Okay, I'm going to remind everybody that all township council meetings will be audio and video tape and it'll be shown on the township of oceans community cable channel 22 on Verizon bios and channel 77 on cable vision. Can I have a roll call, please? Mayor Natani here. Deputy Mayor Fischer here. Council
member here. Kaplan here. Weinstein here. The notice requirements of the open public meetings act for this meeting have been satisfied and a copy of the annual notice was sent to the Aspbury Park press and coaster post in the town hall and filed in the office of the of the municipal clerk on January 3rd, 2025.
Um, we are going to go over Barry's township matters. Uh, and I'm going to turn that over to our township manager. Mayor, I have nothing to discuss tonight. What? We did everything at the last meeting, right? The last two weeks have been sh
eventful, but nothing to bring up. No, Greg tonight, so I think uh we don't have any updates from him that are different than what he gave two weeks ago. Not two weeks. And he's been on vacation this week. So I can't imagine anything's changed. We are working on
1515 Logan to rise that up to the senator's office. Okay. D, but that's that's the only thing that I have. Do we need to do anything on Cindy Lane as well or is that strictly still that's in
our ball. We have to uh ar Yeah, that's more environmental stuff going on. It's not like we're waiting. Okay. We have to submit a lot of stuff. Um any questions for Dave? He took the words out of my mouth. 1515. Okay. I mean he Yeah, after
I asked you yesterday, I was I got to Did I ask you yesterday? I was thinking about it. I never asked you. It's either yesterday or was it? Yeah, yesterday. Wednesday. Did I bring it up? I don't know. Yes, we talked about it. So, D uh excuse me, um what's his name? Greg mentioned that their time was running out, so they had
to approve it at the last meeting. Oh, that could be cuz uh once it gets to the once the clock runs out on automatically approved, right? So, probably the day before we'll get it. I don't know what that date was. Typical. I don't know off the top of
you. And I do have one. It would have been great, but what the heck? Uh, the light on deal popular and roller. Oh, yeah. Still waiting uh for it to come in. It hasn't arrived. Not to my knowledge. Has not come in yet. They say as soon as it comes in, they'll get it
up. I saw new lights going in on Palmer and Mama's Road. Did you see the ground? Did you see the ground breaking ribbon cutting? Yeah. Yeah. We going to have a ribbon cutting when they put the one in on uh Lincoln over there. South Lincoln. That one's time. So that one need they
really need one. Yeah. Interesting. That one's challenging. They did a mark out on de on Cold Indian and Deal. Okay. Where we've been talking about that light for a long time. That one's coming DT. But there's there's an industrial markout that was just done. I
don't know if you had any updates on that. No, they don't really DT if I don't call them and ask, they don't really tell me anything. So, at this point, Jesse should have sent back the approval of the additional funds and Yeah, cuz there's orange orange paint all over that intersection now. Yeah,
cuz uh someone called the senator's off center's office called me. We're all on the same page now. So, it's back in DOT's hands. All right. And getting various emails on 66 as well as they're getting ready to do that project up there. They've been uh lot of
prep work going on. I don't know what that's going to be when it gets done cuz it's a disaster zone now and I can't even fathom what it's going to look like with a circle up there. It's already a mess. It's backing up. It's got to get better cuz it can't get any worse. Well,
that's what they said about about this with the circle over here in Aspbury. It got worse when they did. Yeah. Since 1920. Well, it'll be good that they widen 66. That'll, you know, alleviate some of the stress. I know we have our own issues
with Deal Road in West Park and I think down the line we have to look at a way to potentially get some space added space for Deal Road. So, uh we can have a little more flow with the traffic. I think down the line that's something that we should
start to consider looking into uh you know ways that we can spread it, get two lanes going each way. It's definitely an issue and it's um you know any of us that live up in Wayside know firsthand that it's gotten progressively worse and
I mean it's just there's more people here and it's nothing to do with you know the town. It's all over the place. What I I agree one of them well I I agree we need to widen we may want to figure out West Park and get the county
to pay for it. If I bled West Park, it's West Park seems a lot harder because things are closer. When you look at when you go up Deal Road, there's clearly I'm no engineer, but it's clear to me that there's enough space to do what you have
to do. Um, but yeah, you're right. West Park would be great, too. Maybe we we talk to uh Tommy and them this I mean, we got three months before his election, four months. So, see if we can lock him in for a while check. Tommy, you hear me? They gave Coleneck 21 million to do
the Tommy. You hear me? Going to ask you. Going to ask you. Um, G, any questions for Dave? No, I'm good. Thank you. Deputy Dog, nothing. Uh, Jeff, no. No questions for Dave. Okay.
