for for for all right so I would like to welcome everybody to our December 4th br city council meeting please rise for the flag salute May Heavenly Father you have lavished us
with love keep us ever mindful that you keep your promises on our difficult days help us to remember that you are a refuge to those who need shelter a comfort to those who feel empty and
spirit on our joyful days fill us with a deep sense of Thanksgiving as we experience your Everlasting Love help us to share your graciousness with all those who need a touchous mayor and Council we for H Captain John
F aome our community wants two more valued members this is Selene pal passed away on November 14th of the age of 89 pal was member of thefw and was a faithful the same time
Church survived by her husband Ronnie also lost long member ofon Tony was best known for owning pen food Motel pointf bar stakes and shakes he is
survived by his wife Elizabeth lan can you read the open public meetings act announcement sure this is to advise the meeting notices covering this meeting have been sent posters required under the public meetings act thank TIG we have EX session no
mayor we need our approval of our November 6 2024 Council Mee minutes and motion second questions or comments seeing none can we have roll call you yes L hany yes
P yes Reen yes may Sarah yes motion Carri approval of payroll requisition list and operating expenses motion second questions or comments none we have roll call you yes Lai hany yes Kane yes Reen
yes mayarah yes motion Carri this time we'll open it up this is public comment this is on agenda items only close the public portion all right next up we have ordinance number 18 of 2024 this is an
ordinance to amend chapter 284 Cod city of Brigantine entitled vehicles and traffic to address handicap Pary concerns uh this is public hearings we have motion second Che at this time we'll open up
the public hearing anybody wishing to be heard on this issue please come up state your name and address for record seeing no public participation we're going to close the public portion any Council comments sing nun we have brok off you
yesi hany yes Kane yes Reen yes may Sarah yes motion Carri ordinance number 19 of 2024 this is public hearing adoption and this is an ordinance authorizing a payment of taxes for the
five affordable housing projects located at block 291 block 5 motion second so uh talk about affordable housing this is a responsibility that every municipality in the state of New Jersey
has this comes from a Supreme Court rule considered Mount laal decision um what Brigantine has been able to do in working with the Coalition on affordable housing was to develop part of our plan was to develop five affordable housing
units for veterans here in Bri so this puts a payment taxes for that to help keep those properties affordable for our vs at this time would like to open up a public hearing anybody wishing to heard on this issue please come up State the name that
just saying no public participation will close the public portion any Council comments seeing none we have roll call yes Lai hany yes Kane yes rean yes mayor Sarah yes motion Carri we have ordinance
number 11 of 2024 this is an introduction and this is an ordinance uh to create uh so I think it's a little ordinance to create chapter 280 of the revised General ordinance of the city of
Brigantine to establish a new chapter entitled trees I looked at I was like look we're running out of creativity here listen H simple sometimes is better it's called trees I want to be clear this is something that the state of New Jersey
is requiring all municipalities to pass if this is coming from the state U one of the changes we made here dealing with this street ordinance is that uh we removed any type of fees associated with it I didn't think Council would want to
charge fees for this but we are required to do this so can we have a motion second um any questions or comments on this I think it's pretty self-explanatory I give you the background the state is looking to try
to protect trees to the state of New Jersey put some regulations in place to make sure that people aren't just randomly cutting things down not doing things in a proper way to protect the environment so that's simple just like I said this is an introduction
so if there's no questions or comments and we have does get I think also too because one of the things we are looking at is uh placing some trees on the island my understanding is that passing this puts us in
position to the so and this is something the state wants to implement in all the townships more yeah this is for the whole state like I said I think the benefit really is to grant money we taking down some of the old trees
um so Public Works is doing a great job I was going to give a dissertation on trees I realized no one cares but they'll look like nice when they're done all right so if there's no uh other comment uh can we have roll call you yes
ly yes Kan yes Reen only because I don't agree with the state coming in and trying to force us to do things like to replace all the pipes and stuff so Sarah uh this is ordinance number 21 of 20 24
