e I don't baseball is probably good evening this meeting is being held in accordance with the public laws of 1975 chapter 231 an adequate notice this meeting has been provided by notice since the es Park Press to times
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indivisible andice all I'm actually let me get that here you're welcome to say or stand either way but we're going to just have a moment of silence for a couple of red Bankers um
CJ laet longtime firefighter passed last week and I'm sure everyone knows uh we had a terrible tragedy where a young man named Frank Luna s Maria lost his life crossing the Street on bridge so if we could just have a moment of silence for
both of them I would appreciate please Council council person pacas here council person pres council person face black here council person Forest present
council person janon present council person Triano here may here right we have a few um proclamations you want to pass those over thank you thank
you up it is uh immigrant Heritage Month June whereas generations of immigrants from every corner of the globe have built our country's economy and created the unique character of our nation whereas immigrants continue to grow businesses innovate strengthen our economy and create American jobs in Red
Bank New Jersey whereas immigrants have provided the United States with unique social and cultural influence fundamentally enriching the extraordinary character of our nation and whereas immigrants have been tireless leaders not only in securing their own rights and access to equal opportunity but have also campaigned to
create a fair and more just Society for all Americans and whereas despite these countless contributions the role of immigrants in building and enriching our nation has frequently been overlooked and undervalued throughout our history and continuing to the present day now therefore I William courtman mayor of
the burrow Redbank Proclaim that the burrow Red Bank does hereby join the state of New Jersey in recognizing June 2024 as immigrant Heritage Month okay next up it is pollinator week whereas pollinator species such as birds
and insects are essential partners of farmers and ranchers in producing much of our food supply pollination is crucial in more than 1,200 food crops and provides nourishment to nearly 200,000 different plants that yield various oils cotton clean air seeds and
vegetables in fact onethird of the nation's food supply depends on pollinators and whereas pollinators include bees wasps salt butterflies moths beetles flies and vertebrates like some birds and bats responsible for helping 90% of the world's flowering
plants reproduce pollinators contribute to healthy ecosystems whereas pollination plays a vital role in the health of our national forest and grasslands which provide forage fish and wildlife Timber water mineral resources and recreational opportunities as well
as enhanced Economic Development opportunities for communities and whereas pollinator species provides significant environmental benefits that are necessary for maintaining healthy biodiverse ecosystems and whereas B red promotes wise conservation stewardship
including the protection and maintenance of pollinators and their habitats on working lands and wildlands now therefore in recognition of the importance of pollinators to healthy ecosystems and sustainable diverse agriculture I William Portman mayor of the burough of Redbank do hereby proclaim the week of June 17 through the
23rd 2024 as Red Bank pollinator week throughout the bar and call upon the people of bread bang to join me in celebrating the significance of pollinators with appropriate observance and activities y pollinators all right and finally we
have a proclamation honoring Eagle Scout maximilan inel I did get to go to his Eagle Scout ceremony over the weekend and it was lovely where're as maximilan anel of red bang troop 67 of the Boy Scouts of America has achieved the rank of Eagle
Scout and whereas Eagle Scouts act as leaders and role models in the community it takes years of dedication and commitment to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout and whereas the eagle scout award is a distinction that will follow him throughout life and will be a beacon to others leadership quality and commitment
this young man has shown and whereas maximilan Nel has diligently planned coordinated executed and presented the placing of signs in Fair Haven fields to Mark out indigenous trees being planted in an effort to repopulate the area with trees from native North America such as
the American Maple and oak tree with the assistance of volunteers consisting of family friends and other Scouts Maximillian built 31 handcrafted signs inscribed with the name of the tree and the boy scout emblem that will be installed in the near future whereas in the coming years citizens and visitors
Alik will enjoy and appreciate the fruits of his labor now therefore be it resolved that I will Portman mayor of the bur of Red Bank on behalf of the Redbank bur Council to hear by congratulate and recognize maximilan Andel for his achievement of the rank of Eagle Scout we are proud to have him as
a member of our community hey I think uh Bob you're up next we're going to do a presentation for the River Center proposed 2024 budget and Bob while we had you under presentations I just want to make sure
you're here just to present to the council mayor and Council um the overview of the River Center budget and just any changes from last year to this year you know how you anticipate using the funds sure thank thank you for that
and um good evening everybody Bob zman executive director I'm here to present that overview Mr Gant just spoke about um before I go into um just the summary of the numbers um which I think you all have in in your packet I I just wanted
to um uh clarify something which is that what we're talking about here tonight is the assessment budget not the complete full budget and let me explain the difference when I first uh presented the
budget um my first year here to uh Tom sorry to Tom Seaman uh your CFO of the burough um it was the full budget that the board had passed and he said no I'm not looking for that I said what do you mean he said
we're just we're just interested in the assessment revenue and all the expenses that match up against the assessment rate so we put together an assessment budget uh based on his recommendation requirement and we we did
the same thing this year so when you see numbers on here they may not be the full that may not be the full amount of dollars for example that is spent on a particular program and as some of you may know we raise additional funds we
are a 501c3 so above and beyond the assessment dollars that we collect from our property owners not the taxpayers but our property owners um we do raise additional Revenue uh we get grants we
get corporate sponsorship for events um we get we get money from other governmental entities like the county of Mammoth uh so there's other monies that come in uh that make up part of the revenue and that gives us a fuller
budget than what you see here today but I was asked to present on the uh the assessment budget um and so that's what we'll do so with that uh with that Proviso let me just uh uh go into it uh
so the revenue the total assessment is 579,000 [Music] uh our first item is Administration and overhead um that includes things like our rent for our office in The Visitor Center that's $42,000 a year um we do
have uh we have outsourced our accounting and bookkeeping services to the finance department at the basy um so it includes that money it includes the money for our annual audit uh which we uh undertake every single year as
required by the ordinance and the Department of Community Affairs and then the balance of that number is is would be you know payroll um payroll expenses um the second item is our streetscape Improvement Debt Service so
every year we pay we make two payments on uh two different loans the first one is a $33,000 approximate payment uh loan from got from DCA a number of years ago that's for the English Plaza uh project that
was completed a number of years ago when English Plaza was redone um River Center apparently had in that and then uh $119,000 loan from the burrow itself for the White Street parking lot project
that was also completed a number of years ago so uh that makes up that 52565 that you see on your budget there um program Staffing um that's essentially the staff that's uh
people who do all the programming that's myself that's Tom Hanley that's Lori vak Roth and and poo uh Sora who does our maintenance and our our street cleaning and by the way just I just wanted to mention it's it's not part of this budget we did hire an additional uh
person to do maintenance on the weekends um especially focusing on the broadwalk so hopefully that's going he started last weekend so hopefully that's going to really keep that broadwalk clean weekends because our person P does not work on Saturday or Sunday so just
wanted to throw that um promotional events um things like our Red Bank Buck promotion street life that we have going on All Summer Long which which is about to start the sidewalk sale all the different girls night out events that we
do the Halloween one the the St Patrick's one things like that so it's all of those type of um promotional events that came out to 20,000 but again uh we probably spend more than that in our full full budget we don't just spend $20,000 a year in vest that's for sure
um marketing and promotion that number is basically advertising uh both digital and in print um we have year around agreements with um Red Bank Green and also with tap into Redbank we advertise from time to time at aong newspap as
well two times press especially for our events uh broadwalk and Landscaping so the majority of that line item is I'm not quite sure why um or accounting uh put them together because they are different
but most of that money goes for landscaping um you're all familiar with um Danielle Bole who we brought on last year the Grove to do the pilot Pro BR a little beautiful flower gardens well now
now she's doing more so we have the same type of flower gardens on W Street on Mama Street and it's it's she's she's tremendous she's she's she's really great and really makes the downtown I think really really beautifies it um
business recruitment so we are going to be working on a uh I'm going to be working on a piece um a brochure type of thing for our commercial brokers uh we're going to use the data that we get fromer AI which is a new software
program fairly new software program that we just subscribed to uh due to a grant that we received from Main Street New Jersey we received $150,000 Grant so uh that includes that Grant uh re award includes two years of the Placer AI
software and it's it's tremendous uh GPS based um uh software that can tell us where people are going when they're coming where where they came from where they're going to what the Futures are demography and
it all comes from Anonymous cell phone so it's really quite remote that's Terri um visitor Services is a line I'm in there in for there uh most of you are aware that we had a visitor center for 23 years actually the Red Bank Visitor
Center has disbanded um as a nonprofit but we that happened at the end of last year but we still have um Margaret Mass who ran the visitors center um on with us a few days a week and so that's
that's the line item for for our work and Visitor Center work uh horiculture program um that is basically the uh flower pots that we have that many of our Merchants U buy into every year that
we put around the downtown um as well as the Hax so that's that's where that L on comes from uh holiday decorations most of that money goes towards our lighting uh during the holiday time and all our holiday decorations which you know are
significant and uh also there are some funds there that probably go to um you know the Holiday Express event that we do with with with holiday with Tim mcloon every year on Broad Street um as well as the tree uh that we over in
Riverside Gardens um next item art mural progam so there's $5,000 in there um we're going to spend more than $5,000 this year on mes uh yeah we are um I'm working on one right now um on Mama Street um I should
know more on Tuesday after the holiday but I think it's GNA be a go uh and I'll we write about that announce that that's gonna be really exciting it's right across the street from the basing so it's a perfect location and then we're scouting other locations and other
artist so um we're going to take a a good look at that we the board is spend more money on Murs and we're going to do that this year uh for sure and then the last item was just how Communications and most of that goes for our mail chin
program which is how we do all of our email our email list it's how I get out the Red Bank beat every week um if you don't subscribe Please Subscribe um reading it comes out every Thursday five
o'clock and uh that all that totals 579 970 so that's I hope hopefully not too detailed uh of a of a summary but good summary anyone have any questions for
Bob sure do um so Bob I appreciate you taking the time to put this whole budget together is there anything within your budget for my favor favorite thing to ask about bicycle bicycle parking bicycle racks um well um the the answer
is I don't know that there's a specific line item just for bicycle racks even in the full budget but there is a general line item for sort of [Music] um call it I think we call it um infrastructure infrastructure yes and uh
so like for example um the new parklet that we're building on Mama Street um there is gonna yes two bike racks there correct um paring for two bicycles right right right and um and we're and we're looking for for more opportunities to do
that um so that's not a specific line item but it's something that we should look at for next year um to actually put specific budget you take it oh a couple so what's the entire budget and dis that you get from grants
and everything like that I'm just curious sure so the entire budget um here it is um we the tire budget uh revenue and expenses um $857,500
you get a substantial amount of money in addition to what you raised through the do um and as we've talked about I appreciate your accessibility you know Council you know one of the things I get feedback on is there are some businesses that are not in the broadwalk area
particularly that uh they perceive challenges because of that so I was hoping you might I I I was listening to you and you kind of addressed that in the content of your budget but could you articulate a little bit about uh what we're doing to try to um make the
businesses that feel like they're outside of the um you know I look I've been on the board I know things you're doing but I'd like if you don't mind to say publicly kind of things you're trying to do to accommodate those outside of the broadwalk so you know I know you're trying to promote the whole
business section and we do thank you councilman for that question so one of the things that we're doing is actually something that you all do and that's that to bring back the street Aries at a reasonable fee so that restaurants for
example It's usually the restaurants that are most that have the most challenges with broadwalk restaurants that are not in the broadwalk front and street so for those restaurants um you you folks brought
back street Aries original pricing from I guess four years ago the pandemic started and there are several restaurants that are interested in in the street so that's that's that's one thing and that's something you know we worked on with you
but that that's really your do um in terms of other items you know we're definitely going to increase signage this year that you know so that more know that there are other restaurants will do do QR codes we can't like
necessarily list every restaurant uh but but we can list it and and and draw it to our website U which will be coming in the fall that the Main Street Jersey so that's that's
