I'd like to call this meeting to order. Please rise for the flag salute. >> I pledge allegiance 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. and roll call of attendance. here. >> Here >> this meeting this evening on March 23rd, 2026 is being held in compliance with the open public meetings act and notices
of this meeting have been provided to the press of Atlantic City, the daily journal on November 12th, 2025 as well as been posted on the bulletin board here at Burough Hall and the website at buun.go.
gov. The first order of business this evening is I have resolution number 44-26. This is a resolution of the Burough Buna accepting the retirement of deputy clerk Pamela Johnston effective July 1st, 2026
with regrets. >> Motion motion. Paru second Alvarez. Again, uh Pamela has been an employee here with the burough for 25 years. Uh she served in several capacities uh
during her tenure and uh we wish her nothing but the best in her retirement now in the future years. Roll call vote. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> I just have a couple items to report
this evening. Um the first one is regarding federal funding applications for Bruno Molini Park athletic lighting and pools. This is over and beyond the $100,000 we received last year from the state and it's also going to be over and
beyond the green acres application for 700,000 that we have on file with the state. I read as the follow as follows. The burough has submitted congressionally district spending CDS applications to the offices of Senator
Andy Kim and Senator Corey Booker seeking $976,000 of funding to replace the hazardous and deteriorating athletic field lighting and poles at Bruno Malini Park. This project addresses a known public safety
concern as the existing wooden lights are aging, unstable, and no longer meet current standards for safe evening use. Replacement of these infrastructure is necessary in order to restore full and safe operation of the burough's primary
recre recreational facility and to reduce ongoing liability exposure. The project has completed pre preliminary engineering and environmental review and is fully prepared to proceed to move forward upon this award. Once funded,
the burr anticipates a construction timeline of approximately 6 months. The applications were submitted under the state senate appropriation subcommittee on transportation, housing and urban development through
the economic development initiatives program. The project serves as a state designated overburden community and provides direct benefit to low and moderate income residents including the nearby public housing and senior populations.
Again, as I mentioned before, we're on the docket also for consideration of a $700,000 grant. That grant will be 350,000 to the bureau directly and another 350,000 in a low interest uh
payment for 20 years with the state of New Jersey. So, we're hopeful that again, we're put we're banking on everything right now. any excess money if these all come to fruition, I'm sure we can do an appeal and ask for um cuz
the the park needs an upgrade in general. So, we're hoping that if we do get awarded uh all three areas that we can use the money and other soft spots, which we do have in the park. Uh lastly,
I just received this letter this afternoon and I just wanted to make council aware of it. Uh that I was contacted by a command Scott, a senior aid from Governor Mickey Sher's Office of Environmental Affairs. She says,
"Mayor, I'm reaching out because I'm looking to have a countywide meeting with the mayors to hear from each of you about the issues your municipalities may be facing and look for the areas in which our office can work with your town. You have Atlantic County's mayor
association. So, please keep in mind to get me on that docket so we can meet with the Atlantic County's mayor's association all at one time if possible." So, this is good news for us in preparation. I will go back and send council anything that you'd like for me
to bring to the table once this meeting is being scheduled. But here again, uh I I welcome this because, you know, if somebody's interested in, you know, concerned with our problems within the state government, uh we surely can use a
hand here and there. So, I thought I would bring that up to the public and mayor and council. So that concludes my report this evening. So at this time we have public comment opportunity for anyone from the public with a limit of five minutes to speak first. Please
refer to the following statement below on your agenda that you have with you. So at this time I need a motion to open the public hearing. >> Motion require second and roll call vote. >> Yes.
>> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> At this time, anyone wishing to address the mayor and council, please step forward and state your name for the record. >> Okay, seeing none, need a motion to close the public hearing. >> Motion Barcy, secondur
roll call vote. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. Next, we'll go to the consent agenda. The consent agenda includes items of business which are not controversial and do not require individual discussion. A motion
approving the consent agenda is moved, seconded, and voted upon one item at a time by the council. If any discussion is requested on consent agit to be removed from the consent agenda to the regular agenda. So now we'll go to
resolutions number 45-26. This is a resolution rescending resolution 38-26 authorizing the Aubry Group LLC to prepare and submit a congressionally directed spending request on behalf of the Burough Buna. Second, we have
resolution 46-26. This is a resolution appointing Angel Collelexo Gomez to the permanent position of supervising emergency medical technician for the Burough Buda effective March 23rd, 2026.
Next we have resolution number 47-26. This is a resolution fixing salaries for employees of the Burough Buuna for the year 2026. And lastly, I have resolution 48-26, a resolution to the Burough Buna awarding a contract to Delasian
Associates for engineering services for the fiscal year 2026 NJ dot municipal aid resurfacing of Atlantic Avenue and Janet Street and the amount not to exceed $30,000. Next, I have bills paid as listed
clerk's report minutes of the meeting of March 9th, 2026. >> Motion. Motion to Stepheno. >> Second. >> Second. Barceloya. >> Roll call vote. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes.
