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this meeting to order stand for the pledge of allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. I wish to announce that a 48 hour notice is required under the open public meetings act was emailed to the Asbury Park Press, the co-star, and the new coaster on December the 19th of 2024 that a copy has been placed on the
bulletin board in the burough office and that a copy has been filed with the municipal clerk. As a courtesy to the public, this meeting may be attended via Zoom. If for any reason Zoom fails or is disconnected, the in-person meeting will continue without interruption. An action can and will be taken provided that
there is an inperson quarum. Mr. Noble here, uh, Miss Greenlat here, Mr. Nikki here, Mr. Weber here, Mayor Dzi here. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. U, we our next item on our agenda would be
workshops. However, I'm going to make a motion that we go slightly out of order and move to item six, presentations of bids, because we do have some folks visiting us that I'd like them to be able to get on their way and then we'll proceed with the rest of the meeting. So, a motion to momentarily skip item
five on the agenda, workshops, move to presentations and bids. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Greenwood. Yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, you're skipping my stuff by doing this. Yes, Mr. Weber has been skipped. This stuff
has been skipped. Yes. Um, so item six, presentations of bids. I want to um open up with a presentation led by the Office of Emergency Management. Uh, and that would be Mr. Norman Golarb, our OEM director. And we
have a special guest joining us as well that I'll let Mr. Goldarb introduce. Thank you very much, Mayor. Among several of the functions of Brandy Mel's emergency management, we are tasked with helping the public be aware and prepared for natural dis disasters such as
hurricanes. We suggest for further information that you go to Bradley Beach website where preparedness information is located along with signup information for emergency notification system uh to receive mobile text and email alerts. And if you would like to, we should have
some handouts in the back that you can take with you. Um, our guest Joe Marti is a wellrespected meteorologist and the owner of Cupa Joe Weather and Drone based in Mammoth County. He's certified broadcast and digital meteorologist social media which
reaches 750,000 people monthly. He also appears on News12 Richards. Thank you very much. appreciate being here today and being here on Bradley Beach. I was telling uh the mayor before that uh when I was
growing up, I grew up in Union, New Jersey. Uh this was our spot. We went to the beach. I'm not lying. Uh we had our family friends uh the Jesus who lived in Rosal Park and we became friends with them. We uh we came on down here to Bradley Beach. So, it's uh it's nice to be here and uh in a small way it kind of
feels like home. Uh and it's of course close to my home. I live in Tin Falls, not too far away. Um, so I want to talk a little bit about hurricane season. Um, I feel like uh, well, it's timely for a few reasons. One, we're in hurricane season. Two, when we talk about hurricanes, we really have to focus on
the water, not the wind. And obviously what happened yesterday in Union and Somerset counties um was very unfortunate and rival what we saw in Hurricane Ida in 2021 and in tropical storm Floyd in 1999 in regards to 5 to 8
ines of rain in just a few hours. Route 22 was flooded for 1 to two feet. We didn't see that here thankfully, but we did see about an inch and a half to two inches of rain in most of P County. Um, just to turn on to maybe a little bit of a lighter note, this is a good uh trivia
question. Uh, so if you're at the bar and anyone asks, "When was the last time New Jersey had a landfalling hurricane?" Does anybody know? Anyone take a guess? Andrew. Andrew. Go. Which one? 1987, Hurricane Gloria.
You know, so a lot of people say Gloria, but it's not Gloria. I'm sorry. And I skipped over you. Does that help? I know. I'm not making a good first impression. Uh, no. It was actually uh 1903. That was the last time we had a landfalling
hurricane in New Jersey. It was the Vagabond storm. It was a category one hurricane that made landfall in Atlantic City. Um, in other words, we're due. Um, because all these other ones were down to being tropical
storm strength like Sandy and like, right. Exactly. Yep. So, it's not like we haven't been impacted by tropical systems. We have Irene in 2011, Sandy of course, but tactically a landfalling hurricane. The last time was 122 23,
excuse me, year, no 22, very years ago. Um, so when it comes to hurricane season this year, um, you know, the short story is we're expecting about an average kind of season for the Atlantic hurricane basin. Well, that's great, but what does that mean for New Jersey, right? There
could be 20 hurricanes that drop the storm. If they don't make landfall here, we probably don't care, right? And rightfully so. Uh it could be vice versa. We could have one storm. If we have one storm and it hits New Jersey, that's we're going to remember it forever being an active year for us even though there was only one storm in all
the Atlantic hurricane base. So, um in terms of the forecast, it's from Colorado State University. You might think, why is a doubly landlocked state doing hurricane forecasts? Um like most things in life, it had to do with where the money was. That's where the money was for funding back in the 80s. Um, but
in New Jersey, we look to have a 26% chance of a landfall tropical storm or hurricane this season. Uh, for reference sake, we on average, there's a 23% chance. So, we're we're pretty much there. It's a 1 in4 chance of being within 50 miles of the Jersey Shore. Um,
there's an 8% chance for a hurricane to make landfall. Hurricanes sustain wind 74 miles an hour or greater. Um, that's about the average, which is seven. And again, we haven't seen a hurricane technically make landfall in 122 years here. Um, the last time we saw a
landfalling tropical storm was back in 2020, uh, when we had tropical storm Fay and Tropical Storm Giza hit here. And I wouldn't blame you if you forgot about them because tropical storm Fay was so weak. I was in Brigantine watching the eye go over Brigantine and people were jet skiing in the bay. That's how weak
this storm was. Uh, EAS brought a lot of wind but not a lot of rain. Um, so we might not remember that. Anyway, um so in terms of how good these forecasts are, right, you can have any forecast, it's not good and it doesn't matter. Colorado State University has a very
good track record. Um there's a in terms of its skill, it's on a negative one to one scale. I don't get I won't get into the details, but it's a 0.59 in their accuracy, which is about the they're about 80% accurate in other words, which is pretty good when you're forecasting
months in advance. Um, some factors for this year's hurricane season. Um, if you guys have been in the ocean the past couple of days, you know it's warm. I was in the water on Sunday. It was great. That warm water, not only here in New Jersey, but in the central and eastern Atlant, excuse me, central and
western Atlantic. Um, really can be a hot bed for tropical activity. Typically, when water temperatures are over 80 degrees, we see uh an increased likelihood of hurricane formation. Um, we're not in El Nino this year. We're not in Linia typically when you're
talking about hurricane season. Um, you know, you're looking at those factors. We're in a neutral state. If you want to be funny, you could call it Lanada. That's what some people call it. Um, but that's what we're in for this year. And then we also look at something called analog years. You know, what are years
that similar setups to this uh, you know, this year so far. So, Colorado State went back years that were similar to 2025. I'll read them all quickly. There's six of them here. 1996 that was nothing. 1990 Floyd. 1999 nothing. We
had Floyd. Um 2006 we had we had hurricane Ernesto well offshore but it brought strong winds here to Bradley Beach. Um 2008 nothing. 2011 which was Irene. Um and we know what happened then. And in 2017
um so you know hurricane season again about a one in4 chance of being impacted by a storm barely directed. That doesn't mean we don't get residual rain. We saw that in Ida in 2021, especially in the northeast corner of the state. Um, but you know, when I just to go back to the
beginning with the 1903 hurricane, that was the last hurricane that came to shore in New Jersey. That had $263 million in damage in today's dollars. Well, what happened since then? Well, we had we had a hurricane 1944 that didn't make landfall, but was offshore that
brought $741 million in damage. Then we had a 1962 Nor Easter which if you're in some places on the Jersey Shore, especially in Kate May County, they would say it's worse than Sandy, 1.24 billion in damage and Sandy was $ 38 billion. In other words, it doesn't take
a landfalling tropical system to bring major impacts to New Jersey when it comes to storms. And I like to say we essentially have a 12-month hurricane season because if it's not the hurricanes, it's the norasters that we can get during the year that can bring just as strong as winds. I know we don't
really get a lot of title flooding at all back days here, but they do bring to the shore, you know, some parts a lot of the title flooding there. We always have to be aware and you know I'm very fortunate to know Norm and and Dan and Bob here and everyone at Brownley Beach
OEM who's uh uh we haven't we haven't known each other for long but I feel like we've known each other for long and uh and appreciate their relationship and it's always good to be here in uh in Bradley Beach. So I'll uh I'll just wrap up quickly about what I do with with my business here. Um there's there's three
lanes of what I do. Weather advertising. I help businesses advertise uh through weather media. Um like said, I reach about 750,000 people a month in social media counties. We're the only I'm the only place that covers the shore and the shore only. Mammoth County, as we know,
kind of gets covered by New York City media kind of doesn't. Um you know, Philadelphia stations don't cover here and a lot of newspapers. I used to work in newspapers, so I I love newspapers, but they just don't have the weather coverage that um that some of you know that I can provide. Um I'm also a
commercial drone pilot, so I teach at K Ocean County College, teach drone classes there, do drone footage all around the Jersey Shore, over 40 towns, and I help towns just like here in Bradley Beach um stay coastal resilient and help towns reduce their flood insurance rate through the community
rating system program um where Bradley Beach is a class seven. And in your I know you smoke small areas that are in a flood zone. You guys see a 15% discount flood insurance. The town of Avalon and Kate May kind of signed on with me last week um to help them in that as well. So
with that being said, I'm happy to take any questions about hurricane season um or the rest of the summer, how humid it's going to be. I don't know how much snow we're going to get get next winter, but if you want me back in November, I can maybe tell you that, too. But uh I appreciate the time. I'll take any questions you guys have. Thank you very
much. Appreciate it. Does the council have any questions? Great presentation. Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thanks to another unusual gesture on on the council's behalf, but if any of our audience members would like to ask Mr. Martuche a question, uh, raise your hand
and we'll let you direct a couple questions. Nothing out there, anyone on Zoom? Okay. Once again, thank you, Mr. Marker. Thank you. Okay, let's continue with item six. John, I'm gonna ask you to kind of go in reverse order if you wouldn't mind doing
your presentation on the fiveminute beach cleanup. Sure thing. Five minute beach cleanup. This is the part where I need a little help from Michelle if she could put up that one slide. I gave the council one of these if anybody's super curious. There's a couple of these, just a few, but on paper up in the front you
just want to grab it. Um, most of you know I do environmental work and while I wouldn't say it's completely original to uh like it hasn't been done anywhere else, uh the town that did this first in these parts is Seagar and we have Councilman Brian Perry here from Seagar
and his two daughters um and they've done this in Seagar and they can tell us like how long ago and how's it going and just tell us about the fiveminute beach cleanup. Um and introduce yourself when you stand up. So go ahead. Oh yeah, come on up. tag team it. Great.
Well, thank you for everyone for having us. My name is Hope and I'm Charlotte. Um, so yeah, we're from Seagar. Like you mentioned before, our dad is Brian Perry. He's on council in Seagar and we're super excited that the 5-minute beach clean up has reached Bradley as the goal for it to continue spreading
all across the shore. Um, we got the idea for it when we were on vacation in Costa Rica and remember seeing it and just thinking that it was a really cool project that we wanted to start in our town. So, we were just hoping that by making the beach clean up on our beaches, people would see it and be more
encouraged to clean up the beaches and having to get the supplies themselves and like making the time themselves to do it. When they were just taking a walk in the Gorbach, they see it and just spend at least like five minutes of their time getting the beach. All right. Now, wait, we're in Costa Rica now. I have to know
Sara. And no s. Fantastic. Okay. So, that is fantastic. Oh, yeah. So, h how when did you start this in secret and and how how's it been going in your opinions? Uh we started it in the summer of 2023 and then it's so last year was the first
like full year of it being out. We think it's gone really well. Um we when we go to like collect every few months the bags for the stands, we see that sometimes some things are missing but like for a majority like the bags would be filled with trash or emptied because they've been brought to the trash that
are at all the beaches and seeker. Right. That is awesome. So, I'm gonna have some other people come up and do some color commentary, but thank you, Hope. Thank you, Charlotte. I really appreciate you sharing this idea with I heard about this elsewhere and they had baskets like the kind of basket you
would get at the supermarket. And I said, you know, this is New Jersey. I think people are going to steal a basket from. So, when I saw with the bags, I was much more uh enthusiastic about it. And we had a resident here in town, Evie Carella. Where'd you go? There you are.
Hi. You come out. So Eevee approached me and said, "Hey, I saw this thing in Seagurt, right?" Yes. Uh, thank you for having me today. I'm I'm happy to be here and I was riding my bike uh last fall through
Seagurt and I saw the program and as Mr. Weber said, "I had also seen similar programs in other shore areas along the coast and thinking that the baskets or the buckets wouldn't work either." And when I saw that, I thought this is a great idea. We know that there are many
residents in Bradley Beach who would love to uh you know have something like this because I hear many times people you know I I should have brought a bag with me to clean up the beach or you know trying to bring it back remembering you bring it back with them to clean up the beach while they're taking a walk
along the beach. We know that when we have more roosters if the beach can get pretty messy especially in the off season when they're not cleaned up uh by our our you know our guys here that work in the town. So, I thought this was a great idea. When I presented it to I
sent Mr. Rubber an email. He checked with Seagurt and found this lovely family who's doing it. Seagurt and off we go. So, we're thrilled that, you know, we're at that point where we can maybe get this implemented in front of the beach. We we're about there. So, I'm going to tell everybody how it's actually going
to work. PTV. Um, so I talked to Vagio DPW there. You know, you have the trash bins, the trash and recycling bins on the boardwalk, the wooden ones that contain bowl. On the side of that, there's going to be a hook. On the hook are going to be these uh, you know, mesh
reusable bags. And that sign uh, and we put the bread logo on it. And this the best part cuz like Eye said last fall when she came to me. Notice it's midsummer. Yeah. Um, a business in town. It's Love Life Handmade. They have the
pottery. They teach pottery. It's like pottery and candles and yeah. Um he came up he said this exact same thing. Hey, I saw this. I want to do this. And he said, "I'd be willing to to bring it to town." I said, "Well, do you want to pay for a few signs?" And he said, "Yeah." So, we're going to do three spots in
town, North, Central, and uh South. And if that all goes swimmingly, we'll open it up to other businesses if other businesses want to, you know, put their lab their logo on a sign like this. and we'll ask and EPW to put up a few more hooks and a few more reusable bags. But,
uh, as far as I can tell, we're bringing this to the town without any expense to the town. So, um, super happy to steal an idea and happy to, um, yeah, have people help us get it done. So, that's kind of it. So, just shout out to to Mike and Olivia at Lovelight Handmade. They couldn't make it tonight, but um,
they are basically paying for these signs. So, uh, now that we've done this officially, Bajio has to do it because now it's official. We've talked about it and uh no, he says it's no problem and it'll be upset. So that's it. I love this program. This is excellent. Okay. Take pictures of yourself cleaning
the promoter. Um that's kind of it. Thank you so much to our guests. If you want to stay, we got some good stuff coming up stuff especially. But no, there's some good stuff. But um yeah, if you got to go, you got to go. But thanks very much. Appreciate.
Thank you very much. And um let's see. I know uh want to move back to at any point in time. You want to do the night out by No, I was going to say Mr. Martuchi can leave. Thank you, sir. Thanks, Joe. Take me out.
