for e e e I'd like to welcome everybody to our March 5th bertine city council meeting please rise for the flag salute you us in prayer Heavenly Father we are meeting
today to conduct matters of City business guide our hearts and our minds in spirit of fairness impart your Supreme wisdom Upon Our activities so that our Affairs May reach a successful conclusion thank you for being our
source of guidance today amen coun this virgilia enjoyed reading shopping and playing Ma and loved spending time with her family she had survived by her husband of 64 years
Harry her children har Mark and Melissa her eight grandchildren and her one grandchild services will be held on Friday at St Mary's Church public meeting act announcement this is first up we have our approval of our
February 19 2025 council meeting minutes motion second questions or comments seeing none we have roll call yes L yes Haney vilo yes rean yes mayor
Sarah yes Mo car approval Bill requisition list we have a motion second questions or comments seeing n have Ro yes Lai Haney vilo yes rean
mayor Sarah yes motion carried all right at this time we'll open it up for public comment this is public comment on agenda items seeing no public participation we're going to close the public por uh we have resolution
202562 and this is a resolution authorizing support of New Jersey Department of Community Affairs application related to municipality sponsored affordable housing agreement with Volunteers of America Delaware Valley to provide affordable units
pursuant to a settlement of the third round Mount lauro litigation the motion second this is part of the process we met last time actually been an extension for boa they're waiting on DCA this is actually a good sign DCA requesting this from us
tells us that they're starting to work on this project forward when it refers to litigation it actually doesn't refer to any litigation against the city this is against uh I guess in out Laurel which set precedence for all municipalities to have an obligation to
build affordable housing our affordable housing for this project will be for low-income veterans uh there any questions or comments seeing none we have roll call you yes thei yes hany yes vilo yes Reen
yes mayor Sarah yes motion carry resolution 2025 63 and this is a resolution authorizing the purchase of vehicles for various departments through Enterprise Fleet Management and the sourcewell cooperative and this is in the amount of
$1 19,6 25 with motion second questions or comments seeing none mayile yes the yes virgilia
yesan Sarah yes motion Carri we have resolution 20 25-64 this is a resolution authorizing a contract with Hydro designs Incorporated for construction management phase one of the golf course irrigation system and
this is an amount not to exceed 26,000 we have motion second questions or comments seeing none we have roll call you yes L yes Amy yes virgilia yes rean yes mayor Sarah yes
motion Carri resolution 2025 65 and this is a resolution authorized the board of contract replacement of two condensing units at the Brigantine boat house and this is in a not to exceed amount of $1,826 and motion
second second questions or comments seeing none can we have roll call you yes L vilo yes rean mayor Sarah yes motion Carri sorry all right need uh up next we have
resolution 2025-the support of New Jersey Department of Community Affairs sorry 66 I got the right one thank you let's try this again this is resolution 2025 66 and this is a resolution supporting
legis legislature uh proposing a consult a constitutional amendment to increase the amount of the property tax deduction for all honorably discharged veterans we have a motion second
questions or comments same we have roll call you yes let's he Amy vilo yes Reen yes mayor Sarah yes motion Carri then tiger can you follow
all right next up we have our consent agenda uh this is for the spring RP tide Derby Stockton rata rowing request Chamber of Commerce St pens Day Parade have a motion second
so questions or comments seeing none we have roll call Vi yes let yes pilia yes rean yes mayor Sarah yes motion Carri uh next up we have our Council manager committee discussions um I just want to remind
the listeners um this Saturday March 8th town hall meeting proposal Fire officer title revisions 10 a.m. Brigantine Community School
come out they have any questions or concerns on all right we'll go to our depy mayor Karen uh this morning I had the pleasure of reading uh dr's birthday week at
mr's it's hard to say mr's second grade class it was great back in classroom and then yesterday we held a senior seminar featuring many of our County officials at the community
center 100 residents came out to hear Senator Vince Palestina County Clerk Joe Jala County surate Jim kerio assembly members Claire Swift and Don Guardian County Sheriff Joe o donu and county
commissioner June Burns they spoke about proper things like property fraud voting by mail passport and notary services living Wheels the anchor program that had tons of questions left very interested in in the anchor
program and they also discuss the many scams that are going around I want to thank Jim Mogan and Kristen Sullivan and the staff of the C for making sure the room was set up and for uh the sound system which is awesome
the new sound system down there it was working great uh I also want to thank especially Linda nce for everything she does for our seniors she was awesome handing out pizza and everything um I couldn't have pulled it
off without her also thanks to Paul and tiger for being there Paul was pizza and finally I'd like to thank Jimmy McHugh from M pizzas were
time they were awesome everybody loved it we had 14 pizzas and uh it was just that's it [Music] stri bre coming up
March 1 starts at St Thomas got a lot of extra special things but we do have some good stuff I say like thank you for all the work that you do for that and for the Chamber of Commerce I know that this is one of the biggest offseason events for the
year businesses really kickstarts our our tourism season uh one quick update for me South Jersey G they're um doing work down on the fourth board seen it out on B Boulevard and on Harbor Beach uh we just got noticed that they're actually going
to be extending that project they were supposed to be wrapping up soon they're probably looking at another six weeks of work don't have the exact details on that I guess a change order that next time we open up for public comment anybody wishing to be heard come up
please state your name and address for the record no participation we're gonna close the public portion Jay I to thank you being here I don't talk you're the best uh any final Council comments I see none we have a motion and
second to adjourn all in favor I any opposed all right seeing none thank you you for coming out watching your Council team at work enjo