like to call the meeting to order, please. Johanna, will you read the statement of compliance? The notice requirements of the open public meeting act for this meeting have been satisfied. A copy of the annual meeting notice was sent to the Atlantic City Press 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. America stands one
indivisible. Johanna, please take the role. Mayor Collins here. Commissioner Blumbber, I am here. Commissioner Horn, here. Is there a motion for the approval of the June 5th, 2025 regular and workshop meeting minutes? Motion.
Second. Mayor Collins? Yes. Commissioner Blumbberg? Yes. Commissioner Horn? Yes. All right. We will now open up public comment for resolutions and ordinance adoption only. So, if anyone has any comment on any of the items on today's
agenda, please step forward. Is there a motion to close public comment on resolutions and ordinance adoption? Motion. Second. Mayor Collins. Yes. Commissioner Blumbberg. Yes. Commissioner Horn? Yes. Johanna, will you proceed, please? May I have a motion
for the introduction of ordinance number 16-2025, an ordinance amending ordinance number 11-2025 fixing salaries and compensations of certain officers and employees of the city of Margate City County of Atlantic,
New Jersey. Motion second. Mayor Collins. Yes. Commissioner Blumbberg. Uh on on this I am a no and I want to explain why. On Tuesday I found out that our current BA still owns and
operates his pool business with his son but he intends to sell it. He's scheduled to work fulltime for the city. You're not at liberty to discuss it employed. Commissioner, wait a minute. He was hired with approximately eight
months ago because he was the only qualified date. No, no, no. I there's I am not saying anything that's out of school here. It's not You're not allowed to discuss a person. He was willing to work part-time and indicated he could
and would not want full-time. I will ask you to stop. You are not allowed to discuss a personnel matter without a rights notice. This is not personnel notice and I'm discussing it publicly. Did you intervene? It's not included in
his contract. I think he can justify his vote. Nor have I an ordinance vote that it was not discussing an employment contract. I am not terms but he mentioned the am well he probably shouldn't have mentioned it but it's pretty obvious for the
employee. He wants to put on the record why he wants to vote no. That's right. I think he's allowed to. Okay. We will strike his name from the record because he was
was hired approximately eight months ago because he was the only qualified candidate willing to work part-time and indicated he did not and would not want full-time because of his pool business.
It seems to me that nothing has changed. I was not included in his recent contract negotiations, but would have assumed this was vetted. It does not seem fair to Margate or to Pat that he should be working two jobs at the same
time. In 2007, we created a part-time VA position. For 17 years, we successfully operated with a part-time VA. So for me,
this 80% % salary increase cannot be justified given the current situation. For that reason, I vote no. I believe there's numerous employees in this city that work more than one job, including
the commission here. I just want to put that on record. Janna, will you proceed with the vote, please? Mayor Collins, yes. Commissioner Blumbberg voted no. Commissioner Horn,
yes. May I have a motion for the adoption of ordinance number 15-2025, an ordinance repealing a portion of the municipal code, chapter 257, section 13,
vehicles and traffic of the city of Margate City, County of Atlantic, New Jersey. Motion second. Mayor Collins, yes. Commissioner Blumbberg, yes. Commissioner Horn, yes. May I have a motion for resolution
number 153-2025, which was tabled at our last commission meeting authorizing payment to Kar Home Center. Motion. Second. Mayor Collins, I abstain.
Commissioner Blumbberg, yes. Commissioner Horn, yes. May I have a motion for resolution number 181205 authorizing bill payment and claims? 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 182 2025 through resolution number 192 2025. Motion. Second.
Mayor Collins. Yes. Commissioner Blumbberg. Yes. Commissioner Horn. Yes. All right. We will now open up public comment. And I apologize to the gentleman that I uh delayed before, but if you want to come back up and and speak, please feel free.
Sher Lillianfeld. I'm a fulltime resident Mark. I actually just came to thank the fire department because I almost had a very tragic situation at my home and your department was amazing.
Um, basically I had a power washer who hit water on an outside GFCI that started smoking and it didn't pop, it didn't shut off. And your your department was amazing. They were so
professional. Um, and I just want to thank you and tell you what a fantastic job they did and I believe they saved my home. So that was it. Thank you, Sher. Should I repeat my name? Yes, please.
