adequate notice of this meeting was provided and published in the Asbury Park Press and the ocean star on January 17th 2025 copies of the agenda were provided to the newspaper and posted on public bulletin boards and the township website roll call please councilman albanes councilwoman pontorero here
councilwoman D young here councilman feeman here councilwoman Travers here vice president minikino here president amberino here thank you I'm going to ask everyone to rise for a salute to the flag Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence Al to the flag of the United States of
America and see the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all please be seated is there a motion in a second to approve the minutes from the January
28th meeting motion second roll call Council woman ptero obain councilwoman D young yes councilman fan yes councilwoman Travers yes vice president minikino yes
president ambino yes thank you can 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 if discussion is desired on any item this item will be removed from the consent agenda and will be considered
separately item 41 authorized sale and issuance of bond anticipation notes councilwoman Travers thank you council president this resolution authorizes the sale of bond anticipation notes in an amount not to exceed 31,725
700 as projects are approved the townships typically start out by securing Bond anticipation notes known as band which is a temporary form of financing once the project scope or equipment specifications is better defined we roll the those bands into
bonds we use temporary financing at the outset to give us a chance to do better Define to better Define costs as opposed to Long temporary financing at did I just say I apologize I just read the same sentence as opposed to long-term
financing on estimates notes short-term financing may be rolled into bonds permanent financing after the third anniversary date which is the typical practice of the township we do this in accordance with recommendations from our bond Council Financial Consultant and our Chief Financial Officer thank you
thank you item 42 authorize rebid purchase and delivery of various doors councilman Fineman thank you council president this resolution authorizes the rebid for the purchase and delivery of various doors this bid is for doors used throughout the township for in-house construction projects these materials
will be required for various projects during the year bid notices were provided to six prospective biders from our biders list and five requested the bid package one bid was received however it was deemed non-responsive based on an error and rejected thank you thank you
item 43 authorize rebid preservation architectural services councilwoman ponera thank you council president this resolution authorizes the rebid of proposal of preservation architectural
services the I apologize the bid was previously issued and at the time bid notices were provided to 53 prospective biders from our list and 14 vendors then requested
our bid package unfortunately no bids were received so we're going to try again resubmit in the hopes of one of the 14 vendors who pick up the package we'll actually submit one thank you thank you item 44 authorized close out
change order number two roadway resurfacing and water main replacement contract for Laurel Manor councilman Council vice president minino thank you this resolution authorizes the approval of closeout change order number two for roadway resurfacing and water main
replacement contracts for the Laurel Manor this change order decreases the contract with the nor count Construction in the amount of $625 as a as as as a result of a final as Bill quantities thank you thank you
item four five authorized shared services agreement with county of ocean for Police Services Ocean County Narcotics Strike Force thanks this resolution authorizes the execution of a shared services agreement with the Ocean County prosecutor's office for the Ocean
County Narcotics Strike Force the purpose of the Strike Force is to enforce firearm and anti-drug laws of the state of New Jersey the township receives a stipend per officer assigned to the task force who participates for
12 consecutive months moving on to item 46 authorize agreement with Community Services Inc for Ocean County for congregate nutrition program councilwoman Dion thank you this resolution authorizes an agreement with Community Services Inc of Ocean County
to prepare hot meals and deliver to the congregate nutrition program also the Community Cafe for our participants at The Brick senior centers Mondays and Fridays and at The Brick Housing Authority on Thursdays this agreement is
for one year thank you thank you uh item 47 47a is a performance bond release for Block 2 11.02 Lots 20 and 22 and B is a performance bond release for Block 902 Lot 2 thank you madam clerk item
48 thank you 48a 100% DAV Widow of Veteran deduction at block 12 10.03 lot 203 8B is a senior citizen deduction of block 755 Lot 37 and 8 C is a veteran deduction of block 38011 Lot 8 block
44616 lot 6 block 11 9223 lot 14 and block 1385 point10 lot 20 thank you that's the end of the consent agenda I will now ask for a motion in a second on the consent agenda
