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MEETING SECTIONS:

Part 1 (Video ID: eitblWYGAGk):
- 00:01:44: Pills, Doctor's Visits, and Organized Man Bags
- 00:06:47: Pledge of Allegiance, Meeting Open, New Police Officer
- 00:08:48: Swearing-In Ceremony For Officer Samuel Forgat
- 00:11:49: Appointing Samuel Forgat And Digital Beach Presentation
- 00:15:15: Live Beach Mobile's Digital Beach Badge Presentation
- 00:32:40: Questions about Beach Badge Fees & Technology
- 00:53:43: Municipal Public Access Plan, Required Every Five Years
- 00:55:52: MPAP Updates, Community Needs, Improved Beach Access
- 01:02:05: Handicap Access Questions and New Pump Station Facility
- 01:12:12: Temporary Pedestrian Access Plan for Cromod Extension
- 01:16:07: Temporary Staircases, Signage, Beach Locker Relocation
- 01:19:10: Contractor Stone Movement Details During the Beach Season
- 01:25:36: Schedule, Permit Restrictions and Traffic Rerouting Details
- 01:29:54: Disrupted Parking and ADA Accessibility Ramp Plans
- 01:38:35: Addressing Community Concerns and Communication Strategies
- 01:41:02: Project Funding, Coordination, and Grant Details
- 01:44:32: Completing Workshops and Public Comment Discussion Starts
- 01:45:38: Public Comment: Project Benefits and Water Levels
- 01:47:07: Public Comment: Public Access and Property Concerns
- 01:48:22: Public Comment: Boardwalk, Finances, and Cash Handling
- 01:52:27: Public Comment: Cash Handling Concerns and Safety
- 01:53:35: Ordinance Introduction: Special Events Fees Restructuring
- 02:00:06: Ordinance Adoption: Zoning Correction and Public Hearing
- 02:01:16: Ordinance Adoption: Dumpsters, Permits, and Placement
- 02:06:12: Public Comment: Dumpster Sticker, Timeframes, and Concerns
- 02:07:18: Ordinance Adoption: Bamboo and Invasive Species Control
- 02:10:14: Public Comment: Bamboo Removal, Fines, and Enforcement
- 02:13:05: Resolutions: Consent Agenda and Summer Camp Program
- 02:16:22: Resolutions: Silver Lake Bulkhead Improvement Award
- 02:20:10: Resolutions: Engineering Services and Stormwater Grant
- 02:27:40: Resolutions: Outdoor Recreation Center Improvements Phase Two
- 02:32:00: Resolution: Temporary Appropriations and Administrator's Report
- 02:36:50: Mayor and Council Reports Begin
- 02:43:11: Council Reports Continued: Police Activity & Land Use
- 02:46:41: Council Reports Continued: Environment & First Aid
- 02:48:53: Council Reports Continued: Arts Council and Wreck Events
- 02:54:33: Council Reports Continued: Town Business and Upcoming Events
- 03:01:59: Public Comments: Special Event, Fund Allocation, & Disagreement
- 03:09:16: Public Comments: Employee Concerns, Website Functionality, & Costs
- 03:16:05: Public Comments: Drainage Systems, Previous Administration, & Money Handling
- 03:18:47: Executive Session and Adjournment


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This is very good. Thank you. >> Yes. Well, I Oh, see that's >> Do you know who does? >> I think I might >> probably Oh. Oh, okay. >> Yeah. I can't take

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a real thing. >> Yeah. Everything I take is like so I have to say to the >> doctor. Wow. It's not fun. Not fun at all. I can get five pills at once. >> Yeah. Oh, wait a second. I have other >> that kind of guy

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like >> Which one's >> But I have my man bag. So they're >> You should have missed. >> This is so great. So organized with

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these. I love these little cases and stuff. >> I just I just got them. >> No, they're mercurable. If you need a charger, you know where to go out like

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no. I have no computer right >> I will need to get two people but this is What's not missing? percentage of the skin

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for us. She gives >> okay for that >> just for >> No, I would not do that. We have extra. >> Yeah, we found it.

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>> Oh, I found the doors up to be nice. >> I have to read this. Yeah, I won't go any >> I don't use it anymore. >> We need a garage.

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Mr. Sir tonight I just passed permission to wear sunglasses. >> Oh, you know what? I sent that email. >> Call this meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of >> allegiance.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I wish to announce that the 48 hour notice is required under the open public

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meetings act was emailed to the Asbury Park Press, the co-star and the new coaster on December the 18th of 2025. That a copy has been placed on the bulletin board in the burl office and that a copy has been filed with the municipal clerk. Please be advised, attendance for public meetings through

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Zoom is not mandatory and a courtesy only. If for any reason the Zoom portion fails or is disconnected, the in-person meeting will continue without interruption and action can and will be taken providing that there is an inperson quarum. Mr. Noble >> here. Miss Greenblat >> here. Mr. Carr

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>> here. >> Mr. Noiki >> here. Mayor Guboszi >> here. >> Uh let's see. Good evening everybody. We have a a solid agenda tonight. I think we'll move through it at a pretty good pace. We're starting off probably with

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our high spot. uh welcoming a new officer to our uh ranks at Bradley Beach. So item number five on our agenda I'll draw your attention to is uh presentations and bids and the f first item on that is oath of office for

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probationary police officer Samuel Forgat. So um I think I will be leading that oath of office. Chief, >> you want me to introduce >> Please. >> Good evening everyone. My name is James Arnold. on the police chief here in Bradley Beach. Uh first and foremost, as

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always, I want to thank the mayor, the council, the business administrator for your continuous support, your unwavering support of the police department. Really means a lot to us and just your willingness to to listen and understand our needs that we need for the community. So, very much appreciate

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that. Uh with that said, I want to introduce our newest regular police officer, Sam Forak. Dan came to us two years ago as a class one at the recommendation of his older brother Adam who's here tonight. He was also a class one and class two for us. He's now a

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regular police officer in Marorrow. So, thank you for the recommendation. You worked out very well. Uh Sam went on to be a class two officer. He's been a class two for a whole year now. He's been exceptional. He's been well received by his fellow officers. I think

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he's going to be a great addition to our team. I just want to say welcome aboard and congratulations. Thank you. >> Let me see what we've got here. Eric has two copies. >> Two copies. Yes. >> All right. So, normal I just I'm going to read this and

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ask you to repeat after me. I get used to hold the Bible. >> Yes. Uh yes. And do you have anyone to hold the Bible for you? Yes. Good evening. >> So you will be raising your right hand, putting your left hand on the table.

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Please repeat after me. >> I say your name. do solemnly swear >> I, Samuel Porach, do solemnly swear >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey

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>> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> that I will bear true faith and allegiance >> that I will bear true faith and allegiance >> to the same >> to the same >> and to the governments >> and to the governments >> established in the United States >> established in the United States >> and in this state

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>> and in this state >> under the authority of the people >> under the authority of the people >> that I will faithfully >> that I will faithfully >> impartially >> impartially >> and justly perform >> and justly perform >> all the duties >> all the duties

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>> of a probationary police officer >> of a probationary police officer >> for the Bradley Beach Police Department >> for the Bradley Beach Police Department >> according to the best of my ability >> according to the best of my ability. >> So help me God. >> So help me God. and that is complete

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sworn and subscribe before me this 19th day of May 2026. So >> I just Okay, great. question. sheets. >> We need you guys to give a 10 minute speech now.

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>> We need you to sign and then if you want to make a couple comments. care. >> Yes. First of all, I'd like to thank the mayor, the council, chief for giving me this opportunity at such a young age. I'm very grateful. I want to thank all the patrolmen for helping me get here,

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teaching me your skills. Most importantly, my family for supporting me through all this and my brother for being my my role model. Yes. Thank you guys all of this. Now, as I said, that'll probably be the

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highlight of the evening. Anyone who's here for that swearing in, >> feel free to leave. Right. >> And then for those of you who are glutton for punishment and are going to stay for the rest of the meeting, we will continue to

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>> Thank you. >> No, I'm going to say it. >> Um, we have resolution 2026-145 appointing uh of our probationary police officer Samuel Forgat. And I will make a

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motion that we approve resolution 202645. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> M. Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cart. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi. >> Yes. >> All right. Uh, the next item on presentations and bids is actually a

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presentation on a digital beach. And I believe this gentleman is going to lead us. >> Thank you. My name is Kevin Bry from Live Beach Hall. Thank you. >> So, just mayor 30 seconds of background. Councilman Cart who's the one who

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brought this idea to my attention. I reached out to this company. Uh they provide um digital beach access. Uh I vetted him with other towns up and down the Jersey Shore. Um the one people may be familiar with is Vetner, uh which is just south of Atlantic City. uh they now

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are 100% digitally um using the services of this company. So um I asked them to come make a presentation to the to the mayor council today. >> Do we have a slideshow? Can is it Michelle? >> Yes. >> Can she can hear me? Can I

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>> Here we go. All right. Thank you. >> Wizard. And you got to go back please to slide one or two rather. There you go. One more. That's it. Okay. So, thank you uh everyone for your attention and we'll be as quick as possible. I want to make this any longer

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than possible than than necessary rather. But yeah, we are My Beach Mobile. We are a digital beach. I call them tags. I apologize. I'm from the south. I'm not beach badges up here I believe. Right. So if I say tags just understand that just accept my apology from the outset but um we are basically

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the uh digital uh beach badge provider um in New Jersey right now app called my beach mobile. Um you know unfort I guess for better or worse you know your phone is a part of your life um in this day and age and even going to the beach. I think most people, you know, as the

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icons show, you know, if you're going to go to the beach, you're going to, you know, use your park mobile app to pay your parking. You're going to maybe listen to some music on Spotify, the Kindle. Um, and so the idea is that the beach badges should be just as convenient and accessible for people um

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going to the beach. So, next next slide, please. So, what we are um is a digital app and it's a proprietary app that allows users to use to buy and use um beach badges on their mobile device. Um they are much

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obviously, you know, there are many advantages to them being the fact that they're digital and on your device. Um you can't lose them, you can't misplace them. If you're bringing your phone to the beach, which probably most people do, um you know, you're not going to forget them at home. um which is nice.

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Um so it's just really a very simplified process. Uh removes the ne necessity of like you know showing up in person and picking up your your badges and etc. So uh it's obviously environmental environmentally friendly. It's safe,

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convenient and secure and it just sort of simplifies the whole process. So next slide please. So, some of the benefits are, and we'll kind of go through, um, there's a video further along that shows how the app actually works, but a couple of the benefits are that it's fraud resistant.

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So, we have a system in place that I'll show you in a minute where the screen um, you know, prevents screen recordings and screenshots because obviously if you're using a QR code for something, one of the concerns a lot of towns have is can somebody just screen record this? Can somebody screenshot this and you

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know, send it to their friend? So we have a technology to prevent that. Um we are built for beaches. Um I don't know if everybody remembers Vipley. They were a company that was around for a while. They were an app. Um they were made more for like general admission and they sort of adapted that model to to beaches and

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you know they were pretty prevalent um up and down the coast here in New Jersey, but they weren't made for beaches. They sort of like shoehorned the towns and and beach badges into their existing app. We built this app specifically for the purposes of making beach badges digital and also

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facilitating the sale of physical tags, which I'll talk about in a moment. And the be the best benefit probably for everyone here is that it's no mutual cost. So it doesn't cost the town anything at all whatsoever. The way the app works is we charge a small fee uh on top of the cost that we transfer to the

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town for the for the t for the badges. Um, next slide, please. So presently we are in 10 uh beach towns. We started the business about seven years ago. So right around 2019. Um Long Beach Township was our first

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town. We've been in that town. This is I think our fourth season there. And we've slowly added uh towns along the way. I think the most recent town is Brigantine which just signed on this year. Um but we have you know obviously you know pretty good track record. We've been in

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business for seven years and it did take us a while to get our first talent. So, we've had business um for about this is our fourth season going to now. Next slide, please. And so, here are some of our I was talking about anti-fraud and security

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measures. Uh the one uh measure that we use is is an IME detection system and that basically prevents users from sharing their login credentials which I think Netflix had the issue with that. Basically what it does is the app will record the IMEI uh number from the

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device you log in on and then it you are allowed to log in on a separate device if for example you get a new phone. Um, but what happens is the original device gets locked within the database. And so you can't, you know, if you share your credentials to a different device that's permitted, but you can't then log back

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in on the original device. So it's a little uh, you know, a little bit of a piece of mind that you're not going to get people sharing tags, I'm sorry, badges um, you know, by just sharing your live credential. So it's another sort of fraud prevention. Um, we have uh, we use what's called Strike, which

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is our back-end payment processing service. the biggest in the world. We don't actually handle the funds. We pass all the information from the app through Stripe's third party API. Stripe then takes the transaction. Um, you know, if the town decides to sign up, you would

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have a bank account through Stripe. You would have a backend portal that you can access. You can see all the data in real time and Stripe will route that money to your account and then route route our fee to our account and we never touch your money. We don't have access to it and you know, you can see everything

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happening on the back end. So, it's kind of a trustless system backed up by Stripe as I mentioned is the biggest uh uh payment processor in the world. Um the dynamic inapp verification I talked about before and we'll look at that in a minute. um basically prevent

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screenshots. And so unlike um like a web-based platform where you can just screenshot where you can, you know, it's forward an email, you know, this is a much more complicated and complex system to to designed to, you know, keep everybody honest and prevent, you know,

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people from trying to get around the system. Next slide, please. Some of the features are that it is offline capable. Um, you do need internet to buy your beach badges, but once you have them on your phone, you don't need uh internet to use them. So,

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it's designed to work even if there's not available at the time of use. Um, we have an animated uh QR code, which we're going to look at in a minute, which is part of the, you know, prevention of doing screenshots.

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And, uh, we offer full training and support. And so when we sign a town on, we will show up either in person or over Zoom. We can train your beach badge um checkers so they understand, you know, how the app works and what they should be looking for. It's very simple, but we obviously are, you know, around the

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local. We're all from South Jersey, but you know, we're not, you know, in some other country. We're here. We're, you know, here to help and and offer support as we go forward. Um, as I mentioned, this is uh built for beaches. It was founded by people in right here in New Jersey. Next slide, please.

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All right. So, this is actually showing the beach h beach badge screen. Um, so you can see that you're able to have multiple um badges on uh one device. In this example, there's two, you can have four, and you just swipe back and forth

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between them. It's a QR code, and the button at the bottom says hold to annotate. And so when you're showing your QR code to the beach badge checker, you just hold that button down and you'll notice that there's an animation that occurs as it goes uh over the actual QR code. Again, that prevents people from screen recording or screen

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sharing because it has to interact u based upon the button press. Um the QR code is scannable. There is a scanning feature in the app. So if you have another phone, you can scan that. It'll query the database and then say whether or not the pass is valid. However, it's not really necessary because of the fact

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that if they can get to this screen and show a QR code within the app and it responds when you press the button, that's evidence in and of itself um that the pass is valid. Okay. Uh next slide, please. So, the app also has the capability to

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do transferring of beach badges. And some towns like this and other towns don't like this. Some towns take the position that their beach badges are not transferable even though you can, you know, just hand a piece of glass to somebody else. So, we we built the app to be like a an actual beach badge. So,

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we figured if beach badges can be handed out, you should be able to buy, you know, six of them on your device and two to your kids, one to your wife. And the way it works is, uh, it does not allow two people to access the same badge at the same time. So once you transfer that

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badge to somebody else, it's no longer accessible with under your account. It'll indicate it'll show in your account as being transferred, which is that middle tab on top. It's a little hard to see, but um you won't be able to actually access the QR code. The person that you send it to will get an email.

