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Part 1 (Video ID: HOETmF95atU):
- 00:00:00: Meeting Call to Order, Pledge, and Attendance
- 00:00:53: King County Presents Grant for July 4th Drone Show
- 00:03:52: Pride Month Proclamation, Mayor's Report: Projects Update
- 00:06:55: Public Comment (Agenda Items Only): Alan Rtor
- 00:06:55: Public Comment (Agenda Items Only): Donna Saber
- 00:07:10: Council Reports: Memorial Day Children of American Revolution
- 00:08:30: Council Reports: Business Person Plunge Tomorrow
- 00:09:02: Approving Minutes and Commercial Vehicle Parking Ordinance
- 00:11:07: Second Reading: Exceeding Municipal Budget Appropriation Limits
- 00:13:19: Resolution to Delay Municipal Budget Adoption to June
- 00:15:55: Public Comment (Budget): Dave Spangler
- 00:16:50: Consent Agenda, Pending & New Business, Public Comment Introduction
- 00:18:05: Public Comment: Alan Richtor, Boardwalk Subcommittee Update
- 00:18:22: Public Comment: Donna Saber, Wonderland Carousel Condition
- 00:20:27: Public Comment: Greg Siri, Concerns About Verizon Tower
- 00:25:53: Public Comment: Rick Flounders, Verizon Tower Location
- 00:30:30: Public Comment: Linda Sriani, Verizon Tower Precedent Concerns
- 00:32:01: Public Comment: Matt Diggins, Assistance Against Verizon Tower


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All right, we'll call to order the council meeting of Thursday, May 21st, 26. Start with the pledge of allegiance and moment of silence. 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

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justice for all. >> Bow your heads, please, for a moment of silence. >> Amen. >> Hey, Mr. Madden, >> here. >> Mr. Barnes here, >> Mr. Pini here, >> Mr. Hartzell here, >> Mr. Lchuck here, >> Mr. Winsow here, >> Mr. Crowley

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>> here. Adequate notice of this meeting has been given pursuant to public law 1975, chapter 231. >> Get the meeting going. All the money we send down to the county, Jay, they came up here to give us some back. So, Bobby, you want to come up? >> Do that first.

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>> Finally, we're back to give you some money. The mayor's only been asking me for four years. and we are here. But no, in all seriousness, the county of King undertook an initiative to help celebrate America's 250th uh

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anniversary, which is coming up this July 4th. And we wanted our municipalities, each of them, to celebrate the 4th of July and the 250th anniversary in a big big way as part of uh President Trump's initiative. So to

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that end, uh, municipalities were asked to apply for up to $25,000 in grant money, which I am pleased to say Ocean City has been awarded the full $25,000 for, as you know, drone shows on the

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boardwalk that will occur uh during a series of Monday nights, I understand, on the boardwalk. Uh, and we are pleased to present that check TO YOU TONIGHT. AND THERE YOU CAN'T have put an extra zero on there.

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No, we want to thank the county. We've been working great with them and I do I have to tease them. We sent a lot of money down the county. So, it's really nice to get some of it back. So, of course, this is not enough. We'll be back. I'm ready. I know. Get used to me.

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>> Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. >> Thank you, Bobby. >> I'm sorry. >> Oh, Don wants a photo there. >> Let's get a photo. >> Mr. Bar, it's good to have you back

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>> in the side of the podium. >> Oh, yeah. >> I thought just send Jay up there. You can see it. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> You don't have a good All right. Thank you to the county. I

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also want to put in the record a proclamation recognizing June 2026 as Pride Month in Ocean City, New Jersey. We'll move to uh reports. Mayor. >> Yeah, I'll be I will be brief. Um, we've decided this week with the demolition of the police station, we're going to hold

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off till after Labor Day once we start looking at with the time and and how we just got to be careful with all the neighbors and um just with this time of the summer. So, we'll we're still going to take advantage of all the parking that we can over there. So, that'll start after Labor Day and everything's going good with that. Uh we still have

