I'll show you. Thank you. Good evening, Councilman. Hello. >> Okay. >> I think when you're ready, we're at 6:30. Adequate notice of the time and place this meeting was given under the provisions of the open public meetings act was posted as said to the officially
designated newspapers in compiance with the law. >> Here >> right can I get a motion to go to executive session please? I'll second >> section eight of the open public meetings act the
exclusion of the public from meeting certain circumstances and disc follows the public shall be excluded from discussions concerning the hearing specified subject matter general nature of the subject matter discusses as follows real property 501 Arnold Avenue coast guard building and legal issues
legal advice on parking regulations legal advice on fire procurements and legal advice Affordable housing. It's anticipated the subject matter discussed may be made public or final disposition. Councilman Dixon. >> Yes. >> Counciloman Burns. >> Yes. >> Ramos.
And >> yes. >> I put three in my purse. bothers me not having one too. >> That was nice. We'll see. >> Yes. Oh yeah. What is
happen? Super Oh my god. You know, my fiancé are How are you? That's what I'm saying. Oh yeah. >> When you are ready, we are >> adequate notice of the time and place of
this meeting was given under the provisions of the open public meetings act and was posted in the officially designated newspapers in compliance with the law. Mayor Bali >> here. >> Council Dixon >> here. Counciloman Burns >> here. Council Ramos >> here. Council G. >> Counciloman Sison. Council Cortez >> here. Please rise for the flag salute.
Remain standing for indication to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible and justice for all. >> It is most appropriate that in this country which was founded on the bedrock
of religious freedom for all people that we take this opportunity to ask for guidance. First we give thanks for the freedoms that we share. In particular, we appreciate our freedom of speech. We ask for guidance in the decisions that we deliberate on this evening. We all do not share the same opinion on each topic
to be considered but we must evalu All right. So, we'll just skip right over that. All right. We'll start with the proclamations. Uh I'm going to call up uh Brendan O'Neal, who's the chief petty officer, United States Coast Guard at the Madisan Inlet, uh to talk about a recent incident.
Happy 15th of July last year. Sunday without the last water used their handling to locate
police facilitated the transfer of them to our boat and transport them back to what they did. >> Wow. Excellent. >> It's wonderful. >> So I think you guys have uh some sort of certificate certification. We do too. Uh
well, I'll go first, then you go, and then we'll take a group picture. All right. So, for the uh crew of the Gambler, whereas the Gambler is a familyowned and operated fishing vessel docked in Point Pleasant Beach. And whereas on Sunday,
July 13, 2025, the crew of fishing vessel gambler was navigating the waters approximately three miles east of Elberon, New Jersey. And upon discovering a vessel in distress with five individuals stranded a top its seeking cull, the crew of the gambler
without hesitation skillfully maneuvered their vessel and initiated a rescue. And whereas displaying profound courage and expert human, they successfully brought one of the mariners safely aboard their vessel, providing immediate aid and comfort. And whereas their decisive
action and steadfast presence at the scene were critical in the successful rescue of the four remaining individuals by another good Samaritan vessel and the subsequent safe transfer of all five persons to shore by the United States Coast Guard and New Jersey State Police.
And whereas the quick thinking, resourcefulness, and humanitarian spirit of the master and crew of the fishing vessel gambler were instrumental in preventing a maritime tragedy and saving lives. and whereas their actions are a testament to their dedication and are
hereby recognized with the highest respect and gratitude. Now therefore, be it proclaimed on this 7th day of April, 2026, that the Point Pleasant Beach governing body does hereby honor the master and crew of fishing vessel gambler, Captain Bob Bogen, Joe
Hagermanerman, Jill Johnson, Chris >> Snowski. Thank you. Dominic Longo and Anthony Magnolia for meous service and selfish actions, demonstrating outstanding vigilance and character in the finest tradition of mariners. signed
by Mayor Doug Vitali and the borrow council. >> Great job everybody. if you want to come up and read yours. Department of Homeland Security United States of Edard
certificate is awarded to Captain April 2026 commanding officer United States weather station. >> You guys want to come up real quick? Sorry. Good job.
Okay. You guys are free to leave. You don't have to stay for the whole meeting. Up to you guys. Thank you guys for coming in. >> Thank you. >> All right. Moving on to our next proclamation uh for National Library Week
>> which is April 19th to the 25th of 2026. Whereas libraries spark creativity, fuel imagination, and inspire lifelong learning, offering a space where individual individuals of all ages can find joy through exploration and
discovery. And whereas libraries serve as vibrant community hubs, connecting people with knowledge, technology, and resources while fostering civic engagement, critical thinking, and cultural enrichment. Whereas libraries provide free and equitable access to
books, digital tools, and innovative programming, ensuring that all individuals, regardless of background, have the support they need to learn, connect, and thrive. And whereas libraries partner with schools, businesses, and organizations to maximize resources, increase efficiency,
and expand access to essential services, strengthening the entire community. And whereas libraries empower job seekers, entrepreneurs, and lifelong learners by providing access to resources, training, and opportunities that support career growth and economic success. And whereas
libraries nurture young minds through story times, steam programs, and literacy initiatives, fostering curiosity, and a love of learning that lasts a lifetime. And whereas libraries protect the right to read, think, and explore without censorship, standing as
champions of intellectual freedom and free expression. And whereas dedicated librarians and library workers provide welcoming spaces that inspire discovery, collaboration, and creativity for all. And whereas libraries, librarians, and library workers across the country are
joining together to celebrate National Library Week under the theme find your joy. Now therefore, it be resolved that the borrow of Point Pleasant Beach proclaims April 19th to the 25th, 2026 as National Library Week and encourages all residents to visit the library,
explore its resources, and celebrate all the ways that the library helps our community find joy. Sign Mayor Doug Vitali. When you're done, we'll take a quick picture. Okay, you come up and talk about So my name is
Library now as long as I want to thank he's promoting library material library programs We do a ton of stuff at the library. Just talking to the mayor recently, you
know, we have so many services over the week. Yeah, we have something for everybody. I know, you know, clearly we're all about books. We're still all about online.
Some of the stuff we have coming up, uh, the mayor is mayor and police department at 6:30. I will say registration is filling up. We're currently redoing our children's rooms. So if you sign up
with a walk with the mayor on April 25th parking lot at the library of the library services that You will have master gardeners coming. We have master gardeners coming
to present on another wellness program that we're partnering on dementia. Tuesday, May 5th at 3 p.m. Another
branch is coming to do a DIY market that is on Thursday, May 7th. And we are also partaking in the township garden tour which is a something that chamber of commerce is putting together
in ticket and take part on a ton of other stuff going on. Music >> for the good work >> and thank you for Texas.
Okay. Thanks. >> Thank you. >> All right, moving on to discussion items. We have two tonight. Uh the first one is the plastic construction dust ordinance. Uh Councilwoman Stilson brought that up. Um I'm not sure if anybody has some background to talk
about that. I think that was more uh just to talk about uh putting an ordinance together to curb some of the dust that comes out of uh construction. I know it went to Brian Martin uh and then Mike Collins took a preliminary look at uh what was prop proposed um and
I think we just have to do a little bit of digging into a deeper dive into the ordinance itself but we wanted to put it on for discussion um and then have a resolution for Mike to do that. So does anybody want to add anything? >> I could add a little bit to it for the environmental commission for a
few years. So I know this is something that was discussed last year. You know, hats off the environmental commission. You got a group of people who are very dedicated to this town and are very dedicated to making sure that environmentally we they kind of they
kind of hold us to to the task and they want to make sure that we're doing all that we can possibly within reason to do what's environmentally sound. Um so I read through this quickly and basically a lot of it is common sense approach
controlled areas, placing tarps down if they're cutting, not leaving those those little micro plastics exposed. Then end up in drinking water. Um, you know, it's a common sense approach. I I don't think it's anything that's extremely,
you know, hazard to construction. I think some of these things are are being done now with construction contractors. I just did a majoration on my hotel. So I just think that it's something. Anybody else?
Mike, do we need to make a motion for >> sure? On my end, the ordinance is drafted. I'll just be getting it dropped as ordinance form, right? I'll confirm with Joe that Brian Martin with it. >> Okay. >> Can I ask then for a motion to uh create
a resolution to move forward? >> I'll motion to create a resolution to draft for the attorney to draft the ordinance. Correct. >> Just a motion to direct the drafting. We don't >> Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah. The motion will serve as the resolution.
>> Okay. >> Okay. I have a motion by Councilman Ramos, second by Councilwoman Burns. Councilman Dixon. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Burns. >> Yes. >> Council Ramos. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Council Cortez. >> Yes. >> And that will be uh resolution B.
