all right I'd like to welcome everybody to our February 19th britin city council meeting we're just waiting to make sure we're online are we good John sorry I jumped the gun I got excited ready all right so I'd like to again welcome everybody to our February
19th britin city council meeting we all please rise for the flag salute mayor Karen us pray father we ask your blessings on the people who have been called to lead this community where we live and work and play grant us the wisdom and courage to
know and do what is right and good and true may we speak out when it is time to speak out and listen patiently and receptively when it is time to listen may we always be guided by the spirit of community by the spirit of justice and
by the spirit of love this we pray in your name amen Christine can you read the open public meetings act announcement this is to advise the meeting notices covering this meeting have been sent and posted as required under the open public meetings
act uh thank you tonight we have a special presentation so come God knows I always hold it I don't like one spot uh tonight we have a special Proclamation tonight for all the volunteers of defend Brigantine Beach uh before I have everybody come up and I
present this uh one of the things I'm G to say you know from the bottom of my heart thank you thank you so much for all of the work all of the effort this battle that we want is because of each and every one of you and I'm deep
grateful for everything that you've done and for people do who don't know like when we first started to realize these ocean wind issues how bad they were um I can tell you the first couple meetings that we had we invited public meetings we had uh meetings with elected
officials no one showed up I kid you not I had uh Tim krael who's a councilman down a veter he showed up he's like where is everybody and I'm like you're it when the volunteers from defend Brigantine Beach got involved started to really help promote Community awareness
people started showing up um I remember being in the community center when uh at Lan schores did the world presentation and um I remember how outraged everybody was and I said look I'm with you 100% I need help and that's true there a lot of
people sometimes you know when things go on a lot of people are quick to kind of point the finger and tell you what's wrong all the years were ready to step up and help make a difference put together outstanding group and actually did a ton of research I knew what I knew but I did know a lot there's a lot of
expertise from this group that really helped especially when it came with not just the environmental impacts but the financial impacts of these projects and I think that that was huge I know some of the position papers that you put together I was able to share with other elected officials and other community
leaders and it really opened their eyes to the damage that these projects will do um not just here in New Jersey but up and down in the entire east coast and one of the biggest things too is having a voice it's one thing when one person
stands there and goes to meetings and kind of talks about how bad they are but with the help of f Brig Beach 150 people these are real people from the community who have legitimate concerns about how bad these projects
are and it made a huge impact and I can tell there's a lot of meetings where elected officials were like can you do me a favor can you not have everybody come and I said then you need to do the right thing and vote against this right so I will tell you that um as successful
as we here were here in New Jersey there was other groups up and down east coast but I think the Atlantic City Press said it very well when they talked about some of the most vocal and organized advocates in the entire country came right here from New Jersey they were
talking about all of you so thank you you for all of everything that you've done for the last couple years to put us in the position we're here today so let me uh read this Proclamation I was actually just joking with Karen I think I to start bringing my reading glasses Ryan be the fond a little
swallow that's SW all right whereas the need to raise awareness and educate the public regarding the industrial offshore wind projects and their Associated impacts to our Seashore Community led to the formation of a group known as defent
Brigantine Beach this group of concerned Brigantine citizens had been heartbroken and angered after learning of the numerous unexplained well and Doin deaths including three whs that washed ashore in Brigantine and Atlantic City
and while they also uh feeling misled and deceived by The Advocates of off the offshore wind projects the impacts of these projects were studied and it was found that the environmental con consequences were even more significant and damaging than
initially anticipated defend Brigantine Beach acknowledged the need to take stronger actions and with um the aiming to prevent the industrialization of our ocean they work tirelessly on a public awareness campaign and established a
501c3 nonprofit corporation to raise funds for their efforts including lawn signs Billboards newspaper ads and rallies whereas defend Brigantine Beach um broadened their efforts to include
supporters from the neighboring communities of Atlantic City ventner bargate and Longport and collaborated with the citizens Advocate groups to conduct further research en list the support from elected officials and fund
legal action the efforts and the dedication of these volunteers led to the cancellation of offshore wind projects and their contributions have made an invaluable impact on our community extending far beyond