Nice. Enjoy. Thank you. So, let us no longer skip the stuff. Let's I'll make a motion that we move to item five on our on our agenda workshops. Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Gribble. Yes. Mr. Niki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes.
Mayor Guptosi. Yes. Back to you, John. Okay. It's like the John show today. Um, skip the stuff. This is uh refers to a kind of brand of ordinance that's sweeping the nation. It refers to takeout. If you order takeout food, um,
you probably just want your food. There's a 90% chance you're taking it back to your home or to your office. And, um, you have all this stuff. What we mean by stuff is plastic utensils, napkins, chopsticks, uh, every condiment
in a little plastic package known to mankind. Um, and you I don't know all you that well, but I know every single one of you has a drawer in your kitchen full of this stuff, right? Yes, you do. Okay, you're nodding your heads. Um, because we feel bad throwing it out, but we didn't really want it. We didn't
really need it. Again, you know, it's shocking, but there's a bottle of ketchup in my fridge. There's actually utensils in my drawer in my kitchen at home. So, we don't tend to need all this stuff. Um, I think businesses add it because they don't know, right? So, skip the stuff ordinances are about um making
the default when you order takeout, you get nothing. You can have all of that stuff. You can have any of it or all of it. You you have to ask. So, you if you were not taking it home and or you and you needed utensils or you needed extra ketchup packets, whatever, you ask where
you can get it. Um so that's the concept on skip the stuff. Um oh the the handout which uh didn't give myself lunch. Um really quickly I will talk about a case study and then I will turn it over to a guest that we have. Um was a local
celebrity u oh no oh I got this old shop and there's a couple up here if people wanted um different environmental group but I work with uh sometimes work with them. um clean water action. They have this skip the stuff ordinance in Redbank. They did
it in March of last year after been on the books for six months in the fall. Somebody from Clean Water Action went to the restaurants and asked about it and they said, "How how's it going?" And they, you know, basically tried to estimate how much less stuff these takeout businesses are are giving out.
And bottom line is they're giving out 94% less stuff. So that's again plastic utensils or napkins and you know condiment packages and all that stuff. It I don't know what that translates to in dollars and cents, but if we had to
give you give away 94% less stuff, there's you're spending 94% less money on that, whatever it costs. So um seems to be working really well in uh Red Bank. And some people may know Brian Thompson. I'm going to turn over to him. He was an NBC reporter. He liked to
report on environmental stuff. Um he's retired and he's turned into an environmental advocate. He's on the environmental commission in uh Mammoth Beach. So if we can turn it over to Brian for a second. You have the floor. Mr. Thompson if he unmute. Oh yeah, you can unmute so
Brian can talk. That's how we do it. Okay, we're not muted yet. Does Michelle hear you? Hey Michell really loud. Hey Michelle. All right. Hello everybody. How are you?
Great. Thank you for uh giving me this opportunity to talk to you. Uh yeah, I've been very active on the environmental commission in Mammoth Beach uh actually for about almost 10 years now. And uh I got us to uh and
we're a conservative, by the way, Republican town. I I have not checked on the politics in Bradley Beach, but I can tell you that Mammoth Beach um votes Republican 99% of the time. And yet our commissioners were very forward thinking
because we are a beach community because they are very sensitive to what happens to our beach in passing back in 2018 what was at the time the single strongest plastic ban in the nation when we banned plastic bags, plastic straws,
and styrofoam all in one ordinance. Uh picking up what many towns along the shore had done peace meal. And so when it came to skip the stuff for my council, my commissioners, it was a no-brainer. The environmental commission gave it its uh hearty endorsement and
within a couple of months it passed and it's working. I went personally to all of the restaurants. Okay, we're small so we don't have a lot of restaurants maybe like Delmare does, but I went to all of the restaurants uh in Mammoth Beach and asked them, "Do you have any problem
with this?" No. one was already doing it. Adelli was only giving it out if you asked. Um that was the old Andy K's for those of you who may have ever been to Mammoth Beach. Uh the kitchen witch, they were very enthusiastic about it,
but they were also in the position where um they had already initiated that, but they didn't really make sure that their employees followed it all the time. So it was a curious situation. Uh but um
that being said, we have now seen this pass in some almost two dozen municipalities in the past year and a half. Redbank was the first one of the modern era. And as you will see in that study that John just
mentioned, yeah, it's saving money. And I don't know how many of you have ever been in the restaurant business or are familiar with it, but for a restaurant, every penny counts. And so that's what we're offering them. What we're offering the public is
plastic utensil free drawers and refrigerators without all those condiments that just pile up over the months and years. But we're also offering them a cleaner environment. You just heard somebody talk about picking up trash on the beach. Well, you know,
not everybody needs the plastic utensils. Even if they're coming to the beach with food, it might be hand food that you don't need a fork and a knife for or you don't need the mayonnaise or whatever the soy sauce that they may throw in there. So, if you just ask for
it and need it, you're going to cut down and you can get 10 minutes maybe instead of five minutes of a good cleanup as people hunt and peck and search for something to pick up. And that's really the the environmental goal here is to
make it a cleaner environment. The financial goal is to help restaurants. As I say, we've passed it in some two dozen towns now in the past year, nearly two dozen. All the way up to uh Hawworth and Bergen County. Hoboken passed it.
Jersey City passed it. Red Bank, as you know, passed it. My Mammoth Beach, I just got it passed in Long Branch about a month or two ago. They were extremely enthusiastic about it. So, it sounds like it's sweeping sweeping the municipalities.
Pardon? It sounds like it's sweeping the municipalities of New Jersey. And so what we're doing is we're changing a habit. But you know, a restaurant can simply put up at the at the cash register. They can put up if
you need pencils, ask. If you need condiments, ask. Or they can put it out. Uh that's what a lot of the fast food restaurants are doing now is they'll put the the uh items out and you make a single selection because they know it
saves money. And for a restaurant, you know, we wouldn't do this if it didn't save them money. If we were putting a burden on them, you know, I I don't think this would go anywhere. I wouldn't be in favor of it if I were a restaurant owner. But
view from Mammoth Beach. really appreciate it, Brian. Mhm. So, any questions you have, throw away, throw them at me or I can help you out. Brian, uh, thank you again for joining us tonight. Um, my question is, you
know, rolling out an initiative like this, it's great for the environment, as you've said. It's great for many of the restaurant owners as well. U, but where did you meet resistance? I'm sure there's been resistance along the way. Who pushed back and and what was your experience there?
um no resistance in Mammoth Beach. Uh you will see in the study the 94% there were a couple of restaurants in Redbank as you'd expect who uh did have problems with this uh simply because it
was a change in habit um even though it was going to save them money. Uh but it was a small minority, a very small minority. Um there was a council member up north in Cranford I believe it was
who uh just didn't feel it was role of government to do anything uh basically uh and she voted against it um while the majority passed it. So you see little
pockets like that, but you know, when you think of the good this does for both the business owner and the environment, we just haven't had that much resistance. And you know, if it comes down to code enforcement, we strongly
encourage simply educating the restaurant. Make sure they they're new hires. They'll get new hires at the cash register who just automatically think they're supposed to put it in. We we don't really encourage trying to find them. Just make a visit if needed or the
citizen can tell the restaurant. I've had to do that a couple times in towns like Long Branch. I say, "Hey, you know, you got an ordinance here. Just follow the ordinance." And they say, "Oh, didn't realize that. Thank you very much." That's it. Right. Well, thank you. Other questions
or comments? Okay. All right. Thank you once again. I appreciate your input, Mr. whoever is back to you. Thank you, Brian. Thanks for taking time out of your evening. I know you're busy. Um, so that's kind of it on uh skip the stuff. This is a workshop. We're not passing any laws or anything like that,
but I guess it's your discretion, Mr. Mayor, if you want to hear from the public or if you want to say let's let's you let's have you continue, John, with the DPW sheriff. And they can do it in the public portion. Yes. Okay, sounds good. Um, may want to listen to this, Brian. This is a neat
idea. Okay, I I thought about this. Maybe I sort of threatened this. No. Um, a few meetings ago, uh, there was an idea. We're paying a ton for bulk to get rid of bulk trash. Uh, it's, you know, said it was about $20,000 in in the
tipping fees and that's not even counting the guy's time and the, you know, driving out to the to the dump and all that. So, we're trying to figure out ways to re reduce that. And um there was this idea of just said, "Boy, if somebody was throwing out a shed, like getting rid of a shed, I don't know. They're going to build a pool so they don't need a shed anymore or something
like that. You take that shed, we'll put in the DPW yard. If people could bring good, usable, clean things that they just don't want anymore, the kind of stuff that you put on the curb or, you know, the kind of stuff you may have to buy stickers, bulk stickers to get rid of." Um and Bagio loved the idea. The
environmental commission got behind this this idea as well. Vagio got so behind it that he just gathered up scrap wood and stuff that he had lying around and they built a shed for almost no money and there's a shed down at the the DPW yard now where you could take your
recycling and stuff. So like all right now I have a shed. I got to come up with some rules because we definitely need to be there to be rules. Sent a few drafts of rules around. Um I'm just going to read them and um love to hear from the public in the public portion. Um this is what we came up with and this is again a lot of us put our heads together on this
one but um these are the rules of the it's called the sharing shed. If anybody has a better idea like love to that more catchy or more marketable or whatever let us know but um the rules of the sharing shed are residents only only Bradley Beach residents can drop off
items in the shed. Uh anyone from anywhere can take items from the shed. Only complete usable items in good conditions can be dropped off at the shed. Nothing broken. Nothing stained. Nothing that needs assembling. Nothing that needs work or quote needs cleaning.
Um nothing with flammable or toxic materials. No food or beverage items of any kind. Please bring them to the food pantry. Uh no health or beauty products or cosmetics. No clothing. Please donate it. Plenty of places to donate that. No mattresses or pillows. Period. Please
use the vault dumpster. And that is a lot of what we get in the quote dumpster. Um, users take items at their own risk and assume assume all responsibility and shed is only open when the DPW yard is open. This very well may be a work in progress. We might
start it, figure out a couple more rules that we need or something. Um, but if we're good to go on this, um, I'm going to ask Matt to handdraw a temporary sign or something like that or just come up with a temporary sign and if we settle on these rules, we'll make a permanent sign and the sharing shed will be open.
One final idea I hope to um, enlist members of the environmental commission or anybody wants to do it. I thought a great way to get stuff moving through it in and out passes. I'll go down to the shed in the morning. I'll take a picture was there and post it. Hey, there's a couch and there's a carpet and there's a
whatever a stuffed chair. So, come and get it. And then hopefully it just goes through faster. Um, when we went down to the shed and we were like in the process of thinking up the rules, somebody came in with a pickup truck that had multiple mattresses in it, but they had a couch,
they had a rug, they had what mattresses went in the dumpster. This other stuff was perfectly usable. EPW guys just put it in the shed and uh it's there for the taking. I don't think it's already working basically. Uh and again the goal is to cut down on bulk waste disposal
costs and that's it. Yeah. Uh questions from John from the council. So I actually made that suggestion as well. I'm glad to hear the environmental commission worked on it. Thank you. Yes. No, it's great. It's great. This, you know, they kind of thing in a lot of other dumps. Um anyone from anywhere can
take items from the shed. Actually, don't you need to be a resident to go into the shed into the DBW site? We what we thought about that um the the idea is if only Bradley Beach residents can take it's like a smaller pool of people and
if we open it up to anybody you're correct in a way in order for you to leave something at the you know to dump it why else would you go in the dump right because you're usually leaving something right here to up until now like you know nobody was taking anything uh you did need to be a resident but I think with
this if the only thing you're doing is taking something from the shed And that's one of the things we'll see how that works. We think it's doable. Um but that's why only people from Bradley Beach can leave because it that would be art on our dime to throw it out. So we don't want people coming from other
towns and getting rid of their stuff because then Right. And if stuff is sitting in the shed for a couple of weeks, whatever, and it doesn't go, we'll throw in the bulk dumpster. We're not that proud, but we think it's going to save a lot of money. Right. Is it a sizable shed? You're talking about furniture going in it. Yeah. If it's a couch and whatever. I
wish I had the dimensions. I want to say it's about maybe like it would be a very small bedroom or a very large walk-in closet. How about like seven by about 11 or 12 feet. So depending on your you know where when I was young that would have been a big
bedroom and now it's maybe a big walk-in closet for some people. I'm putting together my list of what I'm going to put in that shed. All right. Yes. Awesome. Sounds great. And if we're successful, John, we may build a threetory building. Yes. Sounds good. Any other questions or comments for
No, it's great. Reuse, recycle. I like this, right? Yeah. Okay. Mr. Weber, thank you very much for leading us for the past half an hour or so. Sorry. Residents, you will be able to ask Mr. Weber questions in one minute. We're going to just get through item seven on our agenda. Are you going to do the proclamation
night out? Yes. Oh, yes. Where is the under presentations? Back presentations. I hope they don't have anything. Do you have a copy? I don't have it. Okay, I can pull it out. May I not give you that? I can pull it. Apparently, apparently not. Or maybe is
it there? Yes, here. Oh, you have another version. I have. Oh, okay. I'm going to go with your was on the side of your uh I'd like us to continue
uh item six on our agenda. Uh reading a proclamation for National Night Out 2025. Do I have that proclamation? Yes, I do. I have it. Okay, great. I have the proclamation. Was on my Okay. Uh, I will read this.
National Night Out Proclamation. Whereas the National Association of Town Watch, NATW, is sponsoring a unique nationwide crime prevention program on August 5th, 2025 entitled National Night Out. And whereas the annual National Night Out
provides a unique opportunity for the Burrow of Bradley Beach to join forces with thousands of other communities across the country in promoting cooperative police community crime prevention efforts. And whereas it is essential that all citizens of the
Burough Bradley Beach be aware of the importance of crime prevention programs and the impact that their participation can have on reducing crime in the burough. And whereas police community partnerships, neighborhood safety, awareness, and cooperation are important
themes of the National Night Out Program. And whereas a celebration is planned for night I'm sorry, for neighborhood watch groups in the Burough of Bradley Beach from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on August 5th, 2025 at the
beachfront on Ocean Avenue. I'll repeat that. 6 to 8:00 p.m. August 5th, 2025 at the beachfront. Now therefore, be resolved by the governing body of the Burough Bradley Beach proclaim August 5th, 2025 as National Night Out 2025.
Um, and this is something that most of you are aware. Uh, we the Bur Beach sponsor every year really our police department sponsors. Uh, it's a fun night out for all. Typically hamburgers and hot dogs are cooked. I presume it'll be something similar. Once again, it's
just a great opportunity to mingle among residents, mingle with our police force. Um, and one little challenge the the folks up here face is we have a council meeting on that same evening. So, we're going to look further at that. But,
please make sure if it's at all possible, try to attend, stop by at some point. It's it's always a great time for all. Any comments or questions about National Mayo? I was gonna volunteer to flip the burgers. That's right. We just have to take a council break for like an hour, run
down. I know. That's right. We'll call it executive session, right? So, more to come on that, but whether the council can join or not, uh, I encourage all residents to join. Maybe bring a I don't know if listen to the council meeting. Um, okay. I don't know
if my agenda Erica, is there any other additions to the agenda? No, that's it. I'm okay. I just want to make sure I lead us in the right direction. That was last minute one on Friday by May. I had it. Okay. Um, public comments and a question, but I'd like to move to item seven on the
agenda, approval of minutes. I'd like to make a motion July 1, 2025 council business meeting minutes be approved. Second. Mr. Noble, yes. Mrs. Greenblat, yes. Mr. Noiki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Gubetz, yes. I'd like to make a motion to
approve July 1, 2025 executive session uh meeting minutes. Second. Mr. Noble. I was not at that meeting, so I will abstain. Miss Greenblat? Yes. Mr. Nikki? Yes. Mr. Weber? Yes. Mayor Gubetzi? Yes. Okay. Now, we will open it. It's
item A. We'll open it up to public comments and questions. Feel free to ask questions about any of Mr. Weber's presentations and workshops or anything else on the agenda. Yes. I Nice try. That's my first time.
