time is 7:31 I will call the workshop meeting to order There is one item for discussion that is the proposed ordinance regarding electric and motorized bicycles This is something that uh was really a topic of mine There's been a lot of conversation in
the community over the past months and years about regulating ebikes within the burrow We recently uh learned that our neighbors to the north Belmar have passed an ordinance or you're attempting
to pass an ordinance I don't know if it had a second reading yet Yes it did Um so have passed an ordinance supplementing their code uh chapter 19 for traffic uh the revised general ordinance of the burrow of Belmar county
of Mammoth etc etc on low speed electronic bicycles and other means of motorized convenience conveyance Sorry Uh this also spurred from a ordinance that was passed in Manisquad in
2023 by then signed by then mayor Donovan Um and it looks to me that they're they're very similar And really what it does is put some regulation on what ebikes can do where they can go
uh what what is prohibited rules and regulations etc etc So I just asked council to look at um at the ordinance that was passed in Belmar and provide any suggestions or comments on on the ordinance itself um and something for us
to consider or to at least talk about in a workup shop session So um Peg you want to talk a little bit yeah sure So what I have a memo in front of me that Belmar and Madison both prohibit motorized vehicles all motorized vehicles except low speed electric bicycles and scooters
Um and they Limit this speed to 20 miles per hour Faster ebikes motorized skateboards and single wheel apparatuses are never permitted on street sidewalks boardwalk paths or public property in either of the ordinances Belar prohibits the LCBs on the sidewalk boardwalk path
or other walkway or upon any other public property not specifically designated for use by motor vehicles Management prohibits motorized bicycles on public property including but not limited to sidewalk beachwalk school grounds recreation areas and the bicycle path over the former Old Jamesburg
Agricultural Railroad However Manis specifically prohibits persons older than 14 from riding an LSB on the sidewalk which would simply would imply that younger persons are permitted to ride on the sidewalk Maximum speed in both them is 20 miles per hour Belmar
requires that they have headlights and tail lights Management only requires lights if used at night Both ordinances require all riders to wear helmets Both ordinances require riders to stay to the right of the roadway Both ordinances requ an audible signal but not a siren or a whistle Both ordinances prohibit
passengers hitching onto another motorized vehicle adherence to traffic rules etized bicycles and scooters to permit or prohibit the 20 m per hour limit seems reasonable where to allow the use of permitted motorized bicycles street
sidewalks park paths and three regulations Any other regulations on the use of permitted motorized bicycles the models seem both of those models are workable according to Sarah So if you can just go back to the beginning of that again when they really
gave a definition of what we were what we're talking about there I believe it's defined as low speed electric bicycle low speed and everything else is prohibited And scooters that can have scooters too Yeah Everything else is prohibited And everything else is It's
listed there What did you say everything else was faster Ebikes motorized skateboards walls and single wheel apparatus I have no idea what you see Are never permitted on on street sidewalk boardwalks paths and public properties
Motorized Um Chief can you so delve into this a little bit about the disc maybe even the discussion they had in Belmar so I met with um a couple of the council members um on this and we took manas on we worked off of that one to come up
with ours There's three classes of um electric bikes motorized bicycles So there's class one and class two Those are the ones that um you you see see mostly around the with the younger kids Um they don't require they don't go
faster than 20 miles an hour Um they don't require to be registered or insured Um a class three is a motorized bicycle which is supposed to be registered insured kind of like a moped Um and you have to have a moped license
to operate them So those are the three different classes So motorized ones that you're seeing out there that these kids are riding majority of them are illegal Um and I you know it it comes back to um
starting at home and doing a little research on these bicycles and the parents and what they're buying their children Um because I know there you know the the older teenagers a lot of them have these motorized ones that go 30 40 miles an hour and they're whipping through the streets no helmets or like
that Um but our or the ordinance for Belmore is basically it's specifically for the class one and class two um electric bicycles where you need a helmet you need a light you got to follow all the same rules of the road and stuff like that Does that answer
your question it does I'm just going to I am going to put you on the spot a little bit here and I apologize but I apologize before putting you on the spot but put on the spot Um it's I think it's I think it's obvious for an officer to spot someone that is on one of these
illegal 35 mph bikes right um what is the ability of a police officer to deal with that juvenile who may be on a bike that is illegal so it depends at their age um if they are over you know they're
17 um they could possibly have a driver's license We can write them title 39 um summones for like a traffic summon Um as far as like a 14 15 year old um we give them a warning we can issue their
their parents a summon for no helmet or something like that or contact their parents um in reference to them you know not following the rules of the road with the bicycle But you can contact their parents right if you have a 15-year-old on one of these bikes and they get pulled over or stopped should I say yes