Uh, next on the list, we have request of acceptance of Rightway Martelli's signature home. So, we're going to turn it over to you if you could just state your name for the record and uh obviously represent Martelli. I'm Raymond Dunsman representing Martelli Development Group and uh yeah, we were
just trying to we had a resolution. Um I I don't know if they're in front of you. Well, first and foremost, thanks for communicated a lot and um and so yeah, we we basically this has been ongoing. I'll give you a little bit of a a backstory for me is I kind of got
thrust into this as as the problem solver of the group and and so I have you know I've tried to just catch myself as much as possible. This has been ongoing for for many many years now. Are you with Martell? You work for um and so essentially when I got a hold
of it I started to dive in and you know Jesse and I worked very hard on this and it looks like we've we've you know checked pretty much every box except for the the right of way for merit council is pretty much the last one we need in the resolution. So there there there is a check. I don't know if you you know
about the checklist. Yeah, it's on here. I haven't attached this. Yeah. So, um this has been ongoing for several years and for you guys build a beautiful product. I mean, your houses are gorgeous. I mean, I I said that to our attorney earlier. There's uh you know, I
I spoke to the former president of the board uh and I think it's since changed. I don't know who's president of of uh of those homes right now, but there were there were still some items. Now, the only thing I think that we're going to, you know, we want to make sure that
those items are corrected. We don't have our engineer here tonight, so I can't even give you the list. I'm sorry. Yeah. And that was the, you know, that was the the whole thing is we've been I've been trying to get touch with Greg and that's been proven to be difficult. But well, but the manager is going to be calling him Monday if I hear that. Assure you
that'll be done Monday. Yeah. And so through the checklist on everything, I think we've we we've pretty much covered everything except for this part, the acceptance of right away. The only thing, you know, we there's a a curb and sidewalk which is 9200, which will be coming out of that'll immediately come
out of the of what we've given. And then, you know, for the rest of it, it's all, you know, it kind of just falls on on Greg's lap to to make those decisions, kind of inform us of where we need to be. So So David's going to contact Greg on Monday. He's on vacation this week. And then I assure you we will
get an answer as to if what if he has anything left on there that we need to rectify. I think at a minimum he's going to have to go out and do an inspection at the right of way just to make sure for when we accept it we want to make sure the curbs are right, paving right, everything's right. So he's going to have to do that and he'll take a look at what else if there's anything else out
there that needs to be addressed. Perfect. But we'll make sure that gets done in the next couple weeks. Okay. Is there uh is there any followup that I should do other than just really bugging Jesse? You can bug Jess. Okay. We become very good friends. Um, you have a car? I do. Uh, actually I
do not. Um, I can maybe that's fine. Cuz I'll make sure I loop myself in too. So Okay, perfect. I'll send you Thank you, J. C. Can I just ask Kevin or either of you guys? I mean, what are we approving? What's the right
of way? It's the the road, the street. We we we go out and look at it before we accept it as a public rightway because the planning board I I assume from this the planning board said once it's fully complete it will become a public right ofway owned by the public but before we
do that we make sure it's conforms with our requirements you know make sure it's in good condition built right and all all that because once we take it then it's on us to maintain it. Thank you. And and just to just to make sure everybody here knows that I think this
this this was completed in 20 like 15 years ago. Yeah. No, not I think it was maybe five. 22. Well, no. 22 is when we got this job was done I think at 13. 13
or 14. They went into maintenance in 22. 13. It's been a long time. You're right. Cuz I was looking at my house in 16 and looked at the Martell houses that were up. You're right. I didn't realize they were that. Yeah. The delay was the
homeowners association. Correct. And then we had the performance bond which we needed two years. So we let the two years go so that the bond had the bond last which covers that. And now and now we're here. It's been a fight. But and nothing nothing with you guys. Nothing nothing against you guys. It's just they
never had a person in there to do it, so they just kind of Right. And look, I think that that that it's nobody's fault here. It it will with with the residents up there in that development, it'll go a long way if we can settle this, too. We don't want this continuing to go on cuz
I get the calls. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. and everything from that I get every every time Big S walks by my desk, he just So, all right. Yeah, just let him know uh within like uh the manager said within the next couple of weeks. I promise you when Jesse can attest to it,
I will I will I will Yeah. No, just uh if if if need be, just contact her in like two to three weeks. Okay. You know, we got Fourth of July next week, so day off and I'll send Dave all your information. Okay, perfect. Just out of curiosity to compare. Did you close
Oceanport? Is that done? Yes. Yeah. Long answer. And again, just thought I'd throw that out there. I have a good friend of mine in over there. Actually, a couple people like beautiful. Beautiful. We're going to We might We might be done with the uh the uh the
ones in Sunny Eagles now, too. They're beautiful. That's for Mar. Yeah, of course. They're nice. Awesome. Okay. Thank you. Are you guys going to be mad at me if I leave? No. Be happy. We encourage it.
Thank you guys so much. I appreciate it. Absolutely. RJ, it was nice to meet you. It was nice to meet you. Yes, I will be in contact. I know you know I will. Um, all right. Let's uh go around Robin here since Dave anything else, right?
And we have one item for closed that we're going to go in before we go downstairs or couple whatever we got. Uh let's start off with Councilman Sarah. I'm going to pull up Dave Brown. Holy cow. What is going on here? Batting a thousand. See this is why we have to have one meeting. This is why I did it
just to make you guys pressure. You got to have something. I one little one. I just wanted to follow up on the lights around largewood. remember uh lead a carrier email then send it over to PSNG. All right. Okay.
