Yes, sir. All right. Let's just remind everybody that all township council meetings with audio and video tape, they'll be shown on our Township of Oceans Community Cable channel, channel 22 on Verizon Fios, channel 77 on cable vision. Can I have a roll call, please? Mayor Neplatani here. Council member Kaplan
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3rd, 2025. Let's start off with our township engineer for our projects. Okay. Hello everybody. The 23 row program, we are in the state with the final change order and we also had the final assessments. Jesse and I did that Tuesday night with all the residents. I
think it was four or five showed up. Was pretty, you know, they didn't understand how we calculated things and once we explained it to them, everybody left. Not happy, but understanding and well, and they did go down a few bucks. Yes. And then the assessments actually went down from our estimates because the prices came in a little cheaper.
That's great. So, but everybody was pretty happy with it. The 24 program, we received bids uh Wednesday. Wednesday. And I think those Yes, sir. Yeah. Yes, sir. that we're going to try to award that at your Tuesday night meeting that you have a council meeting
there because they weren't everything wasn't ready for tonight. You mean for the 2024 plans? That's what you got the bids for? Yes. Uh the 25 program were in the middle surveying all the roads. Uh Kwell Park, we received our um permit for JCP cut
the power off. We're just waiting for freehold soils and then that building will be coming down probably the next month or so. um fireman's pond dredging that we started that we went to lower the um raised the gate the slle gate only to
find out that it was broken and then we we our public works guys didn't have the ability to do it so we called the county and county came in and worked on got the top half of the slle gate off and we found out that somebody cement blocked the wall behind the slle gate so there
is no emergency overflow there but they poked a hole in It's draining. The problem that I had is is they they didn't want to change take out the bottom with half of the slle gate because it's very difficult for them. But um the choices were they they actually punched a hole in the top
of where the slle gate was. But that leaves 4t of water in the pond that isn't dewatering everything. So it's leaving the sediment very wet. So the choices are to dredge it wet, which we have nowhere to put it. So it would have to sit in a pond of dewater for several weeks if not longer. But I'm looking
into a dewatering machine. They have those. They're pretty much standard in the wastewater industry, but they also have them for things like this. So, I'm going to compare that to cost of what it's going to cost us more money with the county if we have to deal with wet dredging versus renting this machine and
processing the dirt and transporting it dry. Who put the cement there? Don't know. But it wasn't a nice thing. But that is the one concern I have is I don't we're going to have to probably discuss how we want to leave it because right now, you know, we would probably just bolt the SLE gate back on and there
is no low flow there. So the next time somebody does this, they're going to find out the same thing we did in 20 years. Greg, what's um I think there's a little discrepancy on what the total cost is on just this one project, not the all three of them.
The fireman's pot. No, we fixed it all. That's we did get it fixed. Well, we we were looking for that grant, right? Yeah, we found the money. That's the one that was in Sage. Yep. No, but um I I think the CFO had a number and I I thought it was higher
than what we had estimated from what when we were speaking. I Oh, I remember this is we were driving when we drove down to make that visit. I can't remember. He came up with I I believe it was a million eight, but that pond is not a million eight. No,
not even close. No, it was the that I think was county gave us a great deal on on the trucking and the and the carting of the Yeah, that was never that because we always knew this dirt was going to right um the leaf compost. The millionaire was the one this fireman I mean it's lollipop.
Oh, okay. All right. So now because we have nowhere to put that on this project we've got the cost from the county and you know whatever the stone was and yeah right now I think our cost is if the county was to do everything they were at 132,000 right the stone is at
30,000 right now we need more stone though right didn't we depending on how this gets dewatered okay so that that's where we stand right now we're at about 165,000 plus you know engineering costs and everything else so I mean, going forward, but we're Yeah.