another area uh we're doing a sign specifically for the um specific sign just for the Mechanic Street uh businesses because those businesses often feel left out you know there's the four BS there and they're like I love
the record Riot yeah yeah yeah that was introducing them that brought a lot of and downtown was packed yes one more comment Mr Man so I just wanted to second councilwoman Nancy blackwood's comment on we've been getting a lot of
feedback at our office hours the council about you know bike racks I know it's on our administrator's agenda to do that from burough standpoint right um but I think that that's you know we want to encourage less car use in general so I
think it'll be great to have some um you know that for that be in plan that's it and and you look forward to working with Council woman black Len and and the rest of you on maybe some Design Concepts there's a lot of different ways that you
can go with that thank you welcome thanks much Bob for this um first all the the traffic data sounds so interesting the cell data um but I also like me I think have like a a pointed question that just came to mind I was
looking at this maybe it's also infrastructure something I've heard um feedback is like The Refuge in in the downtown area is there anything in here does that fall under any line item um either maintenance or Improvement of that and thank you for adding
maintenance it sounds like as well yeah um thank you for that question Council um there isn't um there should be uh we I I firmly believe um that our organization should be investing in more
and new stands in the downtown um that is something that we can partner with the on but that should you know that is we as you know well everything we do is supplemental to what the bur does um but that's an important supplement um and an
important um an important tool that we use to keep our streets clean um a counil a deputy mayor Jano sent me something about new um pizza box recycling um they're not cans they're
whole pizza boxes they're getting stacked on top getting stacked on top of the garbage can that's right so we're thinking uh so I'd like to I'd love personally to start I have to bring this to the board but I would love to purchase at least two or three of them the broadwalk you can put one in front
near the new park L by Mr Pizza would be a smart place to put that um and and and invest in those kinds of um infrastructure Improvement so that answers question hey thanks for the presentation Bob and
the planting this year once again look great um and just as a note I'm glad you're going to put more money in Tim urals and I'm just going to encourage like whatever we're thinking about let's try we can stretch a little bit I like you know we have some nice stuff downtown but I'd like to see something different down there if we can but I'm
excited to see that um I'm just gonna make a comment on the bike RS um let's move on this because it's like we got to get them throughout Town downtown especially during broadwalk I just don't want to um keep sitting on something that would encourage people to keep coming downtown especially when it's a
pedestrian friendly um season so whatever you consider the next steps in encouraging and you want involvement with a council woman in blackw I volunteer myself as well but we do need to move on that just it just got we just don't have any anything and we just need to work on it but uh my only my my
question is you mentioned the Streeter and you said there's a few interested what's causing hesitation from the trigger on those there's there's there is a a little dispute currently about
the um the barriers the concrete barriers that you had previously with the street Aries um apparently there was the word got out that the burrow wasn't doing them this year they weren't gonna put them out and
I first heard about this I don't know a few days ago last week um I thought it would be just like it was in the past um obviously it's too much of a burden for single restaurant to go and buy concrete barriers and get them installed so so
that's something um that I know from my work in Westfield where I was prior to here during the pandemic um the police chief there mandated them there was no way that he was gonna do yeah Bob I'm not sure with the source was on that I just want to make this clear for the press That's present our manager never
stated that we weren't going to provide those barriers and I never suggested and you never suggested it so that's the definition of a good old rumor so I just want to make it extremely clear to the restaurant owners and everybody that that was never a change directive that
was never said by him we never stated we weren't going to provide the same things as years before we are still providing those things I I don't understand where that room is starting I'd like i' like to just answer something on that too because I brought this up specifically just to let you know because I did have a business owner say to me why aren't
you allowing Streeter us this year I said no we passed something that they're permitted I don't know where so we talk about Communications and Outreach whatever you can do to correct this because there are value add to the town people like outdoor dining we we we intentionally created and carved out a space for them so anything you in in
your in Your Capacity can do to sort this out and I you know enough but that's so it's interesting you bring that up but I literally heard that yesterday from someone and it's like no it's not it's not the case they could have said at some point in time but it couldn't have been you know as recent as I mean see it seems that like PO said it
was brought to his attention Bob brought it to my attention course I'm looking for the historical reference to yeah everything that comes up in the bur of Red Bank um but I I anticipate by tomorrow we we have an answer for
that yeah talk about it just I have three or four ready to go oh yeah I want to anticipate in isue I'd love to get them out there and um yeah just actually to the contrary deputy mayor not only did it not come from Jim but I
as soon as I heard this I went immediately to gym he had not heard any talking thanks Bob Bob I just wanted to add I really like um the tangible work that River Center's been doing with the plantings
with the parklet fully funding the parklet fully funding to plan things um it's just really impactful work it actually changes you know every day on the ground and I think that's what a lot of the business owners have wanted to see from River Center in the past so I'm I'm really grateful for that direction
um you know when it comes to the public art I know River Center has other money besides what we're seeing right here I've sat up here in the past and you know nodded my head to past River Center assessments and past River Center budgets ones that included up to $20,000
for public art um I want to see art and I don't want it to come on the back of the business owners I don't want to see our River Center asking business owners to fo the majority of the funding for public art you know it's not like we're painting huge advertisements for the businesses
or you know so that's something I'm looking forward to working through with the River Center as we move forward I'm under the understanding that there was a 2022 mural policy that had been passed that's pretty hindering at this point um that states that Riverson are only pay for 25% of a public art mural that's
that's sabotage from the begin so I think we really need to talk with the board about our interests as a governing body and our interest in our downtown and restructure this that we get proper artists proper funding and you know we know the money is there so let's use it wisely and appropriately on public art
how nice asbury's new mural is gorgeous yeah so um just just to respond real quickly Deputy Mayor um we I did inherit a policy I know um and and uh that is going to be a major item on our agenda we know to inherit
things it's at our next executive committee which is coming up in 10 days um so um just wanted to put that on the record I I appreciate that thank you I'm in agreement with you B thanks thanks for
your help on Saturday with um G hour yeah the band and Tom was wonderful setting up the tables and getting things out there I think it was very well attended thank you oh you're very very welcome uh we're looking actually just as an FYI we're looking to do it on a
more regular basis I heard that yeah okay so uh stay tuned on that too I will y i i I also want to take this moment since before as to say go go to these business openings that you organize and bring the giant scissors and I it's just I find it so powerful to to do that to
go to these events and have is there people struggling to survive in the Amazon era of America you're here doing your best to help something they don't all make it but it is quite something to see you and
River Center all over the place doing what you can whether it's on the Galleria I was there at the opening of the clothing store over there or downtown or these restaurants and it's so important what you do because it is you know what is it 90% of businesses fail and you're doing what you can to
help and that small stuff matters so much um and I just am grateful because I love living in a town with a downt well all of you are fortunate because you live in a town with a great downtown in my hum opinion thank
you and and we want to keep it great and I appreciate the sentiment and comments and I also appreciate the fact that many of you have attended those ribbon cuttings uh because I think it means a lot to the business owner yeah when they see their mayor and they see their
council members attend attend a ribbon cutting it means that car and wants them want amazingly we didn't always do that no I know can you just stick around we're going to open up the floor for public comment for the for your budget all
right have a motion to open the public hearing on the uh Sid budget only I'll make such a motion Mr Mayor have a second seconded all in favor I anyone from the public have any questions on this uh special Improvement District budget sure yeah
yeah should mic should be working second 64 Street um it was rather refreshing actually to hear actually speak up about bicycle parking in this town in fact I knew
you're going to because I've spoken to at least three of you in the last week however I think it's rather shameful that after three or four years of broadw war being an institution in the to that the best River Center can
say ever m is that oh yeah there's going to be a couple of bike parking places on the new park they're nonexistent and other than that in a time like this there is no other facility now people are going to say
well you know where are the cists and I'm going to say like two things to you first of all this the Chicken and the Egg I mean I don't I don't ride my bik down town because I can't leave at anywhere and I'm assuming most other people are like that as well and so and
so you know and there also about building a better nice trap you know you build by facilities and people will come and they will use them and here's a thing that business people who are against
industrialization or against B facilities always refuse to acknowledge or it's well proven is that people who arrive byy bike give bigger turnover to businesses and have bigger
spend and that's the fact and you know you can also you know you can just go and look at you know you're talking about GPS information well you know there are also things called uh bicycle
are heat maps and whereby there's dgps information tells you how many bicycles in the past [Music] with at the moment of course not many people
stop you know it's no good to say well think about it next year you've got to do something about it now and you know we spit another car CLI that's going be stuck in a rather inappropriate Place 60 to $70,000 I can tell you 60 or
$70,000 would actually transform the center would transform broad stre from the bicycle parking point of view and it would be huge huge benefit to local business and yet all we care about orent
things we care about other cars the free parking and so on and you know you can say no we do care more but you don't you don't you can just see by what you've done by what you've not done and I not
asking I'm just telling you you've got to get your action the gear on cing and better pedestrian faes but I don't see it with this this budget next year
leaving I will say I just wanted to mention Mr Hill too and actually to everybody's benefit and commend uh Nancy for putting together really spearheading a grant that was put in this year through the AARP for 32 bike racks and
uh I believe two bicycle repair stations yeah two so 34 additional biking facilities and truthfully know council member Blackwood did did a great job with that in conjunction with our grant
writers so you know extending that to the downtown is definitely a goal and I think that you stated that today that that's a goal of yours but as far as the burrow wide goes it's a goal of virus as well and that's referenced in the the Grant application that's been submitted
already than well oh yes evening my name is Bruce Shapiro with new JY Wheels originally actually didn't come here to talk about this tonight uh we came to talk about the short-term rental own that one of my colleagues will talk a while but in listening to the conversation um through
our National Association of realtorss we actually have something called A Place Bank Grant which we can work with communities on um across the country and if we get approval to submit one through our local Board of Wheels I talked to U my colleague Robert White who's with the board here tonight uh we can actually
submit an application obviously there's no guarantee it'll be approved by our National Association but it funds things such as um walking paths paring um parli and bike racks and filling stations around the community so that's something
we'd obiously if the town's interested River Center is interested we'd love the opportunity to work with you on and I can email information on this to you um I see one thumbs up right there bwood but we'd love the opportunity to also work with the town
orent on this um yeah once again I couldn't guarantee the application to be improved because it comes through our National Association but something like this sounds right up the alley of what their placemaking program seems like okay thank you can I say one thing
yeah um yes I think that would be great because that would be nice if we could take up a parking spot and get something for permanent bike parking like an Oni pod um or you know something along those lines thank you and that program has two phases that this out more like it be a
phase two F level one is more for temporary projects that's a maximum $3,000 Grant a level two for permanent projects assuming the bike rocks would be permanent they wouldn't come down when door reopened that's a maximum $7,500 Grant you apply for that would
pay for about about a third of an on pod but that helps yesly the is it's fine thank you thank you anyone else have any comments on the city
budget no okay can I have a motion to close the public hearing on the city budget only I'll make that I'll second it all in favor I hi okay um next up we are public comments on agenda coms only
reminder to everybody um you'll have really three moments to comment on it there's the uh public comments now as we introduce each ordinance or bring up each ordinance there'll be also a chance um at least for the ordinances
that we are debating uh to pass you'll have a chance to speak to them as well right now going to have a motion to open the floor for public comments on agenda agenda items only ex a motion Mr second second all in favor I okay
yes course we have a few people speaking on the same um resolution can we all come up together sure sure sounds efficient 2en good evening everybody so we're speaking on the resolution regarding R Choice voting I'll be brief