Just say your name and your address. I'm Heidi Serot 50 Mama. Um I lived in a town where we had one of these sharing sheds. It was great. Um one of the things and I don't think I heard you mention it was paint used paint. Um so
it's something you may if you did mention. I'm sorry. No, no, you are 100% right. I did not mention. You said no flammable or toxic materials. And maybe we'll just put a little semicolon and no paint. If I recall, the one that we had in our town did accept used paints as long as
it was in, you know, good condition and sealed and whatnot and it was something that people valued. So, I understand the, you know, the chemical aspects of it. But I just want to bring that up because you'll probably have people with paints counting. Okay. What town? Just curious. It was in Windsor, Connecticut.
Okay. Thank you. Yeah, that's a that's a great suggestion. I don't or construction material. Yeah, maybe even construction material. Yes, I was thinking lumber and other things like that. Okay. Yeah. So, you might want to call Windsor and see what they're doing. I don't know. Thanks. Thank you.
Thank you very much. Any other questions here in the audience or comments? Yes, Miss Hayden. Lauren Hayberg, 44 and a half avenue. Um, I came to ask some questions and
express um some concern about the um ordinance to change article six and the department of public self safety division of police. Okay. And 53A
says in the pertinent part where it used to say there would be a police chief and 17 additional members of the police department. It's being changed to say the police chief and as many sworn regular members
of the police department as the appropriate authority shall be necessary to ensure the safety and security of the girl. So my first question when I read that was who is the appropriate authority? Who are we talking about? And
it looks like in B when they mention appropriate authority they say mayor and council. Is that what's envisioned in A? That is correct. Okay. Then the question that I have with
that is at this point with the the size of our police force established by ordinance it would take an ordinance to change it. Now I don't know how long and how cumbersome that is. Um, one thing that I
see that it does is it provides for public notice and input when we have to change an ordinance and it's a mechanism by which the council and mayor folk involve.
So, um I guess my question would be does this envision a process for how the council would participate in that decision and a process by which because I can see you could increase the police force or
you could decrease it, you know, and I think both actions could be something of public concern. you know, the why, the reasoning, the when. Um, so could someone comment on that for me?
Yeah, let me take a stab at it and anyone else can join in. Uh, so number one, thank you for raising this question because if if we just introduce the ordinance, we would not have public comment. So by asking the question, we get to ask public comment and
interaction. Um what we what we have learned through life experiences is that our we believe the current ordinance language which very specifically states we have 17 officers and it and it very specifically
defines a a pyramid with you know with there's a chief of police, there's a captain, two lieutenants, three sergeants, very clearly delineated pyramid and then there's this so-called bottom of the pyramid where pyramid where you might have junior officers Um, we've had an unusual situation of of
late where one officer has basically not been available for a number of years. Uh, but he counts in that headcount of 17. Um, there's reduced compensation that's been available because we've had
shift differentials and so forth, but so we've been burrow's been, you know, saving money, but we've been down an officer. Um, further in the ordinance, we're not changing this, but further in the ordinance, there's language that says we could hire up to 50 specials,
5-0. I think we had 10 or 12 because we can't find these young people. You know, there we're going to talk about we the council and the police about casting a broader net to try to bring in more specials, folks who walk the beach, who
look for people smoking, drinking, tall tents, loud noise, all that stuff. We're very limited and as we talked about, well, what can we do? Because we're also constrained not by budget because we're managing within our budget, but we're constrained by the language of the
ordinance as it stands. And we the council discussed in executive session and uh uh our attorney has helped us craft the amendments. You see um that we said if we can create with our collective input you you did question
you who's the who's the uh governing the governing body is the appropriate authority with the mayor and the council all deciding to go up or down. uh we wanted to give ourselves that opportunity because in this case we'd
like to hire an additional class two individual bottom of the pyramid low low pay you to order magnitude $50,000 of salary. Um, and especially as other officers retire, we would like to at
least have the option to potentially build the bottom of the pyramid, especially for a lot of the duties that we currently are struggling sometimes to cover just because of the lack of bodies. So, the thinking was um provide this governing body with a little more
flexibility as to whether or not we might want to if we wanted to adjust staff a little bit. Of course, with a police department's uh agreement, we would have the ability to do that. Right now, we're just it's purely a headcount uh equation, and we we can't deviate
from the headcount. Yeah. I I the thing the thing that that concerns me here and again is mechanism, you know, there are sunshine laws where input and discussion amongst the council is supposed to
happen in public. So when you have an ordinance like this that establishes the number, then it would seem to me that perhaps in a special circumstance there should be an ordinance that changes that number or that is creative enough to say, you know, maybe adapt the ordinance
to say if a particular officer is unavailable for a period of time, you know, but again, we tend to kick the discussion out of the public forum. And I and I and the other thing that I I do
want to point out is that that tiered system of you have this office and that office already says that you can decide not to have there's language that indicates that you can make patrolling
as opposed to those um those higher class officers. So you do have some flexibility to move around function. And the other thing that was mentioned was that, you know, with the agreement of the police, and that's something else.
It just seems wide open to me, you know, and and maybe um an over solution to just say, "Okay, we're going to have an ordinance where the appropriate authority and I would say have to put right there every time appropriate authority comes out, just add in council
and mayor or mayor and council at a minimum and we'll see if that's would survive a challenge under a future mayor. We continue with the strong mayor of home government." I Okay. Um, can I so I'm going to turn this over Mr. Kenn in a second, but just so you know
when you mentioned sunshine laws and and you know back room possible discussions not deliberating in front of the public. This is designed for exactly that. This is an ordinance introduction. It's clearly defining we would we any
decisions we make as a council have to be in public. So some of your concerns might not be completely founded, but rather than me going on I' I'd like to turn over to Mr. Canon because we've spent a lot of time I have personally with Mr. again, just to make sure we got
this language, quote unquote, right, so we could have the ability to better serve the public, still manage our budgets, and not be constrained by language that's, you know, I don't know how old, 15 years, to change ordinance if it needs to be changed, you know, like it like making
it 18 as opposed to what that 34 days are. We introduce about 40. So this is an introduction. as part of it. Yeah. Greg, did you want to Yeah. So, you did a really good job of explaining the operational aspects of
the ordinance. Um, so legally the appropriate authority is the mayor and council and notwithstanding um a legal case that commented on that last year. That didn't change that. It's simply that the ruling in that case simply said that the employee had the ability to rely on the apparent authority of the of
the then mayor who gave them that discipline. So, it didn't change appropriate authority. Also, appropriate authority is a term of art. It's included in title 40 in 118 at sequence which is how you hire police officers and the rights of it's in title 40 um
title 40 I believe it's in if you go yes so police officers and their hiring and removal is governed by state statute the appropriate authority is that's the language from the statute the appropriate authority is something that's recognized across every
municipality sometimes that's it doesn't necessarily have to be the mayor and counsel it could be uh manager and a manager formal government or it can be other other people. In this formal government, it's the mayor and council. So, the mayor the police officer cannot be hired here and we have not hired a police officer to my knowledge without a
resolution. So, the the um you're concerned about the um that a police officer could be hired without public action. We can't do that here. Mayor and council means that there would have to be a resolution to hire a police officer. that you can that um the one thing I'm saying is
while I I I am so comforted by your explanation and by I'm sorry. Can I also finish because I think it might help you too. The reason why it's so it's important to have it flexible. So the current policing is is a market an industry just like every other right and at at present
um in the last several years there's been a lot of changes in policing that has led to a lot of retirements and it's led to a significant reduction in applications of people who want to be police officers and so there used to be a line of special police officers here in town who would be in that maybe a professional police officer for years
waiting for an open a spot to open up right so that's one thing that's changed in terms of just in general in the market the other thing that's changed is that an agency doesn't necessarily uh have to sign off on a transfer anymore. Meaning that the police officers are
free agents, so to speak. That was a special that was a law that was passed three years ago, three or four years ago. That allows uh before you could not go to the academy, you had to be sponsored by a you had to stay with them until they released you. Police don't have to do that anymore. So, they can pursue the highest paying job like any
other industry, free agency. What that means for a small town of 5,000 people is that your uh younger and mid-level and particularly your special police officers um especially your special police officers saying that you have lab are being hired away faster than we would be able to hire them or offer them
a job to go to the academy when these things come up. Um and so this is to provide the chief of police flexibility. So there's multiple controls on it as well, right? Because you can't just hire as many police officers as you want because you have a budget. So, this allows the police chief to determine, okay, I'm going to have this pirate
paying officer may retire in September, and these two officers are available now, but if I don't offer them a job now, they're going to go to the bigger towns or other towns, right? So, the police chief is having great difficulty in reacting fast enough to hire people to replace people who might be out on
leave with special circumstance that was mentioned earlier. And you no longer have that pool of special officers, all these people that were waiting eagerly with police officers doesn't exist anymore. the ordinance says 50 and you're down to 10 or 12. So, the pipeline of bringing new officers in uh
and the opportunity to hire officers and send them to the academy and sponsor them which cost the burough money on the on the front end um and to be sure that they're going to work here. If we had to wait 40 days to change the ordinance if we wanted to maybe the police chief wants to have 19 officers here and it'll
drop back down to 17 based on retirement. He can fit that in the budget. You follow me? Yes. So that's the reason that's the market reason for this. Yeah. Police chief missed out on two recruits recently. Um you know obviously we don't want we can't get the details
of that but missed out on two recruits recently because this the special circumstance is holding a spot and the spots weren't available according to the ordinance. So there that that's the market based reason and then as the mayor explained to you the operational aspects of how they the council wants to operate the appropriate authority you
know those that's what's leading to this. It's not um and no no officer can be hired. Your point to the police um ranks could decrease by attrition um you know without the public knowing is likely founded right because you wouldn't know you wouldn't know they're
not being hired and we don't necessarily announce retirements or people out we definitely don't announce people on leave for various reasons. So your concern in that regard I think is founded. Um you know but that I suspect the police union will let you know and be standing in the back of the ring if that happens. could at least I'm just
asking if you could take if there can be a second look taken at some of the language because then you might be change it to at least 17 and then if you really see that our town doesn't need that many police then you could take 34 days and change the ordinance. So at
least we're not looking at a drop that the public's not aware of. And I think I heard the answer to my other concern which was what is the mechanism by which the council participates and the public
becomes aware and is that a resolution that's public? Yeah, that'd be a public vote to hire a police officer. Yeah. Yeah. We've been doing that for years here. Fantastic. That that it was the discipline part. We got a little squirly with that. Yeah. I just would even even though
you know like the the language is a term of art when it says the appropriate authority and once you tell me well that's title 40 with the state then I feel very comforted if we could just clarify it each time it comes up it's in
some of these provisions it will say mayor and council and parents afterwards and it just when when a lay person wants to see what ordinances far. I think it really helps. There was one other concern and I'm going to I'm way over time. Laura, you you really are way over
time. Okay. Yeah, I am. And the explanations were wonderful and detail. Please just try to I will I I absolutely will. I'm confused by the language in four. So if somebody when they get a chance can take a look at the
language in form because it's the one place where it doesn't look like the chief of police is looking for approval from the council. It sounds like the council is under the direction of the chief of police. It's it's the wording is awkward enough that I don't
understand it. Okay. Other questions? Thank you. Other questions or comments from the audience here? Uh Mr. Greenberg, I see your hand raised. Hey guys, how's it going? Don Greenberg,
uh 302 Parkplace Avenue, Bradley Beach. Uh had a question on the Skip the Stuff Bill for John. Hey John, as we know, the um Skip the Straw bill has been a miserable failure in the state because there was no educational component. Uh
are we planning on doing an educational component with the restaurants? uh happy to do an educational component and it's not so much a skip, you know, the straws, it's straws on request and I think there's other reasons why that is not working and just so people know,
you're not supposed to get a plastic straw in New Jersey unless you ask for it or paper or I guess. Yeah. So, unless you ask for it. So, the um there's different reasons for that. It's because the rest of that laws implemented by the Department of
Environmental Protection, but the straw heart is under the Department of Health. They didn't have any rules for it and they're actually working on that. And literally like two years later after after the fact that that law, no, it's going to be more than that. Um, several years after that law went into effect,
Department of Health is finally coming around and getting uh rules. So, but yes to education and happy to, you know, have people help and push out a committee to see what that education looks like. Be happy to volunteer if you need some help. All right. Thanks.
And I had a question on the which one is it? The parking ordinance uh 2025-22. Am I reading it right that you can't park in the uh beach lot for more than two hours?
I don't think uh I don't think anything changed in the beach lots. So yeah, I'd never seen it before, but it just seems odd that you have a beach lot that you can't park for more than two hours when people are on the beach. So So Don, just to quickly answer your question because we're not changing
that. So you may be right, but but uh we haven't spent any time looking at it. We're only This is only focused on changes to the uh lot just north of Burough Hall. So, we're not changing it. We can revisit that, but I don't know the answer to you.
Fair enough. Read through it. Okay. And that Yeah, because like the the twohour thing just seems a little little tight, especially for a lot on the beach. I'm talking a lot on Cliff A and Ocean. I'm not sure there's a limit, but I get
it. Where you seeing that in you have in front of you because I'm like where do you see the two hours? Hold on a sec. Unless I was reading it wrong. Hold on. I just I just took it down. Give me one second. There is a lot. It's the uh it's the uh Cliff Avenue,
but there's a say two. That's not mobile. It is. It's not limited that I know. So it's the magic. Yeah. I it. So again, I'm not familiar. Yeah, it says in reference, it's under a in reference to the emissile parking lot
on the east side of Ocean Avenue from Cliff uh to the B to the northerly boundary. It shall be unlawful a violation for any person blah blah blah to park or stand anywhere in such parking area for a period in excess of two hours at any one time between the
hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p. p.m. That is odd. and people who are parking there with Park Mobile are paying by the hour for all day. So, we're not enforcing that. I was not aware of that and we can certainly revisit that at a later time.
Unless you're limited to only two hours on mobile, you know, you're not Do we change that now? No. Well, I don't know. That is not now, but you definitely So, so Don, you're only supposed to read the underlying part. Hey, I read everything, baby. Um, and
the other question in number one, it says you can't park in a stall for any longer than two hours. Is that just when you say stall, does that mean just an outlined parking spot on the street? I think a stall is a space. Again, Don, are you looking at things
for changing or you just No, I was just looking at the first paragraph on the on the ordinance. It just seemed odd that it was only two hours in any parking stall. So like you can have some like Newark, you have a stall in front of your house and you can't park there for more than two
hours. Yeah. But um Captain Browning, uh do you c can you speak to the twohour stall limit? It's I know that applies to Main Street, for example.