>> Okay. U moving on to the Neptune 360 consumer portal uh discussion. So Neptune 360 is the um software and water meters that our water department uses. Uh we recently replaced the water meters probably a few years ago um to more
efficient water meters. uh in talking with the water department in EDA um it has come to my attention that there's a service that we could sign up for um so that the consumer has access to this uh water system so they could monitor their
real-time usage um they could set alerts uh when they're out of town and which would uh advise them of any leakage. um they don't have to keep coming into the water department to find out what their usage is which happens um often uh or calling EDA uh again. So just the
customer alerts uh it would enhance the the customer service uh people again could monitor their own water consump consumption 247. Um you could adjust your waste and adjust or identify waste and adjust your behavior. Um, so the
total cost was um upwards of $17,000. Including in that was a training cost that uh EDA was able to successfully get waved. So there's an upfront fee and then an $8,600 uh subscription for yearly. So the first year would be
14,000. That's to set that up. Um and then it's the 8600 for the subscription. Then going forward, uh it's 8600. Um so it's responsive design. It works on desktop, laptop, tablet, cell phones. Uh again, anybody could log in at any time
and look at their water usage. I think it's a good idea. I mean, I know luckily I haven't I mean, haven't had any leaks, but I like to not be surprised my when my water bill comes, so I could log in and see what uh you know, what my water usage would be. I think it would benefit
a lot of our non-resident taxpayer meeting uh uh uh people. As a matter of fact, I was at their meeting on Saturday and and we talked about this. um and for them who are not here um you know full-time especially during the winter we just had uh it would be an extra insurance policy for them that nothing's
going on at their house. So um I would like to move forward with it. Um I know I sent an email out to the council and there was a little bit of push back. So I'm welcome to to open up to any discussion, any comments. I know some of you have spoken to AA. Um, again, I
think her getting that uh that training fee waved is uh is huge. Um, and again, based off of, you know, our current budget and the water uh budget, this is a drop in the bucket, which I think would help out uh our residents. >> No pun intended.
>> Yeah. Anybody have any comments? >> I'll start it off. Um, I had a chance to talk to Eda, too, about this. Um it's $17,000 like the mayor said. It's a unit that will um it's basically an app and
it will be able to let everyone know what their uh their water run if they have a leak, stuff like that. But the point is you can get that on Amazon for $200. Um when I was speaking with her, I asked her who how did this all come about? And
what happened was because of such a harsh winter we had we had a lot of people who had second homes, people who were snowbirds, uh rental owners were concerned being that they're not here, they were concerned that their pipes could freeze.
What are we going to do? If you have any type of u app or something that we could monitor our water so we don't have to worry about it all the time. So it wasn't about leaks, it was about whats, you know.
pipes may freeze. Okay, so the point is and I looked at it almost like a security thing. I said I have a ring camera at home. I got that for security burglar stuff like that. I have a smoke detector in my house that cases a fire starts in the
middle of the night while you're sleeping. Government didn't pay for that. I pay for that. So, I don't see why the government should be paying for especially $17,000 and 8,000 a year for private homeowners to monitor their
water when they can do that themselves just like they do with their cameras and their smoking. They said Ida told me majority who was wasn't uh full-time residents though there were some majority were part-time residents and they were concerned about
pipes freezing. Not that they were freezing. Plus, for people that don't know it, we already have a system, >> right, >> with the water department. If the water runs for more than 24 hours, you will be notified. >> They go to your house, they see if
anyone's home. If no one's home, they leave a door hanger on there. Then they go back to the shop and they try to contact the owner and say, "Hey, you've had a a warning that pops up. You have 24 hours of water running. You need to come check it out." So, we already have that system in place. So, if you want
added security, in my opinion, pay for it yourself. I don't think it's a government's job to monitor your water at your house and spend $17,000 and $8,000 here. That's one of the
things I ran on. Uh being uh responsible with your money. It's easy to spend other people's money. It might be a nice system, but if you really want it, pay for it yourself. It's not a government's problem. It's not our business what you do in your home. If you want it, go
ahead, go get one. If you don't want it, you don't have to. That's my that's my take on it so far. >> And I will just add, so I get what you're saying, but the the 24hour and our water department does a great job in identifying that 24 hours is a very long time if you're having an active leak in
your house. So, this software uh is instantaneous. So if it detects, you know, any type of high water, it's going to send out an alert right away. So again, I see what you're saying. There are commercial solutions out there, but maybe people don't want to buy it and we already have it through through our town
system. Um, but I I welcome other >> Yeah, but just to answer that, if if you told me it was only like $1,000 more, >> I would say, yeah, that sounds good. >> But I saw the system I don't, you know, online. It monitors leaks
and it has an automatic shut off. So if you had a leak, it shuts it off for you. You don't even have to call a water department to come check anything out. You don't have to call a plumber to come down. It shuts it up for you automatically for a couple hundred dollar. >> So back to my point is, >> you know, >> we spent$10,000 on this, 17,000 on that,
15,000 on that. >> Yeah. >> You know, people getting tired of it. >> It's enough. >> No, no. 14,000 is all included for the for the upfront cost. So 14,000 is >> the setup and then the $8,600 for the
initial first year subscription. Going forward, it's >> 14,600. >> No, no, no. The first year is $14,000. It was 17,000 with training, the setup, and the subscription. Eda got the training knocked out, so that dropped it
to 14,000. So first year it's $14,000 every year. That is $8,600. >> Yeah. >> No, I said it was included with social media, >> right? Well, I mean, we we should poll the residents to see what they wanted
>> and and all of the and the results were overwhelmingly that that they wanted it. So, it wasn't that I didn't get the results I wanted, >> but it was out there. Look, >> you're right. You went You did go on
social media. I read the post. You did not include the cost and it was overwhelming. Like about 218 people. I don't know. Last time I looked, I think we have like 4,500 residents. You know, that's not really overwhelming. I went on and answered a question to somebody
about the cost. It was somebody I knew and I put the cost up there. Then a few of the comments after that were, "Hell no. No way. And everybody at home, I have them. Everybody must have recurring costs. I have my easy pass. I have, you
know, your regular bills, you know, recurring. We got to stop that. We Oh, yeah. This is only only. My dad once told me, never use the word only in the same sentence with money. You know, and you that's true. 8,600
might not sound like much, but it's a re we keep adding these recurring costs and just like it was said. I have ring cameras. Why? Protect my house. We have to have, you know, smoke det uh detectors, carbon monoxide, fire
extinguishers. We all bought them. If I want to monitor my water, I'll buy one of these for $200 to $300 and have an app, you know, and be able to use it. you know, no problem. I don't think we should be spending the money on this
with a recurring cost. You know, Monday through Friday, EDA can get the alerts. I was on council when we first bought bought this uh Neptune system. Best money we ever spent within the first few months, you know, and my
mother-in-law was one of them. 22,000 extra gallons because a toilet was running. Okay. I got a phone call, went down, fixed it. You just, you know, I don't know who how many years ago, but we used to have
three, four, five um items on the agenda to wave, you know, certain water costs because of a problem. You had to have a plumber sign off on it. I don't we don't get any of them now.
