has to be unchecked. Otherwise, it's going to send a signal. >> Okay. I'll begin again. [snorts] >> The notice 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 Atlantic City carrier 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 salute. I pledge allegiance 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. >> Lisa, please take the role. >> Mayor Collins >> here. >> Commissioner Blumbberg, >> I am here.
>> Commissioner Horn, >> here. >> We're going to begin today uh first welcome. Uh thank you everybody for coming. We're going to begin uh honoring two of our residents who participated in the New Jersey League of Municipalities Lewis Bay second future municipal
leaders scholarship competition. Um and uh they they wrote um an essay on what they like about their hometown. We had a a committee uh formed in city hall that voted on the uh scholarship applications
and I want to honor those two uh residents now. So, we have Daniela Ritzell and Christian Hornig Finan. If you could both come up, PLEASE. [applause] >> OH, OKAY. [clears throat] >> [clears throat] >> You're such a GOOD
[applause] SO, we will now have some further recognition. I'd like to hand it over to our FMBA local 41 uh to hand out their scholarships. >> Okay. >> Yep. Good afternoon, mayor, commissioners, family, guests.
On behalf of Margate City FBA Local 41, I am honored to present the 2026 Kevin P. O'Hara Memorial Scholarship. Our scholarship was established in memory of Kevin P. Har, who was a dedicated Margate firefighter, and he
served our community with pride and courage. Through this scholarship, we're able to continue his legacy by supporting outstanding young scholars as they begin the next chapter of their lives. The recipients of our scholarships are selected based on
academic achievements, extracurricular involvement, and financial need. We are very proud to recognize these students and help them pursue their educational goals. So, congratulations to all of the recipients and we wish them the very best in college and future success in
their careers that they have chosen. So, now we're going to >> um Caitlyn Grimley. [applause] Wow. Okay. Just go right over to the end of the >> Jack Sherban. [applause] >> Thank you. Daniela Ritzell, [applause]
Christian Hornik, [applause] Marina Zapone. [applause] Unfortunately, some of these students aren't here. They're working the beach. So, um, Joshua Weintock, [applause] [clears throat] >> Lily Murphy and Calie Murphy. [applause]
Callie Duff, [applause] Melindia Rush, Melania Rush, [applause] and Marggo Swift. [applause] >> All right. Uh, just uh want to say congratulations. Remember this is for
college for uh books not other things okay? We want you to make sure that you study hard represent Margate well. You've already done that and good luck with everything you do in the future. All right. Can we take a quick picture? You want to join us commissioners?
>> Mayor do that. >> Good job. We try. >> Hold on. [clears throat] >> [applause] >> All right. And now we will hand it over to Chief Adams and Commissioner Horn for swearing in of two firefighters.
>> Okay. We're going to give a little background first on each. Um, we're going to do them individually, but let me do the background first and then the person can come up. And we ask that someone or multiple people from the family come up because we're going to need someone to hold the Bible and then to do the ceremonial penny of the badge.
So, the first one is Aliana Melendez. Uh, Aliana came to the Margate City Fire Department after competing in scoring high on New Jersey Citizen. Aliana moved to the city of Margate in 2020. She is a 2021 graduate of Our Lady
Mercy Academy and a 2026 graduate of Stockton University. She started her career in public safety as a Margate City Lifeguard in 2020 and served six years prior to taking her appointment as a firefighter. She received her EMT certification in 2025
and has been working as an EMT for Atlantic Carry EMS for the past year and a half. Aliana is currently assigned a platoon 2 and is one of the primary EMS personnel handling emergency calls. Aliana just graduated from the Atlantic
County Career Fire Academy where she spent nine weeks uh doing vigorous training uh achieving firefighter one and firefighter 2 certification. Uh the training wasn't limited to just firefighting activities, but also
firefighter safety survival skills. uh propane fire operations uh rope rescue to name a few. Aliana comes from a family of public safety service with her dad Hyram retiring as a police officer in Galloway Township, her brother Bradens who is a current police officer
in that police department and her uncle Paul Hes who is a batting chief in the Atlantic City Fire Department. Please welcome Aliana up here for the OFFICIAL [applause] BIBLE. >> HEY, Chief Wendy's >> up here. Come on up.
