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It's not going to be it. I have an agenda. Just like my But they know like Okay. It was You're working. Oh, shoot. Thank you. It says

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>> what else is >> you're making them. I'm not. Oh yeah. >> What do you say? All right. Make them How might >> the other

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order? Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> Yes. 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

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for all. >> Not sorry. I wish to announce that the 4D hour notice is required under the open public meetings act is emailed to the Asbury Park Press, the Coast Star, and the new coaster on December the 18th of 2025 that a copy of placed on the

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bulletin board in the burrow office. Then a copy has been filed with the municipal clerk. Please be advised, public attendance for meetings through Zoom is mandatory and courtesy only is not mandatory and a courtesy only. If for any reason Zoom fails or is disconnected, the inperson meeting will

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continue without interruption and action can and will be taken providing that there is an inperson forum. Mr. Noble >> here. >> Mr. Green here. >> Mr. Clark here. >> Mr. Nikki here. >> Mayor Kubzi >> here. >> All right. Well, good evening everyone. Thank you for joining us tonight. Thank

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you for those joining us via Zoom. >> Um we are about to uh embark on item five on the agenda workshops. But uh for those of you who have tracked my council career and now my year plus as mayor, uh

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you know that I have a history of having had a lot of prepared statements. But for a good year and a few months, I believe I have not had any until tonight. I'm going to read a prepared statement just to start this meeting off. I'll make it quick. Uh it's

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not something I actually want to do. is something I'm feel compelled to do. So, um, I want to address an important matter concerning data security and residents privacy. It has come to the bureau's attention that emails have been recently

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distributed to members of the public by a former burrow official. Based on information currently available, it appears that the distribution list used for these communications may have been derived in whole or in part from municipal contact information maintained

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by the burough. As a result, several residents and non-residents have been contact have contacted the burough expressing concerns regarding the use of their emails. The public provides personal contact information to the burough for the purpose of receiving information about

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municipal services, programs, and operations. We believe that such information should be safeguarded and used only for legitimate governmental purposes consistent with applicable laws, policies, and the expectations of our residents.

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Please note, my concern is not with the viewpoints expressed in these communications. Residents and former officials alike have every right to express opinions about burough matters, including the municipal budget and the actions of this governing body. Open

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dialogue and constructive criticism are critical components of local government. My concern is whether municipal contact information may have been used in a manner that was not authorized by the bureau or consistent with the purpose for which that information was

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collected. I want to be clear, the current administration did not provide access to any municipal email distribution lists for these communications. Accordingly, I have referred this matter to Burough Council for review and I have

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requested that our information technology professionals examine whether municipal data or systems were involved and if so, how such information may have been accessed. Protecting resident information is a

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responsibility we take seriously. Our residents must be confident that when we provide personal information that when they provide personal information to the burough, it will be handled responsibly, securely, and in accordance with applicable laws and policies. We are

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committed to maintaining that trust and will take any appropriate steps necessary to safeguard burough data and protect resident privacy. I was forced to create this statement because um we've received and I

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personally have received complaints. I know my council colleagues have received complaints. I've had my own personal relatives that do not live in Bradley Beach that received these emails and they called and said, "Where are these emails coming from?" So, uh it's very

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important that everyone understand the burrow uh was unaware of this. We will now take uh any and all actions we can to determine if there were any breaches in our security. So that said, let us move on to item five on our work on our agenda which is

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workshops. Uh and this is uh to be a a presentation or discussion rather on the municipal park improvement grant public hearing by Mr. Ben. Thank you, uh, mayor and council. And, uh, just waiting for a PowerPoint

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to pop up. There we go. Perfect. Thank you, Tommy. Um, here to talk about a, uh, grant application that we are applying for to Mama County. Uh, it's for a municipal park improvement grant.

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Uh, we're actually applying for two grants. one for for Bradley Beach, one for AT, and I'll get into that a little bit more uh in a minute. Uh the the project generally consists of of park

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expansion uh of of the Silven Lake Park. Um so similar to the Silven Lake bulkhead project where the uh roadway is being narrowed uh to allow for living shoreline and installation of a walking

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path. similar uh improvements in this section uh starting at Madison Avenue going all the way to Main Street uh for uh installation of the the walking path uh landscaping improvements, benches, um things like that

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uh including narrowing of the road uh to a still manageable 44 ft which is allowable for two-way traffic. uh parking on on the north side and bike lanes in the road.

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Uh next slide, please. Okay, so this is a a one to one matching grant or 5050 matching grant. Uh and the bureau is eligible for up to $500,000 in grant funds from Mama County. Uh so that

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would mean that you would have to spend you have to have a million dollar project to be eligible for that $500,000. Uh so projects that are eligible under this grant application parks, recreation, open space, historic

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preservation, um new facilities or improving existing facilities and uh dredging uh of of a lake for example uh to improve and expand access to recreational areas. also eligible uh

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under this grant application. Uh next slide. So the uh as I mentioned there are two components to this. So the the one component is the expansion of uh the sil lake uh part. The other is uh capturing

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sediment from um we'll call it the county outfall uh which is drainage from Neptune Neptune City that comes from Memorial Drive and drains into Silven Lake. That's the the

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majority of the drainage area drains into Silven Lake. Uh it actually goes through a pipe that is located on an Avon um parcel of property um on the other side of Main Street. And it's with

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that parcel that we intend to put a uh sediment filtration device. Uh so this is the the area right here where that that parcel is located. Uh the next slide. This is the area uh along Silven Lake

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along Bradley Boulevard um near Main Street where we are looking to expand the uh the green space, install walkway uh and replace some some uh landscaping,

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put in some uh new benches, flash receptacles, things like that. Uh next slide. So this is uh showing a conceptual layout of the proposed improvements.

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Uh on the left side there at the top uh in the kind of bottom left corner you can see where it says burrow avon by the sea. That's the area where the the large sediment uh filtration device is uh going to be located. And then along

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Bradley Boulevard, uh Bradley Beach also has several uh storm water pipes that discharge storm water into the lake. So we're also going to be looking to put smaller sediment filtration devices along Bradley Boulevard as well to

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capture that sediment before it enters the lake. Um this is very very much in line with with the dredging aspect of uh the what the the park improvement grant um

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participates in. So we we feel that that is a necessary component to the overall beautifification program of Silver Lake. Um in in kind of in green there uh you can

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see uh street trees along the way. You've got the the walking path that uh will be a pvious path similar to or matching the uh proposed path that we have are going to be adding uh at the

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Silway Bula project on east side of uh next slide. So I talked about the installation of seven filtration devices, one large larger device on the Avon parcel, eight smaller ones along Bradley Boulevard. Um

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the reduction in pavement width of Bradley Boulevard, the previous walkway, street trees, benches, other small amenities. Uh the approximate uh construction cost estimates for each municipality are there. Bradley Beach about $1.2 $2 million add on about a

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million dollars which would allow each municipality to be eligible for that uh 50/50 match up to the maximum $500,000. Uh so that is the the objective. Uh that's the grant application we'll be

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submitting. Um grants are typically awarded in uh uh the fall. Uh so we're anticipating around October of 2026. um award of the grants. Then uh we could begin design uh and and complete that as

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well as any necessary permitting uh probably in in spring to summer of 2027 and then construction would take place likely in fall of 2027. >> Great. >> And that's all I have uh unless the council has any questions.

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>> Thank you. Questions from the council? >> Uh you had mentioned the street trees. I know there's a lot of trees. Some of them are not in great shape. Um is will all that construction require the removal of all the trees that are there?

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>> We would evaluate that during the design process. Uh it's possible we could save some trees. If they're if they're in good shape, they're healthy, uh they're valuable to to save, you know, valuable species, we likely want to save uh those

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trees. If it's something that is not not the healthiest tree. You know, we we may want to take that down, replace it with something uh that that's more in character with uh the area. Uh maybe kind of matching what we uh will

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be doing on the eastern end of the lake. Uh but that that'll be during the design process. We'll make that determination and uh of course soliciting input from the uh shade tree commission. And Mitch, I don't know if you're aware of that, the Shay Tree Commission did plant from

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Main Street down to, you know, probably about maybe 500 ft of maybe a dozen trees already. So, those would be outside of the construction. They would not get in. >> Yeah. It wasn't sure whether or not there would be oh, the need to Oh, they're in the wrong

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spot. >> Yeah. They would supplement those further down. And then in the other project that's going to construction >> um the wall replacement, there's tree planting that's going in there. So, this grant would basically bridge any other

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tree planting that would be required, you know, or maybe or maybe we get trees again uh through the tree commission and then have to pay for them and be able to reduce the cost of construction down to that million dollars. And and then and I think there the other thing that's kind

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of interesting here is that there is a time between these two projects of the work that's going to begin construction here this summer um between Madison and Ocean Avenue that there may be an opportunity to um get that construction cost down by by

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looking at those limits and being able to organize that and and get that cost so that we are within that million dollars 500500. So that something that um you were looking at. >> Yeah, we it's it's kind of there. We

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have a lot of uh projects going on in in town. A lot of kind of juggling a lot of balls, but uh we have some uh we got favorable bids for our recent uh projects for the Silk Lake Bulkhead. Um and and so we have uh additional grant

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money to spare uh you know, so to speak. So we're we're looking at options of of how we can can utilize uh the grant money to the maximum extent possible. Some of that may be uh some of these manufactur uh the sediment filtration devices um or extension of of other

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improvements um within these limits. We're we're kind of exploring that uh getting pricing from the contractor uh that's on board right now. Uh and we'll you know aim to uh utilize that grant to

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the maximum extent and this grant >> and you mentioned the word dredging when you were speaking to this grant. >> Yes. >> But and the context of that was um correct me if I'm wrong is capturing the sediments before it gets into the lake.

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And and just to clarify this does not include actual dredging of the lake. >> Correct. >> And and although you can use grant money to do that, my understanding is that $500,000 matching this that is not

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enough to do the dredging project for Silven Lake and we're looking at other do other programs to see how we can do that and that's I think that would be a common question people would ask why not use that money instead of dealing with purchases just delay

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>> right and and I know the bureau has has submitted other grant applications specifically for dredging and that's more in the several million dollar range uh than than this grant will do. Um but like you said, dredging is an eligible

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uh activity under this grant program, but it's just the the amount of funding that's available is not enough to do a dredging project for Silven Lake. So, we are we're getting creative with with other ways to utilize this grant money

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um to filter out sediment before it enters the lake instead of pulling that sediment out of the lake after the fact. >> Ultimately, we want to do this anyway. Even if we dredge the lake, we need to do this because this prevents minimizes the amount of sediments coming into the lake,

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>> right? >> So, instead of compounding the issue, continuing to compound it, this is this is a medication to reduce what's coming to the lake and we still have to deal with the dredging off. >> Exactly. >> So there are the comments questions. >> Just real quick, I wanted to follow up with the trees. There were a lot of um

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monoculture there. They did a lot of ash and they got victim they fell victim to the emerald ash floor and now what you see now are the brand repairs which are now banned in the state of New Jersey. So there's no great loss there. There are two interesting older winter London

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planes. So hopefully we can salvage them. And I did have a question for Ben. Um the walkway is purpose, correct? >> Yes. >> Yes. Okay. Similar to what they seem to have in Lake Ko, I think around the lake. >> Exactly. Okay. It's the same product

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that you see there. Uh that's the this similar to like a track surface. Uh but it's it's porous allows water to filter right through. >> Great. >> Thank you. So the current um grant funding for the project for solar

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bulkhead uh is significantly over the 20%. So how how do we go about trying to utilize all those funds? Is it uh do you bid out additional uh services? >> We're in discussions right now with the

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NJO to uh explore options of how we can do that. One of the things we're looking at is a utility agreement with JCP now for upgrading the lighting along uh Bradley Boulevard. Um then there, you know, we're working with the contractor to see

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what how we can expand the limits of his project his contract. Um so that those are the things we're looking at and they have to be approved by the DOT um to be eligible for reimbursement. >> I think I think the last thing is also for the funding for the match

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There's a potential that we could use I bank money and that would be at 75% of our share of construction at 0% financing interest 25% which would be the cheapest way to borrow money versus just straight up buying a

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>> for this 1 million too. >> That's what we're that's what we're looking into also for the 500,000 portion >> because because half a million is is the county grant. of pocket. >> Yes. No.

