like to call the meeting to order please Lisa will you read the statement of compliance here will you read the statement of compliance please sorry please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance Lisa please take the rooll thank you May
here here all right welcome everybody we're gonna uh get started uh judge Savio and Anthony Edge have a little presentation on uh veterans banners that are we're looking forward to coming to fruition in this spring so I'm gonna pass it off to
to the judge um first of all I want to thank you uh and everybody El G me the opportunity to present this package to you um it really originated with my son-in-law who as some of you may know is a mayor of town
in New York melor approximately 5000 people they have banners all of the question any veteran family or veteran can ask to have a banner put off one of the light Poes in town and frankly most of the
Town most of the light Poes have these veterans um they I have one that's an example but they're 18 by 36 in and they attach to the light Po uh throughout that town their system paying for is going to be a
little bit different than what I'm going to propos their system is that the BFW in that town which is a fairly big organization um collects $50 a year from each of the family members and that $50
the initial purchases made goes to fund the BFW we don't propose that at all but that's what they suggest um the initial cost is $150 from the family of the veteran at $50 a year
and the Banners are up from Memorial Day to Labor Day um Malin pays nothing for the banners um in Melbourne the veterans family submits an appliation there's no checks or on whatever they put on the
application and the banner itself um this is an example of we will not we're going to make certain alter we will have veteran name rank what branch of services he was in and then years of service again we don't see
any putting up seal thece whatever ity cut the plan right now is subject to your approval we're going to categorize
the veterans into decorated veterans and non-decorated Veterans by decorated veterans what I mean is a veteran who received Navy cross Silver Star bronze star with a Valor was a p
received iate I should I estimate that there's somewhere between 15 and 17 veterans from morate who would meet that criteria now when I say from morgate I'm not saying that they reside in morgate
or did reside in morgate they might be a police officer I believe one of the police officers Pete Mone is a is a decorated veteran there are other police officers that may qualify as well as non decorated veterans life guards firemen
would all even though they might not live in morgate especially at this day and they would qualify or be eligible to have this our proposal is that the city pets and Banners
Decor there are I say this 17 Street on the park between Lancaster Avenue and so if we're talking about one of the
things that an and I talked about was trying to get the authorities of the city to pay for 15s now it turns out that there's a little bit more a little for the decorated veterans only the decorated
veterans we got an estimate from the banner company today is roughly $2600 for 15 banners um you could use my brother-in-law who is very busy doing the electrical work
to put the banners up along in that area I frankly would some Su may consider raming that's issue somewhere down the line respect to the ncor veterans who
are from morgate or meet the criteria of having a connection incidentally criteria would include blessed sa I know for example there is a Navy SEAL right now who went through first through grade at blessed sa uh he may be interested in having a
ban I don't know he's kind of quiet to but in any event he would be eligible because he went through thear with respect to the ncor veterans we are suggesting that there be a contribution
from thees the N that will not of the total cost we estimate the toal cost the $170 so there would be about a $20 money that would come from the
city there was a general reluctance myself and Anthony as well deal with the money I spoke with person who person they had the banners along o That's Avenue right now and they used
the mainland IIs what it's called but the BFW the mainland collect there is no BFG but there is a jewi and I've spoken to the president of that organization they've agreed to do
whatever Lisa suggest should be done in terms of setting up an account to collect the money and then the city would inv and the money will come out as I said there's still a $2 roughly difference
between the $150 fee and the cost I have also talked with the president of the log cabin and Hees me that the Log Cabin will be available a fundrais apparently the license they
have the ABC allows nine fundraisers a year and then they have to pay some kind of the log will pay the fit and he said work out whatever you want to work out as far as how the money gets to wherever you want to get it to in terms of
whether it's drinks or whatever it might be a contribution but they'll go along with whatever we say our biggest concern Anthony and my biggest concern is that I've lived in morgate my whole I know a lot of people
I think in my biggest concern is leaving somebody out if I go down to Lancaster Avenue you'll see that there's a and it says har killed an action learned today
doing an internet search was the first world war under then they have wounded and then they have a list of seven or eight names of different people I don't recognize a single name of any of those people I don't recognize a single name
of any of those people that are on they look like tombstones around Lancaster AV I don't recognize a single name so my concern is that we may leave somebody out our way to address this would be to ask that on marg's Facebook page that we
put something on there I understand anthy might have a connection with that local newspaper I don't know what and Harry has agreed to allow me to go radio show again any time that I
would suggest would be a good day to go on his radio show to discuss this oh okay so biger 24 by 48 but this would be the general the general way the p and talking about keeping them from
just Memorial anticipated vet but I know like I said at least 12 or 14 families of decorated vet and anthon and I met this morning I've already been in touch with 10 of those families I already have their
photographs I have a list of the medals that they received when they were in the service what branch of the service so we're ready to go with them uh and the the family's already sent photographs but again I you know I I went for example today to the Tolen
family because Johnny Tolen who was part of the Log Cabin got the bronze star with a B for Valor in Vietnam and his brother Joe sent me an article from the Press about Johnny receiving the pra store and in that article that I read it
