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All right, let's call to order the meeting of uh Thursday, June 11th. Start with the pledge of allegiance and a 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

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under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Please bow your heads for a moment of silence. Amen. >> Amen. >> Mr. Madden, Mr. Barnes here, >> Mr. Pulchini here, Mr. Hartzel, Mr. Love here, >> Mr. Winslow here,

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>> Mr. Crowley >> here. Adequate notice this meeting has been given pursuant to public law 1975 chapter 231. Uh before we get to you, mayor, I'm going to bring up our people from the MS Bikeathon to uh give us the details for this year.

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>> Thank you. Mr. May, council, residents of Ocean City, we are Pam and Jeff Cra, we have stood before you many other times. Um, coming to thank you for letting us come and disrupt your city for one weekend at

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the end of September as we raised >> millions of Yeah. over $4 million this past year for MS. Um, we became involved over 30 years ago when I was first diagnosed with MS. My husband rode his first ride that summer. The next year he

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started his own team and I'm very proud to say within two years, if the funding continues the way it's been going for his team, we will cross the million dollar mark of funds raised. And I'm very proud about THAT

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COUNCIL. Many of you have donated in the past. say thank you for that. And Jeff will give you much more information. >> I didn't pay her to say that. It is always great to be back in this town and in this chamber because we know

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this council and this city, all the residents have welcomed us and supported us for 45 years. The ride has been coming here. And it's because of having this as a final destination that it helps to make this ride so successful.

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Um Pam forgot to say her famous line that you're the city, you're the shore and city to shore. So uh but last year we had 4,000 riders and we did raise $4.2 million and that was to help it's up to almost

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almost 3 million 2.9 million worldwide estimated with this disease. Well over a million people in the United States and right here in our area 18 to 20,000 people suffer every year with this central nervous system disease that uh

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strongly affects their life on a daily basis. And last year I had some bad news which was that the annual funding that came through the DoD that historically was $20 million for research have been totally zeroed out by the federal

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government. So I thought I'd start this year with a little bit of good news that 15 million of that has been restored this year also through the department of defense. Now you may ask what's that have to do with city to shore? Well

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every year we mention research and that is the lion share of the money goes to research and Pam is doing so well because of the medicine that came from the research. But another big thing is advocacy and advoc advocacy happens on

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the local, state and national level. On the local level, people newly diagnosed come to the society and they get information for what is seems to be a scary diagnosis at first and the information helps calm them, gives them a path forward. The society also helps

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with employment and discrimination issues which sadly occur occasionally perhaps helping get medical devices or accessibility devices put into their homes. So that's a lot of the local things that the advocacy does on the

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national level. The way it ties into that funding, sadly, as I'm sure you're all aware, in government, you need to lobby to get money from the government and a combination of paid staff and volunteers make regular visits to

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Capitol Hill to make sure there's awareness and there's funding to fight this disease. So, the money goes a lot for research, but also that local advocacy can't be overlooked. So, just

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to give you the some of the logistics for this year, as you're aware, it's the last weekend of September historically, and this year that's the 26th and 27th of um September. We are hoping again to get 4,000 cyclists, and we always have

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well over a thousand volunteers to put on an event of this size. So, uh we will be back with that number of people again. Uh, I always want to mention, as Pam said, I started many years ago with her diagnosis. This will be my 34th year

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riding, and I can speak for all the riders that we really appreciate your police force in helping us safely navigate through the roads of your town. They're always so helpful, so polite, often in shouting out encouragement to us. So, I never want to uh leave that

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out. But once again, we'll be doing the 34th uh street bridge, which brings us across 34th. We'll be hanging a left on uh west, taking west all the way down to Fifth, where we'll turn right and go to

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our finish line at the convention center. Sunday morning, many less riders do the second day, but I'll be among them. We'll come out 6th Street, turn down uh west, go to 34th, and by 8:00 a.m. we'll be out of your hair. The rule

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is everyone has to be off the island by 8:00 a.m. So, uh Saturday, we're a little more spread out anywhere from 10:00 in the morning to 5:00 p.m. All riders have to be off the road by 5:00 pm. So, once again, we thank you for

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your assistance. We have a plaque which I'm sure you have uh probably 45 of these around. And uh also as as you're well aware the the staff will be in regular communication with your police department talking about more of the

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logistics. So uh Pam wants to give out >> Yeah. Pam wants to give out my personal letter if anybody wants to donate. Thanks to the people in the past from the council who have donated. We really do appreciate that.