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>> No. So the uh well so the the slide that was shown up there was the the two um the total project cost is 2.2 million broken up into 1.2 for Bradley Beach, one one million for Allen. Um each one

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of those portions of this project is eligible for a $500,000 grant. So up to a million dollars could go into this project. Um and that would come from the county. The the remainder would be uh

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the responsibility of both parties. >> So about 700,000 for Bradley and about 500,000 for >> Yes. And if if you know depending on on how much grant money is attained uh and you know how much funding is available

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for the burrow uh we can look to reduce the limits if if that's necessary. Uh but that's we're we're of course going for the maximum grant value uh at this point. >> Any other comments or questions? >> Okay. So I'm going to make a quick comment just for hopefully for the

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benefit of the public. The Burough Brother Beach has been talking about trying to dredge Silven Lake for probably 20 years. Well, long before I I came along and joined council six years ago. Um, and what you're

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hearing, you're not hearing that yet that we're talking about dredging the lake. We will get to that. That is 100% on our radar. Uh we have, as Ben mentioned, uh submitted applications for grant funding for dredging, but what

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you're really hearing us talk about now, we're preparing the lake to be dredged because it would be silly to dredge the lake before you have these these uh siltation treatment devices in place, right? You take out all the siltation, but if you don't have these treatment,

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you know, devices in place, more siltation comes in. So whether it be uh the work we're doing on the bulkhead and the work you've seen us doing over the past year with Alpha Pipe and Gate and everything, we are preparing Silven Lake and the final straw to restoring that

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lake once we do all this other stuff is going to be dredging. So u it's an exciting time I think for Bradley. It's a very expensive process as you hear all the different numbers we throw out. Tonight's a relatively small as as

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as grant funding goes 500,000 for Bradley 500,000 for uh Avon those are relatively small amounts compared for example to the to the bulkhead uh less than half of the bulkhead over $2 million of grant funding available uh

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and other work we've done the alpha pipe close to $4 million so there's very significant expenditures already underway with more to come and uh this governing body is doing everything we can to grant funding from a lot of different places with the

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help of our engineers. So, I think we're making great strides. Still a lot more to go, but I want to make sure everybody understood the big picture as well. Okay. Uh Ben, thank you for that. Um before we move to voting for the resolution, I just because normally we

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give the public a chance to comment on the agenda, I am going to make a motion that we open it up to the public to to let them ask questions or comment uh before we vote. But that said, I'll make a motion to open it up to the public. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Green, >> yes. Mr. Park, yes.

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>> Mr. Nikki, yes. Mayor Gubz, >> yes. >> Public comments or questions about the project that Mr. Malik outlined? >> Yes, sir. Mr. Farah, >> good evening. Greg Farenbach, 408

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Redwood Boulevard. Um, three years ago there were discussions with Paul Delights of the county uh regarding the ability to use these funds that you're searching under this application uh for dredging of the lake. And at that

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time the thought was that if you did two applications backto back uh the cost to the two municipalities um would be a million over two years and the cost to the county um would be $2

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million over that period having $4 million to be able to do uh the sedimentation removal. Um the proposal that has been presented to you this evening um includes sediment

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control filtration. Um that has been a high priority of every meeting I've attended and of the private discussions I've had with members of the U. Silden Lake Commission. Um what has not been a

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high priority of those that I've spoken to um are um the sort of cosmetic improvements along uh Bradley Boulevard. Um, if any of you have ever been in the lake, if any of you have ever um had an

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ore go into the sediment in that lake and gotten a chance to be able to um smell the scent uh that is given off by the sediment, I think all of you would

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be much more interested in seeing um um sediment removal. than the cosmetic improvements. And that is generally the feeling of anybody I've spoken to. And it seems as if we're

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losing another year of being able to put that $4 million package together for the purposes of spending some of those funds on cosmetic improvements. >> Thank you. Any other comments or

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questions? Anyone on Zoom? Okay, seeing no other comments or questions, I'll make a motion that we vote to approve resolution 2026-166. Second, >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. Mr. Green, >> yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. New?

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>> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi? >> Yes. >> All right, we'll move on to our public hearing on the introduced municipal budget. Um, let's see. Just looking through the process here.

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Okay. So, we're going to want So, first of all, our CFO has joined us. Uh, Mitch, I believe you will be making a brief presentation and then we'll uh open it up to the public for >> Mr. S. >> Yep. I'm waiting. Just want to make

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sure. >> Well, the the main part of the presentation I was going to go over was the uh was the amendment portion. So, uh, I thought we'd wait until we get got to the amendment portion to to to bring that up. So,

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>> that was my >> the amendment portion. >> Which should be after the budget. >> Yeah. >> Okay. But I thought you would make a presentation before we open it up to the public so they would have an opportunity to ask questions.

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>> Um, procedurally. I just want to make sure moving forward correctly. >> Um I I really uh I mean the presentation I have prepared on the amendments. I mean I can speak to I can pull that up and go over a couple things but really would just be a repeat

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of of what we went over the introduction. >> Okay. So uh Mr. again maybe you can help me procedurally on this but our of agenda is item six is public hearing on the introduced municipal budget. First bullet under that is motion and second

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to open a public hearing on the budget amendment to to the introduced municipal budget receive public comments and questions. So we can certainly make that motion to open it to the public but is the public going to have much of an opportunity to ask questions if we have

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not yet shared information here. >> So so the first part is on the introduced budget that we did about a month ago. So that's what the public comment would be on and And after that is the amendment. >> Yeah. Just have to hear before the

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amendment. >> Okay. Okay. >> But do you want to like give an overview or something before the public gets off? >> I don't know how many people like to introduce budget offline. Some might have. >> Yeah. Some have for sure. >> Okay. Yeah, we can.

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>> The only legal requirement is that you're looking at the first amendment. >> All right. Yeah. Our very first bullet says public hearing on the budget amendments. So I just wanted clarity on that, but I'm going to open it up in a moment for comment on the originally introduced budget, not on the

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amendments. >> Thank you. Okay. All that said, thank you for bearing with me. Uh I will make a motion that we open uh the public hearing for uh comments or questions about the initially introduced budget.

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>> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Greenland. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes.Iki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Kuzzi. >> Yes. Uh audience. Yes. >> Rick Bar 116 Newark. Just had a couple of questions on the initial budget. Um

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what's near and dear to my heart, the sewer. I saw that under sheet 32 which was on on our web website it had um other under other expenses there was a

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59% increase over last year. So I'm just wondering where that came from. Um, and the second item was on the the debt service where we're paying 709,000

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on the debt service off compared to the new items that weren't on there last year. So those were my two questions. I guess I third question was that I I believe when you had the introduction to the budget, you had over 4% increase was on the municipal I forgot what the

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decimal was afterwards, but does that include also what the county and school would be? So what would be the total number? Those are my questions. >> Well, I'll take a quick stab at summarizing, but then I'll turn to Mr.

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S. But other expenses, we've been through this to a significant degree because to your point, it was a very significant increase. Uh overall, the bureau had about a six or $700,000 increase in healthcare premium alone. that was the largest driver of what

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you're looking at which was close to a $300,000 increase in the other expenses. Couple hundred thousand of that 700,000 were allocated to the sewer. So that's a huge chunk of it. Um the debt service I'll let Mr. Simon explain because I'm not

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sure what drove that and the 4% increase I can easily answer. It's 4.7 and it's only municipal does not yet include county or uh school or anything else. >> So, will we get that number tonight or No, >> not today. >> Not tonight. Okay.

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>> So, yeah, the debt service on the sewer is what you're asking about. >> No, it was you just had municipal debt pays payable. That was 700 704,000. It was on sheet number page 30. Sheet 30,

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I'm sorry, sheet 30. Sheet 27. payment of bond um dissipating notes and capital notes, >> right? I mean that's that's is resultant of a number of the the new projects that we're that we have uh that we're doing

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now. um uh $79,000 and some of that was related to the acquisition of that bond anticipation on a large portion that had to do with the church and the um

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the uh the dem was it the demolition was that we're talking about the sewer in particular? >> No. Okay, >> yeah, it's very like said this has to do probably with Lorraine. >> That's the that's the yeah the largest

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portion of that is the is the bond anticipation note uh payments. There were a number of things that were wrapped up in that bond anticipation note. So it included um a uh

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uh a bond or that we had in I believe 2023. It was the bond or that had the main street improvements in it. had the rec center improvements in it where there was a 5050 grant split on that and also had the Silven Lake improvements. So that was a really large uh bond

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ordinance and which was uh put that so we started doing work on that project even though the bond ordinance was from a few years ago. So much of the debt service is related to that and then a large portion of the debt service is also related to the church on Lraine Avenue and uh with the with the debt

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service related to the church on Lraine Avenue. Uh we're not going to have that debt service in subsequent years because we are uh essentially because we uh profited on the sale of that property in 2027. We set aside money in reserve to

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to pay for that. And with the interest and principle of that, you were looking at about $150,000 just for that. Uh the most of the other stuff was related to the Main Street, uh the rec center and civil. >> Those just kicked in this year. >> Those just kicked in this year. That's correct.

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>> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. Other comments or questions about the introduced budget? >> Yes, sir. Um, good evening. Greg Farenbach 408. Um, honor about u May 25th, I sent the

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five of you um a list of 13 comments and questions regarding the budget. Um, I didn't receive any response from um any of the members. Um, I didn't receive a response from the division of local government services to it either. Um

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however I noticed that um three or four of the errors that I had identified in the budget um uh have been the subject of the amendment. Uh but there are a number of other questions that were in

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here um that I did not get any uh responses to. Um you've received those questions. Uh may I ask further responses or should I go through and ask each one of those questions again? >> No. Number one, I want to thank you for

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uh submitting your questions. Uh that is the purpose of having a a 30-day 28 day period for the public. So, thank you for it was eight or 10 as I recall. Uh I know Mr. Simons worked diligently on those, identified a handful of errors that you pointed out, especially on

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shared services with Neptune Township. He immediately identified to me that that was just an error that that we needed to restate. Uh >> well, it was an anticipation of $94,000 in revenue that you'd never received, >> right? Because in fact, as a share

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service where we are paying revenue to >> So, so you flagged that immediately. We agreed with you immediately. I was under the impression we were following up with you and I apologize for not doing so. Uh Mr. Mr. Sim, I know you went through that in pretty good depth in Mr.

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Barbark's letter. >> I did. >> Uh, are there other, you know, I I'm putting you on the spot a little top of your head, but are there other of his questions that you can help address? >> I'm actually trying to pull up his email right now. So, I mean, I did go through each question and and I appreciate your

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input. Uh, he pointed out a couple things that we missed and that we remedied uh in uh in our amendment in our amendments, but do you have any other questions? Um I'd be happy to do my best to answer. >> Um the first one is um the budget

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indicates uh utilite looking at the three funds current sewer and beach that there were $66,000 of over expenditures. Why would there have been such a large amount of overexpendures?

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Um the largest driver of those overexpendures was due to uh retro payments that that were made that were made over the course of the year. Um we did not have enough money in in funds in reserve uh in order to uh um make those

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payments uh for the retro pays. You're familiar with the incumbrance requirement of the um uh division of local government services, the formal technical accounting directive. >> Sure. >> Um under those circumstances, you can't

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spend money that you haven't appropriately. So, how did the administration spend money that they hadn't appropriately? >> Right. Look, I wasn't here at the time. I was in the CFO at the time. As you know, I've only been here for three months. But the person you're working

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with, Miss Larrison, was >> uh yes, she was. So, um I I don't know what kind of controls were in place at the time. Like I said, there weren't any. >> So, Mr. S, maybe you weren't here and at least at least I was here through the

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transition of CFOs. Uh and Mr. Fair, I'm sure you're aware from prior audits, every year the bureau has some degree of overexpendure of of >> not to this level. years, >> but it happens. It's my point. >> Yes. >> And and controls often miss these

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things. >> 10 15 $30,000 $600,000 >> in in 2025 when budget was being set. We were only beginning to understand, we the new council and the new mayor only beginning

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to understand the what challenges we inherited from your and Mr. Fox's prior administration. There was a total of over a million dollars of expenditures that we had to address. We paid those.

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We did make that oversight in terms of uh what reporting should have been done to the DCA. But one way or the other, we had to pay the unions. We had to pay Mr. Hinson's lawsuit liability. that list of over a million dollars of salary and related expenditures that we

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inherited because they were left open-ended by the prior administration. So to your point, there was a there was a procedural flaw in the process, but the payments had to be made and we are acknowledging it very transparently and we've had discussions with the DCA and

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they are giving us appropriate guidelines to appropriate funds in this year's budget which has created quite a number of challenges for us I must say for this year because of the fact that we went through that process last year without having the the funding or the

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approval. So you are correct. Procedurally we missed what we were dealing with was an insane amount of inherited expenditures from the prior administration. And I I commend us for the job we did. Even though to your

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point procedurally we did not at that time identified to the DCA. >> I don't want to go over the same ground again. You and I need to um have face to face, but there were sufficient funds put aside for settlements based on a

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sufficient >> amount being given as opposed to the amounts that were given and you know about the dispute that existed between you and the previous CFO about what those increases should have been. But you and I should have that discussion privately.

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>> I'd gladly have this discussion with you. I've said that before. I'll say it again, but you continue to wait to these meetings to come up and address it. You have yet to knock on my door or say I am available. Let's talk. I I've said it before, I'll say it again. I I've sat

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down with you already. I've already explained what you call sufficient was very insufficient. I've explained it when you and I sat in that office. You nodded your head in agreement at that time. >> I didn't nod it in agreement. I didn't frankly understand what you were trying

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to explain to me because it didn't make any sense in normal labor relations discussions that take place in New Jersey in the public sector. Um let me go on to another question. Um social security appropriations in the three

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funds um are between 23% and 38% higher. Why is that the case? Um I know that the salary and wage line and have have gone up considerably um between the two years. So I

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>> between 2025 and 2026. >> That's correct. So I assume that the large the largest portion of that is just proportional to the salary and wage increases which I don't think is is uh I don't think that is 23%. But I will say that we made those calculations based on

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uh based on the salary and wages. So I I didn't go back to the previous years and say oh okay >> what did we spend this year? What we spend this year I actually did the calculation of here are the salary and wages here's what social security contributions likely be based on those salary and wages and I budgeted accordingly.

