Gosh, they were like bought out just like we stand and salute the flag. >> Yeah, to the flag of America
for it stands nation ally and justice for all. I'd like to call the February 12th, 2026 Acarbor City Council meeting to order. Compliance with the open public meetings act of the state of New Jersey. Adequate
notice of this meeting of common council was provided in the following map. Advanced written notice was posted on the aarbor city bulletin board. Advanced written notice was posted in the aarbor city website. and notice sent to the Hamilton and the
Atlantic City Press. It's also being filmed on our YouTube chat. So, uh, roll call, please. >> Mayor Jim Petty >> here. >> Doy >> here. >> Galloway >> here.
>> Heist will not be here tonight. Hessie >> here. >> Kenir here. >> Ortiz here. >> Sen here. Timbers >> right >> here. >> Yeah, we're going to skip number four for a minute
>> and go to number five. Approve the minutes of January 22nd, 2026. >> Make a motion. >> Second. >> Motion made in second. All in favor? >> Opposed? >> Motion approved. Here we have the mayor's presentation
number six recognizing Cedar Creek High School football team cheerleaders and coaches for winning the 2025 2026 group three state championship. Yes. >> Hi everyone.
Nice to see everybody. Long overdue. I would like to call up if I could. Can we get them in the picture? She's gonna >> That's perfect. >> Okay. They're a pretty good team and we're
very proud of them since the getgo. They've been so awesome and they so much to our community. Okay. football began in 2010 2011 school year junior varsity slowly
in the 2011 12 school year the first year of varsity football independent schedule um then in 2012 the 2013 school year with all the student which I present. I enter Atlanta throughout the years. I
have won a number of titles and championships as followed. 2013 silver Atlantic league conference champions 2015 16 NJA South Jersey group 2 and Kate May
Atlantic national championship 2016 anthology champions 2019 NJA Jit 412 and J83
South Championship to this school year champions. Everybody has one. And that'll bring us to the proclamation. >> Joe, you're like, "Hurry up. enjoying this. >> This is a big deal.
So after this certific this one cheerleaders and football players and we'll get a nice picture for the paper and free the sed retired football team has been
to be recorded with in Atlanta this year 25.6 at the West Division Championship with the record of 12 and then going on
to compete for the state title state. Whereas statistically the record of varsity team they were in school was 3316 the playoff record of and whereas on their road to the
championship with the motto no doubt brain in the hearts and minds they went on to win NJ3 mainland 3428 South central finishing our incredible season by being
active on November 25 and whereas several recognizable junior City player of the year freshman dedicated head coach Jelly assistant
coaches coaches of the board Jameson also athletic director that's Superintendent James, principal Scott Parker, athletic secretary Maria Israise.
Bomber cheering coaches and Creek. Each one mentioned above deserves recognation for their true contributions and
unwavering this year. Whereas residents of Parker City Council members and I are very proud of our pirates. You have left no doubt that you now
commemorate his prestigious victory. Mayor Daymber 28 day. >> So that we'll get you guys All right, we'll go with the football players first.
>> And I realize some of these are not here, but I'll let the car know who is the cheerleaders. So when you get your stand >> you want to stand behind us.
>> I mean maybe they >> all right. Uh, first I want to say thank you guys to everyone. Um, I've probably said it time and time again, but um, you know, what this community has done for all of us uh, has been incredible throughout the whole ride. It was
awesome because we were able to play uh, three home playoff games. We were obviously able to win a sectional championship in a part city and I thought that was important and you know I I I talked about it um, after we won at Metife. Um, what we did here as a community is is so uncommon. Um but the
support that you guys have given us um throughout, you know, not just this year, but in years prior and and and what we've built in this in this town has been incredible. So I I can't I can't thank you guys enough uh for all the support. Um those two standing over
there uh are are special. That's that's French von right there. That was our quarterback. Um he was the AC Press player of the year. Um he was Cedar Creek's all-time leader in in interceptions. He had 13. He broke a school record. Um but he played
incredible all year on both sides of the ball. Um I've said it. Um I think that his playoff run was the most historic playoff run you're going to see in in a very long time. So it was it was great to have him. Nasimir Dumbar, um who was Cedar Creek's alltime league rusher. Um
so he he He broke every single uh Cedar Creek rushing record that there is sign season three career. It doesn't matter what it is. Both of them will be going to school for three next year on division one scholarships. Junior's going to Stony Brook. Amir is going to University of Maine. So those are two
starting guard. Zach has over a 100% GPA in school. So he's going to have his picking of where he wants to go to school and and do what he wants to do. But he had an unbelievable career. Jason Mansfield right here. He was a freshman who actually started in the state championship game this past year as fullback for us. Um, so he has a great
career ahead of us and Elias Black right here started all 14 games for us. Was actually the Cape Atlantic League unsung player of the year. So he's another one who has a couple division one scholarships on hand. Um, and I'm I'm excited about them for the future. But yeah, there's so many kids obviously I could talk about. I'm not going to take
up too much time right now. I I again I'm so grateful um for everything that this school has given me, for everything that this town has given me, and I can't thank you guys enough, and I can't thank everyone here enough. Thank you guys. >> And then if you guys can stay there,
Thanks for listening. >> I did. Why don't you have him line up and stand behind us? right here. >> Anybody else have Wait, don't do it yet. >> I'm looking for I think Lisa, you looking for this?
>> I think so. >> I think this way. really trying to see the show right here. All right. Yes.
Wait, you got to go. >> I got want me to move. So be careful, right? So cheerleaders are a big part of that and I recognize that
part of the team as far as I'm going to be. So the cheerleaders I'll just read them all the picture. >> All right. So I know I know there
Brianna Daniels Emily But I know Joe Single Madison, Madison Riches, Walker,
>> Brian Leech, All of our target uh unfortunately we our exterior coaches couldn't be here tonight, but coach the football team. They're there. They work hard all year long. They start all
the way back in July and they are there every day bringing great energy, bringing great enthusiasm, representing the best of Cedar Creek. Um, and I'm so glad that you were able to make it out tonight to to be a part of this moment and uh then to be able to share in the
experience was great. And um, just on behalf of Cedar Creek, I want to say thank you to Mayor J. Petty, to the city committee for all your support, everything you've done for us over the years. Uh, Chief Alvin, thank you for everything you've done for us over the
years. Um, this was a really special year, but without the support of the community, uh, it just it doesn't feel the same. So, that's one of the things that makes Cedar Creek so special is that, uh, we all feel like we're a part of this journey together. So, I do want
to we did have our we have our our Philly AB thing that we do here and we just got lucky today that we were able to tie our newest Philly AB here into uh, this special event for tonight. So, I want to feed that to Mayor Dean Patty. She's she's our biggest supporter, our
biggest fan. Um, and and as it all came together, our newest Billy app shirt is dedicated to our hopefully didn't get wet. I don't know. >> We had an issue. We had an >> framed
probably put it in here. It's a good score and it's reflective of how much it means to to us to be able to reflect um our community and represent all of them. So, thank you for that privilege and uh look forward to giving it away.
>> Say I'm happy because Philadelphia Avenue is the inspiration for Cedar Creek football and all the sports all together. So, who would have ever thought that could happen? But it is I think we're not
>> Yes. >> Are you hold this way? >> That looks good. Everybody else behind the council bring the boys in the cheerleaders behind the
What's that? All right, ladies and gentlemen inside Scott and inside. looking this way. Good job. >> Get rid of your water bottles. Wait bottle shot.
>> Okay. Okay. Too bad here. Okay, we're going to number seven. It's a public meeting, a public information session. Atlantic County Department of Regional Planning and Development and
they will present on the upcoming federally funded Philadelphia Avenue talking about Philly AB uh roadway improvement project. And that's if this major major work we can move it
>> and introduce John Mustow from the planning >> Jerry we might they may need to plans out >> Doug Deoug um with me today I have John Mio he's a sisters county engineer and he oversees our highway Um today we're going to be going over
Philadelphia Avenue which is a fally funded project stated uh part of the process with the fally funded projects is we have to um take care of the NEO process which is the national environmental protection
act and that includes public information and uh getting comments from the public. So I will turn this over to John since he is much more
than I am. Thank you. Thank you and thank you for hosting this meeting. Special thanks to those large hands. This is also on our website. Um and I have some handouts back there. After
this meeting, we'll have a 15day public content meeting. We can send any comments to them and we look up the cards too. But as Sto said, the project is federally funded. These will be allowed here as well. It's the same plans that are on the list.