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>> Thanks again. >> Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you. >> Okay. It's a tough act, Jay, but you're up. >> All right. Real quick, um we're going to be meeting uh with the uh Army Corps uh preconstruction meeting. We'll be doing that soon. then we'll have a better idea

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with the timeline of the beach replenishment. I'll let you know as soon as we have that. Twice a week now for trash and recycling uh schedule begins on Saturday. That continues through September 5th. I want to remind everybody, please put your trash out properly and get your lids on. Uh the

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emergency responder 5K race is set for Saturday morning. Registration at the Civic Center starts at 7:00 a.m. And our annual health and wellness expo is 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Sunday Music Pure. That's all I have. >> All right. Thank you. Uh,

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citizen comment. Ed, are you on the agenda or you want to just open form? >> Just make a comment. >> All right. Well, then I'll I'll come back to you. All right. >> Okay. >> All right. With that, move to reports from city council. Anyone anything to report? >> Just want to mention tomorrow, you probably everybody knows, uh, the

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Warwalk subcommittee will be presenting their findings and their recommendations at the tabernacle tomorrow night at 6 PM. All are welcome. Thanks, Dave. Anyone? Anything else? >> Good. All right. >> Good sir. Thank you. >> Can I have a motion to adopt the regular city council meeting minutes of

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Thursday, May 21st? >> So move Winslow. >> Second. >> Mr. Madden. >> Yes. >> Mr. Barnes. Yes. >> Mr. Pulchini. Yes. >> Mr. Herzel. >> Mr. Lovech. >> Yes. >> Mr. Winslow. Yes. >> Mr. Crowley. >> Yes. >> All right. We have one ordinance on

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second reading tonight. Can I have a motion to take up ordinance 2607 on second reading and public hearing? >> So moved. Second. >> Mr. Madden. Yes. Mr. Barnes. Yes. Mr. Pulchini. Yes. Mr. Hartzel. Yes. Mr. Lovech. Yes. >> Mr. Winslow. Yes. >> Mr. Crowley. >> Yes.

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>> Okay. Ordinance number 2607. An ordinance of the city of Ocean City County of Kate May in state of New Jersey amending the municipal code to prohibit the parking of commercial vehicles adjacent to municipal playgrounds and recreation fields. >> Good evening council. In May, you adopted an ordinance prohibiting the

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parking of construction vehicles and trailers near the playgrounds, recreational fields maintained by the school district and the city. This would add commercial vehicles to make it clear that trucks, buses, anything like that should not be parked immediately

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adjacent to any of the playgrounds or fields. >> Okay. Thank you, Daddy. Since this is a second reading, we will go out to public comment on 2607. Um, anyone from the public wish to speak on this ordinance? Okay, seeing none questions, council,

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anyone? >> I have a motion to adopt 2607 on second reading. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Madden, >> yes. >> Mr. Barnes, yes. >> Mr. Pini, yes. >> Mr. Hartzaw, yes. >> Mr. Love, yes. >> Mr. Winslow, >> yes. >> Mr. Crowley,

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>> yes. Okay, we have one separate uh non-consentuh resolution tonight, which is a resolution adopting the 2026 local municipal budget. Turn it over to Frank. >> Thank you, Terry. Um good evening, council, members of the public. Uh we're

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here tonight for the second reading uh potential adoption public hearing of the 2026 municipal budget. Um we're bring we're taking up the same version that we introduced a couple meetings ago at this point which is $125

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million budget. Um just a recap of the process so far. Um on March 12th the mayor proposed his uh his budget um at it at the council meeting. Uh that was followed up by my presentation where we went over in detail all the numbers. On the March 26th uh council meeting we