Do you have the ability to call their parents and say "Hey listen you got to come get the bike." Or something like that I know that and I'm only asking because I know uh juvenile allowances with the police uh officers has changed a little bit over the past couple years but they
do have the ability to do that It's not like they can't do anything right um so this specifically the the ordinance from Belmar specifically deals with class one and class two Um is class two also low
speed yes cannot go um higher than 20 miles an hour Okay Yeah Because this um helmets I'm s I mean can can we I haven't looked into it but can you can you actually tell adults to wear helmets
i don't think motorcycle helmet Well that was the law was different back then I'm sorry to say that's um yeah that was the late late put a helmet on Right Sorry
All right I'm dating myself When you were reading on the road Yeah you could not wear you wouldn't have to wear Got it Got it Um I have a question Yep What about education to the community because a lot of these families already did purchase these bikes It's going to be
ignorance for lack of doing it for not doing research Is there any kind of education that will be going out to the homes or any kind of blast that we would be doing to let them go we can certainly do that at the police department Um we have done it in the past Um I also did a week-long campaign with the Mons County
Prosecutor's Office and the Chief's Association um back last I believe it was last May Um every day there was that there was different um information and um the rules of the road what parents should look for this that and the other thing So um it's definitely something
that you know once you guys put the ordinance in place we could do a joint between the two towns um on some education on it I I think a lot of it does come down to that because parents you know they're just I want this you
know and they go out and buy it not knowing you know the dangers of it as well Some of those go really really fast Yes they do I've actually seen I I know a lot of towns are going with these ordinances and I've noticed um and I
don't know maybe because I'm just noticing it because we were doing it but I am noticing the older kids that are on these bikes a lot more are wearing helmets than maybe last year that like when they were you know coming out with
them but um or the prior years but for some reason lately like whenever I see a group of kids they all have the helmets on and that wasn't the case a year or two ago So something's getting out there but we can definitely do some education on it
Well children still have to people under the age of some 14 or 16 have to wear a helmet on a bike Yes 17 and younger Yeah 17 Interesting Any other questions any questions from the council
discussion um so I think if if we can make this applicable to Lake we can put on a first read for next for next meeting Question Do we want to do anything madison apparently lets
people under under the age of 14 ride an LS and be on the sidewalk I assume we don't want to do that And I think it's really important but it's contiguous amongst the short towns I mean these kids are traveling back and forth between towns So as close as we
can make it the better Can we prohibit them for children under the age of 14 from riding them you can Is that something we would want to do i don't have any 14 or 13 or 12 year olds so you know I would I would ask for input on
that on sidewalk Yes So that means a a 13year-old child or a 12-year-old child on these were going to have to ride the street It was up to their parents right i mean unless somebody has So what's the difference between this
and a golf cart golf car can go over 20 miles an hour 25 miles an hour It's registered It has insurance It has to be registered And you have to be of age license to be No I know I'll be a physician It's considered a low-speed vehicle It's not considered
Yeah considered under this They wouldn't get away with saying "Hey I this is because you can't ride that under the age of and I think that in the definitions that pay read there." It really it brings it down to brings it
down to that low speed electric bicycle or scooter One's an LSV and one is an LSB the same Oh we'll look at it Chief do you know what the fines are um for Belmore it was I mean I could look
at it We can I mean I assume we want to make them the same amount What' you say $6,000 Uh it's a penalty of $50 upon for first conviction second um penalty of 100 But I believe they're
set by the town ordinances Well we can we have a general penalty or we can just set that It doesn't have to be set by the state Correct Oh correct Yes So it's I I think I just want to be really clear on what we're enforcing and
I know we want to follow I like the idea of following what the other towns do but there are some differences in these two um between Manis and Delmer So I know we'll have a first reading but and I know you read through it I appreciate that Um I don't know if it's worth like us outlining this so we're all in
agreement and aligned on this together But I do have a side question which is what happens when you do see chief when you see a um class three they just get pulled like you said those were illegal Yes Well if they're registered and
insured they're not illegal Okay Right Yeah So it's more more of like the mopeds and the and so um we've had instances where we've taken them and contacted the parents and said you know this is you know illegal They can't be riding this on the street until it's um
registered and insured and but they have to be 15 or older for that So and that's the age for a moped license 15 I didn't know that Yes So Madison is different in the sense that their their areas where use is prohibited include school grounds
recreation areas um and that former James Dford agricultural railroad and Belmar just says public property not specifically designed for use by motor vehicles What are you are you have any specific
concerns about My concerns are just that I think that this is a big um potential change I I I agree with it I think we should do this and I love the idea of educating people But I just want to make sure that we're really clear on what it is that we're