We are leaning on County Route 563. It's also known as as a barber green bank road originally from White Horse Pike, US Route 30 to just west of the lake pretty much right in the middle of the
entrance. There are other projects, two other projects out there. There's one that's going to be replaced the bridge and the dam there at the lake and also doing that portion of road separatist and also the city has been um
designed for a bike project which we're trying to accommodate to the maximum set um within the business district. Uh we are it's a concrete road under there originally from loop 30 in Ham Street
show. So that portion we're just going to build to pave through the surface course. We're also going to upgrade all the handicap ramps that don't comply any longer. Um from Liverpool out to the lake we're going to redesign the road
profile cross section it improve it. replace the the base of the surface force. The signal at Mos Mills Mill is probably about 80 years old. It's a span
wire. So, we're actually replace that with a shr. You still have to get it through with environmental pro. We likely will happen. We're replace it with a standard signal. We'll run through the turning radiuses because we noticed there's a
lot of buses cut behind the poles and whatnot. I assume with buses so improve that as much as we can. Um that's our intention as far as accommodating the bike lanes. Uh right now the particularly when you get east
of Mosill I haven't measured my myself but typically your lanes are usually 12 ft wide been told that they're like anywhere from 13 to 14t wide stripes one line or want to put back 11t travel
lanes it's a little bit more traffic and the minimum paving width is 30 ft so you'll have a excuse me have a 4ft shoulder out there. Where there's curb, we're going to kick some of that back. Don't put the curve at the intersection.
We're going to put in a 5ft shoulder to accommodate the bike lane project. And then most of the driveways, they're going to usually there's an inch and a half lift. We're going to put those flush.
The bike lane project does come through successfully. They're going to widen the road a little bit, but at the actual driveways, we want paving, solid pavement because they're proposing coarse pavement, which is something a little different.
So, that's pretty much it. Uh, we will be replacing any drainage within the town that's corrugated metal. Um, per pieces, we'll be bringing them up to standards. Typically we limit it to a 2 inch opening to keep pottles like that from going into the system
about it. We have we set up preliminary plans here. Uh the detour plan's not final. I haven't even looked at that. I honestly haven't looked at this too much. I've been directing them too long. Uh we do just so you know we do design
in house our runaways for now. So a lot and our designer for this is our head designer actually lived in a harbor city. The one that's actually been under him lives in Maze Landing. So you know we all you know our children go to the
schools around here. We use the lake. of we try to take put a personal touch to it as much as we can what allowed to do under federal money but is programmed for $3 million now that was programmed years
ago. So just so you know kind of the range of the project and that includes inspection as well. So, so when we get into something like that, we try to grab government money as much as we can. We
get probably two to three million a year federal funds. Probably six million state all design 20 years is mostly in housing in the SE world. So, we're proud of that.
>> John, what's the timeline? >> The timeline is um we'll probably get final. We got to go through our CD. So, part of that's this meeting. Uh we are could go through the whole time. Cut to the chase. We'll
probably look at it spring 2027 realistically. >> Um if everything fell in place, it would be fall 2026. It's fiscal year 2026 money, but there's the whole process of that get the money approved.
>> So, the last time we met with you guys, you had said the bridge would be started fall, correct? >> So, that's not going to happen now. >> Okay. >> We did get our uh finance approvals. >> Yes. Okay. >> Finally. >> Several years.
>> We feel your pain. Trust me. What are we going on? Nine years for the bike path, Jody. I mean I think it's eight. Yeah. >> So >> with that uh we do now we're cleaning up the plants and we still have to submit
it to BMC spillway which allows you guys to drain the lower lake without drain. Not sure how long that process is >> because dam safety kind of prioritizes
class one dance. This is a class two dam. So I'm not sure what that's going to entail. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> So one project I'm sorry. >> Yeah. >> One project doesn't affect the other. The road versus the bridge. No. It could
happen at the same time. >> Yeah. And the bridge project will be stage construction. So we'll actually have temporary traffic signals for alternating the track. >> But the road project does have to happen before the bike lane project.
>> And on the bridge you're going to do a a light a temporary light. >> Yeah. Right. For travel. >> I have a question for John. Go ahead. >> From the pipe to pan because that's our business district. Was there any um thought on the county side for paving it
at night or >> There has been thought of that. >> Um that certainly makes sense. >> Yeah. >> And that was actually brought up uh recently. Usually a traffic control is the last thing, but I mean
I'd like to hear from you guys is I mean would you rather it be done at night? >> Yes, >> I would think so. >> Yeah, I I would think so. Um, even though there's a good amount of residential, you know, above the stores, I think to to minimize the the the
impact to the businesses, I think doing it at night is probably the least that section. >> Yeah. At least that section. The rest of it I'm not too concerned about. >> Just business interruptions, but >> Oh, yeah. The school back and forth to school. >> So,
>> well, actually, Chief, I have a plan for you. We're going to do a couple cores in town coming up. I don't know if you've got wind that we tried to do it mid block as far away from pike as possible. We just want to find out how thick the asphalt is on top of it concrete
>> because it's a different type of milling operation. Use different type of teeth. that should be happening at the next level or subcontract. >> Going back to timeline, how long is this
whole project? I know it's but any rough timeline. >> I haven't looked at the schedule, but I it's probably going to be back in Vegas. biggest the biggest issue is probably
going to be doing the traffic signal. So I'd say at least 90 I mean I don't want to say 100 but that would be the worst case scenario.
>> That would be two weeks or so. >> Yeah. >> Two weeks. Yeah. They would do >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Usually there's a pause. They do the base course. So, so the part that we're refer to see if they don't want to prop the
post grades kind of delay. So, yeah, probably two to three weeks. They got to come back and do signs for these things. >> When will you know for sure if it's going to be late 26 or early 27?
>> Likely September. I mean that's when we get authorized. So you know we got to go through preliminary design review which would probably be in June and then our final would probably be submitted July August and then we get authorized. We actually have to get the
inspectors picked and authorized beforehand too. >> Isn't it better to do it in the spring? >> It would be that's usually how it happens. Sometimes we'll that's how it's been happening. I I would say for the last eight years in
the past we must again like drainage and things like that. Manette has a question. >> Yeah. Um do you have any special um pedestrian safety features built in? I know we've had people come here that say it's very difficult to get across the
street on Philadelphia Avenue in front of the Rittenberg building which is mostly senior citizens and I had suggested way back when that maybe we could have like a flashing light there >> campus that would be great uh we haven't
talked about that u okay thank Anybody else have a question? Any anybody from the public have a question? Chief Chief Park City Fire Department. We changing any elevations like worry about
our apron at the firehouse having a bigger coming out there. Pretty cool as it is right now. Uh I honestly would have to look at that. Where are you? You're east of Liverpool. >> Liverpool runs parallel.
>> John, that's 631 >> 631. >> We're just north of Claudius Street between bottom out now or anything. >> I mean, we can I'll make note of that. We can look at that. >> Um,
how much survey we have out there, but we ran into something similar like that. I don't know, Brigantine Avenue. And as long as we're aware of it, we can take a look at it and see if we can do something for you. >> Most certainly won't we won't make it worse. We'll see if we can make it better.
>> That's amazing. I don't want to wor since you brought it up. There's another spot on camp and um Philadelphia Avenue that >> collects is that right? dips and it collects water and there's a series of
just across the intersection actually >> and the water just lays there. >> It was recently fixed because it had sunk pretty deep, but it's still a depression there. >> And one more question. When you uh do
the bridge, I understand you like alternating and all that. Is there any way that the fire department will be able to get some kind of like a remote control be able to we're not wait for traffic light or wait for traffic
>> find out if that's temporary do you know have a free system now >> just how much Yeah. >> Anybody else questions? >> 15 days on and 15 day public comment period
>> after today after today. >> And what's the website? >> I can hand it to you know my email is my mom. They did change these.
I know they did. >> Yeah. Now it's right because I I Yeah, you spoke my name. I have these out >> and the public comment period goes till when? >> Basically when >> does it go into March? >> No. And I think end of 15 from today
it's the end of February. It's a shame. Ryan, weren't there also some some complaints at Rittenberg where that hand the where the water pulls up there too? Didn't we have those a while ago? Rittenberg man >> the handicap ramps. I think that's been
delayed redoing that. Yeah, the middle. >> No, no, those are comp. >> They're compliant. We will redo the paving on who ranks. Okay, good. >> Yes. our clerk.
>> Would you prepare these suggestions in writing to you like >> or you'll just watch the tape? >> I'm taking notes. I'm actually we'll go ask for notes for the meeting. I mean, I can send them to you if there's something I missed. I basically have a
camp. There's water on the corner firehouse driveway to look at free action snow request >> replace the sidewalks along Philadelphia Avenue >> benches replacement
>> benches here >> the fire department suggestions >> he said we uh we could watch the video that's >> yeah it's on the website >> and sometimes on Facebook. >> You're kind of out of the way. >> Excuse me, Joe. Joe, this is Joe. Can I
speak a moment? >> Go ahead, Kim. >> Um, uh, it's broken up. The the audio is very broken up. So, I don't know how much they're going to get from from this. A lot of it's broken. >> Yeah, because they were standing away from the microphone. Yeah, you have to
stand right up. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> I did enjoy the first presentation. I was up there for the game. My son's in the background. >> Mention them. They're part of that, too. I make kids.
