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council of the city of cap may we are here in the Cape May City Hall Auditorium today is Tuesday April 1st 2025 the time is now 2 4 p.m. please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance
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guys thank you roll call council member Balin here council member Bodner here Deputy Mayor McDade here council member here present by phone mayor mullik here
city solicitor Gillan Schwarz here city manager dri here Deputy manager rigs here and Deputy Turner here and we have one resolution was 13904 2025 a resolution providing for a meeting not open to the public in
accordance with provisions of the New Jersey open public meetings act and JSA 10 col 4-12 this is to discuss Collective pardoning NE negotiations for the following units gwu upper management UAW Local 2327 middle management PBA local
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actually going to show up tomorrow events I I'm hoping thank you think close session went work on get very anyway good evening everyone we apologize we're just coming out of uh
closed session we need to um close the um close session um and we will not be taking any action based on that conversation that was just ongoing conversation do I have a motion to close make a motion do I
have a second I'll second all in favor I I I okay with that we can begin our regular meeting agenda of the city council of the city of Kate may we are here in the K May City Hall Auditorium
today is Tuesday April 1st 2025 the time is now 5:15 please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance I alance to of the United States of America and to
the repu for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you under the open public meetings law Shane can you mute yourself I'm getting
feedback okay apologies under the open public public meetings law notice that this meeting was sent to the K May County Herald in the Press of Atlantic City and a copy the agenda was delivered to each member of city council and posted on the city website and Kate May City Hall bulletin board notice is hereby provided that Kate May City Council meetings are audio recorded and
video streamed live live video streams are posted to the Cape May City website the City of Cape May is not responsible if audio recording or live video streaming of a meeting is unavailable roll call council member baldman here council member Bodner here
deputy mayor May McDade here council member Meyer here present via telephone mayor mullock here city solicitor Gillan Schwarz here uh city manager Dietrich here Deputy manager rigs here and Deputy
clerk Turner here any additions or deletions Council any additions or deletions no okay moving on to updates up up um okay
any updates city manager thank you um I guess the big update for today is parking meters started today so please remember when you're parking in a area that's whether it's Park mobile or in
front of the meters please make sure that you're paying for parking because they have started back up and I Know Chief ashal has his staff already to start up uh this week and um I don't want to get anybody caught by surprise
and that's not April's Fool's joke yeah that is not yeah that you may want to speak up a little that is not an April Fool's joke on that given the day it the parking did start today yeah the a hear you parking started today in case you didn't hear um
the other thing I just want to give a little shout out uh Public Works uh they've been working really hard on getting the community center um up and running along with um uh our rec ation uh civic affairs staff it's really coming out really nicely uh looking
forward I think we're going to have an uh a grand opening in May but I just wanted to really you know just really give a shout out to staff they've really jumped through a lot of Hoops over the last couple months to uh make sure the program is all already I know that if if
you want to take a little sneak preview in there uh jump into some of the fitness classes and you'll get a little sneak preview of uh of that but you got to take a fitness this class to get a little preview in there and then my final was uh I just want to give a shout
out uh Mike uh zetti uh power washing he did some volunteering of cleaning up and power washing out out at the fisherman's Memorial uh in advance of uh this weekend's ceremony and just really you know it's great when a you know Community me member can come out and
donate their time uh to for that so I just want to thank you for that for him coming out and helping out Public Works that's nice and we could go um Paul while you have the microphone why don't you go over our employee of the month this year
this month okay this this month we've got a which it's kind of apropo for for what I was just talking about we have uh David Sheffer from the Civic Affairs and Recreation Department uh he is a recreation supervisor uh and coordinator
um you know he spent really his whole career with the with the city working down here and um in that department he's been great he's taken on over the last year he's taken on a lot of extra duties he's jumped in in helping out the environmental commission he's had a real
passion for environment I when I found that out I said sold uh and and he's been been helping out the environmental commission and uh he's going to be working you're going to see him out on a lot of the cleanups uh for different things like that so he's just been a
really great to to just jump in and do that and he's kind of helped spearhead while Casey was out on maternity leave he kind of took the bll by the horn and and kind of helped you know move the process forward with the community center so he's just done a great job and
and uh I think that's just a couple of the reasons why his fellow employee selected David as a um employee of the month this month so I just want to say congratulations [Applause]
than great job thank you for all of your work on the community center you've really been a a treasure to work with thank you okay and uh city solicitor I don't have anything tonight mayor thank you city council any updates or old business on to uh our city engineer
