32. I'll call the regular meeting of the Lake Combo Burough Council to order. Please rise for a salute to 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 one nation under
God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Please remain standing for a moment of silent reflection. Thank you. Uh sunshine. meeting has been provided by the adoption of a resolution of the mayor and council on the 17th of January 2025.
In this resolution, the time and place of agenda and regular meetings commencing with January 7th was delivered to the park press the coar and a copy of the notice was closed on the burough website and on the bulletin board. All meetings are open to the public. Council member Witty here
is not here tonight. Council member Demoro. Yes. Ventrice here. Aalado oil here. Thank you. Can I have a motion to approve the minutes from the June 17th board meeting? So move. Second. All in favor? I meant council meeting, not
board meeting. Sorry. Got my rolls mixed up there for a second. Uh we have no communications. So reports of committee starting with councilwoman Al Valado. Thank you, mayor. Um, so we had our first Wednesday on the water yesterday, which was then became Monday with music.
Um, despite the rain, it was a huge success. Um, the mayor and I estimated that we probably had between 100 and 120 people that showed up as the day progressed. Um, and it was just a great time to walk around, be with neighbors, and just mingle and listen to some great
music. Um, I'm really looking forward to this. It's going to be, just as a reminder, the third Wednesday of each month, which would make that July 16th. It is from 6:30 to 8 and it will be Tommy B and the Deep Blue Sea is our next act.
Other than that, all matters are in order. Thank you, Councilman Ventrice. Thank you, mayor. Uh on um two Saturdays ago on uh June 21st, we had the uh name dedication of the butterfly garden uh making it now the uh young Latzo
butterfly garden. Uh it was well attended and uh the mayor spoke said some nice words and uh really want to give a special thanks to the DPW to uh putting it in very good shape for the event and going forward. It looks pretty good. If you haven't seen it, uh take a
walk over there. It looks great. Other than that, Did you have any of Baby's cupcakes? No cupcakes. Oh, the cupcakes were fantastic. And they were butterflies on them. With butterflies. They were delicious. Uh, thank you, Councilman Dearo. Uh,
please, Chief Scott. Anything going on? All matters in order. Get ready for the weekend. All matters are in order. Thank you, Councilwoman Skull. Thank you, Mayor. Um, under my committees, everything all matters are in order. um but just out of like a passion project interest.
Yesterday we hosted um New York Times bestselling author Adriana Triana. Um she's written 20 at least 20 books and her latest is called The View from Lake Ko. Um so we invited her to come to Lake Ko. Um I knew that she was having um a
book tour starting in Spring Lake in uh July because her book releases in July. So, she was kind enough to come to Lake Como and spend some time with us, do a little meet and greet and Q&A. Um, her book's not out yet, so she wasn't signing copies necessarily, but um, she has a couple of events through Thunder
Road um, in Spring Lake, and yesterday was just a great time to meet her. She was very cool. She spent a lot of time in Lake Como to like research this area. Um, and I was especially impressed when she talked about how she wanted to make sure that, you know, if a driver was turning right onto a certain road, like
that that act that road actually went that way. She made sure that all the directions of the streets were correct and and whatnot, among other things. Anyway, it was great. So, thanks to um those that were that helped Amy for helping me with that and also for those that came out for it, including the
mayor. Thank you, Council President Whitty. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. All matters more. Thank you. Um, as far as my report, we do have the mayor's bash coming up on July 10th. Uh, you can purchase tickets at Burough Hall or through Venmo.
There's a sign out on the board if you wish to purchase tickets. Um, we are finishing up our project on Marram Avenue, 21st and 22nd. Um, hopefully be done tomorrow. We did get pushed back a little bit on on our timeline. However,
um, we did get through milling today. Um, I know the rain is could be problematic in the morning, but we're we're hoping that we're going to get done tomorrow or very early. We should be done by the 4th of July, which is um other than that, all matters.
At this time, I'll take a motion for public comment on new business. Second. All in favor? Um, anyone wishing to come to the mic to speak on anything on the agenda listed under new business can do so now. Um, if
you're here specifically for a specific application, I'll call you up when the time is right. You don't have to speak now if you don't want to. Um, but if you are a member of the public and wish to speak to those, you can come up. Seeing none, I'll take a motion to close. So, second. All in favor? I.
Thank you. Under new business, we have a special events application for 19th Avenue block party. Do we have any representative for this special events application? Can you come up to the mic, please? And just I just need your name and address.
