Township ay Caucus meeting March 13 2025 6 p.m. adequate notice of this meeting has been given in accordance with the open public meetings act pursuant to public laws 1975 said notice was advertised in Asbury Park Press in the beacon and was posted on the bulletin port on the bulletin board showing the time and place of the meeting we will
have a pledge of allegiance a pledge of Alle pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands God indivisible with liy and jusice for
all item number one this evening Proclamation honoring Meals on Wheels of Ocean County I'm going to read a proclamation whereas on March 22nd 1972 President Nixon signed into law an amendment to the older Americans Act of of 1965
creating a national public private nutrition program for those 60 and older whereas for over 50 years this law has supported seniors and funded Community organization like Meals on Wheels which is the only Federal program specifically addressing the nutritional and social
needs of older adults whereas Meals on Wheels of Ocean County has uh been providing nutritious meals both hom delivered and Community cafes to seniors throughout Ocean County promoting Health Independence and safety while preventing
Falls and hospitalizations and whereas Meals on Wheels also combat social isolation by offering crucial connection for 2,000 seniors which helps alleviate the negative Health impacts of loneliness whereas Meals on Wheels of Ocean County deserves recognition for
its essential Services during the covid pandemic and Times of inclement weather and emergency and whereas with the growing senior population is vital to support Meals on Wheels Through funding volunteering donations and raising awareness to sustain these services and
whereas Meals on Wheels of Ocean County serves over 260,000 meals annually to seniors facing hunger and loneliness and it's critical to address the growing demand for services whereas Meals on Wheels program Nationwide are joining together in the
end of weight campaign uh then that's to combat food insecurity malnutrition isolation and improve the health out out comes for seniors now therefore I Peter Kira as mayor of lacy Township along with the committee do hereby Proclaim March 25 March
2025 as a month to celebrate senior nutrition programs and urge everyone to honor these Services the seniors they support and those who care for them we recognize older Americans act nutrition program and Meals on Wheels of Ocean
County for their heroic efforts to fight senior hunger and I isolation please come on [Applause] up few words please do very good my name
is Heather I am with Meals on Wheels of Ocean County of course like you said we serve two last year we served 260,000 meals every uh all throughout Ocean County now daily we are uh delivering
1,000 meals 5 days a week every single day those five days a week so we really and what I always say for our senior nutrition you know the meals are great it's a third of your dietary nutrition for our older adults because they're hot they're fresh they're made at 5:30 in
the morning by our five kitchen staff and but for me and our staff at Meals on Wheels the socialization our drivers know these people they know their habits you know Sally leaves the door unlocked and you know Bill brings it in and drops
it on the counter says hi how you doing how's the daughter all that stuff but then also it's the wellness and the safety aspect since June 2024 when I started uh keeping track of all this stuff just our drive through our drivers
and uh through the need we have had to call EMS or police Wellness checks 26 times so it's definitely more than meals that's what we're trying to convey to the public we are more than meals and we really are there to help our seniors 5
days week as much as we can to combat not only food security but the social give socialization and the wellness and safety checks to allow them to remain in their homes living independently so wonder do you do any more where that I know you used to use the villages and
church and L NOA Harbor Firehouse those are the community cafes yes so you still do them we do um what the county has now transitioned to is they have transitioned to having them run by the municipality you have a senior Cent like
for example brick has their senior center so they have it Monday and Friday but then what's also great is they also have the a Housing Authority so one day a week they're in the Housing Authority serving meals and that captures those people that don't necessarily that can't
necessarily get to the senior center or know of the services so we do community cafes the ones run by Meals on Wheels that we get funding for is Jackson manah hawen and little egg and then um
the ones that uh they get their own um it's C1 funding which is the I know you know what you're talk about um but uh that is Brick with the two at the senior center and one at the Housing Authority as well as wtown and I believe
Manchester is also starting there as they're just trying to find a way because Manchester has the Whiting section and the Manchester section so they're trying to find a happy medium kind of because I know during Co all of that had to go by the wayside for while yeah we reopened the Mana Hawken one
reopened in I think spring of 2021 I want to say or 20 something like that but yeah we would you know if you guys are interested in doing it the county puts out their RFP for the uh congregate services so appreciate it very much my
mom took advantage of it I would say about three years ago I lost her this past year but she had taken advantage of it and she loved her driver got the biggest kick every if I stopped on the way home and he happened to be dropping or something you know she'd be like come in you got to meet him he's very nice
you know the whole n you know it it is I was out with a I was out with a brick police officer was more about the driver you know it's them having a day I was out today with a brick police officer he did a ride along with us with the community policing and you know Paul the
driver everybody Paul's everybody's like shocked to see first of all cops stand but Paul was like oh he's my friend you know they all know him it's a great program it is thank you so much I a couple of words knowing knowing your staff personally with our community
health plan yes and James Sigerson I know what you do I know that you did not miss uh a day during the height of Co we did not we were coming up with 2500 to 3,000 infections just the people who reported or popped a positive you still went out uh and you should be commended
for that as our committee woman Juliano had said it's a lot more than food I'm going to give you this uh Proclamation we'll take a picture real great and I just want to say the mayor is going to be doing a ride along with me in about a month so can't wait it's so much fun to experience it and
everything Hots and colds the residents get a kick out of it like seeing the mayor at their door like first of all sometimes they're in their dress like their night gos and stuff so they're all like but it is they get the biggest K you'll love it so than hey let's take a
quick picture oh would you love that would to mess it [Music] up thank one more we have to be in it all the time we
have to be in thank you thank you so much thank you so much appreciate apprciate the time thank you [Applause]
very item number two Proclamation recognizing dementia and Alzheimer's disease awareness read the proclamation we'll have a a short speaker whereas to mention Alzheimer's Alzheimer's disease are serious neurocognitive disorders that affect millions of individuals and their
families across ation leading to Progressive cognitive decline memory loss and increasing need for Specialized Care and whereas in Ocean County over 220,000 residents are between the ages of 55 and 85 and the prevalence of Dementia in Alzheimer's continues to
rise significantly impacting the health Independence and well-being of our senior population whereas these disorders not only affect those diagnosed but also place an emotional physical and financial burden on caregivers families and Health Care system often requiring round-the-clock
assistance and extensive Medical Care and whereas families of those affected by dementia and Alzheimer's disease experienced significant challenges including emotional distress Financial strain and the difficulty in providing long-term care for their loved ones and whereas children in these families often