this is an introduction this is an ordinance amending amending chapter 210- 37 article two the code of the city of Brigantine uh portions as it relates to fees uh we have a motion
second so we're updating our Fe Ordinance one of the things I really want to thank is our city manager T Platt organizing this thing uh it is much simpler and easier to read so I really appreciate
all Big T so thank you so there's are there any questions or comments same n can we have roll call you yes thei yes ay yes Kane yes rean yes may Sarah yes ordinance number 22 of
2024 this is an introduction this is uh amending our salary or ordinances so this is an ordinance amending chapter 21 salaries and compensation of the code of the city of Brigantine pursuant to njsa 4A 9-1 165 establishing the salaries and
wages of certain officers and employees at the city of Brigantine County of Atlantic state of New Jersey have motion second questions comments seeing none we have roll call
you yes the ti yes hany yes Kan yes rean yes may Sarah yes motion Carri resolution 20 uh 20241 199 and this is a resolution amending the city of Brigantine 2024
year M fiscal year uh Municipal budget by the insertion of a special item of Revenue and appropriation from the state of New Jersey drive sober or get pulled over holiday Grant this is in the amount of $2,800 second questions or comments seeing none
we have roll call you yes the T yes hany yes Kane yes Reen yes may Sarah yes car resolution 20242 this is a resolution authorizing a change order to the city bulkhead
Replacements awarded to Walter's Marine Construction Inc this is a decrease of 107,000 motion second questions comments seeing none have roll call you yes L yes hany yes
Kane yes Reen yes mayor Sarah yes this is resolution 2024-25 14th Street bulkhead reconstruction this is the amount of $297,100 motion second questions or
comments see none we have roll call you yes leri yes hany yes Kane yes rean yes M Sarah yes resolution 2024-25 and this is a resolution by the
city Brigantine New Jersey authorizing Award of contract to EZ do unlimited LLC for bulad replacement project at pepper Cove this is in the amount of $261,250 motion second questions or
comments seeing none we have roll call you yes L Haney yes Kane yes Maran yes Mar Sarah yes resolution 2024-25 this is a resolution by the city
of Brigantine New Jersey authorizing an award of an emergency contract with acties for Inc for well number five pump repairs this is the amount of 67,8 56 we have motion
second questions or comments seeing none can we have roll call you yes thei hany yes yes Kane yes Reen yes may Sarah yes motion car all right so resolution 2024 d204
and this is a resolution approving the revised city of brigine employee handbook motion second questions or comments seeing none from we have roll call you yes L yes hany yes Kane yes
Reen yes marera yes resolution 2024-25 this is a resolution authorizing a property tax exemption for 100% permanently and totally disabled veteran motion second I'll make that
motion second questions or comments see none can we have roll call you yes leri yes Amy yes Kane yes Ren yes mayor Sarah yes resolution 2024 d26 and this is a
resolution authorizing a property tax exemption for 100% permanently to veteran motion second questions or comments seeing none can we have roll call you yes thei yes
hany yes Kane yes rean yes may Sarah yes resolution 202-207 and this is a resolution by the city council of the city of Brigantine for a bulkhead permit Fe fund this is
the amount of $600 we have a motion second I'll make that and again this is for the residents in the area Ro long Jetty as I said we were how we to go through the process
people want bulkheads defunding those fees uh there's no questions comments we have R you yesi hany yes Kane yes rean yes mayor
Sarah yes uh next up we have resolution 20242 and this is a resolution authorizing real estate tax refunds with motion second questions or
comments tiger I just had one question block 4603 lot 17 16,23 32 a high so that one mayor was a situation where there was an added assessment on
that property and mortgage company and the homeowner actually paid their taxes they each didn't know the other one was paying soce there other questions we have roll call you yes
yes yes yesah yes resolution 2024 D 209 this is a resolution authorized the city of Brigantine to accept a sub Grant reward Federal fiscal year 2024 Emergency Management performance Grant and
Emergency Management uh agency assistance this is an amount of $10,000 motion second I'll make questions comments see n have profile you yes the
hany yes Kan yes yes may Sarah yes resolution 2024 4 -210 and this is U resolution authorizing the installation of the street light on East Shore Drive pole number
a177 765 motion second questions comments All right we have roll call you yes yes yes Kan yesan yes Sarah
yes we have our consent agenda we have AB vinary Hospital Foundation ladies Legacy raffle license numbers 10 18810