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>> Um in the current fund uh four appropriations were identified. um administrator's office, finance department, revenue administration where the salaries and wage accounts uh for those went up $191,250.

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What was the need for an increase of such a large amount? >> I can I can go ahead. Well, um uh one of the first things is obviously CFO was hired. Um so that's that's the the largest portion of the expense. Uh so if

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you look at the salary and wage line item line line item under finance on sheet 12 I believe 12 13 maybe. >> Well okay 53,250. >> Well what about so 90 90,000 it's that

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line item and you'll see that there's a company reduction in other expenses. >> Mhm. >> Um because the other expenses that's where they were paying uh the private for >> that is correct. Yes. So, uh, but we did actually have that line item actually would have come down even more. Uh, we

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actually paid Miss Larrison about 15 or 20,000 out of that account already. So, we're kind of double paying for a bit. Uh, as far as the other um I think that the other increases is in the uh general administration. I think there's a large increase in the salary wages there.

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>> 65,000. A lot of that had to we revisited some of the uh allocations that we had in the past split between the sewer and the beach and uh the current fund and uh it was a policy decision that was made that we were uh

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allocating somewhat too large of a portion uh to the utilities and we brought that back into the current fund. As a result of uh that change, we actually created uh additional cap space uh in our budget as a side, you know, benefit to that

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>> appropriations cap. >> Yes. Yes. We were able to modify the appropriations cap based on bringing uh uh appropriations that were previously paid for out of the utility funds into the current fund. >> Um celebrations one comment. I just want to acknowledge to the public I

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intentionally allow Mr. Fair enough to go over because I think these are important questions for the public to hear. So typically we obviously hold folks to five minutes but again please continue with your questions. Thank you very much. Um um public events increased

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um 187% by 37,400. What changed there? >> Um yeah we did talk about that. Uh I'm pretty sure that we were uh previously allocating some of the costs out of uh

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uh operating expenses uh out of uh various line items and uh we decided to uh reallocate some of those funds out of just a specific dedicated fund for public events. So I don't think that's so much as an increase in spending um for public

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events. I think it's more that we uh grouped most of those expenditures within those line items. There probably is somewhat of an expense. I know I know there are some additional expenses related to uh we're spending a little bit more this year with the 250th

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anniversary. I know there's uh there are some expenditures increases related to that as well. There's I think there's a there's a 18 like there's $18,000 fireworks display. I know that we did have an entire year budget for instance >> on sheet 39. It indicates that um there

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was I'm going to say a missed payment to the board of education in the vicinity of $585,000. Do you know what happened there? >> You know what? I saw that myself. I I don't know. I'm not I don't know what happened there. I didn't ask about it, but I did I did see that that

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>> Mayor, do you have any idea? No, other than you say miss, but it was presumably paid late or your do we have any indications for date? >> It it um it becomes a charge against your surplus for 2026.

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Um essentially a liability that you carried from last year into this year. So it wasn't paid last year and I guess has to be paid this year. But my own personal experience is that when you're a day late with the board of

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education um you know immediately so it's not clear to you what happened there and I thought maybe you or Mr. Dar or um Mr. Sim would know. >> Well I do know that at this point I don't know what was set up then. I know now that uh we're actually set up to uh

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I have actually set up as soon as I get the the bill from they they send the bill months in advance and how much you owe. >> Yes. >> And uh I actually so I actually have at this point set up automatic wire transfers uh coming directly out of uh our uh our current plan account directly

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to school. So those are set up. We can't miss those payments at this I know we won't miss them this year because they're essentially already set up in the system >> at least on that on that >> but I'm not sure what happened there. >> I will follow up with you personally and make sure that we address. >> Okay. Um

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any of the other questions I have I'll raise later when I get a chance to thank you for the additional time. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Other comments or questions about the initial budget? you seeing that

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>> uh Thomas Jan 6123rd Avenue I do want to compliment you on that budget because you did have all these hurdles and uh I just like to you know understand that insufficient funds were left to pay off

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the employees retroactive and and the obviously they were insufficient because they were using the amount that they thought the public employees deserved and not the amount that the public employees got. And

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that's the reason why the whole negotiation took two and a half years and over $100,000 well over $100,000 paid to the HR attorney who represented the town. Not Mr. Canon. I want to clarify that it

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was someone else who obviously wasn't very good at their job. But to now come back, this this gentleman spoke before me to come back and say that sufficient amounts were left. They were not left. That is not a factual statement. And the

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employees were granted the sufficient amounts that they deserved and should have deserved two and a half years prior. So what you the hurdles that you jumped are unbelievable. And I can't believe that um no one ever said that we

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had a CFO for a very long time in this building who lost his certification to be a CFO, but yet the people in the public were never informed of that. Nobody was ever informed. I had to call DCA, have a DCA person tell me the

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reason he's not here is because he lost his certification. So again, the mess that you've had to clean up is amazing. And it it really just razes me that you're having an open, transparent discussion here, which was not something we had under the previous administration

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when documents were held back, numbers were held back, we weren't allowed to ask Mr. Garts any questions. I mean, it was a horrible thing. So, uh, I I do want to, uh, compliment you on that. And, uh, thank you, sir. >> Okay. Thank you. Any other comments or

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questions in the room? Anyone on Zoom? Yes. >> Good evening with the W32 friendly. I would like us to move forward and stop going backwards and making all negative. We don't need to go there again, but I do have a question. Um I didn't know you

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corrected it, but our salaries for the recck department is just reporting, right? because I do know she has other people working on the other side that have nothing to do with you. Correct. >> She has counselors that their service.

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>> Yes. But those are mostly paid out of the uh recreation trust where user fees to uh for uh that uh people pay to have their children attend. >> Yes. So where camp counselors are paid out of the trust. >> They're basically Yes. So the money comes in where people pay for the camp and then the camp counselors are paid

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out. >> That's correct. How do we ever know how much money is generated from the camp? >> We uh >> because I never really see that kind of stuff on >> we we have we have that we have uh that >> like it pay I want to know it pays for

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itself is what I'm asking. >> It does if you want to um if we can get you that that information. >> No, it's not. I just want to know if it pays for itself. >> It it actually pays for itself and then some. the camp does the overall wreck department doesn't quite pay for this but it's paid

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>> so the miscellaneous the 16,900 miscellaneous is just like supplies I guess things to buy >> I'm not familiar with that >> 16 16 actually we reduced that line interesting you bring that up I believe the initial line item was 16,900 we

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actually reduced it by 10,000 in amended budget uh given that we were going to pay for most of those costs out of the trust as opposed to paying them out of the reg regular operating budget. >> So what constitutes paying out of a trust? Like you have guidelines that you can use for that? >> Well, there's a there the the

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municipality puts forth a dedication by writing that says the things that are uh eligible for purchase with the trust and that obviously includes camp counselor salaries. uh things like um a lot of it is uh is you know items for the kids and

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you know but the way that it kind of works is some you know the recreation department is a is a service to the community and there are some activities where uh there's essentially a net profit uh where you bring in more money

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than than it costs you to run the program and there's other there's other programs where uh you bring almost no money, but but it costs more. So, at the end of the day, we're trying to get it, you know, create a a good balance where

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uh most of this these uh programs are paid out of user fees. Um and and as as far as where the balance is between, you know, how much uh revenue we receive uh from a program versus how much we spend on it, it varies from program to

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program, but I can speak to the to the camp. The camp uh the camp pretty much does pay for itself. >> Great. That's all I'd like to know. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Excuse me. Isn't position also on shared service? >> It is our our rec center director

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Courtney Papus last year uh brought an opportunity to the burough that she would work in a kind of dual capacity serving as our rec director as well as EP cities. uh we entered into a shared service agreement with city uh that is

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netting the burough of Bradley Beach an extra $50,000 a year to offset her salary cost. So that that went a long way to getting us closer to a break even overall operating position on on the record department. I think we're still

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shy 20 grand or so, but we were shy 70. So we're much closer break even overall. Okay. No other questions. Anyone on Zoom? No one that I see. Okay. I will make a motion that we close the

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public hearing. >> Sorry. Second. I shot. >> Thank you. Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Green. Yes. >> Mr. Car. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. All right. Now, we will have the uh governing body discussion on the budget amendment. Mr. side. I believe now you

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will be able to pursue that. >> Yes. I don't know. >> Can Tommy hear me? Oh, there we go. Okay. I don't know if it I don't know if it opens up more than this. This is a lot of stuff. A lot of

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these slides are are slides that I gave over in the initial presentation. Uh not much has really changed. This just kind of goes over the the portion of taxes that are paid from the schools of your of your tax dollars that go toward municipal tax, school tax, the county

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tax, library tax. Um, go ahead and go to the next slide, Tommy. Okay, go to the next slide. Okay. Um, I mostly just wanted to there actually was a very very very slight

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change in the in the in the uh in the tax rate between the amended budget and the uh the initial budget and the uh and the amended budget. So uh the local tax rate uh went from 0.3344,

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it's that middle line on the left side to 0.3346. So the tax on the average home went up about $2 as a result of that for the year. So it was mostly just kind of a rounding error. So uh so that went up uh

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a small amount. Um but the amount that uh and and the amount that the average assessed home will pay in district manage school taxes this from between 2025 and 2026 is uh just under $160 a

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year. So that's the difference between the two years. That's for the average assessed homes. Um, go to the next slide. And on this slide, I kind of I I went over this slide last time, but we added a few things as far as uh um one-time

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expenditures that we're going to uh uh utilize uh the sale of the municipal asset of the church toward. Um and the two new things that and the most of the uh amendments to the

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budget it's just kind of moving a little money around here or there. Um but these were the major changes and I wanted to point those out. So um the first one being that uh there's been a little discussion on the on how much money was

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acred to pay for the the the retro um the retro pay for the salaries that we had to make up. Uh what we actually discovered uh just in the last uh month or so is that not only was money not acrewed for enough not only was there

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not enough money accured to pay for the retro salaries but there was basically no money acred to pay for the pension contribution required by uh Bradley Beach and the retro salaries for 2023 and 2024 were about $560,000.

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So the pension uh payment that we need to make to the state as a result of that 560,000 is $90,000. So it's it's a pretty large expense for a small bureau. So uh we consider that

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effectively to be a uh a one-time expenditure. So we are going to uh uh utilize some revenue from that from the sale of the church. And that's at $90,000 on that uh second line from the bottom under 2023 2024 retro pension

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payments. So that's a $90,000 change in the budget. That was significant. The second uh main change is that we budget for uh police radios in the amount of $350,000. Um Mayor, do you want to speak to the the

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the situation where we we there might be a grant, it might not be and what we do here. So, our chief of police sitting, excuse me, you know, directly to my right has been adamantly, passionately explaining

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to me and and to our council, uh, the desperate situation we as a burrow are in in terms of our police radios. Basically, and chief, if I get any of this wrong, please correct me. But basically, we our radios are old and do not

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communicate with every other Mouth County Police Department. So, if there is I'm making this up, but if there is a chase, a pursuit of some sort, crossing town lines, we're not even likely to to understand that is happening because our radios don't connect to anybody else. We

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need upgraded radios. And as of a month or two ago when we were planning our original budget, uh we were we were told by uh uh our legislators in at the state level that we had a pretty good shot at getting grant funding to support the

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cost of these radios, roughly 350,000. last week or so, within the last week or two, uh we are at least are beginning to hear rumblings from uh the governor's office that there may be severe cutbacks

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in funding and and now all of a sudden we've gone from being probable to being doubtful that we could receive that 350. It's not it's not a foregone conclusion that it's gone, but we're we're believing now that it's unlikely. And

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for that reason, given that we have this opportunity to revisit our budgeting for 2026, we're adding a $350,000 line item that if we need to move forward and and secure these radios this year, and if there's no other grant funding

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available, and an alternative would be what we're doing here is budgeting 350 that we would fund uh as we're uh encouraged to do from the uh sale of the church, the proceeds from the sale of the a capital asset that was sold and we

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made a profit to use for other capital assets. Radio is in fact our capital assets. We can use those funds. This council has not yet decided if we will, but by budgeting for it, we're able to if we want to. We might still get grant funding. If we get grant funding, this

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will all just flow through the surplus. We won't spend anything out of our budget. If on the other hand uh we decide uh to uh to do a bonding uh some sort of taking out some sort of debt for that 350 I don't know what the useful

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life for radius is five or seven years but we could spread that cost say over five or seven years that will be another option for the council to consider in that case once again we would not spend the full 350 so we may spend none of the 350 we may want to bond for that and

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spend a portion of the 350 each over, you know, seven or so years. Um, or we'll have the option once the council has the time to evaluate the alternatives to spend the full 350 out of the church proceeds. But I think what we're all agreed upon, we haven't figured out how we're going to fund it,

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but we want to make sure we have the ability to fund it because we really don't see our police department being able to operate without upgraded radios much longer than they already have. Uh, Chief, can I ask you to And that's what just said. Thank you very much. >> Yes, sure. No problem. So, I I have

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voiced to the governing body. Um, but there is a there is a safety issue. So, the mayor's correct that our officers are not capable of communicating with any town surrounding our port in Mon

