meeting to order, please. >> Adequate notice of this meeting was provided and published in the Asbury Park Press in the Ocean Star on January 17, 2025. Copies of the agenda were provided to the newspaper posted on public bulletin boards in the township website. >> Thank you. Roll call. >> Councilman Albaneseise >> here.
>> Councilwoman Pontterero. Councilwoman D. Young >> here. >> Councilman Feman >> here. >> Councilwoman Travers >> here. >> Vice President Mikino >> here. >> President Amberino. Thank you. >> Thank you. Can we all rise to salute the flag please and pledge of allegiance?
>> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you.
>> Madame clerk, will you accept the reports from the municipal officers? >> Of course. >> Thank you. Can I get a motion in a second for the to approve the minutes for July 15, 2025 meeting? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Thank you.
>> Councilman Albanese. >> Yes. Councilwoman D. Young. >> Yes. >> Councilman Feman. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Travers. >> Yes. >> Vice President Minino. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Mayor.
>> And we're doing Eagles. >> Eagle Scouts. We do whichever one you want first. It is. Hello. Hello everyone. We have a nice big crowd here today. I want to welcome all the officers and if you would just give us a few moments. We are going to take the first few moments of
the meeting to honor two new Eagle Scouts here in Brick Township. So, I would like to first call up Anthony Durichek. Come on down. >> Oh, no.
>> I maybe should have come to you. >> Uh, this is an honor. >> Okay. >> You know what? I'm gonna move so you want to talk about your project. >> Yeah, I can talk about my project. >> Yeah. >> Oh, that's
>> I'm sorry. I would have come to you. >> It's fine. >> All right. So, my Eagle Scout project was to build a new storage shed for the pastor's residence of the First Baptist Church of Laurel in Brick, New Jersey. Uh, I chose this as my project because I wanted to give back to the church because they let us run meetings out of
their building for like the past 10 years. So, I was thankful for that. Wanted to do something in return. The shed now allows the pastor and the church some additional storage space to put things in. It lets them, you know, free up space. It's more spacious. It's a lot nicer to, you know, move around in
the church because there's a lot more room. So that was my project. >> Thank you so much. >> That's it. >> Congratulations. >> Am I going back? >> Oh, no. We can stand right over. Well, you can hobble right over here. So, sorry. Our
next Eagle Scout out honore is Jimmy Saver. If you want to come on down, Jimmy's going to talk about his project as well. Hello everybody. My name is Jimmy Saver. Um, for my project, I did it actually in Manquan at my church that I go to. My
pastor's always talking about how she likes meditation labyrinths, but there's unfortunately none around in the area. Meditation labyrinth is like basically a little path on the ground that you can walk around. It's a straight It's a not a straight path. It's a bendy path, but there's no turns. There's only one right way in and then one right way out. The
idea is you go in with all your worries and then you come out all refreshed and you know you can pray and meditate and things like that. So I made it out of gravel which I purchased from New Jersey Sand and Gravel and some outline of bricks that were donated from a congregation member. And yeah, it took
place in November. That was the construction. It started and finished in November and I was very appreciative of all the help I received and I've had multiple congregation members tell me that they've used it and they enjoyed it and it's still there to this day of course and still good. It's still in
good condition. So >> that's it. For some reason, there's a lot of police here today. Can I have the chief come up? Thank you. Good evening. Tonight we gather to celebrate a moment of pride and
achievement, one that highlights dedication, perseverance, and honorable service. It is a privilege to recognize the well-earned promotion of one of our finest officers alongside the swearing in of two new officers who will join our
ranks. To our newly promoted officer, Sergeant Thomas Cooney, your leadership, expertise, and dedication have set a powerful example for your colleagues and the generations of officers who will follow in your footsteps. With this
promotion comes greater responsibility. A call to uphold the uphold the ideas of integrity, honor, and service that define our department. Your hard work and commitment to excellence have brought you to this moment, and we commend you for all that
you have achieved. To our two new officers, you are joining a department that prides itself in history, achievements, and values. We strive for excellence, innovation, and collaboration. And our strength lies in our unity.
You will foster community engagement, support one another, and grow alongside your peers to provide the professional service our residents deserve. Your journey to this point has not been easy, and the road ahead will require
resilience, courage, and the support of your family, friends, and colleagues. Never forget the oath you take tonight. Let it guide you as as you uphold integrity, character, and public trust in every step you take. This evening is
more than a recognition of individual milestones. It is a testament to the collective strength, vision, and unity of our department. With a team as talented and dedicated as this, I am confident that Brick Township remains in capable and safe hands.
Thank you to the mayor, town council, and business administrator. Congratulations to Sergeant Cooney and our new off and our newest officers. We welcome you to our family, and we look forward to the leadership, service, and excellence you will bring to our
community. Thank you. Sergeant Thomas Cooney, badge 190. He began his distinguished law enforcement career with the Brooktownship Police Department in December of 2000. He initially served on the evening shift, demonstrating dedication and professionalism until 2006 when he was
selected for assignment to the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office narcotic strike force. Following his tenure with the task force, Sergeant Cooney returned to the evening ship shift and continuing his commitment to public safety until
2010. At that time, he was reassigned to the detective bureau where he served with distinction for the next 15 years. During this time in the detective bureau, Sergeant Cooney conducted investigations into a wide range of criminal activity, including burglaries,
thefts, shoplifting incidents, and crimes against persons. He also played a vital role in supporting Megan's law registration efforts. Sergeant Cooney will now be assigned to the midnight shift where he's his experience and leadership will continue to benefit the
department and the community. He is joined tonight by his wife Terry and their two sons Finn and Brody. Would you come up please? The I support United States and this state
under the authority of the Next up, we have Thomas Rucko, badge 361. Thomas is a lifelong resident of Brick Township. Thomas is a graduate of Brick Memorial High School, class of 2017. He went on to pursue higher education at
Ocean County College where he earned his associates degree in business administration. His commitment to public service service began in 2017 when he joined Point Barrow EMS as a volunteer emergency medical technician.
This fall, Thomas will take the next step in his journey by attending the Ocean County Police Academy. His training begins on Friday, September 5th, 2025 with a graduation date scheduled for February 2026. Thomas is joined by his proud parents,
Moren and William Roco. William Roco is a retired sergeant of the Bricktownship Police Department, having honorably served until his retirement on April 1st, 2016. If you would please come up I don't understand. I'll let you do the family first. the
family real quick >> and then I'll Still instruction. Next up, we have Michael Thompson, badge 362. Michael is a lifelong resident of Brick Township. Michael graduated from St. Rose High School in June of 2017 and is
currently pursuing a degree in criminal justice at Stockton University. In February 2023, Michael began his career in law enforcement with the Brooktownship Police Department, serving as a telecommunications operator. His dedication and professionalism have made
him a valued member of the department. Michael will take the next step in his journey by attending the Ocean County Police Academy with training set to begin in September. He is joined tonight by his proud parents, Marie and Michael Thompson, and his fiance, Marissa Tunis.
Please come up. Yeah. The bed. It's not good. It's not a good thing. I'm so sorry. Yeah, just one second. Tom, if I just Congratulations everybody to Eagle scouts and the
officers. You guys are free to go unless you want to stay for the meeting. >> Family. >> Yeah. >> You want to hang out for the meeting, you're more than welcome. >> Thank you. >> What happened? I don't want Once you reach
67 I saw >> you guys ready? >> Thank you. That's okay. And we're going to bring this meeting back to order. Uh this brings us to our 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. >> Thank you. 41 >> authorize award of contract municipal public defender. >> Thank you. Councilman Albanese, please.
