like to call the meeting to order Lisa will you read the statement of compliance please the notice re requirements of the open public meetings act for this meeting have been satisfied a copy of the annual meeting notice was sent to the Press of lanic City Star Ledger posted on the bulletin board in
the municipal building the municipal website and filed in the office of the municipal clerk please turn off all cell phones please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance attention I to flag United States
ofice Lisa please take the role mayor Collins here commissioner blumberg I am here commissioner horn here welcome everybody uh we will begin today with our engineering report and Ed thank you mayor good evening everyone starting off
with project no substantive upate here other than we are working with the NJ on the final steps to get this permit across the Finish Line we anticipate that sometime um in the first half of the Year hopefully and then we can look at next steps to implementation on the Washington Avenue
streetcape uh we're making good progress there we actually had a walk through with the NJ do today um just to kind of go over the final design and some of their requirements with grant funding the meeting went well the walk through went well we our submission to the do um
with the intention of getting their authorization of bid sometime in the next month or two so that we can then bid that project and move towards the construction phase so that project is nearing bid phase no update on the amher Avenue resiliency project which is the
pump station we're working with Green Acres on a possible diversion there the uh two Sig Rim projects enf are on the agenda today for award one is the walk walkway replacement and the other is a new restroom building down at the Sig
complex so we have those scheduled for award today and then we will arrange um preconstruction meeting contracts and so forth with the contractor for those contractors for those projects uh next two projects are in designed Winchester Avenue 2024 State a project as well as
the 2024 Road program those are in the engineering phase the lead service line replacement project phase one continue to work on we have submitted those plans up to the ibank for review and then we can start to think about um we want to bid that
project you know the actual size and skill of the project um but we are advancing through the iank process likewise for the new Public Works building we are very close to uh finalizing the design phase and moving into the bid phase working with the architect on just finishing touches on
those plans we've had meetings obviously with with the city um just to kind of refine the details on that site item K is the V renue partner lot which also is you know in the final steps of the design process the uh next phas of bike
lane painting on Atlantic Avenue is at NJ for review so they just need to give us their approval to go the the Atlantic Avenue Road Project from Huntington to Mansfield is in the design phase um and that's kind of in line with our other two road projects
that are in engineering design down storm ordinance mapping and assistance Remis for compliance we're we're developing a plan on how how to address the latest comments from D to comply with their requirements for water management in town no update under
pending Grant applications uh jumping down to our construction projects we have our list of open maintenance fonds that are being addressed as their maintenance Bond periods next one's coming up on projects en Clos out we did move our LaCrosse wall into close out phase we're
working our way through closing out our Construction looking over to page three our 2023 Road program um no update here we did send over um our plans for argal court to include that work in that project the
Winchester Avenue project is in the punch list phas from clont to Douglas uh the basketball court reconstruction is anticipated to start sometime in the spring so now that we are very close to Spring we'll coordinate with the contractor on
schedule th low Avenue um construction continues um we're also adding some work on Premont to that project the water Ming reconfiguration at Winchester Avenue venson Avenue um a lot of that work is complete we're just working on uh some of the final touches of that
project to get that project closed out the curb gutter program uh scheduled to start construction sometime this month and then phase two of the municipal building Renovations is in progress so Ed just real quick the the two items
on the agenda today the Sig RM at the Sig RM complex um obviously are time frame was pushed back as a result of the the rebid do we see any issues with spring construction based on utilization of the fields and in the busy season
there now that we got these awarded we'll work with the contractor on schedule and I'll have a IDE okay thank you all right right so um just to let everybody know there's been discussions over the last uh I'll say two weeks with
our administrator about um you know we've gotten feedback from uh from the public about how these Workshop meetings um are conducted and a way to try to improve them so I'm going to just let uh our business administrator Pat
Moran speak briefly on some changes we're going to look to incorporate just to again make the public more aware and make these meetings more productive not just for the residents but really this Workshop meeting is supposed to be productive for us this is the only chance that all three Commissioners can
sit up here and discuss business matters together so we want to make sure that uh that the projects and things that we are discussing um we we bring bring forward here so uh Pat you want to take