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some we're closing down a few projects down there. I don't really need to get into too much of it, but on 31st Street and West, uh once it settles, the uh asphalt sells over the summertime, we'll be back in the fall to make that look nice again. Um beach replenishments out

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the bid, so we'll find out when the timeline when that's going to happen. Um tonight, resolution on another pump station between 18th and 26th Street. So, we uh ask you for that. And then again on Memorial Day this weekend, uh we're unlocking the ocean at noon on

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Saturday. Uh or we're doing that we're doing that on Friday, aren't we? Um anyway, uh the beach memorial challenge for 31 Heroes is Saturday. And on Veterans Day, we have um our service at 11:00. Uh I think at 10:00 down at 35th

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Street at the Little Lake Field, they're going to be doing something too. And then I just again just to real quick is you know obviously we had a incident on our beach this week and I just want to remind everybody you know it's uh first of all our thoughts and prayers go out to the family but you know you hear

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about rip tides you hear about all kinds of things and I just when it's beautiful out and people come from different areas and they they get to Ocean City and they realize sometimes the ocean water is at different temperatures but it's just it just takes as a reminder that we educate and we talk to our family and friends

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is, you know, the ocean is can be uh dangerous at times and it doesn't it can be beautifully calm out, but then underneath with the currents and all that kind of stuff. So, we did talk to the family and we said we were going to at least mention that if we can do anything with this instant this week is we can educate our family and friends

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when they come on the beach. You know, we can have all the security and we can do everything. It just some things um you know, but I just uh thinking about the family. It's been a rough week for him and I want to thank Frank and the chief and everybody uh for taking care

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of the family and for all the Coast Guard. I mean, it has been a one uh long week and uh but uh we're still still uh searching and uh but again, just using this for education when you go on the beach is, you know, it's it's just things can happen so quick and it's just

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uh whatever we can do. Education is a big thing. That's all I have. Thank you. >> Thanks, Mayor. Appreciate it. With that, we'll go out to citizen comment. Our first citizen comment is on agenda meeting items only. We will have another public comment where it's open forum. So, Alan Rtor, >> uh, open forum.

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>> Okay. Thanks, Alan. Donna Saber. >> Okay. Thanks, Donna. We'll get to you. Um, report city council. David, >> I just wanted to mention to follow up for the ceremonies uh for Memorial Day

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on on Monday. There's an organization in New Jersey called the uh children of the American Revolution and they recognize a lot of the children that are descendants of folks that fought in the Revolutionary War. I happen to be one of them. My ancestors way way way back.

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>> You fought I should have fought the revolution, but I'm not I was a little I'm a little bit young for that. But they're they have, you know, in conjunction with America 250, they're going to be dedicating a plaque down at Memorial Field recognizing all the folks that participated in the Revolutionary

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War right off the coast of New Jersey. And supposedly there was up to 10 battles right in Great Egg Harbor Bay. And back then when the Revolution came out, there wasn't enough boats to really defend the country. So they had these

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things or these people that had private post they called uh private uh private private or p I'm sorry patriot privateeers and they they the government enlisted them to use their boats to help defend the country. So we're going to

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put there's going to be a plaque out there commemorating uh all the folks that fought in the revolutionary war you know and defended our our coast. So it' be a real nice celebration in conjunction with the day service. >> Thanks Dave. >> Great. Thanks, Dave. Jody,

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>> just Memorial Day weekend. Uh, tomorrow, rain or shine is the business person plunge. Everybody should come whether you have a business or not. It's a great event, and you know, it's a little hard to get people there when the weather's not being called for the greatest. So, just no matter what, you're going to get

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wet anyway. Just show up and uh and and root on the businesses and a good summer. Tomorrow's the kickoff. So, 11:30, but 12:00 is when everybody runs in the water. So, just get there 11:30, get wet, have fun, make the most of it. See you tomorrow. >> Good, sir. Thank you, >> Keith. Sean,

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>> nothing. >> Tone. >> Nothing. >> Peter, >> no reports. >> Okay, I'm good. Um, can I have a motion to approve the regular city council meeting minutes of Thursday, May 7th? >> Move. Winslow. >> Second. >> Mr. Madden. >> Yes. >> Mr. Barnes? Yes. >> Mr. Pchini? Yes. >> Mr. Hartzel? >> Yes. >> Mr. Love?

