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This is a meeting of the Burough Islands Mayor Council regular meeting on Wednesday, June 17th, 2026. The notice requirements provided for the open public meetings act have been satisfied. Notice of this meeting was probably given by transmission to the Edward Park Press and Two River Times by

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posting it for municipal building website and filing with Paul on January 1st, 2026. Items listed on the agenda are subject to change. stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it

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stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I'd ask that everyone remain standing. Um, we have had a really terrible uh week with the passing of Dolores

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Francie on the 3rd, Tom Reed on the 8th, and Paul Safalo just uh two days ago on the 15th. So, it is why too we can just have a moment of silence for these three Highlanders. I'd appreciate it. Thank you very much.

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Good ladies. >> We can't hear you. >> We can't hear you. Put the microphone. You >> press it. Press the touch on the bottom. >> There you go. >> Can you hear me? >> Yes. Perfect. >> Oh, it was up. >> Perfect. Thank you. So, uh, as I stated,

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item number 22, resolution R26150 authorizing LUB/developers escrow refund is being removed from the agenda. Uh the resolution is not ready and there's no resolution attached to the agenda at this time. >> Thank you, Zach.

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>> Uh I'll now do the roll call. Councilman Cervantes is absent. >> Council member Chel >> here. >> Council member Melnik >> here. >> Council President Alchesky >> here. >> Mayor Bion >> here. >> First, we have approval of minutes of

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the June 3rd, 2026 meeting minutes. Before anyone offers um I would like to make the following changes to uh actually both se sections are here the regular meeting minutes. It states that Jack Bevans is the sea street owner.

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Jack is not the sea streak owner. He is the senior vice president of marine operations. Um, and in executive session minutes, it says uh that I spoke with, uh, property owners regarding possible acquisition of property, and I never

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spoke with any property owners. So, I just want to correct the record before we do the minutes. Um, and with that, if anyone wants to offer either of these sets of minutes, I I'll second. Okay. Council member Shell.

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>> Yes. Council >> member abstain. Councilman Mocheski. >> Yes. >> Mayor B. >> Yes. One second. Next is the June 3rd, 2026 executive minutes. >> All of them as amended.

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I'll second. Constitution. Council member Schel. >> Yes. >> Council member Melain. >> Council President Oeski. >> Yes. >> Mayor Be. >> Yes. >> Next we have a public hearing on proposed ordinance. Ordinance 26-14

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amending chapter 2 administration section 2-32 Department of Public Works. Section 2-32.6 Six, appointment superintendent of the burough code. >> Does anyone have any questions at the table? >> No.

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>> I can open up the public portion for this ordinance. Does anyone have something they'd like to discuss? Seeing um seeing no one that I will close public portion and offer this uh

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ordinance. I'll second Council member Chelse, >> yes. >> Council member Melik, >> yes. >> Council President Oeski, >> yes. >> Mayor Bond, >> yes. >> Um, ordinance 026-14 passes on second

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and final reading. Next, we have ordinance 26-15, designating restricted parking in front of a residence occupied by a person with disabilities. Any questions at all? Going to open it to the public. Does anyone from the

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public have uh any comment or question regarding this ordinance? Okay, seeing none, I will offer this ordinance as well. >> I'll second. Okay. >> Council member, >> yes. >> Council member Mill. >> Yes.

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>> Council President Oeski. >> Yes. Mayor Bruno. >> Yes. >> Ordinance 02615 passes on second and final reading. Ordinance 026-16 adding chapter 7-3.6c of the burough code designated

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restricting restricted parking for persons with disabilities. >> Um any question on this one? No. Uh does anyone from the public have anything that they would like to ask or discuss regarding this ordinance? Seeing none, I will offer it. I'll

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second. >> Council member Kelly, >> yes. >> Council member Melik, >> yes. >> Council President Lee, >> yes. >> Mayor Bruine, >> yes. >> Organ 2616 pass on second and final reading.

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>> Mary, would you like me to read the consent agenda? Yes, please. >> Consent agenda R26-136. Approval to submit a grant application and execute a grant contract with the New Jersey Department of Transportation for the Route 36 of Water Avenue pedestrian safety safety improvement

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project R26-137 approval to submit a grant application and execute a grant contract with the New Jersey Department of Transportation for the North Street and Shore Drive Improvement Project R26-138. approval to submit a grant application

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and execute a grant contract with the New Jersey Department of Transportation for the Route 36 community overpass project. R26-139 authorizing the award of a contract for services in connection with the Mammoth County Open Space Grant application.

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R26-140 authorizing the award of contracts or services in connection with the Mammoth County Community Development Block Grant application. R26-141 authorizing the award of a contract for services in connection with the 2027 New

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Jersey Department of Transportation state aid application R26-142 authorizing payment of bills R26-143 authorizing the execution of a shared services agreement between the Bureau of Highlands and the County of Mama through

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the Mammoth County Sheriff's Office Communications Division R26-144 approving a membership application for the Highlands First Aid Squad and R26145 authorizing the award of a non-fair and open contract for professional services

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in connection with the South Peak drainage improvement project. >> Are there any questions on the consent agenda? >> I have one. >> Sure. >> Uh R26145 the the South Beach Ranch. When I read it, there was something that spoke about

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the um the burrow rightway. Yes. is are there any within this particular um resolution are there any considerations for burying the pipe? >> Yes. >> So thank you. So we're just going to

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make it part of that Joe. Would you rather explain further? Okay. Right now, uh this is the main part of the south peak the road because that's 2025 project. >> But based on the past few weeks, few months, we're going to get a survey of

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that those rightways and we're going to structure it uh whether it's one contract, two, but >> good. I I I would just say I I took a walk up top and I happened to meet a woman I don't know and I still don't know her name. But at any rate, there's

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a tree on the burrow right away that that is like taking over too. I don't know. Do we do we address those or that could be addressed after the survey? >> Good. >> And then also this is authorized. >> Good.

