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guess that other thing. Okay. I will call the speech to order. Stand for the pledge of allegiance. Please alian the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all.
I wish to announce that the 48 hour notice is required under the open public deeds act is 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 burrow 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 and action can and will be taken without providing that there is an inerson quorum. Miss Noble
here. Miss Greenblat here. Mr. Nikki here. Mr. Weber here. Mayor Guboszi here. Welcome everyone. Um going to move to item number five on our agenda. Uh tonight we're going to uh do a couple of different things. I'll give you a quick
overview. a couple different things related to the budget process for 2025. We are going to um have an open public hearing for the public to ask questions. We can answer questions uh as much time as the public needs to address the current budget that has been introduced.
It was actually introduced back on April 15th. But any questions you have, feel free to ask those questions. We will answer them. Um at the end of that process, we'll close the public hearing. We will then um have some discussion just among the
council about introducing a municipal budget amendment. There will not be public comment for the amendment. That is reserved for the following meeting where we'll have another open public hearing and you can ask all the questions you want about the about the budget
amendment. So with that as a quick overview, let's move to item five on our agenda which is the public hearing on the amendment. Well, it's again on the U it's on it's public hearing. Okay, we've got a typo here, but it's public hearing
on the uh introduced municipal budget. And again, that is the budget. It's been on our website for over a month now. It's the uh budget that was introduced back on April 15th. So, um like to open and make a motion to open
the public hearing on the municipal budget. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Greenlat, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Guboszi, yes. Are there questions or comments, ladies and gentlemen, about the uh budget that
has been introduced? Okay, seeing no questions, um I'll make a motion that question. Oh, there is. Sorry, Mr. Fair. Good evening, mayor and members of council. You just say your name address, please.
Great. Thank you. I tend to have done that on myself in the past. Um, as you know, I'm a licensed certified municipal finance officer and have prepared many local and county budgets in New Jersey, including later versions of the 2023
burough budget and assisted in the development of the 2024 burough budget. Mayor Gubossi knows that I have offered advice and assistance to this administration um, as I had in the past administration.
I am deeply concerned about the fiscal integrity of this municipality as I have been for all the local governments I have served over the past. I come to speak publicly as a last resort. First, this governing body's 2025 budget
has been developed based on the professional approach by the former mayor Files, who willingly agreed to a reduction of $400,000 in anticipated surplus in the 2024 budget from that anticipated in
2023. Had he done what many politically oriented mayors do, he would have used it up in 2024 and let his successors try to figure out the next year for themselves. After seeing how you are
using surplus in this budget, all of you should be thanking him for his frugal use of surplus in 24. However, given the budget surplus from in the past two years of which the current mayor was an active
participant, I was expecting a more responsible and conservative use of surplus in this 2025 budget. I would I would be very interested in reviewing this administration's surplus rebuilding
analysis that should have been performed. but not being privy to review it. Suffice it to say that without an understanding of how surplus will be rebuilt in 2025, I
suspect at this point that too much is being used to prop up the expenditure side of this budget, which has increased about $750,000. Speaking of the expenditure side of this budget, it is almost totally driven by
salary increase. As my requests of the 7th of March and the 21st of April have not received affirmative responses from the current administration, I can only surmise that
no cost out of a UFCW contract was performed prior to making a burrow offer to the union that clearly closely mirrored demands of the union. As of today, I have still not been provided
the perk required cost out calculations after waiting three months. These union demands to which I refer significantly outpace the going trend of regional labor settlements.
I can only go by indicators that I was able to find studying the UFCW contract and comparing 2024 costs with 2025 appropriations for administration and finance services. These two items alone being
about $120,000 of the 2024 additional costs alone based on regional non-p police settlements. The cost of the UFCW contract should have risen no more than
6.5% to 7% for the years 2023 and 2024 in total. However, at this time it appears that costs have gone up much more than that. From limited data I have been able
to obtain, at least one salary increase rose as high as 25% over these two years. Overall salary increases for 23 and 24 together approach or might even exceed
15%. Note that more than sufficient funds were encumbered in the 2023 and appropriated in the 2024 budgets for settlement in the range of regional nonp police settlements for both
UFCW and nonUN employees. But there was not enough set aside for these levels of increases. How does this administration plan on paying the bill? I suspect that this will be coming from
the uh 2024 reserves which will then have an added negative impact on surplus available in the future. Lastly, my 13th January 2025 email um to the mayor warned him of the lack of
certification of funds for many resolutions adopted by this governing body on the 1st and 7th of January 2025 which appear to have been effectively ignored.
The identified problem reached its pinnacle when the administrative staff allowed the governing body to adopt a resolution authorizing a contract for $380,000 to demolish the church
structures without having any funds appropriated to pay for the contract because no one sought or obtained a certification of funds required by NJAC 5 col
30-5.4 for that purpose. Even though resolution number 2025-150 referenced there being an extent certification of funds. Oh, and by the way, there is no capital improvement program um in the
introduced budget as required by both statute and administrative regulation. This is not how an administrator, a mayor, or a governing body responsibly manages a negotiations or a budget process. Thank you for your time.
Thank you, Mr. Bearbach. Uh before I don't know if there will be other questions, but uh there are a couple comments I did want to make. one is thank you for uh the update and the heads up that you gave us regarding the $380,000 on the U demolition for the
church. As I mentioned back on uh our last budget meeting, that was an oversight. We did not u do a verification of the funds. That is an oversight and administrative oversight that we acknowledged as you as I think
you know you were here at that meeting. We acknowledged um openly that it was an oversight and in fact that's why we're having the budget amendment uh discussion in a few minutes. So um as far as your other comments related to
the union um we have every intention of complying with reporting requirements as you probably know there is no specific time frame for us to file. So we are working on that. Um that is again something that is high on our priority
list. I will say that we've been extremely busy fixing things that have been challenges for us over the first few months of this administration. So uh I appreciate you bringing things to our attention and to bring it to the public's attention. I can certainly go
through an itemized list of the many things that we've been working on to correct. And I'll say finally uh your estimates of what the appropriate wages wage adjustments should have been
are we we will beg to disagree and we will back up the numbers that we negotiated with the union uh very readily. What's most disconcerting to me is that you were part of the administration that took 2 years and
still did not complete those negotiations. So, it's easy to throw stones, Mr. Fairbach, but I would appreciate the side of you where where you have offered assistance and I would appreciate if you will continue to do do that in the future.
Thank you. Can I respond? Please do. public sector negotiations in which I have been involved for at least the last 45 years um involved a request by a union and a position by management. We
did a major cost out in advance of those negotiations of which, as you said, I was a part. Those calculations indicated a limit to which we believed the organization could not go without
putting an undue burden on the taxpayer. It also related to our research on what settlements were within this region of Mammoth County and what would be reasonable numbers. The
demands from the union were always significantly exceeding that. It was because of the union's response to every proposal the municipality made of no that it ended up taking as long as it
did. When one provides the other side something close to or exactly the same as to what they're seeking, negotiations go very quickly. In terms of the problems that
existed previously, you're right. We made significant efforts and you know that you and I had discussions and I sent you emails. I had discussions with Mr. Garts in an attempt to be able to bring you together because the benefit
there would have been if you would have had a continuous um CFO from 2024 into 2025. You would have been able to have had the AFS done much more quickly. you would have been able to have the issues
that existed at the end of 2024 between Mr. Garz and Mr. Alawa the auditor resolved. But when there ended up being new personnel and we are now on our second CFO since Mr. Garts was here,
it is then extremely difficult to be able to figure out um under which shell P is located. And thank you again, Mr. Farbug. will yeah please stay there. Um I will respond
that you are exposing your ignorance as it regards Mr. Garts that I had no opportunity to keep Mr. Garts on. I did attempt to do so. I'm not going to speak about Mr. Garts beyond that. But to assume that I that that was an option
available to me is incorrect. The other assumption that you're making is that your yours and the prior mayor's assumptions were accurate and ours are not. I believe our assumptions underlying the union contract were accurate. And if yours were even close
to accurate, you probably would have concluded an agreement in a 2-year time frame. So, we're going to agree to disagree. I am more than happy to talk to you about the union contract, and I'll share as much data as you need to see. But uh other than I appreciate your
open comments to the public and to this council, you and I are going to have to agree to disagree. Um I would appreciate being able to see that. Um just as I had indicated, I would um very much enjoy being able to see the 2025 surplus
rebuilding analysis. But I will also say to you that having been a monitor uh for the transitional aid program for the state of New Jersey, one of the things that is strongly advocated and is carried out in
many many municipalities is that the cost out is done before the offer is made. It's not calculated after the negotiations are concluded. You are correct that there is
not a time limit on the cost out but clearly one didn't exist if I have been waiting 3 months on a OPER request to be able to see the perk cost out there is
no formal cost out file yet as I mentioned cost out with all its data was completed in advance of the negotiation and because you don't have it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. We are working on completing the filing and when that is done you will be the
first to receive it. Thank you very much. Yes, Mr. Kenny. Herb Kenny 216 Brinley. Um since you know all the heroes get to speak again um when you put together this um to the
DW contract um since we have to afford to pay for it. I think it'd be very important if you took uh Attorney Bernstein's fees for the last two years to get that done, which Oh, it didn't get done. I forgot one. But I'd like to know what you ended up paying for the
BPW and what did you pay in legal fees for two years. Also, I've been coming here for two about four years now. Um we talked about the reserve buildup. Um, last administration I think was close to
blowing about close to two million in reserves and I never saw a rebuild. So could you just explain what that is? Thank you. The way just again for I probably should have a CFO explain this but just as from one lay person to
another to a group of lay people um what Mr. Barabbuk was requesting was just an understanding when we borrow money from our surplus uh and use it as a revenue line item which is standard industry practice. Uh that's referred to in our budget as anticipated surplus. Um we
usually conduct a a buildout to basically say how are we going to replace that? And I say we, usually the CFO puts that together and it's usually a combination of bring in uh revenue that was unanticipated because we budget
for anticipated revenue, but there are mechanisms in place where we typically are aware of additional revenue that will come in that we quote unquote do not anticipate. That additional revenue contributes to rebuilding the surplus.
The other thing is we we budget appropriations. We budget expenditures and if we underex spend if we spend less than we budgeted that surplus also goes towards rebuilding the surplus in a subsequent year.
So spoken trying to keep that relatively high level. Uh that's what Mr. Farabach I believe was requesting and he's nodding his head in approval. So uh his question his concern is do we have enough of that unanticipated revenue and
do we have uh perhaps anticipated excess uh appropriations you know that we are under spending uh and we are confident we do um but again uh you know that that's I guess the short answer Mr. Kenny just u you know
that we feel very confident in this budget Mr. Go ahead. Uh, Thomas J. Coan, 6123rd Avenue. Um, is there a surplus rebuilding analysis for 23 and 24
for 23 and 24? Yeah. Where substr pointed out substantial surplus was used, but you know, Mr. Farmbox now asked me for a surplus rebuilding analysis, but when he was in the driver's seat was one done. That's what I'm trying to establish, isn't it? Yes,
they they were performed. They ended up being very inadequate. They were not accurate. Okay. And the salary increases in the process. Uh, as as I reviewed the steps, some of the steps in the DPW
contract were less than minimum wage. So, how can it not go up substantially? I mean, these people weren't getting paid, right? Mr. Mr. Fairbag mentioned that a large portion of the current year's budget is um attributed to salary
increases and in fact um roughly a third of our salaries could be around that range uh were tied to the union negotiations. So not all of them but roughly a third of the salaries were and those salaries did increase well beyond the numbers that Mr. Fairbach
suggested the six to 7%. But they had to if they were already below minimum wage, you've got to go there and then pay them for the years. Is that I I actually put together a PowerPoint presentation a month or so ago, six weeks ago, but
relatively recently, explaining exactly how those steps increased and how we had to do a market adjustment as well as, you know, regular the regular indexing that Mr. Farenbach referenced. So, um, Mr. Barbach isn't privy to the market
adjustment component of the analysis that we prepared but as he mentioned some numbers are 15 to 25%. But that basically was bringing people from a midpoint of the old contract which was the old contract ran 20 uh 20
uh through it should have run 2022 23 and 24. the midpoint of that because those numbers stay the same for all three years. The midpoint is 2022. The new contract that we just negotiated
goes out to 2027 from 25 to 7. So, uh the midpoint is 6 2026. That's four years from the midpoint of the old to the midpoint of the new. Uh for example, a 15% increase is about 3% average, you know, per
person. and on top and that was just doing a a uh you know an inflationary indexing that does not include a market adjustment and to your point Mr. Cohen that market adjustment had to bring us up to a level relatively relatively
uh high level relative to the to the minimum wage. the minimum wage step one in most of our contracts was right at minimum wage and u entering the contract the new contract that we just negotiated um it should have been probably 20%
higher 30% higher than minimum wage so that at the low end of our steps we we had to add a lot of a lot of extra dollars well more than the number Mr. and and the concern that he has about the undue burden on taxpayers. I mean,
clearly if DPW is not happy in doing their job, there's an undue burden there. But also, I don't know if any undue burden was considered in the 2023 and 2024 budgets when substantial monies were taken out of the surplus and the increases were gigantic.
I'm I'm trying I'm going to continue to refrain from openly criticizing prior practices, but we've had a lot of correcting to do. Um, and also about all the the CEO CFOs. I mean, Mr. Medino, who was our CFO, had his certification lifted from
being a CFO in New Jersey, but we never knew that. I mean, it's like there's been a lot of of poor administrative standards before that, and I'm happy they're getting rebuilt now. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Are there other comments or
questions? Uh yes, Mary Bram. Mary, can you hear us? Mary, Mary Backro. Okay. Are there any other questions or comments? I'll make a motion to close the public hearing.
Second. Thank you, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Guboszi, yes. Now, amongst the governing body, we'd like to Mr. Mayor. Yes.
