >> Mr. Noble.
>> Yes. >> M Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Niki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Kubosi? >> Yes. Uh okay, let me find this. >> Uh you have >> we are basically
>> Thank you. >> Okay. So, resolution >> 354 >> 2025-354 lane use board appointment update. A number of months ago, we lost our environmental commission chair. Um, and she was our a member of
our board and we now have identified uh Daniel Bagley as a member of the environmental commission to serve on the uh landing board. Uh this is an authorization of me appointing Mr. Bagley to our landing
board on behalf of the environmental commission. So I'll make a motion that we approve resolution 2025-354. >> Second. >> Thank you. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Miss Brie, yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi,
>> yes. 2025-3 following extending all 2025 special parking permits until February 28, 2026. Um, many of you may recall that a meeting or so ago, uh, we had already introduced an ordinance that was going to make some substantial changes to our
special permit parking. That's the handicap spaces around town. A number of you here tonight, I know, spoke out uh, raising concerns about that. We tabled the adoption. We did not adopt. Um we do still want to revisit the current ordinance. So this resolution is
basically extending the permission that has already been granted to people in place for 2025 extending that. Normally it would expire 1231. Uh it's extending it through the end of February. So the council has another couple months to determine if we want to make any
adjustments at all to our special permit parking. So any comments or questions on that? All right. Um, I will make a motion that we uh approve 2025-355. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble? >> Yes. >> M. Green?
>> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Kubatosi? >> Yes. 2025-356. Uh, this is opposing a bill marked S-4736 and advocating for home rule and local
control of planning and zoning decisions. And again, uh, this resolution was provided, the language template was provided to us by the League of Municipalities. Our attorney Greg Cannon, who us tonight, his partner is, but uh, he helped us draft this. Uh,
many municipalities are raising the same concerns with this bill that Mr. Cohen addressed in his comments. Largely, um, this bill would userve home rule. Like we, you know, we have a land use board and we look at properties in town and we collectively and through the land use
board uh have really strong procedures in place and policies and guidelines we try to follow to determine where we should create new opportunities for affordable housing. This would effectively give a lot of that authority to certain non forprofits and uh take it
away from local municipalities. So, our resolution tonight is is saying that we oppose uh the loss of home and we think Bradley B should still maintain control over where we uh build affordable
housing. So, any comments or questions? >> Yeah, I'd like to add that um there is no assembly companion to this bill. So, it's bad idea. I definitely agree that we should do this resolution. The leaks against it, that's a very good indication, but there's no assembly and
I reached out to our assembly uh representatives and you know that hopefully that's an indication of where they're at in Trenton. There's no shortage of bad ideas that come from the New New Jersey Senate if you've listened to the news lately. Um and maybe this is one of them, but the fact that there's nothing on the assembly side doesn't
mean it's not possible in the next month because the legislative session goes for a few days short of the of a month from now. And um it would be possible, but you know, watch it like a hawk. But it's good news that there's no assembly.
>> Other comments. >> Well said. I I just want to thank you for adding this to the agenda. This was brought to my attention during the week of municipalities and um as the league said, this is egregious assault on municipal autonomy and um we have a
density issue already to to usurp our land use as our land use chairman mentioned is um a problem. It would be more And there's no parking allocations. There's they can actually go another
height and they would not need a variance. There would be no use variance. It would just be permitted. So um I just want to thank the council for standing united in defense of Bradley Beach responsible development and democratic process. And I also want to
commend us that we've done the most for affordable housing in the history of Bradley Beach this year because those development fees we've collected money for our affordable housing trust fund that's never been done before in addition or we're dering from the sale
of 319 Lraine is also going to that. So I just want to say thank you for that. >> Any other comments questions? Okay. Um, I will then make a motion that we approve 2025-356,
which is opposing Senate Bill 4736 and advocating for home rule. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Mr. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi. >> Yes. >> 2025-357 directing that $200,000 in proceeds from
the sale of 319 Million Avenue be deposited into the Burough's affordable housing trust fund. Um, obviously I had a chance thanks uh to Linda's question earlier as to try to explain how the $200,000 number was derived. Um, I think
I think we all feel it was important to make a a a strong contribution. Now, could we have made more? Yes. Could we have made less yes of a contribution? But I think $200,000 uh, as I mentioned, our planner is very excited about that. She thinks that'll go a long way to help
her cause. She uh represents Bradley Beach in round four of the affordable housing negotiations. This is all part of finalizing our 10-year plan. Um this is not limiting us. We can certainly make additional contributions in the future. This is taxpayer money
though and therefore we don't want to put more into the trust that is necessary. At the time that we need more, we certainly can revisit that. But I think it it's a very strong sign that we are very supportive of the uh affordable housing in general and in uh
building uh funds in our trust. Um before I ask us to vote on this, I I'll add one more comment and that is that I I did check with our community development folks to say well how much we just we just opened our trust. It was already established. We were not
collecting fees uh development fees until J uh February 1st of this year and I honestly was not aware of how how much we had collected. Uh and I I found out today that year to date we've collected
approx approximately $60,000 in our trust. Uh and the way these deposits come in, half of it's up front and half at beginning of construction and then the other half is paid at the end of construction. So of most of those
projects are in the middle. They have not paid the second half of their fees. Two of them are complete. So I'm told that in our first year of having the trust open, we've basically locked into about over $100,000, maybe $110,000
or so in our first year. So with the 110,000 we will have earned once those projects complete. And this 200,000 at the end of year one, we'll have close to $300,000 in the trust. So, with that said, I'm going to make a motion that we
that we approve 2025-357 to direct 200,000 proceeds into our trust. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Miss Greenwood, yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. 2025-35A,
authorizing the transfer of appropriations in the fiscal year 2025 budget. Anyone who's looked at this, there's an awful lot of numbers. from the right side to the left side, vice versa. Uh this is all put together by our CFO. And the idea is um in the world
of municipal budgeting, you don't want to spend more than you've appropriated in one bucket and have underspent uh relative to an appropriation in another bucket. So she's basically moving numbers around to make sure that that our budget is compliant and we don't
have to file emergency relief requests. uh very standard process that occurs every year. For what it's worth, I I've looked at the numbers that everything I see looks reasonable. Uh she did, you know, the detail and she's not here to
answer questions, but uh but uh does anyone have any questions? >> Well, in a big picture, it looks like a lot of the salary compensation or um social security. So So is that is that because of the union differential? Is that a big part of this?