[snorts] >> Get ready. Raise your right hand. for your left hand. >> I, Aliana Melendez, >> I, Aliana Melendez, >> do solemnly and sincerely promise and swear >> do solemnly and sincerely promise and swear
>> that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America >> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey. and that I will faithfully impartially and justly and that I will
faithfully impartially and justly perform and discharge all the duties of the office of firefighter perform and discharge all the duties of the office of firefighter >> in the fire department of the city of Morgate >> in the fire department of the city of Marty >> to the best of my ability and
understanding to the best of my ability and understanding. >> So help me God. >> So help me God. [applause] This is something we started many years ago with the ceremonial traditional pinning of the badge. And uh since Uncle Paul is battalion chief in Atlantic
City, he got the honors of doing so here today. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. [applause] I need you here. I need you to sign three things real quick. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Our second swearing in today uh is
Harrison Gilman. Harrison Gilman came to the Margate City Fire Department the same as Aliana, competing and scoring high on the New Jersey civil service exam for firefighter. Harrison attended the Northfield schools and graduated from Mainland Regional High School in 2019. Harrison started his career
firefighting as a volunteer for the Longford Volunteer Fire Department, graduating from the Atlantic County Fire Academy, as a firefighter one in 2025 and as firefighter 2 in 2026. Harrison has a strong public safety background as a volunteer firefighter
EMT in Long, but not only in Long, he has served for three years with Triricare and Pleasville, handling all the 911 emergency calls. He is currently a lifeguard on the Atlantic City Beach Patrol where he has worked for the past
eight years. Harrison will be assigned or currently is assigned to platoon 4 of the Margate City Fire Department as one of the primary personnel handling emergency calls. He comes to the Margate City Fire Department with a wealth of knowledge and experience. We welcome Harrison
Gilman up front. [applause] Come on. >> Raise your right hand. left hand on the Bible. I, Harrison Gilman, >> I, Harrison Gilman, >> do solemnly and sincerely promise and swear >> do solemnly and sincerely promise
promise and swear >> that I will support the Constitution ution of the United States of America >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America >> and and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey. >> And that I will faithfully >> And that I will faithfully
>> impartially >> impartially >> and justly >> and justly >> perform and discharge all the duties of the office of fire. >> perform and discharge all the duties of the office of firefighter >> in the fire department of the city of Marty. in the fire department of the
city of Miami >> to the best of my ability and understanding. >> To the best of my ability and understanding. >> So help me God. >> So help me God. [applause] Make sure we get pictures. Congratulations, >> Harrison. Everybody
>> [applause] >> That's interesting. >> Um, I just got permission from the mayor to to come up here real quick. Um, when we have these scholarships, we we we're lucky here in this town that we have we have 12 scholarship winners. And while
we're doing all this, we accidentally forgot to to call up one of our students. So, Gian Pepe, come on up here. I apologize. [applause] Um, come on up here. We're going to take a picture with you. >> You and me, you get the solo one.
>> Thank you, Thank you. >> So, what happened, and I'm going to explain this, was uh our list, we had a couple kids that that couldn't be here today because they're working the beach and you know, it's one of those things that public safety, they chose to stay
on the beach to protect the city of Margate. So, as we were giving these, we're like, oh, they're not here and we missed. So, I apologize. We just wanted to make sure that uh you got recognition for it. So, congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] So again, congratulations to all of our
scholarship winners and to Harrison and Aliana on their swearing in. Uh I now if if anyone would would like to to leave, we uh we will allow that as much as we'd love you to stay for the meeting. So [clears throat]
Good. [laughter] >> I got a question. Good eye to see. Yeah. >> Yeah, I know. >> All right, I'm going to turn the floor over to Ed, who's got double duty today. Uh
before the engineering hold on we'll give it one more second. >> Mayor, can I can I just bring someone up before Ed? I apologize. Sure. >> Once once it's cleared out a little bit. >> All right.
>> Sorry. Sorry to interrupt. So, um a couple of things. First is there are uh three resolutions on the agenda um that were added that have to be added from the floor be brought from the floor when we when we go to make them uh approved. They were supposed to be on there. They
are necessary uh to get things moving and um we we will be bringing them from the floor. They were they were posted on the agenda a couple day not within the 48 [clears throat] hours. So they have to be presented from the floor from what I'm I'm being told. And second, real
quick, um we have a representative from Biz Digital, um our U provider for the camera system, the Zoom that we've been using that we've having so much problems for. Uh Jim from Biz Digital, if you want to he wanted to come up and kind of
address us a little bit. Um even after all the stuff that we've done today, I think there was an internet outage throughout the city from I told from the chief there might be there was a a blackout here for a short period of time. all big panic attack. So, uh Jim,
thank you. >> Good evening all. My name is uh Jimmy Buchcci. I'm the lead uh field technician manager for BIS Digital. Um and I just wanted to start by uh first of all apologizing
for all the technical issues that have occurred recently with the uh sound video recording system. Um some of the glitches were caused by um
IP networking issues and some were caused by uh connection issues. All those issues have been resolved. Um I actually added a new device
proprietary Zoom by itself. So you have proprietary devices for audio now for every device here. Everything is separate. They're not going to interfere with each other anymore cuz that's what was happening. We were getting conflicts. Those conflicts will not
occur anymore. Um so there were also some update issues with uh just Windows and drivers that caused other issues. So, we had all kinds of
issues that we had to deal with, but they're all taken care of. And I just wanted to let you know, you'll you will have no further issues with this sound system, the video or recording. And again, I apologize.