So, soon as he gets back, we'll follow up with him on that. What uh sounds good? So, what lights are we talking about? I think they just don't have any. They wanted more illumination. It's dark like we had with Washington Street. Same thing. Look, it's dark everywhere. Okay. My house and a whole another dark. So,
that's like a secondary thing. A lot of people when I was campaigning mentioned the fact that the lights are out. It's dark or even the lights that are up. We're pretty proactive in getting uh the poll numbers and then getting Are they missing polls or are they are the lights
out? I think they're miss I think both actually. Okay. So, we should probably get in touch with talk to Higgins too cuz we have to we should do a survey. Get all the poll numbers. Turn that in cuz that's separate. Oh, that's great. They want more lights is what I gather they wanted. They wanted more lights. I think they wanted more. So, that means
you got to either change the bowl which then is going to cost more money I believe. Right. or they got to put more poles up which is gonna cost more money. So, can we do a survey of the whole town? Is that like the police do go around and they do?
Okay. Yeah. So, one of those You want to get you and Jose and go Jose Ortiz from JC? Yeah. No, I'm going to let DPW take care of it and and uh Greg. Okay. Once they get everything ready to go, they can forward that into them. All right. Then if it becomes a if it doesn't get
done, then we get then we go ahead. Okay. Okay. Great. You know, because we still have a lot of lights out in town. You know, you guys sent out a link. There was a link that we got from I don't know if it was the police department or OEM out, I think last year. It It does work. I actually did
it. Oh, yeah. There was one out and I did it for my house. Really? Yeah. And it's not difficult to do. You get You're handling us up there. I'm taking care of everything. You're in charge. Can we say that we I would love that. I mean, I just feel
like let people take responsibility. Oh, on my blog. That's what I did. My light is flickering right now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. At some point this weekend, I'll write the number down again. Go on there and there'll be a truck at like 4:00 in the morning waking me up, right? Fixing the light. Whatever works. But can't
have everything, right? You put the link on a website so you can ask. Yeah, I love that. Yeah. Right. They call my sport. Yep. Okay, we'll fix you. Yeah. So, Dave, uh I saw they put some new signs up at Playa Park about the ebikes. Yes, we're putting up more. All
right. So, my question is, um we had gone to the music festival last week after council meeting and three kids came rolling in on their ebikes. And then when uh PD asked these kids to stop, they, you know, may have taken
off. I guess the biggest problem is how do we enforce this at this point? I will talk to the chief about I know it's it's not an easy thing to deal with. Um but I guess you know you hate to have to put teeth to these things but unfortunately
um this this ebike thing is an epidemic and it's not going away. Oh yeah. Yeah. And we just recently had a very bad accident. It's just a matter of time. It's uh these kids are not wearing helmets. It's dangerous as heck. And you know, and then you got them and they're silent. You know, back in the day when
you had a moped, you knew someone was coming. You don't hear these kids. Yeah. I was at stopping shop. I almost got ran over by one. Yeah. I was coming out. Didn't even hear. Went right by me. I was like, I took one more step. You know, when you're driving and you see electric cars now, you don't even know
they're coming. Well, yeah. But at least they're following. They're in the road. So, right. You got to make a right hand turn. I know. There's happening here. Is there something we could do about them on the streets? Forget about the park. Well, they're supposed to follow the regular rules. I just think, you know,
unfortunately, it's Do we ever not? Yes. Yeah. It's just a matter now of I think they were in more of a uh proactive notification warning. I think now it's almost time to flip the notepad over and start going into ticket mode or
whatever. But but I'll speak to the chief about it because I think in our ordinance it says something about taking it away if it happens more than once. You know, I know if they're 14 or younger, you take it, call the parents, right? And get them to come and get it. Yeah. The other thing, Dave, I wanted to
talk about was these rickshaws. Um I know like if you go to like Ocean City, Maryland, Rahobit Beach, places like that, they actually do license these people. There is some sort of permitting fee. Um it's just kind of a gypsy type of business, you know, in that sense that anybody, you know, can come down
with this type of thing. Um they are dangerous also because now they're taking up a little bit more room on the roads that are already dangerous. But um I think that's also another potential for some big problems. I did speak with the chief about this and unfortunately there is no special rule that they have
to just follow the same traffic rules as everybody else. There's no way to regulate it. But from a township standpoint, we could when you say license, like a business license. It could be a business license type of thing. Um, if anything, it just makes people conform to some sort of, you
know, rules. I have no problems with it. I just don't want, you know, most of them are through specific companies that do it. So, they Yeah, I'm sure there's money in it. It's just a matter of, you know, I don't know if any other towns are regulating these. Here, I'll take a look.