>> A big chunk. Yes, a big chunk. Um it's it's a very complicated you know mechanism that we the burrow of Brley Beach have and other municipalities have but um but our u our financial systems are programmed. It's not that we sit
down and say hey for this particular transaction allocate 10% to the beach and 20% to the sewer utility. Uh it's all pre-programmed. So in our case, we had a really large hit above and beyond what the budget system expected when we
paid close to 600 probably around 600,000 of retro payments when we settled that union contract. Uh so there's like an overload on the system as that new money came in that hadn't been some of it had been budgeted for but not all of it. And so it al it it
overall effectively overallocated salaries in c areas. On the other hand, there were areas that we had appropriations set up that we didn't max out in. So, she's moving those dollars around to make sure we're not violating,
you know, we're not overspending our appropriated amounts. So, that's where we stand. Everyone comfortable. Again, I my CFO is going to spend more time with us. our is going to spend more time with us with me end of
this year, but most importantly into next year as we finalize 2026's budget. So with that said, I will make a motion that we approve 2025-358 authorizing these transfer of appropriations in the 2025 budget. >> Second, Mr. Noble,
>> yes. Miss Blet, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. 2025-359. We have a pretty extensive bill list for for December 16th. Uh comments or
questions on the bill list? >> I had submitted a few questions and my questions were answered. Um I don't know if it's worthwhile to share my questions. >> Sure. Um, so on page 21 of the bills list, I was looking at the New Jersey
natural gas um, uh, the fee of 201129 and change and that was um, a damage that occurred during the demolition of 319 Marine. Yeah. Um, that was gas, >> right?
>> Okay. >> Um, so apparent we smell gas and they charge us. No, no. Apparently the gas line was um impacted during the demolition. >> Yes. >> Right. And there was some confusion as to which parcel and the demolition
company I guess did not know there was a gas line there. >> So that was that question. I was also, you know, kind of overwhelmed with uh three pages of CME charges because we have so many infrastructure projects going on concurrently. Um and I asked if
we can get a better accounting system. So we can really take a look at a you know an Excel grid and see what is what is uh charged to which of the projects we're working on so we get a handle of where we're going with this. I do attend uh meetings occasionally, most of them
um on Tuesday mornings with our BA and engineer go through a lot of this and we brought that up. In fact, today um a couple things there's so much work going on in this town right now that we have to make sure we have a good handle on the schedules as well as making sure um
where they're at in their expenditures and um but what they explained today was they are going to get that to us. Uh but they are within budget and there has been no contracted yet that has been encroached upon. So they are um the services are the percent completes are
compliant with the dollar spent today. So >> so I'd like to see that detail as well. So they're still furnishing that to us. >> Right. I mean when we're given the bills list um just for the public to know you know we don't know the ins and outs of all of the details. So very often I'll
question things just so I have an understanding because um you know I'm assuming that you know his store is being minded properly and but I'm making the approval or not you know Bill's list. all these questions.
>> Okay. No, but and thank you for sharing that just for the public's benefit to know that keeping an eye, >> right? >> Um if there are no extra discussion points, then I'll make a motion that we approve 2025-359. The bill is for December 16, 2025.
>> Second. >> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Greenblat, yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayor Bubosi, >> yes. 2025-360 approval to apply for a fiscal year 2026 legislative grant for recreation
support. This is actually just uh finalizing the the $100,000 grant that I actually announced a couple months ago that Senator Gopal and our and Marie Donlin and Peter Paul secured
for us. uh earmarked unofficially earmarked for uh hopefully for expansion of pickle ball courts next year. So this is just uh paperwork that we need to process to make sure we receive that grant in 2026. >> Any questions or comments on that?
>> Okay. I'll make a motion we approve uh 2025-360. >> Second. Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Miss Green, yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. Uh item 12 on the agenda, announcements.
There are none. Item 13A, mayor. Well, actually we should do administrative uh report first, I think. BA report. >> Oh, do you have a report? >> Please, please leave. I'm going to reverse order.
>> Uh uh yeah. So, I'd like to update the mayor, council, and the public on uh some of our projects that are underway. Um so I asked our burough engineer uh Ben Matlac to put together just a short summary of everything. So um the Fifth
Avenue phase one sewer project is now complete. Uh the concret concrete work is complete and the resurfacing of the road will be done sometime in March. Uh main street the design for the new main street is 70% complete. Preliminary
plans will be submitted to outside agencies for review by the end of this month and construction is tenatively anticipated in October of 2026. Fifth Avenue and Parkplace phase two uh
this is for sewers. Uh the design is complete and the plans were submitted to NJD for funding through the I bank which is now under review. I bank funding will be added to existing New Jersey Department of Transportation grants to fund the project. Anticipated
construction in the spring pending I bank approval. Uh Ocean Park Avenue design is 75% complete. Plans were submitted to D for funding through the Ibank. Also uh Department of Transportation grant was awarded in the
amount of 278,000 for paving work. The I bank and NJ do grants will be combined to fund the project. Anticipated construction in the spring pending I bank approval spring of 2026. Uh the rec center construction is
85% complete. The site is winterized and will completed when temperatures allow probably sometime in April. Uh remaining work is the sport court color coating, striping and installing benches and picnic tables. The uh prominade
extension design is 40% complete. Uh preliminary permit plans will be submitted to D by the end of this month. Uh by end of December, uh the Silven Lake bulkhead plans were submitted to D on October 16th. Uh the permit approval
is anticipated sometime in February. The project will be bid and awarded prior to the October 11th, 2026 deadline and April 11th, 2026 deadline and construction is anticipated to be in
September of 2026. Uh the Silven Lake outflow control structure uh an application was submitted to D on October 30th of this year. Uh plans and technical specs are under review by D to incorporate the replacement of the
outflow structure into the outflow pipe contract. an agreement in place between DP Avon by the Sea and Breach to replace the outlet structure which is anticipated to take place in January pending DE approval. And lastly, the
restroom building at 54 Ocean Avenue uh project is advertised for rebid now uh with the bid opening anticipated for December 23rd, so next week. And that's an update on all the projects as
Councilman Nikki mentioned before. And I can tell you that having a engineer on the council and an engineer that's willing to uh work with me and educate me is a great benefit for this administration. >> You're here and uh I'm going to later
propose that the rest of us get engineering degrees. >> It's not too late. >> Miss Green, I just ask can we can you forward a copy of that to us? >> No, this is propri.