Brigantine Now therefore I Vince Sarah mayor of the city of Brigantine on behalf of the city council and the people of the city of Brigantine do hereby commend and recognize all of the volunteers and members of defend Brigantine Beach and we are forever
grateful for all that you've done to protect our community and protect our oceans thank you I would like you guys to come up for you got for for for
that's on f wa yes never good that all right so we're gonna resume our meeting all right tiger do we have an executive session tonight yes mayor we do have executive session uh Personnel
is the topic all right so we got a Personnel issue for executive session uh Christine can you read the resolution whereas the open public meeting acts permits the exclusion of the public from a meeting in certain circumstances and whereas the public body is in the
opinion that such circumstances presently exist and whereas the governing body wishes to discuss Personnel minutes will be kept and once the matter involving the confidentiality of the above no longer requires the confidentiality then the minutes can be made public now therefore be it be
resolve that the public be excluded from this meeting this resolution shall take effect immediately we have a motion second make that motion than all in favor any opposed see oos motion passed
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motion pass going to resume our meeting uh George can yes we had a brief discussion on the Personnel matter before we move [Music] on so i' for a motion a second add a
resolution regarding participation in the implementation Grant this is resolution 200 25-60 and it is for City and bring team to join other towns and
count appar Services motion second add agenda tager what's the specifically so mayor this came out of a meeting that I attended today at the board of Taxation out ma landing at the
county this grant will be us joining the county along with every other municipality in the uh County for a program called Eagle View uh it's a company that flies over once a year and and does all the mapping and uh takes
pictures uh an aerial and it's this is a program that the tax assessor's office uh would be using so we would not have to pay for the program the county is putting Grant so the every municipality in the county would have access to this data from this program a
really now now the city Brigantine has a a different program that we currently use this would be a great addition to the program that and yes you can see
yeah we started using it a few months ago called near yeah once a year yes and combine these two programs the one we currently fur questions we have a motion second to add resolution number
25-60 which is participating in the county leap Grant motion second all right uh hany yes vilo yes Kan yes mayor Sarah yes motion
Carri that's just to that's all right we need our approval February 5th 2025 council meeting minutes with have motion second questions or comments seeing done
Comm have Ro yes Lai yes hany yes vilo Kane yes mayor Sarah yes motion Carri our approval no requisition list motion second questions or comments see have roll call
you yes L yesy yeso yes Kane yes mayor Sarah yes motion Carri all right this time we're gonna open up for public comment this is public comment on agenda items on my name is Frank and jimy I live in 605 West sh drive here in town I got a
compl clean and I hope you could work it out for me son instead of coming all right I'll call you for dinner yeah instead of coming here at 5 o'clock to start this meeting I think you should start at six
o'clock and at 5 o'clock come in and do your exterior stuff that you walk out on today I timed you was 22 minutes last time I was here was over 45 minutes and I left so I appreciate it if you can sit
Anna and consider starting at 6 and doing your thing at 5 so we started at 6 the executive session start 6 so whenever we start the meeting no no your session you leave here it never was that way the time I was here now do your
session at five o'clock in the evening and start the council meeting at 6 so we have to publicly advertise started meeting part of meeting well I'll tell you what it's where time maybe not many people come out but when I first started coming here win time is a lot of people
most of the people don't come anymore because they don't want to sit around for an hour I think it's rare that we sit around for yeah we it gets long it's G to be ridiculous so I appreciate it if you can change and do something different I I appreciate that thank you
okay thank you all right there's no other public comment close the public portion I'm still calling you for dining D all right so we uh move into our agenda we have resolution
202- 54 and this is authorizing the tax collector to issue overp payment refunds as indicated in schedule a we have a motion second uh questions or comments seeing none may have bro off you yes lii yesy
yes virgilia yes P yes mayor Sarah yes motion Carri we have resolution 20 25-55 and this is a resolution authorizing the appointment of a deputy tax assessor and this would be Katie
Melia we have a motion second all just to give a little background on this um the county has sent a letter to all 23 municipalities ordering either a reval or a reassessment uh we're looking at how we
would through that process uh we're going to need a lot of work that's going to be done here in the city so that's why we're add a Dey tax assessment to help with that project or to help with that process um have any questions or comments from
Council I see none can we have roll call you yes let yes Haney yes vilo yes Kan yes mayor Sarah yes motion carries we have resolution 2025 56 and this is authorizing the award of an emergency
contract with Northeastern electric and GS Services LLC for repairs to well number five uh pump and this is the amount of $230,000 a motion second