So, what's the problem? It's working. The system's working. So I I'm not in favor of spending this money. Okay. Anybody else? >> Listen, I hear what everybody's saying and I get that just playing devil's
advocate. Um I would look at you know it's not just for resity it got me thinking but I get my my water sewer I signed up automatic. wait for the bill to come and just whatever just take it out of my account
that's fine. Um I get another bill that tells me don't take this bill but here's your bill usage. I think there's there's an opportunity and this this might not be the system. Okay, but I think if there's an opportunity for the town to embrace technology and to make things
easier and hands on for the residents to be able to take it upon themselves to do certain things we should explor. We a lot of money on a lot of things the way we do it and one of the things I reach out to Brian Martin had conversation with him about something else and I just
said you know I know I know that I'm not involved but I'm using it as an example that a lot of automation the last several years and I mean
enforcement stuff records special request for construction permits, you can do that online. There was a time where they're doing it all by hand and doing all by paper. Um, and a lot of the com that was put in place a lot of it with
him. I'm not full credit for it, but a lot of it was was done. Um, it eliminated potential people. So, I I think that, you know, I am all for listen I'm all for spending money not
But I am spending money and I'm spending money if it's going to necessarily this particular but I think if we're looking at additional things going forward in the future we should look at that option
being able to pay your bill being able to why are we spending like I signed up for it it's automatically getting paid but I'm still spending money on a And with regard to you know for the out
of town residents that don't live here we're resort community that's just the nature. So again I'm not saying that this is the um but I think that I think we should look to embrace technology as an opportunity to save this town money and
to don't the cost of you know someone's labor and time and effort that they tremendous that's my >> okay anybody else
all right so I guess we will uh we'll not move forward with this uh and we'll move to committee reports Councilman Dixon >> okay committee report for the building department
met with Brian Martin and he gave me a list of some of the stuff they've done. I don't want to bore everybody with all the stats, but just I'll give you some uh that he gave to me. Uh uniform construction code year to date, there's been 119 permits issued,
16 updates were issued and 127 certificates were issued. Rental applications year to date is 302 total applications, 62 annual and 240 seasonal. New dwelling permits, two are pending submission and
five have been issued. Merkantile uh licenses, 300 applications, more to come in, 202 approved applications. Uh zoning, 73 total applications, 41 issued, 17 denied, three referred to the
planning board, and signed applications have been nine. And that's what they gave me. But while I was there, we have a problem that we need to discuss, too. Is
>> this uh Brian Martin said he's gotten over 70 over request so far this year. 70. >> Last year when I met with >> a couple months ago when I met with the police department, >> they had told me they had I think it was for the last two years was like 480 and
470 and this year they're talking about 500. This takes hours and hours and hours at that time of doing what they're supposed to be doing and doing paper open work. One of Brian Martin's cases there was
seven 600 pages that they had to go through and every one of them pages you got to make sure certain redactions are done. No telephone number is on there, addresses on there, confidential stuff. It it's it's crazy. And I know Eileen
did bore with them. I know the building department gets bombarded. When the police gets bored, for example, with the police, I'm sure the chief could chime in on too. They make an arrest and there's three or four officers there. You have defense attorneys wanting all the information. They have to go through
all the body cameras, all the uh cameras from the car, transporting the person to headquarters. But the bad part about a lot of this is a lot of these people that are looking for this information are YouTubers. >> Yeah. >> They're looking to embarrass people
looking to find someone who may maybe had too much to drink and the police arrested them and they're, you know, look bad and they want to put on YouTube and make some money and and embarrass the people that are there. So it isn't like it's it's for something legitimate,
it's for nonsense. The same thing with the building form. get a lot of requests for I wonder how many u or I mean how many um summones or whatever you put out for grass that was too long on houses and it's a landscaper asking for the
over so what he's doing he's getting the information and going to these houses and say I can cut your grass so it's it's way out of control and you have you need proper training to be able to redact and all that kind of good stuff and I know Maria Martin says he's
he has been trained in And I think, and I just complained about spending money, but I think we should start thinking about either training somebody here or possibly hiring somebody at a part-time basis to come in
and take care of all these over requests and take all this pressure off these departments we have because every one of these requests have to be done has under a time limit. seven or 10 days to have to respond or they going to be a problem
and it's so out of control, time consuming and it's taking the guys away from what what they should be doing in Pearl Hall and so I just just wanted to open up for like maybe a little discussion about it. We really have to look at it. It's you know get a chance
talk to your other commit talk to the some of the departments and everyone's saying the same thing. It isn't just here. It's the whole state, >> the state. >> And I brought this to Joe la couple this past week and said maybe we hire just a part-time person to for the entire burough hall. So to help the clerk's
office, help the building department. I mean the police department. I guess you guys have to be kind of specialized with the body cameras, but um Yeah, >> just tremendous amount of software
that can do that technology that's out there cost money. But you know what I mean? This is this is crazy. I agree. I see I see the number of requests are coming through. But it's crazy. I can't I can't imagine how I can't imagine how I can't imagine
how Ryan Martin. I understand the thousands of dollars. >> I mean, it's really an act of the legisle. So, I mean, you'd have to legislators to try and change it. There was an open reform that went through
last year that in some respects approved it for towns. Uh but you know, some people felt it didn't go far enough, some felt it went too far. One thing I would add to the conversation is there are >> different software packages that might allow you to digitize documents or just
have a portal where certain things that are a matter of public record are already online. So people don't bother filing open request. They just access that portal. And um some of my town that I represent, they've used those pretty successfully. So, the software costs some money, but my guess is it's
probably cheaper than hiring a person, >> right? >> I mean, I had I had the opportunity. I was in Burough Hall today, so I I stopped and talked to Eileen and I also went up to, you know, say hello to Brian Martin and we got into that conversation and it was mentioned a lot of the open requests come in with an anonymous
email. I think that should be grounds for not, you know, it's anonymous. Why? But you have stuff to answer it. And Brian Martin said, "Yeah, he had 74, John." And you you mentioned 600 pages. He said he actually knew
the real estate attorney who was filing that. And he called him and said, "What are you specifically looking for?" And he wanted a plot plan to see what was in the backyard of a house. He goes, "Okay, because you filed, you wanted all per
permits, 600 pages. I have to fill that. If you call the clerk and amend your uh request, I can send this over to you in 15 minutes because he narrowed it down. You know, that's the big problem. And Brian said he was getting calls, where's
my building permits? That's the problem. You know, time is money. You know, now it's dominoing down into putting other things behind. But >> so, is the council okay with looking at either bringing on a person or uh
enhancing our software or doing both to cut down on the the time and effort it takes for opas. >> Yeah, >> sure. >> Okay. I mean, I want to bring it to the table and then it gets shot down. So, if you guys are willing to do it, then we
could talk and figure out and I know Gov Pilot has a lot of the features. I don't think we're I think you know we're working to to dig digitize some of that through there but there's other software to council's point where AI enabled could help. So all right so that's something we can take
>> and then do we do we implement is there a cost with this request is it just is there any cost with these requests for anybody >> you can charge a special services fee if there's an extraordinary amount of work that's required to be put >> well the 600 pages
>> it's really case by case basis. Um the case law is request friendly I would say. So I it's hard to recommend imposing that fee unless there's something truly extraordinary about it. But you know depend on where the 600 pages are. Are
they in different boxes? Are they in different places? So there's different things we look at but you know I certainly you know between myself and Oprah council working with the clerk if there are grounds to request them we certainly would because otherwise the burrow is you know occurring an
expensive zone by having >> chief is this an issue in the police department. >> Yeah it's been an issue for years but we do like For example, you know, there >> and you know to redact all that video
there is software is like I don't know how accurate accurate it is still really sit there and you know review it in some fidelum you know, it's all it's definitely a good idea to look at that. I don't know.
I'm not too familiar with that kind of software, but you know, anything to help with the workload. >> And do you have to be a retired officer or have any specialized training to do this? >> I know there are retired officers that that do it, right? I don't Yeah, I mean,
there's over classes that we send we send three or four people every single year to get updates and we rely heavily on Mike Collins. attorney come across a lot of stuff. So yeah, I mean they would have to have certain
obviously some kind of confidentiality, >> right? >> Right. Okay. All right. And so that's something >> and then they got the U Park authority. I met with them the other day. Uh they're really working on the board lot
doing all the mulching the repair and some of the damage was done over the winter. I know a couple of the aprons going in there looking to fix. They've been working hard doing that. Um there's a few other things I want to bring up. Uh I know I spoke to Andy about it and I know it's kind of his area but I want to
bring it up anyway. Um >> Joe, have we have any have you had any contact with the JCPNL about the street lights? Have they said they're coming out to fix it or anything? I uh had a conversation with Bob Rice uh about a
week ago. I was going to make an update in my report. Um they're moving to LEDs along Ocean Avenue. They're in the process of changing all the lights to LEDs. I know Laurel Avenue has been a big
problem that Mr. Cavano always brings up. That's an underground fault. That's not actually a bulb issue. So they have to subcontract out to a company come in and and replace the um the underground
uh wiring um and just a lot they they were behind from the the storm and they're just trying to catch up and and they're doing their best like anything else. Bob Rice said like our homes, you know, we we we
place a ball and maybe another one goes out and it's constant and they're they're doing their best to keep it on track and and u get the job done. So, >> okay. I understand that they obviously have done a terrible job over the years basically. Uh I understand that the
street light bill is separate from the other electric bills that come to the town. I'm at the point where I agree with Mr. comes up every meeting telling us about this. Um I say let's stop paying the bill on the street lights. That's my opinion about it.
>> I agree. >> Enough already. >> That's what I would like to do. >> I make a motion that we not pay the bill until they make repairs. >> Significant repairs, not just a few. >> And what's the threshold? So when do we
pay them again? when they called and complained that they haven't been paid. Then you could talk to them >> and that could be a week later. >> It could be months later. Who knows? >> I think she did. She did do this >> and I think we did have a positive reaction to it quickly.
>> I believe Chris Real did it when she was here. >> She stopped paying him. >> I mean, I know we've talked with the other mayors. I mean, there's it's not just Point Pleasant Beach. It's an issue everywhere. And again, both Joe and I sat on that call with Bob and they are
working. They It's on their radar. They are working. If you guys decide to not pay them, I mean, that that's what the council wants to do. I just don't know how effective it's going to be. >> Because again, what's the threshold, right? Do we wait till 100% of the bowls, but to to Joe's point, we could
fix 100% and then, you know, 50 bulbs go out because the normal cost like at what point do we hold out payment? Well, I think when they could show you, get a hold of you and show you that, hey, you had 67 bulbs out in Atlanta. We just fixed 35 of them and we plan on
doing the rest next week. >> So, I'd like to to show like the counter, you know, >> I mean, the police department did a survey few months ago. >> We do the survey, but I mean I from that
last survey. We don't know, right? >> And yeah, Mr. Pavano has his own list, but there may be more or less there. >> How would that work? Would you have >> Mike? Have you seen this before? >> I know you guys have done this in the past,
>> right? Have you seen any other towns? >> I haven't seen a town not pay. I've dealt with many towns that have struggled with JCNL on this issue. >> It's it's we've done it before and it has worked. They have
said okay. >> I mean, if the if the council wants to do it, I just think we need to set up a threshold to when we could start paying them again. I think the idea is if you want to motivate them, you let them know we're not paying you, >> right? Until you >> So that might motivate them to go out
and do it. >> And that's where the threshold >> I've I've said it before. I've used that terminology on conversations with JCPNL. Um >> they got more money than they don't.
>> Yeah. I don't I don't expect all the lights to be turned right back on the next night. So, I made the motion. I'm all for not paying the bill. >> Council Dixon. >> Yes. >> Council Burns. >> Give it a try. Sure.