Mr. Mayor, it's Mary Bagstrom. Mary, I comment. I just closed the Well, I know because I couldn't get off mute. Okay. Sure. Please make your comment. Mary Bagstrom, 218 4th Avenue, Bradley
Beach. Mary, I'm sorry. Uh, I'll make a motion that we reopen public comment. Second. Mr. Noble? Yes. Miss Greenblat? Mr. Nikki? Yes. Mr. Weber? Yes. Mayor Guboszi? Yes. Okay, Miss Brim. Thank
you. Um, so as you know, Mr. Mayor and Council, uh, when I do not agree with you, uh, I'm I'm very happy to express my opinion. But what I'd like to say tonight is it's so refreshing that when
a mistake is made at the administrative level that it's acknowledged. U, which I haven't seen with the prior administration. Secondly, uh in regards to one of the residents speaking tonight, in the words of a famous playwright, he thinks D
protests too much. Uh it's very strange. Um, and I will just say that although I will have disagreements and you will hear about it, I am incredibly gratified to have an administration that has been looking
into the everything, which by the way, I realize you only had three or four post-it notes as part of your transition, but despite that, uh, you're you're looking into the numbers, you're making the hard decisions, and you're being very transparent about it. So, I just wanted to say I appreciate that
very much. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Any other comments or questions? Seeing none, I'll make a motion to once again close the public hearing. Second. Mr. Noble? Yes. M. Greenblat? Yes. Mr. Newiki? Yes. Mr. Weber? Yes. Mayor
Gubosi? Yes. Okay. Um just for discussion among the council, we have resolution 2025-196 which is a proposed amendment to the budget. And as I mentioned, uh
this is driven almost entirely uh by the omission of $380,000 of demolition costs for the church. Um, I mentioned this a few meetings ago back at when we introduced this budget originally that we did, it was an oversight, uh, an
accounting administrative oversight. Um, and the way municipal budgets work, your revenue has to equal your, uh, your expenses or your, uh, uh, you know, the whatever it's called. Yes. Thank you.
Um, so anyway, we are not allowed to recognize revenue that didn't exist before. For example, $4 million of revenue more or less that might come in as a result of the sale of the church. We're not
allowed to say anticipated revenue. It's unanticipated revenue. Nonetheless, we have to balance our appropriations with our revenue. Um what you're seeing anyone looking at this uh 2025 196 is
largely uh a significant increase in surplus anticipated the 380,000 absolutely has to be recognized in appropriations. But when you say that the budget has increased over last year,
700,000 400,000, keep in mind this $400,000 is a one-time increase. It's not going to stay at that level going forward. On the other hand, $4 million or 3 million, whatever the property sells for, when that comes in, that is
also a $1 million I'm sorry, a one-year uh impact on our budget. So, please don't be confused if people say budget's way up this year, especially if you have a number of one-time events impacting the budget.
So w with that said, uh does the council have any questions about the 2025-196 the amendment which is largely bringing up our anticipated surplus uh almost $300,000 of the of the of the
380. I just say Mary that I noticed also that there are certain things that you're tightening up a little bit on certain budget items basically reducing those budget items in you know small amounts in order to generate some additional funds. So that was basically maybe a uh
well we were a little bit um generous on those budget items or as a contingency perhaps in those budget numbers that we're just tightening those up a little bit in order to generate offsetting some of that $380,000. It would have been easiest to just add the full 380 to the total, but you're
right. We we said we can't take some of these other budget items down a little bit. Okay. And and also that the money that's going to get recouped from the church isn't just the three when we sell the sales of the property isn't just the $380,000. There's engineering costs.
There's costs that went into this over the last several years that will be uh basically offset or re reimbured to the burrow through that um selling of those properties. Correct. Okay. Yes. Thank you. Any other questions or comments about the introduction about
the you know the amendment? No. Okay. U I'd like to make a motion then that we uh approve the resolution 2025-196 to amend the 2025 budget. Second. Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Greenblat.
Yes. Mr. Nikki? Yes. Mr. Weber? Yes. Mayor Gibosi? Yes. Um I I feel as though I've uh deprived you CFO of any comments. Are you okay? I Bonnie did a beautiful job.
Okay. If you would like to make any comments and I give you that opportunity now. Good. But I think I said enough last time that I was here. So um I can tell by the fact that there wasn't so many questions. So thank you. I think you said it well. You said it well.
Okay. Great. Thank you. Um we are going to move to um well actually before we move fat six on the agenda there may be some people here who are specifically here to discuss um our ordinance amendment which I will tell you in a
second is 2025-17 the traffic amendment which is really addressing uh changes we were proposing we introduced to our parking lot and anyone here to discuss that is
welcome to stay uh and welcome to speak, but I'd like to make a motion. We we the council believe there's still a little more work to do on this. So, I'd like to make a motion for tonight that we table uh 2025-17. I want I want to make that motion now. So, if anyone does want to
leave, they can. Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Greenblat, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Guboszi, yes. Thank you. Okay, now we'll move to our workshops and uh Mr. Ben Matl from CME is here to take us through
a couple of quick updates on our boardwalk prominade and our main street. Thank you, Mayor. If Michelle could allow me access to share the screen time here, that would be great. Michelle, let Ben share the screen, please.
Works. It usually does. She's on it. That's the intercom system here. No, right. Okay, great. Okay, hope everybody can see that. All right. Yes, we're off agenda.
Thank you, Mayor C. Technical problem. We're good. Yeah. Sorry. Thank you. Uh so I'm here today to uh talk about two things. Uh first is the uh Bradley Beach prominade extension. Um it's just basically to to conclude
our conceptual phase of this project. Um give you an overview of what we've done so far uh and and show you uh essentially what the extension is going to look like. Um, of course we're talking about the uh area in town along
Ocean Avenue between Third Avenue and uh Silen Lake, basically the municipal border with Avon. Um, the the intent of the project is to extend the prominade. You see that picture on the right. Um,
the prominade stops. You kind of look at the two two together. You can see it stops there at the top of the red square uh and just goes back down to Ocean Avenue. And there is a sidewalk along Ocean Avenue for people to walk currently, but it's at a lower
elevation. Um the this area of of uh town is not as protected as the rest of town because the uh Brahmin has a bulkhead. It's uh made of of um concrete pavers. Uh so it
offers more uh protection for storms. So we want to extend that all the way to the uninsurable border. I'll go to the next slide. Uh so if you remember uh the burrow received a grant from the NJCAA, Division of Community Affairs, uh
boardwalk preservation grant the amount of $1,275,000. uh there is a burrow match component uh to that uh 5% uh which I understand is coming out of beach utility uh and so
far we've we've prepared a conceptual plan um as I I explained it's extending from third act to the uh municipal border uh there will be uh stairs uh along this this portion as well as uh
ADA access with with uh ramp coming down from from Tuni Beach. Uh we're exploring permitting. We've submitted a jurisdictional determination request uh from the NJD and we should be hearing back from them shortly uh to identify
exactly what permits we need. Uh, I anticipate we're going to need approval from the Army Corps of Engineers. Even though this is technically outside of their jurisdiction just because the nature of the project, we're anticipating approval from them. Okay. I just I think we got that approval like a
long time ago, but um we can talk offline about that because the Army Corps came in. I mean, it's their project. So, anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Uh and then Ocean Avenue is a county road. So we'll we'll be uh working with Wic County as well um to make sure they uh
have have a chance to provide their input and uh get any approvals we need from that. Okay. So this is the existing conditions as I said um brown stops and you can see uh this
this is showing the sidewalk area adj right adjacent to Ocean Avenue. Um you can see the dunes in the background there. Um we're not doing anything to do to the dunes. They are going to remain in place and this is the the intention. Um
we'll continue the same design that is up and downtown uh with the green space between Ocean Avenue and the prominade. Uh we'll install, you know, uh railing along the the prominade. We'll have uh
benches, uh street lights, decorative street lights, uh and it'll be uh just matching the the exact existing width of the prominade and the green space. Here's just another example. Um, again,
you can see the the dunes in the background are not changing. And then this is is the view from the beach side. Uh, it's I don't know if you can kind of decipher it from this this view, but uh,
essentially it's going to be a bulkhead uh, in the front on the beach side. Um, I don't know exactly what the material is going to be. I think it's most likely going to be steel uh sheet bulk the sheep piles. Um, the existing bulkhead is is made of wood. Uh, but
that is an older style of of bulkhead and more modern would be would be steel. Uh, but we haven't gotten to that point yet. So, we're we're still going to work through that and we'll we'll review that with the burrow as we get uh through that design.
Uh and that's that is my presentation on on that. Are there any questions? Questions Shannon. So if you could just walk me through um where it actually turns at third avenue. It turns and slopes currently turns slopes down
and then is set back from the current prominade. What's currently existing? It goes to the sidewalk basically. Yeah. Like this right of the street goes to the sidewalk. It's almost a street left. So when you are are you actually extending the prominade? So the entire
prominade will be further east than it is currently in that location. That's correct. Yes. So what happens with the um the insection that's there? The second avenue grill we would work around that. Uh we don't intend to move it or
or demolish the building or anything. uh we would the intention would be to uh incorporate that into the design so that uh we can still access it from the from the the Ocean Avenue side uh and potentially from the prominade side. We
haven't gotten that far yet, but but that will be incorporated into the design. So it'll actually be on the other side of the pro, right? I think the pro would kind of go almost around it, right? Yeah, it would it would kind of go around it and and almost kind of meet up on the back side. uh but it would be raised higher up. So we still
have to work through that and see exactly how it would it would um that kind of the two parts would meet the side of the building and the the back side of the pro. Right. So that the actual serving side would more likely be on the promin the new prominade side. It
could be. Yeah. Other questions. And then Yeah. Did we Is this like um am I remembering right that we have to extend some contracts or spend some money before the or did we already do that? Like is there a time sensitive part to this one or my finger?
Yes, there is a time sensitive uh uh component to this. So we have the the grant that I I talked about from the DCA. The money has to be spent before uh the end of 2026. Okay.
I just have a quick question. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. Um I didn't see anything with wheelchair access. Is that going to be Yeah, it's it's not shown on the the renderings, but there will be uh handicap accessible ramps coming down from the prominade upon the beach. Okay.
And the this is actually, you know, you'll have accessible um access from the Ocean Avenue sidewalk would still be there and you'd have a ramp going up to the the pro similar to what you have now along
the rest of Right. But how about from the prominade onto the beach? Yeah, there be ramp there. You you would have uh kind of like the switchbacks that you you have up and down the That's great. Okay, good news. Thank you. So, Ben, I did see these concepts. um previously and just a couple key points is um the
locations and and the configuration of those little walks. Anybody who wants to see those, look at them closer, those are just conceptually they're not they're not engineered out yet exactly how they're going to switch back. And so it's just a concept of a stairway of ADA um accessibility. So that that detail
still needs to get looked out as well as how we're going to work around um the grill in particular. Exactly. And how that actually works. Yes. Okay. And and then also just for clarity, um this grant is only going to cover a portion. It's not going to this first piece of
the first phase of the project, not all the way to Evergreen. So we have to go back and get additional grant money still uh to go from say from Second Avenue to Evergreen. Yes. And we're we're exploring different grant opportunities. Haven't found one yet,
but we'll we're going to keep doing that as we advance into the design and we need to uh implement the project in phases. That's what we'll have to do. Okay, great. Thank you. Uh two Ben, two quick questions for me. Um I think definitely one um in in your other
picture, the new prominade wall, and I know this is all illustrative, but it did look like it was popping up against the dunes. That that wouldn't be like that. to that. Yes, that is not to be taken as being perfectly to scale. Uh it's just
to illustrate that the uh new new prong is going to be bumped out closer to the dunes, but it won't be cutting into the dunes. If you go to the first picture, yeah, there's you can see how much space there is. Well, wait. Yeah, you can see.
So, even if this everything that's in the the bottom of the picture on the right goes, you know, Yeah. It's like about to out to the fence and there's still going to be what's from the fence ocean word that would you know yeah see this this red box uh kind of encloses
the front of the existing prominade and if you extend that down you know there's still space between the red box and and the existing dunes so there's enough room there to have both. So I'm going to ask a question that is going to I think delight Mr. Weber and probably make the
rest of us grown. But is should there be any consideration given to having a different form of access onto the beach there? If we're really close to the dunes, should we consider having more of a walkover so we don't have to create space between the bulkhead and the dune?
We could instead, you know, enter onto the beach. It's it's definitely a possibility. it it's kind of the the burrow's um decision how how you want to do that. Uh the most common thing is is having switchbacks right along the um
the brown, but that's definitely an option to do a kind of a longer ramp that goes out onto the beach. Um and we would have to take a few things into consideration. Permitting would be not done. uh and then how that would affect
the existing dunes, whether or not we would have to modify the dunes at all. Uh so that'll be something that we can we can look into. The thing that the reason I say that is not to be daring and and and ultra creative. It's because that space between the dunes and the and
the bulkhead today, we have lockers there. We have a lot of emergency vehicles back and forth, lifeguard vehicles back and forth. And as we start to scrunch that space, it might become impractical to use them for anything other than a walkover without obviously disrupting the view. So I just want to
plant that seed. Um this will be an elevated prominade as you extend it. It will need cell of some sort. Yes. Um and again just planting a seed. You and I have talked about this, but for the rest of the world to hear
what's on our minds, um I' I'd love to keep an open mind if there's a possibility of using some of the Silven Lake uh dredging material for that film. So, yeah, there is uh we've we've had conversations about this. I've met with
the Silven Lake Commission. They also have a technical advisory committee that that uh meets approximately once once a month. Uh it's it's come up in conversation. Um the the group that's that's involved with that, the American Latoral Society uh is has secured uh
approval from the D to do uh soil sampling or sediment sampling of the material in Silven Lake. So depending on the results of that um we can make a determination whether that material is suitable for uh that that fill area.
Okay, great. If no further questions, we should move on to Main Street. Any other questions? All right. Okay. So for Main Street, uh we're still in the early stages, but I wanted to just show you a a slide of just kind of a
summary of of what's happening uh right now. Uh we have completed the uh existing survey and uh existing conditions base mapping. Um so we have have a base set of drawings to work off of and we are uh advancing the
preliminary design uh as we speak. uh we have people working on it. Uh and we've al also reached out to the NJ DOT to discuss what permits would be needed because Main Street is a state highway uh Route
71. Uh we we are also going to discuss with them uh potential striping for for the parking along Main Street. Uh and I know there's been discussions and I think there's something later on the agenda about a request for reducing the speed limit on Main Street. That'll be
uh something that that we get involved with as well as we uh do this design. Um we're also reviewing uh street light uh design and layout. Uh different light options are being reviewed. I know that was a a topic of discussion when we had
our our original committee that that Mr. Weber and I were on. Uh so we're we're looking into, you know, what the best uh design options for that is are going to be. Um, and I know some of them the lights have been knocked over in in
years past. Uh, so there a couple of gaps right now. It's possible we could get them replaced in the interim. So picking those uh early on are just something that we're looking at. Um, couple of the design considerations. Uh,
like I said, the speed limit reduction. Um, we're we're going to work with the burrow and with the DOT on that. Uh and then with a speed limit reduction, uh we're also going going to investigate whether or not that is more conducive to allowing uh bike lanes instead of just
share the road arrows on Main Street. Um and again, the parking options like I just said. Uh so that's all for Main Street. I don't have any any uh plans to show you right now. Uh nothing from a record study or anything.