motion questions or comments seeing n we have roll call you yes Lai yes Haney yes vilo yes Kan yes mayor Sarah yes motion Carri resolution 2025 d57 and this is a resolution authorizing a Fifth Amendment
to the municipally sponsored affordable housing agreement we motion second all right so I guess the reason why we're up to this fifth amendment is uh this is being held up I guess in funding from the
DCA uh so DCA is supposed to work guess with Volunteers of America Amica to put together some funding city of britin has put up its funding what we need to do have secured the land this is to create the affordable housing for Veterans uh so we're kind of I guess
stuck in the state bureaucracy of trying to get stuff done so we've given an extension to vaa because they can't move forward without the DCA funding I'm gonna see what we can do our contacts of the state to see if we can move this along tell us it's moveing along but
time to hear the checks in the mail start to this is the old C sorry I thought you said so there any questions or comments I see them we have R yesi yes
yes vilo yes yes mayor Sarah yes motion Carri resolution 202- 58 this is a resolution by the city of Brigantine New Jersey authorized contract to purchase a uh six foot uh 6 inch Floodgate sorry 6
foot inch foot inch that's what I thought I was like it's way too big six inch Floodgate valve and an 8 inch check valve through the core and M LP this is the amount of $ 14,19 motion second
second uh John what are we using the check out for backwards yeah that's why I said I would thought it was for a flood game when it said six inch I'm like that's way too small for our flight so that's why I had to ask we got the project mixed up thank you uh any other questions from
Council hi SE on can we have roll call you yes Lai yes Amy yes vilia yes Kane yes mayor Sarah yes motion carried next up we have our consent agenda we have our St Thomas raffle
license number 1099 Temple Beth Shalom raffle licenses number do after that's he told me to put it after 15 after say it again
what's 59 I don't have 59 I don't have 59 thank you all right so we got uh resolution 2025 d59 and this is a resolution authorizing the Border contract Ceno Architects for the design of the new
clubhouse at the Brigantine goth links have a motion second questions comments I see none can we have roll call you yes let's Heil yes hne yes mayor Sarah yes motion
Carri is yeah thanks I appreciate that they gave me a bunch of letters today all the Opel start falling out starting to sens all right so we got um resolution 20256 and this is a resolution of the city of Brigantine to participate uh in
a feep grant the county of Atlantic we have a motion second I'll make that second questions or comments see n can we have roll call you yes yes hany yes vilio yes Kane yes mayor Sarah
I'm glad we're able to partner with the county on this and vote all right so now we have our consent agenda we have our St Tom St Thomas raffle license number 1099 Temple Beth Shalom raffle license is number one
one0 and one01 and the shake the Shamrock motion second questions or comments can we have roll call you
yes yes yes mayor Sarah yes motion Carri at this time we have our Council manager committee discussions tiger us I just want to uh thank public works for doing a good job again another snowstorm we had and uh I
think by daylight all the streets were clear received a lot of compliments morning I think 6 AM people were so grateful I like we get to all right first of all a few months
ago we had a presentation W from my talking about construction I'm sorry all right this is good time are where are we in that process we were talking about doingin so I I I do have emails she did
send me uh some sample resolutions uh where we're at in the process is trying to find a way to make this work here in Brigantine so we haven't gotten to a point to where we're ready to anything but it has been discussed
is this something that um the Green Team should actually I've spoken to them they're very very happy is there a public education piece of it hi my name is Sheri lillienfeld and I'm
from Margie Green Team um but I go around to municipalities to help spread the word on this um yeah there's a couple of things on Education First of all we started this the Margate Green Team but now we have a coalition and you
know the power of a coalition um with Beyond Plastics with um um South um surf riter South South Jersey surf riter Foundation South Jersey
um and so we have all been working together one of the things we did is we put together a website that has information to help educate Builders and actually I have been actively working myself personally to put an educational video out there the educational video is
going to explain what the problem is um why this contamination is a big problem that everyone needs to be responsible for and then what they can do to help contain it and really the containment is so simple it's just so it's so simple
you put a hood over your saw and a vacuum attachment and it does it's amazing it does Miracles right and but everyone's like it's it's expensive I got to change my procedures but anyway we are here to help with education one of the things Margate does is every time
a permit's issued we have a flyers in English and Spanish that goes with the permits and also we have a brochure now that sends people to the website for information but if you want to talk to me about it off off the Record about
ways to help implement this we we're here we're here to help I I'd even be willing to do an educational program with contractors to explain why this is so important and if not for anything for their own health and the health of their families because they
