##VIDEO ID:I5TwFh5hiBk## adequate notice of this meeting was provided and published in the Asbury Park Press in the ocean star on December 20th 2024 copies of the agenda were provided to the newspaper and posted on the public bulletin boards and the township website roll call please councilman albanes here councilwoman Pono councilwoman D young here councilman Fineman here councilwoman Travers here vice president minikino here president amberino here thank you would the clerk please accept and file the reports from the municipal officers yes of course I'll ask for a motion in second to approve the minutes from the January 7th 2025 meeting motion second roll call please councilman albanes yes councilwoman D young yes councilman Fineman yes councilwoman Travers yes vice president minikino yes president amberino yes before we proceed any uh proceed any further let's uh please all rise and salute to the flag in a moment of silence alleg to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all please be seated at this time I'd like to invite uh Chief Forester and mayor crate to the podium for a police swearing in all right welcome uh before I start I'd like to uh begin to uh I want to thank the council the mayor and the uh business administrator for making all this possible and for their continued support of uh Brick Township and the police department thank you uh first up uh Darren Lefay special 181 Darren is a lifelong resident of Brick Township he graduated from the Ocean County Academy of Law and Public Safety in 2024 Darren is continuing his education at Ocean County College with hopes of becoming a full-time police officer he has chosen to begin his law enforcement career by joining his brother Riley as a class one special law enforcement officer in his hometown Darren if you can come up any family if you want to bring them up for the oath more than welcome got plenty of room yeah States e take pict all right next up is Michael Weber special2 Michael is a lifelong resident of Brick Township he graduated from The Brick Township High School and the Ocean County Academy of Law and Public Safety in June 2015 Michael furthered his education at Ocean County College earning an Associate in Science degree in 2018 he brings several years of experience to our department including his time as a volunteer emergency medical technician for Point Pleasant Barrow EMS Michael is currently employed as a full-time Communications operator with the Wall Township Police Department until recently he also worked as a part-time class one special police officer for the Spring Lake Police apartment Michael you want to come up and with your family e for con [Applause] all right next we have uh Brenda Sanchez Leon special 183 uh Brendan is a uh Brenda is a lifelong resident of Lakewood Township she graduated from the Ocean County Academy of Law and Public Safety in June of 2024 Brenda is attending Stockton University she is pursuing a degree in criminal justice forensic investigations and chemistry if you would come m e [Applause] one more we had nothing else ass signed yep we we do have uh one other uh special officer who has already been sworn in uh due to time constraints with the police academy for the for the thing but uh next up is uh ktie Anne Le Point Special 180 Katie is a lifelong resident of Brick Township she graduated from brick memorial High School in June of 2020 After High School Katie attended High Point University in North Carolina graduating in May of 202 4 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology with a minor in criminology Katie has expressed the desire to pursue a career in law enforcement following in her Father's Footsteps rck Township Police K9 Officer Ray Le Point Katie was previously sworn in to facilitate her attendance at the Ocean County Police Academy class one course from which she will graduate soon so Kat if you want to come up real quick officers just want to come up off [Music] it's all good all good [Applause] and while they can all hear it I'd like to congratulate our four new officers it's fantastic uh we will now move on to the consent agenda all matters listed under item consent agenda will be enacted by one Motion in the form listed below if discussion is desired on any item this item will be removed from the consent agenda and will be considered separately item 51 authorized receipt of bid Summerfest food truck vendors councilman minina thank you this resolution authorized receipt of bid from vendors to provide food and refreshments during the four Summerfest concerts and an annual car show with an option of the green fair and kids night out last year the award was made for seven vendors in a total of the amount of $1,673 thank you thank you item 52 authorized receipt of bids beer and wine Garden concession councilman Fineman thank you council president this resolution authorizes receipt of bids from vendors Who currently have the appropriate ABC licensing to provide a beer and wine concession during the the four Summerfest concerts and Fall Fest in 2025 last year the township received $7,100 for the one-year contract thank you thank you item 53 authorized receipt of bids fireworks exhibitions councilwoman D young thank you this resolution authorizes the receipt of bids for fireworks ex exhibitions during the four Summer Fest