motion second open to council for questions seeing none open to the public for questions on these resolutions only seeing none close public roll call please councilwoman pontorero yes councilwoman D young abstain 46 yes to
the rest councilman Fineman yes councilwoman Travers yes vice president minikino yes president ambers no yes thank you moving on to item 49 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 computer Bill resolution in the amount of 17 million $141,600 is there a motion and second on the computer Bill resolution motion second open to council
for questions seeing none open to the public for questions on the computer Bill resolution only seeing none Clos public roll call please councilwoman pontorero yes councilwoman D young yes councilman Fineman yes councilwoman Travers yes
vice president minikino yes president ambino yes thank you item 410 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 25926 73 Motion in a second on the manual Bill resolution motion second thank you open to council for
questions seeing none open to the public for questions on the manual Bill resolution seeing none close public roll call please councilwoman Pono yes Council D young yes councilman fan yes
councilwoman Travers yes vice president minikino yes president Amino yes thank you moving on to agenda item 551 an ordinance of the township of brick County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the acceptance of the
donation of property known as block 1225 Lots 565 567 571 and 577 and block 1386 Lot 1 mayor CR thank you this ordinance uh authorizes the acceptance of donated property at
the corner of Herbertsville Road and Maple Avenue this property has been identified by the brick open space saers committee as an appropriate addition to the Township's Recreation and open space inventory it should be noted that the township is specifically not accepting
the adjoining property owned by the same owner as it has a single family home on that lot but we're very happy to accept this uh property for our open space thank you you thank you uh Motion in a second on this ordinance motion second
open to council for questions seeing none roll call please councilwoman pontorero yes councilwoman D young yes councilman Fineman yes councilwoman Travers yes vice president minikino yes president amberino yes thank you item
61 an ordinance of the township of brick County of ocean state of New Jersey amending chapter 66 to establish fees for the use of Municipal electric vehicle charging stations councilwoman Dion thank you electric vehicle charging stations have been installed at Windward
beach park and Drum Point Sports Complex the ordinance provides for the establishment of feeds 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 sir charge the township sustainable brick committee has worked with charge point the vendor for the charging stations and reviewed neighborhood municip neighboring municipalities and the fees they assess for their charging
stations Motion in a second motion second thank you open a council for questions on this ordinance seeing none open a public for questions and comments on this ordinance same none closed public roll call please coun councilwoman ptero yes
councilwoman D young yes councilman fan yes councilwoman Travers yes vice president miniki no yes president ERS no yes thank you can move on to item 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 thank you any comments from the public Mr bacon my name is uh Charlie bacon 366 ran cookus Drive good evening mayor
council and administration the last me meeting I spoke about the trailers and council president you decided to ask one question was the trailer ordinance pulled from the December 10th agenda and that was an
affirmative it was acknowledged it was my followup question to that when did the agenda get changed in the time the revised agenda was posted on the website so that's one question for two Council meetings I've
asked multiple questions that not been answered pulling the ordinance after many people in town were up in an up uproar about this issue honestly is not gerain to my questions the fact that it was on the agenda is very gerain the
fact you pulled it and I think it's important to know when the timeline was when it was pulled because obviously all the people that were in this courtroom weren't aware of that the other question I have tonight since December has there been an increase of Code Enforcement
around trailers Andor commercial vehicles yes or no on that those are my questions on the trailers at this point I'll gladly go through this with anybody before or after this meeting I have a lot of details about some of the comments were made in the
Press about what transpired after that meeting on December 10th I also want to bring up about red lights and aggressive driving in this town multiple people have asked me about bringing this issue back in front of of this U governing
official I spoke about it in October at a council meeting and gave very specific details about some comments were made by two residents about the intersection of Post Road in 88 and I actually went through a whole Litany of A Day in the Life at Charlie bacon because I work in
Tom's river and I talked about all the intersections I went through well yesterday kind of ironically I'm heading south on Brick Boulevard and it's a green light so I'm heading south and there's two people in the middle of the intersection trying to