>> Yes, ma'am. I will do that. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Business Administrator. >> Yes, Mr. >> U. Let us now move to mayor and council reports and uh I will start with our council president. >> Okay, mine's going to be very brief because the board of ed is having their
meeting this evening. So, I'll report on that next meeting. Uh tourism had a meeting this morning. They're gearing up for the jazz festival in February. So, please mark your calendars. It'll start Tuesday, February 2nd, all the week
through Saturday, February 7th. Also, the um Shade Tree Commission had their meeting December 3rd. They had two applications. 303 Second Avenue will be removing one tree and planting one tree. In addition, 104 Brley Avenue had an
application to remove three trees and they will be planting three as well. a replacement and their current account is $17,000. And that completes my report. Thank you. >> That was very quick and concise. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Councilman.
Yes. First, I'd like to invite up uh Chief Roninsky to report on the fire um he's here in the audience. So, >> we have our chief of the fire department, I should say. Hi. Uh Ron M fire chief Bradley Beach.
Um, the reason I wanted to come give my report uh in person today is because being it's the uh the end of the year, I wanted to thank the mayor and council for all the support um that you've given us uh throughout 2025.
Um particularly uh Councilman Weber who uh who served as our liaison prior to Councilman uh Miki. Um, in the 21 years I've been a volunteer firefighter and first responder in this town, I don't think I've ever seen as much uh
collective support from the five members sitting up at the at the days as we've received uh this year. So, I wanted to thank you for that. I also want to thank everybody uh also here at the table. you know, we we can't do our job without all
of you here. Uh from the burough clerk, uh bur administrator, uh attorney, uh particularly Chief Arnold, uh who make sure that every one of our scenes is safe when uh when our
people arrive, uh to answer the call. Um uh that being said, I want to give you uh our fire departmental report for the month ending in November. Uh we had uh 10 day calls, nine night calls for a
total of 19. It consisted of one smoke condition, uh 11 fire alarms, five carbon monoxide calls, uh one cover assignment into Asbury Park, and one natural gas leak. Uh we had three uh
work details and community events uh for the month. Uh we had the uh salmon in the park, the tree lining. Uh we also had the bonfire on the beach and we conducted our annual uh Scott pack mask fit test for all of our members. Uh we
conducted two trainings during the month. One was our live burn at the fire academy and we also ran a training for our uh cadet program. Uh we also welcome two new firefighters into the department
uh during November and uh one of them is enrolled to enter the fire academy in January and the other one will be attending the fire academy uh next fall. Um also like to announce our uh annual
Santa run uh on December 23rd. Um, anybody who wishes to drop off gifts for the Santa Run, the boxes will be available at Bahala and the uh police station. Uh, again, I just want to uh
extend my gratitude for uh for everything you've done for us this year. Um, you all understand how challenging our job is and and just want to how valuable
your support was. Thank you. and chief. >> Before you leave, I just want to say uh the fire company but includes the department uh collaborated so much with the burrow in providing us some additional parking on your you know lease property uh 10 additional spaces
which freed up uh parking space for the public. So we really appreciate the collaboration we've had. You led you spearheaded the drive to spend your own funding not tax not existing taxpayer money to purchase a new not a new engine
but a very nicely conditioned engine. So $70,000 >> 80,000 that came from your own funding. Uh you did not ask the burrow to help fund that. And again, I I want to make sure our taxpayers understand that when they're making donations to our fire
department, you guys are using those funds to, you know, to help the the burrow as well. So, thank you for all of your efforts. >> More more good news on that front. Uh the same fire department that we bought that blue engine from uh offered to sell
us uh a significant amount of surplus hose that they had. Um, so, uh, >> uh, Brian Green, our engine foreman, who's who's in the back there, he and I will be going back out to Pennsylvania this coming Saturday to, uh, to pick up,
uh, some hose that we bought with uh, with donation money as well. So >> hopefully your trip back will be >> Yeah, hopefully be a lot less driver of a burning vehicle. Uh, and then finally, I just wanted to say thank you for not stealing Santa
when we had the tree lighting. Uh, the fire company got a call with Santa Claus basically on their truck and he could have taken off with Santa, but you managed to get him over to >> We worked it all out. >> So, yes. So, thank you for that as well. >> Thank you.
>> Thanks, Chief. I just want to offer Chief Ar if you want to read your police report. You know, there's a there's a theme going on here, right? >> Sure. Sure. Come on up. >> I have I have a hard copy here for you. Save my voice. >> I don't have my readers.
>> I have a pair in my office. Would you like >> All right. Well, first I'd like to piggy back on Chief Biskey's uh words. John's been I signed your picture there. It's been an honor working with you. Thank you for all the support with the police
department. And again, I'll repeat what he said. The council, the mayor. This has been the best year so far. So appreciate all your support from the police department. Really appreciate it. All right. So our police report. Uh December 2nd, William Gordon Jr. Mayor
of Tom's River, New Jersey, was arrested and charged with possession of crack cocaine, possession of direct paraphernalia, and several motor vehicle offenses as a result of a motor vehicle stop by patrolman Daniel Crow and patrolman Ian Ambrose.
