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everything for end it coule it's not summer but but I'd like to set an expectation to the professionals this is true we got to get this start okay that's cool this is from the last
meeting this happen here I I'll take afternoon I think we're going away from these blinders anyway fine out to do that and if you feel like it I
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to you that's yours call this meeting to order Pledge of Allegiance pledge ALG to the flag of the United States of America and to the republ for 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 coar and the new coaster on December the 19th of 2024 that a copy has been placed on the bulletin board in
the burough office and that a copy has been filed with the municipal clerk as a courtesy to the public this meeting may be attended via Zoom if for any reason 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 Quorum Mr Noble here M greenl here Mr nowiki here Mr Weber here mayor gobos here okay 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 mik 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 bur planner Miss Jen beam toh present a workshop on affordable housing Jennifer
um is that good right there good evening everybody good evening 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 happen 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 but you and a declaratory judment action was filed on think by Ron pacero who 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 filed 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 projects this time around in
what they call called 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 municip 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 appointed adjudicator who's a planner who basically works for the judge as well as a representative of
fare housing center who's an advocate the advocacy group for loow to moded income households and you work through 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 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 appr program that we will enter into with the county that would manage any Rehabilitation of of
households that are lowed amount of income they're given a 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 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% agree with this but it is what we have which is 13822 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 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 factor is multiplied by the
13,820 number to get us to the 30 it is very important to note that our laying 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 Lanigan 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 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 ma a a matter 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 set aside ordinance across the entire Bureau which says if a project is approved at five or more units 20% have to be affordable if it's approved so 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 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 that 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 the state before the June 30th deadline we ask some questions questions
for M be I have question go 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 had asked you this but just for some clarity that rehab thing did you say it's run by the county like the
municipality the county has a program so most towns in Mammoth 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 RS for Rehab is 10,000 a unit that's 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 to like add it 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 oh this doesn't look so good they need new siding but does that 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 where it kind of didn't make sense because thought well there's no place like that you know no place in bradle beach that has doesn't have full kitchen facilities or like running water in full bathrooms and stuff like that so I wasn't sure it applied I mean happy to leave the number 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 Pres 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 a 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 y 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 deteriorated how to s 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 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's housing that's out of
compliance with our code like shouldn't there be some kind of interaction with the code off they just call that that's what it's just called but you definitely can talk to the code construction and and do it that way absolutely okay great thank you very much you're welcome please so I'm just raising up a
bigger level question you mentioned 159 lawsuits overall in the 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 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 vacant land adjustment so we would still be in the same position my second question is um we would tag on to the county program
theoretically right so is the county administer this program so you know they have the you 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 e restriction 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 bur'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 please one last one um You 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 a 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 10year 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 and 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 allocate up to 20% for administrative fees so like for me for Ron uh the courtmaster which or adjudicator now that that we responsible for paying her bills um that comes out of that administrative fi so we
projected right so 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 deviate from let's say you come up with a very cool idea Spring Lake bought the old W sargo 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 sh 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 but um homeowners who either rent out uh secondary structures or or multi-unit 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 in the details and
the administration of the rehab 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 qualify okay right and the other question I have is I think it was at last or or prior council meeting we came up with a number of ne7 on new where what was that number from I have no idea where the number came
from can't negative well with the credits toward I think there was an exercise you might have gone through with Mr Dy where you you talk 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 would easily 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 for 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 Oxford home whatever whichever units are they are and and meeting sorry questions meeting that 13 I mean we still have that obligation but I think we were in our
minds there's at least agreements or verbal agreements to build some here and some there right and get okay so that's how we're 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 comp liance plan and
then the Oxford units will be the bridge the gap and give us whatever us I think that's how the the court will want matter that was one of my questions I know we're exceeding our requirements and if we could carry into the next round okay yeah right so miss bam just a
couple more quick questions uh you mentioned the 10-year plan we have and that it can be revised many times but the deadline for initial submission June 30th yes um how does that happen between now and junee 30th 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 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 is 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 an 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 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 they'd be at the planning board and 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 propose I think that's what it's still called right a judgment propos you think
yeah and 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 look
like now you mentioned that uh we'll have this 10-year plan you personally will be evaluating our current ordinances and Trust balance 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 know unless somebody paid in last week
um how will that impact your 10year plan will you not anti you and the others involved not anticipate our uh active participating in Rehabilitation work 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 court approves our process there's a hearing where we have to demonstrate that we're providing a fair opportunity for load 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 rehabbing
anything until the plans approve 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 a unbelievably aggressive schedule but you know they want to you want to have it in by June 30th so you maintain immunity while they're reviewing the plan and approving it once that gets done and you get your judgment uh compliance and proposed you're immune
from any lawsuit having to do with affordable housing so so quick question on mayor's question so if there's no money in the trust and all of a sudden you say there's no development there no money collected whatever reason and here's November and and we're you know in a
position of people to start submitting applications if there's no money then we can't actually do the program 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 and something comes up you're gonna 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 with a 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 is going to be another six month period from January
to July 1 if there are no more questions I'd like to one Quicky okay you said that we have to administer that program the county rehab program we have to have an administrative agent is going to be an outside consultant you're going to need to appoint someone in in Bur Hall
as your Municipal housing L on 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 handle it on
your behalf can we use trust fund money to pay that agent yes thank you once we have trust for money I understand um I'll take the uh the unusual position right now of uh making a motion that we open up question for the public because
Miss beam will be leaving us I presume after the presentation so normally we wait but a show of hands are there any questions for Miss be mayor would you want question uh please Matt one second