make turns both one going to the left to go south on Brick Boulevard the other one to make a left to go the other way heading towards 70 the light was already green and
luckily I was the second one in in line but my concern there was the people behind me and were they going to stop at that intersection this is a major problem I talked about it and actually when I spoke about it in October I gave some recommendations about what the township
officials might want to look into about the traffic light problem I didn't talk about aggressive driving but tonight I am going to touch on that a little bit because that is also a problem and I just want to refresh everyone about that intersection that I was at yesterday two people died there
in 2024 and the sequence of the light was changed and a modification was made to that but this is an important issue and other people are going to get injur injured or whatever or God forbid die so just something there that we need to
consider I don't know what you did about the recommendations what what you're doing about this I realize the complexity of this sequencing of Lights we got County and state roads involved and everything else but it's a very dangerous issue um I actually had a thing in here
it's good to see Mr starky back I haven't seen you a couple meetings so nice to have you back I also uh talked to Miss Bergen prior of the meeting I want to give a shout out to you and thank you because about a year ago I came in front of this uh this body and talked about
Popeyes and about how that was held up because of the Wawa application and the ultimate approval of Wawa that allowed a left-and turn in close proximity to the traffic light of Jack Barton and I felt it wasn't fair at that time that popey's
condition of doing a build on that property was conditional on some movement on that and Miss Bergen I know you followed up with the Department of Transportation and a few other things and thanks for sharing me about the update about the owner of that property Mr Morris and hopefully now that
left-hand turn can get moved down to the other uh entrance and solve that problem and allow Popeyes to build so I want to thank you for that I I do appreciate the followup of that and in closing it is snowing just be careful have a good good evening thank
you sorry thank you Mr bacon you know I do want to respond to what you mentioned you are correct apposed change to an existing ordinance was on the agenda for December 10th it was pulled from the agenda at the start of the meeting I want to clarify again like I did last week it was not read at the meeting nor
was it discussed by the mayor and Council during that meeting other than to announce that it was being pulled and would not be placed on any future agenda I do know that you had mentioned you weren't at the meeting on the 10th I do believe there was some explanation provided that I'm sure we've got on
recording from that meeting about why it was on the agenda or the mistake that was made but you also asked another question about an increase in Code Enforcement Miss Bergen is there anything you could comment with regard to Mr Bacon's questions sure so yes
there have been more complaints uh into our system About Storage trailers particularly on Commercial properties I think a lot of people are having trouble uh maneuvering some um intersections or seeing cars coming the other way so as always with whatever the complaint is when we get complaints we send code
enforcement code enforcement out to take a look at it thank you thank you Mr bacon council president yes can I just comment I know you brought up some of the traffic issues as well we do have our meeting our annual meeting with the county coming up we get one meeting a year to
talk about the traffic issues that we are having so the issues that you brought up and other issues that we've been Gathering throughout the year will be a topic of discussion when we meet in March okay thank you any other public comments Mr saluka uh John sluka 950 silia Court I'm
just going to read my note that I sent a couple days ago D May crate February 9th 2025 our council president Eric osino or councilmen and Council woman as well as residents students workers news
organizations of brick and Ocean County again this may be a rehash but it needs to be always updated and kept in mind in December the New Jersey turnback Authority executive director wrote to Mayor crate stating that a landscaping maintenance program has been initiated
the program is long overdue and still has so many an unanswered questions uh well although the New Jersey temp representativ seemed to understand the problem he did not say that they have begun to remove hazardous dead and unsightly treeze caused by the natural
process associated with old dead and dead treeze and destroyed brush and so that's no longer taking place uh the pleas of the residents of Evergreen witch condom area brick High School primose Garden Sutton Village Lanes Mill
uh Green Brier Town Town Hall itself Bri Mill Birchwood another plac in Brick and Ocean County have gone on for years uh the New Jersey TK Authority has not stated if these trees will be like a sound barrier nor do they say if the trees will eliminate the noise and