um changing But we don't have an ordinance No I know So what are we so the other Belmar says lights headlights and tail lights Misqu said only only at night So to be to be realistic we're actually creating an ordinance to make
the laws for a bicycle the same as the laws for evil because all of these laws I believe exist for bicycles They probably do So we're just although you can have bicycles on the boardwalk during certain times Yeah it's more than
No I know we don't have I know Yeah Um so I I think it's not necessarily that we're changing I think it's more of an update to our current ordinances to make them more in line to to the practices that we already have for a new
existing technology budget except mayor I mean we we allow bicycles on public property They can ride around the lake They can ride to the schools So you can be like 10 and ride a bike Belmore is prohibiting Yeah I would I don't know if
I would I don't know if I would support school aspect I think kids are going to ride their bike They're going to ride the bike to school I I I don't know I I think riding a bike to school is different than riding an ebike to school Okay
The school property that the kids ride up on on their bikes is small Well that's the reason why they have these prohibitions In fact you know people can get hurt I was going to say I I don't think the school allows them to ride ebikes to school but I don't I know I'm
not sure either I wouldn't be surprised I mean I'm thinking about a kid riding an ebike around the lake right we don't allow bikes on the lake Around the lake not on the path Just even riding around the lake Thinking about that in the summertime You know what I mean and how crowded
that is Well technically I don't think we have an ordinance that prohibits mice on the Don't we allow bikes true Do you know that do you know we have an ordinance that prohibits mics in the approach that situation i don't have a
problem And if it's not a problem I don't think it's ever been a problem But having an ebike on that path difference right but having an eBac ebike on that path going 20 miles an hour would be a very big difference Yeah definitely And
that's where that's what I'm getting at Yeah Okay Do we want to do a draft and do we want to make it more prohibitive than I mean one of these is more restrictive than the others but we're closer to Belmar We probably
do it like I mean that's I think that that was my initial Um and also for enforcement I don't know if it would be very fair to our police department to have one law on one side of 16th Avenue and another law
on the other side Get to like get on a sidewalk like just a quick comment It is in the Belmore one streets sidewalks boardwalk paths and public properties located in the
burrow So I think that is the path around silver but it's not allowed Okay So yes because we would define that as a public property right and it would also mean
the park Okay Any other questions or comments from the council drew chief anything else okay Um anyone from the public wishing to comment on this topic come to the mic Seeing none
um I will bring our workshop to a close and um call the regular meeting of the Lake Mayor Council to order Please rise for a salute the flag and a moment of silent reflection I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for it stands nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all Please remain standing for a moment of silent reflection Thank you Sunshine lovely meeting has been provided by the
exception of a resolution by council on the seventh day of January 2025 and which resolution the time and place agenda in regular meetings conducting January 7th were set forth notice was delivered to the park the post and a copy of the notice was posted on the burough website and on the bulletin
board in Bur Hall All meetings are open to the public Roll call please Councily here Here thank you Can I have a motion to approve the minutes from the March 18th meeting so I move second All in favor opposed
extensions Uh under reports of committee She wasn't there Uh reports of committee Heather Uh starting with Councilwoman Albalago Thank you mayor All matters are in order Thank you Councilman Ventrice Thank you Mayor
Um the Environmental Commission is having a uh spring uh late cleanup this Saturday from uh 9 to 11 Uh unless there's uh bad weather coming Uh the meeting place is at the gazebo They'll be providing um cleaning supplies and
refreshments Uh last year the students across the street joined us and they're supposed to join us again this year There were about 110 of them that joined us uh last year Um on May 3rd at 10 in the morning here there's going to be a 90minute presentation by a drug master
gardener of uh Mon County where the subject's going to be making the most of small spaces in New York Other than that all Thank you Councilman Dear Um Chief anything all matters in order Thank you
Councilman Dana Thank you Mayor All matters are over Council in the skull Thank you Mayor Um Belmar has an annual e their annual Easter egg hunt taking place It's for Belmar and Lake Ko residents on Saturday April 12th It's for ages 1 to 9 Starts at 11:00 a.m
sharp And they really mean business about that 11 a.m sharp Sharp It's over by like 11:03 Um eggs are placed on the beach between 4th and Fifth Avenue Um they're broken up into age groups so it's kind of nice for like little kids They're not running over big kids Um
rain date is April 19th or big kids running I was say what I mean I will also post this on the Facebook page Other than that all matters are in order Thank you Citizen of the year All matters in order Thank you Um I have
nothing to report tonight except for the fact that coffee with the mayor this month is being adjusted because of the Easter weekend So it will not be the 3rd it will not be the 19th it will be the 22nd Uh 26th sorry She do the mayor Eggs
with the mayor Eggnog with the mayor Um thank you At this time I'll take a motion open for public comments So move second All in favor anyone wishing to speak to anything listed under new business can come to do so now We will also have