over thank you mayor um over the past couple weeks couple month I've been here I realized we have this worksh meeting in the worksh meeting we usually let everyone and we do a lot of where
follow contact people's not a violation in Sugg iside to be May work okay thank you yeah and again just to clarify so everybody knows typically the
way it works now is one of us will bring something to the attention of the administrator one of our department heads will bring something to the attention of the administrator the administrator then goes to us individually and says what do you think about this let's have discussion um I think it would just be more productive if we had that discussion here uh so
Nothing Gets Lost in Translation we're all hearing the same things and um just allows us to to move forward better so um with that I'm going to pass it over to commissioner blumberg he has a few things he wanted to to bring up for discussion tonight okay thank you uh and
I'm going to quickly pass the uh baton to Roger the first thing we want to talk about are increasing fees for uh contractors and um specifically so that
we can improve the quality of life for our yearr round and part-time residents uh as it relates to the uh Bud load of construction that fortunately is going on in our town but unfortunately is
going on uh before and after hours so we're getting a lot of complaints and we think that um the best way to go about trying to mitigate some of the uh
activity is to increase the fines that we Levy uh we're also we also have a plan right now we only have one part-time code enforcement official
we're going to look to make him fulltime and then we're going to ask the police department to help us with enforcement uh and hopefully we can uh we we started last week where our
Enforcement Officers working uh after hours so we're we're trying to get a jump on the clocks changing and uh with p's help and Roger's help and everybody's help we we want to try and
improve the quality of life for our residents so with that Roger I'll turn it over to youc is 192 and I believe two years ago or three years ago we revised that ordinance to
shorten the length of the time contractors to perform their work based on noise so just for in 16 to June 14th Monday through Friday you're allowed to work from 7 a.m. to 500 p.m if you work Beyond those
time it's $150 dates Monday Friday Commercial Landscaping is150 so feels the $150 even though we've assessed it to the same contractor many many times and in
court perhaps scale think a little extreme well so uh we we can talk about it I I think that um maybe we start at 500 do 5750 and a thousand um and and I also
want to you know there's this informal um agreement out there I that work can uh continue with cleanup past five o'clock I think we need to change that I think
the ambiguity needs to be eliminated and that five o'clock is a hard stop they have the contractors and landscapers have to be done and off the site by five o'clock they we're we're giving them
from s to 5 o'clock that's what 10 hours it's that's a that's a long day and so at I don't think it's unreasonable to say at 430 start cleaning up be gone by
5:00 when most people are getting home from work uh instead of these contractors um and it's not all of them feeling that okay well we can stop but now we're banging our ladders and we're banging our wood and we're not really we
haven't left the site until six o'clock um so I I I would recommend 500 750 and a th000 and hard stop at off the job by 5 o' just that was well you shouldn't be
but you can be well again the stop working at 5 o00 and this is under the no and they not making noise yeah but clean up it from where I sit and there's a house going on right
behind where I live now there the compressors are still running they I haven't unplugged them the ladders are still up they're they're taking down the ladders the the tractors and and uh the
heavy equipment is still being moved off of the site into the street or wherever they're going to store it and they're saying that this is my cleanup I'm done I'm not banging the nail but I'm done so what I'm saying is that again I believe
I don't know how Mike and Captain feel about it I believe that s five is 10 hours who nobody works it who works a 10 hour day and why do we have to allow that you know what that mean question I
have is the inside not making any noise I allow that to continue opport get work but again the
more I don't think there can be any exceptions makes it too difficult for us to enforce but they're not making it's this is under the noise then then maybe we need to find another place to put yeah I think the the one problem we
will see is that projects take longer so project that took three months to construct is now a nuisance to that neighborhood for four months because we're reducing hours if if they're doing that if now their cleanup starts a half hour earlier every day uh I think again
to your point Roger um I think youve you've discussed with me that uh complaints have come in because the owner of the house turned a light on and went in to look and see what the contractors did during the day um so I
think to me it I agree with you in the sense that I think it should be a noise ordinance obviously uh hold them accountable uh to the times if we have to give a window of time for additional construction like
you said painting things like that maybe maybe we have to better Define that um but again I think while Longport has a thousand initial fine I'd be curious to see how many times they how many people they're actually finding