18919 and the PO bear swim raffle license number 1091 motion second questions or comments we have broke off you yes L yes
hany yes Kane yes veran yes may Sarah yes Mo all next up we have our Council manager committee discussions tiger uh I have something for the group and all the viewers at home our holiday
tags have gone on sale on Black Friday we started selling our holiday beach tags the link to that um the beach tags are on our website at beach.org they also if you follow us on Facebook or Instagram island of Brigantine there's
direct links uh to purchase those through Jersey Cape and uh they are pre-season price of $20 there's a small processing they are sold online only they are not sold in our office so limited amount we sold over
300 on the weekend so uh they're going quick so if you want them you want a special holiday tag jump on and grab quite a few minut first want to thank the school for hosting a fabulous Veterans Day
celebration it was just awesome DET that green team wrapped up a fantastic Farmers Market season on Saturday before Thanksgiving the vendors and the Shoppers were all F even though
it was quite chilly that day and also out of our green te meeting the community guard committee made a starky told us that they had just recently as they harvested 50 pounds of sweet
potatoes just that small little plot it was made ound chur and so they share sen at the last week um we had our finally final Recreation meeting of year I believe the witer CL brochure is
out now with registration starting online December 16 M begin first Monday in j will be online for the first time this year that will start probably in January
so be watching for that for Department are planning on doing down bigger and better than last year baseball the Baseball opening day is
April 6 information will be coming that uh I want to thank sar from the Aquatic Center in green Wales she organized a wonderful Frank friends giving at the BFW right before
Thanksgiving it was held for representatives of all the nonprofits on the just everybody brought food had dinner it it's just really a feel-good
typical PR team event and finally um as always the Interfaith service is my favorite year um I have the new rabbis Stephanie and her congregation were wonderful hosts and thanks to everyone
in the Brigantine religious community this that myself as a school you got fly over truck uh first of all I hope everyone had a beautiful blessed Thanksgiving just had a great time with your family and
friends Thanksgiving finally the warm weather we've had lately uh definitely officially into fall weather so also um Veterans Day Parade uh on 10th was great just a great showing
as we always have and uh just thank you to all those who came out to honor of veterans and those who going to make it for the V and prayers andk for that syis on the recreation board basis well and the multi
denomination service at the at the synagogue uh like you said it's it's it really is a beautiful ceremony and this year obviously no exception and uh it's just nice to see everybody to get together and give thanks so uh at least we definitely not
forget I know we won't and we'll see it on TV uh come this Saturday it'll be 83 years ago December 7th 1941 PE Harper United States Service spend L their lives and nearly half of them
nearly 12200 of them on Arizona so many years ago never forget very solemn day so thank you service all those Brave those Brave service members for PA the ultimate price that
day obviously the rest of History United States stepped up like they always still I guess uh the farmers market you commented on that my wife was there once in a while make it there with hers and she said for me
vol lot of great things com Out start mayor thank you mayor uh want to welcome everybody here tonight thank you for all coming out on this freezing cold night I don't know what you decided to come here for but we appreciate that you're here
um economic development committee meeting is coming up uh we have one coming up next uh Tuesday we got a lot going on for the future looking forward to next year a lot of things to discuss the cultural arts commission they've uh they're excited about this next year's
schedule so that's that this Friday night we have the tree lighting at 5:00 pm here at the fire department always a great night see the school kids singing um Chamber of Commerce does a lot of they help out sponsor a lot of things and just the best Chamber of Commerce
you could have anywhere U other than that on the front page of press not the press the times and I want to welcome the times here tonight it's good to see uh EMT in the house other than that if anybody brought your flags with you tonight when you come up to speak you're
more than welcome to bring the flags up to the to the microphone so don't we don't we allow Flags in our in our uh Council meetings thank you say that [Music] [Laughter]
George uh I think this time of the year is probably favorite time of year with all the great things that go on with the holidays here the Interfaith service was absolutely amazing uh we have two new members of the clergy we have Pastor K presan Church parent I