have their faces in all these contaminants they get it on their clothes they put it it gets in their trucks they bring it home with them so anyway that's that's it I do want you to know that tonight Atlantic City just passed this as an ordinance 9 to zero so
they're like the 10th municipality that has passed it and one last thing I want to say is to your point spring is coming up a lot of construction now is the time you really need to to do this because it's going to be everywhere you have any other questions
for me no thanks thank and thank you for considering this I'm happy to work with you say definitely I think it's something that's needed should do
very quickly um I went to a green team meeting the other night community garden is hoping to start their planning in the end of March uh Green Team just purchased a water bottle Filling Station the police department uh and there also looking forward to the Cherry Blossom
Festival which will be April 26 um there will be a lot of Island wine activities that weekend and culminating with the the third annual Cherry Bloss which is across the street at the Presbyterian
Church 26 tickets are now available online you have to email the Green Team and they will have you drop off check the city hall and um and finally I am hosting a senior
event on Tuesday March 4th from 11:30 on at the BRD Center some a lot of um our County officials will be there um County Clerk Joe Jadoo or S surrogate Jim Kio
some assembly members our County Sheriff Joe Donahue will be there uh few County Commissioners will be there and we're going to be talking to our senior population about property fraud voting by mail passport and notary services
that are provided Ed by the county living wills the anchor program and also um Sheriff Odon was going to be talking about some of the frauds that going so uh if you're interested there are going to be a lot of Flyers around
the island you have here at City Hall down the community center please just RSV by March P got me a pie ramps careful down there
where they beat the street and I've seen a lot of people TR to thank you mayor our public marks is always that saved a lot of people's backs yeah great job congratulations to defend Brig te Beach what an announce
standing job [Music] incredible the long game it was so important with uh between our mayor going out locally pushing everything uh state level B ptin know V you
know very importantly representative V Drew at the federal level new lead president um it's just uh we finally reached that day we were like waiting and waiting and just it was a long fight and the long game
was very important and defend Bri tee Beach and then the actions of the other folks that I just mentioned along with everybody else was involved so important because uh what we had going on at the state level and at the federal level the
way they were supporting it uh we had to hold out and everybody had to fight Toth and nail to bring this thing to uh at least a point I don't know if I'm Point say for wishing because I know it's Vince noted several times it's not
completely over but it's certainly uh it's it's certainly on a bit of life support I'll say so but huge uh a huge moment and also our electric rates our electric rates have already been going up at some
uh C that problem property values Eagles Super Bowl win congratulations to the birds they pulled it off the parade day was something on Valentine's Day the players certainly
looked like they had a lot of fun there was like uh depth charges flying through the air beer cans and everything even hoe Ros did a head Buttle one inadvertently cracked his head open but that was something to see then a real
big fun day my son was up there I was up at the one 2018 but but my son was up my younger guy was up actually both my sons were there it's really s who would have thought that whooping that they put on Kansas City so yeah that makes s good
for everybody in D Del Valley people in the bars our businesses and tomorrow maybe got a uh another chance uh just for some celebratory action I had my Eagles jacket I brought with me we all had our jerseys uh last meeting
our Eagles jersey that is but I got my Team USA Jersey so hopefully uh the four nations they can do well and uh the the ner those Canadians B our national I hope they step out the ocean just CL so I think it's actually going to be most
game and lastly uh we just said president St and you know obviously least we never forget with so many uh obviously way back in our nation's history but we had a George Washington our first president a man we ever went
that before he would have been hung so you talk about courage and wherewithal really something and then thank you John I also want to Fourth word we seeing the U the
construction from South Jersey gas every day it's reminiscent of some old scenes from like Mogadishu it is completely torn up during the day but amazingly every night it's all put back together again traffic
is moving Department as well for sitting out there all day and rerouting it's a big project it's been a mess but like I said at the end of the day it's all cleaned up and so congrats thank
you Jake the Shamrock is coming just want to put it out there that to support all of our businesses in town but also are all participating in sh sh stop so long that that
that found for for uh we need to reappoint our school es committee I'd like to have a motion second and vce Sarah motion questions or comments all in favor I I any oppos all
right stand motion pass I completely forgot um I was asked by Jim Mogan add Maria sack in to the Recreation Commission see none motion pass thank you uh just a quick update we talked
about this earlier but the county has ordered uh either reeval reassessments in all 23 municipalities um so we're looking at our options right now I know that tiger attended Mee we looking at is um what