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County. Um, so we are, if not the last, one of the last towns utilizing VHF radio, which is essentially a thing of the past. Everybody is on digital now. Um, a lot of it's being ran out of

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Mammoth County or on a state line. So BMR, I believe, was one of the last next to us. They just uh went through a whole uh radio project. I think they are just about to hit the switch, if they haven't already, to go digital. Uh the cost for

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them was a little over half a million dollars. Um we're looking to secure around 350. We've we've gotten uh estimates for all the equipment, our infrastructure, uh the police cars, your handheld radios, and it would also be

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able to provide handheld radios to, you know, fire first aid, our lifeguards, um as well as OEM. So, uh there's a there's a major safety concern and not only can't can we not speak with anybody in the area, um

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the AHF is um very susceptible to modern um you know, technology. It can be interrupted very easily by Wi-Fi and cell phones and computers. It's just even within our town only being, you

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know, close to a square mile, there is constant interruptions where the officers are not even able to communicate with dispatch, which is another major safety concern. They're inside buildings or down at the beachfront and they are not able to communicate. It's just not making it to

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dispatch. We've had Motorola as our radio company. They've come out, tested our antennas, everything so on so forth. It's just VHF is a thing of the past and it just it's easily interrupted. So, it's a it's a major problem. It's a big

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safety concern. Uh that's why I voice it to the governing body to see if there's something we can do moving forward. >> You mentioned that's also for fire EMS as well because I know I've heard similar types where they're unable to

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communicate with nearby towns, the county. >> Right. Right. So, you know, we we obviously dispatch uh fire and first aid and once they get to the scene, they are communicating through our dispatch, you know. So, again, there's problems there as well. So, there's a there's a serious

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safety concern and um I think we've put it off for too too long. There's been some governing advice in the past. They just kind of said it was too expensive, but it's really becoming a major safety concern and officers are documenting it, you know, multiple times a week that

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they weren't able to communicate to dispatch whether it's on a traffic stop, whether at, you know, a fire call, you know, on the beach front, whatever it may be. But there is a concern. >> Thank you, Chief. Uh, >> yeah, mayor. I think the best analogy is the uh police department is working with

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black and white TVs. That's the technology they have right now. So this is one of the challenges of governing body managing municipality stuff comes at you from left field sometimes and this is an example that we

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the current council at least did not fully appreciate. So chief brought it to our attention earlier this year and even at that time our goal was to not spend taxpayer money. Even at that time we immediately reached out to our legislators state federal any where can

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we find funding and the short answer was we thought we had it. Now we're not so sure as I mentioned earlier. So we need to make sure we we have an option to make sure our police have the equipment they need. the mayor could just say and this is not you know we've I like I said

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I've been going through getting cost you estimates for radios consoles um this is not something where we're just like hey just whatever it costs you know I I sat there with every vendor and

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I even brought you know Elmar over to look and see if there's some equipment that's currently our infrastructure if we could utilize some of that going forward and there is so you know I definitely like I said Delmare was over over half million um you know there is

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some some costs that were cut because there is some equipment we can we can use black and white TVs >> uh other comments or questions back to you >> yeah so I was going to bring up uh I don't have it on the slide but the other

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like I said most are the these are the main changes in the budget. Uh the other changes we we budgeted um in general administration we budgeted an extra $40,000 uh from the introduced budget to this in this amendment uh because we uh uh hired

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a grant writer uh to talk about we've been kind of talking about grants that we're looking uh looking to get. So, we uh we have a grant writer that's going to hopefully uh help us secure some of this funding that we're talking about now. So, we added uh uh funds to that line item. Um

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we also uh which was come up before uh that was brought up, we uh because of the shared service with Neptune City for recreation, we're able to reduce the salary wage line item in recreation uh from $55,000 to $25,000. So, we've saved

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$30,000 there. And um it's really um there's a we allocated a small amount uh more toward building grounds for southern regions too. Um uh just as a result of staffing changes

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that we made there. Um everything else is is pretty minor. Um, >> and as you pointed out, the changes from this version of the budget to prior is a couple dollars a year for >> right as far as impacting the the local

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tax is $2 a year, >> which is still roughly that same 4.7 whatever that >> it's still it's still 4.7 >> 78 or 79% I believe. So um yeah if Tommy if you could go to the next slide I

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think and then the slide after that maybe keep going. Yeah this is just information. Um obviously the budget hearings amendment resolutions is this evening. Um uh tomorrow we will post uh

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uh the amendments and the amended budget to the uh website where everyone can take a look at it. Um then uh on June 30th uh we're planning to have a special uh meeting where I think the only thing on the agenda will

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be the adoption of the budget. Um so that will be on June 30th. And uh if you have questions uh there so I don't know if anybody else has any questions or anything else to add. Council any other comments or questions?

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>> Thanks again. Thank you, Mr. Simon. Appreciate it. All right. Um, I'm going to do the unusual thing of uh opening up to the public one more time. I know you're just hearing this stuff for the first time, but are there any questions about anything you heard regarding the

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amendments that we just discussed? I I'll make a motion that we open up to the public. Second, >> Mr. Noble? Yes. M. Green? >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark? Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mayor Bubos? >> Yes. Public? Any comments or questions about this most recent discussion? Mr.

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Co? >> Sure. I appreciate Thomas J. Go at 6123rd Avenue. Mr. S, I I appreciate you breaking out the one time only items out of that uh proceeds of the church. It's very important for the public to see that and I think it's a a really

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important factor in terms of what you're doing. I really appreciate uh in the adjustments that were made uh the uh 200,000 for the affordable housing trust fund was not included in the first um

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presentation. Um but now it is in this worksheet that you you presented and um I I really appreciate that and I was wondering I wanted to ask um Mr. majority. Um, now that once this budget is approved and that 200,000 is is set

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aside, um, is there any way we could contact Fairshare Housing, maybe a letter from you to say that we've done it because it is part of our affordable housing uh, plan and I want to let them know that, you know, we have we are following our obligation as presented

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and uh, hopefully we have applications coming up this year which should give us more units and and, you know, show that we we've met our responsibilities to the state, but I think if we if we now that this is out there in the public, we'll let them know. >> Appreciate it. Thank you very much.

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>> Thank you. >> Other comments, questions? Yes, Miss Meadow. Nancy, Ocean Parks. I may be sitting here enough to questions. Um, but I'm seeking clarification.

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Um, because I see that on this sheet we are talking 14 million in expenditures. Um, our fire department is volunteer. Are they paid or unpaid volunteers?

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They're unpaid volunteers, but we do pay for a lot of their equipment. >> Okay. So, I'm just curious if you could clarify. Um, it says salary under like midway down the page. Um, fire prevention

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bureau salary and wages is going from 12,000 to 32,000. Again, a spit and bucket when you're talking 14 million, but that's not equipment. That's not >> It's not fire department either. >> Okay. What is it? >> We have a fire inspector that we hired.

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>> No. No. That's for This is for the fire marshall actually is with our fire department. >> That's correct. >> Okay. So, you're saying it's like an individual >> the building across the street kind of thing. >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you for clarifying. If I could point out that the reason why

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that there was that budget change is that uh in the previous version of the budget the uh allocation for the salary of the fire um there was some confusion the fire marshall they kind of had the fire marshall under the fire inspection

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budget line item that was incorrect and we put it in the right part portion budget. So that was more of moving of money than an increase if that makes any difference. just to comment that the amount of work that CFL has done to organize the

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accounting >> to be able to better budget all these things and I know when I'm doing the capital improvements the history over the last five years stuff is all in different places and the amount of effort to try to straighten I think that's a lot of that what people

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are hearing like this one particular here in the accounting system things are not necessarily where they should be or could you know should have And so there is a lot of trying to straighten out and and um look at the accounting and understand where the numbers are and what counts are being charged to and

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where they're done appropriately. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's funny because uh I I want to just echo what you said Paul and that is that this sign brand new to us number one a full-time CFO and anyone working in the burrow anyone up here on this council knows that uh we were long

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overdue. We needed a full-time CFO. Uh we welcome Mr. Simon with open arms. Uh and I I sometimes hope and worry that he regrets accepting our job because uh daily he comes to me and and

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identifies you know accounting that has been incorrect for years. Uh he's making adjustments that go back to 1920 and 1921 and 222 certain bond ordinances and so forth. dollars that were just

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allocated to the wrong buckets. Um, it's a significant cleanup process, but I'm very thankful. I think this is everybody's very thankful that we have a full-time CFO because what I've learned personally, when you have shared services, it looks great. You you save money. You know, you're paying less for

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a share service than you would for a full-time employee with with benefits. However, share services, what I've learned, they're very talented, smart people, but they they do what they have to do to get the, you know, the accounting done and the budget forms

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filled in, but they don't spend a lot of time correcting flawed controls, uh, updating system. You know, we've got a edit system that hadn't been reconciled to our, you know, our formal accounting

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for years. Edmonds would give us totals that were 8 to9 million when our budget was 11 and 12 million. I mean it was off by two or three million dollars because no one had been updating evidence for years. So it's taking time but Mr.

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Simon's leading the charge here and we all appreciate your efforts. >> Other comments or questions? Yes, sir. Jerry Fetti, excuse me, Jerry Fetti and the 45 mil. Um, first chief, I'd like to

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uh commend you and the in the um and the police officers for doing such a phenomenal job working in such call archaic system that you're currently working. Uh, and I'd hate to see a situation where we have to wait for something to happen and then we say, "Oh

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god, why didn't we do it last year or whatever, whatever." and we have to second guess ourselves about how long will that if that was approved today about how long chief would you think it would take to put into place just curious a rough estimate

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>> two months at most >> two months so I guess I I'm just going to ask the board if if that was approved today or could it be approved today obviously contingent on the fact that if we can get a grant we get a grant but at

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least at least that puts it in motion so we don't have to wait for the new governor, the new administration to play around with whatever they're going to do in in in Trenton and it may or may not happen and we may have to wait months for that. Can it be done where we can

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put it into effect and if we get the grant then it's it's done but at least we know we have it uh taken care of. >> The short answer is no. We can't do it today because we don't have the budget. Once we approve this budget, >> well, that's what I'm talking about.

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>> Yeah. So, well, I'll be tomorrow too literal. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Uh once the budget is adopted, we'll be in a position that we can approve it and then the question will just become what's the most efficient combination of of uh spending. So, we

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all know I I think I can speak for the governing body. We all know how critical this is to the police. >> What we don't know is what's the best way to finance it. If we can get grant funding, that's the best. >> Sure. >> But if that doesn't materialize quickly, we got to give that a little time. If

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that doesn't materialize pretty quickly, then then we'll have to just look at what are the underwriting costs for the bonding, what's the interest for the bonding, how many years can we spread the useful life, and we'll look at spent 350 right up front to get it done with with proceeds from the church or do we

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bond, spread it over, spend the cost over seven years, uh, maintain the church proceeds for other capital expenditures, and we'll look at that shortly. So, we're not talking about dragging this out for months, but could be could be one month or two. Is there

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any ramification for spending the money and then applying getting the grant? You can't spend it. >> Right. Will not reimburse. >> Right. So that's the challenge that we'll face is >> right. Thank you.

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>> You just repeat your address please. >> Sir, >> what's your address? >> I'm sorry. 405 noon. >> Thank you. >> Sorry. >> That's okay. >> Any other comments or questions about the amendments? >> Okay. I'll make a motion to close the

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the public hearing. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. Yes, Mr. Green. Yes, >> Mr. Clark. Yes, >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes, >> Mayor Gubzi. >> Yes. All right. I will make a motion that we uh approve resolution 2026-167 introducing the municipal budget

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amendment introduction. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Green, yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Yes. Uh, thank you all for going through that with us. Uh, hopefully we can now move fairly quickly through the rest of the agenda. Item seven, presentations and

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bids. There are none. Uh item eight, approval of minutes from the June 4th, 2026 council business meeting minutes. >> Second. >> No, no. >> Oh, sorry. I I wasn't here. >> I wasn't here. >> Okay, that's right. Mr. Noble, um I will abstain since I was not here. Mr. Green,

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>> yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, yes. >> Mayor Hubatzi, >> abstain. I also was not here. Okay. And now we're item nine on the agenda, which is public comments or questions pertaining to anything on the agenda. If you have comments or questions outside

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of anything on the agenda, you'll have to wait till the end of the week. >> Comments or questions? >> Yes, sir. I feel like somebody was I'm all new to this. Uh my name is Mark Kman, 315 Brimley Avenue. Been a

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resident for over 30 years. I've just seen nothing but increase in all the just poverty and and just just a wealth of just um positiveness in this in this town since I've been here. So, thank you all for contributing to that. Um again,

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my first meeting here, so I'm not sure what the actually protocol is other than there's an item on here about Darcy's and you can see I'm wearing a soccer shirt there. Soccer fan, big soccer fan, family, friends, neighbors, and all

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that. Um, and the part where it says granting permission to 12:30 a.m. Um, I'd like to see that or I don't know if that's appropriate, but I'd like to see something like that happen cuz u just with all the family, friends, neighbors,

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people outside of the town. I know uh Darcy's uh they put on well actually beach uh the kickoff for the World Cup. Anyone there? Yeah. All right. Uh Darcy's was there. Uh my daughter's uh soccer team was also there. They were

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represented. Uh she played for she played for like four different teams, but uh Bradley Beach did a outstanding job recognizing her and her team. So I'm just excited for for soccer being here. It's a once in a lifetime getting it all

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here. So I'd like to uh you know see whatever's needed for them to have a commission. >> Thank you. >> Is that it? I guess that's it. >> Well, thank you. I didn't realize these meetings go that long. And I give you guys all credit.