Whatever this machine costs, too, that's going to be But we got a half a million from the legislature, so we should be in pretty good shape for this project. Really good shape. Okay, perfect. And I think the grants that we got for Lollipop cut the knees out of, you know,
at least half of that bill. So, obviously, we're trying to dewater and it's going to probably fill up pretty good come Sunday, Monday into Tuesday, right, with this. No, you'd be surprised even the rain we got yesterday because we do have it. You know, there's an outlet to where the level is, the water comes in slowly. It'll go right
out. It goes right out. Okay. It's just it's not dewatering the 4t that I need to get dewatered. Okay. It's essentially cleaning the water out to where the top surface of the pond is or the dirt. So, um the truck will the the dewatering machine will take care of that, but is
there any fix that they're going to take that cement out? Can they get it out or no? Well, that's what we do not want to try to get it out. Okay. So that be the type of thing we'd have to ask somebody like a Jason Burke to come in and I mean they can definitely do that, you know, just go in there and muscle it out, boom, and hit it. But the problem is then we got to
fix what's there because we would have to then put a new control valve on that. So the question now while we're there, do we do this since we might have a little extra money based upon the fact that the county did
help us? Do we So So you where I'm at and see where it all lands first. Okay. Yeah. Um, see what this machine costs and everything cuz you're right. If we're there, if we're there, we might open at least see what it costs to do like the tree trimming and everything else to make this thing look nice and,
you know, show people what we're doing. You know, 20 years later, they won't have that problem, right? But let's let's see. Maybe there'll be another problem in 20, but we won't be here to even see it. So, I think the thing we might Jesse might be gone by 20 years. You
guys alone agree. What we want to do is we're going to we're going to get the value of what it's going to cost us to dewater with this machine, right? And if then we're going to evaluate that how much it would cost to go punch a hole down in the bottom of that thing, let it dewater naturally and put a new
control valve in on front of this lleate, right? And that's just a matter of a screw valve. So, it's not going to be super expensive, but it is going to cost money to go down and take that wall out. So, we'll just evaluate the two and then we decide whether we do for the future or we do for now because I mean right now we're looking
at just dewatering leaving the valve the way it is, you know, with just a solid block wall. Right now, will we ever need to have that fixed? I mean, I'm just trying to think ahead. I don't want to again Oh, absolutely. It would be it would make sense to do it now when we're there.
Yeah. All right. So, who we get are we getting prices from Burke on that? I will. I haven't talked to it yet. Perfect. because the lake's lower. If you do it later once once that permit expires, then you got to go get another. Do it now. I don't want to kick the can if we if we don't have
Yeah. So, we'll get prices in next month. We should have a much better idea where we're going. Awesome. Yeah. Okay. Um Lollipop revising the plans for D. We're going to be submitting those back in with that island. Terrace Pond, we're just waiting for things to wash
out with funding. Snell's pond is on hold. 1515 Logan, we I've sent the stuff to Kevin regarding the conditions of, you know, the things for the sale of this property. Um, but we have to I guess the council has to kind of decide how you
want to move forward with this. Do we want to advertise this? Do we want to get a auctioneer? I mean, there's all sorts of been things been thrown around, but it's to the point where you guys got to decide which way you want to maybe both ways. I don't know. I mean, but it has to we're kind of on that spot now where to move it. You guys have to decide.
I mean, I I don't have a problem doing the auction. I mean, I spoke to Gareth Follow about it. You know, he did it down in uh Manchester multiple times. He was a strong proponent of it. What's the benefit of an auction compared to I didn't think there was much, but um
from what Billy told me, he said that uh you open it's not like here it opens it up to you. Auctioneers have the ability to pull in other people and the buyer pays the bid for whatever their, you
know, their commissions. Um, I spoke with somebody with an auction piece recently within the last couple of weeks and they got a higher dollar than they figured. I always thought people would bid lower because
they got to pay the other 10 points, but apparently that's not the case. I was wrong. Is this is this a is this a real auction or is it like he's just soliciting people to come in? No. It's a real auction. It's that day we you know we set an opening bid and a minimum bid.
Yeah. Minimum bid. Go from there. Does that hurt not having like somebody who's maybe more of a strategic buyer for something invited to it too. Tell everybody locally. I mean, I would recommend we tell everybody we know that's in the area
because those guys know the area, but these guys coming from outside for more money like the mayor sign because you never know what you're going to get. You never know for six lots. That's those are the conditions we're going to work out with Kevin is I put down it has to be six lots. It can't be
reconsolidated and we're going to tell them where all the permits are. Mhm. Um, one thing I want to talk to you about, I would recommend I didn't get the soil erosion permit or the county permit yet, just because I didn't know how these guys wanted to move with what they, you know, cuz some guys may come in and say we're going to buy it, build
the first two houses on the corner, don't have to build the road yet, and then we'll go for all those other things. But I think my suggestion at this point was since we're going to look at auctioning it is let me file for the soil erosion permit the county permit. Those will be in process probably get them within 60 days kind of coincide
right when we get this auction in place. Okay. Do we have anybody who's been kicking the tires a little bit already for this thing piece of property? They know it's out there. Nobody's been real serious though. It's just just hey what's the story? Early on it was,
but then it took the EP forever to get so people kind of kind of went away. They're just waiting now. Yeah. Because I feel like the momentum has gotten away a little bit. Exactly. You know. Yeah. Started every Oh, let's go. Yeah. I know there's a lot of people looking for property because they competition's pretty heavy to find something.