and and are they living up to to that uh do we have any record of how many uh fines we give for this ordinance on a yearly basis I talk and my only concern is that again it sounds like there's a lot
of repeat Enders so are we punishing the people that are respectful because we have you know one or two that that are not not following the rules so now all those contractors that are working leaving at 5: cleaning up their site doing things respectfully are we now
going to punish them because of the two or three and well it's not two or three Mike it's it's not two or three if you just get in your car and drive down Atlantic Avenue from the beginning of
town to the end of town it's not two or three you just have to look both ways and it's six or seven and it's every single night I've done it I've I'm I've been stopping and getting out of my truck and I've been letting these guys
know that we have an ordinance I've been taking pictures I've been deputized as a code enforcement official and it's not my job and it's not the neighbor's job to have to complain and continue to call and call and call and complain and call
the police it's not their job it's our job to enforce it and we have to put together something that we can enforce and I'm telling you it's not two or three we we've got very respected builders that do a lot of work in our
town and they're violating the ordinance and it might not be them it might could be their subcontractors or subcontractor of their subcontractors and they'll tell you well oh thank you I didn't know so it's not Roger maybe Matt you can
help with this do we do you guys have any idea the average number of calls per week related to these uh the construction I have calls are very it's a matter of actually seeing it a lot of neighbors
they do feel sometimes that they'd rather the houses be finished then call because they don't want to be I know personally somebody in my they know it has gone past hours but they just want the house is finished and that's from an 82y old resident she just really hopes
it gets done quicker um we do get a lot on Sundays if there's a contract work on Sundays people will call on Sundays it's more of it especially this time of year I think a lot of people hesitate or hesitant to call they just want the construction to be finished in the summer we do see an influx I believe
last year the year before we did assist with code enforcement in identifying work sites that were in violation and then we had to forward the incidents to John Vada to follow what the summons is but again they said we have a lot of
construction in town and it just makes it a little more difficult another problem is some people in well here ined to to tri1 yeah I mean 501 violation versus a Sunday violation or an 8m violation I
think you know maybe there's there's something there um commission I've also said uh again not to you directly but uh in conversations the issue here is that we're putting the onus entirely on the police department because our code
enforcement ends their day at four or 5 o'cl so the police department has a the extra burden of all of this um I'm not opposed to making our part-time code enforcement official full-time but I think uh it would make better sense for
us to have a and maybe this is an addition to that but a part-time code enforcement official that works evenings and weekends so that's the that's the primary times when these complaints are happening it'll take pressure off the police department because I Know Chief
is not uh making his schedule based on enforcing um dumpster violation you know trying to protect our streets and things like that so and I and I can tell you that I have talked to the business administrator about that we're looking into that um you know so it's a great
idea I I would suggest that we uh you know we increase the fines put it forth see it see how it works out okay I'd like to maybe research do a little more research into long forts maybe a phone call into them and find out uh and some
other surrounding towns and then I'll come back to you or Pat with the recommendation all right commissioner you had something else good no that's it uh the next item that we wanted to discuss again um I don't know Roger or
Pal if you want to take it up we we want to put forth the ordinance that the uh Green Team spent a lot of time on and a lot of research and um I I want to put that forth to the
vote I think we uh not only owe it to them but we owe it to the public to uh pass this ordinance related to um plastic micr Plastics and um containment
of those I uh recently saw a story in uh on the news where these microplastics are now um there's definitive scientific proof they're getting into the water and people are ingesting this water and um
getting sick so you know we were I want to say it's I think it's time I liken it to us you know we're unique in that we're a Shore Beach Community um you know we there there's just this for me
this now an easy thing uh contractors can adapt their SS to uh capture Plastics and um for not a lot of money not a lot of trouble and make it happen and help you know help us uh you know do
service to the town to the environment to the hard work that the green team does I think it I liking it to us being one of the first ones to pass uh balloon ordinance to keep the plastic balloons out of the um out of the water uh and
also one of the first communities to pass the plastic bag ords was they weren't so you know terribly popular but we passed them and it turns out that the state followed so I'd like for us
toiss much I I'll take your recommendation on that I do want to say good if I could add to that too I've actually been asking several builders that come in what their opinion is on this like how