so simple question how many new affordable units is the bur of Bradley Beach responsible for building so let me just do some Ma so the obligation will be thir 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 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 which were 12 which would bring it down to negative five which means you have a credit of five going
forward into 2035 correct but you also get bonus credits for the O house units simple question yeah how many new affordable units is the burrow of Bradley Beach responsible for 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 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 balance will be handled with the Oxford House but that's today and that hasn't been decided so like I don't understand the number of units is nine units have to be proved I think Mr dh's kind of counting the the ooser house the 12
units and you're not yet counting those yes I am when you count the nine yeah but also asking the ones that you're they have to actually get built they're not built yet 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 conversations but we the bottom line is the vacant land 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 oxer house whatever that's the number good okay now let's open up to the public yeah respectfully what is it that I'm not answering because I think
he's asking new but it's up to you we don't know right so it's not carbing yeah they don't say like half half we new so okay we have to come up with nine credits nine units okay great I know but you don't necessarily need to come up
with nine new units if you have 12 Oxford units correct that would still be accepted 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 main
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 Surplus credits at the end of the day we we should be in a position that we've uh met Our obligation questions from the audience
was some was there hand in the back yes oh Mr Curtis 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 notra the numbers 53 but I'll assume it 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 need were adjusting it or you 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 we ow from round three that's not from round three that's Our obligation now our unmet need will be bigger so the starting number will be higher will
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 credit 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 on to compliance um and this town has never done an assessment to know whether they have any Rehabilitation housing units at all or not understand it this town is totally lack in understanding that and no one
knows whether they're 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 because so you're aware of that we're aware of that and and following up on that comment um you mentioned earlier about the 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 at 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 the driveby kind
of process that' have to be done through our code enforcement is that correct I mean I would appreciate C enforcement going 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 great thank you other
questions re I don't understand this quote Enforcement issue because a year or so ago called me up and they said we either have to come into your house or you have
to pull up a leg on your phone and you have to walk through your house with your phone so somebody was in everybody's house for tax purpos that's assessment that's I mean you're right but 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 not it exists maybe for a different purpose but it exists I'm guessing that well first of all just so everybody knows a fifth of
the houses 20% of the houses get actually a visual inspection either the way you know somebody comes and walks through or the way you describe it 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 U for proper assessment reasons
but I would imagine that what you just said is true if it was they gather that information for this reason they can't like hand it over to the code Department to see if there's your house is deficient for some in yeah substandard housing kind of reason I would imagine not I would mention a
guest you correct but I don't know yeah I would also suggest there's some people who are very prideful 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 correct if I'm WR 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 a compliance program absolutely let's take a couple more questions U Mr go did you
still 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 settis yes which is the 20% and you
also you already have the DBW which is going to have to be looked that as well perfect then that'll be done by the the land use board it will will start with us it will get sent to fair share and the court adjudicator for their review on 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 will be done after like after the 30th deadline perfect and then based on the time line of the June 30th what should the L use board be looking at in terms
of having their meeting they have to wait for the council first no so we I would advise 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 deadlines keeping in mind it has to go back to them before the 30th I think the document has to be done undone Before Memorial Day in order to do the noticing get everything done um be able
to get to the planning board L for my PO and back to the governing body so that it gets 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 one yet so because they're focused on the the legal challenges
right now so we can 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 great 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 groups and siding and thing that you know so is
that something we could do then just promote it yes internally absolutely okay you put on website whatever I don't know how you like notify people of things you know put a 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 stuffy what's the minimum size of each unit that possibly could be one bedroom two bedroom they it's it's uh typically a one-bedroom is like 650 700 square feet
a two-bedroom is around 1,100 square feet the three bedroom is closer to 13 so what amount of bedrooms are so the uh have 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 the 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 on how the bedroom distribution and that's only for the afford there's no regulatory requirement dictating the bedroom distribution for the market it un yes um I understand that if the landlord
is of mean they don't qualify for the program to fix up their property what is there something else that will encourage a landlord of being to fix up their property if their property is not
in good I mean the fact that they're can to get free money if they stay on the property for 10 years they could get a $25 $30,000 loan to fix up their property and not have to pay that's an incentive if you stay in the property for 10 years the loan is Forgiven so you don't have to owner stay the
tenant whoever is a participant in the rehab has to occupy the unit for 10 years or longer to get has to stay we'll we'll take one more question Beth kep um cly in your comments you mentioned that you um had P
permits um to review for the purpose of your evaluation like construction permits what was it that you mentioned about perms I I'm not sure we don't pull any constructions at all has something to do
with that there's no we basically do a I think maybe you're referring to what you would do would be with the construction office see to to figure out money go into thect so you would oh that or look at you know what has come 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 because we're going to need to 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 think we're going to get $250,000 in the fun of year we have to have some basis so we do that as a a check to just
make sure we're not the permits that have been granted over the last several years 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 if an average value in increase of 100,000 and you have 10 average per year you 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 hadn't set up the trust and started to collect the fees you know over the last since 200 and uh 17 and I was trying to determine how much money should we have in our
account based on retroactively and I was told that I had to give specific addresses that it was not possible to determine you know what you know how many new permits new build 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've 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 beam thank you very
much welcome for joining us tonight thank you and uh we will make sure to ask Miss Bean 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 lead but it it's referen as fallen heroes eligibility criteria and specifically as you all know we have a World War I Monument the oblisk at Riley Park seven war hero died in combat names
on that Monument we have another 11 on our World War II monument which is over near the rec center ballfields there and we also have one um person who died in Vietnam so we have a total of 19 um
recognized fallen heroes already in Bradley Beach um 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 per would that person who died be eligible for Bradley Beach War memorials I think most people would say no there wasn't a connection to Bradley at 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 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 at a Bradley Beach Fallen Hero in particular someone who 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 Honore was a verifiable current or previous resident of Bradley Beach or that this potential Honore 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 sustain 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 Bradley 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 an action 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 create this from scratch I've taken this from bits and pieces of uh what other municipalities use U what other organizations use to identify um
Fallen Hero um uh individuals so I sered 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'd want to suggest uh because I do think bradle be 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 quick comment I agree that we should have some criteria because otherwise um nobody understands