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They'll click on the link in the email and then they'll be brought either bring up the app if they have it. brought to the either Apple or Google store and they'll download the app and then those badges will be on their device for the duration of the share and we can um select a different length of time for

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the share. So if you have a seasonal and again this is all configurable and subject to whatever the tenant you know desires but if you have a seasonal tag sorry badge you can uh send it for like say a week to you know your friend who's right who's using your shore house or somebody's running your shore house or

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whatever you can transfer them you can set an end date and then once that end date expires the badge will come back to your account and it will no longer be available on their account and then could you just I think there's a play button over the phone if you could Just move up. Move the arrow up and hit the

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play button. Shell Lia. There we go. Uh, go up. Hit that play button for me. No, go back to the last slide. Sorry. Uh, then go up to the actual QR code on the device. There we go. Yeah. So, this is the share

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screen. So, it goes kind of fast. I apologize. But basically, you know, you walk through, you click, you click in which tag you want to share, you put the start date and the end date, you enter the email address, you click transfer, and it's done. You get a popup. It does warn you, look, if you transfer this,

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it's going to be unavailable for the duration that you select, but then it goes to the other person's device. So, it's pretty simple. It's a few fields you fill out. You click transfer, and it's pretty much done. Uh, next slide, please. Okay. So, I also mentioned that we can

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um you know, we veter 100% digital. We've had some towns that do that. We don't have to be 100% digital. People still like to get their you know, plasticy tags and some people collect those and everything. So we um can we don't have to supplant the

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existing system. We can be a complement to that system just to give people who want to use the app an opportunity to do so but not you know therefore removing somebody else's who wants to use you know wants to buy a physical uh beach badge and we can actually facilitate the sale of beach badges in the app of

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physical beach badges and the way that works is as you can see on the screen here um you'll buy them in the app and then there's a drop down do you want a digital or do you want a physical you select physical you there'll be a popup that says you're buying a physical beach badge, you have to pick it up and you

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know the location where it has to be and then when they go to the pickup location, so they'll come in to pick up their tag, it'll show this screen. Um it basically the message there basically says don't press the activate button until you're ready to pick up. So if you've ever used like a a coupon at

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Wawwa where you click on the coupon in the app and you have like a certain amount of time to use it, this is the same situation. So basically once you're at the pickup location, you'll just show the person who is giving out the beach badges, you know, the screen, you'll click the button that says I am at the

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pickup location. You'll click the activate button and that will confirm and then you'll see a QR code which will be animated. Um, you know, confirming that and that this is in fact a valid beach purchase. You can see in this example there's two. There can be as many and you'll swipe between them just

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like you would with a QR code. Um, so basically we call this a live receipt and like I said, it's basically a way to verify that somebody has purchased a physical tag. Once they click that activate button, the thing goes away. They don't have it on the phone anymore. They get the badges and then they leave

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and that's it. Um, obviously on the back end database and Stripe, you'll see uh the records associated with it, so it's all still there, but they won't be able to come in the next day with the same thing and use it again. It's a one it's a one time use case. Um, next slide, please.

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So, obviously, you know, there's a couple benefits. Um, we can do different badge types. Um, we can customize the prices and the rules in terms of like the transfer feature I mentioned. Some towns don't want it, some towns do, some towns want limitations on how long

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certain badges can be transferred for, etc. So, we can work with the town on that. We do it all time. Um it's a very simple system in terms of like inventorying. It's much simpler and especially if they're digital than what we've seen in towns that we are in right now and how those um accountings are set

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up, you know, sort of on the back end. And again, as I mentioned, there's no cost. So, it all comes down to the user paying the fee. Um and it doesn't cost anything. Uh beachgoers like it because it's convenient. Uh the pricing is transparent. We have, you know,

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real-time customer service. Um, and it expands the options. So, there are people like me who I want to I'm the kind of person I grew up, you know, with a phone. I always want to do everything on my phone, you know, but I understand there's people who maybe they still want their their actual physical badge and they can still either use the app to buy

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that or you can still offer them via whatever the existing system is and discount to a lot of them. And uh so we so if you sign up you know we'll basically have a meeting with usually it's the administrator and the um finance officer and you know we'll set

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up the back end um we'll go over the whole system and how it works. It's very very secure. We have, like I said, on-site support. Um, and we can help you with some marketing to try to increase. I mean, obviously our benefits are aligned with yours. So, our motivations are aligned with yours because we want

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to sell as many tags, sorry, badges as possible and you do as well, right? So, the more sort of cross marketing we can do, the better. We have a pretty well established Facebook and some social media pages and we, you know, posting those regular try to, you know, encourage people to use the app, but also just generally buy, um, you know,

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the beach badges. Uh, next slide, please. So, basically what sets us apart, you know, we're we're at this point the only app that um does beach tags uh beach matter sorry in New Jersey. It's the most secure app on the market. Um, we

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have all as I went over all the fraud and security features and everything works offline. We can customize it for you. We have very responsive customer service as Carolina I understand you've had many interactions there. which is great. >> Um, and we've been in business for six years and we've been developing and

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improving the app along the way. We obviously update it frequently, so that's a good thing. Um, you know, so and we're local, so we're in New Jersey and, um, I guess last slide, please. Um, so join us in revolutionizing the She said Carol put this together. She

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said beach tag. I would put that, but anyway. Um, I try to call them passes because that's like neutral. >> But, uh, that's that's the presentation. So, does anyone have any questions or is I can answer for anybody? Yep. >> So, um, you I'm sorry. >> No, go ahead. >> You mentioned there's a fee. So,

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basically anyone who purchases will pay a credit card fee, which now is pretty much standard for anything you purchase as well as a a fee for What is your fee? >> Yeah. So, it depends on how much the tag I'm sorry, the beach badge costs.

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Basically, we pay um 2.9% plus 30 cents for every transaction that Stripe processes for us. So, we pass that along to the customer and then we add a fee on top of that. And our fee and I don't know off top of my head, but I can send we have I can send to Matt the fee schedule. We just changed it this season

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and it's the same thing. It's a flat um it's a percentage and then a flat um amount. I want to say it's actually the same. It's 2.9% plus 30 cents, but I'm not 100% sure than that. But we can $14 daily pass. >> So on a U Well,

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>> we would be putting it now on the beachgoers to pay the fee along with the credit card fee for >> Yeah. Well, our fee So the fee we charge is inclusive of the credit card fee, you know, but you know, so basically we're taking part of that paying strike the process and then we're keeping part of

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it. So it all comes out of our fee basically, but yes, it's being paid by the by >> only one generally one fee. It's not uh your fee plus a credit card fee. Because the law jury says you have to separate it for people if you're charging a credit. We do separate it so

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they can see exactly we're paying you know this amount of third party processing fees is how it's displayed and then we have our fee under that but it's you know but basically it's one fee to use the app. It's just broken down separate and I can tell you what that would be. I'm just going to bring up the app right

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now. >> And I do have a second question for you. >> Yep. Uh let me just All right. Let me just do a uh we'll do a glory. >> Uh so that's a 10. So a $10. So on a $10 and this because I'm using

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Morgan >> um it's my beach mobile fee is 73 cents and then the third party fees are 63 cent. So the total is $1.36. So it's a the total fee is $136 >> right for one pass. >> Yes. Right. Um, so the other question I had is, um, when someone goes to the

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beach with their purchased electronic pass, Yeah. >> Um, it's a QR code that they show to the badge checker, >> correct? Yep. >> And so then the badge checker needs a device of some sort. >> No. um they are scannable and basically that's in in the event there's any

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question it's sort of like a backup but when you have it on your phone basically there's a the QR code will pop up and they'll hold the button down that says hold to animate and that will cause like a line to go down and animate the QR code and so once they show that they're

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in the app and it's responding to the touch input on the phone it proves that the pass is valid because they can't get to that screen to show that unless so other words if you buy have a beach badge for tomorrow and it's today. If you go to the beach, you can't access it. You can only access it tomorrow and

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then after tomorrow it goes away. Same thing for weeklies. Obviously, seasonals are good the whole time. But basically, as long as they can show that QR code and show it animate when they press that button, that's a self authenticating feature of the app and that proves that it's a valid it's valid. >> And we charge different rates. Oh, no. I

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guess we only for seasonal for for seniors. And um when we have different rates, does that also is that somehow identified because now you can also share whereas with a with a beach badge, you can see a senior tag versus a an adult tag, there's a difference in

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color. Yeah. You know, >> Yeah. So they'll they will be indicated on the device and Margate sells um and Vetner does a couple beaches. They sell um senior tags. And in terms of the physical ones, if you're buying a physical one, you have to pick up, we

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just have it pop up in the app that says you have to present photo ID at the time of pickup to make sure that you're a senior then you get it. There's a digital one. They look different in the app, but there's, you know, a lot of people are bringing their ID to the beach. So, it's kind of a little bit more of a tricky situation with the

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digital uh badge than it is with the physical one. But Bargate has been doing it and it hasn't, you know, caused any issues. So, so if I wanted to jump the system and buy all senior badges, let's say, and I'm not of a of senior age, then I want to share them with other people,

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the beach badge checker would not really know if it was a senior badge or not. >> No, they would know because it would be different within the app, just like it would be different if it was a physical, right? But it's up to the checker at that point to determine the agent or the person trying to use it just like it is present. >> Yeah. >> Other questions?

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>> Those were my questions. I just in general I mean it's somewhat obvious but your experience of your customers so far what has been their savings and benefit to them for going to the system. >> Um I mean I can't really 100% speak to

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that but I could say that it's the just the convenience of having we so we've done we've been in business for like I said we're starting on I think our fourth season. So we have three seasons. We've done like $1.7 million in the app so far across. So people like the app

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and they want to use it. We have good reviews on Apple and Google Play. I you know it's a great question and unfortunately we don't have um like we don't have a good method of getting user feedback. I wish I could answer it more specifically. >> You should you should ask your customers

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for that feedback because you know the obvious one are you know our front window doesn't have to sit there and spell badges. >> Nobody down at the beach collecting fees and having cash in the window. >> Oh you mean for the for the towns? for the town. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you meant for the extra. >> Oh, no, no, no. The town.

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>> Oh, sure. Well, yeah, that that's for the town. I mean, one of the biggest benefits is you don't have people on the beach with lots of money in their pockets and, you know, have to like a lot of towns do it differently how they account for money that's being sold, you know, for some some towns do badges like right on the beach. If you show up

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there, the checkers have them and it's cash and here you go and then they have to somehow account for that on the back end. With our app, everything is digital, right? It all goes through the back end. So there's really no um it's really not an issue. We don't need any armored cards like taking from the same

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style to do this. >> Yeah, sure. It's and it's also free. I mean there's just no cost. It's just and it doesn't have to replace the existing system. I think that's important because a lot of people are just resistant to digital anything at this point. I totally understand that and they want to but this is not about replacing the

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existing system. This is just offering people to come to your beach another option if they would, you know. and then the accounting of it all. Of course, you get all the reports directly from >> directly from Stripe. So, um we'll so if you sign up, you'll we will go over it with you, but you'll sign up through

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Stripe's website. You'll put in the uh bank account information where you want the funds sent to. There's obviously a lot of other information they gather. Then you'll have your own password and your own username and everything. And we don't even have access to that. And so that'll show you on there and you can export all the data. spread, you know,

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Excel spreadsheets or, you know, accountants or badge checkers or sales people are walking, you know, with with bags of coins and stuff. >> Yeah. Yeah. No, this this illuminates that. So, >> and just give you an idea, Councilman, I distinctly remember last year we had a

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great weekend and we had a bag of cash of $72,000, >> right? >> But the chief ar all that has to be accounting for. So, so it does help on the finance side. It makes accountants much happier to have a system like this. It makes CFOs much

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happier, auditors much happier and also talking with the municipalities, particular vendor, you know, where they see a cost savings. It's not huge, but there's a cost savings. Now, you don't need to buy the badges. You don't need to buy the maybe do wristbands for dailies, things like that. You don't have to buy any of that. So there there's a savings in in the the physical

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things that we need to purchase now that every town has been purchasing for decades. It all started here. Um and and this eliminates all that. Um I will also tell you uh procurement wise and I explained to them that we would have to go out to through the proper procurement

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channels for something like this. Um, but one thing that if the council would be interested in, one thing I thought we could do for this summer was a little pilot and just see how it works. Um, see how people feel about it. Um, you know, see how our beach bench checkers are at

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looking at the the the animated screen. Um, but you know, if you go to any movie concert, it's all on your phone. Everything is is on your phone nowadays. Sharing it is easy. And again, we could, you know, policy decision by the council. Should we allow people to share? Should we not allow people to

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share? They can turn that on or turn it off depending on whatever the policy decision of the council and the mayors. >> And you could actually just use it for daily badges and not >> you do just daily badges. >> Yeah, we're happy to do. We used to offer that before we had Long Beach

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Township. Uh, you know, they were the first ones to sign up. So we were always like very grateful to them because it was very hard to get found when you didn't have any talents you know existing customers uh but we always offered that you know do a limited pilot program if you want to limit it to like thousand badges or whatever um we can

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definitely do that you know we just turn it off after that the number of badges gets reached and you know everybody can make sure that you know get their feet wet and see how they like it and then there's obviously no obligation um you know so that's nothing we consider but we think and you can reach out to the other towns Um, you know, I think they

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they have good things to say about us. So, we haven't we don't really get a lot of complaints. We get some inquiries, but we don't really get complaints. So, and then and the app is in, you know, going on the fourth season now. We've never had an issue like a technical glitch within the app. We could, you know, something, you know, catastrophic

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happened. It just doesn't happen. It's done a lot of business. It's held up well and it's and it's been flawless. But um yeah, so it's set out very well and it's been it's been working great and it's sitting right in robust system. So >> So are there other questions from the console? >> Just one more. So if someone shows up

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and they say I want to get on the beach for today. Oh, you have to go all the way down to the the you know this the can buy it right there and then be like I'm ready to go. >> Yes. Y >> okay. >> You know I I envision it a lot more for the daily badges, >> right?

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>> Um that's funny. I was talking to Matt about uh you know because there are people who like the physical badge like the annual badges there we know so many people who collect them so we could actually offer like a package like get a digital and by the way you'll get a uh a

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physical badge as well. My one question um would be in the enforcement side. Right now we have certainly going through the gate is the same whether or not somebody's looking for something on your wrist or you're holding them. You're just holding it on your phone. Um

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I also think that more people forget their badges as they tie them to their backpack when they go to the bathroom because everybody's taking their phone with them to the bathroom. They always have them. >> But on the beach um as people uh like our uh seasonal

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officers are walking and they're just checking things out. Yeah, I see that person has a daily badge. They they won't be able to see that >> because there's not going to be something physical >> like physical on them. Fortunately, yeah, that's a reality. They have to bring up their phone. Now, again, you can't have multiple, you know, badges on

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your phone. So, it's a quick, you know, swipe through and they see five and they swipe through five and they're gone. So, you know, that is an issue. Um, you know, in terms of that is a benefit of the physical tags that badges that we, you know, unfortunately you have to bring up the phone. But you know it's not as Matt was saying like you go to

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new movies you go to Eagles game or sorry maybe China >> whatever your state of J whatever your you know and you know this is what I think everybody's kind of used to it by now um >> and you know so and so the way this whole idea came out is I was on I had

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two they're it's kind of weird to say they're 12 and 15 now but at one point my two boys were little and I think my youngest one was like three years old the way I took them to Ocean City and we have beach baggage, we call them, tags, and I bring them and I forgot to bring them and it was just me and my wife had a headache or whatever. She stayed home

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and I get there and I get set up and I get the blanket out, all the toys and stuff. And I see the checkers and I'm like, "Oh my god, no." I'm like, "I have to pack them all." We had gone a while. We had our stuff like ready to go. And so I thought I should be able just buy this on my phone. Instead, I put my head down feel like I was sleeping and I

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think that the checkers like took penny off me because they felt bad for me and just walked by, you know. But I look, I would have bought them if I could have, you know, I but I couldn't because I needed cash. I had no cash on me and I, you know, obviously not have to go back to WA and get and get money out of the ATM, which when you have two kids that

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is not very ideal. So, it's just really meant to be more convenient. Um, and again, at no cost uh to the to the town and I think it's, you know, a very big benefit for the for the end user and I think it certainly justifies, you know, the sort of nominal cost

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>> and also it's part of the trend to get away from from cash. So, you know, last year we instituted Park Mobile for maybe 100% of the beachfront. Um, that had a couple hiccups here and there, but overall, right, Chief, um, there was it

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was easy enough to enforce and people by and large were compliant because it's something that they do in other beach towns as well. Um, you know, we're not the only beach town to have something like this and I think, you know, this is going to be more and more of the the trend going forward and it just helps us

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again move away from the bags of $72,000 in cash and just in the process for that, you know, the police have to get involved and they bring it here and we count it and we get back to the police and then they have to go to the bank and deposit it. It's just a a very arcane

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way of of managing the the town's finances. So, any I have questions, but any other questions from the council? No. >> Um, couple quick questions. Sure. One, I I know you kind of put yourself on the spot when you were calculating the the charges, but just the quick math as as I

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want to make sure I understood it. $10 badge. You had a$136 addition. That sounds like a lot more than 2.9% plus 30 cents. I was just wondering, does your phone tell you how that breaks down? Cuz >> I know it would have been more like We're looking at the app and it just has

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a line item for each of them. Uh >> what's the 2.9%. >> It includes a credit card fee, right? >> Yeah. >> I have I have my readers back. >> It's uh Yeah. So $10. So our fee is 73 cents. So

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>> plus it's more than 30 cents. You were saying 2.9 plus 30. I thought >> 2.9% on transaction plus 30 cents is what we pay for. So that would be the 63 cents because that's what the third party processing fees are and then ours is 73 cents. So ours is slightly more in

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the regulation. Yeah, I I could send to Matt. We can send in the whole schedule. We'll break it down. I'm sure exactly what it is. I just don't know off top of my head. Unfortunately, we we have changed them. Um, and this is like the late before it was a whole much more complicated system whereas based upon the amount it was a certain percentage

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obviously a higher percentage on a lower but as you got higher in cost the percent go down because you know you're not going to charge like 20% on a $10 transaction is $2 but you want to charge more% on a 100 transaction. So we we tried to figure out a way to make it so

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that it's more of a sliding scale. Uh, I mean I I think all of us I think I can say unanimously we'd love to move away from cash. Yeah. The more we can the better. We also have residents especially seniors who will never move away from cash. So I imagine we're more

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of a candidate to have some sort of a you know hybrid >> yeah hybrid approach. >> But um so so a lot of what you're saying is very appealing to me. you haven't mentioned it, but I presume um this also really helps folks who have lost their

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season badges. Now, it's easy to identify yourself that I don't know if they lost their phone or something, they can re recapture that via, >> you know, whatever's on the uh >> yeah, they could just log in on their new phone and they'll have access to all

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the existing. But it is a good point because I can another personal like anecdote for me but uh you know my father-in-law rents a house down Ocean City for a week and it comes with beach tag beach tags and then you know people were sharing the house but took them home by accident had to drive all the

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way back down to drop them back off you know. So this this would eliminate that as well. I think I think the thing that I'm personally going to want to understand better are the additional fees because >> right now it's it's it's more than a 10% bump. It's like a 13 14% bump over to

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$10. >> Got from 10 to 1136. >> Well, it's 11. It's basically 11% because it went from 10 right to 1136. >> But keep in mind part of that is because there's that initial 30 cent bump which is going to hit a >> No, I understood. Yeah, >> I understood. And even with the the

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typical 30 cents, 29 cents, whatever it is on a $10 batch that you've got for a credit card, you know, everybody that's using a credit card is going to pay that. >> Yeah. >> It's it's your additional fees I like to better understand because if again, if your additional fees are roughly 10%. In

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in our world, that's close to $20,000 because we have almost 200,000 of beach badge sales total, right? Whereas our badges cost us a c a couple of thousand. >> Yeah. >> So I I just need to do that math to make sure we're not passing too much on to the consumer.