struggle to understand the changes in of in the loved ones and finding it difficult to cope with the reality that someone they once knew and cherish no longer recognize them or remember shared experiences whereas early detect and diagnosis are critical in providing individuals and their families with the
necessary support resources and treatment options to slow the disease progression and improve the quality of life whereas advancements in research and Medical Treatments offer hope for future therapies and it's it is essential to continue supporting
initiatives aimed at finding a cure as well as increasing funding for medical studies and Community programs whereas Lacy Township recognizes the importance of Education awareness camp and awareness camp campaigns and supports local services that Aid individuals living with dementia and Alzheimer's
disease ensuring they receive care dignity and the respect they deserve and whereas it's crucial for community members Health Care Professionals policy makers to collaborate in creating an inclusive environment that Fosters understanding and reduces the stigma associated with these neurocognitive
disorders now therefore I Peter Kira as mayor Lacy Township and our committee do hereby recognize the significance of dementia and Alzheimer's disease awareness and encourage all residents to support the efforts that Foster education provide accessible resources
and enhance the lives of those affected by these conditions and I want to introduce now I had the uh the delight and the pleasure of uh being at the Captain's in this past Saturday uh for a couple of hours we have an author here
who wrote a book on dementia it's very easy to understand and we also have the illustrator here as well and it was one of the most packed events I've seen at Captain's in um so without any further Ado Andre if you want to come up and just say a few words we'll uh set up the
microphone want to pull the microphone back just a little bit thank you here yeah hi everyone my name is Andrew Napoleon I moved to Lacy Township in 1995 just me and my four kids they went through the great school system I
can't Rave enough about it it um my daughter graduated she's a doctor my two sons are engineers and my youngest is getting her Masters as a behavioral therapist for the younger generation so they all moved out to you know went to college and everything and then sure enough my mom was diagnosed with to
mention not too long after that um it's been 12 years now she's been living in Lacy with me for 9 years so I always wanted to write a book about my story and luckily I took all the pictures of her house every room in the house I took pictures of and I made this beautiful
story of how she was great in the beginning and how she used to do things without ease and then how she progressed throughout time and this story is great for adults as well as young the younger generation because you can read this and
not be afraid of this situation um they say I'm raising money like I said we rais $6,000 for the woman's Alzheimer movement this weekend and um because 2/3 of women are have dementia more than men and I love the Wham the women's
Alzheimer movement so um yeah you can um also too as I was writing this book it took four years four years to do this and um I met Tatiana kuich she's the um illustrator she's from bellarus she's
here now we uh got an invitation visa for her to attend the captain's in the event and um she's here now and i' i' like to bring her up as well really um to get some acknowledgement but you can purchase this book um on grandma hasd
menti.com or you can go on Grandma has dementia with two M gr MMA on Facebook and reach out to me especially if you're in Lacy I'll meet you and you know you don't have to pay the the shipping and all that but um it's a lovely book with
lovely illustrations and it's a true story and when you read it I'm sorry I'm going to make you cry because it's going to relate to you your family and um you know it's it's a good story too because you never know it um dementia Alzheimer's it's it's not prejudiced to
anyone Color Race religion background it's people are going to get it if we don't get a cure for it it's going to when my grandchildren grow up it's going to Triple it's the cases are going to Triple this is a really a a disease that
we really have to look into more and we have to make people aware so um I'd like to bring my illustrator from bellou she's only going to be here a couple more days so if you want to get a sign copy between for me and her just reach out to me and uh come on I just want to
introduce everybody I'm very proud of uh she always wanted to come to America yes yes yes yes um this is H Tatiana Hub Beach and um she always wanted to come to America and here she is and it's just
a miracle well welcome thank you [Applause] I saw today on the I saw today on the news you know the big hype now is all the the new weight loss shots that everybody's taking and they found that there might be um positive side effects
to those weight loss drugs for Alzheimer's and Dementia so they are actually embarking on a study on it yeah yeah yes yeah I was I was I was heard it this morning you don't want to be in pictures thank you very
[Applause] nice all righty and our final proclamation of the evening item number three Proclamation recognizing colon cancer awareness month whereas the month of March is recognized throughout the nation as colon cancer awareness month to raise
awareness about coloral cancer and the importance of early detection and prevention whereas coloral cancer is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in the United States yet it's one of the most preventable forms of cancer through the regular screening and detection and where it's estimated that
150,000 new cases of colar rectal cancer will be diagnosed in the US this year affecting more than 50,000 lives whereas coloral cancer affects men and women of all racial and ethnic groups and risk and the risk increases with age with most cases occurring in individuals over
age 50 whereas regular screening beginning at age 45 uh or earlier for those with family history or other risk factors can detect precancerous pops and that can be removed before they turn into cancer significantly reducing the risk of
developing the disease whereas increased awareness and and education about the benefits of Lifestyle Changes such as maintaining healthy diet regular physical activity avoiding tobacco and excessive alcohol use can help prevent colal cancer whereas organizations such
as the American Cancer Society and a coloral cancer Alliance and local healthc care providers are committed to promoting awareness providing resources and encouraging screenings to help save lives whereas it's vital to continue to support researchers efforts to improve screening methods treatment options
and to ultimately find a cure for colar rectal cancer now therefore be it resolved that I Peter Kira mayor of ly Township and our committee do hereby uh proclaim the month March 2025 as colon cancer awareness month and we encourage
all residents to talk to their health care providers about coloral cancer thank you excuse us excuse us for a second Pete if you wouldn't mind yes please both uh Bob and I would like to speak of course uh this one's pretty
near and dear to my heart uh as Adria just said a lot of these diseases do not discriminate and even doing the proper things of course now they backed up the screening from 50 to 45 and in my case 10 years
ago I had the proper screenings no family history was in Mexico thought it was a food in the water turned out I had colon cancer that's with the proper screenings so it's very important that everybody follows
this because it's almost like a car you wish sometimes your body had a check engine light on it because outside of that I had a tumor this big I went through between surgeries and treatments over a year a
hell and that's doing the right thing which I'm not known to do when it comes to health things but luckily I got a wife that if I don't it's easier to go to the doctors than to hear it every day so but that's following it and I'm
very thankful that medicine has got gotten as good as it has and everything but a lot of these diseases we really got to tell our family our loved ones people we know the importance of getting checked out cuz I know the old adage you
know if the doctor don't tell her something's wrong with us then we don't know and it's okay and like I say I got forced into these screenings I was doing it the uh at the time when they diagnosed it they were totally shocked because I was maybe six