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>> Yes. >> Mr. Winslow? Yes. >> Mr. Crowley? >> Yes. We have a couple ordinances on the agenda tonight. The first uh ordinance is 2607. Can I have a motion to introduce 2607 on first? >> Second. >> Mr. Madden. >> Yes. >> Mr. Barnes. Yes.

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>> Mr. Pchini. Yes. >> Mr. Hartzell. Yes. >> Mr. Lovechuk. Yes. >> Mr. Winslow. >> Yes. >> Mr. Crowley. >> Yes. >> 2607. An ordinance of the city of Ocean City, County of Kate May, and state of New Jersey amending the municipal code to prohibit the parking of commercial

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vehicles adjacent to municipal playgrounds and recreation fields. >> Good evening, council. This probably sounds familiar because earlier this year, you adopted a different version of this ordinance to pro to pro I'm sorry, prohibit construction vehicles from

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parking in these areas. This ordinance is to make it clear that it's not just construction vehicles, it's all commercial vehicles. And there's a definition of commercial vehicles in here. Um, so it's very clear hopefully to the police department who can and cannot park immediately adjacent to a playground. And that doesn't mean across

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the street from the playground. It means along the curb line of a playground or field maintained by the city or the board of ed. And it also throws in some exemptions for city city trucks that are working on the playground, expedited

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loading and unloading of supplies at a playground, emergency vehicles at a playground, and maintenance or repair work at a at a playground. So, this is the first reading. We'll bring it back to you if it's introduced tonight at at the next meeting. >> Okay. Thank you, Daddy. Um, any questions from councel?

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>> Okay. Seeing none, can I have a motion to adopt 2607 on first reading? >> So, moved. >> Second, Winslow. Mr. Madden, yes. Mr. Barnes, Mr. Pchini, yes. Mr. Hartzell, yes. >> Mr. Lovech, >> Mr. Winslow, yes. >> Mr. Crowley, >> yes. Uh, second reading of public

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hearing will be held on Thursday, June 11th at 6 p.m. and will be published according to law. >> Uh, our second one tonight is the second reading. So, it's ordinance 2604. Have a motion to take up 2604 on second reading. >> So, moved. >> Second.

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>> Mr. Madden. Yes. >> Mr. Barnes. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pchini. Yes. Mr. Hartsaw. Yes. >> Mr. Lovechuk. Yes. Mr. Winslow. Yes. >> Mr. Crowley. >> Yes. >> 2604. An ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits and to establish a cap bank per NJSA 48

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col4-45.14 for calendar year 2026. >> Thank you, Melissa. Good evening, city council, members of the public. Um, I have an update that I'm going to share about the budget which is next on the agenda. um which is uh that we're not

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unfortunately going to be able to adopt the budget tonight uh due to the state procedure that hung us up a little bit. But in the meantime, if you're okay with it, we can still keep this ordinance on track. As you know, this ordinance coincides with the budget. Um it is to exceed um the cap bank, which the state

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signed a 2% cost of living uh this year. This ordinance allows us to go up to three and a half% um which will keep our budget compliant and also allow us to bank any of the excess to be available for the next couple years budgets uh should we need it going forward. Um so we can keep this ordinance on track even

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though um we're going to be looking to delay the the budget by a meeting. Uh and like I said, I'll get into a further explanation on that. But any questions on this ordinance, please let me know. >> Thank you. >> All right. Anyone have any questions? All right. Since it is a second reading, we will go out to public or public

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comment on 2604 only. Anyone? Okay. Seeing none and no questions, guys. All right. Can I have a motion to adopt 2604 on second reading? >> So moved. >> Second.