very specific population regulation. They they have they got or Yeah. Are you talking about like um like golf carts or not golf carts like uh you know those the guys back like a bike taxi? Yeah. I think you're they bring them through there's a
business operating in town so you make them get a business license who have a merkantile license. Yep. That's what I would recommend. Put put the you know show the insurance they have. Yeah, you can't ban them. That's a good idea. Have them make Yeah. I mean, even if they were just have insurance, it would make it just a little bit more legitimate for
me. Safer for the occupants. Sure. No, good point. And also that they're following, you know, they got lights on, they got triangles on the back, you know, cuz I know you drive up on some of these like Amish buggies, you know, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, you got to treat that like a stop car because you could take that thing right out, you
know. Are they do you know if they're based here based in town or they just I think they like I have all their phone numbers they're it a lot of the sphartic Jewish population uses it when they can't drive on the Sabbath so they go in
them in the summertime to get from one place to another the elderly or young you said you do have the number so I have like phone numbers for you forward them to me yeah okay there you go that will help us too how Dave's going to work from now Thanks, dude.
Oh, I should say which day you talking about. You You're up the street. It's easy for you. Pass them all the time on Norwood. Yeah, sure you do. Ocean, too. There's a lot of them. It's environmentally. They're on Norwood. That's dangerous. Usually Friday night.
Yeah. Damn. But yeah, they're legitimate companies that also do driving services usually. Stephanie, mayor, you got anything? That's it. Okay. Uh Dave, we already had you. Uh Jesse, you got anything? No. Jeff on the phone? Jeff? Oh, yeah. I
forgot about him. Sorry, Jeff. Um hey Dave, first want to say thanks for working with me on the budget for uh the Sha Tree Commission. So working with you on how to finalize some of that. Thanks for helping me with that. Okay. Appreciate it. Um, also worked a little bit with Dave
on next steps for some economic development things, some meetings that we might want to have and and some discussions around FIFA 26. So, we had some discussions around that. Um, and Dave, I was just wondering, did you ever get back to the topology guys to kind of confirm that we'll have something before
the 10th? Yeah, that's what it's looking like right now. Okay. They said they were going to do their best to get it to us before the council meeting. Okay, good. Jeff, are you at the shade tree? Are you guys discussing the shade tree
ordinance and any potential I mean we've discussed the shade tree ordinance for quite some time. I know there were some concerns from some people. I don't know if there if you guys are talking about that or not. Um that hasn't been brought up. Um I don't believe we've been we haven't been
talking about that lately. I think the thing we were talk about more was um uh getting our plan together before the end of the year with the with our consultant and then also kind of just understanding how much budget we have right now to be able to plant some trees. Okay. But um
is there is there an item that you thought you wanted me to kind of bring up to them? Um, I think there were some concerns about the fees for the trees and how much we charge compared to other towns.
Um, I'm not I know I if I'm not mistaken, I think Long Branch just updated theirs. They're similar to us, but I think the fees might be a little less than the I believe it's 750 a tree if I'm not
mistaken on there. Did we just Did we just vote Did we just update that, though? Yep. Couple years ago. It's been a couple years. All right. Well, I'll I'll bring it up in our next meeting. Yeah. Just see if there's any concerns and then we can discuss. You guys can discuss if need be. But have you heard
have you heard people complaining about our our how much we're charging for that? Is that that part of it? A couple of developers have contacted me about it. Um, I got a uh, you know, another request the other day about it to just
look at it again, maybe compare to the surrounding towns. Um, honestly, the tree guys uh, haven't contacted me, so things must be be must be okay if they're not calling me to complain on Sundays. Yeah. So, they're, you know,
they haven't really they haven't really reached out. So, I'm not if I'm not hearing from them, it's more so the developers now, I think. Okay. All right. All right. I'll check in on the next I'll u I'll ask um Julia for that uh info and find out where it's
at. And that company that I met with in regard to uh the meeting, I need you guys to have you, Ed, and potentially Julia to go over that. I uh believe it was uh
plant-based uh some sort of fundraising that they had. So once they get back to me, I'll give you guys the contact and then you guys can, you know, pick their brain a bit. They sound like they had a good idea on fundraising for various
organizations where a percentage of the donation gets donated back for tree planting. I thought it was a pretty good idea. Something, you know, we haven't really seen before. Yep. All right. Okay. Oh. Um, yeah, John, I did want to tell you that I did speak to Ed about
organizing that meeting in the industrial park. Okay. The industrial area. So, he's he's on he's just trying to get some dates together on I gave you I gave you the names. I I gave you the names up there, right? They're the ones that um I reached out to that would be
interested like uh Mazerie from CVU uh and some of the newer businesses up there. Probably would even have Burke also. I can reach out to Jason um you know just to get their I think that that's a good idea to get that meeting
going and seeing you know what we can do up in that industrial zone. Yeah, I think Ed was just trying to get some dates in place that work and then he was going to start trying to then we were going to start reaching out to everybody. Okay, perfect. Okay, thanks. Y Hey Jeff, on on the topic of budget,
did we get a number on how much we have to plant? Well, um the uh one of the things I just want to kind of do a couple of things. one is so Dave then did gave us a number that right now in the shade tree commit in the shade tree fund there's something
like $70,000 left right now um that we have but uh Dave and you could correct me if I'm wrong that there's a fair amount of that money that's used to the maintenance of existing trees right correct um which which Dave is you know
just trying to figure out how much he can allocate towards that and then whatever gets left over we'll have for planting But right now, we're thinking it's probably like $20,000 between now and the end of the year that we could um spend to plant some trees.