They're awesome. That that team has been awesome since day one. Really have. I think it's going >> well. Thank you. >> Yeah, we're we're I'll leave that here and >> feel free to reach out to me. You have my contact information. You can do
email. You can give us a call. Put in some >> Thank you guys very much. Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Oh, you have just Thank you.
>> Okay. >> Yeah, we did. >> Okay, we're going to do like a combination agenda here. Uh we're going to uh still do number four, but before we do number four, we're going to ask the
chief to get up and talk about number 18. And uh the process to how she selected the contractors for awarding the towing company or recommending
>> uh people there from tele are there people here and Yes. >> So the process for me is fairly simple. Um based on we get applications. We have
to applications. They are um obtained by anybody who wants to become a tow vendor from the clerk's office. They fill them out. the clerk gets them um and with any supporting documents and they then forward them to me. Uh I think the first
one that I got I got on January 16th and they had until February 5th uh to hand them in. It says a I'm supposed to get a reasonable amount of time to do a background investigation. I don't know five days is reasonable but we did our best. Um so what we wind up doing is we
look through the documentations uh documentation that we get and we also take a look at uh some of the physical plant issues and check the registrations go through the driver's license and look up some of the history stuff applicants and the drivers that they put through at
the the vehicles that they put through and we go ahead and take a look at we review insurance documents that they've provided. Um, what we do, similar to our police applications, if we find a disqualifier, we stop looking any further. Um, I'm not going to waste my
time looking anything else. What I did is anything that we found, if there was a disqualifier, I put them to the side. The two applications that I recommend that did not have any disqualifiers were gun rights and American recycling. The other applications that I did find is
with us in theor and or issues with the applications themselves with incomplete or inaccurate information. So that's basically where we're at. So you each have the
information that I provided you with the issues that I had with those that I did not recommend for the review. Ultimately it is up to the council to make a decision based on the recommendations or not. So there you have that.
>> Thank you chief. So now we will go to number four and I will ask if anyone wants to talk about agenda items and this being one of them. Number 18 is the towing Mr. Foron
>> please speak into the microphone please. So we have a mentor that she told 30 years never had a problem with got uh so forth and never had to provide
my insurance up to date I don't know what exactly background checks are different from last year nothing nothing housekeeping for procedures. I should have asked to uh clarify any of
the problems of 70, but I'm here because it's a little bit unethical to bring this up. He's never had an inspection 30 years like all crew stamped and
sealed and it just seems like it's the wrong way to do business. I'm a taxpayer in town. Well, I was a taxpayer until October 17th. So, my business is like you want businesses to come day. Why
would anybody want to come here when you folks people with taxpayers away? So this is really for a town that wants people to come in and spend money here. You're telling other applicants are here in town. That's not opening it up to the
rest of the world. I don't have a criminal record. I didn't anybody or be anybody. I'm not a white leader. So reason from the council or anybody reason why it's uh everybody has to be
disqualified. But she's the chief said she was uh pressed for time. She called my insurance company which is somebody else qualified or a name or a wording. I think that's
the reason thin with me. I didn't back over anybody. He didn't do any advantage. So it's kind of the housekeeping rules here are a little bit upside down. So the town to take consideration to see
what criteria or other towers were qualified. You know I have the biggest yard. It's all lighted. It's all secured. The standards like to know why I was disqualified.
Mr. One sec, Mr. Attorney, would that be something we could discuss here right now? >> I think after um after the award is made in council on it, um all the submissions and the recommendations would be subject to requests. So, you'd be entitled to
that, but afterward. >> So, you're saying that's not something we should discuss right now? >> So, what are you saying? We What are you saying? We can't discuss >> saying that the the the
chief has provided you with her recommendations based on the background uh investigation and the uh detailed submissions that was by everyone that's a development document will be subject disclosure after an award is made that
will be subject to disclosure if there's a challenge by any of the uh applicants that don't believe that the conclusions in the recommendations were the conclusions of the background check were correct that applicant would have right
to file an action report to state the award and and have a further that would generally the process >> what happens if it doesn't pass somewhere >> if it doesn't pass um the entire
town contract none of the time contract passes >> right Then um it would have to be rebid but that would be an action by council and there would be no deliberation on this so it would be subject to disclosure over >> but we can have discussion here with
among city council >> as with any resolution. >> Can I ask Mr. Foreman a question? >> Yeah. Specifically, it says that the garage liability and garage and dealers
liability insurance expired on 11 October 11, 2025 is Mr. Sun, Councilman S. I think the point is it's a it's a liability issue on on our front. So um we receive a recommendation from the
chief and c certain things are um you don't want to give advantages or anything before the selection says if there's something we want to discuss maybe we can take a brief uh executive session to review it but but I don't think that's
you agree that's not something we should discuss for the >> D very insurance that my insurance is required to extend a phone contract. Why wouldn't the city if that's a clerical error?
That's no reason to throw somebody off the city. So, uh, I don't know why the city wanted me to tell my insurance was she called up her head for me and said back to the highway, but
my insurance was expired. Why don't you give me a ticket? I mean, my my parts are good, my I have a bond and everything else. So, this is this is this is a little bit unethical for business management. thrown
down here. I don't want to I can't sue. I'm not I'm not a sewer suing person. I just want a fair shake been here for 30 40 years
for an insurance quote. Don't make any mistake in the office. I know she the chief bought today. She called the insurance company just checking
you know we pay heavy insurance having nobody operation and how they had insurance from somebody it's just ask
good way to approach salvation All right. So, my Thank you, Mr. Florence. My My understanding now is we should take either take action on this and get a a motion
to >> Well, there's public comments. >> Okay. >> Anybody else want to speak? >> Okay. >> Representing ANA application. He's a wife. Um I have Cornell's body as well.
Do we receive something stating why? >> Why? >> Because we need the opportunity to understand if it is turned down or why it was turned down and we deserve the opportunity to at least identify that problem.
>> Well, two things to that point. Um yes, you can if you submit after an award is made you you're entitled to submit no request and receive um receive the documentation with regards to uh the recommendations. So you can do that. Um
the second point u just so everybody's clear is you know you don't even if even if you receive 10 applications and everybody was compliant you're not required to pick all 10. You're required you're required to pick zero, one, two, four, whatever you ultimately decide.
So, you know, >> but there has to be a method that's consistent. You can't just say, "Well, let's pull this name out of that. Let's pull that name out of that." Everybody deserves the same opportunity, especially a taxpayer in the community. >> Everybody deserves the same opportunity
to submit. doesn't mean that everybody just because you submit an application that's deemed compliant um that you're automatically going to be accepted. >> And and just to clarify too, even though it does say non-recommended vendors, there's still an opportunity that that city or council can actually vote even
on non-recommended. Correct. >> Correct. Okay. I'm just clarifying. I think we have to vote on the recommendation provided to us by >> I I would agree with that. Yes. Based on the answer. Yes.
>> So if I'm understanding it correctly, you don't get the opportunity to identify your problem. Everybody's given the same opportunity to submit bid and everybody's held to the same standard. And if some of them don't, you know, comply, well, we have
to put them aside and look at the ones that do comply. Everybody has the same deadline. >> However, just what they However, what they said though is what our attorneys telling us, even if everybody complied, it would still be a recommendation by
the chief and then city council to approve or not approve. And that's kind of where we're at. >> Where we're at right now is the taxpayers of the community didn't get anything, but the people outside. >> It really has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the recommendation of
the chief and it's the pleasure of city council at this point to vote yes or no on her recommendation and then we go from there. We'll see what happens. If >> if I can just add anything, um there are certain errors that may occur in a in a
submission that are that are fatal that there's no way to wait. It's it's by statute. So if one of those things if it is discovered by the chief in her investigation, there's nothing she can do >> if it is fatal. >> And it's not it's not a it's not a
curable defect. >> Yes. >> You feel we at least deserve to understand why we were turned down. >> And I think that's what the attorney is saying that we'll be able to find that out after we vote. >> After we vote. >> Well, the defendant is is is what Counc
was talking about. If you make a submission with a material defect, that defect is it deems your submission um you're not allowed to you're not allowed to accept that submission because there's a material defect and you don't have the opportunity to cure that defect after
>> that's by statute that's small to you right now. I mean this this is this is unbelievable that you're going out of space still. >> Not from the back. Glenn >> it's housekeeping or whatever. My
insurance is good. Would you like me to send my certificate? We should at least got a phone call to some clerical or whatever. So now I have to sue my insurance company for Arizona's admission. My understanding is that that's not the process. >> Process is what the chief says. >> The process.
