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 press of Atlantic 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. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for it stands nation for all. Lisa, please take the role. Mayor Collins here. Commissioner Blumbberg, I am here. Commissioner Horn, here. Welcome everybody. Uh we have a lot of good news to celebrate today. Um we're
going to start I'd like to ask uh Lexi Gormley to join us up front along with Assemblyman Guardian and Assemblywoman Swift. I just want to want to begin. I'm gonna read a proclamation uh for Lexi on
behalf of the city of Mar it overse. So just want to honor Lexi for her achievements. So whereas the city of Margate proudly recognizes the outstanding achievements of its residents which distinguish themselves through dedication, perseverance, and
excellence in their chos chosen pursuits. And whereas Lexi Burnley, a resident of Margie, New Jersey, represented her community and her country with pride and determination of the women's under 19 rowing championships in August of 2025 in
Lithuania. Whereas through her commitment to training, teamwork, and discipline, Lexi earned a silver medal on the international stage, exemplifying the highest standards of athletic achievement and sportsmanship. And whereas Lexi will continue rowing at Stanford University as she pursues her
education. And whereas Lexi's accomplishments serve as an inspiration to the youth of Margie and a reminder of the values of hard work, resilience, and community pride. And whereas the city of Margie wishes to honor Lexi not only success on the
water, but also for the example she sets as an ambassador for our city and a role model for future generations. Therefore, we have resolved that the mayor board of commissioners do hereby proclaim Thursday, September 4th, 2025
as it I have a feeling she's gonna have a lot more success and she may be back up here. Absolutely. Great to be here today, Lexi. So proud of you. Watch grow up with my nieces. Uh watching you grow as a former grower for Atlantic City High
School. What you've accomplished is unbelievable for uh city of Margie, the county, the state, and our country. So I have a proclamation here from the county commissioners. basically says everything great that you've done and Don Guardian has also proclamation from Senator Vince
Donardian and us. So we want to present. Before I start, it's really nice having come to city council meeting on behalf of Senate assembly woman and myself to provide this combination from the state of New Jersey. It's a joint
combination for both the Senate and the Assembly. We certainly want to recognize you obviously very very Congratulations. You bring a lot of joy to the family as well. Chief,
now we will turn it over to Commissioner Horn and Chief Henson for some promotions within the police department. Thank you. First of all, thank you, Mayor Commissioner. First off, uh, we have a promotion to start. Uh, officer Jack Shaw, he's been with the police
department since 2018 and a little bit of history. He probably one of the last people that graduate of Blessed Sacrament that's going to get promoted here because Blessed Sacrament hasn't been here in a long time. It's something a little unique about Jack. It's usually high school, but Blessed Sacrament hasn't been around for
for quite some time. But since 2018, Jack had been employed with the police department. He has been a field training officer. He's in our motorcycle unit. He's our one of our lead instructors for our law enforcement against drugs at high school. It's a good day for him. It's a good day for the police
department. So, Jack, come on up and get this done. your left hand. Raise your right hand. I, John Shaw, I, John Shaw, who solemnly and sincerely promise and swear who 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 and that I will faithfully and partially and partially
and justly and justly perform and discharge all the duties of the Office of Sergeant Perform and discharge all the duties of the office of sergeant in the police department of the city of Margate city in the police department city of Margate city to the best of my ability and
understanding. to the best of my ability and understanding. So help me God. So help me God. Thank you. And with the promotion of Jack sergeant. He will be assuming new responsibilities, but that leaves an opening on the back end. Rick Rosiaak
came to us in January of this year, went to the police academy, uh, graduated in July with the opening. He started his career. He started his career with us as a class two, just like Jack started with us in 2018 as a class 2. So, we do have a natural progression. We have a working
chess period. He's done a great job. He is our going to be our newest wave dump officer. He's been working as a class two since gradu academy. It's a good day for him. It's a good day for for the police department. So, please stand up. I do solemnly and sincerely promise
doly and sincerely promise and swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America. I 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 and partially and justly I will faithfully and partially and justly perform and discharge perform and discharge all the duties of the office of police officer all the duties of the office of police officer
and the police department of the city of city the police department of the city of city to the best of my ability understanding to the best of my ability and understanding. So help me God. So help me God. One last thing you have to do is you
have to take a picture with everybody. Jack, you're still here, too. We'll do your next You're moment. Thanks, Lord. Congratulations again to Lexi, Jack, and Brett. Uh, while I welcome you all to stay, if anyone uh would like to leave
at this moment, feel free to do so. That's just here. That's very sound. When are you ever going to be able to do this? Moving
along and uh we will begin with our engineering work. It is on. Yeah. Yeah, I think it is. Maybe it's your seat. Maybe just now that the door's closed, maybe.