Thank you, Jimmy. Just wanted to reiterate, Jim's been great. Um, we called him up, said, "Listen, we are continuously having problems here. Um, you know, we paid for the system. we and he he immediately responded to us, came down. They went over everything with a
fine tooth comb and made adjustments, made, you know, put new stuff in. And I can't say, you know, that he he's gone out of his way to help us out. So, I like to thank him uh as well. Thank you. >> All right, Ed. We now turn the floor
over to you. >> Okay. A little disappoint. I thought everyone was here to hear about the watershed improvement plan, but I guess not. Um, all right. So, I do have one item before our regular engineering report on the agenda, the wershed improvement plan. This is a statemandated process that we're going through. It's related to our storm water
management regulations. And as part of that mandate, we're required to hold a public meeting where we just describe what it is we've been up to and allow the public to comment or ask questions. So I'm going to be pretty brief on just a highle summary of what this is and then if anyone from the public has any
comments or questions I'm happy to hear them during the public comment portion of the workshop meeting. So what this is um as background the city of Margate maintains what's called a municipal separate storm sewer system permit or an MS4 permit. You hear that acronym
sometimes in some of my reports. And that permit requires us to comply with certain storm water management regulations. the storm water or the permit is coming up for renewal in 2028 and the DP um has implemented a series of new requirements under that permit um that are rather
stringent and somewhat ownorous. Um one of those requirements is that we complete what's called a watershed improvement plan by the time we renew in 2028. And they've broken that watershed improvement plan into three phases. We're here to talk about the phase one of that project which we completed last
year. So the purpose of this plan is to reduce localized flooding and reduce storm water carrying pollutants into the waterways. The three phases of this plan are what they call the wershed inventory report which is what we completed last year, the wershed assessment report which will be completed this year and
the wershed improvement plan which will be completed next year. So phase one which was completed and filed prior to the January 1st deadline was basically an inventory of all our drainage assets in the city. Um, fun facts on our drainage system. Uh, for those that have
always wondered, we have 392 uh, storm manholes in the city, 705 inlets, 40 outfalls, 108,000 uh, linear feet of pipe. We have no storm basins. We have no private drainage systems. And as far as interconnections, we have 18
interconnections going out. So basically where pipes are tying into systems outside of the city, Ventner and Atlantic County systems. and we have 22 interconnections coming in. Those are where we might have the county or ventner tying into some of our drainage pipes to get to where it needs to go. Um
the report also inventories certain demographic environmental information in Margate such as land use trends, frequent flooding areas, social demographics, and water quality impairments. A copy of the uh draft plan is on the city's website on the stormwater web page if anybody wanted to
read it. And this information will be used to basically uh prepare the next piece of the puzzle uh phase two um during the second half of the year. So that's basically what the watershed improvement plan um has entailed over
this first phase. And again, if anyone from the public or if anyone uh anyone from the governing body has any questions or comments, I'm happy to field them. Would you like me to move on to the report or did you guys have >> prefer the qu any questions from the public comment?
>> However you want to handle it. Y >> why don't we just open it up for the water? No problem. So Mr. Mayor, one other thing. So today we have uh the ability with Zoom for them to raise their anybody who's online to raise their hand if they have any questions. Um our IT person Mike is ready to
if they raise their hand to address them. But I just want to make sure that you're aware that that that process is >> Thank you. So if anyone has any uh comments or questions on the watershed improvement plan, uh we welcome you to come forward.
>> Hi Lisa Ferin uh 217 North Handover. Um so the waterershed is this just for drainage or is this for the water that comes to our houses? >> Drainage. >> Just drainage. >> Not drinking water. >> Okay. because my drink and water was like a little bleachy, but I think I wrote you a letter and you gave me like
an email back and I appreciated that. >> You're welcome. >> So, okay. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Good. Okay. So, now we'll move forward with our engineering report. >> Very good. >> All right. So, we have a lot of good progress to report um today. Uh first item under our citywide dredging permit.
We have an item on the agenda today for the introduction of an ordinance to establish fees for our municipal dredging permit. This will establish the process for private property owners to dredge under our citywide permit. We're already kind of in formally processing some of those requests just to keep everyone moving. There's a lot of um
excitement around being able to finally dredge in town. So, uh, this will just formalize the process, set up the application, and, um, once that's ready to go, you know, we can share some of that more detailed information, um, at at a meeting, uh, commission future commission meeting. So, that's a good
update on the dredging front. Uh, there's also an item on the agenda today to authorize the advertisement of our new public works building. So, we're just about ready to go out to bid with that project. Uh, we just had our public meeting for the watershed improvement plan. Uh, another item on the agenda today to advertise for the Bloom
Pavilion deck renovations, which I know we've all been looking forward to. So, that project will be going out to bid. We were able to secure grant funding for that project through the CDBG program. There's an item on the agenda today to award phase two of the lead service line replacement project to South State, uh,
who is our current contractor for phase one. And once again, this project, uh, we were able to complete in time to secure that $1 million in principal forgiveness through the eye banks. We're basically paying 50 cents on the dollar for this work, which is um obviously great for the city of Margate. The
Gladstone Avenue water tank project, we're pulling those specs together to put that project out to bid. Same for the 2026 RO program for phase one of the uh citywide dredging project. We have an item on the agenda today to advertise that project for bid. So, we're going to
be going out to bid for phase one of dredging. And um phase one will include the area from the Margate Bridge uh to the Orient Canal which is just beyond Nassau Avenue and then a small area near the city pier at Amherst in Washington.
