time is now 7:30 I will call the workshop meeting of the Lake Como mayor and Council to order we have one item on our agenda for the discussion of proposed ordinance regarding 5G Towers this is something we touched on a couple
of meetings ago um in which the council had a number of um the council had a number of questions for our attorney on the ordinance itself um and I believe after they went
backing they reviewed the attorney uh they reviewed the ordinance they had some significant changes and some significant some significant input into those changes so um tonight we can go over what those changes are if you just Sarah if you just want to tell us a
little bit about um the ordinance that we have in front of us yeah uh and how it reads and what it does to protect us okay I just want to give the council some background first of all um federal law and the FCC regulations do not preempt Municipal
authority to regulate the public right of way by wireless service providers so long as there are certain standards and conditions that are met in local regulation um and they're pretty straightforward the regulations in terms of what they can place in the MP public
right of way have to be object objectively reasonable competitively neutral and at the end of the day they cannot have the effect of prohibiting the provision of service um the FCC also in has certain time frames by which these applications from
providers to place infrastructure in the public right of way have to be met and finally you have to have standards uh in prated in advance if you want to oppose them on somebody who wants to put infrastructure in your right away if you don't have an ordinance like this
you have no control and no say over what's going to be in placed because you can't come after the fact and say oh no you can't put up 15ot pole within 100 ft of another 150t pole for example um also under New Jersey statutes uh providers
need uh Municipal permission to use the right of way so that's another level of Regulation that we have um so in terms of what kind of Standards you can put in in an ordinance that have been approved or have been accepted as reasonable and
appropriate for local regulation um one of the things they talk about is aesthetic standards which means the harm caused by unsightly um negative things that degrade the community by because they're unsightly and they they just make it less less in
character for the neighborhood um uh safety concerns such as uh site triangles uh public access to and from the from the street to the sidewalk across the right of way things like that so oh the other thing the council should
know is 5G is very different than the previous iterations of 4G it has to be deployed in much denser in a much denser way close to it's a smaller smaller equipment much closer to each other so unlike 4G which
could be placed at the top of a water tower 5G typically needs to be closer to Street and each deployment has to be closer it's a lot like an infill A lot of times it's an infill situation where you just need so you have to have these things
much closer to each other and you have to put them in much more densely in order to provide 5G one the service so the ordinance in front of you um here are the the bullet points of what we are putting in place in terms of
protecting the public um when somebody wants to install 5G 5G in Lake Como one we're stating that we prefer that they collocate the there small uh equipment installations and three or
more can be on one pole typically if except if it's an older pole they can't handle it so we're saying here that we would prefer you to use a pole that's already in existence rather than putting in a new pole so that there's not a a Verizon pole and a you know at pole yeah
so it's a preference and they have to it's required that they come and show why they cannot collocate is there there's not existing infrastructure to to to support it or there's already three you know it's maxed out that kind of thing so that's one thing we're saying we we put together a maximum pole
height which I drew from a number of other municipalities I just went through a bunch of towns and saw what they put in so we're saying that the polls if they put in new poles they can't be higher than 35 ft or 110% nearby poles so I see you're putting a
new pole outside the which is much taller but anyway but this is whichever is less by the way um poles cannot be located closer than 500 feet of another pole small Wireless facility pole they cannot and they cannot be directly placed in front
of residences schools or churches so there's a requirement that if they're going to put a pole in an area where there's a a school it cannot be in the facial area has to be away or a residence or a church is that what that or res yeah not
directly FR a residences church or or schools would that do you mind if I ask questions now no uh would that what would the consideration be for a business with a residence above it that would be a residence so it would have to be out of the view of that
facade yeah actually I don't know whether that's really an appropriate rule though the idea is not to have people's homes with poles right in front of them I think in the business district it would probably be okay to have a pole in front of the business where there's a residence upstairs so maybe we can
clarify that that's just single family residen well but there's multiple yeah I'm thinking condos apartments things like that on Main Street yeah where there are polls out there now right we when we talk about not in street lights we have to worry about how high the street lights are and how bright they
are shining into windows so I'm not necessarily sure that that this would include that I don't think we need to not I don't think we need to say you can't have Poes in front of condos on Main Streets that's that's the you know
that's the streetcape as it is now so I just want to I'll make sure that we are not prohibiting them within the because that seems unreasonable to me yeah I agree okay um the polls cannot obstruct sight lines use of streets and sidewalks