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introd introduced the budget at April 23rd. Um, keep in mind there the April 9th uh meeting was canceled uh that that earlier that month. Um, and then we had a second reading uh and potential adoption on the May 21st meeting. Although um we had to table it uh due to

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the states uh not completing their review of our budget yet. As I explained uh they review a third of the state every year uh in groups and uh they unfortunately had not gotten to us in time. Uh I'm happy to say that as of this afternoon, uh they did email us

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confirmation that they reviewed and approved our budget um for adoption tonight so we can move forward. Uh just a a reminder, we're still at the same 1.38 cent tax increase um which has been in existence since the mayor's version of the budget. We're compliant with both

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the statutory caps, both spending cap and the tax levy cap uh to be able to move the budget forward. Um, I just want to also mention that Leon's partner, Mike Garcia, is here tonight from Ford Scott from our auditing firm. Uh, that will assist in any questions that you might have as far as statutory

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procedures or anything otherwise. Um, and as quickly as we're adopting the budget tonight, we're also going to be amending the budget. On your agenda are two u resolutions to add grant funds uh to the budget. one for community development block grant and the other one for um the program that Commissioner

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Bar was here for uh last meeting for the uh for the uh Cait County Celebrate 250 program. Um so uh that quickly we'll be uh we'll be amending the budget uh as soon as we adopt it tonight. So uh I'm going to ask that you go out to public hearing and if there's any other

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questions myself and Mike will be here uh to help you along. So thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you Frank. >> Anyone have questions for Frank from council? Okay. Uh, like Frank said, it is the second reading, so we will go out to public comment on the 2026 municipal

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budget if anyone would like to speak. >> Okay. Seeing none, have a motion to adopt the resolution. >> So moved. >> Second. Wow. >> Mr. Madden. >> Yes. >> Mr. Barnes. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pchini? Yes. >> Mr. Hartzel? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lovech? Yes. >> Mr. Winslow? Yes.

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>> Mr. Crowley? >> Yes. >> Okay. Be it resolved by the council members of the city of Ocean City, county of Kate May, that the budget here and before set forth is hereby adopted and shall constitute an appropriation for the purposes stated of the sums therein set forth as appropriations and

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authorization of the amount of 76,881,52163 for municipal purposes and 8,348,942 minimum library tax. Got it. Okay. Uh we'll move into our 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 will be removed from the agenda. Anything to be removed. Okay. Seeing none, can I have a motion to adopt the consent agenda? >> So move second.

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>> Mr. Madden. >> Yes. >> Mr. Barnes. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pini. Yes. Mr. Yes. >> Mr. Lchuk, >> yes. >> Mr. Winsow, >> yes. >> Mr. Crowley, >> yes. >> All right. Pending business. David, >> no. >> Jody, >> nothing. >> Keith, >> no. >> Sean, >> no.

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>> Tony, any anything new, guys? >> Okay, let's go out to citizen comment. So, um, this is open forum. Whatever you'd like to speak about, please, uh, please come on up. Ed, you're on the I'm gonna bring Ed up first. Go ahead, Ed. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Hi, my name's Ed Dixon. number at 3507

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Asbury Avenue and I would like to make a suggestion um to council for a closer relationship between council and the public. It would be nice that when a question is

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asked that it is answered face to face. In my travels to different cities, the council and public work well together by solving problems and answering questions at that meeting face to face.

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The public states the question in a short statement to the point and is civil. Not one time did I run into a situation where someone was not civil. This promotes more respect for the

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public and in turn more respect for the council. Many cities I have visited have this system and it works very well. When a question can't be answered at that time, it is noted and answered at the

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next meeting. If you consider this request, try a three-month period and then go from there. Thank you. >> Thanks, Ed. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Um, just go across. Let's start

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over here. Anyone? >> Okay. Mr. Sir, >> I'm going to hand out a couple documents first. You don't mind? >> Y. Thank you. this out. >> Did you guys get them down there?