you know how do you get that recognition um my only commment or question would be is um a the combat zone that's a I forget the term you use 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 is it 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 Y and Al it sounds
like what you just read is was more it was more broad than maybe Bill Duffy's definition would you is that fair Bill well Bill Duffy's definition specifically was the more technical aspects for example the definition of a
designated combat zone um where I borrowed 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 live there so it sounds like more combination
broader and I think broader is is good because let's just say somebody like said they moved here and they only lived here for a few months and but wherever they lived before that maybe that town doesn't have a memorial to work to 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 there yeah I can easily follow up on the your point while about combat Z 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 sh thoughts um I'm sort of in agreement and I do think that this a broader scope is useful because there
are contingencies that you know we want to consider that may not be so straightforward okay I'm going to conclude the the workshop I'm going to ask to hold audience questions until we get to the um item what is it number eight just
because normally we do include questions um including the workshops uh right now though I would like to switch to item um six on our agenda presentations and bids and we have our own Amy Hall our director of Tourism who's gonna do a a
brief presentation hi welcome hi welcome so I don't know how this works with the PowerPoint I sent in Michelle will do that okay she'll I'm gon to 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 Amy's ready
for you does anybody here go to Jazz Fest thise here yes resp I did yeah Michelle are you there um actually I think this is very quick
okay so here's the jazz festival tourism report great next slide second be here oh you want me to click it or she's there we go okay 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 storm um the goals were to support Brown the beach businesses introduce visitors to Bradley Beach collect new emails for the
burough mailing list and welcome new followers on social channels all of which it did next slide uh 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 poor and five being excellent please rate the event so as you can see we have a lot of five stars um people really love 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 up
taking 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 on this whole circle this is where we brought people in from from New York uh Staten Island we Hawkin Howell Jackson Long Branch Floren Park 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 Seawall architecture saxophone was 500 with Posh
and rapperport wood floors trumpet was a th with New Jersey water and the county and then at the last minute I did like a friends JazzFest thing for Ohan Rising they gave us $25 of 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
uh and and my mom was 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 high-end publication um from North Jersey and this is like the two the ran in the co-star and the coastar and then after the event we had the front page on the postar 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 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 and 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 y 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 ticket sales so because I I put these in here because we had thought of it and I got probably 20 different answers from
people who came who would be willing to give us 20 or $30 say it um so that's for next year uh next slide oh so I put this in because I also reached out to the 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 the Jazz scene and he said currently there's no Jazz Center in MTH 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 mom County much like New Brunswick has playing 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 will be the Ocean Avenue Stoppers uh 7 o'clock show in in Riley Park B Miss gravy be
res so um that's my report that was awesome uh I'll say right away that as you saw by pictures that most of the council were was able to attend I was there and the second night and it was awesome I I was more
than impressed at the talent that you brought to Bradley Beach so thank you for that um but let's open up for first comments from the council any comments for aming 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 W me hear any questions from the from the
audience Julie I would just like to say I was there for two nights and it was fabulous thank you Amy and and then all the students it was like a really nice um organized event and I think with time it it just will it get better and better
and better students the the grammar school students participated um you always get me to volunteer yeah great volunte 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 yeah thank you and just to add we did have um the PTA was involved they sold snacks and they ended up raising uh like $350 which was good for chips and soda 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 Joseph from the police department was there we had lots of people helping the school was great the custodial staff was great um
Anthony Lea 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 I'm nobody
realizes how beautiful that theater is it is a stunning stunning theater especially the ceiling yeah really is something I might add too that Amy's been doing this for a while I'm the leaz on from tourism and she really thinks out of the box and a lot of people come up 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 you 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 household business meeting minutes there second Mr Noble yes M green BL yes I'm
sorry actually I wasn't here last meeting so I would prefer to obain I'm sorry that's okay um where was I okay okay you obain the scre L yes Mr nii I wasn't here also but I did watch the
video and so I would say this okay um that's allow that's okay okay cool all right thank you um it's not a legal reason you have to say if you don't feel like you knew what happened you know
minutes thank you okay um I will vote Yes yes thank you okay thank you now we get to item eight on the agenda public comments or questions pertaining to the agenda only Mr
shapkin name and address please Paul yes PA and the champion 411 a half lorine 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 uh almost half of our deceased in the first world war di 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 a war or an action we military criteria of dying of of of
their disease or wounds or whatever being c 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 in the first world war a lot of
Americans fought for the French the British or the Canad for the first three years of the war before the Americans got into it uh similarly there's always been you know Veterans of of Allied
armies who are Americans might have families at burn Brad Beach I just throw that out that's a a good point we certainly considered thank you other questions Rick
Mar 116 L um when you go over resolution 2025 133 regarding the mats we don't the detail of what the M are being used for that's yes we will
thank other questions about the agenda Mr ke good evening Beth Kepler 504 Central Bradley Beach um I'd like to read statement in regard to resolution on the agenda tonight 2025
1119 the reter influence and corrupt organization act Rea is defined as any group formal or informal that commits a pattern of racketeering 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 responsible for ushering in this new
organization calling it his own creation that same later Le 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 swor in began championing championing local private business in interviews 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 bbbc alongside a council president a resident
who served as acting borrow business administrator and the bbca board Treasurer residents donated generously to this project trusting the endorsements and solicitations of our 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 woes 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 shod 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 themea signs was the burrow
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 posted the
video to that exchange on my YouTube channel under my name Beth Kepler for all to save I open requested the document surrounding this 2023 SEMA 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 a over request by me revealed that there are in fact 53 bank accounts double what the amount we were told spread across three Banks the burrow admits it doesn't track their purposes or reconcile them and the 53
bank accounts for town our size very unusual why the discrepancy why the silence residents have long worried about the Blurred Lines and Shady record keeping 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 viral addresses on dbb
BCA 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 public comments all right U Miss 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 uh the agenda the agenda item that you referenced is purely a process for for receiving payment from the bbca 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 um the end of the meeting at the end of my comment is where I was able to how it ties into the resolution that's going to be approved but I ran out of time and I
didn't want to retask because I wanted everybody to so in the gravity of what I was saying you just you have so many points it was I guess we needed so yeah ties in understood I'm just trying to be
respectful of I appreciate you indulging in the second half of my comments when I completed you'll be able to hear the point that I'm driving okay are there other comments about the agenda we have hands up here Erica oh uh
yeah you have one on Z M Mullen Miss Mullen Mia m m okay hi me can you hear me 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 202- 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 with Neptune City and we can I don't know if they have a Rec Center I have no idea um and how does this affect Courtney's role uh this being a
