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indivisible and justice for all call please FL council member bonis here council member Cassidy council member facy Blackwood here council member flis council member Jan here Deputy Mayor trano here mayor Portman
here okay thank you um whole bunch of proclamations is the season so let's get to it first up we have a proclamation for building safety
month whereas our burrow is committed to recognizing that our growth and strength depends on the safety and essential role our homes buildings and infrastructure play both in everyday life and when disaster strike and whereas our confidence in the resilience of these buildings that make up our community is
Achieve through the devotion of visual and Guardians building safety and Fire Prevention officials Architects Engineers Builders trads people assigned professionals laborers plumbers and others in the construction industry who work year round to ensure the safe construction of buildings and whereas
these Guardians are dedicated members of the International Code Council a nonprofit that brings together local state territorial tribal and federal officials who are experts in the built environment to create and implement the highest quality codes to protect us in the buildings where we live learn work
work and play and whereas these modern building codes include safeguards to protect the public from hazards such as hurricanes snowstorms tornadoes Wildland fires floods and earthquakes and whereas Building Safety month is sponsored by the International Code Council to remind
the public about the critical role of our community's largely unknown Protectors of Public Safety our local code officials who assure us of safe sustainable and affordable buildings that are essential to our prosperity and whereas Mission possible the theme for
building safety month 2024 encourages all of us to raise awareness about building safety on a personal local and global scale and whereas each year in observance of building safety month people all over the world are asked to consider the commitment to improve Building Safety resilience and economic
investment at home and in the community and to acknowledge the essential service provided to all of us by local and State Building departments fire prevention bureaus and federal agencies in particular protecting lives and property now therefore I William Portman mayor of the B Redbank to hereby
proclaim the month of May 2024 is building safety month accordingly I encourage our citizens to join us as we participate in building safety month activities I think we have uh Tony are you here here's the head of our building department set
thank you very much members of the council thank for your support to everybody building department and uh I think making Red Bank one of the safest communities in my County we try to do the best job we can and with your help we'll continue thank you
than no okay next up we have National Public Works week Proclamation for May 19th to the 25th 2024 advancing quality of life for all whereas Public Works professionals focus on infrastructure facilities and
services that are vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and to the Public Health by quality of life and well-being of the people of the burrow bread bank and whereas these infrastructure facilities and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of Public Works
professionals who are Engineers managers and employees at all levels of government and the private sector while responsible for rebuilding improving and protecting our nation's transportation water supply water treatment and Solid Waste Systems public buildings and other structures and Facilities essential for
our citizens and whereas it is in the public interest for the citizens Civic leaders and children in bre Bank to gain knowledge of and maintain an ongoing interest and understanding of the importance of Public Works and Public Works programs in their respective communities and we're as the year 2024
March the 64th annual National Public Works week sponsored by the American public works Association therefore P resolve D William Portman mayor of the burough of redb to hereby designate the week of n May 19th to the 25th
2024 as National Public Works week I urge all citizens to join with representatives of the American public works Association and government agencies and activities events and ceremonies designed to pay tribute to our Public Works professionals Engineers
managers and employees and to recognize the substantial contributions they make to protecting our health safety and advancing quality of life for all and Terence Walton our gpw director here Sharp with the
Tim right my thank you thank you mayor C on behalf of Public Works Department I just like to extend our heartfelt appreciation for all that you're doing and we just thank you and I want to say that um without the men and women of Public Works we wouldn't be able to
billing we continue to want to serve the residents of the community and it's also a pleasure to actually serve in the community where you were raised so which I'm a resident of thank you very much thank
[Music] laures okay uh Proclamation celebrating older Americans month 2024 whereas May is older Americans month a time for us to recognize and honor Red Bank older adults and their immense influence on every facet of
American society and whereas through their wealth of life experience and wisdom older adults guide our younger generations and carry forward abundant cultural and historical knowledge and whereas older Americans improve our communities through intergenerational relationships community service Civic
engagement and many other activities and we're as communities benefit when people of all ages abilities and backgrounds have the opportunity to participate and live independently and whereas the burrow of Red Bank must ensure that older Americans have the resources and support needed to stay involved in their
communities reflecting our commitment to inclusivity and connectedness and now therefore our mayor William Porton of the bur of Red Bank in M County you hereby Proclaim May 2024 as older Americans month this year's theme powered by connection emphasize the profound impact of meaningful
interactions and social connection on the well-being and health of older adults in our community I further call upon all residents to join me in recognizing the contributions of our older citizens and promoting programs and activities that Foster connection inclusion and support for older
adults St you oh where is he back oh yeah oh Tony Tony you want like this [Laughter] one I think according to the ARP I can I
can accept it I can accept it this point yeah one away Proclamation uh for the student Environmental Advocates and leaders program The Seal program whereas the Seal program offers eligible high school students a unique Leadership Learning Experience focused
on local environmental issues seal students collaborate with peers across Mammoth County through bimonthly Group Training sessions to learn the basics of community Grassroots activism and advocacy and how it can be achieved in their own schools communities and whereas topics presented in the training
sessions featuring experts in the field include but are not limited to Civics and the voting system environmental justice water quality environmental careers recycling crises crisis and Watershed mindfulness and whereas students make connections from the lessons to their local communities and
learn to make real change through problem-based learning in addition guest speakers included elect including elected officials Advocates and activists speak to the students to discuss successful strategies and campaigns to add real world context to the learning and whereas seal students
identify an environmental issue of concern in their communities they develop and Implement projects to engage their communities in solving this environmental issue they work on Outreach and communication and learn how to overcome hurdles and roadblocks depending on existing connections and
forming new connections from members of their Community to their fellow seal student peers seal students enhance their leadership skills by seeing a project all the way through and end the program with something to show for their hard work and commitment and whereas the mammoth County Seal program
is 37 students strong and among them is red bank's own Samantha Flores Castillo the only seal student to be part of the initiative for three years and we as Samantha work with alongside the Red Bank environmental commission to Champion the newly enacted legislation skip the stuff an ordinance
to reduce the amount of single use items for delivery and takeout items in Red Bank and now therefore I William bman mayor of the burough Red Bank on behalf of a proud Council and Community to hereby acknowledge and applaud the student environmental Advocates and leaders program forther efforts to
protect waterways using science law research education and citizen action May there so I had the pleasure of attending the seal graduation earlier at 5:30 and then I came over here uh so the Proclamation was presented uh to the
student and the Seal program uh just a little over an hour ago uh but Nancy if you want to speak to what Samantha did with the skip the stuff on shb AV um sure I'll be happy to speak on that um smithens has been involved with us uh the environmental commission for three
years so she's organized cleanups around town she has helped us with educating businesses about our plastic film recycling program and this year she assisted the environmental commi commission with um education on the skip
to stuff ordinance that has recently passed um she's very easy to work with she's pretty quiet but she does care very much about the environment so thank you congratulations Samantha I'm sorry I couldn't go to your graduation ceremony from seal but I'll see you around to
thanks yeah and she interpreted um for all the businesses on shrewbury Avenue about the new legislation making sure there was proper community outreach and you know people knew the changes that were coming so she is the only student to have been in the program for three years so they're very proud of her and regionally she is making bread Bank
extremely proud it's a very rich program so thank you for the proclamation mayor thank you guys next up is um Proclamation for garden for wildlife month whereas the burrow bread Bank recognizes that Wildlife species are
declining at an unprecedented rate globally there are over a million species endangered with Extinction and one-third of North American wildlife species are at an increased risk of Extinction in the coming decades and whereas the par Red Bank recognizes that human health ultimately depends on well
functioning ecosystems and that biodiverse regions can better support food production healthy soil and air quality and can foster healthy connections between humans and Wildlife anywh as the burough bread bank is working to build a healthy sustainable and Wildlife friendly community that
brings the many benefits of nature to all corners of our community and whereas Garden for wildlife month is a national initiative of the National Wildlife Federation that empowers Americans to support local Wildlife like birds and pollinators by planting native plants in their Garden
and throughout the community to help restore and connect habitat and whereas the burrow bread Bank supports and promotes Garden for wildlife month throughout the community and encourages residents to participate including certifying and maintaining their properties as a certified wildlife
habitat with the National Wildlife Federation and whereas the bur of Red Bank will continue to support local efforts that protect restore and conserve habitat and vital environmental resources as well as Foster a greater connection between residents and Wild life now therefore I William Portman by
virtue of the authority invested in me as mayor of the burough bread Bank to hereby Proclaim may as Garden for wildlife month in the burough of bread bank and encourage all residents to plant native plants and participate in community activities that support and celebrate healthy sustainable Wildlife
friendly communities thank you mayor thank you you are welcome the environmental commission thanks um we have two more I'm wondering if they went out on call La said the radio we're going off but we're um we're going to do EMS week
Proclamation we're as Emergency Medical Services is a vital public service and whereas the members of Emergency Medical Services teams are ready to provide life-saving care to those in need 24 hours a day 7 days a week and whereas access to Quality Emergency Care dramatically improves the survival and
recovery rate of those who experience sudden illness or injury and whereas Emergency Medical Services has grown to fill a gap by providing important out of hospital care including preventative medicine follow-up care and access to Tele medicine and whereas the Emergency
Medical Services System consists of First Responders emergency medical technicians paramedics emergency medical dispatchers firefighters police officers Educators administrators pre Hospital nurses emergency nurses emergency physicians train members of the public
and other outof Hospital medical care providers and whereas the members of eer Medical Services teams whether career or volunteer engage in thousands of hours of specialized training and continuing education to enhance their life- saving skills and whereas it is appropriate to
recognize the value and the accomplishments of Emergency Medical Services Services providers by designating the Emergency Medical Services week now therefore I William Portman in recognition of this event to hereby proclaim the week of May 19th through
the 25th 2024 as Emergency Medical Services week the 50th anniversary of EMS week theme is EMS week honoring our past oring our future I encourage the community to observe this week with appropriate programs ceremonies and
activities and finally thought Captain Breezy would be here to accept but alas he is not it is National Police Week May 12th through the 18th 2024 to recognize National Police Week 2024 to honor the service and sacrifice
of those law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty while protecting our communities and safeguarding our democracy whereas there are more than 800,000 law enfor law enforcement officers serving in communities across the United States including the dedicated members of the Red Bank police
department and we're asked there have been 43,6 49 assaults against law enforcement officers in 2021 resulting in approximately 15,36 69 injuries and whereas since the first recorded death in 1786 more than
23,000 law enforcement officers in the United States had made the ultimate sacrifice and been killed in the line of duty and we as the names of these dedicated Public Service are engraved on the walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington DC and 136 new names of
fallen heroes are being added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial this spring the service and sacrifice of allw officers killed in the line of duty will be honored during the virtual National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial funds 36th annual candalite visual on the evening of May
13 2024 and whereas May 15 2024 is designated as Peace Officers Memorial Day in honor of all fallen officers and their families and US Flags should be flown at half staff now therefore I
William Portman on behalf of the council and Community to hereby Proclaim May 15th 2024 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and May 13 through May 18th 2024 as police week and call upon all citizens to remember that peace officers who have
given their last full measure of Devotion to the line of duty and direct that the flag be flown at half staff on Peace Officers Memorial Day thank you to recognize uh patrolman Daren McConnell Jr who's representing Red Bank
in the police unit tour he's riding on a bicycle with other members of the police community over 300 miles down to Washington DC it's something that the police departments around the country do every year for that cite Visual and I
just wanted to recogniz gratulate every thank you Jim okay next up we have a a presentation from engenuity um on our lead service line replacement project for yeah Jaclyn you want to come on up
and let us know where we stand thank presentation I'm realizing how small the screen is so I apologize I should have brought one for each of you to be able to flip okay that's okay I didn't realize how small the screen was gonna
be um so basically want to come here today because you are aware we're just wrapping up the first phase of Leed service line replacement plan phase one and we want to talk to you about phase two and we want to make sure any questions you have regarding principle
forgiveness and we're going to throw around a bunch of terms I'm G to be able to answer all of that for to the mayor and Council if anyone else that has questions if you go to the next slide we're gonna first walk you through why we're doing this in addition to it being very important you know to place leg
service lines it was also Mand So today we're going to talk bit about just the overview I'm going to start with that and then we're going to get into the phase one just so you know where we're at with phase one it's wrapped up pretty much we're at 98% we're gonna have a punch list and a few more Restorations
and then phase one's done then we going to walk you through phase two so full understanding of everything so if you go to the next slide this is really the overview it's small but in July of 2021 you may recall we had to do a Le service line
replacement and engenuity work as paren is here we worked with your DPW we worked with um dpu Bobby holiday we went through all of your cap cards and we identified all of the unknown lead and
copper services within the burn and we itemized that in an inv recall we had to put together a plan on how the burrow was going to one figure out overall how many lead Services they had throughout the burrow but secondly how they were
going to replace and at least 10% a year of those known lead up until 2030 that was what was required by the state every municipality in New Jersey had to do that and they had to submit a plan what Redbank did was Red Bank went right after that plan and made sure that
they immediately went after ibank funding to start phase one that was very important because what's coming up next in October of 2024 so as you know you had to send letter certified letter to any known property that had lead when we
went through all those tab cards if it said lead those properties got a certified letter saying that you have a lead service sign and you can only imagine if you were one of those people that got that letter like you're wondering what's next right those
letters were based on T cards some of which if you had come to our offices and dpu and looked at the T card some of these T cards were 100 years old so it may have said lead but it's possible that you replace that service
in the last 100 years and perhaps the Burrow's records maybe someone did it without a permit who knows but just because it's said Le we need to verify whether or not you actually have le someone didn't come in and replace that coer service in but all those properties got
letters so by 2024 of October of 202 before in addition to the known Le you have to send certified letters to anything that's unknown so what the f wanted to do was get ahead of that and test pit the entire burrow so that you
didn't send people with unknown letter and caused that stress of maybe I have a lead service line it was more important to this burrow that you whether or not each resident or business had a leg service l so that was where we started
so that gets us through the first few bullets the first bullet talks about the overall plan second bullet talks about the federal lead and copper Ru revisions that require you to notify even unknowns come on third bullet talks about what we
already did so in addition to that first plan and Tom Branch submitted that to the state as required last um July showing the progress in so all of those requirements that were sets by the state
you've met met every single one you go to the next slide now we're in 2024 so now your updated lead service line inventory will be this July which will show the progress you've made and you've made a ton of progress we're
going to talk about that in a second and your progress report to show this is how many lead service lines that were found this is how many be replaced and then we also updated all of your GIS so in addition to just having the data on path cards what we did was
we scanned every one of those path cards we uploaded it into GIS so that parents can now go in click on a property or or Bobby holiday can click on a property and they know in real time what the service is there's even a map showing where the service is located if that map
existed in the rec so that's all been digitized for you as well so come this August so that LE service line replacement plan is due in July just like it was last year but it's going to be updated to show your
progress from August you'll have to send certified letters to any known legan anyone that you identify but you haven't replaced in addition to the ones that perhaps you identified and they haven't even been test again C