Okay. Any better? Yes. Uh starting off with our dredging project. Um no update this week other than um we are in the final stage of the approval process involved in the DT sport. We've been getting a lot of uh or
I should say the public interest in this revenue program is starting to build. We've been getting some emails on you what the next steps are going to be and um I expect that there'll be um a public outreach date for this where we're going to reach out provide information to the public have some meetings get the
information out there once we have a permit in um and we're you know as we begin to plan um the actual work. So, we're just waiting to get our permit from the D. They have all the information they need as far as we know. They haven't gotten any credential information at this point. Shelter
Island likewise is um I'll say on a parallel track, which is a little bit behind our uh our citywide dating permit, and that would be the long-term disposal site and work on that permit application. Item C is the Washington Avenue street
project for Thursday, September 11th. the Emerst Avenue pump station project. Um the last year or so we've been working through the D Green Acres program to get a diversion approval for the Empress Avenue Waterfront Park,
which is where the pump station will be located beneath the parking spaces at that park. So when the project's all done, you won't see the pump station because it will be under the asphalt for while it's under construction. Obviously, that area will be impacted. Um we're at a point uh with the D Green
Acre program where we've them all the information they need. Uh there's a public um meeting scheduled for October 3rd here at 5:00. That is a requirement of the diversion process. And then once we satisfac
this would be considered or anticipated to be considered at their December meeting for approve and then once that's approved we would officially be in line that site and we can carry on the final sign of that station. So um major milestone on this project um the next
month or so to keep this moving towards construction item A is a new public works building. We did have a meeting I think last week to go over some options on value engineering cost savings. did identify pretty significant saving summarizing all that information and we
expect to have discussion on that um at an upcoming meeting on where we're at with that project parking lot um is at the county for final approval. They have all the information they need for coordinating a um are scheduling we're scheduling our
meeting with county planning board. They tried to squeeze this in this week but just not enough time to pull everything together. probably the next meeting in October and then once we have that approval from the county, we can uh finish up the plan to get that project out to
page two. Uh next couple projects are just in the final design phase 2025 um state aid for Atlantic Avenue and 2025 program. No update on our storm water compliance or CRS. You see our
list of grant applications there. um update yet, but we did follow up with the ACIA on projects. We did expect that we would hear another final following to see where we landed with that application.
Um jumping down to our construction projects, just a couple projects left under maintenance bond. We do have one project coming off the list on our closeout list and that's the uh phase to the municipal building renovations. That project closed out the uh 2023 road
program will be starting up again on September 15th. So that is the u main work uh get that project complete. The third project is substantial punch punch paid there. The uh project over at Sig
we're trying to get the contractor momentum over there um working through some issues with that contractor get them on task. Item R is the Winchester Avenue project just awarded. Um construction is scheduled to begin next
week. The 24 road program which was recently awarded. We don't have a start date yet but that will be fall construction project likewise le service line replacement project um contractor is already beginning the canvasing process um to uh get access for some of
these homes that are within the project area. We'll have, as I mentioned, we'll have more public outreach um on that front. And then the last project on the list here is the Atlantic Avenue bike painting. Um did have our pre-construction meeting network being coordinated the next day of Atlantic
Avenue. Okay. Thank you, Ed. Mike, if I can. Uh I got a couple questions for Ed. Ed, uh, on item T for the lead, um, pipe replacement, te can
you tell us about the process the I know a letter I got a letter in the mail the other day from the city and and I'm not and there are people that are asking me and so I'm not real sure that the the is
the contractor going to be identifying for these these people that they in fact have lead pipe going into their homes. Yes. So the people don't really have to do anything. They don't have to hire a
contractor to to identify that there is lead. Do they they're concerned about the quality of their water right now? Do they have to should they are we
recommending that they pay someone to test their water or does the city have the ability through our public works department to test their water for them if they're concerned? Answer generally um there's no need for