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 recck director because we're doing going to do shared services I'll just give a quick summary we 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 at our rec center at our uh resident fee level so we did this in Prior years we're doing it again extending them the same $660 fee to participate that we uh provide to our own our own children um the second one
is a shared service with the wreck Center Director herself Courtney papis um Courtney made the case that um 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 our rec center and Neptune cities Neptune City will uh pay us basically half of Courtney's costs so um 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 coordinate with Neptune City so does Neptune City have a a Rec director now or they don't is what it sounds like they have and he's
retiring oh okay and then do they have their own wreck 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 okay they do yes okay just just wondered 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 I
can't see one more good oh I'm sorry Kristen money hi Christ M the ring um so if we're going to do shared services with net tun does that mean that we'll get to use because they do ni Rec to they also have great Senior Services does that
mean that our seniors can use their services now at their Rec Center at this juncture that is not yet resolved that that is not captured in tonight's agenda but but it is a a a part of ongoing discussion okay 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 2025-the the local supplemental Violations Bureau 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 court administrator uh uh I've engaged council members as well shaa greenblat and basically we have gone through a process of updating
fees that were updated in the past some of them updated in 205 20 years ago others last updated in 1980 so we have some fairly significant price increases and we've been behind
APR a little compared to other local municipality so this is intended to bring us up to um 2025 and and 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 it is largely all f focused on court related fees and fines any comments I'll make a motion that we
introduce ordinance 20 25-11 second mrble yes M greenl yes Mr nowicki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gboi yes okay or introduction of ordinance 2025-the Bank um and basically we're uh we're
adding 1% to what is an authorized two and a half% I know Mr Coen in the past you've you've raised some concerns um this is as we've talked to our CFO a relatively standard adjustment that most municipalities undertake any
comments I would just ask mayor um looking ahead here for our budget reconciliation setting the actual budget what is our time frame for doing that we are we begun that process um the reason we 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 um one of our other resolutions in
tonight's um agenda in fact is Shifting uh Dollars around from reserves to enable us to make those payments and 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 combine 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 uh um if no other question no other comments I'll make a motion that we introduce ordinance 2025 -12 second Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr nowicki yes
Mr Weber yes mayor gubitosi yes introduction of ordinance 20253 an ordinance establishing certain salaries of certain officers and employees of the burough of Bradley Beach in the county of mmth and the state of New Jersey and repealing any and all other ordinances
inconsistent here with this is basically our salary ordinance which establishes ranges by uh by role within the burrow of salary ranges and um the last time this was updated was 2021 so not quite as bad as some of our
fins but nonetheless about a a four-year Hiatus and um I want to tip ah hat a little bit to Mr dhy who worked on this with was it you as well M yes counc so so thank you both for your input on this
any questions or comments about this ordinance okay no comments um I will make a motion that we introduce ordinance 2025-the number 10 Communications uh 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 u 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 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 describes law lawsuits and risk Pro okay yeah it's a risk management letter 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 audit report soon and um then we will immediately begin uh preparing the corrective Action Report which we've had historic difficulties doing um while under Communications I'm going to stray from our format ever so slightly because
I did ask Mr cfone our director of 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 um first and foremost I had a nice launch today with councilman nowiki uh we went over
some of the upcoming projects and I wanted to thank him for that very informative on my part hopefully I'll offer the same back to you um we did our first Rush pickup of the year uh in March uh we have leaf pickup starting in April April 1 um two brush pickups
starting you know that 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'll 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 a par so just wanted to let
Miss Mullen know that they were all taken care of um from one end of town all the way to the other on Madison Avenue um we ordered the M mats um for Evergreen and Cliff Avenue they're 10
foot wide they were 50 foot uh in length and um they're going to go out just beyond the dunes 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 amongst other things so we are at a very busy time and uh that's my two sense 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 J just jumping on everything no problem I have a question question um I noticed that the um the concrete Plateau under what where the showers were so you've already
removed those we removed that um 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 on actually when they use the
shower the water would run out to the Pavers so we eliminated that the one on everen correct and so new showers are being installed as well and will they have automatic shut offs um I I have to I'm going to rely on my assistant for that
but what exact um heard of Ed the paddle handles the um automatic shut offs with the sand they get stuck on more than off we've had a lot of problems with them for years and on you can take a clean them rebuild
them a week later say problem so we prefer to use the paddles and they handicap paddles and um they're much cheaper to replace and right may not look as nice but they're they work just as good can we put
signage up to remind people the water off because sometimes people walk away without turning the water off yeah if there's a location that is an issue but those 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 it self
on its own if they do get stuck you know we get to that location somebody would 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 technically you know doing the same template as
theirs we like to think it's going to be a little better um but uh yeah I think they'll shut themselves off thank you Bea no problem okay we'll move to item 11 resolutions and 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 exemp Firemen's 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 application second uh Mr Noble yes Mr Green black yes Mr noi yes Mr yes mayy Ki yes okay regarding the EXC
me yes so the MTH County black party I'm just wondering you maybe some guidance here because if you're a resident on Mammoth should we should that be coming off that consent and maybe address that separately I don't believe that I I or
maybe councilman can actually vote on that you understand question yeah you live on the street the B part is being hel consent agenda so we we couldn't participate in the overall consent agenda with that item we can't from
stre two well yeah then maybe remove that and vote separately on and while we have this topic going are there any other uh discussion points for consent agenda we'll make that a motion but any other comments or we good
okay uh Paul would you I'll make the motion that we vote out separately 202- 1118 the block party on Mohamed second Mr Noble yes Miss greenlet yes Mr nowiki yes Mr Weber
yes mayor gubitosi yes okay I'll make a motion that we U accept the consent agenda resolution items 2025-the 45-1 122 is there second second Mr Noble yes s greenl yes s nowicki yes Mr Weber
yes mayor yes okay make a motion to uh approve 202- 1118 a block party for Mammoth Avenue Sunday July 13th rain date of Sunday August 3rd 5:00 P p.m. to 9:00 P p.m. second Mr Noble yes uh M
greenl um abstain Mr nowiki Mr Weber yes mayor GUI we have all these Council people partying on you're all invited to Warrant recusal this better be like a
good I will vote Yes two one block one block okay okay we'll move to individual resolutions um starting with 2025 1113 authorizing public sale of surplus property consisting of certain artifacts and other items from the buroughs form
Church property at 3119 lorine Avenue Council woman yeah I've been handling this I've met with Peter castanza he's an local Auctioneer 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 organized izing 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 starting 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 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 I talk you a lot of different auctioneers and this he was highly recommended and it's nice that he's out of nepe City so he's very close by as well any of the comments I'd like to just comment um later is a resolution for uh CME uh services for the bilding
demolition 2025 134 but just to to Dove tail 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
demolition we're also going to be um finishing the grading plan providing that to the land use board um and so all that 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 concy
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 know the artifact Exposition then the Demolition and restoration of the site um and hopefully you know here by early summer Target
will pushing everybody for Memorial Day but that's that's a push it could slide a little bit so we are doing everything we can to push this process exp expeditiously as possible thank you councilman okay if no other comments I'll make a motion that