Um so it'll be a significant project uh that'll be phase one. Um and we'll be going out to bid on that project soon. So we're really looking forward to that. The Brunswick Avenue Beach bulkhead project uh is in design. our EPA risk and resiliency plan uh was was uh
finished in time for the June 30th deadline. And then jumping over to our construction projects, just a couple updates. We've moved our Atlantic Avenue project into closeout. Uh lead service line phase one contractor is on pause and has some punch list items that they're addressing and we are going to
have our pre-construction meeting for the Ventner Avenue parking lot um this month so that way we can get that contractor uh scheduled for that work. And those are my updates. >> Great. Thank you, Ed. We'll now move to our department head reports. Chief Adams, would you like to
begin, please? >> Thank you, mayor, commissioners. Uh I'm going to start off with uh over the past couple of weeks, uh we have 16 active right to know surveys in the city of Margate for our buildings and properties. And uh during the first two
weeks of June, all these survey surveys were updated and completed uh by the due date of the compliance by July 1st. So, uh, we are up to compliance with our right to know surveys for 2026. Um, being this time of year, I always
like to talk about, uh, a little bit about fireworks safety and discuss that, uh, briefly. Um, July 4th weekend will be upon us before we know it. Uh, we're basically a week away from the big weekend or what I say is the beginning
and the end of the summer. it, you know, highlights July 4th weekend and then it's basically all downhill from there. But, um, fireworks are often used to mark special events and holidays. However, they're not safe in the hands of consumers. Fireworks cause thousands of burns and eye injuries each year.
People can enjoy fireworks safely if they follow a few simple tips. One, be careful. If you want to see fireworks, go to a public show put on by experts. Do not use consumer fireworks. In the state of New Jersey, they only allow handheld sparklers and groundbased
fireworks. There is no actual aerial fireworks allowed in the state of New Jersey by consumers. Um, keep a close eye on children at events where fireworks are used. Fireworks cause an estimated 18,500 fires per year. Um,
sparklers account for more than one quarter of emergency room fireworks injuries. And when we talk about burns accounted for uh 44% of the fireworks injuries seen in the month around July 4th are dealing with burns. And we talk
about the areas of injury on the body part. Eye injuries is 19%, arm injuries 4%, hand or figure 28%, head, face or ear is 15%, trunk or other body part is 10% and leg injuries are 24%.
Uh about 28% of fires started by fireworks each year reported on Independence Day alone. So if you have to use some sort of groundbased and handheld fireworks, do it in a safe manner and make sure
that the children are around or they're safely protected from this area. And I have there's actually a fireworks safety handout up here. And just to recap what we talked about last meeting was grilling safety. It's grilling season. Make sure your grill is cleaned. Make
sure you have a distance between your grill and your your property, you know, or items on your property to asssure that there's no issues. And have a great summer and happy Independence Day and happy birthday to the USA 250 years.
Thank you. >> Thank you, Chief Scott. >> Yeah, I just wanted to comment. [laughter] I wanted to comment. It was very exciting to see these young people getting on the fire department. I think we're really fortunate. What great
candidates they are, Dan. So, that's really something. Uh, with regard to dredging now, as I understand, at least three, if not more of the properties along Amhurst Avenue, our commercial district, are going to commence dredging after July 1. I actually saw the dredge
truck company down there. I believe it was this morning. So, I think they're getting ready. Of course, they can't start till July 1 pursuant to the D permit. I'd like to ask Ed though if uh do we have a website? I've had a number of people ask me, can they look at the
plans? Can they see what's going on? Eddie, you want to take over? >> Yes. >> So, we we are we are developing a website. It's not launched yet. It's very close. Obviously, we're about to go out to bid on our project and we have this ordinance that's going through today. So, we didn't want to launch the website until everything was kind of finalized as far as what is the permit
process, what is the application involved, what are the fees, that kind of thing. But, it'll kind of line up once with once this um ordinance is adopted. Uh and and what the website will include, as Scott said, is it'll include you'll you'll easily be able to access the permit plans. You'll easily
be able to access the permits themselves that have the conditions in them and the timing restrictions. Those documents can be a little technical. So, we're also going to have more userfriendly exhibits on the website. There will be a phasing plan um that will show our current phases of citywide dredging. And what
will be even more beneficial to the public is there will be a plan that shows areas that the city will be dredging versus areas that are completely privately owned that are part of our permit that the city will have no dredging in that area. And the implication of that is if there was
someone who was kind of waiting for the city to do their dredging before be do our dredging before they do their dredging, they will be able to see that their property is not in an area where we will be doing any dredging. So if they want to move forward, they don't we don't want them waiting for something that's not going to happen. Um you will
also be able to complete the application online. Um so the application to receive the municipal dredging permit can be completed online. Um, so there'll be, you know, all the information that you would need to understand the city's dredging program, permits, areas are going to be dredged, timing. Um, so
we're really looking forward to launching that. Um, once it's launched, obviously, I'll let everybody know how to get it'll be linked to the city's website, but it'll be an excellent resource for, um, you know, everyone that's interested in this. >> So, near future. >> Yes. Yep. >> Great. And also for Pat's benefit, I know you put many hours trying to get
this website or the Zoom working. My wife has texted me and said she can see us. So, it is working. So, there you are. Thank you very much. I know it's been a long struggle. That's all I have. Thank you, Scott. Pat,
>> good afternoon. Um, the brand works. We started our 7day lead operation couple weeks ago. The meter program meter replace the program. We're at 75% complete so far. We almost had 200 so far this month alone this uh we had a
couple deals auction uh a couple weeks ago and sold seven vehicles for a total of 87,000 follow >> good evening I'll keep it brief the building department continues to stay busy with permits inspections and several commercial projects nearing
completion we've been working closely with zoning public works and other city departments and I appreciate appciate the teamwork that helps keep projects moving. I'd also like to thank our staff and inspectors for all of their hard work. And that concludes my report tonight.