or cause damage like trees in the right way you know and we required them to remove any old abandoned equipment those are basically the bullet points of what we're doing here um I felt like I know that there was a question about whether you could prohibit them in residential
zones these polls but I frankly I think that would run contravene this that would end up ultimately uh effectively prohibiting service in residential zones I don't think you I don't think that would pass cluster I don't think that would we could do that because a real
justification for that so how would you if you if I was a company if I was saor rizing just as an example and you wanted to come in and put polls in a residential Zone but you couldn't put them in front of a house and the fa in front of the there's a there's a
definition of what's the facial of the house right so you would have to put it in what would be an Alleyway of a house well if it's in the public right away Along the street right so it would be along the sides of each of the homes right just I mean we have a lot of homes that
are very close together you know so I'm just thinking well there's an out always if the um if the applicant can can prove to the satisfaction of the bureau that it's technically not feasible to meet
some of these standards then there's there's an out and that's sort of required to to stay away from the having the ultimate effect of prohibiting the service but this is sort of it's a general seems to be include things that have been approved and have not been uh
deemed to violate federal law or federal preemption without trying to go too far and inviting a challenge can you put it in green acre property we have green AC well it's this is only for the public right of
way so sidewalk area the between this we call it the Verge here right and you also you have this similar thing for utility companies using your public right away I'm sure you have right away agreements and the process is that a a a provider there's also companies they're
called facil facility developers and their their business model is to put up polls and then lease the space to to I'm thinking about the L well there is public right away sidewalk or not I mean there just is it
just exists that's anch property well that's a whole level that's like yeah that regardless of what we put in place Green Acres has ultimate authority to approve or disapprove it's kind of like a county road like in belmare where belmare is one level of approval but the
county is another it would be up to Green ACR to say whether and from my experience that would not it would not agree to that because the funding has restrictions for um Point number six removal of old equipment does that is
that Li to Old 5G equipment or is it any old equipment from that company so 5G is coming in and they're replacing existing 4G infrastructure this ordinance holds them accountable to remove that 4G
infrastructure yes as an example I don't know if that's actually a thing okay so it says the provider shall notify the buau within 60 days of the decision to abandon any communication facility cabinet or 5 support pole in
the right way now the definition of communication facility is broader than 5G so I would say yes okay thank you so it's sort of a straightforward attempt to put in place prior to anybody coming
in and saying they want to put in a massive smart pole anywhere they want just to sure that we have some say on where they're where our approval process will be and this is the limit to what we can really do I believe it is without like
like the idea of saying you can't have it in residential zones there's no the justification for that except maybe just unsightly probably is not enough to support that kind of broad-based band so again there's a permit process if
it's called a sighting permit if you want to place a hole or some or equipment on an existing right away infrastructure you have to get a sighting permit from the buau um the FCC has specific time frames
within which the buau has to act on an application like that um and if your permit is granted you have to enter into a RightWay use agreement which is very common to Utilities in is there a limit
to the amount or the number of companies that could come into town with their equipment no and that might end up being a discriminatory kind of thing you said you only four only Communications
companies versus independent companies who put up PO or something anybody any question I see the um the section for the application fee I thought I recall from the um last Workshop that there was a section on an annual there is in here
but it's set by FCC I think it's $270 a year per per per um 5G installation which the equipment for one provider's 5G service in that that pole yeah it's in
here but it's set by FCC it's set FCC okay it's use annual use that's per pole per 5G well if you have a pole with three right then you have three different
providers paying you 270 a year and you get that for every Poll for every 5G it's called the small Wireless facilities or it's the equipment necessary for 5G right and every that any small Wireless facility installed in
your burrow must pay you two7 $270 per year for the for the privilege of using your right of away but is that it's not per company in the town it's per per pole pole in the town so you have three providers if you
have three providers on one poll you're getting three times two7 per year purple purple yes so I think it's just a good it's it's a way to protect the bureau as to the extent permissible um and as I said
failure to put something like this some regulations in place before anybody applies to come in and put it user right away means you would not have any say in what they do or way they do it can ask a question that number four yeah
bu point about the PO appearance it is the company's responsibility for finishing or painting that is not the bur's responsibility correct right okay and that's kind of the standard language you see in all the municipalities camouflage to best blend
compatibly with the back and who upkeeps that you mean if if the paint starts chipping if it becomes unsightly who maintains I guess that would be a code violation right because you're required under the code to have it camouflaged in a certain way so if it starts to