Thank you, sir. Papers as well, right? papers repaving the entire road. The the sidewalks would be uh continue to be the the brick paper style uh sidewalks. Ben, could you just refresh everybody on um
the funding's coming from DOT? What's and what's the grant dollar value? What's the schedule and and any requirements on the timing for spending this? Um and how much work can we actually get done with that? The amount of grant money that we have approximately. Yeah. So the the uh grant
that we have uh I I don't have it with me right now, but it's in the in the range of uh 1.4 million, I think it is. Um and that is actually from congressionally directed spending. Uh so that's a federal grant. Uh it'll most
likely be administered through the DOT. That's typically how federal grants are are administered. Um so we are uh working on on getting an agreement executed for that. uh to to you know to secure that funding and uh figure out
exactly what requirements that federal money come for. And as far as the overall I mean there's a lot of different ways you could approach this project. You could do elements along the corridor. Yes. You could also just complete a section of Main Street, you know, the northern side of of town
perhaps, right? Or you know, have you started to come up with strategies around the different options that we We haven't we haven't figured out exactly how that that money is going to be allocated yet. What we're doing right now is we're working on the design for
the entirety of Main Street. And then uh as we have to go through a a lengthy review process. We I I know that the federal funding comes with a lengthy review process through the federal highway authority. Uh so by the time we get to the end of that it's possible the
bureau could have additional funding that that we're you know like the prominade we're actively uh looking for. Um and we'll implement the project in phases however that works out whether it is uh certain number of blocks at one
end of town or a certain improvement along the entire length. We're not we haven't figured that out yet. Yes. And well, we did discuss doing the like taking the money we have to do whatever we do do it to the whole town and not doing it in sections. That did come up. Yes. So, and have we not have we just
not heard from additional funding because we applied for additional funding on top of the 1.4. Correct. There were um there was one grant that we we did hear from that we were un unsuccessful. Okay. Uh, but I we have we
are applying for another grant and we'll be waiting to hear on that. Okay, great. Thanks. I'm sorry. We did apply for that was just due uh last month. So, okay. It won't be for
a while. What was that grant? Uh, it was a transportation alternatives uh set. Are there any other questions from the council? I'm fine. Thank you. Okay. Uh I'm going to do somewhat unusual thing and that is open this up to the public
to ask Mr. Mlac questions. Normally we would ask the public to uh hold their comments until that agenda item but Ben to enable you to leave and also to follow quickly on any of the comments. I give them that chance. So uh make a motion open up to the public. Second.
Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubachoski. Yes. Any comments or questions for Ben All 16 New York? Just a quick question on the board work prominade. I just happened to look at the pavers on there.
So that my question is that would be like a third set of type of pavers we have in our board work. So something just to be aware of but that be a shame on you. So Ben, they're going to match something that's already there. I would hope.
Yeah, the intention was would be to match the existing ones that they're tying to. Okay. Other questions? Yes, sir. Peter, thank you. Uh Peter Sharp, 301 Second Avenue. Just
a quick question for Ben Prominade Extension. Uh right now if you're accessing the unprominade area say evergreen um it is a pretty easy to roll on and roll off. Um with the prominade
what is the anticipated number of steps? What's the anticipated height that someone would have to traverse up and then down to access the beach? Just going to open up the broad slides again. Uh
so Ocean Avenue is approximately elevation 9 or 10 and the elevation of the prominade up here is uh 14. So it's about a 4ft uh grade difference uh from from the street to the top of of the
prominade. So that would be the the height that would have to uh traverse. Um, now there's room here to to make it up the prominade if because Ocean Avenue is not perfectly flat. It's not nine or 10
the whole way down. If the grade is uh requires too steep of a a ramp, we would most likely have to do a kind of a switchback sidewalk to make up the the road. I'm sorry. I'm not that smart. So, how
how many steps up and how many steps down? Well, it wouldn't be steps. It would be a ramp like just like you have uh at this end of the run. Okay. So, it wouldn't be any steps. Everyone would use a ramp. Yeah. Okay. And it would be how many feet up? How many feet? About 40 feet up with elevation. Okay.
Actually, thank you. Hey, Ben, you can also possibly adjust the grade of the actual prominade itself, you know, and slow down a little bit to be able to accommodate six inches or foot to help to try to minimize or minimize the amount of ramping. Yeah, that's
possible. Uh you can see on on the picture there, the existing prong had there's like a the top of the bulkhead is a little bit higher than the uh prawn surface itself. If we needed to drop the prownab down a couple inches like you said, uh you know, you could still do
that and and keep your 14 foot uh elevation for storm effect. Other questions from the audience? Yes. Yeah. Mullen 3024th Avenue. I might be pointing out the obvious because I'm not
very smart either or things that you probably thought of. Um there was uh we see that there's a new green that's going to be there and I'm just curious does that maintenance of that green come out of the beach fund or and does DPW know that it's more work
for them? like is that just discussed all beautifully done in the picture and it's just more work and is that through the beach fund I'm sorry or it would be paid for by the beach utility u but but again that's very illustrative honestly when I
looked at that I thought boy that's a lot of maintenance so we'll have to decide what it ultimately looks like let's plant native plants that are maintenancefree and call it a day well there's green grass and it's forever my That's what I'm saying like no grass
like if we want to just plant plants and no maintenance. Um and also Mayor Gubossi mentioned it the lockers like where do they go? Are there lockers there now? I would assume so. Yeah. And there's plenty of room for them because it's just a narrow sidewalk. So just to keep that and then
I was confused on the timing of all this. I thought I heard that suspended by 2026 and we're already in 2025 season. And is this something that we're looking to do by next beach season or we don't even know yet? Ben, could you just clarify? Is that obligating the money or
actually spending the money? It's actually spending the money uh by the end of 2026, which is is going to come up quick. So, it's it's uh the the permitting is going to be critical um to make sure we have a clear plan of what permits we need and knowing the review
time that's required for for that. and and will ensure that this won't take place during the summer season. Uh it's that is the goal. I I can't tell you right now exactly because again the the permitting is going to uh dictate it.
There are certain and there could be certain restrictions of of timing when you're even allowed to do construction. Is that it? Was this only comments for number six workshops for for Mr. Madlock? Yes. Okay.
Any other comments or questions? Yes, sir. Mark, this is Mark Ros 29 terrace. I'm a little late in the game, but um what about for some volleyballs in there as well? Or maybe New York street be less filled um
but still have the problem around him. Keeping the sand. Keeping the sand. Yeah. Keep some of not all. I'm just still around but still narrated. Are you saying make the prominade more narrow? Well, you have like two blocks that take maybe a third of one of those blocks
narrated for the volleyball court. Like on New York Street over a cliff actually there with his volleyball they had around there. It's late the game. Sorry. That late. I I do want to just respond with
that because that's a very good question. Uh I think what what he was referring to is in place of the grass uh in in instead of the green space how which is definitely like down at beach level horseshoe area. Okay. So still
that's still like four feet down and some level of prominade closer to the side to the road. Yeah. Yeah. I'll still keep it. Yeah. Ben, were you gonna offer an insight as to replacing the grass with volleyball courts? That's a possibility,
too. Be up. Yeah, up. Okay. As long as no one chases their volleyball into the street, which should be uh any other questions or comments from this audience? Is there a way to open up the um Ben? Is there a
way to open up screens? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. to anyone on Zoom, any questions for Mr. Madac? Okay, seeing no other questions, uh before we move on to our next workshop, uh seeing uh our former mayor, Mr. Fox,
in the back of the room, I just want to give Mr. Fox a tip of the hat because so much of the opportunities we're looking at now the prominade Main Street Silven Lake uh the Fox administration secured $4 million of a grant for the prominade
1.4 million for Main Street uh 2.4 or so for Silven Lake and other dollars in there as well. So Larry, while you're here tonight with us, thank you for for that work. Okay, let's move on to the Fletcher Lake presentation of light installation. And I I see a number of faces from Fletcher
Lake. You're s before you begin a formal presentation, can I just ask you all to stand to show the room where you are? And before you sit, I just would like to say thank you so much for the work you all do as our fled commission and and want to
recognize. And with that said, who would like to make the presentation? I see some brave souls. Good evening everyone. My name is Linda Brown and this is my husband Eric and we live at 319 Lake Terrace. Tonight I am
representing the Fletcher Lake committee this evening. My objective tonight is to obtain approval of a trial led lighting system on the air raator closest to Main Street. We have already received a quote from the vendor and it connects seamlessly with the air raator unit we
already have. We understand that there are some concerns with this request, but rest assured, many of the committee members have done tireless work researching this data. As discussed in previous meetings, it was pertinent to receive approval from both townships
that share the lake responsibilities. Neptune approved this project a few weeks ago at a council meeting with a unanimous decision. Our goal is to get approval for the trial lighting system tonight from Bradley Beach so we may
proceed with the purchase of the unit. The unit to be purchased is a Caspo LE 4C11 four light kit from a vendor called the Pond Guy. After speaking extensively to the vendor, it was discovered it is
the simple 110 watt outlet that is already equipped across the lake. The air raator that would be trial would need the shortest cord of about 50 ft. Now, I'd like to address some of the concerns the council may have about the light. First, the LED lights that would
be installed are not harmful to the fish in the lake. LED lights are made for their energy efficiency, longevity, and low heat output. In addition, the lights would turn on or would be on a timer to regulate when they would begin and end
each evening. Obviously, we would have the power to determine those usage times. Second is the concern of the growth of algae. Again, because of the LED efficient lighting system, it does not directly impact significant growth
because the light will only be on when the air raator is running. Thus, there would be no standing water for the algae to begin to grow. The main culprit for the growth of algae is produced by light from the sun, and there is nothing we can do in regards to that. Finally, we
received input from my father-in-law, who is a chemist and scientist with over 40 years of experience. quoting him, "Virtually everything about the disadvantages algae growth arm to fish of pond lighting refers to small
backyard boy ponds where the lighting to where the lighting to water ratio makes things like heat from a bulb, algae growth, and proximity of the fish to the lights a factor. The negative effect of lighting on anything as large as
Fletcher Lake is zero. There is so much water compared to a few LED lights that it has no environmental impact. It basically comes down to aesthetics and public safety versus cost. On to the positives the lights
would bring to the community. First, committee members uh first committee members walked doortodoor on both Bradley Beach and Ocean Grove to discuss this initiative. Every household that would be affected by the lighting of the air raator approved with a resounding
and enthusiastic yes. Many of whom even asked if they could donate to the cause. As wonderful of a response as that is, the Fletcher Lake Commission has more than enough money to fund this trial with hopes of expanding next year. I have with me a list of all the addresses
and names of residents on both sides of the lake that again unanimous unanimously approved of this project. The light would add a much needed ambiance and beauty to the side of the to the lake after dark. Many people walk around the lake during the evening and
what better way to enjoy it later than to add an aesthetic feature. It would be more than it would it would more than boost the community pride as we would be one of the first lakes in the surrounding areas to add lights to an air raator. Next is the safety feature.
The lighting around the lake is insufficient. There are few solar lights that are still not operating properly on the Bradley Beach side. The air raator light can add that extra layer of lighting in a dimly lit area. Finally, there is potential for special events in
front of a light film. As beautiful as Bryant Park is, it is always beneficial to have a different atmosphere for potential future events. To conclude, I believe some of the members of the new administration and mayor campaigned with a simple slogan, better Bradley
Together. This will make Bradley a better place to visit, especially for families. At this time, I would like to ask what questions or concerns or positive statements you have for the Fletcher Lake team and do we have your approval? So, let me start just uh with a quick
comment. We're actually not prepared to vote tonight as a workshop. It's a presentation to give us a chance to ask questions and give you guys obviously a chance to share your insights with us. Uh the soonest we'd be able to act on an approval, formal approval at least would
be June 18th, our next meeting. But with that said, we got the bongos going since June 18th. You said July June in two weeks. Roughly two weeks, 13 days. Uh questions.
So was the motivation for this is it purely aesthetic like people think it's it will look nice and is that I think that's the main idea. So, and is the commission like people? Well, I hope we are we going to hear from other people in the commission or we gonna we are
okay. So, I just want to hear Okay, cool. I didn't know you're speaking for everybody, but uh my the only thing and it wasn't in the list of concerns there, but it's like dark skies like sending light up into the air is, you know, I would love if we would have darker skies, like if I had my way, I would,
you know, change the lighting on the boardwalk and whatever. when it comes time to change that, I would love to have a conversation about lights that don't escape up so you can't see stars and stuff like that. So, um I think the I would love it. I mean, we can't tell people not to have lights, for example, on their own property, but on
town owned properties would love to, you know, have lights that weren't shooting up into the sky causing light pollution. There's some towns around here that are passing dark skies or just lighting ordinances to say, "Hey, where we can control the light, we keep it from spilling out over, you know, like up and
keep it pointing down where you need it for safety and and things like that." So, I'm assuming it's pointing up, right? Well, be it be pointing there's four lights that would go on the airator and they would point to the water that's, you know, coming out of the bound itself. Um, the LED lights
typically that they would be using are are low lit ones. So the emission of a light is not going to be like a spotlight that you can see. Is there any way to make it point down something so it just points down into that? Is that I don't think so. I mean we have to have like some apparatus that
connect the lights and then shut down to the lake. So I don't think that would be possible. Then it would only go on obviously when the airators go on. So it wouldn't be obviously all night. I mean they go off around like 8:30 9. Oh yeah. What are the hours that they work at? You know we we'd have to look.