Scarce. That's So it's six It's six lots. How much is it? Half acre or something like that or I think they're 30,000. So they're like 3/4 of an acre. 3/4 of an acre. 3/4 of an acre. Nice size. I'd have to double check that, but I think they were. That's a big lot.
Yeah, they're they're nice lots. I mean, they're going to be You build homes. Yeah. I think they might come in a little higher than we thought. Well, we could use the money. Okay. Um, large wood lighting, we heard
back after six weeks. Dave actually heard back. He back to Dave. Um, after waiting to get a price out of them, they recommend that I submit application to the main office in Ohio to get the price. six weeks for them to tell you that and they weren't even going to I've been asking him they wouldn't answer me and
Dave actually right sent him a memo when he answered back saying but so that was kind of a kick in the teeth it's wasted six weeks um and that of course is you know just going to back up Saxony because we were going to do larchwood first large was the easy one it's just a replacement but
sax is going to be new lights and we got to put extra poles in and we are getting there was another person that male emailed the mayor and copying me. Um they were on I forget the name. They want us to put lights look at lights on there. So it's kind of Is that the one I forwarded you?
Yes, that's I spoke to him the other day. Yeah. So I I decided forward to the set. Yeah. It's going to start catching momentum, I think, when people see there's their streets are dark also. Yeah. Yeah. So it's going to be important to get the price for that first one to let everybody know this is what cost it cost then that it needs to be paid for by
Well, that's what I think you have to decide. I mean, I would recommend if you're going to do this and make an assessment district out of it because it's no different than if a builder would have built them and put the lights in. It would have been part of their house, right? So, I think u that would probably be the best way to handle it. Then what happens? Does everyone have to
agree? Well, that's what Yeah, I guess you'd have probably the 50% rule maybe or whatever you guys want to decide and you probably want the majority of people to agree with it because some people are going to say, "I don't want all that light in the front of my house." Right? Well, that's the irony. you know, all of a sudden we all want lighting.
But then when it's in front of your house and it's beaming through your window and you're trying to sleep, you're like, "That was a bad idea," you know, and the problem is it's going the impact it's going to be, it's like stadium effect. It's not the light won't go through the window, but the you can see the light. Yeah. So, everybody's going to think it's
coming through the window, but it's going to light the streets up for no question. So, and it's it would be tough to kind of go down the street and put one here and not put one there because these people don't want it to be hodgepodges. It would be tough. Some of the areas of town are dark. There's no getting around it. Well, that's really been the way things
have been going the last 20 years is that, you know, the energy green and all that is the lights are only being put in at main intersections where the road hits the county road and at intersections in a subdivision. We just had one on um Park Avenue subdivision, but we denied their lighting plan because that's what they
had. They had one out on large woods and one at the end of the culde-sac and we denied that knowing what's coming and we made them put lights all the way down so they've got a two foot foot candle light pattern through that whole street so that we don't go through this on that street. Right. We should probably develop some sort of uniform rule. This is how it's
going to go for I think it already is in the ordinance. We just got to inform the planning board we want to enforce it now, right? Because it's you know the lighting because like I say it's just been the way things have been going lately. But we want to go the other way now, right? from for safety reasons really, you know, and since it's all LED
lighting, it saves the energy also, right? So, I think that's the way we should. But I I'll send a memo to Colleen, tell her that's kind of what we're council looking for. And whose job is it to determine when the lights are out? Is that PD? Do they drive around and report these things or is it people reporting it?
Congo of everybody. Mhm. I mean, does DPW drive around? Look, there inspectors are out there. The thing is not too many people are night. kind of majority falls on PD if they have the time to do it and things of that nature. But yeah, the way we what I've done in the
past when I get a lot of complaints in area, I ask the chief to have his nighttime guys ride the area and let me know what the poll numbers are. They're out and then we put a memo into the the guy JCP and get them fixed. And residents can actually do it themselves. Yes. Right. It would be good to get that information out. Got mine fixed.