them to be concerned um of the quality of the water. City does do testing. They're required city required to do testing um as part of their operating operations. Um, I know Jim Dickerson has he's educated me on this on the process
that they go through um to stay compliant. So, there's no reason to be concerned that there's a lead problem in water and they can't use the water. Um, as far as if they want to hire someone to test their water, I suppose they could. If they go to our website, there's a lot of information that answers these types of questions. What
should they be current concerned about? What can they do? The website's pretty easy to find. It's LSLR, which stands for lead service line replacement. So lslrprogram.commarket and there's a ton of information on there. So one of the first things I would do is refer them to that website
if you're getting a lot of these questions because it's a frequently asked questions page. Answers a lot of the questions that are coming up. Um but the contractor will will inspect their line. Um and this is all at no cost to the property owner. The contractor will inspect their line. We're looking to
meter pitch. They need to do a little test hole they will that's all in their contract and then if it is in fact letter galvanized pipe then it goes on the list to replacement which is also done by the city contractor at no cost to property owner sticking point the best thing that a property owner should do is two things they go on that website
there's also a page where they can if they have access to or they can see the pipe coming into their home they can snap a picture upload it to the website we'll review it we can sometimes tell right from that picture it's letter galvanized and then we can either them off the list to put them on the list for
replacement or they're not comfortable doing that. Um what we'll need them to do is there's a property access form on the website that they just need to sign off on that allows the city's contractor to do all this work at no expense to there's a lot of information on the website also related to kind of common
questions we get should I be concerned about letting my water what can I do to test my waters all that information is on there um and uh there will be a much more active um outreach campaign to push this information out to the public the type of things that I'm talking about
mailers public events, public meetings, community events, flyers and the library worship, you know, places of work and things like that. There's a lot more to come. We're just kind of getting rolling and this is going to be a multi-year multi-ace project. We have a lot of work to do. We're really just get started on this, but naturally there's a lot of
questions, right? So, I guess then uh you know, my concerns are alleviated. So, thank you. Um, the idea I think for me would be this web page that you're
talking about. Um, if I could ask Pat and my fellow commissioners agree, could we put that on our start page and you know immediately someone can go to the Margate city page and see that link. Is it on the start
page? We added the Jesse link through that web page. Okay. Very good. So if I go and I, you know, I haven't gone to our if I go to margatec city.com I I'll immediately can see a banner that
says uh answerled questions and click on it and they'll be and and those questions will be answered. It's under news under news. Okay. Okay. Okay. I think they have
nice graphic design to it too for like frequently asked. There's a lot. Okay. So, people just need to know that they when they go to the market website, click on news and then they can get the answers a lot of the answers to these questions. All right. Perfect. Good.
Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. All right. We'll now move forward with our department head reports. We'll start with public works and Dom. Um yeah, we uh we just had a great Labor Day weekend. I think it was pretty fairly busy. Um, we are going to be keeping all the cans and uh bathrooms on
the beach till the end of the month. Our porta potty that is our trailer that sits behind firehouse will be um taken away on the 15th. Um, and we'll also be if people will go through all the whole process with the
lead um and service line and they're super confused, you can always call public works. uh we will get you in talks with the operator at least an email and and get get an answer with it. So that's all I got. Thank you. Dom Palma,
you're dismissed. Good evening, mayor and commissioners. Uh just a quick update update from the building department. Uh September 15th is the last day of the demo and pool construction moratorum. So we do expect
an uptick in our permits and construction and also really renovations as well come the fall because now that summer is coming to an end, the projects will really start picking up again. Uh that's really all that I have tonight.
Thank you. Roger. Congratulations to the police officer in a promotion of the other one. There are four cases for the month planning board and uh some of them are carryovers from
July. Obviously, we didn't have a meeting in August. They carried over to September and I anticipate that the process of another update of planning cases as we fall.