I just want to thank you for putting the resolution on the agenda um I discussed it with both I think over the past months and uh I just appreciate the chance to um my name is her I'm from Piscataway 4
Le Market Road four years ago we founded Vo Jersey V advocate for ranco want to thank thank you for considering ranco voting I want to thank bis for being a steadfast volunteer for us for the next four years uh rank Choice voting gets a
lot of a lot of accolades about what it can do and I think it's even more powerful than what you generally doing one thing that I particularly like about rank Choice voting is the ability to express your full political opinion in the voting group right now when there's three or four people running are are
free speech is infringed because we can only express our opinion on one person so rank Choice voting one of the most powerful things is that it allows us to express a full opinion and then see those opinions in the results election so again thank you and there's something that you can feel good
about hi I'm Barry Bender formerly of Leonardo now of forkid River New Jersey um I've been with the voter Choice new four years and I just wanted to talk about things that have uh occurred for
us we've gotten in two of the larger cities in New Jersey what we refer to as a trigger ordinance and I think many of you know what a trigger ordinance is uh we've gotten uh in Hoboken and in Jersey City and uh in Jersey City with almost
full support from the entire Council we're going around the state and I know mayor I bumped into you a couple times on Election Day U while ago uh um we're fing around the uh the entire State uh visiting various
municipalities promote trigger ordinances to in turn uh encourage the people in Trenton there are two bills one in the Senate and one in the assembly and when those get passed it allows municipalities and Boards of Education to put forward a trigger Orin
will actually once they're pass you ordin put forward a ballot U issue uh so the people can vote on whether they want to use rank Choice voting or not and I thank you very very much for putting this uh on on your agenda um leading the way here in Mammoth County thank you
very much good evening mayor and Council my name is Larry white I'm an organizer for voter Choice New Jersey and I send greetings from pal where we have independent candidates getting one sign
stolen and our former Sheriff just with the subordinate that we don't have a downtown beauy I make this comparison ladies and gentlemen because Red Bank is a jewel in the crown here in Mammoth County you
have a great town I missed by over bits being a resident in this community three years ago and uh you also have it a nonpartisan console and a progressive government we
need people and towns like you to give support to rank Choice voting for places like mine where it's going to be a heavy lift I'm asking you as a Democrat and as
a fellow member and citizen of this County to put some wind beneath our wings and get and demonstrate to the legislature of the state of New Jersey that there are townships and cities in this state that are ready to use rank
Choice voting right now that will do a lot to help us convince the legislature that they need to pass these bills so thank you in advance for your support thank you Steve I saw your hand up
back 135 foran briefly I I just wanted to indicate um certainly the council knows this but to the public as well and for the record um rank Choice voting is not
necessarily than to be I want to urge certainly uh council members but the public at large to do some readings of about cons not only the pros of a
franchoice uh candidates and and votes are not like buying refrigerators if I can't get the world poool then I'll buy the uh the am um it's it's not that simple and there is a body of literature out there um that
have only begun to look at today honestly and um I would urge people to do that the other thing that we should emphasize is that if and when these bills are passed by the state
legislature The Next Step would be for the council to provide a essentially a referendum question on the B for those of us in bed as to whether we would
choose them so um this is not um a uh afor mentioned a slam dunk um and we should do some research about it I would certainly urge the folks um who were involved in the CH of study commission I
know they addressed this initially I would urge them to address it once again based on whatever it is that the state may provide with respect to the current legislation thank you thank you
yes Al H excuse me Hill 64 stre it's a bit of a surprise to come in this evening and find this um this resolution on the agenda I'm going tell you why I'm very surprised for for a number of
reasons firstly everybody proposing it in through out of time this resolution does not arise from people within this town secondly this matter I would have thought was discussed by the chapter
commission and probably reject it and if it wasn't discussed by the uh the Char commission what's it doing here thirdly I actually went spoke to um the chair of
the of the um Charter commission about another matter equally pertinent to in this community and that was the enabling uh noncitizens to vote in local matters
I was told by the chair that notable and it was never going to happen despite the fact I admit not happening in New Jersey it's not but it does happen in New York and other states around here so I want to know how is there getting
such privilege treatment you know could I just come in and get get a motion you know just for votes for noncitizens could I get that no course they could and you know say what we've got here
three gentlemen you know may be a idea maybe I don't know but why do we need people coming from out of town who have got already working in a sort of working towards working in a and here
we are discussing it but not only that in the the agenda where it's still going to get voted for syri at the end you'll all just go by and'll go through the time need to think about this you're not giving them
the opportunity thank you anyone else yes we going 205 Street U first one is uh the the ordinance
20244 it reference certain trees permission to take down and go through a process perent process I just more clarification of what trees they are don't I think one is the trees between the street and the sidewalk um
number two uh there was something here about the marijuana um and I'm not speaking on behalf of the school or the library um but I heard some talk that at some point when you receive the money from the taxes um that the library could possibly receive a percentage of that
amount so I didn't know if that was under discussion uh number three your resolution regarding the uh trailers on the street and stuff um I I gotta commend the the for being very helpful but my
question is it comes down to enforcement um we have all these rules but I mean just one my talk today I have four pictures up here of people parking in front of fire hydrants or on the yellow strips or um on main streets I mean you
can't help me the police stud are going down Bridge Street they they go Rich Street uh I just don't who who is responsible for enforcing these rules you know supposed to park it for the fire that's a pretty obvious rule but all weekend I had a car on the corner of
Cedar Street yeah Cedar and Bridge so I really want to emphasize all this paperwor is great but nobody's you know giving out tickets and enforcing the rulle but the hell's problem you know what does it do did you call that in no this morning I had to go to work actually so I just took pictures when I
left my dog this is just walking around the corner of my house I'd appreciate instead of taking the pictures just call it in call I've had this with them and sometimes they're a little cluess I call in and I ask questions and they say they don't know and they don't um I can't prove it I pictur it's your s if I call
it in but they record every phone call my question then Jim can deal with it if they're not call it in why isn't it a cop or somebody driving through IND it takes a community and we appreciate the help this is not helpful calling it in and having it enforced
is I just don't think I think it's j job I don't know so we do this over and over just call it in what is this I want I want to know who's responsible to drive I see cops going over down the street the employees of the burrow the residents of the
burrow and anybody else who cares in the bur is responsible for helping the enforcement of the r of the community yeah it's that simple right I'll call thank you just lot I mean it just a like for up here for us right as the management of the town it's way easier
for Jim to go down to the police department and say I know you got a call this morning at 9:15 did you go out and take a look at it versus hey did you happen to see the car fire hydrant like from a management perspective it helps us you to call it in even if you do it
anonymously at least them know that you got to um they got call and Jim can have people be held accountable because we know there's a call versus hey did you see that oh no I was at a call on another road that time right that's that's that's what you know so it helps us if you call it in not just it helps
us accountability from top to bottom here and even as a a crossing guard for the burrow you care about the safety of children or anybody else so just be a part of that which I do we called in there was a wir hanging down we called
it in a kid today across the street he was limping you needed help I call the Middle School actually hyd I call this is just just driving down the street I mean you guys tell me please don't see this this is bridge I
get a dog I just walk around the street this is all this St we don't we will never be able to prove one way or another we Sol it but if you call it in and no one addresses it then Jim can do his job to make it make it happen because we do agree with you that that it's a serious issue
people are and we can't sit up here and point out all the things that we're fixing today either I I think Chief's doing a great job he on it but I mean than money let's fix up thank you anyone else public comments
for agenda items yes you never answer my other question ohes what's what's certain trees the ordinance it's all trees it's all trees mistaken it's all trees trees
yeah of my property yes that's that came down from the state I it say certain trees because there are exceptions for example we don't we can't tell JCP know what to do in their utility easements uh it's not applicable
to burrow owned property state owned properties you have other Government properties above us so that that's the reason it says certain treat it's all Tre essentially on properties within our jurisdiction but not every tree is within our jurisdiction municipality that's my
position yes good evening my name is mar I reside at 95 here ined bank and I am interested in the ordinance number
2024 d23 regarding short-term rent I think uh point that ordinance are only as good as uh the
enforcement you know you can you can craft things as uh as you want but if they're not enforced it really doesn't do any good and I think this town has a long history not only of very poor
enforcement but also creating um situations that have a lot of unintended consequences so I'll just and I will get back to that but um in the ordinance the dwelling unit is defined
as a single unit providing independent living facilities for one or more persons and um but it doesn't address um rooms in dwelling units where where
there are common kitchen and bathroom facilities and I was wondering if that was intentional or is that just an oversite Raspberry Park short-term rental po policy does address um like a bedroom in a in a home
where the kitchen and the bathroom are shared in other words it doesn't have a separate kitchen so are does this does this ordinance actually mean that you know renting the bedroom
in your home is not allowed or is was it just an oversight that was my first question I'm not sure the proper version the ordinance is published online for what I'm reading well you know this is how how am I expected them to come in
here and comment on if I can't find the right ordinance and you know the the website Mr Gant is terrible the way it's organized is terrible the uh lateness of how things are posted for people is
terrible so um are you telling me I'm I'm working from the wrong document here there there should be a 2 B5 that addresses exactly the situation you were talking about um I didn't get that
today and this is you know happens quite frequently you don't have the stuff up it went up I think yesterday afternoon yeah it was posted Monday the full agenda I have a 25 I think
that what did I get today I got it tday afternoon so it's now on it does it does refer the bedrooms does okay this is on for introduction there a different I'll read I'll read the Clause to you
that so you see uh 559 2B and there's 1 through four so the ordinance has a five which allows you to utilize as a short-term rental quote not more than two bedrooms within a single family residential
drawing unit where the bedrooms share common kitchen and bathroom facility with the occupant of the dwelling unit and the remainder of the single family dwelling unit is occupied by the owner and identified by the owner as his or her principal residence as that term is defin here in which tracks the language of the ibur park ordinates that you were
referring to so my second uh question is um this idea of principal residence and how you actually um confirm that document it right now
it's being we're relying on um a driver's license or a state identification card and quite Frank has that changed at all is that the same on the revised ordinance that's the same I really think
that's inadequate because I think that um and is there is there any I just don't think that that's a valid way to determine residency I've
had I've when the original ordinance was passed I was here and I listened to many people who were operating short-term rentals in town come up here and they identified themselves as residents of Redbank and they weren't residents of
Redbank they were registered to vote elsewhere if you um check their um uh them online they were reg they were indicated to have been living other
places like Fair Haven tin and Falls Middletown so I just don't think that this is an adequate way to um really determine whether the person is a bonfi resident but getting back to the
enforcement I wanted to know um well list of registered short-term rentals in town be available to um anyone who the public in other words if I'm concern
about what's going on on my street or my neighborhood can I come to uh the municipal building and see a list of short-term rentals that are uh operating in
town you could over that list we would likely uh redact personal identifiers from that list like we do for example for dog licenses like dog fence companies over our dog license list from time to time we redact we try to redact
personal information and there's guidelines on that new Cas so there would be an address though you would know that it was being operated at a certain address yes so if so if I was operating a short-term rental and I was not
registered I would not appear on the list so then that would indicate that I was in violation of the ordinance correct correct okay but is that information in the ordinance is there a statement in the ordinance that says that the
public can have access to the addresses in which at which these short-term rentals are operating no your right to see that is provided by State Statute the open public records act that's so so I would
have to file an open public records request yes that seems very cumbersome I mean I've been here where people have complained about the that's how we do it here the time so I would ask the council to