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>> Yeah. I I will send that information to Matt. I will I just put in Forb. So at $40, our fee is $26. The third party fees are $1.56. So it's roughly, you know, 4362. So it's $362 on the total on a $40 transaction. So we

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could probably get Matt we can work with these guys to just get >> that's Yeah. Yeah. That's not it. It's it's just something I thought. Like I said I think it's this must be very close to the 2.9% plus 30 cents because that's because remember

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for them and for the the u what do you call the credit card penalty is per transaction. It's not per badge. So you like you mentioned you buy four or six batteries the percentage goes down because it's a sum. Yeah, because of those the initial do the initial

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transaction cost that's tied to that 30 cents, you know, that's a much bigger deal if it's a, you know, a dollar transaction if it's a $40 transaction. >> The final question I have, you you mentioned you automatically transfer the funds to a a beach bank account that the Burlington have established.

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>> Yeah. >> Right. >> Well, Stripe, our payment processor does that. You know, directly. >> Do you know working through Stripe? Are are you also able to feed financial reporting systems? Like in our case, we use Edmmonds. A lot of municipalities

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happen to use Edmonds, but do you know is there some sort of a automatic transfer to to the financial reporting system of the activity? >> I know that you can download spreadsheets. You talk about the data, not like

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>> Yeah. you if we had, you know, $10,000 of badge sales that day >> and the money shows up in our bank account reconcile. >> But is there an electronic feed to our or can we create an electronic feed to our financial reporting system?

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>> Yeah, the answer is yes. There they have APIs for that and so does strength. So it's just some somebody who's technical who understands the API connections to be able to transfer that information. for sure. So that's fantast.

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And you are you're only badges. For example, we also have a current vendor who handles our badges also handles our beach lockers. If there were other activities of us selling, renting, you know, collecting money from beach

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related activities. Do you go beyond badges? >> You can. I mean, so right now we do the shovel in Long Beach Township. Long Beach Island shovel. Um they're all done through our app. And then we've also done uh like boat ramps. Um we've done

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uh yeah, we've done a couple other things like that. We don't get a lot of uh revenue from that. You know, they're not really used very frequently for those things. The the shuttle actually does get used a lot, but it's a very cheap shuttle, so it doesn't you know, it's not a big terms of like the dollars. It's not very significant, but

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a lot of transactions. Yeah, we could we could we could definitely talk about that and see if we could incorporate. Yeah, it's not a problem. >> So, as as Mr. Dohy said, we we'll consider this a little further. We may look into a pilot. Yeah. In the course of the summer >> and if we do anything more formally,

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we'd have to do an RFP. But thank you very much for your time tonight. >> Oh, thank you. I appreciate this time. >> Thank you. I'll be in touch. That's good. >> Go mask. >> All right. Moving to uh the next item on

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our agenda are workshops item six and Mr. Ben Bennett Matlac will be presenting second Zoom in a little bit on this piece. Ben, as you set this up, do you know if

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u folks on Zoom will be able to see the Yeah, he's sharing it. Perfect. Thanks. Okay. >> So, that was very exciting and hopefully this one will be just as exciting driving the police uh uh

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oath. Um but uh we're here to talk about the burough's municipal public access plan. Um it's a plan that is required for every municipality in in New Jersey. Uh it it provides a a plan that that

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determines access to all public facilities. Uh in the Burough's case, you have parks, the beach, your lakes. Um and and this plan describes uh how they are accessed. Um, and it needs to be updated every 5 years. The last one

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was updated in 2019. So, the uh D is the uh entity that reviews these plans. They asked that it be updated. So, we're here to uh talk about that. One of the requirements is to have a public hearing. So, we're here to discuss this.

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And uh I'm going to pass it over to Austin Bazoo from my office uh who prepared the the update. uh he's going to go over a couple of things that that we changed uh and uh some of the proposed improvements that that are coming in the the future. And uh Austin,

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we'll take it away. >> Good evening everyone. My name's Austin Souk. Um so as Matt as Ben described, uh this gives an overview of the public access to primarily the Burough's Beach. Um it

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details each access point in the burrow and some of the amenity amenities that uh are provided at each access point. Your ADA accessibility, your moy mats, showers, restrooms. Um so what we did this so yes has a MPAP currently which

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as Ben said requires to be updated every 5 years. uh this update um the the reason for the updates is because the uh the cult zone management rules that the D has out um

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requires compliance with the MPAP when they issue permits. So for example, your beach work uh most of the time you'll require like a caffer permit um and that they won't issue that unless you're in compliance with the municipal public access plan. Uh so a big um part of this

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update is to capture in future improvements that may need a permit um so that way when the state does get up get up to reviewing that you're already in compliance with your municipal gas.

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Um so some of the uh updates we provided were uh new GIS 8 and 1 half by 11 maps. Um, previously they were, you know, a little uh not full page. Um, so with this we added, we went through and we

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added all the moi mats, uh, your new ramps, stairs, uh, showers along the waterfront. Um, as well as your handicap parking along the waterfront. Um,

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another portion of this update is to try and figure out uh is to determine the community needs. Are there needs for more public access to the beachfront? Are there ways to improve your public access to the beachfront? Um, so we did a little bit of analysis. Uh, since the burrow is only about a mile in length,

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the the access points are sufficient. You know, there's 12 physical access points to the beach. um more to the prominade along the along party. I think there's 14 or 15 directed to the uh to the promin um which you know also

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provide access to the beach but not physically to send. So this map shows the 12 physical access points directly to the beach. Um and then there's a couple there's a couple other maps that uh we made. This

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is the most detailed map. So that's why we're going to show this one. Um, but we did prepare, you know, an overview map showing your title title waters being the Atlantic Ocean. Uh, and the the lakes that uh are on the north and south of the burrow.

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Um, and then a green map which shows all the the green acres property in the townships in the burrow that's on the roy. Um, other than the map, uh, we did some improve some of the language in the document itself to more align with the

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coastal zone management rules and the state's outline of beach management plans. I'm sorry, public municipal public access plans. Um, so there's some language updates. Uh, this year actually the state uh adopted

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a new set of coastal regulations. Um, so that was another part of this update. Um, and then, uh, yeah, that that's pretty much it for the document. And then we also, uh, so we also added in, uh, we had a meeting with

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Matt, then the mayor and Paul, um, to discuss some of the future improvements that we're going to include in this uh, in this update. Um, so those were also added to it. that includes the uh Silven Lake and Bradley Boulevard

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improvements, um road improvement programs, new AA uh drop offs, uh for the beach, uh restrooms, uh improvements at the rec center. Um

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and basically the reason for as I mentioned before including all these updates is that in the future when these do finally start moving forward and you do need permits uh from the state that you're already in compliance with India with the rules and MPF um

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to give you another example for uh we included the Southern Lake improvements project because that will that potentially alter the boulevard. you want to change your parking and that change your access to the beach because now you know you have more parking spaces or less parking spaces for the improvements. So that's really the the

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goal of adding these updates. Um, as Ben said, these are required to be updated every five years. Um, account for any anything additional the B wants to do for updates on the projects that were in the previous version just so the state uh is able to

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keep track and make sure that everything. Um, we also included the promot extension. Um, so that that permit of actually just got yesterday. Um,

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perfectly fine with the PAP and there's no issues. Um, that's all I got on the actual updates. If you guys have any questions or comments, questions or comments? >> Um, actually just one uh board for um I

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know it talks about um uh handicap access. Um does it need to specify the number of handicapped parking? >> Uh no no. So right now we show um

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uh handicap parking in the street in the general vicinity of the handcuffs. We don't have to tell them how many okay how many actual spots there are. >> Um >> what about the bathrooms? Do they need to be any certified? up. So there's no like requirement um on the state level.

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If the you know burrow wants to add more restrooms then that's something that we would incorporate into the plan. That way you know when you get to building the restroom on beach you're in compliance regulations. So right now we have all the restrooms that are existing on the the waterfront are shown.

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>> Also isn't the new uh restroom that is the old pump station that we are currently u converting. >> Yes. Is it as a new um facility? >> Yep. So, that's also included on there. Um it's not it's not one of the uh

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it's not one of the callouts because it doesn't give you direct access to beach. Uh but there is uh we do have an icon there for the the restrooms that are >> and there and we we have a description about it. There's a a whole written

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report about um that makes up the public access plan. uh and we describe the new uh restroom facility concession stamp in that report. >> What about the ADA compliance um related to the rec center to access the rec

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center? >> So we we include that um as well. But uh this document really focuses primarily on track us. But we as Ben said about the restroom, we did include the rec center in in the document as well and a

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little description on what improvements we'll have at the rec center make sure that um just to capture all public access in the world. >> So when this goes to the DE do they typically start to challenge or question some of the added elements um that have

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been you know for instance the uh removal of parking on Bradley Boulevard. So they'll have a chance to review and comment on it. I I don't know if they argue about it because at the end of the day um you know the DV is going to review it but the borrows back to

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software u and so so does the state. So, it's uh I don't think there's going to be much push back on proposed improvements, but there there is the opportunity for the state to come on. And one of the things that we we did

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include in in the report is that while uh the burrow wants to remove parking along Bradley Boulevard, it offers the opportunity to increase public access to Silven Lake and connectivity between Main Street and

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Ocean Avenue by uh future improvements installing uh pedestrian walkway and bicycle lanes uh as well as uh striped crosswalks across cross Bradley Boulevard because right now the only protected crosswalks are at Main Street

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and and at uh at the end of uh Bradley Boulevard where it meets Evergreen. So if you're coming from anywhere in the middle of the burrow to try and get to Silven Lake, there's nowhere for you to cross the street. >> So you're getting one away and you're adding some other elements and there's a balance of

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>> evaluating. >> Yes. Questions? >> Good. What's the uh time frame on this review? When's it being submitted and what is that schedule? >> Um so now that we've had the public

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meeting, we can uh wrap up the final draft. Uh we should be able to submit it next week. Um DP's review is probably like 30 to 60 days. I don't think there is a set review for like a statuto review clock.

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Um I'd have to look into that and see if there is actually. So, uh, as soon as the, you know, D gives their okay, then it has to be signed by the bureau and the DP and finalized with the resolution. >> Yeah, I know that we're, I'm just off the top of my head, we are looking at

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um, putting in additional uh, ADA ramps accessing the beach in the future. I know we permitted uh, two or three locations when we were submitted for our CAP permit. And so those are also denoted as f future improvements to increase our ADA um accessibility to the

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beach. >> Correct. >> Okay. Excellent. Thank you. >> Actually, one more. You had mentioned that the last one was done in 2019 and that the D came to us and said, "Hello, you guys didn't." >> Yeah, correct. It was a little late. So,

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um I guess next time we should have like a reminder in the calendar that goes off. So instead of being pinged by the DE to be proactive and get that done, >> you definitely will. >> Okay. >> Because that could because that could jeopardize a permit. I know when we submitted for the caffer permit for the prominade extensions, you actually went

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and said, hey, we don't have this yet updated. Will this impact us getting the caffer permit for the prominade extension? And the response came back, no, it wouldn't, but please get that submitted as soon as possible. So um so we we got it passed. Thank you D on that

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one. um so that we're not holding up um you know the progress on we've had so much interaction with the New Jersey DP and related agencies that anything that we had overlooked as a council there's no way we're going to

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get by additional scrutiny. So it's it's a obviously a good thing and it's a good thing that we're making progress on a lot of fronts. My only question and I think Councilman Noiki's question might have answered it. I was struck by fall of a handicap balloons all the way up

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the line. Is that referencing a handicap ramp? >> What are the blues? >> Yeah. So, it's uh I'm going to scroll down to show our uh our wedding.

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>> But yeah, it's handicap ramps, um parking, the moy mats. Uh those are the three handicaps. But the blue symbol is the actual >> the yellow ones are the handicap ramps to the beach. >> So So

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again, questions just about I just want to make sure we're reporting it correctly. We don't have ramps currently at at every beach front and in fact we don't necessarily need them at a couple. On the other hand, as Councilman you just mentioned, we're planning to add three

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towards the end of the summer, maybe right after the summer. Sounds like you have captured those three additional ramps. >> Yes. Yeah. The three additional you've captured. >> But now you did also mention as m as councilman Clark just said the moy mats right as as we are speaking we have

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three beach fronts that have uh 10 foot wide moby mats. Are are are you cap capturing 10 foot wide as being the denotation of handicap or if we just have a 4 foot wide movie mat are you calling that handicap also?

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>> So I have all that's >> well any moi mat is yeah >> handicap. Okay >> differentiating between the 10 and four. Yeah, >> I I just knew that right now we have gaps in terms of handicap access, but the Blues wheelchairs led me to believe,

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you know, that >> we have probably more than we do at the moment, but we're we're gaining on that. >> The blue wheelchair are handicapped parking, >> right? So, the blue says handicap parking. The one that's half blue, half

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yellow is handicapped access ramps. And the one that has like the sort of italicized um wheelchair is Moby Mat Beach Access. >> And they all have the Moby Mat Beach Access. They all the ones that I see on

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there do. Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah, most of them do. I think there there's only a handful I've been. >> Okay. Thank you. This sounds like it's eons beyond where we were six or seven years ago. The good news is that Burrow's done a

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lot and the great news is you've captured all for us. So, thank you for for the work you've done. Uh, no other questions. Uh, Erica, let me ask you a question. Given that we needed to have a public hearing, is this sufficient the count? >> Yeah, I confirmed that with the with

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Ben. >> Okay. And of course, anyone who does have questions, if you guys wouldn't mind sticking around for five more minutes when you're done. the if the public has any questions of these presentations, we can feel them. >> It says public hearing here, so you could just

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>> Yeah, we'll just do it as part of the >> whatever. Yes, >> questions on the agenda. We'll do it. >> Safe for the way we did it. >> All right. No other questions. >> So, shall we move on then to the second part of your presentation? >> Sure, we can. >> Thank you. We we can either do public

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questions now about this one now or or just wait till my next >> because we're going to open it up for any questions on the agenda. So, we'll do it all at one second. >> That's fine. >> My next one. >> Do you want us to post the um plan to show it off the website? You also

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publicly see it >> on the website? Sure. Yeah, that that'd be great. Thank you. >> Where does it where does it live? What category does it live on the website? These what we're referencing, >> where can people find it? >> Would it be by the meaning?

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>> That's a good question. >> I don't know. Where does it live? I don't know where it >> just like where would people find it when you reference that we're >> council meetings with you know whatever. >> Yeah, it's a good point.

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>> Okay. So, the next uh thing I'm here to talk about is uh a temporary pedestrian access coming out. I zoomed out too or want to be able to see uh the whole planet.