months over from when I was supposed to so it wasn't even like it was anticipated but it's very important people get out there make sure that your family and everyone follows the proper procedures I mean I think the only one that wasn't happy with me was my sister
because then she had to start getting tests because it ran into family now yeah but uh yes well basically the same for me B my husband um Nick had it in 2012 fortunately we found it early and we're able to fight it and um he did
very well afterwards but uh it's it came as a shock because it wasn't in his family so you know again but it's you know something we all should be paying attention to that's for sure sure thank you mayor Mr Juliano mayor Juliano a man a
dude good guy thanks Pete a good dude um I'll just close that uh myself as well uh they pull things out of me all the time every time I go for a screening males do not like uh going for this screening and I could tell you it's the
best 15 or 20 minutes of sleep you'll ever get and you won't remember think and uh just just go just go uh I'm telling you just just just go because uh it could have been the end for me and I had my first Scare
at age 35 I'm 56 now so go if you can go go and that we will move on to number five Captain's in request for noise ordinance waiver number four special use permit Ocean County 4 saddle Squad 412 2025 the
4 saddle Squad equestrian Club um is looking to host a craft and vendor fair fundraiser um they'll be at a residence at 20 um 2200 Lacy Road this is west of the parkway they're looking to do it on April 12th from 10:00 a.m. to 400 p.m. there will be different vendors with
pop-up tents and the Ocean County Sheriff's Office will be in attendance great can I have a motion please move it second all in favor I item number five captain in request for noise ordinance waiver okay um in years past the
captain's in and the waterfront restaurants um have asked during the summer months from Memorial Day to Labor Day to um relax the noise ordinance so that they can play music Beyond 10 p.m. she in her letter has asked for 12 midnight um on Friday nights and
Saturday nights and On Any Sunday night where Monday would be a holiday so you're really talking Memorial Day and Labor Day and she also asked for Thursday July 3rd since Friday July 4th would be a holiday in years past we have authorized this um we've asked them to make sure that the speakers are turned
away from the water so it doesn't Echo across the river or the lagoons down there um to be cognizant of that uh the type of music we've also asked them because sometimes that you know language and um Heavy band music um is very disturbing and um they also had to have
security that walks the sites and I do believe both facilities do have ample security nowadays um when we did authorize this and it goes back as far as 2013 that we have been doing this um we had 12:00 for two weeks that was it and then we restricted them back to 11
or 11:30 so I don't know what your pleasure is but she's got to ask they both have to ask permission for us to do that the one only question and I'm I'm okay with this I have no problem what about the moose pit oh does that affect no because there's residential homes all around the Moose pit and we've always
denied the Moose pit and they have not asked since the one time we wanted to be sure he I I want to make a couple comments on this cuz I actually do have my boat between both of these facilities they're wonderful facilities in the in the
summer um enjoy the music the whole bit but as far as midnight I know back in 13 I think when the town okay it was two weeks but then they got a bunch of Guff and they had to back it up a little bit the homeowners were not too happy with them having it till midnight also down
south ones as we know that is surrounded by the condos of course if they'd have it their way everybody probably be in bed at 8:00 but uh they're all over enjoying the music at the waterfront also but
being on the river most weekends in the summer it's not only the noise which Echoes back and forth across the thing and it's actually very enjoyable but at night it's the boats leaving drunk uh going up and down the river and I do
allegedly drunk yeah allegedly drunk um yeah go with that word um but uh I do believe we should extend it for them but I think a more reasonable hour is 11:00 because midnight is really pushing it uh pretty late in the evening
but I know they only got 10 12 weeks out of the year to make extra money with their liquor license but uh I think 11's more appropriate than midnight comments so we did it back in 13 did we have a lot of complaints down
there at midnight we did when it was midnight and two weeks later we Revisited it at a Township committee meeting and basically um it was more so coming from the the Waterfront side and at reading the old minutes um it was basically some of the condo owners there
and again they preferred 8:00 um and they um the ones across the river the few that showed up at the meeting um preferred uh the speakers to be turned and faced inward to the landside versus being what time did we
what time did we move to from 12: to what 11: 11 11 11 I see numb make the change we could do it temporary like a month and revisit yeah we could do that yeah what it does what it does down I'm not saying no 12 I'm saying even to 11 yeah yeah what it does down there I'll
leave it up to everybody else and like I say not everybody experiences it but I'm down there Friday night through Sunday on the boat and I don't have a problem with it but the thing with the music down there believe it or not it sounds like it's coming from the other side of
the river that's the way that whole area like Echoes and goes back and forth I personally enjoy every minute of it because I live and it echoes to my house which is quite a distance from them but I enjoy it you only get this a certain time of the year it's not shows us thist
year shows us 11 o' 11:00 we have once we switch it to 11 o' and we didn't get any further complaints and we've done it for numerous years after that I understand Steve saying but let's right just get rid of this get it off the table a motion a motion I make a motion
it's 11:00 I second it favor 11 m i i very good nothing further motion to adjourn motion to adjourn the meeting second all in favor I Township ay Township meeting March
13th adequate notice this meeting has been given in accordance with the open public meeting act pursuing of public laws 1975 said notice was advertised in the Asbury Park Press in the beacon and was posted in the bulletin board showing the time and place of the meeting we'll have a salute to the flag and a moment of
silence PL to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic which stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty justice for all item number one first reading of ordinance
2025-the and storage ordinance of the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey amend and supplementing various sections of chapter 309 entitled Towing and storage this um makes some changes to the application process um and other
General Provisions including um their hours of operation move it second Mr Kennis yes Mr McDonald yes Mrs Juliana yes Mr lay yes may yes and to our friends with the dementia book and from bellarus with the
young child if you feel like you want to exit for the evening and unless you're in thr Red by the next Towing ordinance but you you you can stay I just wanted to give you an easy out if you wanted it oh he's happy see you sweetheart it's
nice seeing you have a nice night little one okay you're very good very welcome item number two second reading of ordinance 2025-the County of ocean state of New Jersey providing for various Capital Improvements and the acquisition of
various Capital Equipment appropriating 3,538 500 therefore and authorizing the issuance of $3,121 th000 bonds and notes to finance a portion of the cost thereof authorized in and by the township of lacy in the county of ocean state of New
Jersey second reading open the floor to public comment see make a motion to close the floor second all in favor I ioving second Mr McDonald yes Mr Kennon yes Mrs Juliano yes Mr lay yes mayor F yes M number three res resolution
2025167529 authorizing the receipt of bids and rfps for various projects resolution of the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the receipt of bids and requests for proposals for various equipment and services in accordance with the approved 2025 budget for the township of lacy this will be