Thank you, Chief Henson. Thank you, Mayor Commissioner. First of all, I guess with the unofficial end of uh the summer season, Labor Day, like I said, we had an extremely busy year up to this point. To date, we've had 12,935 calls for service. It's funny, between
the period between Memorial Day and Labor Day, that accounts for 6,500 of them. So you can just see the amount of work that's done between Memorial Day and Labor Day. But again, with the fall approaching, we've begun transitioning to a lot of our fall duties. And that's where we take a lot of the time where officers have to do a 10 yearly
training, advanced schools to keep up with changing trends in law enforcement, and also we do a lot of our school outreach. We start the programs we do with the schools, whether it's Boo Fest, trunk or treat, uh our our lead program. So again, we just start transitioning to
all those programs. So, we've moved right into something else. Also, school is back in session. So, I say to everybody, just be aware there's kids on bikes going to and from school. We're probably one of the few communities where you see a lot of kids riding their bikes to school. And it's actually nice to see in the morning kids have been helmeted. It's been nice to see there
are still some kids not wearing helmets that we work with the schools to make sure and have awareness. One more thing, Park Mobile and our paid parking is still in effect till the end of the month. I spoke with uh Pat earlier this week. We're going to keep the portaotties on Amherst Avenue up
until after Funfest, so they'll still be up there. So again, we're we're going to transition into the fall. Also, you'll start noticing dumpsters back on the street kind of what Pamela was saying, the moratorium's over, so the dumpsters go off site back onto the street. We
check sites before they go out. And to everyone who attended a law day, I appreciate it. It was a great event. And thanks to everybody for coming out. That's all. Thank you, Chief Lisa. Thank you. Good afternoon. Uh, a few things to update everyone on. Um, you'll
see resolution 238 20225 um is on the agenda to authorize the contract with Atlantic Electric for phase 2. I was contacted yesterday by Bill Edwards and he sent a list, a tenative list for phase two. After that,
he initially sent the proposal to the city. um he reviewed the lights and determined that several of the lights had already already been replaced in phase one. So they're about to Atlantic
Electric is about to go out to bid for this project. So, what he's going to do being that we still have lights remaining for phase three, he's going to take another look um to see how many
more lights can be included in this next phase. And if it's okay with the commission, um, we would have an amended agreement in the future where we can replace additional lights not to exceed
what we had funded a couple of years ago, which is 325,000. So this contract is 314. By removing the duplicates, it's less. He didn't give me an amount, but he'll send us an amended agreement going up to the 325. And then
phase three would be substantially less in scope. And he's going to provide a proposal to us in the near future. So we could fund that next year and then all the lights will be replaced by hopefully by the end of the year next year. Okay.
Um I had them, you know, include Pat and Roger going forward. so they're in the loop and all all future communications can go through them. But if I hear anything else additionally, I'll keep you advised. Um, also on the agenda is
the agreement to pay Ventner for the water usage that was used. Um, Tara Maza had provided the amount that is owed for 2021 through 2025. So, it's just under $12,000. So, I
checked with Pat and after this is authorized tonight, um, I will be sending the purchase order over to Ventner to have them sign it and then we'll get it on the next bill list and get them paid. So, that that's current.
Um, couple things to report on in regards to our revenue. um through August 31st, the interest on our investments held with the NJRM are 497,419.
Uh the interest rate was 4.22% for the month of August and that's been relatively the uh hovering around the same for the last few months. Um, year-to- date interest on all of our
accounts through August 31st was, excuse me, I think it was 579, but let me there. Um, yeah, 579,000 and that's through the end of August as well. Our beach fees, um, we've
completed the year and the inventory is in the process of being prepared by the rec department. Um, but the beach fees to date uh were only within a few hundred dollars of what was collected
last year. Um, for 2025 we had just under $446,000 and we sold 47,76 tags, which was u about 40 tags higher than the prior year. And I'm not sure if
I'm taking Andrew's report. Okay. Cross off his list. Um that's going to I'll let you report on the tags for next year. But um also couple other updates on our revenue. Just so you
know, I we're I'm still we're on track to at least anticipate if not exceed um what was in the 2025 budget. Our fees and permits so far through August 31st are $68,000 higher than the entire year
for last year. Um bringing that to 264,000 approximately. Um else in regards to capital, a few of the things that Ed reported on the 2025 road
program. Do you plan on going out to bid at the same time as a 2025 state aid? Because one was funded and the other was not. Check on the status. Okay. And then in addition, I just want
to point out um that the new DPW building still also needs to be funded as well. And I know we haven't received the final cost estimate on that. I just want to let you know so you keep it in mind so that we do another uh capital in time for when you want to um award
something in the future. Um I think we need to appoint an auditor for 2025. It's normally done around this time because traditionally I have them come in so they can at least audit the beach tags before the end of the year so
then we could dispose of them and and you know for um internal control. So um do you have a preference as to whether or not you would like to issue a an RFP
or me contact individual? Okay, thank you. Um, and I think that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you, Lisa. Andrew, thank you, mayor and commissioners. Uh,
you may have noticed the last couple days, uh, all of our fields have been, uh, arrated and seated. So, the tie field and the ball fields are closed, uh, for the next week and a half until Monday the 15th. Um we we have a lot of