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>> It's I don't know. I actually thought I'd be up in five minutes and I'll be out. I'm missing the six o'clock game, but the budget >> anyway. Yeah. >> Thank you guys. >> How you guys all doing today?

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Um, ready bell 506 Avenue by the beach. Hey. >> Hey. >> Um, this is real simple. Darcy's has been a partner to the town for 20 years now. Can we as

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do it? It's time for us to be that partner for them. >> And I think you got a typo. It says June 14th. >> There's two different One of them is a um what do you guys call >> retroact retroactive >> retroactive and then this one is for

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>> the other one should say June 25th >> that's what I thought that one >> thanks >> other comments or questions yes >> good evening council I'm here about the resolution 2026-1812

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as well um my name is Lisa I preside at 621th Avenue I literally my backyard is 10 ft from the back door of Darcy's. Um I'm here as with my neighbor who just said and my other neighbor I'm in full support of letting them have their TVs

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go on till 12:30. I will hear them. I will go big yells and the screams but that's okay. I'll have a tired day next at work. I love the excitement. I love the energy it brings to our town. Um I love also listening to when they have live music I can sit on my course for

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free and listen to it as well. So being a direct lever Jason said. I've been living I've owned and resided in that house for the same 20 years as far since it's been there. So, I'm in full support of this resolution directly. Thank you for your time.

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>> Thank you very much. >> Any other comments or questions? Miss Meadow. Okay, I'm the lone desenter apparently. Um, speaking especially against 180 and 181

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at this time. Um, and I know how you all are going to vote because we've been through this before with several establishments. Um, I normally stay out of things that are south of Grimley. It's not my part of town. It's really none of my

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business. They know what's best for them. Stay out of my business. I know what's best for us. Um, I looked on the website to try to find the form that one would submit

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to keeping your business open till 2:30 in the morning. I didn't find it. I'm not saying it's not there. I'm just saying I didn't find it. I also looked under the ordinances to see the time frame that is allowed for submitting

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something to be placed on the agenda. I did not find that either. So, I'm going to say either get your acts together and figure this all out and make it easily available or stick to the process that's there

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that I did not see. But to constantly grant exceptions does not sit well with me. Maybe it's because I'm a Virgo. I don't know. Um, you set a precedent every time you do this.

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In my opinion, for June 14th, it should have been shut down. We have law enforcement. There was no permit. It was not there. I'm tired of hearing things are under the discretion of the police department.

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How lovely that you want to give them some safety equipment because you don't want to respond after an accident after they need equipment. I don't even want to discuss one-way streets. Do not enter because there's nothing that is done at least in my end of the town.

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So again, I know your positions on all of this. You've stated it all before, but not everyone wants to support this. And more importantly, where is your structure? Where are you

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following the process? And that is the bigger picture because this particular business as well as others, it's not really unique to them. I'm going to come back again and again and always ask for exceptions. you're going to have to do

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something retroactive. It's not right. It's not what you're there for. So, while you're trying to straighten other things out, and I do recognize those efforts, there's other efforts where your

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um energy can be placed. Thank you. >> Thank you. And just just to help you navigate a little, you search special events. I did. Well, we do have a form. So, I don't know why you could find >> again. I said I didn't see I didn't say it wasn't there,

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>> but there is proc for everyone else listening. There is process of procedure. You have we'll connect you to it. >> I just want a new website. >> Understood. Thank you. Any other comments or questions? Yes,

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sir. >> Good evening. My name is Kevin Judge. I'm a partner at Darcy's Tavern. I live in law. Hope you can hold that against me. Um, so I first want to thank you for not not only approving last Saturday, but also considering our request for

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extending the outside outdoor on the 25th. Um, I'd also like to thank the residents who came here and took time out of their day to support us and for those who are in opposition and we understand the concern. So, you know, to

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the council, you know, we're just hopeful that, you know, similar to, you know, Governor Cheryl, who's kind of recognized that the World Cup in the US is kind of like a once in a-lifetime thing. So, you know, she's willing to, you know, make some concessions to

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support, you know, New Jersey businesses. And we're just thankful and appreciative and hopeful that you'll also um consider, you know, some of our special requests, you know, during this short period of time. So um thank you and uh I will also add that whatever the

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decision is Darcy will be in full compliance. So thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other hands? Any other questions, comments? Okay, seeing none, we'll move on to item 10 on the agenda which are ordinances

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and there are none. Item 11, communications, there are none. Item 12, resolutions. We have a number of consent agenda resolutions. Does anyone on council want to vote out any of those or discuss any of those separate? >> I just wanted to make a comment. I I

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went over with Erica before the meeting. The 2026-169 for Mary's Place by the Sea. They start their walk at 7:30 a.m. and they have agreed. They know that they can't make noise until 8 and they are going to respect our ordinance of that. So, they

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won't disturb people at 7:30 on a Saturday morning. But 8 a.m. they can't crank. >> They can't crank it, you know. Respectful. Yes. Because I'm sure people they they have not they've been very good. They've been here in the past and um they're reminded every year that you

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know it down start at 8:00 type. >> And it's and they're coming down. They're not stationed here. So they're starting in Ocean Grove. >> Yeah. They start Ocean Road. We're going to end up and then turn around and go back the other way. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Okay. Any other comments or

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questions about the consent agenda? >> Okay. >> In that case, I'll make a motion that we approve consent agenda resolution items 2026-168 through 2026-173. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble. Yes. >> M. Green. >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gossi. >> Yes. You know, when you weren't here, Yes. >> other people actually got to second. >> Okay. We'll take turns. Shauna, you're next. which is at the end of the line. >> All right. Uh, individual resolution

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2026-174. This is approving a block party on the 300 block of 3rd Avenue for Saturday, July 11th with a rain date of Saturday, August 1st from 4 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Any comments or questions? I know there's a conflict at the moment. My mom had a new

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one. >> It is. So, some people are going to have to make a choice as to which one. >> Okay. Yeah, I did check with the chief to make sure that it was okay. >> It's all >> Am I allowed to vote on this if I'm

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invited and I live on Third Avenue? >> I can't make it to the party. >> I I can vote on it. >> I'm not within 200 feet. >> I'll touch. But yeah, what about um >> I won't be able to vote. >> No, that's okay. We have We have three other people.

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>> This is my All right. >> We're going to have a couple of obstensions, but I'm going to make a motion. >> I'll be sending you invitations. >> We I make a motion we approve 2026-174 for the block party. >> Mr. I'll abstain since I live on Third

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Avenue. >> Miss Green. >> Yes. >> Mr. Parkain. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Natzi. >> Yes. 2026-175 authorizing the execution of a shared service agreement with the county of

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Mammed for public safety answering point PSA 911. Uh Chief, this is this is something we've had in place already. >> Yeah. Every few years. >> Yeah. It's like a fouryear contract. >> All right. Any comments or questions?

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>> Make a motion to approve 2026-175. >> Second. >> M. Uh Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> M green. Yes. Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Dubatosi. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki, would you like to be the next item?

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>> Sure. On January 26, 176 authorized an award proposed for professional services with Arthon from the senior associates for prominade extension phase one. So, um, we just recently took bids. be awarded the contract uh with prominade extension which is extending the

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prominade from Third Avenue to 2nd Avenue. Construction will begin sometime after uh 4th of July. We're waiting for that information uh from the contractor. developing a schedule and we'll be sharing um a lot of communications with

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the burrow, significant communications of mailings, uh QR codes on the boardwalk. Um you know, keeping everybody posted on what is happening between Second and Third Avenue when this construction begins. So, plenty of notice. Uh and we're going to try to

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minimize those disruptions the best that we can and we're looking at options of how to do that and working with the contractor. So what this is this particular resolution is for Arthon to do the construction management inspection work and support of

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communications etc for this project during construction. They did the design. This is the construction phase. So I would make a motion to approve um 2026 76 for the authoriz proposal for

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professional services. Mr. Noble. >> Yes, Miss Green. >> I would also just like to point out that it's critical to um educate the um badge checkers. They're not aware of what's going on. They were going to start asking. >> There's a whole communications plan is

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being done for all the all the municipal not just the beach, police, emergency, OEM, administration, so everybody's informed what's going on. >> Okay. You also going to have a QR code so people can scan it and can see the plans and see what's happening when.

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>> Right. Well, there the only reason I'm pointing that out is that they're the point of contact with the public and they've already started and they just simply don't know my Yes. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Dubatosi. Before I vote, I just to

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the screen's point some of them do know because uh Sean Heer is our bridge manager and he's been sharing with them but he can only share what he knows and it's up to us to get them that information that announcement with a lot of the detail or plans to get

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out tomorrow but but he has had preliminary conversations. I will yes. >> All right, Mr. Nikki, you're on the road. You want to Yes. Resolution 2026 177 authorization to award the Ocean Park Avenue sanity sewer improvements

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phase one to Fernandez construction. Um there's actually two different um construction contracts. This is the first of the two. Uh so Ocean Park is going to be reconstructed between Ocean Avenue and Madison. We were having a lot

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of problems with this section. If people recall last summer, a lot of backups, lot of issues. We had to do temporary replacement of of manholes and to undo clogs in the main line collapses. Uh so we did that. This is the first section

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of the overall program that we've gotten through the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank. We've been talking about now for a year and um so this is the first contract to award that construction. This construction will not begin until

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after Labor Day. We're we're awarding the contract, but we're not going to begin construction until after the high season. We have enough going on in town with the problem, not extension, and we don't need to disrupt the sewer work. So, we're going to wait till after Labor Day to begin this work. Um, so with

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that, I'd like to um make a motion to authorize the ocean parks improvements phase one to Fernand Construction. Second, >> Mr. Noble. >> 177. >> Mr. Noble. Yes, M. Greenlet. Um I also

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just want to point out that the cost for this of $955,000 um almost $956,000 will be covered and not coming out of Bradley Beach's pockets because it's um

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it's it's um principal forgiveness, a $2 million principal forgiveness. So that's going to cover both 177 and 178 for um Fifth Avenue in Park Place. Yes, >> that's that's critical. >> That's very important. >> I left that for you to say because you

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were instrumental in helping us find. >> Okay. Right. And yes, let's go. Oh, I did have one other comment. So, we're awarding both of these to Fernandez. Will they have two separate teams and the work will not slow down because they're going to be working? >> We will be working that out with them,

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but yes, they said they have the capacity to do. >> Okay. >> Mr. Park. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki. >> Yes. Yes. Mayor. >> Yes. >> And resolution 261 178 authorization to

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award Fifth Avenue and Park Play Center improvements phase two to Fernand's construction. Phase one of Fifth Avenue was um down to Madison from Main Street. That work was just recently completed, repaid this spring. This is the completion of Fifth Avenue from Madison

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to Ocean Avenue and one additional block of Parkplace. About three years ago, a section of Parkplace was done. And so what we have is enough money um in this fiscal forgiveness and the infrastructure bank. And so we wanted to maximize that 2 million this this past

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or this fiscal year which ends July 1st. So we've incorporated those two blocks from Madison to Ocean Avenue and Fifth Avenue and one block of Parkplace and this work also will be done after September. It is with also with

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Fernandez as council woman points out um and that yes they would have put low bidder on both contracts and they've done the other work on Fifth Avenue. We're very happy with their work and so I'd like to make a motion to uh approve uh the award sanctu

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phase two two for construction. >> Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Greenlat, yes. Mr. Park, >> yes. >> Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. All right. Uh back to me. 2026-179.