>> Thank you. Uh Vice President Vince say for the other guy. This resolution awards an award of contract for municipal public defender to Lunan >> Lan >> Lan >> Peter Paul Esquire from the firm Peter
Paul Law Asbury Park. Miss Peter Paul has served as an alternative public defender for municipal court. >> Thank you. 42 >> authorized cancellation of stale checks municipal court bail account. This resolution authorized the cancellation of a stale dated check totaling $200 in
a municipal court general account. 43 >> authorized receipt of bids VCON parts, supplies, and repairs. >> Councilwoman Travers. >> Thank you, Council Vice President. This resolution authorizes the receipt of bids for Vanc parts, Supplies, and Repairs. These repairs cannot be done
in-house due to the specialized nature of the equipment and required training. Since the breakdown of equipment and extent of the repairs cannot be predicted, the township has a contract in place so there is no delay in the event the repairs would exceed the bid threshold. Thank you. >> Thank you. 44 >> authorized rejection of bids and rebid
ambulance repairs. >> This resolution uh awards the rejection of bids and the rebid of an ambulance repair. The township previously went out to bid and received two bid responses. Both met the administrative requirements and compliance with local public
contracts law. However, the township purchasing department realized that the bid did not cover body work with to ambulances. Therefore, the purchasing department will remake substantial changes to the bid specifications to body work. 45. >> Authorize award of contract public
safety uniforms and equipment. >> Councilwoman D. Young. >> This resolution authorizes an award of contract for public safety uniforms and equipment to two vendors, Action Uniform Company of Pleasantville and Gauls LLC of Lexington, Kentucky. >> Thank you. 46, please. >> Authorize closeout change order number
one, Brick Beach 3 concession building repairs. >> Councilman Albanese. >> This resolution authorizes the closeout change order for Brick Beach 3 concession stand repairs contract awarded to George Coutis Painting and Construction West Long Branch. The closeout change order is an increase in
the amount of $5,600 as a result of final as built quantities. >> Thank you. 47 >> authorize regional greenhouse gas initiative grant application for the foresight refuge marsh restoration. >> Thank you Councilman Fineman. >> Thank you, Council President. This
resolution uh supports the submission of a regional greenhouse gas initiative natural climate solutions grant application for the beneficial reuse of dredge material for marsh restoration and flood mitigation. Phase one of the Edwin B. Foresight
Wildlife Refuge Restoration was funded under round one of the regional greenhouse gas initiative grant program. And phase two is an opportunity to beneficially reuse dredge material to restore and preserve tidal wetlands which will sequester carbon, enhance,
protect and provide improved flood protection and resilience to Brick Township and restore and protect unique title wetlands and wildlife habitat. Thank you. >> Thank you. 48. Please >> authorize special events permit Rally for Alley 5K event.
>> Councilwoman D. Young. >> This resolution authorizes a special event permit for the Brick PBA to host the Rally for Alley 5K event on October 25th, 2025 at the Drum Point Sports Complex. This event will be held between 8:00 a.m. and 400 p.m.
>> Thank you. 49. >> Authorized special events permit Laurelton Fire Company car show. >> Councilwoman Travers. >> Thank you. This resolution awards a special event permit for Larlton Fire Company number one to host a car show on Sunday, September 7th, 2025 at Winward
Beach. The event will be held between noon and 4 p.m. Thank you. >> Thank you. 410. >> Authorized special events permitfinity store grand opening event. >> Councilman Fineman, please. >> Thank you, Council President. This resolution authorizes a special event
permit for Comcast to host an Exfinity Store grand opening on September 6, 2025. The event will be held between 11:00 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the store located on Chambers Bridge Road. Thank you. Thank you. 411. >> Authorize special events permit Willow
Springs Family Community Carnival. >> This resolution authorizes a special event permit for Willow Springs Rehab to host a family's community carnival event on August 21st between the hours of 3 and 6 p.m. at the center located on Burnt Tavern Road. 412.
>> Authorized plenary retail consumption liquor license with theater exception. and Brick Children's Community Theater. >> Councilman Albanese. >> Thank you, Council President. This resolution authorizes the insurance of plinary retail consumption liquor license with theater exception to Brick Children's Community Center.
>> Thank you. 413 >> authorized plenary retail consumption license, Dads Bar Corp. Trading as Arrowhead Inn. >> Councilman Fineman, please. >> Thank you, Council President. This resolution authorizes the issuance of a plenary retail consumption license to
Dad's Bar Corp. Trading as Arrowhead Inn. Thank you. >> Thank you. 414. >> 414A is an inspection fund release for block 571, lot 18. B is a performance bond release for block 90 and 8604, lots
1 and 28. C is a performance bond release for block 379, lot 4. D is a performance bond release for block 381, lot three. E is a performance bond release for block 381 lot 3. F is a performance bond release for block 702.03
lot 1. And G is a performance bond release for block 702.03 lot one. >> Thank you. For 15, please. >> 15A 100% DAB widow of veteran deduction at block 643.01 lot 190. 15B is 100% DAV
widow or veteran deduction for block 933 lot 50. 15 C is a tax overpayment for 2025 at block 383.099 lot 26. >> Thank you. This brings us to the end of the consent agenda. Can I get a motion in a second, please?
>> Motion. >> Second. >> Open to councel. Seeing none, close council. Open to public for questions on the resolutions only. >> Yes, sir. Good evening. Mark Vasquez, 440 Lana
Court Brook, New Jersey. Just give me one second. Into reference to the agenda item number 10, Expinity grand opening. Uh Mr. uh Council President, is Heather D. Young when cutting uh or attending
the ribbon cutings, is she acting in the capacity of the councilwoman representing the taxpayer of brick or is she representing meals on wheels? That would be my question or comment. >> I would imagine it's council woman. >> Okay, perfect. Thank you.
>> Any other questions from the public, please? Yes, sir. Hey, >> Mike Calderice 331 Stinson Road. Anything else? So, can you help me out with number seven? Authorize a regional greenhouse gas initiative. If you just
tell me how it works because when I when I just looked it up, it said something about agreeing to 100% clean energy by 2050. So, I'm just wondering in order to get the grant money for the dredging, like what did we agree to and how does
dredging like help us with carbon? >> So, the regional greenhouse gas initiative has that goal, >> but it's not a requirement for us to submit for the grant because if you apply for grants like this and do projects like this where you're
restoring the wetland, you are doing work towards that goal. So, we haven't made any kind of commitments about doing that or meeting requirements to do that. They look at the dredging project and restoring the marsh land as part of that overall initiative.
>> So, it just qualifies for their grant package. >> Correct. >> Okay. So, they it doesn't have to be carbon neutral though. >> Nope. It just you tell them exactly what you're doing and where you're putting it and to them that meets the goal. >> Okay. And that obviously helps us with accomplishing the goal with moneywise.
Okay. All right. Yes. >> Thank you, sir. Anybody else, please? >> Seeing none, close public. >> Roll call. >> Councilman Albanese? >> Yes. >> Councilwoman D. Young? >> Yes. >> Councilman Feman? >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Travers? >> Yes. >> Vice President Mikino?
>> Yes. >> Thank you. >> And this brings us to our computer bill resolution. >> Be it resolved by the township council of 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. computer bill resolution in the amount
of 29,621,9791. >> Thank you. Can I get a motion in a second, please? >> Motion. >> Second. Thank you. Open to councel. Seeing none, closed council. Open to public for questions on the computer bill resolution.
