Regular meeting of the Lake Ko Council to order. Please rise for a salute to the flag and a moment of silent reflection. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the stands. One nation under God, indivisible,
liberty and justice for all. Please remain standing for a moment of silent reflection. And as we are going back to school this week, please keep in your thoughts those who lost their lives last week in Minnesota in a horrible
school shooting. Thank you. Sunshine wall, please. As notice that this meeting has been provided by the adoption of resolution by the mayor and council on the 7th of January, 2025 and which resolution the agenda in regular meetings commencing
the January 7th or 7th. Notice was delivered to the Bay Park Press the Coast Guard tab and a copy of the notice was posted on the B website and on the bulletin board. All meetings are open to the public. Roll call, please. Council member Witty here. Counciloman is not here tonight. Council member Dantano here.
Demorro here. Andre here. Here. Thank you. Can I have a motion to approve the minutes of the August 19th meeting? Second. All in favor? Opposed or abstensions? state. Uh we will move on to reports of committee
starting with Councilwoman Al Balen Doyle. Thank you, Mayor. Um so I wanted to say that we had another really successful finally able to schedule Wednesdays on the water last Friday. Um it was Guns for Hire and they put on quite a show and again we had a great turnout from
the community. Um it seems like something that everyone's talking about and how they're really enjoying it. So I'm glad that we were able to provide that for the community. Um, we have one more uh in our in our installment and that is on the 17th of September. That is a Wednesday. Hopefully we will make
it on the Wednesday and the weather will hold out for us. And that is almost average is the name of the band. Um, we continue with our farmers market. Uh, it is a huge success with amazing amazing vendors. Each week we're adding a little
bit more. Uh currently we will have this coming week a produce vendor again flowers and eggs sourdough bread vendor honey vendor and straight up coconut which is coconut candles and all natural products from coconut. So we're building
the event to be greater and greater for the community. And that's the idea of what's coming up. When are we ending that? September 24th. Uh, and then also to keep in mind, just remember, um, Lake Como day is on September 20th, best day of the year.
Well, second best day. Sorry, mayor mayor's bash. Um, the second best day of the year in Lake Ko. Um, we are still looking for craft vendors. So, if anybody knows of any vendors, please have them reach out to Amy Bony at the end of the day. Other than that, all matters are in order.
Thank you very much, Councilman Ventures. Thank you, Mayor. Um the environmental commission uh has made a recommendation to establish a shade tree commission. Um the shade tree commission would uh make recommendations on planting trees,
removing them, maintaining them, uh their best locations, the types of trees and and so forth. Um and I I've been informed that in uh one of the upcoming meetings we should be in a position to uh have a ordinance proposed uh to start
that otherwise all matters are in order. Fantastic. Thank you, Councilman Demora. Uh SGE, anything going on with PD? Nothing to report. Summer is over. Great job. Great job, by the way. Fantastic job.
And I want to echo uh uh Councilwoman Doyle's comments. The band was really good. They're really good, you know, and I think that's something we should keep up. All matters in order. Thank you, Councilman Danto. Thank you, Mayor. All matters are in order.