events and the one Fall Fest event at Winward Beach the total cost for 2024 was $24,500 which included the Summerfest concert that did fall on Fourth of July thank you item 54 authorized receipt of bids Bri brick Beach 3 food concession councilwoman Travers thank you council president this resolution authorizes the receipt of bids for a food concession at Brick Beach 3 during the summer months the most recent one-year contract was with Little Caesars for $2,000 for the operation of a food truck thank you thank you item 55 authorized receipt of bids manufacturing and printing of tax bills councilman albanes thank you council president uh this resolution authorizes the receipt of bids for the manufacturing and printing of preliminary and final tax bills printing of post tax year statements and corresponding reports to tax collector thank you item 56 authorized receipt of bids Public Safety uniforms and equipment councilwoman ponera thank you council president this resolution authorizes the receipt of bids for Public Safety uniforms and equipment this contract is mainly used for the new hires within the police and EMS departments closing allowances for both full and part-time emergency medical technicians as well as replacement uniforms for all public safety divisions such as police SLT and GMS thank you thank you item 57 authorized receipt of bids roadway improvements to Red Maple Drive Blue Spruce Place and White Pine Court vice president minina thank you this resolution authorizes a receipt of bid for roadway improvements to Red Maple Drive Blue Spruce Place White Plains Court this project generally consists of Milling base repairs ashalt Paving ADA Compliant ramps sidewalk repairs pipe repairs replacing Inlet grates and curb pieces Replacements of existing curb uh concrete curbs restoration striping tree trimming and other miscellaneous works thank you thank you item 58 authorized receipt of bids Windward Beach Park improvements phase one councilman Fineman thank you council president this resolution authorizes receipt of bids for the windward Beach Park improvements phase one this project generally consists of reding of the Timber Pier including new handrails thank you thank you 5'9 authorize change order number one Bay Harbor Estates roadway improvements vice president minino thank you this resolution authorizes a decreased change order with Earl ashal company for the Bay Harbor roadway Improvement project the change order represents a decrease in the contract by $3,524 79 as a result as as buil quantity adjustments thank you thank you 510 authorized Award of contract janitorial services councilman albanes thank you council president this resolution authorizes an award of contract with Hudson community Enterprise Jersey City for the procurement of daily weekly janor services for all Township buildings requests for proposal notices were provided to 52 prospective respondents 29 picked up bid packages four complete comp uh proposals were received and reviewed by the evaluation committee who has deemed Hudson community Enterprise the most qualified and capable of providing these Services as needed points were earned in each section managerial evaluation technical criteria and cost Hudson community Enterprise received the highest score by all committee members during the independent reviews of the proposals thank you 511 authorize Award of contract energy consultant councilwoman D young thank you this resolution authorizes an award of contract for energy consultant to Concord engineering Vorhees Concord has extensive experience as a qualified en energy brokerage consultant Concord has a state contract for energy Consulting Services is a state approved provider of online reverse auctions for the purchase of energy generation services and is a registered energy agent energy consultant and private aggregator thank you item 512 authorize Award of contract purchase and delivery of 6 2025 Ford utility and scepter Vehicles this resolution authorizes an award of contract in the amount of $ 26,2726 with Chaz s winter of Cherry Hill for the purchase and delivery of six 20 25 Ford utility Interceptor vehicles for the brick Police Department item 513 authorize enabling resolution for supplemental funding request New Jersey D Green Acres Program mayor crate thank you uh this resolution authorizes a supplemental funding request as part of the Township's open space and Recreation plan planning incentive plan with the njde Green Acres Program the township is requesting an additional 715,000 from the njd Green Acres Program These funds are specifically for the acquisition of property to preserve as open space as identified by the mayor's open space saers committee thank you thank you item 514 authorized Grant agreement with njde fory Refuge Marsh restoration councilwoman Travers thank you council president this resolution authorizes a grant agreement in the amount of $4,997 I'm sorry 4,997 12075 for the living shorelines title salt marsh ve vegetation restoration at the foresight Refuge project currently underway the first phase of this project is currently underway and involves dredging Trader Trader Coes Marina and placing those dread spoils at the foresight Refuge to restore the Marshland thank you thank you item 515 authorized chair service agreement with c of ocean fiscal year 