Seeing none, closed public. Roll call. >> Councilman Albanese. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman D. Young. >> Abstain. Northern Ocean Habitat for Humanity. Yes. To the rest, please. >> Councilman Feman. Yes. >> Councilwoman Travers. >> Yes. >> Vice President Mikino. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. And this brings us to our
manual bill resolution, please. >> Be it resolved by the township council of 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 $2,226,98.74. >> Thank you. Can I get a motion in a
second, please? >> Motion. Thank you. Open to council. Seeing none, close council. Open to public. P public on the manual bill resolutions. >> Seeing none, close public. Roll call,
please. >> Councilman Albany, >> yes. >> Councilwoman D. Young, >> yes. >> Councilman Feman, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Travers, >> yes. >> Vice President Mikino, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. 51. An ordinance of the township of brick,
county of ocean, state of New Jersey, amending the township code in chapter 460 entitled vehicles operation of to increase the number of permits for beach vehicles from 125 to 200. >> Thank you. And there's no public hearing on first readings. Okay. Councilwoman D. Young.
>> This ordinance is being presented by the township's recreation committee. Each year in the month of September, the township clerk's office issues beach vehicle permits for the fishermen to drive on the beach in the off season. Over the past few years, this has become
increasingly popular. Based on that, the committee requested an ordinance to amend to increase the number of permits to 200. This number was approved by engineering, PD, and beach staff as a reasonable number to accommodate. Staff is also requesting that the lottery be
open only to Brick Township residents on the first day. Thank you. >> Thank you. Can I get a motion in a second, please? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Thank you. Open to council. Seeing none, close council. Roll call. >> Councilman Albanese. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman D. Young.
>> Yes. >> Councilman Fineman. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Travers? >> Yes. >> Vice President Mikino? >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> 61, please. An ordinance vacating a portion of Green Grove Road, Township of Brick, County of Ocean, State of New Jersey, to be combined with block 759,
lot 41, and block 756.01, lot 6. >> Thank you, Councilman Fineman, please. >> Thank you, Council President. The land use committee is recommending a street vacation of portions of Green Grove Road. The request is being made to provide for an access road to a driveway
which is shared with a neighboring property. Thank you. >> Thank you. Can I get a motion in a second, please? Thank you. Open to council. Closed counsel. Open to public. >> Seeing none, close public. Roll call.
>> Councilman Albanese. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman D. Young. >> Yes. >> Councilman Feman. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Travers. >> Yes. >> Vice President Mikino. >> Yes. >> Thank you. And this brings us to public comments. Please. 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 2-33b. >> Thank you. Anybody from public, please? Yes, ma'am. >> Um my name is Deborah Williams. I live
at 134 Skyline Drive. It's uh in um a 55 and over community off of Herbertville Road. I just want to preface my comments with that this is not political in any way. This is strictly u Debbie coming
before you for regarding a personal matter and a safety matter. So I wrote this up um because I want didn't want to forget anything. And um my life changed on January 13, 2025.
Eight months ago tomorrow at 10:50 a.m. I was on my way to 11:00 mass at St. Dominic's. At the intersection of Route 70 and Burnt Tavern Road, I stopped at a red traffic light. When it turned green, I moved into the intersection. At the
same time, an individual traveling north attempted to beat the red light. So, he speeded up at the yellow light and at a high rate of speed drove into my car. I didn't know what hit me. My car was total, the airbags deployed, and I went
into shock. I didn't know what year it was. I didn't know my address. I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. I've learned a lot. I learned that in New Jersey, victims are responsible for 20% of the first $5,000 in medical
bills, plus the co-pay and the deductible. This struck fear in my heart when I heard it. I learned that it is beyond extremely difficult to get car insurance companies to pay medical bills despite significant pain. Now my
activities have been limited to only what must be done. I'm here before you because every time I go out I see red light runners every single time. predominantly on Route 70 going east to
Route 34 which is where I go for therapy and west um to west on uh Route 70 to Cedar Bridge Road. I watched cars speed up at yellow lights and then go through the red. I was told that red light
cameras were installed in brick but were removed. I think they were removed because people complained about them for various reasons. I'd like to suggest that whatever those reasons were, they were easier to deal with than what I'm
going through every day for the past eight months. I would like to suggest, request, and plead for the return of red light cameras to discourage red light runners. Mayor Crate has asked for ideas
on what we can do to make Brick better. Anything that reduces the overwhelming number of auto accidents would make life better. I'm afraid to drive. As for me, I'm on my second doctor. He requested pre-certification for a nerve block in
my spine and it was denied. He appealed it saying it was medically necessary. It was also denied. At the same time, additional physical therapy was denied with the reason being it's not helping her.
If a car insurance company denies your treatment, then Medicare won't cover it. And I really don't know what my future holds. Please try to make certain that what happened to me doesn't happen to anyone else in brick. That will make Brick better. Thank you.
>> Thank you. Feel better. >> Thank you very much. Anybody else from public, please? Yes, sir. >> Mark Vasquez for 40 Lana Court. Um I I I got some information that I was
told that uh Miss Joanne Bergen is assuming the supervisor's role role for the court code enforcement uh office. Is is that correct? >> Are you asking me? >> Yeah, if that's okay for you.
>> That's correct. >> That is correct. And did you get permission by uh by the civil service authority to do so? No, because that was never a civil service title. >> So, it was never a civil service title. And are you also assuming the secretary role?
>> We all help out with phone calls and emails, including myself. >> Okay. Can I ask why you decided to assume that role? >> No. >> No. >> We are we planning to replace somebody in that role or you're going to take it moving forward?
>> I haven't we haven't decided that. >> You haven't decided that. Okay. Understood. And then um we have uh public committees that the township has right uh uh and from my understanding it's not open to the public. Is that a correct statement? Are
these public committees open to the public where anybody can come and attend, you know, any of those committees at any time? >> What public meetings are you referring to? >> Any any committee that you've created, right? the sustainable land use committee, any sublet committee that
you've had you've you've established or you you've appointed people to. Um >> that would be up to the committee chairs. >> And why are they not public if it is a public committee? >> Why is that just not standard? >> I'm not saying it's not. I'm saying it's up to the committee chairs. So
>> So why is it when people have called about asking to come to those committees, they've been told they can't? >> Well, who do they talk to? >> Whoever's in charge of those committees. So the question is >> I'd like in which committee. So, let's talk about sustainable land use committee. I don't know if that's the specific committee that they spoke
about, but they were told they couldn't command land use committee. So, I'm not sure which >> I apologize. I don't know if that uh what I was told was that they called one time and they couldn't get into a committee and and it's supposed to be a public meeting. So, I'm confused as to why you would even make that statement
as to that it's up to the committee board when it's a public meeting. Is it not? >> I I can answer these questions. I I don't know what the sustainable land use committee is because I don't think we have >> Let's let's forget about that. Any committee. >> It would be easier for us to answer your question if you gave us any committee
and somebody called up. >> So give me any committee in this township that you that we we appoint people to >> the so we meet for a half hour as a committee and then we go into the public portion of the meeting which in in a different room where we have a
public portion. So we have a committee meeting and then we have a full public meeting. >> And is that centered with all committees that there's both a private and then >> I'm giving an example because you didn't have one. So >> yeah, but I'm just asking and is there is that standard across the board that all committees have a private committee meeting and then a public committee
meeting? >> Not necessarily. >> Okay. So so understanding that it is for the public's interest, right, that it's part of the public that those meetings should be public. That's not >> the open public meetings act requires
certain meetings to be held in public when government action is taken. This is a open public meeting required by law to be noticed and public allowing someone like yourself to stand up and speak. If a member of the administration has a meeting with someone that is not a
public meeting. If they choose to meet with less than a quarum that is not a meeting. That is not a public meeting. Official action isn't taken. So there is no legal requirement that that be public. >> Is it legal requirement to have minutes of these meetings? >> It depends on what >> since it's a public record.