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>> Okay. Uh temporary uh pedestrian access plan for uh during construction of the cromod extension. Uh as Austin mentioned and as you know uh the burrow just recently received our D caffer permit for the

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prime extension. Uh Austin was very integral in that. Uh and we are uh currently out to bid uh for construction. So uh this this plan is going to be implemented uh over the

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summer. Uh due to the uh funding restrictions we have to get the the project done this year. So we are uh kind of stuck to to have construction during the summer. So in order to uh facilitate construction and also provide

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safe access uh to the beach uh for everyone, we've we've come up with a pedestrian access plan um shown here. So uh I guess the first thing I'll I'll show you is

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the existing cross-section of Ocean Avenue here. Uh it is uh about 66 feet wide I believe is is the number. Sorry it's a little little hard to see on on the graphic here but uh you've got two uh 13 ft traveled lanes and then you

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have 20 foot uh parallel parking lanes. You can just kind of see the your your typical cross-section there. During construction uh between the Second Avenue Grill and the existing prominade, uh we're going to technically narrow

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that that roadway. Uh the the traveled lanes where cars are driving, that will remain the same untouched. Still going to have two 13 foot wide lanes. What's going to happen is we're going to take uh the row of parking uh against the uh

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sidewalk and beach. um and use that as a pedestrian access way. Uh we'll have it protected with with chain link temporary chain length fence um for for people to to walk through. Uh 10 foot wide uh so

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they're protected from the traffic uh and they're contained so they're not going to be jumping out into traffic. Um, and we also leave a little buffer uh on both sides. A 4ft buffer between the fence and and the travel way where the

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cars are driving and then another 6ft buffer uh on the other side of the fence for uh construction to happen because they will be going all the way up to the and including the curb. Um, in the middle we're going to have uh

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construction gates uh access gates for trucks to enter in. And you we we're planning on having a construction entrance kind of in the middle of the site. Uh so when vehicles need to enter the site, the gates will open up and

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they'll actually basically block uh pedestrian traffic while trucks are entering. It's kind of like an additional safeguard. um to keep the the conflict between pedestrian uh traffic and construction

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traffic um you know from happening. Um, in order to construct this, uh, there are two, uh, sets of stairs. Uh, one right next to the Second Avenue Grill that will be in the construction zone.

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And there's a, it's not a stairs, but it's just kind of a walk-on um, entrance closer to uh, Third Avenue, also in the construction zone. So since we're we're taking those away temporarily during construction, we're uh constructing

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temporary staircases on the other side of Second Avenue Grill and then one temporary staircase at the at the uh existing prominade at Third Avenue. Um we we're also going to be providing

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uh signage for people uh get them used to it. uh that the bathroom building here is going to remain open during construction. Uh that the Second Avenue Grill is going to be re remain open. Uh so people on the beach that are are

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walking through these uh spots between the dunes, they know where to go and what's available to them. uh typically, and it's not shown in this aerial because this is during the winter, but uh you've got the beach

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lockers lined up along the dunes uh this whole way. So in the in the interim during construction, the beach lockers were going to be uh double stacked along closer to the the the road uh and the

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prominade between Second Avenue Grill and Evergreen and then also moved down towards uh Third Avenue um and towards that that temporary staircase so that the area where construction's happening, people aren't

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trying to get to their lockers. Um, you know, it kind of too close to that construction zone. I think I covered everything. >> Ben, where's the construction vehicle access again? Can you just point that out to everybody? >> Sure. So, this red box is is where

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construction is going to be taking place. And then this kind of lighter red color and it's it's got a a green shading in it. Uh, it might be a little difficult to see. showed up better on my computer screen. Um, this is the uh

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construction entrance in the middle. Um, typically, uh, when when public works is is trying to access the beach, they'll use Evergreen Avenue. So that that could be a a an access point if needed uh for

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um the contractor, but that's that'll get worked out with them during construction where uh this is the preferred access point. They may may decide they need to use this on occasion, but really the the uh the preferred access point is is in the

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middle in the construction site to keep, you know, traffic off of the beach um and and keep it contained in that that area. >> So So Beck, could you also speak to um one of our strategies when they did the outfall pipe coming off of Silven Lake

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that spills out into the ocean? >> Yeah. We had stockpiled all that jetty rock um to be used to armor the the prominade and so and that's all stacked up just south of Evergreen. >> Yes. >> So could you comment on what we're what

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the contractor is going to have to do to move that stone um during construction and during the beach season and how we're going to manage that? Yeah. So, it's it's just off the page here, but the Evergreen pump station is right here, and the jetty stone is piled up

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right here. So the contractor during construction once they they install the bulkhead that uh is going to be the extension for for the prominant here they're going to take this stone and bring it across the beach uh to this

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area so they can place it in front of the bulkhead as a a scour protection for that uh bulkhead. >> And that's going to be dug deep, right? I mean that's down >> Yes, it'll be down several feet. It'll have a minimum of three feet of sand on

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top of it. Uh so once the project's done, you will not see this jetty rock. Uh as a matter of fact, the entire prominade has jetty rock buried under the sand. Uh that was it was installed that way. Uh back in the early 90s, I

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believe was the uh original construction. Uh and I know that I've spoken to public works. They once in a while have encountered it when they're raping the beach. Uh but we're we're and they found it it should be about a foot deep. We're safeguarding a little bit

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more. We're going to bury it two feet deep. Uh so that it's it's not you're not going to see it, not going to encounter it. Um it's easier for maintenance. Uh so so that's that's the plan. Uh but yes, dur during construction uh

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probably couple week process to take all of the jetty rock that's stockpiled here and move it to to its final resting place there. Um and and that will that'll get worked out with the contractor with the police department. Uh the contractor is

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going to have going to be providing um you know kind of traffic control flagmen uh during that process to make sure that people trying to to enter or exit the beach are not going to be

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you know in conflict with these uh machines going across. Uh so that that that's uh part of part of the plan. So, does that um are the are the stones coming up to Ocean Avenue and back down or are they coming like on the west side of the

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>> It's it's yet to be determined by by the contractor. >> I presume there's no traffic on the east side of the >> correct. No traffic on the east side of the dunes. Everything from the dunes towards the the beach is going to be untouched. That is what you call the

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plant protection strip uh as defined by the state and your the beach management plan. Uh and all all the activities are behind the dunes between the the road and the dunes or potentially could uh

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could be accessed from the road as well. So, the ultimate vision of this extended prominade, if you're at third, the corner of Third Avenue, is it just going to continue straight basically up south to the Second Avenue Grill? Yes. And

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then is it going to turn back in? >> Yes. If you're >> north of the grill, >> if you're on Third Avenue here, you're going to be able to continue to walk in here uh on the promot here. And then yes, when you hit the the Second Avenue um crosswalk there, you're gonna come

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straight uh down again to uh Second Avenue to Ocean Avenue. >> So all of that then gets filled, right? >> Yes. And that is uh not part of this presentation. However, as part of the

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planning process with Burrow uh and and other projects, we have the Silken Lake uh project, the Bulkhead project that is on the agenda tonight for awarding the construction contract. The excess fill material from that project will be

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utilized to fill in this this area. Uh that soil has been tested, uh certified that it's it's clean material, uh and that will we'll be able to utilize that that um material there, saving the

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burrow a lot of money on both projects. You don't have to haul away that material and then you also don't have to purchase the material uh to fill this in. >> So there's enough to fill that entire space. >> Yes. >> At the elevation of the the

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>> at the elevation. Yes. So the the final uh prominade is going to be elevated up to the elevation of the existing prominade. It's about 14 ft above sea level. Um and the then the beach below

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it is is in the 9 to 10 foot range. And that this you know provides extra protection for the residents uh in this area from storm surge. Um, I'm sure you know that this area was was the hardest

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hit during Hurricane Sandy. Um, so this is a step in the direction of uh providing additional protection for uh the residents here. >> So beyond that, phase two will take that prominade starting in on the west side

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of the second avenue grill and then go back out once it continues south. So, we have have a a conceptual plan. We're we're discussing with uh uh Burrow of Avon to potentially run it all the way to the

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Avon boardwalk. Uh and that's in very preliminary stages right now, but that ultimately would be the goal to be able to connect the prominade to the Avon boardwalk. Uh so that you have a a continuous boardwalk all the way from Asbury Park down to Belmar.

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>> Thank you. which would which also would protect from you know ocean surges and flooding. >> Yes. >> Because that that is our weakest point >> along the burrow. >> Yeah. >> Ben, could you just um rec encapsulate the schedule? Where are we on this

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project right now? Permit bidding and and what does that look like and when could we expect that something would when will this happen? >> So right now the project is out for public bid. Uh we have a bid opening scheduled for May 29th. Uh we're

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anticipating being being able to award the contract at the June 4th uh council meeting. And from there, we'll work with the contractor, get his contracts executed, get him to starting materials,

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and we we could potentially start construction uh in late June or potentially right after the Fourth of July holiday. on this year. >> Then could you also speak to one it was referenced earlier but I want to make sure the public's aware the timing of

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when we actually receive D approval because we've been working this for months. >> Yes. >> And um what restrictions we need to deal with on an ongoing basis that are subject to that approval. >> Sure. So we submitted uh you know our

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application to the the D several months ago. uh we've been working with them uh as well as NJDCA who is is managing the the grant funding for this project. We have a boardwalk preservation grant um

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and we just received approval on uh yesterday. >> Uh we had had anticipated uh receiving approval. So, we had already put the project out for public bid um to to try and minimize any delays because we are

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under a time crunch to to get this project done. Um and the the permit uh um conditions uh did not give us any timing restrictions. Um,

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if you remember or familiar with the the uh Silven Lake flume replacement, that large pipe that is is replaced over the winter, they had very specific restrictions on when they could work because they were impacting the dunes. With this project, we're not touching

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the dunes at all. Uh and and that is a a condition of of our approval uh that we are uh in compliance with your beach management plan uh which says that you can't touch the dunes uh during summer

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months which we will not be. Uh and then also what what they required is um a survey of of species of plants and animals to make sure that uh the construction does not impact any uh

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active plants or animals that that could could be uh protected under the beach uh management plan. So we are have already begun that process to conduct get a survey conducted. Um we're talking to uh

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some consultants to who who specialize in that. Uh we're talking to some experts in in the industry uh to make sure that uh any if if we do encounter anything there are ways to mitigate uh either the the species plant animal that

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we we need. >> So we have to complete this project by December 31st, right? >> Yes. >> Does that all inclusive? we have to uh expend the funds by December 31st. Uh so essentially that's the same thing but

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technically >> even the topography um which is might not be able to get addressed until or is that going to happen? >> That that would all happen at at the same time. So the uh the way the project would be

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constructed is they would install the bulkhead first. Then they would fill in behind it uh and and bring the jetty rocks in and then they would install the the decorative fence on top your pavers your your lighting uh benches uh trash

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receptacles things like that railings that you see along the the >> bra. So, uh, just a quick question while this is all going on. Um, just to clarify, there's there's there will be no parking from, um, Third Avenue down to the Second Avenue Grill. >> Correct.

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>> Will there be access for walkers, runners, um, and bicyclists? >> Yes. And I'm sorry, I didn't didn't mention that. Uh, so there's also a temporary uh, ADA compliant ramp. uh because you know um in that this area

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you have kind of two levels of sidewalk. You you uh come off the curb ramp from uh Ocean Avenue and you have like a about an 18in raised uh sidewalk area. So

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for people who are need ADA access who are coming down uh the the street uh they'll be able to get into the road through this uh handicap ramp at Third Avenue, travel along the roadway uh in the

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protected uh pedestrian area and there'll be a temporary uh ADA ramp uh constructed in front of the Second Avenue Grill to get them up to that elevated sidewalk area. From there, they can walk all the way down to Evergreen and and that's where it meets back up

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again with the um kind of the lower tier of the sidewalk. >> I always wondered about that sidewalk because there's no rail. It's just an open drop. >> Yep. >> Which doesn't seem so safe to me, but I guess nobody's fallen off with it or pushed anyone. >> It's It's a code thing because it's only

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so tall. It doesn't need a fall protection. uh it was taller. I I don't know exactly what the the right >> building code requirement is, but uh that's that's >> So is the work going to be done um 24/7?

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I not 24/7, 7 days a week given the time frame. >> It's most No, it's it's the way that typically uh traffic like this happens is Monday through Friday. Uh and then usually no work on Saturdays

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or Sundays. Uh depending on on the the contractor's progress or maybe uh the burrow's uh preferences, uh you may want to allow uh construction at at some times uh you know that are not uh per

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your ordinance. You have specific hours and days of the week for for construction. So um that would be up to to you whether you want to grant relief. Uh I know that that was a specific thing that happened with the flume replacement project to try and speed up uh

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construction was allowing uh relaxing your your start time uh to an earlier time um during that project. So we'll we'll evaluate that during construction depending on who the contractor is and how his his progress goes. Um but that's

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not the plan right now. Right now it's Monday through Friday. >> Yeah. I think something that people need to understand is that once we receive the bid and we select a you know the most responsive low bidder um he's going to have methods and means of how he

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envisions how he can best build this project and then you're going to have to work with them to achieve the goals of our that we've set to try to minim you know to minimize the impact to the public and and maintain access as delineated delineated on this planet. So

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again, there's there's flexibility, but we've also tried to, you know, emphasize that we are maintaining this access to the beach at all times. Um, but we may need some interruption, you know, police assistance even to, uh, manage the traffic, access to the construction

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area, and we're going to have to work with that contractor to find the best way to do that. >> Correct. >> One last question. With this rerouting, when does that get set up? That's after we approve a uh >> well once the contractor is ready to

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mobilize and start construction work um that this will get put into place. Um you know they're going to have to do that before they begin demolition of the existing uh sidewalk and and uh bulkhead

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there. >> Okay. So it's not getting set up now. We're going to look at it. Nothing happening. >> Ready to go. >> I saw that. But yeah, this doesn't have to be set up until they're ready to go. >> But council president, that's a good point. The beach lockers will be set up

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like you see on the map. >> Right. >> Right now, the ones on the north of Third Avenue are against the bulkhead itself, against the pramont. So, those are going to move out a bit as you'll see here. >> Okay. >> So, those have to be readjusted.

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>> Right. I just wonder how many days in advance do they have to set up this rerouting before they can actually work. >> That's what they're going to have to talk like. >> Yeah, the contractor will will have to figure that out. Um, but this won't take that much uh long to set up. It's

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probably only a day or >> you mentioned earlier with all likelihoods and there's so many variables. I I hesitate to even make a sweeping generalization because there's so many variables that could change things. But you said earlier, just want to recap this for our residents.

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Likelihood is this construction starts after the Fourth of July weekend. Is that fair? >> That's that's fair. Yeah. >> I mean, could we'd love it if it could be earlier even though we hate to disrupt Fourth of July weekend at the shore. What I want to keep saying, I've said it

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in a couple meetings already, I'm going to say it again tonight. This is this sketch almost doesn't do justice how massive an undertaking this is for Bradley Beach. This is an undertaking of historical proportions. We're extending this prominade hopefully for the next

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hundred years. We talk about real projecting out sea level rise in the year 2100. This prominade should be there in 2100 helping combat sea level. I would >> absolutely still be here in 2018 >> because we've got top engineer. Yeah, my

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point being this is a massive undertaking. We residents in Bradley, especially at the southern town, are going to be inconvenience. And there's really there's really no way around it. In our perfect world, we would have done this work last winter, early early uh

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this year. It it's taken forever between beach amirates that we have to concern ourselves with um uh endangered species of plants and animals, birds. There's so many different variables in play and and we're thrilled and I think I want to say

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publicly that New Jersey D has been great working with us and coordinating with uh with the federal government and we're following guidelines from all these different agencies and and our engineers are doing a wonderful job bringing us as many options as you can

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and I wanted you to emphasize and you did thank you that it was yesterday after months of working back and forth and participating phone calls and raising all kinds of concerns about, you know, plants and animal species. And

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even now, even with approval, there are caveats. Hey, if we find a nesting bird, a clover, if we find these amorate plants, we may have to interrupt. We have to protect these endangered species. All the while, our clock is

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ticking that we need to get this project done by the end of the year. So, there's so many variables in play. And and again, this is a wonderful simplification, but I I just wanted to confirm for everyone that this is a massive undertaking and uh I'm proud of

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everything we're we're set to accomplish, but it it's a little daunting. I mean, there's there's going to be a lot of disruption in the summer for Bradley. So, um I'm just going to keep saying it, but but what I want everyone to know is this. We got the approval yesterday. We still don't even

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know who the successful bid is going to be or when they're going to start. We don't know if we're going to find beach emirates or or uh or the birds that are protected. There's so many variables we don't know, but we are communicating the day after we receive D approval. And

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we're going to continue to communicate as we understand who the bidder is, when the work's going to start. Uh council president, to your point, when the fencing will go up. We will have uh we've talked with our business administrator, Mr. Dohy we will have a section on our website that gives uh

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updates as frequently as possible. So we are very much aware that this is going to be a major inconvenience for the burough. >> Yes. And we will do everything we can to uh alleviate any any concerns or or correct anything that that happens

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during you know construction that needs to be corrected. Uh I anticipate we're going to have regular meetings with the contractor on site to to review um you know the this this protection plan uh as well as any other um you know

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difficulties that that the contractor may run into or or things that he might think are a better alternative to to what uh you know we even show on our plan. So, so there's going to be a constant communication with the contractor, with the burrow, uh, and

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with with the public, uh, through the website. >> And just for the record, um, there was a notification that went out to some residents about this. The issue was was that it went only to um, beach um, locker owners.