consider putting something some language in the ordinance that would make it easier for residents to find out if there's a short-term rental operating in close proximity to their home I think
that would be only fair like a Megan's Law for short Ser rentals yeah that wouldn't be a bad idea I don't think to resar okay and do do these people get to to talk back to me I mean is that okay
he's being rude he's being rude to me I I can't hear from here can we uh can we please if there should be a Megan's Law for short term rental so obviously he's trying to be factious at my expense I don't know who he is I don't know where
he comes from I'm assuming he operates a short-term rental maybe it's an illegal one unregistered but I don't think it's appropriate for the audience to% did not uh I did not hear them but
as I've said before here if you uh can't listen quietly and respectfully and wait your turn I'm going to ask you to leave than thank you Mr okay we have do we have we we we can we if you have additional questions for his ordinance can you address it when
the ordinance comes up we just usually have a three minute limit we're going to have a we're going to be here all night we have a lot of people that want to speak to this well my concern I'm not going to stay here and listen to everybody complain about this ordinance I'm in support of the ordinance I am concerned
about it enforcement I think the way it's written it's incumbent upon the neighbors to kind of out the unregistered uh short-term rentals and I think that's a very unfair
position to put people in and how do you actually um you know I know someone who has brought it to the attention of uh the burrow and was asked to actually well how do you prove it so is it going to be incumbent upon me as a
resident if I think this is a problem and think this is being operated in violation of the ordinance is it going to be incumbent on me to prove my case I mean am I going to have to hire a private
investigator to follow people around yeah so and the other one more thing just one more thing because I really want to leave I got fresh yeah we all do okay yeah just just to answer that a little clearer it goes to court and and one of the reasons the last version one
of the reasons why this is happening right now is because the version that was passed before and on the record and I sat up here during that time and said it wasn't enforceable our prosecutor turned around and said it wasn't enforcable as it was written so that's
why we're here now because there's a court if this were to happen people go to court they prove their stuff they bring their paperwork etc etc and the last ordinance wasn't holding up in Municipal Court it wasn't enforc able so people that were breaking the ordinance or operating airbnbs where they weren't
supposed to be couldn't be held accountable whereas now this ordinance fixes that and makes it on rockcup pip only so that would happen in that would happen in court the only other thing I wanted to say is there any way to get these
uh platforms these booking platforms whether it's Airbnb or vbo or whatever it is to actually Prov divide the burrow with a list of of what's operating in town because at this point you got to
look on the map you got to see the little pins you got to figure out try to figure out where they are because unless you bu it you don't get the address and I think that's another hardship for people and also for um the burrow which
is trying to regulate I mean how you have to kind of be a detective to figure out where these things are operate operating and to figure out is it registered is it not registered are they in compliance are
they not so I really think the ordinance um you know could be fine-tuned a little bit to make the enforcement a little better and that's all I have to say thank you for your T thank you thank you Steve you had your hand up earlier
yes so Steve first and then gentleman in the back and then what's that it's already been up he went earlier for the specific um Stephen 135 Avenue I'm not the only one to speak more than once tonight didn't you I'm sorry I thought
you had gotten up to speak under the S now I did oh then I'm speaking yes it's a difference it's a different gu the only one thank you for starting the clock because I do not want to overstay my welcome to start it come up here um
question pleas if I want to cut down a tree on my property do I need to go to the town and get a
permit yes how long is that in effect after after the adoption of this ordinance going for sorry after the adoption of this ordinance going forward so that the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection has put together storm water regulation rules and and ordinances that were required to pass to obtain our permit and one of those requirements is that uh the burrow adopt an ordinance that
requires um tree Replacements so The Bu has no choice in whether to adopt this ordinance and if that's the case and why are we not subject to the state regulation why do you have to mess an ordinance to get it done I think this is
a classy case of government overreach and I'm a liberal Democrat so what the hell is going on why doesn't the state say this is what our people need to do and why do you have
become part of thought is similar from other areas of the town like for example U the division of fire safety has a uniform fire code or there's a uniform construction code or the tax assessor follows the division taxation rules or the division of taxation has
rules for tax assessment that the assessor and The Collector will follow and we administer them locally so this would be quite as well taken yet another state mandate that will be administered by local official it is not it is not funded okay
well I urge you as independently thinking human beings I urge you to either not give a second to this but just don't pass it and see what the hell happens try it's ridiculous Steve I'll tell you what will happen we won't have our permit for storm water and then
we'll get daily fines for not being in compliance so is that kind of like a blackmail um yeah I just State yes sir good evening Robert White uh past president for New Jersey
and I'm also the past president for the mammoth ocean Regional Realtors uh last year we came and sat before the council mayor and Deputy Mayor were were here then everybody else was not um and we
sorry just for one second thank you um do you have like a watch or something that you can I thank you so much sorry about that Jim so last year we came before the council and you know we opposed that short-term
rental ordinance that was introduced and ultimately passed um after being vetoed uh we applaud mayor Portman and again Deputy Mayor Triano to you know for opposing it as well uh in that vote
tonight we're happy to be here to speak in full support of that ordinance that you guys have all worked very hard on recrating and um I think that it will become the poster short-term rental
ordinance for all of Mammoth and Ocean County we've seen some disastrous rental ordinances come out in various towns Asbury Park being one of them and um so we're hopeful that this ordinance will pass and be the groundbreaking rule that
it is the only thing we don't like is that you're limited to the owner occupant you're not going to make everybody happy but this was this was a great piece of work here and we're just proud to support it um to the woman that spoke before you know about Airbnb and
vbo getting regist registrations you can't do that but you we can encourage real estate professionals to represent those short-term rentals because it's also an added benefit to the homeowner because they don't have to pay the 11.625 per tax when they use a realtor
to conduct that transaction so just keep that in mind when you're talking to the the residents saying they'll use a real term so that's it I just want to thank you all thank you um ma'am you had your hand up before yeah so I was here at the last time I'm
from Oakland Street my name's Emily um how is it enforcable like right now no we haven't we haven't passed it yet so what happen days from today this was a party at 10:30 at night right on Monday outside my daughter's bedroom
my 10-year-old daughter's bedroom he just said to the girl in the hot tub oh you better watch out before I get in there and start doing some sexual things to you my child does not need to hear that I agree so when is this going to become enforcable because I'm tired of G from
tonight assuming the or passes and who do I report it to just code enforcement if it's for a certain amount of time and then how long until it get shut down how does it get shut down how many days is he going continue to operate while getting f t onfor
off no more we can't be very careful up here because we don't enforce the ordinances we're the legislature so the code enforcement and fire Marshall's office are in charge of the permitting and the and the enforcement of this they get a report they're going to handle it like
everything else summons the Municipal Court notice a violation depends on the severity of what's going on um not having a permanent in of itself um after this goes into effect would be a violation of the ordinance so there's a lot of different tools that they can use we
don't tell them what specific just like we don't tell the police whether they write you a ticket on the street we don't tell them about Force rules but they are very well aware of this we have had a full administrative meeting on implementing this and they we're ready to at
the owners like are they aware that they have like a certain amount of time like is there a race period for them to get their paperwor in order for them to either get the license or not get the license because it's not occupied I I would think for like for the paperwork side of it I would imagine that we get a notice to violation first
rather than a summons directly to court for violating the other parameters of the ordinance like you just play basically noise that can just right um itn't say ref to the there's a noise
ordinance chapter which someone here who lives in t know it better than me off the top of my head but it refers to that so whatever the noise is for everything else that's what it is believe it's it only really mentions like businesses and then like what times you're allowed to like use machinery and stuff like that
doesn't I also believe it has it has music and live music and okay so then that's the time so my daughter can be up until 11: p.m. theidea also as well as of the owner occupied is that if the owner has to be there listening to what's going on
in the hot tub that it won't be happening at all right that's part of the that's part of the idea what're exactly that's why I was just wondering how long it's going to take before I it's actually enforceable 20 days from tonight all right thank you thank you yes good evening Cindy baram 71 Wallace
Street the Scot many of you guys know this already but Fair Haven passed an ordinance just recently uh they allow Str strs to stay stays of 95 or more days uh they they don't ban it they
restrict the duration so that it preserves the quality of life and the safety for homeowners and in our town I know of no condos or town homes that allow strs in their in their buildings so what I
would ask you is to consider redefining and amending this ordinance to say that short-term rentals are seven days or more and I say
that because it would help the enforcement like I have to wonder like the Airbnb across the street from me the short-term rent in a week it turns over four or five times two nights here one night two
nights and then a weekend so people are constantly coming and going now I'm a landlord I have to pay for cosos every time I get a new tenant and register but how do you how do you monitor something
that goes two nights then one night then two days and then three nights how do you how do you do that so if you make it for a seven day stay you've got time to register you've got time to get a CEO Red Bank gets the $75 for the CEO so I
would like you to consider that um it because it really does disrupt the uh the neighborhood and what I do want to know is how do the owners of these short-term
rentals know they have to register or do we have to wait to find them Al like 60 Mechanic Street it's running illegally you said that they had a smart lawyer and they got off on a loophole because why
because they weren't registered what was the loophole the loophole is that yeah the last couple things one the language as you can see it's been crossed out and B andc doesn't really match so you can kind of argue in the converse in court a couple have done
that um with respect to him is uh the licensing process um is il defined and was he licensed was he registered no but he's not able to get a license in his circumstance and that's what he's claiming his defenses before court which
is what caused our code enforcement to contact us and say that we're not sure if he's this guy's allowed to get a license or not because of the ambiguity between B and C so you need to clean all that up and you need to clean up what the the licensing procedures at the end so that we can clearly process people
basically based on the driver's licenses and and the other IND condition that are in here and then it's it's free and clear I don't have someone arguing oh but this is over here or oh but that's over there and um or potentially going to the land use boards because this has
some zoning is elements to it for a variance for these short-term rentals because we clearly didn't intend that um so that's really what this this cleans up um is this going to be perfect 21 days from now no but can I tell you that
we are prepared here at from the court the our representative in the court the prosecutor all the way up to Jim and me to figure out how to how to get a handle on what's going on out there we certainly are and this is the tool that really allows us to do that and draw a clear dividing line between who's
allowed to do this and who's not well I don't know from what I've seen with the 60 mechanics street that was kind of a fiasco because even when I called the police they were asking me how do you know it's an air BNB how do you know it's a short-term rental I mean we we
know it's a short-term rental it's been proven to be a short-term rental it was a legally being run so I don't understand you know what the what the loophole was but again I say how do we know how do these owners know that they
have to register they're likely to if they don't so number one when you're operating these things as I understand it own one or oper one you have to do a whole checklist with the the actual providers online that what your local regulations are that's how they know what the local
assessment online yeah Airbnb VB I believe you have to register where you're like I believe you have to add the treas charges so you have to go through the checklist so that's one if you're doing this and you're operating online you know to look for the ordinance right and then number
two um if they don't then like I mentioned to the other lady they're going to get a notice of violation and a certain period of time to come here and get the license and then if they don't they're going to get a summon to the Municipal Court just like someone who doesn't have a CO or a landlord registration or other things in town that code deals with um smoke detector
certificate just like you were referencing for rentals it would basically be the same process all right here's another problem can we can s we can when we open up the floor again for public comment can we can I just just finish this I got one more question okay okay not a question but a statement okay
I know two of these short-term rentals they don't have um any driveways so what I would like to see in this ordinance is something that says that the owner of the Airbnb has to get a parking permit which would allow that person to park in