>> It's not a public meeting. It doesn't meet the definition of a public meeting. >> So you put public the public in a committee and it's not a public meeting. Okay, that understood. And then just to clarify, it's not a public meeting. >> Public meeting. >> So >> these committees are not public and open to the public.
>> Public bodies acting upon actions. They don't take action. So, they don't they don't meet the definition of a public body that requires an open public meeting. >> No, that's a perfect explanation. I appreciate it. And just uh since I'm I don't know if it's okay, but if Heather could answer that question herself since you weren't aware whether or not she's
representing as councilwoman or Meals on Wheels um when she's doing ribbon cutting. >> Mr. Connealy, is she allowed to answer that question? >> I'm sorry. >> That he asked earlier in what capacity she's going to be at the Exfinity grand opening.
if she wants to answer. She's not obligated to answer. It's public comment. There's no obligation for you to answer. >> So, you're representing as a council woman of the township of brick, not meals on wheels, correct? >> Okay, perfect. Thank you. That's all you have. Thank you. >> Thank you, sir.
>> Anybody else from public? Yes, sir. >> Yes, sir. >> Jeff 560 Ocean Terrace, Nory Beach Rick. Um I'm here with a question. It deals with police matters. Is there somebody that
represents police or >> depends on your question. >> Okay. So proceed with the question. So uh we're building rebuilding a house. Our place was wrecked in Sandy. We've owned property there for a long time and I have a little fear and trepidation
about moving back to that area after what I saw Sunday night. So, um, I'm at a friend's house and there's all these fireworks going off and sounds like you're at Jenson's on Thursday night, just a lot of fireworks. And my friends laughing going, "Oh, they're posting
this on uh on Facebook." Now, do you guys monitor social media occasionally or? >> Personally, I don't. >> I mean, the police department and see what's going on. >> Yes, sir. The police department does track social media regularly and daily and often. >> Okay. So, can I just read you what they
were posting that night, Sunday? >> This is what gets me worried about moving back to the area. This is on the Normandy Beach neighborhood watch anonymous. Uh, this is as fireworks going off at 8:51. My dog has been suffering every night
with the fireworks in Normandy Beach. When are they going to stop? So, next comment is some guy. Uh, usually Labor Day weekend. They commonly are set off all summer long just like at the boardwalks. And then somebody else chimes in, "Join the club. We have to
medicate one of our dogs because of the blank. I'm not going to repeat what they wrote there. That do fireworks all summer long as they drink on the I guess on the beach, right? And this is the part that upsets me. Police do nothing about it. So I feel your pain. Not sure
how to fix this, but I deal with it as well. So, I was just wondering what are your what is your policy these days with fireworks? Because when I lived there 20 years ago, I would see police just drive by and not really worry about fireworks.
So, do you think that it's okay to be setting off fireworks every night? If if in fact this is true, I don't know if it's true or not. >> Right. So, we we will look to see if there were calls to the police department on Sunday night and how those calls were handled because a lot of folks um will go on and post comments,
but they never actually called the police. So, um that's that's helpful. I would also like to mention that uh Normandy Beach buffers Tom's River. >> I'm right on the border. So, you could be talking about Tom's River, too. And the township of Tom's River had a
township fireworks display on the beach on Sunday night because I also had to medicate my dog. So these fireworks could have been from >> Where was that in Tom's River? >> So they have a Bay Beach which is um just over the bridge. >> Oh, down in Seaside. No, in Tom's River,
>> which so if you go over the bridge into Seaside, Tom's River is right there and it's on the >> So it would have been something you would have. >> So this was in probably conjunction because it was local 4th Avenue. >> It was significant Sunday night. I had to medicate my dog. So
>> Oh boy. So um you guys typically would respond if somebody called in. >> We respond to everything >> and um >> and we have police out there 247. It's its own district. So your staff so you don't have to wait for them to come from the mainland to go there. We have
special police officers and police officers that are out on quads. >> We're we're out there making >> go up and down the beach at night. >> They do. >> Oh, that's good. So, um I can tell my wife we don't have to sell before we even >> Well, I don't want to make your decision for you, but certainly we do respond to
every call. Yeah. >> Um and we'd have to check to see if any calls were made. >> And then uh do you give a warning? Do you give fines or to the police officer based on what he or she sees when she responds. >> When they respond. >> Now, what's if this is kind of like they
go together, alcohol and fireworks with adults, do you is that okay to drink alcohol on the beach at night if you're an adult? >> Nope. >> No. Never. Right. >> Never. >> Okay. Um,
let's see if I have any more questions. Yeah. Uh, yeah. I think it's been quiet down there. the the curfew. You guys are going to continue that for the force. Yeah, that helped a lot, you know. >> So now we just need a curfew for adults, right? >> Thank you very much. I appreciate that.
>> Thank you, sir. Anybody else from public, please? >> Yes, sir. Mr. Bacon. My name is Charles Bacon. Good evening, council, Mayor Crate, and the administration. I'm here tonight because I learned that the township is preparing to delete a
large volume of older email records in what's reportedly being called the Purge. I have serious concerns about the timing, the optics, and the impact this will have on public trust. This is not a normal housekeeping task when done
during the height of an election year. It is a decision that raises questions and the public deserves answers. My questions are straightforward. One, why now? Why is this being done during campaign season instead or after the election? Number two, who authorized
this? Was it approved by the full council or is this an administrative decision? Have state retention rules been reviewed? Are we certain this complies with New Jersey legal requirements for recordkeeping? Was there any consideration of public
perception? Because deleting records in the middle of an election year, especially ones that could contain relevant information under man's transparency. Will you commit tonight to halting any deletion of records until after the election? Even if this action
is technically within the rules, it sends the wrong message. The appearance is that the administration is clearing out a paper uh trail before voters have their say. That's damaging to public trust. And frankly, it's unnecessary. If the goal is simply good record
management, transparency is not just about following the law. It's about protecting the public's confidence in its government. I urge you to immediately pause any plan. deletion of emails until after the election and provide a full accounting to residents about what's being deleted, why, and who
decided it should happen. Thank you. And with the remaining time, I'd like to make a comment. And I applaud this young lady, unfortunately, for what you went through. I've spoke in front of this board back in October and many other people as well about the problem we have at red lights.
And when I came here in October, it was after we had an incident where two people were killed in an intersection at Chambers Bridge. And I gave a day in the life of what I go through every day coming off of Princeton Avenue to go to Tom's River. I asked a series of things,
recommendations, and I want to follow up with this group tonight. Did any of those recommendations that I gave you in October, have you followed up with the county? Did you look at the traffic records about the delays in yellow uh lights and how long it takes?
Constantly. All the roads that I travel to get out of this town are dangerous. And if you're the first one in in line, you better wait a couple seconds before anything happens. So, all I got to say is I I feel bad for you going through that. I know people that have been killed and and injured with some of this
issue. So, thank you and have a good evening. >> Thank you, sir. Anybody else from public, please? Yes, sir. Michael Bua, 654E, Plymouth Drive, Lakewood. Everyone up here knows who I am. Every single one. >> I didn't catch your name. I'm sorry.
>> Michael Bua, 65. Thanks. >> Deletions are a key reason why I decided to come out tonight. This was a very difficult decision to do. I echo what Charlie says about the email deletions. That's fine. That's an administrative decision or whether it's a political decision decision. I don't
know. But I'm here tonight to talk about my company, Jersey Senior Weekly, the senior news magazine that serves brick residents in every other town in New Jersey. And a certain individual on the day tonight decided that had access to my email account, excuse me, my Facebook
account to delete my ads. That was a decision based on politics, wasn't it? Now, I want to know, was that a township decision, a political decision, or what? What decision was it? And the council woman who I'm referring
to, it's not looking at me, nor would she, nor does she need to. But the truth is is that we're talking about erasing records, aren't we? Why erase me? Why race my new company when I decided to switch parties? Why? Why hurt me, a
small business owner who wants to serve brick residents just as all you do or claim to do? You're all looking at me. I know all of you intimately. And all of you know how much that hurt me as a small business owner who is just trying to make it in this town and make it in Ocean County.