2025 prosecutors program councilwoman ponera thank you council president this resolution authorizes the execution of the shared services agreement with the Ocean County Prosecutors office to designate Brick Township police officers to be assigned to the fatal accident support team known as fast for the purposes of assisting in investigation prosecution of fatal ass support team for the purposes of assisting in the accidents in traffic enforcement sorry to be repetitive and education during times when additional man power is needed for investigations and training members of the fast will be called upon to assist officers will be paid from the money the prosecutor program fund which has been designated by the Ocean County prosecutor as well as the Ocean County Board of Commissioners thank you thank you item 516 authorized shared service agreement with county of ocean 2025 operation and maintenance of three pumpout boats councilman Fineman thank you council president this resolution authorizes the execution of a shared services agreement with the county of ocean for the operation and maintenance of three pump out boats the bay saver Bay Defender and waste knot which Serv as the affluent discharge need of Bo of boers in Brick Township's Waters the pump out boats provide a convenient inexpensive and environmentally safe means for boers to dispose of the affluent waste in this agreement brick operates and maintains the pump out boats and the county reimburses the township up to $50,000 for costs incurred for the three boats thank you thank you item 517 authorization to determine the present and prospective fair share obligation of the township of brick for the fourth round this resolution authorizes the Township's position and justification that the Township's prospective need for affordable housing include a realistic development proposal of 29 units the land use staff has provided justification based on the Township's current realistic developable land inventory that outlines the Township's prospective need under requesting that the state DCA Department of Community Affairs approve our proposed number of units to that end the township is continuing to develop plans for affordable housing specifically for veterans and is looking forward to opening a small affordable housing for Veterans on a site on Route 88 this resolution also confirms the Township's present need obligation for rehabilitation of housing units at 149 the township has a a robust housing rehabilitation program that is partially funded by the US Housing and Urban Development Community Development block grant program and is committed to continuing to provide income qualified residents of the township with programmatic support this resolution formally accepts Our obligation of 149 thank you uh moving on to 58 authorize appointment to the Housing Authority councilman minina thank you thank you this resolution authorize the appointment of Peter Dunn to the Housing Authority thank you thank you 59 authorize appointments to sustainable Brick Township committee for 2025 councilwoman D young this resolution authorizes appointments to the sustainable brick committee for 2025 including Mary Beth Prince councilman Perry albanes Vincent palmir Steven kovski Steven spec Victoria pakala Sharon Yani Brian mki John hyphantis Paul J Curts John Henry Joseph cada and Lauren L laoso last moso I'm going with last thank you thank you thank you uh 520 authorized special events permit bike Ms Coast the coast councilman fan thank you council president this resolution authorizes a special event permit for the National MS Society Coast the coast event on Saturday May 10th the event will be held from 700 a.m. to 6: pm at Route 35 bike Lanes Northbound and southbound thank you thank you councilman Fineman moving on to 521 521a is a performance bond Rel relase for Block 84 lot 11 thank you 522 22A is 100% DAV Widow a veteran deduction at block 12 7973 lot 7 12b is 100% DAV Widow of Veteran deduction of Block 14 29.02 Lot 2 22c is a senior citizine deduction of block 1386 lot 18 22d is a veteran deduction for Block 92.2 lot 6 22e is an amendment and refund of an overpayment at block 1192.3 lot 15 and 22f is overpayments for 2021 2022 and 2023 at block 70140 Lot 1 thank you uh that now ends the consent agenda is there a motion and second on the consent agenda motion second thank you open to council for questions on the consent agenda only seeing none close councel open to public for questions on this consent agenda and resolutions only Mr sluka resp Miss Bergen do you want to address that I'd be happy to yes as was said when we talked about the resolution cost is one of the factors uh the other factors are managerial evaluation which we find very important because there are a lot of Township buildings and they have to be accessed at different times due to existing programs and so forth so there has to be some management oversight to be sure that all of the different employees at the different locations are doing everything that they should be doing in a daily and we weekly basis at the site so for us and our experience having managerial oversight is actually essential to make sure the buildings are clean properly the second component was technical criteria so that talks about what staff do you have available how many people what are