Thank you, Council President Whitty. All matters in order, Mayor. All right. Thank you for my report. I just want to thank everyone for a busy summer. Um, our PD, our first responders, um, and all of the work that is done here at the burrow. We had a lot going
on this summer, a lot more than we've ever had before. The lakefront is bustling, especially with our farmers markets on Wednesdays and our Wednesdays on the water or Wednesdays in the water, I guess we should call it, from now on. Uh hopefully the rain will hold off next
year and we won't have to worry about hurricanes and we'll be able to do a little bit more of that. So, I want to thank everyone for their cooperation throughout the summer. We just had a question about the oneways on uh some of our summer streets and our I want to
thank our residents for their cooperation and their patience while we try new things out throughout the town. So, uh it was a very successful summer and I look forward to doing it again next year. When does it revert back? Um we are it's
around September 14 uh September 15th I believe the uh ordinance says and we're doing it on the 13th I think this year 13th because there's a block party on the 14th I believe. So um the 13th
with that all matters are in order. Uh can I have a motion to open for new business? So move second. All in favor? Hi. Hi. This is a public comment portion on new business. Anything listed on our agenda. If you have questions or comments for uh
the five items listed under our new business, you can come to the microphone and have your comments heard. Seeing that, I'll take a motion to close. So move. Second. All in favor? All right. Under new business, we have resolution 2025-120
offered by Councilman Ventrice. Thank you, mayor. Uh so offer resolution 2025-120. resolution of the bur of Lake Ko council executive sessions whereas the bur council of bur of lake ko must discuss matters which are not appropriate for discussion in a public meeting and these subjects within the
exceptions to the open public meetings act and are permitted to be disclosed in close session to NJSA 104-12b 7 these are matters involving subjects covered by the attorney client
privilege and legal advice The session should not take more than 30 minutes after which we'll return and take action. Thank you. Do I have a second? Roll call, please. Council member Witty. Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes. Valido? Yes. Thank you. Resolution 2025-121. I'll ask Councilwoman Abalad Doyle to Thank you. So offering resolution 2025-121. Be it 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 accounts. The current account $36,81622. The grant fund $24,650. The tourism account $2,451.94. The AC wire payments were $44,745.7
for a total of 108,63 $66323. Thank you. Do I have a second? Sorry. Roll call, please. Council member Witty, yes. Yes. Yes. Ventrice, yes. Aladora, yes.
Thank you. Resolution 2025-122. Also offered by Councilwoman Alador. Thank you, mayor. So, offering resolution 2025-122. Be it resolved by the mayor and council of the burough of Lake Como that the proper officers be directed and authorized to make payment from the New
Jersey Natural Gas Company account um for $17857. Do I have a second? Second. Roll call, please. Council member Witty. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Thank you. Resolution 2025-123 offered by council minor resolution to adopt the emergency operations plan of burrow lake como probably gave same as the authoritative document for emergency operations with
the bur of lake ko. Basically this is a plan put together by our emergency management team uh and for the burough the mayor and council to adopt. Um, just to add to this, Drew, this is uh the plan for mutual aid and
assistance. I believe it is through the um and this is also so we are in uh accordance with uh our county and state guidelines I believe. Yes. Is it attached here?
It is not a public record. So if you want to see a copy, you could talk to Rob Martin and he'll We're voting. Do we are voting to adopt it? Yes. Um, is this something that has to be adopted now or can't wait?
I don't know. I know Rob. Yeah, I did talk to Rob about it. Um, I forget exactly what we talked about, but I don't know if I am comfortable with them.
them voting on this if they really have not reviewed it and I know that it is not a public document. Um do you know of any timeline on this? I know that technically we are not in compliance if we don't pass it but I
don't know if that is tonight or at our next meeting. I think that's a good idea. Um, and I think we should do that with the mitigation plan as well. That's correct.
Um, so we can we can pull those items from our agenda. Um, actually since the motion isn't been made, I probably need a motion to pull it from the agenda. There was a motion. Who made the motion? Nick read it made the motion.
Okay. But it wasn't it wasn't doing okay just remove it. The only thing I was going to tell you to if there is a time constraint though you you could because you can with a resolution you can always you send it after you adopt it and if there was a time constraint you could
you could uh approve it conditionally conditioned on everybody getting a chance to review it with the understanding that we could we could Yeah. I don't I don't think I want to do that. I would rather I would rather um we could talk about it offline either
the entire council or uh the members of our OEM council members of our to do that as well. Um so I'll pull those for now and we will uh put them off till at least the next meeting. Thank you. Thank you and thank you for the
questions on that. Um so with that that is all of our items under new business. So we can take a motion to open for public comments and we will go into close session after that. So move second. All in favor? I Anyone wishing to make comments on
anything uh at all for the council, please come to the mic and do so now. Seeing none, I'll take a motion to close. So move. Second. All in favor? I. All right. Uh we are going to go into close session. Um we are going to use
this chamber for our close session. We will come back after our close session for the um purposes of in German.