I think it's been out a couple of times. How though? Um, it came through Nixl one time. When's the last time Nix before? You could report to JCPNL. Yeah, I would love to get that out. Get the number. Go on the website. This is how you do it.
And like two weeks later, they came and fix maybe the website, township website. I know this came from the Nix. I'll talk to Tracy. Yeah, I think it is on. But let's take a look. Maybe we can put it somewhere or just tell people, hey, post it. more of an issue now is it's
getting darker earlier and you're going to have daylight savings get darker a lot earlier and suddenly people notice yeah if you notice something it's an easy fix here it is you don't need to sit and wait for somebody else to do it does work by the way I actually did it for my across the street it they don't
get there tomorrow but they get there weeks and they come like 4:00 in the morning weird time right it's always 3 or 4:00 in the morning but they fixed you ask. So, Greg, on that on that one, do you want me to copy you on a thread? Do you
want me to just get back to the guy and say somebody's looking into it? Like, what do you do? Yeah, you can just say we're looking into the lighting on the street, but it's going to kind of, you know, we'll give them the same thing. Our plan is is we're doing Larchwood Saxing and then he would be the third road, you know. Do you want me to give him that? Yeah, if you would. Okay. Great. Just say we're we have a procedure. We're
doing list one first and we'll put you on the list and analyze when we get back. Okay. Y Okay. Um the next uh two things are the stream cleaning. We're going to be starting that in January, so we can skip those. Uh emergency work on Deal Road. We're
having a problem getting the piping for that Sunset where the barrels still are just a little west of 35 on the south side of Sunset front of Burks property. But as soon as it comes in, we'll get that in. Um road openings for paved roads. We have two more on cattle that
would one guy already did it and got caught so he has to pump. He opened the He opened it up without Yeah. authoriz. How do you open a road up without The gas company did it? Really? Yeah. I think I guess excavator and open the road. Yeah.
Just really. So now what's our recourse as a town? We're going to make him pave the 200. He's going to do it. Yeah. Good. Curve to curve. And we got another guy that wants to do it. Can we Scott, can we look into some sort
of, you know, maybe an ordinance of like some other than just paving it, maybe a fine involved with it as well. I know we're getting, you know, our road fixed, but honestly, I I you know, I know it's expensive, but still there should be a fine. I mean,
this is ridiculous. Yeah. Who opened the road up? Him or the gas company? Question. We could do that. He asked the gas company to do it. If anybody's against So why is he why is he so why is he a funny thing like I think it's comical that it's he went
out with a he's the one to Oh I see. I see. It's one thing taking char. He's just hoping that we do this because the reason he's pushing this and willing to do it is because he's not getting a seal for his house.
Nope. So that's the the catch. But if he got the CO, he would he'd say, "I'm not paying that no matter what you do to me." So can you revoke a CO? We haven't. We We are because of this. Yes.
Interesting. Oh, wow. So those two will get the bond estimates from them and when those are all posted, you guys have to prove it and then we'll let them go. Those we may have a problem with the season. They probably won't let them pave until the spring at this point because by the time they get it all
done. So, we'll probably let them put the connection in once we have the money. Just a question while we're talking about seasonality. What's the date or around what time of year are you done with the paving for the season? Because normally it stand November, but it's a
function of weather. I mean, if we get a warm winter, we like five years ago, we paved through the whole winter. Really? Don't and they didn't close the They didn't close it. Really? They didn't close it. I don't think it got below 40. Wow. In the daytime that one. We got no snow. It stayed warm. It got cold at night,
but if you pave during the day when the sun's out. Really? Okay. So, they the plants usually close sometime December. Plants whatever they do. Right. Right. Okay. I thought they automatically I didn't realize they would. Yeah. Yeah. It's nice when they don't because especially the concrete work definitely.
They plant in Florida now. Yeah. I thought they shut the plant down for maintenance and stuff like that. They they'll keep it open if it's warm. If it's warm and there's enough people Well, if it's warm, there's enough people that will vape. Yeah. Be made. Okay. And uh the light that that deal and
popular, this was a Rob question. Oh, yeah. That it's missing the left turn lane, the left turn arrow going westbound on deal onto roller. So, I in contact with the contractor. What does missing mean? It the head would not change to have a left turn arrow.
