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America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all I wish to announce that the 48 hour notice is required under the open public meetings Act was emailed to the Asbury Park Press
the co-star and the new coaster on December the 19th of 2024 that a copy has been placed on the bulletin board in the 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
uh Zoom the zoom portion of this meeting fails or is disconnected the inperson meeting will continue and action can and will be taken provided that there is an inperson quum miss sble here M uh greenl here Mr nki here Mr
Weber here mayor GB here okay uh welcome everybody it's good to see you all and the weather's starting to break for so that's a nice addition um we're going to start the evening with workshops if you're looking at your agenda we have three workshops
planned one the recreation center improvements we will not hold this evening um just because our engineer Ben m is still working through some of the details before we can share them with the public um and then we're going to go just slightly out of order and ask our
burough planner Miss Jen beam to uh present a workshop on portable hous would you like me um is that good right there good evening everybody um so I'm not sure how far back you would like me to go but um as you recall
we kind of started this process last year the year before and then stopped it somewhere around mid year understanding that the fourth round was going to start come January 1st which happened legislation was passed last year in October the DCA released every
municipality's obligation uh with the understanding that each municipality had to adopt a resolution by the end of January either accepting dca's number or or rejecting it with an analysis to determine what the
municipalities felt was their accurate number that happened we did all of our filings the resolution was approved by you and a declaratory judgment action was filed I'm think by Ron pacero who's our affordable housing attorney so that was all done in time and uh in
accordance with the legislation February was the month where anyone who wanted to challenge or oppose any given municipality's position had to file an objection during the month of February so we were kind of in a holding
pattern waiting to see if anybody were going to was going to object to our numbers no objection to bradle Beach's position was file so that just terminated uh the end of February what's been happening now not having specifically to do with
Bradley Beach is all of those municipalities of which there were 159 filed challenges to the dca's number and they've been frantically working with what they call the program which is what's administering the affordable
housing project this time around in what they call dispute resolution dispute resolution takes the month of February so as you can imagine 159 mediation sessions throughout the state happening basically at the same time we don't have to worry about that
because nobody challenged us so now we're able to start what they call our compliance phase which is where we evaluate uh the burrow I mean we really just did this exercise a year ago part of the regulatory requirements and
regulations allow municipalities such as Bradley Beach to use what we call a vacant land adjustment when you don't have tremendous developable land you provide a court uh uh appointed adjudicator who's a planner who basically works for the judge as well as
a representative of fair share housing center who's an advocate like advocacy group for loow to modered income households and you work through at any given municipality and you're able to adjust the number from what was assigned by the DCA to something that quite
frankly is more manageable when we did this last year the number came out to be 13 I anticipate that is going going to be consistent this year what the DCA has assigned us are a couple of different numbers and I've heard a lot of numbers
being branded about present need equals Rehabilitation not new construction rehab our rehab obligation is 64 that is a program that we will enter into with the county that would manage
any Rehabilitation of of households that are low to moderate income they're given a fixed amount of money which you will determine as we go through the compliance phase of this if they stay in the structure for 10 years it's forgiven
as if it was a gift if the if they move leave within the 10year period they have to pay back the money to the trust fund so that's 64 that's separate our new construction obligation has been determined now there's a lot of fighting about this going on right now but
basically fair share evaluated the entire state of New Jersey and calculated out a Statewide need they then allocated that into regions we are in region four which is Mammoth County
Ocean County Mercer County so Our obligation what they're saying Our obligation is I don't think all the towns are really 100% agreeing with this but it is what we have which is 13, 822 affordable housing units throughout the region and then based upon a formula
where there are three factors one is a non-residential valuation factor which the DCA evaluated based on um assessment data Statewide there's an income Factor not quite sure how that that calculated
and then there's a land capacity Factor all three of those factors are in the form of percentages and they're average to give us an average allocation factor that is that average allocation contractor is multiplied by the
13,820 number to get us to the 30 it is very important to note that our land capacity Factor was zero so the state recognizes that Bradley Beach has zero developable land so anticipating a
vacant land adjustment is absolutely what both whoever our court appointed adjudicator will be I'm assuming it will be Mary Beth lonigan because she was our adjudicator the last time but I don't know that for a fact um and I don't know which judge from the program is going to
be assigned to us because they're all retired judges and they're not specifically based on geography all this has been happening virtually so we were we filed in January we waited out February and now we're able to start the compliance most of the
work on the vacant land adjustment actually all the work on the vacant land adjustment is done because we did it last year so it's just a math uh a matter of of figuring out how we can comply with that 13 unit what they call
RDP realistic development potential that's the number that comes out of the vacant land adjustment which I'm anticipating to be 13 the balance of it goes into what they call unmet need unmet need has to be addressed through zoning techniques so there will be a
mandatory settis side ordinance across the entire buau which says if a project is approved at five or more units 20% have to be affordable if it's approved it's an obligation to approve it um there will have to be an evaluation of
the gbw zoning which provides for affordable housing my guess is that it's going to have to be expanded a little bit probably to the municipal boundary line but I'm confident that they will stay along Main Street we W not going to be pushing into maybe some of the
properties between Main Street and the tracks might why wind up getting included in the overlay but definitely not East into you know the single family neighborhoods but that's all through compliance that has to be done and approved first by the planning board and
then by you by June 30th and submitted back to the program so we have from now till June to get this done and I know it's a variety of things that have been discussed at how we would um meet the obligation but nothing has been solidified but that's kind of where we are so
comparatively we are in excellent shape Statewide I have no doubt that we'll be able to get all this done and to the state before the June 30th deadline question questions I have thank you thank you very much
appreciate it uh of the 159 municipalities that filed challenges did any of them do it because they thought that their numbers were too low because they wanted to provide more okay just checking no and then um what was the name of the phase you said we're in now like February's done compliance
compliance pH okay and um so I I think I asked you this but just for some clarity that rehab thing you say it's run by the county the the municipality the county has a program so most towns in mouth County just enter into the County's
program um which handles rehabilitation throughout the entire moms County so we agree to become a participant in that program we have you're going to need to prepare what they call a spending plan which is based upon a projection of
Revenue into our uh trust fund and then you know the minimum in the regs for Rehab is 10,000 a unit that's a pretty old number I'm not going to lie that was probably in the round one most towns project between 25 and 35,000 and this
is not like and like put an addition on a house this is to like fix a roof fix Windows swap out a hot water heater something to bring the property into compliance um and they have to be income qualified do they have to be out of compliance in some way can it be purely
Aesthetics like all this doesn't look so good they need new siding but I think you could probably get siding included but you know just like spiffing up a property is probably not going to qualify okay and then I was reading somewhere the state had defined these
properties for for Rehab like they said that these have to be properties that don't have proper Plumbing or full kitchen facilities right it kind of didn't make sense because well there's no place like that you know no place in BR Beach that has doesn't have full kitchen facilities or like running water and full bathrooms and stuff like that
so I wasn't sure to applied I mean happy to leave the number of the number but well what what we can do during compliance and and I have seen this in a number of the mediations that the present need or the rehab number is not being like adjudicated now just the new construction number the present need or
the rehab there is a mechanism it's called the windshield survey where people will go up and down every street and take notice of properties that could potentially qualify so a perfect example is take I work for Union Beach as well
Union Beach basically is brand new because the entirety of the burough was destroyed in Sandy so pretty much every structure in Union Beach is brand new and they have a rehab obligation so they're going to do a windshield survey and prove that they don't have this deteriorate how to sing stock and try to
adjust the rehab obligation down from there and the reason that that's important is that you have to earmark even if you don't spend it you have to earmark money for this program so if you have a lower number because the reality is let's say 50% you're at 32 you know
earmarking money for 32 rehabs versus 64 rehabs is a significant amount of money when you're talking 20 $30,000 a year and it's over 10 years over 10 years this this period goes to 2035 it's some it's a county program but it's some of our money it's a mix it's yes okay uh
and then I hear you about the windshield survey but I'm wondering if it makes more sense if we're really looking for substandard housing that housing is out of compliance with our code like shouldn't there be some kind of interaction with the code they just call that that's what it's just called but then you definitely can talk to code
construction and and do it that way absolutely okay great thank you very much you're welcome so I'm just raising up a bigger level question you mentioned 159 lawsuits in state and we're in zone four so my
question is if those lawsuits actually go through wouldn't that potentially affect the redistribution Statewide that could then affect the number this is a big dispute happening right now so this is what happened 159 challenges to the
number were filed fair share housing center evaluated all the challenges and determined that if every town was successful in reducing their number to what they say it should be we were going to be short 13,000 low moderate income housing units Statewide and there would
be some reallocation what they did do is they only reallocated to the towns that challenged the number kind of as like a punishment however in my I've been doing this now for a week and a half which is you know it started last Monday at 9:00 a.m. every single Town that's settled
and a lot have settled have not gotten that reallocation so I think that even if and I think it's a very small if something were to happen we would get reallocated units we'd still be at 13 anyway because we would adjust the number down during the V land adjustment
so we would still be in the same position the second question is um you would tag on to the county program theoretically right so does the county administer this program so you know they have the the workforce to do that and that goes from the homeowner application
to the county comes through US comes through us so we still have to administer that de restrictions you're going to have to hire an administrative agent that's a requirement they're going to they're going to administer not only the rehab program on the on the bu's behalf but any income eligibility
criteria affirmative marketing for the new construction units as well make sure the deed restrictions are correct uh individuals are placed correctly in the units if you have you know four individuals in your family you don't get placed in a one-bedroom unit you know so they handle that and they coordinate
with the county what the county brings to the table is they have a list of approved vendors like contractors that are authorized to do this work so it's a kind of a combination of your administrative agent and um and the county program I will tell you in a
community like this I don't think you're going to wind up getting a ton of rehab units because I don't feel you you not a lot of your properties would wind up being income qualified you know what I mean the the it's too valuable so what I found is you have to plan for it you
have to earmark money for it but in many instances maybe you get a handful do I think you would get 64 absolutely not so my third question completely one last one um probably have 100 but the third one would be so 64 units just thinking
about the money that we would have to have in trust ultimately um to fund this at a minimum that would be 10,000 unit which is the minimum at 64 so $640,000 so what happens with the spending plan is this I have to project over the
10-year period how much money you're going to take in and what that's from is from your development fee ordinance which is any commercial development has to pay 2 and a half% of their equalized assess value into the trust fund any residential structure is 1 and a half% of the equalized assess and how it works
is that so let's say you put an addition on your home it's only on the difference in your assessment does that fee go onto but then over time you know the money accumulates and then you also have to do an expenditure projection rehab you have to do 30% of whatever your balance is
has to be in affordability assistance even though to buy down a mortgage here to make it affordable would probably wipe out all the money in one house um and you have to you can uh allocate up to 20% for administrative fees so like for me for Ron uh the courtmaster which
or adjudicator now that that we are going to be responsible for paying her bills um that comes out of that administrative feate so we project it right so yeah tell I try to work with construction to see okay how many
building permits were pulled for the past couple years and to project out how much I think you know we're going to bring in but it is a real guest game and it's very unusual for a a community to not amend that spending plan multiple
times because if you front let's say you come up with a very cool idea Spring Lake bought the old well Argo building and the downstairs is going to be a restaurant and the upstairs is going to be three affordable units they were able to use money out of the trust fund to
pay for half the purchase price and then the fit out for the residential came out of the trust fund but we had to go back to the court and get their permission which they gave but so it's not uncommon to to amend it it's not like I do it now and you're stuck with it for 10 years you can amend it at any time thank you
so much um so with regard to the um uh the rehabs yeah we have we still have a fair number of rental units within Bradley Beach not just you know homeowners um homeowners who either rent out uh
secondary structures or multiunit so how does the Rehab work with that you there through the county program there's there's a rental rehab component and an ownership rehab component so it's a little bit more cumbersome because the property owner and the Tenant both have
to be involved if the property owner is fixing up their structure the tenants are not involved but if it's a let's say it's a townhouse that's that's a rental and like there needs to be new windows or a new hot water heater in one of the
townhouse units in a string and it's the so it to be perfectly fair I don't get involved in the administration the details in the administration of the rehab program program because it runs through the county and it's just there's enough we have to do to you know we basically send that over to them and
they handle it all I mean in many cases it could be uh landlords who have means but are not doing you know keeping up they would not qualify they wouldn't qualif and the other question I have is I think it was at our last or or prior council meeting we came up with a number
of negative s on new where what was that number from I have no idea where that number came from there's no you can't have negative well with the credits toward I think there was an exercise you might have got through with Mr dordy where you so so they've changed the
structure of the bonus from last three Cycles you no longer get two for one credit for rental units there's different there's different bonus structures one is proximity to mass transportation so given the fact that a lot you know were focused on Main Street
you know you're really close to the train station I think you qualify that's a half a credit um per unit bonus so if you were to get four units you would get six credits there's also some Oxford
houses that are located here in Bradley which we were not able to take credit for in Prior rounds because they're not licensed by the state and um but the legislation has changed that disposition and you would get credit per bedroom and in support of needs housing you get a