Obviously, we'd want to like expand it till like probably about 10 10:30 so you can get some of that uh the light from the airator a little bit later and you know truthfully you know to have the air raator stay in the fountain longer you know right now sometimes they go out
around October you know why not extend that to November it's not the lake's not freezing over by that point either so you know we can enjoy it longer throughout the season I think too other questions from the council. Yeah. No, I think there's some great
points that that the committee has made um regarding the aesthetics and and the safety and I think those very excellent benefits. Um but you know, I think John has a point too with the if I was a person with my telescope out there looking at, you know, specific planets or stars. I might be disturbed by the
light pollution. That's something to be considerate. How much of an effect does that have in the night sky from from you know um you know from somebody who wants to be a stargazer? Also air raator shut off at 8:00 I think currently. So we would have to extend those dollars. Um
so there is an additional cost you know from a um energy perspective but you know not not something that's that significant I would say. Um and then the last thing that that I have I wrote down here just to jot a note. I'm on the um Silvin Lake Commission lay on for that and um I I
kind of look at this as it's not just about the people who live around Fletcher Lake. It's the whole town because I ride my bike from one side to the other side of town often and and so some in some ways that's a benefit um to have those lights. But a precedent being set that all of a sudden we're going to
like then are we also then um does this now move over to Silven Lake and then what does Avon say about that because that's a joint lake commission. So I think there's a bigger picture that we need as a council need to consider overall not just about the residents who live just on the lake. Of course you're
front row but other people who walk and traverse that on a regular basis overall for the community. And so we really need to get a a perspective of that as well. And then um um and I don't have necessarily you know a dog in the fight one way or the other um except that
what's the overall community looking at this as and is it truly a benefit? I mean my last point is has the environmental commission um being that this is an environmental issue theoretically lights and stuff um have they been engaged of their opinion on this because we do have a commission for
environmental. Yeah the answer to that is no but that's nobody's fault. We just didn't think of that. Okay, that might be a good thing to get consensus that helps build a community consensus. So, and I I had a few questions um
because I know so little about lighting and number one, my first reaction was, "Oh, that sounds cool." So, I mean, I'm not I think it's a great idea, but as you're aware, I I did go to chat GPT and they said, "I need AI to be my mentor because I know nothing." And it did
highlight concerns about algae. And thank you for addressing some of those. Um I didn't have a relative who's an expert in the area. Um but a couple things that I want to ask. I'm not sure we've addressed yet. Well, so one is the ambient lighting. I I did have that concern. Does it ruin stargazing for
others? After you look at the lake, you look up and can't see. Uh and our my two colleagues have at least mentioned that. Um, is there any risk that you're aware of to wa wildlife because you know nocturnal animals that like enjoy the
dark all of a sudden they have a lit up lake and are they more I don't know swans or ducks are they more likely to be at risk by predators because predators can see them better and we haven't really looked at that but truthfully I mean the amount of fowls
and geese and stuff like that on the lake right now because we have you the geese police that come and it's it's it's very minimal. Um, and I I don't think that, you know, having lights on from 7 to 10:00 is really going to, you
know, make that much of a difference to their habitat. Most of them are not living in the lake. They're usually in the surrounding areas outside and it would sit on the air, too. So, it's really just going to light up the fountain, not necessarily the lake. So, a and the the lighting that you're
discussing that you referenced for us, is that something we'd add to our existing airator or are you buying a new air raator? Yeah, it would go to the existing one already. We showed the specs of the uh ones that we have already and he gave us the model of uh what the light would be for that specific area. And that's why we're
saying a trial too because it's very easy. So, it just basically plugs into, you know, the outlet that we have now and it sits on the air raator. And that's why we were proposing doing one to see, you know, how much people liked it. Obviously, what the benefits are, you know, and we can test the algae before and after. So, you know, that's
why we're proposing the trial because if it doesn't work, then we can take it off. But, and we know like specifically with uh uh the ocean growth side, they want to, you know, preserve that historical aspect of things as well. Uh but we did find that lights on a
fountain, they dig back quite a long way as well. So it would preserve that for them too. Yeah. I think my original concerns were algae, the ecosystem, you know, are you attracting mosquitoes? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Who's eating the mosquitoes? And do you see
right? So I I haven't figured out the whole ecosystem thing, but but uh I do appreciate your u your presentation tonight. And I did want to just acknowledge some folks um I guess the three of us have all been at one point
another liaison to Fletcher Lake. I'm not missing you guys right yet. You've been a lot of lean otherwise but thank you all for all the work you do. We will chat one not together we cannot deliberate but we will exchange some thoughts about your presentation and I
have a couple more questions. Sorry. Um when did the uh when would you start the light? What month? I you said you want to end in November or when we start like put the air raators in. I mean it's usually up to Neptune cuz they're the ones that have the fountains that store it. Okay. Um I mean we would like
earlier obviously you know to enjoy it. Um but I think they usually start right in the middle of May about October usually dictate that because we had asked exactly like what timing and when does it go in and they didn't have you know it's kind of miday to say like
midocctober. no distinctive time that they could give us. I think it just kind of depends on the weather and you know what else they got going on. So, and and what colors would this be again? Could you remind me? So, it would be like a soft white color. Um and they would give you options for different colors. So,
like the 4th of July have red, white, and blue. Um so, they there's green if you add it for uh St. Patrick's Day, but you know the the normal one would be the And how many kilowatts are you looking at? Do you know what it would be set at? Uh I have to go back and I think it's
2700 or less is it means less disruptive the wildlife. Okay. But they're talking about LED light like the amount of energy that these are going to use. So I really but I'm saying as far as the light spillage and everything that's probably measured in the lumen. It says
2700 K. So Kelvin, you're right. Kelvin. Thank you. That's okay. Right. We've got AI battling AI here. Yeah. um John versus and it does suggest that you do amber red or warm white and that um it's less dis disruptive to the
wildlife than cooler bluer lights too. So maybe keep that in mind as well. Yep. That's the soft white. That was the one because it comes with the soft white. We would have to purchase other lenses if we wanted other colors, but it's an option if we wanted other colors. Do you know if other towns do this? Did you talk to anybody? No. And that's why we
thought it'd be a great idea because now do you know somebody um actually is Belmore or Spring Lake has one on I just saw a couple days ago if you drive by and it'll I'll check with them too. Lights
underneath so it gets diffused by the water above. So going straight up it's not gonna be as much as a direct lights going straight up. Little less light. That helps. Are there any other members from the commission that wanted to
speak? Thanks. Yes. Thank you. Did you just have a little bit of So my name is William Grafton. I live at 83 Fletcher Lake Avenue in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. And I'm representative of the Fletcher Lake Committee uh from the
Neptune side. So this is the first time I've ever been one of your consultants. Um so I just I just wanted to state as just want to refresh there is like an ecosystem where they restrict how far is a setting if you read the specifications
on how far um the lights are emitted and the theory is that you only want to go like a third of the way and you want to let the top of the water be the ceiling that stops the light from going above. That's the concept. Is is it 100%? The answer is absolutely not. But the
concept is that you're restricting the light you know you know from that in the specifications reason why we only want to do one is you know a vendor will say something but it it might not be correct. So by only really doing a trial on one we can really evaluate um you
know because you know none of us who committee want to have any impact to the environment. So there's not this you know we we want to help it we want to do something cool but we don't care about the environment. It's the other way around. We care about the environment more than we want to do something cool. Um, but we actually think that and I
think it's really important that Fletcher is not as big as some other lakes. It's still a big lake and when you talk when you're talking about the environmental impact, there's still a lot of dark places for for you know the the drake the ducks and um you know
anything else that is on the lake and especially the fish you know. So, and then running the air raators longer is actually a benefit to the fish. So, you you can't just look at this and say it's negative to the environment, but we run
airators longer and we continue to move them down to the west side, we'll see the fish improve. We've already seen the fish improve in the last 6 months when we reduce the piece of count. So, we see there's a lot more people fishing. You can just drive by and see it. A lot more
people are um individuals are having picnics and are out enjoying the lake than it had in the past. And we think this is just another stepping stone to make it to make it more attractive and become more recreational cuz let's face it, six years ago that lake was not a
recreational lake. Today it is. So we're just trying to move it forward. Thank you. Thank you and welcome to Bradley Beach meetings. Good evening. My name is Linda Henderson. I'm the secretary of the Fletcher Lake Commission and I'm here I
live at 101 Web Avenue in Ocean Grove. I am not a lakefront resident. Um, and so I don't have any uh personal aesthetics that I would benefit from this. And I think you'll find that the members of the commission who are speaking in favor of this all own property that faces the
lake and they personally benefit from these things. Um, Linda Brown and Eric do not represent the commission. They represent themselves. So, she spoke as though she represents the entire commission. That is not the case. It's not a unanimous opinion. Um, we seek rather each's input as we did with
Neptune. Um, just for the benefit of the commission's making their own decision, but this is definitely not unanimous. And, um, on a personal level, Eric is a resident. He is not a member of the commission and he spoke as somewhat of an authoritarian as though he was a
member. I most certainly did not say anything that my wife spoke. But that's why I asked we hear from others. So we we're hearing from others. Sorry. It was not I just don't want there to be some misconception that this is a collective opinion of the commission. We are just seeking the
opinion of the Bradley Beach Council to help us make a decision. We are stewards of the lake. We are not supposed to be choosing personal aesthetics to soo ourselves. Especially personally if you reside above the lake. That's not what we're here for. Um, some of the same
people who want these lights are also objecting to replanting trees because it will obscure visibility. I just want to be clear on that. We also had a member of the Bradley Beach community who lives along Lake come to our meeting and complain about the air raators as they
are. The hours that they operate she feels are too late. It's disruptive to her sleep. And this is an 8:00 p.m. closing that we have right now. these the proposal as it seems to have wen out here is now 10 11 um that's not
inconsistent fashion with what we've been doing and we already have complaints from people based on the 8:00 p.m. time. The other concern that I have, as do others, who controls the lights and the colors, etc., etc. We need like a
real plan that's not personal. It's community- based, and it doesn't need to just take into account the opinion of those who reside along the lake. It needs to take into account the entire community. And I will present to you, I don't have it with me right now. I have
an accredited scientist with a PhD in oceanography who's going to be giving me a written presentation that will give you additional facts that are not AI based, but they're actual long-term scientific facts. And I'll give that to you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
So, I was actually going to ask this question. Sorry, but um I remember reading something in co-star about like a lawsuit in another town because the air raiders and I said, "Oh, no, that's just cuz that was that had nothing to do with lights. That was the noise from the airator. Was that felick like put that a
complaint just like that? Right. But I'm saying but there was like a lawsuit. I think it was like and they Okay. So um it's just but I didn't say anything because I'm like well there was nothing about light. It was a there's a noise. Okay. Okay. I got to look into that. Um
but yes Mark well I'm sorry Mark. Hold on one second because you've spoken one. Let me ask but I will give you a shot. Mr. distance. Hello everybody. Rich Jess Pen 63rd Avenue on the airator. I'm here. Excuse
me. I'm the light. You say I used to live in a house. We had a nice large uh masonry patio with about 30 ft of grass
and about an acre and a half lake pond. Beyond that, we had nothing but wetlands and darkness. This league had two exceptionally large air raators, not lights, air raators that did have lights
on it. The primary purpose of that was to health of the water and the lake and it did the job. There was a campaign to save couple of dollars and put the bubblers in that would do the job too. This is what bubbers did work. Air raers, excuse me,
the lights, air raators, whatever you want to call them, did work. stars. We used to sit in the dark on our patio enjoy fountains and the stars that we could see from horizon to horizon. That's not
an issue whatsoever. How is it going to affect animals? Well, little animals like little bugs and things like that were taken care of by the airator as well. We were using less chemicals to keep the
the mosquitoes and other little critters down. Larger animals like geese, me or ducks, heron, and egrets were all present. So it didn't detect that
either. Light pollution zero. You could look across the top of the lights of the bubbles and see light and then black right away. There was very little transition in
that. You would you're concerned with light pollution. I used to be an environmental commissioner in the town that town when we went out to inspect the property before the application was set for top of our listing light pollution
because that was the large issue of health. Light pollution is a problem today as I speak. two blatant examples. My litany ring, which is a block from Main Street, always has a very bright light
shining down from the bodega on the 700 block of Main Street. Always. I could take newsprint in a dark room and read it very very carefully, very clearly. There's a another example of
Lake Puma. There's a You wander a map on the northern end of town across the street from the gas station in there. Do you ever see the how great those lights are? It's insane. Anyway, I I see no reason not to
have something like this, only positive things. And I also think of the quality of life for people, anybody that's exposed to it or living by it. So, I'd encourage you to support it. Thank you. Thank you. Mark, did you have another concept?
We're gonna keep you under five minutes this time. We're having you all together. Mark the 220 test. I've lived on the lake for over 20 years. You know, I there's been good and bad throughout. Then we we had got a guard backing up in
there. It was cleaned up. The lake is not the lights are not going to hurt it. It's diffusing. The lights go up. You're not going to see much going out. When it comes to amount of people that are for the on the the lights on the committee and not I would say that more of them do want it. There's maybe two or three that
do not but they have their own reasons. I mean for example I don't care about the geese. I see a lot of other people complain about it but you know it's the majority of town don't like them. So you vote against them but if it was up to me at least let the geese be there first.
Point is, the lights really are not affect anybody for the amount of time that they're going to be on. They're not going to affect the animals around. Um, if anything, if there's predator foxes and there's ducks, the ducks can see them sooner. You know, maybe it goes both
ways. So, keep that in mind. That's it. Thank you, sir. It was less than five minutes. Got it. Okay. I'm looking around. See nothing else in the room. Anyone on Zoom? No. All right. Um, we will conclude the Flesher Lake light
installation discussion and move on very quickly to Main Street Route 71 speed limit. I'm anticipating this is a very quick presentation. I'm going to start. Um, our current speed limit on Main Street is 30 miles per hour. Aspbury is
already set at 25. Belar is already set at 25. the three towns in between uh starting from the south we've got Avon Bradley Beach and Neptune Ocean Grove running that 71 corridor. So I've been
in touch with the other mayors in those other two towns uh Ocean Grove Neptune and Avon and they are very interested in also reducing their speed limit to 25 miles per hour. the the logic to this uh it hopefully is obvious but um you know
especially as a summer community and thank you again Fletcher Lake um the logic to this hopefully is um speed reduction uh creates greater safety and specifically we have jw walkers in the summer we have people
cutting between cars crossing the street we have fairly limited sight triangles as they exist today we can have children and adults riding bicycles on Main street. Uh, and again, ours is a fairly narrow main street. So, for for multiple reasons, um, these three municipalities
agree that we'd like to create a 25 mph corridor inclusive of Asbury and Belmar. So, um, we've already drafted a potential resolution that if if everyone agrees, we'll uh we'll be voting on it. At least we'll agree to vote on it, and then we'll figure out a way to move it.