it as much as we can locked up with signage up. Um we send some emails out and uh posted on our Facebook page as well. Uh wreck soccer registration is open. So if you know anyone who hasn't signed up up yet, please let them know
to sign up quickly. We want to try to get started uh in the next week and a half. Excuse me. Uh as Lisa mentioned, we we're finalizing beach tags for this past summer. We finalized that. So, we're now working on next summer. Um, so
we have our uh annual contest at the Thai school art contest for the tag. So, information went home. So, those uh designs by the kids are due back October 1st. So, after that, I'll be in touch with the commissioners about uh choosing a design for next year's tag so we can
get those ordered. Uh, and then also, um, as you know, we do our beach transport business, which helps people get down to the beach from the bulkhead. Uh, we got our records for this summer. So far this summer, we've
transported 827 people to and from the beach. Um, so my staff did a great job getting them down and back. Um, I've heard nothing but good things from people about my staff and the program. Um, so we're going to keep, weather
permitting, we'll keep it going for the next couple of weekends. Uh, and we'll try to keep those bathrooms open, uh, down by the pavilion for the next couple of weeks. Again, weather permitting. Uh, as long as I have staff that can can staff them down there. Um,
and I think that's it. That's all I have. Thank you, Chief Adams. I just want to congratulate Max, Jack, and Brett. Uh, it's a great day for the city of Margate. positive things happening in the police department and with our city residents and to echo, you
know, the mayor and others. I really think you're going to hear more about Lexi in the future because she is definitely an outstanding athlete. Um, few other things. One, we started uh two new hires in the fire department this week. Um, this was to backfill a recent
retirement in July and resignation back in March. Um, we're hoping to have them fully trained and ready to go on a ship within the next two months. Uh, the beaches that are currently open this week, we had Claremont, Huntington, and
Cedar Grove along with Jefferson, but um, some days we had to close down to three, but we are posting that and making sure the information is out there. And we will have this weekend all four beaches open, Claremont, Huntington, Cedar Grove, and Jefferson Avenue. and weather permitting and
staffing, we will have those beaches open next weekend. Uh but all beaches will close for the season on uh Sunday, September 14th at 6 p.m. Um lastly, uh we just have our upcoming 911 ceremony
on Thursday, September 11th. It's 9:00 a.m. right out front of fire station number one right here at Washington and Benner Avenue. It's a great event and for the first year we're going to be sad to to miss miss Janet play groups club plus you know I'm sure they're not going to
make it down from veteran down here but the first year that we won't see Janice beautiful children out there and uh it's always a pleasure to see the young children because that's what it's all about in the future but um it is a great event if you have time it's about 2530
minutes tops it's right here on Washington and Benner and totally well attended and it's a good 9 a.m. start time. And that's all I have. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Chief. We'll skip Pat and go to Scott. Just elaborate a little bit on the
parking lot, the former Taylor's station. Want to first of all thank Pat Powers and his crew. They are there at 6:00 morning. The last of those containers were removed. They brought the skid in. And it was just great to have Pat there at 6 in the morning just in case we needed them or they needed
them. And they did need them and they were there. They got done. So, as Ed said, uh, we have the plans in front of the county planning board. I believe it's October 1. I haven't gotten that in writing yet that we'll have it. So, I believe you all have, and if you don't have, we'll send it to you again. Just
double check. This is how you want to have that park. As you know, we're going to have park benches. There'll be some trees, some landscaping. It's 24 on-site spaces and then like about another what, five or six on Ventner Avenue as a result of the driveway being closed. And
it seems to me who was very fortunate this summer, at least for August and I guess part of July, we were able to get use of that and it seemed like it was filled every day. So that's great. Now, in relation to the parking lot, when we made that deal and purchased it, we had
to seller escrow $300,000 as an insurance policy in effect so to make sure that Exon Mobile did what they agreed to do in writing. And they have done what they said they would do in writing. the the tanks that were underground are removed, the contaminated soils removed. They
continue to have their monitoring wells there. In fact, as understand they're going to put some new monitoring well caps in, but that's all in their nickel. They they're paying for every dime. So, according to our escrow agreement with the seller, Taylor, he's really entitled to have his escrow released to him, and
I would recommend that that, you know, authorized me to go ahead. Exon Mobile did exactly what they said they would do. and uh I'm very satisfied with the work they've done and uh they they were good to deal with. So that's what we have. Two other minor things now we're
now that Labor Day has passed. We're going to have a couple bulkhead projects where we have people one on Argyle Avenue is going to build a new street end. We negotiated that with them that'll be at no cost to the city. We also have I believe it what is it Eddie Osborne about 180 foot I forget
something like that where Kaplan is also I talked to the builder today as a matter of fact to see where that was. They're going to start October one maybe sooner if it doesn't interrupt the neighbor. They don't want to ruffle any feathers with their neighbor who's got a good relationship. Again that's 100% on
them and that'll be the street end the handicapped access the stairway and of course a whole front new bulkhead at the beachfront owner's cost. not a dime to the city. But of course, Eddie, you have to review that and approve what they're doing. So, it's all good news. And the
Eagles are playing tonight. How could it get any better than this? Really? Thank you, Scott. All right, Pat, as always, everybody's uh every problem, everybody's solutions that progress.