bonus credit per bedroom so I think what did we say there were 12 beds in those two homes so you would get um 24 credits plus whatever so if the number's 13 um you would have Surplus for
following round so I think it's never was never a negative I think it was probably you had x amount of surplus credits that we didn't need for this round that you can carry forward to Future rounds related to the officer whatever whichever units are they are and and meeting
question meeting that 13 we still have that obligation but we were in our minds there's at least agreements or verbal agreements to build some here and some there right and get so that's how so I think like the the hard units I mean I think the court will be happy that there
are some hard units involved in the compliance plan and then the Oxford units will be the bridge the gap and give us whatever Surplus I think that's how the the court will wind up looking at it that was one of my questions I know we're exceeding our requirements and I
if we could carry into the next round okay okay great so Miss B just a couple more quick questions uh you mentioned the 10year plan we have and that it can be revised many times but the deadline for initial submission June 30 yes um
how does that happen between now and June 30 so it gets adopted by your planning board as if it's an element of your master plan so it has to be noticed 10 days in advance there is a public hearing before the planning board on the Implement on the compliance plan the housing element and fair share plan it's
part of your master plan it then then the uh endorsement comes from from you and the reason that this is the only element of the master plan that comes to the governing body for any kind of action is because there's that spending plan in there and you're the only one
that can authorize the expenditure of money so it comes to you to say we agree with the plan and the spending plan is appendix in the document you endorse it and then it gets submitted I 100% not sure if it gets submitted specifically
to the Mount Laurel judge which is Judge Jones here or it goes to the program I think it's still a little fuzzy because people aren't really 100% sure how this is going to work but it gets submitted and then any Builder developer whomever interested party has the summer to take
a look and potentially object um you'll have a pretty good idea on what's how that's going to look before because of my guess is theyd be at the planning board and at council meeting so and then um once that process is complete and all the documentation has been signed off on you would wind up getting a judgment of
repose I think that's what it's still called right a judgment of repose you think um and compliance and compliance for a period of 10 years and then you'd be you would be protected and immune from any Builder remedy lawsuit having to do with affordable housing until 2035
when the next round starts and who knows what that's going to look like now you mentioned that U we'll have this 10year plan you personally will be evaluating our current ordinances and Trust balances me the court adjudicator and fair share all have to ultimately
similar to what we were working towards in the last go around we're working towards a settlement with fair share housing center on our plan they still have maintained a seat at the table basically but given that we at this point in time have zero funding in our
trust as far as I knowless somebody paid in last week um how will that impact your 10year plan will you not anti you and the others above not anticipate our active participate in Rehabilitation board for example until
such time as we buil the funds so you don't have to do anything until we get like the compliance plan is approved not only not by just by you but by the approves our process there's a hearing where we have to demonstrate that we're
providing a fair opportunity for low to Moder income households in front of the judge once they sign off on it an order is entered usually the municipal affordable housing attorney prepares the order submits it everyone signs it and then then you have to do something but
we don't have to start rehabing anything until the plan's approved because things could change so right now this so because technically and the reason that June 30th is the deadline if you recall the last round started in
July and so this is kind of like the ramp up on an unbelievably aggressive schedule but you know they want to you want to have it in by June 30th so you maintain your immunity while they're reviewing the plan and approving it once
that gets done and you get your judgment uh compliance and Repose you're immune from any lawsuit having to with affordable housing for 10 years so quick question mayor's question so if there's no money in the trust and all of a sudden you say there's no development there's no money
collected whatever reason and here's November and and we're you know in a position of people to start submit an application if there's no money then we can't actually do the so along with endorsing the plan you're going to have to approve a resolution with the intent
to bond so until you get money in the fund if something comes up you're going to have to bond for it I will tell you as you get money in the trust fund and you move forward if there's something big you want to do you can actually Bond against the trust fund but you you have to pass a resolution saying you have an intention
to bond in the event of shortfall the projection of based on history how much money you could potentially um bring in Revenue right so for 2025 the spending plan is going to be for six months right so from July to the end of the year and the balance of the years are going to be
full years until 2035 which which is going to be another 6-month period from January to July 1st if there are no more questions I'd like to Quick you said that we have to administer that program the county rehab program we have to have an administrative agent which is going to
be an outside consultant you're going to need to appoint someone in in for a hall as your Municipal housing Lon they basically direct traffic they don't really have to do anything they just you call her you call him whatever the administrative agent is the one that works with the the physical individuals
the county all of it they handled it on your behalf can we use trust fund money to pay that agent yes once we have trust understand um I'll take the uh the unusual position right now of uh making a motion that we
open up questions for the public because Miss beam will be leaving us I presume after the presentation so show hands are there any questions for Miss please mat second so simple question
sure how many new affordable units is the B of responsible for that so let me just do some quick now so the obligation will be 13 but you're eligible for bonus credits up to 25% of that number which is four so you
need nine but that includes the bedrooms you know like in in in the Oxford House that counts as one so right the conversation that we had yeah we had a number of 13 correct we talked about 811 Main Street
correct that would be a total of six credits that would bring the 13 down to seven correct then we talked about the Oxford houses 12 which would bring it down to five cred five going forward into 2035
correct but you also get bonus credits for house units simple question yeah how many new affordable units is the B I don't really understand what you're asking me I don't understand the question what I'm saying is we have a
number of 13 you can take four bonuses so you need nine units in one way or another if you have Oxford units that goes against the nine you have new construction units goes against the nine so right now on the table that we're evaluating there's proposal for four
affordable units the will we handle with the Oxford House but that's today and that hasn't been decided so like I don't understand the number of units nine units have to be provided I think Mr DH is kind of counting the the oord house the 12 units and you're not yet counting
those yes I am you count the nine yeah but also the ones that you're counting they have to actually get built they're not built right four have to be built four have to be built that's but that's the proposal that we have you don't have to accept that either I mean so I don't want to answer the question until that
we haven't even had a conversation with the governing body 100% on what's going to go in that plan we've had preliminary conversation but we the bottom line is the vacant lande adjustment is going to adjust the number down to 13 we're eligible for four bonus credits so nine
is the number whether it's new construction Oxford House whatever that's the number now let's open up to the I I I'm respectfully what is it that I'm not answering because I can tell new but the it's up to you you don't know yet right
so it's not carving you can get nine new ones they don't say like half half we do so okay we have to come up with nine credits nine units one way or the other okay great I know but you don't necessarily need to come up with nine new units if you have 12 Oxford correct
that would still be accept correct but I I will tell you that there's no way the court is going to accept us satisfying our 100% % of Our obligation with just Oxford House that's why I said the new construction units that are being proposed at 803 Maine that's four plus two bonuses that's six the Oxford houses
will bridge the gap to get to the 13 plus plus you get bonus credits on them as well so the number is going to be higher than 13 we're going to have a number of credits to carry forward to the next round which is I think is where you were
met uh The Sur plus credits at the end of the day we we should be in a position that we've met Our obligation questions from the audience was some was there hand in the back yes oh Mr CS I'll begin with what happened
to the 53 units in round three that Bradley Beach did not do so that would go into our it would be lumped with the 30 new construction units for I'm not not sure the number is 53 but I'll assuming is it gets lumped with the 30
and then gets adjusted down to 13 that's what happens to them so it goes into the unmet mean which is going to beting it or you've got an agreement for fair share housing and DCA to agree to that so we did this last year before we withdrew from the process and DCA and fair share agreed with it the 13 if we
ow from round three that's not ow from round three that's Our obligation now our unmet need will be bigger so the starting number will be higher it'll probably be if you if 53 was a number it's 83 adjusted down to 13 and the balance will be captured as unmet need
with the zoning that I described and the unmet need is 30 the unmet need is 30 minus 13 or if you have the prior round credits quite frankly we would probably have to add round two credits in there as well because we have
never done anything here that goes in our starting point it gets adjusted to 13 that's Our obligation now the balance of it cumulatively becomes the unmet need and it's Satisfied by the zoning my understanding is you have to have an agreement with Oxford House that they're going to do this for 10 years do we have
that agreement not yet because we just got through the initial that's why it's still speculative because we just got through the initial filing waiting to see if a challenge and now we're onto compliance um and this town has never done an assessment to know whether they
have any Rehabilitation housing units at all or not understand this to is totally LAX in understanding that and no one knows whether there are any elderly people who live in this town have lived in it for 50 years and have a
unit that could comply with that but we have no we've asked the question of this town and they don't know the answer to that question because the code officer and everybody else doesn't know even how to answer that question just so you're aware of that we're aware of that
and and following up on that comment U you mentioned earlier about the drive by windshield survey so how is that common do most towns have a thorough inventory I haven't seen it done until now until this round I've seen towns doing it more
and more but I haven't seen it done in the past and if we were to undertake that kind of a process as Mr Weber said beyond just a driveby kind of process that it have to be done through Cod enforcement is that correct I mean I would appreciate code enforcement going went out with one of my guys because they you know on behalf of the town have
the authority to do so that would probably be a good idea okay good thank you other questions I don't understand this Code Enforcement issue because a year or so ago someone called me up and they said
we either have to come into your house or you have to pull up a link on your phone and you have to walk through your house with your phone so somebody was in everybody's house for tax purposes
that's assessment that's I mean right that's assessment and it's different I know it's different but in some cases the the the images the video what's there and not it exists maybe for a different purpose but it
exists I'm guessing that first of all just so everybody knows fifth of the houses 20% of the houses get actually visual inspection either the way you know somebody comes and walks through or the way you describe at the video every year and that's so we have a fair tax assessment you know so in five years
everybody's physically been visited um for proper assessment reasons but I would imagine that what you just said is true if it was they gathered that information for this reason they can't like hand it over to the code AR to see if there's the house is deficient for some
reason I would imagine not I would venture to guess you're correct but I don't know yeah I would also suggest there are some people who are very cryful and maybe don't want people to be looking and being identified so that's you know a barrier but I think part of our compliance plan C I'm long will be
how do we promote this how do we communicate this to the community which will then help people be aware of the program which will then solicit people to come forward and and look to apply so be part of our compliance program absolutely yes let's take a couple more
questions uh Mr C did you start I just aoup so uh if the overlay zones are done in the bo at the north end of town and the op at the south end of town uh that creates the reasonable opportunity to
get us to cover the unmet need plus the mandatory satisfied ordinance yes which is the 20% and you also you already have the DBW which is going to have to be looked at as well perfect and that'll be done by the the land it will will start with us it will get sent to fair share
and the court adjudicator for their review and comment and then we'll come back to us they would then you know it would go into the housing element as a draft implementation of all those things would be done after like after the 30th deadline perfect and then based on the
timeline of the June 30th what should the land use board be looking at in terms of having their meeting they have to wait for the council first no so we I would advis that the first meeting in June either the whole meeting or a good
chunk of the meeting be dedicated to the housing element fair share plan that way if for whatever reason we have to carry it we have another meeting in June before the deadline keeping in mind it has to go back to them before the 30th I think the document has to be done done
before Memorial Day in order to do the noticing get everything done um be able to get to the planning board Lan for my apologies back to the governing body so that it get submitted on the 30th if it doesn't get submitted on time we are stripped of immunity so so so should we
push should we even do it in May then if we can I mean I think we probably can because we don't have any people objecting we just have to wait for the program to focus on those towns that didn't challenge um to give us an adjudicator because we don't we haven't
been assigned them yet so because they're focused on the the legal challenges right now so we start putting everything together but we would need for them to you want a very strong reasonable assumption that they're in
agreement with everything before we do the public hearing okay gra one last question uh in round one where Regional contributions were accepted from Wall Township I mean as I recall that was fairly publicized to The Bradley Beach
Community and um people did get GRS and siding and thing you know so is that something we could do then just promote it internally absolutely okay put on website whatever I don't know if how you like notify people of things you know could have blast we could have you know
maybe if you have Workshop in your L board we could have a minute to talk about it and get the word out for sure thanks so much M Duffy what's the minimum size of each unit that possibly could be one bedroom two bomet they it's it's uh typically a one
bedroom is like 650 700 Square ft a two-bedroom is around 1,100 ft and the three bedroom is closer to 13 so what amount of bedrooms so the uck which is the uniform construction controls they say any affordable
development no more than 20% of the units can be one bedroom so if it's like one 20% is 1.4 one because two would be in excess of to 20% no less than 20% can be threes so you have to have some
threes and the balance are typically twos so it depends on the number of units and how the bedroom distribution and that's only for the affordable units there's no regulatory requirement dictating the bedroom distribution for the market grate units
yes um I understand that if the landlord is of means they don't qualify for the program to fix up their property what is there something else that will
encourage a landlord of means to fix up their property if their property is not in good I mean the fact that they can get free money if they stay on the property for 10 years they could get a25 $30,000 loan to fix up their property and not have to pay back that's an
incentive if you stay in the property for 10 years the loan is Forgiven so you don't have to own stay not the ten corre whoever is a parti in the rehab has to occupy the unit for 10 years or longer to get forgiven the money the tenant has to stay we'll we'll
take one more question death um being early in your comments you mentioned that you um had pulled permits um to review for the purpose of your evaluation like construction
permits and things like that what was it that you mentioned about permits beginning I I'm not sure we don't pull any construction PS at all has something to do with that we basically do a goad I think maybe you referring to what