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>> Mr. Madden? >> Yes. >> Mr. Barnes? Yes. >> Mr. Pchini? >> Yes. >> Mr. Herzel? Yes. >> Mr. Lovech? Yes. >> Mr. Winslow? Yes. >> Mr. Crowley? >> Yes. Um, which brings us to our non-consent agenda. Um, the resolution adopting the 26 2026 municipal budget.

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Frank, >> thank you, Terry. Um, as I just alluded to, um, unfortunately, uh, we're going to have to delay the adoption of the budget by one more meeting tonight. Um, every year the state reviews a third of

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the budgets in the state, uh, the up at the division of local government services and you can't adopt your budget until they've done until they've completed their review process. And what they're doing is looking at all the budget line items. They're looking at compliance with the statutes. They're

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looking at our annual financial statement. They're comparing everything. and they're asking questions if they see deviations in revenues and appropriations, grants, new items of revenue, things of that nature. It's a relatively routine procedure, but they're inundated right now with everybody adopting their budgets at the

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same time of the year right now. And unfortunately, they didn't get to ours in time. Um, in the other years that we are not under state review, I as the CFO certify that I've reviewed the budget and you do a a complimentary resolution

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on tonight's agenda that would allow the CFO to certify the budget, but we happen to be state review um this year. Um, accompanying tonight's uh resolution uh

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as an addition uh kind of uh midweek, we put another resolution on to ask for your uh consideration for a temporary emergency budget, which takes us up to 75% of last year's appropriations that'll allow us to continue to pay bills in the next couple weeks until we get to the first meeting in June. Um

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otherwise, there's really no ramifications to a delay of one more meeting. uh the tax rates don't get struck until July anyway. So, we're going to be fine with every other piece of compliance that um associates with the budget. Um we still have to have the

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public uh hearing tonight because it's been advertised. So, any members of the public can get up and comment on the budget. Um but after there after public comment, I'm going to ask you for a motion to table the budget till June 11th. um at which time we'll have this budget will come back again for second

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reading and adoption and we'll have another public hearing. So, I apologize for this uh inconvenience. Um there's nothing I could do about it, but uh like I said, it really doesn't hold us up much other than bringing the budget back uh again at one more meeting in June.

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So, I appreciate your uh understanding and consideration of this. >> Guys, any questions before Frank? >> Nope. >> Any questions? >> Okay. >> Thanks, Frank. >> Um All right. Like Frank said, um we will go out to public comment even though we are going to make a motion to table this uh for this evening. So

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anyone >> Dave Spangler 50. So to be clear, >> you can address the chair, sir. Oh, >> so to be clear, the increase that they're asking for is the the short of it is does that imply

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tax increase or is that just excess reserve fund covering existing revenues that are in hand? Like if you kept the tax rate the same collected revenues, does this 3.5% proposed increase in budget is already covered or does it require additional

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tax revenue to cover? No, nothing will I'm frank. I'll Nothing will change to what's already being proposed other than the date that we're going to adopt it. >> Okay. >> So, there's no increases. There's no um everything that's been given out and and publicized is that's what we're going to go with.

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>> Okay. >> There'll be no changes. >> All right. >> All right. Thank you. >> Anyone else on um the budget for 2026? >> Okay. Seeing none, can I have a motion to table until June 11th? >> Move. Barnes second.