>> Did you make a phone call to anybody? >> She did make a phone call to comm not not to the applicant to the she did a background check. >> She didn't even inspect yours. >> I don't know if that's true. >> If I could I have a question for Mr. For >> one one second.
So on on the paper that we got saying that your application was denied, it says specifically the vendor's garage liability and garage and dealers liability insurance expired on October 11, 2020. Are you saying that's not
true? >> That's not true. >> Okay. You're saying this is wrong. >> You're insured as we speak. >> Okay. >> I was insured on the first application. Well, then why is he fighting? >> I have
I have insurance. >> I mean, at the very least that needs to really >> Well, he submitted he submitted an application with a defect with a incorrect. And how are we supposed to know that he has insurance, he doesn't have insurance if what he submits is not
accurate? >> She called my insurance company. Did you submit on the 5th of February or before the 5th of February an insurance certificate that had >> that information on it? You did. All right. So that's that's a material defect.
>> I filed it on October 2nd. Same insurance. So >> it wasn't it wasn't expired >> on October second. It wasn't insurance. >> It wasn't expired, but on October 11th it was expired. Correct. >> Insurance. She checked on
>> insurance. See the submissions are responsibility >> and if the submissions are defective it's on the responsibility of bidder to not my insurance right now. >> I don't think that's the point. Right.
Correct. Joe the point is you're denying me to have a business. >> We haven't done anything yet. Okay. So, uh, Mr. Tim, >> I'd like to make a motion that we go into executive session this with our
council. Motion made second. >> Anybody else? >> Oh, can we suspend the comments? >> Is your question going to be different than his? >> We have the same vote. >> All right. So, we're we're going to go
in executive session. When we come out, you can have your time to go this. All right. Well, we got a vote. All in favor? >> Go this way. >> Where am I going? >> We're going to go in. >> Don't go that way. Go this way. >> Okay. Motion to come out of executive
session. >> Motion made second. All in favor? I back in session. Uh, sir. Guys, my name is Raphael. I'm with citywide. I have two locations in one border and I
have 11 terrorists also. So, two applications in charge. I put I have filed for three locations at the same time. We have approved for Galloway. We got a proof
and I haven't heard but we know already what's the difference at same same driver same trucks same location the difference what was what had both
location I applied I was 450 on South Avenue they told me I needed an address in Galilee J City. That's put another application in put 11.
I'll hop into it was a toy yard before. Um then there's the new date came out but the same day back in I probably was one of the ones that put it in. Um once I did that um I like I said I got approved by I got approved by Stephen.
St. Barb same location here any other municipalities that we talk to anybody that call us here any paperwork if that's incorrect or anything with driving or whatever they'll give us a screw we can't drive or they'll call us and say fail because
it happens is hey you have this wrong you know can you correct this and you know I've been for 25 years got 40 something trucks I run all around from um I go all in candle. >> Yeah.
>> I go all the way as far as SW um K house and all the way up to LBI 49 trucks in there. >> We can't speak to however other municipalities review their applications
and authorities speak to this one. Okay. So, >> what was what was the problem last year? >> I mean, chief made a recommendation. Look, it's been recommended that there's deficiencies in your application. follow after if the words made you follow up
after that my insurance but my application isn't complete my So this is wall or anything. I think this thing should be table
everybody should get a a fair thing. It's up to the chief's discretion. I think they'll talk about various sensible. So I mean uh don't call me back. You know I got days sometimes I call them messages. So I don't know what the
problem there my other partner since they're part of city not partner the other cities police officer and all run with whatever it's it's unethical and you know I don't know but city city
city can do what they know I'm I'm here to work things out I'm not going to get screwed so thank you >> thank Thank you. Anyone else wish any agenda item?
Seeing none, we'll entertain a motion on this particular number 18, which is award a Carver City towing contractors for the year of 2026 based on the chief's recommendations. Is there a motion? >> I'll make a motion. >> Second.
>> Motion has been made and second. Any questions on the motion? >> I think we'll do a roll call on this. Doby, >> yes. >> Galloway, >> yes. >> Pessie, >> yes. >> Yes. >> Ortiz,
>> yes. >> Sen, >> respectfully, no. >> Timbers, >> yes. >> Wright, >> yes. Motion passes. >> Okay. Number eight on the agenda
is mayor's comments or mayor. I have no report other than >> nothing other than I think we talked about the county um going to a county not or um emergency was it
>> dispatch >> dispatch my mind's like going in different directions and I think I talked about the last time but that's the only thing I have that we're looking into doing uh countywide dispatch and um I hope that all of you are on board with
that. If you're not, you know, let us know because we're in the process of scheduling another meeting with uh communities, surrounding communities that are interested in also doing chief and I had gone to a and did too and Rick
and Joe. Um, we had gone to the meeting with the county and um, they said if they have one person who wants to do it, they will build it. And if you don't want to do it, you still have to pay for it and you still
have to pay for your own dispatch. So, it would behoove us to move in the direction of I wish the chief chief Kinsley was here to explain it better than I can, but um, we're working on it. So would anybody in the council
um be disagreeable to us pursuing uh countywide dispatch? >> If you are just you don't have to let me know now, but you can certainly call me or email me and let me know. >> Is that something that should be reviewed by the safety commission?
>> No. Okay. >> They want a recommendation from the >> safety committee is has been formed to do insurance things. That's what if you look in your personnel manual, it was formed to do GIF. Okay. They would
attend monthly safety meeting. Well, you do, but it's incorrect. >> It's not correct. So, because we have a, you know, chief of police and fire department. >> No, I was saying, do they need like a formal resolution or something? >> Not yet. >> Not now.
>> They haven't come out with numbers yet. And I think once they do, we could look at that. >> So, >> just to keep you updated. That's all I Thank you. >> Thank you, mayor. All right. Uh, go to parks and playgrounds. Uh, I'm sorry. Uh, >> recreation.
>> Recreation. >> I was going to ask Me to put on the agenda tonight of presentation from this, uh, Skate AC, but doing looking at the agenda with all the presentations. I'm going to try to move it for next meeting. Um, if possible, long as everybody's on board with that, that's
okay. Uh, but I do want to bring everybody up to finishing up to where we went. Uh I guess Jeremy's Oh, here he is. Jeremy's still here. Jeremy, me, Jeremy, the council, I mean, the uh the committee, Jerry, the chief all met what, like two weeks ago.
>> Yeah. >> About the um the skate park coming to Harbor City. >> I mean, I think it's one of the greatest ideas. Um me personally being pretty much the only one that really deals with the youth. Um it's something that the
youth has been asking for. Um but um we had two prime locations that we kind of came up with just to kind of throw it out there so council can think about it for the next two weeks and then when uh Jason comes to do the presentation that we know have a better idea. But the
first one is um basically that's the public works and the second one would be Lincoln Park in one of the backs. Lincoln Park came up. Once Lincoln Park came up, I think to me personally, I think that's the most prime location possible in that garden city. Um the
train locations right there. Uh all the Waw Wa McDonald's, the businesses are all right there. Um cuz there is going to be some basically some drainage and stuff that's going to have to be done where far as with public works there's going to lot be a lot more drainage has
to be done because there's nothing over there where at Lincoln Park we have the uh the uh parking lot so we could probably tie into that. Everything is funded through their organization. No money out of the city. They basically
take care of their own. Um, of course, no, like no other like a playground or anything. Public works would have to pick up the trash can and empty the trash. Um, >> would they pick up any additional insurance cost? >> What do you mean?
>> Um, I I would think and I had a brief discussion with Mr. Austin >> and you can do anything. You know, I asked him the question, can we skate on the lake? >> Yeah. >> And you could do anything. We could do that, >> but our insurance costs would.
>> So, and I think with something like this, >> well, Carl will kind probably know a little bit more how that worked in Atlantic City with the two that just came over there. So, with the but I think it was a little different with with you guys. >> Selfinsur selfinsure. It's a lot easier,
>> right? >> They selfinsure. >> Oh, yeah. But like like we were talking with Jerry and M basically it's no different than a pickle ball court, no different than a playground. As long as your signs are posted, you're skating at your own wrist. Um you're you know it's
pretty much I mean me personally that's what I would think. It's no different than a kid going to a football field with the signs of a T-Rex saying you're playing practicing you break your leg you can't come see considered your key wreck. basically. I mean, and that's the way I kind of look at it. I mean, I
mean, I you might know a little bit more better on that end of that, but I don't I think if we have the signage posted and and all that stuff, our teas are, you know, please not about it. >> Yeah. Look, I'm not an insurance section. I know, but >> but I mean your insurance broker will be
able to tell you, but I I work with other public entities that have >> uh state parks and I don't think there's much of a change to the insurance. I mean, playgrounds and swings are just as inherently dangerous.