All right. finished interview the tax utilities uh section made a selection there on process. Great. Thank you Lisa. Anything to add? Yes. Um due to the date of Yang Kapor,
there is going to be a meeting on September 30th of the commissioners. All right. Thank you. All right. We will now open up to public comment. If anyone has any comment on any items discussed in this meeting, please step forward.
Denniski, 7702 Amhurst Avenue. A couple questions. Number one, normally the paid parking was between Memorial Day and Labor Day. And Officer Henson said, "Now we're going to the end of September." I ordinance. You read the ordinance. It
goes until the end of How come before we used to do it after Labor Day? We we didn't we never did that. We do the two-hour parking and some of the two-hour parking and paid parking. When we reacted the ordinance almost 5 years ago, all we said September. Okay. Can that ordinance be changed since the majority of the people are not
here any long after Labor Day? Because the parking lot this afternoon, I tried to use the one by the CVS, there was but two cars there in the 20 lots. But if you tried to park on Ventner or
Atlantic Avenue or even in front of the building here, there was tons of cars. Matter of fact, even a state police uh vehicle parked illegally in a no parking zone. So I don't understand why we continue to make us pay when the majority of the
people have left. So that's one thing I would look to see change. Number two, we were talking about the project for the lead thing. We have not talked about the project of replacing meters, water meters. And I would think with the replacement of water meters, we would
have probably had some idea about lead the lead problem because I take it when the fittings are done, you're going to say it's lead or not. So, how far has that project been? Yeah, there's one more phase to be completed um
which should be awarded at the end of this year or next year because it hasn't hit our area for it, but um it's ongoing. I don't know the specifics as to, you know, how many have been replaced at this point. That would be more for public works. Okay. Because we've not gotten anything
over anything on that for over a couple months of where they're at. Yeah, I'll get back to you on that, Dennis. I do know if you remember a month ago we you your area was in the final phase. So I'll I'll see if I can get you a date on when that's going to start. All right. And the other thing I have a
question would give um out of sight out of mind all of a sudden. Um one second there. Okay. That's it. Thank you Dennis. Everyone's on the same page with a lead service line replacement project. It is
true that you can see the material sometimes at the meter, but the D requires you to verify the material at the meter and at the house both end. So that would be one half of the information that we Thank you.
Donna, 301 North Claremont Avenue. Um, mayor, I've kept my mouth shut for the last four years cuz I had to. But as of this last month, it's gotten ridiculous. There has been four accidents at Claremont Amherst. When
your uncle was mayor, I came before him to try to see if we could get Claremont from Amherst to the Bay one way. He says first me about petitions. I got 25 petitions. Everybody in the neighborhood
wants it one way because the trucks come down there, they fly. They don't come down. Now, there's been two accidents in the last 3 months. One in front of my house, which was a month ago.
One in front of 202 Amherst. That lady lost two cars in the last three years. Four years ago, I lost the lampost out front, my fence out front, and the car ended up across the street.