public hearings on ordinances for your second reading tonight Seeing that I'll take a motion to close Some move Second All in favor thank you Going to new business We have ordinance 2025-2 second reading of public hearing
offered by council skull Thank you mayor Um sorry So offered ordinance 2025-2 amending chapter 3-18 park regulations of the bureau ordinances uh be ordained by the mayor and council of the burough
of Lake Como that chapter 3-18 of the burough ordinance be amended as follows Um I'm just going to summarize this quickly um because I know this is a second reading Um bear with me for a second Um this is amending the current park regulations to be able to charge
out of town teams and groups who want to use the fields Um but Lake Ko residents in Belmar Lake school and Lake Ko schools will not have to pay to use the fields Thank you I have a motion Anyone wishing to speak to this specific ordinance can
come to the mic and do so now Seeing none uh I have a motion Do I have a second second Roll call please Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Thank you Ordinance
2025-3 This is the second reading and public hearing offered by Councilman Danuana Thank you Mayor Soul Ordinance 2025-3 is an ordinance amending chapter 7-35.2 of the revised general ordinances of the buro be ordained by the mayor and
council of the bur ko that the following location shall be deleted from chapter 7-35.2 handicap parking on streets 1820 pine terrace This is a second reading Anyone from the public wishing to speak on this ordinance can do so
now Seeing none I have a motion Do I have a second second roll call please Member B Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Thank you Just an update on our workshop
meeting There is no set policy on ebikes at Belmar Elementary School at this time Okay Um we have ordinance 2025-4 first reading and introduction offered by Councilman Ventrice Thank you mayor So offered ordinance
2025-4 an ordinance establishing procedures and standards regarding deployment of small wireless facilities and public rights of way in the BL como whereas the belly com is aware that telecommunications industry is rapidly developing and there is a strong desire among telecommunications companies and
facilities providers to deploy communications equipment supporting 5G personal wireless service or small small wireless facilities within the public right of way throughout the burrow And whereas Lake Ko recognizes the need for a uniform and comprehensive set of regulations and standards for the
sighting design installation operation and maintenance of 5G equipment and supporting infrastructure within public rights of way to preserve and protect public safety community welfare environmental and visual resources and the aesthetic character of the bureau consistent with state federal law Uh
this ordinance uh lays out the details of the regulations and standards uh for the 5G Um it covers use of uh public right of way standards for installation of communications facilities cabinets and 5G support structures uh and
municipal access covers the sighting permit required for installation of communications facility cabinet and or 5G support right away in the application process and fees and the maintenance replacement and removal Uh I believe this was u the subject of uh the last
workshop which I was not at uh about 5G Um this is a first reading so no public comment Do I have a second second Roll call please Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Thank you Um we have ordinance 2025-5 First reading and introduction by council president Yeah that
was an excellent job Good Okay Ordinance so off ordinance 2025-5 in order to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limit and to send a stabic cap back This is housekeeping we do every year Uh we have to pass this to
allow us to go over the cap by 3.5% Which is an amount of $131,631 Normally we never exceeded this We never needed to do this but we know we do it just in case That's what it is
Second Roll call please Council member yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Thank you Resolution 2025-61 offered by council president be
resolved by the mayor and council bar lake ko that the proper officers be directed and authorized to make payment from the following account current account 44,38647 account $247 even uh wire payment
$77,65041 for a total of 122,28388 Have a second Second Roll call please W Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes How do Yes Thank you Resolution 2025-62 offered by Councilwoman Alador
Thank you mayor So offering resolution 2025-62 Be it resolved by the mayor and the council of the borrow of Lake Ko that the proper officers be directed and authorized to make payment from the following account and that would be the New Jersey natural gas account for $866
Second call please Yes Skull Yes Yes Ventrice Yes Yes Resolution 2025-63 offered by Councilman Ventric I
know you've been missing this Yes Thank you mayor So offer resolution 2025-63 resolution of the bur of Lake Ko council executive sessions Whereas the burough council of the bur of Lake Ko must discuss matters which are not appropriate for discussing in a public meeting and these are subjects within
the exceptions to the open public meetings act and are permitted to be discussed in close session pursuant to NJSA 104-12B7 and uh the burough council test to discuss matters that are covered by the attorney client privilege Uh the session should not last more than 30
minutes and uh after which we will reconvene to take action if necessary Have a second Thank you Roll call please Council member yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Thank you At this time I'll take a motion to open for public comments So second All in favor i Anyone wishing to speak now to the council public comments questions can do so now Seeing none I'll take a motion to close
Back All in favor i um all right At this time the council will go into um an executive session We will use this chamber for that executive session So we would ask you to leave Um you can come back at the end If we have
anything to if we have anything to report at that time we will do so I do anticipate that there is possibility that we will take action on some items