Yeah, please. My name is Barry Sherman. I live in 9510 Amherst Avenue in the Margate, Maryland. So, like I like I said earlier, the mayor and the uh director of public works were very helpful last year. This is a new year and the same stuff's happening with with
memories as always. Um they have trucks that pull up and they block our parking lot. People can't get in and out of their own parking space and when you ask them to move, they walk away. They don't move the truck. That's that's just not right. um the decel ratings which you can take
on your phone are 78 and the board of health of city of the state of New Jersey says it's 60 is the limit. So that's and then the the base from the DJs shakes our house. I mean I'm lucky because I have somebody between me and
them but the people that live on Amherst they have I mean on Madison have a really big problem. Patrons are blocking the street. They're hanging out in front of the spot and if you want to get by, they don't want to move. They want you to walk out into the street. That's not cool either. It's going to be a problem
worse as the times go along. They open the doors and leave them open while the music's playing, which is like just unfair to the people that live anywhere around there. The whole motel, there's the the condo right across the street. There's three condos on on Madison. They
all have the same problem. It's it's just unfair. quality of life issue. Um, trash. They have trash cans on the street. They have a cubby where the trash is supposed to be. They don't use it. And I've walked by and had trash bags, whole
trash bags, six, seven, eight, 10 of them piled up on the sidewalk waiting for someone to come and get them. They need to be able to dispose of their own trash. It's just not right. It brings vermin smells. It's not a cool thing. They had chairs out on Madison the other
day. They have little benches for people to sit on now. They had regular chairs. With the benches, you can't get by. They're rude. The people that are there are are not Margate people. Then they're they're just rude and they they want to they want to start trouble with you. And I don't find that to be acceptable at
all. So I just would love to see. Last year we saw cops all the time and they did a great job. They worked their butts off. This year I haven't seen an officer once. I see them guys on the bikes come and give tickets, but I haven't seen a cop yet walk up and say, "Hey, guys are
congregating. There's no loitering. There's no open containers allowed in Margate." There's a lot of rules that are being broken every Friday and Saturday and they need to do something about it. Thank you very much. Thank you, Barry. Hi, Campbell. I'm also from the Mariner.
I just wanted to kind of piggy back off of him. Is there a way to um get that outside closed at like say 10? Bless you. I mean, is that any kind of a thing? I know um when Jerry had it, it was closed
at 10. I believe music shut off at 10, but they are allowed to occupy the space. Oh, they are? Yes. Okay. And as far as the loudness, the music, the bass, is there a way to get them to not use the bass? Because two weeks ago, there was a DJ there that did not turn
that base on, and I slept the entire night. Okay. He's very willing to listen to the complaints. I know he's been in touch with myself, Commissioner. We met with him many times over the winter about improvements he attempted to make. inside the building regarding the
Dynamat. He spent a lot of money renovating the bathrooms inside, but after this uh if your comments, we will reach out to him again. My first text when we leave here and I know we'll be open to any It's that it's just the base. Okay. I mean, the music when that
couple weeks ago, I didn't hear anything. It sounds like a jackhammer is going off my bedroom. He's very willing to listen. He's very willing. Like I said, I will make that I'll make that phone tomorrow. Thank you, Irene. Apologize again. Thank you. I apologize
for that. Um this is my first uh commission meeting. Uh so again, we're with um a nonprofit organization called Beach CBC. Um I'm President Mike Edwards, Vice President Billy Kern, and board member Gary Frit. Um Margate was
kind enough to allow us to utilize their baseball facility uh over the course of uh four days, April 24th through the 27th. Um, and as a result, we were able to uh raise over uh $50,000 um for the American Cancer Society, the local
Guildas Club, and um in addition, we provide four $2,500 scholarships to uh athletes that are affected by cancer. Um so, essentially, we were here again to thank um not only the city of Margate, but especially
Andrew, uh Joe, and and JJ for all that they did. Um it was uh an incredible event uh well attended and uh those guys um couldn't have done done enough for us to to assist us and again we want to we wanted to express our gratitude. So
thank you. Thank you again. Just just want to say thank you and um thank you also for I know we brought to you this crazy idea a couple months ago about putting a scoreboard up and and uh kind of trusting us that it was going to work out and everything was going to be good.
So I do appreciate everybody uh taking a organ organization's been around for a little bit over 10 years from Middleville High School to Mainland High School and then it's grown so much and there's so much uh different volunteerism from different South Jersey baseball teams and uh coaches that we
decided to kind of take it to a neutral site and Margate has the most beautiful field around not connected to any high schools. So, it was a great venue for us and we do appreciate everything you guys did and uh the support and we look forward to being being back next April if you'll have us. Thank you so much.