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>> Thank you. Absolutely. So, if you see Kathy or any of the other neighbors, we could let them know that we heard them and we're on it. >> Definitely. >> Okay. Excellent. Um, any other questions on the consent

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agenda? Then I will offer it. >> I'll second. >> Council member, >> yes. >> Council member Melik. >> Yes. Council President Oeski. >> Yes. >> Mayor Bion. >> Yes. >> Next we have other business.

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Public hearing on license 1317-33-008-00006 placeto place transfer application. Are there any questions left from council that you have regarding uh

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this is uh the place to post transfer for uh sea street right for the uh one building to two buildings. Got it. Any other questions before I open it up to the public? >> No.

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>> No. Okay, then I'll open it up to the public. If you have a question, if you could come to the microphone, state your name and address for the record. Can you just explain to me in layman's terms what this actually is from what it

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seems like procedural but from the last council meeting it seemed a little more than that from what B was saying so I just want just clarify >> okay at it the at its most basic >> this is a place to place transfer of a

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liquor license so that means the the actual um physical buildings where alcohol is either stored, sold um and sold to the public. >> So it uh their original application had

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just uh the barge which is considered building number one. And in this application they are uh putting in the main uh bar at uh on the beach. So that would be building number two. Now, you might have noticed from time to time

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that they might have a I don't know like a daquiri thing or other types of places where they're selling alcohol, but because they're not fixed buildings, they're just they're removable. Um the ABC doesn't count those as a building.

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>> It is still like allowed. >> It is allowed. It's just not counted as a physical building because it's not a physical building. So, that's basically what this is about. because it just it seemed like I watched the reporting and it just seemed a little bit more more than

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>> because it was getting conf people were getting confused with their land use application which is all about zoning and parking and things like that. This application it uh that's with council is for the one building to two buildings. No, it just it seemed like it seemed

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like it was basically they were operating without it came off as >> three years and so I'm just I'm not just >> clarity. Yeah, absolutely. >> So, >> so just like we don't have we as the

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council we don't have any influence on zoning >> the land use board has no influence on us approving or disapproving a transfer of a license. So this is literally just >> Yes. >> Thank you.

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>> Got it. >> Any other questions regarding this place to place transfer? It >> should be not. examp. Yeah, >> this one's on right here. >> There's usually a bunch of batteries.

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There you go. There you go. >> Thank you, sir. >> Thank you. >> Uh Richard Jones for Mountain Street. So, I also had questions about this. Does the application

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have anything about parking? >> That is with the land use board, >> right? But this application does it >> this was saying to Cody completely different things is zoning and the the zoning and the use is all done

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with the land use board. This is just for one building to two buildings. Well, it seems like they're related in some respects. And >> would you like to explain the law and how it's completely separate that we

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have no jurisdiction? >> Absolutely. >> Okay. Thank you. >> So, >> is it better? Okay. So for the purpose of of just understanding when it comes to the parking and the amount of parking spaces that would be required and the parking issues that were kind of

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outlined during the last hearing while those uh were presented during the public portion primarily those are concerned by the the zoning board. The zoning board is a separate board that has its own authority by by law in New Jersey. They control those site plan

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requirements and those other things. The coun town council here has no ability to control that. uh parking as part of this application. So this is purely a liquor question, a liquor license question. Apologize for that. Uh as opposed to the way the kind of the site is set up is a

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land use question. So they're different boards. By New Jersey law, the town council does not have the ability to influence the zoning board's hearing or application or review of the site plan or whether they're going to uh do whatever they're going to do with the application on the 25th.

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So you're saying that the board cannot take that into account. Let's say there was zero parking available and you know it was the board can take can hear and take it into account but they can't require or change any of the parking requirements that are currently

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existing. >> Well then >> the council cannot do that but the land use board can >> exactly. Sorry for collaborative purposes. Thank you ma'am. Well, it seems to me then we're putting the cart before the horse. Would it wouldn't it make sense to get

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the parking uh application, which is on the a public hearing on the 25th, a special land use board meeting, wouldn't it make sense to resolve the parking and traffic issues before

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deciding about this? I guess this is a change of use in the property technically, correct? I don't know if it's a change of use. That's a it's a different question than uh what I don't think it's a change of use of the property. That would be a question of what the current use of the

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property is. And I'm not sure that's been entered into the record. >> The council does not make or have any jurisdiction over use at all. That is solely with the land use board. But the land use board can't decide what

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happens with the liquor license. >> That's no as previously stated the application is independent of the ongoing uh application that's before the land use board. As the burrow engineer, if I was the land use uh engineer, I would be

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reviewing these site plans. As the burrow engineer for this council, I haven't seen a site plan. I haven't reviewed a site plan. I stick to the burrow right away. It's private property. It's not the burrow right away. So, there's no review of that plan before this burrow right here. The

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liquor license is governed by this council, which is why there's an application to go from one to two, which is what is being reviewed. It's it's apples and oranges. I know it seems that they're mixed because of the fact that it's the same property, same site. They

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may have related components, but from a jurisdictional standpoint, it's about having a liquor license go from one building to two and that's where it stands. The impacts and all that is something that has to be reviewed by the land use public and their professionals. They have a land

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use attorney that mirrors this position and they have a land use engineer that mirrors my position that takes all that into account, takes the public comments into account and we'll make a decision on that at that meeting that you mentioned in a couple of weeks.