you would do would be with the construction office SE to to figure out deteriorated housing structure so you oh that or look at you know what in in terms of construction permits to determine to project forward what kind of money is going going to go into the
fund in the future we're going to need to based on like what like so I would say for the past five years how many building permits have been pulled what's the average value of the improvements you know so we could guesstimate what one and a half would be and then you
know use that as a because you know a lot of times you just throw dollars in there and they really want to look for some kind of justification on why we think we're going to get $250,000 in the fun a year we have to have some basis so we do that as a a check to just make sure we're not overc the permits that
been granted over the last several years as like as a how many per year because it's a it's a yearly projection and then get a a general sense of the value and then we can project if it an average
value in increase of 100,000 and you have 10 average per year you know that's a good basis to project the number I was trying to do the same thing I was looking into like prior to the current Administration why we set up the trust and started to collect
the fees right you know over the last since 201 17 and I was trying to determine how much money should we have in our account based on C actively and I was told that um I had to give specific addresses that
it was not possible to determine you know what you know how many new permits new bill permits were issued and so that's why that was my purpose but thank you for clarify that has not been my experience where I needed to provide specific addresses that has not been my experience okay thank you for your clarification all right we uh broke a
lot of our rules to make this was a very important presentation we wanted to give everyone a chance to hear ask questions we do need to move on Miss be thank you very much welcome for joining us tonight thank you very much you and U we will make sure to ask Miss be to join us
again in the in the near future to uh provide us with updates as we go forward um the other Workshop we had planned is a really short one that uh that I will leave but it it's references fallen heroes eligibility criteria and specifically as you all know we have a
World War I Monument the oblisk at R Park seven war heroes died in combat uh names on that Monument we have another 11 on our World War II monument which is over near the rec center of ballfields
there and we also have one uh person who died in so we have a total 19 U recognized fallen heroes already in Bradley Beach U but the question was posed a while ago um what criteria do we
use because there could be an individual for example who moves to Bradley Beach tomorrow and is becomes a resident tomorrow who 20 years ago lost a son or a daughter in the war would that would that person who died be eligible for
Bradley Beach war memorial I think most people would say no there wasn't a connection to Bradley you know at least at that time um so I've done a little bit of research working with that uh the gentleman that we introduced a meeting
or two ago bill bill Duffy or William Duffy and what I wanted to share with the council and then get feedback from from our residents is potential criteria that we could use going forward uh as to whether or not to recognize someone as a Bradley Beach Fallen Hero and and I
think this is important because um you know obviously we all understand the significance of Memorial Day and recognizing men and women who gave their lives in defense of our country um but but it is an important issue to to
differentiate is that a Bradley Beach Bing hero in particular so that we should recognize the criteria I put together and and uh wanted to share with everybody uh are as follows that this that this potential honor was a
verifiable current or previous resident of Bradley Beach or that this potential honory had parents who were verifiable residents of Bradley Beach at the time of the potential Honor's death that this honory potential honory participated as a
Bradley Beach Community member over a sustained period of time and sustained period of time is critical there because a member could be a a volunteer a volunteer fire person a lifeguard but who was part of the fabric of brle beach for a sustainable period not not for say
a year as a lifeguard but multiple years um must have served honorably in the US Armed Forces for example the Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Coast Guard us space force must have received the official designation as died in service
in an official US designated combat zone and finally that the cause of death reported as killed an action missing died of wounds died of injuries or died non battle EG sickness homicide suicide
accident in that designated combat zone now I didn't actually as you can guess I did not break this from scratch I've taken this from bits and pieces of uh what other municipalities use uh what other organizations use to identify uh
Fallen Hero U uh individual so I served that up at least for the council to react initially is this a worthwhile Endeavor if so are these appropriate criteria are there others you want to suggest uh because I do think rather we should
formalize uh you know I'll call it a standard of measure that we could use consistently now and in the future any thoughts I agree that we should have some criteria because otherwise um nobody understands
how do you get that recognition um my only Comm question would be is um a combat zone that's get the term you Ed and what if there was a not I mean what's the importance of that because
what if somebody was a National Guard it wasn't a combat zone but in the line of duty um lost their life would that qualify and so you know I think you know that's my only question maybe it wasn't an official War but maybe it was in service that they lost
their life and and the National Guard is deployed domestically and that could in fact um happen in today's society great Point yep and Al sounds like what you just read was more it was
more broad than maybe Bill Duffy's definition is that fair Bill well Bill Duffy's definition Al was the more technical aspects for example the definition of designated combat zone um
where I borrow from others were in reference to connection to the community so references such as either they they live there at the time or their parents so it sounds like it's more it's broader and I think broader is is good because
let's just say somebody like they moved here they only lived here for few months but whatever they live before that maybe that town doesn't have a memorial so right so it's better to have more than run the chance of them
not having any at all so I think broader is better so I like what you came up with that I can easily follow up on the the comat I I agree with Paul because sometimes they're just doing drills and people get killed but they're still
ready to fight for our country and they still deserve that respect um I'm I do think that a broader scope is useful because there are contingencies that we consider that may not be so
straightforward okay I'm going to conclude the the workshop I'm going to ask the hold audience questions until we get to the uh item what is it number eight just because normally we do include questions um including the
workshops right now though I would like to switch to item uh six on our agenda presentations and bids and we have our own Amy Hall our director of Tourism who's going to do a a brief presentation
okaycome hi everybody hi welcome so I don't know how this works with the PowerPoint I sent in oh Michelle will do that okay she'll I'm gonna stand over here because I don't think I can read it from over there okay Michelle whenever you're ready unless you can hear us am's ready
for you does anybody here go to Jazz Fest yeah Michelle are you there um actually this is very quick okay so here's the jazz festival
tourism report great next slide you want me to click it okay so this is the first annual Bradley Beach Jazz Festival it was February 7th and February 8th um the Friday night was 7 to 10:00 p.m. and the
Saturday was 6: to 10 it was sold out with 649 seats reserved unfortunately the Saturday night was an ice storm so we still had a lot of people come but it wasn't a full Full House due to the ice
storm people came and left due to the ice store um the goals were to support Bradley Beach businesses introduce visitors to Bradley Beach collect new emails for the B mailing list and welcome new followers on social channels
all of which it did next slide is there a slide after this okay okay stay here so we had 127 new emails and contacts for the mailing list which is a lot for mailing list and we had 350 new followers on social media on our Facebook and Instagram social media
platforms could you go back one Michelle okay so I did um a survey of people who came to the event so out of like maybe 450 people um 71 responded which isn't too bad um a
lot were residents there were a lot of visitors uh I didn't break it up into different days but the reason there were a lot of residents instead of visitors on the Saturday was because of the ice storm um but some people came both dates some people came one um on a scale of
one to five with one being four and five being excellent please rate the event so as you can see we have a lot of five stars um people really L the event who came to it um I also asked everybody in the
survey specifically if they ate or drank before or after or during or whatever so these were the top restaurants that people um went to so I spoke to some of the restaurant owners and they saw an uptick in people eating and drinking and
and all of that so that was good so not the next slide but the next one okay go past that okay so this is the PE these are the people that came to the event from all over the place so Bradley Beach is here and then as you can see around this
whole circle this is where we brought people in from from New York uh Staten Island we hawen Howell Jackson Long Branch Floren Park so we really had a huge group of people at this event from all over the state and New York so it
was really it was really good um next slide we had JazzFest sponsors so we had a piano sponsor at 250 with seall architecture saxophone was 500 with Posh Mora Portwood floors trumpet was a thousand with New Jersey water and the
county and then at the last minute I did like a friends of JazzFest thing for Ohan Rising they gave us $25 as a friend so that helps offset the cost um next slide uh okay so this was our Green Room at the school um the music teacher Anthony
L left let us use his room for the guys to eat and drink and all that and we had donations from Luna Verde Darcy's Tavern councilwoman Jane and me uh and and my mom who's right there so that was really
good got the restaurants and the community involved that way um next slide okay so this was so this is everybody in the council except for Paul and um they had brought up the mayor to do some words he didn't know he was going to be
called up but he was and it was nice and everybody loved everybody loved everybody it was good um okay next slide okay so this was before the event some of the press that we got um New Jersey stage which is a really highend
publication um from North Jersey and this is like the two the Rand and the coar and the coaster and then after the event we had the front page on the co-star which is good next slide so here I just wrote a bunch of
comments that I asked for in the survey I just asked like any comments if anybody had so I'll just read a few um well done event beautiful Auditorium we really enjoyed ourselves shared our experiences with friends when we returned to our own neighborhoods in Jersey people coming in
show was amazing great job putting it together um I can't say enough about how fabulous this was it was well attended in the music resonated for days after with me next slide again just some more words um
about the event it was a world class fantastic jazz event yada yada yada what I put in blue here was some of the comments that I got about charging for tickets next year um we had talked about it as the event was going on that it
would be something good people would stick to coming um you know more than having a free ticket plus we would be able to pay for the whole thing the ticket sales so because I I put these in here because we had thought of it and I got probably 20 different answers for
people who came who would be willing to give us 20 or $30 a ticket um so that's for next year uh next slide oh so I put this in because I also reached out to musicians to ask what you know did you enjoy coming was it good
for you because it matters to you know our people that we hire so I'm just going to come over here but this is Kumo he lives in Long Branch he's really um involved in jazz scene and he said currently there's no Jazz Center in MAA County Asbury Park and Red Bank have
established their identities this presents an opportune time for Bradley Beach to become the epicenter of jazz in M County much like New Brunswick has claimed this distinction for Middle sex which will bring new people to Bradley Beach to increase business revenues real estate values and tax income so I wanted
to put that there because I thought that was a really important quote from a musician and it's true we do have an opportunity to do that that being said um we're going to put in a Wednesday night jazz Series in the park for the
summer starts July 9th and I'm going to announce the first band for July 9th on the next slide it'll be the Ocean Avenue Stompers uh 7 o'clock show in in Riley Park famous graach
res so um that's my report that was awesome uh I'll say right away that as you saw by pictures most of the council work was able to attend I was there the second night and it was awesome I was more than
impressive of the talent that you brought to Bradley Beach so thank you for that um but let's open up our first comments from the council any comments for uh no other than um this is fantastic to have a postmortem on a big
event in town and I can't remember who but somebody's been asking for that for years I can't remember who but uh they must be very happy um so thank you that was great all right uh while here any questions from the from the
audience jul I would just like to say I was there for two nights and it was fabulous thank you and then all the students it was like a really nice um organized event and I think with time it just will get better
and better and better students the the grammar school students participated um you always get me to volunteer yeah we great volunte and I love your mom and the Jazz musicians were so nice they were so much fun and the talent there was amazing so
hopefully more people will attend thank you and just to add you did have um the PTA was involved they sold snacks and they ended up raising uh like $350 which was good for chips and SOA next year they can sell you know more
items um we had a lot of volunteers we had Julie we had Jane we had shaa we had lots of volunteers we had um Josephine from the police department was there we had lots of people helping the school was great the custodial staff was great
um Anthony lpra was just like phenomenal on music and lighting and running around everywhere um so it was a really nice it ended up being like a really good Community event that brought in tourists so it was twofold and am tag on nobody
realizes how beautiful that theater is it is a stunning stunning theater especially to yeah it really is something I add to that Amy's been doing this for a while the on from tourism and she really thinks out of the box and a lot of people come with ideas but they
don't ever do it she actually does it and it's a success to make that happen is really admirable and I just want to thank you so much for your energy and your ideas just keep it coming we appreciate [Music] you
okay um Amy thank you again we'll move to item seven on the agenda which is approval of minutes I'll make a motion that we accept uh March 4 2025 Council business meeting Mr Noble yes M green yes sorry
actually I wasn't here last meeting so I would prefer to I'm sorry that's okay um where was I okay you sayl yes Mr ncky I wasn't here
also but I did watch the video and so I would say yes okay okay um that's okay okay cool all right thank you um is not a legal reason you have if you don't feel like you knew what happened you know minutes that's
precisely thank you okay um I will vote Yes Yes May thank okay thank you now we get it eight on the agenda public comments or questions pertaining to the agenda only Mr shkin
name and address pleas yes Paul and the champion 411 and a half Line Avenue I just wanted to comment on the Fallen Hero's presentation um as far as the criteria um I would I don't think you mentioned the um Merchant Marine
should also be included um also you talked about combat zones but um almost half of our deceased in the first world war died of disease in camps that weren't in combat zones so
I I I don't think you should restrict it to combat zones if they were on active duty at the time of war or an action uh they meet the military criteria of dying of of of their disease or wounds or
whatever to be included um also um what about children who are in the war but are fighting for the Allies I don't know if this happened but uh the first world war a lot of
Americans fought for the French the British or the Canadians for the first three years of the war before the Americans got into it uh simly there's always been uh you know Veterans of of Allied
armies who are Americans who might have families at burn bradle the beach I just throw that out that's a a good point we'll certainly consider thank you other questions Rick Bon 116
new um when you go over resolution 2025 133 regarding the mats where you go into detail of what the mat being used for that's something I want to know yes we will thank other questions about the
exent good evening be Kepler 504 Central here at Bradley Beach um I'd like to read a statement in regard to resolution on the agenda tonight 2025 119 um the reter influenced and corrupt
organization act R is defined as any group formal or informal that commits a pattern of rering activities such as bribery extortion fraud over a sustained period keeping that in mind I'd like to reflect back from 2004 to 2020 when our
burough saw leadership from a man that shaped its Direction first on the council then as mayor during that time in 2018 under his leadership the burrow Chamber of Commerce was quite literally allowed to falter and collapse in its place a new entity emerged on January