Thank you. It was it was a great event. I mean, I think that that whole weekend, you know, here in baseball and seeing the lights like it was great. Um, we hope you you don't look elsewhere in the future. Yeah. Thank you. North Huntington. I just have to comment
on that baseball. There are some fantastic baseball there that weekend. The field was in amazing shape. I'm sure there are people coming into Margate that have never come to Margate before. We've made a great impression on on people. So, whatever we need to do to get these guys back, we really need to do it because it was it was amazing.
Thank you. Thank you, John. Any other public comment? Mr. Mayor, can you com [Music] with some last meeting where a whole lot of people
came today. So I wonder if things have been resolved. I don't really So Pat I mean a number of people here city the chief solicitor we met with them um we worked things out and they've
been very complaints the last two weeks. Thank you. at 7:15. Um, I recently took notice that the Tequila Sunrise location has an advertising um for popup
yoga studio during the daytime. Are they licensed for that related popup? I know we have guidelines for ordinances in place where you're not allowed to do popups in the city. Would anyone know answer that question?
So, I know Roger, I don't know if you have any feedback. I know this was brought to our attention a couple weeks ago. There were some emails going back and forth. I'm not sure what the the resolution was or getting any money from them. Um, it's a I would call it a popup.
So, again, we've now know where our email came from. So clarification charging, we know that they're not charging to be there for this related event. So I think the uh the caveat here is that it's a other margate business
that is collecting funds at their establishment and hosting there. So, uh, it's a it's different than, um, you know, there's some gray area in the ordinance, but again, I've talked to business owners about this and, uh, we've had discussions with the MBA about
trying to clarify that and bring everybody together so that there is uh, just again clarity on what is and is not allowed. So, Mr. McLaren is stating that they're not receiving any funds in relationship to this related yoga place
at the Sunrise. Is that correct? Let me let me jump in on this one. If there we don't I don't know what you mean by popup business. What is that? Well, that's a that's a business. It's outside of the normal business that's at that location. Well, I on an arcade normal business and someone comes with a
trailer. Let's sell shirts. That's different. It's a popup. So if the historic society goes upstairs or Lucy the elephant committee decide to have it or the kanas decide to have a weekly meeting there those would all constitute
popup businesses. I think you're reading the whatever restriction you're looking at to extreme. So no we're not going to get into every activity that a restaurant or a bar has within it. I don't think so. I mean to me it's part of their overall business. So you're
stating that they do not need a separate commercial in relationship to a whole different type of service. I don't know. It's a whole different type of service, but I don't believe it's commercially zoned space. They have a merkantile and
they're operating their business. Okay. Um we have a cut off date of June 15th for demolition in the city market. Correct. What are the spec special circumstances that took place that the Lucy location
was allowed to demo 15? Yeah, the construction department has the ability to grant exceptions due to hardship and due to various other other things and they have done that for many many years for various the city own property.
So, done by hand. I understand that it's still demolition. What was the hardship beyond? Do we know what the hardship was? Thank you. Just wanted to make correction. I'm not
exactly sure where Mr. Blber got his 85% from, but it's nowhere near that. I did increase my hours. It does increase the hours. It's nowhere near 85%. 80% or whatever you said. Um, and just
wanted to make sure that, you know, everyone knows that we did have a employee go tax assessment office with a raise. So it's not an as well as
there was a support for construction official that didn't have a certification. So, I don't know what his problem is, but I just wanted to make sure that Thank you, Pat. And I do just want to
say regarding the administrator employment uh for clarity, the uh when we were looking for an administrator, I was probably the most vocal about wanting a part-time administrator because I believe that's all we needed. And I believe at the time that was true.
But uh in recent months that has changed for various reasons, mainly personnel issues that uh you know, so everybody comes up here and says why why haven't we moved forward on the gas leaf blower? Why haven't we moved forward on all these other objectives? And honestly,
it's because our BA is tied up with his full amount of hours doing personnel matters. So, we need the extra hours in order to uh to respond to the public and and take action and move forward. So, that is uh why I was supportive of the
move to full-time and I believe it's a it's a good move and necessary and I look forward to July 1st when we get pat in the building a lot more. So, with that, is there a motion to close
public comment? Motion. Second. Mayor Collins, yes. Commissioner Blumbberg, yes. Commissioner Horn, yes. Is there a motion to adjurnn? Motion. Second. Mayor Collins, yes. Commissioner Blumbberg, yes. Commissioner Horn, yes.
Thank you everybody for coming. Hope you have a good night.