But uh so the real workshop here is anyone raise your hand if you'd have concerns about reducing our speed limit on Main Street. Just please only if people have concerns. So when you go to Yeah, I just going to
need everybody to stand up and say it's a um like when you go to LBI in the winter time their main drag is 40 miles an hour, but in the summertime it's 25 miles an hour. Granted, they have to switch the signs out every time the season changes for two times a year.
Just an idea have it. It's also four five lanes wide. That's how Sebrite is as well. Yeah. I mean it's just Are they also state highways that we're talking about? There's nobody that lives there during the winter months though, but we're more fulltime here. So, just an
idea just have it slower from like May to November was the date that was pretty but you know what I'm saying like if there was if you needed to take a compromise. Thanks. Yes, sir. Just one another
suggestion. It's just her pen 216. Can they synchronize the lights if you're going to do that? You know, I mean, it would be nice if you could just go a straight 25, you know, if you're going to go 25 stop, 25 stop. I mean, that I think that's what aggravates people. So,
if there's any way they could synchronize it, I know you got turns in, but it would make it at least a little bit less. And I think people would tolerate it better. That's all. If you're talking about lights, um, Fourth Avenue, when you hit the buttons, it doesn't do anything. It never turns to
it never tells you to walk. So really fourth Avenue. Yeah, I've stood there for hours. Yeah. All right. Thank any other comments. Yes. Who's Yes, sir. Oh. Oh, hi. But hold on one
second. Who do we have on Zoom? I can't read the name. Dave R. Dave. Yeah, he Dave on mute. You have the floor. Okay. Can you hear
me? Yes. Yes. Dave Powowski 3043rd. Um I agree with the uh 25 mph speed limit on Maine. The only concern I have is that uh technically by law now the low speed vehicles commonly referred to as golf carts, although that's inaccurate. Um
they're exempt. They can't go on Main Street because of the speed limit. If you make it 25, then they will be. Uh, I would like you to consider a resolution or ordinance still banning them from Main Street. Um, I think they're unsafe. I think they're danger. Um, having
investigated a lot of fatal accidents, I can assure you that uh an accident with a L LSV vehicle would be uh catastrophic. Um, I I just can't imagine uh seeing Bradley Beach go through that. So, if you could uh consider that as a
possible ordinance to keep the uh low-speed vehicles off of Main Street. Uh I know the previous administration has uh has one. Um it's been a concern of mine for a while. I see families driving them all summer long. Um they
are required to have safety features such as child restraints and seat belts. Um I rarely ever see that. Um I see passengers unbuckled. I see kids on mom's laps. Um, I think you're just waiting for something tragic to happen.
Um, back in 2023, there was that bride down in South Carolina who was killed on her wedding night um by a drunk driver. Um, as you know, there's a lot of distractions already on the roads, whether it's cell phones or um eating or
anything. Uh, cars are bigger, faster. Um, I just think a low-speed vehicle has no business being on a New Jersey street, but what's done is done. They're legal. uh as long as it's 25 and under, I would like to the town to consider a resolution or an ordinance banning them alto together. Um you can contact the
Rock Jersey City State Police. Uh they'll give you a list of the towns, the residents that have them. You can grandfather them in if you want, but uh going forward, I'd like you to keep in mind that they really don't belong on Main Street. And in my opinion, they don't belong on any street, but Main Street right now, they are technically
not allowed because of the speed limit is uh 30. Um, but if you lower it to 25, keep in mind that they will be allowed on Main Street. Thank you. Thank you. Question, Mr. Wood. For our attorney, if I could attorney, are we allowed to do that? Can we say that
low-speed vehicles are not allowed on our main street? Even though the state we can whole township has, it's a state rule that it has to be 25 miles or less. Yes. Right. I realize that, but I'm saying, can we ban them from our streets even though it's a
statewide highway, but you said yes. So, okay. Oh, that's good. But yeah, right. And and most of these low-speed vehicles only go 25 miles an hour. So, if someone's doing 30, they're obstructing the road and like Dave said, very dangerous. I agree.
Lavallet has banned them. Uh, Strapford Township, Little Silver. So, it's been done in New Jersey. Um they belong in lake communities or uh retirement villages, not on uh busy Mammoth County roads. Thank you. Thank you again for
uh Okay, seeing Oh, I'm sorry. I mean, she is from 124th Avenue regarding speed limit. I would like to see it reduced all over town. I mean, we have people and I've discussed this numerous times. They come flying down
from stop sign all the way down all the way down to Ocean Avenue. And just like that gentleman is concerned about a fatal accident, I'm petrified. And I don't know what has to happen. And
I just wish we could have a lower speed limit. And I know the police do their job to try to catch the people, but it's hard once they get once they get from that stop sign. It's a dead run right
down to Ocean Avenue. So, and I know I lived in Hopeville Township before, and I know I brought this up before, Pennington. When you drive through Pennington, you don't dare go over 25 miles an hour. Even if you're invited to
a a party in invention, the host and the hostess will write on the invitation, "Do not speed through town. You will get a ticket." So, it can be done. And I'm not criticizing anybody, but I plead for
us to do something about the speed all over town. I'd hate to see somebody serious. Anybody else? John, to answer your question, uh there is actually a statute you can prohibit on any local uh county or uh state roadway in your
municipality. So, you could ban them outright if you'd like if you want. Okay. Thank I just want to say, you know, on the whole thing, thank you, mayor, for talking to the neighboring towns. That's just what won me over. you know, the three towns in between the other two
other 25 mph towns want it. So, that seems like uh really common sense. And I should have said it was not just the mayors of those towns, it was the chiefs of police of those that we are all in agreement. And uh so if there are no
more comments, we can close our workshops and move on to item seven on the agenda, which is a Junth proclamation. Thank you, Ben. Thanks. Uh, Councilwoman Greenblat, would you do the honors? I'd be happy to. Thank you.
Whereas Junth, also known as Emancipation Day, is the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of enslavement in America. And whereas Junth is a day of reflection, a day of renewal, a pridefilled day, it is a moment in time taken to appreciate the
progress and contributions made by the afric African-Americans to this society. And whereas Junth is inclusive of all races, ethnicities, and nationalities, recognized by Americans everywhere as a symbolic milestone in our journey toward
a more perfect union. And whereas it is a day where we take one step closer together to better utilize the energy wasted on racism, Junth is a day that we pray for peace and liberty for all a celebration of freedom. Now therefore,
be it resolved by the mayor and council of the burrow of Bradley Beach to hereby proclaim Thursday, June 19th, 2025 as Junth in the Burrow of Bradley Beach and encourage all citizens, young and old, to pay tribute to the journey, embrace
the past as well as the future that unity, respect, and appreciation brings. Dated the fifth day of June 2025. Thank you very much. Moving on to item eight on the agenda, approval of minutes. I'll make a motion that we
adopt the minutes for May 20, 2025 council business meeting. Second. Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Noiki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Kubzi, yes. Uh, now item nine on the agenda, we'll open it up to public comments or
questions specifically pertaining to this agenda. Yes. Greetings. Um, and just go back to the speed limit. When somebody enters the town, it would be good to have signs that say speed limit strictly enforced because I
really do think that opens people's eyes. So, we're going to do it. And I and also I think going back to what Eileen was saying, those kinds of signs were throughout town. There's an expense to that, but I do think it works because works for me. I see that sign like this
must be one of those tasks, right, that we sort of run through. Um, why don't you go back to the budget thing and uh the $380,000 um mistake that was uh
corrected and um acknowledged and we appreciate that it was acknowledged. In simplest terms, I just worry about what the public thinks and the people that I find myself intermingling with and people are going to make some kind of a big deal out of that. That is my
concern. Um, in simplest terms, is it that if we sell the properties and we get say $4 million, then that's a good thing for the town. people are still questioning why didn't we do the um public housing
or the the what is it called again affordable housing fair um so I still hear that rumbling in town but the thing that I always say is that yeah we sell it for4 million and ongoing we're going to get the taxes on those
properties which at minimum I would think is going to be $15,000 per property which we don't have right now so is that something that in the future It's going to help with our budget even though there will be a increase this year but going into follow
that is a positive for our town. So obviously costs go up in general but it I guess I'm just trying to understand in simplest terms that we can count on that revenue. Now, you were talking about onetime revenue, onetime demolition cost, one time $4 million, but now we
get the ongoing revenue of the taxes, which we didn't have before. Is that a fair thing? That's correct. Although your your $15,000 isn't that, right? It probably is, but but we don't get all that. That's Oh, that's probably gets 40. Okay. So, how
much do we get? which helps set our if the propertyy's worth, you know, two million and it should be worth or possibly, right? Let's say because the math is relatively easy, let's say it's let's say it's 25 million. That's really easy math. Then we got a 22.5 million.
Yeah. Then we've got a $10 million of ratables. Let's say we're we're a little below 1% total. 1% of 10 million is is uh sorry of 1% is what? 100,000. And of that 100,000 we would get roughly 40%.
So we would get roughly 40,000 roughly 10,000 per property roughly. And that we can start to count on year after year. Yeah. But the other reference you made because people have brought this up before the affordable housing component. We really didn't have the opportunity to
consider creating affordable housing was to give away one of those four lots. that would have cost the bureau the value of $1 million roughly could be 900 800,000 could be 1.1 and the ongoing tax
and with the loss of tax ratables because it would have indeed restricted for 30 years and with the bureau's obligation to contribute roughly $150,000 per unit. It would have it would have cost the burough roughly $2 million uh to to generate three units.
and our professionals at the time said that did not make sense. It wasn't necessary. Anyway, just the finances of it, I'm trying to bring it down to simplest. Yes. So, and then speaking of finances, I don't know if I'm allowed to ask this. I see it on the agenda. I know there's an executive session tonight.
I'm not familiar with Hington Kingston versus Bradley. Are you allowed to tell us high level what that lawsuit is about? Bill, can I ask you? Because we have to pay for it. lawyer fees whatever the ongoing
litigation you know what the topic is like who is this Kingston suing for something we're going to follow our attorney's guidance okay that's a new name for me but I don't know it's not new
it's not new but it hasn't been no this is I don't know people's names yeah it's okay and what was the one uh ordinance a new table for parking. We were going to restrict the entire parking the the the parking lot
to the north of this building. Yeah. For employees. It's going to be for employees and we're still and and there's push back from residents, push back from business owners um uh you know to to create some parking for their businesses. So we don't have solutions
yet, but we're trying to give it more time. I just hadn't heard what you table Mr. Thanks Jim. I'd like to speak in support of resolution 2025 211. this resolution which addresses
solicitation of proposals with a financial analysis of our student. This is this resolution is consistent with the um recommendation made at a
workshop on March 28th, 2024 where Scott became um an attorney with CO had a lot of experience with sales and instances where sales did not go
through a lot of experience with this whole issue of whether or not uh elusive pound could sell their sewer infrastructure. as a workshop. He made a neutral presentation where discussed the pros and the cons of selling or not
selling. And based on his experience and knowing what we have done so far with respect to the U probably going back to 2019 with the um uh with the R and I did
in conjunction with the strategic plan that his recommendation was we should do exactly what's in this resolution that we should as a bureau have a financial analysis done that would among other things tell us
what is the value of our sewer infrastructure if we were to sell it. He was not saying sell it. He was saying due diligence is we should be evaluating it. So with that I'm pleased to support this
resolution. Thank you. Any other comments about today's agenda? Yes, sir. Mr. H. Uh Thomas J. Joanne 6123rd Avenue. I'd like you know the comments that that we've heard from the public about 319
Lraine is that we really need to determine and we will very shortly what the net benefit is going to be financially and I'm hoping that when the auction takes place in this room that everybody can see what it's going to be. it'll be totally transparent and then we
can do a presentation on uh the outstanding bonding and expenses that'll get so we can really come up with a number um as that applies to affordable housing. I would hope that this council uh if that number is a successful number
um voluminous money I hope um is that we could make a donation to the affordable housing trust fund which would has beenow due to the previous two administrations. So I think that would be a really a good spot for us to but
again we need to determine what the numbers stand. The other thing I'd like to say about the affordable housing is that uh it's these four lots are sold. Anybody building them now that Mayor Gubosi has uh enacted the affordable housing trust fund which was supposed to
be done originally. Um we could generate somewhere about another $40,000 hopefully to the trust fund from that construction on the property. So again, there's there's two affordable housing benefits I think we we can
accomplish here at the same time. Um, I did want to uh to thank you uh for uh bringing up the uh review and proposals for uh the review of the city utility. uh the previous administration, you
know, took meetings with uh utility companies uh in close session which were found to be in proper by the courts. So, I'm just happy that you're doing it the correct way by putting this out to the public. They'll see it. We'll
see what the RFPs come back and then we'll be able to review those documents and and mutually as residents and a council, we can make this as go. Um, also I want to thank you for the uh disposition of salvaging vehicles. Um, I
understand those Segways were in here. I haven't seen those around town in a while, so it would be nice if we could just get those out of the storage shed and bring some money in. And uh, thank you for your followup on the uh, 25 mph speed limit. It's greatly needed and it
will assist us in safety in a lot of ways. uh we're becoming more and more a walking town and uh this will assist. Thank you, Mr. Thank you. Any other comments or questions? Seeing none, I'll close the public
comments. Item nine and move on to item 10, ordinances. We have no uh ordinances for introduction. I we have tabled for adoption ordinance 2025-17. So, we'll move to ordinance
2025-18, which is the ordinance amending chapter 78, personnel policies of the bureau's revised general ordinances to revise the bureau's employee military leave policy. Any questions or comments from the
council? Any questions or comments from the You have to open the public. I have to make a motion to have the uh to have the public comment if if you would like. Is there a motion? I mean, that is the motion. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Rainot. Yes.