Vince Orlando special projects update good evening everyone happy April [Laughter] don't forget to turn the mic on V thanks Vin so we got a lot of projects
actually started this year things are looking really good the first one obviously is the franklen street reconstruction restoration as you can see we're about 85% complete um thank we're about 85% complete we're
looking at installing the trees and the uh gas lamps uh we did have some suggestions from the sh tree commission uh we vetted those off of the contractor and we're going to change the
trees to some of the recommendations they had uh and the contractor was fine with that so we're looking at availability for those trees but we'll be making those changes Shane if you can hear us thank you from the shade tree Commission um so that that project coming to an end
uh you know we may extend the project to provide for some additional crosswalks um I'm working with the contractor right now to get a price because they're a different location um we've located the material
we were worried that there was going to be a shortage of material so um we have we're able to locate the brick and and it looks like that we could get it done in the month of April and May wow that's great so I talked to the contractor
earlier this weekend uh he's going to get us a price quit to do that great uh the Water transmission line um is complete I think the only thing they're waiting for is the some of the electrical and
controls have to be coordinated with the uh City uh but that should be online I don't think within the next 30 days that's great right uh Miss just it's been a while for just for the audience and anyone who might not know that can you go over the
purpose of the water transmission line so the water transmission line is a kind of a backup line to connect the two Wells to provide for water in the case of one of the wells goes down right so it was a 100% Grant from the state um we
actually picked up the job one of the first projects that we had um and we're able to secure the approvals the board recalls we had a wet land that we had across so we had to get a transition area waiver um but all in all the project turned out nice and I think it'll be a
good uh attribute to the city as you can see the city parking lot is being completed uh you know a lot of inconvenience to the to the town or city employees we kind of knew that uh Paul's
been fabulous at trying to coordinate keeping people Paul and Justin have been Fab and and keep in coordination with the contractor um I think they're going to start concrete work this week um hopefully within the next week to 10 days they'll start milling and Paving
perfect um so that you know no time is a good time to disrupt that parking lot but uh that parking will be done along with the access area uh between the fire station and the facility that's great and we do pick up a number of parking
spaces on on the I guess souths side of the lot Lafayette Street Park phase one is underway if I can just add just to brag a little bit about I think you're gaining like eight to 10 parking spots
which is yes which is a lot in Kate May yeah so Lafayette Street Park is finally underway um we had to break it in phases because of some of the D approvals uh we were able to secure a contract with
thing pavers they started clearing uh last week uh we anticipate that uh this work will be done by uh the 4th of July that's what we're shooting for it's awesome um the oh the nature trail the LA e sheet
nature trail I have some photos for everyone uh before we go any further and I'm interrupting again but I think everybody has heard so so much about Lafayette Street park for like 10 years that we finally actually break ground
and no one even really celebrates it or anything but in all serious we'll celebrate when it's done right so we and we will but I do want to thank you because it it took a lot of uh effort on your behalf on on Paul's um to get
through all the permitting and and unfortunately our solicitors um but to get through all the pering all the um it I won't go through through all the acronyms of different agencies that were involved but it took a lot so thank you and you're welcome and I think that
phase one is going to be a nice start to the park which cons is the dog park relocation right uh the couple of gazebos the bot courts and the playfields phase two will then be the
parking parking area along with the um pickle ball or tennis courts and basketball and those other hard structures it's great uh the nature trail I did have some pictures uh Paul and I did walk the
trails uh on Friday we were able to get out there in a nice day which uh we didn't have to have mud boots and the project is coming along fabulous better than I ever anticipated um we have a superior contractor I can't say nothing nice
things about massive construction I've worked with a lot of people people in my 40-year career um these guys have done a excellent job uh they're their construction details they're everything they do is first
class and some of the recommendations they made to US during the process have been fabulous so uh and they take a lot of pride in their work as you could see so um we're hoping that around the 15th of May this will be
done um and we'll maybe have a one of the council Walker Pride walk uh as a grand opening there if I could just jump in on that one I just yeah I just didn't I didn't get to announce or mention because I wanted to talk about
it why you had these pictures out um there was some discussion from a resident I think r a couple meetings ago talked about the ospry nest uh about two and a half weeks ago Public Works was able we we um got a donation of an ospry Nest from uh teacher up at K Tech hanat
uh her Naturals program they build uh um these uh ospr Nest platforms we secured a donation from her to uh do that Public Works carried it out four guys had to carry it out into the marsh and actually
if you look on Vince's P photo number three um in the in the foreground you can see there's like four different uh shrubs Cedar scrub trees kind of the middle one just beyond that you can't really see it in the picture