makes sense moving forward are we going to try to look at doing this in house are we look at some kind of County shared service I will tell you um from personal experience if we can do this in house I think that's probably the best way to do
it we've gone through these uh reassessments and reow before uh there's only a few companies who do these and would they're doing large numbers of municipalities all at the same time I feel like sometimes they're just trying to get it done to get it right and last
time we went through this we went through massive tax appeals we actually had to have a line item in the budget for all of the money that people got back from Peels and you would think it would be a wi was County or local tax went down it would be that money if
their local taxes go down the county actually still requires us to pay the county portion on the origin and that's where it starts to create issues for our budget um it's nothing that's going to happen overnight uh my understanding is this process can
take two to five years to go through but we're beginning the process we're Gathering the information and it's something that seems like we go through probably about every decade uh so that's what we're looking at so we'll put more information out as we move through this
process we're gathering information as you can see we uh signed up to join with the shared service for the Le grant for some of the information uh to at least get the background and documentation we need uh one of the things that we need to do either way is to redo our T tax
maps here in Brick and team so we're to look at how we do those tax maps and that's something that has to be approved by the state of New Jersey so those tax Maps get approved once they're approved then we move forward with either Ral or reassessment and we have to look at
whether we do that inhouse or with a shared service with the county so obviously we're look at Cost cost should be the overall underlining thing I should also think that accuracy is probably the most important on that as well so uh you know
we'll keep people posted as I think in the newsletter I put that out probably about two weeks ago and then I make sure that the Brigantine times covers that and I'll try to get in Atlantic City Press as well one of the things I noticed a couple of reporters that used to cou Brian Team all the time um have
kind of moved on say to better or bigger press drops and bigger markets so now we're back to trying to work to find our new contact at the Atlantic City Press but as soon as we have that stop we'll make sure the Press gets a hold of all of our information all right this time uh we're
going to open it up for public comments we have public comments just come out to St name and address good evening mayor Sarah and council members so Mario got set your name and address
for forgot that Mario peruchi 205 Rivier Boulevard Commander VFW 6964 2131st Street Briant te
first thing I would like to say I want to salute Deputy Mayor Karen bus February 19th 1945 80 years ago the Marines stormed
Evo gima so thanks for your father who was there I rise tonight to read a proclamation organization government entity whereas the New Jersey state
constitution grants a property tax deduction to honorably discharged or released under honorable conditions veterans and whereas the voters of the state of New Jersey increased the amount of the
deduction for property deduction for veterans in 1999 from $50 to $150 whereas Senate concurrent resolution number 81
and assembly concurrent resolution number 58 was introduced in the 221st legislative program proposing a constitutional amendment to increase the
amount of the property taxes deductions for veterans and that's all veterans that were honorably discharged from $250 a year to
$2,500 spread out over four years and of course the deduction would be reimbursed by the state at 102% back to the municipalities whereas the Veterans of Foreign Wars VFW
carries the voice of New Jersey Veterans and has played a vital role in virtually every significant piece of veterans legislation passed in the 20th and 21st centuries to include the
2019 amendment to New Jersey's Constitution ranting the $250 property tax the Govern whereas the VFW considers the legislation a priority
to allow our lower income veterans and Veterans trans transitioning from military service back into civilian life a chance at the American dream of home ownership now therefore it be resolved
and I'm presenting this to the council be resolved that city of Brigantine we hereby stand with the VFW to ensure veterans are respected in
their service always receive the Earned entitlements and we recognize the the sacrifice they have they have served your loved ones and me on behalf of this great country
so what this is is we would like Council to sign on to this that would then be sent to our lobbyists from the VFW to Trenton and to it's already been
introduced but we need support on it now will it happen this year even if they make some sort of an agreement maybe it's not 2500 over four years but whatever increase we know because this is an election year Murphy will be out
he's not really interested in this quite frankly but we feel that the new legislators coming in the new assembly uh will support this and both sides of the aisles we do have some Republicans that are against this and
some Democrats to me I can't understand why this would not be unanimous but it's not so we have a lot of work to do on it so I thank you for your time if there are any questions on it but I would like
you to consider this back up veterans not only in Brigantine but the state of New Jersey it's long overdue the tax rates this Council does a great job in keeping the tax rate I'm