>> Ramos. >> Yes. >> Councilman Cortez. >> Yes. >> You have another thing here from uh Kitty asked me to bring this up. I had discussions with her. Obviously, she's not here tonight to talk about it.
Um she has been in contact she's a liazison to the board of education. She made several attempts to ask them to change their meeting nights to the opposite two uh Tuesdays of our meeting so people could attend. Uh they
basically told her no. Uh she asked maybe you guys could videotape it because you have all that >> videotape and stuff in the auditorium. maybe you could videotape it so the people could see it on YouTube later. They told her no and and a nice and she got a couple uh I call them nasty grams
from professional from uh the superintendent basically I just say stay in your lane mind your own business more or less. Uh so what I was thinking about we have a um public information officer that we have
in town and I would like see what you guys think about possibly having her attend the board education meetings and tape them and then either putting them on the YouTube late at night or the next day or within a couple
days and so the people could see what's going on at these board education meetings because people have been talking about this for years. What's going on there? Or we find out something that the board of education is doing after the fact when they already approved everything and people like, "Oh, where did this come from?" spend
the money on this, spend that money that perfect example is the is the fieldhouse. They had a $5 million donation, which is fantastic, but they want to build a $7 million fieldhouse. Me, I don't see why you can't just build
a $5 million fieldhouse, but that's just me. So, but a lot of people didn't know that. And I've been hearing this complaint for years. They don't know what they're up to unless you go to the meeting. And then I hear people say they go to meeting and they refuse to answer any of your questions. So why don't we
just do like they do here, tape the meetings, put it out there so if someone wants to go watch it, they could go watch it. Plus, it would give the board of education the opportunity to call any rumors that may be going around, especially the ones that just went by lately about eighth grade class being uh
denied their Washington DC trip. There's all kinds of rumors about that. If you had a videotape, you could go to and see exactly what was said. Apparently, a couple meetings before that there was some issues with one of the members uh using a derogatory term towards another member. It was a big debate about that
with some of the public. No one knows about it. You just hear all these different rumors. So, plus it would also give the board education opportunity to tell how great they're doing and how wonderful the students are and what they've accomplished. So, my point is if we're up here and we have to watch
ourselves and be critiqued, I don't see why they can't. And I said we have a public information officer. I say send her over >> take what I don't know how long the meetings are an hour. >> I'm not comfortable sending a burrow employee to >> I'm sure you would be >> to the board of ed which is a separate
entity. >> It's a public it's a public >> the public could take >> I understand that but I'm not comfortable sending our borrow employee there. Um look I mean I think we're at an impass right? They're not going to budge. We're not budging and that's
fine. And it's it's hard, but if the residents want to go see what goes on there, they may have to skip this meeting knowing that they could watch the meeting at a later time here and then bring up any questions to myself, Joe, or the >> council. This is the um public information.
>> I understand. But she is the burrow's public and the the board of education and the schools part of the burrow too. A separate bill. >> I I don't think it's part of the burrow. a separate entity, separate tax entity.
Um, I think it's a very slippery slope if you're going to be using and I'm a former board of member and board president. I will tell you, I mean, we stay our lane, they stay in their lane, you can't tell them what they're supposed to
do. And listen, that's just that's just that's just the way it is. Um, you know, and I think there are four meetings that intersect between the two. We do 20 something including
stuff like that. >> So I'm not I'm not telling them what they should do or not do. That's their business. My point is the people should have a right to hear and see what's going on at these meetings. They may be wonder doing wonderful things, but it' be nice to have it out there so people
could go look at it and see what they're doing. and it's it's a it's a public meeting whether it's a burough employee taking the pictures or some individual doing it taking a video of it. What difference does it make? I mean it's it's a nice
service for the public to say, "Hey, this is the the one area where we spend our most money on with your taxes. Wouldn't you like to know what goes on at these meetings?" Here you go. It's right on the video. >> Technically, go watch it. The liaison
Kitty is a burrow employee and if she wasn't if was able to go to the meeting, she'd be sitting there at the meeting. So, she's a burrow employee at the meeting. You know what? If she held up her phone, you know, so again, I understand, mayor, what you're saying. >> I don't think it's a good idea.
>> Um, again, and I don't know what the way around it is. Um, other than if those in the audience want to go to their meetings when it's a conflict of ours, at least they know that they could watch our meeting uh back and then bring up any questions. I just I don't know.
Plus, I mean, she's we have her working every ounce of the 20 hours a week uh that she's that she signed on for. So, then we'd have to pay her more money. Uh give her more hours. I I just I I personally think it's a really bad idea. >> Can you tell us what she does? I don't I
don't know. I Yeah, sure. >> You know what she does? >> The order of my mayor's report. >> You know what she does? >> What? >> Do you know what our public information officer does? >> No. >> How about you? >> I mean, I saw an email or something, you know, >> and I've talked about this meeting. >> Karen, do you know what she does? >> No.
>> You have any idea what she's been doing or what she's been up to? >> No, I don't currently know. >> Nobody does. You're the only one that knows. It's like your private video person. >> Well, that's not true. The B administrator knows, too. >> Yeah, I I do. and she she does quite a bit. Um she works a lot with our uh our
um burough website. She uh updates our um information um >> kiosk >> kiosk in downtown. She does work with the mayor for the well mayor's wellness. Uh she's was instrumental in helping us get a move to uh put beach.gov working
with all the social media aspects, working with all the committees. uh she does quite a bit. Um >> all the flyers for all the committees that any events that come up except for RE because they have their own. Uh but she put together flyers for all the committees that have events. Uh again,
working on that kiosk and the website is both full-time job. She's building an email database so that we can move now to uh monthly newsletters that are going to be sent out electronically, saving the borrow money. She's going to be managing that and creating all that. Um,
there's a lot of stuff you don't see because it's all done behind the scenes with the website uh and the kiosk and social media, but she does a lot of work. >> I'm not saying that she does it. I just didn't know what she did and you just heard three or four of our council people said they have no idea. >> But if you're all part of the committee,
she's creating flyers and >> Well, no, I'm not saying that maybe she is doing all these wonderful things, but >> Okay, >> we don't know. >> Okay. >> And that seems to be a little bit of habit around here. We don't know what goes on. >> Does she create flyers for every every committee? >> Any I mean, again, REC has their own, so
they kind of do their own. But if any committee has an event, um, she creates the flyers and then once it's created, then it's posted on the website, social media, the kiosk, all that stuff. All right. Anything else? >> Uh, let's hold on. Let's see if I got
anything else on here. Uh, that's it for now. I want when the uh the other part comes up, I'll have something to say. That's it for me for now. Counciloman Bars. Thank you, mayor. Good evening, everybody. So, my stuff is um certainly
if fluffy. It's a lot lighter, but um I hope that everybody had an enjoyable Easter. And my family participated in two um wonderful events this Easter. Um egg my yard fundraiser for the emergency service units. And it's one of the most charming little small town events that
you could participate in. And it's so important really. And it was just it's so darling. And um I was so happy to participate. And then that for like the fifth year. My little jet, my little grandson is like ecstatic every time he opens. One egg is more exciting than the other one. So that was a blast. And then
the recreation committee on the on their on your egg hunt. That was a wonderful afternoon and it was bitter almost bitter cold and it was still it was well attended and the music and it was jovial and it was just well done. Nice job. The beautifification reports that the garden tour has everything in place to proceed.
Of course the success in part though from all of this is um with attendance you know so we certainly it would be you know beneficial and hopeful that you know you would purchase a ticket and participate and um and that makes all the difference to the committee and the
date of that is um June 25th and there'll be more details to that to follow. Today, as you know, we danced. Our dancers and chairs yoga enthusiasts had another strong, well attended class with 31 participants today, which is pretty nice, right? Um, the division of
motor vehicle mobile unit will be back in town, the same location at the Laurel Avenue firehouse, April 28th. Um, please reach out to me for an appointment as there are no online registrations because we're just keeping this just for our neighbor residents and our
neighbors. Um, and then I will post on social media in the morning like how to how to contact me. And so that'll be and it's wide open. I don't have any appointments yet. So the first one's at nine o'clock. There's three every 15 minutes and the last one is at 1:45. So there's an opportunity there to get in
to do any your motor vehicle business. And um I guess I wanted to talk about you know um I was looking forward to the discussion on Arnold Avenue and the I know you were only trying to solve a a situation you know yeah with the with the parking so I know that you it was
good intentions >> but you know we need a lot there's a lot to talk about there you know >> yeah I mean it's not a new ordinance right it's been around signage down there >> um we had issues with store owners
parking in front of their stores or other surrounding stores where on a Friday afternoon Arnold app parking is virtually impossible. >> The the store owners brought it up to me and say hey what can we do? What what can we do? I had a meeting with Joe and the chief brought it up to the chief and
said what can we do? And he said well we could start enforcing three hour >> by chalking the tires. The high school is a big issue too. I I hear a lot of times from those stores on Bay Avenue that people drive by, want to go get a pizza or a haircut or whatever on Bay
Avenue and they can't because the high school kids park there, >> right? >> Um so we decided to chalk the tires. I've heard resounding success from the businesses. I've personally been to Arnold Avenue three or four times since then and was able to all hours of the day able to find a spot.