So, maybe I'm confused. Just let's use Ocean Commons and the fact that they cut down a thousand trees and had to pay for every one. Where's all that money? It either went into their escrow or into
the shade tree fund cuz that was that was a redevelopment thing. I don't know the functioning of that because don't they when they do that Jesse it comes back into their redevelopment agreement or redevelopment escro only if it's or was it paid straight into the shade tree
paid straight into so it should be in there now so how do we only have 70,000 we we bought vehicles um equipment we took down some emergency trees you you would need a whole cuz you're saying only 70 but you need to take a
look at what was what was in there at the various times on how it was spent. You need a full picture. You're getting the balance right now today. I I I just thought it was used for trees. It's not. No, it's used for anything around the shade trees,
maintenance, is all in the ordinance. It's used for maintenance, uh, pruning, taking down dangerous trees. So, when Bill Brooks is out there and we we get a bunch of these calls every day. Hey, there's a tree hanging. It's about to hit my house. I had three last week about it. We come out there, if it's
dead, it's got to come down. Funds come out of that out of the shade tree funds to help take them down. And and pardon me, we don't charge the homeowner. Can't It's our tree. It's It's on our property. It's the rightway trees coming in, you
know, whatever, you know, or hanging over the street getting ready to fall. We've had one fall actually. We just had one up by us in Wayside. we got a call was uh a few months ago and you know they had Bill had to go out there you know another another thing that had to be fixed
um but it's I the way Dave explained it to me with the ordinance you know I had the same questions about it um similar the similar to the open space trust fund you know you have to take care of the open space and with us with the trees same thing now they're talking about I think I
think we might have bought a water truck so we can water So once we plant them, they won't die on us and things. So all of that stuff is in in there. Interesting. Okay. Thank you. Absolutely. Very good. Jesse, you got
anything? No. Okay. We have one person out in the audience. Any questions, comments, concerns? None. All right. Just want to say thank you. All right. Um do I have a mo? We don't have anything else. Right. You want to close session so we can go over that? Yeah.
It's after six. Yeah. Um motion to go into close session. So moved. Second. Second. Roll call. All in favor? I oppose. I Good job. Close session.
You're welcome. Going to remind everybody that all regular township of council meetings will be audio and videotaped. They'll be shown on the township of oceans community cable channel 22 on Verizon Fios and channel 77 on cable vision. Can I have a roll call, please? Mayor Natani here. Deputy
Mayor Fischer here. Council member Zachera here. Kaplan here. Weinstein here. Can we please stand for a pledge of allegiance and remain standing as we do a silent prayer? 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. We'll do a moment of silent prayer. Uh we just lost one of our uh really uh good community members. Pat Irvin passed away last week. So um you
know, here's the Pat and Bevon. You may be seated. The notice requirements of the open public meetings act for this meeting have been satisfied and a copy of the annual notice was sent to the Asbury Park Press and the coaster posted in town hall and filed in the office of the
municipal clerk on January 3rd, 2025. There are two emergency exits to my right that'll take you to the front of the building and there's one to my left that'll take you to the rear. Please make sure all your cell phones are turned off. If you need to make a call, kindly step outside, make the call. Um,
we are going to start off with council comments and I will start down at the end with Deputy Mayor Dave Fiser. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, it's my annual PSA, but uh, this one I'd like to drive home a little bit. Uh, once again, the traffic has increased as the summer months have
come by. But, uh, I'm actually very concerned about bike safety. Uh, I've seen a lot of kids out there not wearing their helmets. I know the police department just gave away a bunch of helmets last week, which was wonderful. But um I'm very concerned about these ebikes. I've been concerned about these
things since day one. Um we don't hear you. You don't make noise like old the old mopeds do. And I want everybody parents especially to understand they've got to tell their kids a you've got to wear your helmets. B you've got to follow the traffic rules. And that goes for everybody in the community. You
know, you have to share the road, but you have to also be cognizant that there are cars and trucks on these roads. Also, uh if a driver can't see you, there's a good chance that uh you you know they're not going to see you. So, be very careful out there. Uh signs went up in Playa Park, uh banning the ebikes.
So, uh I just want to reiterate to everyone in town that there is no ebikes in POA Park at this time. Uh I'm done off my soap box there, but I do want to say something else. The mayor's wellness council is having the pass uh punt, pass, and pick it event this Sunday. It
is a soldout event. Super Bowl champion Kenny Picket will be there. Uh, so I want to thank Mike Rutrico from Parks and Wreck and Coach King from the high school for their dedication to putting this together and also to the Irving family condolences and the Picket family condolences on the loss of your mom.