we uh adopt individual RIS resolution 2025 1113 regarding the public s Surplus property second Mr Noble yes M green black yes Mr NWI yes Mr Weber my turn to abstain
May mayor yes sorry that's okay um 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 Neptune City will share uh with us her salary and other employee
benefits the cost of Health Care 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 yeah I do have some questions um so it we're under the assumption that she's been a full-time Recreation director currently right that's more
than an assumption yes fact 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 maybe put in more hours but she's going to deliver full wreck director she's an
accept employee right she doesn't get overtime correct so she takes I assume she's going to get paid more to be the N oh yeah 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 Neptune City how is that working out practically the resolution suggests 50/50 time share but we don't specific hours like scheduled Monday Tuesday and half a Wednesday uh she will make herself available 50% of each work week 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 defined 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 Rec Center uh because Courtney will be in charge of both and also our field which is not adquate in size for certain Sports um does Neptune City um have an opportunity to offer
Bradley 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 Bradley be Beach reduced our cost by increasing revenue and to the extent that least other opportunities will certainly exploit them any other questions I think it opens the door to a lot of opportunities which is great yeah I would say that she could become an advocate for a sharing
of you know assets you know recreational um assets between the you know the township and City and ourselves which would be a great that yeah so 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 nowicki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gboi yes and this particular agreement helps us fill up the capacity for our summer camp
I have a question please 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 Neptune City DPW Services any services to clean clean up I don't know what how DPW
serves the Su 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 the cost of the camp and cleanup and things like
that so but we haven't allocated any additional costs to NE we we do this every year where we offer them at the same price and this the first time I ever remember about it but it's really just about the cost of Summer can no 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 camp program since we're offering them in borrow rates
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 costs of the camp so dpw's cost in theory is being recovered by these fees
I have not done a detailed plus analysis to determine if you know if 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 cost over so I think this
is beneficial to Bradley but I don't I can't answer you specifically yeah I don't know what kind of a discount they but do we know how much the discount is like well courney is not here right but it's maybe $100 and maybe like 750 versus 660 it's a renewal it's been done
before so yeah yeah and it's in Bradley Beach it's campus here no I understand that I'm simply looking at the numbers and saying that if we're offering this opportunity to get them in burrow 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 shared 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 know how many students actually get those reduced fees from it's something like ballpark don't
hold it's something like we have capacity for 130 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 cost us some participation we'd have fewer fees to recover what like be similar DPW cost because they're going to serve 80 people or 120 people doing whatever you know clean up work or organizing work St
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 courney 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-efficient there I I I I view this myself as a win-win kind of agreement because we we would not fill up our
capacity with BR Beach alone well and mayor you may be able to Parlay 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 parlay that um and to other
benefit any other comments or no okay I'll make a motion that we approve 2025 1224 uh shared service agreement renewal with nepon City for summer camp second Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr
nowicki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gubo yes by the way those Discounter fees are still increased over last year um resolution individual resolution 20251 125 approval share service
agreement with uh renew renewal with nepe City for prisoner detainment we've had this in place for a number of years now three four or five years yes since I've been here yeah we bumped it uh it was 15,000 we bumped it to 16,000 so we whatever that is three or
four% pump um and we continue to have the capacity as I understand it so again seems like a win-win agreement any questions or comments no I'll make a motion that we approve 20251 25 shared service agreement renewal with nepton
City for prisoner detainment second Mr Noble yes yes Mr Niki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gubitosi yes one of my absolute favorite individual
resolutions uh 2025 d126 approving an employment agreement with the buau of Bradley Beach municipal clerk Erica ctit uh Reg 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 have been asking for Erica to have a contract for a number of years and we did not get that accomplished until tonight so I have I have a comment we should have waited on the till after the vote
but let's do the vote and then I I have something to say say thee okay okay a second no further comments yeah I didn't make I will officially motion that we approve the employment agreement with burough brother Beach municipal clerk C Mr Noble
yes M greenl yes Mr yes Mr Weber yes mayor gboi yes and I would just like to thank mayor GB 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 okay really appreciate it okay the next individual resolution
is 202527 and it is with a degree of uh sadness that I'm going to motion that we would draw 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 so Matthew will be leaving us uh in two weeks but uh but he has been a a wonderful person to work with he got us through a real really challenging first couple of months of my
new Administration and two new council members um done a phenomenal job matter we'll probably sing your Praises a little more tonight but for right now I'd like to make a motion that we withdraw 20251 127 was there a second yeah I second um
Mr Noble unfortunately yes Miss greenblat yes Mr nowicki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gesi yes okay I'm back to happy news we have another contract that we have formalized approving an employment agreement with
the burough of Bradley Beach BPW director bajio Kone and uh once again Baja you've been a wonderful resource for this burrow you've been a wonderful resource 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 a in a few years um but U this is another great pleasure to be able to reward you for all the hard work and all the value you deliver to the B so thank
you uh I'll make a motion any comments or questions I'll make a motion that we approve 2025-the nki yes Mr Weber yes mayor G resounding yes thank you all right um 2025 d129 authorizing
the transfer of appropriation reserves in the fiscal 2024 budget and basically what we're doing here is taking reserves that uh exist Ed 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 local20 local 152 any comments or questions I'll make a motion that we approve 225-229 authorizing the transfer of
appropriation reserves in fiscal 24 budget second Mr Noble yes Miss greenblat yes Mr nowiki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gubitosi yes 2025 d130 authorizing amendments to the temporary budget this is a much
smaller dollar amount uh and this is intended to help us fun some of the immediate expenses coming up related to the beach utility um specifically we're going to talk in a moment about mov mats and Gem cars and so forth and we want to
make sure we have the uh uh appropriate authorization to fund those purchases any comments or questions I'll make a motion that we uh accept or that we approve 2025 d130 authorizing amendments to the
temporary budget second Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr nowiki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gubitosi yes speaking of gem cars resolution 20253 authorizing contracts with CERN
State contract vendor Eastern Lift Truck Company Inc for the purchase of two gem cars gem vehicles for the burough Bradley Beach VI a state Cooperative contract pursu it to njsa 40a 11-1 12a 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 um monitor the parking along ocean a during the summer months uh they will each be
equipped with uh license plate readers and uh two things one this is going to create a much more efficient process for us all going forward we're avoiding uh a large um outlay of funds if we were to
instead uh update our existing um uh parking meter yeah equipment thank you and um so again think of this as a win in efficiency actually a win in cost um and
another side benefit that we've talked with the police about at good length is we'll 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 them for Ocean Avenue
the police will be able to have three LIC PL readers um working uh hoping to uh identify by 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 2025 d131 authorizing the contracts for the um two gem vehicles for the burrow Bradley Beach via State Cooperative
contract second Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr noi yes Mr Weber yes mayor Gesa yes 20251 132 I just mentioned license plate readers this authorizes us to
purchase two uh State contract vendor Leonardo us cyber and Security Solutions LLC uh purchased two license plate readers for the bur Bradley Beach um 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 2012 132 authorizing the purchase of the uh license plate readers
from Security Solutions LLC second Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr noi yes Mr Weber yes mayor gubitosi yes item 202- 133 authorizing contracts with certain approv State contract