That's Yeah. I don't know if that's how where that is or how that's in there. We don't enforce um time limits on Ocean Avenue or the north foot lot or the pave parking. Right. And then on the west side it's it's not
enforced at all. Right. Main Street is always you know been two hours. Do our best to address that. I don't know how that maybe change or something. So basically it's in there but it's not enforced. Okay.
Yeah. But but um in in part B numbers like right two three and four where I see the word stall there's no time limits on any of those. Well if you look under violations A number one it's the first paragraph under rules and regulations
third sentence. Look at see this 205 2025-22 9-3.6 6 A1 I don't see well sorry so there's two things there's the stall
which I believe is a space but the 2hour limit it says it won't park in excess of two hours at any time in any one parking space and then re in reference to the municipal lot and in reference to the municipal
parking lot again on the north side versus west side around Burough all what's Yeah, that that one I understand. This isn't this is on the first page of the ordinance. The stuff I'm talking about. It's really just that that lot that's on the uh ocean.
Well, okay. We'll look at it. Yeah. Again, now we're not changing what you're saying tonight, right? But we'll look uh without without understanding it in a broader context, it's hard to explain whether it's right or wrong. I can say it cannot be right
related to Cliff Avenue parking lot. That's just something that's been there forever and nobody noticed it. But but the other but the other reference to stall it seems to be referencing what I'm reading quickly are parking lots around Burough
Hall limited to two hours and we're going to continue that. There will be a two-hour limit on stalls spaces around Burough Hall. Okay. Uh yeah, that I get. This one is though in number one it says any one parking stall and has nothing to do with
Burrow Hall which is further down in the ordinance. I totally get the Burrow Hall thing. Okay. Well, it says as follows. So what follows are articulating um the the various locations and so I think the
error for us is the you know Ocean Avenue K Cliff Avenue lot and again that's We need to revisit that. It's not it's not part of the scope of these amendments. We did not got it
that. So, totally got it. I It's one of those things I get that's just been there forever. Get it? Yeah. No, we didn't even look at our entire focus has been on how and we'll talk about this later. How do we make parking work along Main Street, especially to the extent we use Burough
Hall parking as public parking? And how do we balance that with the demands of our own employees? So, thank you for highlighting that. We will revisit. Appreciate it. Other comments or questions? Nothing else.
John got his hand up. No, that's a that's a pointer. Erica, can you move the long hand again? That's the cursor. Yeah, the cursor is at hand. Okay. So, we will u move over introduction for
uh I'm sorry, we're on public comments still right now. Anybody else? Any other public comments? Okay, moving on then to ordinance uh item number nine, ordinance introductions. Uh there will be no p no now there will be no public comment on the
introductions. Uh you will have an opportunity to address the council. uh at adoption, but I'll make a motion that we approve the introduction of ordinance 2025-22 amending chapter 9 traffic of the
burough's revised general ordinances to create uh specific public access to our parking in the burough hall parking lot. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes, Miss Greenblat. Yes, Mr. Noiki. Yes, I I do believe we need to address the other items that Don Weaver just
mentioned. So, yes, yes, Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Guboszi. Yes. Before we move on, I I asked Michelle Wy if she could share with with the audience what what we're doing and
now that we've at least voted to introduce uh give a quick overview of what this would look like. Michelle, are you able to do that? Okay. So, everyone could quickly see. Nope. Go back, Michelle, to the first
page. Yep. Thank you. Um, you can probably orient yourselves quickly. The top of the screen is is the West by the Railroad tracks. You can kind of see Main Street at the bottom and gray. And uh, let me kind of direct everybody to the column right in the middle. That
effectively is the parking spaces along Burough Hall. They're all marked employee only. And what's going to happen is those will remain employee only. Um, but they will be limited to 5:00 a.m. to 4:00 pm. After 4 pm, those become available to the public. So
whether it be people shopping in the afternoon, going to dinner in the early evening, those will be public available spots with 2-hour limits. What's really kind of critical is is the green and the white that follows because
initially a number of months ago, this council introduced an ordinance that was basically going to take all the spaces in the middle and use them for uh employee parking and visitor parking and uh other uh other burrow related
activities. And there was a there was an uproar from a number of our businesses, from many of our residents saying, "Wait, you can't take away all the public parking, guys. We need this for Main Street." So we have tabled that introducted that that ordis that was
introduced uh for a couple of months now as we worked on this plan B and with the cooperation of our police department and our uh volunteer fire department what we've come up with is we are adding as you can see at the top of those two
columns to the right we are adding three additional employee parking spaces in each row. So, we're adding six employee parking spaces there subject to the same limit two uh I'm sorry, the employees are there from 5:00 am to 4 pm. After
that, they also become public subject to two hours. But our police department said we really we're okay relinquishing the 15minute parking that was on the street. So if you see that horizontal
row at the bottom left of the screen, that frees up six to seven, I'm illustrating six here, but six to seven parking spaces that were limited to 15 minutes. So effectively, and and now those will become subject to twohour limits once again. People can shop, they
can go to restaurants. So we're replacing the six spots we needed to accommodate employees with six spaces on the street. uh that is still subject to state DOT. Our uh Chief Arnold is talking to the state. They said we're
going to have a resolution later requesting the DOT to change. Uh we're getting the the clear go ahead that we'll be able to do that. So I think the very good news for uh for Bradley Beach is that we will now we'll still have the
same total spaces available during the day for public parking. Uh in the evening we will have all of these spaces, the original 28 that are in the middle of the diagram plus six to seven more on the street. So we'll have 35 or
so public available spaces for for restaurant dining in particular or you know late afternoon early evening shopping. So uh and again my thanks to our police department and to our fire department who have also made some spaces available to the burrow on the
fire department premises. So that is a summary of what we intended to approve. Uh Mr. Greenberg highlighted some other flaws in the the ordinance, but the focus of the changes are depicted here. And Michelle, if you could uh advance the screen page,
Michelle, there we are. Uh this this is just what the parking spaces in the middle of the lot. That's three and three that I identified that will be employee only. You can see they're very clearly marked. We could not put up signs in the middle of the parking lot. They get in the way
of plowing and maintenance and so forth, but very clear uh marking for the public to know that 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. these spaces will be uh used for employee use. And Michelle advance one more screen.
This is the real life picture of what as of this past weekend. Uh the realigning that was done. This is an aerial photo of that same parking lot that I just depicted in the uh green and white. Uh you can still see the the top of the
screen is Main Street and there are two blue marked handicap spots. They did not change at all. But as as you can see, the three at the ends of the two middle rows there are the ones sparked deploy only. So I just want everybody to have a sense
for what the council is approving today with 2025-22. Thank you, Michelle. I think we can go back to the regular screen and I'll move forward to uh introduction of ordinance I'll make a motion that we introduce uh
ordinance 2025-23 which is a bond ordinance providing for sewer improvements along Ocean Park Avenue which is appropriating just under a million $975,000. This will include
uh so so-called soft costs which are largely tied to design and permitting uh as well as hard costs for construction. And the reason this is happening uh quickly along Ocean uh Park is because we've got a borderline emergency and we
have for a month or two um where we're having significant sewer issues on this threeb block stretch of Ocean Park. So this is our effort to quickly move to remedy the problems with the sewer auto ship park. There's no uh
Okay. Um how long has has this issue been going on? At least a few months. Matt, do you know more specifically? Uh yeah, it's gotten worse and worse over the last few months. So historically there hasn't been with this over the past few years.
January. We're not you're not aware. Okay. Okay. But but I would tell you that the Department of Public Works has to get out there at least once, sometimes twice a week just to vacuum out sand dirt to keep the line flowing.
Otherwise, it starts backing up into people's uh basements. Yeah. And and Sha, you know, because you and Councilman Noiki are doing so much work on sewer infrastructure projects in general, but this had to be accelerated. This was a surprise and emergent
conditions. So, I'll make a motion that we uh that we approve the introduction of 2025-23. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Greenwood. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubzi. Yes.
Okay. Uh, also for introduction is ordinance 2025-24 large vehicle trailer storage. What is basically happening here is we are trying to gradually improve u various
issues related to parking within the burrow. Um in this particular instance u we're trying to constrain the parking of very large oversized vehicles to uh outside of uh the uh the front yard um
what's it called? The front yard envelope. Envelope. Thank you. Um, so that if you do have a large trailer, tractor trailer, that kind of a thing, you've got to park it on the side or the back of the house. As of this moment in time, you could conceivably park u in the
drive in the front of your house, right in your driveway. And uh we're trying to be a little more respectful of neighbors and others who would be concerned with the uh optics of a very large these are oversized and described in the ordinance
uh vehicles, trailers, storage type vehicles. So that's what's happening with this particular ordinance. Any any questions on the council? No, I think this is a good thing. Nobody wants a semi parked out front of their house overnight, right? And this is about air and light, too. You know, if you're sitting on your
porch, you don't want something blocking your air and light. It's also updating, you know, they they called it a camp car. And literally, a camp car is uh a a a train car. It's a housing for employees of a railroad. So, I don't think we have any camp cars parked in
driveways. So, now it's a little more clearer definition. I I use some of the verbiage, too, from Spring Lake and ADON. I talked to other council people. So, this is just updating a few things, cleaning house and this ordinance. So I have a couple of questions. It's my understanding that this the genesis of
some of these changes were related to a chronic issue that we had in the town of the property. Is that where this office was trying to address? This might have uh helped us move this along and open our eyes a little bit to it. But yeah, this is very common with other towns too, like I said. So we're
just using some of their verbiage just to update some of our ordinances. I mean, even previously, you can see some of our ordinance, you know, they just need work and they they're kind of fluid and changing and so we're just trying to update things in keeping with the times. Some of these haven't been changed since
1974. So, no, I'm I'm all for it. I'm just wondering if some of the genesis of this was in response to an issue that's ongoing currently in the burrow um with a propensity of construction vehicles at a property. Um, and if if that's the
case, I don't think this has enough teeth to really address that problem. I don't know if if that's related or not. Um, but you know, um, uh, President, uh, Council President Denobyl and I, um, have both been advised of, um, an issue
that's been going on for over a year now. And um there seemed to be some loopholes in trying to address the problem with a bunch of neighbors that have been really very um respectful um in trying to sort of work around a problem and I don't think this this is
will resolve that might like be a first step of something but this is in the right direction. It's definitely in a good direction overall in the burrow. Yes. Um, but you know, very easily, you know, if if someone is operating a business out of their home, whether
their vehicles are identified or not, um, as commercial vehicles, but it's clear that there's a fleet of vehicles, if they're parked from the front of the house to the back of the property and doing all of their business for all of these, whatever business it might be, they can still do that, right? Because
it we're talking about from the front of the house forward, right? Greg, do you want to comment on this one? I mean, commercial businesses are governed by also separate parts of the ordinance. This really
relates to large vehicles, boats, everything. Um, I'm not entirely familiar with the situation that you're you're talking about. Um, but this I mean this would prevent it from basically parking large vehicles in the front yard envelope. I'm not sure if that completely addresses the situation you guys are talking
about. Um but maybe we could talk about that after. I obviously don't want to give out the address like the moment. No, no, certainly. Um but right now there's really nothing preventing um you parking really anything in the front yard unless it's commercial purpose. You're using it like a yard pretty much. You have to really be using it for a business purpose for
to trigger the other regulations. So, if if if someone um has a business and has a number of vehicles that are related to that business, if the vehicles are not listed as commercial vehicles, if they don't have identification that says what the business is, um and they're parking,
filling up their driveway, parking on the street in front of um their home and other homes around the block, moving the vehicles around regularly. Many complaints. I mean, I had kind of requested to get some information on how many actual complaints have been made.
Um, there's kind of a loophole with code enforcement because they don't recognize that there are commercial vehicles, but clearly there's a business. Um, and it's been a problem, you know, that I don't think anyone sounds this is this is uh I mean that
sounds like a deeper zoning analysis. I mean, I can tell you that there's commercially registered vehicles parking on the street. they're not they're not allowed to be there under many of the ordinances that are written. Um, this ordinance less than focusing on the commercial or private nature of the
vehicle really or or boat or camper or whatever. You know, there's a lot of different descriptions of things in there really focuses on size. Um, you know, I'm not sure if that addresses this issue or not. I don't know if there's like, you know, minivans. I'm not sure what that situation is, but
there's there's things to address the public street obviously. Um there's there's just lots of that. This is just basically prevents you from parking a 40ft boat to the to the sidewalk pretty much or a camper or places where you should find someplace else to store it
or they're commercially available to store it. But if you have a if you have a passenger vehicle, whether it says, you know, ABC house cleaning on the side, it's a minivan, that's going to be allowed to be parked under this ordinance. Although there may be other issues if there's a lot being operated. Those are more zoning issues.
How about a flatbed truck? Uh if it's longer than the the size in of the trailer that's listed in there, then it would not be allowed to be parked in in the front yard envelope. But this ordinance focuses on the size of the vehicle or trailer or boat or
camper doesn't really do the business. It doesn't really It might be insufficient to address what you're talking about. Great. It really wasn't written with that in mind. There are also limitations. Councilwoman Greenblat mentioned u rotating cars around and parking some of
them on the street. There are restrictions on oversized vehicles being parked on the street as well. Oh yeah, you have you have a myriad of those already in place. Yeah, there I don't know if I reproduced it all in that ordinance, but they're below that in the in the code in the police
regulations. So I think part So in part I I 100% recognize that Councilwoman Greenblad is is aware of and has has lobbyed for some change based on one specific instance looking at the the entire community. Um you know I guess
what we have to contend with is how far do we go? Do we say you can't park your vehicles that are not commercially registered on your own property? I don't know that anyone be very difficult to enforce enforce them. I think on the other hand being
consistent with uh our policy that already exists with dumpsters dumpsters cannot appear in the in the front yard as well. Uh this is at least the first step in you know managing the uh you
know the uh appearance of the neighborhood for all involved. So, if you have an F-150 and you're operating a business, it's got your name on the side, you you could park that in your driveway under this ordinance. I didn't know I didn't think that that was the intent because you've got 10,000 whatever
whatever the poundage limit is. Yeah. It's significant. It's significant. It's a truck. It's a truck. Yeah. You know, not and and I don't mean uh you know, it's a commercial truck. Like there's very little you could use it for otherwise or a camper. the vehicle. You
know, this wasn't intended. If you you're just operating a contracting business with an F-150, you can park in your drive with decals on it. I, you know, I didn't want to open up that kind of works, but we'll move all the big boats out of people's front yards. So, the question is just how far does this council want to go with
restricting and and are we, you know, would we as a group consider going to a point where our attorney advises might not be enforceable? uh that you can't necessarily say it's your property. You can't park any of your vehicles on it even if they're not commercially
registered. So, this was presented uh by Mr. Cannon after discussion with with at least me. I don't know, Greg, you could talk to anyone else, but I thought this was a a good first step in at least managing the front yard envelope. Yeah. Let's see if this gives our zoning
our code officers I guess the tools they need to do what they have to do in many situations it will but we that's the thing okay fair enough I will I also will note that when I um
was researching this doing this um in terms of the like some a lot of town so some many beach towns that are farther south of here or closer you know or like a barrier islands. You're just not allowed to have this at all on the property. Period. You don't have to have a boat in the backyard, front yard,
whatever. There's, you know, other significant fire concerns and things like that. Um, this is somewhere, but almost everyone has one where you can't have it in your driveway, right? But if you have more than a 17t or 23 foot boat, which basically the is a level of boat regulation that you can't have in
front yard, but they'll let you put in the backyard, the sideyard. Um but you know um this is not an this is a very common ordinance in beach towns period at the front yard. The other ones were a little mixed as to whether you could have out of the property or not, but some banned it entirely.