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>> Did I not hand out enough? >> Yeah, you're >> okay. Down there. >> Do you have any extras? Do >> you need one? >> No, I'll share. You sure? >> I need your iPhone. I just need one. >> We're good. We're good.

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>> You're good. >> You're here. We're good here. >> Okay. So, good evening. Tom Sriani, 3213 Bay Avenue. Want to speak tonight in reference to the cell tower location. I want to cover two topics specifically. one is utilization of existing

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structures according to the ordinance and two an alternate site for the cell tower the 125 ft cell tower. So first existing structures at the last meeting my brother Greg spoke to all of you and afterwards you guys had some roundt discussion and it was recommended to him

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to hey come back with suggestions come back with solutions. So he spent some time and I'm here to present exactly that. Unfortunately he's traveling tonight so I'm speaking on his behalf. So on page one you'll see the red zone everybody knows the red circle of

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Verizon that the antenna needs to be inside that zone. He drove around and found 91 alternate existing structures that could possibly identify and hold an antenna. Now, of those 91 structures,

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there's 81 telephone poles and 10 other existing structures, not to mention commercial opportunities potentially where, excuse me, um CVS, Acme, um the uh crossing motor in there are other options out there. Now, what we're

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suggesting is all of those options really need to be vetted before you can move forward with a cell phone tower. It even says it in your own ordinance, and I will state it's in the upper right hand corner. No shower sh tower shall be erected within Ocean City if there exists the ability to extend a

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pre-existing structure. So, we're asking you to reconsider. You have 91 options to exploit and go through. Now, if you want to go outside the red zone and keep a 125 ft tower, we

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have a great alternative. On page two, my brother Joe, who is an engineer, took the time to identify two circles, an inner circle and an outer circle is how I'm going to reference them. And those two circles represent the following. Number one, the internal

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circle represents based on the height and requirements of the initial um encompass building. That circle is the um 5G frequency that's covered from the compass building based on its tight,

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height, and location. Verizon approved that bandwidth. They approved it. We ended up deciding or you guys ended up deciding that it was an appropriate location, but that coverage area was acceptable. The outer circle is a 125 foot tower

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with the center point of 45th Street and that same 5G frequency expands out from the edge of Longport to uh Seis City. Clearly that larger bandwidth encompasses the smaller bandwidth. I know there's conversations that Verizon

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said 45th Street won't work. I'd argue that doesn't make sense. So my brother Joe's not an RF expert. So he consulted with one. And on page four, five, and six in your packet is an email communication from Purecon Solutions,

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which is an engineering firm which is contracted with the state of New Jersey. And they are willing to verify and validate my brother's findings. So you'd get data from an expert. You'll see in the email it's a very small fee, anywhere from $1,800 to $2,800 depending

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on how much you put into that. Now, it's important to note, I'm not saying move it up to 45th Street because I don't want it in my backyard. People are saying it's going to happen next. They're going to say the same thing on 45th Street. We're saying 45th Street's a better location cuz it's a better location. It's already a municipal area

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with a water tower. There's other towers, the water treatment facility, the firehouse. All of those facilities are already there. That location meets your cell phone ordinance of public location. It has a greater bandwidth coverage than the initially approved

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coverage spot of the Compass building. It also is going to blend in with other material um commercial facilities that's already there. It's one block behind West Avenue. It's the residents that are along West Avenue were there after all of that

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construction area was area was there and the fall zone they are outside the fall zone of the 125 ft tower. So I'm going to ask and close with one question to all of you and I'm asking and I think your name is Ed. >> Yes.

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>> Awesome idea. I'm going to capitalize on that. So if I go over by two seconds bear with me. So, we're going to ask you in public, and I'm going to ask for a public response. If not today, next meeting or at the conclusion. Will you guys you have the ability to revote? You have the ability to reconsider things.