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This is an individual resolution uh looking to prorate and reduce the annual license fee for the burrow's new but yet to be completed and that's what I would underline for everybody yet to be completed beachfront prominent

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concession at Ocean Park AB and Parkplace AB and what's happening here is we originally had a concession uh awarded to to the high bidder 21,000 Um and then uh they expected to be able

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to launch their concession early in the summer. The plan was Memorial Day. Construction is still ongoing. Uh the contractors hit delays. Um they're missing the start of the summer and even as we speak, we don't quite know if the

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contractor is even going to make a July 4th deadline. They had a they had a as I mentioned a Memorial Day deadline. Now now it's going to be tightened to get July 4th. Uh so in order to work with our new concession uh that has a 5year

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three-year contract. It's it's a multi-year contract. >> Uh we are agreeing to reduce their first year from 21,000 and change to 5,000. Uh, and this is just to get them started, get them introduced to Bradley

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Beach and our our uh, boardwalk. And hopefully they'll have a good experience when we can get them into that building. Uh, and they will very happily renew at this at the rate they initially quoted for year two, which will be in excess of 20,000. Any comments or questions on

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this one? >> Do you know what the status is of what's been completed so far and what's remaining? I I saw the concrete was poured outside. Yeah, I mean we we do know this the status to date is uh you know they poured a lot of the the

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sidewalks and they uh they've got uh they still need to do connecting for JCPNL right that's been the biggest upgrade for the concession that's been the biggest delay with JCPNL in there they are currently doing tiling work

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they have all fixtures there to put urals and toilets the finishing tiling. So there is a there's I'd say a 10% chance that they get there by the 4th of July at that, but it's it's probably going to be shortly thereafter because we need to

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get JCP on there to upgrade that that service >> and then and then longer for the concession portion >> or again that's all we could open those back up potentially prior to the concession being completed and we're talking we're looking at how we could do that. Um but again the contracts are

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electric operating that's that's the key piece >> the contract for the public's knowledge the contractor is sharing with the our engineer that they believe they will be completed by July 4th uh everyone else independent of that

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contractor including Baj our director of public works uh our former engineer council they are doubtful so all we can do is push them as hard as we can. I uh

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push them as hard as we can and hope that they can get this done by July 4th. But as of this point in time, we're intentionally giving a dramatic discount on first year. So with that said, I'll make a motion that we approve uh 2026-179. >> Second,

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>> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Miki, >> yes. Mayor, >> yes. Okay. Here is the first of our two Darcy's resolutions. And this one's a little curious. Uh some folks might not fully appreciate that we are

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retroactively approving uh Darcy uh to that they can stay open for business until 2:30 a.m. back on June 14th, whenever that was two days ago. Uh and the reason we're doing that is because the C we didn't have a

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council meeting by the time they came and asked for the special event. uh uh approval on our part. There was no time for the council to convene and do that. So uh and this is we're told perfectly legal. Uh Mr. Dohy pulled the council

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members who were available. Myself and Miss Denobyl are not able to vote because we live in close proximity to Darcy's. But the other three council members have given at least preliminarily have given Mr. Dhy uh their approval. Uh, and now we are voting to ratify that approval. So, any

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comments or questions? >> I think it's just important to point out that this was for uh it was it would normally have to close at 2 o'clock instead of 2:30 in the morning and this was indoors. >> Indoors have one half an hour. >> Half an hour.

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>> Any uh no other comments or questions? I can Jane and I both cannot talk. do the next one. >> Okay. >> I'd like to make a motion to approve 2026 180 per

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business until 2:30 a.m. on 146. >> Mr. Noble. I um have to abstain because I live within 200 ft. But I do have other multiple items that may appear as a conflict of interest that I wanted to share. I've hired Frank Morris in the past. Frank Morris Construction.

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Fabulous work. Um my nephew Aiden actually worked at Darcy's and he loved that job. And follow me closely. My partner is partners with one of the partners from Darcy's in a separate endeavor. So for those reasons, oh and I live within 200 feet. I will abstain.

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>> Thank you, >> Mr. Greenwood. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. Niki, >> yes. >> Mayori, >> my partner does not have a partner. >> Sorry, partner, >> but I do live within 200 feet and I also

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must abstain. >> Okay, thank you. >> All right. Item uh 2026-182 >> 181. 181. >> Okay. >> So, some of us do 181.

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>> Sure. Uh, so this is um 2026-181 granting permission for Darcy's Tavern to operate outdoor televisions until 12:30 a.m. or until 15 minutes after the US World Cup game on Thursday, June 25th, 2026.

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>> Uh, any questions? Any comments from the council? >> If not, I know Harp I know you and I had some discussions on this. I've also spoken to the chief of police and and I appreciate all of the residents coming out as well

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as the owners and you know it's an interesting thing. It is once in a lifetime thing you know here with the US Cup here. Um there's times when there's certain people um you know we've had some issues uh with parking on Main Street in the past with other businesses

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and and we worked those situations out um and and Darcy's accommodated agreement to put back parking. Um and it was also carrying my um knowledge that this past Friday um it was Friday. Yes. There was a there was a game and um

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Darcy's chose to not open for dinner because out of respect for the community because they did not want the congregate of of of people coming to that game and staying until, you know, beyond the 10:00 and and having to deal with a

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large crowd. Um, so they chose not to open the outdoor venue. Um, and I thought that was very respectful of the community being that they did not have that permit and understanding that they need to be a good neighbor and to go through a process for special events.

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So, I do appreciate that and that they came with this particular event. Um, there's always going to be opportunities for special events. This is pretty special. It's a US Cup. I'm not a major soccer fan, but I have been watching some games and and they are exciting. Not as exciting as the Knicks, not going

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to say. But again, it's special for the community to gather to come together. Um, and you know, again, looking for ways to um minimize the noise, maybe keep the sound down, things that you can do because soccer people get together and and the US is kicking butt and

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scoring. You're going to hear chance USA. You're going to see people hugging. You're going to see um an excitement in the and and there's going to be noise. And so we are we we realize that and you know in that respect I I do think that this is an important community event. we

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can um again be uh respectful and respect the police department that will be patrolling but also you know continue to respect the community when it's not a uh a special permit to do this and that Darcy remains

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as a good giving neighbor and that we can then in return be cooperative. So that's >> and I just want to add to that which and I know you're going to speak in a moment um which is that the three of us were speaking one-on-one um significantly once this question came to us and taking

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very seriously the need for safety um recommendations from the police department. Uh an understanding of the community and to what degree um the nearby residents might be affected by it, disturbed by it, in favor of it. Um

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and so you know with that I think we sort of came to an understanding to make this decision for this one time. >> U I'm going to go to the glasses down. Um, so I've um carefully

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considered Darcy's request to extend the outdoor operations until midnight for the upcoming USA soccer match to spike the current ordinance prohibiting outdoor activity after 10 p.m. As part of my decision-making process, I got on

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my bike and I started biking up and down Second Avenue, Third Avenue, Fourth Avenue. I don't think you were home. Um, this was uh last Friday, so I was knocking on doors and ress because they want to take the temperature of the room of the people who would mostly be

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affected by that decision. Um, I will say that the overwhelming majority of the residents I spoke to expressed support for granting this one-time exception, citing Darcy's long-standing presence in our community, the unique nature of this event, and

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their desire to see local businesses benefit from the increased activity associated with the match. I had one person who told me about what happened on Friday night when Darcy's had made the decision to close where they were like, you know, that it's not just Darcy's that benefits from this. It's

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like, you know what, they decided, you know what, they weren't going to come down to Bradley Beach, so they weren't going to go to the beach the next day. They weren't going to have breakfast uh at the one of the restaurants in town. So, it's there is there's a waterfall effect that happens because of these

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types of decisions. Um, but at the same time, I think it's important to remember that when businesses ask for exceptions to our rules, that their overall record of following these rules matters and consistent compliance helps build the trust with residents and burough

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officials. And that trust makes it easier to consider special requests when unique situations like this arise. I think it certainly rises to the level of unique situation. Uh my support for this request shouldn't be seen as a guarantee that every

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request that comes before us will be approved in the future. Uh I think instead it reflects the unique nature of this event along with the strong support of the people that I spoke to as well as the people that are here. And it's my belief that a one-time exception is reasonable

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under these circumstances. Um I hope Darcy's ownership coming here views this exception as an opportunity to to be a good neighbor. Uh operate responsibility responsibly and be mindful of the nearby residents. And

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so for those reasons, I do support grand. >> So um can I actually Well, you know what? Let's do that first. Um so I'd like to make a motion to approve 2026 181 granting permission for Darcy's

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Tavern to operate until 12:30 or 15 minutes. >> So actually we're now in the voting, but there was a comment that I wanted to make. >> Oh, yes. >> Which was to make a minor change to the verbiage in the resolution. So, this

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does not affect the decision, but it's a minor change. >> Yeah. >> Um because there's something a little bit wonky, I think. Um so, let's just go to 2026 181 and see if this change can be made. It's dimun, which is um

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uh the second to last paragraph. It says, uh no, the third last paragraph. Um, whereas the Burough Council finds it to be in the best interests of all Americans for Darcy's Tavern to be permitted to operate. That's a little

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wonky to me. Um, so I'm wondering if we can change that and simply say um the mayor and council uh I'm sorry um the burough council finds um uh finds it beneficial for Darcy's Tavern uh to be

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permitted to operate. >> Can we make that change Mr. If you want to take all the fun out of my job, that's fine. >> I was able to join by myself in my office. >> Our attorney is a big sucker at this and

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player. >> So I make a motion to approve the amended version of >> second. Um Mr. Noble, I'll abstain again. You know why? Miss Green. >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Yes. >> Mr. Wiki. >> Yes. >> Abstain. >> Can I ask a question? >> Maybe. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Go. I'll >> No, no. Just my my question for you is you was that last motion

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to make the amendment because separately. >> Oh, did we do a >> minimus? Can they It's >> just Yeah, it's just a resolution. >> You can change. >> Uh is there I don't know if you had

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discussed anything with the police department or anybody else about security that at that time you know like when everybody is screaming and leaving and exiting. Um we have we have um I can't Tom is really our operational

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partner but we did give the chief a list of all the dates >> that you know we we would like the police presence. >> Okay. I'm pretty sure that's one of them. >> Trying to work close and I would say given the opportunity um the team has

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been great. Our chief's team has been great in terms of coming to sport. Thank you so much. >> Anything else? >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. So, we will move to 2026-182, the temporary emergency appropriations.

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These are just some final edits that Mr. S has shared with us. Any comments or questions? >> All right. I'll make a motion that we approve 2026-82. >> Second, Mr. Noble. >> Yes. M. Green. Yes. >> Mr. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki,

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>> yes. >> Mayor Gubzi, >> yes. Item 13 on the agenda, announcements. There are none. Item 148. Finally, we get to the most exciting part of the evening, the administrator report. >> Uh, thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm nice

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shortness of this. It's nice to have you back. By the way, all the employees in Bur Hall like uh happy to see the mayor back. And again, happy birthday. Mayor turned 59 years old. Uh, I I I want to just mention what a great job that Mitch Sin has done on the

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budget. Um, you know, aside from preparing the budget, he's also been working with Department of Community Affairs on this. And, um, as the mayor mentioned, on a regular basis, Mitch comes in uh, and expresses to us little things that he's finding. So,

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unbeknownst to us, he's essentially doing an audit, a uh, you know, a forensic audit of the budget and and the years in the past that brought us to where we are. So, um, it's nice that he's doing this now because it should be

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much more smoother sailing with our finances and our budget uh, in 2027. So, thank you for that. Uh lastly, uh I'd like to make myself as available as possible to the residents and to the members of the governing body. Uh unfortunately, I'm going to be out of

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town. Um >> you name and address, please before you uh I'm going to be out of town uh out of the country. So I will not be available really at all uh from the 20 from the

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20th until the 1st. So June 20th to July 1st, if you don't get any calls back from Matt Dardy, I apologize in advance, but we'll get to the beginning of July. >> That's all, Mr. Mayor. >> That is it. All right. Thank you, Mr. Gordy. We'll move to um mayor and

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council reports. Can I start with our council president? >> Absolutely. So the tourism uh commission had a meeting this week and they approved multiple resolutions. One was for um the talent for the Saturday in the park which is Riley Park

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every Saturday this summer June uh July and August. They also approved the jazz and blues series the talent for that and that is in Riley Park on Wednesdays. They also approved um the all the activities for the 250th celebration which is going to be July 1st in Riley

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Park. They approved the Brookdale series which is the music on Newark Avenue every Thursday. And they also approved DJ J which will he will be at the gazebo every Friday. And they also approved Offer by the Sea which will be July 6th

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and July 17th at the gazebo. And they also held their first annual soccer expo that you talked about earlier. It was excellent and it's something they are going to do every year from now on. Especially next year is the women's

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World Cup. and Amy Baker, the tourism director, wanted me to share a few important dates. So, write these down and mark your calendar. First, on Thursday, June 25th, they're celebrating the Global Beetles Day with

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a free tribute concert by the way in Riley Park from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. And on July 1st, on Wednesday, they're going to kick off our nation's 250th birthday early with an afternoon of family fun at Raleigh Park from 3:00 p.m. till 6:00

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p.m. features live entertainment, historic demonstrations, and activities for kids, followed by a community kite fly down at the beach at 7 p.m. And then also finally on Thursday, July 16th, TJ, write this down. A blood drive. It's a

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critical community blood drive at the firehouse. Supplies are extremely low, so please register on our website calendar. You will get some merch. Donors will receive a commemorative 250th anniversary t-shirt, plus a $10

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Starbucks Waw Wa card for blood or $20 if you donate plates. Next, we have the Bradley Beach Shade Shade Tree Commission had their meeting June 3rd. They had two applications. One

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was 205 Central Avenue. They're removing a dead dying tree which is also a Bradford pair in their backyard and they will replace it with another tree and also at 3012nd Avenue. They're removing a dying ash tree and they will replace

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that. And then finally, we have the board of ed. They have a meeting tonight and um they will be it's regarding the appointment contracts for our superintendent and principal Dr. Michael Haididerberg. It's kind of exciting

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because they want to do a multi-year reappointment until 2030-31. He's a wonderful, wonderful principal and superintendent. And also they're going to reappoint David Tanzala who is their business administrator. He is just

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great too. And um they're also doing some personnel reappointments. And also, this is interesting, the superintendent has recommended the submission of a formal resolution urging Governor Mikey Cheryl and the state legislature to provide immediate fiscal relief from

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doubledigit unsustainable increases in public school employee health care premiums. So, we're all feeling that. And then just a little from the superintendent, also known as principal, Dr. Hidleberg. He wants to recognize our entire community who generously made the

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Washington DC trip possible again year after year. From the coin drive and car washes to the kids selling snacks at any event and so many other fundraisers, our family, the staff, the volunteers and community members all came together to

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ensure every student has this opportunity. and visiting our nation's capital is a meaningful educational experience and it is truly one of the highlights of their time at Bradley Beach Elementary School and it would not be possible without the efforts of so

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many dedicated Bradley Beach school and community members. And that completes my report. Thank you, Mayor. >> Thank you, Council President. I will turn now to Councilman. >> Um, first aid squad for the operational

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period ending June 16th, 2026. The squad responded to 11 day calls, five night calls for a total of 16. 13 were medical, three for fire, one involved a water rescue, and two were for motor vehicles. The squad requested mutual aid

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from Avon. They provided uh two ambulances, medical overwatch, and personnel for the Bradley Beach food pantry pickup. They satisfied 99% of their assignments. Of course, they're still looking for volunteers for the squad. They offer free training for

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qualified individuals, anyone wishing to volunteer for the first aid squad. Applications can be found on the bureau's website. And they're also accepting applications for their debt program for young people 16 to 18 years old who are interested in serving our community

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short. >> Very good. I'll turn to the other end of the table. Thank you, mayor. Um, police activity report. On June 3rd, 2026, uh 500 block Bradley Boulevard, a 38-year-old male from Highlands, New Jersey, was arrested

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and charged with possession of a weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia, and tampering with evidence. Detective Lieutenant Anthony Murray made the arrest with assistance from Sergeant William Major. He was processed and later lodged in the Mammoth County Jail.