their experience in municipal buildings uh what how are their skill sets with communication uh so we look at the very technical aspect of each company's ability to perform the work not just the management oversight but then the technical aspect and what trainings have they been through um to be sure that they are you know aware of how you behave in public buildings when the public is all around you and things like that and what cleaning protocols you have gone through so you know Hazmat and what materials you can and can't use so that's under the technical and then the third is the cost so yes they varied um significantly between the biders but we were very happy and unanimous in our selection no I never said anything like that well the procurement law when we're going out for bid requires us to go with the lowest bidder the lowest the lowest qualified um and and responsible bidder thank you very much responsive responsible bidder so this is a little bit different because we were a we bid a very specific job not just a Paving job or a road job we talked about the buildings we had we did a walk through this is a unique so the uniqueness of it allowed us to be very specific with what we were looking for I don't feel we're stuck no we we yeah yeah I was personally very happy with this process and very happy that independently we all reached the same decision you're welcome anybody else from public with questions on the resolutions yes sir name and address just coup question we given last year's numbers for the fireworks I think it was 25,000 last do we know the increase or differ in the cost year Fourth of July fireworks last year were on the fourth of July so it was nearly triple of what they normally cost so that number will be significantly lower this and what we passed today was a resolution authorizing the receipt of bids for this Year's fireworks we're just telling you what we spent last year and and it's possible that it could be close last year we only went with three fireworks because of the price of Fourth of July but we typically all do four so this year the the cost for four may very well be the same amount that we paid last year for only three we mentioned something about, know reim ,000 that I may council president if that's okay with you please thank you so these boats come to us from the county of ocean um we don't buy the boats they buy the boats uh we pay the drivers we pay the captains that run the boats um there are employees and we get reimbursed for any repairs or maintenance ongoing that the boats need during the year up to $50,000 yeah so if a if a boat needs a new engine two of these boats have been out on the the water for quite some time we get as many repairs in as we can because we can build back the county up to $50,000 okay um last question the affordable housing plan I go to a lot of planning board meetings right so that's the topic of conversation a lot of things that are coming up with these big units that are being proposed I just want to kind of ask you guys a question on you said need 29 units but we also have 149 units when we were talking about it planning Bo we had testify that it was 300 so the numbers are kind of going up and down I just love your idea what is your plan is it to rehab first before we're building new is that you said 149 those are those are two separate categories of affordable housing what's occurred recently is the State Department of Community Affairs has provided us an assessment of 360 units that we would need to provide we've done our own gis-based analysis of Developmental develop aable property within the town and we've come to the conclusion that the maximum that we could support is 29 new units so this resolution here is telling the state it's not 360 we think we could do 29 and we still have you said 149 those are a separate category the 29 are new development that's right um that's right thank you thank you any other questions from public seeing none I will close public roll call please councilman albanes yes councilwoman pontorero yes councilwoman D young yes councilman Fineman yes councilwoman Travers yes vice president minino yes president amberino I vote yes thank you moving on to item 523 Bill resolution be it resolved by the township Council the town brick that the following bills be paid and that the mayor and clerk be and are hereby authorized to draw orders on the treasurer for the amounts of the same amended computer Bill resolution in the amount of 12, 9551 15535 is there a motion and second on the computer Bill resolution motion second open to council for questions seeing none open a public for questions on the computer Bill resolution only seeing none roll call please councilman albanes yes councilwoman pontorero yes councilwoman D young abstain Community Services Inc yes to the rest please councilman Fineman yes councilwoman Travers yes vice president minikino yes president amberino yes thank you item 524 manual Bill resolution be it resolved by the township Council the township of brick that the following bills be paid and that the mayor and clerk be and are hereby authorized to draw orders on the treasurer for the amounts of the same manual Bill resolution in the amount of 6,282 194 is there a motion and second on the manual Bill resolution motion second open to council for questions