had it's nice to see that coming back and uh Rabbi Stephanie is outstanding in the synagogue she got to host this year she gave very very good uh sermon I thought it was very appropriate one for our community but two for every ATT
expect see theog grow we as said we have our tree and yeah ab and uh we have our tree lighting coming up this Friday and that's always amazing event if you've never been there I know some people have been there for the first time say this
is like something straight out of very you know this small Hometown feel like coming I know some of the kids get really excited to to help I would definitely recommend coming spend a little time had an opportunity to talk with
Congressman van Drew's office today uh one of the things we've been working on is uh the erosion on the south end of the island with the jetty we are working with the Army Corps and the d uh to try to do something long term to fix that
erosion our recommendation is that the jetty needs to be raised over time Jetty 7 was built to be at about an elevation eight foot it's probably settled to about seven I think realistically if you look at the trend that's happening with
everything State everything's getting raised up higher probably needs to be about nine or t foot you know not nine or t foot behind we raised to a proper elevation in order for the federal government to spend money they have to do a study so they have to study it to
come up with the determination of how they best spend that money so we're we're working on that we're through the process congressman vandrew is also working on I believe it's passed but he is working on legislation looking long term uh not just for Brig but for the
state of New Jersey on um what we can do for longterm solutions for a lot of our um hotpots for erosion for us you can see that with North End you know we just had a rep punishment we had probably a week and a half two week straights and
more Easter and took a lot of that sand out um so he's got that legislation coming forward I know Brigantine will be in L to be a part of that study they're G to look at that study and what can be done better or different to try to hold that
sand in place or try to add better protection to the island so I was uh talking with his staff today um they're going to get us more information on that probably after the first of the year when things up R so we'll uh keep everybody posted with the two areas they
want to look at for bring te are the North End and obviously the south end with Jetty down there what's happening with the CO Beach the do did an outstanding job when they did their uh dredging project for St George's they built up a really nice little beach in there to add some protection from homes
which was very desperately needed so it's really good to have these Partnerships one with Congressman van Drew and also with um Senator Vince Palestina who was instrumental and moving that project forward he literally brought the commissioner the dot commissioner to bring a team to look at
the situation so he could understand firsthand how he could best help us and those are really the Partnerships that we're looking for when you're uh talking about the ocean wind issue I've talked with Congressman vandrew several times on this issue now one of the things that
President Trump has promised is on day one he will sign a resolution canceling those projects uh talk with him I know there's a lot of big things going on in DC [Music] with all the big things that are going on
DC I guess the heart of me wants to make sure that little old Brigantine doesn't get forgotten uh the congressman actually talks with the president quite frequently probably once a week uh he has had two conversations with the president president said look tell everybody I'm on board it's going to get
done G to take care of it I am on I would say if he says he's gonna do something whether you like it he's going to do uh a really good sign of this is uh they had in Paulsboro and Paulsboro is where they were constructing and I want to say reconstructing because actually a lot of
the stuff was being made in Germany and shipped over and constructed in Paulsboro but they have the huge monopiles the monopiles are basically what they use to connect the windmills to the ground it's these huge steel structures so the mayor of pboro has said this publicly but I've known for a
while now that they are now disassembling the uh monopiles out there and selling them for scrp metal that is a very good now with that being said the governor is still trying to push ahead we see what's going on in Atlantic City
um I think it's still wishful thinking but even in the beginning when right after the election the governor said that he's still pushing full steam ahead and probably about two weeks later when he was in England meeting with a bunch of investors for uh oceanwind projects in Jersey and on the East Coast he