but just beyond that uh you can see the Osprey platform and um I actually received a photo from uh Zach mayor and um he uh actually saw some Ospreys out on the platform already so um they haven't nested there obviously but
they've actually found it and and used it as a as a spot to look around so um I just wanted to report back that that we did get that OS back out there about two and a half weeks ago awesome yeah that it's it's going to be a special place
for the residents of Cap May to for that prominade um lastly uh and this is Council or Deputy Mayor mcdade's Pet Project is Harbor View Park uh as
council is aware we're able to SEC secure a grant from the county of Cape May for 90% then I think it's 2.4 million $2.4 million for the
rehabilitation and reconstruction um this is a passive Park there's really no active aspect of the recre of the facility other than a lot of walking paths a gazebo a number of isolated areas for
sitting uh some tables and chairs uh for you know relaxing and maybe having your lunch uh we expect expand the parking area a little bit on the south side of of the lot uh provide a different prominade a
different uh railing system there um I've included a copy of the plan that was uh presented to the uh K May Board of uh open space I think we're on the agenda for
the 17th of April was it for confirmation from uh the freeholders or the I think it's not the freeholders more it's the commission Commissioners um but everybody feels pretty certain that uh this was approved
unanimously um couple of key points we have some kinetic art in the facility we also have a spot for some local art so that we want to provide um an opportunity for some our local artisians
to get involved with the park um so this is going to be a fun little design this is uh you know we don't get to do this too often but this will have uh a lot of character I think it'll be a great place for young people to come and
relax older uh City uh people in the city to come and spend in the afternoon play checkers things of that nature um so other than that uh this project uh is currently under design the
game plan is to send this out the bid sometime in July with a construction date early fall that's great uh to have this built over the fall of
25 and to open hopefully in the spring of 26 so a lot of good things going on you know it's taken about a year to get some of these projects underway but I
think uh at the end I think uh We've really uh I think the project that we've worked on have a tremendous benefit to the city absolutely it really looks nice Vince any questions or comments Council
none um Vince are you okay if we open up to the public for questions or comments um this wasn't on the agenda but if anyone has any questions or comments for for our uh engineer please please feel free to come to the microphone state your name and address seeing none we'll close public
comment we'll reopen it again soon all right any other questions Council none Vince thank you very much thank you very much and uh you know I looked at my last update it's been almost a year since my last update so I expect I'd invite a
little bit sooner than thank you very much Vince yeah okay on to uh ordinances for introduction yes Council we have 55622 an ordinance amending section 3682 of the city code regarding prohibited
conduct in a Park and Recreation Area to regulate use of the Lafayette Street Park nature trails do I have a motion I'll make the motion do I have a second I'll second any questions or comments Council um
yes so um regarding this ordinance um I mean I'm glad Vince was here to actually talk about the the nature trails are just opening up and providing us with pictures of it um and as you can see from the pictures or if you have had a chance to go out and see the trails they
are elevated and I think they're about 6 feet um 6 feet wide so um with the trails opening up in early spring the discussion had been is regarding use of the ordinance and this ordinance proposes that it be limited to
pedestrian use um and those using a Mobility 80 their wheelchairs or Walkers essentially I know there had been discussion as far as whether bikes would be suitable um for uh for the uh for this area and this ordinance as proposed
would specifically prohibit bikes or Scooters or skateboards or things of that nature um in addition I know there has been some discussion as well as far as um being people being able to walk dogs take dogs out onto um um onto the
nature trails as well and um in relation to that it's not addressed within this I actually had a discussion with our with our solicitor um after receiving some public feedback um candidly I believe
that a lot of people who are going to go out and use that those nature trails would be the type who would be taking Le Leed dogs out there and I think that I mean personally my belief would be somebody having a leashed dog and taking them out on these nature trails would be
a wonderful opportunity for an owner and their pet to be out there on them so um had a discussion with their solicitor to draft additional language related to this ordinance to address specifically individuals being able to walk dogs take
dogs out on the uh the nature trails but also requiring them to maintain you know their pets one keep them leash but also to um collect their waste after the fact so um Mr Gillan Schwarz could you address the the language that we had
discussed sure um it would be a simple Amendment just to add a a second provision to this um ordinance and it would say that dog dogs are permitted but shall be kept on a leash at all times and be accompanied by their owner
or caretaker the owner or caretaker shall carry a dog waste disposal device any owner or caretaker of a dog who permits such dog to leave animal waste on the nature trails without disposing of the same shall be subject to the Penalty set forth in
368 and then the signage provision would just be amended to say that dogs must be leashed and accompanied by owner dog owners must carry waste bags and clean up after their dogs and that would both of those
amendments will be similar ilar to the language that we have on the beach to these including the signage so if Council would like to consider that a motion to amend uh could be made and this could be incorporated