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>> Okay. Two days two days through Saturday or Sunday >> the information. So there so it was just kind of confusing. And some people on my street got it, some didn't. I didn't exactly know why. That was the logic behind it. >> Understood. >> Darly Beach lockers positioning and and anyone with a beach locker got

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it. Every neighbor next door to that person that didn't have a beach locker didn't get it. Again, we only received approval yesterday. Right. >> We will be giving very broad, very thorough communications. We've been making that commitment as a council for

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months. Unfortunately, we haven't had anything of anything solid to communicate. So, now that solidity is forming, we will begin aggressively communicating. Mayor, the um if you recall several months ago, notices went

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out from the D um and from from CMA because by for permit purposes, you have to notify within 200 feet of the construction area. So with subject property, the >> subject property and we had property because of the um permitting for the

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railings or handicap ramps that we might be putting in later on this year. So people all down the cliff may have gotten a notification. People along the stretch along the length of Ocean Avenue, but only so far back and so people had questioned that as well. That's right. But I I also want to

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emphasize not only are we have we been coordinating with the the the D, the federal regulators, but we also within the Burough Bradley Beach. Um I personally went to the land use board and informed them of what the situation was with the funding and what we were looking to do here as well as the

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environmental commission and um and then the Silven Lake Commission also has been because of the tie the two projects using material. So there's been a lot of coordination internally within the bureau um making sure that everybody's aware um in any form of leadership or

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commission environmental land use and the importance of us moving this project at this time um in the unfortunate um situation of of disrupting the summer months but we have to the the grant is I'm sorry Ben how much is the federal grant that was secured

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>> 4.275 million >> $4.275 275 million and there's only a 5% match on this on this uh grant that's paying for this through the federal government. Um and if we don't spend it by December 31st, we lose it and then

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this projects won't get done which protects our community. So it's very important that we endure a little bit and work together with the community to make sure we minimize the impact this summer >> and for the public record. We are in the process of trying to identify and apply

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for a next wave of grant funding that would enable us to further extend the provenance. So we really have a lot of irons in the fire. I think we're making great progress, but I just want to convey it's quite a challenging

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um you know seascape for Bradley Beach, but very confident that we're going to pull it off. We just have to work through a lot of variables. Yeah, we're calling this phase one of the project. So phase two would be the continuation of Brahman. Depending on how much uh

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funding the bureau is able to secure will will uh tell us how far we can extend uh phase two. If there needs to be phase three, we move to phase three >> and that could be shared with that basically. >> Yeah. Yeah. That was one of the one of

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the funding opportunities that that we're exploring is a larger scale grant to try and do a complete phase two. Uh you know, still yet to be seen whether or not that that will uh will happen, but that's these are some of the things

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that that we're going after. And Councilman Nikki mentioned to me a little while back, I think it bears repeating, Paul, um, roughly a five mile stretch from the north end of Vazbury to the south end of Belmar. This is the one gap and what is it 1,200 ft or

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something? roughly 1400 ft of no bulkhead um to to basically protect which is our southern um limit of the burrow but also the lowest point that was impacted right there from Silven Lake um in that in the um southern area

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of our community. So, >> so yeah, that would that's this is key to um for the resiliency of the shoreline and and by doing this also we also have the federal government that's looking to do um dune restor implementation all the way from Sandy Hook all the way down through Seagar and

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that project is with the Army Corps of Engineers and so our ability to do this and take care of this and and coordinate what the Army Corps is going to do in the future is really important for our our you know security and resilience for flooding in the future. Any

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other questions or comments from the council? >> All right. Uh Ben, thank you very much. We're in a moment we're going to open it up to the public for questions. >> And mayor, yes, >> you're good. We can post this on the website as well so that people can see the aerial view, the map. Absolutely. Uh

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in time, we'll have a separate call out area on the website. I think for now there'll probably if you talk to Amy uh Baker, but there'll probably be part of council and uh >> I just need >> I mean so we we don't have the spot yet. She's going to build

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>> but as soon as she does you're right. It'll it'll be separately. All right. Uh thank you um Arthon no longer CME for everyone's benefit. Um and we are now

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we've now completed the um the two workshops. Uh moving to item seven approval of minutes. I will make motion that we approve to make by 2026 council business meeting minutes. >> Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Springblat. Yes. Mr. Carp. >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. Item eight on the agenda is now public comment. Uh this is comments and questions specifically pertaining to tonight's agenda and certainly you can ask questions about the plans we've shared tonight with Arthon. Yes, Susan.

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>> Hi Susan Pacific Avenue. This is though relieving. I have looked at some Noah models of the water rising and you said 14 ft.

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Do we have any models projecting what how much how that will save us in term because that little lake there is basically a you know an open door for the ocean when it gets too

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high. So, and that was more check. But I I really appreciate it. I And for me, myself and my family, we don't care if you start at 6:00 in the morning because it >> I know what happens when this water gets

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out of control and it comes down the street and it will be in front of my house block in two blocks in. So, I thank you for being able to secure this and and how you deal with the Department

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of Environmental Protection and all the really, you know, human things that we value. So, that's what I have. Thanks. >> Thank you. Other Yes, sir. Mr. Barach, >> Greg Farenbach, 408 Bradley Boulevard.

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the procedural question and the substantive question. Procedurally, um, if this is supposed to be a public hearing, uh, do you have to submit minutes of the public hearing, including public comment, to the D as part of this

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application >> for the municipal public access plan presentation? Yes, we will submit. >> Okay. So then the clerk has to produce those >> substantively. Um are there any properties that you

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have included uh for public access that are public properties that are not on the walls? >> No. >> Okay. So everything that you've included is is already encumbered by the ROS.

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Correct. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. proceed. >> Yes. Yes. Better motion parks. I got a little lost in

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this which is on me before this. I could walk to Avon on our east side of the street of Ocean Avenue when this is completed in this phase one

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and what you're calling it. Are you saying I can no longer do that? Because we said we need cooperation from Avon and the joining and the we're joined. >> We got we got beyond. No, this is phase one. Base one is extending where we are

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a little further. I I don't know a thousand feet or something >> down to the second block. But I'm saying we go we you know >> so it's still a boardwalk you know it's a prominade that just will now go down to the second avenue grill >> and then then you'll continue on as you

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normally would into avon but then we got a little beyond this as we said we are in early conversations with Avon. It may go nowhere. There's zero commitment yet. But we're in early conversations about could we conceivably close the gap completely by having Avon extend their

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prominade up. We extend hours the rest of the way. So we meet at the border of the two towns and then we would truly have one prominade that ran straight into Avon. We're not not there yet. >> We still have that cement that we just walk on. >> Okay.

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>> It doesn't have a bulkhead. >> Yeah. >> Okay. about that. Thank you for clarifying. Okay. The other thing I'd like to clarify that I've asked for I don't know three or four VAS not opinion um on the billist and I'll save my

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comments regarding the digital application for later and I cannot even tell you what page on the bill list because once the meetings start it's full from the website and I can't find it where I used to but there's a dispersement for $10,000 to a person who

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I should name for change for the cashiers years as we go into the season. What are our checks and balances regarding getting that $10,000 back? Because without me saying it, we all know the problems. We know the various

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individuals over the years that caused the problems. And I've never heard, do we have checks and balances? We don't see the deposits. And if you just say yes to me, Mr. Mayor, your word is good enough for me. >> Yes. >> Okay. And by the way, I asked the same

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question next. >> I have no doubt. >> We we do we we have cash reconciliations every day by by uh unit delivering the cash. Uh few years back you're absolutely right. We

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had concerns um and even the 10,000 we we still debate do we need that much? It's spread out over numerous entrances. So it's more like a,000 or 1500 per entrance. But we are constantly trying to reduce the amount of cash floating

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around. But right now we the auditor does no longer uh identify that as a control weakness of ours. We we now have that under control. >> Thank you. >> But but I I would to to M's point, it is nervous anytime you're giving someone

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$10,000 in Canada. So we we do take it seriously. We do have checks and balances. And >> do you have them at the tab booth? >> What's that? Do you have the checks and balances of the tag booth? >> We have the checks and balances from the moment that the mayor and council vote yes on this till the mayor no money

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comes back to the police out deposit the cash into the >> It's a lot of hands. >> You're absolutely right, which is the reason why the less cash the better. Now I by the way I don't know if I can see folks on Zoom. So uh Ben, are you able to shrink this?

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>> Other questions or comments? Yes. Eene stop sharing. come on up. >> Getting very protective. I mean, shious 124th Avenue. We're publicly talking about a lot of cash being transferred

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back and forth. I'm concerned about the safety of these people and you're making this a public statement, but I don't want anybody to get mugged or robbed or killed to get this money. So, it's beyond my jurisdiction, but I just had

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to get off my chest because it just it's scary. >> Yeah, it's it's a and it's a very valid and very important concern, which is why it takes resources from our police department. >> I mean, do they have I mean, I'm sure that I know they know what they're doing, but it scares me. I mean, I'm

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sorry. Scares us, too. >> Okay. Thank you, >> Eileen. Wasn't that many years ago they had five gallon pales of borders? We're getting better. >> Well, we talked about this today. It is about the safety of these people working. >> Absolutely.

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>> Society. >> I mean, it's crazy. >> And every beachfront musical has to deal with this. >> Other comments or questions on today's agenda or Yeah. Just the agenda. >> Anyone anyone with a hand up on Zoom?

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>> Okay. Seeing none, we'll move on from public comment to ordinances. Item nine on the agenda. We have one ordinance today for introduction. As a reminder on ordinance introductions, thank you gentlemen. >> Uh introductions, we will not have

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public comment. However, with every adoption, there will be public comment. So, introduction of ordinance 2026-30. This is an ordinance amending chapter 393, which is special events. And the

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burough has struggled with special events for a number of years. Our clerk has educated me a lot to some of the challenges we've had. Uh currently, our ordinance allows or requires a $2,500 fee for a special event. >> Yeah.

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>> Does not allow refunds. So if someone has a special event that some organization and I don't know there's a collective spend of $1,000 that's in the burrow supporting it, there's no refund. And so people come to us all the time and say, "Come on, 2500." And largely

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we've either had to be free, wave the fee entirely or charge $2,500 with no uh no refund. So and you know, Erica, it's probably driven you a little crazy. Certainly the refund state >> but um but in meeting with a series of

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meetings with our department heads including the police and DPW uh our clerk uh tourism uh rec center we had a lot of feedback from our department heads and what we came up with was a

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modified design from now on what's should we approve this you know and adopt it later there will be always a minimum fee we can we can wave the fee and we are likely to do so for Bradley Beach um uh related uh entities

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say the PTO or the Friends of the Library or the fire department. But in general, all other uh activities will have a $500 minimum if they just walk through Bradley Beach. $500. That's what the ordinance for introduction says

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tonight. That's called that's a level one of fees. But then we have three levels above that. 2, three, and four. And though they are now 1,000, 2,000, and $3,000. So no more 2500. You could go as low as 1,000 for a modest amount

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of burrow related services. Police andor DPW andor our, you know, a walk or run or jog or whatever down the boardwalk might have people using our restrooms. that requires us to reimburse custodians

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for cleaning the bathrooms that people might use along the way. Um, uh, removing garbage, taking the garbage to the dumps, paying dumping fees and what have you. So, a low-end minimum resource might be as much could be 500, could be as much as 1,000. Then the moderate is

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2,000 and then high level of resources 3,000. In no event will there be a refund. If if we miss if we say it's 1,000 and the cost end up costing the borrow more the following year if that event returns we'll bump their their fee. But but uh the one other important

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thing of note is only at the highest end the level four which is $3,000. There will not be a refund. However, we will do cost accounting for any large event that we think is a $3,000 fee. There will be a cost accounting and we

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will have a requirement that says if our burough resources contributed total more than $3,000, there will be an additional fee or additional bill. Uh we think it's the best way to be fair to the broad continuum of organizations that want to

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utilize Bradley Beach resources. Um and yet we also want to do it in a way that is as simple administratively as we can make it. So that's largely what we're going to uh discuss and vote on tonight, but uh that's primarily the overview. I want to make sure everybody's aware. So

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with that said, any comments or questions from the council? >> I think this more align with use and ex, you know, the expenses that the bureau might incur um even when there's a pass through. sense. Yeah, >> I think it's still important that if

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there are events that we choose to wave that fee for that we're still able to do that. We that language is not changing. We still can, but we were struck we were torn between 2500 wave. >> So at least now there, you know, a low

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end of $500 is generally in fact our clerk has been testing this with folks this year saying next year we anticipate there will be a fee. And so far the general reaction has has has been neutral. >> Yeah. I'm just making them aware, you

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know, um next year there will in fact be a fee. Um it won't be the 2500 and I've also told them the 2500 was required all along. Um you know, but they've been they've been okay with 500 so far or you

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know, they're they're aware if they use more burough resources, they are going to build more. So they've been okay. They just thought the 200 was a little exorbitant and I think they're relieved that we're working with them a little more. >> Do we know what other other adjacent towns are are doing? How they're

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managing it? >> I didn't No, I don't. >> We don't know that at all. >> But there are nothing is >> similar. I know it's similar. >> Yeah, we just wanted to know what the fees are though >> administratively simple. That also gave us some flexibility in how we charge

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people. >> Any other questions or comments? No, it makes sense. >> All right. Uh Erica, before we vote, I do want to thank you because you kind of spearheaded this over the past year. It's taking us this long to get here, but thank you for your help. Okay. If there's no other uh comments or

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questions, and there will not be public comment tonight, but public will have a shot at this uh at our next meeting for adoption. I'll make a motion that we approve for introduction ordinance 2026-30 special events. That's it. Mr. Noble,

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>> yes. Mr. Green, >> yes. Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubos, >> yes. Okay. Uh, we have three ordinances for adoption. The first is 2026-27. Um, this is chapter 450 zoning. Uh, as

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Mr. Cannon uh explained at our last meeting when we introduced it, this is really uh uh editing mistakes in referencing. uh none of the language is changing none nothing of substance changed but we did not code this

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correctly so u Mr. Canon has cleaned up the coding uh first any comments or questions from >> All right uh let me open it up for public hearing u I'll make a motion that we open to the public

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>> second Mr. Noble yes Mr. Clark yes >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubetzi, >> yes. Comments or questions on our correcting our earlier errors. >> Okay. Seeing no hands, uh, I'll make a motion that we close public hearing and

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adopt 2026-27. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubossi. >> Yes. Uh, ordinance number two for adoption 2026-28.

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This is portable storage units and dumpsters. Uh, Councilman Clark, would you like to read the little discussion? >> So, this was a uh an amendment where we were um uh increasing the fees for the dumpsters, which hadn't been updated in

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several years. We created a new 90-day contractor dumpster permit which alleviated some administrative overhead for having contractors to have to keep coming back for renewals. Uh it also allows for the removal of dumpsters during snow or other types of

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emergencies. Uh we also made it um uh mandatory that all dumpsters regardless of the amount of time that they are spent in the streets uh all have to get dump um have to get permits and pay for those permits. And also we also uh don't

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allow for dumpsters on county or state roads. >> There also uh Mr. Mr. There was one u I I understand very nominal adjustment that amendment I guess that we wanted to

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consider tonight um as to where we placed the sticker. It was so there was some questions as whether or not that needed to be in the ordinance or not. Um cuz uh because the the when I had met with the

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uh community development, they were like it goes on the side. It's easy enough to put it on the side. And then there were some other discussions. It's like well we should put it in the window with everything else. Um I had spoken to um our um code enforcement officer who initially said we needed to have an

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amendment and then he said no we don't. So to the extent that um that that didn't seem like it needed to be part of the >> and right now I I'm just catching up because I did see our attorney Mr. canon

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uh uh you know I guess guide us and he said it was the minimist to to the extent we wanted to make that change that we could make it today if we wanted uh my only question is I believe the current language is pretty clear that the

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sticker goes on the dumpster >> do we do we need that specificity in this ordinance >> um well I guess it can't hurt I mean I was >> Mr. Canon already did that and sent it to all of you on Friday >> to put it on the

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>> he did the uh the change that you wanted. >> Okay. But so I knew that conversation had take place. I think it >> Okay. So Erica u I think we're going to need to make a motion to amend the

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introduction. This is now adoption. Um for that language that Mr. Cannon shared with folks. Right. >> No. >> Why not? >> Because you already introduced it. You're now adopting it. And any changes you made in between that's the minimum. Yes.