for various Road improvements Park improvements drudging and master plan revision second Mr McDonald yes Mr Penis yes Mrs Juliano yes Mr Laray yes mayor CTO yes M number five resolution 2025 108 authorizing a change order to an
agreement with r Kremer and Son Marine Contractors LLC resolution of the township of lacy County of ocean Stadium New Jersey authorizing the execution of an amendment to the contract with r ker and sunmarine contractors for the Lakeside Drive bulkhead replacement
project second Mr McDonald yes Mr kenon yes Mr Juliano yes Mr Laray yes may to yes item number six resolution 2025109910 ing an interlocal Services agreement with the board of ed for special Law
Enforcement Officers resolution of the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the execution of an interlocal Services agreement with the Lacy Township Board of Education for the class three special law enforcement officer program move second Mr McDonald
yes Mr Kennis yes Mrs Juliano yes Mr lay yes and I just want to note that that's four officers yes U mayor her yes item number seven resolution 2025-the the release of a performance guarantee resolution of the township of
lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the release of a site Improvement performance performance guarantee posted by Patrick graviano for the persing Avenue Road Improvement project upon the posting of a maintenance guarantee this is at the recommendation of the township engineer who reviewed and inspected the site
second Mr McDonald yes Mr kenis yes M Juliano yes Mr lay yes Mary car yes M number 8 resolution 2025-the yes Mary yes I'm Number Nine resolution 2025-the the refund of deposit monies
resolution of the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the refund of deposits held for the use of Municipal facilities move second Mr McDonald yes Mr Kennis yes M Juliana yes Mr lay yes mayor car yes ad number 10 resolution
2025-the the payment of Township bills resolution of the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the payment of Township bills this is in the amount of 7,978 n956 second Mr McDonald yes and I'll
abstain on T 0035 Mr kenis yes Mr Juliano yes Mr L yes mayor yes item number 11 monthly reports reps I don't have monthly reports do you have me in my book all right Municipal
clerk's office for the month of February collected receipt in the amount of 9,762 Community Development Department collect receipts for the month of February in the amount of $663 74 for the month of February Municipal Road opening permits Recycling and truck
parking and tires so Road opening prints $523 recycling commodity $715 truck parking in the amount of $2,175 Municipal Court for the month of January collected receipts the amount of $2,394 And1 cents motion to accept the
reports as R second faor I item number 12 motion to approve Caucus meeting minutes from February 27th 2025 second all in favor I I number 13 motion to approve Township meeting minutes from February 27th
2025 second all in favor ad number 14 motion to approve executive session meeting minutes from February 27th 2025 move it second in favor I I number 15 motion to approve auxiliary membership in the loka harbor Volunteer Fire Company for lean con
move it second all in favor I com no uh add-ons comments from the committee Deputy Mayor Kennis thank you mayor um just a brief comment on the the election yesterday I probably more comments at a later date but I just want to thank everybody who took the time to
go vote um yesterday I had the opportunity to uh sit in on a zoom call with um stakeholders elected officials um Engineers um from Atlantic and Ocean County Shore towns along with the head commissioner of the
DP to um I guess have a dialogue over the the New Jersey resilient environments and Landscapes act which is what's being called the real rules I talked about this before at other at other public meetings um and uh they were hosting it to sort of dispel some
of the the misinformation that they um that they say has been uh you know put out there and um they really didn't dispel too much um it's EXA ly as I as I remember it um so and it was a very
spirited discussion amongst the people that were on a on I'll say the the our side um and it wasn't very well received by by uh any of the stakeholders there it was It was kind of uh like every other um every other thing happened in
government now very uh antagonistic and and uh condescending so the um the major um complaint on the what they're trying to do is and I don't want to get too technical but they're they're they want to raise the the building Heights of
things in flood areas um especially those closest to the Water by an additional 5T to the base flood elevation and it's been a while since I've built the house actually on a water in Lacy Township but so right now it's like at it's around seven I think so that's there's a base flood elevation
which is not the ground it's above that it's 7t above that and they want to go another 5T above that which is really high and um there was a lot of push back uh uh against that and they're trying and this matters to Lacy because because they're expanding it to all the flood
areas in Lacy Township and that's pretty much everything east of Route 9 and um that's the major rule that everybody's complaining about but it the the there's many other rules in there that they're that they're they're uh they would like
to change and uh the rule the new rule that they're passing is 1,00 44 pages and so so um those are the sort of the facts on it even though I didn't go into too much detail but so my opinion on this uh on all these rules changes most
people do not deal with the D I've dealt with the de for a long time it is very cumbersome and bureaucratic and um when they do these types of rule changes my opinion it encourages gentrification of neighborhoods because it's you you wind up pushing some of the
construction costs I got to refer to my notes like uh you know there's dry it becomes dry access issues and switch back staircases and you know increased piling costs so it winds up forcing uh you know somebody's paying for it and it gets really difficult to have just sort of
regular people pay for it and so it becomes wealthy people paying for for uh to live near the water even on the water um and the other problem with the D is is the they these types of rules put just too much um
uh uh sort of authority into the the lawyers and the employees that work there and it's not saying anything bad about the employees or the lawyers that work there it's just that in my opinion that that's all they've done uh in their life largely and they don't have any good private sector business
experience so those are my comments thank you Deputy Mayor committee McDonald thank you mayor uh I too want to commend everyone who got out and voted yesterday SCH referendum makes America great
um just just a good job by everybody here in town and then my last thing here I just picked this up um I kind of like to go out at night and look at the stars and wander around like that I didn't realize this but I just saw for the
first time in years a total lunar eclipse will Dazzle the American Spectators tonight complete with a viewing of the resulting glowing red uh blood Boom the uh uh planets will all be lined up in the red moon so if you're up
at 11:30 at night like I am usually or can't sleep go ahead that's when the the light pollution will be down and you can get out and look at it and take a picture of it beautiful got John shaking his head I two hours sleep but that's all I have thank you
committee come committee woman Juliana thank you mayor um uh short and sweet I just want to say we had 30 calls this month on for our fire departments again volunteer fire departments couldn't do it without them and the only other thing I'd like to just chat about for a minute
is that we had some serious accidents happen not in our town fortunately but in other towns and I think it's just a reminder for everybody that um slow down stop being in a rush stop rushing to where you have to go and you know think
about think about the children that are going to be out on the road the weather's nice they're going to be out by bicycling let's let's put an effort in from us to a neighbor or whoever saying hey slow down there's no reason for it I know I'm not liked on Beach
Boulevard I drive it every day and I do the speed limit and I don't care whether the car behind me is giving me the finger um up on my tail I don't care here's the bottom line is I'm not going faster than 35 that's what the speed limit is I'm not going to tell you that