just talking generally with the bigger houses in Brigantine um and somebody tries to come in a veteran any help would be great it's been 26 years since there's been a raise
on it it does not impact the municipality you will be reimbursed 102% for what that deduction is for veterans any questions or
anything Mario uh I would like you to send uh can of copy that to tiger with if everybody's in agreement um I think that uh we would like to support that resolution I know there is not enough good things that we can do for our veterans and the service that they
provided to this country I thank you because you this is a community that supports veterans every day of the week and I appreciate that thank Youk tiger get a copy of that forwarded out to council so Council can review and
um if everybody's in agreement I would like to put that forward with the next as a veteran I will gladly accept that email and I will gladly pass it on to you AB John Johnson 36 coill Beach Drive I would just like to add my personal
comments to everything that Mario said but 26 years ago we got increased to $250 and hearing tonight that there'll be a revaluation and that certainly means in the future we're all going to pay more taxes it's very few people ever get a
lower tax rate when it's revaled so with that being said once again it's for every veteran in New Jersey we need your support I don't believe you would not give it to us but just to say please and thank you thank
you good evening Council it's Brooks Garrison 20415 Street North go Birds let's go let say a sweater and hockey right a jersey and football sweater and hockey it's all good yeah I
uh again uh just a professionally I use Eagle View it's an outstanding program it actually gives you the roof slopes building areas you can see any development that happened on the property it's a brilliant brilliant uh software package and satellite thing so
I came tonight I have two issues one is an update on the seaw wall if you have one for us I'd appreciate just an update on what's going on with that and then I'm here to express concerns about the rod and real site uh there was a zoning application submitted uh by RNR
development uh for the re uh for zoning permits and variances and requests uh that's coming this Thursday so I just wanted city council to be aware of it I've been talking about it since 2021 um here to represent and to
document the facts that the site was filled with the legal off site dirty dirt and it's been filled uh such that it can't be mowed properly which is why it looks like it looks uh so that accusation is backed up with photographs
and aerial Google also uh the other concern on there of course with the dirty dirt being the principal issue for Neighbors everybody wants safe housing and we certainly want to make sure that our neighbors move in property that hasn't been filled with debris uh the
next issue would be any variance that's granted the Redevelopment plan was paid for by Council and at the request of the zoning ordinance or the zoning uh planning zoning board came to council recommended it the study was done there
was a four Lots developed uh up up to a duplex individual Lots two were perpendicular north south two East West um and the applicant has decided to come in with two fourplex units that are connected units asking for variances for
that and setback variances so additionally I've spoken to you about the public trust Doctrine which requires and has been well litigated allows for public View and access to Water waste that includes Bays of course we've
talked about I've talked about many times maintaining the proper setback so on 13th Street North 14th Street North Beach Avenue the proper setback is 20 feet front 20 feet front two front yard setbacks to properties the application
is not compliant with that actually sticks out over the 14 Street area which was vacated by the city after the developer filled that site put in the repair room wall and then was vacated to them so again the concern is to maintain
the historic nature of that property there was two three story house on that property it was 20 foot setback that's been recorded on Google Earth and I have copies of it so I'd like to hand out copies of that so just to let you know it's coming up next Wednesday at the
plan contacted the attorney's office called send a certified letter today uh and the documents that you'll receive also and kind of the history on the issue since 2020 so I appreciate your consideration of that and I want to thank you very much for the uh you know
offshore wind battle has been won for Atlantic Shores but the war continues there are four current active sites under construction in Virginia the project is halfway built $900 million lost this year that the great
payers will have to pay and they have next summer to complete the project which looks in Peril if they're already out of the mind then of course we have the one up in Virginia I'm sorry up in Nantucket where the beaches were closed that project was stopped the blades were
examined there's dozens of more blades that have failure similar to the one that exploded and put all the debris onto the beach beaches where they're recommending you wear your shoes on the beach so you get fiberglass shards in them uh the boam has approved their
recommendation and they are proceeding with installation and continuing that project so there are four projects under construction they all need to be stopped so I appreciate the recommendation and and your consideration of the concerns I
have thank you hi uh Nancy Pino 22114 Street north um I'm here tonight also want to support defend bantin speech and all the hard work and all the hard work our city council and mayor did and I from the bottom of my heart I