>> Okay. Thank you, Chief Henson. >> Thank you, mayor, commissioners. First of all, like to say the police department is coming off another busy twoe period. We're already seeing midsummer call volume this early in the season. So, postmemorial day, we we've had a really a large uptick in calls for
service. Since June 4th, the police department has responded to 1652 calls for service. Various arrests for for offenses including shoplifting, trespassing, disorderly conduct, and warrant arrest. 216 motor vehicle stops have been conducted. 84 summones issued.
402 parking summones have been issued since June 1st. So, we are in a busy part of the season already. I'd like to thank everyone that came out for the elder abuse seminar on June 15th. A lot of great information was provided by the presenters and we hope if we could prevent one person from being a victim
of fraud, then it was a success. So, it was a great event. I know Steve was there. I appreciate everybody that came out. You'll also see on the agenda there's ordinance 08 2026. This is an ordinance that Commissioner Horn and I talked about and worked on for a while,
and it's going to be effectively banning ebikes on all city property. and that's ebikes, motorized bikes, electric scooters at all city properties. This includes a Jerome Avenue baseball fields and recreational facilities, school playgrounds, and other city- owned property. This is going to be in conjun
conjunction with the July 19th moratorium on ebikes. And actually, the state unveiled the procedures for ebike licensing and registration this past Tuesday. My recommendation is to go to the website njmbbc.org for the most up-to-date information. The
police department Facebook page also has some most up-to-date information. I also have some flyers out with information about the ebikes. It's a little a little confusing with less than 20 m an hour just registered over 25 mph registered insured. There's going to be a sticker
on the fork of the bicycle which might be hard. So again, there's going to be a lot of growing pains I can see already from this. So again, to stay up to date for all that as we are. Just another reminder that paid parking regulations are currently in effect until September
30th. To date, we have collected $16,977 in parking fees. A breakdown by zone will be available at the end of the month, kind of when the period closes, so we'll know which parking lots which revenue came from which parking lots. So, it's uh we're moving along there.
And also, as we get into the summer season, we're seeing an increase in car burglaries. I say it at every meeting. Almost all of these incidents involved unlocked, unsecured motor vehicles. As always, I say lock your cars, lock your homes, put away your bikes. Again, a lot of these are crimes of opportunity of
people walking by, grabbing a bike, going in a car, seeing what's in it. As I said, you know, just lock your door, lock your house. We have a flyer we made up. There's another flyer here for just some safety tips for the summer. So, again, please just lock your car, lock your house. We can prevent probably 99%
if not 100% of the car burglaries and motor vehicle thefts. We have one last announcement. I know the city website and we've been in touch with the MBA that Beach Dock has been moved from Saturday the 27th to Sunday the 28th. So if you were planning to attend, just
everybody know because of weather, inclement weather, it has been changed until Sunday. That's all I have. Thank you, Chief Pat. >> Good evening. In addition to the oversight of all the aforementioned reports and assistance uh to those
department heads, um as proof of the agenda, you'll see numerous contract negotiations were completed. U assembling of a capital fund um for the capital projects and a capital ordinance that's going to be out there tonight. Uh discussions and presentations related to
healthc care costs, insurance, and uh some personnel matters. Uh, additionally, um, as per the commissioner of revenue and finance, a monthly, uh, financial report was created. Um, I'll read that to everyone right now,
um, as part of my report. Um, the current cash investments, current fund will be 11,945,91357. Capital fund 688,49055. Water sewer fund 4,177,8210. And our trust funds will be1,931
9,931, $638. Um year interest earned current fund will be $212,423. Water sewer fund 28,908. Um our revenue highlights the beach fees year-to- date collected will be
$36,523.50. Um it's a little bit of a decrease um from last year. Actually pretty good decrease from last year. It's a 5,70 previous year. for ambulance transport year to year year-to- date collected be 155,49. It's an increase of 57,755.
Construction fees year-to- date collected was $75,986.50. Um, again, it's an increase of almost the entire entire amount because we started last year with the third party. Uh, recreation fees, $168,96527.