>> State parks. >> Anything else? >> I mean, that's pretty I mean, Jerry or anybody want >> I have more, but wait for my report. >> Okay. >> Yeah, that's fine. And then I'll have Jerry just to touch base on that. And I figure as long as everybody's cool with it doing having Jason AC and Jeremy and
them guys do a nice presentation next or next meeting. >> Okay. >> And Mason, yes, the the the model we're looking at would not require a full-time attendant or anything like that. It would strictly be >> no different than any other skate park.
Yeah. The only skate park that has a year- round tenant is in Ocean City, but >> okay. >> The beach daggers paid for that. Very well. >> We already had a presentation. It's I thought the next step was >> basically >> we sent it to the committee. So the committee making a recommendation.
>> It's been back and forth back and forth and now um not going back and forth. We're bringing it there and then we're going to vote on it whether we want to do it or not. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Uh Miss Mrs. Galloway safety and sustainable.
>> Um well after this discussion I think we should have a safety committee meeting to discuss the insurance. Um and I think we need to add another committee there or a liaison to your list because we now have the urban forestry board and they
had their first meeting on February 2nd. uh Amy Kramer, Dick Colby, Dan Sha, and I'll be the liaison, and Jerry is our arborist uh who will be advising us. Um the members were sworn into three-year
terms expiring February 2nd, 2029, and they unanimously elected Amy Kramer to serve as president. Meetings will be held bimonthly at 6 p.m. on the first Monday of the month, and the next meeting is April 6th. uh and every other
month thereafter. Um there's additional seats on the board that can be filled. So if anybody's interested in uh serving on the board, let me know. Uh we have um core training which is a requirement coming up in March. Uh it's a mini
course online uh kind of learn it learn as you go and a couple mandatory uh zooms and then it'll be offered again at the Sha Tree Federation conference in October which is going to be in Cherry Hill. Uh as far as sustainable Cape Arbor City
uh we decided to hold our annual Arbor Day celebration a week earlier to encourage more participation from vendors. It's really difficult to get vendors to come out that weekend because it's Earth Day weekend and everybody's gearing up for that big event over at
the ACUA. Um, so our Arbor Day celebration will be 3 to 6:00 p.m. Friday, April 17th at Peace Pilgrim Park. Uh, Jerry's going to be doing a um tree planting demonstration and we'll have a tree giveaway. And hopefully,
>> when she says Jerry, Jerry, is he going to do it? Not Jerry. Yeah, Jerry's. >> No, I'll be in there. I'll be in the hole. >> It's almost like Jerry's kids, right? >> Yeah, they are. >> We're also planning our spring
>> We're also planning our spring environmental series and we have so far programs lined up. One is going to be uh a bee pollinization pro uh demonstration. So, we'll actually have somebody bring bees here. And uh
>> and you have a meeting. >> We're going to need them here. >> And uh and what was the other thing we have? Uh we might do a scavenger hunt. And we're going to be doing the pot party that got rained out last year. Everybody seems to like that.
>> Pot. And um we're going to be investigating monarch butterflies and so forth. So we're going to have a nice lineup of programs. So look for that to come your way. >> Uh and sustainable egg harbor city. We have a grant application um to submit.
It's on the agenda tonight to uh add money to the um forestry um management plan that we want to do at the for the land past the league. And if anybody has anything for the
newsletter, please get it to me the week before March 1st. >> Nette, can I tell you something? Um, in the greenhouse we do have beekeeping um apparatuses, whatever you would call them. >> It was purchased by Well, it looks like
a lot more than just supplies. It has like the helmet and it was purchased by the coalition for safety and I don't believe it's ever been used. So, if you go in the greenhouse, look to the left. It's should be on the shelf there unless it was tossed, which I don't think it
was. And then we did fix the greenhouse. So the greenhouse does we fixed two broken beans which saw that. So there's anyone from sustainable that wants to try to grow. Oh >> maybe we should do we're going to do do a tomato growing program. So maybe we
can do our own tomato seeds. >> Oh great. >> When would you start that? Actually >> March, April, May. We spread it out. The coalition wants to do a clothing drive similar to what we did for the veterans and I tried I kind of offered that we
could use the greenhouse because I don't >> when would when would they >> they don't I don't know yet. We're not going to be well if we use the greenhouse. I don't I mean just do what you want to do. But we did have a request um to do clothing bins which
would be a permanent fixer that uh would raise money. >> So we need a location for that. So I don't I don't know if the city is interested in allowing us to do that. >> They get messy. They do get messy. We have an ordinance >> where they could be located
>> and the fee it's not >> it's a $100 >> the zoning officer has to sign off >> and Cedar Creek uses a company they come and pick it up and they get my a check for it >> as long as they clean them someplace you go by that it's a mess.
>> Yeah. So then we would be responsible to clean that up when it gets messy until the people come. >> Then they draw all the stuff that's not supposed to be in there. And >> anything else? >> No, that's it. Thank you. >> There would be nobody better in my mind to be the leazison for the forestry.
So we'll put that sheet. >> Thank you, Mr. Timbers. Ordinance and land use. Oh, >> okay. What's that? >> Don't you want her to say anything? >> I'll go here and I'll get her.
>> Okay. >> Nothing to >> Did she have a question for Nette? >> No. Said something, but I don't know. >> All right. No, nothing to report. Okay. DPW, Mr. W. Uh don't have any report other than um uh the public works staff
and Jerry and the rest of the city employees did a terrific job under very challenging conditions the last couple weeks and I commend them for it. U lots of people unhappy but not just including them. Uh
but given the intensity of the ice and the fact that it probably until today hasn't unfrozen um we haven't faced anything like that in a long time. You you did a great job and the staff didn't
>> last you had like that was um December 10th 2010 when we had our last big I stole like that. >> So I know you're going to give a report. >> Yeah, that's all. >> That's all I know. Thank you. Um, Mr. Ortiz, uh, Rob, I'm sorry. Uh, Florence,
>> have anything school board >> and school? >> Um, I have nothing for Florence. As I said in that, uh, meeting with Mason, we discussed the, um, skate park, so everything's been addressed on that. I do have something for the board of ed. I
sat in on both the board of ed meeting over at the high school and I also sat in just yesterday on the board of ed meeting uh at the uh for the middle school and the elementary school. Uh one of the issues I think was addressed
there um that was concerning was the um the sunshine law requirements. Uh it was a major issue going on with the schools because they are being posted in compliance with the Sunshine Laws, but they're being posted in the Atlantic
City Times, which is a subscription requirement to be able to access that. Um so I don't know if that absolutely meets the requirements. Uh and there's other parents that were concerned about the requirements being met because they actually do not have access to those times um to be able to know when the
board meetings are happening. Can't they post on their website starting March March? >> Yeah, the requirements change where they can post electronics. So, >> okay. And >> but the requirement changes. >> The requirement changes. >> Okay. >> We have >> everything's subscription, right? Uh
even >> mind, you got to pay for the press. State legislature changed it. You suck. You want we go into effect Mark Church, but I have put an advertisement in twice a month for a year saying this where we
will you'll find our stuff online. We have a link on our website. >> Um I don't know if it's live yet because it doesn't go into March 1st, but and then there'll be a tab on our website where you So we have the option. There may be some things we want to put in the paper
or there's not many papers like but there we don't have to but there may be times we want to you know >> but that all they changed everything but there going to be a link on our site the state link which will take you to >> the state's going to
>> yeah we have to have it on our in addition to our own >> but like you said it changed March though >> we have to start doing it in January >> okay >> the advertising for the But the law was >> and prior to that the law was always
that at municipalities and school districts had to advertise in a paid subscription newspaper >> because I worked for a company that was a free newspaper and we could not accept legal ads and there's a lot of revenue for the newspaper industry in legal ads
but that >> kind of a contradiction. >> Yes. M nothing else follows. >> Thank you. >> Okay, Mr. S and >> Okay. U >> I I have something to say.