toxins flowing off the Garden State Parkway the New Jersey turn Park Authority has not said that they will plant bushes Etc instead of the sound and safety walls the New Jersey turn parik Authority does not say they will
state how they will El minate the noise the fumes the toxic gases and the tire pieces that fly off uh off that Garden State Parkway into places like Evergreen Woods uh along with the people of Evergreen Woods the people of Cherrywood brick
High primose Garden Bri Mill Sutton Village Lanes Mill Town Hall Green Brier Birchwood and other areas fly impact every day May Craton administrations needs to keep on top of the New Jersey time par Authority or will find ways
more and more ways and excuses to do nothing so they should have started something 12 years ago and so again it's 12 years later and they're just starting to do something they should have done 12 years ago thank you for your time are you go back two minutes and 30 seconds
thank you Mr sua any other public comments Mark Vasquez for 4 Lana Court uh I have to second it' be great to have a wall um but I know that we've tried to do that but uh just wanted to know if since it
seems like the case and I don't know if the investigation is still going on with the former Recreation director um I would love to know uh how much was stolen from the Township in total and then what procedures are being taken uh to prevent something like that ever happening again um and then that's
really it for today so thank you thank you Mr Vasquez I do think that we can make some comment on that Miss Bergen sure the total amount was $926 full restitution has been paid to the township of brick we do now have a more detailed checks and balance system
in place as you all know our policy has changed so that we do not accept cash transactions over $250 when field permits are applied for and granted the field is booked on a software program Community pass that is visible to both Recreation and
park staff no permits can be issued outside of the community pass software program permits are numbered and therefore the payments for those permits are cross checked here in finance when the payments come in that is a process that our auditor recommends that we do
and we have since changed that policy permits are printed in both offices from Community pass Recreation and finance and as well as the parks department and they're on display for all staff and for parks security to see field renters are handled by all Recreation staff instead
of just one person they all use the same system instead of one person being responsible for um the sports Fields so those are some of the changes that we made and I believe that answers the question thank you any other comments from the
public Mike Calder 331 sson road so I was at that December 10th meeting I just want to clarify a couple things I think what was cited about that ordinance is there was a lawyer issue and Mis misinformation on social media so do we know what lawyer issue or what problem we had as far as getting that like
lawyered up and what social media misinformation was uh going around about it is that something You' care to comment on Mr starky yeah I I explained at that at that meeting that night that was an error by my uh law office we um put on a really broader
scope of ordinance that than was warranted and when that came to the attention of the mayor and Council they withdrew it okay you guys did talk about it because when I I know when I stood up and asked are you g to talk about it at all again tonight the answer was a definitive no but okay we addressed it I
think at length that night so all right awesome thank you any other comments from the public seeing none close public Mrs Bergen oh I'm sorry I have nothing thank you Madame mayor thank you just a couple of things
found my page here sorry uh I just wanted to welcome congratulate and welcome a couple new businesses that we have in town Victor salon and Studio opened up recently on 55 Brick Boulevard uh they a Salon Suite it's not
a Salon Suite but it's a salon uh Barber Shop it was very nice it was in the old I can never remember the old haircut place that I can't remember the name of what was that place called I don't remember that but anyway it's right next to where the dots used to be and it's really nice inside it's like super classy so uh if you're
looking for a barber on that side of town it's in the Stop and Shop plaza check it out uh we also went to quilting by the shore which is pretty cool that's located at 426 Herbertsville Road and uh it's this cute little shop where if you
know how to quilt or you don't know how to quilt uh you are welcome to go there she does these sessions there are a couple of hours uh if you're if you're a beginner and you've never quilted before they she's got a class that runs uh for eight weeks four hours a week for $85
was like kind of a bargain uh she has all the materials there you can bring your own materials in if you like to quilt with your friends you can use the space uh up to four hours at a time for $10 an hour which is a pretty good deal and it's got all brand new sewing
machines and all of the materials you could possibly use so it is pretty cool just something different uh so if you're into that or you'd like to learn about quilting check out quilting by the shore on Herbertsville Road uh council president uh amberino and uh