talks about Joe and Johnny's father who got the Silver Star and the in the Second World War I didn't have his father on this list of 15 and I I'm anticipating that there'll be people look as far as the non-decorated
veterans when I went to blessed Sac I graduated from 56 kids in my class and at the same time there were 130 kids at high school that graduated the same year as I do I would estimate 90% of those
kids fathers were veterans of World War II everybody's all my friends everybody was a veteran of World War II so I can't even begin to tell you whether we're talking about 50 people 75 people I have
no idea but what I can tell you is that every single person that I've talked to has had a positive attitude towards this and said I'll send you the 150 bucks just tell me where to send it and what you need we'll get my father's picture up BS uh just like the other people so I
everybody that I've talked to has had a very very positive response to this and I know getting back to Melbourne there's a very positive response in Melbourne the citizens there and I do not believe that it should be limited to combat
veterans I I don't believe it should be limited to Veterans who served overseas I think that if someone um agreed by putting their line to risk their life for this country that's
enough whether they served overseas whether they didn't serve overseas whether they serve two years or five years or 10 years that's enough for them to be saluted with something like this if their family wants to do it but I'll be glad to answer any
questions that anybody has about this if I can answer him I don't know I know I've talked to Matt about I know we're talking about I know we're talking about Jeff um I'm not not sure how fireman but I'm
assuming that their firemen as well who serve in the military who may want to be part of this program and frankly since I don't know some people reals could tell me tell you better than I but I would anticipate that since about 1995
most of the cops and firemen no longer live in Margate and I wouldn't want to exclude them when they spend most of their life in boundaries mortgage same thing with the life cours I know there's a life cour who got the bronze store in Vietnam that I spoke about
um he's living in Michigan right now but he ought to qualify as well yeah thank you judge I mean I'm you know in favor of your proposal as as you stated and I Anthony and I went through this in detail yesterday as well um my
biggest concern is timing um so just because I know that yeah I know there's a lead time Memorial's that the veterans association distributes that you can get online it's called a
dd4 and it outlines everything that we need about that veteran and that would establish to me if I don't know the person in the family that that's a veteran whose picture should go up on the V sent away for my
father's you don't send it away at this and they respond I sent it away January 2 I haven't heard anything and I I don't know when ever I shouldn't say ever but I'm assuming I'm going to some
point if I don't know the family if Anthony doesn't know the family Pat doesn't know the then we're going to require the dd24 for and we're going to require kind of destion of the person's relationship with Mor it's not going to be like mour where you just send in your
name and list the metal I don't think that's air way of doing it but as I said I mean I think that people will be shocked when they start hearing
about some of the people fromg most of never talk about what they did and whose names a lot two or three names in the back of the chairs of the cabin these guys were real I mean you
know just as an example billes wey fighters on the ground got distinguished flying cross then he was shot down spent two months in the hospital before the Americans bomb the town where the
hospital was located theyed to a that he was injured in the American bom he was a prisoner of war for a year guys I mean the these guys ought to be in my opinion and as I said everybody who put
the name on the yeah I mean thank you for taking the initiative to to bring this to our attention and and run with it and um you know so you have my blessing to to move forward and again I stressed with Anthony and you know that you two work
together to get this done quickly because it I think it is important for us to have it ready for this Memorial Day and ioke with brother I don't know anybody I don't know how you great and judge I did mention Anthony
yesterday also that if we can get those brackets in advance they can be hung and ready for the banners because the lead time of the banners will be so perfect okay so oh but the one thing we we do have up in the air still is the permission from the electric company to
use their poles so we're talking about right now using the Parkway in the area that I describe then also amb Avenue between tomatoes and Steven cookies and then more maybe Jerome Avenue or maybe other parts of Venter Avenue I I I burn
believe that we're going to have a lot of people that are going to be interested UPN for I really do there's an a lot of veterans from great appreciate your time thank you no problem we'll let you know we
need 2500 bucks when you get a chance yeah it's Anthony has the exact figure 26 yeah so I think that a resolution on the next agenda makes sense yeah I want to get this I want to getn for the yeah that would be great thank you no
problem all right we will now move to our engineering Report with Ed I'll to follow um okay starting off as always with our dredging projects really no update here but we're getting really close to our submission over to do uh just to get that wrapped up and get our
permit secured um so we'll keep posted as we get closer item C is the Washington Avenue streetcape project with some work on ventor Avenue as well also very close here to making our submission to do uh we have a meeting scheduled with do tomorrow just to check
in with them on timeline and some of the logistics of the grants um but we're really close we we had our meeting with the steering committee in January and got some really good feedback and we're just about ready to roll um with our submission to do it's a fairly funded project so there'll be a little bit of a
process to get authorization to bid but we're Clos item D is the Amhurst Avenue Pump Station working through the Green Acres process which is somewhat cumbersome U but we are making slow progress there um items
E and F are two bids that we received uh last week for one was for the walkway at the sigm complex the other one was for the restroom building at the sigm complex we couldn't uh get the bid recommendations together for this meeting but we uh uh did work through some of the numbers we'll have a