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On June 6th, Lake Terrace in Ocean Avenue, a 33y old male from Tucker, New Jersey, was arrested on an outstanding warrant from Asbury Park. Upon his arrest, he was found to be in possession of a knife and charged with possession of a weapon. He was later transported to

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the M County Jail. The former Dann Crow and Detective Gary Pancha made the arrest. And on June 10th, 601 Main Street, a 32year-old male from Freeholder was arrested on an outstanding warrant from Lakewood Township. He was also issued a burrow

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ordinance and turned over to the Lakewood Police Net Battle Moment made the arrest. During this time period, the police investigated six more vehicle crashes and responded to several calls for service. Thank you, Chief, and to your team.

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um on Silven Lake. I'd like to just report tomorrow at 7 PM in this chamber is the Silven Lake Commission meeting. So come on out if you want to hear about all the work that's going on with Silven Lake and what the status is and how the uh how they are looking to see how to

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get that lake dredged as well. So that's tomorrow at 7 p.m. And I just want to make a little public service announcement that is um the construction for the Southern Mike on the balcony avenue. Um nothing's happening before

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Fourth of July. We do and the same thing with the prominade and we do not have the actual dates yet uh for the start of construction or any impact to any of the traffic or movements of traffic. As soon as the contractor um gets those

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schedules to us, we will be communicating that information out in detail. Uh but right now uh no construction is going to impact anything until sometime after 4 July. And that's my report. >> Thank you, sir. Council.

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>> Thank you, Mayor. Fletcher Lake Commission met on June 11th. Fletcher Lakes annual spring cleanup was a great success with 30 community members enthusiastically attending, approximately half of whom were youngsters, families, and a national

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honor student participating in community service. Uh thanks to Wawa for contributing coffee, to stop and shop for contributing donuts, and Bradley's DPW for bags and gloves. The cleanup produced two rusted bicycles, one tire,

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and 15 full bags of trash. Great news about Fletcher Lake. After Superstorm Sandy's tragic degrade of its aquatic ecosystem uh in 2012 with infiltration of seawater, the lake has come back better than ever with greater oxygenation to

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support aquatic organisms and fish. The D has given a green light for fish stocking which will take place in the weeks ahead adding bluegill sunfish, channel catfish, largemouth bass, and fathead minnows to the lakes's underwater life. Watch for details as

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the commission plans to celebrate this event publicly. And thanks to Clonet, the coastal lakes observing network at Monmouth University for supporting scientific data and its continued sampling to guide stewardship of Fletcher Lake. The commission will next

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meet on Thursday, July 9th in this council chamber. Uh the rec committee canled its June meeting in preparation for summer camp. Be advised that the father's day kickball event has been cancelled due to low enrollment. The senior club's next

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meeting is June 24th, noon to 3 at Mr. Shrimp to celebrate everyone's birthdays before they break for the summer. It will be they will pick back up again in September. and ma open play runs every Friday 1 to 3 at the center. Strength

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training Monday mornings at the Neptune Community Center is at 10:00 a.m. and step aerobics Mondays and Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. Both are free of charge. The rec summer camp program begins Monday, June 29th and runs

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weekdays 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. through August 14th. Pickle ball courts and the rec facility will not be available while camp is in second. Recreation is planning a first ever camp throwback weekend, a 3-day adult day camp to run

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August 27th through the 29th, 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. It's $175 per person. The fee includes lunch and complimentary beach passes for all participants as well as a camp shirt and lanyard with perks from

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shops, restaurants, and bars throughout Bradley Beach. Also, there are still a few spots open for Marine Science Camp, which runs July 27th to the 31st, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for ages 5 to 14 at Memorial Park in

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Upton City. The rec committee will skip its July meeting, but will next meet on August 10th, 6:30 at the rec center. And finally, the Arts Council last met June 11th. Be sure to attend the first annual arts fest Saturday, June 27th at Riley

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Park, beginning at 12:30 and running through 10 p.m. Programming includes a professional dance group, live music, including Bradley's own string, as well as James Maddic, line dancing, an interactive drum circle for kids and adults, art for youngsters, and more.

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Between 4 to 6 PM, Hash Real Estate will host a local art show reception featuring 14 Bradley Beach artists with refreshments from Stock Room. The day ends at the Uba's Tiki Bar where a lineup of area musicians will gather to

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perform for an afterparty. Arts Council merch will be distributed at the Arts Fest. And please check out the Arts Council website. Let them know if you can help volunteer on the daily event on the 27th. And watch for signs for a full event schedule.

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A new workshop, ballet for balance, ran June 9th and will continue on the 17th uh which is tomorrow 10 to 11:30 at the fire hall. This is open to men and women of all ages and it's a class designed to build strength and balance through the lens of ballet. The first session was

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well attended with the promise of a regular program this summer. Thanks to our local DeFranco dance instructor and see the arts council website to register. Also this month, Abby Khan will run another freespirited music improvisation play shop this Thursday,

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June 18th, 7 to 900 pm at the Piazi Center. The Arts Council will next meet Monday, June 22nd at noon at the Piazi Center. And that's my report. >> Thank you, Councilwoman. I am going to begin my report with my most intense uh

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data summary provided by the library. this this library. I I I I'm joking only in that, you know, there's a ton of stuff they give me to read and there's just no way I can spend the rest of your evening reading all of this. But it's phenomenal the amount of programs they

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have. Please go to their website. I'm going to I'm going to highlight a couple of things that jump out at me, especially u as we head towards the end of June and into through July and August. Uh there is a photography contest that's been going on. It it concludes June 30th. Uh if you have

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children under 12 or adults, I don't know, they're discriminating against teenagers here, but uh you can enter the photography contest, deadline, June 30th. Um there's also summer reading, unear the story, uh June 22nd through August 5th, and you get prizes for

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reading. It's for adults and children. Uh register online. There are uh various games, Legos, and other types of games uh that are available on a weekly basis. Mondays are Legos, Thursdays are crafts

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for kids and so forth. Um, just one or two other quick ones. June 13th and June 20th is the Spanish English conversation group. They meet at 9:30 in the morning. And on June 23rd at

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4 PM, there's a a program called Bugs. Bugs. I love bugs. Uh, and it's an art workshop, but you get a close look at a variety of insects and spiders and and this list goes on. It's it's fascinating and it's something for all ages. So, uh, if you have any interest at all for

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yourself, your family, young children, uh, check out our our library website. Um we also um have a few things going on where on not only the common the

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extension but shortly following will be work that we'll be doing uh related to Silken Lake but it's all at that southeast corner of of the burrow and it's going to it's going to create some havoc for residents and beachgoers in that southeast corner of our town. Um we

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drafted and we're making final edits and trying to add some graphics, but we're hoping to get uh we're planning to get a communication summary. It's right now it's a three or four page document PDF that we will be uh getting out in various forms across social media,

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Facebook and newsletters. Uh we'll have paper that we'll distribute to the library and have some at Burough Hall and maybe one or two other places for seniors that are not as as familiar with, you know, using website or or computers in general. Um, so, you know,

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we're going to try to go at this multimedia and we just want to get everybody to understand not only what we know now, we're going to communicate as we learn. You know, some some contractors are just being hired. They don't yet have time frames for doing various facets of their work. But as we

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learn what their time frames, we will communicate uh because we understand what an important undertaking this is for the burough and and the implications if we don't do it well and communicate well the challenges it could create for our our residents. U Mr. Mr. Noi, while

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on the topic of the prominade, um there was one thing I wanted to ask you about and that is uh could you just give the the residents a two second overview of the uh environmental inventory and reviews that are being done on

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beachfront right now today as a matter of fact just to make sure that we're compliant with protecting. So we have a what's called CAPRA permit which is the coastal permit for the D. And the

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biggest concern was uh with the D was um the migrating birds um the oyster catchers and the pepper clovers that are endangered species that could potentially be present uh somewhere along the beach. I know sightings on

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Asbury down bel is that they're not that they nest and so if there's nesting that could um construction activities would potentially you know disrupt that and so they are protected species so we would have to adjust um similar with the uh

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you know piping clovers and and then there's also a a species of fauna which is called the beach amar which is a plant that grows in the dunes and that's danger and so we have to take uh care um that we're not disrupting any of those

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plants that may be growing in the proximity of the construction. So what we have is we have you know a rope that runs along the dunes that basically defines that area for the beach. And so

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we're going to have monitors uh during pre- construction and during construction that will come out and we actually started today looking at um the area uh to monitor uh investigate to see if there was any um nesting or any sightings of the amaranth and that will

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continue throughout construction uh because what we don't want to do is violate uh our permit and you know um disrupt those endangered species. um as part of our beach management plan is that we should do these things and the D has worked with us uh to allow the

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construction to happen uh because of the limitation of funding. So that's why we're actually doing this work during the beach season which we would prefer not to much rather do this work during the winter but our funding is expires on December 31st and it's a federal grant

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which actually comes back to COVID funding is where that money came out of interestingly and so that that program is December 31st and we cannot do any work or send in any bills at that point. So all this work has to happen now. We

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have to protect the endangered species and we have to monitor for that to make sure that we're interrupting um if they happen to be nesting. Um, so with that, that's what's going on. And with and and the other thing that we're going to be very careful not to disrupt is our the two-legged creatures walking to the

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beach and trying to maintain that people traffic to the beach. And so we're going to try to minimize everything we can do that impact temporary wind access gets disrupted at a location that um we will provide temporary access or that

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communication with everyone. So, it's not just the endangered species, it's the two creatures that we need to communicate with, too. We'll also be monitoring for noise and air, you know, um anything like that that has to do with the environment, making sure that

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we're compliance with our ordinances and standard practices. And I I asked council to share that with you because I want everybody to understand u not only is there a lot of work happening and we you know what's going to be visible to

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everybody is is the crowds and the the lack of space and all the you know the machinations will go through to provide walking lanes and stuff for folks. What's far less visible is how much goes on behind the scenes. And we're constantly, we, the council, our

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engineer, our police or DPW, we're constantly interacting with all these different authorities, whether it be the the New Jersey DDP, uh, federal government, uh, the grant funding opportunities that we're pursuing. Uh

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it's it's it's amazingly complex and uh so far I want to take my hat to this team because you guys are doing a great job uh you know kind of keeping your your your hands in bit of everything. Um

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that con so that again that concludes uh the quick update on the prominade related will be coming communications uh shortly thereafter on Southern Lake. Um and my Final comment is June 30th. We said this earlier, but just as a

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reminder, we're going to have a special meeting on June 30th at 5:30 p.m. uh to uh adopt the budget. That is our plan at this point. So, uh more to you know, more to be communicated on that, but mark your calendars if you're interested. Fact, if you're here tonight

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and still here tells me people left might be interested. So, with that said, my comments are concluded and we'll turn to item 15 on the agenda. your comments, the public's comments or questions. >> 116 North Avenue. One quick question and

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then the main one. Chief, what's the absolute latest time that a block party can go >> right before 2 a.m. parties? No, we'll just have to keep him at our house.