deteriorate that would probably be a code violation so you they would get I always want a palm trees on I just I'm thinking with Salt Air what it does to paint I could see it breaking down more easily than it would in the middle of howl right and I'm just
concerned that it would start to look old and dilapitated and responsible for that yeah I wonder whether by the time that supp to be 6G I'm sure but um it's funny because you see in um Wildwood these they they chose bright
blue smart poles they're bright blue and some people say they're be they're great and then if you go to Asberry you see that they're black and does that blend in more I mean I I would say it does but I'm not sure I like the black either yeah it's very
star really it's ominous looking almost when you drive down Springwood so I frankly I'm not sure what they they'd have to work with the burough to satisfy this requirement by coming up with something so if it's Palm
painted palm trees or it's just yeah camouflage like camo but I mean yes you you wanted to in Wildwood it is Beach full of colors right it's that bright blue yellow red
Asbury Park is dark city that's what the nickname of it is so they want it dark they want it black but I think the best thing for residental think Como is the least you know yeah as neutral as neutral as
possible so maybe Brown like telephone poles wood tone I I don't know but anyway definitely part of the discussion yeah thank you sure good CH good J you have any
question not any comments I Believe by the time 6G comes around we'll be having this conversation again next conversation do you want um do you want to add this to the agenda tonight or do you want to give the other council
members a little time to we're not in a rush to put this everybody's here Andy we can get this on the next agenda first read absolutely please um before we move on at this time
does anybody have um comments on this Workshop topic um and only this Workshop topic you can come to the mic and uh be heard now seeing none um I will close the public comment for the workshop and I
will call to to order the regular meeting of the lake KO Barrow Council mayor and councel please rise for a salute to the flag and a moment of Silent reflection I Alle to the flag of the United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all did you standing for a moment of Silent reflection thank you this meeting hased by the ad of a resolution by the mayor and Council on the 7th Day of January in which
resolution the time and place of agenda and regular meetings commencing with January 7th was sent forth there the was deliver to the as Park Press the coar and a copy of the Noti posted on the B website and on the bul bo b Hall all meetings are open to the public council
member W here council member SC is not here tonight council member Dano here councilman deor is not here tonight either is councilman ventri and councilwoman here I have a motion to approve the minutes of the March 4th
meeting so move second all in favor I I abstain opposed um we will move on to reports of the committee starting with councilwoman alala Doyle thank you mayor um there is nothing new to report from the Tourism
Committee at this time as far as the recreation committee reporting on behalf of councilwoman skull uh just to let the public know that we're moving along with the pickle ball courts and the dog parks over at the park um so they're coming along other than that all matters are in
order thank you councilman danana thank you mayor all matters are in order council president Woody all matters in orders mayor thank you um for my report I have a couple of things that I want to um talk about on behalf of councilwoman skull we did get a contact from the
Board of Education Lake Board of Education and they have uh made it clear to us through their presentation to the public that they will not be raising the tax levy at all this year um for the residents of Lake KO so that um
percentage and that tax rate will remain flat moving from one year to the next um they do cite an increase in um things like Health Care Health Insurance um as far as the tuition going
up however we did see a reduction in our students that are going to um belmare and Manasquan so we will see that that rate stay even um for those of you that read the newspaper or pay attention to belmare you know that they have been discussing
their negotiations about first aid this is a topic and a discussion that we have been closely involved in um this is uh a report for councilman deoro who is not here tonight um but uh administrator
Heisman and myself have been involved in many meetings with the bar of belmare as you know we were involved in a fourtown shared service agreement up until December 31st of 2024 in which two of those towns left
the agreement um and after searching for a couple of different options on how to move forward with first aid we agree that um sticking with the shared service between belmare and Lake
KO for the belmare first aid is definitely the way to go I can tell you and I've told this to many of the residents especially at coffee with the mayor uh that they are the best option for the residents of Lake com uh that is
the recommendation that I have given to councilman deorro and council president witty as part of the emergency services committee that we would remain with that shared service in Belmar I believe that at some point in the future I don't know
when but there is going to be some type of countywide EMS there may be some type of countywide fire department Service as well I don't know when that date is going to be I don't believe at this time that we have been provided enough
information from the county that I can safely say that the the residents of Lake coma will be served appropriately uh we have a response time in belmare first aid belmare EMS of 3 minutes or less to anyone who calls for an
ambulance that is well beyond the standard of the state it is well beyond the standard of the nation uh and we are and I say we because we are definitely a partner in this we are the gold standard for the state of New Jersey as far as