into the ordinance that gets published if that's the direction Council would like to go thank you Steve thank you Chris um just would anyone like to make a motion I'll I'll make the motion do I have a second any questions or comments on the
Amendment no no okay do I have a motion on the amended ordinance I'll make the motion on the amended orance oh we have to do roll call for the on the amendment I apologize Y no worries so we have a motion and second to amend the wording um that solicitor Gan Schwarz mentioned
can I just confirm that um councilman Meyer can hear that councilman Meyer are you good to do roll call on the amendment yes okay okay perfect roll call please all right council member Meyer yes Deputy Mayor
McDade yes council member Bodner yes council member Baldwin yes mayor mullik yes do I have a motion on the amended ordinance I'll make the motion do I have a second I'll second any questions or comments on the amended ordinance roll
call council member Meyer yes Deputy Mayor McDade yes council member Bodner yes council member Baldwin yes mayor mik yes okay thank you Steve next we have ordinance 55722 an ordinance authorizing the grant
of conservation restriction easement to the New Jersey D for property known as block 1000 uh lot 6.01 61.0 1 62.0 1 63.0 63.2
63.3 in connection with the Kate May seaw wall Madison to Wilmington Avenue project do I have a motion I'll make the motion do I have a second second uh any questions or comments and actually before that uh Mr solicitor could you give us a quick explanation on this one
sure so um the city received uh an NJ DP uh permit and approval for the uh this extension of the seaw wall from Madison to Wilmington Avenue and this is the city's project in connection with that
permit we are required to uh provide mitigation and a portion of that is a payment in Li and then a substantial portion of that is by way of a conservation e easement and restriction and essentially it it
provides in large part for the installation and preservation of um landscaping for a lack of a better word as set forth in the plan prepared by Colliers So the colar plan um and the
mitigation proposed in there the physical mitigation is an exhibit to this and will be on record with the the uh County Records Office and it'll just be a Perpetual obligation for the city to maintain that and see that it
continues to be in place um and then there's a financial portion of it which is also referenced in the ordinance and that's just the flat payment I will indicate to council and to the public that it's not lost on on the city that we recently went through
uh a disposal effort for the police station and offering uh a substantial amount of land over on the soul tract and as part of this before we finalized this we wanted to confirm and and seek that the njd would consider the
substantial uh contribution that the city was making for those soul track Lots um but it the indication back was that there was not going to be we're not going to get double credit for that essentially um so we did explore that we
did um try to eliminate that as an option but um and you know the the the ratio of the contribution was so overwhelming we wanted to see if we could get also get credit for that as part of this um uh because of the
contribution level but that that we explored that eliminated that as a as a potential option here and and that's how we ended up with uh this restriction and um so that's that's it it's uh uh maintaining the elements that are shown
on the coler's plan and then there's the financial payment I think it's 41,000 or so um as set forth in the ordinance okay any questions or comments Council roll call council member Meyer
yes Deputy Mayor McDade yes council member Bodner yes council member Baldwin yes mayor mullik yes and and uh just uh again this is um another one of these um applications
that pretty close to 10 years in the making um to get this New Jersey D um permitting to for the extension of the sea wall is is a really big deal so I appreciate everyone's hard work on this one uh on the ordinances for second
reading yes we have 554-2213 ERS in transit there is a public hearing scheduled this evening but there also is a recommended uh minor amendment that Council may want to discuss prior to the public hearing great city manager would you would you give that recommendation yes uh so after
some discussions with some of the other towns both their administrators and and other Public Works uh Personnel you we've been collectively talking about this because a lot of the towns are kind of considering the same uh ordinance at the same time um one of the things we
discussed is you know the ordinates was had some vagueness in uh the number of attachments and when you really look at you know some of the size of the dumpsters we felt that it was incumbent that you really needed a specific number of attachments um not just at the four
corners but when you have the longer dumpsters you really need an attachment at the midpoint on the sides and that really should be a requirement not as an optional thing cuz if you leave it up to the the vendor to do it we just didn't want to leave it up to the the vendor we wanted to have
specificity on that point so uh the the suggested would be to say um shall be securely fixed in four corners and at each side midpoint as opposed to having it saying and this was on can you point yeah Point
437- 52 uh section uh a it's about Midway down it's on the second page of the uh I see it yep um everyone sees that mhm because the the language we're striking out it says such other locations as may be required and that we
just felt that we rather that specific all right perfect so just one other question I know that this is addressing um those that are in in transit I guess um but we continue to have dumpsters on properties that
construction sites that are not tarped um and you know weather of recent weeks with a lot of wind there's debris just blowing out of those so um I know this that is covered in another um section of the code um I just would implore that we sort of especially