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Reconsider approving what was put forward by the planning board. I I don't know why the plan maybe the planning board did all this stuff. My brothers did it in a matter of two weeks. >> Let me just finish with one like I finish one second or I'll use my

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brother's time. Archie, come up. >> Is your name address? >> Archie Siri, five waterway. Uh, mayor, >> chairman, rest of the council, thanks for what you guys do for the city. I would like to give some of my time to

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Tommy finished the statement. Less than 30 seconds. Very simply asking that question for you guys to publicly vote and say, you know what, we made a mistake. The ordinance doesn't apply. We're going to change our vote. You guys have the ability. you make the decision,

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not the planning board. Change the vote and say, you know what, we have to do more due diligence or the planning board has to do more due diligence. Go back and assess the 91 locations or move it to 45th Street and take a greater bandwidth. So, I'm going to ask

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you to formally respond at some point, hopefully you will, based on your recommendation to whether or not you're going to vote to change. >> Thank you. I appreciate you for your time. Thank you. >> All right. Thanks, Tom. I came to speak about the fact that an antenna federally mandated. It's coming to Ocean

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City. God willing, it will not be on a tower at 3308 bay. But what everybody needs to understand about these antennas, you know, the board must understand it because I think it's going to come back to the map. The concern raised with that there's a danger from these the cell frequencies. What

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everybody on the board has to understand is that these cellular communications are waves. Waves seem vague, but we're familiar with them. We live in a shore community. All waves transmit energy through medium. The medium of water is a water

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wave. They can have high energy like a tsunami. They can have low energy like 1 cm ripple in a pond. Both waves different energy levels. I'm speaking to you through an invisible medium of air right now. My voice is propagating. It's vibrating. You can

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hear it. You can't see it. It's a wave. There's low energy waves like a kitten current. Zero damage. There's high energy sound waves. Sonic boom, the 21in gun on the USS New Jersey. That can cause an injury or damage. The other one

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can't. And the invisible medium through which cellular communications take place is called the electromagnetic field. It may be unfamiliar to it. You're in it right now. It permeates space. It's what allows us to

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communicate with our GPS satellites. And those waves that exist within the electromagnetic field have incredibly low energy like a kitten pur or a ripple on a pond. That's 5G. where they can have incredibly high energy like gamma

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radiation which comes from a nuclear explosion or the whole polar black hole. That's not what comes out of the antenna for cellular communications. Somebody came to the board and gave you misinformation.

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The energy levels for 5G is a million times below the threshold. A million of what causes cellular damage in units. That's ionizing radiation. I'm a physician familiar with chemistry, physics.

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I work in an environment. We use ionizing radiation for the past three decades. It doesn't happen with these cellular communication towers. Well, somebody came in here, a neighbor, and said, "The higher the healthier."

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I'm telling you, the risk is zero. It doesn't matter if it's on top of a person's house or if it's in outer space. 0 times anything is zero. So that's a clever little platitude that was used. The higher the healthier. You can remember it. It's not based in

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reality. It's not based in science. I want each of you to please remember this. There's different types of waves. There's low energy waves. That's what 5G is. There's high energy waves. That's what gamma rays are. Gamma rays do not

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come out of cellular antennas. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Um, anyone else come on up. >> Hi. Just name and address, please. >> Okay. Hi. Good evening, Councilman Crowley. Thank you for your time. I am Sydney Delki. I live yearround at 128

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Waterway Road. Tonight I'm here because of the proposal to put 125 foot cell phone tower at 33rd and Bay Avenue. Sorry, I'm really nervous. The site of the former senior center community center. I don't know if it has yet been

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considered or discussed that placing a 125 foot cell phone tower at 33rd and Bay Avenue, the fall zone would be Bay Avenue, which would block a coastal evacuation route. One of only two

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evaluation routes off of the island. The Ocean City, New Jersey website directs you to know your evacuation route. Bay Avenue, Roosevelt Boulevard, 34th Street Bridge is one. I Googled it. Cell phone

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P towers can and do fall over. The list for of examples can be found at www.ehsciences.org. Um, Ocean Cities and Island. Mandatory evacuations have been issued before like with Sandy and will be issued again.