>> Yes. >> Um for the Rotary, I have nothing to report, but for code, I just wanted to say February 20th is the last day to apply for the head of the building department position. We'll be interviewing in March, the beginning of
March. Also, if you haven't noticed, two of the Audi's unsafe properties have been taken down. >> More properties have been >> three now. Okay. >> Which what was the third one that they
took down? >> Which one? >> Burger P. >> Bigger Pearl came down to >> Oh, wonderful. And um I just want to give a big shout out. It goes to Jerry for enforcing our codes and um
I just want to leave the rest to Jerry to discuss in his report. But thank you Jerry. Nice job. All I have >> Okay. And for um finance redevelopment, a lot of activity going on, a lot of
meetings. Uh uh I do want to also thank everybody who was involved in taking that first step of cleaning up our town and the eyes source that we have out there. So with
there's more to come. There's uh a lot of other things we want to address before we start building again. And uh that's what we're working on as I've said many times already that we're looking to put shovels in the ground. We
we got an update from our um studio owner and he's on target. He's uh just waiting for Spinal Pine Lands approvals and then he would have to go to our land use board and then after that it's time to time to get started. So that that
will be a big day in Anchor City. We have a groundbreaking for that. So we're looking forward to that. Um then I would go to uh I'm done my report. So, I would say uh Chief of Police, >> can I just say one thing? I forgot. You
just reminded me >> for the for the for the lake report. I did speak to Jameson Caesar today >> and he's definitely on target with what he has to do. He's hired two managers full time, one for the campground and one for the lake. He's in the process of
hiring lifeguards through the company that we use uh via Brenda Ruth and um she has taken a job with them and >> is she going to do the same thing like far as like the campground goes have somebody stay there like I meant to call them ask them to talk to
>> well there'll be a manager there >> like no they usually do they have somebody at least at night time somebody was out there >> that that I couldn't confirm but he said it's a full-time manager. >> Okay. So what that means I I don't >> I just know every time whoever ran late they always had a manager that actually
stayed out there >> except for one day. >> Yeah. >> Um and if anybody wants to apply for a job um there's I guess it's on the platforms like Indeed I so you would apply through there and he's what making
his website. It should be up I think he said March 1st. So, there'll be more information. And thank you, Ryan, for getting that survey done because I'm very worried about that. And I did tell Jameson that um I'm still I told him
we're definitely working to get it done. >> And I told him that Jerry is absolutely 100% sure he could do his part in 30 days. >> I'm just waiting for the survey. >> I know. I'm just kidding.
>> I know. So Brian, it's all it's all on you, Brian. >> No pressure. >> No pressure. No pressure. That's all. Sorry, I should have said it already. >> Okay, chief. >> All right, so um I got some numbers for you. We'll start with the numbers from
January 22nd through today. We had one report vehicle accident stops 56 19 arrest 19 business alarms one residential alarm crime prevention activities 39 34 DMS
incidents firearms ID application 10 follows 400 tests 24 facilities of false a few notable things that happened Um, you know, our officers are out and about and we do get stuff at the station sometimes, you know, paperwork. We had a
lot of administrative stuff to do we do, but you know, we do patrol and we look for stuff. And so on Saturday, January 24th around 11:30, Sergeant Lini um apprehended a suspect during a commercial burglary in progress at one of the car dealerships on the White
Horse Pike located at 1019. Um he was doing confusion patrol and he observed an individual who was systematically attempting to open doors of multiple vehicles parked at the dealership. When the other officers came around, they conducted a search of the premises and located a male suspect
hiding inside of the rear cab of a uh Dodge Ram that was listed. The suspect was taken into custody and he had 18 sets of key fobs on him. They looked at the uh the building and he found that he had broken into the dealership and stolen this. He was charged Keith
Bennett was charged with two counts burglaries, criminal trespassing, possession of burglary pools um and those key fobs. So So the implications of that are pretty are pretty big. So those 18 key fobs, we would have planned to sell this. We would have had eight stolen motor vehicles. um which would
have been a nightmare, but it's not for our officers who, you know, patrol around and and so you know um so that's pretty good thing. Additionally, he was found of act warrant out of Pennsylvania for failure to register a sex offender. So
it gets worse as it goes. So he's currently being held uh having further vehicle uh proceed. So few weeks ago as well on the 21st January uh I was not very happy to report that we had a shooting on Cincinnati Avenue. Fortunately there was no one hit no
property. Best case scenario better case scenario on February 6 after investigation into that shooting uh our police department this prosecutor's office of the county SWAT team. We executed three fourth authorized search warrants and one fourth authorized
vehicle search uh on that morning. As a result of those sort of for 19 and he's charged with the following two counts unlated weapons possession of a weapons for unlawful purposes certain person not to possess a weapon. One count each as aggravated assault
aggravated assault weapon and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault remitted at the time justice facility and further court proceedings. Additionally, Gail Hart also cover stayed in custody on unrelated outstanding warrants and we substantive release. Uh we were assisted uh in the investigation by the community
prosecutor's office and during the whole operation on that date we were took by the prosecutor's office, the New Jersey State Police and the Atlantic City Police Department sponsor. Um I have to say that I was super proud of our guys. Uh Detective Rosenberg and Captain Herman spearheaded this investigation
and did a lot of work finding out who did this. Um there were a lot of moving farts on that morning. Um executing two search warrants simultaneously. One of the subjects was not where the child was going to be. So we had to write for another search warrant for a third location. We got that done within an
hour and a half. We're able to hit that door and everybody got in and out safely. Um and so they did an amazing amazing job. So I I I'm really really proud of the guys. They're doing a lot of great work to make sure that we keep
the city safe. So, I just have to really see our purpose. I'm very proud of them. They do great work. Um, and you know, even though we're a small part, we are pretty I have one. >> Did they do that? Find the fella who turned over the vehicle uh the truck in
front of my house. >> That was that was funny. >> They tipped it over. Huge truck. Huge truck. And the guy ran away. It's >> under investigation. >> Yes, that happened.
>> Super super mess of the officers. >> I sent these. >> I know. I don't have the names though. Do I? >> Okay. Number 11, our CFO report. >> Okay. City clerk. I do have an add-on.
Um, we received RF we have a we received a grant um last year for small city. It was small cities grant funding and we had to go out for RFP for engineering services. I'm sure some of you remember it was on the agenda last year and it was tabled because we didn't we were
confused. Anyway, it went back out and we received the RFPs. Jerry and I went through them yesterday with Jody's help and that's what we're doing tonight. We Remington and Bernick was the >> Yeah. So, we had two submissions. We had
an environmental solutions out of the number and then we had another one from Remington and Verdict and and both were really good except um in our opinion and we used a score sheet in this in this case uh R&B was able to um complete the
submission 100%. um they had everything that we were asking for as opposed to some deficiencies that the other bidder uh um unfortunately uh didn't provide us. So u that recommendation is the add to the u to the agenda. >> That is for the um ADA improvements at
the senior center. >> Okay. Is there a motion panel? >> Second. >> Motion has been seconded. Any other questions? >> Uh local >> Doby. >> Yes. >> Galloway. >> Yes. Pessie,
>> yes. >> Painer, >> yes. >> Ortiz, >> yes. >> Sen, >> yes. >> Timbers, >> yes. >> Right. >> Yes. >> Okay. Motion passes on the >> Anything else, M? >> No, that's all. Thank you. >> City attorney,
>> uh, the only thing I'll mention is resolution 17, which is termination fair management agreement. Um this is by mutual consent um of the uh of of the uh I guess the manager manager and this is
so the agreement with um to get back. >> Okay. >> All right. Uh anything else administrator? >> A few items. Uh I'll go as fast as I can. Bank. Um, we did have a meeting as
uh as Mason uh said about the um the skate park uh for the two locations, the empty city lot on Buffalo adjacent to DBW and Lincoln Park. Um we did have I did have in the minutes uh of the meeting that we should invite John D. Augustino to meet with us when we do
have the presentation of speech and discussions and he's you know just down the street uh so he can come and talk to us about it. The preferred location was like a 3,000 foot facility, but it would need Pinelands and D approvals. Um, we
would be asking whomever is the U city partner in this to pay for the uh pay for those kinds of um approvals through escrow. We'd also be asking the partner entity to uh to provide money for certified standard design from the
landscape architect and an engineer. Uh the committee did discuss skater own risk. Uh the committee agreed that skated your own risk and a voluntary wave on the website. Um we talked about donations to the city and council for construction. I tried to advise everyone
that gets a little dicey sometimes. Uh but there could be some things that the partner entity could do. Um we talk about a 501c3 like the crusaders. Uh safety inspections and the condition of the course of the of the skatepark would
be performed by the city or certified vendor. And um we also had a few items for the council to consider. So the decision of of the location is the principal. Then the escrow money for the investigation survey permitting uh the insurance clearance. We would need to have our
insurance um broker to give us the insurance clearance and then maintenance and inspection requirements. That's the big a few things on the Lincoln Park that we discussed that were in my notes but not in the minutes is that we did discuss kid access crossing the life. to get a little bit of a situation.
>> Um, the other thing that I didn't discuss at the meeting, but I put down what I was proposing in these notes was that we just applied for Lincoln Park to clean it up as a brownfield site, right? So, anything that's built there could potentially be cleaned up. Um, because it is a what was it called?
Gasification. >> Coalification. And so we have applied for a half million dollar investigation grant that would give us potentially $4 million per year to clean up these brownfield sites. So it gets a little bit um difficult where we just
highlighted Lincoln Park as a cleanup location because we do need to clean that up um with other people's money, but it'd be difficult for us to put a skate park there and then have to rebuild that, right? So >> you still have to go through Pinelands anyway. Mhm.