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>> Second Winslow. >> Mr. Madden. >> Yes. >> Mr. Barnes. Yes. >> Mr. Pulchini. Yes. >> Mr. Bartzell. >> Yes. >> Mr. Love. Yes. >> Mr. Winslow. >> Mr. Crowley. >> Yes. >> Uh going to the consent agenda. All resolutions listed on the consent agenda are considered to be routine in nature

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and will be enacted by one motion. If the mayor or any council person wishes a particular resolution to be considered separately, it'll be removed from the agenda. Do I have anything to be removed? Mayor, council. Okay. Seeing none, can I have a motion to

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adopt the consent agenda? >> Winsler. Second. >> Mr. Madden. >> Yes. >> Mr. Barnes? >> Yes. >> Mr. Pulchini? Yes. >> Mr. Hartzel? Yes. >> Mr. Lovech? >> Yes. >> Mr. Winslow? Yes. >> Mr. Crowley? >> Yes. >> Pending business? >> Peter? >> Nope. >> Tone? >> No. >> Sean?

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>> Nothing? No. >> Keith? >> Nope. >> Jody? >> I'm good. >> Dave, anything? Anyone new? New business? Anyone? All right, let's go out to public comment. Um, you can just come on up.

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>> Alan Richtor, 1023 Wesley. Uh, simple request. I was hoping to hear an update on the boardwalk subcommittee status and when we can expect a public meeting because I actually had thought that was already supposed to have happened. >> We'll get you that right after the meeting.

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>> Thank you. >> Anyone else from this side? Donna, come on. Um, Donna Saber 1324 Asbury commercial. Um, I've been reading posts on Facebook and people are asking about the um

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carousel on Wonderland because it's a it's turning 100 years old. And um they asked for pictures for people to post pictures. So, I had a video of it and I posted it and one lady, I guess she was from the

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Philadelphia area, she said, "Is it was a video so it was running and um she said, "Is it is it up?" And I just replied, "Of course." Does she said, "Does it run?" And I said, "Of course." My dad was a antique car restoer, so he

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could get a car to move after sitting for 50 years. Uh Jay, you were the mechanic on it, weren't you? >> The mechanic on the carousel for >> we don't we don't do Q&A, but >> yeah, I understand. So, um we know that

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there's nothing going to happen for probably in the next 5 years that'll, you know, bring people down there. And from what Keith Hartzaw has said, there's nobody even using that parking lot. So, I'm just posing a question. And

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I've been told that it's not our property, it's somebody else's property. But um just asking a question. Um prior to Mayor Jay, any chance of the carousel

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for the summer? I mean, you don't have to answer me now because I know you can't give me an answer now, but just can I put a bug in you? >> Yep. I would send an email and I'm sure you'll get a call back. >> Okay. >> Yep. Thank you, Don. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate it.

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>> Yep. >> All right. Council, thank you so much for opening this up. Uh Greg Siri, 3208 Simpson Avenue. Uh and this is in relationship to the tower. Um uh I want to start with a quick little story about Jaws. 1975 that movie came out. Many of

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us saw that. >> I saw it on the boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey with my brothers and a series of friends. In 2025, we went back to watch that movie on the boardwalk with my brothers and all our friends except nieces and nephews were with us. There's an iconic scene in that movie where the

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camera zooms in on Chief Brody because the Kitner boy was killed the day before on a raft. And Mrs. Kitner walks up to Chief Brody the next day at the dock and pulls her veil off and looks at Chief Brody and smacks him in the face and

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says, "You knew. You knew those beaches should have been closed and you didn't do anything." And she walks away. And I think it was the mayor or maybe the deputy leans over and says, "Chief, that's not fair." And he said, "It's fair." She's right. And I'm here today

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to just say, is this our Chief Brody moment about this tower? Do we have a chance to stop this? Do we have a chance to slow this into a different position? I'm not here to holler. I'm not here to yell. I have a whole folder over here, Linda, you can hold that up. That has the documents that I read, the settlement, the consent order, the

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resolution, the site plans, and what I found raises a lot of concern. You know, first off, 125 ft cell tower in a residential community zoned R150 residential one unit. It doesn't comply. It just doesn't make any sense. a fall zone of a structure that

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size is 150 feet, 150% of the size. This is 50 feet from the neighboring property. The fall zone doesn't meet minimum standards in many areas. We we market this place as the greatest American resort, yet a 25- ft tower in the backyard of somebody's property, it