>> Yeah, I mean so I think it's working intended to help. >> I think it's um Yeah, I don't know. I mean, we're we're upholding the ordinance and I think people are calling it a money grab. It's not a money grab. >> We're doing it so that we have ample parking, >> right? Parking is always an issue. Um,
now, you know, the store owns will have to park somewhere else, whether it's in the lots or somewhere else. I know a few years ago, Councilman Mig proposed putting everybody in the train station lot, but that lasted for a little bit and then nobody wanted to do that because it was too far over the wall, right, >> for the businesses. So, this was the
next best thing to solve the problem. Um, you know, I get if you're coming into town for four hours, you're going to go have a few drinks, then go to dinner. You have to be mindful that you probably should park in a in a in a parking lot or a side street or something like that. Um, but I've heard
nothing but success. I mean, obviously, there were some comments online, right? Um, but it's not a money grab. We're not installing paid parking anywhere downtown. Um, I just think it's it's solving issues of of parking, >> right? >> Like even today there was like I'm
sorry. Go ahead. >> Even today there was something like um NJ.com was um exclaiming over one of our stores, the twotory, the treasure antique store, right? >> You can't really in three hours. You can't really shop and and then hit another little retail boutique or
something and then have a nice lunch, maybe a cocktail with you with a girlfriend in three hours time, you know. So that's what I just wanted to talk about. >> I get it. And look, I wasn't the one that created the order. It's been in place for >> really enforcing it is not the issue because it needs to be they need to be
moving along to >> I'm open to however we could >> open up the parking >> the store owners from parking either in front of their own store or other store owners taking up a spot >> right >> right I mean for sure
>> it's employees I'm not just saying store owners I'm sorry servers it's every >> right so how do we solve that >> well that's what that's why I wanted to just bring it up you know because You were I know your intentions were and they were the right success played out,
>> right? >> Okay. I didn't I got to chime in. I was going to wait until my report. Public property, buildings, and grounds. Your intentions were good, but you didn't think about the unintended consequences. Okay. I'm I'm a little more upset on the
policy. I get it, mayor. You talked with Joe, our administrator. You talk police chief. Um, did you talk to the police committee and you know >> the email to everybody? >> Okay. >> So, I didn't I didn't solely
>> I replied I replied to your email and your your one email says you know the the business owners are complaining about the employees parking there all day. That was that's right email. I can't see any business owner throwing their own employee under the bus to get
a ticket for parking there. Okay. Actually, Councilman Dixon brought this up to me and we said, "Maybe we should enforce this." I agree with you. Enforce it, but phase it in. And you said all of them were notified. I talked to a few business owners and they said, "We we
weren't notified. Residents weren't. I parked downtown, you know. I I know the signs there. I know it hasn't been enforced, you know, but nobody was uh you know, it should have been rolled out a little bit better, phased in. And then
the other thing, you know, I asked you if you got if this came up in your bid. You're the liaison to the business improvement district and you said no, it came up when you met with the business owners. Now, oh, call me wrong. I thought the bis business improvement district, what are the business owners?
But you said downtown >> No. So you meet with other business owners. >> It's initiative that I took over that I started last year >> meeting with the downtown businesses. We talk about the bid and what's going on. >> When what are the date and times of the meetings with these >> business owners? It varies. It's usually
Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m. >> So multiple meetings all the time. >> Once a month. >> Once a month. This sounds like a committee to me, right? >> It's me going out to the business. It's in the mayor's initiative. >> Yeah. But if you're meeting multiple times, >> Yes, it is. Yes, it is. You know, trying
and whatever you want undermine whatever I >> I'm not trying to undermine you worked and it's worked out tremendously. Weak mayor, strong counsel. That's what this is. >> Mayor, I could go and meet with whoever I want. As long as it's If I'm bringing in other people Yeah. of the council, then yes, I I agree. Then we should form
a committee. But if I'm going to meet with the business owners, >> multip bringing information back. >> Um, you should have thought about bringing back Tom Mig's plan of first before totally enforcing this. >> But I don't think it didn't work.
>> Huh? >> It didn't work. Otherwise, we wouldn't have this issue. >> How do you know it didn't work? It No, it was never enforced because our previous mayor squashed it before it could get done. We hand out parking passes to the boardwalk businesses for their employees to park in District 4 and District 3 on municipal streets so
they don't get tickets. So, why couldn't we do that downtown with employees? And forget the employees. There's apartments downtown. What happens if these people are on vacation or they're, you know, I get it. It's from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 pm
in the threeh hour limit. Do you know it's a 1 hour time limit or one hour parking limit right there by the hardware store on Route 35 South? >> All day it's 1 hour. So that's different. Uh Trenton Avenue, I know somebody who got a ticket there at 10:20
in the morning. And if it starts at 8:00 a.m., how can you get a ticket at 10:20? 11 o'clock would be your three hours. But unfortunately, I think that personally the signs on Trenton Avenue and that 600 uh 600 block should be
removed. They were originally put up when the Provident Bank was built and they wanted to have a rear entrance coming in and that was going to be part of the you know like downtown as a business, but now homes were built there. There is no rear entrance to the Provident Bank and there's only parking
on one side of that street. >> I I agree with enforcing it. I just think it should have been delayed a little bit until all the, you know, issues could have been, you know, worked out. Okay. Council member, are you done with your
>> um I I am, mayor. Thank you. >> Okay, counseling capital. I'll I'll second that. >> Council Dixon. >> Yes. >> Counciloman Burns. >> Yes. >> Councilman Ramos. >> Yes. >> Councilman Gant. >> Yes.
>> Cortez. >> Yes. police report. Um, chief training. Lieutenant advanced internal investigations course. Sergeant attended three day internal
investigations training. Detective uh attended a 5day criminal investigations course. Officer Ray attended twoday detection class. All officers attended semianual firearms
qualification last week. Autism awareness awareness month. For autism aware Autism Awareness Month, I want to bring to your attention two programs uh available to individuals and families with autism and special needs. Blue Envelope Program is a program to
promote understanding, safety, and effective communication during traffic stops and other encounters with law enforcement. The envelope lists contact information, let officers know driver, nonverbal, and all important papers inside the envelope. The individual just
needs to hand the officer the blue envelope during any encounter if needed blue envelope up at the front table. Uh second thing is Ocean County special needs registry program can work in conjunction with the blue envelope program. It is run by the ocean county
prosecutor's office and is open to any person who lives works or goes to school in Ocean County and has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more life activity due to physical or intellectual disabilities. Registry is available to dispatch and
can be accessed during a call for service. Call 729292027 extension 2209 for more information. >> Mike, can I add that? Sure. >> I'm sorry to interrupt you. >> This is autism month for people that
didn't know. And this is something that strikes close to me because I have a son who has autism. Have actually two children with not children anymore at 30, but um have disabilities and my son Raymond has autism. Um he was
the first one to walk and talk and then things changed. So just to let you know, one in 31 8-year-olds in this country are diagnosed with autism. Boys are three to four more likely
than girls to have autism. It's one in 100 girls. It's one in 20 boys. Um, autism has increased 300% in the last 20 years. Basically, it's become an epidemic. >> Hopefully, there'll be some type of
answers sometime soon. I know the uh administration and and the Washington DC has been working very hard on this. Uh, I know they always say that it has nothing to do with vaccines, that it's some type of genetic issue, but they're
looking at the food that we the environment that we have um the shots that people get. I mean, when I was a kid and some of the other people out here when we were kids, we got, you know, maybe a half a dozen shots now up to 20 or something like
that. And uh though they keep saying that that has nothing to do with it, but I have my own feelings about that. But it's out of control. I mean, if this was if you were saying that one in 31 kids are going to have cancer, that people would be going crazy about it. You got
31 is going to have have autism, some type of form of autism or at least diagnosed being in the spectrum and it's out of control. It's something that really needs to be looked at and I know hopefully the administration is in Washington now has been looking extremely heavy at this and
find out whether it's our environment, whether it's our food that we've been eat the chemicals. I don't believe this genetic part. Nobody in my family has it. I've talked to many have kids with autism. Nobody in their family had it. And I think about
back when I went to school and I know the diagnosis is a lot sharper now than it used to be. I don't remember kids that I grew up with any of having some type of autism. So personally, I think it's combination of everything. It's the shots, it's the food, all the chemicals
that were were taking in. So I just want to bring that thanks for bringing it up. And I talked to chief about this and that program. that you can sign up your children or maybe even have an adult in your house who maybe has Alzheimer's or some other
type of situation. You can get a hold of the county, put their names in. So this way if the police ever have to show up their house, they are made aware that if someone at that home might have an issue with your orders or request, they might not understand, might not be able to
speak. So that's a great program and I'm glad you brought it back, you know, brought to our attention. I said the blue envelope things are here. It's something to look into if any of you have any relatives that have issues. It' be a good thing to put them in some type of program. Thanks. I'm sorry.