Thanks. Thank you, Deputy Mayor, Councilwoman Kaplan. Just again to echo what the deputy mayor said, we had a bike safety event this past Sunday. Um it was rained out and we hope to do another one in the fall. So keep an eye out for that. But um that event was
really helpful in teaching your kids how to ride a bike. So that's good for young kids and something to keep in mind uh for the fall. But also just be careful um during these summer months. Thank you. Thank you. Uh Councilman Sarah, I'm going to pass. No
report. I I uh Councilman Weinstein. Um thank you, Mayor. Um this uh this fall Greenfest is going to be part of Fall Fest this year. So it's going to be a separate section dedicated to Greenfest. So
I want to just thank Jrom volunteering to help us out with this. And also just want to thank Nancy Erlick and uh Da Asani for stepping up and taking the lead on events like this and also Jack M who's uh helped in putting that together. So I just want to thank
all of them. Um just a little public announcement on this. We are looking for three more volunteers to help with Greenfest. So, if you're interested, um, contact me and I'll put you in touch with the right people. Thank you. Anything else? Nope, that's it. Okie dokie. And our manager, Dave
Brown. Thanks, Mayor. I just want to send my condolences to Kelly and her family as well. And then next week is the 4th of July. So, I want to make sure that everyone is having a fun, enjoyable Fourth of July, but make sure it is a
safe one. Thank you. Thank you. Um, just a couple things. First of all, I want to remind everybody that on uh July 2nd, we will have our annual fireworks display in Joe Playa Park, which is always a fantastic event. So, please make sure you get out there and see the fireworks
this year. It's going to be a lot of fun. um they really throw a fantastic event and uh you know we're very excited about that. We have our Heroes United event being held on July 23rd that's going to be at bar anticipation. Uh we
are honoring some very special people this year. We have fire chief from one massa Brian Paradin, fire inspector Nick Simons, Sergeant Raheem Carter, patrol officers Christopher Stanger and Joseph Lkins. uh they saved a child in
Middlebrook back in October. Those four men uh really went through a harrowing event by saving this child and um I really want to thank them and and honor them. We're also honoring our clerk Jesse Joseph. We're honoring director
Tracy Burkowitz and our tax collector Susie Healey. Uh we are also honoring two members of uh which partners of the community. We have Moraurice Sakaria from Paramount Homes and Paramount Reality and we have Robbie Silverstein
from uh Middlebrook and they are partners with the community and we really appreciate that. So July 23rd, if you need any information, please contact uh Jen Nordstrom and she will be able to get you that information. And I believe that's all I have. Um I'm
going to open it up for council comments. I mean for uh public comment. Um, if you have any, all matters listed on the consent agenda are considered routine by the township of council and will be enacted by one motion in the form listed below. There will be no separate discussion of these items. If
discussion is desired on any item, that item will be considered separately. The purpose of the public portion is to solely ask questions to understand resolutions that appear on the agenda and is not an occasion for a public hearing on an ordinance. All questions not related to an item on the agenda should be asked during the public
comment portion at the conclusion of the meeting. So, if you have any questions in regard to the consent agenda, please step up to the microphone, state your name and address for the record. Seeing here, none, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? So moved.
Second. Second. Roll call. Rob, the chair. Ready? I'm ready. All right. Resolution three. I no resolution four A and B no resolution 5 A and B no
resolution 6 A B and C no perfect thank you Fisher yes Kaplan yes yes Naplani yes uh individual action
vouchers in the amount of $1,389,815.37 please offer I'll offer to approve the vouchers. Second. Second. Roll call. Aera. Yes. Fisher. Yes. Kaplan. Yes. Weinstein. Yes. And Nutent. Yes. Ordinances up for
adoption. Ordinance number 259, which is an ordinance amending and supplementing chapter uh 16 of the revised general ordinances of the township of ocean 1965 entitled Parks and Playground section 16-5.6 rental fees.
Someone please open public discussion on ordinance 259. Like to make a motion to open the public hearing on ordinance 259. Second. Second. Roll call. Aera. Yes. Fisher. Yes. Capital. Yes. Weinstein. Yes. Natleani. Yes. Anyone
wishing to be heard on ordinance 259, please step up to the microphone. State your name and address for the record. Seeing here none, do I have a motion to close public comment on ordinance 259? I'd like to make a motion to close the public hearing on ordinance 259. Second.
Second. Roll call. Aera. Yes. Fisher. Yes. Kaplan. Yes. Weinstein. Yes. Naplan. Yes. Action on ordinance 259. Like to move to adopt ordinance 259 and publish according to law. Second. Second. Roll call. Aera. Yes. Fisher.
Yes. Kaplan. Yes. Weinstein. Yeah. Napan. Yes. That ordinance has passed. Ordinance 2510, an ordinance amending chapter 12 of the revised general ordinances of the township of motion 1965 entitled traffic
subsection 12-11.1 speed limit designated. Someone please open public discussion on ordinance 2510. I'd like to make a motion to open the public hearing on ordinance 2510. Second. Second. Roll call. Achara. Yes. Fisher. Yes. Kaplan. Yes. Wininstein.