difficult it is get the right equipment um and to my surprise they all have said that they think it is a necessary requirement um the only ones that would disagree are the ones that are caught you know having the job sites that have
the debris going everywhere but like I said the um builders that I've spoken to have all said that they think that it is necessary and it's not hard to comply with so thank you yeah so just to add I mean I've been in
support of this for a long time I think it was just a matter of again we've gotten all the resources from the Green Team other ordinances that had been passed so we could look at them and just craft ours to to work for us because again I think as we just said
enforcement is the hardest issue and you know we want to make sure when we put laws into place that we have the ability to enforce it properly so all right good commissioner well I thank you so only other thing I wanted to bring up before we go into our
department heads um commissioner blumberg it was brought to my attention that you're interested in reinstituting the clock for our public comment so I didn't necessarily say that we need a physical clock but I did think that um
yes that we need to limit the amount of time in order to give everybody an opportunity to speak um and uh be heard so again just to for discussion because I know some department heads may have
some some feedback and you know most of you have have been here a lot longer than I have but when I was elected uh I removed the clock and the reason I did it is because I believed we shouldn't limit people's ability to speak here and and give their give their input and
feedback um we have gotten a little bit away from public comment and more into question and answer here so uh I think for clarity purposes it is important for people to know that public comment is supposed to be uh our residents
commenting they can say whatever they want um I believe that is why it was held to a to a three minute time frame because again maybe there wasn't a whole lot of feedback they were given when they asked uh the commission or department heads for for answers um
we've been trying to do our best to answer people's concerns and we don't always have the answer and if that's the case we will try to get back to Residents I know all three of us up here have met with residents and try to address issues um that again
maybe aren't relevant to a meeting or would take longer uh with a with a back and forth dialogue so um I personally would would like us not to to limit people um you know again I
know uh uh with our department heads maybe I don't know if you have any feedback or commissioner horn you want to add anything we had the three minutes at the board school board meetings and um we did not answer questions so I guess we
ran it a little bit more like it was previously i' you like answering the questions when we can I think that's informative for everyone else as well um when seven people get up and same
thing that gets a little um taing because we keep saying the same thing um in that respect I don't know but I think it's nice to hear from everyone I just don't know how
to say nicely wrap it up yeah and in that regard if there's an item obviously that's on the agenda for tonight you know and somebody has a comment because they they want us to know what their opinion is we want hear that that's obviously important to us if somebody has a problem uh personally with
something on you know that maybe doesn't warrant a public address but this is the way they feel they have to address us because this is the only time they can get to us uh it's really just not true and I I think we try to stress it at every meeting that we are available um
whether it be email phone uh set up a meeting um and you know I encourage everybody to do that and if if you want to speak to a certain department head I'm sure we can coordinate that with within their their schedules as well and you know we're just willing to listen
and and hear what what your concerns are because that again that makes us that makes us better uh that's why we formed our citizens advisory committee so that we could hear more from people because individually we don't we don't know everything that's going on in the city so
um with that we can move to our department head reports I'll start with with Chief Adams thank you mayor just uh two items real quick um one I just wanted to say yesterday we had the opportunity the police department and fire department to
participate in a drill at Raw school um both of our schools have created emergency response to EMES yest we simulated a in there and they went through the whole
process of their responding call 911 know obvious in I think it's really successful and it's worked out really well for us um second it's okay with you I wanted to
depart says C depart refel wednes place of comfort Jo the last by issues around she would always say to me are my friends coming after I called her
assistance say to me tell them no Sirens butt sir the family specifically always appet Comfort when they to but as a retired employee spend a lot of time
with the fire department it wasn't any because I know most of the crews personally and they are all great people and very professional Dan you know how much Marg means to me because you know much eff to help run the city when you're on the other side and get to see
fir that our civils are ready to serve compassion professionalism I couldn't but SW family you Chief Adams City depart
support from the house the hospital thank you and God bless every thank you chiefer that's all I have all right thank you Chief Andrew thank you mayor uh I just wanted