Like, oh, no. Just it has to be changed. Has to be checked. Yeah. And that one was not changed. The other ones were all changed. Those left turn arrows are in for the other three directions. Yeah. And they left that one off for some reason. Nice. So the first response was it wasn't required. It's like no, it was required. So I'll talk. So it's being reordered.
I have to talk to Maurice about it. Okay. But we'll work it out. Okay. It looked like they were hooked it up, right? It looks like it's ready to go. Yeah, they're Yeah, they're just they're just blacked out. It's ready to go. Yes. Great. Yeah. And the other one was uh Lotus was that
guy's email. Lotus court with the lighting and paving. Yeah. The rating of that road is a 47. So that's you're looking at 3 to four years out. Okay. Before that, hey, good news, bad news. You're on the list. Bad news. No, not for a while. Thanks.
But just to give you a reference, I mean, he's at ranked 47. The roads we're doing now are ranked at 15 16 and we've got four pages of roads before we can get to them. That was the last email I sent you. Crazy. Unless we somehow get magical revenue
coming in and we can expand the road program. We're going to revitalize you at 35, man. Come on, Jeff. Dave, just so we can make sure that this is correct because I guess we'll discuss more, but I want to make sure that we increase that road program like we said
we were supposed to this year. That's why I said I said it jokingly, but you had said it online and Jeeoff and I just talked about it the other day. I believe that was one of my things around this time. I said, "Let's add it in and then add it in again next year because we're behind." Yeah. And those are the majority of our
complaints for everybody in the room. I was saying we're catching up though. Yeah. No, I catch I think it's been great. It's, you know, 5 years ago and we were Yeah. Well, we're responsive too and we're 25. We're getting ready to start the 24 program. So we're we're getting there.
Well, when I say behind I mean I mean we were like what three four years ago at least. Yeah. We we had probably four open at the time. But we need we need additional funds infused
because we're at the same levels that we were prior to everything going through the roof. Yeah. So, if we want to stay like at least trying to catch up because you know the way Greg explained it to me, we have a 25-y year road program that now
is could be 50 years and if we add the money and we can get caught up quicker and I know the my complaints have gone down a little bit. Um they're not as as many but you know we're still getting that's people's biggest thing. Yeah. The roads that's why we have to focus on revenue streams.
Yep. just the 25 program will go out a little sooner this year because we did get the TTF grant but we did a combined grant with um deal okay for Rosel Avenue I'm going to run that project through deal
so through the engineer both I'll run it through them because let them pay all the engineering costs well no we still the costs are still the same but what happens is the DOT makes us include the TTF road in the road program and this year they didn't improve approve popular Avenue until the
last week of September. So that's why the bids didn't go out until the first week of October. Getting the TTF thing out of there, I can bid these roads in May and they'll be done before the summer. So that helps us all out for 25 will be done a lot sooner.
I have a question for you. Do you feel that the quality of the material that we're using now is good for 25 years? I feel as if as I walked around the town, the roads that have been redone in the last 10, 15 years seem to
starting to show some wear and tear. Like they're starting to get into some and I'm just wondering is is the quality of the material the same? Is it better? Is it worse? It just depends on the weather. Craig, you got any openings up there? I know, right?
Well, as I walk the town, as I walk, you know, you are correct. The material that the state is specking in and the plants are using is not of the same caliber of 10, 15 years ago. Wow. It was it was a better material. Well, look, honestly, is anything built
the same way? It was. Yeah. Throw away TV done to compensate for that. 15 like say 10 years ago and older when we did a row program we would mill out an inch and a half and pave an inch and a half and that lasted 25 years. The material when used this material here
was lasting 10 to 12 starting to ravel a little bit in spots. Not the whole road but in spots mostly like the wheel tracks. So we've changed to 2-in mill pave and that seems to have compensated pretty decently for the better wear and tear. Yeah. I mean I just there's roads I walk
around like this is a pretty new road you know relatively new and I'm like 10 12 years old. Yeah. You know, and just in general, the surface doesn't look as nice as the old style pavement. It was just a smoother, glassier look before. This is more of like an almost an open graded look a little bit, a little rougher.