Yes. Natalani. Yes. Um, anyone wishing to be heard on ordinance 2510? Please step up to the microphone. State your name and address for the record. Seeing here none, do I have a motion to close public discussion on ordinance 2510. Like to make a motion to close the public hearing on ordinance 2510.
Second. Second. Roll call. Aera. Yes. Bisher. Yes. Kaplan. Yes. Weinstein. Yes. Naplei. Yes. Action on ordinance 2510. I'd like to move to adopt ordinance 2510 and publish according to law. Second. Second. Roll call. Aera.
Yes. Fisher. Yes. Kaplan. Yes. Weinstein. Yes. Naplei. Yes. That ordinance passes. Ordinance 2511, an ordinance amending and supplementing chapter 5 of the revised general ordinances of the township of ocean 1965 entitled licenses section 5-9 filming.
Someone please open public discussion on ordinance 2511. Like to make a motion to open the public hearing on ordinance 2511. Second. Second. Roll call. Aera. Yes. Fisher. Yes. Kaplan. Yes. Weinstein. Yes. Nepo. Neolatani. Sec. Yes. Anyone wishing to be heard on
ordinance 2511. Please step up to the microphone. State your name and address for the record. Um just because not everybody has the pages of the agenda. Um, is it possible that
you can just in terms uh in layman's terms, it's getting ahead of the game with Netflix so that we are poised for fees and other things that we could potentially be asked for from studios and such. So, we're just trying
to get ahead of the game. Okay. Anything else? Okay. Um, ordinance 2511. Uh, do I have a motion to close public discussion on ordinance 2511? I'd like to make a motion to close the public hearing on ordinance 2511. Second. Second. Roll call. Aera. Yes. Fisher.
Yes. Kaplan. Yes. Weinstein. Yes. Neatani. Yes. That ordinance passes. Introductions to ordinance 2512 which is an ordinance amending chapter 10 of the revised general ordinances of the township of ocean 1965 entitled regulations for handling garbage
recyclables vegetative waste and bulk trash section 10-6.4 leaves and section 10-6.5 grass soil side thatch and brush. Someone please introduce ordinance 2512. Like to move to introduce ordinance
2512. Second. Second. Roll call. Aera. Yes. Fisher. Yes. Taplan. Yes. Weinstein. Yes. Yes. That ordinance will have its public hearing on the 10th of July. Ordinance 2513, which is an ordinance authorizing the enforcement of
subtitle one, title 39 of the revised statutes of the state of New Jersey, to be applied to the property owned by 3200 Sunset Commons LLC designated on the township's tax maps as block 137, lot 23, also known as 3200 Sunset Avenue in
the Township of Ocean, amending and supplementing chapter 12 of the revised general ordinances of the Township of Ocean 1965 entitled traffic. Someone please open uh I mean someone please introduce ordinance 2513. Like to move to introduce ordinance 2513. Second.
Second. Roll call. Aera. Yes. Fisher. Yes. Kaplan. Yes. Weinstein. Yes. Nepotani. Yes. That too will have its public hearing on the 10th of July. Ordinance 2514, which is bond ordinance providing for capital improvements in the acquisition of various capital
vehicles and equipment appropriating 2,680,000 therefore and authorizing the issuance of 2,551,600 in bonds and notes to finance a portion of the cost thereof authorized in and by the town of Ocean County of Mammoth. Someone please introduce ordinance 2514.
Like to move to introduce ordinance 2514. Second. Second. Roll call. Aura. Yes. Fisher. Yes. Kaplan. Yes. Weinstein. Yes. Nepotleen. Yes. That too will have its public hearing on the 10th of July. Ordinance 2515 which is an ordinance amending chapter 12 traffic of
the revised general ordinances of the town of ocean 1965 prohibiting parking along portions of Larchwood Avenue. Someone please introduce ordinance 2515. I'd like to move to introduce ordinance 2515. Second. Second. Roll call. Aera. Yes. Fisher. Yes. Taplan. Yes.