1st 2020 the bbca the Bradley Beach Business Community Alliance a 501 C6 unlike a municipal Department this organization operates beyond the oversight of our elected officials in government with no borrow right of access to its books and no say in its
operations a convenient shift some might say in fact that former mayor admitted at a public meeting on October 11th 2023 being personally respons responsible for ushering in this new organization calling it his own creation that same
lader that same leader later joined its board of directors as secretary further blurring the lines between public service and private interests then came a new borrow Administration in 2021 ushered in with political endorsements and door-to-door campaigning by that
same figure the new mayor before even being sworn in began championing championing a local private business in interest the Bradley Beach cinema on Main Street within weeks of taking office in the midst of a pandemic a resolution of support for only this one
specific business presented by this new mayor surfaced then later with him proposing to funnel $350,000 of our tax dollars $50,000 a year for 7 years to support this movie theater a private sector business entity
the bbca publicly backed it too once again coincidentally key players overlapped a resident Cinema coowner sat on our land use board appointed by the mayor and was also a member of the bbca alongside a council president a resident who served as acting borrow business
administrator and the bbbc board Treasurer residents donated generously to this project trusting the endorsements and solicitations of Bor leaders that they thought they could trust who are also their neighbors yet last week we learned the cinema Labs
partners are abandoning it citing Financial w what about those donations from the residents tens of thousands of dollars gone with no talk of refunds but this isn't just about one theater let's pivot and look at the church disaster which
started under one corrupt Administration and continued to be mismanaged under the next the same two Mayors hands dirty and personally involved with both failed projects now consider our recent audits 2022 flagged with multiple material
misstatements 23 remains unfinished due to shotty records with the 24 audits still looming our CFO from 23 lost his license to practice in New Jersey unable to sign off on his own work and the allocation of our federal covid funds we've been inquiring about remain
unaccounted for to this day on September 27th 2023 when asked by a resident the then acting business administrator explained that the $9,000 payment on the bills list labeled fena signs was the borrow voluntarily re returning unused
Sandy Relief funds from 2013 10 years later federal laws say misappropriated funds can't be recalled after 3 years unless fraud is suspected there is no statute of limitation on fraud I've posted the video to that exchange on my YouTube channel under my name Beth
Kepler for all to sa I loer requested the document surrounding this 2023 theme of refund the resident volunteer acting VA spoke of and then there's the bank accounts we were told that there were approximately 23 accounts as I've recently stated in an oprra request by
me revealed that there are in fact 53 bank accounts double what the amount we were told spread across fre Banks the burrow admits it doesn't track their purposes or reconcile them and the 53 bank accounts for a town our size very unusual why the discrepancy why the
silence residents have long worried about the Blurred Lines and Shady recordkeeping going back to Council meetings I've shared clips of recently on my YouTube channel August 31st 2021 September 27th 2023 October 11th 2023
February 14th 2024 and April 24th 2024 all demonstrating residents and council members raising concerns over things such as shared borrow addresses on bbca letterhead shared services between the borrow and the bbca comingling of trust
fund money sources of payments for events violations of borrow ordinances I'll continue during the public comments thank all right um M Kepler also and this is not a commentary on on the
substance of your comments but there was a little bit of a stretch for the agenda the agenda item that you referenced is purely a process for for receiving payment from the bdpca so I would just say in the future I don't want to interrupt you but those types of
comments probably are better served for the end of the at the end of my comment is where I was able to get to the point of how it ties into the resolution that's going to be approved but I ran out of time and I didn't want to read fast because I wanted everybody to soak in the gravity of what I was saying you
just you have so many points it was we need there's a lot of fraud so yeah it ties in understood I'm just trying to be respectful of I understand that I appreciate you indulging in the second half of my comments when I complete it you'll be able to hear the point that
I'm driving at are there other comments about the agenda we can here oh uh yeah you have one on M Miss Mullen Mia M Mia okay hi hi hi me can you hear me
yes yes yes yes yes okay great um I'll be quick I just wanted to ask about or if you can comment on it before the resolution is passed the approval of shared services agreement between us in
Neptune City for rec director um it's 20251 123 just want to know what this means to the community um and access to our rec center does that mean we're sharing it now we can have to city and we can I don't know if they have a Rec
Center I no idea um and how does this affect Courtney's role uh this thing has shared well I guess she's the one that's going to be is she is Courtney staying in her position or is there uh a new rep
director because we're doing going to do shared services well just give a quick summary we are we will discuss it when we get to the resolution but there's two different resolutions one is um sharing uh a shared service with Neptune so their
residents can participate in our summer camp and our rec center at our uh resident B level so we did this in Prior years we're doing it again extending them the same $660 fee to participate
that we provide to our own our own children um the second one is uh a shared service with the rec center director herself Courtney papis um Courtney made the case that U so much of
what she does can be pretty easily leveraged by her to serve a second Community uh I interrogated her extensively to make sure she could take on another community and still you know deliver all the programs she's doing
here she can she tells me she can and um Neptune City is very anxious to have her join them and head up their Rec Center so she will actually manage power W Center and Neptune cities Neptune City will uh pay us basically half of
Courtney's costs so U it'll it'll result in an increase in pay for Courtney and um additional funds back to Bradley Beach so we will in effect profit from sharing cording with Neptune City so
does Neptune City have a Rec director now or they don't is what it sounds like they have and he's reti oh okay and then do they have their own recck Center like building with facility the way we do I haven't been there but I'm told it's it's much nicer than than ours it's they
doing yes okay just just wonder how what the change would be for our community and if Courtney's confident that there won't be changes and she'll keep doing all the great things she does terrific and I and I wasn't questioning the camp I think that's a great idea okay any
other questions on the uh Zoom okay that's it one more oh I'm sorry Kristen [Music] M hi Christen M ring um so if we're going to do shared services with Neptune does that mean that we will get to use
because they do have nice back Neptune they also have great Senior Services does that mean that our seniors can use their services now at their rep Center at this juncture that is not resolved that that is not captured in tonight's agenda but but it is a a a part of
ongoing discussion okay thank you okay if there are no other questions we'll move to uh item number nine on the agenda which is the introduction of ordinances um we'll start with ordinance
20251 an an ordinance amending chapter one General provisions of the Burrow's revised General ordinances to Revis and update the local supplemental violations bureau's schedule as approved by Mammoth County assignment judge pursuant to New
Jersey Court rule 72-4 that's a long-winded way of saying we're increasing our court related fees parking fees uh various you know Court related fees um and a point of note for everyone's benefit uh I was able to sit
down with uh the judge who administers our court and uh our administrator uh uh I've engaged council members as well Shan greenblat and basically we have gone through a process of updating fees that were updated in
the past some of them updated in 20 uh5 20 years ago others last updated in 1980 so we have some fairly significant price increases and we've been behind eight a little Point compared to other local municipalities so this is intended
to bring us up to U 2025 and and a ballpark estimate because we don't have an exact number is it it should come close to doubling the revenue that we received last year 70 80% increase or so so um but otherwise
is largely all focused on court related fees and fines any comments I'll make a motion that we introduce ordinance 20 25-1 second Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr nowicki yes Mr
Weber yes mayor GOI yes okay or introduction of ordinance 20252 calendar year 2025 ordinance to exceed the municipal budget Appropriations limit and to establish a cap Bank um and basically we're uh we're
adding 1% to what is an authorized 2 and a half% I know Mr Co in the past you you some concerns um this is as we' talked ourc a relatively standard adjustment that most municipalities undertake any
comments I would just ask mayor looking the head here for our budget reconciliation setting the actual budget are time FR for we are we've begun that process um the reason we've had a very late beginning is because we did not know
what salaries would be until we completed the Union uh negotiation so we we now have salaries uh very pressing is we have to actually pay process payments for retro salaries uh one of our other
resolutions in tonight's uh agenda in fact is Shifting uh Dollars around from reserves to enable us to make those payments and as part of that process we can now dive head first into uh setting the 2025 budget uh our CFO is in Ireland
at the moment but he has provided me budget worksheets which I am beginning to organize and uh combined with the new data we have so hopefully Paul to finally answer your question I I think in the next 30 days we should be pretty close to having a a budget we can
present to the residents thank you okay um if no other question no other comments I'll make a motion that we introduce ordinance 20252 second mrov yes m
yes Mr NWI yes Mr Weber yes mayor guzi yes introduction of ordinance 20253 an ordinance establishing certain salaries of certain officers and employees of the burough of Brad beach in the county of mad and the state of New Jersey and repealing any and all other ordinances
inconsistent here with this is basically our salary ordinance which is establishes ranges by uh by role within the burough uh salary ranges and uh the last time this was updated was 2021 so not quite as bad as
some of our findes but nonetheless about a a four-year Hiatus and um I want to tip a hat a little bit to Mr dhy who worked on this with was you as well yes counc so um so thank you both for your
inut on this any questions or comments about this ordinance okay no comments um I will make motion that introduce ordinance 20253 Mr Noble yes M green yes Mr yes Mr Weber yes mayor Gua
yes also under item number nine are ordinance adoptions and there are none so we'll move to item number 10 Communications I have a very brief communication regarding the 2023 audit um we do not have the audit yet we are
uh about two weeks or so out from a very strict deadline to deliver it and uh last I knew actually Mr Ken you were working on a legal representation letter yes have you delivered that yet or I have not yet that will be coming shortly
okay uh our auditor has a draft prepared uh of his audit report and again we're coming down the home stretch but once he receives the legal representation letter from Mr Canon which basically Greg that just descries law lawsuits at risk problems yeah it's
a risk management okay and once he once our auditor receives that from our attorney uh he will deliver the draft so it's taken an extremely long time but we should have a 2023 AIT report soon and
um then we will immediately begin a preparing the corrective Action Report which we've had historic difficulties doing um while under Communications I'm going to stay from our format ever so slightly because I did ask Mr Kone our
director DPW to just provide an update you have so much going on I just wanted our residents to quickly hear what's on your plate as we move forward yes uh first and foremost I had a nice lunch today with councilman nowiki uh we went over some of the upcoming projects and
uh wanted to thank him for that very informative on my part hopefully I hope it to same back to you um we did our first Rush pick of the year uh in March uh we have leaf pickup starting in April April 1st um two brush pickups starting
you know that's going to happen in April um we had to clean the church out today um get it prepared uh more for safety concerns for the upcoming auction and uh will be done before they're coming in to
to run this auction just to make it as safe as we possibly can um we did uh one of the uh residents uh requested that the three-way stops were not uh up to par so just wanted to let Miss Mullen know that they were all
taken care of um from one end of town over way to the other on Madison Avenue um we ordered the MIM mats um for uh Evergreen and Cliff Avenue they're 10 foot wide they're 50t uh in length and
um they're going to go out just beyond the uh with a tea and uh some benches uh to make it handicap friendly uh we're going to include showers um and new areas uh for wheelchair accessible areas to turn
to make it easy for them to uh clean the sand off and so on and so forth and uh we also built our first uh storage container for the uh lifeguards we have one more that's going to be built um um
amongst other things so we are at a very busy time and uh that's my you know two cents here well thank you B you you and your your team have a lot going on and I know we're we're pushing a lot of that agenda so thank you for just jumping on
everything no problem thank you question um I noticed that the um the concrete Plateau under what where showers were so you've already removed those we REM that um we we've had problems uh with that
location um for water pooling in certain areas and we're eliminating that issue um so it's more user friendly and when it rains people are not or actually when they use the shower the water would run out to the papers so we eliminated that the one i' ever correct correct correct
and so new showers are being installed as well yes and will they have automatic shut offs um I I have to I'm going to rely on my assistant for that what exact um we use the paddle handles the um the
automatic shut offs with the sand they get stuck on more than all we've had a lot of problems with them years and particular part reild and a week later same problem so we prefer to use the
paddles and they are handicap p and um yeah they're much cheaper to replace and may not look as nice but they're they work just as good can we put signage up to remind people to the water off because sometimes people walk away without turning yeah if there's a
location where that is an issue but those I I believe we're going to have a chain and they're going to pull it down or they're going to just be able to okay so it kind of It kind of resets itself on its own if they do get stuck you know we get to that location somebody will
alert us if we don't see it ourselves um but they they are automatic so you turn it and it turns back I believe Asbury Parks is the same that we're template you know doing the same template as theirs we like to think it's going to be a little better um but uh yeah they'll
shut themselves off thank you g no problem okay we'll move to item 11 resolutions and the first part of the resolutions are consent agenda resolutions I actually have been informed that we there are
questions that still exist related to consent agenda item 2025 1221 approving the Bradley Beach Fire Department firan Association so I'd like to make a motion that we table this for this evening to provide the council more time to
understand this second uh Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr nowiki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gesi yes okay regarding the yes so the MTH County black party I'm just wondering maybe some guidance because if
we're you're a resident of Mammoth should we should that be coming off that consent and maybe address that separately I don't believe that I I want maybe can actually vote on that question you live on the street
speak consent agenda so we couldn't participate in the consent agenda with that itain from what two yeah then maybe you remove that so and while we have this topic going
are there any other uh discussion points for consent agenda we'll make that motion but any other comments here okay okay uh I'll make the motion that we uh vote out separately 2025 d118 the block
party on the that second Mr Noble yes M greet yes m Wiki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gzi yes okay I'll make a motion that we uh accept the consent agenda resolution items
20251 19 through well and and 2025 d120 second oh I'm sorry 122 oh5 122 is there a second second Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr nowicki yes Mr
Weber yes mayor gbesi yes okay make a motion to uh approve 202- 1118 a block party for MTH Avenue Sunday July 13th rain date of Sunday August 3rd 5:00 P p.m. to 9: p.m. second
Mr noville yes uh M greenlet um abstain Mr NWI abstain Mr Weber yes mayor G we have all these Council people party you're all invited to Warrant recusal this better be like a
good how many it I will vote Yes two one one block okay we'll move to individual resolutions U starting with 202- 1113 authorizing public sale of surplus property consisting of certain artifacts and other items from the bur's former
Church property at 319 Lorraine Avenue Council yeah I've been handling this I've met with Peter castanza he's an local Auctioneer and and it looks like we're shooting for an auction date of April 30th so things are starting to pick up I know you um met with Peter