That's all I'm trying to do. I never wanted to harm anyone on this day as a political person or otherwise. My ideology changed, my party changed. I'm a different person. That's all I am. But that council person who's sitting up
there tonight and avoiding my contact knows exactly what I'm talking about. And I hope you can live with yourself knowing that I had to go through the hoops I had to to figure out what the hell was wrong with my account. Excuse my language. Council President, I ask you, are you
willing to ask the council woman, Heather D. Young, if she was acting on behalf of the township of brick or if she was acting on behalf of Meals on Wheels or her personal cord when she deleted my ads on a Thursday at 3 p.m. >> So, Mr. Bua. >> Yes, sir. >> I'm not going to have you here and
attack one of our council members. >> I'm not attacking anyone. I'm stating a fact. >> You mentioned her name. >> Okay, >> that's a problem for me. >> I'm sorry. >> I am just stating a fact that something that happened. I just want to know if it was an action of the township or brick. If it was not, I'm okay with that. >> Those are your facts. I don't have the
facts. >> I will send them to you and everyone on this day, >> please. >> Including your township attorney. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, sir. >> Anybody else from public, please? Seeing none, close public. >> Oh, somebody Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see your hand, sir. I apologize. Sorry about
that. >> My name is Rich Bman, 33 Kettle Creek Drive. I just got a couple questions about um we live over there on Mallet Point and a couple years back we came to a meeting over here to talk about uh you know they were going to redo the the
park over there and that was like back in 2021. I called a couple of times and I kept getting excuses about I know I mean what was the delay uh and they said something about the EPA was holding this up and and that and then also I got
certified letters from uh engineering company somewhere I think it was in how one in Trenton or something and it's been almost five years now I'm just wondering you know if there's anything you know in the works with that I heard that there
something was but I'm not So, and this, you know, the place is really starting to look really dumpy now. Uh, they were talking about these these weeds that are growing out, some protected weed that was t it's really taken over the park because 20 years ago when I used to take my grandkid over
there, there was plenty of beach space there. It was clean. They had, you know, the the things that the kids play on. And now those weeds or whatever they are, protected grass >> is going out almost to the street. You can't even walk. you know, around there.
There's two little there's almost two sections now because of these weeds or grass. So, I was just wondering, you know, what's going on with that? And another thing was uh Kettle Creek Drive, the the end closer to Tounesbrook there.
I I'd like to know like is there any plan to repave that? I mean, ever since we first moved there, nothing was ever done. It wasn't too bad. But then after Sandy, the road started to dip. We got like a little a little ditch across the
road. It's like, you know, I don't mind speed bumps, but this is like a ditch, >> you know. And so I was just wondering if how do I find out if there's a plan for that? And that's that's pretty much it. >> Hi. >> Hi. >> Hi. Nice to meet you. Uh, so I have been
in contact with some of the residents about the park, but I don't know that I have your email within my little chain. So, anytime I have an update, I try to reach out to the residents. You are correct. We had issues with the D. We had issues with the Army Corps uh at one
point. Um, I feel like there was some kind of special reason why they couldn't dredge at the time or so. This that was the first giant part of the issue. uh that was finally resolved around May or June of
this year. Finally, we got sign off from the Army Corps that we could proceed. Um so we put bids out and uh we had an error in the bid originally for uh the playground. So that bid is going back out. Once that bid goes back out, we
should be >> ready to roll. I know it's been a long time coming. Uh it hasn't been uh on the township side. every time something was required of us, we handed it in and then it sat up at the state for months and months and months until they got to it. Um, so so we're ready to roll once that
bid gets goes back out likely. We're hoping in September we can start rolling the ball on that so that the kids have some place to play in the spring. That's the goal. >> Well, not only that, they still planning on like right now there's a dock out there that's really falling apart. Yeah, that's all part of the uh
>> the whole plan >> because we came here for an original plan and they showed us all these pictures of what they were going to do. Said, "Wow, this is great. >> It will be it will be beautiful." Now, if if what I can do is have the parks department go out and check out the area and if there's things that need to be cut down or trimmed, they can clean that
up a little bit uh and take care of that. >> It's just like those that the grass I told you about. I don't know what they call it, but they supposedly they were protected. >> Oh, I'll have to we'll have to look into that. just just kind of >> um the second part of your question is I thought I had the paving list with me
but I don't. So if you uh if you can give me your email at the end of the evening I'll pop over and then I can essentially tell you what the paving plans are how we evaluate streets and I can find out between now and when I reach back out to you where that section
of Kettle Creek falls on uh our paving list. Okay. Okay. >> Fair enough. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you so much. >> Thank you sir. >> Anybody else from public please? Yes, sir. >> 28 West Campo Drive. Um, recently I started realizing uh something that's
happening in brick with all these residential houses being turned into LLC's and being rented out to who knows who. There's no control over the occupancy of these uh houses and some of
them are in strictly residential neighborhoods. They were used as residents, but they have people coming and going that are smoking marijuana and there's people that live next door. I know marijuana is legal, but people that live next door that have children and
they can't even have their kids in their backyard. And I think there should be some kind of ordinance like they did down in Seaside where they want to know who owns the house, who they can call if there's a problem, and also they have a restriction of how many people can
actually be in the rental unit and the parking. And I think that's going to have to be looked at because it's getting out of hand in this town. And there's a lot of it being bought up by that by people from out of this out of the town. And they don't really give a
damn. All they care about is section 8 money that they're guaranteed to get from the state. And I don't think it's fair to the people that live in this town that have to put up with that crap and they're smoking in a pot and nobody can do anything about it. Something's got to be straightened out. >> Okay. Thank you.