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Well, what happens if the land use board decides that there's not adequate parking for this liquor license use that is a what is called a variance and the land use board will will he have

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their hearing on June 25th at Henry Hudson. We have the full auditorium. Uh so I invite everyone to uh to come to that meeting because I think it's important that everyone be heard. Uh, you know, I agree. I mean, in the

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long story of Highlands, certainly Sea Streak would deserve a chapter on that story and I guess the council gets to choose in some respects how the how that story

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will go. So, uh, I I mean, just in my opinion, I think it would make sense to wait until the parking and traffic issues are resolved and then take this up again with the the council. Thank you.

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>> Any other uh questions or comments, Mr. Surgis. >> Yes. How are you? My name is uh Jerry Sergis. I live down at uh 60 Matthew Street. Um this is uh uh I'm here because of uh meeting from last uh week

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regarding Garcinets's parking lot. Uh this there's a flooding issue that's flooding Matthew Street Beach um township property that um I'm here to request that the the council um get a

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hold of the code enforcer and uh appear at the property. Um this is going on. This is only just what I pulled off the computer. I have probably about double this uh videos and everything.

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Uh when I the original original uh after the property was sold from Jim uh to the ferry service uh they excuse me uh they leased it to this company called Trip. It's a company that picks up houses. I think he's still

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around in town. After they left after he left uh I guess they had an agreement to repair the prop because it was all heavy equipment and everything. They put thousands of tons of blue stone there, causing a problem, flooding the water

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going right into the uh property of Matthew Street on the beach and in turn flooding my houses. But when a heavy heavy rain comes, if that my stump punchs don't stop. So I

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called the police department several times. I got some of the the reports here. This this started back when Marilyn O'Neal was in running and in office and uh I had a bad excuse me um

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>> if you would like to sit that's fine too. >> Thank you very much. >> I would just ask that you grab the microphone with you so that we can cuz we record everything and make the minutes. >> So they they dumped thousands of tons of blue stone and that property originally

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was all beach. I've I fil I have photos of everything and I have videos at the police department reports and and letters to the mayor then >> and letters to sea streak. Um so you know they came they put a burn first

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they said that DP and OSHA and all this other stuff was not you know not permitted says you just put thousands of blue stone down here and so I called I got person's name I got everything they were permitted to do three things put a

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curb concrete curb a curb with uh uh the same material along the property and andor or uh what's the other one or dirt. So there was no trees along that fence

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then. So Sea Streak told me and the town they promised that they were going to put a BM down the side and they were going to put their trees along the top of that fence or on top of the BM making it, you know, 3 foot above and uh they never did. They started

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planting the trees down and basically blew me off. I called the town at the time and they came down with the code force and whatever happened happened. Nothing happened. So after several, you know, letters and I had my attorney at the time, Larry Carton has passed away

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now, called them and they came and they put uh they took the blue stone, same type of material, and they put a BM right down right down that fence area in the inside of the trees and on their property. Great. Everything worked great, you know, and then what

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happens is it snows and they come down and they plow and they take the burm. The burm's gone. And then they they come and they dump more dirt, more stone there like they just did. And they make the pile higher and they take the burm and they smooth out the burm and it's

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all pitched down to the beach down to Matthew Street Beach and it floods. I have photos. I'm sure you guys have seen those photos and that's just, you know, we had problems with the other side and they took Oh, I'm sorry. The other correction and they were permitted to

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put a storm drain to the beach at one time. I don't know if this is still legal or not, but this is many years ago. That was one of the other remedies to this problem. Um, BM concrete curve or storm drain and dirt. Uh, and they

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they did put the burm there. at photos here, but they keep smashing it down. The long of the short is is that we're approaching some type of voting coming up in a couple weeks from what I understand for zoning. And I want to proceed again. They had the code

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enforcer out there five, six times already over the course of the years. And I'd like to officially ask if we could get the code enforcer involved and uh take a look and see what we can do with this as far as having it mandated

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permanently because it's not only my property is being flood. It's flooding township property and and you know it's and and keep in mind that was all even. That was all even. That was all fill in from the from the channel. There was nothing there at that time. But anyway,

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it was all even and they took it and they it's like two three foot above, you know, you look at the grade and just dumps right into the into that property. >> When they have that burm there, it works. It have they did a really nice burm at one time and it worked tremendously, but then they like I said,

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they plow and it's gone. And and keep in mind that burm was supposed to be under those trees originally. that burm that they were talking about. It was supposed to be either dirt or a burm and they were going to put the trees on top. >> So, is there a burm there now? >> I I they they took it. They took the

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burm. The burm was there and they started they dumped more blue stone there and their worker came and started feathering it all into the parking lot. And I went out there and said, "What are you doing?" And this is not this is not the first time this happened. This has happened like five times already. So

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they took it and they they feathered it all out to the park and said the water's going to dump all into the front of my house. It's going to flood my house. I said it's all documents. I got letters from the mayor, previous mayor, >> code enforcement. I got letters from from uh uh from the ferry service

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and uh it's there's really no disputing this. It's facts. I got videotapes and the police department was there. >> So what I think I I highly recommend is you you've got a you know your list of facts. You've got an explanation of this. if you could please put this in an email uh forward it over to code enforcement he they he'll take a look at

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all the material and make you make a decision as to that but if you could just put it in writing kind of just you know rather than him having to review this hearing just put it in writing just send it to him his information is found right on the uh burough's website. >> Absolutely. >> So I I don't know the procedure if the town if the the council has the

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authority or to to request on my behalf. And I have the documents. I have everything. And this is just like I said, this is this is nothing. >> The only reason I'm recommending it in this way is uh you obviously have the information. You have a lot of this. It'll go it'll greatly contribute towards if there's going to be a