can't thank you all like we couldn't have done it without you and it means so much so I'm also here with the concerns of the rod and real lot and I have been coming to Council meetings and speaking up about this issue since 2021 I have sent countless emails with photographs
and complaints about um the illegal dumping that was done on the lot they raised the height of the lot with dirty dirt and it was set there and then um tore down the buildings and they left all this debris and we finally got the
city to remove a lot of the debris that was cluttering the sidewalk and things and then we learned that the city had vacated this street into them so I was we were very upset and dismayed about that uh because we're worried about the
public views our views of the end of 14th Street and we understand there's the public trust doctrine that you need to keep the views to the residents I represent everybody on our street will come and petition against this because they're all don't want to lose the views
so I received a certified letter today in the mail and the letter said that uh they're applying for a variance and the variance they want to do is to remove all the setbacks so they will build to the end of the property there will not be a 20 foot setback and they will in fact take over the street with pools and
docks and um part of the North End development uh act that you agreed upon and agreed that that would be the zoning binding says that no deviation shall be granted that results in any of the following conditions and the first one is any
deviation sought that would necessitate the granting of a variance under njsa 455d 70D the certified letter I got today says they're requesting that such variance so I would just like to urge everybody
um to consider that you approved a plan that was good for 10 years that would carry through uh 20129 that no variances would be granted so that the street residents would not lose their views um and or the density there's something in there about they're
going to change the density that was zoned for so that would be a problem too I didn't quite understand I just got the letter today so looked at the plans so I will also be at the um uh zoning meeting and so will some of my neighbors um so
we just want to urge you to consider to do the right thing to give the public the setbacks that were approved and that I was told by the city uh uh Jim Bennett or the um at the time he was the city manager that when the land was vacated
at the End of the Street don't worry that wouldn't change the setbacks that were granted for that development so um just urge you to consider that I appreciate your help in this matter thank you comment close the public
portion couple quick things I think on seawalk Brooks uh for the seawall um I know the count is working on repairs right now but there's no new information on the extension we have not heard anything from the Army Corps the D or
anybody I was say yes sometimes the state moves a little slow um so we'll follow up on that I'm just I think my own personal kind of concern is that with the governor being in his last year
they may wait at least the state agencies may wait till the next Governor comes in to talk about what direction they want to go um I know the governor's also he's kind of done the hole with some of the budgets and he's requested that the legislature St put a freeze on
all new spending and any unnecessary State hiring so that may be holding this up although that conversation hasn't been said but kind of reading the te Le so we might not know anything until a new Governor's in place but uh if we hear anything we'll definitely make sure
we let everybody know um for the rod and real site uh Council sets the uh Redevelopment plan but the determining body on whether or not variances or anything that's approved actually doesn't come before Council it actually
comes before the planning board so honestly I would come make your statements at the planning board make sure remind the board about uh the Redevelopment plan that Council put in place and that really it's that board that makes that decision that's something I'm sure that the planning board professionals will also be
reviewing because what they build would have to beant um I think that's why they're asking for a variance to say hey this is the agreement but this they're going to make an argument why it should be alter to changed that's what variant was before but that's that's a determination
of the plan Paul and I sit on that board but the rest of the council members do not so definitely public participation weighs heavy with the boards I would make sure that it's not ACH and that's something that the uh
planning that's what has to be discussed yeah so so we'll take a look but the public portions Clos talk the end just but yeah that's you know comments make the ultimate decision how
this all right if there's uh no further uh Council comments mayor I I do have one update on the prominade uh we just scheduled it today next Wednesday myself John doring and Ed sson our engineer will be attending a reconstruction
meeting to get the timelines on some of the major work that's gonna for that the prom that's for the repairs for the repairs yeah for the existing prominon I didn't know if Garrett meant that or the extension ex but just in case for the public we we should have some timelines
maybe for the next council meeting it should come out of that preconstruction meeting next and we did make the recommendation to the county about changing the lies downl last we we we have made a recommendation and we did pick out that that will happen that was
we did decide on some new lights with downlighting so we did carry that all right there's no further Council comments uh we have a motion toour all in favor any opposed all right
seeing none motion pass thank you for coming out watching your Council team at work