Uh we also used Wall Township K9 unit uh to assist in the investigation. December 4th, Philip Alessandro of Neptune City and Mark Salado of Riverhead, New Jersey were both arrested and charged with
being in possession of drug paraphernalia. Aleandro and Salado were stopped by patrolman Daniel and found to be in possession of drug paraphernalia during the motor vehicle stop. Patrolman Anthony Babalmente and patrol woman assisted with the arrest.
December 8th, Christopher Roberts of Bradley Beach was arrested and charged with one count of theft. Patrolman Sean Johnson and patrolman Edmond Hernandez handled the investigation and the arrest. On December 10th,
Miles Hedley of Bradley Beach uh and Armier Caruso were both arrested on December 8th stemming from the same incident. was found to be a fugitive from justice from the state of Georgia and was also in possession of drug paraphernalia. He
was charged as a fugitive from justice and later transported to the M County Jail. Caruso was found to have an active warrant from the M County Prosecutor's Office. He was arrested for contempt of court and transported to the Mon County Jail. Sergeant Michael Tardio handled
the investigation and made the arrests. Uh December 11th, Gregory Patterson of Aspbury Park was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine and several motor vehicle violations. Trollman Anthony Bilament made the arrest during
motor vehicle stop with Pat Peterson. Sergeant Kevin Miguel assisted with the arrest. And lastly, between November 23rd, 2025 and December 15th, Bradley Beach Police Department also investigated seven motor vehicle accidents and responded to several
additional calls for service. >> That'll complete my report. >> Thank you. Good report >> and thanks for all that you do, mayor. >> Yeah, I was going to say, Chief, while just while you're standing there, uh I think we all want to thank you. I'm going to leave, but we all want to thank
you for the the the character and this and the strength of leadership that you've given to our police department. Uh wasn't that long ago, you know, we kind of all got a little rattled by some of the challenges the department face and uh you've been wonderful to work
with my first year as mayor. Uh and again, it's strength of character, strength of leadership that's really appreciated. >> So, thank you. >> IT'S BEEN A PRIVILEGE. AND ON top of that, thank you for writing 20 tickets yourself. >> 30.
Are we put on first aid? Um they're not here with us this afternoon this evening. Um the operational period ending December 16th. The squad responded to nine day calls, four night calls for a total of 13 calls. 11 were for medical, two for fire, and one NDA.
The squad congratulates Kyle Hagermanerman on successfully passing the New Jersey Department of Health EMT course and wish him luck as he prepares for his national registry certification. Congratulations also go out to Ariel Minsky, Via Kern, Ashley Near and Brian
Kan on the successful completion of the American Red Cross medical responder and basic life support course. The following members reertified their American Red Cross emergency medical responder and basic life support course. Ron Minsky, Jennifer Pierce, and Joseph Walsh. On
behalf of the membership and the office of the squad, we would like to wish you all a very happy holiday and a safe and prosperous new year. The squad requested no mutual aid for this operational period. The squad fulfilled 100% of their assignments for this operational period. And we are still looking for,
here's the advertisement, for volunteers, for first aid squad. So, um, free training for all all individuals. you can go to the website and apply. And then just very quickly on the Silven Lake Commission, our meeting is tomorrow at 7 o'clock here. Um and there'll be an
update on all different projects. So if you'd like to come on out, I'll weather the cold and um we'll see you at the uh commission meeting tomorrow. Thank you, Paul. Councilwoman Greenblat. >> Great. Thank you, Mayor. Um the Fletcher
Lake Commission met November 13th. The fall cleanup at the lake generated 16 bags of trash thanks to all the participants. Uh Fletcher Lake cleanups will regular will be regularly scheduled ahead for both spring and fall. Bradley Beach and Neptune will be creating a
shared billing agreement for boost remediation services um and make for a more efficient payment process for our vendor. The next commission meeting is scheduled for January 15th at 6 PM in this council chamber. Uh the rec committee met Monday,
December 8th. Uh just some ongoing activities. Maan open play runs every Friday uh 1 to 3 p.m. at the Bazi Center, but there's no Majan on Friday, December 26th because of the Christmas holiday. The senior club enjoyed a
wonderful holiday lunch on December 11th at UAS. Senior Game Time Tuesdays runs the first and third Tuesday of each month. Bring your own game and join friends at the Biazi Center for fun and community fellowship.
>> The glitter and glue crew meets every Tuesday and Thursday morning from 11:30 to 12:00 p.m. It's geared for ages 2 to 5. Uh, and for the holidays, the Bradley Beach Grinch will be on hand for family holiday portraits December 20th, noon to
2:00 p.m. at the Neptune City Community Center. All Bradley Beach residents are welcome to participate. It's $5 per portrait. Uh this is a walk-in event. No pre-registration required. As mentioned uh by both um our BA and
Councilman Nikki, construction continues at the rep site with the completion of paperwork. The playground and all new services are complete with court with court striping plan for the end of winter. There is still limited public access to the facility. A grand
reopening will take place in early spring. The rec committee's next uh meeting will be Monday, January 12th at 6:30 p.m. The arts council met Monday, December 1st and yesterday uh December 15th.
Thanks to Abu Data for the Shabbat Project, an opportunity for musical performance, a musical performance by Arts Council member Gwen Rosenblack this past November. It was a beautiful and well attended event. The Arts Council is in the process of reorganizing its
membership and making plans for an exciting year ahead. Anyone with an arts background or interest is welcome to reach out to the Arts Council for volunteer consideration. You again, you can go to the Arts Council website and reach out to them. The Arts Council will next meet on Monday, December 29th,
10:30 a.m. at the Beyz Center. Public is always welcome. And uh this is the third night of Hanukkah. And I just want to wish uh everyone who celebrates a very happy. >> Thank you, Councilwoman.