vendor the shamps mats system Inc for the purchase of beach mats for the burough belly Beach via State Cooperative contract pursuant to njsa 40a 11-1 12a 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 10 foot wide our current mob mats are 4T wide these will provide
ample opportunity for folks in wheelchairs confined to wheelchairs Andor uh like motored carts uh to be able to neg 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 with of our current Moby mats we are going to use these MIM mats in two beaches Mr kfo mentioned that earlier they will be our designated wheelchair accessible beaches um and our um 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 uh either ocean a or related spots for pickup and drop off this resolution again related to the purchase of the uh of the mob mats themselves and mayor Evergreen and what's the other Cliff 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 in the beginning of your Administration and you drove this and it's really important to um provide you know ADA Compliant facilities for our
community so you know thank you for that effort well thank you you know we've we've talked Bradley Beach has talked about having uh handicapped access and we have and we've done a decent job of it but I thought the one failing of Bradley Beach was specifically wheelchair access it's
much more challenging for individuals in wheelchairs and or motor motorized uh carts and vehicles so I I'm really excited about this I think it's going to be a great addition to our beachfront and again I'll tip my hat to our DPW for doing the work they're doing to help
facil facilitate this uh so no further questions I'll make a motion that we approve 20253 three uh the purchasing of the maths from the the shamps math system for um burough Bradley Beach via State
Cooperative contract second Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr nowiki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gubitosi yes okay uh resolution 202-1342 Lorraine 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 vertise the contract for the demolition uh that had pre previously been put together by the previous
administration without the engineer are directly involved and because of liability Etc it's important that a professional engineer uh do this contract uh from a liability standpoint as well as address those issues that the community brought forward regarding grading um and protection um around the
site um and setting those grades and taking it back to the land use board uh we are putting pressure on on CME to expedite this uh to get the permits in place with the so Fe fold Soil 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 of 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 costs 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 here
overseeing our town on our Council be clear I'm not exercising myself as an engineer as a council with the background yes it is nice to have you on the council this wonderful 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 both yes thank you um with that I will make a motion that we approve 2025 d134 authorizing the award of professional Engineering Services to CME ass it's for 319 line demolition
second Mr Noble yes M green yes Mr nki yes Mr Weber yes mayor gubitosi yes item 20 25- 135 our bill list for March 18 2025 are there any questions or comments okay no none noted uh I make a
motion that we approve 2025 135 Bill list for March 18 2025 second Mr Noble yes M greenl yes Mr nowiki yes Mr Weber yes mayor
yes uh we'll move to item 12 on the agenda announcements and there are none we'll move to item 13A the administrative report Mr Dory mayor I think the clerk wins best dress here
tonight and happy belated St Patrick's Day to all my Irish 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 Ted bian now when I say Ted bian I have to categorize him as the senior T because as well um he's going be coming on as our zoning officer he's a zoning officer now in in Delmar and I work 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 in a couple weeks uh we are still working
on 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 a code enforcement officer on a part-time basis
um to get out there and enforce uh the code uh we're looking for compliance we're not looking to find 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 that 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 worked into me being the business administrator and and uh 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 they have 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 hardworking and they care about the community they serve uh they have great leadership uh whether it's uh Chief Arnold uh DPW director
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 as well as great um ranking 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 caring you don't have three you have five I mean you have an Allstar team
here uh we mentioned before councilman Nicki 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 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 bu um but whether Council
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 uh 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 You objective 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 know many people would love to live in this community so you know people are going to have the differences 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 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 little part of it which will be a total of 90 days so so thank you for that it's been 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 uh or any of the the directors
or any employees um even after I leave I'd be happy to help in any capacity so thank you all very much for the resident foring thank you Mr dhy uh we'll now get to the mayor and councel reports and let me start with Mr
no that's a hard one to BU yeah so um s Matt thank you for your leadership and um and partnership in this transition because uh for being a new council person coming on I'm having your experience not just you know you
know as mayor but as council person bmar and your perspective on things you made my life a lot easier to integrate and serve the community so thank you for all you did and you will be missed thank you so that's my first part of my report um second is um I just report on on the
police department there was a few activities an individual had been um found in possession of the Controlled Substances I was charged prosecuted for those controled substances and um they had also had the intent to distribute control dangerous substance and
prosecution in a 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 with driving under the influence of alcohol and issued motor vehicle summons um he uh also struck several parked vehicles and ocean growth in the pursuit so um and then the third one is two individuals were arrested on
outstanding uh contempt of court warrants um and then U officers also investigated three motor vehicle accidents uh several additional calls for uh Service uh between uh 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 um and for the things that they put um themselves out there to make sure we have a better place to live so thank you um and then I also wanted 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 um hear about what's going on um we're in the planning process as well as with the tack and with the leral society and on the bulkhead Improvement along um Bradley Boulevard
uh so those uh the engineering planning has begun on that um 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 and uh and and
October November time frame and we'll be meeting with them tomorrow morning actually just to see where things are and what are the restrictions environmentally and making sure that we're coordinated across these projects making sure that we're not bumping into each other along the way and that we're well coordinated to minimize the
disruptions uh so those are my report mayor 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 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 parel 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 tree 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 green 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 of Ed meetings 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 Bard ofed and the broader Bradley Beach
Community and the Dr heidleberg would like to say a special thank you to the board vice president Brit Dain and their Board of um members who took leadership responsibility passing the resolution a number of years ago that set Bradley
Beach Elementary Schools 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 superintendent to read to the second graders it was my honor and um it was a
lot of fun to share the joy of reading 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' 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 greenblat 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 May goosi 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 noriki 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 on Memorial Drive well that's how they're going to get their funding they have to incorporate a bike lane also they're going to install a new traffic light at the intersection of Fourth 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 20 27 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 that the council and the America work together we can have an inclusive process we could be part of the process and we learned 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 around 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 do 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 Cas you're welcome um Council woman Ren so I'll start actually where Jane ended and um just express my appreciation to Matt dty 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 dh'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've only had him for a short time so thank you again Matt and uh and I hope we see you often back in the burrow 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 Monmouth County Commissioner director Tom ourown 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 disabilities 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 curb to curb service operation Monday through Friday 7:30 to 3:30 on a first come first serve basis and anyone who is interested um who uh qualifies in that category 60