Cas so that's who's going to get certified letters come this August but come November because in October that the federal letting copper roles come into play you would have to send certified letters to anything that's still
unknown so that's why this phase two is really important we want to minimize how many unknowns there are we're going to try to test at the rest of the burrow before we hit that time frame where you would have to send letters now you
know we have to get approval for um to go out to bid on phase two yet from the but provided that that goes quickly then we're going to push on the contract we try to do as many of those test fits as possible to minimize who gets letters for an unknown the goal is to try to
only send letters to those that have Leed service lines that R them so this is where you're at as of May 2024 you have 1,999 roughly 2,000 that are still
unknown you have 1,419 non- Le meaning that it's it's copper another serves and you have 463 lead remaining wait till you see how many you've already replaced which is substantial for a total of
3,881 if you go to the next slide under your phase one you replaced 345 Le surface signes let's go so I mean that is that is impressive away the 10% that you were required to to do and a
result that's what your inventory and your let service line plan will show in addition to that so that's the good news the challenge was you did a th test pits and about 50% of them rep L that's
that's higher than anyone would have oreen or guessed at any other municipalities that that that's a high number but you had the funding to replace those and in fact under that first that first loan you were
originally approved up to 8.8 million now initially you started and said well we're into a phase one for 3.7 million you passed the bond and you didn't initially intend to go to that eight and after seeing the results of those test
pits we immediately went back to the and said can we can we go back up to that full amount that 8.8 you originally approved those school and theep and the ibank program said yes um and any lead service lines that were in that first
track that first census track that weren't done are going to immediately be done under this phase two so you can see in addition to that the original We awarded for the
2.6 we came to you for a change order to try to maximize under that first contract any web service lines if you recall and so basically on construction went out and did 100 more partials in order because only half of the half of the line was lead and the other half was
CAU so they went ahead and got ahead of that to so basically everything we could do with the funding under that first contract up to the maximum change order amount has been done so now it's time for phase two so we'll go into phase two
now oh before we go there final restoration we're about 98% complete with the final restoration as you know because Montana they had until August to finish the project they flew ahead and they worked very quickly and they did
the test fits quicker than August but they did them over the winter and you can't do concrete repair and you can't plant grass wi so as soon as the weather broke in the spring they had to catch up on all of those Restorations which I know caused a little bit of a that in
the beginning because people see dirt in their front yard and want to know why isn't that restored it was the middle of the winter so they had to wait till spring and then they had to catch up and do all of this restoration so they're about 98% complete on the Restorations just a few areas of concrete replacement
still have to be done plus punch list and then that first if you go to the next slide so this is the phase two program so you know we talked a lot about sensus tracks and why would you divide it phase one phase two I'm going to get into that
and explain the formula that the EP and the ibank program follows to determine who gains 50% principal forgiveness and who just gets low interest loan zero interest we're g to walk through all that so that it makes
sense and um it's it's an actually pretty simple formula and I have all the data here if you you wanted to ask any questions on on the numbers I have that as well but basically anything in that first census track 803 400
gets 50% principal so what that means is you get a loan you don't have to pay back 50% of it so you're getting half of that money as if it was a grand so you're getting 50% principal forgiveness for anything you do in that sens so there's in that because of how many lead
service lines we found there's still 152 full lead service line Replacements 48 partials that need to be replaced the estimate on that's about 1.8 million that's all in your phase two program
we're going to break that out in a proposal there gonna be proposal a proposal B in that bid so that the funding isn't mixed so it's very clear anything on this bid sheet you're getting 50% that's going to make Tom's life a lot easier and then anything on
bid proposal B you're not going to get for this on that's basically anything in your other three sens TRS okay so proposal be we're going to test pit the remaining 2,000 locations which is the remainder of the burrow and then we
built in about 75 uh water service Replacements that are mainly for emergencies because what happens is when you go to do that test pit if it's lead it's usually very old and it's it it doesn't always her box
doesn't always hold together and sometimes you get a leaker and if you get a leaker you can't just go in and repair it if you know it's lead kind of got to replace it right so you're not going to repair a lead service L replacement it doesn't make sense to spend the money to repair something that
you know you're going to come back and replace so we have the 75 in there so that if we get a leaker we're going to replace so that's that's what those 75 and then we'll come back for a phase three program and start planning for the remainder of the lead service lines that
we identify in the space to and so that's pretty much you know on on your bid proposal B that's going to be in your phase two program that's estimated about 2.5 million some of the tracks in there qualify for no interest portion um
and we're going to go through that in a second but the remainder are very low interest Lo luckily Tom's here I didn't know Tom was gonna be here so he can answer all kinds of questions on rates basically it's a really good um so if you go to the next
slide this will kind of explain the phase one phase two where those boundaries were so as I mentioned even though that pink location is your phase one there are going to be in phase two the remainder of the lead service lines that we found are going to be replaced
okay everybody follow me so far y so these are the sensus tracks and I have the data here if you want any questions I didn't want to put like me median income levels for a whole I didn't know if that could offend anybody so basically I can give you the numbers
if you want them but let's just say that the state median household income is 85,000 and if you were 80% of that if the median of a census track was 80% of that or less you got
50% if it was 60% of that or less you got 75% forgiveness starting this F schal year the first sensor track the one that's green when you do the calcul I'm going to walk you through was a 75 okay so
you're basically below that 80% it's I can give you the numbers it's it on average it's a low and there's other things too that the state looks at in addition to looking like when when they're looking at principal forgiveness
it's it's really three things they're looking at the median not the mean the mean would be the average the median kind of takes away those two outliers does the median It's All Coming Back to Me and um and then it looks at also unemployment rate so you know the for
the state it's 3.4 the unemployment rate in the county so it's actually higher but in the burrow you're actually with the exception of that one census track you're below the unemployment rate for the other three census
tracks that you did phase one you're at 8. so you know all of it starts to make sense on why you got 50% principal forgiveness in that one location and lastly they look at um population Trends
so they look at the population trend of the state which is 3% growth in population overall for the state and then they look at those sensus tracks so ironically the other three sensor tracks
the population's decreasing whereas the first track the one that was phase one is the only location where the population is increasing and it's above the state average so you know those are the metrics all that's GIS it's all public information you can go on GIS and
but basically that's that's how the state calculates you know it's a formula it's not subjective on where you get principal forgiveness and and so ultimately you know these are all state slides this one here that gets into the
affordability score 5 or less versus 80 or less so your one that phase one was in the 80 or less category which is where you got your and that last one which is where the remainder of your census tracks fall is under a 100 which you had one then you U no interest 75%
of it's no interest La so you're still going to get better financing on the one census track and then the other two you're over you're over 100 you're over you're doing better than the median of the state and those other two set tracks in which case you're not going to get
princi forgiveness and you're just going to get a low interest and that's basically this slide which is very small just gives you that formula and you know I have the numbers here if anyone wanted to see more data but that's basically that's basically
the program So the plan is phase two right now we submitted a D um and the ibank they're reviewing the environmental report they basically look at make sure that you know they look at flood Hazard areas they look at historic
properties and if there's any historic properties that we're going to test pit they want to make sure that we follow the historic rules you know there's a bunch of back and forth on the environmental decision document then there'll be SE requirements um on top of that that they're also going to R and then they'll
authorize us to go out the bid so that's where we are in the process um Jim Gant P myself and our team had a meeting with the last week it went very well um you know asking if they could please review this quickly because B wants to go out
the b as soon as possible they were excellent with the burrow they've been I I can't say enough good things about the ibank and the EP with with Red Bank they've been you know really attentive and so that's that's where we're at as soon as we get authorization to go out
the bin then the Project's going to start question and thank you excellent yeah seriously um so our initial ibank loan we got was 8.8 million spent done with no you only so even though you were
authorized to 8.8 million I think initially pass a bond for 8.8 million without even knowing what you have yet it was you know instead the decision as we were looking at the numbers was to start with where you could get 50%
princip so rather than go to a you know go in all in on that first program we had meetings with d tried to convince them to give us principal forgiveness for the whole burrow there was no it's a formula they they couldn't make an
exception but what they could do because initially they looked at the entire birth and if you averaged all the census tracks you wouldn't have gotten any principal so they were excellent by allowing you to break out one census track I thought that that was
accommodating and when they did that we started there so that's why your first program was like it it started at I think we estimated it at 3.2 million and it actually came in under bid it came in at 2 seven but then you had room then in your bond because it came in lower than
our estimate so there was a change order for 400,000 to really just maximize what you could do under that and then towards the end of last year if you remember you passed the second bond in order to go up to that 88 million so that you could do this second phase and so that's where
you're at so you have 8.8 million in the loan your bonding also gets you there which enables you to do both B RS so after we have completed leadline replacement in that census tract what what do we do know what the
total cost of that will be you I mean you're waiting on a b 1.8 million for the first the first track yeah that first track would be about 1.8 more is what we're estimating if you go back several slides to the one that has the a and B broken
out that the remainder of the of that first sensus track to finish the lead service lines and that would be another 1 it'll be about four about 4.8 is the total for that track yes half of which is forgiven by the I Bank
okay and then the remainder the 2.5 will be for the test pits now you'll have a little more you know room but there's you know the Soft C the engineering cost Bond counsil fees and everything so we like to leave a little bit of room and then again if there's
money still remaining up to that 8.8 maybe there'll be an opportunity to do a change order in some more service signes but we don't want to get ahead of ourselves we want to be conservative in case you know there is I know I know Ben has a question Ben let me just ask one if you don't mind um and what's our
projected timeline for the completion of the program so last year we allowed a year uh so we went out the bid and um I think it was around July last year gave them until August and they're done and it's May right so we're gonna we're
gonna give the same amount of time because it's it's a twice as twice as uh large of a program so last time we did a thousand test pits but we had more lead service lines built into that last
program so we did 345 and then a met on top of that um so it's a it's 2,000 pits and only 73 Replacements so we're still going to allow a year and our hope is we get a you don't know what bidder you're gonna get but we had a really great
group of bids last time you this project got attention from a lot of the really large companies that were interested um in trying to do these programs and a lot of them are able to do them very fast so we will allow a year we're going to set
interim Milestones because we know about when we have to get the letters out then we have to make it realistic we know on average they did about 30 a day Tate so we have to see when we get we got to do the math and make sure
we don't set an unrealistic timeline H because what that will do is it will increase the number of crws and it could make cost go up right so we'll have to look at the timeline and set a realistic timeline but overall I think you should be looking at a year Max for this a year for this phase or year till where year
for this for this second phase and then you're going to have identified what service lines you're G have to come back and do and and then you're gonna need to make a decision you're gonna need to decide am I only going to do 10% a year now because I have till 2031 or am I gonna want to do
a bigger program yeah so those be decisions for after you get the results of your B to thank you mayor of course I'm always going to wait for you to ask your questions first you're the mayor um so I just wanted to comment on
loc Avenue where I live in you CH the line on our house I was I was very impressed with the whole how fish and everything ran little messy for a while but it's very fast but um so is there I know you're talking about the EP tests and what not is there U any measure that
you have of how much less lead is in our drinking water now in our household we on all of our drinking water um already because we really was led in the water um how much you know you have any grasp
of how much don't there is indidual household household it definitely isn't in the main it isn't in your in you're drinking water in the ve it would really you would almost have to test it within your individual household if you had L it it after it leaves the Bane and
enters the service into that house that Mak sense it does I'm glad I thought there are water thank you any else have a question I do um thank you very much for the presentation and as someone who's LED service line to
get replaced I want to say thank you the service was quick efficient and um I saw the crews working um would you be would it be safe to say that we are exceeding the state's minimum requirements for
completing this Pro Pro by far okay then that's really great and what I also appreciate is that that the lead service line data is being putting in put into GIS and I think that's wonderful so thank you very much so one assuming we were going full
board with this project to finish it as quickly as possible I guess we need to wait and see the results of these test pits to get an idea of when we're going to have a completion date mainly because last time we made an assumption on percentage and so I mean initially I would say
based on other locations where we're doing blood service slide and test fting we were seeing numbers like 15 20% we saw 50% you know now the housing stock in the first location was older housing stock I mean I think there's been more
turnover in properties on the other census tracks so hopefully we're going to go down to more of a reasonable 15 to 20% but we're doing doing 2000 test pits even if you only find 15% you're be
at but some of those are already identified SL so it's not necessarily adding to that number so I think what's going to happen is once we get through the second phase we'll know exactly what those numbers are and then you'll have to look at those and make a decision on
you you're well ahead of where you needed to be with the 10% per year you you blown that way but just from Burrow's standpoint do you want to do X number this year the following year and that's that's going to be a council decision person concerned with
meetings yeah anyone else have a question I just wanted to compliment you and your team again this has been really a great example of how a project should be done I mean Beyond presentation today the coordination that was done on the ground with this I'm in the first track
I'm on the west side and um the communication that was on the ground the people that came to my door everybody who I I spoke with there was clear communication I was test pitted and then when they went to go place that they found that it had place but it was over a couple feet from where the old on and
there was a lot of there was a lot of that uncertainty and there was a lot of pivoting that has to happen with these projects and I just feel like as messy as it is you know we all realize the importance of like the marriage being sa drinking water um and I'm just really
pleased with the speed and the you know the overall organization of all this so congratulations to you and your team it's really exemplary jaff I just want to give you the opportunity to state that engineu just received an award oh yeah receive
you right through New Jersey Alliance for Action right for this project for this the B as well as and Montana from Alliance for Action basically for uh Capital inment project did we sell the award to
get a couple more leadline Replacements in there just I I'm no and also engineu was recognized as 2024 small business prime contractor of the Year correct and I think it's important for the public to know that Ingenuity is a Red Bank
engineering civil engineering company so have from the Galleria you have been overly communicative with me which is very much appreciated um and I can't thank you enough for being just so professional through this entire process
and being here for all of us as you know people that need to get the information out to the public you always had took the time provide an answer after hours we text we call you know it's it's very much appreciated so thank you thanks thanks thank you I think
that's it yeah know um before we get to the next item I just um and maybe Kate will speak to this a little bit more we just found out before the council meeting that a longtime
resident Red Bank Danny Murphy passed away um Danny steakouse I know he just sold the business so um Danny was a great guy I I I met him a few years before I ran um just warm and supportive
and yeah it'll be it's a loss a loss for the burrow so um maybe we could just have a moment of silence for for D thank you okay um can I have a motion to open the floor for public comments on agenda items only
I accept a motion have a second second all in favor I so again as uh as the agenda States um opening up the floor now for public comments just on agenda items and this is a pack agenda so uh I look forward to your questions and
comments floor is yours yes Jimmy Jimmy you got a comment what that's crazy come on I couldn't get it in last week because it's something that somebody
mention somebody mention something hold do the yes I get the last one at the end it's Jimmy dark what's to that the comment I wanted
oh I want the F manager you said you talking about PR what is PR Men last you started there gonna be a new job about PR right public relations
what is that dealing with just our way of communicating directly to the public in a much more efficient way um but if you that's $9,000 right that's the max there's a
range I'm saying this is a long thing because I have to talk about this person is what is he gonna tell me is he gonna go out in the public tell me something that something already some