Now, it's either they don't abide by the 25 milei zone. People come down Amherst in the middle of the street. We I can't even pull out of my driveway. 303 can't pull out of her driveway because we turn around, look, there's no car there. All
All of a sudden, there's a car there. and they don't stop for you. So, something's got to be done. It's very unsafe. Either they can make Amher um Claremont one way all the way up, which would make sense because the fire
trucks can use Delivan. It's two times the size of Amher of Claremont. And there's parking on both sides of Delivan. And there's parking on both sides of Claremont. And you can't fit a car up and down
there without somebody pulling over or somebody getting killed. Now, the thing is, I don't want this to go under death ears. We got to do something. Otherwise, I just lost the house 3 years ago. I'm not about to lose this one where somebody's coming in to
my downstairs. And that's what happened a month ago. They were up on the sidewalk. Right. Thank you, Tom. Thank you. My name's um Kathleen Fonte. I live at Maloney. I live at 23 South Washington Avenue and I live in the apartment in
the condo that faces Betner and Washington. Can somebody please explain to me the situation that we experienced all summer and was a nightmare on Saturday night with the kids on Washington Avenue and
what the plan is if anything to manage this please. I'd be happy to tell you if the parents would be responsible. Children are allowed to be on the street. They're not allowed to be in my driveway. That's I said we do everything we can to
limit that. But there is a certain amount of parental responsibility and there are irresponsible parents and I will be honest with that. Parents do rent Airbnbs for underage children and they come to our city. I said we have written multiple summons for two parents
after 10:00 for their children. But every time we take a juvenile, it takes officers off the street at the same time. Kids being on the street up until 10:00, we can't force them legally off the streets. That's way beyond our purview. That's more on the state level
and the state we we've multiple shore towns have asked the state over and over and it falls on deaf ears. So we do our best to manage the kids as best we can. I understand that and I appreciate I have every officer on the street at
those times. I appreciate the situation you guys are facing. I lived with this for three years. Saturday night was chaos. It's always the big and especially the big holiday weekends. The big holiday weekends, like I said, there are a lot
of irresponsible parents that do. They let their houses be used by multiple juveniles. And we have found that over stay there. I would appreciate it if they stayed at their house. We all know no kid wants to stay there. They all want to be. And in the age of cell phones, it's easier for them to meet up because they all share locations
and they all know where they're going and there there is not that many things for them to do in this but parents feel safe in this community. Okay. So, it just makes it extremely difficult from a law enforcement perspective. Okay. I um called
Yes. I called the cops. I called the police department Saturday night and said there are 15 people in our open drive excuse me open driveway. Okay. They were in the parking lot. I brought evidence. They
were throwing Can I finish please? They are throwing cans against of vodka and lemonade. I think they're underage. If I was drinking on the street, I bet you I'd be told about it. They're throwing cans at
the fences. Our cars aren't covered. They're all exposed on an open parking lot and they are urinating in the back of the building. It there are certain things legally we can't do with juveniles there. There I
mean the juvenile there was juvenile reform three years ago and it really limits what we can do as police officers when it comes to juveniles. what I know and what I can prove in taking a juvenile into custody is very difficult. Again, we can't look through book bags
just to look through book bags. It's just the way it is. Our hands are tied in many. So, we do we try to move the juveniles as best we can. We respond to your complaints. There's not a complaint we won't respond to. No one showed up. I can double check that. I will double check that. But I can tell you, I know
the amount of officers I have working on a holiday weekend is extremely high. And we answer every call. No call. No one showed up. And I will I will look into that. All right. So, I went and um filed a complaint. I had videotape that I sent
to um Officer Chris Bradley and I will happily follow up with you. I will happily That would be great. Absolutely. But I've got an I've got an expensive investment here, okay, that is being
devalued because of this situation. And I say a lot of times it is the neighbor. It is your friends and neighbors who are irresponsible and let multiple underage kids at their apartments. I've seen it all. They're not my friends. I'm just It's the neighbors a lot of time. And I have we've seen it all
summer long. We've seen it for years. I've been here 30 years. Okay. And it's been happening for 30 years. Okay. It's a very difficult and I find it really hard to believe that all of these kids were from Margate. It was an absurd number of people. But then at the same time, they are they come from other places. But we can't
just force people off our streets. There is but they're on they're on private property. There are certain legal limitations in public spaces. Okay. So is you know like the board bulk in Ocean City. I mean that's I mean that's the same thing. Ocean City has these problems. Stone
Harbor has problems. any shore community. If you look up and down the coast in light of things, we have a lot of funerals, but there's a lot of places that have a lot worse problems with the juveniles than we were actually lucky in some that's not quite as comforting as you
might think it is. I I know it's I know it's not. I know it's not, but it's it's the world we're living in right now. Like I said, and we do everything we can to curtail. And like I said, if we had more strength from the legislators in the state of New Jersey, but again, just
if there's a group of of kids at 8:00 and they're just congregating, they're allowed to congregate. It's when they start going to the next level, is when we have to take action. Okay. This was 9:30 and people were on the street in force until midnight.