Whoever is listed on the application. They both are. Okay. 736. Molly Piper 7331. Okay. Um, thank you for being here tonight. Can you tell us a little bit about the date and time and what your
plan is for this block party? September 6th and then September 7th date put on there. Um it's just a gathering for the neighbors. Try to bring back an old tradition of getting the neighbors together and the kids and they get to
come out. Um, do you have a area of the block where you're going to block off or the whole block or what's the I think we gave it to Amy. We were looking from I guess Annette's house and
then maybe to the um the wies, not Paul and Helen, but Ron and Barb. I don't know the actual Yeah, I'm looking at the picture. I'm sorry. It's like it would be a big um a big area, just a small area for us to gather and put some music
on, maybe, you know, have everybody make a little dish, put some cornhole out and just get together. Looks like 7:46 to 7:29. Um your neighbors are aware of this? Not yet. We wanted to get approved first. Um
and then um you know, we're going to put a committee from the the neighbors together and have everybody you know, if they have ideas and they want to do something special. You get a number of neighbors that say they don't want you to do this or you're going to go through it anyway. Um, I
don't I think the area that we're looking at, which is all the neighbors pretty much who already know about it. Okay. I don't think we'll have a problem. Okay. If we had to, we would just confine it to a smaller area. But most of the people already are aware. We
just haven't done anything because we haven't been approved. Okay. There's like nine or 10. Um, chief, any concerns with egress or ingress or outgress or whatever? You're more than welcome to come watch.
Thank you. I think you know everybody over there. Drew, any concerns? I don't see if I can obtain a head sign for 19 warning. I don't see that issue.
Um, what would what would place in the road at the at the areas of blockade? Well, hope for cones. I don't know if the um DBW can let us get some cones. Otherwise, we'll get some cones and we'll block everything off. So, typically what we
do, mayor, is barricades and cones for visibility. Typically, we would put concrete barricades out like that if that is a concern. No, I'm not concerned about what is there. I'm just, you know, typically I
know we've done a couple of these block parties before. Um, questions or comments from the council? Um, the only thing that's different with this one, and I think that has been different in the past, is usually all of the the neighbors are like together
before the application comes in front of the council. Um, I would have no problem if if a council person wanted to um to move and approve this. Um, I think we would do that with the uh the idea that
it is um the consent is what's the word? Predicated Thank you. predicated on the neighbors being okay with it. Okay. Um, anything from the council?
I'll make that motion. We approve it under that condition. I'll second it. Roll call, please. W. Yes. Skull. Yes. Mororrow. Yes. Yes. Do Yes. All right. Thank you very much. You're good to go.
Thank you. Um and we have a second special events permit for the third annual Green Green Greenwood block party. Do we have a representative for this application? She's not here. I I know who she is. She's not here.
Um, was she told that she had to be here for this? It's not just we carry it to the next meeting. I have a motion, a second to carry the uh special events permit for the Greenwood block party to the next
meeting. Uh motion to second. Can I get a roll call, please? Yes. Yes. Mora, yes. Yes. Yes. Can you just reach out to uh third special events permit for our
Lake KO day 5K? Um, I did talk to Dan Knap yesterday, um, who informed me that he was not going to be able to be here. Um, this is actually an application really through the tourism commission. Um, so Dan being the responsible person
for the race does not necessarily have to be here because it comes from the tourism commission. Um, if we want to take a look at the um, the application uh, And Heather, you can help me out
here. I think the only change from this year, which is is a significant change, is that it will not run out of Macs. It will run out of Joe's Surf Shack. Correct. Which means the start and end is going to happen in two different places.