people been here almost 100 years they you know they can tell you a whole lot of things you know da da but my thing is yeah isn't that an awful lot to be giv up you know making and then I I sort of
did my homework they said a lot of towns a lot of towns really don't have PR person and they were saying what do you really need a PR person if you have uh like a person like you you you know you're new here you only been here four months so basically
if you out in out in the public you know riding the bicycle driving around you get to know more people around here in a question me right CU I mean throughout New Jersey is very big and throughout from the east coast to the West Coast and I had asked
they said you know what we don't even have that we have basically they said it's like a a girl manager or whatever you want manager and that that's all we really need because the pr person is not GNA know everything he say I get back
you just like you come here so I'll get back to you in two weeks I'll get back to you in three weeks and my thing is that's you know you're gonna put the taxpayers F you know instead of staying out of thatb that's gonna go deeper into
thatb because they come to meeting if it be in a Tri City newspaper it's on the internet and you say it has to be bilingual but basically I'm just going to tell you cell phone somebody told me you can get everything out of this cell on and they said I'm going show you all
languages hit but I mean think if you have that's like what you talking about this PR person when you mention something like this it should be paperwork posted about this and it makes it EAS because this town shouldn't have to keep going deeper into that it's only
a small shoe box it's not like North New Jersey something like that because he's G whoever this first comes about going to be put with questions that he cannot answer and he can't say
I'll do that to you in weeks and um that's too much debt I think you should back off of that because you know taxpayers money has been thrown thrown away too deep and I mean this it's going on too long and I think that should just
be ER Ras TR person I might have question for him he might go one on answer that's fine I appreciate the comments thank you yeah and I'm and um the other question I want to ask for I think I'll do that when public comments
come out but this is the main one because I say taxes that's going is is out of gr unnecessary things I'm speaking myself unnecessary thing shouldn't be hit like this because you know making up something that you don't
need because they you got these all y'all set up on this board any question can uh come up here you here Monday and you come in here and ask you the question because you're the manager I might come to you I have been just like
sitting here now now you can't you say I can't answer that question and I shouldn't have to wait a month or two I've been here a 100 years I said well this man been here I've been here 100 years that's the easiest question to ask but you
can't keep going on this stock you know I mean stacking with death against people thank you thank you anyone else have a comments on agenda items yes
there an ordinance um adjusting the two minute 5 minute R but it also said you have to give addresses people aren't giving their full addresses so if you don't give your full address are you not allowing people to talk or are they just let to say I'm this FR number one number two um delivery
truck Spell delivery Tru is spelled wrong in the ordinance regarding the trailers and the the 10,000 pounds um I don't some in front of me I and also I was kind of want some clarification on that because it's saying trailers but then you're
specifically saying uh trailers po what if you have trailers for Jessies or some people can use trailers for other things or you just St in trail regarding Boots the um I think the number before that it was
eventally trailers too so you can have trailers or and you can't have with boats so I can have Trail R JIS so it seems a little weird why you purp are we against quotes that was in addition to language not yeah
I I mean so the the delivery is not misspelled it's it's liery cabs so it's people that picked up people for fairs so that that is intentionally spelled that way um you're not allowed to have boats or jet ski is considered a boat it's got a whole number it's got to be registered
just like a boat so you can't have trailers with watercraft on the street probably could had the word watercraft if that was made it more clear raise a decent point that people might try to use that as a loophole I believe that language was taken from Long Branch is that correct yes yeah uh and you at this
moment um you can have trailers attached to vehicles that do not have watercraft on them you can not have an unhitched trailer which is consistent with the prior Linings that we passed last time that helps okay so I can have a truck with a trailer
um on the street at this Accord in this version of the ordinance which is I believe is on for Workshop I don't think it's being Workshop yeah we're going to discuss the parameters of the ordinance as written right now allows you to keep a trailer that's attached to a vehicle that's capable of moving that trailer um
on the street provided that it doesn't have a watercraft on it so that's currently how it's written given that we know we have a bunch of business owners with trailers around town that aren't just going to disappear and I think that was going to be the subject of our Workshop what we might do with that Creative Solutions something we might do
to um you can kind of see us now read the box like so you saw the unhitched trailers now you're seeing these oversized vehicles and then the next step is really um it would be ideal if we could get the trailers all the trailers off the street but they're not just going to disappear so before we
push them in weird places around town and pass it ordinance I left it that way as we go through the layers of regulation on this issue over the course of the last several months and I know I actually told the council to think about what they might do with it so yes hope
you got some good ideas for tday [Music] sorry the other thing I want to know I'm sorry I don't me to interrup you uh I just want to make sure that I'm clear for the public since reporters here and stuff this is only overnight parking so it's not like
you can't leave your trailer out front of the house to load up something to go to the you know Maes or something like that this is only for overnight from 7 to 7: oh the Airbnb um that's on the agenda so it's saying that you have to
um a live there how would you and also something about parking that you have to list the number of parking spots and there still available parking on the premises that you can park on the street um how do you monitor all that like how do you know I have that a room and I'm
going to rent it out you know run out all three rooms and say I live there but I'm really not living there on paper how you monitoring that P code Code Enforcement yeah it's typically honestly done by complaint
it's not like we're serving search war in on people's houses to see if they're renting rooms out if someone you know has a room and they have a problem there's a roommate issue and the police get called and the code will be there to follow up to find out what exactly the housing situation is is there that's typically how it happens and it is kind
of interesting you wrote in there about obviously you have no violations I a complaint that's the that's the ordinance that's written that was adopted as of early 2023 so the only changes that are in the ordinance that's on there tonight um are fun are one
you're allowed to rent out a room in a single f up to two rooms in a single family home um where you occupy the rest of the home uh and it eliminates the zoning restrictions and then Le all the other own occupied aspects in place also
strengthens certain aspects of the ordinance yes and our Cod was having trouble enforcing this so we actually um this is both a policy uh issue um the mayor is order occupied is very important to the mayor in terms of making it affordable for people if they
need to use their house in a creative way um but on the flip side our Code Department we had a meeting with a prosecutor here in the town who was having difficulty because if you read it close the way it was the exceptions don't really match up from section B to
section c and so people were using the gray areas when they got to court as a loophole um so if you notice there's a lot of like language it doesn't on its face it doesn't make a lot of sensor a policy standpoint as to why there's language changed in B and why C is crossed out but it's fundamentally because that makes it clearer for our
people to enforce they had a problem within in court because there some of the converse between B and C didn't match back to the enforcement which is obviously important is who how do code find out that there's a violation is it it's usually A disruption I mean just
this you know the same way code finds out you have many violations you know code doesn't know you have Bo bamboo in your backyard so it grows under the fence and it's through the neighbors of O ground pool you know um there is there is not proactive house searches or what have you um and in the single family
context you're not going to have regular life Hazard inspections by by the fire marshall so it's going to be about basically on a complaint basis if there's a problem with the way someone's Opera the code will go out and we have an administrative search bar if necessary to see so follow then
um assuming between police C so Saturday or Sunday that already exists if they get a noise complaint and they believe it's an Airbnb they leave it for Frankie and Tom for lond War we're over three minutes sorry Sue I
know that was very informative um but the last thing I was going to say I I know we're going to be have opportunity to talk on this more but there's also going to be a licensing procedure now is that correct yes okay so that's also a big change that I wanted to highlight the licensing of the current is kind of
elery so now now it'll be real be real yeah thank you yes Chris Havens 11 River Street Red Bank um terrific about the impound lot SED it's
just to be clear it's been there we're just renewing the lease the in my neighborhood side segue though I'm glad the council is very carefully dealing with the trailers that are left over
down the street by my neighbors who use this a lot of [Music] lar neighbors have we have great Neighbors I'm glad you're approaching this very steadily on the um on the Airbnb I think
it's terrific what you're doing the ordinance thank God that the last Council even ordinance was very faulty stopped Pro airbnbs say be devastating the public rental sta did that that's why people
don't do it traffic parties things soon talked about homeowners next door on safe fire sprinklers tough on the hotels so thank God we're doing it the way you're suggesting we do it where people can do it in their home and register that's it's super important remaining
rental stock majority of units on the west side are rented so it's uh it's very important um chicken legal fantastic da and my lawyer rais chicken so what can I say um lot of stuff
tonight uh of the weed stores here glad is Cap three really important but also in favor of the taxes really want that money to come in for us that's ter and last but not least I want to compliment Montana
construction but last but not least great to see about the film stuff that you're following up get involved in that red bank is definitely ready for a flips on Mr and I want to give an Oscar to the council uh and the mayor for the work
they've done the last 12 months I've bet done more than 12 months than previous five years in city council thank you thank you for your comments yes I live on Oakland Street um I do live next door to an Airbnb and I just
wanted to get some clarification on the owner occupancy right now it is owned by an LLC so what is stopping his wife from changing her address and getting mail sent there to make it seem like she lives in the residence because the the
fine is nothing to this man he charges over $800 a night for this Airbnb so the fine he'll pay that in no this this this won't be a fine you you're you're going to be not allowed to have an Airbnb if it's not owner occupied how would that
be enforced because he's already has several complains and they're still yesterday we're just introducing the ordinance so it's not a law yet so this is the first reading and then in two weeks hopefully it'll be passed um so if it if it is found out like let's say
like his wife just makes that her address but it's still an Airbnb and they're they're actually live in a different town how would that be enforced I mean there's a couple ways listen if we see this is one half of a duplex this is the other half of your right so if it's a duplex and we know
the owner living in one side and the other half is posted on Airbnb for rent clearly you know this is not owner occupied it's defeating the the purpose of the ordinance then the ordinance specifically defines it that may very well be an issue of fact if there's a
court proceeding if there summons is issued and there's a trial in connection with that then that would be part of the determination by the judge who will be sit in the mayor's seat on a different day um during business hours but it's defined in the ordinance it says Prin principal residents the address one
where at least one of the property owners spends the majority of his or her non-working time it also includes the principles of an LLC um as well just so you know like you could own your house at an LLC and live there as long as your name you'd have to bring in your business registration certificate and
then um getting back to this but anomer time two which is most clearly the center of isor her domestic life and three which is identified on his or her license or state of identification card as being his or her legal address all the above requirements must be met for an address to cute princi principal
residents for the purposes of this section so U the answer is the judge at the end of the day a judge would decide you'd have to sit up here under oath in one of these chairs and testify to it and bring your proofs and the judge would determine whether you're in violation or not I'd also note that the
the violation is $2,500 per day um in this ordinance so it is a substantial you know it's this is a housing issue and the and the fines for people R housing that's unsafe or otherwise not registered or not comined life issue when there's parties on a a
week on a Wednesday night and you're telling people to please be quiet and they're like screaming at you that's why we want to fix it my hometown too it's not fun you know this is the first step towards trying to
cap thank you thank anyone online J there's one more person here I just one one second hello yes hi this is uh Matt T 153 Hudson Avenue I know this picture
doesn't look like me but um is meure you so um anyway I want to commend the council um for this Str Str legislation I think the smartest thing that this Council has done Visa this legislation
is to introduce a licensing procedure this licensing procedure is Paramount not only will it be bring Revenue to the municipality but it gives us a an ironclad way to enforce the policies
associated with this legislation I was originally raising my hand to suggest such a licensing measure um but I'm glad to see that uh it's already been um discussed and uh put into the document
so thank you for that that's my only comment great job guys have a good night good evening Cindy Burnham uh 71 Wallace Street so over the last few weeks I've
called and reported um that one of the airbnbs um has been renting it out and maybe this is what brought you guys to this um tweaking I believe he's the
one who I believe he's the one who came to court and found the loophole who the person you reported he's he's the person I believe that we had an issue enforcing it against and that's why we're that's why okay okay so let's just say um you know
this thing doesn't pass till uh the next council meeting what if this guy is RS out his Airbnb again you know it's illegal it's in a residential Zone what do we do do we call the police
if it's off hours if you think there's another violation of the ordinances or laws that is happening as a result of that rental then you can certainly absolutely call the police department or code you know your can on
the front lawn noise loud music any of those whether it's your own house or rental or well just that it's an illegal use going on no so that that's what I'm telling you is that the judge had difficulty finding that with the current wording of the ordinance which is why
we're changing it a lot you know changing a lot of it tonight more more than would be necessary just to make it in own P exception you can see in sections B and C of section two there's a lot of changes because um that gentleman of V cler attorney here at
court so we're GNA have to close the loophole okay thank you thank you anyone else yes sir good evening John yourish 38 Washington stre I'm not sure I understand what the
council's motivation to the airbnbs is certainly there are so many issues with it and such great risk to the fabric of neighborhoods there's Airbnb on my street also that has lots of parties and
I don't know you know calling the police and having people hold into court seems only like it's tact to consist more I just don't understand why for the good of a few many of us have to suff so the the uh ordinance that we are
amending um I think does a few things one because we have the owner occupied um clause in there um I don't think you're going to be having these party houses you're going to literally have a a homeowner who's Maybe in the duplex
and he's running out the other half who on site um one of the reasons that we wanted to give people the ability to do this is um as property taxes go up as housing costs go up we heard a lot of testimony last year we were doing this
from we heard from a single mother who's hey sometimes I rent out a room in my house because I have to make my mortgage payment there was a woman who said I'm a senior citizen and I'd like to rent out my a room in my house for actors that coming in for the Two River theater and they're here for a week or two weeks or
three weeks or traveling nurses that are working over here at the hospital so um it's a way for people to ideally bring in some extra income and get through some tough times it's one of the reasons we want to maybe revisit the accessory dwelling unit law where people are
allowed to build a you know a motherinlaw house they call it in a back or an apartment over a garage so that's the real Drive I think that I I do think the owner occupied laws is really going to eliminate the the the partying and
quality of life issues May if I could also follow to it's important if you understand what we can do we're not allowed to just outright ban short-term rentals The District Court of New Jersey is determined that's taking a property that's in kind of the just compensation so it's important that you understand we
can't just stop right then owner occupy is the most stringent ordinance out there that hasn't yet been struck down so asber park has it um this is pretty much as stringent as we're legally all to make it under the current law and whether this survives as a surviving
right now this is a very obviously as you can imagine with airbnbs becoming popular only the last short turn rentals short excuse me shortterm rentals sorry we get sued by Airbnb right and or or we should get a promotional fee um with short-term
rentals you can only you know I just want you know we not allowed to just out B them a taking but that's what the federal courts ruled so this is pretty much as far as we can go there a process or an option to revisit if things AR going well always yeah thank you in fact
that's what we're basically doing with the the unhit TR ordinance it's you know tweaking it tweaking it tweaking it so thank you anyone else hi um I live at Oakland Street in town um um to the same questions you
just St your for yes uh to the questions that have been raised before and like the comparison of like it's like bamboo growing under a fence it's not um these short-term rentals are typically available online like you can see them
right now you could pull up a short-term rental website and see however many are available in Red Bank I think get oscillate somewhere between eight and 10 um so will the enforcement of the ordinance uh be proactive will you be
reaching out to the owners of those properties they're pretty easy to find out where they are um based on those listings will you be reaching out to the owners will be will you be looking through tax records to proactively address this
um personally I would like this to be proactive on this and to get easy to DET should be check the address know a letter goes out violation so in beach towns they they what you're
talking about is proactive enforcement essentially they do do proactive enforcement in beach towns when they have their Beach toown usually hires four or five more code officers for the summertime though and then one of those people is assigned to it but so I defer to Jim as to
whether the code enforcement has the resources or it was periodic or that yeah I think part of this is the the teeth that we're giving to our actual Enforcement Officers um it'll be my recommendation that we are proactively