I saved the best for last. >> Aren't you doing your report? >> I would I thought about doing it, but I'm I'm going to close with a couple counsel. >> Okay. >> But Mr. John Weber, your final council meeting after nine years. >> I have a lot to say here. I I want to apologize for I kind of was thrown off
guard with all the gifts and stuff. I'm like, wait, I didn't do it at the end. I thought I'd be sitting up here. So, um, sorry I didn't say thank you or anything then. But, uh, so there will be a load of thank yous, but I have to start with my family. Of course, my wife and kids, um, have been nothing but supportive and
tolerant of all this, and tolerant really is the operative word here. You know, when I started this, I well, when I first ran, I had a 5-year-old and I had a seven-year-old. And plus, our house was under construction. We had no working kitchen, and I'm running for
office. and we were couch surfing for part of that fall just the way the construction projects go. Um, but I guess I made onto the council. Um, you know, as far as my kids, I'd say they really they turned out great. I'm really proud of them. Probably because they spend more time with their mother
because I was busy doing all this council stuff. Um, so it's a good thing and can't thank my wife enough for that. Even tonight, Bridget was here, but now she's at a board that meeting. That's where she's at now. Um but again I can't thank them enough for all their support all these years. Um so for all of you I
want you to know that I read every word every ordinance every resolution every contract every document. I read every word probably >> I can verify that. >> Um I just I think it's what you all expect and it's what you deserve. Um now
understanding it all the first time and you know remembering it all is that's another story. Um But honestly, if I didn't understand something, especially uh you know, my first term, I would ask questions and boy, I asked a lot of questions. Um and in my first term,
asking a lot of questions was looked at kind of unfavorably. Um so, you know, so much so that people some people decided to level some uh completely untrue and baseless accusations uh in the form of a lawsuit hopefully to get rid of me because I was the guy that was asking a
lot of questions. And and I have to talk about this now because, you know, who cares now? But the general public never really got the full story on this. When these accusations were leveled, the town took the completely appropriate action of hiring an attorney from outside the town. They had no connection to the
town. They investigated this um and you know what that investigation found? That nothing happened. And it was all put in this report and the public never saw the light. The public never saw that report because it was a personnel issue. Never saw the light of the day. And um
So, it's just saying that now, you know, it was investigated, nothing happened, nothing illegal, nothing. Um, yet there was still a lawsuit and it, you know, cost the bureau money and that's the kind of thing that just makes me shake my head out about all this, but on balance and of course, it's been really great. But then the same thing happens
to a different councilman a few years later. Um, and that's, you know, sort of like, geez, when when are we going to learn? Um, anyway, there were some things I didn't like about my first term. So, I put together in 2019 and ran
and we won. All of us won. All four of us won. Um so thank you to the people of Brady Beach for that seeing through certain things and uh as I like to say in the beginning of 2020 we had two good months, two and a half good months. Um
there was there's some staff changes not because everybody was fired because I think some people knew that we were there was going to be four of us up there asking questions. Um, and you know, so we have brand new CFO, a brand new Bur administrator, and I, you know, >> brand new clerk,
>> huh? >> You were new to the clerk job. You've been here by the clerk, so I wasn't newer. >> Uh, and you know, that's what we faced 20 March of 2020 with. I honestly I think the day that everything shut down was like David Brown's second job. It was crazy.
>> Um, so we had to learn how to run the government and conduct our business in the shutdown environment pretty much like everybody else in the country. We got through it. Um, I was actually the council president that year. It was the first year of Zoom meetings. Um, the only thing I did as council president
was surprise mayor Gary Angles at his last meeting and give him a cla. I popped out of that door there hiding in that room. I didn't know it. Um, because Gary would sit here alone and run the meeting and we were all on Zoom. Um
anyway, so you know um I'm happy that the nature of being council president has changed. More is asked of the council president and more is delivered by the council president. So it was a good and a good positive change. Um couple meetings ago, Gary Anglestat speaking to him said some pretty nice
things about me here. Um presumably because he couldn't be here tonight. I know it's a tough night and it's also freezing cold out. Um Gary and I didn't always see things the same way and maybe I was a little bit hard on him sometimes I would say but in the following years when he was no longer mayor I found
myself a little bit nostalgic for angle step so it's good to see him around town and it's good to see that he is still contributing uh in his way to the town that's uh it's really good to see um so back in 2020 in the co co year you know
our current mayor and you're the one I'm going to single out here um will be on here all night. I talk nice stuff about all of you, but um you know, this guy was a new councilman in 2020 and he was the hardest working councilman and he was also getting the most done. So, I
said I'm going to run for mayor. Um and he did. And we know that that didn't work out in 2020, but seeing you in the job now, Mr. Mayor, I know uh that I bet on the right horse. I was right. The voters happen to be wrong on that one, but I was right. You were the right guy for the job. So,
you've proven it now uh every day. And just what people are saying is you know tonight at this meeting is kind of a testament to that. Um I want to speak a little bit about this council and the government here in Bradley Beach. I go to a fair number of town meetings for my job and usually they're little little
small towns along the shore and the amount of information given at other town meetings is nowhere near what Bradley Beach provides. So this is like really good news for everybody. I know not everybody thinks it this way, but truly my perspective from seeing all
these other towns, Bradley Beach meetings are by far and away more detailed than in other towns. I've seen more detail on the bills list. There's more details on the agenda. I mean, sometimes the agenda is just like one page. It's just really short. And um I even had a reason to look back at old
bill lists. A few few months ago, I was looking at old bill list and we even provide way more detail in those list now than we than back then. Um but what we provided back then is more than some towns gave. I'm telling you, some towns just like they put a number on on
resolution and that's like that's it. So kind of crazy. Um so be thankful that your government is providing a good amount of transparency and information, but do not let them backslide on any of this. Okay? That's your job. Um one thing that has surprised me about the
job is the way I feel about the police. Um I never really thought about it before sitting up here, but uh I quickly realized that there's a good If you're dealing with the police, it's a there's a good chance that it's the worst day of your life. Not because you got caught at
