Good afternoon. We have a special meeting of the city council of the city of Cape May. We are here in the Cape May city hall auditorium. Today is Thursday, June 26th, 2025. Now is the excuse me the time is now two uh 5 minutes past 2 p.m. Please join me
for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you. Under the open public meetings law, notice of this meeting was sent to the Kate May County Herald and the press of Atlantic City and a copy of the agenda was delivered to each member of city council, posted on the city website and the city hall bulletin board. Notice hereby provided that Kate May city council meetings are audio recorded and
or video streamed live. Live video streams are posted to the Kate May city website. City of Kate May is not responsible if audio recording or live video streaming of a meeting is unavailable. Roll call. Council member Baldwin. Baldwin. Okay. Yep. Here.
Both names are so close. Having you two next to each other is very difficult for me. I with all of us all here. Council member Bodner here. Deputy Mayor McDade here. Council member Meyer is absent.
Mayor Mullik here. City solicitor Gillan Schwarz here. City Manager Dietrich here. Deputy Manager Riggs here. And deputy clerk Turner here. Any additions or deletions? Council. Seeing none, we have an ordinance for second reading and consideration for
adoption. It's uh 567-2025, a bond ordinance providing for various water sewer utility improvements by and in the city of Kate May, County of Kate May, state of New Jersey, appropriating 8.7 uh million dollars, therefore, and authorizing the issuance of $8,750,000
bonds or notes of the city to finance the costs of thereof. with a public hearing tonight. Mayor, is anyone here wishing to speak on ordinance 567? Seeing none, we can clo close public
comment. Do I have an motion? I'll make a motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. Can I for please for quick comment, please? Um, obviously this ordinance and the resolution that follows are connected. Um the bond is
for 8.75 $ 8.75 million. The bid is was well under our expected. Um so all of the bid is under the principal forgiveness. So there will almost be no city cost for
this project. Um, we may even be able to I know Mark has to do some more research with um the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank, but we may be able to increase some of the scope of the project through a change order and get a little bit closer to $7 million, which is the total
amount that we can do through principal forgiveness and um maybe get a maybe another half a street done or something like that. But I just wanted to, you know, where before there was going to be a portion of this bond that was going to have to be repaid by the city, you know, besides our administrative
costs, um all of this bond will be covered under principal forgiveness by the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank once we do all the final closings and wrap everything up with no with no out expense from the city at all. Not for the capital cost. There may obviously there's some
administrative costs that we that we can't recoup through the process, but even the construction inspection portion, most of the design work for the project is all covered under the um principal forgiveness portion of this project. Okay. All right. That's good news. Thank you.
That's great. And just I I think you basically said this, but just to be clear, it's principal forgiveness. Therefore, we have to bond for the project to do it and then that is forgiven. Correct. Yeah. We we go out and we put the money out, start the bond
process and do that process and then as the bond payments come due, they're forgiven uh as as we move forward with their project. We just essentially don't have to pay the payment for the bond. It's covered by this New Jersey Infrastructure Bank. Mayor, could I Yes,
please just make it I I really want to thank everybody because this is something that I know I was a little cautious about at first. Um, but then when the the emails came through and it was going to be $7 million, it was just amazing. I want to thank the Delasio um
engineering Mark Delasio and then all of our administrative team for putting this together quickly. But no, it's it's a great thing for the city. Yeah, great job. Yeah, thank you, Mark. And I do appreciate there a lot of city staff,
our bond council jumped through a lot of hoops over this last month to uh make this happen. But, you know, when we saw an opportunity to have up to $7 million of a project at no cost to the city taxpayers, we felt that we needed to jump through as many hoops as we needed.
And thank you, council, for coming in on a special meeting to get us encumbered before the uh end of June. Thank you. We've been fortunate enough to get um some pretty big grants and some nice grants, but 7 million is probably one of
the bigger. So, it's really big stuff. So, thank you very much. Uh with that, any questions or comments on ordinance 567. Council, we have a motion and a second. Roll call. Deputy Mayor McDade. Yes. Council member Bodner, yes. Council
member Baldwin, yes. Mayor Malik, yes. Next we have resolution 222-062025, a resolution awarding contract for fiscal year 2025, New Jersey water bank uh projects for sanitary sewer and water system improvements. Do I have a motion?
I'll make the motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. Can I just a quick Yeah. Go ahead. So, this is the awarding of the contract uh for the for the uh work. Um, the bidding on this project was, if you looked at the bid summary,
very, very competitive bids. Um, when we were opening up, I think there were five biders, all within 70, $80,000 of each other on a $6 million project. That is very tight bidding. And I think, you
know, not only are we covered by this, but we're getting a very economically constructed project. Um, I don't believe this contractor's worked for the city before, but we're familiar with the the contractor and their subcontractors, and we feel confident that we'll have a good
job at the end of the day. Great. Any questions or comments, council? Do I have a motion? Do we have a motion? We do. We do have a motion. Okay. Any other questions or comments, council? Roll call. Deputy Mayor McDade. Yes. Council member Bodner, yes. Council
member Baldwin, yes. Yes. Mayor Mullik. Yes. And any new business or comments? Council, any new business council? City solicitor. City manager. I think I Okay. Said enough. Yeah. I think just to
take the one opportunity real quick is we had the presentation at the last meeting from a gentleman in regards to the uh safety of umbrellas. anybody who saw the Asbury Park this past week, a lifeguard uh had was impaled by an
umbrella. So, we just take this moment to to and to um remind everybody, keep those things um restrained and anchored. And uh and also just say thank you to uh Lorraine and the um P and the um uh
beach safety committee put on a really nice um um you know, gathering. Yeah. at headquarters at headquarters and um so some really good stuff there but stay safe and there's a lot of traffic out there as well so and stay uh cool. Yes.
Anything else? We do have a public portion portion. However, anyone wishing to speak before we close? Seeing none, we can close public comment. Anything else? Council, that's it. Thank you. Have a wonderful day everybody. Thank you.
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