It's an increase of $12,000 and8 and $80. Municipal court fees year to date collected 17,944 a decrease of 13,249 from the previous year. the current
budget um the paid charges to the current budget would be 21,000 I'm sorry 21 million65,911 leaves us with a balance of $21,599.71. Our utility started off with 6,855,000
and we paid 2,634 uh 85 out of it. So, we've got $4,220,914 left. There was um the summary budget accounts for um the regular budget and utilities. Um
it's a an account, it's a report that shows uh the percentages that are used, um what was budgeted, what was spent. Um everything is pretty much on track. Um there's almost 200 categories and I think I'd bore everybody if I went over
it. Um so I think at this point um if there are any specific questions about that, see me after the meeting, but the reality of it is everybody is tracking right on time. Um we're very close. Um there were a couple questions I had um because due to encumbering money and um
some other things that came up um according to our CFO, none of it is anything of of concern at this point. Thank you. Oh, one one last thing. Sorry. Um, tonight we started off with the with the new Zoom procedures. Um, it's going to
be they're going to have the ability to raise their hand now off of Zoom and actually appear on video and and make comments during public comment. So, um, tonight's kind of a trial run. Um, wasn't really well announced and we didn't really put the procedures in
place just yet. Um, so it's kind of like a trial run at this point. If anybody is online, they have a comment, they want to raise their hand, um, our IT uh, person, Mike Morris, will grab it and, um, make it so that they can make a
public comment. So, thank you. That's great. Thank you, Pat. Lisa, >> uh, nothing to add from the city clerk's office. >> All right. Effective this Saturday, June 27th, all 12 Margate City beaches will be guarded for the summer season.
>> Anything to add, Commissioner Blumbberg? >> No. >> All good. >> All right. So, now we will open up public comment. If anyone has any comment on any of the items discussed during this workshop meeting, uh, please step forward. Dennis Gornoski for the information. I had sent an email
to our business administrator asking about a finance report. I no one responded except Mr. Blumbberg. So thank you very much for that update since we have not had one since February. If I could ask um one thing is that could we add the amount of the debt that we have
currently here in Margate to the report. The other question I have as to Mr. Dennis here um the since we now started phase one and I've been asking this question for the last two years. What's the cost for phase one? >> So the in the bond ordinance there's
$5.2 million for dredging. >> For dredging, >> correct? >> But that's only phase one. >> Yes. What do you predict for phase? How many phases are we looking at? Two, three, four. >> We don't know yet. Um, it uh it could be
it could be I honestly can't answer that question. I'm not going to speculate. So >> So right now it's 5 million to do what you're telling me is part of um Amherst where the Lambertes to Washington Bridge. The >> No.
>> Okay. So phase one is from the Margate Bridge to Orient Canal. That's the majority of the project. There is a small area that we're dredging waterward of the of the Margate City Pier at Washington Avenue. Um that's also included in phase one. That's just a small isolated area. The majority of the
project is from the bridge to Orient Canal which is just around where Nassau Avenue is. >> Okay. Thank you. So we don't just to say something. I was told that we needed an open public report for information for financing, which I thought was kind of
ridiculous, but it finds out we don't need that in the future. So, thank you very much for that. And just one thing to add on dredging the uh the portion from Washington to Kage Avenue, there is no other than what is included in this phase one, there is
no city uh dredging. The city's not responsible for any dredging there. That's all private. So there are areas again if when when Ed puts this website together and and publishes the phases and what does need to be dredged what's private and what is the city everybody will be able to see that the vast
majority of it will be done by private uh bayfront homeowners and and businesses. So >> yep that's a great example of what I was referring to. Yep. >> Any other public comment on workshop? Do we have anyone in Zoom with public
comment? like >> no. >> No. All right. Is there a motion to close public comment for workshop? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Mayor Collins? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Blumb? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Horn? >> Yes. >> Is there a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion. >> Second.
>> Mayor Collins? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Blumbberg? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Horn? >> Yes. >> All right. We will move forward with the commission meeting momentarily. Oh, >> here.
>> Like to call the meeting to order, please. Lisa, will you read the statement of compliance? >> The notice requirements of the Open Public Meetings Act for this meeting have been satisfied. A copy of the annual meeting notice was sent to the Atlantic City Press carrier post, 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 electronic devices. >> Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Attention, salute. I pledge algiance 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. Lisa, please take the role. >> Mayor Collins, >> here. >> Commissioner Blumbberg, >> I am here. >> Commissioner Horn, >> here. >> Is there a motion for the approval of
the June 4th, 2026 regular and workshop meeting minutes? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Mayor Collins, >> yes. >> Commissioner Blumbberg, >> yes. >> Commissioner Horn, >> yes. >> At this at this time, we'll open up public comment for resolutions only. So, if anyone has a comment on any of the resolutions on today's agenda, I invite
you to step forward. Mike, anyone online? No. Is there a motion to close public comment on resolutions? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Mayor Collins? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Blumbber? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Horn? >> Yes. >> Lisa, will you proceed, please?
May I have a motion for the introduction of ordinance number 8-2026 and ordinance amending chapter 257 vehicles and traffic of the code of the city of Margate City County of Atlantic State of New Jersey. Motion
>> second. >> Mayor Collins. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Blumbber. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Horn. >> Yes. May I have a motion for the introduction of ordinance number 9-2026 an ordinance amending chapter 257
vehicles and traffic of the code of the city of Margate city county of Atlantic state of New Jersey. >> Motion >> second. >> Mayor Collins. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Blumbberg. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Horn. >> Yes. May I have a motion for the
introduction of ordinance number 10-2026 an ordinance amending chapter 132 fees of the code of the city of Margate city county of Atlantic and state of New Jersey. >> Motion >> second. >> Mayor Collins. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Blumbberg. >> Yes.