I'm innocent on the parkway i d I drive a little differently on the parkway but in my town I do the speed limit because there's a lot of kids and there's a lot of bicyclers and Beach Boulevard has tons of Walkers so just put it out there just a simple reminder
mayor that people need to pay attention you know thank you so much yeah thank you absolutely committee man lay well I got to say I rode with Mrs J Juliano on the Parkway and she is correct but I just want to Echo what the fellow
committee members have said about the uh getting out there and vote I've been preaching it the last couple months just to learn about it educate yourself and go vote the way you thought was right so I just want to commend that the people that got out there and vot voted and made a decision uh on this uh most
recent election last week um I had the opportunity with a group of us from town to meet with the county Engineers um they were meeting with uh different towns on what's going on in the area we just talked about Lacy as
you know you see ear all up and down Lacy Road fixing all the corners the curbs the handicap uh ramps and stuff like that and there are other items in the future that's talked about being done but uh as far as the repaving of lacy Road they're
talking about uh doing that uh in May so hopefully it'll be done before the full summer season gets here and today uh me Steve and uh a couple other of us were up at the county also uh to meet with
the state that was run uh presenting a cross reference uh plan that's coming out of them with uh Redevelopment and development around the state um of course they're doing the whole state so they're breaking up different areas when
they talk to us but we were there today to get some updates on that that's something that's in progress It's just typical State we'll probably uh research it for the next three years and we'll have an answer for you in about five but that's that that's about it
thank you so much Mr Ray I too want to Echo some of the sentiments my colleagues up here uh thank you for coming out um and exercising your right people died so you had a right to vote uh in that school um decision and uh the people's voices were were heard and I I
think they were heard loud and clear I want to recognize our Police Department something a lot of people probably didn't hear you don't hear a lot every day I I got a call from the media yesterday there was uh a report of a kayak floating and there could have been a missing person it could have been somebody injured it could have been
somebody drowned they jumped down there they investigated it before it ever grew legs it never hit the uh the wires uh at New Jersey 12 news or any other media outlet and that's because of the work they did it was just a kayak that got this lodged and uh so it was it was good
that our people notice that and report that kind of thing right away and our Police Department deserves Kudos and they say it's what you do when nobody's watching those men and women do it all the time when nobody's watching and uh they did it again the other day and uh I just want to commend them importantly
regarding land use with what my good colleague Deputy Mayor Kennis said there's an a Senate Bill 1408 which that means it already got through the assembly and so what this bill wants to do is require the planning board to approve applications to convert eligible
property to mixed use I talked to assembly assemblyman rump for the Ninth District about this earlier today this is all part of a larger power grab from Trenton to take control away from local towns regardless of what the issue is
who knows it better than Mr McDonald Mr kenis a combined 50 60 years of land use Mr Laray Mr Quinn uh I want those decisions in our planning board's hands and not in some bureaucrat sitting be on a highb leather chair and behind a desk from
Trenton and so we have the advocacy um and hopefully that bill won't be signed and or we could stall it at least until we have another Governor just want to update our our residents uh some of the things I've been working on there's no eye in the team we all do a lot of these things
together um there's going to be an event at the the elk Saturday for uh March 17th for St Patrick's Day this uh just between the uh Township committee and forid River fire department we're going to be in an installation dinner to install the new Chief and Command Staff on Saturday night I'm going to be
speaking at Pheasant Run on March 17th the following Monday uh at seab Brees uh speaking of um just important matters of the day that those good folks want to hear um I think it is my responsibility to get out in front of people and and try to do that I'm also going be
visiting at the forkid River School shortly going out with Ms on Wheels shortly uh and just you know extending the olive branch of partnership I mean I think it's incumbent on me and us to do that we all do it um and when any of us are there alone Mr Laray just mention
the county Engineers office that was a great meeting there were several of us there um and thanks to Veronica uh who always advocates for us it was a good meeting and we are getting our bite at the Apple this year from the county so I feel good about that um and I'll just
I'll just conclude with uh Monday morning the 17th Stephen and I are meeting with some folks from Trenton it's very preliminary don't know if it's going to be good or bad for the town I'm hoping to get a revenue draw from it uh the folks with uh from the tourism Commission in
Trenton uh and if it works it works if it doesn't I'll present it to my committee if they don't like it we don't like it um because that's the way it rolls up here is a committee form of government so mayor before you before you open the public I forgot to say one
thing next Thursday night our um police PBA is having a function at the caties um it's a wingfest to raise money for their Police Unity Tour if anybody is out and about on Thursday evening that would be great to stop by there and buy some wings I'll be attending okay great
thank you with that I'll open the floor to public comment this evening thank you mayor thank you always Mr Senza please um I think it starts at 5 I'll check my phone you want me to lower it for you Regina let's see it's yeah that one
right [Music] there but I don't want it to out okay Regina desend a Sunset Drive Sunrise Beach um I too would like to thank the 5,544 people that came out on Tuesday
March 11 to vote on the school district's request for a $92 million Bond referendum thankfully many people 2,876 saw through the smoking mirrors and voted against this huge referendum
that never gave the taxpaying public the full story about the 19 projects that the 92 million was supposed to accomplished they were not all Necessities many Frills were added to this
referendum the turf field being one of the main and major Frills I made an open public records request to the district on January 30th right after the January 29th information session meeting and I was refused that
request I had expected much more financial data to be shared with the public at that meeting and it wasn't all we got was a bunch of photos showing their neglect of Maintenance no one would let their home get into the state of disrepair that they actually had the
audacity to show us at that meeting so I opened the New Jersey Department of Education and they gave me all the information I requested and it was really interesting I got 19 approval letters from the NJ DOA for each project and I added it up
and it only came to 91,9 155 maybe I'm bad at math but I was never ever shown a document that said the ex act breakdown of the 92 million so some months ago I had made
mention to the business administrator about some of the issues that were shown in a report that was done by the architect and I asked her why simple repair tasks were not being done she told me the maintenance staff was now reduced to only three people and they can keep up with the basic maintenance
of six buildings seven if you include the district office building I was a gas Mr bidnick has mentioned before these are our public buildings they deserve proper care and maintenance in a timely manner and that by the way includes this
municipal building that we're in right now 10 years ago when I was first elected to the school board in 2015 I heard large projects being put off and the word referendum was mentioned I said I will fight any new referendum because
of the lies perpetuated in the 2008 2009 solar project referendum if was supposed to be at no cost to the taxpayers where have I heard that line before the taxpayers were stuck making nearly the full Bond payment when the srex tanked