>> Um I think the location behind WPW works better for the kids to access because it's right down the street from from Kreck. >> So if they get to Kre, they have to cross near street, but they can get to the other site. So that's something. And then adding impervious surface to any
location, we still have to go through well not we, I say we, Ryan has to go to Pinelands and deal with all their nonsense. So So there there are pros and cons. There's quite a few cons at Lincoln, even though it's a highlighted spot. I mean, I agreed with with Mason
and the others that were here, >> but if kids are going to use this, like I like we know that they use the tennis courts right now, >> it seems like they have access to it, right? If they're going to cross the pike, >> I'm not sure we should attract
>> that. Might be a little bit difficult to for us to make that. So, there's a lot to discuss, but I just wanted to go through the minutes that I shared with the committee with with these guys here. They were great. Scott had to leave early. Somebody had an emergency. I'm not sure who it was. >> Yeah. Yeah. It was mayor. It was the
mayor. Um >> Jerry, not to interrupt your report, but I remember I don't remember the year, but I thought they cleaned up Lincoln Park with that cold. >> They still have they drove a 30ft wall and removed all the >> Yeah, they dug all this dirt, took it to vinyl or something. They
>> cleaned up on a brownfield. They still have the >> tax. It's there's ongoing monitoring plume. They have to continue to monitor GSA's the environmental firms didn't work for South Jersey Industries who ultimately ended up with a
responsibility. >> Could that be coming from the old Pemrook building? >> Yeah. >> No. >> Yeah. If you if you go on deep NJ contaminated sites lists um shows like a little star for most of them but there
are some sites that the plume is actually miss and from that site the plume is like all the way to here. It goes all it goes all the way it crosses the pike and it crosses the the city and it comes like right in this area. >> Yeah. >> And so it's significant. >> Yeah. On it's on the city's list of
brownfield sites because it's a site that is impacted by contamination. So the activities of what you could do there that's where the concern that's why it's part of the elability >> and just to say that the ground is
contaminated not contamination >> not underground I have a question too Jerry I'm not sure the the dimensions of the court but would there it require trees to be cut down >> the area yeah I don't think there's a
wide enough area um even um so there wouldn't be any buffer like we would have at UBW, but there would be some trees that need at the Lincoln far that would need to be cut down. Hopefully not the ones I just put in.
>> I can relocate them. Yeah, >> they've done that when I did that. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, I wasn't happy about it. >> No. Uh, as far as trees, we are elevating our trees in our streets for our fire trucks and um making sure that we don't have damage to our fire trucks.
So far, Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis, Havana, Boston, and Cincinnati are complete. Cincinnati is almost complete. Um, and so we're not only removed a lot of dead and diseased trees, but we're also elevating our trees and getting rid of um a lot of dead wood that was in our
trees. To go back to what Rick said about the storm, the storm was extremely challenging for all of us. I know it was challenging for a lot of people, especially the 28 phone calls I got where I blocked their driveway and I counted all those phone calls. I tried to return them as as soon as I could,
but it was probably easier for us to just go out there and see if we could help, but unfortunately we were breaking parts on plows because we could not move the ice. So, >> um, so in the last two weeks, we used about 150 ton of salt. We have 90 left
in the shed. Um, and hopefully we don't have to use it. We can store it for next year. Um, to go to Joe's point, we have had some great discussions at the redevelopment committee meeting and we do have a major home builder discussions coming up in a couple of
weeks or maybe a week in a week. So, things are really moving along. Even when we get knocked down or knocked back a little bit, we still are able to move forward. So things are pushing as we need to. And thank you Kim for what you said. I appreciate that. Um we're just
doing our job. That's really what we're doing. >> J, I have a question too. Um would you have an idea how much it actually cost for a snowstorm >> with the salt and the overtime? And >> I I could come up with that point. >> I would appreciate that. >> Yeah.
>> I just want to mention something. I uh you know attend a lot of government meetings and every single town had the same exact report that you had. Yeah. >> Their plows are breaking. They can't move the ice. People are complaining that they've got they're blocked in in
their driveways. So it's universal and unfortunately climate change might we might see more of this in the future with climate change. >> And and I haven't experienced it. I did did go to New York for five years, but I haven't experienced it in 15 years. And
uh was one of the reasons why I swore never to become a DPW superintendent. Of course, you know, I changed my mind. And it is a difficult time. It's difficult time for the guys. Uh we worked um 17 hours straight and and it's very difficult. We slept for a few hours
and we were back at it. And coming back to a frozen tundra is very unusual for us. We typically have at least 30 28 30° salt wouldn't work. Uh our plows just weren't going to move anything. It was it was and and I mean it's been two and
a half weeks still out there. So it's pretty rough. >> Going to warm up this weekend. >> Yeah, it's good. And then flood. Yeah. >> Thank you. Anything else? Uh our engineers. >> Sure. >> I'll just go through a couple quick things. Um, city hall improvements. We
had our pre-construction meeting here on the morning of the 6th. So, I now know why the chief was not able to attend. >> Yeah, not a problem. Makes a lot more sense now. >> Um, the lake campground improvements, as the mayor noted, we're out there with a pickaxe trying to survey ground forever.
>> I actually met with our survey crew and walked the whole site for almost an hour the other day just to make sure that they understood um, you know, what's critical, what's not. Um, sort of talked about the the horizontal configuration is the most important. We just need to be able to get between the trees everywhere. Um it's all dirt. So if we're plus or minus couple inches is not
going to make things. Um so that's progressing. Even while we're doing that, we're already doing the design. Jared called earlier today had a big call because we're trying to figure out demand calcs and size of the pump station so we can keep everything moving even without the >> Jonesing for that.
>> Yeah. So we're we're we're doing all of that as quickly as we can. Um, Northern Valley Division got uh we got conditional approval at the February 4th meeting um at the county planning board. Um the conditional approval required a couple things to the solicitor's office.
I know they're working on putting them together. They ask for a deed restriction out onto Deer Street. A couple we have tiny things. Um so we got to get those flushed out and approved by the county and then we'll circulate the plan for signature. Once everybody signs, we can file it and basically list the problems. Um the IBank project, I
think I mentioned before we got comments. Uh so we're working on addressing them. We'll be trying to turn that project into a bid package to get that out. That'll be two a little more than $2 million worth of construction. Um along with Beethoven Street primarily some work on Arville. So that'll be a
big big move for the city. Um other than that, Kreck, we started with the finance permit get that submitted as well. And then uh we are at the landing board meeting next week. We will be um making a
recommendation based off discussion had with the public development committee. Um we're recommending removing the 1000 food separation between fast food restaurants that's currently contained in city's ordinance. Um I think when that was added to the ordinance um very
different time fast food restaurants operated and looked a lot different than they do now. Uh so there's much less of a concern about how to handle traffic load eqing and things like that. Uh so I'll be making that presentation lenders board. Hopefully we'll be back here uh next city council meeting uh for
accepting the board's recommendation. So that's it for me unless somebody has any questions. >> Any questions for Ryan? Tim any questions? >> Okay. >> No, I don't. >> All right. Thank you. All right. Uh,
number 16 on our agenda is a resolution for budget appropriation reserve transfers. >> Motion second. >> Motion made second. Questions? >> Roll call, please.
>> Doy, >> yes. >> Galloway, >> yes. >> Pass, >> yes. >> Kenir, >> yes. >> Ortiz, yes. >> Sen, >> yes. >> Timbers, >> yes. >> Write, >> yes. Resolution passes. Number 17, resolution
uh as our uh attorney spoke of terminating the campground management agreement with Pomona RV Park LLC. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Motion made and seconded. All in favor? >> I opposed.
>> Resolution passes. >> That's it. It is a roll call. Okay. Sorry. >> Doby, >> yes. >> Galloway, >> yes. >> Betsy, >> yes. >> Yes. >> Ortiz, >> yes. Sen, >> yes. >> Timbers, >> yes. >> Right. >> Yes.
>> Okay. Resolution passes. Uh resolution approved to submit NJ do DOT time extension for the award of the LA-2022 SST a Carter city transit path extension
phase 3 fifth extension to July 15 of 2026 the move >> second questions >> we should just make this a permanent agenda please Dovy,
>> yes. >> Galloway, >> yes. >> Pessie, >> yes. >> Painter, >> yes. >> Ortiz, sen, >> yes. >> Timbers, >> yes. Right, >> yes. >> Okay, resolution passes. Number 20, same kind of resolution. It's instead of 22,
it's the LA 2023 S3. >> And there's a motion. >> Second. >> Motion made second. Questions? Roll call, please. >> Doby, >> yes. >> Galloway, >> yes. >> Hessie, >> yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> Ortiz. >> Yes. >> Sen,
>> yes. >> Timbers, >> yes. >> Write, >> yes. >> Resolution passes. 21. Resolution authorizing an application to the NJDCA local recreation improvement grant program. >> Second.