Boats particularly. And Greg, let me put you on the spot, but for the research you've done, and you've shared a lot with me, so I asked this not only for my own edification, but in case you know anybody else is interested, it what's your perspective knowing what you know about other
talents and the research you've done? We're trying to be improve. We're trying to be better. Is there still room for further improvement or are we getting to a point of uh where where it might get to be legal conflict? I think it's per this is perfectly
reason. This allows you to keep, you know, if you have a jet ski or a small skiff or something that you might take out very often, right? Or or or it's more akin to trailering, right? Like let's pay a slip for a jet ski, right? You can keep that in your driveway because it's under the 23 ft. But if you
have a 26 foot boat that you don't just don't want to buy a slip for, you don't want to pay winter storage for, you can't keep that next, you know, block your neighbors you backing out of the driveway all winter pretty much. You know, I think it's a reason very reasonable compromise between what I saw online from not allowed to have any boat on your property at all and your boat
storage residential zones um to, you know, this is if you have the you have the room on your property in the side or the rear to hide it, then you're free to do that. you have something reasonable, you can keep it there. But you can't keep, you know, a 40 foot boat with four outboards in the driveway next to your neighbor. You know, it's I think
reasonable. Okay. Thank you. Any other comments or questions? I'll make a motion that we uh approve the introduction of ordinance 2025-24, large vehicle trailer storage. Second. Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Blet,
yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Gupeting, yes. Ordinance 2025-25, chapter 5, hiring a police officer. We actually had the opportunity to have a fairly lengthy discussion on this
earlier. This uh bring everybody back to trying to give the council the the appropriate authority, which is the mayor and the council um the ability to build the base of the pyramid uh by hiring in a potentially um uh you know additional person over
what the current current ordinance allows. Any comments or questions? I think there's a couple good points that um Lauren Lauren mentioned. One was the minimum of 17 officers is not a bad consideration because we you know what
is that min what is the goal minimum sighted police force and so I think that that's actually something that we could consider putting in so that you have so that way Yeah. So, you know, we don't So, does it give the chief the
opportunity to just operate at 16? It says, "No, we need to hire then hold the force of 17 at a minimum." Um, wouldn't we be able to address I thought of that too, Paul, but wouldn't in the budget process we would probably address that, but you kind of have to
do the math for that reach in their budget. And, you know, if he's said, "Oh, we're going to drop down a couple officers." Like, we would notice that in the budget process. I mean, I think you could push back on that. Yeah. I I don't disagree that the more definition we have, the clearer
it is to all of us, us here, our residents. Um, but it the more definition we have, the less uh flexibility we have. So, if the chief were to come to the governing body in some unusual circumstance and say, I don't need to replace this person. I'd
rather um give this other person a promotion and use that money to spend here for these reasons. There might there I'm just suggesting there might be a reason in the future where we would want to have that flexibility. We would still have this discussion in in public. I
would think uh I was looking at the downside. The upside I think have we could give that flexibility but I'd like to put up that you know is a a minimal size of force and not leave it up to something that could just operate over time even in a budgetary issue that the
goal is down to 16. we need to hire, you know, we don't. But so what what's your concern though that we might be underst staffed because I don't think the chief would I don't think that he would want that allow that to happen. So we could you know I guess what's the catch of that? How would we lost flexibility for us? Okay.
I think that's the challenge and the chief but again I I don't think there's any motive I can even anticipate where us or a future council would just secretly try to diminish the all the salaries. the budget is still the same but we have less policemen. That would
be the that would be the scenario where I don't think I don't think we would go there. But I just want to make sure that we you know you recognize that there you know that flexibility does leave that opening that a reduction of police force would not be a good thing and it kind of leaves that open.
Well I think the spirit of this is that he can hire more not hire less. Why the spirit of it? Yeah and and to create flexibility for all involved. This is true. Yes. And I and I also agree that the resolution to have to hire I think we've addressed that
concern. So I'm okay with that. So I'm I'm okay with the opening up to the flexibility and um the slate slope of reduction would be a concern so long as we somehow are guarded from that and aware that we don't want to reduce our force. You know
I think that's the important point I'm trying to make. You know you were going to say I was just going to say I would imagine that it's based on the population size generally. Um, and you know, the fact that we're also a tourist town. So, um, you know, if our population changes, if
our population increases, you know, I don't I mean, I I I'm kind of in agreement with Paul about having no let no fewer then. But if it causes, you know, any um constraints as you had mentioned, you know, that's I guess that's something
and and I do think that it's not just the size of Bradley Beach. We have growth, significant growth happening in Metaton City right across Memorial Avenue. So that it's not just about our population, it's about the surrounding community population and the need for you know policing with that growth of
the adjacent communities. I mean no one is arguing including me every discussion I have is how can we increase policing. Yes. But five years from now or 10 years from now when none of us are sitting here and maybe
or maybe You never know. And some police chief says to some new mayor and council, we really need to decrease that for some reason, we'd have to change the ordinance at that point. You can do it within 34 days. So, no, again, we can do that. As pointed
out earlier, uh the goal here was simply working with Mr. Cannon and the chief to try to come up with something that would give us all that flexibility. Nobody's worried that we're going to forget and go, "Oh, it used to be 17, but now we, you know, now we're at 16 and we've, you know, we've kind of left it.
We forgot it." Yeah. Uh, Mr. Canon, you know, I don't think this is a risk that say, uh, would you have any concerns with uh creating language that says we're still targeting a minimum of 17? Yeah. Um, I feel this might happen, so I
started writing it. Um says the uh the department will consist of a police chief and at least 17 sworn regular members of the police department, but as many sworn regular members of the police department as the appropriate authority may deem necessary to ensure the safety and security of the
bureau. That doesn't sound too great. At least 17 sworn regular members of the police officers or as many I think by changing we're hamstringing ourselves a little. Yeah. So we I mean I'm okay even that
right. I don't know that risk. It's just we said the other way. We let's reverse it the other way. I could reverse it the other way. Uh Well, I think we're getting more. Uh, how about this?
Uh, and as many sworn regular members of the police department as the appropriate authority shall be necessary to ensure the safety and security of the burrow. But in no event shall the police department consist of less than 18 members including the police chief.
Okay. Now, okay. Why are you saying that? Just to be clear because the current language excludes the chief frame. Yes. And then we go down to the bottom. We carry that language to the patrol that it would be as many patrol officers as maybe deemed sufficient necessary by the
appropriate authority, but in no event shall there be less than 11 patrolled men. Again, I think we're unnecessarily limiting ourselves, but by overdefining. Yeah. Yeah. Um and plus earlier Greg I the rep the
ordinance used to reference 17 excluding the chief. So we got to make sure that we're consistent where are we including or excluding. Right. I don't have I'm okay leaving that the way it was. Right. I think I think we're we're think
I did give it a try for you. Right. Is any is everyone okay with moving forward as as originally Lanch introduced or are there still changes reason? The chief's okay with it, right? The chief's okay with it.
Captain, are you okay with it? Yes, we have to have at least these. Okay. Okay. Thank you for that texture. Yes. All right then. Uh thank you for all that discussion. Uh I I think based on coming full circle, we're back to feeling comfortable with this the
revised wording. So I'll make a motion that we uh approve the introduction of ordinance 2025-25, chapter 5, hiring a police officer. Second, Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Greenwood, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes.
Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Gubzi, yes. Okay, we are moving to an adoption of an ordinance and this will um allow uh public comment. So, uh let me make a motion to open it to the public for
comment. Second. Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Greenl, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Guboszi, yes. and I'll open it to the public for comments on bond ordinance 2025-9
uh which again is uh borrowing that we are uh advancing in order to do repairs on Fifth Avenue sewer. Any comments or questions? Okay, seeing no comments or questions, I'll I'll make a motion to close public comment and adopt uh bond ordinance
2025-9. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes, Mr. Gray. What? Yes, Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubosi. Yes. Also up for adoption and also for public comment. Ordinance 2025-21
ordinance amending chapter 160 which is basically updating our construction uh code uh uniform certificates of occupancy um of the bureaus revised general ordinances to update and increase certain fees. Uh, I'll make a motion
open it to the public for comment or question. Second. Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Greenblat, yes. Mr. Noiki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Gubosi, yes. Public comment or questions? Oh, boring. This losing people.
Okay, seeing none, I will make a motion to close public comment and adopt ordinance 2025-21. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mlet. Yes. Mr. Yes, Mr. Weber. Yes, Mayor Gutz.
Yes. Moving to item 10 on the agenda of communications. Uh the communication is a liaison appointment memo for the Revolution New Jersey and the Mammoth County 250th anniversary and specifically the memo to Burough Council
ident identifies the following. The following two individuals will serve as liaons and represent the burrow for the Mammoth County 250th anniversary program. And those two individuals are Amy Hall, our tourism director, and Mr. Paul Nashkin, our historical society
chairman, and Mr. uh Desampkin is with us tonight. So, thank you, sir, for volunteering to be one of our leaison. And thank you to Amy Hall, wherever she is. Okay, moving on to item 11. We have
resolutions. Um we have two items on the consent agenda. Uh would anyone on the council like to vote have any discussion or vote either of these out separately? I just want to um say that this is a long time in coming and um thank Mr.
Nash champion um as part of the story in the historical society. Well deserved. And there is actually now I'm looking for uh 2025-241. Is that problem? You have it. If you
have it, would you mind reading it? Just the actual resolution. Um 241. Sure. Yeah, if you have it. Uh I'm asking Councilwoman Greenblat to read this because it does recognize Mr.
the champion's contributions to the burrow and uh that is obviously the backdrop bur. Shall we have it? I do. Okay, great. Yeah. Uh resolution 2025241 appointing Paul Nashkin as burrow historian. Whereas uh historic
preservation is relevant for communities across the nation. And it is important to celebrate celebrate the role of history in our lives and the contributions made by dedicated individuals in helping to preserve the tangible aspects of the the heritage. And whereas historic preservation is an
effective tool for managing growth, revitalizing neighborhood, fostering local pride, and maintaining community character while enhancing livability. And whereas Paul de Champkin has been very active in preserving artifacts and
memorabilia for the history of Bradley Beach for the historical museum and by displaying items of historical significance to Bradley Beach. Whereas Paul Nashkin has conducted historical research regarding the history of Bradley Beach and volunteered many long
hours of his time to do so. So now therefore, be it resolved, the mayor and council wish to appoint Mr. Nashkin as the burrow historian and wish to express their appreciation for his meritorious service, loyalty and dedication to the
history of the burrow of Bradley Creek. Thank you, Councilwoman. Mayor comments, sir. Like thank very much and I'd be proud to fill this position. Thank you.
Thank you. Okay. So, moving on now with the two consent agenda resolution items. Uh we are not voting them out separately, but I'll make a motion that we uh approve 2025-240 the approval of for Special Olympics New Jersey to conduct a 5K race on Sat on
Saturday, November 15th from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. pass through only and for appointing Mr. Paulin as our burough historian. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Greenwood, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Gubosi,
yes. Moving to individual resolutions 2025-242 approving. Oh, and I should say a number of these are QPA related. Um, just continuing to tighten up our uh procurement processes. So, 2025-242
approving certification of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. I have a I'll make a motion to approve. Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubattosi. Yes. 2025 243. Approval. I'll make a motion
to approve the approval of an increase in the bid threshold pursuant to NJSA4A1-3. Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Nikki? Yes. Mr. Weber? Yes. Mayor Griozi? Yes.
2025-244. approving uh author and authorizing the use of purchasing procedures manual and vendor manual. I'll make a motion to approve. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Yes.
Did I get you? You skip. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayori. Yes. 2025-245. This is authorizing the procurement of vehicles and accessories through New Jersey State Contract 23- Fleet-
34933 pursuant to New Jersey State Contract Division of Purchase of Property. Make a motion to approve. Second, Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Greenwood, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Guboszi, yes. Okay. 2025-246.
for the public's benefit. We've had some emergency repairs on our HVAC unit in the Carmen Bazi Center. Um, so we've already actually uh enlisted a contractor to fix the air conditioning there. This is authorizing an emergency
HVAC unit repair at the Carmen Aviasi Center. Uh, make a motion to approve. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Greenlet. Yes. Mr. Nikki? Yes. Mr. Weber? Yes. Mayor Gubosi? Yes. And then after that repair, we had another emergency on our HVAC unit also
at the Carmen Bazi Center. Uh that is 2025-247 authorizing a second emergency HBAC unit repair. I'll make a motion to approve. Second, Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber,
yes. Mayor Gubosi, yes. Resolution 2025-248 authorizing emergency storm train and roadway repair at Evergreen and Central Avenues. I will make a motion to approve. I have a question, please.
We know what this was um caused by. This was a you know sewers were all replaced there. Yeah. Let me ask you if our business administrator knows Matt um the the emergency storm drain and roadway repair at Evergreen and Central Avenues. Do you
recall what specifically? Yeah, there was a sinkhole. Oh. Right at that corner and uh the police came out, cooled it all off for a day and then we were able to get the blueprint repaired up. Is that unusual? I mean, we had had the
in and replaced the storm sewers. to replace the sanitary. But what could have happened is that that could have just you know that storm sewer failed and so would happen over time and washed away and cause that sinkhole. That's typically what it's called. Hopefully they catch those during the sewer
projects, but sometimes the work is even near the the storm projects, but they don't cross them or, you know, interact with them and they don't deal with those. Um, unless there's some obvious, you know, problems, you have a contract to fix them. And it was emergency authorization as
well. So, looking for a second. I'll second. Yeah, I made a motion. No problem. Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Greenland. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubetzi. Yes. Resolution 2025-249
authorizing general engineering services with CME Associates for Silven Lake outlet control gate replacement. Uh comments especially from Mr. Councilman Diki. Any comments here? No. Um little explanation on this. There's there's a series of projects that are critical to
the lake. Um this particular one is the outlet gate which basically controls the water flow uh you know either holds back the water in the lake or allows water to pass out to the ocean. And that gate is you know pretty old and we actually two
years ago had a failure of that gate and um DPW ended up going in there and doing you know temporary repairs on it. We had engineers look at it. They assessed it. They helped define how to fix it temporarily. Um and now over the last
two years it continues to uh fail. Um and then they we fix it with you know plastic and and measures. And so right now we we know that and you heard from the report earlier uh regarding hurricanes and whatnot. Um this gate is critical to the uh health and safety of
the community, prevent flooding as well as the potential of that gate failing and all the water leaving the lake threatening all the habitat and wildlife as well. So it's a two u mode problem. You have overflowing lake andor the lake
emptying. So this is a critical piece of the infrastructure and it needs to get fixed. Uh it was actually um identified for the last two years and so we need to move on this. Um Avon is going to be cost sharing with us on this project and we're looking to see how we can get this
done with either grant money or um with the outfall project. That's the ocean outfall pipe that's being replaced by D this fall. We're going to see how we can actually find partners to help get this done. On the worst case, we're going to have to, you know, um, you bond or
borrow to get that work, you know, work done. But, um, this is getting the engineering done first. We got to get it moving and the permit process so that we can actually address this uh, hopefully to in construction sometime this winter or no later than spring. So, it's uh
it's going to take a process to get it done through DP. Any other comments, questions? Okay. I'll make a motion to approve 2025-249 authorizing the general engineering services with CM Associates for Silven Lake outlet control gate replacement.
Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Miss Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubetzi. Yes. Quick comment on 2025-250. Um, this is us, the council, the governing body of Bradley Beach, uh,
making a request to the state DOT to allow us to move those 15-minute parking spaces to 2hour limits. Uh, so 2025, I'll make a motion that we approve 2025-250 authorizing a request uh to the DOT, New
Jersey DOT, to change the time limit on parking spaces on the west side of Main Street in front of the police department. Second, Mr. Noble, I just want to say a quick thanks to everybody. This was a team effort between the businesses, you, the uh chief of police, and this I've been
looking for this to be done for the last 10 years. So, I really appreciate this. And uh I'm going to say yes, Miss Greenlet. Yes. Mr. Nikki, I also just want to say it's a great balance between community and and the burough employees and and you know, public safety, how how you got this
done. It's taken us some time. Uh but I think it's a great uh solution. So, yes, Mr. We But the state's going to make it take longer. Um, but some businesses are really going to be happy. Glad I'm getting this done. So, I vote yes as well. Mayor Gupzi. Yes.
Okay. 2025-251 authorizing the retention of expert witness WJH engineering for zoning enforcement in the matter of Garrison at L versus Bradley Beach at L docket number M-LE
3458- 22. Mr. Cannon, is this worth a one minute summary of why we're doing this one? Burrows engage in a lawsuit that by the title Garrison versus Bradley Beach um has to do um with a zoning violations on
the property. The case that I'm hand the part of the case that I'm handling um as we discussed not with my best efforts to resolve the matter satisfaction of all parties. uh we have to continue with litigation and therefore I need an expert outside the burrow to opine on
the zoning violations that exist upon the property. Very good. Thank you. And this is not a new case. It's from it's been a while, right? Uh the docket number is on there. The last two numbers of the year it was filed. So 2022. Thank you. Yeah. I mean any other questions or
comments? Okay. I will make a motion that we uh approve uh res individual resolution 2025-251 authorizing the retention of the expert witness. Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. Miss Greenland. Yes. Mr. Noiki. Yes.
Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Guboszi. Yes. Item number 2025-252. This is authorizing the settlement of pending litigation before the Superior Court of New Jersey, Mammoth County, entitled Hall versus Burrow of Bradley
Beach, document number n 2713-24. Uh any comments or questions? Um I'll say something. So I'm, you know, new new to the council, uh relative to this, which I believe if the last two
digits 24 reflects 2024. Um, so this was ongoing, I guess, in 2023 and 2024. Um, so I've gotten myself up to speed on this issue and I, you know, feel that I've gotten enough information to be able to vote on this.
I think with any settlement, it's just important to restate that um, the two sides are meeting somewhere in the middle. Neither side is, you know, uh, and we're not, we the bureau, the council, and the governing body are not acknowledging blame. uh the
uh you know as in any case the the litigant is settling for something less than their own claims. So this is a matter of meeting in the middle doing what we all think is in the best interest of the of the public rather beach and and frankly the payout it for the burrow is $2500 which is the deductible
that's the money that comes out of the burrow. So Jim, right? Well, that's I think that's an important point is that um you know this isn't something that was just decided here at the burough. There's an insurance company involved and and they believe that this is the appropriate way to to
handle this matter as well. So our our out of pocket is $2,500. The bureau's out of pocket is $2500 and and the entity that's actually paying the money um has recommended this as a resolution to the map. And I will add, I think it's important to say that this
administration, your administration is settling lawsuits from past years and bringing on new ones. We're settling the old ones. Well, don't say that. And mayor, I just I just like to also say, you know, similar to Councilwoman Greenblat, I too was not on the council
at this time. and um you know, thank you for you know, council and yourself bringing us up to speed on this and sharing the documentation so that we could actually um be able to help find the balance and support the resolution on this. And thank you. So, no further comments.
I will make a motion that we approve uh resolution 2025-252 authorizing the settlement of the pending litigation. Second, Mr. Noble? Yes. Miss Greenblat? Yes. Mr. Nikki? Yes. Mr. Weber? Yes. Mayor Giza.
Yes. Okay. Final item on our resolutions is the bill list. It's item 2025-253. The bill is dated July 15th. Any comments or questions? I reviewed it. I had no questions. Um I have one item. Um there's a charge
by uh TMM Associates with the ocean outfall um project and I know that they had completed their design previously and the charges may be fine. Um I just wasn't aware that they were actually currently working on on the assignment. I'm not sure if these are old charges or
current. Um but there is um going to be engagement with them as we go forward. Um so I'd like um to be able to um administration could actually check and and see what those charges were for and um also what the statuses of the
agreement. um all all the costs that they did on that ocean outfall project are being shared cost sharing with Avon. And so I want to just get a status of where are we at with all of that and um this is an opportunity just to take a look at that charge as well and and just
so are we all bundled up with that work uh today um prior to construction and then the path forward on construction. We need to take look at that. um this is a different engineer than it's not CME, it's TNM. And so they're not engaged in other projects. And so I'd like to get I think the bureau wants to take a closer
look and say what's remaining in that contract uh for their support during construction and their role if we can pay and um how much money is remaining making sure we have a budget still available based on what they spend it today. So on this particular charge, I would like to stall it or take it out of
here and just let's let's figure that out before we release another check. Okay. And where is this charge? What? Page. Which page? Page nine. Yeah. Page 9. The bottle. And it may be, you know, appropriate, but I think we just need to double check
that on where they're at with this. They're rolling. It says services through 6205. I don't know if that's meaningful at all. Yeah. So, I don't I don't have the I don't have the uh the invoices. Yeah.
Okay. So the Q and the Q was out of you know they were council pay was not here last week when I question you was asking about the status of that work. So I think we just need to button that up and let's take a look at that before we is it any indication because it says
water soft as it sounds like yeah this that's design cost but their their design is complete. I just don't know what that activity is and and I'm I'm more concerned about the path forward with with their contract and making sure that you know remaining budget um and and what work are they doing on it thoroughly because there
shouldn't be really much um so the question the dollar is $646. Yeah. Um the question we we could go either way on this we can vote either way. uh do we do we approve payment and and
circle back and say okay what was the $646 it looks like it's tied to an ordinance from 2022 right which was when the design was took place in 2022 23 permitting and submitted that's when they were contracted and that's why I'm I'm sort of questioning
or if you prefer you could make a motion that we carve this out separately vote on the rest of the bill list and and uh you revisit I would suggest we make a make a motion to carve this out and then vote on the rest of it as second.
Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Gupet, yes. Noting that we will follow up with TMA to just understand what the services, right? TNF. TNF, sorry. Uh, and now, um, I'll make a
motion that we approve the rest of the July 15, 2025 bill list with the exclusion of that one charge. Second, Mr. Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Greenblat? Yeah. Mr. Nikki? Yes. Mr. Weber? Yes. Mayor Gubazzi?
Yes. Okay. Item 12 on the agenda uh is announcements. There are none. Item 13A that we all wait for eagerly every meeting. The administrator's report. Mr. Dohy. Yes, Serviceman.
Uh, thank you. I want to bring the mayor council up to date on the demolition at 319 Lraine. Uh the uh building has been uh knocked down and um they are going to start carting away the uh the remains um
this week to next week with the goal of having the entire site um cleaned up with new top soil fertilizer and seed application by uh the end of the day on July 20th. So hopefully by the end of
this month, the entire site will be uh ready to go. Um and when I say ready to go, we're going to look to start marketing lots. So working with Sean Canning, our our QPA, as to how we auction off these lots, um we think it's
important to start marketing him to get as much of a interest as possible in the four lots. Uh right now tentatively uh we're aiming to have an auction at the second council meeting in September. Um
we think that'll give us plenty of time to again market whether it's in things like homes of land also do press um but to try to get as much interest as possible to generate as much revenue for the taxpayers here in Bradley Beach. Uh
next we hired a new code enforcer. uh right now everyone performing code enforcement duties does it as a part of another job they do. So for instance we have two members of our department of public works who also act
as a code enforcement. They're more reactive. Um the gentleman we hired is going to be active. Uh so they'll literally be driving around looking for code violations. um we are not interested. We hope that
he never writes a summons or issues any fines. We're simply looking to bring people into compliance with the existing code that's on the books through a variety of ordinances. Um some of which this this council's been a part of. Um
so he will be out there and he's going to be very aggressive in um bringing folks into compliance with existing code. Um, next we've also brought on uh an intern uh young woman who's going to be going to college uh this coming I guess the
end of August. We've only got it for about six weeks, but it sort of triggered the idea that we should really start looking towards bringing more interns into the municipal government here in Bradley Beach. There are a lot of smart, talented young people who live in Bradley Beach. So, we'd love people
to, you know, forward names and suggest folks that um are either at the end of their high school career or somewhere beginning or in their college career uh that would be interested in the many different facets of municipal
government. Uh we'd love to hear from from residents if they have any suggestions. Yes, sir. Where did we find this intern? Pardon? Where do we find this intern? Where are they? Oh, the current one. Correct. Um, someone I know uh said, "Hey, my
granddaughter is looking to intern and she's interested in studying real estate business." Um, we right now are putting together a landlord registration. Uh, and you know, it's one of those tasks that is challenging for our current
staff to to tackle because they're already doing other things. So, this way it's a limited time frame. It's a it's a specific task for this intern. She's gonna complete it. Um she's um very well verssed on a computer just her
generation is much better than most of us. Uh so you know it's those type of tasks that we'd like to assign to interns. So as opposed to them just coming into municipal government have specific things whether it's in the building department um could be in the
recreation department um whatever other departments we have where you know we have those needs for for tasks that have specific uh start and end days. Sounds like a great project for an intern. I just ask is you know should we be reaching out to places like Mon
University or Brookdale or whatever did they come from a specific you know u school or program I guess not but just maybe we think about that we reach out to those schools and others right in this case uh this uh young lady who's going to start popular state
university uh again in the August but we are uh going through the process Michelle W has been very helpful with this to reach out to Brookdale and to reach out to Mal University. We have some sort of standing agreements with those two entities already, Mammoth
Moth and Brookdale. But so I think we can build on that as Councilman Weber was saying and Matt to your point about bringing in this one intern you and I discussed just earlier today. We probably could use one or two more because we peak of the season we do have
backlogs in certain areas. A lot of it is just processing paperwork and we can we can use some people who have some technology expertise as well to help us. Yes sir. Um, also want to update the mayor and council. Um, last Monday,
eight days ago, there was a hearing on an appeal of the Zoey permit for Darcy's outdoor dining. Um, under the state statute, anyone is able to appeal that that permit. Uh, some did appeal it. Um,
the day of the hearing, um, they withdrew their appeal, which they're entitled to do. Uh the hearing officer still wanted to go through the process because um uh it was a a public hearing. Uh went through the process and made his
determination in writing um and he determined that the um zoning uh permit was proper and that the town did uh follow the proper procedures. Um beach revenue, I don't have an exact
number uh but we're doing very well. Uh, I can tell you that uh the July 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, Thursday to Sunday, the weather was great. Um, we generated over $150,000 in revenue. Um, one of the things that
really stood out was about $117,000 in cash and coins. So, um, one of our goals, uh, is to move to a cashless, uh, beachfront next year. Just give you an idea of some of the process of when
you deal with cash. It all gets counted at the beachfront. Then it goes through the police department. Then the police department brings it to the front office. It gets counted there again. Then it goes back to a police officer who takes it to the bank. Um which
obviously is not very efficient process. Um so that's a lot of points. And I'll go to Atlantic City first. Uh so hopefully uh by next year we'll be completely cashless up on the up on the
beach home. Um we mentioned Ocean Park Sewer. Uh lastly, just want to mention that um and I think we mentioned this before that the court administrator, uh Patricia McIll is retiring. Um we had a variety
of outstanding applicants uh for the position. the mayor and I interviewed uh several of them, five of them total um just this uh yesterday along with our current judge and two other administrators in Mammoth County. Um and
you know, a lot of folks may not know Patricia Miguel, which is a good thing because that means you've never been to court. Uh but she has done a tremendous job. Uh we run a very efficient court. Um, you know, when you talk to other towns, uh, they they look at how well the Bradley Beach Court is run, and
that's a testament to her. So, um, it's, you know, we're going to take our time to make sure, um, you find to make sure that we find the right person to replace her, but it's our goal to have that right person replacing her sometime uh, in August uh, certainly by the end of
August. That's all for me. Any questions from the council? That's okay. I just wanted to Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, please. Uh comment. I know two people who live across the street from 319 Lraine and I just want to say that they um really
commended the process of the demolition company that they thought they did a wonderful job. So, it's important to share good stories um because I'm sure there are often many alternative stories. Um, so and in addition, there
was a resident who I guess you greeted at his door and he was very happy that you came by. So I commend you for, you know, walking the beat on Lorraine Avenue and communicating with the residents. I think that's really important. So thank you for that. Thank I I try my best so they don't come
up here to this right. Um, and I just wanted to ask about the new code enforcer. Is is this individual um full-time, part-time? Uh right now, he'd be considered uh uh seasonal uh with the idea of of, you
know, making him full-time um after this after the summer. So, seasonal, full-time at the moment. Uh seasonal, part-time. Okay. Um, one of the things that that I've always discovered, um, is, you know, when you hire folks, it's nice to
have a little period when get to know them, they get to know the position to make sure that that it's going to be a good fit. So hopefully by the end of August, we'll know if this is going to be a good fit. Good. Thank you. Hey Matt, um thank you uh for 319 as
well because I know it's a demolition is a dirty job and there's a lot of community concern around it and it's it's gone you know smoothly for for a deconstruction project. So thank you for shing that through. Um any any information or um on the um Park mobile
you mentioned the beach. How's the park mobile working? Any any feedback on that? Uh the park mobile is working well. We are running into some instances when folks don't put in their right numbers
and letters of their license plate. So if you're off by a digit, uh you get a ticket. Now the good thing is when you can show, hey, I was off by a digit. I did pay. Uh that ticket does go away. Um, so, uh, there's a little bit of
operator error, uh, by the end user, but, um, that that that and also if folks have pre-programmed cars, they may have three cars in their park mobile. Uh, they may have driven the different one than what's the default. They park mobile, they think
they paid, and in fact, they paid for a car that's sitting in their driveway. So, um, we've run into some of those issues, but overall, it's it's working really well. Thank you, And one other thing before I finish and I want to thank Paul Shanka for this. The demo company was able to save the
bell y in the uh in the church. Uh and that bell's ultimate house uh home will be uh at the school. So right now we're looking at the condition of the bell, see if we got to clean it up, not clean it up, see what type of things we need
to do to a bell that's god knows how old. uh and then and then bring that to the school or Department of Public Works, you know, we'll mount it properly on some type of a concrete pad so um so we can continue to uh continue to to
have a home here in Bra. Wasn't that bell funded from the school? Maybe Mr. Nashamp can share that information. It's so interesting. Yes. Couldn't hear the bell. The bell. How what's the history of the
bell? The history of the bell. Uh the bell was purchased by the children of the parish in 1900. They collected the tennis and bought bell and basically uh and we thought it would be most appropriate to put on the
schoolyard. Uh the superintendent agreed. Um um and I want to thank you for uh helping get it out. Um demolition people, I had a difficult time doing it. Uh but they they did a good job. Um, in
order to reduce the amount of money, um, that might have to be laid by the bureau on this, um, I've already started fundraising. And actually, uh, we have over $1,500
that we can apply towards things like a bronzeformational plaque, any kind of work we have to do in the make it more appealing. So, thank you. Thank you again. Thank you, uh, Mr. Jordy. Thank you. I
was going to make a similar comment to that offered by Councilwoman Greenflat. Uh, that construction project was a massive undertaking in the middle of a residential neighborhood. I I know it didn't have its moments of challenge. um
residents calling you with concerns, complaints um you know just about the dust or about how much water was being applied to control the dust or or various things. um watching you from my my purge on the world. Uh I thought you did an amazing job especially being out
and with the people talking to people just as council woman Greenblot mentioned. Um I saw that happen on numerous occasions and um and and for all the challenges that came your way you handled them very well. So thank you for all that effort. I appreciate it. I appreciate it.