actually admitted that President Trump there could be some big barriers to things things forward so I think he's starting to see the organization um I know that with defend Brian tetin Beach and a lot of the citizens groups that we're working with as well as the municipalities we're going to continue forward with our lawsuits until those
projects are done we are not going to let up we have made it very very clear to the companies that we will not stop until they are home so we'll keep that going forward so I thought that that was really really good news um and I'm hearing too that Shell Oil who is a big
uh part of Atlantic Shores is now starting to pull back on all of their ocean projects in the United States so that is good signs of things to come so we need to make sure that we stay on top of this uh we will keep everybody posted as we move forward but I will tell you
this has been a Herculean effort to get us to the point we are and it's really come together through the health of so many good people who took a lot of time out of their lives to join flight something could so I know team grateful
forone at this time I'd like to um open it up for public comment any please come up state name an address with a presentation from uh polar be clunch cha Cosgrove 2011 Street North
Brigantine New Jersey I'd like to officially introduce you to the trustees of the 2017 nonprofit 501c3 we have finally retired RI Reynolds and our new trustee is John
Murray good em and Dave have been from the beginning so we we you know them very well I'm here to present to Tiger the permit request that you can give to Ryan
and also the insurance the real boss and the insurance for the beach as you know rip rolds used to ensure it and we have to do it ourselves now so it's all said and done with that I'm want to explain what happened back of this shirt has 200
sponsors on it we have already given Fisher house $45,000 represent this group of women that are here tonight represent five or so of the 35 of us that worked diligently at the VFW last week to put it all together and
we had a grand opening weekend of 30,000 five weekends to go and I'm looking forward to getting up to 80 or so for what we GNA give to fiser house so I want to thank you again for approving this event and we look forward to having you there where's the beware
shop for people oh we are at the VFW want for our third year ever since lagona sold and we got kicked out of there and we moved to 16th and 17th street but the VFW is going to be open
from 4 to 7 on Fridays and Saturdays from 9 to 3 very simple easy to get to and they're selling Christmas trees too so you can get a tree and and a shirt but thank you again you're all invited to attend I know most of you
will be there but I thank you very much okay thank you I have something else well I'll tell you what I just want to say I just want to say thank you and congratulations on the awesome first
weekend that's just unbelievable I remember going back 25 years ago when we used to be up there in the houses making plans and and to see what it's become yeah you know so that's fabulous thanks
to everybody and it'll be good to see the mayor jumping in again this year too well thank you for all that you guys do it's a incredible event for a great cause and we really appreciate what year is this what year number by the way this is our 25th
TCH silver anniversary so everybody wear silver there you go if your hair is silver then you can cover perfect thank you very much awesome awesome great job thank
I have silver hair so am I included there you go you're H you're good Brooks hey uh again thank you so much for everything that's going very grateful and for all the hard work and effort Vince you put towards stopping
offshore wi there are three people here many members from and you know we're very grateful for your efforts and I wanted to just mention again go on the website check out jersey strong Coalition Vince has instrumental that effort also and for
all city council to sign resolution support stopping of the off you mind stating your name and address for the record oh yeah I beg your pardon I'm Brooks Garrison 15 Street uh so again thank you
very much for that I also uh came tonight just to talk briefly about the seaw wall extension you talk about the erosion North and South Greatful for the efforts both Vince palestino course in you know in Congress so
tonight I wanted to just address specifically the seall extension when I purchased here was great day in February 2020 did the research I sought out the information trying to figure out what was the history I heard about the
seaf Min stood on 15th Street North be nothing constru I investigated and did the research understand accessibility Visual and to the beach and that beautiful you know location is a location I've never seen
in my 60 years at beach in Ocean City 56 which so the opportunity 50,000 Acres I will give everybody a copy of this wonderful book about station 119 um and it gives a great history so
really the reason why I'm here is the question you know all in favor of the seaw wall extension Stone and others in residents in that neighborhood do not want to see promade walkway or