But that's just the state spec and that's what the plants are making. Now, you know, yeah, it's almost I hate to say it's almost like they're creating a business because it doesn't last as long, right? It gives them more business in 10 years. A throwaway society, you know? It's like they'll make it last forever. You have to get a new one. It's like iPhones.
Yes. Like 2-y old refrigerator. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's all I have. Any questions? Thank you. Nope. Fisher. Um any time frame on that new traffic
light over by uh um Cold Indian and uh still I don't have a time frame. I know this it's all in the States hands. Yeah. Oh, we were out with them the other day was Monday and you know they're they're ready to go. They there was some confusion on
them getting our documents, but we sent it to them waiting for them to send it back to us. So, I think all of that has been unraveled. So, it should start to move. Okay. Was there anything to share about the what happened at the WMS on Sunset Avenue or is that not anything to talk
about yet? On Sunset, what are you what are you referring to? Crosswalks and things like that. Is that Oh, no. That's different top. Different top. Different top. Yeah. Yeah. That's the complete streets which uh Tracy and I attended a complete streets webinar yesterday afternoon via
zoom and Dave you did that up in Roseville right in Bradley Beach. Bradley Beach. Yeah. So much familiar what what our next step is to meet with that group and then go apply for a grant from uh from the state and it goes into sustainable
Jersey points as well. And then what they come out and do is a walkable audit. In the meantime, we're going to do what we can do immediately. So, Greg's coming up with a plan. Um, the chief's got his folks out there and DPW is fixing things that can be fixed so
that we can get things going immediately, but the long term is to get the complete streets and, you know, check, you know, paint the um the bicycle lane different color, all that good stuff. Do they audit the whole town or just that area? Just that section because you can't plot
for the whole town. We could do section by section by section that section how it goes. That's a prime section because it has a school, it has a business district, right? U so everything is there. Um so it's right for a for that type of grant. Great. Did you get a chance to check out the
storm drains on West Park that? Yes, I did. U those the the drains themselves are owned by the county. The pipes do go into the school property and I talked to public works. We're going to get those televised. Okay. Make sure. But the county said that they
did it. DPW guys said that the county is there on a regular basis cleaning those out the sediment out of the inlets. But we're going to TV those lines probably next week. Okay. Is that something that can be dug out if it's, you know, on the is that a board of ed issue? They can
Yeah. Well, if if it's we have a jetting jet truck, we can actually clean the lines out when that'll be the next thing we do. Okay. If we find them clogged, we'll jet them out. Yeah. Okay. Good. Councilman Weinstein. Nope. Good. Dave, do you have report uh for here or
enclosed? Both. One quick one here. Okay. Already sent it out to you via email. That's the proposed ordinance that's going to show up at next council meeting where the chief uh was looking at and I agree with him with the uh to penalize
the illegal sale of the cannabis and the um and toxic uh hemp products. So that'll be back to you uh in the format we we using in the city of Elizabeth as a uh that's so we can take action on the places that sell
the stuff that Stabola brought in that night that was the stop to the night that doesn't come from the state I guess you know it's crazy that it's municipal thing right I mean why is it okay that you can write hey Dave you can write that legislation
going to write this one because it's developing policy director. Good stuff. It seems it seems he seems he seems right. You I I don't like to do this often, but you seem right on this, which is like
you warm my heart. You g I mean, they gave the ability to do it, but not the penalty to do it illegally. Right. Seems developing. Why can't you go to Neptune and buy whatever and you can't, you know, it's ridiculous. Yeah, eventually it'll catch on. Um, one
of the other things too now, now on a whole different quick topic because I don't want to burn up the time here, but we all know the league's coming up. Um, and I just took check the process because I'm actually on the league's committee where we approve the resolutions that go through to change legislation.
These are two things, two resolutions that probably should go up, but I found out that I can't do it. It has to come from an elected official. Oh, so let's so we could we could so guide us. Well, yeah. That's what I'm saying. I think this is a great opportunity for an ebike and now Yep.
You're doing an ebike thing, right? Yes. Dave, just guide us. We'll sign whatever you need, you know, get the stuff done. All right. November 13th, which is for sure. We have I hate the idea of the town smelling like well just walking around safety.
Yeah. Well, this thing too is any kids can go in there and buy it. That's my concern. It's disturbing. Yeah. Yeah, man. We have uh to go on a close session. If we finish, we can come out. If there's any additional work session stuff, we can do it. So, motion to go into close session. I'll move.