Okay, that concludes the administrator report. It is time for mayor and council reports. And I'm going to start with Houseman Weber. Well, I'm not first. Go ahead. All right. So, uh, everybody a little skip that. Everybody
skip that. Listen, everybody loves our DPW and they do a great job. They make sure all your garbage and recycling gets out of uh the front of your yard um every week. So, I want to ask people to help them by
flattening your cardboard boxes. You are only taking up more space in either the K Cabota if that comes by your house or in the uh even in the truck. Um if you just leave your cardboard in its box form, flatten your cardboard boxes,
please. Uh you know, you say, "Ah, it's just one box and it goes into a big crusher." Yeah, but if 500 people leave their boxes uncrushed, it just at the end of the day, it just takes up all that much more space. So flat now. Um, on the uh theme of good news or people
saying good things about uh people, we got a very nice letter from a resident on Newark Avenue that wanted to compliment uh Mike at the DPW because uh he simply requested when he saw uh Mike down at the DPW yard and he said, "Hey, we got this crooked street sign and it's
been crooked for like years and I've tried to fix it and I've never I don't know what this guy tried to do to fix it, you know, or get it fixed by the town of Port. Um, but DPW came and said yes and they fixed it. So, that was great. Um, congratulations, Paul. It is
super ironic that you were bestowed this uh, honor at this meeting, but it's welld deserved. And congratulations Dr. Les. And, uh, finally, everyone's going to hear from me on the church because I've been silenced on this for years. Uh, and not anymore. So, the last
administration really went out of their way to silence me on this issue. Um but just to recap for everybody um you know in 20 because a lot of people in town has been so long people are like Pat what why is this a controversy? How did we get here? What happened? You know in 2019 the mayor and council at the time
voted to buy the church. It was unanimous. It wasn't controversial at all. Uh and why did we do that? It's because 500 people signed a petition to save the church. Uh we had a council meeting in this room that was standing room only and everybody except for one
person saying save this church. And just even more context, it was the day after election day in 2019 that the Camp Meeting Association of Ocean Grove who owned it put it up for sale. And that was really disappointing to me because I
was like I I just ran for election. I just knocked on almost every door in this town. Never had a team of people that knocked on every door in this town. It really would have been great to know that you were going to sell this thing and then we could have asked people like how do you feel about that? You know, gotten the pulse. I thought we got the pulse when 500 people signed a petition
and packed this room and all that stuff. But, um, so I think, you know, and the idea of course was to turn it into a community center. Um, and I think that, you know, the thought process was was some of the following. Um, our public facilities are really lacking. Uh, and that's actually being charitable about
it. Um, and you know, here's some of the real things that have happened in this town since we bought this church, which to me highlight that we really could have used some extra public space uh, and a really nice community center. We have an arts council that has nowhere to
put on a play. Shakespeare at the Beach was has been cancelled several times because they put on Shakespeare at the Beach in middle of summer and there's like 95 degree heat and they just had to cancel. um really would have been nice if they had a place to move to and and
get that done. Um you know it's council they you know they use this they use the school for other performances which is really nice the school lets them do that. Um I think that's not such a great idea for safety reasons. Um having hundreds of people in the school on for
weekend performances kind of makes school security a heck of a lot harder uh in the following week. Um it would just be better if the arts council had a space of their own. so to speak. Uh kids in this town, you know, with kids in this town, I got kids, you know what they do after schools a lot of times
they go to the library. Why do they go to the library? It's because there's nowhere else for them to go. Um I have had adults tell me as I was running for council that they don't use our library because there's so many kids there in the afternoon. Um just would be great to
have those kids have a place to go during COVID. Again, I have kids. I sent them to recreation camp in the summer. And during COVID, the the our recreation camp, they would have to send kids home if it rained because our recreation center wasn't big enough to accommodate
all the kids inside um with the social distancing rules that they had to follow. So, would have been nice to have a bigger space for those kids to go. Um we have this great thing in town now we didn't really have back then, but Songwriters on the Beach. We've been really lucky. It doesn't really get
rained out, but imagine if it was just pouring and all these people were looking forward to seeing some of these artists. Would be great to have them have a place for them to go uh and have those performances. Um, we have a historical society that really doesn't have enough space to store and display
all their artifacts. That has been a controversy in this room time and time again. You know, the Bey Center, they're kind of getting kicked out and all that stuff. Um, we don't have a place to show a movie or we used to have a place to show a movie. It was a Bey Center. I've used it myself. It wasn't great, but it
worked. Um, at first some of that space was given over to the code and construction offices. Um, first time with the knowledge and permission of the council. Made the space a little smaller. We could still use it to show movie and whatnot. Uh, the second time it was done without the knowledge of of
or the consent of the council. Um, so now there's no, it's no longer big enough to set up 50 or 60 chairs and show a movie or have a speaker or have a slideshow or anything like that. Um, sure we can ask the fire department and they're great and they oblig when they can, but they can't always. They rent
out their space for money. They need the money. They need that rental income and um, it can certainly cause a conflict for them when the town asks for their space and uh, and we want it for free. um with this, you know, idea of a community
center. You know, we never really fully explored the idea of leasing the space to somebody once it, you know, was fixed up and used um other towns have arrangements like this where they rent out their public spaces for weddings or events or they lease it to kind of vendor or something like that. They pay
us and when their lease is up, we still own the building and our lease probably paid us to pay for improvements. um these things these kind of arrangements happen in other towns. Um foreshadowing the process uh where we knew this was going to be
mismanaged um for years came right in the beginning in a real estate transaction. Uh, normally in a New Jersey real estate transaction, the seller pays for asbestous removal, but we didn't have a realtor involved who would have looked out for our interests. Um, despite myself and other people
arguing that we should have a realtor involved in the process. Um, so at the end, we had to pay for the asbestous removal. We're probably the only buyer of a property in this history of the state of New Jersey that paid for speestus removal. Um, so
obviously some people soued on the idea of community center somewhere along the lines. Um, I can't help but imagine that, you know, developers got in the ears of certain people and convinced them that it'd be much better to develop this property. Um, you know, some people would say look at the tax revenue the
town's going to get, but everyone needs to know that the the ratable chase, which is what I call that, the idea of de developing land so you get more uh properties to tax, the ratable chase is always always always a losing proposition. Uh,
we had a person on council with 25 years of experience in construction management and they said there is no way, no way, no way, no way that fixing up that church would have cost $10 million. Absolutely no way. But even if it was going to cost $10 million
uh and the town voted not to spend it, that is the point in the whole story when I think we should have said, "Let's go after grants then so people won't have to spend money turning this into a community center." Um let's face it, there's grants for everything that would
have taken place in that uh community center. There are grants for recreation. There's grants for youth activities. There's grants for activities with seniors. There are grants for open space. There's grants for historic preservation. And these grants exist at all levels of government, local, state,
and federal. Um, I know for a fact that Congressman Frank Palone's office has a staff person that is dedicated to nothing but grants. and they would have gladly helped us if they were asked. And I know for a fact that they were never asked.
So, of all the things that were mismanaged in the four-year saga of this church, uh what bothers me the most is that people in the town did not even look for these grants. In fact, they said, "Here in this room, there's no grants. There's no grants." Um it was as
preposterous as it was dishonest. And you know, I know I think differently about this than a lot of people in town. Again, like I said, I'm raising kids here, but people have just moved here in the last four few years or people that just decided to finally come here um after having a summer home for a long
time. I guarantee that those people came from a town with a very nice community center. Um I don't even have to ask what town they came from. They came from a town with a community center. And uh so I understand people think about it
differently. I absolutely have a a different opinion again because I said I'm raising kids here. So um that may not be the last of it, but that was a good big long thing about the church. So appreciate you all indulging me on that. Um sorry some of the regulars weren't
here to hear all that, but uh that's my report, Mr. Mayor. Thanks very much. Thank you, Councilman. I'll turn to Councilwoman Great. Um, the Arts Council met Monday, July 7th. Um, the Arts Council is hosting a
children's art workshop entitled Color My World, Tuesday, July 29th at 4 p.m. For students in grades 2 through 6. Registration is required. Please go to the library events calendar. Um, a porch popup art exhibit will be held on August
23rd, 10:00 a.m. to 4 pm at the James Bradley with a sound meditation program at 1 p.m. There is currently a call for all local artists to submit your work. No fee to participate and all visual artwork is welcome. Finally, the arts
council just rejoined Monmouth Arts and will utilize the member benefits of this county arts organization. Uh, okay. The Fletcher Lake Commission met on July 10th. The Fletcher M Lake Commission wants to express its appreciation for the coordinated efforts
by both Neptune Township and Bradley Beach DPWs and mayors in effectively managing its lake levels during the early July storm. Swift and smart action quickly curbed any possible flooding. The commission looks forward to meeting with the Silven Lake Commission to
discuss concerns and best practices as we see increased weather activities and watershed maintenance. They have canceled their August meeting and will meet again in September. Uh and now on to recreation. Uh the rec camp had an awesome game of
kickball last week. Cops and counselors versus campers. And guess who won? Cops. Campers. Wow. in a 10 to6 victory. Thanks to the super amazing uh PE uh police department for coming
and playing with the kids today. They had a visit from ocean oceans rock. Campers learned all about the ocean and even got to see and touch some coral, sharks, blowfish, and stingrays. Each camper got their very own ocean fossil
to take home. Maan open play runs every Friday 1 to 3 p.m. at the Viazi Center. Radio Bingo will be held on August 2nd, 6 PM at the fire hall. This wreck event is co-hosted by the ladies auxiliary of the Bradley Beach Fire Department.
Tickets are for sale are on sale now. Please contact Courtney Pavis to purchase your ticket. Be sure to check July's salted soul yoga program which can be found on the rec web page under beach yoga with salted soul. Recreation
continues its fourth annual back- tochool bingo where any school age child can come to the Bradley Beach Rec Center on August 17th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and play a few games of bingo. Every child in attendance will go home a
winner with a great uh with a great appropriate backpack filled with school supplies. The recck department has purchased 150 backpacks which were generously donated by the Bradley Beach residents. now they need to fill them. An Amazon wish list was created for
those who would like to support the effort. Donations can also be dropped off at the Bradley Beach Recreation Center. The rec board's next meeting is Monday, July 11th, 6:30 p.m. at the rec center. And finally, I just want to uh
send a personal shout out, a thanks um to the governing body, mayor and council for approving uh the Monmouth Avenue block party permit. Um Paul and I were both in attendance there. We had 120 uh
residents. It was a wonderful community event. And we also want to thank the police department and the DPW for helping set up for this. So thank you. That's it. Thank you, Councilwoman. I'll turn to Council President Denov.
All righty. Tourism met on July 8th. The season has officially kicked off and it's going very well. They have also set the dates for Pirate Day, August 16th. They also set the date for Viva Bradley Beach, which will be September 13th. And Jazzfest for in February of 2026 will be
February 6th through the 8th. The current balance in their trust is $91,000. They have so many great events that Amy wanted me to share with you. Uh Tuesday nights doing swing dance lessons at the beach. Tomorrow, Jazz in the Park
featuring String Bean, our very own Bradley Beach resident. Thursday, Brookdale um beach concerts. Friday you got DJ J at the beach. And then this Saturday they have dual fiddles with Euro Bandit in the park. And also um
Thursday I want to add too she's Amy created this new theme bubble show with face painting and music. It's geared for young children. It's in Riley Park at u between 3 to 5. Shade Tree had their meeting July 2nd. They have two applications. 600 Ocean Park Avenue is
removing one tree, planting one tree. 309 Brinley is roing removing three trees, planting six trees. And I want to thank them for that effort. And um they're going to do the burrowwide tree planting September 28th. Their trust account is now $15,200.
And um Board of Fed met uh June 24th. I did not get to report on that last time because I had langitis. So they um appointed David Tanzola once again as a school business administrator and board secretary. They were awarded a grant for $88,000
to create an ADA blind playground. And they also discussed about the church bell and they're looking forward to having that in their school grounds. And um they also continue that tradition of collecting coins and now they use it to
go to Washington DC. So, it's been a wonderful tradition and I want to thank Paul again for preserving a piece of Bradley Beach history. Thank you. Please. Thank you, Council President. Councilman Noiki. Okay. Police activity uh the last two
weeks a subject was arrested and charged with a disorderly conduct and defiant defiant trespassing after police respond to a report of a squatter on a Main Street resident's porch. A 19-year-old subject was charged with possessing a false ID after police found him in
possession of a fraudulent New Jersey driver's license, making him over the age of 21. Another local resident was charged with defiant trespassing after police responded to an unwanted guest call for service. An Ocean Grove man was arrested and charged with theft after he
was observed stealing a cell phone out of a bag belonging to a beachgoer who was resting. Another beachgober observed this and notified the lifeguards who in turn notified the police. Our special officers located and detained the subject and the investigation revealed
he did in fact steal the phone. Police want to remind everyone to please keep all your valuables well-hiddened and hard to get to. And always be aware of your belongings and report any suspicious behavior you might observe. So, just don't leave things out on in
the open on the beach and hopefully you don't take too many valuables down there with you. But, um, there are people out there we're working about with and keep your eye on your things. Uh, with the assistance of the Asbury Park Police Department, a subject was also arrested on an outstanding warrant stemming from
an assault incident. Uh, the individual had been on the run for about a month before finally being apprehended. Our canine units were deployed for the annual fireworks event and uh to ensure a safe environment. Uh the show went on without any incidents
and um the police also arrested two subjects on active contempt of court warrants uh during the last two weeks. That's the uh police activity report. Um first aid would like to report that the operational period ending July 15th. Uh
the squad responded to 15 day calls, eight night calls for a total of 24 calls. 12 were for medical, nine for fire. Three calls involved water rescues. Squad provided mutual aid to Avon, Ocean Grove, and Neptune. The
squad provided medical overwatch for the following Fourth of July fireworks display. uh the Army 63 National Guard band concert Riley Park and the Jack Wright memorial lifeguard swim Saturday and Sunday conducted one drill for the safety and education of the membership.