the parking lot because once they come in I mean parking on wless street is insane insane we have overcrowding and these people come in at night and they leave in the day you can't park at night and you know what when you go to Kate May and you and you have a place maybe
it has one parking place but then they say you have to go down to the end of the street and get a parking permit and park in the public parking lot so it's no different than than that so that's that's what I wanted to say and um okay I'll ask the rest of my
questions later Cindy just to address your concerns it's 559 A7 what is the application process requires the owner to WR the number and location of all parking spaces available on the premises which shall include the number of legal on street parking the owner shall certify that renters will
not use on street parking unless off street parking is unavailable where no off street parking is available on street parking regulations there but there there is on street parking and it's available they're going to take it right they they have to they will okay I
know it so we have to cross that one out and say no on street parking you get a permit from your from your provider your renter or owner and they they have to pay for a permit which I think is $1,000
a year and then that person can par in the parking lot in the public parking lot okay thank you yes also just really forication because I know there's been a few things about this um it's not for for every platform and it's not that every
short-term rental has to use an Airbnb platform but those platforms do notify that their hosts of an ordinance change in a municipality so they will get that notification when the ordinance changes through that platform hello mayor and Council hello hi beth3 ball
stre I would like to speak the short-term rental aordance I'd like to ask amendments before it passed first I um I think limiting to the UNS is um a better approach might be to limit
the number of licenses from watching this debate over the years um there's a clear need for Str rentals and a real concern also that too many of them will change to the personality of our
home by limiting the license count uh to a low percentage to overall residential units you then can address the concerns of people that think too many will have aers to our neighborhood um and having a responsible
party on call matter what the property type is would be also a good thing to recogniz my second concern that I have mentioned before is the complaint section how the ordinance is written
leads me to believe a think that is is it's just that it's just a complaint U both of us are reasonable people and you know we would expect complaints like we just there you
go toic people in the house or the bouncy castles all the things we've heard in the past but what if someone just likes to be what if somebody makes a good job to what Rec
a just this week the owner at 70 Wall Street had to answer a complain that he was operating illegal while that property was used as short the effective Poli is since been a
long reporting in [Music] are they just trying to get as many on record as possible to avoid a shortterm rent at that that address now in this scenario the
complaint was easy to prove unsubstantiated however what I'm upset about and what everybody in room should be upset about is that at least two Town employees were distracted from normal business a homeowner and a
minut had to take time from their working day to address the complaint that was just spiteful nature needs to have language to include a process deter if a complaint is legitimated before shutting someone down
and ideally finds some compl who we time and passes employees time if too many unwarranted complaints are made thank you thank
you um who's gonna you want me to keep time I've been keeping I Wasing my name is l um I live on Oakland Street very nervous tonight um I live next to a short-term
rental uh I live in a single family residence it's in a duplex um a self-managed condo duplex it's my private residents and I share three flors of walls with an active Airbnb and we never thought we'd have to deal with
this when we moved in um and purchased our place um which we purchased because we could could afford it on our nonprofit and education salaries um it is only a short-term rental it's not anyone's primary residence and it's a revolving door it
has guests in it nearly every weekend um most weekends of the year most days of the week between spring and fall and it was booked literally every day last summer um it does get rented out for as little as one night at a time um despite our please for that to stop I was up
again at 3: in the morning on Monday night due to the noise coming from the next door this is the same noise that um the woman on the other side of the room played for you it happens to be owned I Believe by a realtor to the in the back of the room um and it's not the first
time that's happened and it's been dozens of times over the past year um and even when it's not happening I now come to live in sort of a constant state of anxiety for the next group of guests to check in um so I know that you the council
have said that you are enacting this to make it more enforcable to close these loopholes um and you see it as being a strict of a law as it can be and I just I really thank you for that like truly thank you um because I think we'll do a service for our community and people who
live and love it here as I do um by making the messy current version of this uh actually real and enforceable I just urge you to take two things very seriously that um have already been raised tonight as you hand it over to your Administration Employees to enforce
and uh move on this um the first is the validation and the investigation in the permit application Phase and the second is enforcement on the permit application process I do encourage you or urge you to empower and insist on a full and thorough investigation um using every
tool and resource and frankly common sense um I fear that it will be all too easy and is truly all too great of an incentive for someone who's making money hand over F to Simply produce a driver's license and swear they live there um I
know um in my situation by my reading of the ordinance it sounds like there are other things that will stop that from being an allowed uh short-term rental but you know I Fe for others who who aren't in that exact situation where there's other layers um as well
um because I think the way this looks um and the way that it's been enforced so far which has been very tricky but I think people are speaking to that and your um explanation of the loopholes um is that this is like a step back from
from where we were I don't think it is because you are making this the most enforceable of it is that um it it seems like that in first reading um one thing I would encourage your Administration to include in that process is like neighborhood no ification I think that's
sort of come up before and testimony aspects from those of us who near where these applicants are coming from um to attest to swear ourselves um and like I said to use common sense like how can an Airbnb that has been and continues to be
available to rent as a whole house every day of the year be someone's primary residence um there's a really high incentive here to keep these things running and be a resident in name only so that piece is imperative I think um parents who send their children to
school have more than a driver's license that they need to to submit to that um the second piece that's also been raised as well is enforcement and I would ask you to empower your officials to solve this on two ends to be proactive so by ensuring that out of compliance properties aren't available to look at
all on these common platforms like just want are you are you sticking around a little bit to for the can you can you we do another public comment under the ordinance could we could we finish up at that point sure okay um sure I would also just say that and maybe I'm looking
at an outdated version too but of the requirement section there's section g um and it looks like there's a word missing um is the subject of a substantiated criminal or civil
length civil or criminal what am I looking at the right version oh yeah you are should there's a missing word there should be complaint thank you thank you very much thank you anyone else have a public comment on
agenda items there's nobody online I'll make a motion that I'll take this comments on agenda second all right all in favor okay um we want to approve our minutes from
59 2024 can I have a motion to approve the minutes from 59 2024 I make such a motion Mr Mayor I have a second second all in favor I okay we have a bunch of ordinances to vote on and to introduce first one is the public
hearing and Adoption of 2024-25 trees with new regulations requiring permits for certain tree removals requiring tree Replacements in accordance with njd storm water regulations I have a motion to open the public hearing on this ordinance only no
moved I have a second second all in favor I anyone have anything to add yes sir big fan of this one but the trees down question what what does the phrase certain trees
mean it means it excludes trees that are outside of our jurisdiction so um County lands State lands utilities Mr Brooks is nodding his head you have any other categories I you can think of um trees are removed pursuant to
approved forestry management plan which would be approved by the DP which you wouldn't have jurisdiction on there's a list of the exemptions in the ordinance oh and the width of the tree oh and uh yeah if the tree is smaller than 6 in then the ordinance is not applicable to
it diameter of breast srive learned is 54 inches above the ground yes you certainly know your Cha Don't You Mr scho me well one other question I try not to waste the time again
um does does this ordinates replace the similar ordinates that's being replaced require that privately owned property trees on privately owned
property get a permit and uh whatever regulations follow question I didn't study the current we replacing the entire chapter have we entered 1984
or was it itcr is not reporting you yet we don't even have dcrs anymore so sorry um 665 currently can you help me out with this does the current ordinance I know it doesn't require the
same Replacements that this does no does not require The Replacements like this does so the principal addition is the is the required Replacements which is the D yes regulation um one second why don't we have the tree expert come in do you want
to tell us what we doent you gotta come on do it on the mic bill so well somebody said he don't need a mic but you're right um Bill Brook 77 Tower Hill Avenue Red Bank I am the vice chair of the shade tree commission
committee and I currently the tree code enforcement officer for Ocean Township I've been in the tree care industry for almost 50 years let's start this way does anybody on governing body have any questions
about this ordinance good CER to answer your question no the previous ordinance which this supersedes we did not have any jurisdiction over trees on private land there was no ordinance that did that it
dealt basically with development so that's when it went for a board application something like that that's what it's basically land use all right so now as you alluded to the state tied it to the ms4 storm
waterer management act which all municipalities in the state must comply with so they put it on that as a way to get this passed I've known about this thing coming for three years it doesn't require passage it just
requires affirmation do it or you lose your F that's not exactly true they what they did the state had three seminars forums whatever you want to call them for all
any municipality to attend they were well done and one of the things they stress through the entire thing was you must tailor the ordinance to fit your municipality an ordinance for Red Bank is probably not going to apply very much
in North the lands are all different demographics are different housing is different and the reason it's good for us to get this pass now and the state has already indicated that they will accept what we have S to
so we'll be good they'll leave us alone and then we can tweak this to fit the town as it goes forward because Red Bank has never done this and it is going to require some fine-tuning and changes and it the
state is well aware of that and they encourage us to do that hey but they certainly don't encourage private property owners to be exempt and El sir they do not that's the issue here that's the
well I think what they're trying to do is to ensure that the urban Forest canopy is maintained better than it's being done now because there is no accountability as to what the number of
trees in many municipalities are being removed and not being propounded and to do that they're stepping on private property rights no disrespecting your Serv no believe me I live in this town you know that do know so and I don't like the way this was done any more than
you do but we're stuck with it so let's make the best out of it till we can tailor it to reding well I don't think we should stuck with something that you after 50 years of practice in this Arena that you don't think is right I don't
like the way it was handled well no I understand it the jurisdiction just Steve so you understand the we have a permit right because all so the storm water all dumps into around here to the navn basically Swimming River and those are state
waters so in order to do that your storm water system needs a permit you have to show various things that are in order just like you would if you were uh discharging effluent from a a wastewater treatment plant um like two rivers has a permit to discharge their effluent so
the state has become given you know you can see the algae grow and any pool any pool in M County or anywhere in New Jersey that's smaller than a certain size um they've very stringent on on what comes out of the storm water pipes this is a part of that effort so the jurisdiction is because we're dumping
water into state waters they have jurisdiction to tell we how we run that system and then as Bill said they've Incorporated this as part of those regulations whether your point is very well taken as Bill pointed out but that's the that's the jurisdictional hug
so we'll we lie back and just let it happen but what happens what happens is if we can line we can we continue to put I'm sorry I didn't think that that way
I so the the issue is if we don't have that permit and we're dumping water into the river without their permission it can find us thousands of dollars a day that's that's of power yeah i cho down a tree on my property that's more than six inches of
Cali now what what what is this sanction to me uh summons you go to court you would either have to pay a fine the fee or frankly I'm sure that in the case of a resident who chopped on a tree and wasn't you know did clearcut their lot
on purpose to ask for forgiveness later the prosecutor would say can you plant a new tree on your property and come back and we'll dismiss the ticket that's the Practical effect of what's thank you so it's all F thanks uh no we're going to get that tree planted whether it comes from the court or the permit we have levels of government above us there is
one other thing take down any dead disease Decay dying Hazard trees you don't have any mitigation obligation at all that's important it would be some sort of a fee
to have somebody come out go yep I agree it's going to be minimal that's not to no that fee would yes it is it's not going to be thousands of dollars or anything like that it's 50 50 and it goes to it would go to the and so all
and all the replacement fees so for example let's say you cut down a tree and you you don't have space on your property to replant it so there's a there's a fee schedule in there it's not to make money for the town it's to provide flexibility to the resident let's say you take down a tree on your