today thank you so much and it was interesting because he had the same thought I did I said we have to bring it down to two rooms we can't have everybody walking around the entire um church that's great he is um organizing everything he will establish starting
bids so there are some attachment to the resolution saying some appraisal that's from uh the previous administration but he will establish the starving bid we are working with the Bradley Beach Historical Society on this we're also working with the Church of the presidents as well for the museum so I
look forward to a legal a respectful and inclusive process with us and there may be other comments but I just want to thank council president Den Noble for her diligence on uh pulling this all together because we really inherited this at the end of last year
we did yeah I talk to a lot of different auctioneers and this highly recommended and it's nice that he's out of nepon City so he's very close by as well any other comments I'd like to just comment um later is the resolution for uh CME uh
services for the building demolition 2025 134 but just to dtail these two together the first thing that we're doing is we need to um you know take care of the artifacts the disposition of those secondly is the Demolition and so we did in fact need to um read advertise
the contract for the Miss we're also going to be um finishing the grading plan providing that to the land use Ford um and so all the all that has to had to come together and the timing of all this needs to tie together with the artifacts stuff that Jane is working on council
president and I'm working with her with CME to make sure that we all line this up um so that we can expedite the demolition you the artifact disposition then the Demolition and restoration of the site um and hopefully you know here by early summer Target we're pushing everybody for
Memorial Day but that's good that's a push it could slide a little bit so we are doing everything we can to push this process viously as possible thank you councilman okay if no other comments I'll make a motion that
we uh adopt individual resolution 2025 1113 regarding the public Sal Surplus property second mrble yes M greenl yes Mr NWI yes Mr Weber turn to abstain
mayor mayor yes sorry that's okay okay uh next item on individual resolutions 20251 123 approval of shared service agreement with nepon City for recreation director and I I mentioned to M Mullen a little while ago this is an opportunity
for our current Recreation director Courtney papis to actually take on the directorship of a second municipality Neptune City and NEP City will share uh with us her salary and other employee
benefits the cost of healthcare pension things like that so net Bradley Beach will actually receive revenue and Miss papis is very confident she can deliver her existing services at relatively modest additional effort because uh the
work she's doing she says is highly leverageable so with that said uh any questions have some questions so we're under the assumption that she's been a full-time Recreation director currently right it's more than acep yes
I mean she's been she's been regarded as a full-time so is is her role now becoming a part time no she can just do two jobs and maybe putting more hours but she's going to deliver full wck director she's an except employee right
she doesn't get overt corre so she takes I assume she's going to get paid more to be next so as much time as it takes so so in terms of the hours though are there going to be set hours where she's in Bradley Beach and available to Bradley Beach versus NEP City how do
that work practically the resolution suggests 50/50 time share but we don't have specific hours like schedule Monday Tuesday and Wednesday uh she will make herself available 50% of each and will there be uh activities also that are
more um collaborative with Neptune City as a consequence of her new role I would say likely but not yet to find for example someone asked about seniors that's something that we've been led into that discussion we don't have
it resolved but there may be an opportunity for our people to utilize some of their rep Center uh because courney will be in charge above and also our field which is not adequate in size for corts um does Neptune City um have an
opportunity to offer Radley Beach some of their uh facilities not yet explored so possibly I don't know so it could be a big win for both communities could be at a minimum it's getting her situated to help two communities get paid a
little more at Bradley beach beach reduced our cost by increasing revenue and to the extent that the other opportunities will certainly explo any other questions it opens the door for a lot of opportunities which is great yeah I would say that she could
become an advocate for sharing on you assets you know recreational um assets between you know the township and the city and ourselves which would be a great thing okay okay if no other discussion I'll make a motion that we uh approve
20251 123 the shared service with dep City for the recreation director second Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr NWI yes Mr Weber yes mayor gzi yes 202- 124 approval of a Shar service
agreement renewal with Neptune City for summer camp we've done this at least last year and possibly a few years we just offer our discounted fees for brother Beach residents to nept City residents as well um and this particular
agreement helps us fill up the capacity for hour summer again so um in terms of DPW services for the summer camp uh does that is there going to be any sort of a split with NE
City DPW Services any services to clean clean up I don't know what how DPW serves the camp program in terms of the facility no uh it's it's not broken down that finally I mean the the the fees paid $660 a week uh for each participant
in theory covers cost of the camp and clean up and things like that so but we haven't allocated any additional cost to we we do this every year where we offer them at the same price and this is the first time I ever remember a resolution about it but it's really just about the
cost of Summer I understand that but with with that gracious offer to Neptune City um is there an opportunity also to recoup some of the maintenance fees associated with the camps program
in fees I mean somebody to answer that question completely somebody would have to say we're losing money we're making money or we're not making as much money but the fees are intended to cover the cost of the C so dpw's C in theory is
being recovered by these fees I have not done a detail cost analysis to determine if you know there's if those extra fees are not going to cover the extra cost I would think if we didn't offer this and we had fewer participants we'd have fewer bodies to spread dpw's cross over
so I think this is beneficial but I don't I can't answer you specifically yeah I don't know what kind of the discount they do we know how much the discount is well not here right but it's maybe $100 and maybe it's 750 versus 660 it's a renewal it's been done
before so yeah it's in bradle just see no I I understand that I'm simply looking the and saying that if we're offering this opportunity to get them in borrow fees um for camp for the camp program you know and but they're outside of you I know we're going now into a
share service agreement also with the employee but I'm just wondering if some of the the the maintenance costs can also be a little bit offset I don't know how many students actually get those reduced fees from this it's something like wallpark
something like we have capacity for3 students total with this agreement we have not yet hit 130 we've hit 110 I think there's capacity for 20 more maybe we'll hit that this year but again to to my earlier point if we don't offer
this and we and that costs us some participation we'd have fewer fees to recover but likely be similar DPW costs because they're going to serve 80 people or 120 people doing whatever you know clean up work or organizing work clear
to clear it up we we don't provide a ton you know we'll just do our normal day-to-day activity whether it's cut grass you know we whack or we provide a cleaning service with the individuals that we currently have there's nothing more than that unless Courtney gives us a little time in advance if she has a
little something going on in the field we may prep something but it's not a tremendous amount she's pretty self-sufficient I I view this myself as a win-win kind of agreement because we we would not our capacity with rather be
and you may be able to parve this for our seniors to be able to take advantage of other programs or other areas of of our you know joint use and so this Good Will of doing this we should paray that into other benefits any other comments or no okay
I'll make a motion that we approve 20254 uh Shar service agreement will renewal with nepon City for summer camp second Mr Noble yes M green black yes Mr nowicki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gub
yes by the way those discount fees are still increased over last year um resolution individual resolution 2025 d125 approval Shar service agreement with Ren renewal with that City for
prisoner detainment we've had this in place for a number of years now three four or five years since I've been here yeah and we bumped it uh it was 15,000 we bumed it to 16,000 so whatever that is 3 4% Bond um
and we continue to have the capacity as I understand it's again seems like a win-win agreement any questions or comments no I'll make a motion that we approve 202- 1225 shared service agreement renewal with NEP City for
president second Mr Noble yes Mr yes Mr n Mr Weber yes mayor V yes one of my absolute favorite individual resolutions coming uh 20251 126 approving an
employment agreement with the buau of Bradley Beach municipal clerk Erica ceds uh registered municipal clerk and the reason this is a favorite one we have a wonderful clerk two um as a council member myself and other
colleagues for Erica to have a contract for a number of years and we did not get that accomplished until tonight so I I have should waited on the till after the vote but I have something to
say okay okay have a second no further comments second didn't make the motion uh I will officially motion that we approve the employment agreement with burrow bre Beach municipal clerk Mr Noble yes M braet yes Mr NWI
yes Mr Weber yes mayor gboi yes and I would just like to thank mayor koszi and Council um for this contract it was long awaited um it will be very useful and uh
Kristen thank you because you were an advocate when you were up there so thank you also thank you everybody okayer thank you for your faith in me as your Clark I really appreciate it it a lot okay the next individual resolution
is 20251 127 and it is with a degree of uh sadness that I'm going to motion that we withdraw this uh resolution because Mr dhy we were we have provided him with an opportunity to remain with Bradley but
he found a better opportunity oh no so Matthew will be leaving us in two weeks but uh but he has been a a wonderful person to work with he got us through a really challenging first couple of months of my new Administration and two
new council members um done a phenomenal job man probably sing youris a little tonight but for right now I'd like to make a motion that we withdraw 2025 d127 can we both there a second um Mr Noble unfortunately yes M
GRE yes Mr nowicki yes Mr Weber yes mayori yes okay back to happy news we have another contract that we have formalized approving an employment agreement with the of Bradley Beach DPW director bajio
Kone and uh once again bajio you've been a wonderful resource for this burrow you've been a wonderful resource to me both as a council person and now newly as a mayor um like so many others you have not seen your pay adjusted in few
years U but uh this is another great pleasure to be able to reward you for all the hard work and all the value you delivered to the so thank you uh I'll make a motion any comments or questions I'll make a motion that we
approve 2025 1228 approving an employment agreement with the burough Bradley Beach DPW director bi K second uh Mr Noble yes M green yes Mr nocki yes Mr Weber yes mayor G
resounding yes thank you I didn't think I was as popular as Erica but she's pretty all right um 2025 1229 authorizing the transfer of appropriation reserves in the fiscal
2024 budget and basically what we're doing here is taking reserves that uh existed in 2024 that still exist and uh basically transferring them into 25 these dollars are largely going to be used to fund the um the retro pay
agreements that we've reached with uh with local local 1502 any comments or questions I'll make a motion that we approve 2025 -129 authorizing the transfer of appropriation reserves in
fisal 24th budget second Mr Noble yes M greenblat yes Mr noi yes Mr Weber yes mayor GUI yes 202- 130 authorizing amendments to the temporary budget this is a much smaller dollar amount uh and
this is intended to help us fund some of the immediate expenses coming up related to the beach utility um specifically we're going to talk in a moment about mob mats and Gem cars and so forth and we want to make sure we have the uh
appropriate authorization to fund those purchases any comments or questions I'll make a motion that we uh accept that we approve 2025 d130 authorizing amendments to the temporary budget second Mr Noble yes M
greenl yes Mr nowicki yes Mr Weber yes mayor guzi yes speaking of G cars resolution 20253 authorizing contracts with C State contract vendor Eastern Lift Truck Company Inc for the purchase of two gem
cards gem vehicles for the burough brother Beach the EST Cooperative contract pursu to njsa 40a -2a and what we're doing here is we're purchasing two small uh electric
vehicles with higher capacity charging capabilities these vehicles will be used by our Police Department to uh monitor the parking along ocean a during the summer months uh they will each be equipped with uh license plate readers
and two things one this is going to create a much more efficient process for us all going forward we're avoiding uh a large uh outlay of funds if we were to instead uh update our existing um uh
parking meter uh yeah equipment thank you and U so again think of this as a win in efficiency actually a win in cost uh and another side benefit that we've talked with the police about good LAN is
will be able to use these license plate readers obviously during the summer months for monitoring the parking but for eight or so months of the year when we're not using the for Ocean Avenue the police will be able to have three license plan readers U working uh hoping
to uh identify violation violations and potential uh outstanding warrants or whatever uh and it should each one should more than pay for itself so any other comments or questions make a motion that we adopt
202- 131 authorizing the contracts for the U two G vehicles for the bur barley Beach the state Cooperative contract second Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr noi yes Mr Weber yes mayor rosi yes 2025
d132 I just mentioned license plate readers this authorizes us to purchase two uh State contract vendor Leonardo us cyber and Security Solutions LLC uh purchase two LPL readers for the bur
brother Beach and again these will be used to monitor parking during the summer on Ocean AV but we'll be able to use these the rest of the year round uh for uh our regular police vehicles any questions or
comments I will make a motion that we approve 2021 132 authorizing the purchase of the U license plate readers from Security Solutions LLC second Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr nowicki yes Mr
Weber yes mayor gboi yes item 2025 133 authorizing contracts with certain approved State contract vendor the shamps Matts system in for the purchase of beach mats for the burough B Beach via State Cooperative
contract pursuant to njsa 40 a 11-12 a notice all these are State contract State approved contractors uh someone asked earlier specifically about these MIM mats these are um specifically going
to be used they are 10ft wide our current MIM mats are 4T wide these will provide ample opportunity for folks in wheelchairs compined to wheelchairs Andor uh like motored carts uh to be
able to NE to navigate our MIM mats and get onto the beach and hopefully spend a day with friends and relatives uh on our beaches that really is not very practical today because of the narrow withth of our current M mats we are going to use these mob mats in two
beaches Mr K mentioned that earlier they will be our designated wheelchair accessible beaches uh and our U related to this resolution our uh our one of our Engineers avakian is
putting together finishing touches we're going to meet with them tomorrow uh finishing touches to create handicap pickup and drop off spots at those two beaches uh and that'll entail some striping and so forth painting of our either ocean AB or related spots for
pick up and drop off this resolution again related to the purchase of the uh of the MS themselves everen and what's the other C Cliff the cliff parking area there right any other comments questions I would
just comment mayor that this was an initiative that you took on the begin of the administration and you drove this it's really important to um provide you know ada8 compliant facilities of our community so you thank you for that effort well thank you you know we we've
talked Bradley Beach just talked about having uh handicap access and we have and we've done a decent job of it but I thought the one fa of Bradley Beach was specifically wheelchair access it's much more challenging for individuals in
wheelchairs and or motor motorized uh Cs and vehicles so I I'm really excited about this I think it's going to be a great addition to our beach fund and again I'll tip my hat to our DPW for doing the work they're doing to help facilitate this uh so no further
questions I'll make a motion that we approve 2025 133 uh the pur of the mats from the shamps mat system for um burough Bradley Beach via State Cooperative contract
second Mr Noble yes M green yes Mr nowicki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gubitosi yes okay uh resolution 2025 134 authorizing the award of professional Engineering Services with CME Associates
for the 319 lra Avenue building demolition Paul I'd like to turn this over to you you've been instrumental in getting us to tonight thank you so um as I mentioned earlier we had to move this um uh read adverti the contract for the demolition uh that had PR previously