>> Yes. >> Yes. >> Next we'll go to committee reports this evening. We have recreation chairman Jibonazi. Um, I have a little thing here from the recreation commission hosted an Easter
breakfast with the Easter Bunny on Sunday followed by the burrow Easter egg hunt that afternoon. It was a beautiful day filled with smiles, laughter, and joy throughout the burrow. It was very well attended. I thought there was a lot of kids there and I thought they had a
really good time with it. Recreation like to extend it sincere thanks to Mayor Verufi and council members Andeluro Alvarez Dphano and Jibanazi for their help during the breakfast as well as success for the
residents of Uni Burough for making a success year after year. The recreation is also planning another production from the Broadway boot camp. Auditions will be June 17th. If you need to, you can follow it on
Facebook. I also have um the little league events. We have the parade. Opening day is Saturday, April 11th, 9:00 at JP Clearary School, followed by games that day. Uh pictures
will be Monday, April 27th and Tuesday, April 28th from 5 to 8 at the Louise Bazil Center. um pickle ball courts. Uh road supervisor Bill Neah is revealing quotes
for poles and netting. Work continues prior to the court being coded. Everything should be completed this spring. So, I'm hoping that we get the nets poles, get them all in, they
recote, they recode it, and everything will be done and we'll be in good, you know, it'll be everything will be done at one time. >> So, hoping that it doesn't turn into a disaster. Really get it all done at once
and be done with it. >> Right. >> Very good. Yes. Yes. >> Did you order them already? >> No. >> No, not yet. You have a company left already. >> They had to get quotes. Yeah. So now now they're uh >> we we need to uh
>> here's what's what I found out today. I worked very hard on it today. We got to order the pickle ball nets and and and poles now because what what we want to do is we want to get them in the ground.
>> Yeah. >> And have everything done before they recode it. Yeah, >> I'm working with a Joe um oropia. >> Yeah, Joe Monac. talked to him twice today and evidently
the people that are going to reco recote re put the coating down on the called him and wanted to see if we had anybody to install the poles and they I told Joe can you get a quote
from the guy this way here if we get all this stuff in he'll if his price is good he'll will redo. He'll he'll put them in, recode it, and if there's any problems, he's there to fix everything. So, I I
don't see it being a problem with, you know, him doing the work if his price I mean, he's not not out super outrageous, but I'm working on that. This is >> something that I worked on very hard today about trying to get this thing off the ground and get it going. And we
can't just have it coated and then look for nets and and poles, right? >> We need the poles and the nets before they recode it. So, we're on the time schedule right now. It's, you know what I mean? >> You're on it. So, >> so I'm hoping that we can get it all done and and be done with it all one
shot. >> Very good. Okay. Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Does that sound right, Pat? >> Yeah. Very good. >> All right. Anything else, Councilman? >> We good? He had to talk to Pat about grounds and she's in charge of that. So
>> I said Bill said he talked to you about grounds. >> Yeah, he did. >> He called me. >> So all right. Anything else, Councilman? >> No. I And I want to thank Bill Nina. He's doing a lot of help for me. I mean, he's doing a lot of work, ground work, too. So between the two of us, we're working hard. >> Good.
>> Very good. Thank you, Bill. >> Welcome back, Bill. >> Thank you. >> Are you back to work? >> Yeah. He never left. >> He never left. >> He never left. You got a note? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Uh, next we'll go to finance, tax
collection, and assessor. >> The only thing I have to report on is that we're going to have introduction on our first meeting of April for our budget. Uh, we're still hashing out a few little things. Um, so we want to make sure it's 100% clear before we
introduce. Okay, that's all. >> Thank you, George. Next we'll go to public safety and street lights. Council President Adams. Uh Buunboroough Fire Department. March's report. Fire alarm activations. They had five CO
alarm activations. They had one service assignment which was a tree true removal of the uh snow and wind and investigation one for investigation of smoke. They have been completing annual
compliance training this month month. Each year the department is required to ensure that all active firefighters have the following training. SCBA fit test, active CPR training, right to know, bloodborne pathogen and hazardous communication refresher. This annual
training is in addition to weekly drills the department holds uh internally to brush up on skills, communications, tactics, safety precautions, and so on. On March 11, the fire department hosted the Atlanta County Fire Chiefs Association monthly meeting at the
firehouse on Wheat Road. The association meetings rotate through fire departments in the county and the burrow has the opportunity to host the meeting once a year. If you're interested in learning more about becoming a volunteer firefighter in the Burough of Buuna or have a child ages 14 to 17 who was
interested in firefighting, please stop by any Monday evening between 7:00 and 8 to learn more about our volunteer and our junior firefighter programs. Okay, that's it for the fire department. for the police department
for February's for the month of February there was 837 calls 330 motor vehicle stops 258 uh vehicle tickets 12 arrest two DWIS thefts 13 motor vehicle crashes four
well-being checks 242 business checks six animal complaints medical assist 73 three, eight domestic calls, four thefts, and 27 burglar and fire alarms. Um,
and the chief always gives me a very detailed report. And the officer of the month is officer Reeel. He's currently assigned to the patrol division on squad B. Officer Reevil is a
model employee who comes to work with a positive attitude and outstanding work ethic. In February, he conducted 94 motor vehicle stops, issued 108 summones, made seven arrests, and handled six investigations. Officer Revel currently rides resides in
Buunboroough with his family. Thank you. Congratulations. And uh the only other thing I have uh I don't have an animal control report for this month, but we've had several calls for stray cats
again. And because this is a televised meeting and I want to advise all of council is that we are not a trap and release community and we are not a trap and
release cat colony community which means that we would allow trapped and released cats to run loose and run wild. Um, we had an incident over on Summer Avenue, Summer Road near Brewster, where
there was a cat that was taken away because the owner didn't know whose it was. It had kittens. The cat was taken away and um about 3 months later it showed back up at the lady's house with its ear
clipped which means it went to a vet. It got spayed or neutered and it got vaccined and someone released it back in to the wild. So I just want to say that that's one of the issues we're working out. I did
contact the um Atlanta County Pound or shelter to ask what their rules are about this and they do not do that. And I also talked to the owner of our animal control company and reassured me that
they are not doing it either. So I didn't get to the bottom of how it happened, but it's just a reminder that it's not supposed to happen. Some municipalities encourage cats running wild, but we don't.