lot and you can't replant it on your lot and and there's an option there the burrow can find a suitable place for you let's say that can't happen either you don't feel like doing that as a resident then you can just pay the fee it will go into the shade tree trust and then bill and the shade tree commission will replant the tree where appropriate
someplace else that's the idea behind it um this I will say this is a very Middle Ground ordinance relative to some of the ones I've written for other towns um on on the end that's a little looser not they can't get much M Su than this they just kind of have lower fees uh is Roosevelt because they don't their trees
really aren't under threat right if you go to Roosevelt you're mostly in the shade when you're in Roosevelt in mid the woods uh Bradley Beach on the other hand I've written one that's extremely stringent and the fees are well higher than the ones that are in here because they because of the value of the properties of the beach everyone decided
to cut down everything and put in a hot tub in a patio in a garage apartment and everything else so their their ordinance is less of a tree permitting or tree rep is it is a straight tree replacement they've planted um you know over 165 trees over the three years they put this
in before the D mandated it because they had a real problem with trees going down everywhere on postage stamp properties that are worth a million dollars so ARS this tailored with um St with SH Tre commission this is tailored really to Red Bank to be um you know a Suburban
homeowner kind of ordinance where you kind of have flexibility and what to do even though the government's on your property as you pointed out um but just to give you the spectrum of you know one to the other you know in Bradley Beach you could pay up to you know five or $6 thousand for takeing out a tree um you know and and in Roosevelt they're much
more lack in certain zones depending on what their Urban canopy is so that's how we he said tailored that's how we tailored it to here to try to provide it we know that there's smaller properties here uh there's people from all kinds of economic circumstances in Red Bank so we tried to make it as flexible as possible for the homeowner to get whatever they
need to get done done not withstanding the Mandate so yes thank you B active is it as of tonight or is there a 30 day until it happens or is there a second it's this is the public heing correct so it's after tonight 20 days
from tonight that's the other thing is M correct for those of you coming you've been coming for years we're at faul municipality now so it's 20 days after the ordinance is adopted not upon publication like it was in the former B for onh 64 time stre
um it's good that trees have been taken seriously I mean people don't seem to realize but even in this state there are 10% fewer Big Trees than were even 10 years ago so it's very important trees are maintained but I have some questions
and that is there is no is there no requirement about what the tree Replacements are I mean I would expect a tree replace replacement should be either um non cultivates not ornamental trees which
are not that uh really good for the environment so is there any requirement as to the type of tree yes I believe it references the sheet tree commission's approved list and that's where on the on our website I
believe it's on the shet Tre website is it yeah yeah okay thank you and [Music] while I respect people's property rights I want you to imagine it no I don't want you to imagine this I'm going to tell you where I live I don't have any trees on my
property my next door has a massive a massive Tree on their property and large parts of it are rotten and drop off and uh my partner and I just sit in our house on a windy line we're we're
downwind pring wind and one day expecting that tree to drop on our heads what uh Powers have the the town got for actually getting somebody to do something about that tree what
powers have I got can I come and report to the tree commission and say we've got potentially dangerous tree here yeah I I believe because this I did get a call about this I we sent out code enforcement I believe um they along with
probably bill from shade tree would make a determination if that tree is dangerous and needs to come down and I know I I believe right that's probably under some that's more of a property bance issue this ordinance addresses just strictly removals in the
environment last epod but we the Cod limbs hanging over stuff that's that's in there in 2018 version so it's a code issue okay anyone else no okay can I have a motion to close the public comment on this ordinance only so
mve I'll second that thank you um I have a motion to adopt um ordinance 202 24-14 so moved can I have a second second roll call
please Council per council person Bonas yes council person Ken cassid yes council person FY Blas yes council person Forest yes council person Jan yes council person Jano
yes yes thank you that's all right um next up is a public hearing and adoption for 202 24-23 amending prior uncodified ordinance number 20 23-2 establishing
new chapter entitled short-term rental to revise said regulations to permit short-term rentals within only owner occupied premises can I have a motion open the public hearing on this ordinance only make such a motion have a second second all in
favor FL is yours yes Cindy Burnham 71 Wallace Street um once again I just want to ask you to consider changing the definition of short-term rental what is the definition of
shortterm rental is it one day what do we have is it two days 28 or less days in there in there what 28 or less days I
think it's in there um 28 or fewer consecutive 28 or fewer consecutive days is the definition of a short-term rental 28 or few right executive well I still think you should make it seven days seven to 28 days then something
like that because I just think it would make it easier for you guys to uh enforce monitor whatever because I do think it's a public safety issue I mean there's a lot of crazy people in this world
nowadays and maybe one's going to come and stay next to you for a day and then come out shooting you just don't know you just don't know it depreciates having having a short-term rental depreciates the value of our homes it
takes away housing for a long term for instance what used to be a short-term rental across the street from me which is 70 wallet is now long-term rental they have a two-year rental lease
on it so that is wonderful because I would much rather have have a neighbor live next door to a neighbor than a motel and I am friends with those people and I don't know what Mary Beth blockin was talking about because I never I know
they're they're there for two years so I didn't do anything with 70 wallets I think she's something anyway I told you condos and tan houses in Red Bank don't allow uh short-term rentals and um oh is this just for single
families this isn't an ordinance just for single families right it's for multiple families like you have a two fam you have a three fam you know we go up to four right that's that's defined in there as well yeah so if you have a duplex you would need to be living in one side you can rent out the other side
for example you would have to be living in one side yes to rent out the other correct what if it's a three fan to one or up it's defin it's up to two
in a multif family building let me let me be specific working on so it's condominium or townhouse only where the condominium rules and regulations are the governing documents I read that but it doesn't find what I'm individually or
collectively on single family residence where at least one of the owners is the principal residence uh one unit in a two family resal unit where the other unit is owner occupied uh can they say in a two family can the one person say yes that's my
primary residence and rent out one side of that well there's long-term tenants in the other side no no have aast are intended for the other side when they came here for the permit our fire marshal would look at the
inspection for the rental and know that the other one was rented out not the primary residence when they pull they pull that c and then the other one is no more than two units in any other multif family so your combination of Tri Triplex or everything beyond that is no more than two units um so if you have
five units no more than two if you have three two and you have to live in the third one um and then not more than two B bedrooms within I read the to the woman earlier the last one is not more than two bedrooms in a single family residence where the owner living in the rest
basic thank you thank you anyone else have any comments on shortterm Rance I cut you off earlier you want that was like some sh stuff think I left off um sorry Oakland
Street I think I left off on enforement um which has been raised um and I would ask you to solve this on two ends first they being proactive uring out of compliance properties are not available to book on website like airb BNB and BRBO and no idea that there's a
notification that goes out when um an ordinance changes so that's great um but it's really easy for residents to report a property on Airbnb um so I would think that that's possible on the enforcement end and that coordination of these
platforms is possible and it should be part of the Playbook um and then on the other end you need like dogged thorough and like a swift ability to Levy the fines motive here I know it says up to a maximum of $2,500 per day per violation
um I wonder about the discretion and the room for discretion why is there up to that um what is a violation is that every day it's listed online without being in compliance every day it's occupied when it shouldn't be who's looking at that who's enforcing it who's proving it um so those are my main
questions I do think that they're figureoutable in the next steps of this but you need to um actually be able to stop these from happening in the first place and quickly enforce the law as they do um and I just want to say that
um when we moved into our home a family for live next door and yes we could hear them um sometimes and occasionally they would be but we knew them we knew their kids we traded beers on the porch um we invited each other over to our backyards for Gatherings which we always gave one
another a heads up about we sh had a shared social contract right um and that's what I think we are getting away from when we allow these things to take over in our town these are the things that make our community our community and we've got a great one um I
personally do friends family neighbors some of them are here tonight um I really love living here I think I contribute to being a resident here um and I love I love it and other than
what's happening next door and even with it really I do count myself lucky to live here um so I want that to consum you and I thank you for your action on this thank you so the $2,500 is the maximum Municipal Court fund so it says up to
because that's the that's the ceiling for the municipal judge so if the judge is the one who the judge is the one who defines what the sentence is of someone is convicted in municipal court so we've given the judge the discretion to Levy up to the maximum fun
okay anyone else have any comments on this ordinance only yes hi I'm Amy from wly place um just a quick question in terms of the enforceability of this ordinance will there be any language on website or wherever that instructs you know Town
residents on how to report or how to look into whether a place is licensed or operating legally I me I feel like there's been some confusion in the past for on second our manager had to leave for a family emergency it's that's
really a a question for him could I have because that he's the one who takes care of the Comm actually working on hiring someone for specific Community engagement could you leave your email address or something with the clerk and we'll give it to Jim and we'll give him your question I forgive you that we don't have the answer unless someone
else up here has the answer even just a shorter answer is that for code enforcement on the burrow website if you go under there's departments and you click on that and then you go over and then there's code there's a form that you can fill out about any Enforcement issue that you might have that spans
anything from a from you know um there's a regular thing that's happening with a car parking within so many feet of a stop sign there's a store that's using plastic bags and there's a Blacky bag band there's an Airbnb that's acting outside of jurisdiction um you can also report
anonymously to that form but this is available 247 it's on the code enforcement website for for anything code yeah thank you you're welcome thank you anyone else have a comments or question on this ordinance only
if it was regular you can I have a motion to close the public hearing on this ordinance only I'll make a motion Mr Mayor I have a second second all in favor I do I have a motion to adopt ordinance 2024 d23 so moved I have a
second I'll second that roll call please I want to make a comment Mr Mayor okay go ahead um anyway I just wanted to appreciate the comments tonight and I was here as a a resident during the whole debate last year probably around this
time um I'm very happy that we're fixing dis ordinance um I did hear some ideas tonight that I like maybe possibly the limit on how many we have um I you know it's funny one of the
arguments about is a sort of financial thing and you know I can imagine and I've said this before but it could be that Amy and I might need a random room at some point originally the Airbnb was sort of that's what it was you know I think it was an apartment in San Francisco somebody had like literally an air mattress and I think that's how it
all started and to struggle financially to pay all of our bills and I think this is a you know if we find a way to do this so that doesn't have these kind of impacts on our neighbors it would be it's a great thing I think the owner occupied part is
really critical for me I do not want investment properties don't want a property that doesn't have somebody there 247 making sure that the people they are behave responsibly I do not want what I don't know her name said where you don't
know your neighbors um the idea is is you know sharing a part of your house with somebody who needs to come in to Red Bank Nur is working for a week over Riverview or somebody just visiting uh Amy and I have been grateful to be able
to stay an amazing place in the world from Paris to Portland Oregon and people's homes and we've been grateful for those opportunities um I do you know if things don't work out as we hope I would like I would think we will revisit
this and make changes or maybe limit how many we allow whatever it is um the biggest concern I have is I just have a general distrust for the realy association not something personal for you guys back there I guess because I've been Environmental activ this too long
in my life but in spite of that um you know I'm very excited that we're doing this and um thankful for all the work that has gone into it thank you Mr attorney and JY I just hope the enforcement part of this good and I would love to see it place on our
website you know that if you have a concern about anything you know click here and I do agree with a lot of testimony tonight from a number of people that our website needs a lot of work I was struggling today to find the agenda for over at the Red Bank Diner on my phone I finally found the agenda and was able to send it to them um but I
guess this is probably something that Jim is already working um the other thing is that red Bank as mentioned earlier is you know we have a downtown we are a destination Town um and I think you know there's another Wrinkle in this that I think makes a little more sense here to try to find some compromise on
airbnbs or short-term mentals that make sense anyway thank you for your patience Mr Mayor okay roll call please if it makes you feel better the realtor guy said he doesn't like that it's just own occupied so you know like have to make a comment as well okay