I've explained this before and we're still paying till 2029 with the over bonding of $8.2 million we the taxpayers are still stuck with the 3.5 million in interest on that one issue alone Lacy needs a new and
very knowledgeable money manager as its next superintendent someone who can manage the union and not pretend to be everyone's friend a good boss should not be friendly a good boss should be the most hated person Mr Sans
can I interrupt you for just a minute the referendum was defeated the people spoke and you're talking a lot about school business here this is well I have some with the township too I have some with the township too okay and I did mention this building and now today to add insult to
injury you're going to love this an employee of the school district was harassing a member of the public on social media and it included me when she mentioned the signs while she was at work teaching I have to tell the employees of lacy school district and this Township
committee if you knew what I know about how the school district is being run you'd be terrified why do you think Vanessa left now here's another very important thing if anyone is interested in attending the Board of Education meeting I noticed on their website calendar today they change their monthly
meeting from Thursday to Tuesday March 18th 6:00 p.m. starts the private session and 7 P p.m Begins the public session and we all seem to have missed a budget meeting this past Wednesday because it was only posted on their website I wonder how many people attended now I do have a
question does this committee ever like have someone besides those periodic little meetings do you ever attend the monthly meetings of the school district or do you watch them on YouTube how does this body keep informed besides me about
what's going on okay over at Ward my colleagues Jump Right In so please I want to know so we we do we can watch at any time I have watched on YouTube okay I have attended not that long ago meetings as a School Board of the aison
with uh not only um Mr McDonald right uh but the former superintendent the new superintendent I told uh the new Acting Superintendent how I felt and my advice to him was and I'll say it in public um because I'm confident and I think it's
the right thing to do and I hope he does do it and what I said was be accountable for academic performance every two weeks on the school board's website thank you put a piece of paper up there that you met with your curriculum committee your
guidance counselors or whatever to do a value add and just update the parents onto what you're doing and what you're planning moving forward now I'm not going to get into any business of day-to-day but that would that would be my advice he could throw that in the garbage if he wants I know him to be a
decent guy I don't think he'll do that I think maybe he just hasn't gotten around to it um I I support our schools but the people spoke but again I think you with a lot of your comments tonight may be at the wrong meeting but I can speak don't worry I'll repeat it next week Mr Mr
McDonald was at meeting a school board leason meeting he hasn't missed okay our new school board leaon is Mr Laray he hasn't missed at any time the school board wants to make a meeting with us we clear our schedules and we show up there it usually takes place at 4:00 in the afternoon yeah it's usually the finance
committee that meets i i attended a few myself I mean there was a very memorable one a few years back um so the reason I'm asking is because if you're there you can comment on stuff if you're not there it's hard to comment on on stuff
and things do happen month to month but you can comment at the liaison meeting still let let me talk about that they're they're an elected board as you know right entirely separate and we try not to step on each other's toes sometimes that's very difficult I would never go
to a school board meeting and comment at the public session I would pull them aside but you could ask a question reg let me finish I would never do that because I know things that you don't know about the school board probably okay so I would never want to disclose that
information in the public so i' pull them aside or call them and talk to them privately I would hope they would do the same with us and most of our meetings with them are usually they want something from us sometimes it it is some remember sometimes we can help them
sometimes we can't help them and that's all it really is but I would never get up in public no matter what and talk because of because of now if I'm not on the school board or I'm out on the township committee yeah I would get up and talk right but when you're not here you're a private citizen and you could still ask questions but I am glad that
you sometimes can watch it on YouTube because if I'm not in town I have to watch it on YouTube but there was something said last summer that you know just knocked my socks off and you can bet I will keep an eye on both Mr lay served for many years I 12 I did
six no I don't think so now you were off before I got on oh my six years were more than enough okay thank you yeah but I I want to uh Tim and the mayor uh put it perfectly I mean it they they need to be
more accountable out of respect in different things you got to remember we could attend every meeting we can watch them on TV or you know we're well enough connected to know what's going on whether we're there to say something or not but you got to remember sometimes
when we whether it's a school border here we we're devoting plenty of time you know because no matter what you got to be a well-rounded person you're serving your community you want to take care of your
family and you there's only so much time in a day I know and I'm not going to spend I didn't run up here to be at meetings for seven seven days a week three or three is enough four is enough whatever it takes sometimes it's in the morning and you you know yourself because you've been involved with many
of things um it just uh it's it's disturbing it it really is what's what's going on at times uh I can't even believe it's been 15 years since I've been on the school board but as you know too it was a different world
back then too I mean A lot's changed the last 10 12 years and I know after this election um I had mentioned to Veronica about us uh getting a hold of Tim and setting up a school lays on committee really quick
because there's some issues we want to know about and there's one thing I really believe is because I was already called on this from a school board member they realize that they're not in our good
graces and they called me so they want to get on the better side of us because they know they've kind of upset a few people and sometimes it's just a matter of hashing something out but Tim said it said it right of course we know things
that others aren't going to know they're always looking for something and you know even the few months I've been up here because I hear the I hear the retoric the town does nothing for us the town does nothing for us and then I find out through either the bills list or
something else we pay for a hell of a lot of stuff for that school system whether it's garbage recycling a couple uh officers I know recently Public Works had one of our guys over there assisting them which you want that to happen shared services but yes I mean we can't
all do everything and we try to keep up top of it the best we can but there's one thing um I don't I remember it actually I think even goes back before my tenure on the board at one point the
board did have or invite lay on members to to their executive board meetings the which board meetings the back room meetings you mean the committee meetings we we not ours we we as a
Lon the lon would go to their backy it probably private no it's never never since I've been on this committee no no no I think this goes back to the days when your dad was oh that's the N that's you're talking a whole time that's what I said look at your face
I said it was a long time ago but it's really not a it's really not a bad idea not that you have any power or anything else no but you listen but we are the govering body of lacy and we only control 20% of the tax dollars right and
it's I really think we need to know more what's going on with 60% of our tax well that's why I mentioned this mystery budget meeting they are having them and I just wasn't paying attention CU I had so much to do yesterday and there was a meeting Wednesday night for the budget