Mr. Noiki? Yes. Mr. Weber? Yes. Mayor Guboszi? Can Can I vote? Yes. Then yes. Yes. Are there any public comments or questions? Okay. Seeing none, I'll make a motion to close the public session and
vote to approve ordinance 2025-8 to adopt. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mlet. Yes. Mr. Noiki? Yes. Mr. Weber? Yes. Mayor Gubosi? Yes. Moving to item 11, communications. Um, I'm going to just
flip the order ever so slightly and take the fourth bullet on our agenda, infrastructure projects update, and ask Councilman Noiki to provide a quick update there. Okay. Thank you, mayor. Um, I just wanted to, uh, introduce something that, um, we have been hearing about all the infrastructure that's
going on in town, right, and all these different projects. We have sewer projects, we have prominades, we have Main Street, we have so many different projects, and they affect different parts of our community. Um, and then having a workshop is great. Um, but I started to think about this a little
more comprehensively of what other ways can we be more transparent? How can we engage the public um more you know with further engagement, more communication, more feedback and then I started to think what is our overall process you know or the burough you know and set up
a consistency so that the community would understand what are we doing about these projects how are we what's intended on this communication and how are they going to communicate I'm done um so I I actually um um penned a
document here I I shared it with the mayor and and council and um and so I wanted to introduce it here as well and it basically is the infrastructure communication plan and it basically goes through and it discusses each of the elements that we have at our disposal to
engage and communicate starting with the council and the advisory roles of commissions, task forces and departments and then I have a discussion in here about what exactly what are we looking for? We're looking for these um the um commissions to bring projects. We want
our departments of uh the DPW um or the various commissions to bring the needs of the town uh up through um to the administration and the governor body to consider the needs of the town for as well as the community. Um and then as we start to identify these projects, we
also want to use those groups um to help build consensus like Fletcher Lake meeting with the environmental commission and being able to discuss this and build more consensus around things like what are we doing about the lights um you know and is it the right thing to do for the community. Um and we
start to talk about Main Street, we start to talk about Silver Lake. these become much more um you know complex projects and so it requires more engagement more communication. So we have the council workshops. The council workshops are our great venue. We have our engineer here.
We have the council. It's an opportunity for us as a council to deliberate in front of the public as well as have you come out and speak um to us about your concerns and we can take that information, digest it, feed it back to um the engineer and be able to make um
informed decisions and then I've introduced some new things uh for considerations. um an infrastructure public awareness meeting or IPAs. And the idea of this would be information centers that we would hold either here in this reading room or at the bio
center at the or fire department um in order to be able to have an openhouse on specific projects that would be give a window of time during the week where community members can come who are interested to be able to hear about the project, engage uh note their concerns
or um get educated and provide feedback to the team um about that project. And so that's one thing. So these IPA meetings would be used uh for say our sewer program. It would be used for the civil link program um mainstream. Um so
that information will be out there and be able to be communicated to the overall public and then give that feedback um document it, write it down, and be able to address those um concerns and that information. The the last piece of this um I I coined the term walkabouts. Um,
somebody thought I was from Australia, but I'm not. Um, but the idea of walkabouts, and we just did this recently, and and Councilwoman Greenblat will share our experience um, on that. Um, the idea of a walkabout is that, um, concerned, um, the administration, the
VA, um, council people that we would come or even our Department of Public Works, if appropriate, um, to come around to the community, um, and come to knock on the door, leave a flyer behind. um and that laid out on the chairs um the um 319 Lorraine project on the
demolition that was a flyer that we actually went around knocked on doors um and so that concept of us coming out working for you sharing the information as we receive it what is going on with this project what and have a discussion with of the residents um in the project
area and so that's uh the communication walkabout concept that we're going to um start to do as well these projects and then last the communication tool tools. Um, we have a lot of tools, a lot of technology. Um, some of it's archaic. Um, some of it's in a disarray. It needs
work. Um, but all these infrastructure projects need to be out on our website. Um, timely so that any community member can look up and say, "What's going on with Main Street? What's the update on the Prominade? What's going on at Silven Lake? Um, what are what's our sewer
program? What's the next project on that we're going to be doing sewer work on?" And then updates about what is the status projects. Um so that we have a one spot, one-stop shop of where that information is and what's going on. Um and then we can also use that to
advertise our our walkabouts as well as our u our information infrastructure public awareness meetings. Um so this here is going to get published um I believe we're going to share this out um once we we finalize it. Um, and I just think it's a great way for us to really
truly do our job for you of communicating with you what these projects are and why we're doing them. So, with that, I want to turn it over back to the mayor and and maybe Councilwoman Green. So, so number one, uh, thank you, Councilman. U Councilman
Noiki kind of spearheaded this. I mean, you in so many ways this should have been obvious to us all, but as you mentioned, we have a lot of different ways we could be communicating and at any given time we do any one of those, but but Councilman Noiki kind of helped
us organize our thinking and formulate a process so we can do it all more consistently. Again, it's all in this in the spirit of transparency and making sure we communicate through as many different vehicles as we can. Specifically, uh, I'll give Councilwoman
Greenblat an opportunity to describe our most recent effort. So, thank you, uh, Mayor Gubossi and, uh, Councilman Noiki. Um, you know, we've also recognized that we do have so many infrastructure projects and that there's they're
complicated. There are multiple phases in many cases and it is critical to keep the community involved uh, to get input and so forth. So, uh, I think this is really a wonderful thing. So, we started actually uh this past Tuesday to update
the nearby residents of what to expect in terms of 319 Lraine because that's something that particularly those um who live near the property uh will be mindful of especially as we're coming into the summer months. Uh so we uh
three council uh folk here uh walked around most of the block of Lraine uh I think with the exception of the five and 600 block uh the south the north side of Bridley and the south side of McCabe and the cross streets uh to advise them on
what to expect. So basically at this point uh now and over the next 3 weeks uh the um there will be environmental remediation and pest control that's taking place on the property. That will take about 3 weeks and that takes us to
the end of of June. Basically, on or about June 30th, the demolition process will begin. And again, we're going to circle back with the residents to confirm exactly when the demolition is going to start, whether it's June 30th or July 2nd or whatever, so everyone is
is fully aware. Um the demo actually the physical demo likely will be about a two to six day process some thereabouts and removal of all the debris, removal of all of the uh elements of the the structure. Uh and and that will that
will probably also be about a three-week process from the beginning of the actual demo to uh the grading the top soil and the seating. Uh so and then that should be completed sometime toward um latter
July and then uh by August certainly we hope to go into a situation where we're auctioning auctioning the properties. Um the uh there's the this is a one sheet that we had uh shared um anformational
one sheet and this is really how we're going to be going forward um with the other projects that are going on uh where the council is going to be engaged in communicating with the residents. Um so uh in terms of uh the asbestous
removal and the pest control, it's all by state standards um and burough engineer oversight. Um there's uh the the there's a dust control element um v via a water application. All of this information I believe is on the website
or it's being posted. It's being posted today or tomorrow. Um the road and sidewalk will remain opened. Uh it's, you know, people are encouraged to use the other side of the street just because it's a little bit further away, but the road will remain open during
this process. Um, it's recommended with any demolition, um, you might want to close your windows if you're right near the building during the actual demolition because there will be some airborne. Um, I think in the case of any demolition that's the case.
Um and uh and that then also the the property will be um uh graded uh so it does not impact the um adjacent uh residents. So it'll be graded uh more to
um to the street of Madison and Lraine. Uh so that's basically it in terms of this process. I'd just like to add if I could. Um it was a great experience walking around. Lorraine and um DJ Jason Street Finn came um and council
president um Denova also joined us and it was it was really a good experience um to and I think the residents really appreciated us taking the initiative to knock on their door and explain to them that what was going on with the demolition, what the status was and that you know um to be aware um and I just
think that was such a just a great experience to do that. I agree. Um, thank you for coming up with this idea. I think a lot of people just want to be in the loop what's happening. They're driving by what's going on and now they have a phone number they can call anytime. Just your phone number, Matt.
And I I share that with everyone, too. And so, they just they they know what's happening. And I think it's it's a nice courtesy. And and I think it's all part of being transparent with everything that's going on. And I appreciate that. And the neighbors really appreciate it, too. So, thank you, Paul.
And thank you Shauna. That was a nice day. It was it was a lot of fun meeting people and Matt was with us also and Matt. Yes. Thank you Matt. That was who signed all the difficult houses. He did the same. And just to show you that no
communication process is perfect. Someone I won't say who was chastised for handing out paper. So that happens you. Yeah. Some people emails. Yeah. But we're trying. That's the message here. Um okay so moving through communications
um I will provide a couple of quick financial updates. One um I spoke in the very beginning of this year January of this year about the idea of establishing task forces and we're launching the first of those task forces tonight. Uh
I'm I'm very happy to announce that we have roughly eight one two three four five six seven eight U members of the community who have volunteered to serve on our financial task force and and I'll read those names quickly. We have it in
a memo to the to the burough council. JL Warz, Mr. Herb Kenny who is with us tonight. Uh Mr. Larry Bagwell who I don't believe is with us. uh Mike Flynn, Peter Py, Rick Bartal who is with us
tonight, uh Breijit Maguire who is with us tonight, and Carol Casag Grande who is not with us tonight. But interestingly, while I reached out to most of these folks a week ago, Carol confirmed she wanted to be on the task force at 3:30 this morning.
She almost missed the memo. But thank you all for uh for your willingness to volunteer to help the burrow. Uh over the next few days, probably over the weekend, I'll I'll start to provide communication specifically about getting this group together and setting out a strategy for
moving forward. Uh then separately, I just wanted to provide a little more of an update uh financially oriented and that is that on June 18th, our next council meeting, uh the the plan at this moment is to have Mr. Fred Ibanau, who
is a CMFO, certified municipal financial officer, uh, who many of you may recall we hired earlier this year to do a financial look back for us. He's completed his review. He's, um, submitted a draft of his report to me already. He's making some final
adjustments working with our current CFO Janette Larrison and he will present we'll will share that report with the public and he'll be here to to present it in overview fashion and answer any questions anyone might
have that now let me find my place but that concludes uh the the communications and I will move to item 12 on the agenda resolutions. We have the consent agenda and yes, I'd like to
um make if you could vote 2025-200. Can we vote that out separately, please? Yes, we can. Any other comments or requests? Okay, let us uh let's I'll make a motion that we approve the consent agenda
resolutions item 2025-197 through 2025-204 but excluding item 2025-200 to be voted out separately. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mh. Greenblat.
Yes. Mr. Noiki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Kubatosi. Yes. Okay. For item 2025-200, I will recuse myself. I would like to make a motion that we approve item resolution 2025-20.
200 200. Oh, 200. I'm still in January. Okay. 200. Yes. Um, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Green. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubet. Recuse.
Okay. Moving to individual resolutions. Item 2025-205 is a resolution opposing the inclusion of new offshore oil and gas leasing off the coast of New Jersey in the 11th National Outer Continental
Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. I'll make a motion that we approve 2025-205. Second, Mr. Noble? Yes. Mr. Greenblat? Yes. Mr. Nikki? Yes. Mr. clever. I am going to abstain and just explain to
people um I'm working on this for my job and I'm inou with my employer about recusing myself about stuff we're doing but uh I'm actually working to get this resolution passed in many towns in Monouth County. So I just can't vote on it myself here. So stay Mayor Gubzi.
Yes. Item 2025-206206 authorizing the disposition or salvage of vehicles and equipment in the possession of the burrow at auction on govdealss.com and other disposal in accordance with NJSA statute 4A colon
11-36. This is one of a number of items uh requested by our QPA. Can I ask a question or make comment? Um, I read through the types of things that we're going to get rid of and the Segways were on there and the buy the thing like, well, kind of why do we buy them in the
first place? I don't know. You know, I mean, I'm a little concerned if they were like the new kind of fancy thing and we just bought them whereas like bicycles work really good and things like that. So, I hope going forward, if that was a practice in the past, going forward, we just stick with like tried and true things that work and not fancy
new things because after we use them for a few years, we seem to get away from them. So, that's just a an editorial on that. Can I ask a silly question? How many years has Mr. Weber been on the council? What items of jewelry? No, I was going to say only because you were probably on
the council when that was I don't I don't remember, right? I thought the Memorial Day committee purchased this. Oh, that's probably true. That could be. Well, either way, we're getting rid of them from now. So, I just So, apparently they weren't that useful over the long run. So, six years, seven years ago, I think
you're right that they did in 15. Can I ask an even sillier question? What's a segue? You stand up on and you go like this. Oh, okay. Okay. My question was jewelry. What? What is that about? like confiscated jewelry?
No, it's just found property after a certain time period. Okay. Okay. Great. Any other comment or question? I'll make a motion that we approve uh resolution 2025-206 authorizing the disposition or salvage
of vehicles, equipment, jewelry, segways, etc. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Bubosi. Yes. 2025-207 awarding Verizon Business Solutions for Wireless
Telecommunications and Television Services. Uh Bob, any comments or questions, please? I'll make a motion that we approve 2025-207 awarding Verizon business solutions. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Nikki? Yes. Mr.
Weber? Yes. Mayor Gubossi? Yes. 2025-208. authorizing a competitive contracting process for the hiring of a vendor for police extra duty scheduling and processing. My understanding is we've done this for many years. Um we just haven't always officially approved
it. So make sure that we're actually ask Solutions. So the vendor is that sort of like a middle person to our branch. Okay. So that's Yeah. So they'll communicate uh the vendor communicates through them and then they'll communicate to the town. They'll handle
all the money. uh in the process most get some right here and and we have a QPA on steroids by the way this gentleman who's joined us a month or so ago um has been phenomenal so he's really helping us clean up a lot of our
kind of anc what we might have thought was ancillary reporting but he's really getting us in line so um I will motion that we approve 2025-208 authorizing the competitive contracting process process for hiring of a vendor for police extra duty
scheduling and processing. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Green. Yes. Mr. Noiki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Guboszi. Yes. 2025-209. A resolution requesting the New Jersey Department of Transportation to reduce the speed limit on State Route
71 Main Street from 30 to 25 miles hour. Second. Yeah. Mr. Noble. Yeah. Did you make the kind of did Miss Greenblat? Yes. Mr. Niki? Yes. Mr.