years of age over or with a disability um can reach out to the Monmouth County transportation for this and I'm hoping that we can put this information on our borrow website as a service to our community um I think we should yeah um
and then from our d11 legislators uh Vin gopel Margie donlin and lanne peterpaul 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 freeze and anchor programs is now called stay New Jersey and stay 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 perhaps we can make use of that either to our senior club or as a a you know a 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 in-person 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 of people having to go to the DMV so on to my reports um the leer 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
Biagio 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 the Ladies Auxiliary
majan meets every Friday at the Bazi center from 1: to 3: open wreck runs Thursdays until 6 p.m. and Fridays until 700 p.m. the senior Club meets Wednesday March 26th 12:30 at the Bazi Center uh
Family karaoke night is March 28th from between 6:00 and 8:00 pm 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 $2 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 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 12:17 Main Street it's $12 per person and includes shoes and a 2-hour Bowl wreck
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 3:00 p.m. Camp is popular this year here with already 80 students registered and I believe it's only open it's been open for about a week and a half uh please go to the reg the recreation homepage for details on all these events and to community pass for
registration of recre events the the recreation board's next meeting is Monday April 7th 6:30 p.m at the rec 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 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 7th 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 my report thank you councilman uh
councilman Weber thank you mayor I just want to say I've heard a lot of reports that was an amazing report Council woman no there was County News there State News News you could use and then everything local no that was really 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 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 night if you tell you about that no some place in Bradley Beach which is 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 doble mentioned uh I'm
not sure you mentioned the you can still comment on that till the end of the month till the 31st so 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 how's 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 councilman nowiki
was made the leason to the fire in the first aid but they kept sending me their reports and it didn't even I just kept reading them here he didn't say anything and they I so I'm just gonna read this one and then you're gonna hear from your now you do such a wonderful read in your absence if you're
ever not here um so for first aid 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 a 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 uh of age who 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 web like capital a capital H affordable housing me 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 how i' characterize that um I want to put out that there is lowercase a lowercase H affordable housing in in Bradley Beach where 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 you when you take a a small house a nice little cute Cottage maybe it's two-bedrooms it's on a small lot and you turn it into this giant big
thing that you know crowds out the neighbors and needs 10 variances to fit on the lot 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 to Portable 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 a aable housing even if it's not officially and the the kind that we're 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 300s the plan was like
$300,000 of our tax money going there so uh that didn't happen I'm so 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 couple there's a big long list of fins it was kind of fun reading
through those but um in there we're you know sidewalks not C on your sidewalk maybe now we're going to make it so uh I think one of the reasons people didn't clear their sidewalks of snow because they're like it's cheaper 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 shovel your sidewalk get your neighbor to make a plan if they don't live here you're around um and when summer comes don't
stack your cars in your driveway if 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 and gets hit by a car I mean ask yourself who's getting sued um and then on the Ada the the M Ms
and the handicap accessible showers that mayor Jos has driven forward I just want to say that you know anything with handicapped accessibility that is quite frankly it's Dei it's diversity it's equity and it's inclusion 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 mobilities 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 thei 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 of for one the library board has
been conducting an RFP for a historical restoration consultant will be voting on uh hiring one 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 the beautiful BR 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 uh potentially grant 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 Dy some people think maybe I've know Matt because he's been a mayor in Belmar for eight years or seven years a council person for six or so years before that um I think I met met once
and I was with John wber uh coming out of a particular vote we we attended anyway met Matt and 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 um he just kept telling me things you know you should do this when you're mayor look at this and always go to this resource never trust that resource that kind of
coaching that you know a rookie gets I was a very old rookie but you know a 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 inba 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 dhy all that well if you're GNA 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 on 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 Matt has led that charge clearly we had to get the the Union contract resolved L 152 um revamping all these ordinances um I would I just want to go on record saying thatt was uh unflappable I mean
no matter what came our way uh we we found ourselves laughing at a lot of the challenges but laughing almost with the Defiance like we'll get this done it was um was good partnering with you Matt just to you know get through those um really tough months and the one one
thing that was particularly um know worthy for me was when we announced them I was leaving today the um the employees we gathered the 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 man was something that you brought to the table that the bur 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 PA Paula Gavin I live at 106 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 would created a 2019 as a part of the
Bradley Beach strategic plan we are volunteer driven Essentials we have since 2020 our first year of operation had either a resolution with the Vero or a memorandum of understanding and we have fulfilled that to the board we have consciously
and deliberately partnered with the bur to fulfill our requirements and our obligations secondly I want to say we have also fulfilled every requirement B uh our involvement in the Bradley Cinema included their membership in the
alliance a and be their support of our movings in the we have been and we will continue to be the proponent of a Bradley C it is a part of our town we would love to see continue but we have been advocate for 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 nonprofits 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 bur as well as being a 51 C6 in good standing so thank you for your support and thank you for listening thank you thank you and Paula
um I can't tell you how many times since taking over this role for a couple months that I've been in meetings with folks throughout the state U they talk about Chambers of Commerce and different towns and as recently as a week ago I met with the mayor of uh Belmore and
Avon and we were talking specifically about how how we can link our our businesses to um state level funding uh just to help our M businesses and no matter what meeting I'm in somebody says how lucky uh Bradley is to have you and
your organization so thank you very much for that we're committed to do the right things right thank you appreciate it yes Mr Curtis 2023 Avenue BR the beach uh we remain deeply concerned
about Bradley Beach's role in resolving the New Jersey affordable housing crisis and how Bradley Beach will partnership with the larger issue that is going on we need to recognize that affordability meets creating housing for young families seniors and people who are on
fixed incomes whose incomes can be up to for an individual $72,000 and for a family of four $130,000 families who will send their children to our schools and teach our children or join our police force or
extinguish our firers 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 aable housing obligation when we have voiced our
concern we are called not to worry the council has a plan to meet the obligation we're going to get the units now we learn that the burrow 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 were sitting on the council who participated in that process and you acknowledged at that time that Bradley Beach had an unet need
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 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 monl county and our exclusiveness is primarily determined by by the rising cost of housing and this is a direct result of government policy local government policy determining what can be built and what cannot be built in
Bradley Beach we have intentionally been unresponsive to the spirit of the law which says sought to encourage Suburban communities to build affordable housing so that we create Equitable and balanced communities our e participation in this
effort is Nega once again then I ask you to consider the spirit of the law it appears we are doing everything possible to do as little as possible to meet our fair share frankly we now calculate our