EMS and first day response um Rob de Martin and his crew who are right next door have been become a part of our community and they really do an amazing job um I am I am proud and I am
happy to say that we are remaining with them as our EMS organization on top of that um after recalculations of really losing two towns and losing some infrastructure that we need as far as ambulances and
equipment we will actually see our contribution go down um I don't know exactly what that contribution is going to look like yet we are not official we still have our CFOs working out some of the numbers correct Drew that's correct um but I think it's safe to say that our
number our contribution number is going to be less than it was last year which is always a plus we did see an increase last year from the year before uh and to see that number go down is definitely a benefit to the as well um but that being
said I don't think um dealing with this for so many years since being on this Council since 2012 I know what it's like to live in a town where you call EMS and somebody may not show up and I don't think you can put a number on that so I would
definitely ER on the side of an EMS or an e an emergency medical technician showing up at your house and it's going to be a little bit of little bit of an exp expense than it being a low expense and somebody might not be sh them so
that's really how I weigh that decision um and that's how I weigh the recommendation that I would make to the uh Emergency Services committee and then hopefully that they would make to the council but again that is just a report at this time once they come up with the their numbers and that deal and it will
be brought to the full Council for for approval or uh rejection third uh if you've also been following along in Belmore they have believe had a first reading maybe a second reading on ebikes ordinance I've
asked that we get a copy of that um I think that there has been an increase in ebike usage in the area uh I believe that those ebikes are used inappropriately and there's really no Statewide mandate on how those ebikes
should be used so I think it's appropriate and I think that this Council should definitely evaluate keeping that standard with Belmar uh on um effective usage and um enforcement of
proper uses of ebikes so I'm going to ask for Amy to grab that ordinance from Belmore and we can review that and see if we can bring that over to L Como and U make it our own ordinance makes it easier for the police to when they're Crossing 16 absolutely right Sergeant do
you have anything else uh nothing major to report we are getting ready for the summer um we expect about 10 class two officers out of the academy in the upcoming months to help us out other than that nothing ma to report thank you very
um at this time I'll take a motion to open for public comments on new business so move second all in favor anyone wishing to speak uh about anything listed on our consent agenda or new business can come to the mic can do so
now see n I'll take a motion to close so second all in favor thank you under the consent agenda we have two items um the raffle license and the resolution and I have a motion so off second second
second roll call please M yes yes yes thank you under new business we have ordinance 202-21 reading and introduction offered by councilwoman Al oy thank you mayor uh
so offering ordinance 202- two for the first reading this is basically just amending our current Park regulations uh pretty much the majority of it stays the same the thing that we're updating is the fees and I'll read about those this is regarding the Little
League fields so for Lake comoo and Belmar schools and Lake comoo residents there will not be a fee for Lake comoo businesses nonresidents non-resident School non-resident uh not profit organizations it would be $40 per hour
for non-resident businesses and organizations for-profit organizations and Commercial entities it would be $50 per hour and for nonresident travel teams it would be $2,000 per season Drew I know you've done your
homework on this how does this compare to fees um in in fields and places for rent in other municipalities we're we're on the lower end uh mayor and the reason we are still working on the field it's the baseball field the lit leag field is up and running um and we should have
most of it completed with the batter cage and fing area by by the spring um any other questions from Council all right do I have a second second call
please yes yes yes thank you um ordinance 2025 D3 is a first reading and introduction offered by councilman danan thank you mayor so offer ordinance 20253 an ordinance amending chapter 7- 35.2 of
the revised General ordinances of the Broadley Como be ordained by the May Council of ble Como that the following location shall be deleted from chapter 7352 handicapped parking on streets uh 1820 Pine ter um just for the record this often
happens we have uh uh ordinances in the past that we put handicap spots for specific residents and when those residents move um we are uh obliged to remove those handicap parking spots and that's what this case is so we have a
motion do we have a second second roll call please yes yes yes thank you resolution 22558 offered by council president so of resolution 2025
a burrow of Lake Colo County of m a resolution requesting permission for the dedication of a r by riter for a recreation trust account fund this is where we open up a special fund account for recreation where money coming in
from from Recreation activity to be put into this fund and also to pay bills out of it as they go down to the state for approval and this is a direct connection to the ordinance first reading of the ordinance which SP to corre
um do I have a second second roll call please yes yes alal Doyle yes thank you resolution 202- 59 offered by councilwoman alal Doyle thank you mayor so off resolution 2025 59 be resolved by
the mayor and Council of The Bu of Lake Como that the proper officers be directed and authorized to make payment from the following accounts current account $ 361,662 7 water account $1,947