to let everyone know that our summer camp registration is going to be opening on Monday March 10th um I encourage everyone who knows someone who wants to register for Camp to do so early uh our camp fills up um and we get some
disappointed people come May or early June because they didn't sign up so please encourage people that you know who want to go to camp that please register early uh in addition just keep in mind that beach tags are on sale daily uh Monday through Friday from 9: a.m. to 3M at the Pavilion and we will
begin selling Beach tag 7 days per week beginning March 28th Thank you Lisa thank you good evening everyone um a few things to go over to get everyone up to speed um first of all in following
up on Ed's report has there been any decision as to when a capital meeting will be scheduled reason being I was contacted by Joel fleshman because I spoke to him a few weeks ago um thinking that we were going to introduce our Capital ordinance today so he wanted to
know if that's um going to be soon also he's ready to go and I told him I would provide the information as soon as possible um so Pat with that safety meeting I know we were going to do a department head meeting to follow do you want to roll right into Capital like we
did last time so I think that's March 27th okay I won't I'll be out of town that day so you can conduct a capital meeting prior to that I would be appreciative um so we could go over everything but I will be off on
that okay okay okay and then um also I reached out as you know a few years ago we began this LED light replacement with Atlantic Electric and they completed phase one um of the lights I think they
believe they did approximately 380 lights um we still have not received an invoice I have contacted them several times not that I really want to pay out $350,000 but it's owed to them that that phase has been been completed for a
while as of right now the latest update I have is that he was going to look into it again um it's been assigned to someone else Atlantic Electric did find another compan to the next phase because the who they had previously is not
available for whatever reason um because we also two years ago funded the second phase of that project so it's been funded in an ordinance I believe it was 2023 ordinance might even have been
2022 um so that's where we stand with that and I'll keep you updated as I receive information unfortunately you know um Mr Edwards he retired and then he was brought back so his hands are tied because it was reassigned to someone else so he's trying to get the
information um okay that would be great yeah okay okay thank you um prior to the meeting I sent everyone our investment status report for the month of February just to hit a
few highlights for the public um our total cash invested in the New Jersey asset rebate Management program as of um February the end of February was 8,754 th000 the year-to date interest
earned was $14,888 um the short-term liquid rate was 4.3% and that still continues to be higher than the fixed rates or any long-term rate um so everything is held will
remain held in a liquid investment until you know the interest rates change um most importantly as you know are we will be introducing um for your authorization the introduction of the 2025 Municipal budget a lot of time
went into this um I did prepare a budget presentation the public I had brought a few copies I didn't anticipate so many people being here but just for everyone um everyone's knowledge all of the financial documents are posted on our
website there's um the introduced budget the presentation is also posted there um our annual financial statements posted there our annual debt statement is posted there we're required by law to retain at least five years of budgets on
the site so that information is there and it is available might be a little difficult to find but it is there um the presentation that I compiled and put together is I really I I based it upon
routine questions that I hear from the public and tried to simplify it as best as possible so that the average taxpayer would be able to understand things so I'm not going to go through this entire
presentation right now it is available on the website and if anyone has questions please feel free to contact me or see me after the meeting but um it goes through and it has a budget summary comparison of revenues and
Appropriations um what our current tax levy is um our Municipal tax rate that's being proposed is 66 cents 664 um it's a one penny increase over the prior year
um if you continue through the pages of the presentation and again I apologize that not everyone has a copy um it shows where what our anticipated revenues are and it also has the 2024 anticipated
amounts and the actual amounts um by law we're limited to anticipating in the budget any more than we realized in the prior years so some of the revenues may have been adjusted um due to that uh
reasoning um also contained in there is a history of our fund balance there's a chart of the fund balance of how much is being used I also um inserted our fund balance policy which we up until 2023 we didn't we just had an informal fund
balance policy then uh we authorized a formal fund balance policy which assists in our bond rating um when we issue bonds um goes it also explains where the fund
balance comes from and the pages following that are extracted from our annual financial statement which shows you the results of our operations from the prior year and how the fund balance is developed okay
um following that also was a comparison of each salary and wage line item other expense line item in the budget and it's summarized and in Excel form it all these line items are listed in the same