been put together by the previous administration found the engineer directly involved and because of liability Etc it's important that that professional engineer uh do this contract for a liability standpoint as well as address those issues that the community brought forward regarding
grading um ction um around the site um and sing those grades and taking it back to the land uh we are putting pressure on on C to expedite this uh to get the permits in place with the so fold so Conservation District Etc and um and
then go back out to a bid that over like a 10day period I get those bids in and and move this thing and get rid of um this chapter and move forward with um improving our community so um I'm excited about that
and and I'd also just like to thank Paul for his expertise in being able to navigate through these projects and also your persistence in getting the cost down which I know was something that you had to work at and and without your expertise that would not have happened
it's so nice to have an engineer overseeing an engineer overseeing our town on our Council I'll be clear I'm not exercising myself as an Eng as a counsel with the background yes it is nice have you on the council between the
two of you you've done a great job getting us and keeping us on track for the ultimate demolition of the church property thank you yes thank you U with that I will make a motion that we approve 2025 d144 authorizing the award of
professional Engineering Services to CME Associates for 39 second Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr nowicki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gubitosi yes item 20 25- 135 our bill list for
March 18th 2025 are there any questions or comments okay no none noted uh I make motion that we approve 2025 d135 Bill list for March 18 2025 second Mr Noble yes M green yes Mr Nicki
yes Mr Weber yes mayor gzi yes uh we'll move to item 12 on the agenda announcements and there are none we'll move to item 13A the administrator report Mr uh mayor I think the clerk wins best
dress for tonight by and happy belated St Patrick's Day to all my Irish brother brothers and sisters and happy early St Joseph's Day to all the Italian brothers and sisters um couple updates uh we are going to have a new uh zoning officer coming on
board uh someone who's very familiar to folks uh in Bradley Beach uh Ted biani now when I say tanii I have to categorize him as the senior tedak because tan as well um he's going to be coming on as our zoning officer he's a
zoning officer now in in bmar and I worked for him with him for for many many years uh we're also going to have a new receptionist Administrative Assistant starting April 1st uh we interviewed uh many candidates uh it's a great thing that a lot of people do want to work for this town um so she'll be
starting uh uh in a couple weeks uh we are still working out a new payroll um clerk uh the mayor and I have interviewed a few folks uh and we're still trying to find the best person for that that position uh we're also looking to bring on a uh code enforcement
officer on part-time basis um to get out there and enforce uh the code uh we are looking for compliance we're not looking for fine people um but sometimes uh sometimes that does happen uh as the mayor mentioned uh unfortunately this is going to be my last burough council
meeting uh with everybody um and I I appreciate the the mayor uh the mayor and I have talked for months before he became um mayor when he was elected and all of a sudden that Mor into being the business administrator and and uh and
the council took a chance on me as well so I appreciate that uh and you know I I can tell you um and I give a good I think objective um review of the employees um the employees here are
phenomenal uh theyve been through a lot the last two years and that was not fair um but they've come out they're remarkably resilient they're hard hard working and they care about the community they serve uh they have great leadership uh whether it's uh Chief
Arnold uh DPW director uh Kone um as you mentioned before mayor you have a great clerk here um you have an outstanding B attorney so so there is good leadership uh as well as great um Rank and file
employees uh and I can tell the residents that you have a really remarkable governing body you know if you have five members of a council you know hopefully you have three that are you know intelligent hardworking and car you don't have three you have five I you
have an Allstar team here uh we mentioned before councilman nowicki uh I literally sit there in amazement watching him talk to the to the engineers and I just nod and and say yep whatever he says is the right thing to do uh you know uh working with
councilwoman greenblat I can tell you that um there's going to be some remarkable infrastructure projects coming down the pike I don't want to I'm just going to tease it a little bit councilwoman but but and it's because of her determination and the relationships that that she's built um but whether
councilman Weber or council president uh the noble uh every member of your governing body is really tremendous um so I would tell you and and and you know led by by the mayor himself having been a mayor um I would tell you that that
you know sometimes the mayor is going to make decisions and you're not going to understand 100% why but I can tell you um working with him literally every day including on weekends uh talking every day even when he was in Florida uh tending to a family emergency you are
very lucky to have someone who has the skill set to lead a community like this um you are a special community and and and again as someone from the outside I can be OB if you live in Bradley Beach you made it you live in a great
Community with great people you're lucky to be here you how many people would love to live in this community so you know people are going to have the differences going to have difference of opinion on policy but if there's any advice I can give go easy on
each other you're in a great place you know uh there's an old Irish saying right if you're lucky to be Irish or you're lucky enough I would tell you if you're lucky enough to live in Bradley Beach you're lucky enough this is a great Community uh I'm
glad I got to be a a little part of it which will be a total of 90 days so so thank you for that it's been a a great experience and um you know I told told the mayor I'm I'm here through this transition period and anything I can do for any members of the council or any of
the the directors or any employees um even after I leave i' be happy to in any capacity so thank you all very much for the residents for taking me thank you Mr dhy uh we'll now get to the mayor and councel reports and let me
Mr that's a hard one to follow so um Mr do Matt and thank you for your leadership and um and partnership in this transition because uh being a new council person coming on I'm having your experience not just you
know you know as mayor but as council person Omar and your perspective on things made my life a lot easier to integrate and serve the community so thank you for all you did and you will be missed so that's my first part of my report um secondly is um just report on
on the police department there's a few activities uh an individual had been um found in possession of the controled substances was charged prosecuted for those control substances and um they had had the intent to distribute uh control
dangerous substance and prosecution in um possession in a school zone um secondly um there was arrest made um uh of an individual attempting to elude uh the police during a traffic
stop they were also charged of driving under the influence of alcohol and issued motor vehicle summons um uh also struck several Park vehicles and ocean grow uh in the pursuit so um and then the third one is two individuals were arrested on outstanding contempt of
court warrants um and then U officers also investigated three motor vehicle accidents uh several additional calls for uh service between February 22nd and March 16th but again thank you to you know our Police Department for all they do and keeping us safe on a daily basis
and for the things that they put um themselves out there to make sure we have a better place to do so thank you um and then I also want to just a quick report on silven Lake we're continuing to meet and Advance the projects um tomorrow is a silven lake commission
meeting so if you'd like to be U hear about what's going on um we're in the planning process uh as well as with the attack and with the liberal society and on the bulkhead Improvement along um Brad Boulevard so those uh the engineering planning has to be done on
that and we're also looking at the uh control gate that um allows the flow of the water to the outfall to the ocean that outfall is being replaced by the D and will be under construction uh in October November time frame and we'll be
meeting with them tomorrow morning actually just to see where things are and where are the restrictions is our M and making sure that we're coordinated across these projects making sure that we're not bumping into each other along the way that we well coord to minimize the disruptions so was my report there
thank you very much thank you council president sure I'll start with the tourism they had a meeting on uh Tuesday March 11th I attended and they just reviewed their Shamrock hunt it was a big success they're looking forward to the green Fair they approved some
invoices and their current balance is$ 76,976 onto the shade tree had a meeting Wednesday March 5th uh one application on 7eleven Madison Avenue to remove one tree and plant one tree one of the
members has resigned Susan parisel she um is now being replaced by Holly mayor is a full-time member and um on the calendar they're looking forward to Arbor Day April 25th the spring planting will be eliminated and they look forward
to a fall planting the date will be announced and their current balance in the shade Tre account is $ 4,736 oh also congratulations we are once again Tree City USA thank you to the Sha tree commission this was approved by the
Arbor Day Foundation so um we'd like to thank the Sha tree commission for their commitment to creating a Greener healthier community and this is a significant achievement and we are so proud of you and we thank you with the school their um board ofed meeting
actually this evening but I did want to share that the superintendent told me that today at the College of New Jersey Bradley Beach Elementary School was honored as a sustainable Jersey school J sustainable Jersey for school's Grant recipient and recognized as a grant
success story this award reflects not only our commitment to sustainability but also the unwavering support of the bord ofed and the broader Bradley Beach Community and the Dr heidleberg would like to say special thank you to the board vice president rajit Dain and
their Board of um members who took a leadership responsibility passing the resolution a number of years ago that set Bradley Beach Elementary School's sustainability efforts into motion so thank you Bridget um I did miss last week's meeting so I didn't get to share
that I did was I was invited by Dr heidleberg the superintendant to read to the second graders it was my honor and um it was a lot of fun to share the joy of greeing with them and also um the third graders came into the burough and
got a tour and learned about municipal government and I had requested in the past to be a participant because I thought it'd be nice to see an elected woman as well as an elected man and uh I never did get the invitation but this year I did get the invitation in fact there was two elected women that got to
participate councilwoman shaa gria and we welcomed the children in and then shaa and I got up to the de and the children applauded and cheered and I wondered why can't this happen more often but it was happy it was a happy day to have that and of course when the mayor came up as well they they cheered
as well but I wanted to thank mayor gubitosi for including the elected women this year as well so thank you mayor for that and um oh and one more thing um the council people uh Nori and Weber
attended the safety improvements to Memorial drive and just to give you a quick overall they're looking to to do a road diet where they're converting the four lanes down to three lane sections providing one lane in each Direction with dedicated turn Lanes very similar
to um Main Street in Asbury Park where they have that Middle Lane so rather than four lanes two lanes with a turning lane providing dedicated bike Lanes they think why do you want a bike a Memorial Drive well that's how they're going to get their funding they have to incorporate a bike lane also they're
going going to install a new traffic light at the intersection of 4th Avenue thank goodness and they're also looking to do high visibility crosswalks and all pedestrian Crossings within the study area they're looking to get the review and approval done between 25 2025 and
2026 looking for construction in 2027 and then also too I would like to thank Matt dty we learned a lot we learned a lot since he's been here we learned learned that the council and America work together we can have an
inclusive process we can be part of the process and we learn that employees can be happy that their morale can be good and we also learn that we can benefit from someone that has a lot of experience with municipal government
already and they have a lot of knowledge and we also learn that we benefit from somebody that has a can do attitude and you do have a can attitude and we have a lot to do in Bradley Beach and we can do it and we're going to continue to do it
and we're going to miss you but I think you set us on the right path and we appreciate your time and your effort thank you Matt thank you you're welcome Council woman where you at so I'll start actually where Jane ended and
um just express my appreciation to Matt D um I was holding my breath all day waiting to hear what the news was and was unfortunately very disappointed to hear that we were losing him so in the short time that uh Matt D's been with us
um he's really been phenomenal and uh setting a very high bar for the next person who's going to fill those shoes even though we' only having him for a short time so thank you again Matt and uh and I hope we see you often back in the bur um so I'm going to start um I do
have some Council reports I wanted to share uh some PSA announcements um this one from the month County Commissioner director Tom arnone uh ride in Monmouth um enhancing transportation services
this is what is now replacing scat I think I had once raised the question about uh transportation for medical services so formerly called scat they provide service to seniors 60 years of age and over and to disabled residents whose disability is either temporary or
permanent and they provide um medical trips including life sustaining treatments and it's offered at no charge uh so it's curved to curb service operation Monday through Friday 7:30 to 3:30 on a first come first Ser basis and
anyone who is interested um who uh qualifies in that category of 60 years of age or over or with a disability um can reach out to the m County transportation for this and I'm hoping that we can put this information on our
B website as a service to our community um I think we should yeah um and then from our d11 legislators uh Vin gopal Margie donlin and Lan Peter Paul there were um there was a I guess a quarterly Zoom update um from these folks I think
John Weber and I were both on this and two particular points I just wanted to make is that the former uh senior free and anchor programs is now called stay New Jersey and state New Jersey is kind of the umbrella for all of these and it's a
One-Stop shop for senior property tax relief so constituents can go to the site to determine eligibility um the threshold for senior relief is a $500,000 income level the prior program automatically renewed but this new
program requires a new application uh the team has offered to come to do an information session to our community and um I would hope and suggest that perh we can make use of that either to our senior club or as a a you know public
information session to community members who might be interested um the deadline for real ID and I think this is a deadline that's in concrete is May 7th I know that date was changing over the last few years but the real ID replaces a passport and license
when traveling internationally um inperson registration at the DMV is required to obtain a real ID and anyone interested must schedule an appointment um there's also an option to schedule a remote registration um service locally
if there's interest for us to do so and offer that to the community um and that would be in place if people have toed D so on to my reports um the Fletcher Lake commission met last Thursday March 13th uh the commission held its
reorganization of this meeting with Bradley Beach's Anthony Deo selected as chairperson Linda Henderson as secretary and Pam Reinhardt as treasur both of whom are from Ocean Grove a larger sign prohibiting electric vehicles on the
bridge that crosses Fletcher lake is being installed this week um thank you viio um our DPW will also coordinate signage with Neptune um the Bradley Beach DPW will also be staining the bridge to serve as a barrier to better protect the natural wood they've chosen
a light gray semi-transparent stain Galaxy geese has begun their services along Fletcher Lake please be advised that this is a Humane solution to remediate the congregation of geese that plague these Lakes no geese are being harmed in this process the DPW plans to
replace the garbage cans along the Bradley side of Fletcher Lake and finally the next commission meeting is scheduled for Thursday April 10th at 6: pm. uh here in this chamber and all are welcome um I will share the Rec
committee uh meeting and report and I have there are a lot of events that I'm going to be sharing so um the rec committee met a week ago Monday March 10th radio Bingo was a great success with 125 tickets sold and about $1,300
in Revenue split evenly between Recreation and Ladies Auxiliary Maan meets every Friday at the Bazi center from 1: to 3 open wreck runs Thursdays until 6:00 p.m. and Fridays until 7 p.m. the senior Club meets Wednesday March
26th 12:30 at the Bazi Center uh Family karaoke night is March 28th from between 6: and 8:00 P.M at the rec center admission is free Refreshments will be available for purchase the rec department is hosting a student drop off
for those attending the PTA gift auction March 30th uh the drop off runs from 2:30 to 7:30 p.m. it's $20 per child which includes games snacks dinner and a movie pre-registration is required and