all, but um you know, either like you c you crashed your car or your house spouse just had like a heart attack or medical emergency. You know, a huge part of their job is meeting people often for the very first time on the worst day of their life. And I think they do a great
job with what they do. Um, I'm glad that they are now all allowed to get to know us because that's been really great. I've really enjoyed that this last year. And my hat is off to those on the force who uh spoke out, who acted out, and who
we've led to big changes in this town that have been really, really important. Uh, of course, the same goes for fire and first aid folks. Uh, they are likely showing up on the worst day of your life. Um, but the big difference, the very profound difference is that they are volunteers. Uh, I spent a good part
of my career working with volunteers. And you to have the longevity that you have for some of the folks on on either squad, um, it's it's extraordinary. It really is. And the fact that you're bringing in new people still, and we just heard about, you know, I think a
half a dozen of them tonight. Um, that is really really remarkable. So, keep it going, folks. Yes. and uh everybody in this room and everybody in this town, we should continue to do whatever we can to help our our fire and first aid however we can. Um I want to thank the staff
everyone's here. Michelle maybe can hear this, but um you know, they're really great and I think they're in a really great place now. Um once they stopped being told that the council was the problem, I think they they kind of they started liking us, you know, like feeling mutual. You guys are
you guys are great. So, um I just don't think I have st thank the staff enough uh over these last nine years. So, um I appreciate all the the support that people in this room, if they're here now or not, but people have shown a lot of support and I appreciate the attention
that you have given to your own government. This is what democracy looks like. It's people showing up and and they show up. They show up a lot. I used to say like 39 people here if there's nothing controversial on the on the agenda. And um sometimes I'm looking
like really what 35 people. So and then of course it grew from that once we got into the controversy. I have a quick to-do list for the for the mayor the incoming mayor and council. So make sure you're included in this. Um it's simple. Don't worry, you don't have to write this down, but it's move the bonfire.
Fourth Avenue beach is too small. Um go to one of the big wide beaches. Uh we're going to close the gaps in the dunes. Dunes are great. They protect the town, but dunes with 13 separate 50 foot wide gaps, it's kind of giving us less protection. Uh, we're going to close
them up. There's going to be a nice walk over to get up over them. Some of them are going to have the ADA switchbacks. Some of them are going to be have vehicular crossover so you can drive over. Um, but we're we're going to close those gaps in the deal. So, we're going
to Okay. Um, and finally, you know, this this is a hard one. This room this room and this gas. Okay, god forbid somebody in a wheelchair gets elected to this office or even worse, somebody gets elected and then they have a horrible accident or something. What are we going to do about
this? Um, I don't have the answers. We got smart people up here. Um, you know, I don't know how you fit all that in this room, but something's got to be done and uh I think you are the team to do it. So, that's my little little to-do list there. Um, couple things I'm proud of. I'm proud of the logo change that we
just finally exacted. Fun fact about that, the very first time I was running for office, I knocked on somebody's door in Newark and after I gave him my spiel, they're like, "Is there anything that you think should be different in this town? Would you, you know, besides parking?"
Um, this person said, "The marketing in the town, it's kind of weird. It's kind of all over the place." And I said, "Yeah, you know, you're right." And I kind of open up my eyes to that and um can't say I worked on it for nine years because it kind of other things took precedent. And uh but the opportunity
arose um and we worked on this year. It was really just a great committee. I just coordinated the meetings. The hard part was getting everybody together. They did all the hard work. Um I'm also proud of the sharing shed. Another thing that just this year, but it's like a community- based waste reduction effort.
I kind of love the idea. Um and I'm actually proud of the way we have conducted ourselves up here. This crew and crews before them. Um, I'm proud we stuck together and we kept some bad things from happening in this town that definitely didn't happen. Uh, a little
bit of advice on politics in general. Not everybody likes everybody, okay? It's just human nature, right? You like some people, you don't like other people. Like, that's just the way life is. But I will say, do not let other people enlist you in their dislike of
another person just because, you know, because you're their friend. I don't like it. form your own opinion, get to know people. It's a small town. We we can't afford to be any other way. You know, don't be a jerk in real life or online, especially online because
there's a really good chance you're going to stand next to some person online at the bakery or you know, sit next to him in a restaurant. So, you know, don't be a joke, be nice. Um I'm looking forward to my chair, my next role as chair of the environmental
commission. That's how I started. I was I was before I started this. I'm just coming back to that which is kind of nice full circle. Um and of course I'm not going anywhere so I will see you all around town. I probably forgot about 15 different things to say but thanks again
everybody. Great last meeting. Thank you for the gifts. I really was unexpected and at a loss for words because I had all this ready to go. So um I really appreciate appreciate those. I'm going to treasure that map and this thing. So that's it. Thank you. Thank you.
>> I'M GOING TO LEAVE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, COUNCIL. UM, I'm going to make a couple quick comments and uh and and get get it to public comment. Number one, just so everybody's aware, uh Amy Hall, who's for maybe three months now been officially our director of
communications, is well on her way to redesigning our website. She showed me a a mockup of it today. To me personally, my opinion, look great. Uh still working on content. There's a long way to go, but but uh with just a couple months under her belt as a full-time
communications director, uh she's making great strides. So, just give everyone a heads up that that's on the horizon. Two on my list, the weather's been crazy, really bad. Anybody reading anything on Facebook has seen criticisms and comments and some with some applause
to DPW for the great job they did getting getting snow moved around in our small town with no space and cars that don't park off this side of the street as they should. Uh I referenced this earlier, but uh Chief Arnold himself was out issuing tickets for cars that had
not moved. I thought last I had heard it was 20 he called me moments ago it was up to 30 that he personally issued. Uh on top of that people recognized him said chief what are you doing out here writing tickets but this is Bradley Beach you know it's a relatively small town we get our chief of police out uh
writing parking tickets. Um, someone on Facebook asked, you know, can we post the official number? And we can, but last I heard, just for the record, we were over Chief, Last I heard, we were over 150 tickets issued. Is that still
>> Yeah, we're right about 150. >> About 150 tickets issued for alternate status street parking. And I was told by our code enforcement officer that he's issued uh 19 violations for unclear driveways, just in case anyone's wondering about that.