Weinstein. Yes. Nutani. Yes. That too will have its public hearing on the 10th of July. And the final ordinance for tonight introduced is 2516, which is an ordinance amending ordinance number 2338 entitled an ordinance fixing salaries and compensation of certain offices,
positions, and employees in the town of a motion. Someone please introduce ordinance 2516. I'd like to move to introduce ordinance 2516. Second. Second. Roll call. Aera. Yes. Fisher. Yes. Kaplan. Yes. Weinstein. Yes. Napani. Yes. That too will have its
public hearing on the 10th of July. Uh we will open it up for public comment. Anyone wishing to be heard anything germanine to the tricotion, please step up to the microphone. State your name and address for the record. Alex wanted to bring up. Um thank you for
trying to or maybe possibly attempting to regulate cost. That's a great idea. Um I do think of an accident every time I see them. So thank you. Um ticket
will show you on my phone here 20 minutes ago. An ebike passed me. No helmet and I took a picture of it. I'm not on the person so I was your son. It was not my son. that she would have put I told police
officers in town if you see him without a helmet please ticket him maybe the first I don't think there's tickets um may I suggest however um signs not just maybe throughout town at some of our key streets okay
wondering hold on Alex Please pause. Did you text me, Tom? [Music] That's okay. I don't need to repeat myself, I'm assuming, but let the record reflect um loudly that I was
complimentary in the beginning of this conversation. Um uh I'm wondering how ticket sales are for the July 3rd event. You mentioned it. Um um and I I think I mentioned this last year, just wondering why we didn't pick an Ocean Township location. We have lots of awesome places in town for what was
that? For the um July 23rd charity event. Uh we were looking for a bigger venue and we don't have it. And we were also looking at making it more affordable because that was also the complaint in the past. So this is way more affordable than a country club. Okay. Um
Okay. So, on the agenda it says, at least in the 5:30 agenda, it says um various township matters update. I've I've mentioned this before. Nobody knows what that means. It's very blanket statement. Um it's like right after you guys call the order, the meeting to
order, and then when you guys all do your individual departments, like sometimes it's the engineer, sometimes it's you. Um nobody knows what y'all are talking about unless you are physically watching the meeting. But that brings me to my point about the minutes. Once again, it is so exhausting to try to
figure out what's going on in this town um when you're a busy working person without having to watch meetings, read agendas, um uh read 150 pages of an agenda, read minutes. Um, so I think it was like two
or three meetings ago, um, I missed and then somebody on Facebook posted, "Oh, the township, um, did eminent domain for Orchard Plaza." And I was like, "They did? I don't know if that's true or not." Eminent domain. Yeah. So, I went
online to try to find that and other people wrote, "It's in the coaster. The story is in the coaster, but if you don't get the coaster within a certain amount of time, you miss it. They take them all away and they do not post all articles in the poster online. So, if
there was anything about Orchard Plaza, I have no idea if you did in fact do Eminent domain or not, if you even discussed it or if you voted on it. Um, because unfortunately it's not in the minutes. Um, I checked the minutes this evening.
Um, and yeah, feel free to tell me about Worship Plaza because I still don't know. You want to get the last Wait, how many more do you have? You have five, right? This is the last one. It's all one. Um, I checked the minutes beforehand. There are zero workshop minutes posted online
for 2025. There are only two u posted for the regular session from January. The law states within a reasonable amount of time. I feel like this is a broken record that I'm constantly asking for minutes. Um, I'm sure it's not
purposeful. It's giving the push button. Push. There's a blue battery. I'm giving the impression that the town does not want to notify residents of what's going on. Mrs. Joseph is
extremely busy. I don't think there's enough hours of the day for her to do everything she needs to do. See, she's even the audiovisisual tech tonight. Um, I firmly believe she probably doesn't have enough time to do the minutes if
she's still doing them. Why can't you all hire somebody to transcribe the minutes, the meeting minutes, so that Miss Joseph doesn't have to do them so that in accordance with the law, you can post minutes in a reasonable amount of time. Um,
that's it. You weren't approving any minutes tonight that I saw. So I'm assuming we are still about 7 months late on any minutes. So uh Orchard Plaza the council did not do anything as it relates to Orchard Plaza goes to the
planning board first. They took action on a report Monday night um that they did designate it as an area in need of redevelopment. They put also put in their condemnation based on the report from topology. Um it they recommended it to be it it's
it's no it's it's a tool in the toolbox for them to potentially do that. They don't it they don't have we don't have to take any action. It's just so that we have the ability to sit there and have you know the ability to do something with Orchard Plaza. It's been a major
complaint of people so of residents. Um they have now voted Monday and I believe by August if the report will come to us so that we then can take action as a council on Monday for what? I'm sorry they voted on the report for area need a
redevelopment with potential condemnation and in August you will be voting on potential. We we didn't even get anything from the planning board yet. So I'm going to defer to the attorney. Yeah. No no there's not going to be a vote in August on condemnation. No, there's uh there was a vote by the
planning board to declare it an area needed redevelopment. Um that was approved. That designation came with the option for condemnation, which means that if the governing body here uh adopts that recommendation to
designate an area needed of redevelopment with a condemnation option, that at some point, if the governing body chooses to do so, it could exercise the right of eminent domain. But that is not um something that's going to be done in August uh by
any means. You know, if it comes up in August, which I think it probably will, it's simply to adopt the planning board's recommendation. But they can't have two votes at the same. They can't adopt the resolution from the planning board and then vote for the same meeting. Correct.
Theoretically, yes, but it won't it's not going to happen. No. question, but why are we not doing? She's in the process of training the assistant clerk right now to get that done. So, they'll be out in a timely manner.
Okay. Six months is a timely manner for everybody. No, Alex, if you ever need copies of the coaster, we always have them in town hall. We have months back. Yeah. So he can come look the coasters. Thank you for that. You're welcome.
Motion to adjurnn. So move. Second. Second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Thank you. Have a great night. See you at the Fourth of July festivities. Fourth of July.