seeing none open to public for questions on the manual Bill resolution only seeing none roll call councilman Alban yes councilwoman pontorero yes councilwoman D young yes councilman feeman yes councilwoman Travers yes vice president minino yes president amberino yes item six an ordinance of the township of brick County of ocean state of New Jersey amending chapter 166 to establish fees for use of Municipal electric vehicle charging stations councilwoman D young thank you electric vehicle charging stations have been installed at Winward beach park and drump point Sports Complex this ordinance provides for the establishment of feeds to you to use the charging stations rates are set at a range of 17 cents to 38 cents per kilowatt hour rates established by the township shall be in addition to any applicable state or federal EV surcharge the township sustainable brick committee has worked with charge point the vendor for charging stations and reviewed neighboring municipalities and the fees they assess for their charging stations thank you I'll ask for a motion in a second on this ordinance motion second open to council for questions since this reading is on first reading uh there are no public comments this time I will now close Council questions and ask for a roll call councilman alanes yes councilwoman Pono yes councilwoman D young yes councilman feeman yes councilwoman Travers yes vice president minikino yes president amberino yes thank you moving on to item number seven public comments please note that each person addressing the council during any section of the meeting during which public comment is permitted shall limit his or her remarks to five minutes pursuant to Brick Township Administrative Code section 2-33 B questions or comments from the public yes sir Sam for Sam forer want drive three quick uh questions here two on pretty much the same subject uh president Trump has ordered a this is regarding uh immigration and president Trump's Crackdown on uh there's been a lot of controversy in other cities where they have stated that they are not going to cooperate with President Trump's directive for rounding up illegal aliens in cities I wanted to know what brick Township's policy is if you are going to order the police to cooperate with ice or if you're going to order the police not to cooperate as other towns cities and other states have done does anybody have a qu answer for that maybe the township attorney council president yeah you may may y so I had a meeting with the police chief this morning about this specifically because I wanted to know you know what the process was for that and uh I had a couple residents reach out as well with the same question so right now Brick Township is uh following the rules of the Immigrant trust directive that was put out by the state of New Jersey back in 2018 it's the same directive that's in place now which essentially says that offices officers are not deputized to essentially be part of ice and to go out and and enforce whatever they're doing other than if there is um they can assist if there have been people who have broken the law so if there's an immigrant that's broken the law and ice is asking for assistance to uh obtain that person then the police will work with them but just doing regular other work that that ice would do the police is not a the police are not a part of that correct they they're following the rules put out by the state The Immigrant trust directive [Music] yes and we haven't had anything happening in Brick Township that was the other thing I asked the chief is right now we haven't had any uh ice hasn't come into Brick Township at this point so we haven't had any real connection at this point anyway so during mayor duy's um when mayor Ducey was here and I was on Council we did have a resolution that Brick Township is not a we were considered not a sanctuary city or town uh and that is still in effect that resolution stands M yes yes it's the mayor crate show yes okay there you go it's okay it's good so uh the the frontage we don't have any uh updates yet about what other stores will be going in there or restaurants but the back end which was supposed to originally be a dome but now it's going to be a sports complex uh we did meet with the developers a couple weeks ago and at this point they have uh the footings poured and they are ready to build and they're looking to do some type of official groundbreaking in the early spring and uh the build should go pretty quickly after that so we're hoping that we have something officially opening before the end of the year it's been a long time coming but it's it's coming uh I don't know anyone else from public Mr sua de land a when not people chood H Park and if get Contin thank you council president yes I just uh I just want to point out uh I think in the letter and maybe other communication that I had uh with them yes uh that I don't think any of that's specified yet because they want to send out their act someone else that's actually yeah cuz the guys that were with us were not the tree people and I think they want to send tree people out that can say yeah here's what we want to plant so meet with you again or the residents and also uh the HOA members to see what would be appropriate yeah okay additional questions from the public yes sir Mr bacon