>> Sidewalks. >> Unclear sidewalks. Sorry. Yes. Uh and apparently because it's freezing out and there are still some sidewalks he hasn't gotten to yet. That number may increase next tomorrow as he continues uh evaluating folks who have not yet cleared their sidewalks. Um but that
weather also impacted the tree lighting. We pulled that off. Uh uh we had to delay the first the lighting of the first day for Anukica a day and and but we did have that treat with that uh manora lighting. Uh it was terribly cold
that day and we still had a wonderful turnout. Uh I I love that that the entire community supported both the Christmas tree lighting and then a few days later uh the manora lighting. So uh just just wonderful events I think happening in Bradley Beach. Um,
I wanted to mention that uh, and I see three folks in the room that served on our charter study commission. Um, number one, thank you guys for the work you did in that regard. Um, during that time frame, as we were talking about whether or not we should uh, change the
form of government, uh, I think you all universally identified that there were guard rails that this form of government needed to consider. Uh I have just recently asked Mr. Coan to actually lead the charge working with you his his
colleagues from the uh you know from the charge study commission to bring to the council your recommendations and TJ you know with you I think leading that charge you know we'll get it done quickly recommendations that the council can then consider for actually creating additional governance for uh this form
of government going forward in Bradley Beach. Um Mr. Whoever I I want to make my own little comments about you. Number one, as I said earlier, uh John is responsible for me now sitting here, but
for me being in in public at all, and I think in turn successors, other folks who are up here either directly through me or or through you are now here as a result of you. So, uh people say politics is a thankless job. I can tell
you it is not. you do get your share of abuse, no question, but it's not a thankless job. And in fact, um it's uh it's created a great friendship for me. So, I want to thank you for uh the friendship that came out of my foray
into politics. Um you were a coach and a mentor. I'm a lot older than you, but I knew nothing about politics. So, uh, John even told me how the proper way to knock on doors, you know, knock boldly and firmly and just two times. Don't, you know, not,
you know, I mean, right down to how to campaign. Uh, but so much more, John. I I really do appreciate it. So, old dogs can be taught new tricks, and I do appreciate it. Uh, and then, uh, so your service for nine years to this community
is amazing to me. Um, and I hope our friendship continues many years beyond that. And then finally, I just want to say to everybody, this is our last video of the year. Uh I I want to say very uh happy
and healthy holidays, Christmas, Hanukkah, every holiday that is on the calendar. Please enjoy it. Please maintain your health. Uh be safe. Uh share time with your loved ones. uh
have a wonderful new year celebration and I I I look forward to uh year two for most folks on this council. John with you the exception and Mr. Karp sitting in front of me joining us up here come January one. So happy holidays
to all and and uh happy new year. Now with that said, I will open it up to public comment. Is there public comment? Try to be brief. It's the end of the year and we're going to be talking about the
new year. Brian Prin, 512 Laurian Avenue, department one fire department member and also EMS active member. Uh Mr. Mayor and council, thank you for this opportunity. I also appreciate the opening comments that you made, Mr. Mayor, on the importance of
volunteering. I'm here today to uh make the uh mayor, you and your council aware that on January 1st, in partnership with the first state department, the Bradley Beach fire department and first state departments are continue to look for dedicated neighbors uh to join our ranks
in 2026. And fellow residents and surrounding communities uh are also available for membership. Uh this is your chance to the members uh to the public listening to gain life skate saving skills, serve the community and make a real
difference. Those interested in becoming a member of either the Bradley Bradley Beach Department of Bradley Beach first aid squad, you are invited to attend an informative lunch and learn session on January 1st, 2026. That's Thursday.
Between the hours of 2 and 4, we will be serving lunch at the Bradley Beach Fire Department banquet hall on 815 Main Street. What you will get from this event, that's informative lunch and learners, full membership details, training requirements, member benefits,
facility tours, and most importantly, powerful testimonies from our current members. We do request an RSVP. Information about this event can be found through our support at the burrow on the at the website. Our part our friendship at the public library is
information has been posted. Also our member uh partner we're associate members of the BBCA. Miss Paula Gavin who's assisted us in advertising and our electronic sign board that we see on Main Street. We ask you do RSVP uh to this event because we
are providing lunch. Well, thank you for the opportunity and again the uh for you recognizing the importance of volunteerism in the community. Of course, you're all welcome to join us if you're in town that afternoon. Come meet some of the newer members. We continue to recruit. I'm a member of the recruitment and retention committee in
the fire department. And uh it would be nice if you had the opportunity to swing by and and say hello to of course our long-standing members who put many years, decades of of service, but also some of our newer members and of course some of our prospective members who come to the informative lunch. January 1st 2
to 4. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Other comments in the room, questions? Show of hands. >> Yes. Uh I'm sorry. What's the name? >> Tia. >> Tia. Are are you
>> Yes. Uh thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um I just had one question. Um, when you were discussing resolution 2025-347, I heard Councilwoman Denov speaking to someone on the council and she mentioned that they were um they weren't moving on
the Beach Locker wait list. And may I ask for her to confirm who she was speaking to and whether anyone on the council is actually on the Beach Locker waiting list? >> Did she tell you her address? >> I'm sorry. Um 147 um in Ocean Road.
>> Yeah. You you were I think you were talking about Paul. >> Yeah. >> Paul's list. >> I'm on the list. >> Yeah. >> I think I'm number 35 on Evergreen. >> Three years, right? >> Two years. >> Yeah. For two years.