here's an exciting lineup for April events pickle ball runs from the 15th of April to May 6th 10:30 a.m. the fee is $20 for the 4-we session space is still available on Tuesday Mornings Rec will also be offering Evening lessons in May
with two time slots details forthcoming uh Bachi spring season is almost here details will be out in a few weeks weeks student baseball softball Clinic runs from April 14th to the 18th 9:00 a.m. to noon a glow-in-the-dark
Easter egg hunt runs on April 12th at 7:30 p.m. for students in grades 5 and up at the rec center baseball field 49 Main Street the first monthly Bowling Club will take place on Wednesday April 30th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the
Bradley bowl 1217 Main Street it's $12 per person and includes shoes and two-hour Bowl reck is offering a student drop off associated with this event if there's sufficient interest and summer camp 2025 registration is open and running strong
the program runs for seven weeks June 30th to August 15th Monday through Friday 9: to 300 p.m. Camp is popular this year with already 80 students registered and I believe it's only open it's been open for about a week and a half U please go to the reg the
recreation home page for deta on all these events and to community pass for registration of rep events the the recreation board's next meeting is Monday April 7th 6:30 p.m at the rep Center and my final report is for the
Arts Council um the Arts Council is meeting this Friday March 21st to vote on membership following this vote the selected candidates will be submitted to the mayor for approval and appointments to be official in April once the council is filled they will reach reach out to
the volunteers for program support this includes those who have come forward with interest as well as the pool of artists who make up the visual arts Community there's much work to be done once the Arts Council is established with an Art Exhibit of Town artists at
Posh real estate scheduled for June 7 7th to the 14th in partnership with the Bradley Beach Alliance Visual Arts Community the VAC they also anticipate a Performing Arts event during the bbbc June Bradley Beach days June 7 through
8th partnering again with the VAC the Arts Council will host a porch popup Art Exhibit of Town artists at the James Bradley confirmed for August 23rd with a rain date of August 24th this summer they will also be hosting a mural
project for the r Center and that's thank you councilman councilman Leber thank you mayor I just want to say I've heard a lot of reports that was amazing what board Council woman you know there was County News there was State News News you could use and then
everything local that was really amazing thank you for that prepare for Less amazing um Matt I did not know that you were leaving so this was kind of a bummer but I have to recognize um I just sitting up here and watching the jaws
drop in the audience when you gave your first report speech whatever to the people of Bradley Beach you changed the tone um uh obviously for the better and people appreciated it and you have helped us turn this ship uh in Bradley Beach so you will be missed but I
definitely appreciate everything that you have done and if you want to find that I know where he eats dinner on Friday nights if you tell you about that no some place in Bradley Beach which is smart um happy St Patrick's Day to everybody I know that I celebrated I'm not Irish I married Irish but I had a
good time last night um on the Memorial Drive thing that councilwoman denovo mentioned uh I'm not sure you mentioned you can still comment on that till the end of the month till the 31st and so yeah we'll try and get that out I know I'm going to be encouraging the environmental commission to comment
because they had a lot of concerns about um walking and it's definitely it's all going to be safer in a lot of ways but um I think it's really it's a great expenditure of the County's money of that I think that should be really good um so I will read the first aid report
but I'm going to come clean and say um you know he was made to leaon S of fire on the first dat but they kept sending me their reports and it didn't even I just kept reading them here didn't say and they so I'm just going to read this one and then you're going to hear from
you do such a wonderful if you're ever not here um so for first a but for the operational period ending today the squad responded to six day calls and nine Night Calls for 15 calls 13 were for medical one was for fire and there was one out of town
Mutual Aid request for a motor vehicle accident in Ocean Grove the squad requested no Mutual aid from uh other towns for this period and they fulfilled 100% of their assignments for this operational period uh as always they're looking for volunteers for the first aid
Squad there's training for qualified individuals uh you can find the application on the town's website and they are also accepting applications for their Cadet Program for Young People 16 to 18 years ofe are interested in serving their
Community um I'm going to touch on a few other things that came up in our meeting tonight um starting with affordable housing I'm going to characterize that what we talked about tonight and what Jennifer was here for and what we're all working for as a council that's like
capital a capital H affordable housing meaning that's the affordable housing that we get credit for and the state recognizes and you know all this other stuff we still you know we have some work to do but um that's really that's characterize that um I want to put out
that there is lowercase a lowercase H affordable housing in in Bradley Beach or there's less and less of it um but I think about that a lot and I think about how we eliminate lowercase you know affordable housing when we when you take
a a small house a nice little cute Cottage maybe it's two bedrooms on a small lot and you turn it into this giant big thing that you know crabs out the neighbors and needs 10 variances to fit on the and all that stuff um that's just going in the other direction it's never going to become affordable anymore
so uh you know yes we need to do what we have to do for the state for Capital a capital H affordable housing but there's that other you know it's just basically smaller more modest housing and if we keep it the way it is it it is affordable housing even if it's not
officially in the the kind that we getting credit for so I just want to mention that um of course we all got news about the the cinema the movie theater going away I'm definitely sorry that that is happening but I am happy that we didn't spend a lot of your tax money on that
theater um it was going to be to the tune of 300 the plan was like $300,000 of our tax money going there so uh that didn't happen I'm still sad that the theater went away but um who knows what's next we'll definitely keep you up to date um on the subject of fines which
we updated a couple there's a big long list of fines which was kind of fun reading through those but um in there were you know sidewalks not clearing your sidewalk maybe now we're going to make it so uh I think one of the reason people didn't clear their sidewalks of snow because it's keeper to just pay the
fine than to pay some kids to sh your sidewalk so maybe now that will change um but not just snow sidewalks in general every kid in this town walks to school there's no school buses don't block the sidewalk you know shule your sidewalk get your neighbor to make a
plan if they don't live you be around um and when summer comes don't stack your cars in your driveway you're lucky enough to have a driveway and block the sidewalk because God forbid if somebody walks around you know to go on the street gets hit by a car I mean ask yourself who's getting sued um and then
on the Ada the the M mats and the handicap accessible showers that NSI has driven forward I just want to say that you know anything with handicap accessibility that is quite frankly it's Dei it's diversity it's equity and incl
Dei includes people with disabilities there's been a lot of talk about this in the news but you know here in Bradley Beach we want a diversity of different people with different abilities to be able to get onto our beach we want them to do that equitably we want to include all these people of different abilities to get onto our beach and unfortunately
maybe we're all sitting out here thinking well we don't have disabilities even though one in 10 Americans does have a disability it may not be a physical disability that you can see out on the outside but quite frankly we're all just one accident or one illness away from being one of those people so
don't think it doesn't affect you and uh you know disability stuff is is Dei stuff so keep that in mind I'm glad we moved in that direction thank you mayor for that and that is my report thank you councilman I'll keep my report fairly
brief for one the library board has been conducting an RFP for um historical restoration consultant will be voting on U hiring one of of those uh people who Who provided proposals and uh they've
got a you know they've got a lot that they are going to look at uh one thing I keep pushing specifically are the beautiful uh bronze doors uh there's still some question as to can they be restored to functionality uh but at least now they will have expertise guiding them not only for the doors but
for other aspects of the building itself uh and hopefully uh that expertise can guide them towards Grand funding so that's all coming up I believe it's on the 24th of this month is a the library board
meeting um then I also just wanted to comment on Mr dhy uh when I first met Matt already some people think maybe I've know Matt because he's been a mayor in Belmar for eight years seven years a council person for six or so years
before that um I think I met met once and John W uh coming out of a particular vote we we attended anyway met Matt in a driveway said hi didn't really know him all that well and then um when I was
elected he and I connected more for me to pick his brain as an ex- mayor um and the more I talked to him you know we were sharing a little history he explained that U he just kept telling me things you know you should do this when you're mayor look at this always go to
this resource never that resource that kind of coaching that you know a rookie gets I was a very old rookie but you know rookie mayor gets and um one thing led to another and I said hey you know what are you doing with your life any interest in being a ba maybe one thing
leads to another and uh in a relatively short period of time we agreed to dive into the breach together effective January one of this year but I guess it's important for everyone to know that I really didn't know Mr Jordy all that well if you're going to pick somebody to dive
into a Chasm and not quite know where you're going to fall um he's a good one to have in your side um it's been chaos for a couple months you know people have a sense that we that we inherited a lot of interesting stuff there's been a lot of uh organizational restructuring uh
there's been a lot of hiring of new people that Ma has led that charge clearly we had to get the the Union contract resolved LEL 152 um revamping all these ordinances uh I would I just want to go on record saying
that was unlap I mean no matter what came our way uh we we found ourselves laughing at a lot of the challenges but laughing almost with uh Defiance like we'll get this done it was um it was good partnering with you mat just to you
know get through those uh really tough ons and the one one thing that was particularly uh know worthy for me was when we n them I was leaving today the uh the employees we gathered the uh department heads around and the employees said well whoever replaces
this guy just make sure they communicate the way he did um so for all your strengths I I would say communication that was something that you brought to the table that the burrow was sorely missing and uh we'll just make sure that we use USR role model going forward so
thank you um and that concludes my my report um I'll open it up to the public comments uh Paula Gavin I live at 106 Evergreen and I'm here tonight to say a few things about the Bradley Beach Business and Community Alliance I wanted
just to reaffirm that we were created in 2019 as a part of the Bradley Beach strategic plan we are volunteer driven essentially we have since 2020 our first year of operation had either a resolution with the burrow or a
memorandum of understanding with the bur and we have fulfill that to the word we have consciously and deliberately partnered with the burrow to fulfill our requirements and our obligations secondly I want to say we have also fulfilled every requirement of the 51
C6 uh our involvement in the Bradley Cinema included their membership in the alliance A and B their support of our movies in the park we have been and we will continue to be a proponent of a Bradley s it is a part of our town we would love to see
continue but we have been advocates for a Bry Cinema through their membership as well as their support and that is it we are very proud of our mission we are proud of what we do for our residents our businesses and our profits we have a plan every year we report on
that plan we report on our results so I simply wanted to have for the public record our commitment to continue to fulfill our mission and to fulfill every requirement with the burough as well as being a final 1 C6 in good standing so
thank you for your support and thank you for listening thank you and Paula um I can't tell you how many times since taking over this role for a couple months now that I've been in meetings with folks throughout the state U they talk about
Chambers of Commerce in different towns and as recently as a week ago I met with the mayor uh Belmar and Avon and we were talking specifically about how how we can link our our businesses to uh state
level funding uh just to help our masy businesses and the matter what meeting I'm in somebody says how lucky uh Bradley is to have you and your org so thank you very much for that we're committed to do the right things right thank you appreciate
it yes Mr Curtis Jeff Curtis 2023 Avenue bridley Beach uh we remain deeply concerned about Bradley Beach's role in resolving the New Jersey affordable housing crisis and how barly AG will partnership with a
larger issue that is going on we need to recognize that affordability needs creating housing for young families seniors and people who are on fixed incomes whose incomes can be up to for an individual
$772,000 and for a family of four $130,000 families who will send their children children to our schools and teach our children or join our police force or extinguish our fires these are the kind of people that we want to build housing for so that they can live in
this community imagine we are now a community where your income needs to be more than $130,000 in order for you to be able to purchase a piece of property and live in this town so we collectively refuse to
provide or we want to re refuse to not provide our fair share of affordable housing as it's being requested of us in January the council passed a resolution that said they would accept the state's determination that Bradley Beach needed
to rehabilitate 64 units of Housing and add 30 new units of housing over the next 10 years to meet our affordable housing obligation when we have voiced Our concern we are told not to worry the council has a plan to meet the
obligation we're going to get the unit now we learn that the burough planner has calculated our way out of this kind of obligation determining that the Burl's fair share might be even zero units if they're applying some political
adjustments so I've asked to see these adjustments and I hope we will learn more about these adjustments since the planner tonight was clear that that has not been yet determined and is still up for negotiation so the first question I will ask the Council on behalf of us is Will the community have the opportunity not
only to understand how you get to zero units of obligation but will you present that plan and let us critique it before you submit it to the state on June 30th in 2016 and 17 you adopted a third
round plan some of you are sitting on the council who participated in that process and you acknowledged at that time that Bradley Beach had an unet me of 53 housing units we asked what happened then to reduce Our obligation
to zero units which you did last year I don't see any evidence that the barrel has added any affordable units in more than 25 years it's clear that Bradley Beach has been resisting building any affordable housing in our
community we have talked with local developers and we have talked with many other people who have a very different narrative than what the city council wants to tell us about why affordable housing is not being built in this town Bradley Beach when we moved here in
1980s had a balanced Community however however over the last several decades we have become a very exclusive community in Monmouth County and our exclusiveness is primarily determined by the rising cost of housing and this is a direct
result of government policy local government policy determining what can be built at what cannot be built in Bradley Beach we have intentionally been unresponsive to the spirit of the law which say sought to encourage Suburban
communities to build affordable housing so that we create Equitable and balanced communities our e participation in this effort has been negligable once again then I ask you to consider the spirit of the law it
appears we are doing everything possible to do as lit little as possible to meet our fair share frankly we now calculate our fair share as potentially being zero notada note I understand there is an ordinance in process to change our
housing policies by creating a special Zone in which a developer might be allowed to build a few affordable housing units why do we need to continue to do this kind of segregation New Jersey communities are noorus for using
laws and zoning regulations to create Special Districts where we divide us continually one from another now I have engaged in a lot of conversations and study over the last few weeks about how communities respond to the need to build balance and equital
communities in fact I listened this afternoon to the Congressional hearing about the need for affordable housing in this n United States and heard over and again the kinds of things things that Bradley Beach continues to do we continue as a local government to
inhibit the building of affordable housing by using laws and other practices to prevent it some of us are watching the council how they will respond to the housing crisis that everyone recognizes is real and we hope there is a will to both recognize the