when we know we have a storm coming in um rain events things of that nature that um if we could have just code enforcement um anyone just doing a sweep just to make sure that those are um and I would also ask that let's reinforced on the contractor checklist and I'm um
if this is passed tonight that this is also added to the contractor checklist um that is given to them anyone who's you know obtaining a permit for construction thank you I'll just note for the record the we're not usually toying with these things on second reading unless we're republishing them
but this is one of those that I think falls into the insubstantial category just because the language that's splicing out this could easily be the same thing um you know the manager could have just interpreted it as that he's he's telling people what to do here
which is I think think a good thing giving good direction so we need a motion on the amendment y yeah I would amend and then potentially do the the public hearing and then adopt do I have a motion to amend I'll make the motion do I have a
second second roll call council member Meyer yes Deputy Mayor mcde yes council member Bodner yes council member Baldwin yes mayor mullik yes is anyone here wishing to comment on this
ordinance it's the dumpster ordinance seeing none we can close public comment do I have a motion on the amended ordinance I'll make the motion do I have a second I'll second any questions or comments roll call council
member Meyer yes Deputy Mayor McDade yes council member Bodner yes council member Baldwin yes mayor mullik yes and moving on to the public portion on the resolutions only mayor okay do we have anyone here uh
from the public who would like to speak on resolutions this evening Mr Rous Jules Rous 10 New York Avenue um resolution 140 uh this is for the walkway to continue
on up to Poverty Beach is that correct it is but it's only to continue up to Madison with the funds that we had available so it's not going to continue continue on to Poverty not at this point no oh good that that was my concern I was going to say with the process of
rebuilding the the uh the seaw wall it wouldn't be a good idea to put these mats down before before that project's finished well that actually that these mats wouldn't have interfered with that project but nonetheless we only have funds to get us
up to Madison so and how many what what are the funds for that that this it's part it's part of the DCA no that's how the the original set was was we had a $400,000 Grant from the DCA for a small communities grant that was that was fun
part of that that's so we had some money left over out of that Grant so we're using the rest of the funds for that in addition to our match to pay for that great and just uh comment on that that that that
400,000 really has been a Gods Center for some people I mean obviously the the existing Beach Walk that everybody knows but it was also a dozen wheelchairs the beach wheelchairs it was uh Mount Vernon uh ramp which anybody in Kate Manny
knows it's a really neat uh spot that go check out and take a look at the new Ram that they put in they Public Works did the work but did a really nice job with material matal paid for through the DCA um and then this last batch of of of the mats will now go to Madison Avenue where
under that original uh Grant thank you 142 uh Mr Costello's uh report on the budget reconciliation will will he be preparing a written report that will be available
to the public before the budget is approved I don't think a written report but he will be here at C uh at Council for the presentation of the budget but will he give a report on on his findings in the reconciliation of
the of the audit yeah um I don't know when that's typically done not that's not what this is this is a resolution to use his Services correct if you could explain it better than me to finish up the bank
reconciliations before we had the final the budget but it's not a written report's not needed all right uh and 143 could that could you explain a little bit more detail on that please so that's the um resolution
regarding the uh outside Duty services so right now the um the the scheduling for outside Duty services in other words when South Jersey Gas needs to do a road CLE closure and we have to
assign off-duty officers to that Duty uh and then obviously back charge that officer's charge to the contractor that process of scheduling billing is all done
internally uh this service will essentially take that and and provide that that service will be outsourced and then the cost for that service will be charged back to the contractor so that way it's becomes more seamless and and effective and efficient and less costly
for the city to do it thank you and 151 and 152 I believe these are loan applications for future projects loan but they're probably uh because of the the city's entitled to I think $2 to3
million of principal forgiveness so it is a loan but it's a principal forgiven principal Forgiveness Loan so it's essentially a grant and there's two buckets of money that we're eligible for so it is for future projects yes have you determined what where
you're going to do those projects yes I don't have the the total list okay I think it's I mean part of the list was announced last year it's a series of roads I think it includes Illinois Washington Texas uh and I forget the other there's
two others any any uh ideas to actually how much taxpayers money is going to be needed for those those projects we anticipate there's not going to be a significant amount because of the amount of principal forgiveness that will be eligible but we won't know that final
amount until once the the D processes that and then they they give us the answer at the end of the program it's not a set it's kind of like when we apply for New Jersey Department of Transportation Grant we apply for X they give us y
and that's a totally a you know it's kind of in the same situation we don't know that final amount but we know we're eligible for 2 million in each of those Grant funds so it's at least $4 million worth that we're eligible it also gives us eligibility to get reimbursement for