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doesn't comply. Those two things too can't be true. That's going to be one hell of a postcard to represent on the boardwalk. you know, um I read the consent order that the city signed and it talked about two locations. That's it. I don't know if there was a bunch of

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research done, but there was only two cited in there. One that was denied and the one that was approved on 3308. That's it. We talk about our own ordinance that says we'll never allow a tower on the island unless we exhaust every possible opportunity. And yet, we

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haven't cited them. We don't see them. They're not written about. We see two things. How can that be? People are very upset. We're almost at 700 petitions right now and climbing. I think the vote count was like 1,900 for you or something. Incredible. That was great. Congratulations. We're going to

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surpass that. We'll have 2 3,000 people voting on this saying no. We have to listen. The permit was listed under conditional use by the city. Why? Because the ordinance was actually changed a little bit. >> How do we revise that? I can't put up a

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9- foot fence in my backyard. You can't just change it automatically. What rules are we doing to fit these compliances? Are we working for Verizon or for our own community? I'm asking you, I'm begging you now to say, stand up for this. We have an opportunity here. A

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decision of this magnitude should not be found on an agenda site on March 27th. This is our city council agenda and this is under a consent agenda. There's 16 items listed here. 16. 15 of 16 was the Verizon cell phone

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tower. One stroke of a pen. On top of that, we were up against basketball camp programs, recreational soccer camp programs, hockey programs, trail improvements, and we tuck this in. It doesn't feel right. We're just looking for some common sense

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to make this a better outcome. If I understand this correctly, and I know you can't answer questions today, but Verizon had one year from my readings from the court's order that on May 15,

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2025, the obligation was set that the FAA clearance had to have take place and the New Jersey wetlands had to be approved. From my understanding, that time has passed. So, does that give us now a window to renegotiate an option,

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something where everybody wins? On the 24th, the council meeting, we did confirm that those approvals were not complete. And unless they're completed in the last couple of days, I imagine it's still open. So, all we're looking for is a win-win situation for the community, for the city, and for

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Verizon. And I'm begging you, our community is begging you to be responsible. Use common sense. It doesn't make sense. Go stand on the lot and look up and you'll realize a mistake was made. Well, guess what? It's our time now to correct it. This is maybe

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our Chief Brody moment and it's time for all of us to step up and respond that way. I thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Okay. Anyone else for public comment? Good evening. Uh my name is Rick Flounders. I live at 3305 Bayand and the

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uh location that Mrs. Sereni have pointed out is 50 ft. It's from my property and my two adjacent neighbors property. you know, when we had big uh arguments, not arguments, when we had discussions in Ocean City about wind turbine

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turbines and an ongoing discussion about Wonderland. Okay. Now, half the town was for it, half was against it, but you folks are all our neighbors. Why is it that you're siding with

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Verizon rather than us? Now again I mentioned last time I I u spoke here is that uh I'm not an engineer. I'm not a lawyer but my wife and most of my neighbors have driven down to the dog

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park. You've got a 55- ft Verizon tower or either a county tower over here. You got the water tower over there. And in front of it you have a huge open field. Now my question is why might that not go

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there? I mean it's not near anybody and it's already kind of an industrial site. Now I understand that the circle was drawn. Who drew who drew that circle? My understanding is that the solicitor drew the circle

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maybe. So that to me doesn't give me a great uh amount of comfort that this could move this way or that way. And I drove down Asbury Avenue after the uh planning board meeting. I came I came here and that was kind of a joke to be honest

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with you. But I drove down Asbury Avenue and there's boosters all along top of the telephone poles and and I think you said that boosters are a viable alternative. Another one of my neighbors, you know, got some

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information that uh Verizon was willing to take a look at 20 additional boosters instead of this 125 ft tower. And again, I don't know all the details, but I'm hoping you as our neighbors