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Her hurricanes, norers, tornadoes, floods, thunderstorms, blizzards, and high winds have all occurred just in my recent memory. And for the safety of the residents of Ocean City who could be prevented from evacuating the island in case of an

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emergency, a cell phone tower that's 125 ft cannot be permitted at the site of 33rd and Bay Avenue. The fall zone is a coastal evacuation route. So know your evacuation route. And I've

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got this is from the Ocean City website which is just a simple print of the evacuation route. Would you like it? Sure. Yeah. >> Thank you. >> And it's kind of interesting like there's like little arrows that show like where the turn is from bay to

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>> and everybody knows it. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Anyone else? Donna, come on up. Um, you know me by name. That's scary.

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Uh, 1324 Asbury commercial. So, um, a couple weeks ago I posted on Facebook. Oh, I was on Facebook and somebody requested a pictures of the carousel. So, I had a video and I posted it and someone said, "Is it running?" And she

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said, "Oh, I'll be right down." She had pictures of her kids on the profile. So, I talked to Jay and Mayor Jay, I'm sorry. And he said it was complicated to get it running and he knew all the parts that were needed. Um, and so we

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suggested we contact Mr. Mida and it's really difficult. I called a Chris and they said that they're a builder. So, I went to look up who owns 600 Boardwalk and I came up with a a set signage of a

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attorney Frank Cornado is the um signer for the um ownership. So, I tried to call him nothing. So, instead um we went and we decided we're going to have our celebration whether Mr. whether I mean we're not

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going to gather there or anything like that. I did fill out a permit to do a treasure hunt um to try to direct um pedestrian traffic to the north end. So, I think everybody knows what a treasure hunt is. You'd start at

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Seventh Street Surf and buy like a bar of wax or a sticker and there would be a clue that would send you to the next place, say like um George's Candies, and you keep going and till you get to a prize such as um 2 hours at at Jill's on

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the arcade, but we have to wait for a permit for that. So, in the meantime, we're doing we're trying to find out who our biggest fan of the carousel, which is turning 100 years old this year. And we're probably going to be doing an online celebration of the carousel. And

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so, um, our last our first week's prize was a pizza at, um, Ocean City Pizza. And we had a winner. She posted a picture of herself probably in the 1960s of her mother holding her on one of the

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horses. And um this week's uh prize was um breakfast at for two at George's Candies. And um we got a real close tie. We had one woman that had ridden the carousel or what is it called? PTC75

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as a child at I think it's called Rolling Hills or Bowling Hills um in Pennsylvania. And then she's a watercolor artist and painted a picture of one of our horses, one of the horses from the carousel. And um so that was pretty tempting for a

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prize, but she lives in Pennsylvania. And um so we had another one who posted photos of herself, her mother, and her 2-year-old son on the carousel. And then she posted a video. She was riding the

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um Montreal. Uh was that um what's his name? the guy that >> Thomas. >> Thomas. She was riding Thomas and she took a picture of the carousel. So, we thought she gets the prize this week. But next week, I think we might um pick up for um 2 hours arcade at Jill's.

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So, we'll see how it goes. We're trying to look for our biggest fan. I think we have our biggest fan of the carousel sitting right there cuz he took care of her for how many years? >> Over. Yeah. Your dad before you took care of her, right? >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. Appreciate it.

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>> Okay. Anyone Anyone else for public comment? >> Come on up. >> Okay. I only have one second. >> Give him to the uh

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>> All right. Thank you. >> Good evening, members of council, Mayor Gillian. My name is Colleen King and I've owned a home at 1132 Asbury Avenue for 48 years. I'm speaking not only for myself but for many concerned neighbors.

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This spring I discovered multiple rat barrows throughout my property. The problem was extensive and alarming. I hired an exterminator repeat immediately and have spent hundreds, possibly thousands of dollars trying to address

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this problem myself. I hired landscapers to remove ivy and ground cover on replacing most of my loan with river rocks and purchased a night vision camera that documented the rat activity on my property and neighboring

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properties. My neighbors are experiencing the same issue and are spending significant amount of money removing landscaping, installing stones, brick and other items. I have contacted

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the board of health multiple times, code enforcer multiple times and the mayor. bait boxes were installed, which I appreciate, but this is a temporary band-aid rather than a long-term solution.