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resolution of this in whatever manner there's a resolution if there is one. Uh you know, you kind of helping get the ball rolling. >> And and just in a closing note, I'm I'm in favor. You know, I heard the police chief, he's he's spot on. Spot on with the traffic, spot on with everything. But you know we we have an agreement

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with them and you know you got to work with them now you know so um uh you know it's it's very difficult the other day there was no police officer there were there for whatever reason just a suggestion I've seen these uh on that river road these temporary stop lights

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they put it right across the road and they have they on on main street to where where the parrot used to be I don't know what the store is called quite your wife's uh there used to be a parrot >> yeah it's the corner of shore Yes. Yes. They have these temporary uh traffic

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lights they they put on, you know, they put right in the middle of the road, you know, right across the road and maybe in the rush hour. This is dangerous. I mean, it's absolutely dangerous there. There's no parking for anybody. I mean, there's a I mean, the gentleman has an issue with the parking. I mean, he's a

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valid issue, but uh I'm not here for that. Just just a suggestion. I will do the thing with the code enforcement. >> Please do. And um >> and I would also suggest that you call the land use board secretary. She's in every day. >> Okay. >> 8:30 to 4:30. And if you wanted to give her those

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>> I do >> documentation >> and I if she needs more but this is more than sufficient and it's not it's not it's undisputable. Yes. I mean it's all letters and videos police reports. >> So thank you very much. I appreciate it. >> Thank you Jerry. Anyone

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else have something they'd like to add? Sure. Sir, thank you, mayor. Just to uh just to touch on a few things from last time. Uh last Wednesday uh when we spoke, I said that it was the busiest that Sea Streak has ever been until today.

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Today was uh if you notice there was the full length of shore drive the full parking lot at Darson Eds. There were cars parked at the VFW today on Bay Avenue because there was some type of retirement party at the sandbox today. So to our attorney's point, yes, the land use board and the liquor license

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are two separate things. But as the deputy attorney general said, you cannot unsee what's going on before the land use board. That's a reality. So you have the ability, there's two different things going on. You have the ability to deny this place to place and seash will

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continue to run their business. They'll continue to run the ferry. People will get on the boat and they will go to the city. If you do approve this with no stipulations, nothing. You can't turn back. You can never go back. This is a one-time thing.

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You can approve their license. You can approve to to continue the license that they have and you can deny this. And like the gentleman said, you can wait till the 25th. As I explained the last time, we were waiting for 3 years. I guarantee you that their hearing on the

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25th will not be done. It's going to get carried. That will be till September, October because it's a special meeting. That's another summer that they're going to operate that business. This is this will be four years in a row that they kick the can down the road.

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This is going to continue. It might even continue until next year. And I would think that the land use board approval, although two separate things, and I'll reiterate that again, although two separate things, may eliminate some of the concerns that I brought up that are valid. The traffic, the pedestrians, all

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those things, those are valid concerns to the place to place. >> Absolutely. Um, this is a perfect segue for me to ask uh, Zach to uh, read the um, the condition that we are going to

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be putting on this place to place transfer. >> How about that? Happy to. So, as far as one of the condition on the uh, application will be the applicants have submitted a site plan application which would address the traffic and parking concerns on the site. The applicants

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shall obtain site plan approval for that application or alternatively address the traffic and parking concerns in a substantially similar manner. >> Who reviews that Joe? >> I'm reviews what? >> The site plan. The traffic plan site plan.

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>> Well, no, no. If if the there's currently a site plan, right? So, the condition is shall obtain site plan approval for that application or address >> condition upon It's it's a condition. Yes, it's condition of the approval.

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>> Thank you very much. >> You're very welcome. Okay, seeing nobody else with a question or comment, I'm going to close the public hearing and I will offer uh this an approval for

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this placetoplace transfer uh with the condition that the attorney read out. >> We're going to check the resolutions. Sorry, this is all all by itself. >> We I just saw we had one more other business before we went to resolutions, but

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>> no problem following agenda. >> Right. We're at number 16, >> right? And 17 is open space grant, >> right? But we're we're >> So, we're jumping to the >> I I've made the motion. >> I need someone to second and then we vote

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>> on the approval. So, do I have a second for the approval with the condition? Um, I'm confused. Oh boy. >> Can you read the condition again? >> I'd be happy to. >> No problem. The applicants have

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submitted a site plan application which would address the traffic and parking concerns on the site. The applicant applicants shall obtain site plan approval for that application or alternatively address the traffic and parking concerns in a substantially

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similar manner. So if we vote yes on this, >> but it's contingent on what happens with the land use board. >> It it not entirely. It's contingent upon parking being parking and traffic concerns being dealt with in a

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substantially similar manner as would be the land use board. We cannot condition it upon the land use board's uh approval or non-approval. But we can condition substanti uh either a grant of modification or substantially similar relief through some other means. >> Okay. But now isn't the actual vote on

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this Caroline on um number 20 or 26 148. >> Right. That's the vote. >> All right. >> Um Jill, it's on you now. number 17 public hearing for Kujan Field.

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Okay. >> Hello. All right. Uh, this is the tile instruction. >> Joe, is your microphone on? I'm sorry. >> Good. >> You have to move it closer. >> Yes. >> We'll bring it close. >> There you go.

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>> All right. This is the B Highlands Kabooian Field Infrastructure Improvements public presentation. This is a requirement for Mammoth County uh municipal park improvement grant program. Let's make sure this works.