they're probably going to have two more did anyone go no not you didn't know right so take a little click on their website calendar and let's find out when those other budget Workshop meetings are because I know there's a deficit just a
quick comment on this stuff um because I'm not always available I wish someone else you know we have limited you know limited control if you will over the school board um the yeah pretty much zero I know I'm not asking I know but I said but the but the the point is you
want sort of implying you want us to do more there's only so much they're elected just the way we are and if you recall the last election nobody ran there was the SE the the incumbents ran and nobody ran against so those are the people that are are making the decisions
and that's just how the system works no I was just wondering how you do keep tabs on them I know about the liaison meetings but I was wondering if you watch the meetings priv conversations I appre I appreciate that pre private conversations emails back and forth we kind of know what's going on oh I I
appreciate that I just wanted to be sure if I see something in the in the on the YouTube I'll email somebody say an inquire okay good Mr bran for see if I figure this out for you be a long win for you not name out good
evening committee members administrators he cut you off pretty good IGN and counsel I am ignoring that that good just just two things I want to put the referendum aside because it really doesn't belong here but it's interesting when my wife tells me there are people
on social media which I don't do saying it's the old folks you know those people who live here and who turned it down here are the facts question one 11 of 18 districts voted no question two 16 of 18
districts voted no question three 18 of 18 districts voted no I think that's a Comm CommunityWide answer on that referendum but I'm here for just one other question if I may um I think I read somewhere recently that Lacy
Township won a lawsuit against htech allowing us to start to charge storage fees uh for the storage of casks how I know I'm sure it's going to be appealed and so can you give us an update of where we are with that step one of a
going to be a 10-year battle question without question they're most likely going to appeal so state if you read the decision which is publicly available on on the uh Court page um yes it was determined that those casts could be an accessible item obviously now
there's more to come with that so we are still in litigation with them so we're not actually at Liberty to discuss anything in detail but but if you want to read the decision it's a very interesting read but we're in it for the long haul right AB it's not going to be over AB thank you good first step have a
nice night too any other comments this evening Mr bidney good evening Lacy citizens uh mayor um Township committee members um I am going to talk about the school board because I was the face of the
opposition um and I hope you'll give me the time to address certain things partly because this body did contribute a million dollars in the last year that you took from the MUA to the schools so you are somewhat involved in the picture
and I'm just I'm just stating a fact here okay so two nights ago transparency one over Darkness honesty one over deceit Integrity one over dishonor thank you l c citizens that
came out and voted and you did the right thing and the reason why I want to explain this is three passionate people caring intelligent driven individuals in our town thed the Lacy Township School
District in their quest to win a referendum for $992.5 million the school board spent somewhere in the amount of $130,000 of taxpayers money to try to promote this referendum 130,000 that
could have paid for the busing of all the kids that they took the courtesy busing away from um our mission was to educate the public on the largest referendum that Lacy Township has ever conducted and I
think we did a pretty damn good job we created a social media site we created infomercials we did all of our research and we did this in less than two months time and it didn't cost us a dime but
they spent $130,000 and got nothing in the end many reasons for the defeat of this um referendum but the most important one
was the deceit that took place and since I was very involved in this I'm going to explain to the citizens of lacy Township what really happened as Janu as uh Regina had mentioned we both attended the January Ary 29th meeting at the school I was
very disappointed because information that should have been made available to us was not made available to us they had no information about any of the soft costs I met with the bonding people everybody else and everybody they were telling me they didn't have this information the only information we were
able to get was the $46 million for the interest that prompted me and Regina to have a phone conversation and we decided then to Oprah the school district I posted a copy of that Oprah Rejection
it was an utter lie the reasons that they gave for not giving us that information were totally untrue total dishonesty so then we went ahead and we actually oad the State Department of Education who gladly turned over all the
documents and I'm talking about there are 19 files filled with ton of information we got this what Regina two days before the our meeting on Thursday that Mr Mr Laray had attended and I had to put this all together work on the slides for the presentation get all the
figures corrected which we were having difficulty because of the way the submissions are there's actually a cost estimate and then at the bottom of the fifth page there's another amount and they didn't match up so we're going through all this puzzle trying to understand what's going on here now in
the meantime we did our program on Thursday night and then on Friday um on social media we posted all 19 submission cost estimates this prompted a member of our community um Mr
Pinto who had been in contact with uh the school board and he actually was against it then he was for it and then he started asking questions like why were we not given this information why were we told we could
not have this information and then he actually went a step further and he actually did some research at some other towns that were doing a referendum on March 11th and he found that Lawrence Township had all this information on their website they
didn't only have this information they actually had three cost estimates for every part of their project so there was the total lack of Deceit and dishonesty now Mr Pinto actually he put this on social media so everybody could see it he actually went to the board president
Mrs Claus and he asked her for why they told him he could not have access to this information and her answer was come meet me in the board office on Monday afternoon well that was far too late a
day before the election and quite frankly I know that she was behind the deception along with Mr Peters and because of that the two of them need to step down they have lost credibility I will absolutely oppose anything that any
anything that those two are behind as far as doing any projects for the school if they decide to do another referendum they have lied to us and that is totally unacceptable I mean this was if this had been done properly and that information had been made available for us we
wouldn't be having this discussion it would have been all out there but they didn't want us to have the information and the reason they didn't want us to have the information is because it was actually they knew it could throw out the election and this to me is election interference when an organization the
people go to a government body and are told you cannot have this we can't Supply this information and then they know that if that information is available and could be available to the public and they were using it to subvert the will of the voter to have the information that they needed to be able
to vote on a 92.5 million referendum is it's absolutely outrageous and I'm bringing this up because when government works in the dark nothing good comes out of it and for all future projects that the municipal government may do and
whatever this is why this is a really bad idea to do these things because if you're going to need buyin from the public you're going to need to be transparent honest forthright and quite frankly we went through the whole thing