searching for these things and that's something that we discussed as well and I think that it's important that they're proactively looking for violations in the burrow oftentimes code is riant on the community reporting things to us but it's still is their job to go out drive
around look for things this isn't one of those things that's seen as far as like T grass but it should be a function of their responsibilities to search for code violations and where they exist in
town and enforce them so it will be an expectation once I can give them the teeth to do so just want to reiterate that you know when we were up on this day before dealing with this um and I didn't
support it was because there were concerns that it was not enforceable as written I stated that it was not enforcable as written and it was going to hurt the people that we don't want to hurt because of these larger narratives about there are some truths about airbnbs right we look at cities look at
affordability look at gentrification what short-term rentals but I'm saying the truth is about airbnbs I said that the way I wanted to there are truths about airbnbs but we weren't thinking about those short-term rental people and it wasn't balanced legislation it wasn't
enforcable for the people that were getting hurt that are here speaking today they couldn't enforce it so it wasn't enfor ible and it was not helping the people that need help in the town so we have to be able to hold two things in our hand at the same time that these two
things are both being addressed in one in one ordinance um I know that there's these larger narratives about housing and airbnbs and how they hurt them but as was said before visiting nurses visiting actors that need longer terms day people that want to rent out of room
for those people they're not staying at the Molly or the oyster for three weeks okay none of us could afford that so we need to be mindful of the working class as well and when you take away these these rights what it does to
them anyone else have a comment on agenda items only can you can you hold it can you hold it till the the public comment at the end as well um any I did want to make a comment because I don't know if all these people we hear
when we speak later on councilman Forest um I wasn't a councilman when the ordinance the flaw ordinance which essentially was in my opinion a ban although of course it's illegal to do a uh I was in the audience and I was very
um and I ran on it I I am okay with owner occupied um for a couple reasons um you know obviously we'll be visiting if it's a problematic thing I heard both sides of it as I was here as a resident
you know I'm my wife and I could have struggles in our retirement we're not too far away could it be that we might rent an air I don't want I want to say I don't want to get my colleagues upset short-term rental um I mean I could conceive it
happening in our house we've traveled to many places and taken advantage of airbnbs whether it be Paris or domestic um I do think they need to be regulated and under the current ordinance it was just a mess um I do like the fact that you have to
register uh I do like that most powerful to me is that you have to live in that residence so a lot of the testimony I remember hearing as a resident and even tonight had to do with lack of supervision problems um also by the way
if some airb B owner is irresponsible responsible and allows Reckless Behavior they will have their right to their Airbnb license pull I think it's two offenses basically as I have call reading the ordinance um and it is you know in
taking we can't just just B so I think it's better to regulate it pretty strictly I think this is a reasonable compromise I do not want investment properties that are just airbnbs that you know the owners don't come here they don't live in Red Bank whatever it is
that is is a disaster and uh another concern to me is the effect it has on the cost of housing in town uh and lastly we are a destination town we have amazing things happening in Red Bank this is a we have theaters here I go to
the theater I know what I'm talking about uh a lot of people come to this town because in fact to some extent um sometimes we're too successful in Red Bank I moved in when it was uh the nickname was dead Bank in 1996 and now
our town is thriving amazing place to be with lots of things happening and um I think having Air shortterm Rentals some option for short-term rentals conservative approach where it's
regulated and owner occupied I think is a reasonable step and I do plan to vote yes thank you very much Mr Mayor thank you and Jimmy said someone else online yeah hi there I was curious if I missed the public comment section of the agenda
oh no well we're in public comments for agenda items only right now there'll be another open public comment closer to the end of the meeting awesome here I'll wait for that thank you Council thank you anyone else before we close the public
comments no can I have a motion to close the public comment on agenda items only except your motion I have a second second all in favor I I okay um I have a motion to approve minutes from
42524 so moved I have a second second all in favor I all right we got a bunch of ordinances to get through first up um public hearing and Adoption of 20246 approving a 2-year lease agreement
for an approximately 5,000 square foot fenced in portion of real property located at 208 South Pearl Street Red Bank New Jersey for the public P purpose of a police in pound yard can I have a motion um to open the public hearing on this ordinance only so move to have a
second all in favor I anyone want to add anything about the impound yard we need it well said can I have a motion to close the public hearing on this ordinance only so moved I have a second second all in favor
I okay um can I have a motion to adopt ordinance 20246 who Moved can I have a second second roll call please Laura council member Bonas yes council member Cassidy yes council member facy Blackwood yes
council member Forest yes council member janon yes Deputy Mayo yes may Portman yes motion pass sir thank you next up public he an adoption for 20247 ordinance amending chapter 355 filming to update the Burrow's
commercial film making regulations to seek film ready certification from the New Jersey motion picture and television commission can I have a motion to open the public hearing on this ordinance only so moved have a second second all in favor I
anyone can I have a motion to close the public hearing on this ordinance only I have a second second all in favor I I have a motion to adopt um 202 24-17 all moved have a second second
roll call please council member bonatakis yes council member Cassidy yes council member facy Blackwood yes council member flis yes council member janon yes Deputy Mayor Triano yes mayor Portman yes FAS sir thank you and again I want to recognize uh Council M Cassy
for his hard work on getting this ordin together thank you sir and Mr Mayor before we move on to the next ordinance I want to again note my recusal from uh from from voting on this uh particular ordinance mine as well
okay by the way Dave just graduated law school just I just like how you just pop that in the middle he like Dave is taking his bar in for the seventh time right okay um so transparent next up is a public hearing and Adoption of 20248
amending chapter 64 fire department to revise the annual eligibility requirements for the Burrow's length of Service Awards program for volunteer firefighters can I have a motion to open the public hearing on this ordinance only I make such motion I have a second
second all in favor I I can I have a motion to close the public hearing on this ordinance only I make such a motion can I have a second second all in favor I can I have a motion to adopt ordinance 20248 I'll make such a motion can I have
a second second all right roll call please council member Onis yes council member Cassidy accused council member FY Blackwood yes council member Forest yes council member janon yes Deputy Mayor Triano refused mayor Portman yes motion
passes sir just for the public to know both Deputy Mayor Tre counc Cassie are active volunteer firefighters which is why they recuse themselves next up is public hearing adoption of
2024-the poultry and foul in the bar can I have a motion to open the public hearing on this ordinance only so move can I have a second second all in favor I I anyone have any comments on the new poultry orance all right then what a shame I was
looking for a vigorous chicken debate and I have a motion to close the hearing on this ordinance only don't move I have a second second okay can I have a motion to adopt ordinance 202 24-19 still moved can I have a second
second roll call please council member Bon takas yes council member Cassidy yes council member facy Blackwood yes member Forest yes council member Jan yes Deputy Mayor Triano yes mayor Portman yes motion
passes chick all right next up public hearing adoption of oh I don't have a number on uh 20 sir 20 thank you public hearing and Adoption of 2024 D20 authorizing acceptance of cross access and utility easement in
connection with land use approvals granted to Ray wy.com Inc for a development project located at Harding Road Hudson Avenue Clay Street um and for those of you that don't know I think this is the aelia gardens project is
finally up and moving we'll get down those ugly fences and get something on that I believe it when I see it so can I have can I have a motion to open the public hearing on this ordinance only I have a second second all in favor
I anyone have any comments yes there's a neighbor seems appropriate evening my name is Georgina Shanley I live in Red Bank very close to aelia and I want to just Lodge my
objection to this easement because we have Public Safety hazards with the traffic fa that easement is between Broad Street and Hudson and's a major intersection brench we also have the middle and this is Hazard the
pedestrians and the tra already it's overcrowded with cars and it's a danger so I object thank you anyone else no I have a motion to close the public
hearing on this ordinance only I make motion Mr I have a second second all in favor okay can I have a motion to adopt 202 24-20 so moved have a second second on roll call please
council member Bonas yes council member Cassidy yes council member facy Blackwood yes council member flest yes council member yes Deputy Mayor Triano yes mayor Portman yes pass sir next up we have a public hearing and
adoption for 20242 adding new chapter 539 salt storage to the Burrows revise General ordinances to establish standards for the storage of salt and other solid deicing materials in accordance with njd
requirements can I have a motion to open the public hearing on this ordinance only so move I have a second second all in favor I anyone can I have a motion to close the public hearing on this ordinance only so
moved can I have a second I'll second it all in favor I can I have a motion to adopt ordinance 202 24-21 so moved I have a second I'll second it roll call please council member bonais yes council member Cassidy yes council member facy Blackwood yes
council member flest yes Sal council member Jan yes Deputy Mayor Triano yes mayor Portman yes motion passes thank you next up is a public hearing and adoption for 2024-25 amending and supplementing section
68060 schedule 26 restricted parking for handicapped persons can I have a motion to open the public hearing on this ordinance only so moved I have second second all in favor I public any comments
can I have a motion to close the public hearing on this ordinance only no moved can I have a second second all in favor I I have a motion to adopt ordinance 2024 d22 no moved I have a second second roll
call please council member Von Takis yes council member Cassidy yes council member facy Blackwood yes council member Floris yes council member Jan yes Deputy Mayor Triano yes mayor Portman yes motion passes sir thank you next up is
Introduction of ordinance 20 24-14 ordinance replacing chapter 665 trees with new regulations requiring permits for certain tree removals and requiring tree Replacements in accordance with njd storm water
regulation can I have a motion to approve on introduction so moved can I have a second second it can I have a roll call please Council Bonas yes council member Cassidy yes council member FY Blackwood yes council member
flis yes council member janon yes Deputy Mayor tro yes mayor Portman yes motion pass thank you there will be a public hearing on this ordinance on May 23d next up is an introduction for 2024-25
amending prior uncodified ordinance number 20232 establishing a new chapter entitled short-term rentals to revise set regulations to permit short-term rentals within only owner occupied
premises can I have a um motion to approve on introduction for 202 24-23 I'll make such a motion can I have a second second can I have a roll call please council member bonais yes council member Cassidy yes council member py
Blackwood yes council member far yes council member janon yes Deputy Mayor Triano yes mayor Portman yes motion passes sir public hearing on this will be May 23rd yes sir yes May 23rd on this ordinance next up an
introduction 2024 d24 amending chapter 270 cannabis of the bu's revised General ordinances to implement a medical cannabis transfer tax I have a motion to approve on introduction
I have second second roll call please council member Bon takas yes council member Cassidy yes council member facy Blackwood yes council member flis yes council member Jan yes Deputy Mayor Triano yes mayor Portman yes Mo pass and
take this moment to remind the public again sir uh there seems to still be confusion on it that the barl has awarded three licenses as per the current ordinance for for retail thank you and we do not have plans to award
anymore regardless of what um who goes before the planning board to get an approval for this that's about site use approval um you would still need a license to operate as a retail cannabis dispensary and we are not currently
giving out any more of those licenses so even if somebody is approved at the planning board they still need to come to the council to get a license okay um resolutions first we'll do I know Tom is here patiently resolution
24-17 public hearing and Adoption of the 2024 Municipal budget um I have a motion to open the public hearing on Municipal budget have a second thank you all in favor I I okay anyone have any budget
questions Tom you you want to give a quick like to hit the high points I everybody um this is budget um raising taxes um part by 14
4,996 5988 for a total budget of $30 million 446 77630 the committee uh ad hoc committee worked myself and um s and we um I think
we very good budget um taxes the tax rate is actually going down based on a lot of do with assessments increasing by 5% so actually the taxes of that we have to
raise is under 3% um we're putting in everything we need for operations of the burrow a lot of capital projects are being planned we're funding you know the down payments for those projects and the future debt is not incurred yet we that
won't be incurred until we spend those funds um I think uh we're you know grouping different things in in the operations so anybody has any questions that we have to answer them so what is the I mean I guess maybe
just a a kind of a a more a little bit more detailed breakdown of what has increased the budget is here so we have increased of itching costs um and then uh our Capital Improvement fund has
increased probably about the full amount of our tax increase and that that deals with possible work on the park um a lot of the road projects we need to put down 5% down payment so you look at the
increase of like around 400,000 300,000 of that is from the capital Improvement fund salaries all all went up you know over 2% um pension costs when up you know we have no control over that health
insurance costs we've kept under control we have our mjf costs slight increase so we were just keeping our operations going and uh not a hard hit to taxpayer I'm looking at both sides I understand the taxpayers portion but I understand
we have to you know keep our operations efficient okay thank you any one else have any questions no I just want to say thank you again for giving a thorough budget presentation and but we're on the final stage of this we're we're voting you know this is the public hearing and adoption so anybody who's just tuning in
now um there was a fair amount of coverage on this you can see articles I covered his uh budget presentation uh but thank you for your your hard work at of keeping Services you know equal or if not improving while also keeping us you know Steady As She Goes so really
appreciate your hard work F and Tom I just wanted to State just so it's clear to everybody I know that the it was originally said that the incre or the the amount to be raised it was 14 million yes 14 million correct
but that the actual increase in the budget is under 3% for yes all the services that we're still providing and they could be little less depending if the county comes in we always estimate the county a little around 2% in the
schools they have their caps but sometimes they can do debt which can increase their limit of their cap which is their limit of they of their increase we have our caps we meet all our caps we have an appropriation cap and we have a levy cap so overall if the school comes
in as projected in the county um yeah the tax rate is going to go down but and if your your assessment doesn't change you possibly might not have an increase that's usually the way the assessment demonstration program goes possibly a
third of the properties might go up more than the average or you stay the same or sometimes you decrease because the assessor adjusts the whole town every year and I think it's important to note too like you said that the burrow and
the committee that we created right being trying to be fiscally responsible here of of staying well under our caps oh way we have a ton of room in our caps um you know we're not looking to come close to those we're not looking to push the envelope on those uh making sure
that we're we're staying under that 3% as far as an increase while still accomplishing a ton of projects that we have on the docket here um I think that it's this was a really good budget I really appreciate your work on it um I feel extremely confident as a manager having such a strong CFO at the helm of
our finances and just speaking and dealing with you on a daily basis you do a tremendous job so thank very much my pleasure what else any comments on the budget I do yeah yes um Tom thank you so much for educating
us I was one of the people that was on the budget subcommittee and uh through you I learned a lot I liked um especially that we remained fiscally conservative yet providing services and funding for projects that we need for the town so I just want to say I
appreciate it thank you anyone online no okay um can I have a motion to close the hearing on the municipal budget so moved I have a second second all in favor I can I have a motion to
adopt resolution 24117 the 2024 Municipal budget so moved have a second I'll second it roll call please council member bonais yes council member Cassidy yes council member FY Blackwood yes council member flis yes
council member janon yes Deputy Mayor Triano yes mayor pman yes thank you thank you Tom you okay um can we do the rest of the resolutions on the consent agendas okay everybody yes all right can I have a
motion to pass resolutions 24 um d115 and then 24-18 through 24-14 than a motion I have a second second roll call please
council member Bonas yes council member Cassidy yes council member facy Blackwood yes council member Forest yes council member Jan yes Council uhy maror giano yes may Portman yes motion passes okay thank you um next up we have a a
discussion on our over oversized vehicle parking ordinance um you want to kick it off and bring us up to speed sure so this ordinance as chapter 680 which is your parking ordinance which we did last time it start essentially has a
new section which is M pertaining to oversized Vehicles there's obviously a lot of um if you can just to give you kind of the context for where we're starting if you look at page one chap chapter 680 has your fire parking and traffic 6803 is really your parking
regulations you can see the the as there which means that we're skipping down into the section um there's already a through L that are listed L is unhitch trailers which you just recently did so now we're adding oversized vehicles to M A through L typically pertains a time
limit par being all the basically the signs you see around town and they're listed in each category so we're essentially adding a new category of parking regulations to the section of the ordinance that deals with parking um pretty straightforward in terms of of what the actual provisions I
put in here for this is a substanti it's not exact but it's substantially similar um to Long Branch Long Branch had more uh I will note had more of a commercial vehicle ban um which part of our initial discussion of this ordinance involved
the notion that there are a lot of Trades people that live in Red Bank and to take anything with lettering off the road um particular it's an ordinary passenger size vehicle like a F-150 that has a logo on the side which would be prohibited in Long Branch is not prohibited under this ordinance this