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So, a quick agenda. There's a program overview, description, photos of the existing conditions, project location, project scope and need, the concept plan will be shown, project implementation schedule, and then a budget and municipal match uh Excel table and

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public comment period. So, just a quick program overview. The Mammoth County Municipal Park Improvement Grant Program assists municipalities by providing additional funding needed to make improvements in municipal parks and open space. The Mammoth County Municipal Park Improvement Program is programmed with

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the Mammoth County Board of County Commissioners and is administered with the assistance of the Mon Mammoth County Park System. Grants may be up to 50% of the project costs and are selected on a competitive basis. County funding will be limited to $500,000 per project. Each

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applicant is limited to one grant application per annual grant cycle. So for this project, what we're looking to do is to accomplish a few site amenity related items such as upgrading the fencing and back stop at the field, site improvements to the bleacher areas. We

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want to replace the uh retaining walls, which are currently timber uh and put in uh anchored wall systems. Uh we want to complete some dugout repairs, and we want to install some other new amenities. such as parking improvements, uh, ballards, trash receptacles, and

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other and flag poles, other items that you would find at a baseball field or a softball field. So, we have some photos of the existing conditions that you can see here, uh, showing the existing conditions as of the last month. Uh, this is a very heavily utilized field

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and is pretty much just it's it's exhausted its lifespan and needs some uh some TLC. So this is the project location off of route 36 which I'm sure you guys are all familiar with.

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So Kujia field is a wellutilized but outdated and in need of repair. The auding walls and staircase near bleachers pose a potential safety hazard and the highlands burrow has undertaken an initiative to strategically improve the burrow field on a multi-year multi-phase process.

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Here you can see the concept plan where the majority of the work will be around the perimeter of the field. This is not a change in field use in terms of we're going to be ripping up and doing sod and all that. This is about the amenities and mostly the retaining walls due to the fact that that would be a much

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larger project cost. So in terms of an implementation schedule, we will be completing the grant this summer. We will be looking to uh once obtain the grant uh we would be have to do a phase one which is an environmental assessment uh of the existing soil conditions of

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the project site. Then we would complete design and permitting and go for advertisement of the bids with the hope of this project happening sometime in fiscal year 2028. Uh there's a lot of back and forth these grant cycles. It's very competitive. So until we really

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know where we stand as a grant award, the scope of the project is subject uh to being changed at this time. What we're looking for is a playground improvement, not playground, sorry, it's a typo. uh a a park improvement cost of

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$473,000 with a healthy contingency of 15% totaling around $550,000 with a grant request to be 50% of that which is $272,000 and5 272500.

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At this point I would open up to public comment. Well, before we get there, uh Michael and I had a really great meeting with Janet Sherlock, who's the uh administrator at the uh at the high school, and what she uh and the school

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is looking to do is uh make that a ped a softball field uh for Henry Hudson's softball. So she was looking at uh shrinking the infield a little bit. Uh doing a lot of the things that uh what

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uh Charlie was talking about. Um and two years is probably going to be two years too long to wait to make any of these improvements. So, what I suggested that we do, and uh both Michael and Janet love this idea, is to do sort of a um a

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community project where we have a great deal of uh uh handy folks. We have our our vets did a great job uh working with the garden club and other community members at Veterans Park. This would be a little bit of a step above that. Um, but things

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that can be done as a community project that we could fund internally, such as uh taking those bleachers out because they're just an accident waiting to happen. Um, and pouring um, uh, concrete pads for the bleachers and

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then purchasing aluminum bleachers for them to have uh, on top. Everything that I just described is not even going to be $50,000, but that would be an immediate fix to a really bad I mean, look at those bleachers. It's it's really a

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disgrace. Um, and also taking a look at, you know, the the larger grant would really take care of things like um the retaining walls, new fencing, but we could fix the back stop. The dugout's not in terrible shape. It really just

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needs some patch and uh paint that can definitely be done internally along with the kids at Hudson uh could be part of the project too. And I think they would be very um interested in it and invested in in doing the work uh with of course

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some uh craftsmen that know what they're actually doing. >> Would the school contribute financially? >> They would. they have expressed that they uh would um they love the idea of the community project and we told them

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what we were looking at for um this open space grant, but like I said, we really need to get on with sooner rather than later cuz it's uh really in bad shape. >> In in the past, we contemplated as part of the flood mitigation a retaining

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basin up there. Does this in any way interfere with that plan if it ever comes? really wouldn't because all of these amenities are I mean I love saying amenities right but it's really not it's concrete pads and aluminum bleachers that you could fold up and store away

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>> um that would be more of the outfield this is the area field to remain this was where the proposed uh retain uh sediment detention basin would be it'd be the size of like a 7 by7 soccer field it's it's not that big

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>> in terms of uh I know part of the larger The project was while we're doing that, we're going to redo everything the actual settlement decent uh is would be probably coming out. >> But getting new new fencing for the back stop and cleaning up the dugouts and cleaning up the bleachers

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>> and if you could recast it as a softball field, you don't have to worry too much about the >> Well, we don't have to worry about the mounds. We don't have to worry about that type of upkeep. >> Easy. >> That's that's I disagree with that on the record. >> Not sure. Does anyone have any questions about

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this project? Please come right up. >> Good evening. My name is Rose Bali. Uh my address is 248 Highway 36. I think that this is a great plan, but are we taking into

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consideration if they're going to play softball up there and balls get hit on to 36, is there going to be any type of netting that would prevent a home run to hit 36 into oncoming traffic? And would

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they consider putting lighting or having some sort of electrical lighting sometimes when the season goes a little longer to maybe finals or states and we would host which we did at Henry Hudson

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in 2015 or 2017? What year was it 2015? We made it to states and we played at other fields because we did not have the amenities or the fields to be able to host or be a hosting team. So, there's a

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lot to consider about this. I think it's great. The the um the field has been in disarray. I'm in Highlands 14 years. They cut the grass. They park the cars up there when we're having flood, you know, or inclement weather. And it needs

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a little bit more than cement pad pads. And >> I I'm saying instead of waiting 2 years for this grant to kick in, I want to get the danger situation resolved >> immediately >> with the money that we already have in our capital budget.

