August 5th at 7:32. I call to order the meeting of the mayor and council bar lake to order. Please stand for a moment for a flag and one more sign of the standy for all.
for this meeting has been provided by the adoption of a resolution by the council on 7th day of January 2025 in which resolution and time agendar and type into a copy of the notice is posted on the burough website on the bulletin board in Burough Hall. All meetings open to the public.
Roll call, please. Council member Witty here. Scott here. Antoano here. Here. Councilman is not here tonight. Council member Alado here. And the mayor will be won't be here tonight.
Any a motion to approve the minutes of July 15th meeting? So move. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Carry. Any communications? None on the agenda reports to committee. Uh councilwoman Abalad Doyle.
Thank you so much. Um as far as the um tourism commission is concerned, uh we had our meeting and we are tracking along with Lake Ko Day plans. Um we are moving along with our Wednesdays on the water that will be on August
20th. Thank you. Um, and if you haven't done so already, please visit the farmers market. Some of the best produce I have had. And we are looking at introducing another vendor as of this week. So, we're going to continue to kind of grow it little by little slowly
so that we have a good assortment for everyone there. So, please continue to check out and see what we have. What kind of vendor is coming? Um, the vendor is doing some produce, but is also doing some flowers and shrubs and anything else I'm missing. That's it.
Yeah, I'm sure there'll be other varieties as well. So, a little bit of that as well. So, we're going to have a nice variety. We're looking to have some other vendors come as well. So, um, we've been getting rave reviews and feedback on it. So, please continue to support local and shop there. Other than that, all matters
are in order. Thank you, Councilman Doro. Uh sir, is there anything going on in the PD? Yeah, we have nothing to report. All matters in order, Mr. Council President. Councilman Skull
first order. Okay. Um under recreation, uh fall tennis lessons are registration began August 1st, ends September 20th. Um it's a six week program. Uh the kids will meet every Saturday. Saturday um from
end of September until November 1st, ages 6 through 17. It's $90 for Belmar, Lake Como residents and St. Rose students. Um you must bring your own tennis racket. And um you can sign up for that on belar.com. I'll put this flyer on the Facebook page, the Lake Ko
Facebook page. Um I just got this tonight. And then there's also soccer signups for Wreck happening for the kids uh right now. Um the season starts in September and it's for grades K through 8. Um it's $55 for Belmar and Lake
residents and again you can sign up at belmar.com. This flyer is on the Facebook page. Um it's a great program so I recommend it. Um other than that all matters. Thank you Councilman. Thank you. All matters are in order. Neither of my committee to finances. All
matters in order. Okay. Uh I need a motion to open up for public comments on new business only. So move second. All those in favor? I opposed. It's this time anybody come forward and have talk about landing on the new
business. If not I may need a motion to close the public hearing. So move. Second. All those in favor? I oppose. Carry. the bill consent agenda under new
business we have resolution 2025-109 opened by council. Thank you. So resolution 2025-109. This is a resolution authorizing change orders order for the improvements to Mar Avenue phase 2 project contract. So the
contract awarded for an amount of $284,862.36 and this change order is decreasing the contract amount. uh by $45,381.98 for a new total contract amount of $239,480.38. I have a second.
All those in favor? I move, please. Council member Witty, yes. Skull, yes. Yes. Yes. Valido, yes. And we have resolution 2025 D-S10 offered by councilwoman Skull.
Um thank you council president. So offered resolution 2025-110 resolution of the burrow of Lake Ko County of Monmouth state of New Jersey extending the grace period for tax due date. Um, so this just summarizing because of the timeline of when we
passed our budget and when we received a tax rate from the county, there was a delay in sending out the tax bills resulting in an extension in the grace period for the third quarter taxes. Property owners have until August 22nd to pay their third quarter taxes without interest. Um, I I neglected to see something when
I looked at this before the meeting. The last where clause says 25 days through August 22nd, 2025. If we take it to August 23rd, we need to amend that. So it says until August 22nd. Okay, we accept the amendment.
Me? Yes. Yes, I will accept the amendment. Do I have a second? Second. Roll call, please. Yes. Skull. Yes. Yes. Yes. Do Yes. Next we have resolution 2025-11
authored by council woman. Thank you council president. Uh so offering resolution 2025-11. This is a resolution requesting approval of items of revenue and appropriations um where we have uh received a grant for
$39,500 um that we will then use to um for our code enforcement. Um so this just gives us the funds to be able to do that. Do I have a second?