ordinance deals with the vehicles based upon their size which is the issue in Red Bank people blocking intersections all the stuff we've heard here at the microphone um and so this thing the the categories of vehicles that are not allowed to be
parked on the street from 700 p.m. to 7: a.m. it's um essentially no vehicle over 10,000 pounds um or a boss tractor trailer a trailer body of any kind vacation home or camper trailer Recreation vehicle motor coach cical Vehicles any time essentially anything
over 10,000 lb no boat or boat trailer of any size shall be parked on any public Street that's the one that U Mr scy brought up earlier um I would actually suggest watercraft um or watercraft trailer to put on boat or watercraft given the comment that we had earlier in case Elon mus convince
something you never know and honestly you guys have some of the most clever Municipal Court defendants in this town that I've ever seen never seen so we make sure we try to cover everything um the the other issue is anyone who has a possession custody you're controlled and this would have to be the owner a
lot of those vehicles are leased to their company vehicle a semi-trailer or trailer of any time um she Park along the street um unless it's parked or hitch attached to a truck capable of moving it obviously if you parked the tractor trailer on the street um you would be over the 10,000 pound limit in
any event um this pertains uh to the fact that you can't leave it reinforces section L which that you can't leave an unhitch trailer of any kind Street anytime um so if you're making a delivery in a semi- truck to one of the businesses in town you have you can't leave the the trailer there you got to
have the truck attached to it um and as you'll note that does not have any hours restrictions uh M3 um in terms of uh then there's some exceptions so uh SE section five if you're a service vehicle um I don't want
to go through the mirror instances where you might have a trailer that's uh left unhitched like for example if you had an air compressor to pump out someone's lawn sprinklers and the foreman went to go get lunch in the truck and left it there while was pumping the air through that's Exempted from this ordinance kind of Common Sense sort of things like that
um and then the last is any vehicle that's part or any um vehicle boat equipment which will be watercraft or trailer park in violation can be Tone It authorizes them there are six to toone off the street uh for matters of Public Safety um and this is
um your next level of Regulation before we uh get to the the trailers that we talked about earlier I don't know if anybody has suggestions on this or oh I'm sorry I I skipped number four I apologize uh uh this is no limousine delivery van or taxi so if you're for
higher car um you can't leave it park down the street and night you know that that's that is um not allowed that's not really allowed anywhere um Greg I have a question um if you are attached you have a
trailer attached to your vehicle and say it has like three um lawn machines on it so it goes it's a pretty big distance how does this um how does this ordinance work with a vehicle like that you are currently um allowed to park that on the
rim you're allowed to leave that under the ordinance that it's written right now you're allowed to leave that on the rad right now okay because I do know a lot of people um complain about um these types of vehicles being left on the road and I just wondered is is that part of the cumulative 10,000 pound limit or not
so that was just KES um that would that would apply to the gross vehicle way to the vehicle that's parked put the vehicle yeah we're going to have to deal with the trailers in in a separate way I also forgot a very important point that I think the public should know the weight restriction is the the standard
measurement but there's also another provision that says the foregoing restrictions being vehicle you can park out on the street overnight um regardless of wng rating can not have roof stor of ladders scaffolding other equipment or materials or items which overhang either the front or the rear
bumper because you could park a a regular you know F-150 that's under 10,000 lbs with a roof rack that has a full 25t ladder on it and that that's really defeats the purpose of the oversized vehicle ordinance so that's also there in there as well to try to
cover um some of the loopholes you can have um ladders or things or any kind of equipment overhanging the bumpers of the vehicle um that's in addition to the weight couple sorry may go ahead go ahead how are we gonna determine what's
10,000 pounds first and foremost what is there a metric how are we going to how is that going to be enforceable and deter so 10,000 pounds is the the motor carrier exception under federal law okay and so there should be um and you have to talk to this police I I believe they
can tell because because of the weight there's a set look at that grin coming from the back of the can you actually tell Captain think this if the vehicle's properly registered uh commercially should have its name just one more to the microphone
there I know it's your first time yeah I believe that if the vehicle's properly registered um commercially they should have their uh sign displayed on the side as well as the Wai minute shuck it is hard to determine on some of these newer trucks so they're not labeled
properly but I think the officers are going to have to you know use their best judgment making the determination issue some I guess one of the concerns I have is we're I I don't think that we're we're still leaving the problem there
right if we're allowing the hitch trailer to a to a work truck um yeah that that's still outside of the ordinance is it it feels like um because like what like if if we're allowing that like what's the what's the
purpose of like not allowing a pickup truck with a jet ski Traer for example like it seems like that's taking up a hell of a lot a heck of a lot less space from a legal standpoint there's none from a practical standpoint um
there's a lot of places you can put boats and things people you know I don't see a lot of boats around town but I do see it it's a practice isue U you got to find the solution as to where they're going to go before we ban them and P the cops to them off the street um and there's a lot of them that's really the
issue it's not really a legal distinction it's a practical distinction of if we start taking everyone with those trailers I don't know where they're going to go and we you know I'm perfectly okay writing that but I not sure what what effect that has on the to as can we do it by length and do it with a sunrise provision as we had discussed
in the last Workshop of this I know I had said you know you had mentioned that former counil ystrom had suggested an offside thing I asked Captain frzy if that's something he'd agree to be a part of he stated yes so um because I agree with the mayor that you know that
was controlled language here a few complaints have been about you know people's you know trailers and things but we want to you know be careful about it and not spring in on people so if we could put a sunrise clause in we could
certainly we could certainly do that Captain do we have any idea how many people may just be um from out of Red Bank parking their vehicles here just because they know we don't have a an ordinance I mean are you ever I guess if you're
running yeah I mean mostly from what I see is that the uh a lot of them are landscape um there are some contractors I guess that um you see you know I never counted them while driving around but there are contractors you know with out of town business names on them I'm sure
which are just employees with take on card not sure what you're looking to to do yeah it's a hard judgment call you don't want to hurt the residents at the same time you want to enforce keep safety of uh you know the residents and everything obviously par well one one
thing I didn't and I can ask the public this also um that I did not have luck with was I thought that the um the church on River Street heading down towards the school seems to have a pretty big parking lot that's not in use very often so if
someone could help me or Jim get in touch with the pastor over there maybe we could um we could kind of kill two birds with one stone right pass the audience and find a location for these trailers to go um yeah that does seem
like quite an important you know component to the to the equation ask one more question yeah and a com and a comment therea but uh the definition of Livery does that include like Ubers is is there an we we maybe we should be
explicit about that at this point uh on that at cars for higher essentially means yes any c well my my my concern right now is that we're going to be punitive to working people in this town and that's my concern so like just to just to build off the question about
watercraft that's Recreation someone was a hitch Trigg trailer that's their living and my concern here is that we're suddenly going to be creating a barrier to people to make their living like I'm actually you I'm not sure I got to really reflect on this thing about the the rooftop trailers now we're going to
be P House Painters um I I I just don't want to be completely I don't want to Bar people from making a living in in in this town and in this area and uh that's one of the reasons why we're changing the St ordinances to make sound affordable I don't want to now Char start charging people for their work
trailer if it's legitimate and I don't know how we enforce it yet I'm just riffing because that's the point of a workshop but I don't think that people who use their personal vehicle as a as as an Uber for instance you know should should should should there should be an exclusion for them and I'm in favor of
not allowing liveries and these cars for higher Etc that you know that those companies should have lots but an individual is trying to make do in this town should not be punished for having to engage in the uh the gig economy and I'd like a carve out for that yeah
I think we could limit number four by so um correct me if I'm wrong Captain but the limousine Comm buyer have to register don't they have special license plates taxi license oh well yeah like
Arrow limousine yeah yeah so we what we can do is we can make sure that they're they're the ones that are registered as limousines and Cars For Hire that would not include Ubers or anyone who uses a personal vehicle R share anything like that Jim can you do me a favor can you reach
out to the the manager in Long Branch because they have this law on the books there right yeah the issue with the Long Branch one and why so from the feedback we've gone from Full Council like the last Workshop meeting and everything is kind of what council M Cassidy was
just saying is we're here to legislate safety not Aesthetics right like we want to keep our communities safe but how you know how far deep into this do we want to about the look of people's vehicles um
long branches had a had language and the reason why ours is more focused on the weight of the vehicles and what that weight would do to our infrastructure and and the impact of that long branches ordinance had a lot of language just about if you had a vehicle of any size
and it happened to have the name of a company on the side of it it wasn't allowed and and we were trying to be sensitive to that and not be so overbearing on the working class and people who use their cars you know for their families and for their work and it's the main vehicle of the family
which is the case for many of my neighbors um we we're being sensitive to that so we're trying to find a hard balance here of Being Human legislating from a human you know a Caring Place but we want to know what's safe and what's
not safe not what's aesthetically pleasing and what's not aesthetically pleasing I guess if that makes sense and do we know do they are they providing also any paring int BR for
commercial vehicles I highly doubt that I'm gonna I'm gonna doubt we go above and beyond in this town as much as we can to help people well I personally I don't I don't think
we're there yet I'm not comfortable moving forward in introducing this yet I know we have to do something um so can we talk about is it the length with trailers would that be the starting
point I've seen I've seen ordinances where it includes the length of the truck and trailer and I'm not I know you're a little hesitant so I don't know send us out or my police officers out there would tap measures say all right
you know foot between be two and a half police ping it out you know I think I have seen it where it's by length because you have some of these like triple Axel trailers that are attached to a pickup truck you know so that do
have four or five you know and that tends to be a safety conern sure because now you're in that's usually addressed sometimes by because it's too close to the crosswalk and you guys are enforcing if they're legally Parts there's really not much we can do right now right improperly parked we issue summons or
warning or whatever discretion if it's unsafe we make sure it's either move immediately or or therefore is there an infrastructure issue with the weight of a vehicle like that being parked is that the re I mean no these Trail the trailers that we're
all discussing F the fit the regulatory rubric that we're talking about they're oversized Vehicles right when they're connected together it's essentially two vehicles in one the same concept is what's going on on here the only difference between a lot of these vehicles I don't see a lot of RVs parked
on the street in Red Bank I see a lot well there are a few okay um there's a lot I mean I passed a number of landscaping trailers on the way here just coming from bridge so you know where they go if you even if you Sunrise
it still hasn't worked out that's why I left it out of here I'm going to keep talking about this until we get closer to a solution now okay because I don't want to keep all here to talk about it so if it's do do so your concern is
enforcing that by length because yeah so it' be difficult to enforce walk around tape I mean I will tell me to how much are like a dozen of those rly yeah yeah I mean it's not like trailers come in a million LS like there's ones like where you're like okay it's this size this
size I mean in all fairness I do feel like visibly it's not that hard to tell the difference between but and in between sorry to cut you off in between I we have driveways that you know between each house it's not like we have an acre between each house here so
you have to be respectful to your neighbor you don't want to pull your trailer driveway right I think that's been one of the issues yeah I'm sure sure um you know I think it's probably best right now maybe if you stick to
something with the the type of class of vehicle the 10,000 pound vehicle and above MH stick with that and then adjust the ordinance as we go can I make a suggestion to get to the trailers find a place in town that's
it's empty from 700 p.m. to 7: am. that the burrow has control over I don't know if that the other part if you're talking about the section of town that was the first to get leadline replacement this has been an issue
for that neighborhood where I live when it comes to snow removal when it comes to anything that deals with on street parking I live next to two houses that have no driveways so we have always we have been actively looking for places on the West Side to partner with for the snow removal or everything else I think
the issue is we've talked about it a lot but those meetings that the mayor is asking to have where we find these Partners have not happened maybe we need to put our a timeline on ourselves that like by the next meeting we are going to at least get in touch with one of these
Partners it could be the schools the primary School is right down the hill their parking lot is not occupied from 700 p.m. to maybe 7: a.m. but um maybe there's a shared partnership there I'm not sure but it's just this has come up
multiple times about needing a shared Partnership location on the west side and we have not gten there for snow we now we are talking about it for trailers you know the nearest Municipal lot from over there is it's not Equitable to ask people to go to our
nearest controlled lot so that's I mean the the other option is you just don't allow hitch trailers on the road either and you see what the private Market has in store what no I want us to actively try to talk to people but I want us to put a timeline
on ourselves so it actually happens because it didn't happen between the last meeting and now I don't to be honest with you I don't think there's any room on the west side I mean the school I mean what do you do with if somebody Parks their trucks and trailers at the primary school and then and then they don't pick them up
haven't asked any of the churches so let's try it and then but we need to have a timeline on this so it doesn't you know if we talk to Pilgrim and the church down on River and the other ones that have sizable lots and
they say and I think we had had conversations with one of those in the past but and they say it's a noo then you know or in the meantime some sort of Outreach to the people that are on the street we visibly see they're on the street dude yeah you can leave you can
leave a note on I mean you see that I just saw four of them I here you could leave a note on their vehicle and maybe have a public meeting like during your office hours invite put it on their car and invite them to the meeting we're considering an ordinance to prevent you from parking this vehicle here we' like to talk to you about it come to our
office hours I like that idea I would also like to suggest that uh there's a lot across from the Galleria that is empty and I believe it's owned by seless and that might be something where the borrow could partner with for parking spaces in the
evenings okay it's off um yeah sure any I mean anywhere we have a lot I maybe you know maybe we can talk to St Anthony's and see they a good ni lot there too but yeah we have to we have to jump on it Kate you're right yeah so
jumping on that piece there's nothing barring us from passing this though I mean number four to to about the concern about the cars for that was was one thing I yeah and that gets into a whole
other like now you're penalizing people that go through the old school taxi system versus the new people I mean I don't like that inequity I mean it's tough man plus how do you
identify correct an Uber par somebody just the license place Kate had a good point though it's if if it's your primary family vehicle which a lot of people use for Ubers we should not be they should not be inclusive I have two neighbors that own a taxi and use it as their family
vehicle frankly that's that would be permissible here I can't I'm not going to tell someone they can't put their family vehicle on the street I mean do they have TLC yeah they do oh Star Taxi now we open the can of worms okay we're just
too nice man care a lot care a lot yeah I just want people on to be okay now if taxis allow on the street now and stuff LLY vehicles at this moment yeah you have no prohibition against
that for the most part they during the overnight hours they parked at the train station I don't really see never complain no there's no complaint about it they will just strike number four until problem safe is it hurting anybody is it you know band
limousines over four doors or something along those ways that way that's like a trail I don't know care if we ban them or not I don't think we just Chang over for to stretch limousines and leave it alone all right that would be fair you you know if we don't have a
particular problem and we just identify potential problems that we could create then seems like cause benefit would just be say no stretch lim okay getting it done getting it done one day at a time yeah but
by a big scale so what's what's the procedure should we now say we're going to try and have this ready for introduction at the next meeting but in the meantime go to church we'll we'll hold ourselves accountable to try and find some
Community Partners that can offer a parking location sound like a plan two weeks it's two weeks buddy two weeks yeah okay word for everybody all right take
piece of fruit off the tree all right thank you for all your work on this and thank you thank you for being so understanding that you know thank you all right um we have some special events
OS yes okay so the special events that we're going to be uh voting to approve one is a filming request it's happening on May 17th and the 18th crop walk on October 20th a youth rock and roll
summer concert on July 19th and a Flag Day celebration with the Red Bank Elks June 14th at Riverside Garden Park I have a motion to approve these special events one through four moved I have a second I'll second all in
favor I all right uh next up we have our public questions and comments section I'm going to ask uh if you're here speaking on something that's not directly pertaining to Res uh Red Bank or actually if you're not a resident um I just want to give residents a chance to to have their say
and then we will open up the floor to everybody so um can I have a motion to open up the floor for public comment so mov I have a second second favor hi okay Jimmy what you got thing I want just keep a reminder
of 4 you know with these sites that's contaminate you he you know here all through out New Jersey and myself know being down the street from the foot of