fair share as potentially being zero not Noe 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 notorious 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 Equitable communities in fact I listened this afternoon to the Congressional hearing about the need for affordable
housing in this United States and heard over and again the kinds of 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'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 a human right and we
have failed for more than 25 years to meet people people waiting okay thank you Mr C and uh and for for everyone's benefit uh our plan is to be completely transparent we invited the planet here tonight to speak and we will as we are
provided addition information we'll continue to share that with the public and you also heard there will be public meetings with the L board as well uh Miss stuffy no
Linda I called her she said no I know 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 oh sorry um
Duffy 312 Bradley Beach um a lot of people don't want affordable housing in their backyard needless to say we can have gpes and disagreements about both of that but that's not we're actually expanding the area not not decreasing it
but that's I'm just concerned about the demolition of three 9 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 driveway 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 we 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 its own correct Fe structure so we won't be splitting it it it everything that 1.5% residential and 2.5% commercial that's going to go into the affordable housing truck 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 tour every time there's a CO 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 permits no it's just want a certificate of occupancy 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 a permit for everything that's a whole different that goes to construction that's part of our revenue for the current 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 a different magnitude of involvement you know magnitude of involvement he came over to do my hot water heater in the front house in my 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 are not going to hit 100% on
that goal but but the concept is the same we we want very knowledgeable educated people you know doing the inspections but but to partly answer your question the we're not we're just always striving to have the best talent doing that work but the fees themselves
had not been updated so we had to bump the Fe so another question on three 19 lorine who's going to remove the things to sell like the windows are in you buy Windows who takes it out the purchaser the purchaser oh
part of the contract of sale okay and it was one 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 we have an ordinance about it and I know but it hasn't been settled okay so the I mean the ordinance it's
it's not unfortunately I would like it to have been different but the ordinance is not it's not illegal just to have bamboo there but it becomes illegal once it's invaded your neighbor's 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 to for us to just send people out say hey you I think the state's going to Banning bamboo well that would be great if they should have done that 10 years ago but exactly thank you guys thank you very much for serving
our town I appreciate you my enjoy your future any any other comments or questions yes M ke Beth Kepler 54 Central Avenue N town I'm going to continue where I left off in what I was reading before
understand where I was going with it in relationship to 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 raing concerns over things such as sh on bbbc a letterhead shared services between the burrow and the bbca comingling of trust
fund money sources of payments for events violations of burrow 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 BB BCA and burrow of government officials creating conflicts of interest between the bbca and our burrow 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 burrow Chamber of Commerce and business Alliance completely under full burrow oversight and control with carefully hired qualified staff transparent operations and 100% accountability to
this borrow 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 and intend to undermine our burrow
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 Queens horses it's a shocking one-hour documentary about a small town bled dry
by their trusted officials it feels eily familiar where was our federal covid money spent what was the $9,000 2023 Federal themea payment really about what did the 2023 and 2024 audits reveal what
came of the New Jersey com controllers August 2024 investigation demanding 23 financial documents Bing from the entire term of one may too many questions linger and are 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 borrow offering full transparency and accountability to the taxpaying residents and I'd like to reiterate in case it was lost on any one 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 not Mr Noble a previous council president a resident
who served as an acting burrow 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 501 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 D part for stepping into a really you
know chaotic time in our bwing 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 thank and
con that's it thank you Miss meta there Ocean Park kind ofes M I knew you before you had gr here I knew you before you had three
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 wanted the postums and they should have included civilians and they should have included
pnls that being said I have a idea for you to ponder so was the angle stat Administration if I remember correctly and I know I do that um passes down 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 ever else into the 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 the I guess the police department for whatever it is the police department does um instead of going with events and saying oh be this amount of
dollars you this okay would I think it would just um I don't know how the angat 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 equable with taking some of that tourism funding and moving it to the current fund just a suggestion you never know what
might St I don't know the rules I don't know the ordinances you know that's job I mean to that point we'd have to change the form allocation we can't take it out of the tourism trust but the tourism money I mean that that is money that shows up in the current fund it's not I
mean 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 tourism 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 when you're talking about
with previous administrations did moving money from the beach utility to the 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 had a lot of fights over that seems to be the way we are now okay but the point is it's a whole
separate like you use the word fund but it's not just like an account it's like a whole fund that gets accounted for C I'm just saying to redirect money because also you know when we get this
post letter sorry there's a drink by my B there's um um is 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 have um that $77,000 say $70,000 balance um does that include the salary I mean we go through this with the rec center we have all these little things they're
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 at a just a little suggestion very good thank
you no other oh Mr GL yeah two on room Thomas J col 612 Third Avenue uh I have a couple questions for councilman n 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 soil 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 of has to have a FAL conservation permit um I don't know if the permit was um given as responibility
the contractor to submit that would be an option but whether or not you know case what we want to do is expedite that permit and then provide that fee and have our engineer submit that prior to the demolition so as part of tonight's resolution that's in their proposal to
do that yet 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 councel on um Thursday at the land use board what is that process and what do we have to do in order to accomplish that thank you
very much for your followup on I really appreciate it um the 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 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 the applicants
attorneys 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 then 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 be we would need 500 I'm sorry 256 market rate units to get to that 20%
satisfi 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 guys Mia yeah hi Mia hi I hope you can hear me um terrific I wanted to thank I
don't I hope Biagio 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 and I kept looking I'm like maybe it's because it's dark the next day or within two days CU 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 that caused the 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 happened so quickly so thank you so much I don't know is he still in the room there yes oh good yes thank you I'm I really appreciate being
heard and if I may may 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 it the sign behind you Jane yes that's what it's all about so thank you so much to everybody and we're gonna miss you Matt
sorry you couldn't stay with us thank you is there another hand yes Don greenber Mr Greenberg hey guys how you doing 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 the US Monmouth Beach passing construction dust ordinances and I was one 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 built 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 uh washing into the um sewers microplastics all over the place maybe that's what's making Jane cough um But but so my guess my my point is um are we going to be uh talking to Monmouth 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 town and the health of our residents Don I'll be happy to um fill in the Council on all the details of such ordinances since I'm familiar with
them but to answer your question that hasn't happened yet but how about to have a conversation with them all cool thanks thanks John appreciate it yeah are there any other questions okay we will move on to um
executive session item 15 and there is none and therefore we are ready to adjourn so meeting adjourn thank you everyone thank you very