So, you recognize that you were on you you you you're on currently on the waiting list and so you voted in favor of ejecting numerous non-residents from their lockers. Um, and you you do understand that you're benefiting from that vote.
>> Well, I actually um said you don't have to answer. >> I have I have a beach locker. >> I have a beach locker. It's it's uh your point is taken. Um is there anything else here that you care
to >> ask or comment on? >> That's it. Thank you very much. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Dw. >> Uh Thomas J. Co, 613rd Avenue. Um I I do have a question for Mr. Dy. Um you
mentioned Main Street on the engineering list. Is is that use sewers. >> Uh, no. So, main street is uh street skate. >> Streetcape. Okay. >> Curbs, uh, sidewalks, lighting, uh,
trees, uh, benches. >> Um, >> project we've been talking about for years. We got a million4 grand for it. >> Yeah. But, okay. But it's not necessarily I mean because I just wanted to talk about uh the sidewalks because over the years there's been this huge
thing about oh we got to rip up the papers they look terrible. Well um I got a certified mail violation from the burrow um to fix my site which should have been fixed. So $1,250 later they're
fixed. And the day my guy came, he did bids for three or four other people um on Main Street who got the same notice. Apparently, a lot of them went out with the December 19th deadline. And it's amazing how great it looks. There were
there were six other squads doing paper repairs on Main Street. And there's nothing wrong with papers. So, I just want to establish that we're not replacing the pavers. Uh because >> I think when we when we discussed this as a town, we looked into that. We
thought about the whole like papavers, not papers. >> Sure. >> Um do something else. You know, I was on the committee, right? And the on committee and we considered the option of just not replacing the papers. He said the cost of the actual brick is like the one of
the low lower parts of the cost of the whole job. So we're going to replace the papers. And the other He said papers made now >> are not like papavers made 25 years ago and they actually will last 40 years where the ones from 25 years ago they weren't.
>> I mean we got to keep this out in the public because I mean now the pavers cost me $15,000 in 1997. I'm expecting to get 30 to 40 years out of that product. Spring Lakes was done at the same time Belmar was done at the same time. They're not replacing airs. I
don't understand why Rally Beach to to the point. This is maintenance. This is fantastic. These pavers will last a lot longer. Our tree wells were made bigger to accommodate the roots. The pavers are settled down. Now, if we maintain
things, we can get value. That's why I like to drive cars to 200,000 miles by taking care of them. So, I think we need to look at the the lights are definitely deficient. Uh, I'm helping to work with the BBBCA on the benches. That'll be fantastic. We can get that done
privately. So, um, but I I I really have a bug about the papers. There's really nothing wrong with them if they're maintained. And I want to compliment the code office for for writing the violations because they should have been written a long time ago. But I guess everybody's been waiting to get the new
papers, Mr. You know, that's that's probably what's going on. But I'm hoping that doesn't happen. And very big expense. It's going to be very disruptive to the businesses for whatever term that is. And uh some of the designs that they did um I I did a a
walk around with a member of the BBBCA. We went to multiple towns. Manisquan did pavers with with concrete on each side and that's what we were pitched. Uh and the concrete has has not settled at the same level. There's trip hazards all
over the place. So the pavers here if we repair these trip hazards like should have been done a long time ago. Um we can get a lot more advantage from this product and I am going to miss having these conversations with you Mr. Weber.
really. But, uh, it's been a lot of fun to watch you handle yourself up there so well and I want to, you know, wish you more joy on college trips and other fun things with your children because that's what you should be doing. But, thank
you. You've made an imprint and it's your imprint will go forward. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. >> Uh, and Mr. Go ahead. Just for the record, um you mentioned the paperwork in your own your own notice. Um for the residents, I
want to I guess I want to draw a little dividing line. One side of that line is we are enforcing through code enforcement repair of pavers that are triples and 16 properties have already completed their
repair and another 70 give or take have been noticed that they need to repair. So we are repairing pavers up and down Main Street. That doesn't necessarily mean that we are or are not going to ultimately replace favors because our
engineers are doing an an evaluation a study uh of uh ADA compliance and and uh the leveling of our uh sidewalks. So, for example, after we do some of this
work, some of these repair jobs, we may need to dig it all up again and and make them ADA compliant or actual sidewalks. Some of them don't abut to door doorways appropriately and so forth. We're waiting uh to get the engineers report.
We don't know, but we may have to pull up papers that are being repaired currently. The choice was, do we wait and allow people to trip and get injured while we wait for the engineering report and while we wait for the funding and so forth to do the ultimate uh enhancements
on Main Street and my decision was no we don't wait to get people fixing papers that are pass today. So I just wanted to distinguish for you the fact that because you and others are fixing your papers doesn't mean they're going to be in place a year from now or two years
from now. >> Well, I mean in my mind in 2037 you should look to change these But but I mean again Bradley Beach in 1997 apparently got faulty work done if if this is a problem now. I mean we
don't seem to ever get the true value of the things we're doing and and that's what upsets me. This program of having these papers repaired is fantastic. Uh the full-time code officers doing a great job obviously with the snow and the parking and and and this also it
should be done. And really the simple part is you ask and people are doing it. I mean, the town doesn't have to absorb the cost of this, >> but you're getting into future design, which we don't know yet. So, I just wanted the record to show that we're not
agreeing that because you or anyone else on the street repairs, those papers will now remain for another 10 years. I don't know that answer. I want to be clear. >> Okay. Um but thank you for the program and thanks for you know it does look better and little maintenance things
that we do improve it the benches I hope you the million four will go to the lighting the lighting absolutely needs to be replaced um the technology's gone so far and I'm hoping that would be the next thing >> and understand that the million floor is
basically for a phase of main street we're not going to complete all the main street with million so we have we have a lot of work ahead of uscl including design and as you say delivery. >> Okay. >> Thank you.
>> I see no other hands. Any uh seeing no further comments I make a motion to >> second. All in favor? >> I thank you. Merry Christmas. It's okay.
There was overlap there.