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>> You don't need form a motion. Just indicate that it's been changed. >> Okay. So, Bill, I was going to turn to you next. So, >> it's good to have a lawyer when you need one, right? >> It sure is. >> All right. So, um, even the council, while we all debated this, I we weren't

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completely aware that this change had been made. Um, so let me announce it to the public before we open up for public hearing. There was a a very minor dimminimous change recommended by our uh code enforcement folks and they they

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said the the stickers, the decals um that are getting placed on the dumpsters get beat up and they said, "Can we have these permit stickers put on the on the house of the dumpster instead of on the dumpster itself?" The minimus change

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we've incorporated into the language. Uh we don't need to have a separate motion on it, but I just want to make sure everybody's aware that this small change has been incorporated into the language that we got. >> Yeah, it says shall be visibly displayed in a front-facing window of a structure on the property where said dumpster has

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been permitted for placement. >> And again, it's just everyone in codif. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Greg spoke with me Friday evening as I was getting everything ready um and said I made the change so I'm going to send this over amended. So >> I saw the exchange I saw that it was the

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minimus. I wasn't sure. Okay. All that said any comments or questions from the council? >> Yeah. Uh Mr. Gar very very thorough or thank you for that. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. So, um, anyway, I would like to make a motion to open up ordinance

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2026-28 amending chapter 348 force public. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble? >> Yes. >> Mr. Greenlat? >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Uh, Mayor Geroski? >> Yes. Uh, any comments from the

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window? Like if if I have a new house going up across the street and jumps through nightmares, there's no window to place that sticker because there hasn't been windows yet. >> I does the I I don't know how literal usually I've seen I've seen other people

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permit, you know, they they put it they packed it to the outside of the front of the building. >> Yeah. >> Uh any other questions or comments? Yes, sir. Mr. Bless God bless your team. >> What is for the non-contractor

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resident? What is the time frame that they could have? >> 30 days. >> 30 days. That's a recommendation. >> No other comments or questions in the room. More. >> All right. I'd like to make a motion to close public comment and adopt ordinance

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2026-28 amending chapter 348. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. Yes. Mlood. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Guitzi. >> Yes. And ordinance 2026-29, bamboo and invasive species plants chapter 120.

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Once again, Councilman Clark, I will turn it to you to order. So, um, where bamboo and invasive plants uh, exist in our burrow, we needed some stronger rules to control them due to the significant damage that they can cause to property. So the ordinance now aligns

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with the recently New Jersey law um that they had passed regarding these plan categories. Um very importantly redefineses the buffer zone from 5T to 20 ft that's from property sidewalks easements rideways

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um that uh any of the the bamboo or the excuse me the uh uh invasive plants need to be away from these areas. Um it helps also strengthens our enforcement capabilities and it also gives the uh

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town the ability to recover any of these remediation costs uh through municipal leans. So if we do have to come in and step in uh we do have the ability of recouping those costs. Uh it's also really important to note that there is no grandfathering. It's not like oh I've

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had bamboo on my property and I can so I'm grandfathered. It's like no, if you have bamboo on your property or any other invasive species, you need to abide by the ordinance. >> So, any questions or comments from council? >> In particular, uh in terms of the

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bluffer zones created to various boundary edges, you've increased it from 5T to 20 ft, >> which is significant. Yeah. On small. >> Yeah. You can have if you have a 25 foot wide lot, you've efficiently gotten rid of it because you It's

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>> a much stronger ordinance. Yeah. I only a 40 foot botman >> a 40 foot is got >> you would not be allowed to have it because you can't you could have maybe well you can't have >> and I've seen I've seen some where they're the same owner the same

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homeowner on adjacent lots and the bamboo crosses over from one to the other just because you own happen to own both properties on uh either side of the property line still need to get rid of it >> and council you also um I know borrowed

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some thinking from New Jersey state. >> Mhm. >> Would you mind just >> Yeah. Well, some of it was uh the the the types of plants that are defined in the endangered uh species. >> Invasive invasive species. Yeah. A little little different. Um so we wanted

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to make sure that we align with that. Also, one of the important things that New Jersey passed in that law was they currently prohibit the sale of bamboo in the state of New Jersey. Good. >> All done. All right. So, all good. Thank

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you. >> Uh, I'd like to make a motion to open up ordinance 2026-29 uh for public health. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. Yes. >> Mr. Green. Yes. >> Mr. Clark. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes.

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>> Any questions? money >> has bamboo on their property. >> How long do they have to get it out and how much well don't get it?

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>> How much? Well, the there are there are fines uh defined in the um ordinance. I have to go back and read exactly what that amount is. I think it's >> it could be up to $2,500, maybe some prison time, >> but uh community service.

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>> Community service. Uh so, it is time it's significant. Um it could be um um but uh as far as uh certainly our full-time code enforcement officer is out and about um being very proactive in

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identifying properties with bamboo uh in addition to getting feedback from um residents who have struggled with their neighbors um bamboo. So, if you know of if you if if you're aware of a problem,

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uh I would definitely inform our code enforcement officer who will make an immediate visit to the property to get that remediated. Additionally, this also the ordinance also um allow forces a

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follow-up visit because one remediation usually is not enough. So there may need to be some maintenance that happens >> likes to come back. >> Yeah. Right. So you need to come back and say okay after a year the remediation work if not it needs to be done again. So they'll be tracking all

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of the remediation that gets done and then also schedule the follow-ups. >> All right. >> Doesn't it also put the onus on the owner of the property with the bamboo if it's impacted the other property? >> Yes. >> Yeah. One of the things that they defi

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is defined in the ordinance is bamboo property owner. So it it's it's not just because bamboo is on my yard. It's where the >> created a problem for their neighbor. They it's it's incumbent upon them to

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cover the cost. >> Correct. >> Which is can be significant. >> Correct. Oh yeah. Very much so. >> Any other comments or and questions? Anybody from Zoom? No. Okay. So, I'd like to motion make a

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motion to close public comment and adopt ordinance 2026-29. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Miss Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi? >> Yes. >> Moving to item 10 on the agenda,

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communications. There are none. Uh item 11 on the agenda, resolutions. We'll start with the consent agenda resolutions. Uh the consent agenda resolutions 2026 146 through 148. Does the council want to discuss any of those

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separately or vote on any separately? >> Right. Then I'll make a motion that we approve consent agenda resolution items 2026-146 through148. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> M. Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Carr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes.

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>> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. >> Individual resolutions. uh started with 2026 149 approving an adult summer camp program. Any comments or questions on this? >> Well, I'm the liazison to Wreck and um it's it's kind of exciting because no

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other towns do this. So, it's a little three-day camp program for adults. So, if you know if people are interested, I mean we have so many community members who love playing pickle ball. you know, botchi, ma, all of these things. You know, we're definitely a

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tight community and there's there will be competitive play and um you know, kind of going back to childhood and being in a in a camp environment. >> Does that include color war? >> Yes, it does. >> I just wonder about all the injuries

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from our seniors. >> Oh, sure. They they'll sign a waiver. Exactly. I mean, they're kind of thinking people in their 30s, 40s. You know, when I mention myself, she's like, "Well, we can create a golden." And I'm like, "No, I'm fine." >> No. Well, next time I keep my mouth shut.

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>> Did Did she mention how much it is? >> Oh, it's $175. It includes lunch. >> Yeah, it looks like a lot of fun. I'm in for the karaoke. >> And there's no sleepover involved. >> No sleepover. >> Say anything about karaoke. I'm not

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saying it. I'm looking at this. It's apparently a three one three-day program >> end of the of August. >> Yep. She can Courtney uh it's Courtney Papis' brainchild. She's been asked by many seniors to um to consider a senior

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summer camp. Uh so this is something she could multiply and do multiple times and then give it summer. But going to try it once. Uh it'll run into the evening so folks can visit downtown restaurants and and perhaps bars. Um, >> and includes free beach access for those

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days as well. >> Yep. All all built into the fees. And our business administrator tells me it should be very profitable. >> Correct, Matthew? >> Yes. And you're already signed up, man. >> His lunch would be like >> So, uh, I think it's worth giving, uh,

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Miss Papis a shot at something creative. Uh, if there's no other comments or questions, I'll make a motion that we approve 2026-149. Second, >> Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Greenbllet. Yes. Mr. Car. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi.

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>> Yes. Uh, Mr. Nikki, do you want to take this one? >> I can if you I don't have the details on. >> Well, it's uh 2026-150 awarding a bid for Southern Lake Bulkhead improvement to Earthworks, Inc.

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Uh these guys are not only our low bidder uh Councilman, but I know you are very familiar with their work and they've been doing a great job on other projects Silver Lake related, >> right? I can comment on all that. >> Um so yeah, Earth Works is the apparent low bidder for the um bulk the

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replacement from um on Bradley Boulevard from um Evergreen to Madison. Earthworks is the same contractor that did the ocean outfall pipe replacement this past winter. Um and we've had had a good experience with them doing that work. Um

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our DPW uh as high bars as well for the work that they did. Um and so they actually came in as the uh parent role bidder. Um and and in reality so competitive because he still has work to complete of the gate and as well as the

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um restoration of the dune in the fall. I believe that gave him a competitive edge because he already has familiarity with the lake mobilization um equipment as it has to be here. Uh so he was very competitive in his pricing um and and um

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I think it's going to be great to get this work done. Uh we mentioned earlier when um Ben presented on the um prominade extension, the material that is being excavated to build the wall is actually going to get transported and

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then used to fill in the prominade. So it's really important that this project moves along uh not not wait. Um we need to do that because we save hundreds of thousands of dollars of cost reusing that material versus disposing of it and

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buying new material. So with that, um yeah, I'd like to make a motion to approve the award of the uh civil lake bulkhead improvement to earth works uh second. >> Um Mr. Noble, yes.

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>> So I'm going to say yes, but I have a quick question. So now that now that it's been award, we're awarding it, when do we anticipate this project is going to start? So until they actually have a kickoff meeting with the contractor and go over the details of the material that he has to order and what his schedule is

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to do that work, um planting won't happen, you know, the final completion of that job won't happen until the fall when they do the plantings of uh trees as well as the vegetation and living shoreline. Um so we don't know exactly

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when yet. Um but it will happen um somewhere over this next, you know, month. So sometime maybe before the end of June it'll start >> pro high probability because he can actually start um you know demolition

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and um uh earth work etc. And then you know again we want to coordinate that with what's happening down at the prominade. So there's some flexibility in that and so we're going to coordinate that um u see um our we'll be coordinating that um based on those two

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contracts and when does one need the material from the other that's really a key piece of this puzzle >> and is that also going to be um uh Monday through Friday work? >> Yeah, as a standard um you know hours of allowable work Monday through Friday. Um

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and if there runs we run into a problem we could always accelerate um give you know some um consideration but again based on where you know the houses and everything along there we have we have to be careful with the with the noise etc you know that work is going to be

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>> so yes um Mr. Clark >> yes >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi. >> Yes. Um, Council Noiki, I'm inclined to have you take the next three. They're all awarding work to Arthon uh for, you know, various projects all in and around

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the same area. Would you like to? >> Uh, yes. So, um, 2026 151 is authorizing an award of proposal for professional engineering services with Arthon formerly CME for civil link bulkhead improvements constructive services. This

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is again uh this is the support services for uh arthons who actually inspect the work, manage the construction um that we have just awarded to um earthworks. So they will be responsible to uh process

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those u you know invoices, inspect the work, making sure that it meets the quality standards that we specified in the plans. Any questions? >> Is Suburban involved in this at all? >> No. >> In this phase of it? No. >> No. No. This is nothing. This is nothing to do with the suburban work is we're

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doing work on the sewers. >> No, no, I'm aware, but I thought that there was some coordination. >> There's no sewer work here. No, no. Suburban is not working on any contracts. >> Okay. >> Um at Silver Lake currently >> and this is largely funded from the

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grant funding that we've >> that we've been awarded. >> Yes. And and I think one I'm bad to mention, you know, the bids came in significantly lower than what the grant was. Uh there's, you know, roughly, you know, almost a million dollars that's

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unspent on that grant. Uh so we are looking at opportunity to uh do more work along the um Silven Lake, expand that work, as well as the lighting. We need to replace the lighting from um all the way from Evergreen to Main Street.

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And so that would be a um contracted through JCPNL which we're checking to see if we can in fact apply that to the grant as well. And that's a zero matching grant by the way. There is no um funds from the burrow being spent on that project. It's 100% state funded by

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DOT. So it's a it's a great contract that had gotten secured. So I I mentioned earlier when we're when uh Arthon was here presenting the uh extension of the prominade now we have so many different variables in play but

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it's so critical that this work is is happening not only bulkhead but work we will be doing to uh take you know some of the whether it be sediment or or just you know dirt from the lake to use to to fill the prominade. So, uh, it's amazing

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to me how these things are all coming together led largely by you. So, thank you. Yeah. Well, it's, um, it's it's been a privilege to be able to get these projects that have been talked about for a long time and actually see them come to fruition. And again trying to minimize the impact to the public

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because that's really the challenge on all these is is that is construction is a dirty business and we we need to really manage closely communicate what's happening when it's happening and try to minimize those that that that impact to the the traveling as well as the you

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know the residents uh here in town. So we're very aware of that. So with that no other questions. So like to make a motion >> and the wildlife in in Southern Lake, right? >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Those swans >> and we got the swans we face swans that

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I've heard that with that make a motion to approve u authorizing uh CMA u through the um support of the civil link bulkhead improvement construction based services. >> Second, >> which is 151, right?

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>> Which is 151. Second, >> Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Carp. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mayor Kubosi. >> Yes. >> Okay. Then 2026 152 authorizing an order of provincial services to be on a form of CME for preliminary assessment and

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site inspection PAI for Silven Lake walking back storm water improvements. So we are applying for a grant um with um Avon. We're both applying for a grant with Mouth County

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Open Space for um a million dollars um that will help with the storm water um treatment um prior to the water spilling into the lake. And so there's these things called manufactured treatment

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devices that you install that basically the water from upstream collects into that filters and then goes into the lake. So it actually reduces the sediment that can actually get to the lake and minimizes it. Um and so there's one of these large units is going to be

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placed on the property or we wanted to give funding to place one of these units on Avon's property across Main Street where all the water comes down from county and Neptune Township, city of Neptune. About 80% of that flow comes into the lake and all that sediment

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that's collected along the way was spilling right now into our lake and that's why we've had the problems we do. So, this manufacturer treatment device, we're looking to get the county to provide a grant to us and to Avon um both burrows to um pay for that um

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mechanical device. And we also want to put those on the devices, the um at the inlets that are along Bradley Boulevard that go right into the lake as well, so that we can prevent the sediment from getting into the lake. um our DPW will have to go in and vacuum

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those out like they do on any catch basin. That's a maintenance thing. Uh but they have the equipment to do that. Uh so this is just a very proactive measure that is being done as a standard um from an engineering perspective when it comes to storm water and protecting

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sediments uh from getting into water bodies. So this here is a um a fund a funding CME to actually do the quick environmental uh assessment and um preliminary engineering effort to

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support the grant application to Mammoth County uh because they require certain information to be provided and this is actually um work that used in the actual design work um but it's the it's the preemptive uh support of the grant that

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will ultimately be a conceptual preliminary effort. >> Can you remind me after DPW takes that sediment out where does it go? >> Um so some of it sometimes they can be used for um uh mulch and and um or the landfill. So they take it to their yard,

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they dry it and then they basically dispose of it or they use it for mulching, you know, um other purposes. >> I like the technical word. deep water deep water >> and it's like a big coffee filter, right? >> Yeah. The the device is like a that's

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how I described it, but basically it creates a like a vortex like your coffee does in your >> Right. >> Just let the liquid flow through. >> Okay. >> So with that, any questions? So this supports the grant. Tom um make a motion

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to authorize engineering services to Arthgon for the um support of the storm water uh and walking path improvements 2026-150 per two >> second >> Mr. Noble. Yes. >> Mr. Greenblat.