the uh engineering soft costs for the project great thank you thank you Mr Rous any anyone else this evening on resolutions seeing none we can close public comment on resolutions this
evening um on to the consent agenda yes council is there anything you'd like to remove from the consent agenda this evening anything Council if I could have 141 pulled M anything else Council okay do I have a
motion I'll make the motion do I have a second a second roll call council member Meyer yes Deputy Mayor mcde yes council member Bodner on the consent agenda I abstain on the minutes
and vote Yes on the resolutions council member Baldwin yes mayor mullik yes do I have a motion on 14104 2025 I'll make a motion do I have a second I'll second questions or comments
yes um deputy mayor uh McDade and I looked at this um with uh Casey rigan and um just wanted to say that there were actually two bids that we've received and I wanted to make sure that that was clear on this so I'd like to
amend this um saying that we are rejecting two bids where currently it says one bid um there were substantial and and what it says in the um third whereas the bid specifications um we need to look at revising that for this and we'll do that
at a future date but I want to make sure that the resolution is clear that there were two bids that were received city manager cister you're okay with that yeah I mean the title had said rejecting all bids so I I believe the intent was that I just wanted to clarify
that as far as far as the contractors that are y okay so you want to make a motion to amend to uh the number one to to two yes I have a motion do I have a second I'll second roll call on the amendment council member member Meer yes
Deputy Mayor McDade yes council member Bodner yes council member Baldwin yes mayor mik yes do I have a motion on the amended resolution I'll make a motion do I have a second I'll second any questions or comments on the amended resolution roll
call council member Meyer yes Deputy Mayor MCD yes council member Bodner yes council member Baldwin yes mayor mullik yes okay new business city solicitor any new business nothing tonight mayor thank you
city manager um I just would like to uh make sure everybody's aware uh we've kind of set our summer concert series I think the full series of concerts is is out there so make sure that you take a look at that list out there I think we've uh added some good
uh artists for this year and um take a look at that and uh obviously with April coming up we have uh several events this month so make sure to check out our social calendar we have I know Erin's got a a whole Levy of
things list we got a yeah this is you know this I'll say April kind of starts a lot of the season of of events and um April is we have several events coming up I but I really just wanted to highlight the summer concert series and make sure people are aware that and get
your tickets now because there's some there's some acts that will most likely be sold out by the time we we hit summertime so make sure you if you're looking to go to them might want to look at getting your tickets now there's actually a concert in a couple weeks first one's on April 14th yes Richard
Thompson get your tickets he's a great artist yeah that's fun okay uh city clerk sounds like you might have a few an I have a few absolutely um city manager already took care of the summer concert series so um this Saturday April
5th we have the blessing of the water uh blessing of The Waters at at the fisherman's Memorial at 10:21 Baltimore Avenue at 11:00 a.m. we have a Citywide job fair that I mentioned before on Wednesday May 7th at
400 p.m at convention hall so if please come if you're looking for a job bring your uh resume be prepared to interview on the spot and if you're interested in being a vendor please reach out to the convention hall staff we have the Easter egg hunt on
Saturday April 19th at 11:00 a.m. on the beach outside of the convention hall no rain dates so come prepared the Easter money only comes once there you go and then we have the
Easter fashion stroll Sunday April 20th at 1 p.m. in Rotary Park uh registration begins at noon there's various categories to sign up for I don't think you need to sign up in advance but that's not on the flyer so I
will get some more information by the next meeting on the fashion stroll so dress up and that is it for now great thank thank you uh city clerk city council members uh C council member Baldwin nothing tonight thank you mayor
okay uh who do we have next M uh councilman Bodner nothing tonight thank you okay Deputy Mayor no nothing tonight mayor thank you very much councilman Meyer no thank you go ahead Mr rggs Mayor if I could
just add um one the one of the resolutions next week will start local government week so stay tuned for uh on the social media page we'll be announcing several events um so just stay tuned and we'll have some more announcements on it but thank you for
everyone for participating in that that's great and and that includes the first uh Walkin talk on the promin out on Wednesday 130 at promot walking Che gum try Okay uh and I
just I'll just quickly uh went to a couple of the singer songwriter events and that was just neat cool to see Town back um it was busy this weekend if anybody got around a little bit um but it was neat to see all the different artists I think there was something
close to like 50 different artists um playing all around town so um that was really really interesting um the um I want to thank Paul and the water department um we had an issue at the um at the diesel at the water plant it was
a a leak that could happen at any plant but it was a pretty significant leak and uh they got it back up and running very quickly but um there was a couple tense moments our city manager did a really nice job but uh uh really especially one
of thank um I know Brian Heron was one of the initial folks trying to fix a um blown out um gasket gasket while the water is coming at you is uh is a
difficult task but they did it and did a really nice job and to Rob Kaminsky and his whole staff uh they did excellent job and and uh you didn't have to hear anything about it because they did their job so all all good um and uh I also uh