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Um, I don't know how many people here are on Zoom or how many people in general received the email that you addressed at the very beginning of the meeting. Um, how do we get that to stop? It's I the

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return email address looked a lot like a real Bradley government email. I had to look at it a couple times till I realized that it wasn't quite right. Um it's really an invasion of our information and our

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privacy. And I know that you guys had nothing to do with this, but how do we get this to stop? >> We we're going to explore that. I mean that is certainly our goal to make sure if it's possible to have it cease and desist that that will happen. Uh but

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there's as you can appreciate so many legal ramifications. I've already briefly discussed this with Mr. Cannon and our labor attorney uh Mr. Roth. Uh we're also going to conduct, as I mentioned, internal IT review just to

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see if we can determine how this data was uh acquired. Um, but we I don't have that answer for you. I don't yet know if we can make it stop, but at a minimum, we're going to talk about it openly and transparently in public. So,

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>> that person might think twice before. >> And if you could just let us know what it recommends for us. I mean, do we just block it? Do we respond in unscathing way as we can? We will follow up once we were just tip

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of the iceberg at this point. >> Okay. >> It's very unusual. It's important. A lot of people complain. A lot of people have specifically questioned, did we somehow allow that data to become available? >> Yeah, I can't imagine that at the end of

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my mind. It could be something as simple as happens in corporate America. People leave and take email lists and contact information and stuff with that. But I don't know. It's just >> we're going to find out if there's anything we can do to formally legally

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stop it. We will. >> I appreciate it. >> I'm sure we all will. >> And mayor, if I can to Anita's point in in the email that was sent, it says Bradley Beach NJ, which is all of our official emails. So, it's it's very

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close to to cloning our emails as well in a way to trick people into think that it came from the burough government. >> The Gmail was what really gave it away. The beginning of it was just exactly what

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everybody's official. >> So you'll you'll see that with other like um people that are out there scanning, right? You'll open something, it'll say Apple, like oh, I got something from Apple and really it's, you know, ADC123@gmail.com,

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right? So if people spoof them um and you're right, easy to get confused and it's highly important. >> All right. Any other comments or questions? >> Yes, sir. Mr. Paul for 11 and a half grand Avenue.

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Excuse me. Um, just to inform the council that last week, um, TJ Cohen and I both took part in a Zoom hearing with the New Jersey, u historic preservation office. Um, it was

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a hearing on New Jersey Transit's application to put in race platforms in Bradley Beach. Um uh for those of you who are not aware of what's been going on actually in plans for quite a while

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now is New Jersey Transit proposes in putting in raised platforms in both the outgoing and incoming tracks um which will be 270 ft long on each side and will be 57 in high with railings on top

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of that. Um they also are proposing some minor changes in lighting around the station and also some electrical services, but there's really going to be nothing done to the building itself.

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However, these platforms I pointed out to the historic commission I guess the title is the historic preservation office. Um that these really are going to block the views of the station from the west from Memorial

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Drive. When you come into town you won't see the station. You'll see a raised platform. Um and basically uh this I I agreed with the historic um preservation offices um um initial letter to New

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Jersey Transit that this was an encroachment on a historic registered property. Um and basically the hearing was to find out the details on this plan and and what they would do to mitigate any of this. Um, I suggested

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that I thought that this was an overscale project there. I questioned whether they needed platforms 270 ft long. New Jersey Transit felt it was needed in order to um open all the doors

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on all five cars on a five car train. Um, I pointed out to them that that they've only been opening at most two cars coming and going. Um usually they move everybody down through those cars long before they get to Bradley Beach.

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There are at least five stations which have to be serviced only through two cars. Um also um they were unaware of whether Aspbury Park and Belmar are near stations had raised platforms.

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We clarified that in fact that Aspbury does have a base platform on the outgoing side and has what's known as a mini high platform on the incoming side which services and the ADA compliance regulations.

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They're able to get wheelchairs up into a train through that. I suggested um that um since there were only 150 people a day in peak season coming and going through the Bradley Beach station, I had

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not realized it was that low that this was a bit of an overkill to do these huge platforms. Um and basically I think the council agreed. Um they had some long discussion and they changed um

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their um their language and they gave a temporary denial to the application um and asked New Jersey Transit to justify um both the the volume of traffic, the

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demands of that and whether um a mini high would be sufficient to to meet the needs. of the AD compliance. I don't think it'll stop this project, but um basically it's raising questions that

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New Jersey Transit has to answer to. Um the community should be aware of this. Um this is going to be quite quite a large impact really on on that station. Um and it's an extremely expensive project.

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I I don't think we are any cost in it, but I I've heard the figure of $14 million. I suggested to them that this may be overkill. Basically, it certainly it would have a historic impact as far as

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imped impeding the views of the station. And also there was some questions of whether it would actually reduce the ability of the station to service the concession

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restaurant that's in there now. They were putting in drop off areas that might have impeded the outdoor dining. So I'm hoping they're going to take all this into consideration. I thought you'd like to know >> as our historian. Thank you for

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representing Gage, >> Mr. Quinn, >> Thomas J. Joan, 6123rd Avenue. Uh, Paul the Champion gave very forceful testimony at that zoom meeting. He was really, really good and he definitely spun them because I don't think they

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expected such detail from his presentation. But one thing that did come out is that they're going to be doing a lot of lighting changes. And if we look at what we have now and what we're to do on Main Street. Um, when Main Street was done in 97, a lot of the

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same lighting fixtures were used in the railroad station. So, I don't know if we should reach out to New Jersey Transit and try to coordinate the lighting that they're going to use with the lighting that we're going to use on Main Street so we keep a continuity. Um, that was one thing that came out.

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The lighting was very, you know, a big deal really. So, I don't know what we have planned for Main Street, but it would be good to reach out to them and see what what type of, you know, spectrums of light. Uh, you know, the the fixtures they had looked like

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something we would want to use, but again, I think that we can keep continuity that would be fantastic. Um, I did want to check with Mr. Canon. I see have a close session tonight. Um, I I apologize I didn't print out the resolution, but are there any other

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members coming just the council and you >> just the council and me to discuss uh the potential settlement garrison versus Bradley Beach. >> Okay, great. >> I'll be visiting the land use board on Thursday night. >> Okay. >> With you guys and I I set that up with

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Maria already spoke to her. >> Fantastic. Thanks so much. Thank you. >> Thank you. On that note transit mayor, have you received any notification from New Jersey Transit? project do they typically reach out if they're planning a project in the

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municipality you will get notification >> um no as you mentioned it's the uh it's a comment period for them um they didn't check >> they haven't started any work anything like that um

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>> the comment period runs to June 27th according to the website >> so they have do they have a study that's available >> uh no uh the idea is um I believe that station by station they're going to

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bring all of them up to ADA compliance. >> So is this the entire is this the environmental document that they're looking at right now is this is the EIS >> point information I can pass on to you the plans that they currently have that

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they've submitted. Um it it really the board should be interested not just in the platforms but also um there are some changes to the sidewalk areas and the narrowing of the roads both and marine avenues at at the just after the tracks.

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>> Right. There's bigger indications they're going to do platforms that could affect overpass. And on their website, they have a an aerial view of what it's supposed to look like. And they say construction is looking um take place spring of 28 to

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spring of 29. >> Yeah. So, I would thought they would be giving some notification. >> No, this is coming to >> the very first we're hearing about it, but again, I I I do understand that their their goal, whether it's Brandon

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Beach, Belmar, Spring Lake, is to all of their stations up to ADA compliance and that means elevating the platforms in this case 57 in other cases maybe 48 in just depending where um but this is

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something that um I was lost in the past so I totally understand why >> so but we have to look at that really closely to make sure that we get our comments early that design if it's going to if it falls

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out successful >> and again the public comment period um runs until the 27th >> and Paul you said you can share the answer you got with the council thank you Mr. shut

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on 105th Avenue, Bradley Beach. Uh, as mentioned previously, I was here back in January asking the question. I came here at the last Mar Council meeting and wasn't able to get an answer. So,

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I'm going to ask you now, when are we going to correct George and put him in the correct war. Move him out of the Vietnam war into the Korean War as he deserves. >> I I can tell you we don't have a date. And the reason we don't have a date is because when you brought that to our

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attention, first thing we did was ask how much it's going to cost roughly $1,000. So, it's not it's not cheap. But we I then to what we spend in this town. >> I said to Michelle Wy, if we're going to spend that $1,000, let's make sure

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everybody else's name is correct. There's another name there. It lists only a last name. It doesn't provide the gentleman's first name. Then I asked what what are the what was the eligibility criteria that got a name on that list? No one could answer. Apparently, you weren't able or willing

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to help provide that background. So, >> the names that are on there are the people that served during that war. >> Just like you have World War II, >> but how do we know that that is a complete list? I guess I Where's the research? not a complete list because I guarantee you there's a lot of women

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that aren't even up there that served our country that lived in Bradley Beach. I think in some ways we're on the exact same page. I just want to make sure we do it right. If I change one name now and then >> change name one just change one name.

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I'm saying change correct them all. I want to do the second one. >> So actually to to your to your point, one of the this was actually my first meeting that you were here and one of the things that I had done is right after the meetings I had reached out to you personally. I had called you up and

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I had a text message that I had and I said listen it sounds like you have a lot of information that we don't have. Can we meet and discuss what are the changes? And you said you didn't have time. >> The town doesn't have time for me. I

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don't have time, but I will make time for individuals that deserve to be up there correctly. I mean, we have four different plaques and none of them are correct. >> And whoseever fault that is, we need to find out what the source of that

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information is. I'm not going to change one name unless you sign in writing. We'll never change another name because we don't know if these are accurate. You pointed out one mistake. How many other mistakes >> there's other mistakes? Let me know that right now. I'll let you know that right

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now. Just like in this book. I mean, this was handed out on Memorial Day, >> which should have never been done because I mean, you have a draft dodger, William J. Duffy, and he admits that he's a draft dodger. You have another

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one that stolen Valor. He says he served in Vietnam. >> I think your comments are very inappropriate. No, they're not inappropriate. >> That hurts me when someone says that they served in Vietnam and they never did. That hurts.

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You're taking away from all those people over there that gave their lives and those that got wounded just like me. >> They served. Explain to me. >> I mean, it's written right here. He's a councilman, former council president and

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your memorial day committee chair, Norm Golard. >> Where is >> Vietnam? Right here. It's written right here in black and white. Don't you guys read this? Your names are all over here. >> Vietnam era era. >> Does it say Vietnam? >> There is no era.

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>> Yes, there is. No, there there's people that said which that they were in the era, but he doesn't even specify that he's in the era. There's no specification. All it says is Vietnam. All right. And you have

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other people that come over here and uh turn around, they said that they're in part of uh you know uh National Guards or whatever. I mean, he doesn't even have that. We are very willing to do everything we can to make all this information accurate.

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But to highlight one individual and tell us to change the entire I need to understand the history some Bill you were probably here. You probably helped create this. What is the what is the data that was collected? How do we know your name is on that list right? You

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served in Vietnam. Yes, I did. >> But you didn't live in Bradley Beach. What made you eligible for this? Because you subsequently moved to Bradley Beach. names are people that live in Bradley Beach >> today. What if someone who's here tomorrow who served in Vietnam, who served in Afghanistan?

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>> Okay. And now you see my point. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Well, thank you. >> I mean, if you're going to if you if you're going to name one person, you got to name them all. This is what I told you guys last time. You name one, you name them all. Or you don't name nobody.

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>> Tell us how you name them all. Tell us how we name them all. Please. You don't have to do it. Just tell us how we do. >> I'm not going to tell you. That's your decision. You have to make that. I don't >> You're the mayor. You make that decision. >> Thank you. I can't guarantee you it's going to

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change, but thank you for persistently. >> Same thing like the previous administration, the administration before that said the same thing. They all said the same thing. >> Understood. >> And it's still not documented. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you again,

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>> Mr. I don't wish condominiums. Um, really appreciate your opening remarks tonight. I have no idea what you're referring to, but I can give you this information. There are two employees

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here who personally violated my privacy. I brought this up with the previous administration. So, I don't know what kind of hunt you're going to go on, but there's a start. I also want to thank you

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for making the effort. Success needs to be defined, but making the effort to straighten out the mess and maybe lighten it a little bit that

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we're in. How many years, and I know two of you are up there, one of you maybe have I complained about Edmonds and us not using it right and everybody blaming everything on Edmonds.

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How many years, and this goes back two years, have I explained the lack of transparency in giving us the chartered accounts and the poor detail on the bill list and the poor

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classification? >> At least seven years that I've seen >> Thank you. We agree. Oh my gosh, what a moment. >> Seven years. >> This is bigger than the Knicks. >> Knicks won the championship. Who knows what happened? Do you even want to know that I got into basketball with 73

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years? But you can get that from the people that violate my privacy here. Anyways, point being I just really commend the effort to try to write this process.

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Um, it's going to it's going to take a long time and I don't know that one CFO has the attention to detail. Um, because it just goes on and on and on. But it's like it finally clicked. Although I

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will admit we used to have a CFO that did the payroll also, hence get rid of point. But um, it would be nice for the public to even a little bit of progress made not in terms of the budget just even in terms

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of the bill list you know when it comes with office maintenance which office when it comes to building supplies which there's a lot of baby steps that can be taken and I really do um want to encourage you to continue on that path.

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So thank you for getting to this after a year and a half. Thank you for your comments. Any We only have a couple people left. Can there be other comments? Anyone on Zoom? I see none. Okay, we

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will close the uh public session and move to executive session. Uh Mr. Canon, what what's the estimate of time for the executive session? >> Approximately 25 minutes. We'll discuss the pending litigation of Garrison

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versus Beach talking member ML 3458-22 no one except the council the grow administrator the clerk and myself will be in the executive session >> thank you very much I'll make a motion that we adjourn to executive session >> second Mr. Noble yes >> yes

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>> Mr. Park. >> Yes. >> Wiki. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. >> And the resolution stays 40 minutes just in case it goes over. >> Oh, you're so good. >> Thank you. >> How you doing? I'm not

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sure. I mean, you can