infrastructure question that I propos you know we all talking about the same thing the [Music] SE back and that be project and um it's back and
forth I don't think we have anything definitive other than they have an interest in doing it we haven't gotten any information and I believe because they have an interest in protecting the home so they would probably dictate what it is actually the
city manager and I spoke probably about a week ago maybe it was before so two weeks ago before Thanksgiving and I asked him if he could reach out to the DP to see where they are because it just one silent uh one of the things we want to look at too is with Congressman bw's
legislation so part of this resiliency for Jersey shores um they're going to be looking at that area as well which could be an opportunity federal government to do something there don't know so when we have more information we can share that
we just don't have it I just want to be very clear rights that not have any develop visual access from the seaw wall extension absolutely obviously any further develop my violate public
viously so please consider that that's why I gave you a copy tonight again the information that I was able to come by which noted that um the Army Corp of Engineers approved the seaw wall extension 2017 November of 2017 was discussed
after Sandy by this Council Bri has been for quite a long time the Army courp approved it in 2017 stud seems to be a done deal and then the the again legal prec to
information you great thank you yeah and Brooks I want to thank you personally too for coming out and uh telling us your concerns there I know all the people up there in that part of the island so we appreciate you coming out and expressing your
concerns um someone did mention to me they wanted to put a Bridgeway from the end of the prominade to the bird Tower but I told them that's definitely not uh it's not happening thank you so so again in the book it's beautiful because it talks about seven Bridge Road the BR Team which only has five
Bridges which is why we have 50,000 Acres Reserve thank you thank you gold last I speak next SL good evening um my name is Sher lilienfeld I'm a resident of Margate and
also a member of defendar beach great news um talk to you tonight about um instruction contamination was saw the email and he suggested I do come tonight to talk
about so I have couple of questions can I give you all a first may I and some pictures I'm a member of the the Margate Green Team and um I just want to talk to you a
little bit about this this idea which actually is moving up the state and all a lot of local municipalities years ago buildings were constructed by mostly biodegradable materials the natural materials like
Natural Stone these days consumers have pushed for low maintenance and with that drive comes materials that are mostly non-biodegradable like plasic um such as vinyl siding ASAC
tracks fiberglass papers which are most papers which are not natural they're made with materials and also we use treated lumber which is not good for the environment so we move from building materials that
were okay for the environment building materials and are harble for the environment um in that flyer you'll see some pictures of what construction sites look like now these materials are cut or
grinded and there's an excessive amount of contamination such as microplastics that are being produced and um we call it contractor snow this is what a work site will look like although it's white and it kind of
looks pretty it's horrible um you know and most people don't think about it but once you're aware and you think about it you realize these are forever Plastics and it's it's horrible for the environment and not just for the environment
um so what happens is like especially on a work site like this this was this picture was taken in Margate at a work site on a Friday right before a big storm it's washed into the street and then it goes into the storm water a lot
of people don't think about where the storm water goes but guess where it goes the bay to the ocean um it's in the ground goes into our food supply and then it goes into our body and you can just Google microplastics in the body and they say
like people are consuming One credit card worth of plastics a week I mean it's horrible and there's a lot of health effects they find it in the placentas and babies it's just horrible so what um but the other part of it is
contractors they're not doing it on purpose they're doing it because they're not aware they're just not aware and once you're aware then you're like oh my goodness like look at all this pollution we're creating so what happened in um
last October so I'm a member of marget Green Team and once I realiz and I'm also an engineer by educational background and Engineers like to solve problems you see a problem so what's the solution it's really simple it's a really simple
solution you contain it and dispose of it instead of just letting it Blow Away um so last October Steve jaeki and I Steve is the chair of a Margate Green Team introduced our municipality in