with the the uh Johnson Controls nonsense we were told oh we don't have this information we don't have it and this was again another example and I'm I'm just pointing this out where this can be really be thrown in a public body's face and uh there are people in
my parents group they want the entire School Board to resign because they feel that they were entirely deceived but I know the fact that not everybody was privy to what was going on Mr bitnik yes I appreciate you know I respect you yes but I think that's listen there're a
sovereign board I I agree we have to we have to go over there if you think something on tour's been done you have the more than enough capability of informing any Authority that you think correct something if you believe something untour took place well I can tell you I was aware of some of those
things that you're talking about I read them I'm I make sure I'm informed of everything but you wouldn't have been informed if it hadn't been for us doing our work which should not have been this way this information should have been on the website so all of us could see and
view it and I'm sorry but you know what this is just totally unacceptable you are the government leader you're the mayor and I'm sorry a strong message needs to be sent to the other government body that this will not be tolerated I mean I I'm not going to give up on this and I will be at the school board
meeting on Tuesday night and I will have a slew of people there also who are fed up with this kind of nonsense we want accountability in our government transparency if you go to the Lacy citizens a responsible government page it says right there our purpose is
accountability and trans transparency in government and we did not receive that and uh so I'm just stating I want people because this is on video and a lot of people AR there's barely anybody here at this meeting tonight and there have been questions I have been attacked on social media since Tuesday night by people who
are misinformed do not know the correct information they should be taking their frustration out at the people who are responsible for this not for the person who is uncovered things that they don't want to deal with and this is a really sad thing and I mean it's ugly very ugly
I was attacked today online by a school teacher when she was supposed to be working all day long for hours writing and saying nasty things about me and you know what leaves an an electronic footprint that's easily tra It is Well I
we also screenshot everything so don't worry the fact of the matter is you we're all entitled to our opinion but the school board has a policy of no social media while you're working you know there and this was going on and it's not right I'm just saying it's just like I'm not just because I'm doing a
job that they should have been doing giving us all the information I'm being attacked for doing let me just I'm going to go off the reservation just a little bit I got to cut you off that's okay and then there it is I was going to say you worked hard you should be happy with the
outcome and you should be happy tonight this was this was a win for you we have enough losses in life no no I know that but I don't look at this as a win you see my feeling about this is if this had been done honest and transparently that they probably would
have passed that first part part would have passed that the the idea that that one should have passed because they basically were selling it that it was no tax increase this shows you the lack of support that the school board has at this point and it's very unfortunate
because our kids are not getting the education they deserve we are paying $85 million you know between the state and what we give and those kids deserve a lot better you heard our colleagues up here we're talking about accountability
right that's what you heard exactly well we need to do something about it because our children I don't have any but I'm fighting for them they are the future for all of us there a solemn board you heard Mr you heard our colleagues there are you have remedies if you're not happy with the
school board members or you're don't happy with the township committee you do have remedies I know what those remedies are right and I'm not going to mention it folks that's proper right but you so you know if you feel as strongly as you say you do well we we know what happened we have
the evidence so I mean it's just there the other thing is I know we're going to have several people now that are going to run because of all of this which is good and they will have actually children in our schools which I think is really important because there's nobody except one person sitting on that board
that has any children in our school and they to me they don't really have a vested interest if your kids aren't in there you don't know what's going on but uh I I just saying to the losing side of the referendum they were bananas on Tuesday night on social media and I mean
look you want to take your anger out take it out out at the people it's a double session Rich got to cut you out all right thank you before you sit down I just want to say something I'm going to give you one credit you and I might not always get along on everything but I give you a lot of credit because you
don't do it anonymously and I think that's very important because the people that do things anonymously they're the problem because you either have a feeling about something speak up for it or you don't that's right so I give you a lot of credit for that I will tell you that well I've taken a lot of people
that don't like some of the things that I say but it doesn't stop me right you know you got to keep going on you have to have integrity you got to believe in what you're doing you believe in what you're doing we get some quiet in the audience sir and I just I just want to follow up on one thing I mean couple things you said
there um one I want to commend you on the work you did because I did attend your meeting last last week and uh I've actually told a couple of my colleagues that uh I wasn't given an opinion of of whether you agree or not agree because I
was being very open with everything because I told people to learn themselves and educate themselves but everybody I talked to kudos to you for the PowerPoint presid presentation you put on because it was very well thought out a lot of work put into it so um I
got to give you give you a applaud for that as far as school board members I can't agree more about back when I was on the board 90% of us all had our kids in the school back then as a matter of fact the 12 years I sat on there were
the 12 years my kids were in the school district and I decided when I didn't run it was because I decided not to run because I felt it was somebody else's turn now was paying for college and everything else things change in life and it was somebody else's turn but uh
there's nothing more important no matter what office it is to have people to have a buyin and when your parent sitting on a school board you have a huge Buy in yeah and the only other thing I want to finish with is the one thing and I know
we've said it here whether you the good thing about this country is we can agree disagree we're a democratic country but one of the most important things you can still treat people with respect whether you agree with them or
not and I know that's one thing um that had got a little off track with these meetings last year and it turned around and you know everybody at least is talking to everybody with respect even though you could agree or disagree but it's very very important to respect the
views of everybody true and debating and debating quite frankly I have no problem debating with people online but when they start calling me names they lose all credibility because you've lost your your battle and you know we've supplied I've supplied people with actual
evidence right online and they'll still tell me I'm lying so I mean you know I can't you know you can't do anything with that but anyway people need to calm down on that other end okay and thank you very much for your time I appreciate good work thank you any other comments this evening
seeing none motion to close the floor second all in favor I resolution 202- 1114 resolution in the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the convening of an executive session in accordance with the open public meetings act to discuss matters of personnel pending anticipa
litigation and matters of real estate move it second Mr kenis yes Mr McDonald yes Mr yes Mr lay yes mayor C yes motion toj second I no further business Further bus