Yeah. Like I said, we do, like I said, I can tell you the amount of similarities we've issued to parents over the course of the summer, but every time we do that, we take more police officers off because we have to be we have to stay with the juveniles until they're picked up by a parent. Okay. So, your example with parents,
when I spoke to officer Swift um on Monday, I think it was um he said he got a phone call Saturday night from a parent who said um can you there's 200 kids at my house I'm watch can you come
to my house and break it up and that's why we've written their parents as well and again can I finish please? Yes. Thank you. Um and he said fine meet me at the door. She goes, "Oh, I'm at tomatoes. I'm watching it on the ring camera." And I can I can attest to that. And that's why we have issued parents as
well. We've issued parents summones for parental responsibility. We're one of the few communities that actually started doing that a few years ago. So, we've had parents that have gotten summones for their children. We we fall into that all the time. There's there are irresponsible parents
that rent Airbnbs for their children to come down to the shore. They do it in every short community. All right. So, is So, is my takeaway from this live with it? It's not live with it. We will do everything within the confines of the law to assist you everything.
Yeah. Chief, will you if you get a get a phone number or something and then he can follow up with the response to some of those questions? Absolutely. I'll be more than happy. All right. Thanks. Thank you. Sam Lashman, Hanover Avenue. Uh, I have two questions. Uh do you know if the
master plan is going to be redone this year? Is it you have timing on that? Roger capital be done in calendar year 2026. It's an a review or the whole plan? Exactly.
Okay. And uh I s think saw something on the agenda about uh I think elevation standards. I don't know if uh that's on uh later and that would be something discussed at the next meeting.
But uh I don't know if the new standards have come up. I was told there uh possibly new maps coming out with the firm data revisions. I don't know if anybody knows about that. Maybe not. Okay.
It's being once and both are coming up. Okay. Thanks. Thank you. Hi, my name is Scott Seagull. I'm at 29 North Decar. Um, dovetailing on what Kathy was talking about. I just want to
say that I think the police did a fantastic job on Sunday and Monday. Um, responded great, moved the kids along, and obviously handled the complaints. The big issue was I think we're really
good at being reactive but not proactive. We've got all those kids moved from Waw Wa which is great because I'm sure whoever owns Waw Wa was just going out of their minds. But now
they're all at the playground. There were 250 kids at the playground marching down Decar and not a police officer in sight. And it's right next door.
I mean, right next door. And I was told we didn't hear anything. Now, I I can't even imagine how they couldn't have heard anything. I'm standing there watching what looked like a riot a week before. There was a gentleman who
was accosted by a group of these kids all hanging out at the at the playground and he ended up pulling a switchblade on them. Now, at first we thought, geez, this guy's nuts. I mean, he's trying to kill kids. And my wife called the police
and they responded really fast, which was great. But now I'm wondering, maybe he just snapped because these kids are insane. Um, but I think something needs to be done with the playground after dark. I mean,
I have I have a proposal for lightning. Fantastic. You know, either that or just lock it up. I mean, it's a hot lot for God's sakes. You can lock it up, but the kids still go there. It's a dark spot. Yeah. I mean, and they all just want to hang there cuz it's dark. And I thought about putting lights on my house to shine over there, but then I thought,
well, then everybody's gonna start yelling at me. So, we're actually getting new cameras at the police department that will go back to that rod as well. and also fantastic. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Scott. Stephen Alman, 9003 Amhurst Avenue.
marketing. Uh in response to Mari's question about uh the water, uh one thing that I didn't hear mentioned here as to what somebody can do if they're concerned, I happened to read that if
you run your water for a period of time prior to using it, that that can eliminate any of the uh um lead or galvanized What are problems? So, I just wanted to get that on the record.
Thank you, Steve. Any more public comment? There a motion to close public comment? Motion. Second. Mayor Collins? Yes. Commissioner Blumberg? Yes. Commissioner Horn? Yes. Is there a motion to adjurnn? Motion. Second. Mayor Collins?
Yes. Commissioner Blumberg? Yes. Commissioner Horn? Yes.