recommendation to award for those two projects for consideration the next we can those projects moved into construction items G and H are upcoming road projects on Winchester Avenue in our 2024 row program which are in the
design phase turnning the page to item I the Le service line replacement program phase one um says on a report plans and specs were submitted to ibank they haven't yet been uh submitted as of this meeting um they're ready to be submitted there's
just some paperwork we had to get spread away which goes in with the submission um and we're just also making sure we're firming up the numbers before we um make our submission that would then start the clock on their review um and at some point we'll be ready to consider put
that project out to dat so that continues to advance as does item J which is a new Public Works building uh we expect to have a good set of plans by the end of this month along with a cost estimate that we can use for funding uh I know we're going through the capital
budget so that project is on schedule um to be as part of the next capital budget as far as construction so those plans are are just about wrapping up item K is the vent ring parking lot likewise we have a our site plan um in good shape there and we're just putting the
finishing touches on some of the engineering um so we're getting closer on having that um ready to move when we're ready item L is the bike lane painting on Atlantic Avenue I should say phase two of the bike lane painting on Atlantic Avenue we have sent that bid
package up to do for authorization so we're in good shape there um to get to get the majority of that work done before the summer season item m is the next phase of Atlantic Avenue which is in design n is our storm water compliance which we are
still ping with some of the recent comments uh D on how to um comply with some of their requirements in a reasonable way um with some of the things they're asking us to do so that is a work in progress no updates on our pending although you can see we have
mini Creek there most of our other projects on that list have been funded with grants which is great news jumping down to our construction project list uh we have some projects under maintenance bonds that are coming up in May so keep an eye on those we are taking one
project off the closeout list the Redevelopment of well N9 so we um have successfully completed that project item s the 2023 Road program um hasn't started yet um you know is on the horizon we have added some additional
work there on ARG Port so that has been received by the contractor the Winchester Avenue project uh from Claremont to Douglas is substantially complete we had a punch list with the contractors so that project will soon be moving into the closeout phase the basketball court
project is scheduled uh for the spring once the weather gets a little Cooperative tho Avenue is in progress and construction um so that moving along item W is the water main Rec configuration at Winchester Benson we
just have a little bit of work left there uh to wrap that project up the LaCrosse wall substantially complete so we'll be moving that towards close out the 2024 curb and gutter program is scheduled to begin as soon as the weather warms up a little bit um so we
do have that project ready to go we already had our preconstruction meeting and the phase two of the municipal building renovation has started thank you Ed I will now move to department head reports Chief Adams would you like to begin please sure
mayor thank you um just a couple things to report uh the OSHA logs as we are required to post the OSHA 300 logs for the year for all of our work related injuries we all posted on and according
anded in each department as required um I completed today two online occupational injury and illness surveys uh for all employees except police fire and public works so that would include Municipal
Recreation for record um I did want to speak briefly on our GIF numbers because I was on a uh webinar meeting today and it it actually we've done a pretty good job we had a few bad years in 2018
2020 dealing with some work injuries and our num add funds so we haven't to any addal num and looking at our numbers from
2021 through 2023 um our loss ratio was 66.3% in 2021 2022 was 27.4% and 2023 was you know like I said this total is based
on total incurs total Lunds our five average because of those years that we had some problems is 68.1% but still below so that's a good thing um and these are all based on the following
Auto liability liability property and workers compensation uh the last thing I wanted to report on I'm working through uh one of our OPP the opid sing what we would like to do I haven't
so they're inter what great thank you chief chief Hinson I'll be a little bit brief but first of all I wanted a big thank you to Public Works uh with the municipal parking lot at Benson Avenue I know it
was a project we talked about because we heard a lot of feedback about people not even realizing it was a parking lot uh the brick facade that was up there was actually has been up there since it was a police tow lot many years ago and then we reverted to have a private Towing
it's been used for parking uh Public Works uses it in the winter to move their vehicles in there in the summer it's been public parking for the four years but by taking down that brick uh facade that's been there I think it's really opened up the vinyl fence looks great once they're done we'll clean it
up restripe it have it ready for the summer of 2025 it's right near our Bayfront area it's only a block from washing Avenue so hopefully it is utilized a lot more I said we did the improvements hoping that people will come there Park go to the businesses
down on Amherst Avenue it's part of a number of improvements we hope to have for Amherst Avenue moving M into Memorial Day I think we'll have everything ready to go that we have discussed commissioner horn and I so it's nice to see that project come together and I really do appreciate it B looks really good that's all I have
thank you Chief Roger you want to go again agree that Fant meeting next week thank you Roger Pat thank you mayor commissioner uh nothing really new to report either uh just busy as usual with
the storms and getting ready for the summer season that's all I got thank you thank you Pat all right welcome back and thank you Lisa all right thank you we will now open up to public comment if anyone has
any comment of anything discussed in this meeting you may step forward to the microphone is there a motion to close public comment motion I have a second yes yes is there a motion to adjourn motion
second yes yes