Second. Second. All in favor? I oppose. I need you. You ready, ma? Just want to remind everybody that all township council meetings will will be audio and videotaped and they'll be shown on the Township of Oceans Community Cable,
channel, channel 22, on Verizon FiOS, and channel 77 on cable vision. Can I have a roll call, please? Mayor Neutani here. Deputy Mayor Fischer here. Council members Kaplan here. Weinstein here. Uh, can everyone please stand as we do 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. Please remain. Stand.
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 co was sent to the Asbury Park Press in 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 another one to my left that'll take you to the rear. Please make sure all your cell phones are turned off and if you need to make a call, kindly step outside. Let's start down at the end with deputy mayor Dave Fiser for council comments.
Thank you, mayor. I just wanted to uh let the uh public know that uh the mayor and myself uh with the traffic committee took a ride around town on Monday with the uh police department, the state DOT director himself, our state senator, and our OEM chauffeer Tom Rue. Thank you for
that. Um it was a very, very interesting ride around town. We went to all of the choke points, the parts of towns that um really are challenging as uh the town continues to grow. Um but I think the biggest point, the takeaway from this entire um experiences are that we have
the ear of the state DOT and I think this is a good step forward. We can start, you know, working building, you know, on this. But we understand that we have traffic issues, but now we've got the state involved and there's some money that we're hoping, you know, hopefully going to try to get. But I
think it's a good first step and I do want to thank the mayor for uh pushing that. That was a very uh and of course our state senator, but I really believe that this is a really important uh for the future of Ocean Township. I I think we were extremely fortunate to get the
commissioner to come down here and, you know, take a ride along because they in Trenton really when you got out there and and I have to really thank Todd Gregory because he really explained it. every choke point including this the
Asbury circle that honestly was designed very poorly for traffic flow and I think Todd explained it you know very well to the commissioner and you know again we we went there we went to the next light
we went up to uh you know an idea of putting a light where Orchard Plaza is to open that up as well um so there's a lot of you know it's a lot of good stuff so totally appreciate uh Senator her go pal for setting that up for us uh along with the assembly women. So, thanks for
coming along, Dave. Anything else? Yeah, just one last thing. Um recently, uh a township resident, Jules Resnik, passed away. And uh Jules was one of our last World War II veterans. And if anybody knew Jules, he was a very interesting guy. He could tell you
stories forever, but uh I really believe that a jewel of Ocean Township had passed away. So, condolences to the Resnik family and uh you will be missed, Jules. Thank you. Thank you. you know, Councilwoman Kaplan. Um, two things. First of all, I just want to thank um our recck department
and everybody that helped with Fall Fest this past weekend. It was really a nice uh event to be at and to see all of our residents who who attended. Um it was a great event and I look forward to to it again next year. Um the second thing is um and I just thought of this. We we
talked about it a bit um at the upstairs meeting, but um we are going to publicize how to if you have a broken light in your town, how to how residents can go about um contacting JCPNL to get them fixed. Um so be on the lookout for
that uh possibly on our website. Thanks. Great. Thank you, Councilman Weinstein. Thanks, Mayor. I have a few things. Um, first I wanted to uh just piggyback off of um of Gita on the um on the fall fest. Uh part of fall fest this year was
also Greenfest and Greenfest was something that uh we missed out on in April and the green team kind of put this uh put this whole thing together and it was a nice little section around around everything that you wanted to know about green and so it was a great uh great exhibition. I think that's we're going to be looking to see about
doing that in the future. Um on the 16th we were we had our first meeting in September in September 16th around our community forestry management plan which was led by Ted from Sterling Consultants. So we had roughly about 20 25 people from different groups um
across the town u residents and people on commissions and different organizations within the town on coming up with our forestry plan. So that was that was good. Um uh on the economic development side, we've had a lot of good conversations around efforts we have around Route 35.