Second. Roll call, please. Council member. Yes. Yes. Yes. Memorial. Yes. Valid. Yes. Then we have resolution 2025-112 ordered by councilman. Thank you. So offered resolution
2025-112. This is a resolution authorizing the buro to participate in in county mutual and assistance agreements with participating units in the county. Do I have a second? Second. Roll call. Council member Wy.
Yes. Skull. Yes. Yes. Yes. Sorry. Aldo. Yes. Now we have resolution 2025-13 offered by council woman skull. Thank you council president. Offering resolution 2025-113
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 $51,436.82. Water and sewer account 143,1247. General capital fund $128,56964
grant fund $20,189.50 a wire payments $130,917.39 for a grand total of $474,125.82. Do I have a second? Second roll call, please. Council member Witty, yes. Skull, yes. Yes. Yes.
Alador, yes. Now we have resolution 2025 DS 114 payment of NJG bill offered by council valid. Thank you, council president. resolution uh so offered resolution 2025-114
be resolved by the mayor and council of the burough of Lake Ko Como that the proper officers be directed and authorized to make payment from the following account. This would be the New Jersey national gas account for $179.30. Do I have a second? Second. Roll call, please.
Council member Witty, yes. Skull. Yes. Yes. How valid? Yes. Now we have resolution 2025-15 authored by Councilman Dan. Thank you. Soul offered resolution
2025-115 is authorizing the issuance of a request for proposal RFP for labor employment attorney services for the remainder of 2025. Whereas our um our previous labor employment attorney Mark Kendrick Equire
of King Kendrick and Jackson LLC has resigned. issuing an RFP for um these services for the remainder of the calendar year. I have a second roll call, please. Council member, yes.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Now, I need a motion to open up for public comments on anything. So move. Second. All those in favor? I
carried. Now is the time to come forward if you want to make any comments about anything. You can state your name and address please. Hi. Hi everybody. It's Diane Kalazinski. I live at 1828
Pine Terrace and um I just have a question about the EV charger that's in the parking lot. Um, I have an E vehicle and I would love to use that charger, but it's been out of service for quite a
few months now. So, I believe they're privately owned, but and I did try to email them and say, you know, and what's going on with this? And they said that there's no plan to fix it at this point. So,
I can answer that. So for over the last two years, we've had some difficulty with the machine. They've come out several times. They the last report that we've had for them is that they basically want us to purchase a new a whole new unit at the cost of $3500
plus installation. We don't make that money. It would take us several years to make up for those costs to put that that unit in. And there's still some outstanding work that we have to do here. it wasn't cost effective for us to do that. So we it
took a long time for the them take take us off the website as not an EV charger. So it's uh you know it was received through a grant. The grant's no longer available and they're not very willing to come out and help us repair it. Let's put it that way.
Is that a legal issue? It is not. You know the the whole grant thing I guess they they you know I know um state grant I don't recall. Jersey. Yeah, sustainable Jersey.
Did you warranty on it? We're beyond that scope. And I know Councilman, Councilwoman has helped us also try and make some kind of contacts, but the price that they're giving us for the what it's going to cost, you know, we'll never receive the
money back. Okay. Thanks so much. But is that a service we should be providing? Well, I wonder if there's another company that can do it that would that would actually fun the dollars because they make money over time, but for us to
have to pay for it doesn't make sense. I mean, I know in Atlantic there's somebody I mean the money came from the grandpa the contract we have with the u provider of the service um they they I think absorbed the front.
We might just They're using what is that council? 11. Is there any other grants out there for There is not right now. So plan is once a grant pops up because they normally do. Red Bank has a bunch of them around town
too. Yeah, I should check those things because they might be a more costefficient provider. Is there anybody else? Yeah. Can I can I just say that since I have a new vehicle now? charge my car quite a bit. There's like
five or six different companies that, you know, have the chargers. There's Electrify America. There's EV go. There's there's like at least four or five of them. So, I don't know if that's a possibility of maybe we can look into it.
Yeah. Great. Appreciate it. Thanks so much. Anyone else? If not, any motion to close public comments? So moved. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Carry. Next meeting.
Next regular meeting of American Council on Tuesday, August 19th at 7:30. All meetings. Get a motion to adjourn. I have a second. All those in favor? I
carry