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>> Yes. >> Mr. Carr. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gossi. >> Yes. >> And should I do this one too? Um 2026 153 aware of professional engineering services. Um we're keeping

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these guys in business outdoor recreation center improvements phase two. So we just completed these fantastic uh playground improvements and we have received an additional grant for $72,000. Um and so there's a lot of work that

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still needs to be done in the rec center. This $72,000 though we were targeting to do the um ball field, redo the ball field. there's some drainage issues out there. The fence in that area needs to get replaced. The uh goals for

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the uh the um soccer goals uh netting needs to get replaced. Um and so what we've done is asked um Arthon to come up with a an approach to bring uh the improvements that we need in that area

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of the rec center uh within a $72,000 um budget. And so we're looking at um again replacing fence fabric, replacing the baseball bases, uh working with DPW on some of this work as well because there some

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that they can do like airating of the lawns and whatnot. So we're trying to bring uh the improvements to the ball field area within that $72,000. And so what this here is is basically awarding a um um

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funding for Artha item 2 doing the design of that work um and being able for us to get that completion of this next phase of the rec center completed >> and none of this is redundant if we go forward and consolidate the DPW facility, right?

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>> No. No. Um and again that's probably further out than than soon. And so what we're trying to do is uh again this is more of a maintenance project versus a reconstruction. Uh so we're looking to uh basically good repair, put everything in good repair and then we'll deal with

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those issues. Um if we want to expand uh because the DPW relocation that that's something that you know you know concepts that were floated in the previous administrations that's something that'd be done and looked at closer into the future. Um, also there's another grant that we don't um haven't

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um brought back yet that is being uh $100,000 that we got for um additional pickle ball towards a removal of that greenhouse and uh that's in the back of the rec center and we haven't gotten the concepts that's and that's not doing that work. That's avakia doing that

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work. So that's um but we're we've yet to see those concepts yet of what we can build there. Um but again so this is the phase two good repair maintenance of the ball field replacement of the fence fabric and appro issues for the uh for the fields. I think one thing that's

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worth noting, not only to again sing your praises, Councilman, but also uh just to keep the public informed, when this came across my desk uh a week or so ago, and I was chatting with Councilman Noiki, we had a $72,000 grant that we were very excited about, you

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know, in doing enhancements to the rec center, but it was tied to a much broader project scope that that did include uh drainage of the fields. And again, these are non-regulation fields. Uh the total spend was probably closer to 250,000.

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We would have had to borrow the difference between 250 and 70. And we just immediately started chopping it up, got it down to a spend of 72,000, which is covered by the grant. and the uh the soft cost that roughly 10% in

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fact exactly 10% that'll go to u CME is coming out of a prior authorized bond. So minimal cost to the to the residents you know we wanted to bring this into a budgetary and take an approach to actually deliver this within the grant

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and not take it outside of what we're funded for. We have a lot going on. We got to be fiscally responsible here. So with that, I'd like to make a motion uh to adopt 2020 153 a work professional engineering services to Artha uh for rec

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center phase two. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble. Yes, >> Mr. Greenblat. Yes, Mr. Clark. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gossi. >> Yes. Okay. I will take the reigns once again as we get to 2026-154

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authorizing temporary emergency appropriations. I believe our CIO got these to our clerk about 15 minutes before the meeting started tonight. But again, this is moving some numbers around just to make sure our budget works. Uh, any comments

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or questions? I will make a motion that we approve 2026-154. >> Second. Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Greenblat, yes. >> Mr. Carr, yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mayor Bubosi, >> yes. Item 12 on the agenda,

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announcements. There are none. Item 13A, I am anxiously awaiting the administrator report. Uh, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, just a couple things to report. I should be pretty short. Um, the polls um have been removed on Main

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Street in front of the Shell gas station. If you remember, they were leaning significantly for a while. JCPL came and put in new polls, but they left the old polls. Um Verizon recently came

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in, removed the old poles, um reattached their equipment along with whatever other telephony um cables were up there onto the new poles. And um now you'll see some bricks piled up there. They outsource and they have a contractor who

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comes in and and puts the bricks back and and puts the uh the sidewalk back in place. So, just wanted to uh publicly thank JCPNL and also Verizon um was pretty quick at coming out here and addressing that work. So, uh I know at the last council meeting we did talk

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about the challenge with all the wires particularly behind homes. Um you know, a lot of them are just left up there uh abandoned. So, we're going to tackle that next. And through this uh exercise with the polls on Main Street, we've been able to develop some pretty good

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relationships with folks at both JCPNL and Verizon um regarding the type of wires that are on the polls throughout the rest of town. Um the Motor Vehicle Commission will be coming back to Bradley Beach on Thursday, May 28th. Uh

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if you remember, we did this before. Oh, yeah. Uh it's the mobile unit. uh they'll do real IDs which again like last time just contact hall and we'll schedule it. At this point honestly a lot of people already have their real IDs if you want real IDs. Um but we

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figured it it's another opportunity to do that. Uh at the same time um you could also do your registration renewal uh non-driver ID. You know there are some seniors who don't drive but still want to have the identification uh duplicate replacement title or

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registration. All of those will require a uh appointment, but some things do not require appointment. Um, you know, if you have old license plates that you just have in the basement or sit in your pantry like I do, um there's an opportunity to return them. Uh but also

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handicap veterans and purple heart placards are available um just for walk up. You don't need to um to uh to make an appointment for that. Um Matt, one more time, what's the date of the real ID date? uh Thursday, May 28th, uh back

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at the firehouse again. It just seemed to work really, really well there. So, >> and how do we sign up for people sign up for >> uh call? >> Yep. And um we'll have a sheet um uh for for the Real ID signups. Um some of the

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other stuff you have to go on their website on the Motorbaker Commission website for um you know registration renewal um other items that need a uh an appointment but for the real ID just call which is why we've done this in the

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past uh and again we've we've noticed that more and more people um are are getting their real ID through us or or driving elsewhere. Um uh lastly uh and this is something encouraging you know the the public to continue to do. Uh I had a call actually

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today from a gentleman who recognized that uh there was something um in in improperly done with our beach lockers. Uh I went up to the beachfront. I saw it myself. He was right. I contacted our department of public works director and

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it's going to be addressed over the next day or two. So, I would encourage the public um to to to if you see something that you think is uh is done wrong, please give us a call. We do make errors uh and we're happy to fix those errors.

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Um so, um again, I encourage people to either email me, call me, text me. Um and and we will do our very best to address it. >> That's all for me, Matt. >> Thank you, sir. Uh before we move on to the next item, Matt, I just want to call you out. I'm trying to let people know a

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lot of folks up here and down on the floor do a lot to contribute to the burough success. And as small maybe an item as it is, those telephone polls that were leaning over Main Street for better part of three decades, um seemed

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like it should have been a simple task. It was anything but. And uh you and I started this thing uh a little over a year ago, maybe two or three months in. We contacted uh the JCPNL and the DOT

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and everybody else. And it took a year of you more or less beating your head against a wall. But uh but thank you very much because thanks to you, we got that done. It felt feels good driving down Main Street and not seeing televables leaning way on the middle of the street. So thank you.

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Um, okay. We will move on to the mayor and council reports. Like to start tonight with our council president. >> Oh, wonderful. Thank you, mayor. The Bradley Tourism had a meeting today and they had a couple of resolutions. They

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approved Brian Oscaring, the Beetle Show, and they also approved um some expenses for the coastal kickoff, which will be the soccer festival, the World Cup festivities. That'll be June 10th on Newark Avenue on the beach from 4 pm to

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7 that will include a soccer expo match with FC Mamemed, local sports vendors, huge sports equipment drive, new and gently used to benefit local charities. They'll have a DJ and food trucks and vendors and face painting. So, it sounds

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like a lot of fun. The Bradley Beach Shade Tree had a meeting on May 10th. They had numerous applications. One was 804 Hammond Avenue. They were moving a tree on private property and they will replace

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it with another tree. 110 Hammond Avenue had a Bradford pear that was ruining the retaining wall and so they're going to remove that and replace it with a deciduous tree most likely of red bud which is nice. It's a native tree near

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Jersey. Five 410 Brley Avenue. They're removing a London plane in their planting strip. It looked like it was diseased and they will be replacing that with another tree further away from their

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sewer access. And then they also 112 Ocean Park is removing a dead cherry plum in their planning strip and they will replace it with a river birch, another native. and 420 Burlington is

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tearing down their house and raising the entire lot. So, they had some gum trees in the back of the lot and they're going to remove those. But the good news is that they'll be planting 15 trees as a replacement. 133 Lake Terrace had a

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dangerous tree and um it was removed. They also discussed their spring planting which took place since this meeting and their arbor day which we attended. And I would like to extend a sincere thank you to the Bradley Beach Shade Tree Commission

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for and everyone involved in the recent planting of 66 new trees throughout our community two weeks ago. The commission also celebrated Arbor Day along with the Bradley Beach Elementary students, teachers, our mayor, council

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members, and the wonderful forestry staff. Several of those 66 trees were planted right on the school's campus, which is a beautiful investment in our students environment. and the New Jersey Treat Foundation was also joined by

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three members of the NJD Forestry Service. Having that expansive breath of knowledge on site was impressive. Our commission members walked away with some great pointers on the best planning techniques that they look forward to applying at future

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events. Finally, the Shade Tree Commission would like to extend a huge thank you to our DPW for the incredible support they lend all year, but especially during this massive undertaking over the past few weeks.

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They've removed old trees, dug out stumps, and provided invaluable on the-fly assistance. And they were out bright and early filling the watering bags on the new trees at Silven Lake. So to the Shade Tree Commission, the NJ

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Tree Foundation, the NJ DP, and our own DPW, thank you for your expertise and your tireless dedication to our tree canopy and making Bradley Beach even greener. Next, the board of ed is meeting this

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evening, but I do have some exciting news. For the third consecutive year, the Bradley Beach Education Foundation is awarding its annual scholarship to a graduating senior senior who got their start right here at Bradley Beach

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Elementary School. Each year, the foundation scholarship committee connects with our high school seniors, and time and time again, they see that the strong foundation built at Bradley Beach Elementary School translates

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directly into high school success. Tonight, we highlight a truly exceptional student, Mia Constantino. Mia graduated as Bradley Beach Elementary School's 2022 validictorian and now a graduating senior at Neptune

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High School. Remarkably, she is already a college graduate. Through the intensive Prooseidon program, Mia simultaneously earned an associates degree in social sciences from Brookdale College, all while maintaining a stellar

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99 weighted GPA. This fall, she heads to Rutgers University where she's on track to earn her bachelor's degree in communications by the time she is just 20 years old. Many in town know Mia as a hardworking

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hostess at Darcy's where she balances her commitments and always handers handles herself with the utmost professionalism. On behalf of the governing body and the entire community, congratulations to the Bradley Beach Education Foundation's 2026 scholarship

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recipient, Mia Constantino. And that completes my report. Thank you. >> Thank you, Council President. uh turn fee Councilman Nikki. >> Thank you, Mayor. Our police activity um between periods of May 4th and May 17th.

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On May 10th, Main Street in Springwood Avenue, a 52y old male from Bradley Beach was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance. He was also charged with driving under the influence and several additional motor vehicle offenses. patrolman Daniel Crowe made the arrest

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with the assistance of Sergeant Michael Tardio on May 10th. Also, at the 500 block of New York Avenue, a 30-year-old male was arrested after fleeing from officers on foot during a field contact. Colorado was caught by patrolman Anthony

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Bete after a brief foot chase and taken into cons custody with the assistance of Sergeant Sergeant Kevin Gal and the Avon by the sea police department. He was charged with theft, possession of an imitation firearm, possession of a

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weapon, possession of CDS, tampering with evidence, resisting arrest, and obstructing the administration of law. Colorado was charged and later lodged in the Mammoth County Jail. May 14th, 2026, Bradley Boulevard, main and Main Street. A

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32year-old female from Point Pleasant was arrested and charged with possession of a prescription legend drug, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence in several motor vehicle offenses. Patrolman Anthony Bmente made the arrest with the

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assistance of patrolman Daniel Crowe. Then on May 15th, off Brinley Avenue and Hammond Avenue, a 62 year old male from Spring Lake Heights was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol who was also issued several motor vehicle summones. Patrolman Edward

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Edwin Hernandez made the arrest with the assistance of Sergeant Michael Tardio and that's the police. Um, tomorrow evening at uh, se 7 7 p.m. is the Siven Lake Commission meeting here in this uh, chambers. Uh, so please come on out if

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you want to learn more about Silven Lake. We've talked a lot about it today. Um, but there's a lot happening and get the meeting here tomorrow at 7. Um, and then I just want to make mention of our land use board. Uh, they've been pretty active. Um I think the uh this board

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that we've brought together this um this year uh a lot of synergy, a lot of um really um great minds working together. Um we've we've been able to um really um exercise some very prudent and um great consensus on things that we're doing

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with zoning and and towing the line. And and I just like to say that I also just recognize TJ Conn who is the uh chair of the Landry board. has done a really great job out leading uh that board and and u into the future. Um there's a lot

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to do with a lot of changing ordinances and u right now I'm pleased to just to share that I think it's really going well uh with that nature board. So that's my report. Thank you. >> Thank you and thanks for your volunteering on that lane. I'll turn now to council member Clark.

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>> Thank you. So, the environmental commission is planning an event to on the theme of invasive plants. By the way, you know, the Bartlett pair trees are an invasive species. >> They've now been banned. >> They've now been banned. >> Yes.

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>> So, uh so uh we also have an invasive species in our maritime forest called the Japanese knotwood. And uh on May 30th from 9 to 11:00 a.m. there's going to be a big knotweed removal party. So

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uh it's really taking over the native plants of the maritime forest. We need to cut it by hand. That gets done several times. Uh you have to weaken it before you can pull it out by the roots. So May 30th from 9 to 11:00 a.m. Um also as a note, the maritime forest was the

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brainchild of Captain Allen. this would be a great way to honor his >> um after his passing last month. Uh so for the first aid, uh the operational period ending May 19th, they

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responded to 16 day calls, five calls for 21 calls. It's a busy month. Um and 12 for medical, nine for fire, one motor vehicle crash. Uh of course, they're always uh looking for volunteers. Uh they offer free training for qualified

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individuals and anybody willing wanting wishing to volunteer. Uh all that information can be found out on the bureau's website. Uh they're also accepting applications for their cadet program for young people 16 to 18 years old. Um also they uh additionally they

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had provided some uh medical overwatch for the tears foundation rockwalk that we had. Uh, also I want to take this opportunity to uh recognize this week is actually National EMS week and I want to thank all of the EMS providers for their

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professionalism uh their commitment. My special thanks to the dedicated members of our all volunteer squality and they've been serving Bradley Beach since 1933. For those of you counting at home that's 93 years.

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So, they're a pretty amazing group of people. >> That's my That's it. Thank you, Councilman Councilwoman Greenblad. >> Thank you, Mayor. Um, the Arts Council has been very busy. They met May 11th. They also met yesterday, May 18th. Um,

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they're very busy planning their first annual arts fest scheduled for Saturday, June 27th at Riley Park. begins at 12:30 and running through 10 pm. Um, it'll be an afternoon of live music, interactive arts, dance programming, ballet

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performance, a gallery opening at Posh Real Estate, and an afterparty from 6:00 to 10 at UVA featuring Sea and Sky songwriters, and among the songwriters is our very own James Maddock. So, um, a local a call to local Bradley

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Beach artists. Uh there's still time to participate in the visual art exhibit. Home is where the art is at PASH, which runs from June 27th to July 4th, and an artist opening reception on the 27th, uh the same day as the arts fest. The

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deadline for submissions is May 31st. Volunteers are needed to help pitch in on the day of the arts fest. Please reach out by email to the arts council uh to their arts council email which is arts councsil bradleybej.gov

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or let me know uh no experience is required just enthusiasm for arts in Bradley. And don't miss two new workshops uh ballet for balance June 9th and 17th from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the fire hall. Open to all ages but designed to build strength and balance through

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the lens of ballet. So, thanks to resident Laney DeFranco who will be teaching these workshops. And you can see the arts council website to register. And the arts council uh will next meet on Monday, June 1st at 10:30 a.m. The WCK committee, always a lot of

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activities at Wreck. Um Wreck met uh last week, May 11th. Uh hopefully you've seen the full spread of photos and the co-star from recreation's first ever Mother's Day flag football, which was held May 8th. fun was had by kids and

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moms alike. And next up is Father's Day kickball, Friday, June 19th at the Recre Field, 6:30 p.m. A $20 entry fee includes participation, t-shirt, and a meal ticket. Uh see the rec website for details and registration. The senior

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club's next meeting is May 27th, noon to 3 at the BAZI center. Majan open play continues every Friday, 1 to 3:00 p.m. at the Biazi Center. New in the Neptune City location is Zumba. Uh, Wednesday

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evenings 7 to 8:00 p.m. $10 at the door to participate. As with all shared service programs, this is open to all Bradley Beach residents. Spring Botchi Leagues begins the first week in June, uh, 6:30 p.m. with groups on Tuesdays,

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Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Summer camp 2026 is bigger and better than ever with a robust en enrollment. Courtney has managed to accommodate everyone on the wait list and a program that will run at full capacity. The first day of camp is