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>> That's great. But with that said, would we consider putting up netting to prevent >> I mean, we currently play baseball and softball at this field as well as field hockey and sometimes soccer when there's an issue with the upper fields. >> Okay. So, there's never been any

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incidents. I mean, >> not to my knowledge, chief. >> Anyone? >> None. >> Okay. I just want >> I'm saying from hole from from the two foul holes, it's 200 ft. Um, which is not a lot in baseball, but that's a lot in softball. Um, I've been watching a

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lot of softball lately, but uh and dead center is about 230. >> Okay. >> So, it's uh but it it hasn't and and which really shocks me because some of our baseball kids are really good. So, it's it's amazing that they have never

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uh done it. But netting is completely an option and so was lighting. Yeah, there there are fields that I've designed where you you do have like low-level fields and then if you were to have an event, you you would have like every other poll and then you can raise it. That's something that a lot of high

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schools started to do as needed. So when we get to that point, it's something that would be considered. But for the purpose of this grant, like I said, it's a multi-phase phase one. Right now, we're dealing with mostly along the retaining walls cuz we don't want

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anything to give. That's the cuz all that runoff from Mammoth Hills washes out the field. >> Okay, I thank you for that. But you should also consider local businesses providing banners. We have a long stretch of fencing that goes across. So, it would be good to advertise and and

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potentially get the community involved to purchase a banner for couple hundred bucks, their logo, their names up there, and it would make that whole fence line look really nice. And then obviously the sign, one of the original sign is a

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couple of the letters down, but the newer sign has the correct name. So maybe figuring out which sign you want to keep while your endeavor for the new bleachers and painting is underway. I think it cosmetically it would make it look really sharp and you would raise

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some additional funds. I'm not sure about the legality of the burrow being able to raise funds in that manner, but the school can raise funds in that manner. >> Yes. And maybe >> and they do they already do do uh sponsorships up at their fields uh for

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um for their sporting events. >> Yes, I'm aware of that. And one last thing, perhaps you could get some sort of digital signage um to to have we we petitioned that many years ago when my girls were at Henry Hudson and we could

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not get it up at the school because the condo association said that any digital signage would be detrimental to the wildlife that was up there. So people, you know, okay, people don't know what's going on. And now that we have Burrow Hall right on the highway, I really

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think a digital sign would be great. You know, advertising things for the burrow, the children, teacher of the month, etc. Just kind of bringing it all together. It's it costs about $10,000, but that was like six years ago. So, >> right. Uh the uh Janet Sherlock

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mentioned a digital scoreboard. >> Great. >> Um am I forgetting anything from that meeting? I think I >> No, you had pretty much everything. So to really to jazz it up over there, it really it needs some love. >> Definitely. Thank you. >> You're welcome. Thank you.

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>> I know where I am, >> but I lost a bathroom window this year. I've lived there for 13 years. >> But was that from Kaboo or was that from the from Henry Hudson >> up there on the Henry Hudson field? >> Yeah. >> But only one in all these years.

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>> Okay. Well, that's interesting. Can you imagine it had to go through those either through or over the trees and then down? >> Yeah, >> Mr. Jones. >> Uh, yes, Richard Jones for Mountain Street. Uh, I guess it's not part of

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this grant, but I did hear the burough engineer mention the sediment uh or can you expand on that? Uh that's the uh there's a lot of documentation out there. That's the FEMA brick grant that the bureau received a

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few years ago that got stalled when the administration switched it. It was a Mammoth Hills uh and Highlands flood mitigation project. >> But that's not part of this grant. But no, >> no yeah no yeah no yeah no yeah no yeah no yeah no yeah no yeah no yeah no yeah no the only there was an overlap in

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terms of the use of property since this is a burough owned property uh that that project had a conceptual design that would involve some of the land on this property uh and that is what councilman was referencing >> so is that still in play or is that like a

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>> there is field work that will be being conducted in Mammoth Hills by FEMA's subconultant CDM Smith at the end of this And other than that, I don't have much of an update. >> That's all that we know. Sending the

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archaeological team to go look at their historic there. >> So, yes, it's a archaeological survey phase 1B. We want to put that in chat. TBT. >> Yeah. I guess >> I guess it's a little off topic from

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this grant discussion, but shouldn't Mammoth Hills be dealing with Mama's Mammoth Hills settlement on Mammoth Hills property? But wouldn't that be more ideal? Oh boy, this is a very large grant that

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we won. Uh the largest grant uh that Highlands has ever won. It's over $16 million project. Well, this was 3 years ago monies. So, it's more than that. And the grant that was awarded uh to us was about

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>> $12.5 million to not only do that part which is stopping all of their um all of that runoff from getting into Highlands and getting into downtown Highlands. Um, as you may know, although

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Highlands owns Kujan Field, that field lives in Middletown, not in Highlands. >> I wasn't aware of that. >> Yeah. >> Um, if you'd like to go on to the burough website, there's a very detailed uh presentation with really great

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drawings about the FEMA grit brick. Um, it's it's all out there under projects. Um, there's a ton there's a ton of examples. There's the copy of um a much more detailed uh concept plan.