77 the dog license account for $360 the general Capital fund for $15,300 the tourism account for $1,750 and the AC wire payments of $565
3561 for a gr total of 58656 755 thank you have a second second call please wiy yes yes yes thank you councilman Dano you are
off the hook we're going to pull resolution 2025 for an executive session um because we do not have anything to discuss with counselor um at this time I'll open for I'll take a motion to open for public so
second all in favor I anyone wishing to speak or make comments to the council can come to the mic and do so now M Frank I'm Barbara Frank 761 22 Avenue um
Lake Kom made public news last Thursday on the radio 101.5 because of our extreme High tax es our taxes were raised
9% uh Spring Lake four we had that big meeting and you had the gentleman come from count but uh it doesn't make sense it
doesn't you're we have these condominiums on both sides of Main Street plus the uh retail stores on the ground level they are all paying taxes that's more Revenue our taxes should be
going down not up so and I and I know that you understood this from the meeting that we had right you have the two aspects that we're talking about the assessment on your home right yeah right which is
really really going up and going up fast and has really been going up since 2020 and then you have the tax rate which is applied from the municipality to those funds that that uh to that assessment so the tax rate which this council is
control of has been steadily going down for the past 12 years um it has not gone down at the same rate as your assessment has gone up unfortunately um and when you say your assessment has gone up I'm guessing and when you say your taxes
have gone up I'm guessing it's because your assessment has gone up right um as you know we have little to no control over the assessment that is levied against your property I know my
assessment goes up 15% almost every year um so we were all kind of in the same boat um we've talked about the ADP system yeah for a long time now uh and I know that there are many private citizens working to try to get
that changed I know that there are a number of lawsuits out there by different municipalities that are trying to get that changed um I don't I wouldn't recommend to our Council to join any of those lawsuits because it would just cost us moneyy so I think we
need to wait to see where those lawsuits come out and then we can take appropriate action against that well you have to agree that spring l dirt is worth more than the Cobo dirt
right I I'm not going to concede that on record but uh I understand what you mean okay okay and they only went up 4% so you're talking about their assessment right yeah so their assessment so their assessment what the
reason why it goes up right there are if you look at it your tax assessor is trying to get to a number and that number say for your for your home is $1 million your your home is worth $1 million if the tax assessor comes in and
says that's the number your house should be at and your house is only assessed at 800,000 then he's going to raise the assessment for $200,000 right in in Lake com in Spring Lake the assessor goes in and sees a house that is worth $9
million and it is assessed at $8.9 million then they only have to raise that assessment a very small percentage so the percentage may seem smaller because the the property value
is so much higher and so much bigger so it's it's it's really coming down to apples and oranges that we're comparing um the biggest I think that the the biggest argument that anybody can make against the ADP program right now is is North
Boulevard right you have houses on Lake Como that are so assessed so much higher than the ones in Bel right right so there you're kind of comparing Apples to Apples and we understand what those problems are and those is issues are but if you're comparing the homes the dirt
or the homes in Lomo to the dirt and I understand because the dirt in Lomo is very valuable and it's becoming more and more valuable every year um but it's really difficult to compare it to Spring L I have to talk to the ta assessor good luck yeah I know because he was here he
was for that meeting yes he was listen I will tell you one thing uh I'll tell you a lot of things about the tax assessor nobody likes a tax assessor right I think everybody knows that he is definitely reachable he will definitely call you back he may give you answers
that you don't like and that tax assess usually does give you answers you don't like um but if you do reach out to him he will call you back and if he doesn't you call me and I'll make sure he calls you back all right all right um one more thing
sure are we still a sanctuary burrow so yes and why I'm sorry let me let me let me take that back I'm going to take that back as I've said before right we are a sanctuary state if you
want to quote Murphy quote unquote Sanctuary State municipalities had the option to draft ordinances within their town to revoke that Sanctuary State this town chose not to do
that we have not had a discussion whether to do that now um I don't think the council needs to do that now and for the basic reason is there's no difference there's no difference if if Town Lake Wall Township passes a nons
sanctuary town and a town like Lake comoo that doesn't pass that ordinance there's no difference in the rules same thing happens in both spots so we decided not to do that legislation because we have would have the same powers and the same responsibilities and
the same aid from the state that wall would get even though they are passing that resolution the only thing that could possibly in my mind and this is just my opinion they may miss out on some Aid or some help from the state if they ever needed it by passing that type
of ordinance that would be my thought well let's hope we don't need it I hope we don't need it too okay thank you Mr Franks see no one else I'll take a motion to close so move second all in
favor I thank you next meeting please next meeting of the May Council on Tuesday 730m in L meeting room all me open to the motion to adjourn so moov second all in favor I thank you