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June 29th. And we recently mentioned the uh camp throwback weekend. So I won't repeat myself. Um and also there are still a few spots for Marine Science Camp, which runs July 27th to the 31st, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00

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p.m. for ages 5 to 14. And it's at Memorial Park in Neptune City. So, come visit the rec center. The playground is filled with children of all ages. The courts are busy and the field is being utilized by baseball and soccer enthusiasts. Uh the rec centers uh the

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rec committee's next meeting is Monday, June 8th, 6:30 p.m. at the rec center. And then my final liaison um uh uh committee is the Fletcher Lake Commission. They held their last meeting on May 14th. Flowers have been planted

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by the commission by commission member Sal Galisetti along the Bradley Beach side of Fletcher Lake. A Fletcher Lake spring cleanup event is scheduled for Saturday, June 6, 10:00 a.m. to noon. Please join them. Light refreshments will be served. Commission member Bill

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Grafton has been speaking with Fish and Wildlife to stock Fletcher Lake. First, however, Clonet needs to determine if the oxygen levels are sufficient to support marine life. The commission is looking forward to bringing life back into the lake and support summer fishing. And a reminder that a fishing

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license is required for all fishing, whether freshwater or in the ocean. One single set of lights are being installed on the westerly air raator in the lake. At the end of the season, they will assess any impact on the lakes's biosphere. The bridge rails are about to

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get a refreshed coat of paint by the DPW and post lights replaced once the painting is done. The commission will next meet on Thursday, June 11th here in this council chamber. And I'd also just like to announce that um thanks to the mayor and support by the burrow. Um the

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burrow is dedicating Bradley Beach's first ever sand toy library box located at the Lorraine Avenue beach entrance. and the dedication will take place this Friday at 11:00 a.m. It's a community partnership of resident volunteers who help build the box, design the sign, and

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steward its maintenance throughout the summer. So, please feel free to drop your no longer used sand toys in the box for all to enjoy. And that's my report. >> Thank you, Councilwoman. Um, let's see. I've got a couple quick ones. one, as I

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referenced earlier, different folks contributing u in all aspects of helping our bureau succeed and thrive. Um, I just want to give a little call out to our relatively new CFO, Mitch Sim. Um, without naming vendors or whatever, but

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uh, Mr. Sim came to me the other day and said, "Mayor, I got a questionable invoice here. You know, want to ask you about it." And sure enough, he flagged something that was an inappropriately build invoice to us. Uh, and he had the awareness to not just, you know, stamp

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his name on it and and pass along the invoice. Um, and he helped us avoid spending $22,000 for something that was inappropriately built to us. So, uh, he's not here, but I tip my hat to Mr. Simon. He's just

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been a great addition helping us every day working through helping us clean things up, get things operating even more efficiently. Um, I wanted to uh also recognize our most recent uh probationary officer, Samuel

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Forgate. Um, very impressive young man. Uh, Terry, I know you and the chief think very highly of him. And uh I don't know if there's anything else you'd want to add, but I thought it was great having him and his and the support from the PD and his

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family here tonight. >> No, he's just he's a really solid guy. He's proven himself as a class one and class two. He's definitely stood out amongst all the recent people that we've had. So, he was a a great choice. lucky and we thank you guys for you know for helping us secure him because it it's

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it's a competitive field out there right now and anytime we get somebody good the other towns really start trying to poach them you know and we don't hold fault because it's a small town it's tough for us to hire until there's a retirement or an anticipated retirement which you know

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can be years apart and to his credit he had a couple offers um even at his young age and you a limited experience that were really trying to pull him as a full-time officer and he turned him down

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because he wanted to work here. He made it clear that this is where he started and where his brother and he's actually has a twin sister who also worked as a class one with us. Um she was offered to go to class two, but she opted to go to the Coast Guard and uh is actually doing

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very well there. But you know he he turned those other places down anticipating that there might be a spot in the next couple years. He was willing to wait a couple years you know whether it's you some of us are you know hitting that 25 30 year mark and you know things

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are are you know possibilities down the road. So it was nice that he to get him in because he he wanted to stay but it's tough to you know hold that line when so many people want him. I've learned from you and the chief how competitive a market it is and the fact

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that >> he's such a a star in the making and then we were able to retain him largely thanks to you guys communicating keeping us aware of the opportunity to bring him in full-time. So, thank you and thanks to the chief. >> Yes, thank you guys.

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>> Um I want to mention a couple things from the library. They always give me a list of a thousand things. It's an amazing program that they put together every month. But just coming up over the next few days, even tomorrow, May 20th, at 1:30m, Social Security and Retirement

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Income Planning Workshop. Anyone interested in planning for Social Security and retirement? 1:30 tomorrow. Also, uh, on Thursday, two days, May 21st, 3:45, if you have children in kindergarten through 4th grade, and

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those children want to practice their reading, they can read to a dog, uh, which children love to do. 3:45. That's to that's on Thursday the 21st. Um uh couple more quick ones. There's a yarn club meeting on May 23rd. That's

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Saturday at 10:00 a.m. And on May 27th, as well as June 3rd, June 10th, 17th, go back, check the website if you're interested in learning Marjon, Marjon instruction for beginners. The first one again, Wednesday, May 27th, and then there's a series of other days.

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What's that? >> Is there R in that word? Barjon. >> I don't know. >> Maj I've never played nor have I ever announced it very well, but it is what it is. Uh 250th anniversary for the country. We

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are in the process of recognizing uh July 4th will be the official day. But uh coming up on May 29th, 9:30 a.m. we're actually going to have a 250 anniversary sign uh flag rather provided

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to us by the county and we will do an official flag raising that morning at 9:30 in the morning, May 29th. Public is welcome to join us. It's going to be brief. Maybe we'll have some, you know, Kool-Aid refreshments, but it's largely

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u a photo opportunity to tell the world. Bradley Beach is recognizing our 250th anniversary. Uh uh commissioner, county commissioner, director Tom Arnon will join us and uh uh the county clerk Christina Hanland will join us. So that'll be fun. If you're in the

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neighborhood, please stop by Riley Park. And then uh most maybe most importantly certainly for me and uh others here in the burough Michelle Wy planning this Memorial Day weekend is almost upon us and the forecast suggests rain. So um

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I've already been getting questions uh you know what do we do in the event of rain? The parade the the parade on Saturday is also accompanied by vendors on the beach Saturday and Sunday that it's very likely that that gets washed out. We cannot reschedule it. We can't

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get a rain date. All the participants in the parade have other plans. All the vendors have other dates and assignments to work elsewhere. So there's a, you know, if rain is bad, if it's light drizzle or no or just cloudy skies, we hope to be able to proceed and and have

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some festivities, but Saturday is certainly at risk. So keep an eye on the weather. Uh but there is no rain day. And then on Monday, the actual Memorial Day ceremony that we hold at Riley Park, u where we recognize our Bradley Beach's

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20 fallen heroes, uh that is also, you know, threatened by the rain. Uh but we will have uh we've secured the firehouse to have an indoor ceremony. uh we won't have the releasing of doves and we won't have a lot of the uh the ceremony around

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that as we go to the police and and the fire monuments if we're indoors but we will have a gathering uh anyone who's you know interested attending just again track the weather we'll make sure there there's that announcement that we might have to move indoors to the firehouse.

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Uh that concludes my announcements and my comments and now uh I'd like to move to item 14 on our agenda. Public comments or questions? Yes, sir. Mr. Baring 408 Redland Boulevard. First, I would

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like to um express my appreciation for ordinance 220, I'm sorry, 2026-30. uh that you introduced this evening. Um um I think that that is a valuable and

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important thing to do for the community. Um, secondly, I'd like to commend the mayor and the council on taking a conservative approach to the uh funds that were generated from the uh sale of

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the church that come out as municipal assets and dedicating them to the defeasence of uh debt service and the payment for capital purposes. um over the next several years. Um

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I want to be able to correct um some statements that were made at the last governing body meeting. Um um what was stated erroneously was that the reason for the need for

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$350,000 was that quote the previous burrow's administration did not set aside sufficient funds for the cost of the UFCW settlement.

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um as a longtime member of this taxpaying community and as one who was intimately involved in the 2024 negotiations, I would like to um understand

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and um and make the governing body aware of what they may not be aware of the extremely high cost of the UFCW settlement

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and the reasons why those costs were not included in the 2025 budget. See, in both the 20 2023 and the 2024 budgets, we reserved

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sufficient funds to be able to cover a reasonable increase for the UFCW contract based on guidelines from the state of New Jersey and based on regional

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settlements that have taken place. A total of around $200,000 was set aside from 2023 and the 2024 budgets and were encumbered

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for the purposes of making those payments. However, um the offer that was made um within the state of New Jersey uh guidelines and

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the market rate was not what was paid out. The contract that was negotiated cost the burrow almost three times, yes, three times what was previously offered

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by the burrow to the union and was reserved in those budgets. As stated before, the contract was settled and retroactive salaries were paid before the 2025

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budget was introduced and before it was adopted. The governing body had more than sufficient time to have included any additional monies that may have been

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needed in the 2025 budget. Why is it necessary to blame others for the costs that were incurred under this settlement? And why did the administration and the

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governing body not fund these excessive costs when all obviously knew what those costs were before the budget was introduced or adopted? The contract was signed

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on the 9th of April, 2025. The governing body approved it on or about the 15th of April, 2025.

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The budget wasn't adopted until May. It would have been within your capability to have included any of what those costs were in the 200 25 budget. Retroactive salary calculations were

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completed by April 15th. I'm assuming that's five minutes. It is. >> Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Um, >> there's I have answers to all of those questions. I'm not going to get into a

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debate now. Uh, Mr. Fairbag, you and I actually sat down in my office when I was over there and I took you through pretty extensive detail of why the earlier numbers that were set aside encumbered. You referenced 200,000. It

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was almost 300. was the prior administration encumbered close to 280,000. This vote was shared with me as new mayor. Uh that was still half of your right. You were saying three times, but it was roughly double what was

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encumbered that we actually had to pay. And I I took you through a PowerPoint slide showing that the average increase over that four-year midpoint to midpoint span of the contracts was three and a half%. So, what we're not going to

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debate now, you had your comments, I'll just make my comments and I welcome the opportunity to talk with you later, is that your comment that um the original offers were somehow reasonable. I think your exact wording was

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um reasonably it was a reasonable increase. Um you didn't settle a contract for almost two and a half years, sir. I don't know how reasonable that is. At the end of the day, on an average increase of three and a half% over four years, midpoint to midpoint,

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that by most standards is reasonable. However, it did require an extra $300,000, give or take, relative to what was encumbered. So, gladly walk you through those so you and I could go on for a long time tonight. I I think we're both

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better served if we don't do that. I just felt it was necessary for me to at least provide a quick response to your to your um assertions. So, be more than happy to meet with you. Uh if anything comes out of that conversation that

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tells me I'm somehow mistaken, I will gladly address that publicly. Admit that I'm wrong. I know I'm not, but I will gladly address that. Yes, sir. You'd like to make a follow? >> Can I just respond? >> Please. Um, there are several things that I probably would like to go over

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with you, but when you have essentially an 11 12% increase in 2023 and 11 12% increase in 2024 and

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um you have a regional settlement level of about 3.5 and you have a state set of guidelines of 2% that comes to approximately three times nearly three times what was

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a reasonable offer. When you give a union more things than they ask for, it's very easy to reach a settlement. And when a union believes that they're going to be able to do better in the

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future than they are in the present, they're going to buy the time to be able to do better in the future. >> Thank you, sir. And we should talk so I can show you why I disagree. Yes, Miss Meta.

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I get more than five minutes. Nancy Meadow Ocean Park condominiums. I'm just going to say this right out. Thank you for settling that contract. Most of you were here. You did a lot of it. You did most of it. My biggest

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regret is for the employees we lost. because they had no contract for so long. Mr. Mayor, you took my thunder away. But I'm pleased to learn that there is a Memorial Day ceremony because when I

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looked at where I might look to find out about it, I only heard about it for vendors. So that points to me the dysfunction of our website. And I am, as I've said many times before, the

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doctor confirmed it. I have no patience. It has gone from bad to worse. And what would really I'm told to be patient. What would I think would be most helpful would be if I could have a time frame

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because how long do I wait? Um, now I did see parade signs down at the rec center. I don't know how any of that's related, but let's drop that signage. And Councilwoman Greenblat, you might want to check on your

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information regarding the senior meeting as I received a phone call from the president and I was told that it's the 20th and I think I heard you say the 27th. >> Um, again with the website, two times in

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two days I had traffic complications. that could have been put on the website. I didn't know Made was going to be closed and I didn't know Ocean Park was gonna truck west on the east side. Again, a little heads up. We're so

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small. Great that you're working on the prominade. Can't she just work on these little things and for years? Well, how many years? How long have we had handicap lockers? Four years, maybe.

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It's my understanding the ramps one per purpose is for handicapped people. It is my and I mean um motionwise. It's my understanding one purpose of handicap

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lockers are for motion. It does not make sense to me to have my ramp on the north side of my steps and my locker on the south side of the steps.

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Not all ramps are in this. It's not one side fits all. And how many years do I have to say it? But we all know that I will repeat myself and make no apologies for it because I have no control. regarding the digital presentation.

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Thank you for acknowledging that there are some of us that prefer to pay cash. I'm not clear with that option if the gentleman was saying you still had to register on the app. So, if you just want to get a

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season, I I just literally would like clarification. Um, and I really want to well, strike is good, but they they get costly. But I really want to point out

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that we were told Brian Bo was free. Calculate the fees you pay them every year. We were told community passes free. Calculate, including the fillers, how much you pay

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them per year. And then on top of it, we were told Community Pass would not pay would not charge locker users. Talk to a locker user. We used a credit card, see what they paid.

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So we could in my head be charging more for the locker because we could take in that money ourselves. So you can do that with the beaches. I understand the move to not have cash. We're pretty much halfway there.

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Um, and I know you will pass this and I think it's a bad move and I think it will cost us a tremendous amount of money. Maybe not the first year, but again, how can window reverse now become practice? You can't.

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And it, you know, a lot of angry people and yet they have no choice. And you know, people down, he's saying it's security, no, you can just give them the phone once they're on the beach. they can go leave the beach and give it to their other person who comes

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down with the things the QR code showing. So again, I know you'll pass it, but I beg you to look at your past and consider it. Thank you. >> Thank you. Yes, sir. Mr. CL

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Thomas Jan 6123rd Avenue. U Mr. I had a question about this new drainage system you're you're proposing for coming in from Neptune and and our westerly areas. Um you've mentioned that they had the equipment to maintain it. Do they have a

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sewer jet back or access to one? Is that is that the maintenance factor? >> It's a it's a vacuum truck. >> And do we do we have a shared service on that or do we own >> I think we have we have a vacuum truck. >> Okay. So they just put that on a regular maintenance schedule and >> Right. I wish I could do today with the catch basins,

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>> right? Um yeah, I find it very rich the the previous uh tube speakers before me um who couldn't settle a contract in two and a half years and and you know he talks about uh reasonable increases but

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he doesn't talk about the unreasonable offers that were made by him also without any input from the council that was done under the cover of darkness in a back room all the negotiations with no counsel in place. So, you know, budgets

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were passed without input from the council at all and you've done everything transparently. Um the the uh increases that were given were much needed. These people didn't didn't

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get bumps for three years almost. So, I just I just find it amazing how things work here. Um, you know, there was you never were really, we never really could understand what took so long. I mean, there's negotiation is really simple

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when you have parties that want to do it. Clearly, the previous administration didn't want to settle it. And then to blame it and say, "Oh, they know it'll be easier to negotiate with the future." That is absurd. And I'm just I'm just

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horrified by those comments. But I did agree with one thing that I agree with the way you handled the money from the church because we could never get a confirmation from the previous administration that that that would be held for capital improvements and the

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fact that it is is a wonderful benefit to the people of Bradley Beach. Thank you, Mr. M. >> Thank you, Mr. Cohen. Other comments or questions in the room? Uh, anything on Zoom? Any comments or questions?

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No. >> Okay. Seeing none, we will close public comment and move to item uh 15 on the agenda, which is an executive session pursuant to NJSA 10 col 4-13.

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Specifically, we'll address resolution 2026-155 uh and retiring into executive session to discuss Garrison vers Bradley Beach and uh Major Ed Al versus Bradley Beach. Um Erica, do we have a time estimate?

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>> 30 minutes in there. >> So, we estimate we'll be in close section for 30 minutes. >> Okay. Well, >> it's just an update. I I can't anticipate more than 10 I I try to be safe as long as perhaps no more than 10 minutes. So, anyone who care to wait, we will re re uh convene momentarily, but

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roughly 10 minutes. >> I'll make a motion that we >> second. Mr. Noble, yes. Free. Yes. Mr. Cart, >> yes. Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Yes. Thank you. for the I W

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debits.