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I contacted restaurant owners regarding the overflowing dumpsters and trash concerns. Promises were made to improve conditions, but six weeks later, little little appears to have changed. I contacted a restaurant owner in Ocean

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City. Their trash is collected daily during the summer. Recyclables are stored in an enclosed container and dumpsters are enclosed to reduce access to pests and wildlife. Residents should receive mailed

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information or flyers regarding proper trash storage, dumpster maintenance, and rodent prevention. Today, my hus Well, that was yesterday. My husband nearly stepped on a dead rat laying lying on the sidewalk while walking down our

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block. This is about the fourth one we've seen within two days. So, I don't know what the solution Ocean City uses hawks to get rid of the seagulls. I don't know if I if this is true or not, but I heard dogs are used to chase the geese away on some fields.

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I'm not sure. I've spoken to somebody that raises rat terriers. They may be able to locate rat burrows. I'm not sure. But also, uh, someone advised it's called contropest. It's a rat birth control. I

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don't know if it would work. I'm hoping, but our I live in Lanstown during the winter and the sanitation department to distribute it to each resident a 65gallon trash cart that is rodent proof. I'm suggesting these carts

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for the commercial neighborhoods. I love Ocean City. I want to be part of the solution. Residents should not have to fight this problem alone. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate you. >> Do I miss someone over here? Yep. Come

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on up. >> All right. just name and address, please. >> Uh my name is Charles Ferimky. I live at 209 Wesley Road and uh this is a huge problem for me, but it's been going on

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for two years. And it really was annoying when I had my knee operated on. I had to go get the trash cans back and forth every time they were passed by when the truck didn't stop at our house. Uh, I've been over to the main office. I

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think it was Kelly maybe that works there. She was real nice. I was there a few weeks ago. I don't know who the lady was that waited on me, but she said, "Well, you probably put the wrong thing in your trash can, so that's why they

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didn't pick it up." Oh, okay. I thought I knew the difference between paper and cans. You know, I don't put any beach chairs in a trash can. It's recyclable. But the problem is obvious

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for us because we sit on the front porch and we watch the truck. The truck comes down Surf Road, goes to the beach, circles the whole block, comes up sebrite, and our house is in the middle of the block.

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They never come past our house because they're coming up sebrite and we're along the sidewalk. So they'd have to go against the traffic to come over to our side maybe. But I mentioned that to the lady that uh was working there where Kelly worked

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and uh she said, "Well, they have new people working now, so they probably are just new drivers." I'm thinking, "Okay, how about giving me an answer that would help me out instead of blaming everything on me? Maybe because I didn't

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do my trash right. Maybe because I don't know the new guys that are working, I should feel sorry because their management didn't train them how to drive. Let's take care of it. The last thing I asked her, I said, "How many people complain about the trash?" Oh,

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that's our biggest complaint here. So, I thought, "Okay, I think I'll come to cancel if you don't know it. The biggest complaint you have is trash cans not being picked up." >> Thanks, John. Okay. Any anyone else before I adjourn?

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>> Okay, come on up. >> Hi, I'm Janice Dixon. I have a property at 1241 West. Um, just continuing the conversation about the rats. I am 70 years old. Today I had a new experience picking up dead rat from my outdoor

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shower. >> The same shower that my grandbabies bathe in. I have never experienced anything like this in my life. I've owned this property only for seven years, but have never seen anything other than mice,

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etc. Um, I understand that we all have to take care of our own properties. I'm doing that. Well, what do you do when you have properties around you that are negligent? That I have a multi-unit building behind me that has six to eight

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trash cans that have no lids. They're overflowing the seagulls and the birds get to them. Um, obviously it's a feeding ground for rodents. There are rat burrows all around on the neighboring properties. I found two on

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my own property. um just last week while doing some tweet whacking. Um we need help. That's all. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. Anyone else? We're going to adjourn the meeting. We are going to go into close session for some personnel

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matters. Seeing none motion. >> No formal action taken in close session. So council will not come back into session in this room after the close session.