councilwoman D young and I had the opportunity to go to the DARE graduation at osbornville on the 4th last week it was a great time so congratulations to all those students we have our brick birthday party coming up on February 22nd from 3:00 to 5:00 in Civic Plaza
and we have a ton of great games and uh organizations that are coming out to share things about Brick Township especially since it is our 175th birthday so please come out uh join us on that day it's going to be a lot of fun cake of course will be there
decorate your own cupcake M your make your own um slime uh face painting uh we'll have music and the police officers and EMS and Historical Society will be out there I may be dressed in
current uh or not current in uh in in Period Garb yes uh I did agree that I would um you know participate with the um Historical Society so I am looking forward to that and also the Historical Society uh someone from the Historical
Society will be at The Brick Township Library tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. Jean donatell will be presenting 175 years of Brick Township and going over some of the historical events uh I'm looking forward to attending that and if you'd like to come out and join me I'd love to
see you and uh get your nominations in for our brick hero Awards if you know someone around town who is doing something great uh that really has helped our Township out or help to your neighborhood or help your friends please nominate that person for the buriro
awards those are taking place at brick memorial high school on Friday March 14th at 7 p.m. and if you go on our website you can fill out the form there to nominate someone here in Brick Township and finally our pickup brick calendar will be out very soon and we
have uh modernized a bit so along with the calendar we'll also have a notice with a QR code if you or your organization would like to sign up for any of the pickup bricks you can do that by scanning the QR code or clicking the link on our website you can go directly
to that form and fill out uh your name your organization the date date or date that you would like to assist and uh about how many people will be coming all are welcome we supply all of the bags and gloves and buckets and things like that
uh in order to make the day a success and uh we have about 11 scheduled this year and I'm really looking forward to getting out there with the community to keep our Green Acres that we have worked so hard to preserve clean so thank you so much thank you you forgot to mention
the best part of the osbornville DARE graduation the osbornville students brought back the Dare song they did yeah and that is a b it was pretty phenomenal actually uh Mr starky nothing thank you Madame clerk I have nothing thank you
Madame secretary thank you thank you councilwoman pona thank you I just want wish everyone a blessed and happy Valentine's Day and also with the inclement weather that we have going on now and apparently over the weekend
please keep in mind if you have an elderly neighbor it doesn't take much to just go over and see if they need some help and that their Heat's working um we all have to help each other in our community thank you so
much councilwoman De Young I have nothing this evening thank you thank you councilman fan thank you council president um my son is in the fifth grade dare program so I'm very familiar with that song uh it's he has it's straight from the late 80s um what's
school it really is VMS yeah so along that line I want to recognize the Dare program and for those who are not familiar it's the drug abuse resistance education um so the police the brick Police Department um especially those officers who work with the fifth grade
dare graduates they really do a great great job teaching children how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug and violence-free lives so I just want to say congratulations to all the fifth graders who made the Dare pledge and thank you again to those brick officers and
families for all their support you can learn more at dare.org and stay safe and have fun thank you thank you cancom Travers um I just wanted to take a second and recognize that it is American Heart month with being Valentine's this Friday um and the healthcare provider in
me always likes to encourage anybody out there to become CPR certified it's definitely one of those skills that you it's invaluable and you never want to have to use but being able to use it when you need to you can save someone's life so if you want to look up on cpr.
heart.org you can find out more information they can teach you about CPR some of these classes will do choking and they've actually now started um teaching giving like Nar can if you needed to for opioid overdose so again Happy Valentine's Day and stay safe
driving home thanks CC vice president minino I have nothing tonight thank you thank you uh I will simply announce though I'm sure every parent of a school aged children has gotten multiple calls already this evening that the brick school system will be on a two-hour delay tomorrow so
I'm sure there's quite a few happy children out there uh and with that the next scheduled Caucus meeting will be on Tuesday February 25th at 2000 2025 at 7 p.m. I will now entertain a motion to adjourn second all in favor I meeting
adjourned