The squad requested no mutual aid uh for this operational period. The squad fulfilled 100% of their assignments for this operational period and they're still looking for volunteers for the first aid squad. Uh we offer free training for qualified individuals. This is the advertisement. uh any anyone
wishing to volunteer for the first aid squad applications can be found on the burough's website. Then I'd also like to uh report on Silver Lake Commission. Tomorrow is our meeting of as you noticed we were talked about projects earlier today the uh the silver lake
outlet gate. Um there are multiple about half a dozen different projects that are going to be going on at the lake. Uh so come to the meeting tomorrow if you'd like to hear more. Um but there are also um we'll be doing some workshops here in the near near future uh based on what comes out of the commission
recommendations and the projects as they as they get start to get developed. And then we're also looking to have a public awareness session probably early August uh that will um highlight the projects and the need and purpose of what needs to happen um for silver lake
restoration. Uh so it's it's a big program. um it's going to have to uh critical for the health of the lake and for the future of that lake. So um if you you know are interested, please uh come out tomorrow and stay tuned for the upcoming uh information as we put it out
there. Mayor, that's our report. Thank you. Ask what time the Silver Lake uh commission meeting is. Uh 7 p.m. 7. Yes, it's here. Polar. Yes, it's it's here. Thank you, Council Noiki. uh for my
report. I I want to start out by also congratulating Mr. Nashkin. Um just it's an honor to be part of the governing body that was able to make you uh the appointment to be our historian. So thank you Bill everything you do for
Paul. Um I did want to mention a couple things. One uh month or two ago we assembled a financial task force that group of eight individuals. I see Peter here. I see Rick here. Any anyone else? At least two
of our eight members are actually here tonight. Thank you. But we are making slow progress because there's an awful lot for us to organize. But um but only recently we've uh we've collected some very important information from uh PNC Bank. We're continuing to collect more
and from some other vendors. Anyone who may recall the uh Fred even report uh one of the concerns raised was that we had these 26 accounts that the burough didn't know about. I as mayor coming in did not know about but we discovered it
and uh we are tracking the history of those accounts. So uh making slow but steady progress. I just wanted to let everybody know. Um our business administrator mentioned this but I want to uh reinforce that we are beefing up code enforcement. Um, and
with a with an eye towards uh the newest hire, Matt, as you mentioned, moving him from current part-time to a full-time position. Uh, we really want to begin to do a better job of uh being more consistent in in our follow-up on code.
Um, and a very important early project that we are u asking our new person to take on is in fact the coordinating with host compliance. And for those of you who may recognize that name, Post Compliance is the entity that tracks Airbnb
uh what is it? VBO and other entities that do short-term rentals. We have an ordinance that at least begins to uh monitor short-term rentals, gives them guidelines for operations, for example, that they have to have six and a half
day stays, uh that they have to complete landlord registrations and so forth. Uh problem with our ordinance is is voluntary compliance. If people don't tell us they are a landlord, that they are renting their property. We're only going to find out if you know if a
neighbor complains or something, but we don't have a way to overtly aggressively track that. Post compliance is a is an entity that tracks advertisements listings for short-term rentals. And they track when we hire them as we have
they track all rental activity, short-term rental activity in Bradley Beach and they identify right down to the address who's renting and then they match up their tracking against our landlord registration list. And what we
expect to find is 50 or 100 uh folks renting that are not registered landlords. So um we're getting close. As Matt mentioned in his report, we hired an intern who's going to help us uh make sure we've got a list that can be used by host compliance to do that match. But
that's a very significant undertaking that I'm proud to announce the bureau is making really good progress. Uh hopefully within the next week or two, we'll have that match completed and we'll be able to automatically send out notices to those who are not
compliant because all of their addresses will be uh coded into host compliance. they will be able to send automatic letters of non-compliance to those individuals. Um, my next few things are, well, I realized I was writing out things I wanted to
mention. And one theme, one overriding theme of this is the amazing collaboration and coordination uh, this bureau has received from our employees and our volunteers, you know, led by the
police and DPW, fire, first aid, OEM. So, I just want to say that. Please note that as I go through this quick checklist of things I wanted to mention, but it it's I probably didn't fully appreciate it as a resident. I probably didn't fully fully appreciate it as a
councilman for the past four and a half years. And I probably uh didn't fully appreciate it even in my first six months as mayor, but I just continue to be amazed at at the collaboration we have among our employees and volunteers. For example, July 4th weekend,
phenomenal event. I mean I was there with family with grandchildren. Um there were all kind what people don't know what I personally have not seen is the amount of coordination and collaboration between all those entities OEM uh police
fire first aid I I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody DPW of course um identifying areas that you know where the command post would be and how they have people in certain designated areas how they manage the the traffic in and out and and so many things it was very
impressive I mean I think I was handed a 15 or 20 page binder by uh Bob Pawol who's sitting here. So, thank you Bob. But the amazing amount of coordination done by this group and Dorm Goldfarb I should mention as well. Uh was just
phenomenal and of course the the event itself was was great entertainment for all. Um moved to the concert in the park this past weekend. Just a phenomenal show, a beautiful evening. you know, the weather cooled down is so comfortable, great entertainment, but once again, you
look around and DPW, the work they did setting up, breaking down the police and and so forth. Just phenomenal effort there. Um, you know, I wanted to uh uh call out the parking. I mean, we talked about it earlier how we re rearranged
parking. What people don't really appreciate is the police were involved giving up the 15minute parking spaces. the police are still involved reaching out to the state to make sure we you get all the uh formalities approved there. Um DPW and the work they've done helping
us figure out the configuration of the parking, figuring out how where we put signs, where we don't put signs, fire and first aid giving the burrow access for burough employees to some of the parking up by the banquet hall. the collaboration among all these individuals is just amazing and so few
people probably have a full appreciation of that unless you're me right in the middle of all this. So, I just want to call all of these people out for the work they've done. And maybe uh a very small illustration of collaboration and and sacrifice by our
employees uh is what I say for last, but we now have we the Burough of Bradley Beach have a shared service agreement with Bradley Beach Elementary School. That might sound a little odd. you know, you don't typically think about sharing services within Bradley Beach, but the
uh the superintendent there uh Michael Hidleberleberg came to us and said, "Hey, would you guys consider a shirt service with lawn maintenance and maybe snow removal and things like that that you, the burrow, do for the burrow? You don't do it for us, but we currently
pay, for example, $4,000 for lawn maintenance." And they itemized it. you know, this much for mowing the lawn, this much for moving trash, this much for mulching, but they are currently paying $4,000. And they said, would DPW be able to take any of this on? I talked
to Baja Cavon and he said, "Yeah, my guys without overtime just built into their existing schedules, my guys are going around town with all the right equipment, we can stop at and deal with the needs for the elementary school." And uh we didn't quote unquote price
that out or anything. We just said to the elementary school, "Listen, you're paying 4,000. Would you pay the burrow 2,000? You're saving 50% of your costs. You're saving taxpayers school taxes $2,000.
And you're giving the burrow revenue of 2,000. You're saving our residents taxes from the burrow the equivalent of 2,000. So, in total, we're saving taxpayers $4,000, thanks to the outreach by the elementary school to ask us if we could collaborate
and thanks to the this the selfless, generous uh coordination offered by our DPW, Basha Kafon, and his team because uh even though it's small dollars, I think it's a powerful just realization how people in this burrow are working together to help the burrow. So, uh,
with that, I'll I'll conclude my report, but I just want to make sure everyone understood the support we have as a burough. Uh, with that said, I will move to item 14 on the agenda, opening up to public comments and questions. Rick,
it's great. Uh, Rick Holling, 16 New Avenue. Uh, three things. First of all, just everybody knows that there is now food on the weekends on the concession stand in Newark Avenue with the trailer and his prices are very competitive as
composed as compared to some of the other concession areas. So, it's something to look at. Uh, second of all, I want to thank uh for the going out of the bids for the um financial analysis
for the sewer sewers here. So, I know that's uh the bid scheduled to come in on August 6. And lastly, just to keep it open for everybody, just want people to understand that I'm still looking at trying to get the telephone pole wires
uh looked at and uh you know, phone call will be made to Ocean Grove probably way down on the list of things to do to start maybe doing something in that area. That's it. Before you go, business administrators to come up too, John. Did you at least get a sandwich named
after you at the concession? Because I think you deserve that. You should ask him. I'll name the sandwich after you. I No, Anthony is very He only works he works during the regular week. I think he's an attorney, so he can't he can't do there during the uh can't open it up
during the week, but he's he's al also trying trying to amend the menu uh to have breakfast there. He has some breakfast items now, but he's going to be very uh flexible on trying to see what people want to buy and then he'll he'll have that.
Rick, two things. One, uh our VA I think Matt, did you have a comment? Yes. About the wires. Yes. Particularly in Ocean Grove. So, uh it wasn't done by the municipal government. Oh, okay. It was actually an individual who took
it on themselves. U mostly grassroots way of doing it. And um They started with one block, one side of a block and little by little they made progress throughout. So we don't want necessarily that we want to do everything at one
time. But so we're already talking with them about how they were able to kind of massage that because again on the telephone pole um there could be a variety of different cable providers.
Um, obviously Electric's all the way on top. It's out of the way, but there's Verizon. You could find some Sprint lines, WorldCom, MCI, if no one remembers them. Like, they're still out there. Um, and there is a process to get
them, which is a good thing. So, um, you know, if Ocean Road can do it, there's no reason why they couldn't do it. That's That's why I brought it up. So, so we are working on it. Um, but it's not as if the municipal government did it. Um, so we're we're gonna have to do it as as
I I think the most effective way. The way they did it was which is um you know going directly to the the BPU and uh working through whatever companies are still around to remove those dead wires and also the ones that aren't dead to
clean them up so they're not sagging in. Rick, one other quick comment. As of this morning, uh we've been in touch with the concession on Newark Avenue because there actually are a couple of u uh applications they still need to go
through. I've talked to the owner uh directly. Um in fact, one of the issues is they need to upgrade their electric and the burrow I've communicated will absorb that cost for our for our concession air. But because of a couple of quick inspections that still need to
be done around different elements of their operation for their own safety, health and safety, uh they probably won't be cooking this weekend. They will they the expectations they will be for the rest of the summer, but it's going to be tight for this weekend. Just so you know, just so you're not
disappointed looking for that that uh cheeseburg that Yeah, that Rick burger. The Rick burger. Yeah. Okay. Uh other questions or comments? Yes sir. Mr. West.
Uh hi Bob West 518 New questions. Seasonal code enforcement that mean not enforcing code when you say
seasonal part time. He's currently a seasonal part-time employee. Okay. his job as code enforcement. As mayor mentioned, the goal is staying fulltime. But when he's not here, we have other individuals enforcing code. Seasonal
suggest second is a generalized question level. The water level at Silven Lake seems extraordinarily low when you walk past the lake. Is that the normal level? Is that going to be the normal level? No, there's there's significant problems
with the lake. There's up to 7 foot of silt sediment that's collected over the years. That's part of the problem. The lake is very unhealthy and so a series of projects we're looking at to include that. Um the water levels control based on, you know, rain storm events. Um and
then depending on whether or not we're going to have significant rainfall, we drop the water level in order to accommodate the flow coming in. And then if we know that there's a dry spell, we basically retain water. And DPW manages the lake level. But the biggest problem
is that there's so much silt in that lake and then you only have so much freeboard above that. Um and so what's happening is the bottom of that lake is like I said, it's filled up to up to approximately 7 ft of fill. You know, minimizing how much water we can actually store in that lake. So we're
looking at all the projects that we need to do to basically restore the health of that lake including looking at a water quality channel or some form of excavation dredging. So so would the target level be higher? No.
Well, what would happen is your bottom of the lake would get deeper and so you'd be able to have a deeper water level with maintaining a so the top of the water stay from okay to the water level is now four five feet now
is malfunctioning. So like is that making it lower now? Well, there's water that leaks but we've also put plastic up there trying to Yeah. So there is a management water level management but there is an optimum level of water that needs to be maintained in there at a certain height
of that water and so you know what if like two days ago we're expecting a big rainfall it was coming so they allow the water level to drop because we know there's going to be a big storm event. Sometimes that storm event happens and sometimes it doesn't. So it's a
management issue of of just and the biggest but the biggest problem is is that there's not enough depth and so if you took the silk away the water would be deeper but the top level water would still be four feet down. right? You want to maintain that
based on a sort of freeboard based on potential storms that coming in and and and to be quite honest, we're not sophisticated enough with the understanding of the overall watershed coming down from Neptune Township
and Neptune um city um all the way from Lake Alberta. water flow comes down um as well as come from Abot and Bradley. And so that whole watershed has an impact depending on how water is released from Lake Alberta. And um Mammoth County and the uh Neptune
Township are actually studying to try to figure out what is going on up there and how that water is impacting us. And so it's it's a more complicated problem than just the lake. It's about what's coming into the lake and how to manage all. I was just curious compared to like
Fletcher Lake where the water's averaging one to two feet below below the level. So are you saying by the bulkhead by anywhere the west side where it's like the north end along Bradley Boulevard
there's a big Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But if you go to Ocean Avenue you have less overhead than you do up at at at over by um Main Street. You have a lot more freeboard at Main Street because the road is up higher. Go down the ocean. But if you think about the
elevation, you know, you have a higher wall at Main Street than you can down at the water levels basically at the same elevation. So you do this variation level. All right. Just always cur come down to the lakes with me. You'll
learn a lot. There's a lot there. Other questions or comments from the audience? Anyone on Zoom? Okay, seeing no one. I will close. Oh, Mr. That was quick.
Paul 411 right now. One final word about church. Although I'm sure the subject just going to come up in the future. J, I thank you for venting a bit after being kept silent for too long.
um for the public the council. John only told half of the story as far as grant money. You don't want to know right now what I was told about his grand money by the former administration
which was very available. They knew it and they kept gy anyway. Um in addition to the bell, um one of the projects that the historical society has taken on is we're um taking
a whole load of bricks from the site uh which we're going to clean up and we're going to be um fundraising with them and there's already a great deal of interest among former parishioners of the Methodist church. I wish they'd gotten
really involved years ago. Might have been able to say that they seem to have been in the dumps from the beginning having their parish really taken away from them by the United Methodists. Um, but
they're now showing up and uh I'm in daily communication with several of them who are very excited about having an event and the historical society will have one fairly soon where we will show all the different artifacts that we've pulled out of the church. Um, thanks to
the council and the mayor for letting us do that. We have two small stained glass windows. we will be displaying. The two large ones that we paid have taken out are too large to display and they will be in
storage um hopefully for not forever but u until we have a place where we can show something that's 15t tall by 11 ft wide um we won't mostly in storage. However, we pulled out a lot of other things,
including, as you know, the cornerstone pews, and we also had artifacts from 10 years ago before the United Methodist Church lost the church to the campaigning association. Um, and that exhibit will
probably be in the next month or two. Thank you again for all your help. Thank you. Now seeing no further hands, comments, questions, I will uh close public comment and and there is no executive session. So I make a motion to
adjurnn. Second. All in favor? I thank you everyone. This is burning a lot.