Chief fashaw will be giving us an update in couple weeks I think on the uh camera system that that's is it finished or is is there some little things still being done Chief do you want to give us a quick update I don't want to don't don't
ruin your uh presentation but no thank you uh obviously we have been working this for over a year now um we have um a multitude of cameras that we decided to put in um with council's help uh last uh last year um the boardwalk phase is one of the last phases we're working with
the re you're repaving the boardwalk so kind of got to put that one on the back burner for a minute we have lifeguard headquarters up we have several cameras along the boardwalk that are set up um the mall is completely done um that's up and running we can we're going to demo that on the 20th I believe May 20th correct Aaron um kanana Park was done
and we're working on both Bridges coming into town that we're going to be putting cameras on both Bridges coming into town so um all the cameras that are up and running um high quality 4K quality they're they're decent to look at um once you put them all up you're like wow that's a lot of cameras the in locations
there is actually One camera head with four lenses in it so it kind of quads and gives you that 360 view um we can adjust them we can put different things into it but we'll give you a full display on the 20th of of May and have the company here from gridlist to uh to present that to you in a real quick
presentation Chief are you planning on uh adding them into Lafayette Street Park as we go through the phase is there or anything on the nature trails or that's the big one so that's that's the add- on this year so we'll have definitely have the budget for that next year um you know we do have rary actually I forgot one Rotary Park we have cameras several more cameras put in
Rotary Park which we utilize this weekend um but yes the the the natural trails and and that Park so that kind of a phase once I you know if we do the police department uh in the coming year we'll add those into that that location there and and make that uh very safe and sound the park definitely left that's
definitely going to be something there and one of the nice things about the system that you you know worked with and basically chose was it's expandable to it is yeah as far as we want like Haslet and Brick Township they have like 3,000 cameras on them it's it's huge and you know it's one platform is we were our
goal was to get the one platform because we have several in the Operation Center we have several cameras in there from different vendors I'm trying to merge them into one so we can give that to each department head and we can kind of have that um full scale of punching it up and it's a lot of AI technology in there you know we we I showed the
manager today just putting in Red Hat you you got every single Phillies hat on the boardwalk and walking around the mall this weekend um Ford truck you can you can be very specific with it um my staff was playing with it over the weekend putting old man in and one of our detectives came up so it was
fun and some other old guys in the city so we could play with it but it's very we have a lot of shoplifting on the mall and different things like that so that's the real goal of it um any abductions or anything like that you know to get to the it's it's a tool that we can use you know it's obviously something we're going to to learn how to work through but definitely an added um thing so
you'll see the the boxes on the mall they're not too obrus they're kind of there but they you'll notice them as you as you walk around I think I I get to see it in Action a little bit and I think people are just going to be blown away with the quality I mean put it out
there if you come especially the mall you're going to be caught I mean yeah we're that's you know that was pretty pretty much a start a few years ago and Justin had helped me out too actually pitching that to the mall um W city manager and you know they kind of needed some convincing of why but it was the we
do have some retail theft here and and you know I literally can punch in you know pink bathing suit and you know we can we can follow that bathing suit any camera that that person touches in the Kate City Kate May and K May Point has the same camera so you know if they go into K May point with a vehicle we can kind of load that into our system if a
vendor or a retail shop has a picture on their own surveillance camera they give that to the officer he uploads it into the system and it hunts it's called a hunt hunt for that that face and it's got AI technology we're there so we're definitely there so it's you know not as detailed as the governor but government
but it's detailed councilwoman Baldwin maybe we should invite uh the bid to that presentation for for the cameras that would be nice yeah that'll be the major part of it will be the mall um you know we have Liberty Liberty way and you know we'll expand on the mall to the back more so to the back side we have
the the the nooks of the mall represented there so we definitely can see that there's license plate readers you can you can as tags go by it's capturing tags uh for you know anything that goes wrong so definitely they would be welcome to come yeah but they've been aware all along um they've actually
funded part of this so yep perfect yes thank you all right thank you Chief with that we uh open it up to public comment anyone wishing to speak please come to the microphone state your name and address good evening Council good
evening um I'd like to bring up before you tonight I'm sorry Peter could you state your name and address for us please yes Peter Cole president of the taxpayers association of Cape May and I'm speaking here tonight on behalf the
taxpayers um at the end of 20 three you were talking about the recyclables business uh what the city should be doing with residential and commercial pickup and at the beginning of 2024 I stood here in January or February
and said that i' give you a heads up that we we will the taxpayers will be discussing the subject more well here we are now in 2025 and um we've had several meetings