>> Commissioner Horn. >> Yes. May I have a motion for the introduction of ordinance number 11-2026 bond ordinance appropriating 7,169,500 and authorizing the issuance of $6 million81,25
in bonds and notes of the city of Margate city for various capital improvements or purposes authorized to be undertaken by the city of Margate city in the county of Atlantic, New Jersey. >> Motion >> second. >> Mayor Collins, >> yes. >> Commissioner Blumbberg,
>> yes. >> Commissioner Horn, >> yes. May I have a motion for the introduction of ordinance number 12-2026 bond ordinance appropriating 5,580,000 and authorizing the issuance of
$5,580,000 in bonds and notes of the city of Margate City for various capital improvements or purposes authorized to be undertaken by the city of Margate City in the county of Atlantic, New Jersey. Motion >> second.
>> Mayor Collins, >> yes. >> Commissioner Blumbberg, >> yes. >> Commissioner Horn, >> yes. May I have a motion for the introduction of ordinance number 13-2026 bond ordinance providing for various water and sewer utility capital
improvements in and by the city of Margate city in the county of Atlantic New Jersey appropriating $2,622,500 therefore and authorizing the issuance of $2,622,500 bonds or notes of the city for financing
the cost thereof. Motion >> second. >> Mayor Collins. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Blumbberg. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Horn. >> Yes. >> May I have a motion for resolution number 139 2026 authorizing bill payment
and claims. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Mayor Collins. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Blumbberg. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Horn. >> Yes. May I have a motion for resolution number 140-2026 resolution authorizing the issuance of
an amount not to exceed 15,200,000 in aggregate principal amount of bond anticipation notes of the city of Margate in the county of Atlantic state of New Jersey to pay the costs of various capital improvements and water
sewer utility improvements and making certain authoriz authorizations, determinations, and covenants in connection with the foregoing. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Mayor Collins, >> yes. >> Commissioner Blumbberg, >> yes. >> Commissioner Horn, >> yes.
May I have a motion to amend the agenda to include resolutions number 164-20265-2026 and 166206 which were added to the agenda and posted on the municipal website as an update on June 24th, 2025.
>> Motion. >> Second. >> Mayor Collins. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Blumbberg. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Horn. >> Yes. May I have a motion for the consent agenda which consists of resolution number 1412026
through resolution 166-2026. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Mayor Collins. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Blumbber. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Warren. >> Yes. >> Thank you, Lisa. Uh we will now open up public comment. If anyone has any any comment on any topic at all, please step
forward. Donatasa 301 North Claremont Avenue. I'd just like to know if there was any progress with the speed control on Amherst Street. >> I have a speed report for you. I'll be happy to give you >> Okay. Also, was any did anything happen
on from last Friday night at 1:20 a.m. in the morning when myself cuz I caught it on Ring camera and Dennis who called the police first. We called the perpetr we saw the perpetrators who were breaking into the car as they ran right
across. They were walking nonchilantly right across my uh garage and my front door. I had them on camera and gave them to the police department. I can I I do this for you. I can let him I'll give you update on the incident. >> Okay. Because we h you know if they
pursued it, they might have caught them because they're they have to be parking a car on Clarin or Winchester. They're they're breaking into the cars on Art Rock and then going uh across my
lawn and down Amherst and down Clarin. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Donna. Dennis Gornoski, 7702 Amherst Avenue, Mark Gates City. Uh, just a question. Um, when we close a street for building
purposes like pouring cement or whatever, do come who does that? Who authorizes the street closing? is the police department zoning or whatever. >> So, it's a conjunction. The the engineer, you know, working on the
project, they consult with police zone. >> But if it's a house, I'm I'm saying like a house. It's being built on a block. The only reason I'm asking it, this is the second time on our block where they were doing construction like pouring cement this time on a Thursday.
It's our trash collection day and they're not able to get down the street. So, we have to call the builder to tell his builders, you know, his um workers out there to open up the streets so we can get trash trucks down there and recycle.