>> Thank you, sir. >> Did you want me to respond to that? >> I I >> Yeah, if you will. Sure. >> Uh to the gentleman in back, the town does have a landlord registration act. If somebody is renting out property as a
residential property, they uh they have a number of requirements, but um they're required to register as a landlord, provide the uh goes through the building department, the identity of who the landlord is, a contact person, um and
any rental has to have a rental co uh for occupancy. If if you know of one that's not registered or doesn't have a rental co, they'd be in violation. please let us know because we would go out and investigate that and site them. The certificate of occupancy establishes
a occupancy limit as to how many people are in the house. So that is all part of uh um was done a few years ago. I mean it's the town has had CO requirements for many years but uh a whole landlord registration act for rentals was done a
few years ago. So, if you know a case where that's not being done, um, bring it to our attention. As far as smoking marijuana, it is legal now in New Jersey. I understand that. I'm not sure. You could bring it to the attention of the police department if somebody is doing it in a public space or place that's not prohibited or on someone
else's property, but if they're in their own property as a tenant or an owner, I'm not sure that's anything the town could in any way restrict. >> Well, it's it's a quality of life for a family that's living here raising their children, something has to be done about it because I think it's ridiculous. Somebody did other things, uh, sexual
acts in in an exor yard or something like that. You don't want that for your children. You got to protect the kids. And marijuana is is, uh, that's a problem. But that's got to be addressed by the government. But as far as the I know of three people, and I won't mention their names because they're not
here and I don't have their permission, that had the problem with the overcrowding and they did call code enforcement and they got a runaround. and they told me and I could look into that further and I can get you the names and if they want to come forward they can tell you but uh that should be
looked into is something like that >> do that the town township also has a uh part of the rental ordinance restricts short-term and long-term rentals and we have specific provisions on that to prevent um short-term rentals outside of the beach area. So if somebody's, you
know, doing that, that is also restricted >> because it's just growing and growing. Every time you turn around, it's a another section 8 housing in there and it's an LLC, which I don't see why it's not considered a a commercial use that's being in there because it's an LLC in a
residential neighborhood. >> That um as a lawyer, I could tell you that's fairly common. People own real estate as LLC's all the time. Uh in fact, um when I handle real estate transactions for people in purchasing rental property. I would advise them to put in an LLC for liability purpose. Has nothing to do with anything beyond
liability purposes, but is to say it's common is an understatement. It's almost standard. >> The other thing is some of these properties that they have in the LLC's are not very well maintained. You can see the grass not cut all lot of stuff that has to be taken care of and
somebody's not looking out for this for the for the people of the town. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you, sir. Yes, ma'am. Good evening. Mine 33, New Jersey. I wasn't going to get up
until I heard about the certificate of occupancy. I live in Lake Riviera. There is so many homes that I knew the owners are now having three and four families on them. And I've recently been
going around the neighborhood talking to people and quite a few of the homes have three doorbells on them, A, B, and C. >> If they do, please bring that to our attention because that would not be >> You can ask any of your police officers who live in Lake Riviera that know how
bad it has gotten. The neighborhood is horrible. The amount of people, the cars on the roads is horrible. It's noticeable. I know code enforcement has been down there and they say there's nothing they can do about it. How could
you do nothing about it when what is your occupancy? How do you determine that? How many >> occupancy is based? Well, no, there's there'd be two different things there. If you had multiple doorbells, that would be a two family or three family house. >> Three families. >> The uh Lake Rivier is not zoned for uh multif family. So that in and of itself
would be a code violation if it's brought to the attention of the town. Um occupancy in terms of a rental uh when someone rents a house, the building department bases occupancy on uh I believe it's like square footage and number of bathrooms. It's it's a calculation how how many bedrooms and
it's it's a mathematical formula what the occupancy of a house is. That's true for any house that anyone occupies is how many people can live in it is based on square footage. >> So um Whether you have multif family, that's a completely different issue than occupancy from like um it's it's not a
different issue, but legally it's a different issue. Multif family houses um with the exception of motherdaughter homes which are permitted and legally the town can't restrict if you have multiple uh generations of a family living together provided the house is um
essentially one living unit. Has to have um you know one set of electrical meters, gas meters, common can have locked doors between the houses uh between you know sections of the house but mother daughter conversions are fairly common. Um but beyond that if it
becomes where they are unrelated family members that's a multif family house that's not permitted unless you have a board of adjustment variance or you have a house that you know was constructed prior to 1957. >> I'm sure all of these families will claim that they're related because they
probably have similar last names. Um but I do know that they're different families. I know there's like eight cors in front from front of some houses and they're adults and the condition of Lake Riviera has changed horribly. It is
something that is so upset. We're all upset. Everybody in the neighborhood can't walk down your block. It It's turning into um I'm not going to say what it's turning into, but um things need to be changed. Our some of our policemen live in there. They know
what's going on and I don't think they're happy with it either. I've called code enforcement numerous times about different things throughout the years. Nothing we could do about it. Yes, there is. Because I was on zoning. I know that you can't have these houses.
And then when you call the people who are the renters of the houses, who take care of the homes, what do they call them? Uh, you know, they take care of multiple homes in Lake Riviera. You'll take care of it, they'll take care of it, they'll take care of it. It has not changed other than to say it has gotten
worse and it's ridiculous. Shame on everyone. Our neighborhoods are terrible. Our town is terrible because of that. We have to do better. Thank you. >> Thank you. Yes, sir. Mike Calderice, 331 Stinson Road, Brick,
New Jersey. We say that. Uh, I have addresses for you. That's the next story that I'm going to be working on. So, if if you want Mike C at Centercut Media, give me a shout or let me get your email and I will send them to whoever is involved. But I think I've had at least 14 different emails sent or addresses to
look into as far as multiple people living in the homes with um you know multiple cars, everything everybody's saying. So if you're interested, I will send you the addresses that were sent to me. >> They should go to code enforcement or administration. >> Mike, I'll take those addresses. >> Okay. Okay. Um so my my main concern is
my neighborhood. So, Kyl JF Kylie came in, cut lines throughout the entire neighborhood, left, you know, they what I want to know is who's in charge of making sure that they backfill and fill in the the asphalt properly to where
they don't leave, you know, jumps and craters everywhere in the neighborhood because when we wait for a year for it to get done or however long it's going to be, it's an absolute mess. So, if you just go by the go by my neighborhood, the entire neighborhood's a mess and it it seems like, you know, like I said, summer up or summer down. So, how does
that process work? And do they have to repair it to where it has to be drivable and walkable and ridable? >> Yes. So, your neighborhood is is set to be repaved by NJNG. They're the ones that came in and tore the roads up essentially. uh I can reach out to the
engineer to see if she has a date from them yet for repaving and she would be able to talk to you about what the standards are uh that are required when another utility comes in and digs the roads up. >> So once again though, so it's set to be repaved and then I' I've brought this up
at many council meetings and uh and and planning board meetings and all this that the drainage underneath our roads are are very bad as well. So you have a drain pipe that's down here. You have a drain pipe that's up here. We have a drain pipe that's down here. I know that because we had sink holes in my neighborhood. Okay. So, the sink holes
after we re repaved it the first time, they show up like this big, but when they cut them out, they're very big sink holes. And it's because of how bad the drainage is underneath it. So, then when you have I do this for a living. So, when you have those trenches cut and they don't back fill them properly, you're going to get cracks going through that part of the street again as the
continues to settle. So, you're already My point is all over town they do this. they they do not compact properly as they're going back up. They don't set the roads up properly again. And then it you could fix these roads to where you don't have to repave them all all the time like that if they just did the job properly. It seems like they're in a
rush and then they leave us with the problem, you know. So, I just I I want to make that recommendation because I think when they come in and they repave the road, I think we're going to have sink holes in another five or six years because of how bad the drainage problem is. I think we need to get somebody out there to look at that because it is very bad. We're gonna have our engineer evaluate the
drainage in that area and make a recommendation. >> I think I have pictures of that as well of the of the pipes because I know when they came by they did the best they could but they put concrete cloth on it. >> So concrete if you know what there's no drainage. So with all the water that's coming in that we've been getting it's I have a feeling that that's happening
more and more and more. And what's probably happening is it's washing down in and who knows where it's filling up to. Who knows where it's backing in. >> So that's that's all. Um I also have just a quick question. I um just wanted to ask everybody if I reported on that
DPW story. I wanted to know if there was anything I I I said up there that was wrong and anything that you guys have done to maybe address some of the things. >> No, I mean >> uh I I think we've had this discussion back and forth via email. uh your use of
the word administration. This we're the administration. >> There's two of us. So when we had that discussion about uh retaliation from the administration, I still reiterate if you're talking about either of us, that's inaccurate. There's no retaliation. We're here to work with
everybody in the township, no matter what their role is, to make their job better, to make their life better, to make them want to come to work and enjoy coming to work here in the township. And that's something that we're going to continue to strive to do. With regard to uh we talked about potholes um and
that's that was a big thing not only from you but I have um people emailing me daily for weeks about the potholes. So I had I'm I am on top of that. I am in uh contact with the head of our DPW
to make sure that that's taken care of. and also our DPW committee met um prior actually prior to I think you put something out about this. Uh they met prior to that and had made the recommendation and since then we
followed through as administration to uh offer time on Saturday for the road crew to go out and continue to fill those potholes because they were behind because we had a machine down. Now I'm going to tell you one of our machines is down again. It's not repairable. We're
not going to repair it. However, the new machine is already on order and my understanding is it's due to arrive in September. So, we should be back on track. Now, that doesn't mean that we're not still filling holes. We're just going out uh you know, instead with a dump truck to do it that way. It's not
with the machine. So, those guys are still coming in on Saturdays. We're still using the road crew throughout the week. Um I have >> Can I suggest no blue stone? I know it's a quick fix. I think that's a temporary fix until they can get the machine back up and running.