>> No, John. Very powerful. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that. And I know you are. Thank you for sharing. Um just lastly, just my own council probably want to discuss it, but
a lot of meetings with the budget that put together that's going to be introduced tonight and a lot of work went into it. um not just the budget committee but the whole budget process and I just think I want to thank you know I'm sure does Steve Gallagher our
CFO um tremendous job you really helped clean up a lot of things um they were very very good meetings a lot of roll up sharpen pencils and I just know I'm very proud of the fact that you know the increase is much lower
than last year's which was not a tremendous And I think the one thing that you know everyone needs to keep in mind is that you know 52 to 53% of our entire budget goes toward two of the things we really can't control and and that is payroll
labor. A lot of that is is contractually obligated um and it's fixed and cost of healthare my change healthare companies again. So, I'm jumping through those hoops. Um, you
know, 39% 29% 40% increases. Um, it's not sustainable. State of New Jersey has to do something. Um, the state plan and some of these other things. So, there's a lot of things, but the budget is a very good one.
That's all I have. >> Thank you. Council President wound up finding a lot of extra finud%% That's budget school. A very small
think. suggest that social That didn't happen. All set is ready to go. Fans are all set. concert series. Also looking into concert
as far as open space open. Next meeting. Just one thing, just remember that's a mayor's appointment, so you can't make the motion. So, let me know. It's the same two people that you keep asking about. Is that who it is? Is that the
same people? >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Yeah. It's not even by law. That's an ordinance. >> That's an ordinance. I will have two names for you for the
next meeting for the council. >> Also continu I do. >> Arnold. >> So, it's new owners. Um they have already submitted for a permit to tear
it down and hopefully it's coming down soon, but we're dealing with new owners now who are motivated to tear it down and build a home. >> Last thing I have service. It's my understanding. My interpretation
hold council president can't talk about this. Well, he has a conflict of interest. >> I mean, your son's on the force. I'm I'm just asking Mike for guidelines. >> If if there's a general
I always say refusal is up to the individual council member. There's a general refusal in police matters that would involve not >> question service. So civil service test service
officers actually this council pass a while ago I wasn't a part of that where they can go my understanding that reserve You should be hiring service.
>> Yeah. So, just to question. Um, right now there's one person on the civil service list. So, uh, there's many examples in many other towns that adopted the same hiring practices that we have that are civil service. We end
up hiring people that are class two officers here and have experience rather than hiring someone brand new that you don't even know if they're going to pass a PT test, firearms, um, PT for the whole police academy.
We have officers that are ready to go that basically need to just switch their badge and they're hired. Uh there is one example, Jack Akins who wasn't who was a Point Pleasant Beach res on the civil service list and we were
able to hire him the way that we hire most of our people. Um so there are examples of residents that have not taken the test that have been hired here. So uh that case he wouldn't have been hired. So, and right now we have one person on civil service list who was
a former employee here and left. So, this gives us many more options to hire people. And like I said, they're experienced. They know the town. They've usually worked here two to three summers. Um, so I I don't know how
that's a bad idea, but you do. And chief, when we talk either the police committee or you and I about the hiring, you always say we look at the civil service list, but it just makes sense to your point to go hire. And I think we've we've hired a bunch of great officers going through that route because they're
experienced, they've gone through the training, you know them, you know, and you know how well they're going to fit into the >> Yeah. In in the past, if we just relied on the civil service list, we would lose all those people to other towns that would hire them. So now it actually gives Point Pleasant Beach an advantage.
keep those people um instead of just relying on a list that you don't know if they're going to pass. You don't know their backgrounds. Of course, you're going to do a full background on them, but there's been cases with many police departments that he takes them off the civil service list. I can name Brick
Township for one. They hired five officers. This happened two years ago and one person end up passing the police academy. So, you can imagine what that does to your overtime and things like that when you expected to hire and you're ending up just hiring one
because the people that were selected from the civil service list uh ended up not making it through the academy due to either injury um or they just couldn't cut it and quit or things like that. I mean I believe it's the best hiring
method we have >> it's not Anything else? >> Okay, Councilman Cortez. >> Thank you. Welcome everybody. First uh first meeting of the month recognize the employees that have anniversaries uh in our water department. Kevin Thompson,
one year uh police department, you know, Keegan Chevlin, two years. Uh finance reham Hannah four years administration we have Kristen Oor six years and dispatch police dispatch Chris Burgerer
24 years congratulations to them. uh public property buildings and grounds. Um the water main project's moving along Route 35 north. They've finished all the mains from uh Washington Avenue all the way up to
Arnold and they're picking up at McClean and moving forward. Uh southbound, all the everything is done that that's been uh pressurized and sanitized. And uh once once everything is tied in, they'll remove all the second old fire hydrants.
I know that you'll see there's ones with bags over them. I guess we want to keep them nice and shiny, you know, till they're ready to go. Um, Councilman Dixon, uh, there will be a do not enter sign put on the, uh, Councilman Dixon
approached me. He lives down on Niblick, and if you ever go eastbound on Niblick in the winter, it there's a curve that goes onto Randall. A lot of people, that's actually one way, that curve, but a lot of people will go there, and he pointed that out. So, they're going to
put a a do not enter sign on there. Um, on the agenda, uh, 1B, uh, CDL license. Um, we do pay for them, but we require them to give us a two-year commitment.
Uh, we pay for them to go. Two people are being paid to go to take CDL class and we require a two-year commitment uh for them to stay or they have to reimburse us. Uh that's similar to look like the police department still does that uh chief with the specials.
>> Yeah, they're under contract. >> Yeah, similar. >> Right. One Q road opening on Carter Avenue. And this just eats at me all the time because it's a newly paved road, but it's the gas company and you can't
pre stub up gas to a house. So, I will make sure since it's right around the corner from where I live, make sure that it is patched accordingly. Uh 2G on there is Ballards. Uh new Ballards, they're going to go up
by the boardwalk. um Arnold Avenue um on the ramps, Central Avenue, just on the north ramp because the other side is a handicap ramp and at Broadway on the south side. There's already ballards up on the the north side of Broadway. Um
just to deter vehicles from driving up on the boardwalk and actually probably getting stuck because it can't handle the weight. Um flood plane management. Uh the first meeting is next week on 3
pm. Uh we maintained our CRS rating of six for 2026. Uh the New Jersey reel um is going to have a major impact. Uh that is you know
requiring 4 foot of extra you know height with the one foot of freeboard. So 5 ft above base flood and Mammoth Ocean Atlantic and Cape May counties are challenging the New Jersey D on the real
uh formula in court. Um waiting to see what the outcome is on that and that's all I have. >> Thank you. Uh so I'll start off with uh Channel Drive. So, as most of you are aware, and I did put a post out, uh, the
county, uh, purchased voted last week, two weeks ago, to fully purchase the property. Um, so, from what I understand, they're going to take down the existing house and garage, possibly repair the bulkhead. Um, we had an opportunity to enter into a maintenance
agreement with the county, uh, to put some money towards helping to develop passive recreation, uh, including picnic tables, kayak ramp, kayak storage. uh but the council declined to do that. So now we're at the mercy of uh the county what they're going to do. Uh not sure
what's going to come out of the property. Um I have continued to advocate to the county commissioners. Uh Joe and I uh went to a meeting a couple last week with some of the commissioners. Uh so I keep advocating to make it a park-like setting, but at this point it's out of our control, so
it could just be an empty lot. Uh we have no idea what's going on. Uh stop and shop. Food Emporium has signed a letter of intent. uh with the Norcas family to subleasase the property from Stop and Shop for five years, then enter into a new lease going forward. Uh
there's still more to work out and and to sign officially sign the contract, but there is a letter of intent. Uh no word yet on when they're going to open, but I'm hoping it's before Memorial Day. Uh gov transition. Uh this is a project
of mine for years now. Um after going through a cyber security audit, it was recommended uh that we move to.gov. Uh, so we finally accomplished that on Wednesday of last week. Um, I want to thank Patty Kyle for her time and effort
on the project throughout its entirety. Also to Joe Michigan and Nicole Began, our public information officer uh for taking over uh the last few months. I also want to thank Short Business Solutions for their work to finally make this happen and to provide a seamless
transition to the move. By doing this domain uh by moving to.gov means our website and email systems are verified and monitored at the federal level, significantly reducing the risk of fishing, spoofing, and other cyber threats targeting our residents. The.gov domain is restricted to legitimate
government entities, giving residents confidence that they're accessing official bur and communicating with verified municipal offices and by operating within their secure.gov infrastructure. Again, just a proactive step that we're taking to safeguard our sensitive information and better protect
our community from data breaches and online fraud. Uh staying with the security um aspect, uh I have asked the Department of Homeland Security and Preparedness to come do a hometown security initiative here in Point Pleasant Beach. uh with the war raging
in the Middle East and some incidents of terrorism happening already in the US, I wanted to ensure that our res residents, visitors, and businesses are protected and informed. So on May 13th uh from 7 to 8:00 p.m. at Jenson's Pavilion, I'm bringing in the New Jersey Office of
Homeland Security Preparedness in conjunction with our police department uh to present Secure the Shore. Some topics that are discussed are going to be the current threat landscape in the US, recognizing and reporting suspicious activity, and more information on the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security
and Preparedness, their security issu security initiative. Um, I will share the flyer tomorrow to social media, the website, the downtown kiosk. Registration is required through uh OSMP and I'm going to send this out to our barrier island mayors as well to welcome
residents of those towns as well. I think we could fit about 80 people at Jens. Uh, Councilman Gant talked about the boardwalk followed. So, Chief, thank you for that initiative. I think that will help not only for people mistakenly driving up on the boardwalk, but for any