so again I'm mostly here to introduce myself and say hi I have I'm a business owner in this area I started the brick breakdown I do intend to bring information to everybody in this town and I would love to get all of you guys for an interview to sit down I've had Dr on today the former mayor on I think it's very important I have emailed all of you so I give you the benefit of doubt maybe I emailed it wrong but I look forward to inv everybody so you can come on be very fair to everybody I'm not looking to make anybody look I'm just looking for information so if you can be so kind answer my emails I'd appreciate it they're coming and I just want to make sure the emails that are on the site are the right emails for you guys right okay so that's all I want to Sayer hope every hope I get to talk to you guys in or over whatever it is thanks thank you for your comments there anybody else Mr bacon good evening mayor counil administra actually wasn't to speak about this mayor you made a comment I spoke in front of the educ back in sepn and just going to some of this some of these numbers that I used back in September a little bit old Bas some of the statistics that came up in April last year meeting right now we have this to question agend understand ATT thought was in this room lot of on that sure because the way the ordinance was re everybody that owns a trailer had a on it whatever I to thank you very much thank you for your comments Madam clerk was there an ordinance read on the December 10th meeting I don't I don't recall was there any discussion on an ordinance right on the December 10th meeting thank you there any other questions from public seeing none closed public we'll move on to council and administ comments Miss Bergen I have nothing thank you mayor crate thank you I just have one thing that I wanted to share uh our as as mentioned at the first meeting of the Year Brick Township is turning 175 years old this year we're pretty excited about it and we are going to be celebrating so each year we have our brick birthday party to celebrate brick Township's birthday uh it was the idea of a second grader several years back when May mayor juy was still here and we've carried on the tradition uh each year since so this year's 1775th birthday party is being held on Saturday February 22nd from 3:00 to 5:00 pm at Civic Plaza and we have a lot of local organizations that are assisting with this program including obviously our police our EMS our fire departments uh the high school art Honor Society will be there with doing face painting my mayor student advisory students will be there to assist with all of the different programs and activities we have going on the Brick Township historical society is going to play a big role uh friends of the library I think are likely joining us along with a lot of other uh Civic groups the Garden Club and the Women's Club and a few others so what I wanted to do was just extend that invitation if you have a local organization or a local business and you would like to participate in the birthday party by either uh uh donating items or coming and having a table where you can do an activity with the hundreds of kids that come uh we would love to have you and if you could just reach out to my office in the next week or so so that we can get you on the list and find out what activity you'd like to do or whatever you might want to donate to the to the day uh we'd really appreciate it so happy birthday to Brick Township and we hope to see you on February 22nd at our big birthday party thank you Mr canal nothing thank you very much Madam clerk nothing thank you Madame secretary nothing thank you councilman albines uh nothing councilwoman ponera just as a shout out we do have over 200 kids in our town and in town server combined that are in need of foster care if you are a bodies and willing to make the room in your heart and your home 1 1800 NJ abuse you canre to just be a foster parent for a week a vacation home to give rest but to another foster parent there a lot of good opportunities you don't have to be married you don't have to be uh any gender you just have to be someone with a big enough heart to let these kids in and then send them back if that's appropriate God bless thank you councilwoman Dion yes thank you I just want to thank uh Lynette and the clerk's office and our TNR committee for hosting our rabies clinic this last weekend in the cold so thank you very much and councilman albanes was out there with hot chocolate thank you that's all I have councilman Fineman thank you council president uh a couple weekends ago I was I attended a ribbon cutting of Palms hair salon at 11 Princeton Avenue so I just want to say congratulations and best of luck to uh Palms hair salon the owners and the team there um thank you stay safe and have fun councilwoman Travers I just want to congratulate the specials that were um brought in today um so that's it thank you vice president minin nothing thank you I'd also like to congratulate the four new officers that were sworn in today they are a a very welcome addition to our fantastic and growing brick Police Department family uh the last thing I have is that the next public meeting will be on Tuesday February 11th at 7 pm I will now entertain a motion to adjourn motion second all in favor meeting adjourned