>> Yeah, just the stone is getting all over the street at this point. >> Um yeah, I and I've seen that and I know as well for different areas. I will say that um let me get my glasses out because I want to make sure I got this. So today's pothole list
um is at 176 complaints, which is significantly lower than it was about three months ago. Uh in the last 30 days, we have closed 213 pothole complaints. Uh and we have one truck out every single day and two trucks on Saturdays except now the one truck.
>> How do people complain? Because I don't know if anybody even knows that. So I'll post a couple different things you can do. That's there's actually I want to say three different things because I end up being the third. Um the first is if you go online, there's actually uh an email that you can go to if you go to the DPW site and you can click on it to
to report a pothole. You can call DPW. The ladies who answers the phone there are amazing, kind, wonderful. They'll take all of your information. And then round three is I I get emails as well. And then those emails go right up to DPW as well. So I don't know I don't know if
you get emails, but I I absolutely get emails. So I have made built a lot of relationships with people who have potholes. As mayor, I would tell you probably seven times out of 10, I'm not going to say 10 out of 10 because you know I'm not available all the time. If somebody
calls and reports something, a lot of times I'll do a driveby to see the severity of it so I could kind of gauge, hey, you should get out there right away or it can wait a couple of days, but here sometimes I'll I'll take a picture and send it so they can see how deep it is or if it's something that needs to be
repaired immediately. So, I'm very I try to be as active as possible and uh make sure that if somebody reaches out to me and they've already gone through the other steps that I want to make sure that uh DPW understands that, you know, and they do. I mean, those guys are out
there. I just want to commend the road crew right now because they have been doing double time uh after both machines were down and really nothing could be done for a while. They've really been doing their very best at getting out there and uh kudos to them. So, and so I know I'm obviously over
five minutes, right? But, um, I have a bunch of other questions. I guess I'll wait for the next one for you as well because boarding houses and a lot of different things, but just to clarify, when I say administration, it wasn't just aimed at you two. It's I look at everybody down your chain, right? So, everybody reflects upon you. So, when I say administration, then I know things
are happening. I guess that was what was lost in translation. And um, >> and once again, I just want to offer the invite again. Perry, Heather, I know you're running. I would love to have you on the show. Tell everybody who you are. I really don't know who you guys are as people. Doesn't have to be policy. I really just want to talk to you as a
human being. Who are you? What about this town? If you're interested, I'll be sending emails. I would love to get all you guys on because I want to know who every one of you guys are on. So, I appreciate you guys. Thank you. Appreciate it. >> Thank you, sir. Anyone else from public, please? Yes, sir.
>> Greg Cohen, 111 Redwood Place East. Um, M. Bergen, um, since you are running the code enforcement, can you tell me how many uncollected violations we have and what dollar amount? >> I can't. I don't have that information with me. >> You're running that department though.
Is that correct? >> I'm assisting in that department. Yes. >> So, I would assume that maybe what we need to do is hire somebody who um can enforce the laws and the regulations and would be able to answer those questions. I mean, that's a pretty obvious question. How many violations are out
there? What is outstanding in collecting in fines? >> Mr. Cohen, Mr. Cohen, I'm not going to have you stand here and attack the administrator. If you have Listen, I am not attacking. >> If you have legitimate questions, feel free to email her. You can't expect Miss Bergen to bring every single piece of
information to every meeting. If you ask the question, she'll be more than happy to get back to you at the end. >> I'm a dire I'm a director of a department. I can tell you everything with my budget. I can tell you everything shortanding. just one department >> she's chosen to take on. >> No, I'm asking you to take on you direct
one department. >> She has a host of department she takes care of. >> She can answer for me also. Um and I'm reading on Facebook that I we've got people contacting um this department and they're being treated incorrectly. They're being treated nasty is what
we're being told. It's it's right here on Facebook. Do you have an answer as to why the staff is not treating people with respect? This is why I don't deal with Facebook. >> Well, you know, >> I'm trying to be honest with you. I don't can't you believe everything you read? >> I can believe this because I know the
person who posted it and I know what the situation is, which is the same situation somebody else brought up about renters. >> We have an absolute problem in this town. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Anybody else from public, please? Yes, sir.
Mr. Vasquez, I'd ask you that you make it quick because you had your five minutes already. >> I will make it very quick. Mark Fascus 44 L Court. A couple things. Number one, I think it was inappropriate for you to stop Mr. Bua's comments, whether you like them or not. The question, >> no, it had nothing to do with his comment. It had to do with he was
attacking. Let me finish. He didn't mention names. And then when he did, I have to stop him. >> Let me finish. If there was political retaliation by a coun sitting council member of this town to attack a small business, that is a concern that could be brought up. And if you don't like it, I understand. The same question goes to
Joanne Bergen. If Joanne Bergen can't answer it or you don't allow Joanne Bergen to answer because it's your meeting, that's understood. But if he's asking a question to simply get an answer, right, the obvious qu the obvious thing here is that Joan Bergen is in charge of code enforcement and there seems to be issues with people not
enforcing code. So what's going on here? if this person's in charge, but why is she in charge and not hiring somebody when someone should be there and so that she can manage the rest of her job and responsibilities? The other part of it too is that I find it crazy that Mike Calderice knows and is speaking to
people who says that they're scared to speak out because of retaliation. So, who's in charge? Joanne Bergen and Mayor Craig. So when they're saying no and then we saw the same press release where they told the public that there wasn't
any issues with rodents here and then you have people from the township talking from the the that work here saying there is that's an issue right again while you may not like it is free speech is protected by the first amendment if I call you a loser that you
would have to eat that. So please respect us because this is the public now you may not like it sir. >> So I understand you can call me that. I'm not and I don't think you're a loser. Please don't. That's not what I'm trying to say. You're a good guy. >> Listen, while I'm running the meeting, nobody will attack the members of this council.
>> Nobody was attacking anybody. >> He was fine. He was fine until he mentioned her name. As soon as he mentions a name, I have an issue with that. >> So, was there political retaliation by this? >> No, I don't know. Mr. Bua said he was going to send me the information. I have no idea. >> Okay. So, if Mr. book is making a a a
statement in public to say that >> that this council person who obviously is taking a a very big stride never to look up when he was talking right obviously knows that she doesn't like him right she's showing the same if you're calling it disrespect she's disrespecting the public she did it when
my calder was standing up here only look to glance and come back down whatever she's doing there's no way that she's spending every single council meeting looking down on a piece of paper to write notes there's no way or you're texting somebody or you're not paying attention. So, why be councilwoman? Right? That that would be the question.
But I I'm I'm getting frustrated with the fact that we're the people. The First Amendment protects our ability to say what we need to say in a public meeting and that people think, "Oh, wait. I don't like it because it's it's something that I don't like to hear. If
she's not doing her job, then someone needs to get fired and replaced." >> And that's >> if if she doesn't want to be councilwoman, >> step down. Thank you, sir. Anybody else from public, please? >> No. You had your five minutes, sir.