um just to sorry mic's my mic's off okay now we're on so um I do agree and I appreciate all the comments regarding the Airbnb ordinances and some of you are my neighbors right around the corner Emily nice to finally meet you I've knocked on your door many times
and um lendon and Frank and forgot your name Steve David yes great to meet you see you again um long story short um I'm going to vote Yes on this ordinance I do see where is opportunity for tweaking
the reason why I'm voting for this is because it has the licensing procedure in place it is something that's enforcable so I don't want to delay that because that I know I know about your situation as well and I I I want to make sure that that gets enforced straight away so if
you can trust us for that um you know we'll do some of the tweaking you know like the number the definition of a complaint yeah we can always you know find tune it so that's where I stand I just wanted to share that yeah no Nancy
literally said what I would have said ditto ditto I actually beat all right let's try this roll call Council personas yes council person K Cassidy yes council person py black yes
council person Forest yes council person janon yes mayor yes mayor app yes right okay next up uh and I hope this truly is helpful to
you guys who've been dealing with so unpleasant situations so 20 days from today it's enforceable um next up is a public hearing and Adoption of 202 24-24 amending chapter 270 cannabis of the
buroughs revised General ordinances to implement a medical cannabis transfer tax I think when we uh the original ordinance was passed we were not aware that we are able to take that 2% yeah it was unclear it was unclear but we got confirmation that we can also take it
from medical cannabis so we are taking it um can I have a motion to open the public hearing on this ordinance only moved have a second second all in favor I anyone have any comment on ordinance 202 24-24 can I make a comment yeah um it's
actually from our director of our library she asked me about this she sent an email to me and I am the library Le she um saw that it was on the agenda tonight she's just wondering I know we haven't collected any taxes from it yet right but when we do um she's
particularly interested in how the library could potentially benefit from this new Revenue especially for Capital project projects and similar initiatives I wanted to bring that up so the way we're currently operating is that there we don't know what the revenue is going
to be um from cans we actually have no D marker what is that called when you put it in as a miscellaneous Revenue miscellaneous Revenue Bingo Bango so there really hasn't been much around that I know the public conversation from the day thus far has been it going back
to tangible quality of life benefits for the burrow whether that be housing Parks um the library if they want increased funding could always go for referendum as well so that is a great option for them if they need you know more money you know we could always
there's lots of you know ways for them to pursue that um but there having discussion about giving the library funding because we don't even know how much money yeah I believe the first quarter mon birie
opened this quarter I believe so I know that Tom has been kind of asking them but BL op story short with just for the public benefit how the bur tracks that so cannabis business like that has to file sales and use tax so we basically take their sales at quarterly sales and use tax return and then review it for
the grow sales and then we add our 2% we give their tax bill um and that's only one retailer and there's two others there's only three licenses for retail and there's a cultivator also being taxed so this is so the tach of a net reported almost
$800,000 in revenue from their two dispensaries and they've been operating for a few years at this point so that's obviously not year one but there there this should generate money um and there's there's many mechanisms by which you can get the library the the library also has the mechanism of
having a referendum if they need increased funding yes they do okay anyone else have any comments or questions on this all right can I have a motion to close the public hearing on this ordinance only how make such a motion I
have a second second all in favor I I have a motion to adopt ordinance 2024 d24 so moved have a second second roll call please council person tus yes council person
Cassy yes council person py Blackwood yes counc fores yes council person janon yesy mayor Jano yes mayor yes okay next up an introduction for
2024-25 amending chapter 49-17 storm water management and control I have a mo to approve 2024-25 on introduction so moved I have a second
second all call please council person Monas yes council person cley yes counc yes council person Boris yes council person Jon yes depy mayor Triano yes mayor P
yes okay there'll be a public hearing on this ordinance on July 11th next up is an introduction for 20242 bonding for count basy improvements can I have a motion to
approve ordinance 2024 d26 on introduction make have a second I'll second it pleas council person bakas yes council person C yes counc person
yes yes yes Deputy Mayo yes yes next up is an introduction for 202 24-27 bonding for tap Grant projects I
have a motion to approve 202 24-27 on introduction don't moved have a second second roll call please council person Bonas yes council person C yes council person Blackwood yes counc person Forest yes counc person
Jan yes Stephie yes yes um next up is an introduction for 2024 D28 bonding for Road improvements have a motion to approve 2024
D28 on introduction I make that motion second second call please council person Bonas yes council person cassid yes council person Blackwood yes council person for yes Jon
yes Deputy Mayor yes mayor yes um public hearing for that will be on May 23rd as will the public hearing for uh 2024 d27 will also be on May 23rd wait um next up is Introduction
today's May 20 sorry July 11 be Jun June 11 June 11 Jun June 11 June 11th those are should be for June 11th apologize for
that um next up is a 20 2429 motion to introduce 202 24-30 bonding no 29 I'm sorry 202 24-29 bonding for marine park improvements I have a motion to approve
2024 d29 an introduction so moved I'll second that right roll call please bonus yes council person CID yesc yes council person Forest yes Jan
yes Maro yesman yes well that feels good yes finally we will have our funding to start Marine Park public hearing for that will be on June 11th uh next up is an introduction for
2020 Jun 13 June 13 sorry June 13 all right we sure yes all right um next up is introduction for 202 24-30 bonding for the water and
sewer utility can I have a motion to approve 20243 on introduction no move have a second second roll call please yesc C yes black yes Forest yes
yes yes may yes will be on June 13th and finally an introduction of 2024-the vehicles on public streets and rights of way can I have a motion to approve 202
24-31 on introduction so moved I have a second I'll second mayor can make a quick comment yeah um so as was covered um one of the last meetings and I think the bur attorney said it uh very well uh was just taking this approach bite by
bite um and implementing what we can Implement and going from there so you know uh that was the takeaway I took from this was this is progress but it's not the end um so that's why I'm comfortable moving forward with this this is language that Captain frzy
acting Chief frzy uh stated is enforcable and um will'll help alleviate uh many of the issues so um that's that's where we all there anybody else got anything on that I do go for
it well tonight it seems like I'm a Kagan but I'm looking through uh section 68-3 parking and item number three so this allows a person who has a truck to attach a trailer they should be able to
park and I know that at our last meeting we had some concerns about should this trailer be should we limit it by length and um I'm wondering um how do we how could we best address the
issue you know is it by axle or I think that's why it's bite by bite like this isn't going to cover those concerns this covers the weight limit ones and some of the other concerns that the captain was saying would provide relief now um because we weren't there on the other
parts we really don't have an answer to that question yet so okay this fault this stays short of that and go to the oversized vehicles and then we are going to go to the next step it's it's it's Circle back to the
trailers absolutely attached to Vehicles yes and I know I know that the captain um was looking into it and going to give us some last we spoke to last meeting I had with him on this he was going to um come up with some ideas or talk to his
traffic safety and give us some ideas we really didn't have a firm answer on that so we just left it congruent with the unhitched trailers at this moment okay we'll stick with the oversized vehicles and then we'll deal with the trailers next okay I'm okay with that for now thank you just so we don't fall into analysis paralysis correct do what we
can do do u a motion already to approve I'll make a motion I wanted to make a comment to you Mr Mayor yeah go ahead so um second it already
right um yeah obviously my street L Avenue this is ongoing um I do have a concern about having trailers attached to trucks but I know that we're going to work on that um this seems to be a
reasonable start and kind of like airb andb obviously we need to changing as we learn through this process I think it's all about being considerate others I want and I appreciate many neighbors
who run their businesses from their their cars and trucks um but at the same time we do have to limit you know vehicles that are just absurd and another note is that you know vehicles have gotten so large what was once a van seemed like a big car 20
years ago and now van actually on Locust Avenue looks kind of small I can't believe I'm saying it but um we'll see how this goes and uh maybe we may have to revisit and I want to thank everyone for all their work on
this anyone else should I should also mention for the public benefit we got a draft ordance last time guys had a lot of comments Dave is concerned about the overhanging stuff that was kind of subjective uh we talked about the tax lead and Uber J concerned about that so we just uh we made no stretch or oversiz
limousines we addressed all the points that we talked about last time uh fr the water and really put it down to the basic stuff that we talked about next time before we add the next layer please Council Bas yes council person
Cassidy yes Council Blackwood yes council person Forest yesc person janon yes Deputy Mayor Tano yes may yes there will be a public hearing for this ordinance on June 13 um Z need to do any of the
resolutions separately or can we do them on agenda everyone okay okay then can I have a motion to approve resolution 24-15 through 24-1 141 I'll make such a motion Mr
Mayor have a second second roll call please to make a comment Mr Mayor yeah on uh I wanted to comment on actually the earlier comments for um Mr Kaufman and others over in the back around the um trying to find which number it is4
136 rank Choice yeah rank Choice thank you very much um and actually I served you may recall on the charter study commission and that was mentioned um and actually this topic was talked about I don't know if we formally talked about it or not but my recollection is that um
having that option in the charter was just not an option under state law right and uh the only way to get a charter that would have something like that is to have state legislation passed and obviously the charter study commission which was meeting in this room wasn't we weren't going to go before the state
legislature and have that passed so um so in the form of government we picked it wasn't an option now one of the reasons I am voting yes for the resolution and I um I have spoken with residents about this um is that we have in this form of government the option of
runoffs so here in particular Bank this whole thing makes a lot sense now runoffs we struggled with a little bit we did include them in the form of government and that is if there's like 30 people running and nobody has over 50% there's a runoff basically the top
voters in the top half or whatever I'm oversimplifying it but uh there's problems with it one is the election would happen like three weeks later you have to run another election um I am familiar with towns that have had it Hoboken and other places and it does
work run offs uh but it does cost money and it you know makes everything very cumbersome um it's easy to understand that's one advantage it has gend people understand okay nobody got a majority so this top you know half of the voter you
know candidates um have a runoff so um however the nice thing about rank choice is if the state legislature ever allows us to have it um if we wind up having 30 people run for Council um we have rank choice and then we wouldn't have to have
a runoff and the whole thing would be settled you know election night uh without the necessity of having a runoff and the rather significant expense of having another election not to mention all the electioneering and mailings and all that stuff so um I just wanted to
comment because you were kind enough to bring this issue up that I think uh rank choice in particular in our town uh is a good fit with a former government that we have embarked on for the last nine months so that's my comments
thank you Mr Mayor I'm gonna I'm sorry I'm jumping into I'll briefly add and that I'm neutral but what I do like about this is that it puts the power in with the voters and the residents to actually say here's how we want to have a ballot and I have had conversations
this was brought to us by residents we have a a very vibrant uh group in town is in support of it and I'm just in support in the same way that we had the charter commission to empower the opportunity for people to vote for how they would like to actually vote and like I said I'm undecided I may come one
way or the other but I I do like the way this is authored I do like the concept and I agree with you about the cost savings on runoffs and how it fits with this form of government in particular which uh which does which does hold tremendous sway with me um as a former member of the charter
study commission and the chair one of the things that we did struggle with was runoffs whether or not to do it because we're concerned about the cost and the lack uh and fact that the number of Voters who would vote in a second election would actually drop and that's
what the Studies have shown um rank Choice voting at the time was not available I do remember going to one of your meetings I'm seeing some of the familiar faces um there to get information on it so because we didn't have that choice I think you know
supporting the idea to study rent TR voting or to put something there are different types of ways that it can be implement M it and as Steve as suggest we could take a look and you know learn more about it in Greater detail and I do want to admit that when Hoboken did pass
their trigger ordinance I was one of the people that talked to council members individually and said would you be interested in doing a trigger ordinance because again the cost of a runoff is for a town like R Bank another $50,000 but if you have rank Choice voting it's
one period of time that people vote and then you know it's done so um I supported when the concept of passing a resolution to support the state measure came about I'm fully in support of it so that's how we got this
onto our agenda by someone bringing up a proposal with a proposed resolution and it made sense to us and that's why we're here to vote on it so thank you we good we're good roll call council person B takas yes council
person Cy yes council person FY Blackwood yes person Forest yes council person janon yes Deputy mayorana yes mayor Portman yes um all right um can I have a motion to open up the floor for public