>> Motion has been made. Second. Is there questions? >> Yeah. What's this? >> It's to upgrade the equipment in the >> park. That's like totally >> Any other questions? >> Roll call, please. >> Doy, >> yes. >> Galloway, >> yes. >> Pessie,
>> yes. >> Kenir, >> yes. >> Ortiz, >> yes. >> Sen, yes. >> Timbers, >> yes. >> Right. >> Yes. >> Resolution passes. 22. Resolution authorizing execution of redevelopment agreement with Sea and Leaf Cultivation
LLC for the redevelopment of block 1.07, 07 lot 7 which is the former acne site. >> Your motion. >> Little background on that. >> They they want to do a growing facility in that
>> in that site. >> Yes. >> They they had um last year they had come before council and presented. >> Yes. Okay. >> I'll make uh roll call please. >> Toby Galloway.
Reluctantly, yes. Pessie, >> yes. >> Kenir, yes. >> Ortiz, Sen. >> Yes. >> Timbers, >> yes. >> Right. >> I'm a Yes. But I just got a quick question. >> They allowed to be that close to a seller. >> Close to I thought like when they first
came out like the grower has to be a certain distance apart. And >> I don't know that that's >> No, I don't I don't think there's a >> Oh, yeah. I didn't know. I thought when like when it all first started becoming illegal, I thought there was a certain distance like cuz I know like you couldn't distribute and have the grower
like tit because that's what was happening with >> the same building. Yeah. >> Yes. Same matter left municipalities. We passed no ordinance >> that okay. Uh number 23 is a resolution for
the municipal alliance grant prevention of substance abuse. Is there a motion? Motion >> second. >> Second >> questions. >> Yeah. >> Is there any chance we could get more
than $6,000 from this fund? >> You know, everybody takes care of them, right? How distributes it. >> Yeah, I know. And I I was chair for 12 years and we never got an increase ever. >> Ever. What are the other towns?
>> Well, but once in a while if other towns decide to drop out, they do reallocate and >> are we spending the entire amount every year or do we have to get money back? >> No. >> Never give spending at all. >> Is the distribution based on these population?
>> I think that's how they do it. >> Substance, right? Uh roll call, please. >> Doy, >> yes. >> Galloway, >> yes. >> Hessie, >> yes. >> Heer, >> yes. Ortiz, >> yes. >> Sen, >> yes. >> Timbers, >> yes. >> Wright, >> yes.
>> Resolution passes. 24. Resolution 100% disabled veteran tax exemption case number 2024-01 refund of third and fourth quarter 2024 property taxes. Second
>> questions. Roll call, please. >> Doy, yes. >> Galloway, yes. Hessie, >> yes. Kenir, yes. >> Ortiz, yes. send Timbers. >> Yes. >> Right. >> And can I comment on that? >> Yeah, I know. >> You know what I'm going to say. So, I
talked to our assemblyman um today and we're scheduling the finance and redevelopment committee will be scheduling a meeting with him to discuss certain items and bills that are um that need change or that we would like them
to support. And the one um the one we're that relates to this uh 24 is there's a bill that was just introduced into the um legislation about having the
um state fund these um abatements because right now this taxpayers carer city are which they veterans deserve that not saying they don't. However, so we would collect the
if it does go through, we would collect the money and distribute it to ourselves, part of the municipal purpose tax, the schools and can't remember what else. Oh, the county. The county. >> So hopefully, you know, we'll get a
little bit of help from the state with that supporting our veterans and I hope that they're all on board with that. >> So just just a news splash. >> All right. Number 25 is a resolution authorizing the submission of sustainable Jersey grant funded by PSEG.
>> Motion second. >> Motion made second. Questions? >> Roll call, please. >> Doby, >> yes. >> Galloway, >> yes. >> Pessie, >> yes. >> Kenir, >> yes. >> Ortiz, >> yes. Sen, >> yes. >> Timbers, >> yes. >> Right. >> Yes.
>> Resolution passes. Number 26 is a public hearing on bond ordinance number two-2026 authorizing the completion of various capital improvements for the city of a Carver County of Atlantic State of New Jersey appropriating the sum of $750,000
therefore authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds or bond anticipation notes of the city of a Carver County of Atlantic in the aggregate principal amount of up to 712,5 $500 making certain determination and
covenants and authorizing certain related actions in connection with the foregoing. So is there a motion to hold public hearing? >> Motion second. >> All in favor? >> Opposed?
Public hearing open. Is there anyone that wishes to be heard on bond ordinance number two? Motion to close. Is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> opposed. >> Okay. Um
motion. >> Is there a motion to adopt? >> Motion second. >> Motion made second. Roll call, please. >> Dovy? >> Yes. >> Galloway? >> Yes. >> Hessie? >> Yes. >> Kenir? >> Yes. >> Ortiz? >> Yes. Sen,
>> yes. >> Timbers, >> yes. Right. >> Yes. and that will be advertised in the Hamilton Gazette on February 18th. Okay. Number 27 is a public hearing. Ordinance number three, an ordinance opting into the Garden State CPACE program to
facilitate the financing of CPACE projects. Now, this we did this uh >> I think we've done this already. >> Yeah, >> we have a a version we were sent a version that was not accurate. So we would resent the version that is
accurate and so that's why we're so motion >> question on that. U would would we have to abolish the other uh ordinance or at least refer to it here that that this is replacing that one? >> Pretty good question. >> Yeah. Yes, we should.
>> Is that a resolution that we did? Well, what we can do is we can if you want to pass this tonight, we can pass it tonight and then what we'll be at the next meeting is introduce an ordinance to uh or we ordinance to to residual
ordinance. Okay. So, is there a motion to hold a public hearing? >> Make a motion second. >> Motion made seconded. All in favor? I >> opposed. Public hearing is open on ordinance number three. Anyone wish to
be heard? >> Motion. >> Motion made and seconded. Close public hearing. All in favor? >> Opposed. Motion to adopt. >> Make a motion. Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Doby, >> yes. >> Galloway, >> yes. >> Hessie,
>> yes. >> Kainer, >> yes. >> Ortiz, >> yes. >> Sen, >> yes. >> Timbers, >> yes. Right. >> Yes. >> And this will also be advertised in introduction in the No, this is actually the ordinance uh in the Hamilton Gazette
February 18. Notice adoption. >> Okay. Number 28 is our bill list. >> Make a motion. Second. >> Motion made in second. Questions on the bills. >> Roll call, please. >> Doy. >> Yes. >> Galloway. >> Yes. >> Pessie. >> Yes.
>> Yes. >> Ortiz. >> Yes. >> Zen. >> Yes. Yes. >> Timbers. >> Yes. >> Right. >> Yes. >> Bills are paid for number 29. Anyone wish to be heard from the public comment? >> We
already You can't reach the microphone. >> You guys did a great job. Mom's struggling doing a good job. Um Jerry does an amazing job and deserve that
criminal too much. >> All right, you guys have a good night. >> Thanks for sticking it out. >> Anyone else wish to get hurt? >> Bye. >> Thank you. I'll see you tomorrow. Right. Mayor, comments? >> No comments. Thank you.
>> Picture is Friday. >> Mrs. Hessie, any comments? >> No, nothing. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Wright. >> No, Mr. Gallow. >> Yeah. I just wanted to thank the uh Senior Creek High School administration,
staff, coaches, teams, and the kids because it was a long slog to get that high school here and we we did it. And since then, that high school has brought a lot of joy to
this town. So, I just wanted to say thank you. And just to add to that, the paper won't tell you. Probably a lot of people up here don't know, but that's three state champions, not one. 2018, 2021, and this year, >> but it wasn't called the state championship.
>> It should be called the states we got. >> And the first one they got was the girls basketball team. >> Yes. They over >> that was probably because of quads. >> Anything else? >> No, that's it. Thank you, >> Mr. Tenders. Uh, I want to reserve my
time for Chief. Chief, you catch some stuff sometimes, but you just brush it off. I agree with >> I happen to know that you were uh I think you were elected like treasurer of some police organization like a month ago. >> I'm secretary of the police. Yeah.
>> Y congratulations. >> Yeah, I think they should stop. >> Okay, I'm done. Mr. Doby I have nothing. >> All right, Mr. Ortiz. >> Mr. S. >> Uh, yeah. I want to commend the chief
for uh keeping a stiff upper lip tonight in the face of what was a very distasteless from anyway. And uh I'm just glad to see uh congratulations to uh everyone who put
the time in and had those buildings come down >> over the next over the last few days. Um >> yeah, >> what a wonderful improvement, you know, really. >> So anyway, that's all I have. >> Good. Thank you. I just have one thing
to say. Um, I echo everybody else's comments about school and the chief. Uh, but I have to say that a former, uh, DPW superintendent went through some major surgery and I hear he's doing pretty
well and so, uh, I I read that on Facebook and he did tell me what he was getting done. Uh, just keep them in your thoughts. So, >> uh, >> other than that, uh, is there a motion to adjourn? Motion second.
All in favor?