sunset I mean I always said damage good you can't clean up and these Engineers I one thing you hear so many story oh we can do this net but you can't guarantee nobody's life but then you hear surrounding close place like in Long Branch and down past Social Service
building a free hole and it's you know damage you know something that's that's unfixable and I mean nobody can't make a decision for nobody and my thing is just like the foot they said maybe a near future a part but my thing is you got a
par you got count Bas part what do you need another par I just want add one thing to Jim regardless of what ends up happening down in Sunset and and Jim correct me if I'm wrong we are mandated by the state to clean the property what I'm trying to tell you what reason I'm
saying this you know I said you never see these people my thing is what are they doing hide up on the ceiling I mean in the closet somewhere they don't come out here and talk to people my thing is for example look at Trenton right on one road three Parks that's messed up and
people live there kids play that now one my thing is your family your wife your kids into a place that you know is I would now these places been fixed but now they said they got another problem so my thing is why you going trying to do
something and now they got another problem but nobody don't want to come out and talk about it nobody have to wipe their shoes off now oh I got Le problem or something like that what I'm saying to say and you hear people D like in Long bread that's a main example and put down for what you call I know you
have have to do something but my thing is you're going to do something just clean it up and close it you don't need another part you got enough parks around here you don't need another one my thing is that's like somebody dictating that you need another car they don't live here but you got people that live here
and I live here and I said that's clean it up and leave it alone that's all don't let something happen again and my thing is for like how many times you know and my thing is you got 10 it's like a baseball a pitch in a baseball
game you strike out a hitter you strike out 10 times how many more times you want to strike out bet somebody's life and I said it's really sad when you don't see and my thing is all all you up sitting up here how many you ever been into La bread and go down there and
right on the side of Second Baptist really just check this out even freeo it's really sad when you hear somebody lady in freeo I bought this place to have a good place for my son now she said what I'm going to do if I see that my life his life and
his R you never know what's gonna happen down the road but my thing is these people is some wherever they are I always say up in the foot anyone to dictate to this but I hope you all will keep this in mind thank you thank you sir thank you yes
sir 25 Cedar Street um so it's really cool how enforcements actually got a lot better really appreciate it um however like we're just talking about the view you're come down the street you want to be able to make a left right hand curent
and actually see if a car to hit you because on my street I almost get hit time and um it's because cars are parked up to corner where there's a yellow line now I know there's new um lines put on in some areas I don't know if we need to
maintain an update the the street yellow line because I said f like well no it's not up to the yellow line even though the scien say don't park here so what stool is it the yellow line or is it the sign because then there's signs on the side that I see that are no longer
readable because of just wear and pair and light you got nice new beautiful signs over by I think Peter place and by Red cic they were put up a few weeks ago that are nice and rude you see it
clearly so a we need to make it Sav some of the problem is enforcement and making sure that the line the lines are there and the signs are readable that Sol some of the problems and I'm hoping that new program that we're GNA have I give you
pictur what's that give pictures today you don't have to wait and and just to clarify all of our street sides are brand new they were replaced around the entire town they're all Maroon they're all the same talk about the no parking signs yeah but you said them maroon sign
on Peter's place so they're Mar little no Park signs here and a marine I'm not talking about the name signs they're new signs I got I'll show you they're beautiful no I just wanted to clarify that all the street sides in town were all place at the same time number one
number two can we fix the lights outside so they go off I came yesterday to the and the lights are on outside when I came hand in my time sheet today at 835 the lights on in the the parking lot I lights the
sun's the Sun's Up you said yeah the Sun's Up why is there lights on I gotta see if it's on photo photo so I don't yeah okay thank you um anyone anyone else have a any
um any residents have any other comments yeah par wrad I went to um meting for the county office on agent this morning the uh zoom and they have some excellent
programs that I think residents should know about I they will s be sending out more and much more clear information very soon I only printed out what they gave us today
and um they had surveyed residents in the county the senior citizens asking them about needs the number one need is transportation NY and the number two was personal assistance so they have a new
program it's personal assistance Services Program p and um I just have a couple fers I've only managed to print one in English and five in Spanish thank
you to you sure all right than you thank you you should get somebody who uses their reading glasses for their house thank you I'm sorry I forgot to say one thing I tried
to I tried to fit my vote in The Ballot Box and it's full I couldn't get it in there oh outside here yeah see how that work all yours yeah
to there I feel so rough with this three minute CH I just wanted to acknowledge the great young people who are here tonight um they're dedicated and committed to Justice and they've come a long way and they've given up their time
and we salute them thank you so much um okay this is we cannot say we didn't know after the second world war people said oh we didn't know there was a holocaust we didn't know anybody was
killed but right now we're seeing it In Living Color so nobody can deny that it's happening and it's so good to see that your all of you counselors are so human and compassionate and concerned about people parking in the street and
you know you want to do the right thing and I really would love you to do the right thing and pass the resolution that we have submitted and you had a minute silence for a gentleman who died at this moment there are
600,000 children in Rafa ready to be killed bombs are falling people are starving and I feel that if you pass this resolution tion it'll unite the
community instead of divide the community all it asks is that there's an end to the civilian killings the murder of civilians that the hostages the men women and children who are been held probably in offer
conditions be released and that food medicine and all supplies are given to the to the GES I feel that this so much time has been spent on the trailers and like time is ridiculous I have a minute left we're seeing a real divided nation
there are four bills in Congress that H attack criminalize and demonize Palestinians and movements that support Palestinians when is the anti-semitic awareness act and part of the reasoning for that is one of it whereas October
8th 23 a car with individuals holding Palestinian Flags appear to intentionally swerve out of its Lane nearly hitting a visibly Jewish Family in Clifton New Jersey that's supposed to be part of the evidence there's a second
one uh 6408 there's 17914 7921 and these are all anti Palestinians and remember Semitic people include Palestinians
SE semetic semitism the SE I'm look I'm seeing this I'm sorry I'm ADHD and it's very hard for me to speak Under Pressure um to be a Semite by definition is to speak a Semitic
language and Arabs speak Semitic language languages so any of these anti-semitic laws that have been passed locally Statewide and nationally should include protection of the Palestinians as well
and as Martin Luther King said in Justice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere and I really would love you to have some kind of a discussion I mean if you can give us three minutes of each person given their opinion on this
resolution at least we'd have something to go by it's been since January how many people have been killed how many people are being killed right now and we have Senators who want to impose sanctions on the ICC and the ICC members
the international criminal court because they want to arrest Netanyahu and officials in Israel for crimes against humanity the word is crazy and I think you could do the right thing and pass this resolution thank you
good evening Council vegan zabian from 185 ail Avenue um I have a quote from Miriam Margolis uh who's a British actor and she was being interviewed and I quote I
have never been so ashamed of Israel as I am have this moment to me it seems as if Hitler has won he's changed us Jews from being compassionate and caring and do unto others as you would have done
them do unto you into this vicious vicious genocidal nationalistic Nation pursuing and killing women and children what we are doing Jewish people over in Israel is shocking and harassing
and wicked and in the name of humanity I call you I call upon all Jews all Jews to shout beg scream or a ceasefire it is not anti-semitic to have a different opinion on the wartime
actions [Music] down re Council I do not know your aspirations of being elected on a council what I see in you are good people with compassion for fellow human
beings and if you ever decide to climb up the ranks of politics I hope you will be the likes of Dennis cage Cynthia mckin George Galloway Shirley chisen Malcolm X Martin Luther King Jr Ralph
nater Etc these people have played in politics but compared to most politicians to me most politicians are greedy Psychopaths they have moral
values the people that I've mentioned they have moral values and compassion for fellow human beings especially people that are oppressed the people of Gaza are in a are in an apartheid state and being
continually bombed by zionists that are in the Israeli government we need our voices to be heard to the Federal government that the Palestinians that the Palestinians are victims of genocide by the hands of
Israeli zionists please introduce and vote the resolution by Georgina shamley for immediate and permanent ceasefire in the previous public comment that I've made I had mentioned Aaron
Bushnell sacrificing his life by burning himself in February I also want to mention another American in Rachel Cory who died by a bulldozer being run over run over her body back and
forth on March 16 2003 um including on March 16 2003 protecting a Palestinian family's home I cannot fathom myself giving up myself my body for an oppressed group of people the
Palestinians who are living in an aarz state I can only speak to you to make our voices heard to at least vote to at least vote on this resolution by Georg Shan thank you for listening thank
you again I just want to reiterate we have a lot of folks that want to speak so please try to stick to the three minute limit we've already been here two and a half hours yes in the back of your head up first all right that's all right you're not on the clock yet take your time and
don't trip please I just recently had back surgery so I'm gonna stand but um thank you all for your time I don't want to take too much time from lift that up if it's easier to stand I appreciate it yeah um my name is James Davis I'm the general manager of FC Mammoth we are based out of 280 Route 35 in Red Bank
and we play our games at count bayy Park we have for since 2018 now so I just wanted to shine light on this mayor Forman I thank you for the message you sent us and I want to bring attention to it to the rest of the council um we bring thousands of people from around Mammoth County into to the Red Bank area every single summer to support Red Bank
businesses to support us and to support our community and this year we are launching theme nights as well as we are launching a women's team for the first time to complete level so we're very proud of these initiatives that we've started we're having um Friday
nights military appreciation as well as first responder appreciation nights and I would love to be able to find a time to speak about this at a later date to further involve the town of Redbank the um municipality as well as the education systems that involve in it to further
benefit the whole community so thank you and I will be at the game Wednesday can't any Wednesday 7:30 all right thank you feel better I'm assuming you're not playing no I'm just sitting on the sidelines thank
you yes you I'm done name and address again name and address 115 paron let me tell you about Dr Adon this is his photograph which I
asked pass around Council as well as the people he was Palestinian orthopedic surgeon and head of the orthopedic Department chifa hospital he was professor of orthopedic medicine had a
master's degree in political science he was born in 1975 74 and he died April 19th 2024 he was 50 years old and had five children he was a dedicated physician
who refused to abandon his patience in Gaza in spite of the Grave risk to his own life he did pay the ultimate price to give an example of who this gentleman was one day he performed 17 successful
surgeries on wounded patients from us Israeli bombs sparing them from amputation or death shortly after stepped out to take a break Israeli shelling struck the operation section
Hospital killing all 17 patients and wounding Dr bur still continued to care his luck ran out ran out December 10th December 23 I'm sorry December 2023 he was arrested
by the Israeli forces alongside with 10 other workers according to fellow prisoners Dr khed Dr alers was tortured mercilessly the torture description sounded an awful lot like what was done
by Americans American soldiers to the inmates of guantan he finally suum to his torture four months later on April 19th 2024 which was just last month Israeli forces have killed 400
Medical workers since October arrested 310 more and all but destroyed gaza's Health Care system after repeated attacks against almost all the hospitals released detainees say Palestinian
doctors in Israeli jails are treated War harshly than other prisoners face torture and abuse at least 10 prisoners were contemned to have confirmed to have died in Israeli jails since October under these
conditions although the number of fatalities is likely much higher why as a physician myself and a Jewish person it is not hard to personalize these terrible stories Dr Adnan
alush B had an aspiration to build a large Hospital in Gaza encompassing all Specialties screams out the importance of ending the killing of civilians and releasing the sick can we hostages and
end the starvation of menen children Terror by passing ceas fire resolution you know you have done the right thing when the three objectives and resolution are met it is only that of all siid can work together the terrible damage which
affects Palestinians Jews and all this thank you thank you anyse want to turn things over to so I can use the rest go ahead to state your name and address please my name is Perry I live on West
Front Street um I would also like to emplore the council to vote Yes the ceasefire proposal I have lived in Red Bank for most of my life I was born here and I am proud to say that this is my home I love this city I love e do it's
such a wonderful culture here and I really respect everything that the city does and when Palestine is free because it must be and it will be I want to be able to say that I come from a home that was on the right side of History thank
you sure come on up just state your name and address thank you Matt Daniels 1026 Monroe Avenue Asbury Park uh I am from
Asbury Park but I my childhood here in Red Bank uh River Street 200 block actually right across the street from that church you were talking about um and my time here um was was amazing uh
as that young person per me alluded to uh this place uh the schooling of this place um the community of this place one of of not only acceptance but diversity
fall uh Sexes you know Creeds of religion you know um and learning to accept that uh really really came from this town and so um you know shout out Miss Sherman shout out uh Mr glin r&p Mr
born um it really holds a special place in my heart as I'm sure it does uh everyone here and that um along with um a few other reasons
um is why we want to see our our is why we want to see a ceasefire resolution out of this town now um I know that from people that I've talked to that have you know uh approached you guys uh come City
Council meetings for this um that we have thought that the maybe this uh was a little too removed from us or maybe it didn't uh affect us here um enough to
actually you know vote on it or um to talk about it and to that I I say that there are a number of people that that I know that have been personally affected um here that have family over in
Palestine that are from Palestine um that that are here that are in Red Bank that are in Asbury Park um I know that taxes um while uh any taxes that going over to Israel will probably be Federal
um that button that is pushed um and that decision that is made well I would starts at a local level and it goes up from a local level and when you know you guys uh do something or say something or you know people in N Park do something
or say something um and it's such a ripple effect that that is heard um and what I'd like to last state is that this ceasefire resolution and many of the ceasefire resolutions that you've heard
um as for release of hostages as for a ceasefire and um if we can't find Unity on that if someone is divisive or you know divided on that well I don't know if that's the type of people um that we
want to unify we want everyone to love and we want everyone to to live and see peace and so that's all I have to say appreciate it thank you and um my name is River Torres um from 80
Center Street in Haslett um I just wanted to say that I've been hanging out Red Bank for a very long time uh I've been here since I was old enough to take the bus here um my cousins went to RBC uh I performed at the um at the council oh excuse me I'm
sorry I performed at um thank you nervous um I performed there a few times as a kid um and something I know for a fact is that young people are starting to come to the polls young people are starting to care
about local elections your vote matters maybe in the long run but definitely in the short run when it comes to us voting for you uh I'm very involved in local politics I know that people my age and younger are starting to really care about who is in our local
Council um and to vote for Palestine is a vote for you we are the future um and we want the best for our people we really hope that you reflect those decisions um I also feel like it's important to say that I hold no personal
stake in this um I'm not Muslim I'm not Palestinian I was a r Christian and even though Jesus himself was pales I believe that this reflects on all of us and this affects all of us um the only reason this building is standing
the only reason my limbs are intact the only reason my niece and nephew who four and six um are alive and not burning in a car like poor hind who I'm sure we have all heard of is because we happen to have been born outside of Palestine we happen to have not been marked with a
Target on our backs for our religion for the things that we wear in our hair for the symbols that we have her chest um I work in hlit and there is a gang in hlit um they are called the pagans they have come into places I've
worked at they've harassed bartenders that I've worked with but the state of New Jersey is not being bombed because of the pagans I think we all need to take a moment and think about that this is not about terrorism this is about human
rights um so please pass the ceas fire resolution uh let the world know that Red Bank cares about this we may seem like a small voice but we're not thank you thank you hi
canar hi um so my name is Sara I'm from well officially in homeown New Jersey um so I also like to join um a few people that were uh urging um our council members to um call for a
ceasefire um so I I actually was um in a last uh meeting um a couple weeks ago and I actually really liked how um May Port and you were talking about how um there's like this really good culture at Red Bank um you kind of mentioned how a lot of people come to Red Bank because
it's a successful place that's thriving with lots of things to do and as someone that was in hell and spends a lot of their sum here at Redbank um I couldn't agree more with that um there are many theaters or many parks and it's just such a very happy positive environment but how can we say that about ourselves if we don't stand at the side of
humanity which is why I urge for you to um support um which is why I urge for you to support the ceasefire anation um I'm personally a teacher in Haslett and I have students coming up to me telling me hey like Miss F I couldn't get um my assignment done yesterday because I have