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>> I'll uh check that out, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around. So, Highlands owns the property, but it's resides in Middletown. >> Yes. It's just like how the property across the street from you has a Highlands

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address, but it's in Middletown. Just like all of Mammoth Hills, their address is Highlands, but they're in Middletown. Sandy Hook addresses Highlands, but it's in Middletown. >> Okay. Thank you. >> You got it.

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>> Okay. So, going to close that public hearing unless anybody has any other questions for Mr. Ch. >> No. >> No. Okay. Okay. Back to resolutions. >> Okay. Resolution R 26146

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authorizing the growing islands to apply for a 2026 Mammoth County Municipal Park Improvement Grant for Kusian Field Infrastructure Improvements Projects. >> I will offer it. Second. >> Council member Chel. >> Yes.

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>> Council member Mela. >> Yes. >> Council President Oeski. >> Yes. >> Mayor Bria. >> Yes. Resolution R26147 approving renewal of liquor license

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1317-33-015-007 for the 2026 2027 per >> I'll second >> no different >> this is Leo >> no worries it's been a very confusing Okay.

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>> This is for Chilongo's restaurant. Um, anyone want to make a motion? >> I I made an offer. >> Oh, you did? >> We did. Yeah. We're just waiting for Mike. >> Council member. >> Yes. >> Council member Melik. >> Yes. >> Council President. >> Yes. >> Mayor Rio.

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>> Yes. >> R 261 148. >> Yes. Authorizing a place to place transfer of booker license 1317-33-00008-00006. >> I I'll offer it. >> Offer it with conditions. >> Mhm.

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>> The conditions discussed. I'll second with conditions. >> Council member Ch. >> Yes. >> Council member. >> Yes. >> Council President Oeski. >> Yes. >> Mayor Bant. >> Yes. R 26149 approving the renewal of liquor licenses

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for the 2026 2027 term. >> I'll offer I'll second. >> Council member Shell. >> Yes. >> Council member Mullik. >> Yes. Council >> President Oski. >> Yes. Mayor >> Brio. >> Yes.

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administrator's report. I've uh it before you this evening. Uh I really have nothing else to add for tonight. I've been trying to play clerk to the best of my ability. >> Admirable job. >> Admiral and we're the public portion.

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Individuals wishing to address the council shall be recognized by the presiding officer and to give their name, address, and group if any they represent. Although the council encourages public participation, it reserves the right for the presiding officer to terminate remarks to and by any individual not in keeping with the

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conduct of a proper efficient meeting. If any individual refuses to conduct themselves in a proper manner, they will be removed from the meeting. The council will not during the public portion of this meeting discuss matters involving employment, appointment, termination of employment, negotiations, terms and

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conditions of employment, evaluation of the performance of promotion or discipline of any specific or prospective or current employees. There is a three limit time three minute time limit for your comments. >> Come on down. Uh, Cody VP 330 Shore. Um,

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how do I word this without because it's When does the town require a resolution on hiring an an employee? Generally, we do this with higher level. I'm sorry, Zach, if you want to take that.

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I was going to say if if we're hiring a laborer for DPW, say, we don't require a resolution for that, but there's other types of positions where it is required. >> I was going to say it it really specifies uh for the most part it's it's

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according to the municipal uh title 40 New Jersey statutes. Certain positions you have to fulfill by resolution. Certain ones are just a product of typical employment. So like a I hate to say a land use board secretary does require resolution.

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>> Not at this body. It is a a resolution was done at the land use board. >> Yes. >> The language board has a budget to hire someone as fulltime use board secretary. >> Yes. >> Now what is this language board secretary doing if they're full-time?

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>> She is works with uh under the building department. >> Okay. So, there are people that come to building department every single day. >> Okay. I don't know if you're going to answer this, but I assume it's got to be public. What are we What is their salary?

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>> I don't know off the top of my head. >> I want to say 60 60,000. >> Okay. And they're But they're doing more than just the land use. >> Yes. And she's also managing all of the escrow accounts for all of the building and construction that goes on. >> Okay. >> Um

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>> Okay. I just wanted to make sure we're not banging someone. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. >> You got it. >> Uh Richard Jones for Mountain Street. Uh, I'm not sure if the council has any ability to

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get the land use special land use board meeting packet posted on the internet. I realize that people can come to the office and review the plan, but you know, it's a very detailed plan. It would be very helpful

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if it was in a digital form. >> It will be in a digital form, >> right? But the the meeting's coming up soon and it's a very >> we cannot publish anything to the website until the engineer for the land use board has signed off that the that

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everything is complete until we get that letter from the engineer. We can't post anything and put it out there in the public domain. It's just like how we cannot put out minutes until the minutes are approved by a board. you can't put them out be before they get

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voted on and approved. So if the engineer has said just like when um um our burrow engineer uh reviews something, we can't publish anything to the to our website until it's been approved by the engineer.

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So technically there's a difference between allowing the public to view documents at the office versus publishing them on the internet. You're saying >> can you

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>> I I'm you clarify I'm confused. So if I asked at the la last land use board meeting, you know, when this would when they'd be available and I was told that I could come to the burough office and I could

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review the plan in the office, but so there's a difference between like the public being having that access and publishing. >> Did the board say when or did they just fail to clarify that it would be after approval from the board engineer?