That's all I have. >> Okay. Thank you. Next, we'll go to planning zoning inspections. Councilwoman Baroya. >> Um, well, I would like to welcome back Jim Sorrow. He is back. He is actively working and working on the properties
that we're still working on with Mr. Campbell. >> Okay. >> So, he and um Mr. camel met on the 1st of March just to get updated on everything. Um other than that, uh work continues at the cannabis facility that's getting roughed out and electric
and um fire extinguishers are being added as we speak. And I found out the crane company is moving out. So that's the only thing that I have to add. >> They're moving out. Okay. >> So we have more moving in there. Um I do have quotes uh Bachum to add to your
report. I'm waiting for BSN to update for the net. So that way you have more things to choose from from what you're working on. So just so you know, other than that, that concludes my report. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Very good. Buildings, grounds, and improvements. Councilwoman.
>> Okay, mayor. Um, we're having the generator generator tests will be done on Tuesday. Bar Hall, EMS, and the fire department. So, we'll I'll probably have a report back the next meeting. Quotes for trees by the bathroom in the park
will be received shortly. Emergency evacuation route papers have been posted at the Louise Brazil Center. Um there, in fact, the road department um started working on a sink faucets in
the kitchen um to be repaired or replaced if necessary. Thank you. Well, and it's department for all of this really. Paperwork for DNR landscaping will be picked Tuesday for the uh buildings and grounds. We start
um the um fertilizer put on the um properties and uh what else? The cleaning is being done at Burough Hall every day and uh a couple of the road department guys
offered to come in and um strip the course before we hire somebody an outside contractor. Right, Bill? >> Yes. And they're willing to come in a weekend >> and do it stripped and waxed. act and I talked about that maybe we should do
something with the senior centered before the forest are in a position where they can't fix it. >> Yeah, they're they're pretty bad. >> They're very bad. We're working on that Brazil. We're going to do the barrel hall first. >> Okay. See how it goes. And then you're it's your call,
>> Pat. When did they turn the water on in the park? >> Well, we're still having cold weather. >> That's why. Right. We talked about it. We wanted >> the end of this week. this week. >> I believe we need it on soon. >> The bathrooms on.
>> Yeah, I would say >> the pavilion. >> Let's get that. >> They could have used it, but um weather's going to be cold again. >> Yeah, isn't it? >> But we should be fine. It's not going to be that cold. >> But I mean, April 11th, opening day, we definitely have to have order on.
>> I put in program that we're probably going to open them up this before the end of this week. >> That's good. Yeah, I like to I think it should >> cuz little league asked me about >> Yeah, they're going to need water and the bathroom. >> Yeah, that's fine
>> because we can use >> but yeah, the water will be on. >> Good. >> That's it, Mayor. >> All right. Thank you, Pat. >> Next, we'll go to roads and recycling. Councilman Dphano. >> Thank you, Mayor. a boulevard mainly around where their
railroad tracks were at at one time crossing the road. The surface is breaking apart. Phil's going to contact our engineer and evaluate the situation. Pothole potholes are being filled.
Basin at the entrance to this senior complex has been repaired. One more basin was noted to be repaired. uh branch and leaf bins were emptied and the toll of that material
will be going towards the tonnage grant. Bill's going to be attending the uh ACUA meeting pertaining to the community and our upcoming tonnage grant for the landfill testing will be
received by Wednesday, March 25th. Cal State contractors have been cleaning up their debris and their equipment. Roads to be paved this year is West Avenue, Atlantic Avenue, and East Summer Road.
Information signs were installed on Corey Avenue. New Kennedy Drive signs were ordered and will be put up. And now some branch uh collections have started, but they're going to stop now to finish the park for
opening day. And that's all I have. Okay. Thank you, council member. Any unfinished business to come before mayor council? Any new business to come before mayor and councel? Hearing none, the next meeting will be
April 13th, 2026 at 6:30. Motion to adjurnn. >> Motion Bar second. Andoro. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Good night everyone. Thank you for coming. >> This has been a QVC television production in association with our
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