family in oza right now and I can't reach out to them and I'm personally hurting and as an educator for social justice I um and torn between do I want these kids to do their work and benefit from it so that they can go to college and have a life or should I be understanding and let them not do their work because they're going through so
much right now so much pain so much bra um if I were to read something from uh the mission statement at Red Bank it says our vision statement BS redant for educators accountable we believe our children should dream big we will inspire we will Challenge and it also projects positive outcome for our children they will achieve and and only
for us to expect our children to achieve we have to let them know the side of humanity we have to be in support of the side Humanity which is inside of those that are suffering in those that are suffering in Rafa so you need to be a role model to these children because these children are looking up to you um in order for them to achieve they have
to be in a town that supports Humanity that supports unity and supports human life uh so lastly I just like to end with um please be on the side uh the right side on History support uh townships that have also um call for ceasefire which includes Patterson prosc Park Union City uh North Bergen and New
York and I really hope as a resident of mmed County New Jersey I can see Red Bank as um a leader of this movement in Mad County so that other townships can really see and really benefit red from Red Bank and kind of enact that into like their own townships as well thank you so much you my time thank
you to hello yes hi um can you you can hear me we can hear you okay uh my name is Gabriela green I'm from Howell um I've been coming to these meetings as much as I can um and I implore you to call for a
ceasefire resolution I know some of you um call yourselves environmental activists um so I have some information about how this is actually affecting the environment and I would appreciate if you would listen to this um February um shows that daily seat
temperatures were the hottest month on record um ever this February um possibly caused by five months at the time of the data of ongoing genocide USA and Israel had dropped the equivalent of two hirosima on Gaza in
February it has now been 7even months since October 7th um more and more and more people are oh shoot I'm sorry don't be sorry it's okay keep going we know it's intimidating I I used
to be somebody used to com comment before so I understand I'm sorry um my dog likes to bark I didn't think she was gonna do that um turns your mic off when itens yeah can you can you still hear me yes
yes go ahead you okay okay um sorry I lost what I was saying too um my dog does not appreciate me talking on the phone um okay um so not only has this affected the global environment um but
there have been document attacks on at least 445 educational facilities um 178 press headquarters 203 Gaza Heritage sites 654 four places of worship
221 ambulances and 155 Hospitals and Clinics there are currently only 12 partially functioning hospitals in the whole of Gaza five in the north and seven in the South 80% of primary health care centers are
non-functional it could take over 80 years to rebuild all of the homes that Israel has destroyed in Gaza Northern Gaza is currently in a full-blown famine as Israel continues to
impede a distribution nearly all of the 600,000 children in Rafa where they just started bombing on Sunday during the me Gala um are injured sick malnourished traumatized or living with
disabilities hundreds of bodies were also discovered in Mass Graves at hospitals Israel had recently raided in Gaza in flagrant violation of international law Israel has turned schools in Gaza into military bases
schools are meant to educate children and prepare them for the rest of their lives they're now either completely decimated or being used to Aid the people killing them and their families um and as people before me were saying um politics starts at local levels this
really is a red bag issue this is a affecting so many people's mental and physical well-being right now having to witness all of these atrocities happening in the world I truly implore you to reconsider your stance and to vote for a ceasefire resolution it
should not be dividing it should be unifying in the fact that it calls for the release of hostages and it calls for an end to the atrocities happening on all of the people in Gaza women children men and elderly alike and animals too
thank you else hello Council can you hear me yes thank you for your patience I know you been earlier thank you it's all good um I was actually hoping to speak on this issue as well um I'm curious how we haven't
come to the realiz sorry Robert just GNA say your name and address oh no worry Robert Bowers and I live at 131 Hudson Avenue here in Redbank okay thank you sorry awesome so I am curious how we
have not come to the realization that there is no political solution you can vote vote vote vote harder the more you vote nothing will change your tax money will still go to Israel your tax
money is still going to go and help the Israelis Slaughter Palestinian children you can vote for Joe Biden you can vote for Donald Trump it doesn't matter it won't change now when you look at Joe Biden's cabinet and you see that 78% of
his members that make up his cabinet are Jewish I see a very strict I see a correlation there and let's just name some of them Janet Yellen the Secretary of the Treasury Merrick Garland the Attorney General Alejandro maoris the
Secretary of Homeland Security averil Haynes Director of National Intelligence Ron Clan the white house chief of staff fourstar Admiral Rachel LaVine who also happens to be transgender Lieutenant Colonel Jennifer pritsker who also
happens to be transgender David Cohen the director of the CIA Eric Lander office of Science and Technology policy Victoria nuland secretary for political Affairs Wendy Sherman the deputy secretary of state
and finally Anthony blinkin Secretary of the State now I feel that that demonstrates that you know this isn't really the United States of America this is the United States of Israel that's what we are essentially uh when 78% of
your cabinet is of a 2% minority that doesn't seem very equal I mean we like to preach equality diversity it's not diverse to have such a minority group control such a large stake in one aspect of our policy now you look at our news
you see that Tik Tok is being banned and the reason for that I mean they may not want to admit it but it is because Tik Tok is great at exposing what is going on in Gaza okay that is part of the reason why it's getting banned they want to limit your First Amendment right okay
now you look at the news I don't see any news really critical of Israel and that is because 96% of the the media organizations are owned by six Jewish owned companies okay at that point you you really don't have an
unbiased media do you you have an Israeli you know control on the the media I I see a lot of individuals claim others are fascists hear that but your three minutes is up you're saying go ahead finish your
you can finish your your your last statement there yeah yeah Hill Hitler white power right you're done another online you want to stay with online really out of curiosity like what's our right to like ban someone
like that shut them down when they start doing that I'm just curious you mean like if he comes back yeah I mean I I mean I'm I'm for of what ke he says we have assault on the first amendment I stand for no restrictions on on public comment people need to come whether I agree or not that's how we protect Free
Speech but obviously there are lines and we just watched it so I guess it's supposed to be cut him down the best we can um he was he was going for a while there trust me I I no one here is judged
by what Robert said correct let's um let's Jim another one online Molly conjur need to unmute herself hi can you guys hear me okay yes phenomenal my name is Molly Conger
um my goodness I know that a lot of people here have been speaking about the whole thing with Gaza and I think that is very important for us to remember that Gaza this whole thing is not new okay
this all started in the 40s before Israel was even a state um and the only difference between now and then is the presence of the internet I I would love to sit here in virtue signal and tell people how they
need to fight Wars but um I've never fought in a war and I'm not going to say what's right and what's wrong um I I will say that it is awful what we're seeing come out of this my heart breaks every time I see a child that is hurt
over there um but what's happening isn't October it's not it's not even something that's new to this year PE children have as you see in lots of these um these
videos uh children have been being have their limbs amputated without any sort of anesthesia for decades over there and I think that every time we attempt to take a
stand we're just kind of prolonging it I know that sounds awful but sometimes getting in the middle of a fight is just making it take longer one side needs to win and then it needs to be over allowing them to do what they need to do
is just part of life I think that it's not our place to step in in any way shape or form we have so many things happening in our own State my neighbor her house was broken into and I would love for people like
her to have people care that we have issues here but for some reason we have loads of people willing to step up and talk about something that's across the sea and have our city council virtue signal because I'm I'm sorry I find you
important I'm sure your families find you important but do you really think that you guys saying we don't support this and people over there just be like my goodness let me put down my gun I think it's silly I also think we're conflating
an issue and essentially making it one giant holy war because a lot of the times when we talk about this it's not about Israel it's about the Jewish population when I speak about this in public I'm called
anti-semitic be because I I bring up the people and I find that crazy to say that murdering babies is wrong I'm anti-semitic what I find interesting is that in 2024 we're fighting this holy war but for some reason I'm we just your
the three minute timer went off for your comments can you just I got a little flustered with the last guy can you just state your name and address again for the record oh yeah I'm so sorry my name is Molly cogner and I live at 118 Manor
Drive right here in town okay appreciate thank you Molly for your can you can you hear me yes okay great my name is Barry Gul I live on Monmouth Street here in Red Bank um I have a different topic I
just want to make sure this is this isn't tied to an agenda item correct this is uh Public public comments on anything okay great so recently I've been made aware of a very troubling practice and I would really
appreciate it if you all could look into it and I would like an an ordinance Banning it in our city it is called uh MIT b m t z t z a b apostrophe
P you can go to nyc.gov and look up oral suctioning and oral circumcision what in synagogues all across the nation and Globe is that uh when a young an eight day old Jewish boy
is born um the rabbi circumcises him and then proceeds to place his mouth on the wound and suck the blood now I feel like if anybody else in the country perform that act they would rightfully be arrested and hauled off to
jail for child molestation um I I can't believe that we live in a time and I I I I'm like flabbergasted as to how that that's even permitted so um I would really appreciate if you guys would look into
this um can we cut this gent please oh you're gonna cut me off you all right you're done yeah clearly we'll see you in two weeks Council yeah we're in a tricky spot I
mean it's the right to public comment you know at the same time at the same time we have an attorney here and we look to his guidance as to they're being very creative I have to tell you he say yes they're being very creative so you know
all right let's try another one Hold On Tight everybody in the room I know that this is very uncomfortable and a little traumatic for all of you as well I know that this is not your intention and and movements are messy and I see people a lot of people here
with very good intentions okay you're welcome hello yes hello can can you hear me yes okay uh Chad baswell 41 Elm Place here in
town uh yeah I hear you um ketching about whether to let us speak or not but I mean uh we're dealing with very serious and troubling uh subject matter here and we have the right to speak this
is America this is not Israel or other countries that that are uh you know enough set so regarding the ceasefire uh I mean a ceasefire is certainly a good start but it certainly doesn't go nearly
far enough uh anyone who has studied history that hasn't been revisioned by Jews knows that Jews have been murdering Palestinians since 1947 they terrorize them steal their land chop down their olive trees poison their water debase
their money rape their children broadcast porn in Gaza over the monopolized media since October of last year the Jews have embarked on a bloodlust frenzy not seen since Henrik Yoda went nuts in Russia and brutally murdered 10 million white
Christians and the fact that you've never heard of him is exactly why Jews should not have total control of the media Dresden why isn't the horrific bombing racism to be absolutely ging I'm
exhausted by this you and your friends can go meet wherever you want to in whatever dark basement you want to but we've had enough you don't have we get to cut people off and you're reflecting poorly on decent people who are in this room to express their genuine concerns
and whoever else is online feel free go back to whatever basement you're hanging out and collectively and share those thoughts freely yeah but we're going to protect the First Amendment I'm exhausted by this but that's just I just want to acknowledge that this is not reflective of the decent residents and
people who are locally here uh whe we agree or disagree they are decent people and that's not reflective of them just two things I'd like to recommend that we continue public comment as we acknowledge that Zoom can be challenging
yes but that we continue public comment for those that are in the room and leave it at that for tonight yeah we've identified that through uh our attorney grg here that that this is a group that does this yeah uses these names that are being used the same names they're not
creative all over the country all over the country and this is a concerted effort they just did it in Utah last so for this evening they've ruined the online public comment option and uh we will remain with the public comment in the room and carry out the rest of the
meeting if that if you take that recommendation sounds great thank it's a shame because we love having a zoom option to open it up to people that can't make the meetings in person you know um so oh yes I is see a
hand go up in the back there yeah and just for anybody that is listening online that wanted to comment tonight and you're not part of this concered effort I apologize you can send me an email I'll be sure to get back to any concerns you have yes thank you
thanks for the quick work thank you it w hard to find on sorry go ahead evening I'm Theo Waton I live in Fair Haven New Jersey but I was born in Red Bank spent all my time here it's my second home uh I would also like to call on Red Bank
to pass a ceasefire resolution on the genocide in Palestine and I appreciate you recognizing that people like this do not stand for us and what our message is in the past the council has said they don't want to get involved in international Affairs I ask why your
voice matters and passing a ceasefire resolution is important because it signals to other communities that we stand with Palestinians exess the president to pass laws protecting these victims someone mentioned that politics start at the local level and I want you all to sit
with that think about that LW for poos across the country and in New Jersey are saying that being anti-zionist is anti-Semitic and maybe that is why you hold back on making a statement but it is not anti-semitic to CLA genocide it is however anti-semitic to claim that
all Jewish people support the murder now of over 30,000 innocent people there are so many Jewish people organizing Pro Palestine movements and they're being silenced by zionists and that is anti-Semitism history will not look kindly on our country for the way we our
government simultaneously funded and ignored this genocide but people are speaking out and Palestine will be free and we will not rest until it is my question to you all then is Will red bangs stand on the side of Justice the side that recognizes the value of Life
of each and every in Palestine or will the city be silent and complicit and lastly I just wanted to say my father worked in the South Tower and he was murdered in 9 and I'm sure you all remember the US's response to that I say this because not to make it about me but
I got no peace about from the war on terrorism you know the US's response to 911 and I believe that murdering innocent people will not bring peace to any of us what does bring peace is direct communication and that's what we need here we need to talk about how the
US is funding genocide I want Red Bank to recognize the death of Palestinian just like they recognize and remember the death of my father so thank you for letting me speak I really appreciate it and I hope you'll think about what I said Thank
You El comments yes hi my name is Scotty Byer I actually am not from around here I came from bayad I took the train here can't wait to walk home in the rain uh and I do consider myself though to be kind of an honorary Mammoth County resident because
I grew up at my grandmother's house in Spring Lake I have two jobs currently both are in Mammoth County and I attended Mammoth University and graduated from there in 2022 when I was writing my thesis in 2021 there was no greater issue I could think of at the time than the multiple
different crises that were already happening in Gaza what I settled on was their Clean Water Crisis it's a man-made crisis caused by mult different reasons there was the over tapping of aqueducts natural aqueducts uh aquifers rather uh underneath
Palestinian territory there was constant bombing of their sewer system which was leaking into the ocean and into other freshwater sources and also the effects of waterborne diseases especially in children uh the number one cause of death was in Gaza waterborne diseases
for children from newborns to 12 years old at the time according to Amnesty International and it seemed to be a problem that was constantly overlooked uh and when I started writing this thesis and handed it into my professors for them to review they were astounded they had no idea
that any of it was happening and it was it was I was happy that I was opening their eyes to these issues but I was also really frustrated because these are some of the most educated people I've ever met you know they're art professors but they're like world-renowned designers there was viewing my uh my
thesis the the board of the entire art Department who's a history Professor who did not know that things were happening to this extent and that is when I bought my first catha and started wearing it around campus and I was also at Mammoth University the vice president of the
lgbtq pride club for two years and I started wearing it to those meetings not thinking that anyone would even recognize it and immediately a member of the club introduced themselves to me uh at an outdoor meeting and was like I didn't know that any people who don't a
direct tie to Palestine would wear something like that out in public and it's shocking to me because the some of the most insane things that Israel their government has been able to convince people is that all Palestinians would
kill gay and transgender people for even existing on their land and the first person that I met at my University who had family in the West Bank who was in a we pride club meeting and so the pain washing is extremely frustrating to me
as well but it was clear to me at that point that there could be a community in Mammoth County not just at the University but in the county itself of people who are empathetic to the cause and can see dozin and Palestinians and everyone just for more than just what
political propaganda tells us that they are thank you thank you thank you the work like on week yeah I work in maquan in spring lak so I take train thank
you anyone else all right chance I have a motion to close go ahead all right there give three minutes everyone else take your time hello hi everyone hear me yes my name is Alex Thompson I'm
actually a neighbor as well I live at 95 Jackson Street over in Fair Haven um I've like others have said I've been coming to Red Bank for all my life I mean I I'm almost 26 and so I basically 26 years I've been either coming to Red Bank or at least driving through it in
some capacity or another um and yeah I also wanted to speak on um the ceas fire resolution how important it is to have that pass um I feel it's it's a absolute tragedy and it's as certainly as an
American it's quite it's disgusting to see what Israel has been doing um it's a shame that um I mean as we saw before people like that are trying to like you know co-opt it and try and like you know say these awful things um and it's it's