incredible wealth that has been built in this community over the last two decades and no longer re resist building affordable housing but engage creatively in ways that we can create more balanced and Equitable community of course land use
is the big issue but land can be used in very creative and unique ways Mr need to wrap it up yeah and I'm I'll just say that I have a whole mess of questions that we want to know if we can have them answered publicly at something that is
an opportunity I'd be GL to share the questions with anybody and I'll close with housing is is a human right and we have failed for more than 25 years to meet a certain segment of our part okay thank you Mr C and uh and for
for everyone's benefit uh our plan is to be completely transparent we invited the plan here tonight to speak and we will as we are providing additional information we'll continue to share that with the public and you also heard there will be public uh meetings with the L
board as well uh Miss stuffy Linda her she said never mind I just have a few questions um not about affordable housing but I do know that a lot of people don't want it in their backyard oh sorry um Linda missa
Duffy 312 brle Bradley Beach um a lot of people don't want affordable housing in their backyard needless to say we can have bries and just about both of that but that's not actually expanding the area not not decreasing it but that's I'm just concerned about the demolition
of 3 U 319 with the air that was all on the news the other day about the cement dust I'm living across the street from two houses that just did their dry Ray with the cement blocks neither one of their contractors used a water spray my porch I cleaned twice and it's filthy
again number one and then number two oh so all those fees that are being raised fine that's we're always behind the ball stepping ahead with being up to date with things there are a few contractor or code fees that are in
there is that going to go to tourism or is that going to go into the fund the housing fund and how are we going to split the fees from tourism and affordable housing just by the renovations that's it uh so you're mixing a couple different things so
affordable housing has own correct fee structure so we won't be splitting it it everything that 1.5% residential and 2.5% commercial that's going to go into the port Housing Trust can in the future can you just provide me with the formula of how we
fund tourism I tried to read it and I couldn't figure it out it seems like quite a bit of money goes into tourism every time there's a c there's two fees there's $50 to go to the burrow and $75 to go to tourism but it's all the fees all the pur no it just want a
certificate of oy it's just a so where does all the permit fees go the $50 no the permits you get a permit for your hot water heater you get permit for everything that's a whole different that goes to construction that's part of our revenue for the make that's essentially covering the cost of having that
inspector come out and do the so it goes to that department but why are the fees all different the different magnitude of involvement you know magude of involvement he came over to do my hot water heater in the front house in the back house and couldn't figure it out well I I hope the new one is better I'm
not complaining about it I just want to make sure that all these new people that are coming out are educated in it because we didn't have that before well and and that is the goal and I'm I'm sure we're not going to hit 100% on that
goal but but the concept is the same we we want very knowledgeable educated people right you know doing the inspections but but to partly answer your question we're not we're just always have the best talent doing that work but the fees themselves had not been updated
oh I agree with that so we had to BU the fees so another question on three 19 Lorraine who's going to remove the things to sell like the windows are in you buy a window who takes it out the purchaser the purchaser oh so part of
the contract of sale okay and who was one oh the bamboo are we going to ever address the bamboo that's in town I know it's on private property but it's invading other people's property is that going to be addressed have an ordinance about it I know but it hasn't been settled okay so the I mean the ordinance
it's it's not unfortunately I would to it to have been different but the ordinance say it's not not illegal just to have bamboo there but it becomes illegal once it's invaded your neighbor property and they have complained about it that's when people have to do it so you might see bamboo here somebody complained about it and it's being dealt
with and then there's bamboo across the street and nobody complained about it so we there's no mechanism for to just send people out say hey but I think the state's going to Banning bamboo completely well that would be great they should have done that 10 years ago but yeah exactly all right thank you guys
thank you very much for serving our town I appreciate you enjoy your future any other comments or questions yes Beth Kepler 504 Central Avenue here in town um I'm going to continue where I
left off in what I was reading before I don't understand where I was going with it in relationship the resolution for this evening um I'm going to start with here residents have long worried about the Blurred Lines and Shady recordkeeping going back to Council
meetings I've shared Clips recently on my YouTube channel from 2021 to 2024 all demonstrating residents and council members raising concerns over things such as shared borrow addresses on bbca
letterhead shared services between the burrow and the bbca co mingling of trust fund money sources of payments for events violations of borrow ordinances not honoring tourism board decisions made by official vote and overriding
tourism officials Authority completely invoking special privileges for waivers of permit fees overlapping roles of board members between the bbca and burrow of government officials creating conflicts of interests between the bbca and our burough government for these
multiple aforementioned detailed reasons I just cited I strongly suggest that the borrow hold a workshop to publicly discuss severing ties with the bbca and instead revive the Bradley Beach borrow Chamber of Commerce and business
Alliance completely under full borrow oversight and control with carefully hired qualified staff transparent operations and 100% accountability to this barl Administration just like our well-regulated and operated DPW or
Police Department because here's the deeper truth patterns of gross mismanagement fiscal chaos and self-serving decisions strongly suggest an intend to undermine our borrow solvency I implore everyone listening to
my words to please watch a movie documentary that's available for free on YouTube it's 1 hour it's called all the queen horses it's a shocking 1hour documentary about a small town bled dry by their trusted officials it feels eerily
familiar where was our federal covid money spent what was the $99,000 2023 Federal female payment really about what did the 2023 and 2024 aits reveal what came of the
New Jersey com trollers August 20124 investigation demanding 23 financial documents standing from the entire term of one mayor too many questions linger in our left unanswered our town and the residents deserve those answers we must
follow the money we have an obligation to get to the bottom of what really happened not just change course and move on because now we have a trustworthy Administration there must be accountability for what has happened over the past 12 years in this community therefore I respectfully request that we
bring back the burrow of Bradley Beach Chamber of Commerce and business Alliance under the control of the burrow offering full transparency and accountability to taxpaying Residents and I'd like to reiterate in case it was lost on anyone the first time the there is an
overlap of between the bbca the burrow government and its connection with the beach Cinema which residents lost tens of thousands of dollars it wasn't just a failed operation people in this town lost a lot of money there was a resident
Cinema coowner who sat on our land use board appointed by the mayor and was also a member of the bbca alongside the council president who WR not Mr Noble a previous council president a resident who served as an acting borrow business
administrator and the bbca board Treasurer and the previous mayor also was on this board so there is a lot of not just comingling of money within funds but an overlap of burrow officials
on a private board that whose books the 501 C6 is different than a 501c3 a 501c3 the books are not requ are required in a 501c3 to be available and to be open to to the public for review but a 51 C6 is
a hybrid nonprofit whose records are not open to review and so I just want to leave you with that and I want to thank Mr DY for stepping in and really you know chaotic time in our borrow and
somebody else our loss is going to be somebody else's gain and I thank you for standing with our mayor and our Council and helping us try to make sense of what we were left with and uh congratulations that that's it thank you
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children thank you for all you did I've been counting down your days with you as you know you have 13 left I am getting with the possibilities of what you can accomplish in 13 days and if the event that you think
your to-do list is done I am more than happy to augment um so it was me who wanted the postmortem and they should have included civilians and they should have included
pnls that being said I have a idea for you to ponder so it was the Engle stat Administration if I remember correctly and I know I do that um we going to keep our taxes down so they decided to pill
for the Beach utility and the sewer utility and the something else in order to put Services provided by
DBW and police department and whoever else into the oh and the ba into the current fund so why can't that happen with tourism they use 701 Main Street for
their purchases or whatever you want to call it they use DPW for their services and they use I guess the police department for whatever it is the police department does um instead of going with events and saying oh it's going to be
this amount of dollars or this okay would I think it would just simplify things um I don't know how the angelat administration figured out its formula so I would probably challenge the fact that 25% of the Ba's time is spent on the
beach but that being said um I would think that this governing body could do something that would be Equitable with taking some of that tourism funding and moving it to the Cent fund just a suggestion you never know
what might stick I don't know the rules I don't know the ordinances you know that's not my job I mean to the we'd have to change the form allocation we can't take it out of the tours of trust but the tours of money that is money that shows up in the current fund it's
not yeah but it's it's well there's special events and there's tourism the tourism there's two accounts and they specifically refer to the tal trust sure but as opposed to it's not part of the Beach utility or another utility like it's a whole different fund the beach
when you talking about what previous administrations did moving money from the beach sewer utility to help cover costs in the current fund that's what I mean I remember being part of the council that didn't really like that a lot of fights over that to be the way we are now okay but the point is it's a
whole separate like use the word fun but it's not just like an account to the whole fun that gets accounted Bo I'm just saying to redirect money that's all because also you know when we
get po more feel better sorry I'm going to there's a by my bag there's um confused me um which is isn't hard to do um there there's just got to be an
easy way um and to come in here and do the presentation that we had um of that $77,000 let say $70,000 balance
um does that incl salary I mean we go through this with the rec center we have all these little things that are utilizing Services of the taxpayers that are not necessarily the taxpayers and I'm just trying to simplify it and get
more money for you guys to spend that's all the testing thank you thank you no other uh Thomas J Coan 612 Third Avenue uh I have a couple questions for councilman
the wiki because you said something that really shocked me um uh the grading plan was one thing and we've spoken about that I've been pretty um adamant about that but you mentioned Freehold soils so so was Freehold soils was there
ever an application when this building was put out for demolition by the previous administration to even contact Freehold soils any project that has a certain square footage has to have a fre conservation
permit um I don't know if the permit was um given as a responsibility of the contractor to submit that would be an option or whether or not you know in our case what we want to do is expedite that permit and then provide that fee and have our engineer submit that prior to
the demolution that that'll be done as part of tonight's resolution in their proposal to do that guys oh great thank you thank you very much and and will it come back to the land use board and be done properly this time yeah we want I want to discuss that with
with the board and Council on um Thursday at the land board what is that process and what do we have to do in order to accomplish it great thank you very much for your followup on that I really appreciate it um the uh I just want to comment on the affordable housing because you know apparently there's people that have been
researching this the last few weeks um um I've attended every meeting for 301 Main Street their extension meetings I've attended every meeting for 811 Main Street there are extension meetings and at each meeting I said where are the
affordable units and I was always told oh no no we don't have to supply them the applicants attorney said we don't have to supply them so uh apparently developers don't want to build but I appreciate this Council holding the feet to the fire um
I have the emails from 2017 where I contacted the fair share housing center about 301 me I got nothing I got nothing so I don't know where these Advocates just pop up now in round four when the Bradley Beach political machine of the
last 12 years have done zero so I want to compliment you as a council for actually making the trust fund work finally um and and also following up with round four and I look forward to the reasonable expectation for more
affordable units in Bradley Beach with the overlay changes that will be made but also for us to meet the 64 at the 20% set aside that was commented on previously by Miss Bean we would need 500 and I'm sorry
256 market rate units to get to that 20% set aside of 64 I don't know where we're putting them because we are in the top 50 of 564 municipalities for density so I can't figure out unless we're going to
go 10 story high which I don't think anyone wants so I look forward to this process and again I want to thank you for bringing this beam in tonight and um Mr dy I want to thank you for your 90 days you've done a fantastic job but I'm just so puzzled how the puppet master
has to come to the meeting tonight and find out about this so I don't understand how that happened thank you very much okay let's turn to the zoom hi Mia hi hope you can hear me um
terrific I wanted to thank I I hope viio is still in the room there but it was just amazing I left the meeting two weeks ago and I drove down Madison Avenue because I was like gosh I hope I didn't make up what I just said during the meeting as far as the three-way stop
sign and the confusion with the way the the signs were labeled but I saw them I kept looking I'm like maybe it's because it's dark the next day or within two days because I go to the gym at least every other day I drove down and I
noticed the change had happened already where I could tell they were going to they tore whatever was down at of confusion there was nothing there that showed whether it was three-way two-way or four-way but within a week it or maybe seven or 10 days it now shows
three-way signs um so when you're driving down Madison Avenue you know what all the stop signs are at each of the corners so I was just very impressed by that so thank you very much it was like instantaneous I did not expect that at all and I was shocked to see that not
shocked because our our DPW is terrific but it was just amazing to see that just by attending a meeting that a change happen so quickly so thank you so much I don't know is he still in the room thank you oh good thank you I'm I really you
for apprciate being heard and if I remain there I just want to say thank you to Mia like you just said thank you for letting us know uh the the residents are eyes and ears and um I I get a lot of input from different people even
through Facebook and we respond to it so um it's our pleasure we serve the residents and thank you again for bringing it to our to G's attention and everybody else's we appreciate that no it's the sign behind you Jane yes that's
that's what it's all everybody and we're gonna miss you Matt sorry you couldn't stay with us thank you is another yes do Greenberg Mr Greenberg hey guys hey do Don Greenberg
uh 302 Parkplace Avenue uh I had a question um recently um in the in the newspapers you've been seeing a lot of towns uh probably the closest one to us man the passing construction dust
ordinances and I was wondering if that's on the plate of the council for us to do that um last year when a neighbor of mine was having their house to um um I remember seeing the workers out there sitting right on the sidewalk cutting
AAC which if any of you know what that is it's made of PVC which is basically plastic with clouds of white dust washing into the um sewers microplastics all over the place maybe that's what's making Jane cough
yeah sorry Don but uh but so my guess my my point is um are we going to be uh talking to m Beach some of the other towns that are passing these ordinances and passing one of our own which would uh positively affect the environment of
our to and help of our residents and Don I'll be happy to um fill in the Council on all the details of such ordinances since I am familiar with them but to answer your question that hasn't happened yet but how about I have a conversation with them
all cool thanks thanks John appreciate it are there any other questions okay we will move on to U executive session item 15 and there is none and therefore we are ready to adjourn so
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