order as you will find in the official budget document but the budget document for the average person it's very difficult to understand so this here is a summary where you could see the comparison and it's a it's a more con
uh depiction of everything um also in there the local tax rate what it means to have a penny increase the impact on the assessed value of homes um the average residential assessed value
currently is 590,000 107 but I don't think you could buy a house for that right now but that's currently what it is so it shows the impact for uh per $100,000 of assessed value um and so
on there's also a chart with the 2024 tax rate so you could see you know the total tax rate and where everything is going I I listed last year because those were actual figures I didn't do 2025 because we do not the uh County tax rate
um the local school we don't they're just estimated amounts at this point so I use that for illustrative purposes um goes on and shows our pension cost you know which our hands are tied at that we're limited to what the state imposes
upon us um it has our full-time Staffing for the last few years so you could see I also um listed what capital items are included in the current budget there's $300,000 for our Capital Improvement
fund and the capital Improvement fund is transferred to our Capital fund and that can be used either as the mandatory 5% down payment when you have a capital Bond um or you could also use it to fund
um Capital Improvements um gave a breakdown of the debt in our water and sewer utility we funded phase four of our ongoing water meter replacement program so there's
another 500,000 funded in there and I um I'm aware that the last me meeting Mr gorowski had questions as to the funding of that project so I also included in there the project and how it's been funded so far there's going to be five
phases total so the last phase is another $500,000 which most likely if it's done this year we will be issuing debt for that or if not um there's if it's funded next year there's a it might go on the operating budget next year the utility
operating budget um also I did a breakdown uh smaller equipment items that are being funded out of our operating budget there's aund total of 174,00 and smaller equipment items for
various departments that are required when we have an auction and sell some of our city assets the money we realize um I retain in a reserve and in the following year I utilize a
portion or all of that as a revenue item to offset the purchases so in our Reserve there was approximately 175,000 only 100,000 of that is being anticipated the reason being the
majority of yeah the majority of the items sold at auction last year came from the public works department um and none of the equipment in our 2025 budget is for public works but we know they'll need equipment next year so it's being
reserved for to go towards that for next year um there's also our debt payment schedule so you can see year to year um there's a total all total debt and then it's broken down into the general Capital School capital and um the water
and sewer utility and we had a small balance in loans through the uh the green ass the Green Trust which they one matures in 2029 so you could see how things fall off year to year and
you'll be able to see track in the far right column of each sheet the increase and decrease to the annual debt and you'll see where it's falling off that's where the city is going to have another bond issue to help mitigate any tax impa
and keep our debt level um so that's all I have for the presentation for your consideration I think it's a good budget I think we're in a good position we have Leon Costello here RMA who advises the city and um assists greatly with the
budget Leon I don't know if you wanted to add anything else other than what I said thank you and thank you for your assistance and that's all I have unless you have questions no thank you Lisa and thank you Leon for helping preparing the
documents Chief Hinson thank you mayor just have a couple of items first of all as you can see there's Public Works still working on the municipal lot located on Benin Avenue again that's part of our our looking ahead to Summer of 2025 that was
one of the things we heard about of course parking is always an issue we made that parking lot more recognizable it's going to look good like I said I really do appreciate uh the meetings with Pat power he was very good in our vision of what we saw and he it's going
to look great for uh the summer of 2025 also as we're looking forward to Summer of 2025 commissioner horn myself Roger we had some we had a meeting earlier in the year about bringing some Portable
Restrooms to the Bayfront area so in my conversations with Pat we are going to add on some additional portable bathrooms under the contract for the summer of 2025 to place them at some of the street ends to curtail some of the
public urination we had last summer also spoke with pack we're going to try to make them more aesthetically pleasing to the area so you're not looking at a construction site portapotty which we've all seen but we have an idea of kind of tying it into maybe the way the prominade looks a
little bit so it's a little more pleasant to look at considering but it's you know giving some relief to the problems we had in that area so it's going to be part of the project be cleaned every day so again we're just trying to look forward to next summer and any issues which may arise also in
many conversations about last summer there was complaints about Ubers and ride sharing and and traffic in that area late at night hopefully in the next commission meeting or two I'm going to introduce an ordinance for some ride share parking spots for certain hours along the Bayfront probably 10