bad uh actor who wants to uh do any vehicle ramming. Uh, the film ready. Uh, so on agenda item 1R is authorization to draft a film ready New Jersey film ready ordinance. Um, this is in response to the rapidly evolving and growing film
industry in New Jersey with the upcoming Netflix studio at Fort Mammoth, Parammont in Bon and Lionsgate in Newark in addition to various other studio complexes, production companies, film school programs popping up throughout the state. It would revise the burrow's
current filming permit to create a clear and controlled permating process, establishing various components such as the application process and fees, insurance requirements, public safety coordination, particularly with the local first responders and DPW, location
restrictions, traffic and parking rules, and other various limitations. And the goal is to create a clear and protective permit which safeguards the community's quality of life but also opens up the town to film productions which are known to spend money locally on police
overtime, DPW support, location fees, hotels, restaurants, all of that. Uh so once we get that through, uh then we're going to be there's a a website um that film crews could go on and see that we're we're film ready and then they could choose to film in the burrow. So,
um I think it's an important step and we've been talking about after uh what happened last year with Netflix coming in, uh we talked about uh refining that ordinance, uh video upgrades. So, hopefully this is the last meeting. Sorry if I took your thunder, Joe. Uh
hopefully this is our last meeting where we have subpar sound quality and audio quality. All the equipment is in the back room here. Apparently, they're starting tomorrow through Friday to upgrade the system. So, hopefully uh it's been a long time coming. Thank you for everybody's patience. Um but
hopefully we'll have a better uh outcome uh at the next meeting. Uh the boat race. Uh we had a meeting with the offshore power boat racing committee and our local emergency services and chamber of commerce to discuss possibly bringing a boat race back Pleasant Beach this
year. A mutual decision was made on all parts not to bring it back this year and possibly look to bringing it back next year. Uh the committee for the 250th anniversary. We're working to set up events for the weekend before July 4th, which would be June 25th to the 28th. Uh
so the plan is now a concert on Thursday in conjunction with Jenson's fireworks. Two movies to be shown at the band shell on Friday. One is the short documentary of Bud Lamel and then Yankee Doodle Dandy. Um Saturday we're looking to do a
a Revolutionary War reenactment and reading of the Declaration of Independence. And then on Sunday, uh we're looking to do a parade and a block party uh in the Bordens or River app parking lot uh on that Sunday. So more to come as we uh as we work to plan these out. Mayor's Wellness, uh Matt
from the library talked about the two events I was going to highlight, cyber security talk on April 13th in conjunction with the police department and uh the walk with the mayor on April 25th where we're going to go to the library. Uh the bid held our uh its
monthly meeting last night. Uh we discussed the upcoming plane air art competition uh which is going to be held in coordination with the Jim and Arero Gallery. That's on April 25th as well. Planning is coming along. We're hopeful for a good turnout and sunny weather. We're moving along with the new website
identifying some physical improvements and providing resources for businesses. uh bid meets on the first Monday of the month at 6 pm and then uh the special event application for the plane air or competition is 10 and that's going to be hosted by the bid which is now going to
be known as downtown Point Beach and the Jim and Zero Gallery. We're going to host over a dozen artists who will spend the day creating art in the downtown. Then they're the artwork will be judged and awarded cash prizes supported by donations from downtown businesses and then a small reception will follow at
the gallery. And then finally, the Chamber of Commerce. They're doing two events. The beach uh bar crawl bartending competition on April 26 from 12:00 to 5:00 pm at Boatyard. Uh the flyers posted on social media. And then
the next ladies night is April 16th uh from 400 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. That's all I have. Joe, sorry we took a lot of your time. >> That's right. This will be quick. Then um we applied back in 2025 for a community energy plan grant. um which we
awarded $10,000 uh for we just uh received notification. Uh the goal of the community energy plan is to develop an energy plan that identifies local energy needs, set energy reduction goals, develops plans for projects and strategies, and prepares the bureau for future funding opportunities. So, we'll
be working on uh on that with that $10,000 grant. uh the fountain update. Um we today was a a final inspection uh for the electric uh panel that was uh recently installed. So now the
electrician just has to finish digging a hole and putting the uh the conduit out and then our DPW is going to anchor the uh the fountains out there and get them all hooked up. So, I told Jack from DBW, I want these things on by the end of
April at the latest. So, and I was assured that that was going to happen. So, >> that is your update on that. And then JCPNL, I'll notify uh our representative, let them know we're not paying the bill >> and uh get on it. So, that's my report.
>> One thing I failed to mention, I don't know if you were going to mention it. Uh we just heard from uh the state about the traffic light up here. It was supposed to be spring 2026 start date. Uh they reach I reached out to them. They now told me that that is not happening uh in spring of 2026. They
didn't give me any reason why. Uh but I am now escalating it through um I tried to escalate through Congressman Smith's office, but now I have to go through our local assembly. So I will reach out to them uh to escalate this and see if we could get this going.
Can I just add something about the um consent consent resolution number one on one R that you talked about the film ready ordinance. >> That's all fine. I read it. It sounds like a good idea, but the it's also amendments to the smoking and mercury
license ordinance. >> I don't know what they are. >> So that's just an an opportunity. It's a resolution for us to amend it. There's no there hasn't been any amendments yet. We're having a meeting tomorrow on the smoking ordinance. Uh, and I'm sure Brian and Kristen and Joe and Mike will
figure out the mer, but there's no there's no changes yet. It's just again, we have to have a resolution to move forward to draft changes. >> I understand that, but it says authority uh authorization for the attorney to draft a ordinance. We had a we passed
something back in February that we have discussions about in the ordinance before we gave the attorney the authority to start writing something. before everyone starts writing something up. I would like to know what you want to change. I have no idea what you want to change about the smoking.
>> Should we bring it up in the past and he does have legitimate concerns about people don't know where they can or cannot go to smoke and I don't know what the solution is right now. I like to hear people talk about it. Maybe get some comments from the public what they think about it. Same thing with the
Merkel Tyler. I have no idea what changes you want done to it. I don't know if you want to make it more make it last. These are all things that should be talked about before we start writing up an ordinance for >> I'm happy I'm happy to speak to it just to help the conversation. Um on the
smoking ordinance uh we uh the administrator and I spoke with the mayor. I know that this has been a longunning concern of certain council members and you know we're trying to abide by the council's wishes to have a resolution done before I'm substantively
engaging in ordinances on this one. I think the issue is really figuring out which street ends or which properties are in or which and which are out on on the smoking. So what we drafted there was to have a subcommittee of the mayor, the council president and the chair of
the police committee um serve as a subcommittee of the governing body if you guys so direct through adoption of the resolution. So that that way I'm comfortable sitting in on such a meeting to interface with the governing body,
figure out what the governing body comes up with in consultation with the administrator and the chief of police and then draft something that would come back and certainly the opportunity for discussion. Um, you know, that's totally up to your discretion on whether you want to proceed on that basis. That was simply what we came up with, councilman,
to try and allow for that conversation to happen. On the mercantile license, I think you'll recall uh we had a discussion in close session. I think, you know, the need for confidentiality no longer exists, but essentially uh the clerk raised the point that the ordinance currently makes it the bar
clerk that um is responsible under the ordinance for mercantile licenses, but practice. I believe the building department essentially issues them and has oversight over them. So, this would revise it to provide that they're issued in the name of the building department which would reflect the current
operations essentially. So, that's a minor change that that was requested and would allow me to draft that >> and we will have a discussion of the smoking ordinance I guess at the next meeting based on Right. >> Yeah. I mean I I mean honestly it depends on what the what we come up
with. If there's consensus to draft an ordinance, we could have it drafted and the governing body can discuss it and introduce it if it desires. If there isn't a consensus, my guess is it'll come back as >> discussion. Okay. >> Oh, one the uh chamber of commerce is
having a battle of bands at the bell. >> Yes. We were wondering being that they're having the uh serving beer there obviously uh is that their insurance or town insurance? >> I believe it's theirs. >> Okay. Eileen.
>> There were just two very minor changes posted to the agenda today. One e just adding the title of the certification. It's for let's see it's for public works manager certification and then oneT
the dates um and just a little more information was given uh to that item. That's it. >> Okay, we'll open up to first public participation five minute time frame. Anything on the agenda or ordinances?
Dave Okay. I'm sure Laurel, Laura. I don't know what you want to do. What's that? you know that they uh >> who's paying for it? >> Yeah. I mean
>> right what you looking for >> historical commission. >> Historical commission. >> No. Have we talked about that? uh I believe it was it's in here somewhere. I think it's like 1500,800
for the software compared to the thousands it was for the printing, the stamps, the postage, all that stuff. >> Every every year It's through Civic Center and through our our existing uh email uh website
provider. >> Oh, sorry. >> I'll give you time. >> I think Did you get that? >> Yes, I did. >> Okay. would have came out of the municipal budget. One of the conditions of approval is an
issue involving a right of way that the burrow possesses that involves the property. So we were addressing that um it involves the disposition of real property. That will be an executive session topic and
as long as it involves active negotiations between the governing body and the property owner. >> What about it? I didn't hear you. >> Oh, Coast Guard station >> there. Um, there was legal advice
received tonight um regarding the specific legal treatment of certain aspects of it. >> I'll give you 20 seconds. >> Okay. >> Just just to answer your question,
approximately $5,600 including postage. To clarify it, you would go from spending $22,400 annually spending 2341 year realizing realizing,276. >> Yeah. Well, I'm just saying I remember
there was an email about it and I kind of just looked it up. It's an ongoing savings of $20,000 each year. Can you spell your name please? Um, my family has been over the family members.