Weber? Yes. Mayor Gubetz? Yes. 2025-210 authorizing a memorandum of understanding with Neptune Fire District number two for the temporary provision of fire hose equipment to the Bradley Beach Fire Department. Any comment or
discussion? I'll make a motion that we uh that we approve 2025-210. Second, I don't want to log all the seconds. Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Grievlett, yes. Mr. Noiki, yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubzi. Yes.
2025-211 authorizing solicitation of proposals by a fair and open process for professional financial consulting services to conduct a financial analysis of the burough's sewer utility to establish appropriate connection fees and explore the possibility of
privatizing the burough's sewer utility. Uh comments or discussion? Uh one one comment. Um as you know we are going through uh a process of grant funding for going forward with the entire sewer
replacement continuing that process. Um what is the time frame for this? Will it give us the ability to uh kind of be able to assess um the value? I mean what what is the time frame for this given we're approving this at this point? I I I don't have a specific time frame about
Matt. Uh Matt, I don't know if you did. Well, the council approves us tonight. Then the QPA will go out to bid a few services. Um maybe that's three weeks. Then I'll bring them back in, analyze them, and then the uh council will award
a contract someone to start this uh process. Um how long it'll take them? Uh hopefully no more than a month. come back with what the what the value of the sewer system is. So like a two to three month process
from start to finish going forward. Yeah. Yeah. Which puts us in a good position. I mean we're we're going down the we're going down two different roads to be able to make an informed decision on our sewer system. Yeah. We weren't going to exclude one with the other. So
you're right. It's parallel paths see if they converge or not. uh but and make the best decision. Yeah, it's all uh due diligence. I would just add to that that it's more than just selling the potentially um the value of the system. It also will give us more informed
decisions on what is the investment that we would have to make to improve the system ourselves and compared to somebody else doing that as well as the other impact to the uh DPW and and um workforce that currently is involved uh with the sewer
system here in the town. So it is not just hey it's only willing to pay for the sewer system. It's more complicated than that, but it will help us uh with a better foundation of the investment we need to make and and whether or not we're making the right choices uh to
actually rehabilitate, replace the sewers. We're only 40% done with our sewers at this point. We have another 60% to go and it's it's going to be a load and we are pursuing grant money and looking for um for for design and construction. Uh but again if some if
it's a better decision to sell the system we need to we need to know that before we go down the path too far continue to do exactly that's why that's why I was wondering I mean and I think that the um the technical assistance grant does not require that we
necessarily go if we if we get that and use it that we go forward with the actual um project. I'm just wondering if we can actually take that the analysis that is being done here. Can we actually pay for that through that grant as well and add that
into that grant to actually pay for this? So, I think we should look into that as well, Mayor Matt, because this is actually determining our financial analysis for the replacement of the of the system. So, there may be a way to cover some of this cost perhaps. That'd be great.
Okay. Any further discussion? Seeing no further discussion, I'll I'll make a motion that we approve 2025-211 authorizing the solicitation of proposals for bar and open process for evaluating our sewer system. Second,
Mr. Noble. Yes. Miss Greenblat, yes. Mr. Noiki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Mayor Guboszi, yes. 2025-212 authorizing award for of professional engineering services with CME Associates for the Silven Lake
Bulkhead Development. Uh, Councilman Noi, do you want to just speak briefly to this? Yeah, just uh just to inform everyone on what this is really about. Um, conceptual design had been approved for um the ball cut replacement. This is the grant money uh 3.4 4 million that
DOT has given the burrow last year to replace the um bailing bulkhead from uh Everra on Bradley Boulevard to Madison. Um so the conceptual design was done the CMU was only approved by this council to only do the uh conceptual design. This
will enable us to progress that design uh to the next phase uh in order to um we are required to resolve what it is that we are building here and actually go to contract by April of next year um based on this grant. Uh so it is timely
that we advance the design um and then we're also going to use public information centers uh walkabouts uh to really build that consensus on the final solution and what we're doing at Silven Lake working with the uh lake lake commission. So this will enable CME to
engage and take the next steps. And this is very clearly a procedural uh process we're going through. But what everyone should appreciate is uh it also is reflective of a u a very collaborative effort by uh consisting of
a number of engineering firms, outside adviserss. uh uh Councilman Noiki has kind of taken the lead on behalf of the burrow actually replacing me as the Southern Lake liaison. Uh and I've tried to usher us to this point over the last four or five years. It's exciting to see
us starting to actually make this progress, but people think of this as Bradley Beach's grant, but Bradley Beach is working very collaboratively in terms of uh directing how this money is spent to make sure that any um any uh
modifications done to that bulkhead will not only address Bradley Beach's needs, but will address more broadly the needs of the lake and the and the health of the lake. So, I I'm really excited to see this happening and thank you Paul for taking that lead. Um, I will Well, Paul, would you
like to make a motion on this? I would make a motion to approve um 202511 uh I'm sorry 202512 authorizing award professional engineering services with CMOS with civil link bulkhead development.
Mr. Noble, yes. Miss Greenblat. Yes. Mr. Noiki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Yes, Mayor Gubetz. Yes. Item 2025-213 is the bill list for June 5th. Any comments or questions about the bill list? No questions were answered. Thank you.
I'll make a motion. Great. I'll make the motion to approve 2025-212 I'm sorry-213 bill for June 5th, 2025. Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Greenl, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Yes, Mayor
Gubzi. Yes. For all of you who have been waiting in suspense for 2025-214, we had no biders. So, this was put on the on the agenda because we were waiting for that result. Uh we had no biders for the New York Avenue
concession. Uh uh we are required by law to once again bid do a second RFP. Uh we have folks who have identified interests. It's very likely that we will receive a bid, but but it's no guarantee. If we don't receive a bid on
this second round, we the burough will be free to negotiate with anyone um that you know makes sense for the bureau. So, but at this point in time, uh we we will we will I'll make a motion that we table
2025-214 awarding a bid for Newark Avenue concession. Second, Mr. Noble. Yes. M. Green. Yes. Mr. Noiki. Yes. Mr. Weber. Yes. Mayor Gubetzi. Yes. Item 13, announcements. We have none. Item 14A, the administrative
report. Mr. Gordy. Uh, this in the essence of time, mayor, I'll suspend my 45 minute reporting for the next meeting. For the next meeting. Okay. Thank you. Um, 14thB is mayor and council reports. Uh, I will start with
Councilman Weber. Also, in the interest of time, this is going to be pretty short. One big thing, the environmental commission is doing a we're doing the notweed removal. It's this weekend. It's at the maritime forest. The bring your garden shears. Come help
us remove the invasive plant Japanese knotweed. Fletcher Lake is having clean up that day. So, we thought it'd be a great day to do it. That's Saturday the 7th. It's from 12. Sorry, it's from 10 to 12. So, show up at the Maritime Parks. Bring some garden gloves. bring
some clippers and um we will see people there and that's kind of it. My report. Thank you, sir. Uh Councilwoman Bman, so my first um report will be the Fletcher Lake Commission. There has been no meeting since our last uh council
meeting. And again, just to reiterate, the F Fletcher Lake Commission is doing a cleanup this Saturday, June 7th, 10:00 a.m. to noon. Refreshments will be served. That's right. Um, so and please meet at
the bridge on the Ocean Grove side. Um, many thanks to our Bradley Beach DPW for staining the Fletcher Lake Bridge. The next commission meeting is scheduled for Thursday, June 12th at 6 p.m. The Arts Council uh met Friday, May 30th. Uh the
Arts Council will host this weekend a summer pallet and art exhibit at Posh Real Estate and it runs June 7th to the 14th. An artist reception will be held this Saturday, June 7th, from 4 to 6:00 p.m. Please stop in and support your
local artists exhibition. Sunday, June 8th, the council will present One Sweet Dream Abbey Road and Beyond at 1 p.m. at the Riley Park Bandshell. Arts Council member Olivia Miranda and her dancers will dazzle and entertain with the
inspiration of the Beatles. There will be a book talk launch and a signing event for Bradley Beach author Lorie Kry's newly published Chasing Bruce through the Back Streets and beyond. This also takes place at Posh Real Estate Wednesday, June 11th from 5 to
7:00 p.m. Interested volunteers are specifically invited to attend and get acquainted with the new arts council. The next arts council meeting will be an in-person brainstorming session. Date to be determined. Uh and finally, the rec recreation has not met since our last
meeting. Uh upcoming Father's Day kickball event is scheduled for Friday, June 13th at 6 p.m. at the recreation field. The event is open to all, but participants must register on community pass. Participants get a t-shirt and a meal ticket, and the winning team gets
bragging rights till next year. There'll be music, fun, and other games for family and friends who come to cheer them on. Hot dogs, drinks, and snacks are available for purchase. Summer Rec Camp will have a full house with 155 campers register. Thanks to Courtney
Papus for working so hard to accommodate in excess of 35 campers to an already full program because Bradley Beach does not want to turn anyone away. Onboarding of staff begins June 23rd. Camp begins Monday, June 30th. A reminder about on
ongoing events. The senior club meets June 25th. They will be taking a summer break, but will reconvene in September. They will be meeting in the Byazi Center at noon on the 25th. Summer Botchi League registration opens on June 16th
at 9:00 a.m. Summer League will run from July 8th to August 28th. Be sure to sign up as spots fill quickly. Excuse me. Salted Yoga hosts a full schedule of activities this month. Check the calendar on the WEC web page
for dates. Please go to the rec homepage for details and community pass for registration. The rec board's next meeting is Monday, June 9th, 6:30 p.m. at the rec center. That's my report. Thank you, Council President Jane Denov. I will be as quick as possible as well.
Um, the Bradley Beach Tourism had a meeting on June 3rd. They had a sponsor update. Thank you to Posh Realy, Darcy's Tavern, Mammoth County Tourism, CME, UVA, Ferades, New Jersey American Water, Summertime Ser, and Visit New Jersey as
they all made beautiful donations to the tourism department. They have an amazing lineup for the summer and their trust is currently $86,000. The board event met June 20th. The 8th grade million coin challenge
reached a total goal of $1,000. that's used for the Washington DC trip. They um are very pleased that they got an improvement grant of $88,000 from the Department of Community Affairs in New Jersey and uh they're going to use it to
begin replacing and upgrading their um playground area and particularly to make it more ADA compliant, accessible for all students. We'd also like to thank Senator Ben Gopal, um, Assembly Women Marge Donovan and Lanne Peter Paul for
their support in helping secure the grant. And also, um, Dr. Haidleberg would like me to share that, um, there's an exciting highlight in the news of that New Jersey has officially been ranked number one in the nation for K to8 education. So, Mammoth County
typically ranks first in the state as well. So he said, "If you think about it, we're a strong school in the best county in the best state for education in the country." And that's something we should all be very proud of. One last thing with the Shade Tree had a meeting last night
and they had one application uh 606 4th Avenue. They are removing one tree, but they're planting several trees. Kudos to them. uh their account is currently $15,200 and uh chairman Larry Bagwell
did bring to my attention that they had misallocation of funds dating back to 2023. He shared with me many unanswered emails and uh which led to no explanation where these funds went. I
did share that with uh Mayor Guposi this morning and by 9:08 a.m. we had this in the hands of the our new CFO to investigate and on the list for the new finance committee to analyze as well. So, thank you for that and I hope they
have an answer soon as where those funds went to. And that completes my report. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Paul Nikki. Thank you, Mayor. Our police report. Um, police department made one arrest for an outstanding contempt of court warrant. Officers investigated six
motor vehicle accidents between May 19th and June 1st. All residents are reminded to lock their vehicles and remove their key fobs. Please also remove any valuable items from inside of your vehicle. Uh, with the summer months upon us, um, please also remember to lock
your bicycles and have children wear bicycle helmets. And that even goes for adults. Um, next is the fire department um, report for the month ending on May 31st. The fire department responded to five
day calls, six night calls for a total of 11 calls, four were fire alarm activations, four were carbon monoxide alarms, two were for odor of natural gas, and one was for removal of a dangerous tree limb. The department conducted a live burn training at the
Mammoths County Fire Academy and participated in the annual Memorial Day parade and ceremony in Riley Park. There were two requests for mutual aid from other fire departments. The department fulfilled 100% of our assignments for this operational period. The first aid
report for the operational period uh the squad we responded to 10 day calls. 69 calls for total 16 calls. 12 were for medical, four for fire. The squad conducted one drill for the safety and education of the membership. The squad provided medical overwatch for the tears
foundation walk. Uh the squad participated in the celebration of the Brandy resident as did all of our other uh services um for the who turned 100 years old or and here it says 100 years young. Uh so requested no mutual aid assistance for this operational period.