just it's just terrible it's especially terrible because I mean this was something I was never made had never been made aware of something that I only learned in the past few months um is that yes Israel does claim to represent all Jewish people and um and all around
the world but um one of the one of the big um parties that they funded um in I believe this 70s early 80s um during in Argentina there was what was called the Dirty War and it was where the um the government which was a fascist
government at the time um what hunted down and they called them La desari those they people who disappeared because they disagree with what the government was doing um Jews in Argentina make up I believe it's 1% of the population or at least at the time
they made up 1% of the population yet they were a disproportionate 10% of people who were disappeared um and among other entities that provided um the the H with weapons one of them was Israel so it was very shocking to me to see a country that
claims to support Jews worldwide then turn around and give weapons to people who are oppressing Jews even though you know sure they may not agree on what they're saying but it just seems very odd and it's just it's just awful to see what's been going on it tears me up
personally I have nights lots of nights trouble sleeping just trying to you know just cope like cope with it all trying to deal with what's been going on um and it certainly would be both heartening not only for me and for everyone here but also just maybe people who haven't been you know coming to these kinds of
meetings for them to hear oh a local town like Red Bank is you know supporting a ceasefire and they really care about you know the not just the community here but also the communities that you know around the world and also communities that maybe you know one day in the future could be you know built
here if Red Bank Red Bank gets you know bigger or you know they need we need to build more housing whatever for new residents you know it' be great to be able to to say you know hey we're an accepting community of all you know races and nationalities but that was it
thank you thank you one more last chance can I have a motion to close the public comments so moved I have a second second all in favor I all
right mayor and Council comments Christina what do you got no report this evening counselor I got a couple things first I'm not going to apologize for the content of my rebuke but maybe the tone
of it only because we're in Chambers but at the same time none of that has a place here and no one on this Das supports that nonsense and I don't know how else politely to State it but I don't know if anyone else here still as pissed off as I am and excuse my language but I'm
pretty pissed off um but this Council stands Against Racism anti-Semitism islamophobia anything that comes that make someone feel the other we stand against and that kind of crap I'm glad that we had a moment that
we can actually just say it as clearly as simply as that and I'm sorry [Music] um uh I had some comments a couple but I I want to acknowledge I it's just a different moment for me now all of a sudden but
Girl Scout Troop 66 let's go has anyone been to the White Street parking lot corner at the White Street parking lot like they turned it into like a Village it's gorgeous it's so cute it made my walk down White Street so like limitedly magical for a moment in Red Bank and
that's part of why I love this town and why you know now I'm feeling better just thinking about them and about that and uh so thank you to the Girl Scouts a Saturday we got uh the first ever Red Bank record Riot uh coming to town on Mechanic Street and I picked out I'm going to be down there having unofficial
office hours at the hook and ladder I picked out some special records eaching my Council mates if you know you know how cool she is the best emo record of the 90s copper drag queen or Nancy because Nancy just as
smooth I got tootes and the mats coming Ben because Ben and his wife had a sneaky cool record collection I got Alice coold trains Universal Consciousness oh wow for my uh lovely friend uh Laura she reminds me of my
lovely friend Sharon Jones who I miss dearly so we're bringing some Sharon Jones for Kate we're going to go radical we got uh against me's transgender is for you because we got to remember to protect trans youth do I get to bring that home is that what you're saying
these are from I went with Herby Hancock's head hunting a good one funky a little to out there if you come on down anyone here who wants to come on down I I'll gladly have a conversation with you oneon-one on Saturday as well I'll be at the hook and ladder uh 10 five is the record Riot
I have two crates of Records you can pick something out we'll spin a record we'll have a nice civil conversation and we'll continue to talk about how that doesn't represent us excuse my language by the way my 29 my 28 old be 29 this year took her first steps at a
Herby Hancock concert in Washington Square Park so well done sir Well Done Right body is this well after that records no I have no records um I do have Byron Lee and droners at home
somewhere so I mean if that counts and nobody really knows that and there's a picture of them on a boac plane now that's real throwback because nobody knows a Bo is so British something air carrier whatever anyway um back to shade uh sh Tre nothing to report they're
happy that the ms4 um ordinance supporting tree removal and replacement is on its way uh from the EC uh while I want to talk about the sustainable Jersey Summit that was held last Friday
eight people from the oh that was fast um eight people from the borrow attended the summit which is really outstanding that shows representation that the borrow has for sustainability um sustainable Jersey is
a group that provides astounding service with plans and technical assistance to municipalities to encourage us to operate more efficiently address issues such as diversity and inclusion um environmental justice and
such so you know we're really proud of the work they did uh one of one of the sessions was about Mayors discussing sustainability and we had the pleasure of the Red Bank mayor giving a pres presentation of what is done in Red Bank
and was very proud of his work and his presentation um I want to thank the members of the boards committees and commissions for completing the diversity survey which is something that we're working on in sustainable Jersey that dis diversity profile will help the borrow develop
strategic actions to make sure that we have good representation on our boards and commissions um the office of planning advocacy has requested rbank do their Municipal assessment the green team has been selected as one of the Outreach groups in order to do that and
they're in the process of doing that one of the benefits of working with the office of planning advocacy is to get a plan endorsement and this provides um upon receiving this state agencies will provide benefits to the municipality assisting and implementing the plan so
that's great it makes us better for Grants uh to receive grants and assistance to become better than every we are Council hours are still available um Wednesdays 10 to 12 at the Senior Center uh Wednesdays 5:45 to 7:45 but only by appointment so you'd reach out
to a clerk and it gets on the calendar also wanted to share that the senior center did have somebody in April from the Department of Aging to discuss programs and Avail that are available I would recommend that uh people over the age of 60 can um check out the senior
center it's a really lovely place and they do have a lot of good programs going on that's all I have for now thank you sir thank you can one first um just want to thank you all for coming tonight I don't necessarily want
to encourage you of course but I I do appreciate your exercising your first amendment rights and uh I I do listen even though I'm not making you happy by proposing a resolution or something tonight I've already covered that topic I know if
going repeat it to late late at night I did want to also say that I had a Health Challenge this week as all you know and I just wanted to acknowledge that um I'm so grateful that we have such a nice Hospital in town you know of course when you're there we really
appreciate that many Red Bank residents and non-residents who work there um it's great to just be able to get there in five minutes to an emergency room and even though the hospital was very busy to see that staff provide loving
determined care for many people even though you know we're screaming and other kinds of nonsense going on at the emergency room at late at night uh as well as as well as in the uh Riverview it's an amazing and important asset to
Red Bank um I also wanted to uh appreciate the workshop meeting we had tonight I actually like that we having kind of policy discussion I didn't say much but I was listening you know I was struggling a little bit with with the
balance between encouraging all of us who have jobs I use my car for my work and yet I think I said it the the previous meeting when I couple meetings ago when I said we should look at this ordinance you know there's of course there's going to
be say inconsiderate you know people putting giant trucks or vehicles too close to we need to write an ordinance that's considerate consider it of everyone and fair I mean some of our neighborhoods are very crowded parking
situation and I don't mind that I have pickup truck in front of my house but it can be you know obviously there is a point where it's absurd um and so I know it's a tricky uh thing to navigate and I appreciate all the effort that everyone's putting into
it and thank you for that um I've decided to skip the 14 parks and wreck announcements I was going to share with everybody tonight due to the late [Music] hour and I want to thank you also for I also want to tell everybody to know that
I'm not getting my email at the moment so if You' sent me an email I probably haven't read it and haven't seen it hopefully that technical challenge will be resolved in the next two or three days thank you very much for your patience in time Mr Mayor thank you
Laura I just want to give a short report from the library so the everybody knows Red Bank libraryies elevator has been broken for a very long time um Friday May 10 and the elevator is going to be put in so the library will be closed on Friday wow that's big news and they
anticipate reopening at 10: a.m. on May 11th the next day so hopefully that will go their way because El lady was telling me her whole office is like loaded with stuff if they had to move everything out um the library Will Made open as much as possible throughout the installation of
the new elevator but as always construction project send to throw some curve balls so please keep an eye on the library's calendar website and so social media for any additional cancellations it's right across the top that they're going to be closed um Atlantic First Atlantic Federal Credit Union will be
there on March 14th at 6:30 p.m. to learn how to boost your credit score Workshop kits will be in English and Spanish um we had they had to can they canceled the AED donation um event because Tim Hogan and Sheil couldn't
come from Riverview um so they're going to reschedule that and Alison cero from haac Meridian will be attending in their place um Can is now available cab I think I brought this up last time so you
can get um collection of word- winning films and documentary educational thing is there and um the summer reading kickoff starts June 15th welcomed adults teenage teen and children to participate in numerous activities through the
summer um I also wanted to rec that this is nurses week this week um we love nurses I literally love nurses I know you do his wife his wife's a nurse um I want to thank Tim mcloon and um all the
restaurants that him and his Partners had they had a 15% off for all nurses and I did go there tonight for dinner and come to my nursing license and I got my 15% off so thank you he's very that was very nice of him and I
recognized nurses um and thank you for also from the Animal Welfare committee for voting our 20249 poultry foul and I'm very happy about that we have our next meeting next Tuesday and we'll be in front front of
fins and Feathers this Saturday collecting food for dogs and cats for lunch break so anybody wants to stop by thank you de mayor thank you mayor uh David Cassidy was defending uh the Universe um in that moment but we
participated in a really great thrill on uh Sunday it was red B fire department little silver fire department and Fa Haven fire department um there's a building that is slated to be demoed in town so we had the opportunity to drill in it we got to do forcible entry we got
to saw the roofs which is he's a hook and ladder company I'm a h company so it's pretty rare that I get to um saw a roof but I got to on Sunday I and it it was just a great day uh it was great to see everybody working together I got to work with a different house than the
house I'm a part of um for part of the day so that was wonderful um broadwalk is going to be returning um Monday after Mother's Day which is when we close Broad Street to pedestrian only or you want to say open to pedestrian only control language um so really looking
forward to that there's also going to be um a market it's fresh market it's um asur park has a fresh market Bell Works has a fresh market we're going to have a fresh market every Thursday night in the broadwalk from 5: to 9: so that's just going to you know bump it up even more the farmers market starts on Mother's
Day um which is just you know fantastic um and then yeah I just wanted to say a brief remark about Danny Murphy uh who we mentioned earlier who passed away um Danny owned a restaurant in this town since 1969 he only sold it a couple of uh
years ago and um you know when he started out he was Italian only you know he learned how to start main piece at Brothers originally with his mom and then he opened his his own place he pivoted with the times like he started out as just Italian and then before anybody else if really started doing the
beastro thing where it's like we're going to do Burgers we're gonna Su Danny was doing that um there was development done all around him kind of like the movie up if you go and see that building in town it's built all around his building and then his building is there
and that really just really spoke to his character and the type of person you know that he was um he was incredibly supportive of me of Billy of everybody up here and um that was unique for Danny uh to be honest um people were surprised
when he would be at our fundraisers they were like Danny came out to see you and I always that was always a really big source of Pride for me that I was able to gain him as a friend and that he knew I had the best interest for the businesses and the burrow in mind and um
I had the Good Fortune of seeing him uh just a week ago and you know he was sorting out his stuff and he was still kind of uh laughing about that he was going to die he was figuring out his last things and he was still like keeping
such a good spirit about it and I learned a lot from that um then another great person died Steve Alini Shack and big black and all that other great music so have to go to I have to have a moment of silence for my record right or something
bring down some big black in Jesus liard yeah bring down some big black all right and um that's my full report thank you um two things coming up on May 18th I have as part of my marriage Wellness campaign there's a smoothie stroll and
bike with the mar events some streets will be closed off and we'll be biking around town and it's also the yappy hour on the broadwalk on the 18th from 12: to 4:00 people will be bringing their dogs out um I checked I don't a Time conflict otherwise I might have to blow off my
own event to go to ypp hour but I think I'm going to be able to get to both of them um that's all I got for uh for this week thanks mayor yeah Jim you want give your report sure real quick um happy to say that the community engagement
coordinator position has been posted and we are currently soliciting applications and interests for that position also I want to thank this governing body for working hard on the budget uh again Tom working hard on the budget because now
you know it puts that in place and we can really start moving forward on projects and hitting the ground running and uh making sure that we're executing the budget appropriately um so that'll be important for us this year the mmth street street skate project design is
almost done we're right there um the estimates are in and we're just working on the design count Facey park playground I'm sure you've seen that the uh ground had to be prepared for that there was a lot of underground electrical stuff that we had to move and uh concrete footings and things like
that so that playground should be installed within the next week or two to get that back and going and I just want to turn it over to Captain Fraser real quick because I know that he wanted to mention a couple things from the police department and we all have our eyes on
the time of course maybe not as exciting as the callers chimed in earlier but uh I'd just like to thank the mayor council for their continued support much appreciated by me and the members of the department um I just want to keep you informed on
uh the progress uh moving forward into the spring and the summer um we've hired two class two uh I'm sorry two class two officers um which will Patrol our parks and the downtown area on broadwalk um
they will start the academy on May 13th this coming Monday and the academy them so meantime we'll supplement Patrol officers walking downtown during during the protol excited for the summer trying to
bring back uh our bike Patrol unit um we still have several bikes last few years that we we did so we're just G to get them up fitted with this one night um obviously continued discussions on
the ordinance for the commercial vehicles guys are working on that um I just want to really you know we had an operation last week uh concerning surrounding the the sales of VAP cartridges
and persons I think they went very well um we we stopped into uh six establishments in the burrow three were not in compliant and sold to uh an underage person those those people involved were
uh were summons pending for um I think there was some backlash in the social media but I try not to be um I the only other thing I really want to bring up is uh you know the importance of the for AC something say
something um we also last week we had an arrest which um Department received a telephone call from a woman who was near the WWA she she witnessed a man sitting actually was closer to the windmill man sitting on
the wall holding a a what appeared to be her to her a handgun um she immediately called the police our guys converged on them and in fact he did have a handgun in his front pocket thankfully um no one was hurt the quick take down um those
those officers definitely did a tremendous job the training experience really overshadowed everything um but I just want to really touch on the importance of the the model see something say something uh to keep our community safe I think we need to
just uh you know have have everybody in the community residents people coming into town just we all we're all here and here us together you know um I think it's funny police officers are portrayed as superheroes but I think
without the the help from the public the eyes and ears um you know I think we need their help to keep our community safe but other than that I think the Department's running pretty smooth um no real issues good could get anytime
thanks can I say something first off great job the specials it's a competitive market that you got two guys and they go or women I don't know what you have two individuals excuse me it's late going that's that's huge for us I don't know that we had
them last year actually so last year we we I think we got the bow R late so excellent job first of all um Jim I'll give you some credit on that as well you were making sure that we were competitive on salaries but I just want to note like the other day I'm walking
down mechanic and who's directing traffic the captain you know when you have people and I I've always said this like you don't if you want people to do things you don't put that thing beneath you and you're leading by example and I just want to note like it was a nice conversation but just that you're out
there you're visible and you're doing those jobs what has to get done on any given day I see it and I think everyone else is seeing it and um I just I don't know these folks weren't there that day but you know you don't put things beneath you and I really appreciate that Captain I I wanted to make a point of
saying that I appreciate it yeah and we're grateful about what you did with the Vape operation I don't want kids in our town buying things that they're not supposedly be buying and I want to make sure that stores are following the law and I think it's an excellent use of police resources and time and sometimes
we don't get to hear those voices on the internet um but I for one as a parent am extremely grateful that you are doing that I mean as a child it would have ruined my life very grateful as a parent and anible yeah thank you yeah thank you
yeah we we we think that's great yeah we did appreciate your and now we just have a two hour check session guys R I have a motion to adjourn so move I have a second second all in favor all