Margate the idea that contractors needed to be responsible for containing their contamination and um and then disposing it by the way it's really easy it um I think in the flyer
too you'll see hoods that come with these saws you put a tarp underneath you put a hood attach it to vacuum it's so easy to so this is a simple idea but it spread to lots of municipalities already
uh Longport adopted an ordinance ventner adopted an ordinance Summers point I can give you a full list I have a full spreadsheet but it's not just Atlantic County it's also in Hamilton Township at carp City but it's in Kate May County
it's going up the coast Bergen County because what happened is we got a lot of publicity for this and then other groups started to want to join in so we are have a coalition going with a collaborative effort with clean ocean
action you probably them they do clean up fabulous organizations 40 years ago they were responsible for stopping pollution into our waterways from the from the chemical plants excuse me sh your five minutes are up actually you
could I asked sh presentation so ear I'm actually almost done I asked you to come yes thank you we have clean ocean action we have South Jersey Surf Rider Foundation that also joined along
of called Beyond Plastics and of course um sustainable Jersey action at the end this is a serious issue it's getting tremendous attention I know that Brigantine cares about the
environment and also the health and safety of its residents so we're just asking that you would join along with this effort um we have a toolkit we have a sample ordinance we have everything you need to
I mean we can give you sample ordinance and you can have your lawyer look at it and and adopt it so if you care about the environment which I know you do and the safety of just asking you to so if you have the toolkit
information that also tiger see that Margate long bner passed they pass because I just want look how they did it compared to the S I'll reach out and um I have talked to a couple of
your councilmen I don't know if they want to comment as well about this I'll be happy to say a couple words Shar I want to thank you for spearheading this initiative down down Beach there and I think it's an excellent idea with an easy fix and solution to to just contain
this contamination going into our base and and ocean so 100% 10% fully Beyond you really appreciate it bringing this to our attention thank you I did and I did um I did see right and um she was at so so we
actually got an award at the sustainable Jersey meeting about this um inovation creativity award I had sent an email but I did forward it to her but she's got a lot going on right that time of year and farmers market and stuff so I mean we're
here to help honestly I just want to see it I mean if one town does it it's great but again it makes more sense if everyone and it's going it's gonna I think it's going to end up being a Statewide I know you don't like when the state tells you
what to do it depends what they tell us to do they told us we needed ocean windmills they didn't like I know you don't like it it depends but I mean and honestly you have some ordinances in place that could um like there's a storm water
ordinance and also another big part and I do want to say this ordinances are great but they need to be enforced and we realize that's an issue and we have some ideas on that um have the police department involved and we
have our building department and they have like a toolkit like so what happens is someone would call and say hey there's this work site you really need to go because you don't want citizens going because want them yeah exactly so you know it's important that there's a
consistent m message and consistent enforcement so um anyway lots of ideas so I will send you ordinances I actually have them I can send them thank you so much I appreciate you coming out I also want to thank
you yeah after we spoke I thought about it know I I remember cutting the exact board when I was my house sand and stuff and you know sweep the stuff up fig up maybe I should just blow it
around but if you blow it around goes in your lawn and it stays there okay it's called Forever plastic talk I driving around the island I approached several contractors where they were out there working and couple of them actually had a hood there were simple umbrella
structures that like an umbrella and it just down on either side they hook back and they it up contrary I also went to a place where a guy had to okay now I'm sick yeah so that's right that's the
other thing fiber glass too I mean it goes on PE you know to the neighbors yards kids are playing and yeah but but again once they're aware of it and and there's the awareness then that's the big part of it I mean these
contractors don't realize it's all over their clothes it's in their trucks they bring it home kids their wies they're bringing it home and they're subjecting their families to it too so anyway awareness is important so now that you're aware because I remember you were