The squad fulfilled 100% of their assignments for this operational period and we are still looking for volunteers for the first aid. Uh we are offering free training for qualified individuals. Anyone wishing to volunteer for the first aid squad applications can be found on the burough website. Also um
this Saturday is the Bradley Food Pantry pickup. Fire department goes around to throughout the town. Uh please have your donations out um at 9:00 a.m. Um the need for food has grown by over 30% this year. critical need for dry beans, cereal, granola bars, pasta, oil,
feminine hygiene products, diapers, and toiletries. All donations will benefit the brand food pantry. Um, online cash donations are welcomed as well. And then for the Silven Lake Commission, our last meeting, there's a lot of collaboration around the multiple projects that are
being pursued within the lake and um that's a continuing process and so that will um continue on to this next meeting. And then also they're looking to engage the public in one of these public information centers to come out and and share that information of what's being considered alternatives uh for
some of the projects around the lake. That's my report. Thank you, Councilman. Uh my report I'm going to focus on two things to also try to be brief. One is u the Memorial Day weekend that we just experienced and miraculously the weather held up for us. Uh I thought we had a
great parade. We had a a wonderful ceremony. We rec Bradley Beach recognized our 20th fallen hero uh with a new monument. I I don't think we could have had a better weekend. And I want to thank so many people. I'm going to include absolutely the police, our fire
and first aid. Uh many, many Bradley Beach employees. The two that I want to call out, Michelle Wy and Amy Hall, uh did just yman's work getting everything organized for us and getting a lot of the production behind the scenes taken care of. So kudos to them. It just made
me proud to be a resident of this town. Um and then to prove that we don't um spend a lot of time coordinating our presentations, I also want to call out the uh the Bradley Beach food the Bradley food pantry working in conjunction with the BBBCA. as as
Councilman Nikki just mentioned, Saturday, two days from now. Very important to get any donations that you care to make to the food pantry out on your front porch by 9:00 a.m. Uh I won't recite the the full list again, but any
any kind of goods that uh that could help. Uh this the pantry currently serves and I know at at a minimum uh Council President Denobyl is an active volunteer. Uh they currently serve 2400 families a week. Uh that's that's a huge
burden. It's a it's evidence of a huge food crisis. So the more Bradley Beach our residents can do as a community to help that uh event obviously the better and we can all take more pride in that. I also see Julie Nitus in the room and if I recall Julie correctly, it was your
brainchild many years ago to get that first townwide collection process going. So, thank you for your contribution many years ago. And that 9:00 am pickup uh get that food ready will be uh you it'll
be highlighted by uh firet trucks and the ambulances and whatever else we have running their sirens and blowing their horns at 9:00 a.m. So I don't know if the noise ordinance is going to kick in but u but please look for that and and again if you can make donations leave it out visibly on your front porch. And
that concludes my uh my comments. So now we can open it to uh public comments. Anything at all whether or not it's on the agenda. Miss New Titus Julian Titus 605 Avenue. First and foremost, I do want to thank everybody
um for Memorial Weekend. It was just fabulous. All I moved here in 2014. It's like the best weekend ever. um the the band, the Matt Rody band, the crowd, it was like going to the stone homing, you know, it was like standing room only in the back and it just was well done. It really was a great day. And the memorial
service, I don't know how you're going to top yourself because that was just amazing. So, thank you for that. Um I wanted to talk about I know there's like such problems for um New York Avenue for the concession stand and I was just wondering since we really are just
having such problems, it's historically been a problematic narrative. Have we ever thought about just maybe having rotated um food trucks? Um you know, instead of someone having to spend the amount of money that you have to do to secure it, um you know, for the entire
summer, because I I know a lot of the food trucks, you know, they have trouble um you know, making a living. Um so, and it's a lot of money um rightly so. you you do provide the pan and electricity or whatever, but maybe think about just
having ongoing food trucks and and they're rotated and then this way there's no obligation on their part, no obligation kind of on our part, you know, in and out. Um, you know, just a thought. I I think it's a great idea. U obviously the challenge is we want to
have a concession and a vibrant good concession that everybody likes. Um, when you go to popups, it's a lot more scheduling. It's a lot of potential for, you know, hits and misses. People show, don't show. In a perfect world, we have a very wonderful concession in place. If
if no one materializes, we certainly will consider all just an idea just like we've struggled for since I've been here just with with that location. So, just with all Thank you. Thank you. other race and 302 just a couple comments on
the beach. Um people have asked me how come the movie mats are shorter this year. Have they been all laid out or is it just pre-season? Seems on Fourth Avenue they're running
really short. They're less short today than they were yesterday. We we've extended them. I haven't didn't go there today, but yeah, and there's I won't bore us with a lot of detail, but but there were reasons very specific reasons related to the maintenance and the
amount of work involved with DPW and maintaining them. Looking at other um neighboring towns, Avon, uh Spring Lake, Spring Lake, for example, has 22 beach entrances. Five of them have moi mats. The other 19 have nothing. Uh so it was
my branch out to try to cut back the moy mats and and honestly u we've had some residents raise concerns uh checked with Sean heater our our uh beach manager who who daily was was inquiring of our uh
badge checkers and they said they were getting no complaints. But all that said, there were three or four or five fairly vocal voices saying more or less raising the question that you did. Why? Uh and the the short answer was we don't have to cut back as much as we did. So
we've added we've added back now they go beyond the dunes. Okay. It's it's a group of older women that go to the end of the beach and I always say hello to them and they ask me like how come they're so sure and I could see that they need that you know they like that
having that entrance. Okay. The goal by the way on that is just um we have more beach coverage than we did a year ago even before we extended these because of the two handicap areas. The the biggest challenge is, you know, you could get it to a point where you covered the entire
beach with moy mats and then everybody could access. I get it. Um, and then I thought we had I was looking on our website that music cannot be played on the beach. And I don't know if everybody's going to throw eggs at me, but it's really uncomfortable to be on
the beach when somebody is blasting boom boom boom boom. And it's not music that I want to listen to or other people want to listen to, but yet they think it's their party, their space. And I remember a few years ago inquiring about this and I saw that it was listed as one of the rules. I can't find it on the website
anymore. Was that changed? No, no, Chief. Yeah, let's ask Chief, but I think I found an ordinance or something ordinance. It's still It's never been posted on the signs. I notice we have new signs with new rules and it says no
smoking, no smoking dogs, do less harm than the music sign. It's always been on the large sign. It's not. I looked on Fourth Avenue doesn't. So, and that it's I don't know if it's representation of all the other Hold up. I'm not aware. No, no one. It's uncomfortable also to
ask somebody. Sure. Stop playing it. And I can't say, "Well, it says it right as you come on to the beach." Like, I can't I have nothing to back myself up. This is a surprise to me. We're No one authorized removal of that language. I I'll find out what happened, but Chief, your your people are still enforcing
this. I don't want to have to go. If you see a specials, but if you feel uncomfortable, someone might see another police chief years ago told me, "Just call me whenever somebody's making noise on the beach." I'm like, "I don't want to bring
a you know, have to make a phone call. I just wish there was a sign that said it so people who are visiting this town will read it when they come off the beach." And let's remember Miss Mullen has a good track record on signs because you pointed out the other signs like the
going on street and you were right and they picked it right away. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Rick. Ray, you next. Okay. Thank you. While we're talking about the
beach, I have um some issues about the beach lockers. Yeah. So, I moved here about three years ago and immediately signed up for We Locker. I was 15th on the list. This year, I'm still 15th on
the list. Um, I would like to work with someone who would like to work with me. I think there's two issues about beach lockers. The first is who can get a beach locker and the second is how do they get a
beach locker? Now, other towns have uh a smaller audience. They do it for residents only. I get it. There are there's more demand than lockers. And so, when you have more demand than you have lockers, you have to figure out
what you're going to do. To me, that's a, you know, we at one time had it for residents, as I understand it. We opened it up to non-residents. I also understand it's hard to undo sometimes something that you've done. It takes more work, but you got to
do the work sometimes because a lot of people are happy. And at this rate, I don't know if I'll be alive to ever get a locker because of the second issue. The second issue is the procedure or how you get one. There's there's loopholes
in the system where the list is really valueless because people sell their lockers when they sell their houses. There's ways to do it. It's the it would be to me the equivalent of going to
motor vehicle and getting a real ID with no proof of, you know, of ID with not having six points, having one point and So the second problem I think indefinitely be cleared up and there and
there are towns that have ways that they do it. You have to show up in person, you have to show up with your tax bill and you have to show that you are who you are with ID. So you have two forms of ID. I show you my license has
my picture on it. I show you my tax bill so you know it's my tax bill. And that's how you have to get a locker. I again I worked in a company. I know we did a lot of things to outsource to make it easier. It seems like that maybe would be the reason why we moved it to some
system where we kind of outsourced the whole thing and put it to an app. Well, that's allowing the loophole and that's allowing people to circumvent through the process and that's allowing somebody like me to never move down from
15. Paul, do you have what number are you? I know you. I think I'm like I don't know. I'm at the end of the list. I'm way Yeah. So, we live on kind of the same street. Maybe you're Maybe you're in the 20s, but so, you know, so again, I don't want to dump the problem. I I
called a bunch of towns uh to find out what they do. I kind of have a little bit of insight. Um there was a the other attorney that's usually here said, "Oh, we can't do it." But that's really not true because towns do have residents
only and towns do have ways where you show up in person to to to prove who you are. I think those are the two things that have to be done. Um so that's my request. Um I'll be happy to work with
somebody on it if I can get the bottom of the list before I die. There's a a few things going on here. Do you do you remember which towns do residents only? Um I I don't remember but I called a bunch of towns. I called Long Branch. I
called Sebrite. I called uh Belmar. I called Seagurt. I you know had to go and show who you are. Yeah. Most people most people have the second
part figured out. the second part figured out where you have to prove who you are. They you know like as you would when you get a license or you know when you go for your real ID I just if you just let me know which towns have residents only we'll
contact them tomorrow. Yeah. I mean but it's a question of you have to have the will to do it. Right. Well I have the will to do it. Just let me know. We do have the will to do it. The second part is premised on the first part. You can't uh demand a license if you don't demand
that it's residents only. So, first we have to find out can we do residence only. We've been told by the lawyers as you just mentioned that we cannot that homeowners only. No, we are told that we are we are custodians of the beach or
the state of New Jersey and we get to charge people to use there. So, we are the custodians but we cannot give Bradley Beach residents preferential treatment. That's what we've been told. I made a note. We're going to get the attorney's official opinion on this. So, I'm not going to put you on the spot. We
probably need to do a little research. But if we can get to that point that we can limit it to Bradley Beach residents, that would that would cure a lot of bills and then it's to your point easy to just demand identification. But but we would have to still do number two
without number one. We would still have to make a decision. You don't have to be a resident if we That's how you have to close the loophole. See, right now what's happening is if I decide to move and you and you were out of town and you bought my house, I could transfer my locker to you. We we have inner orders.
You cannot sell. Yeah, we just you could say whatever you want, but people are doing it. So, how do we catch these people? Because they're not If you could let us know who it is, we'll How do they do that in community pass? Because I get a lot because they do it because all they have to do is change
their email address. We have we have list of names that are on community pass. So we should be able to look if if this you know person had this uh email address last year and anybody that changes their email address that we should be able to compare to last year
and just say is this the same person make those people come in and you'd have to audit all 600 blockers every year. Well no I think only the ones where the email address changed from year to year guys. There's no way we're policing this as best we can. Michelle Wy, I talked to
her almost daily now and she's catching people who are doing what you're saying now. Are we catching everybody? No. But we ordinance that says you cannot sublet. You will lose this license. So what we don't say yet is residents only. But but we're doing everything we can.
Checking a person's driver's license. As Councilman Weber said, we don't even need the license. Tax bill driver. You could have two homes. Yeah. So people who own homes here like they might have they might only come here for the summer bill they pay the same taxes as I do.
Right. But so we would have to make the philosophical decision of do we want residents only because that is their bill. Right. So that that's that's a different thing. I'm more concerned with people transferring it when they're not too. There are one more thing I'm really concerned is there really zero movement
in our if you list so literally zero people every year give up their locker and so there's no movement on very beach some some beaches move some don't but you're right it's a lengthy process some residents have moved within Brady
Beach and they can't get a new locker where they they are currently living they have to use their old locker, different location. So there's no consideration whatsoever for the residents. And I remember back in the
day when you went I'm sorry. But you said none none whatsoever. That's really strong. Like that's really I mean that's actually not true. I'm aware of one resident that just had to switch for that very reason. Okay. But that has been a lifetime. That has been a
longterm problem in town. When you talked about coming in person, I remember when you would go out, you would wait in the middle of the winter to get our our locker registration. A majority of the people
who were there at 7:00 in the morning were non-residents. If we allow them to do that, then they're just doing what's right. We can't charge different fees. I'm just saying charging. I'm saying doing
something for the home homes for the residents to have a locker, but first accommodate the residents. Eileen, the law might not allow that. Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to move on. come back and get it. But we
cannot I can't we cannot give out we can't give discounts to veterans unless we give it to all veterans in New Jersey. We can't give discounts to school children other than what's ordinance. But it's all school children.
We can't do it for Bradley Beach. We cannot accommodate residents alone unless our lawyers tell us we can. And since I've been on council, we have not been able to distinguish between residents and non-residents.
Other they are who they are. So people aren't just saying, "Oh, just go on to my community pass, give me the money, and you can have my law." Yeah. Right. Michelle's doing They should make the person come in person to to claim that they We get all kinds of things and
Michelle catches a handful of people doing just that. but to make every single person come in. People scream because they can't log in. And one other quick comment that in some towns is res non-residents pay more than
residents. Again, we're gonna we're going to move off right because that's not the law as we understand it. But Rick, Mr. Bartal, we will get back to you though specifically on that issue of law. Rick Bartow 116 Newton the newer
concession I'm sure you may have thought of thought about this but consideration of reducing the fee that you want to charge right now it's at 25,000 I think since the season has progressed that it
would probably make it more attractive if you lowered it substantially I'm not going to give you a number to lower it but I know last year I think it was over 30 uh when the ice cream blading was there. But I think at 25, I remember what the license is
now, and I think you should remove it, uh, lessen it considerably. I think you get a lot more biders because obviously the 25 didn't work. That's my comment. That's a good point. Thank you. Anyone else with comments or questions?
Anyone online? Oh, there's somebody. Dave. Dave. Yes, Dave. Hello. Yes. Can you hear me? Yes. Yeah. So, um, one quick thing. Uh, if you travel on Evergreen eastbound, I think the, uh, the oneway sign Oh. Uh,
uh, 3043rd. Thank you. Okay. Um, when you travel on Evergreen eastbound, the sign, the oneway sign at Hamilton needs to come out to the corner. Uh, it's set back too far and, uh, cars will be making that left to go northbound when it's a oneway
southbound. Um, and that's the way that the cars on second are forced to go. So, um, I also think there should be a no left turn on the south, uh, south side of, uh, Evergreen. That's all. What was it? What was that corner again? Hamilton. It's
the corner of Evergreen and Hamilton. Right. And then, uh, the oneway sign needs to come out further to the corner. So, as you're traveling eastbound, you can actually see the one-way sign before you actually commit to the turn. It's set back too far. It needs to come out
to the corner like it is at on Fletcher, which is a oneway northbound, which doesn't make sense, but that's It needs to come out to the corner. So, you see it. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Seeing no other hands raised,
uh I will close public session. Um the public comments and move to the next item on our agenda, which I think is executive session. Session. Yes. in session. Yes. Yes, we are. So, moving to execut we have to retire to executive
session. Mr. Noble, yes. Mlet, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. Mr. Weber, yes. Yes. Thank you everyone. Thanks all.