Um I've had conversations with uh Dave Brown about some of the next steps we want to take. Had some conversations with Tom Arnon and we're kind of pulling some plans together on what some of the next steps are to figure out actions that we should take. Um, I'm working
with the uh Greater Ocean Chamber of Commerce uh for this October for us to have a uh a workshop for artificial intelligence for small businesses and how AI can help small businesses be uh be productive. So, we're going to be working on that. So, I'm working with uh
Regina from from their organization. And the last part is on 10:19 um inside at Wall Township tower tunnel to towers is having a run and a walk five mile run and a 5m walk and uh I'm
going to be running so anybody wants to run with me. My wife's going to be walking if anybody wants to walk with her. Um truth be told if she's really walking fast sometimes she can run faster than me. So um but uh it should be a nice day. It's on the 19th in Wall Township and I think if you go to my
Facebook page, you can see the uh that invitation. Thanks, Mayor. Great. Thank you, Brown. Mayor, very quickly, but not lightly, I just want to congratulate uh Mike Patrico on attaining the title of
assistant director of the Department of Public Works. Uh it's welld deserved. I truly believe this young man is going to be uh one of our rising stars here in the township of Ocean and he's definitely the future and just want to congratulate Mike and if anybody sees Mike along the way just just pat him on
the back and give him a congratulations. Thank you. Thank you Dave. Congratulations to Mike. Great job. Uh definitely a major asset to the community and what he's done with recreation. So uh I think he's got real good real good future ahead. Uh, I just want to remind everybody that the
mayor's annual charity golf tournament will be held on October 27th at Deal Golf and Country Club. Uh, there are still forsomes available. Please contact myself or the women's club. That's what the money will be going for. Um, all
matters listed under the consent agenda are considered routine by the township 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 comments portion at the conclusion of the meeting. Are there any questions from the public? Please stand up. State
your name and address for the record. Seeing here, none, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? I'll I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. I'll second. Roll call. I'm all confused. Fisher. Yes.
Kaplan? Yes. Weinstein? Yes. Napani? Yes. Individual action vouchers in the amount of 11,481,95.86. Someone please offer. I'll offer that. Second. Second. Roll call. Fisher. Yes. Kaplan. Yes. Weinstein. Yes.
Mutani. Yes. We have two ordinances up for adoption. We have an ordinance amending chapter 3, the revised general ordinances of the township of ocean 1965 entitled general police regulations to create a new section 3-2
to be entitled peace and good order. Can someone please open public discussion on ordinance 2519? I'll move to open public discussion on ordinance 2519. Second. Second. Roll call. Fischer, yes. Kaplan, yes. Wininstein, yes. Nepanni,
yes. Uh, since there is no questions, anyone wishing to be heard? Seeing here none, do I have a motion to close public comment on ordinance 2519? I'll move to close public comment on ordinance 2519.
Second. Second. Roll call. Fisher. Yes. Kaplan, yes. Weinstein, yes. And yes. Action on ordinance 2519. I'll move to adopt ordinance 25/19 and publish according to law. Second. Second. Roll call. Fisher.
Yes. Kaplan. Yes. Wininstein. Yes. Lieutenant. Yes. That ordinance passes. Ordinance 2520, which is an ordinance authorizing the acceptance of a public roadway known as Bentley Lane. Someone please open public discussion on ordinance 2520.
I'll move to open public discussion on ordinance 2520. Second. Second. Roll call. Fisher. Yes. Kaplan. Yes. Weinstein. Yes. Neutani. Yes. Anyone wishing to be heard on ordinance 2520, 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 2520? I'll move to close public discussion on ordinance 2520. Second. Second. Roll call. Fisher. Yes. Kaplan, yes. We action on ordinance 2520.
I'll move to adopt ordinance 2520 and publish according to law. Second. Second. Roll call. Fisher. Yes. Taplan. Yes. Wininstein. Yes. Matt Lutan, yes. That ordinance also passes. Introductions to ordinance 2521, which is an ordinance amending and
supplementing ordinance 2343 entitled an ordinance amending the revised general ordinances of the township of ocean 1965 relating to personnel policies, practices, and procedures. Article 10 equipment and supplies section X-7 cell phone policy.
Someone please introduce ordinance 2521. I move to introduce ordinance 2521. Second. Second. Roll call. Fisher. Yes. Kaplan. Yes. Weinstein. Yes. That ordinance will have its hearing on November 13th. We will open
it up for public comment. Anyone wishing to be heard, please step up to the microphone, state your name and address for the record. Seeing here none, do I have a motion to close the meeting? Second. I'll second. Roll call. Fisher. Yes.
Kaplan Weinstein. Yes. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you everyone for attending tonight.