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I think it just seems sounds like they failed to clarify the same thing the mayor's telling me right now. >> I think I was told I could come in the next day if I wanted. So, um >> I think I meant the next day after a meeting >> is that

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after which meeting? Like if the land used to prove something, then it would be public record. >> Yeah. >> View that the next day because it's on the record that's been approved. So, for instance, I could have made edits to this presentation up until it was just publicly provided. I could have made

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edits two hours ago in the office and now that it's been publicly provided, this is the public entity that would be all posted on the website. >> No, that that's different from from this if if >> sorry. >> Yeah, exactly. It's like it's we are

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waiting for compl it's a when you go through the land use process is something called resolution compliance after you have your resolution to make sure that you are building as per the land use board resolution. This is what is before that. We we take all of the

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plans. So the site plan, the um uh the writership numbers, we take all of that stuff together and then we say, "Oh, the engineer looks at it and he sees that if everything that they've asked for has been provided, nothing is missing, nothing is uh confusing." And

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then he signs off on it. So once he signs off on it, we scan everything together and we put it on well I don't do it but the landing board secretary will do it and she'll put that onto the website. >> So just to clarify I can review the

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plans now at the office or No, >> not unless the >> not unless the engineer has signed off on it. So, is there a requirement of how much time before a meeting that those plans become publicly available to for review?

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>> You're asking the council to answer a land use board question when Zach is a great attorney, but he's not a land use attorney. >> I said this is really something you should check the uh title title 40 uh section 55 for. It's a municipal land

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use law. Or you could always go visit the land use secretary or call her or email her. Her email is land use secretary at highlandsj.gov. Her name is Kate. She's lovely. I'm just saying you're asking us to

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answer a question that we have no power over because it's an entirely different quas jurisdictional board. >> Yeah. I mean that's why I started with asking. I wasn't sure if you could have any influence on getting that published

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so the public could review it because >> are you looking for the agenda? What what are you? >> She's he's looking for plans for sea street but they haven't been signed off on yet. >> It's a whole parking traffic drainage. You know, it's like >> this is really a question for the light

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years board. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. Any other public comments? >> Yes, please. >> Rose Bali, 248 highway 36. In April, I came to the council meeting and I

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presented a couple of concerns about the department of public works and some uh debris and especially on border witch at the elementary school uh sidewalk. I called. I was told it was a county road. There are still pieces of sidewalk that

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have broken away, boulders and nothing has been addressed. Um, a couple of the areas which I mentioned on Miller with the overhang of the trees and stuff. I was awarded a um

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I don't know if you call it like adopt a road, but I have adopted Miller Street to clean it up a little bit. When I went to the resident on the side where the white fence is, he told me that I couldn't go over there and and like snip or

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it was privacy, his privacy. So, I'm a little confused about what I presented in April. It's been 60 days. The cement blocks are still on water, which now school is closed. So, I don't think it should present that much of a concern to

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people who were walking their children. Uh but the Miller Street overhang usually gets cleaned up by the fire department or police department prior to our clamfest that they do some cleanup. No, >> they don't do any of that that DPW.

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>> Okay. So, I don't know how to get this looked at or for Spencer or anyone else to address this, but I really thought when I presented it in April that there would have been eyes on it and much, you know, to my surprise, no one

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has done anything, especially by the elementary school. The trees are planted, looks great. Two of them are dead. Uh, two bushes are dead. The water beds were cut, it looks like, by somebody. So, um, right on water witch, you could see that. But Anthony has been

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up there, uh, watering from time to time. So, I I don't know. I don't know what to do. So, that's why I wanted to ask tonight and that's why I came. Is anyone going to look at those boulders or remove them from water, which because I refuse to do so? Now, I pick up

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garbage as I walk, but that is just um that's just bad and that's just my opinion. So, anyway, that's all I have to say. I'll go. speak with Spencer tomorrow about this >> first thing in the morning. >> Okay. But the about school property, we have no juris. We can't

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>> It's not the school property. It's the sidewalk you if you're walking. >> No, you're saying about dead trees and them cutting the >> I was just saying the branch was was beautiful. The trees look great, but two of them are dead already. Someone cut the the bags. There were water bags and

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and someone cut them. Whether it's mischief or not, I mean, they should have been replaced. That's my view. We had such like harsh heat two weeks ago and I guess that's when you know they died. But anyway, that's all. >> Have you been in contact with the school

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at all? >> Anthony, yes. But they never corrected his email on the website and um that's still a mood point. His email is incorrect on the website. So he never got my emails originally, but I got his mobile number. So we talk. I was going

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to say you should reach out to Janet Sherlock as she's the uh administrator for both schools. >> Yeah, I don't think she she sees my number come up. I think she's busy all >> Okay. So, it's all good, but please those black water witch that that curb if it

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if it's something that we should be >> No, is it part of isn't Joe? Didn't you didn't we do a grant for this? Yeah, I was going to say I'm I'm I know that we have a grant out to do that whole section of water witch.

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>> It's uh >> Yes. >> Well, that's great. But just maybe remove the those large pieces of concrete. We'll get Spencer and the guys to take care of that. >> Great. Thank you. >> You got it. Okay,

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any other comments? Then I'll close public portion. Anything else anyone wants to add? I will add one thing and I'll I'll be you know uh boasting about them at the

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next meeting. But uh I went to graduation um right before this meeting and uh our 30 one of the um give you two highlights. Our 33 seniors uh were awarded over $2 million in scholarships

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>> and one of our seniors is off uh to the United States Air Force. >> Wonderful. >> That's great. >> How many million? >> Sorry. >> How many million? >> Two >> over two million. I'll have all of the particulars for the next meeting, but another year at Hudson comes to a close

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with our seniors, and I just wanted to give them a shout. >> Sure. >> Um, did you guys approve the the >> You did miss that. >> Yeah. Sir Brian is now one of ours.

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>> Okay. Uh, I guess I'll make a motion to adjurnn. >> I'll second. All in favor? >> I 8:10. >> 8:10. Thank you. >> Thank you all. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Do we have a checker?