So, I don't know whoever coordinates that would know that, you know, pickups on Thursday. You won't schedule pouring of cement on a Thursday. >> Yeah. So, that would be different. What I was referring to is if the city was running a project like the reconstruction of a home. So the home the homeowners and builders um you know
they would be required to reach out to the city and the police department. >> Okay. I'm not so sure that they do. Uh but okay. I'm just saying this is the second time because I called the first time the builder's given me his number where I can call him. It's just a problem on Thursdays. From what I was
told the second time he was given the authorization by the city. So, I'm just asking what the procedure is on that one. Okay. Um, and that's it. Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Dennis. >> All right. My name is Barry Sherman. I
live at 9510 Amherst Avenue in the Margate Mariner. Um, I've lived in Margate for 20 years and there's always been a lot of bars on Amherst Avenue. how it is. But they've always been respectful. Um the two every bar on
especially Memories they allow way too many people to go into the bar. There's only supposed to be an occupancy. I think it was 200 people. But I'm not 100% sure of occupancy. But you know that when you can't walk in the place, you can't even move because my friend my friend has a band and we went to hear
him and you can't even move. There's more people than are supposed to be in there. They leave the doors and the window is open and you can't even sit on your porch because the noise is so intense. The band is the music, the DJ is just way too loud. On top of which
the hundreds of kids and I mean kids are hanging out on the corner and you can't even walk through. It's a destruction of our privacy and our peace of mind. You just can't live like that. It's wrong. You also need speed bumps on on Amherst,
at least the temporary ones. People come up flying up that street 45, 55 miles an hour. I drive that street every single day at 25 m hour. It's pretty quick at times because there's so many kids on that street because of the the the water park and there's all these other
attractions that the kids come to and they can't walk across the street because people are flying up and down the street. I need a cop to come around once in a while just to check and break up them big mobs on the corner. There there shouldn't be a 100 people standing on the street corner. It's just not right. It's wrong. Go to walk your dog,
you can't even walk the dog. You can't walk your kids. It's a shame. Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Barry. >> Good. Good evening everybody. Um, my name is Joe Welkey. Um, here today um, regarding a pool installation on Mammoth Avenue. Um, pardon my notes. There's
just some specific dates in here that I want to reference in my letter. Um, I understand that the city has an ordinance restricting pool installations from June 15th to September 15th. Um, and I understand the reason behind that ordinance is to limit disruption,
debris, um, impacting neighboring properties, runoff, um, and a few other items. In our case, our permit was mailed and submitted on March 20th, 2026, so nearly 3 months before the ordinance comes into play. We submitted it early specifically
to avoid this issue and to make sure the work could be handled in a timely manner. The first response we received was on April 8th, which is 18 days later, notifying us that zoning denied the application because the pool equipment was not shown on the architectural plans. After further
review, the pool equipment was on the architectural plans. We responded back highlighting where the where it was located on those plans and re and replied back to the thread. On May 21st, we received another denial letter because the building inspector said the size of the pool was missing
even though the size of the pool was shown on the survey that zoning had approved previously. Again, we worked to address the item quickly, responded respectfully, and let them know and pointed out where it was located. We're not trying to come in late now asking, "Hey, we didn't know about this
ordinance and we're looking to put in a pool." We started this process 3 months earlier. Um the repeated review process and even some of those items being, you know, already presented wasted two to three weeks. We were hearing back in time, which ate up a lot of our
timeline. Um we spoke to both adjoining neighbors. Um I actually lived in the house. I bought it last year and I lived in it first with my family, my grandma, my brothers. We're from Trenton, New Jersey. We've actually never been to Margate. So, I moved to Vorhees, looked for a new beach town and chose Margate
because a lot of my neighbors in Vorhees lived here. Um, so prior to knocking down the house, we got really close with the neighbors. We spoke with them. Um, I have a letter signed by both those neighbors saying that they are okay with the pool installation taking place. We confirmed with the pool company today
that they could start on June 29th and that it would be a two-eek window. Um, and we are willing to abide by any rules and regulations around cleanup timelines, restricted days to work or hours to make sure that we could keep the process going while still doing it in a timely manner and reducing as much
of, you know, the noise um, the dirt, the debris as possible just to keep the project moving. Um we just finished up framing, plumbing and inst and electricity got approved on Tuesday. So we're just at the point of um installation which is happening this
week and that inspection scheduled for Tuesday and then we'll be at drywall and really getting ready to complete the project. Um so we're here today to reconsider the opportunity to allow us to do it and again do it in a timely manner with any needs that you guys request us to do to make sure we remain
compliant. >> Thank you Joe. Um, I do know I mean an email came across all of our desks. I know Commissioner Blumberg had had handled that within his departments. My recommendation, I'm sure they have your contact information. My recommendation would be that Pat reach out to you, maybe explain and, you know, take take
further um action within those those things. That wouldn't be a governing body decision. It would be done within those departments. So, okay. >> Um, so I don't know if you want to give your number to Pat or do we do we have Joe's number on file by any chance?
>> You don't really email it. So also >> I thank you. Thank you, Joe. >> Do we have any other public comment? >> Is there any online public? No. Is there a motion to close public comment? >> Motion. >> Second.
>> Mayor Collins? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Blumbberg? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Warren? >> Yes. May I have a motion for resolution number 167-2026 declaring close session? >> Motion. >> Second.
>> Mayor Collins. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Blumbberg. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Horn. >> Yes. >> Can we just state what the purpose of that is? >> Scott. >> Pat, will you uh >> or Pat? >> Purpose of the closed session? >> We just passed the motion for close
session. Can you >> go into close session? We have some one of the insurance representatives here. I see them sitting in the back row. It's part of negotiations for uh health insurance benefits and I think they should present it to you in a closed session because it is a part of the
negotiation process. >> Okay. >> So, at this point, we would ask uh the public to leave the room. When we conclude the closed session, if anyone's still around, we will invite you back for uh for the end. Thank you everybody for coming.
>> We're good. Okay. So, we're going to make a motion to come out of close session. We just had a review with an insurance consultant who presented a uh possible alternate insurance health insurance plan. Um and there's really no action to be taken at this time. The
elected officials will consider it. That's it. Okay. Is there a motion to come out of close session? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Um, Mayor Collins, >> yes. >> Commissioner Blumbberg, >> yes. >> Commissioner Horn, >> yes.
>> Is there a motion to adjurnn? >> Yes. >> Motion. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Mayor Collins. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Blumbberg. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Horn. >> Yes. >> All right. Thank you everybody. Have a
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