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would fight for us rather than against with Verizon. And Verizon, I'm sure, had some slick lawyers. That's what they do. And you know our representation is is someone who's I don't know who it was is someone who's not really adept at that

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kind of a industrial fight. They're dealing with everything goes on with the small city. So I would just hope the same as Mr. Serini and his brothers and every all the other neighbors who are up in arms about this uh that we were we would be able to to you know at least

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get some some viable views some other options. Okay. I noticed there was an it was a editorial in the Ocean City Sentinel last week and they said, you know, if you want changes, you have to be involved. Well, you know, it's it was a little ridiculous to ask people who

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live two or 300 miles from here to keep tabs on the local Ocean City Sentinel paper to see advertisements about it and the fact that, you know, all the uh certified letters went out. We saw the receipts, but not one of them was signed. I I supposedly was mailed one.

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It went to an address from two years ago and my my two next door neighbors, one lives in the city and one's in Lafayette Hill again were some residents but they never got them. So what good is if you send out a certified letter if no one ever gets them because I would have been

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here to talk about it the same as we all hope you would be. So that's all I'd like to say. I implore you, you know, to take a look at it and see if there is a viable option that can happen here because there seems like a lot of, you know, they're worried about a little bit of the wetlands, but the wetlands, as

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someone said last time, you know, maybe there'll be a a couple turtles or something that might be at risk, but here we're talking about a whole neighborhood. And it's, you know, the science is out on the radio frequency and I listened to the planning meeting and all about uh all Verizon's Verizon's

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um witnesses. The interesting thing is I listened to the whole planning meeting and all it was Verizon there were Verizon witnesses. There's not there wasn't one witness here who spoke publicly. There's one lady who talked about was the the lot there for parking

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for the the uh affordable housing. That was it. Trust me, if we had known about it, we would have come to ask you before these decisions were made, before that damn circle was drawn and said, "Let's let's take a look where else we might be able to do this." >> I I appreciate your time, and I would

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hope that >> uh we can This is not over. >> Thank you. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. HELLO, MY NAME IS LINDA SRIANI AND I LIVE at 3208 Simpson Avenue with my husband Greg and our family just one block away from where this tower is proposed to be. And um I have this is

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the first time at this meeting because I'm a nurse and I have been you know at work but it's not that's doesn't indicate my support for the anti- tower um you know position. Um, I'm I'm fully behind and I've, you know, lived with my husband who's lived and breathed this,

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you know, situation for months and and I see how important it is to everyone and I see how it we have it's uh Memorial Day weekend coming now where people are coming down and just finding out about it. So, I think you're going to hear a lot more opposition to it in the near future. And I just wanted to let you

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know that it's not just about the tower. It's about the president, the president that's being set. And if this is allowed in this residential zone, it opens the door for more, you know, um situations where um the uh ordinance ordinances won't be, you know, um followed. And our

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or the ordinances are meant to prevent exactly this type of overreach and we need them to be enforced. So, I just wanted to come and let you know how I feel. >> Good. Thank you. Thank you. >> How's it going? Matt Diggins, 3301 Balin Drive. So, I spoke last time I was the one who made the comment about the

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turtles. Um uh and I guess I have I know this isn't Q&A. Um but what I'm trying to understand, if you remember last time, this is in my backyard. I'm well within the fall zone uh for this tower. Uh one of the questions I had, I agree with a lot of people's comments, but one

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of the questions I had was what can we do to get involved? What can we do to help? I get you guys are pushing against Verizon. I hope you guys are pushing against Verizon. What can we do to help? >> I know it's not Q&A, but I never got a response. >> Okay, I'll follow I'll follow up with you right after the meeting. >> Okay, that be

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>> Thank you. Yep. No worries. Appreciate it. >> Anyone else? >> Public comment. >> All right. Can I go again? >> We try to get you at five minutes. >> Um, seeing none, I can have a motion to adjurnn.

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>> So moved. >> Second. Second.