uh together at the TPA with you um mayor and uh city manager uh at these meetings we've always um expressed our opinion that we would prefer that the city keeps out of uh commercial
pickup but however that the city now is continuing to pursue this agenda of a commercial pickup and I'm now going to give you a heads up because we are opposed to this this idea so I'm going to read um what none of our members have seen yet but
I'm going to read to you why we're opposed to it the taxpayers of Cape May oppose unfair recycling ordinance the taxpayers associated Association of Kate May believes that businesses and residents should be treated equally when it comes
to city services the new ordinance which is uh I gave you the number correct I think I did 5 5 the new ordinance set for a vote on Tuesday April the 15th would allow the city to collect up to
4996 gallon recycling containers from businesses but only one 96 gallon container from residents currently the city does not provide recycling pickup for businesses this proposed ordinance would
change that by allowing businesses to receive up to four times the service residents receive we firmly believe residents should not bear the cost of business operations we strongly oppose this change and urge
support for a uniform policy of one96 gallon container per taxpaying address per week whether residential or commercial why this ordinance is unfair both businesses and residents pay
taxes businesses should not receive additional services at the expense of resid ents trash and recycling collection are business expenses that should be covered by business profits not subsidized by taxpayers more trucks mean more workers
leading to increased City payrolls pay payroll costs trash collection is the number one cause of workers compensation claims expanding Services increases injury risks and costs city services should be equal for
all taxpayers regardless of the amount they pay in taxes we urge all taxpayers to attend the meeting on the 15th and oppose this ordinance let's ensure fair and equal services for everyone I therefore urge that perhaps
this gives you time because it's not until the 15th of your meeting that maybe would consider tabling the ordinance or making an amendment to it that's uh in line with our recommendations thank you very much
thank you very much Peter and whether we agree or not I I just want to say we appreciate your cander and uh you're never trying to surprise us with something we and I think that matters because it does give us time to discuss these things and and I appreciate that
and you said in the beginning that you have invited uh city manager Dietrich myself to meetings and and I appreciate that always been on the up and up which is which is important so I appreciate that and uh I guess we'll have to see
what happens at the second reading but uh no matter what I appreciate your your I'll give you a copy of of this before you leave tonight thank you bedtime reading for you perfect a dream about
recycling any anyone else would like to speak this evening Mr Rous Jules Rous 1010 New York Avenue um as you know I'm a member of the TPA however uh these comments are relative to my to my own position however I do
support what the TPA has said um the issue the issue of recycling collection is is very important and and it has major financial and operational details that must be described for city council and the public to understand the
number of 96 gallons containers uh are are an issue but but what we really what we really need to know are as follows one who will determine who requires the actual number of cans and
are they supplied by the city where will the cans be stored or located and where will they be placed for collection how will the collection scheduling of onetime pickup be arranged based on various amounts and types of
collectible materials and number of locations in given in a given area who will determine when a specific location uh must arrange for their own private collection and this is is this a
permanent command notice or is it appealable has there been a study to make a determination of how many individual addresses will receive service and estimated amounts of material and general dates of service did the city communicate with the local
private collection companies and discuss this issue and ask if they had any interest in collecting the city's materials and consider proposals we must remember the ordinance as proposed will create competition with private
Enterprise the devil is always in the details and they must be addressed as completely as possible and has this been done and discussed with the director of Public Works in any written format in my opinion city council is not
in a position to move forward on this recycling uh ordinance without a Financial finance a without a financial performa there's been numerous articles and public comments made about all the changes that the Public Works will need
to complete to provide a city-wide collection program additional employees for collection and administration and equipment or essential uh alternate plans to handle equipment repairs and
breakdowns uh that's that's a significant issue as a matter of fact increased risk for accidents and injuries are always an issue assigning a budget amount can only be achieved with these details being known and addressed
we all want to see a successful conclusion to this difficult issue and the city council's finary obligation will be tested it is unreasonable if not improper to adopt an ordinance that is not fully understood and the financial
implications and commitments set forth I suggest city council pass a motion to table the ordinance step back and devote this year the 2025 to develop a solution to this to the issue we have had a successful ordinance for over 35 years
and it is still valid whereby the city collects only residential recycl one time per week and commercial was contract privately no question times have changed but the proposed ordinance is arbitrary and lacks substance thank
you thank you Mr rash any other questions or comments tonight seeing none do I have a motion to adjourn thank you I have a wonderful evening everyone thank you time is 6:13
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