Twice. No. >> Yeah. >> If you make it very brief. >> And you're done, Mr. Vasquez. Okay. >> Mike Calder East 331 Stinson Road. Now, the things that were posted on Facebook
were by me and I'm telling everybody on this council that if you had the meetings I've had and you talk to the amount of people I have, everybody including some of the administration have asked me to keep their name out of it because they all fear of losing their jobs. That is a
fact. And I know that everyone was trying to find out who told me this stuff. I had many different conversations with a lot of different people. So that is absolutely 100% happening and I hope you guys get down to the bottom of it. That's all. Thank you.
>> Thank you, sir. Anybody else from public, please? Seeing none, close public. >> Mrs. Bergen. >> Um, sure. I'll I'll make a comment if you'll indulge me for a second. So, uh, as the council knows, the township
business administrator often steps in to assist in supervising positions in departments in transition. I've been the purchasing agent, the recreation director, the preschool director. I also assist in the building department, and the DBW call center. I've built a career
on hands-on support of township staff as they serve the public. Uh, we have four code enforcement officers that are hard workers that take pride in their work. All complaints that are made to the township code enforcement department are investigated and we make sure that we
follow the law. So there are times when there are people that don't like our answer or don't like the fact that our hands are tied in certain ways, but we do try to explain it. So if if there are specific complaints about specific addresses, 2621033,
we'll investigate and certainly explain what we can and what we can't do and the times that we our hands are tied. Otherwise, we investigate and we address all complaints. >> Thank you, Mayor. >> Thank you. Uh I have a couple of things.
Uh the first being that this is a great township. We have great people living here. We have great um neighborhoods. Every little neighborhood has its own personality. And uh I love visiting each
neighborhood. And I think that the people generally living in these neighborhoods are happy with Brick Township. And if they're not, then we are happy to take their complaints and work with them to make sure that their quality of life is met and they are
happy living here. The second thing that I want to point out is that um Joanne Bergen started working here under Mayor Ducey. I know Mayor Ducey hired Miss Bergen. I work with a lot of different
towns. I work with mayors from Point Pleasant, Point Pleasant Beach, Manaloing, Bayhead, Berkeley, Tom's River, um, Lavallet, Seaside Heights, Seaside
Park. All of these mayors on the barrier island I work with and I work with other BAS through those mayors. And every single one of those mayors says on a regular basis how lucky we are
in Brook Township to have Joanne Bergen. She knows everything. She knows the law. She knows how every department works and she's a professional and anyone who says anything otherwise
is incorrect. Thank you. >> I'm not done. >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> The last thing I'd like to say is uh two of our officers over the last month, Officer Tur and and Captain Catalina
lost their partners. >> Well, sorry. Uh off uh Captain Catalina lost Duke and Officer Turan lost Vader this morning. Those were two um of our K-9 officers,
right, who worked in this township for years with our officers alongside not just our officers but alongside uh kids in school. Um, they were great service dogs
and I just want to send my condolences out to both of those officers and and everyone on the force who worked with both Vader and Duke because anybody that's been to the farmers market knows Vader. Anyone that's been there has known him. Anyone that's gone to trunk
or treat knows Vader. Anyone who has been to uh different events at schools knows Vader or Duke. both of those dogs were very present in our community and they were really a part of the force. So, I just want to send my condolences out to both of those officers. Um those
dogs were truly their partners uh for for many many years and we are sorry that um you know they're no longer with us. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Connealy. >> Nothing this evening. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Madame Clerk. >> Nothing. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Secretary. >> Councilman Albanese, >> just want to uh congratulate um the Cooney on the promotion and the two officers that got sworn in and my condolences for the two dogs that lost
their lives. >> Councilwoman Don, >> thank you. I also would like to uh congratulate the officers um and also thank all of the employees. Uh this past week, we had a few events. We had national night out which is run by our
police and our uh recreation department and of course all the other departments chip in building and grounds. We have recreation parks, DPW, everybody chips in for those events and it's a really really national night out is a great
family event. Um also Wednesday we had Trader Cove the Basso brothers played. Um this coming uh Wednesday we tomorrow we actually have Back in Time coming to the Trader Cove concert series and they do a great job putting on the show and
really enjoy um seeing everybody's faces out there. And then we had our PBA car show. This is the first year that the PBA took over and fully ran the event and they did such a great job. There were cars just coming in after car after car after car and we really had a great
time and I want to congratulate all of the winners of all the trophies of uh the cars that won. Uh I know the mayor's trophy went to a candy apple red 57 Chevy that he restored from basically
nothing. He explained to us how he restored it and it was beautiful. white leather interior, black or red accents, and um I don't know a lot about cars, but from what I understand, the body was straight as an arrow. That's what they
told me. But it was beautiful. Um and I want to congratulate everybody and thank everybody for putting on such a great week of events for the township. That's all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you, Councilman Fineman. >> Thank you, Council President. I had a blast at National Night Out. I thought
it was a really cool, fun event. My family enjoyed uh their time. I met two young ladies, Reggie and Terry, who were part of Brick Senior Services. Um took a long time to remember their names, but Reggie was on the left and Terry was on
the right. So, if you're home watching, I remembered. Um they're so sweet though and so knowledgeable. And what they reminded me about Brick Senior Services is that if a person is homebound or cannot physically make it out, you can call them and they will
make arrangements to do a home visit and they could help you fill out uh you know Medicare applications or any other applications for any other programs. I think that's uh that's really awesome. Um you do need to be 60 or older. So, I'm sorry, Perry. You have about 15 20
years um before you're eligible. Um yeah. Uh but uh they could be called, they could be reached at 732-9208686. Uh stay safe and have fun. Thank you. >> Thank you, Councilwoman Travers. >> Another um township event that's really
great that my husband took my oldest to last week was the family camp out at Winward. It was really cool. got to watch ET and they sat out in the car and then they slept over at Winward which is great and I look forward to going to that next year. Um and then congratulations to the Eagle Scouts and
the promotion for the police officer and our two new officers. Thank you. >> Thank you. So I usually don't have much to say other than the next meeting is this day, but congratulations to the Eagle Scouts. It was impressive. I'm glad that young man didn't fall down
with the crutches. Uh congratulations to the officers. So, let me reiterate a little bit on what the mayor said about Miss Bergen. So, I know Miss Bergen for a little while now. And I take the time to get to know people and to appreciate
what they do. So, what she does behind the scenes is is remarkable. So, who doesn't know me? I was a business agent for Teamsters. I was a business agent and a teamster for 35 years. It's a long career. In that 35 years, I've had other
and I've represented Lakewood, Tom's River, Brick, um, supervisors, um, Howell, Beachwood, Stafford, all Ocean County towns and all over the state. But in Ocean County, those are the most of
the ones I've represented as a union rep. I can't tell you the countless numbers of times mayors and other business administrators asked me to make the introduction to Mrs. Bergen because who
she is and the remarkable things she does in this town. This is a great town. People want to mirror this town because of what we do here, whether it be the police or DPW or anything else. And I I'm not thin skinned where I'm sitting up here and think I don't like
what somebody said. You say what you want. It's your five minutes. But when it becomes disrespectful, then I have an issue with it. My whole life, I don't like bullies. I won't tolerate a bully. So, if you're going to come up here, you say what you need to say, but do it with respect. And if I'm sitting in this
chair, we will not attack anybody in this room. I won't let another public person attack another public person either. It's not going to happen on my watch. Okay? So, again, the next meeting is September 9th, 7 o'clock here. Please
Come bring your five minutes. Say what you need to say and let's have an orderly meeting every time we come here. Okay. Thank you. Can I get a motion to adjurnn? meeting.