p.m. to 5:00 a.m. just a ctail some of the cars stopping to let passengers on and off as we all know our bare Bayfront area has become very popular in the last year so hopefully that'll ease some of the traffic late at night those ride share spots shouldn't affect anybody utilizing them during the fishermen
going to fish early in the morning it's only going to be certain hours so I think it's another one of the the small things we're trying to make the Bayfront area better for the summer of 2025 that's all I have great thank you Chief Roger things
is session license exped this year at yeah I think I mean it's been brought to my attention numerous times I know ventner does it um Roger and I spoke briefly and you know again this is an ideal time to to talk about it
uh I mean I don't know how it's done in other towns Roger are you aware I would think a separate license would make the most sense so that you'd have could be pretty crowded on the because the veterans have right to end Street end you might actually get a price for
one vude that yeah I mean I think again maybe we'll look into the financial aspect but I think it might beho us to have two licenses just because of so you have people
specializing in their craft as opposed to somebody trying to take on a new new Venture um I've I mean I can tell you I've been approached by four different people about the coffee specific to the
coffee they want to sell hot coffee or the I believe it's ice coffee Venter started with a cart at their fishing pier I believe and then they had success there and then they brought it onto the beach is my
understanding so for me if it's ice coffee then I would think we might see if the ice cream vendor wants to sell that I I I I I would like to be careful
about how many vendors we potentially allow on the beach you know Hawking their I think we should be careful of that especially with the issue that we not issue but problem that we may have related to
Veterans right you know we could have 20 people trying to sell coffee on the beach Pat why don't you look at other towns and see what they do and so currently veterans are only allowed at the street end not on the beach is that
correct just a street okay all right well if we're doing them separate I think we could do that if we're going to combine one then I think could could you maybe reach out to the ice cream vendors and see if they
have any interest in selling coffee ice coffee and see what see if there's an interest there yeah do you recall many people bid on that was this is this a two-year or three year one contract with
right to increase extended for years do you do you recall how many biders there were last time we used to have an auction and basat model okay yeah maybe just see what the
interest level of those the the typical vendors I'll okay appreciate it the next one is Electric Coop itip Elric Coop I will resol City Elric so again we can
historically we've been involved and also the next meting I'll have great thank you Pama thank you mayor and Commissioners um the building department will be sending out letters to all yearly rental property owners
reminding them to submit updated liability insurance information uh this is a requirement for all rental properties including seasonal but we always get those with every season so we'll be sending out reminders
to our yearly um landlords and then also as a reminder we began accepting the seasonal rental license applications on March 1st so we do encourage um you know landlords and Realtors to submit those as soon as
possible to give us time to process them and schedule them for inspections and that is all that I have great thank you Dom yeah uh public workers uh Public Works report uh we're averaging like 22 calls a day anywhere from like sewer and
water calls all the way down to like uh trash calls um and questions we have uh our water towers are averaging 400,000 uh gallons per day and um we also put up new Margate signs we got uh a nice big
one when you drive over the brid at Jerome and uh we made some upgrades to other Mar the welcome Margate signs around town um the new parking lot that uh Chief was talking about uh we put a whole new irrigation line in there
for um our new flower beds uh We've also did three water repairs and we've been started cleaning up all our properties for the spring and that's along with our daily maintenance uh we do it throughout the city
thank you Dom Scott I'm good mayor all right thank you Pat PR there was SE let know that
okay thank you and I did reach out to assemblywoman Swift as well this week um and she's been in contact with regarding electric vehicles so hopefully we'll get some movement on that soon Lisa do you have anything to add nothing to add thank you all right we
will now open up to public comment if anyone has any comment for anything discussed in our Workshop meeting please step forward to the microphone state your name and address Sher Lilian Feld do you mind if I don't say my address I just I live in morgate
you all know me I believe it is it a requirement I believe it's no okay um thank you um commissioner blumberg and the rest of you uh regarding
discussion item D3 um as many of you know I'm on the Margie green sustainable Margate and believe it or not we first introduced this ordinance October 20123 that's when we first introduced
this idea I believe it was in March when I came to you and I said it's spring it's construction season you really need to do something and then you introduced it as a resolution and I'm very excited to see that you are now introducing it as a um