And if you look at the map, it's actually going to um when I first looked at it, it's going to start on 18th Avenue and end on Parkway, if you can follow the squiggly lines there. Um and when I first looked at it,
I had I had some significant concerns um because there's going to be a lot of street closures. Um, but after really investigating um and talking to Dan about this, it's actually going to
close less streets than if we ran it on Main Street like we did last year. 18th Avenue was going to be closed for a very short period of time, about 5 10 minutes. Um, and as the race goes through down 19th Avenue, that's going
to be closed for 10 minutes. And then everything centered around the lake. North Boulevard will already be closed because it's Lake Como day. So, we will not be needing any additional road closures. So, in reality, the only road closures we're going to have is about 15
minutes instead of the normal 45 minutes to an hour of road closures. So, I was very concerned about this route. Um, but after talking about it and thinking about it a little bit more, um, I think
this route is actually more beneficial. Chief, any thoughts on that? Um, the only my only concern is um it's a Lake KMO run and there's a a portion of it that is in Belmar. So, I don't know
if we would have to and Spring Lake and Spring Lake. I don't know. We would have to reach out to both those towns and he is putting in an application to Belmar and to Spring Lake. Um, we were in Belmar last year for this run as well. Okay. and Spring Lake. Um, we were just
not I think we were in Belmar less than we are right now on this this new course. The the only other thing is is manpower that time of year. All of our specials aren't they're back to school or have other jobs and stuff like that. So, we definitely would need um a good
amount of volunteers. Yeah, there were volunteers with it last year. Um the only I know that you have a walk that day as well. It's the same day as the the walk boardwalk walk at a bar which we had
last year. Um so it's really shouldn't be that big of a deal. Drew, any thoughts? Well, I did have a discussion with the chief as well as Dan on this and this is the route that Dan thought was going to be the best fit. I think we still need to follow up on
volunteers and I don't see any reason why but to discuss it further to make sure we have enough manpower to volunteers which typically he's pretty good with. So without the volunteer issues and
having out there I don't see any issues any thoughts from the council any uh motion make a motion we approve second roll call please yes yes tomorrow yes
Yes. Yes. Okay. We have ordinance 2025-12. Uh this is a second reading in a public hearing offered by uh Councilman Danto is not here. Um so
you want to do it. Thank you mayor. So offered ordinance 2025-12. This is second reading. Uh it's the ordinance of Lake Ko prohibiting parking on C. streets and regulating handicap parking on a portion of Redmond
Avenue providing a penalty for the violation thereof. This is to provide for a handicap parking space in front of 614 Redmond Avenue on the north side of street. All right. This is a second reading. So this comes with a public hearing. If there's anyone from the public that
wishes to speak to this specific ordinance, you can come to the mic and do so now. Seeing none, I'll take a um I will close the public portion and ask for a second. Second it. Roll call, please.
Yes. Skull. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. We have resolution 2025-101 offered by Councilman Skull. Thank you, mayor. Um be resolved by the mayor and council of the burrow of Lake Ko. Sorry. So offered
resolution 2025-101 be resolved by the mayor and council of the burrow of Lake Ko that the proper officers be directed and authorized to make payment from the following accounts. Current account 35,63323 water and sewer account $19.88 88
general capital fund $129,218.73 grant fund $72,3546 tourism account $2,466.34 AC wire payments $45,21.3 uh for a total of $284,98367. Do I have a second? Second roll call, please. Council, yes. Skull, yes. Yes.
Ventrice, yes. Yes. Resolution 2025-102 offered by Councilman Alvado. Thank you, mayor. So, offering resolution 2025-102 be resolved by the mayor and council of the bureau 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 $195.24. I guess we don't really need a second. Second lady, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. The
next two items are um the next item is a budget amendment public hearing. Um Sam, can you give us a little background on the amendment? And um yes, at our last meeting, we approved the resolution to amend the budget. Um
the amendment that we're focusing on is um changing an appropriation in the water store account. Um the uh the OE expense for purchase of water we are changing from $375,000 down to 216 for uh 614 and um paying off
a complete deferred charge for over expenditure that was found in our 2022 audit. to raise the full amount of 19836 due to that significant change in that one line item caused for an amendment and that needed to be publicized.
So um just for timeline purposes this is for the current year's budget um which we will be adopting hopefully next um and it's just moving money from one line item to another. Yes, I didn't change any of the total budgets for current
fun. The amounts are still the same. It was just rearranging within those appropriations. Okay. Um, this is a public hearing. If anybody has a question on that budget amendment, you can come to the mic and ask questions now.
res. Seeing none, I will close the public portion and we will move on to resolution 2025-103 offered by council president Whitney. So off of resolution 2025-103
be resolved by the council members of the burrow of lake county of mammoth that the budget here is for set forth and hereby adopted and constitute an appropriation from purpose stated the sum set forth as appropriation
authorization in the amount of 3 million261,99340 Second roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Ventrice. Yes. Yes. It's your last budget, Doug. Yeah.
Now, now you're Now that you're going to become the town of historian. Um, you have to go figure out how much your first budget was when you passed it. Okay. Um, at this time, I'll open take a motion to open for public comments. So
moved. Second. All in favor? I I. Anyone wishing to speak um comments for the council questions can come to the mic and do so now. Just need a name and address. Seeing none, I'll take a motion to close. Motion.
Second. Uh all in favor? I opposed. All right. Next meeting. The next regular meeting of the mayor and council will be held on Tuesday, July 15th at 7:30 p.m. in the meeting room to the public. Thank you. I have a motion to adjourn. So move
second. All in favor?