I love the open space. It comes down tohes. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Who else? I don't think you can make a motion. >> I almost fell for it.
>> I don't know if we have that broken down by by month. Right. And that's something we need still need to talk about just what we're going to do long term. Well, it will be in order at some point. Yeah. >> But res. Yeah. And it'll be enforced
through code enforcement. As Thanks. Anybody else? >> Hearing none. Can I get a motion to close first public? Are we carving out?
>> We can make that resolution four. Do you want to carve that out? >> Yeah, why don't we carve that make that resolution for? So, let's close first public adopt one, two, and three, and then we could talk about four. >> So, do I have a motion to close first public?
>> I'll make a motion. >> All in favor? >> Can I get a motion to to adopt consent resolution one, two, and three. >> Are we going to adopt it before we have the discussion about
>> Okay, >> I'll recommend that 3B be carved out >> be carved out as well. Okay. >> So maybe we make that resolution five. >> Should it stay three or make it five? >> Um >> Oh, okay. I see what you're saying. Yeah. Why don't we just move one and
two? >> Okay. >> So adopt resolution one and two. >> That's still council man and council. >> Council Dixon. Yes. >> Council Burns. >> Yes.
>> Councilman Ramos. >> BC and Council Cortez. >> Yes. >> So now for consent resolution three, Mike, what do we do? Um, I guess just for everyone's benefit, I would probably suggest we move uh 3A and 3B separately
just so there's a particular role vote on the introduction of the budget. Um, the budget is being introduced tonight in accordance with the local um the local budget law. Uh there's 28 day period prior to uh potential action on
the budget for final adoption which will occur after a public hearing. So the budget is essentially adopted like an ordinance and for that >> the hearing. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> The hearing be the 21st.
>> The budget the budget >> the presentation presentation workshop >> workshop the 21st. >> Okay. The workshop. Yeah. I think the public hearing actually has to be on the 28th day. So we'll be discussing it at three meetings essentially. So you have the introduction tonight. uh that upcoming meeting will be presentation I
take it from the chief financial officer. >> So you know that's that's essentially a public hearing but the legal public hearing on May. >> Okay. >> So I get a motion to adopt separately consent resolution 3A.
>> Yes. >> You need a second. Second. >> Councilman Dixon. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Burns. >> Yes. >> Councilman Ramos. >> Yes. >> Councilman G. >> Yes. >> Council Cortez. >> Yes. >> Okay. Can I get a motion to adopt uh 3B,
please? >> Council Ramos. Second. >> Council Dixon. >> Yes. Council >> Burns. Yes. >> Ramos. Yes. Council >> Cortez. >> Yes. And the public hearing will be on May. >> All right. Council President Gant
consent resolution four which is 1 W. >> Okay. Just real quick social media person. She doesn't send it out on our website right now. Right now the website goes out with the water bill. Councilman
Ramos brought out the brought up the cost it is to print it postage all that >> now. Right. So now we're going to shift we're going to do it through the website have right now Kristen O does the newsletter. We're going to have the public information officer take over
that newsletter. Make it a monthly instead of a quarterly. The problem with the water bill is when the the residents receive their water bills, some of that information in the newsletter was outdated. So now it's going to be monthly right to your emails, we're going to have hard copies, but few hard
copies printed out at town hall for those who who don't receive email. Uh but she is now going to work on this. This is through our website. Um so again, the the the cost is the total year one projected is prorate is 3124
going forward every year. $2374, which is a huge savings in the the the cost we do for the hard copies. >> It's it's through. So, we already have the website. It's just a little module through the website to be able to create these newsletters and send them
electronically. A ton of towns use the same uh the same method. >> Why does it have to be monthly? >> That was just a decision we made. It could be >> who we uh myself uh the administrator was in the meeting, Patty K was in the meeting
and the public information officer. We always talk about not getting out information in a timely basis. So now monthly residents could open it up and they could see activities that's going on in town. If the building department, the police department, any of the committees want to highlight anything, it's all going to be there. Again,
instead of waiting quarterly, we just thought it makes sense to do it monthly. >> I just wanted to I said she's going to start doing the newsletter through the electronic means. >> Will this put her over her hours?
>> No. >> Okay. >> How do you guys feel about it monthly? I mean, we barely sometimes have enough thought about if you don't want to do it monthly. >> Monthly, quarterly. Why do we have to have it every month? If you don't want to do it monthly, again, we're trying to bring awareness and information to the residents. If you want to do it
quarterly, that's fine. I just think I think monthly, especially in the summer when we have a ton of activities going on, don't we want to highlight that? That's just another area we could highlight instead of using social media, the website, email, the kiosk. Now, you got a newsletter. >> Well, we got like five different social
media things that people look at nowadays going on around town. >> But here's here's an official newsletter. >> How are you going to have enough information every month? official newsletter from the town I think adds a little more weight than some of the other avenues. But look, if you guys want to change it up, then
that's fine. I just think the goal is to be transparent and be and bring awareness to the to the public and this is another vehicle to do so. I >> mean, I'm all for the idea of not sending out the, you know, the quarterly thing and the uh order bills which are very expensive, but it's it's great idea
as far as I don't see the need for it to be out monthly. maybe bim monthly, quarterly, maybe bimonthly. >> I don't know how much information you could actually put out there. >> Well, I mean, even if it's a one pager with uh you know, she wants to highlight all the different committees. So, it' be a highlight of a committee. Uh whatever
important information the chief has, Joe has, or uh the building department has, we could highlight that and then do a a calendar of events. Again, in the summer, you know, there there's multiple events going on every day. >> Can't you do that now? >> But in what in what aspect? Right. You
could send out 50 different social media blasts and 50 different emails, but now you're having it in one newsletter. I just don't understand where the concern is, whether it's monthly or quarterly or whatever. >> Well, hold on. That's how much that's how it gets sent out, right? So, we're
gonna have to pay that. You realize the the you realize the significant savings in the paper newsletter versus the electronic. we're gonna have to pay that $2,000 for the electronic newsletter. So, we're still saving money regardless if it's regardless if it's monthly,
weekly, daily, we're still spending that $2,000. >> I'm all fine with that. But who makes a determination what gets on this newsletter or are we all >> she will reach out to the committable to submit something? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And the way we've been doing it now,
Kristen reaches out to all the different committees. >> Will she reach out to the committees? >> Yes. Yeah. >> If there's anything you want on it, just let me know and I'll make sure it's on the newsletter. >> Okay. >> All right. So, we're good. >> In this extra work, we'll not put her over. >> We will not put her over the 20 hours.
She does a very good job of managing her time even though she she's very busy. >> We couldn't send her to board event because her >> I think is a different principle altogether. Sorry. >> Um All right. So, do I I have a motion to approve consolation.
>> I'll second. Council Dixon. Yes. Counciloman Burns. Yes. >> Ramos. Yes. >> Council Cortez. >> Yes. >> Okay. Then there's two ordinances on the agenda. >> We have one for second reading and one
for first reading. The second reading I mean yeah second reading is going to be >> ordinance 2026 >> we go 202609 ordinance amending section 2-46 titled advisory committees. >> I'll open that up to public
participation hearing none. Can I get a motion to close second? Councilman Dixon. >> Yes. And before we finish the ordinance section, I have a question at the end of
this. Yes. On the second. >> Yes. >> Cortez. >> Yes. has been. Then there's ordinance 202610, an ordinance the burough pleasant beach, Ocean County, New Jersey to exceed
municipal budget appropriation limits and to establish cafe. >> Can I get a motion to introduce >> I'll make a motion introduced. >> Council Dixon. >> Yes. >> Council. Okay. So, the public hearing will be on
April 21st. >> Councilman Dixon, you had a question? >> Yeah, I have a question. Uh, at the last meeting, we brought up about the open space lowering it to a half a percent. And, uh, Councilman Burns and Councilman Ramos weren't here. So, you said you would bring it up at the next meeting. I
was just wondering why it was not in the ordinances on the agenda here. >> Well, we had said we were going to bring up an additional disc. We're going to bring it up for discussion again, right? Because we didn't have the full discussion. We're missing two council members. So that'll be on the agenda for next week.
>> Next week. Okay. >> Okay. >> I wanted everybody here. All right. Uh open up to second public three minutes. Anything you want to talk about, Joe? I agree. >> Thanks, Joe. Thank you. >> Thanks, Joe.
>> Dave. Dave. No, >> that Jensen already Jensen already has them in in place on Parkway. The Broadway >> they already have. >> They're there. >> Jay already have them there. the these these ballards are going on
Arnold Central and Broadway. >> Thank you. Anybody else hearing? None. Can I get a motion to close second public? >> Motion.
>> All in favor? >> Can I get a motion to >> I have a motion? All >> in favor. >> Sorry about that. >> Thank you.