as an uh we had a meeting Steve jaeki and I Steve is the the chair of marget green team with um business administrator Pat Moran Pama from the building department
and chief um chief of police um Hinson to talk about enforcement because obviously it's a big issue I'm very excited to know that you are actually hiring more people for construction enforcement good timing with spring coming along um just to give you a
little update on where we are overall in the state with this whole idea of construction contamination and protecting um people since um we first introduce it we have a coalition between
um Beyond Plastics which is a Statewide nonprofit Surf Riders of South Jersey clean ocean action and sustainable Jersey mayor Colin mayor cins was with us when our team got an award from sustainable Jersey we were recognized
for the Innovative idea of this coordinance um we also at today there are nine municipalities that have it as an ordinance three that has it as a resolution including Margate two others that we know of that are introducing it
um I do want to make two points one is we always talk about microplastics and it's really big and real problem but there's other major health problems and it is included in the ordinance the way that we had written it in construction
dust silica dust is a horrible health hazard it is formed when you cut pavers C cinder block it is very very dangerous um and it leads to death if you inhale
it um a lot of bad lung disease and then also fiberglass fiberglass gets everywhere gets in people's Gardens gets on their decks so hopefully I didn't see the final ordinance that that's all included but I believe it is under
construction construction dust um one other thing um Roger had mentioned at a previous meeting you know biggest thing is is awareness and I believe you are all aware which is why you see it's so important once you're aware and see the
hazards you can't it's like you can't uning a bell um one of the things I'm working on for all municipalities including morgate is an educational video it's about 10 minutes it will be in English and Spanish and you can distribute it to the
contractors so they understand like you're not doing this to be mean you're doing this to protect them they are at the highest risk they are in the highest level of these contaminants gets on their clothes they bring it home it's in their truck they bring it home to their
families it's 10minute video it covers why it's so important to control these things and what they can do so and that's to help with um enforcement and awareness so that's it and thank you thank you thank
you sure I mean it was addressed during this meeting so I think that's okay good evening um Cindy Pitts for North Wilson Avenue I'm actually speaking on um behalf of
the citizens advisory commit thank you I'm reading um Rich uh tolson's letter he is the chair of the citizen advisories um board good evening Commissioners I apologize for my absence but surgery last Thursday I'm unable to
be with you please accept my letter as official testimony as you know I am the chair of the citizens Advisory board that was created by the three Commissioners since October of 2023 your board consisting of nine members has
interacted with Margate residents to determine the issues that are important to all of them the committee has met on a monthly basis and we have kept the Commissioners informed on the results we have Ed a con a consistent issue raised
during this time has been parking both commercial and residential for the purposes of tonight's discussion I will only address the commercial element plain and simple the decision to purchase the former gas station lot at 7901 ventner Avenue is a
proactive first step to address the issue I suggest this is only the first step as it seems this is not the only area of our town where commercial parking can be improved I am confident the city will exhaust all efforts to
accomplish this goal the location of the lot is ideally situated to benefit all the businesses in that neighborhood as well as their customers what your committee has found is that the majority of issues we have identified are all
related to the months where the City's population increases the summer parking is clearly of those issues but one that should not be ignored just because it is seasonal if that were our approach much
would not get done we all know there is a density issue that leads to parking and other issues that will be for another day much has been said about missed opportunities in the past to address our parking in our commercial
districts this initiative should not be the next one on that list as chairman of the Commissioners committee I can confidently say that we have done our Outreach and evaluation and unanimously support the decision for the city to
purchase this lot with the intention of addressing the consistent problem of parking Rich Tolson thank you Cindy and thank you Rich you may be listening from home uh I'm not here to
complain uh Jeff wer to South Adams Avenue I just kind of wanted to uh clarify um about the construction um if it's um under the noise ordinance is it the uh noise or is it the activity um
so so it is a decibal level um is the measurement okay um and that's I think that might be a a problem like if you have a measurement of decb and there's no way to measure that and they can say well we're not violating
they're there and say okay we need to be off the justed to yeah no thank you any other public comment on Workshop there motion is close public comment motion second mayor Collins yes
commissioner blumberg yes commissioner horn yes is there a motion to adjourn motion second mayor Collins yes commissioner blumberg yes commissioner horn yes