telling me at that event you're like this guy this contractor next to me he's like they can all over the place oh I'll take care of it yeah lower and then you don't realize then it goes in the storm water goes right out to the bay and ocean that's where the storm water goes
it's not going to some magical place where it gets cleaned up than you maybe that's how bner got silver okay awesome oh yeah so now they they're you at the award
B but now you can get points for a two toward your s what that's Frank all I did was make a phone call John D was on it right
away and it was funny because and I had just ridden by there day before I saw Frank sinking spot any public comment there's more public comment close public
portion fin Council comments mayor you just made some comments or commenting on wind and specifically as you mentioned shell energies backing off and uh I mean I've
spoken about this before but the Folly of this whole thing all talked about is like there's going to be lower rates we're going to cleaner energy there still natural gases right right it's so low in its emissions it's uh it's it's one of the
best things going and uh they decided not to refit the BL England plant and go with this wind and it the pattern of just cost going up and with the with the the ratee payers have to pay and how they always guarantee these jobs and
everything else specifically shell energy is based in um in London England EDF there other company with Atlantic Shores based in France and Paris basically stands for energy of France EDF and now like these
mono piles that you mentioned uh that company's in Germany uh so it's just like globalist at the expense of the written the back of the American taxpayers so just hope this it's good just to see one thing after the other just piling on to the backs of these
companies that are just looking to just take advantage of the American public as I see it see it so thank you for those comments earlier so mayor do you mind if one thing I forgot uh I just wanted to announce the uh a new addition to our city hall
family um my Administrative Assistant Samantha gave birth to a beautiful baby girl this morning Adriana she arrived uh a little after 2 am this morning 7 pounds 9 ounces 19 inches and a whole lot of hair and she's doing wonderful we
were able to FaceTime with her this afternoon she actually uh she's smiling and Samantha and tiger I I noticed we got somebody new down the end we're all a little confused I thought about it as well and I didn't know back up I I didn't know uh when the
appropriate time would be but um you may recognize somebody or not recognize but notice somebody new sitting down there at the end so Lyn Sweeney our city clerk will be retiring on February 1 so we uh we advertised interally to see if any of
our employees were interested that meant the qualifications for the state to be a registered municipal clerk and uh Christine Murray down on the end um she met all the qualifications and um she will assume the role of acting
municipal clerk effective February 1 if you're a contractor and have been through the Construction office you absolutely know who Christine is because that's where she's been working for many years she does a wonderful job and we are very excited to have her assuming this extremely important role for the
city so welcome Christine congratulations welc congratulations I want to say I've already gotten a number of phone calls and complaints about you coming down here all the contractors are very upset because they don't know what they're gonna do in construction without you so
you will be very missed I got calls this morning but welcome we're very excited finally and Lyn we're happy you're retiring but sad you're retiring too it's a great Next Step but you have uh not just for the clerk's position but
absolutely amazing for the entire done so much Beyond here and just have changed and helped so many people's lives I don't know if understand how valuable everything thank you it's been my
pleasure the Coalition so we have boxes All Around Town um the Elks the BFW the American Legion and along with all the real estate offices and we have a box out here we'll be collecting those on the
13th that's this Friday I'm sorry this Friday yeah this Friday next next Friday not yet um and then the parents will pick them up on the 17th or the fire department will deliver them if they don't have transportation so we've been doing that
for 32 years I think I started true Spirit 30 maybe was 34 years ago and uh it's just grown and people in Brigantine are so generous and we help anybody we can so you know anybody needs help have
them call me thank you one one sorry um I'm realizing the where we're at in the calendar but next week we'll be doing our drive around Santa
around um Tuesday December 10th we're going to be doing the South End um so it's gonna be from fir South and Thursday we'll be doing the North End that's December 12 so you can follow us on Facebook we
usually anybody else all right we're good all right so we have a motion second to close the meeting all in favor all right moot pass thank you for coming out watching your Council team at work and I hope
everybody has a great holiday season