questions and comments I'll make such a motion Mr Mayor all in favor I okay I'm just gonna ask um any residents if they have a concern we just allow the residents to come up first if you have a concern um but of course you can always come up
Georg you're a resident yeah oh yeah no worries can you keep time I will thank you hiina just come back come back he has to use the restroom okay I do right here are we
good oh hi Georgina hi see your name and address please you're the new mayor okay just for this moment okay Georg Shand always a pleasure to see you um I'm here tonight surprise
surprise to beg and implore cons as the permanent ceasefire resolution so that no more civilians will be killed the hostages will be released both Palestinian and Israeli
and full humanitarian or water food for all of the people of Gaza Gaza is the size of about Philadelphia and already
35,000 people over 35,000 people why why ethnic transing that's what it is that's three times the population of Red Bank and it does concern us it concerns the people of Red Bank we have we're
spending our tax money on this money that could be spent on Child Care on poverty on education and here we are given billions and billions and billions just to have these people
killed and already the international criminal court has called for the arrest of Mr Netanyahu and Galant and soon it'll be and also some of the habas leaders soon it'll be Biden and blink in
Shah we hope because what they're doing is complicit and I just you know the the I was at a a protest in Jackson last Sunday where we were calling for Palestinian rights and the Orthodox
Jewish Community were on the other side and they were shouting things like do you know the IQ of the average Palestinian it's 60 which means that they can barely understand what anybody is
saying and they have been dehumanized and now they been treated like they have no soul no feelings and just killed we see the the um prison in Israel where Palestinian
prisoners are naked in the bed with the shackles on their hands and arms and feet and blindfolded with diapers be fed through straws I mean please does it matter to
any of you but you can take some kind of a stance and have some backbone and pass a resolution that can be sent to Biden and the elected officials who are voting for all the a to say enough is enough and I'll give you one example of a man
who was just killed he's his name is reat alal he is he was a 44 year old man six children he was Professor so they talk about a low IQ Palestinian so
this man is a writer poet Professor human rights activist he was born September 23rd 1979 and he died December 6 2023 44 years of age he was the first
Professor to teach Hebrew literature at the Islamic University he taught Shakespeare he told his students to resist occupation not with violence but with intellect with intellect and in
2014 30 of his relatives were killed in a bombing raid by the Israelis they have no weapons these people have no weapons he said the only weapon he had was a pen marker and if the troops came in the door he would attack them
with a pen marker so finally it caught up he well he did a very good uped for New York Times on the effects of war in children he also in 2023 after October 7th he was interviewed by BBC democracy
Now ABC and just weeks before he was killed he said on CNN that his family has nowhere else to go so they were holding up in the UN school and he was getting
phone calls from Israeli contact saying we know where you are and we're going to bomb you so he didn't risk everybody else being killed I know there's a time limit but there's tonight it seems like it's l it there and so he he went to see
cover in an apartment owned by his family and he was targeted he was killed on December 6th um December 6 2023 his brother his nephew his
sister-in-law three of her children died and a few weeks later his eldest daughter gave birth to a son that he never met so I'd like to read his fin PA is there someone else that cre you've already been on for five minutes no well
it's selective enforcement of timeing I I timed some of these people six minutes seven minutes eight minutes read the PO okay let me read the poem Mr thank you it's if I must
die if I must die you must live to tell my story to St sell my things buy a piece of cloth and some strings make it white with a long tail so that a child somewhere in Gaza by
look in heaven in the eye awaiting his dad who left in the placee and bid no one fwell not even to his flesh not even to himself sees the kite my kite you made fying up above and thinks for a
moment an angel is there bringing back if I must die let it bring hope let it be a tail so even in the very end he's looking for and looking for life and looking for love and what are we allive doing we're
giving our tax money people like that killed all of the academics killed no universities left in G Shame Shame Shame thank you thank you yes 25 Cedar Street um two things one
what's the um status or what's the timeline to get the playground up going at I'm sorry that's do you have that I think it's a question for Jim I don't I know that the project was delayed because there was some electric underground conduit up running the
conduits and that delayed the project extensively so they had to address that and that's what the major delay was but the last report we had I mean they even posted on Facebook was that they were they were foring head but I know that was a big and unfortunately J would probably have the answer to that
question number two um at one point in the meeting after I got the lecture about how we're all supposed to call and report things it was just kind of funny how all of you guys are quiet when there was the animosity between two other residents about the um short-term rentals you know you see what happens
when you kind of go back and forth to people that's why I kind of wanted the town to enforce it because you saw residents going back and you don't want the animosity with neighbors but that's my point of why you know to some degree I'm not a ter
traffic person I mean I don't I know the basic rules I know you can't park front of a hydrant my point um I just don't want to see Neighbors get upset like they are here thank you Des I'm s Bonnie just told me that he got a
text from Terrence that the playground should be done tomorrow that's what we heard so here we go weend I'm Julie from Washington Street and um a red bag resident
and I'm a retired IT professional and also also a bit of an ex- historian and uh Georgina spoke very eloquently at length and I'm going to make it short looking at what the
collective west of which our country is the leader I you can see the history from World War II to now in World War II the phrase and the slogan was never again it's a good slogan it's a slogan we can all get
behind slogan now is or the phrase now is well it depends and that's hypocrisy I think we should you I would urge you to pass the
resolution thank you thank you yes evening May Council I'm Dr Steve Bell 115 and I just been thinking as to why do human Affairs
seem to create such antagonisms Rodney King certainly was aware of this with his famous using of why can't we just get along thinking about this what
immediately comes to mind is an inherent domination of one group of another chickens birds in general have a pecking and they they pick anyone who's lower on that M than
themselves Gaza Palestinian massacres is more serious than this and why is prime minister netan so intent on Revenge for October 7th when this tragedy terrible tragedy
has been recurring before that day after that day and unless something is done on infin um it's a Dr King said Injustice
anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere today two congressmen and States introduced a bill to support American citizens fighting in Israeli occupation
forces and in this bill they give a benefit from two Federal Protection US service members fighting in Israel um over 20,000 amans are there right now
fighting and as the Israelis like to say they're defending Israel from Hamas terrorists risking their lives to the betterment of our Ally by this
legislation everything possible support these Heroes who are standing with Israel fighting combating [Music] terrorism it provides active duty members with different Financial saf
such as reduction in interest payment rates postponement of civil support matters protection from eviction and termination of leases this connection with Israel is morphing into much more than anyone
could have ever imagined there needs to be a real discussion in this country as to how acceptable these daily additions are worth protecting by the people of
this country I for one have a very sore feeling in my about this mercenary creeping of American soldiers being used in Israel where will it stop as a Jewish
man a person of conscience Red Bank resident I appeal to you to do the right thing pass this resolution thank you anyone else have any uh questions or
comments uh Anthony sataro 135-137 Oakland Street I had fun stuff to talk about um I'm not sure if you're aware or not but through Saro house and the Red Bank Public Library oh I saw this yeah we were awarded um a grant
from the mammoth County uh historical Association to do four um immersive talks at the library this year the first one's coming up June 13th um so really love for you guys to come out um and see that and learn about
red bank's history and also the 5K love to see people there I know it's early in the morning but council members if you can be there expect you to be there watermelon shirt you're not me to be running I want a different fruit on your shirt this year
all right but anyway I just wanted to's he loves watermelon he's got an awesome watermelon shirt I got a picture I'm gonna post soon with you in your watermelon tree and just wanted to let everybody know um I was at the library I think maybe it was for their 100 for the
anniversary and Anthony had set up a it's almost like being in a video game but the game was Red Bank Circle what was the year early 1900 early 1900 so you can walk around Red Bank in the in the construct and see what the town
looked like and it was it was super cool so I encourage everybody to go check that event out yeah super excited to share more with you guys this time so very great that's thank you anyone else yes bar since uh was 135 Branch since the
uh fun thing has been broken the Red Bank Education Foundation is sponsoring the trivia night and it's it is on I told we had some glitches that happened yesterday um and it's on
between B at Triumph um go on our website and chicken we can only fit 60 people in that place it's a lot of fun and kids deserve money it goes to the
kids and we I look forward to seeing you all there because there's a bunch of kid guys that go there and they think they're smarter than everybody red Cil not the table together and prove that they're not
what's the time challenge uh what's the time of the event it is I believe 7 to 10: yeah bought two tickets yeah bought two tickets this we go po Kathy went away to Paris
and she gave me came over and gave me a check so she's coming you know so we have B we have a lot of people coming and I hopefully the rest some it really is I think I'll my team name at band Book that was my team name last time right I
like that name I think it is fun yes very fun it is fun hopefully I'll see you then you I'll see but thank you anyone else have any questions or comments
yes vender again just want to thank you folks uh for moving that first reading forward and we're working on we we do things I'm the live Outreach coordinator for Jersey and we've done events throughout the
state uh one that we do quite frequently is called rank the beers it's a way of educating people in general on how rank Choice voting goes we're talking about possibly doing one here in Red Bank we'd love to do one here in Red Bank and we
were talking about doing rank the big so we're looking for a venue to hold that in so if anyone has any advice for us it would be greatly appreciated again thank you so much for moving this forward I really really appreciate it thank you anyone
else maybe we have three hands online oh okay Greg you wanna yes first up we have Gabriel G Gabriel please uh please and we can hear you and speak
up um my name is Gabriella green um I'm from Howell um I couldn't be there in person today but I still wanted to leave a comment um in regards to Georgina's proposal um earlier today I saw a photo
all you could see was Rubble with a tiny baby's hands sticking out of it the nails were chipped and Dusty it breaks my heart unbelievably to have to sit here and imagine the little tiny baby trying to dig itself out of the rubble feeling desperate panicked suffocating
and then silence people are dying every single day it is unjustifiable cruelty inhumanity evilness all of it being paid for with our us tax dollars we are all complicit in this and those those that
have any semblance of power to help in some way shape or form are even more complicit than the average taxpayer we have been coming here since January to plead with you to put pressure on Congress to call for a ceasefire since
January countless amounts of people have died have been injured have been traumatized it will take at least 80 years to rebuild the entire Gaza Strip I don't understand why you won't vote on this it calls for the release of
hostages and it calls for an end to genocide how can you sit there with any form of power with the way to make a genuine impact and not do this it truly breaks my heart it is almost June now it has been over 6 months that these people
have been living through this Indescribable hell how many more people have to die before you move to action that's all I have to say thank you thank you next up we have Sarah
F Sarah you have the floor H yeah can you hear me yes ma name and address please yeah sorry my name is Sarah F I'm From Hell mmed County New Jersey um so I also wanted to uh amplify
um and uh support and kind of urge for um signing on to uh the proposal that Regina I made um I was here I was in person at the last meeting and unfortunately I couldn't come in person today but I still wanted to leave a comment and I saw many of you kind of show your support to um some of us that
were um you know raising our voices for Palestine and a lot of you guys kind of showed your sympathy to us which we really appreciated but the reason why we come here isn't to raise awareness it's here we're coming here just like what Gabby said before weing here because we know that you all can make a change you
guys have that ability as being um elected offici of Redbank a progressive town in Mammoth County as someone that Prides themselves in being from Mammoth County I always looked up to Redbank and I really saw my town kind of following in the steps of Redbank um if Redbank kind of leads the way and you know calls
for a um ceasefire the way that um you know the way for other towns in mammed County to also follow in their footsteps um that's something that could genuinely lead to change um as many people have said before so many people have been dying in Rafa in Gaza um in parts of Palestine and this has been something
that's been going on since January um I have students uh I'm I'm currently a teacher at mmed County and I have students that come up to me and they tell me how they can't even like you know pay attention to school or pay attention to classes because of what's happening in Palestine and this is something that genuinely um that
genuinely makes an impact on um American children and these uh children are our future right so even if you don't if you can't bring your heart to sympathize with the Palestinians overseas at least sympathize with children um the the future of um the United States um
they're genuinely heartbroken we're all heartbroken and it just it's just extremely disheartening and disappointing to the fact that it's been six months and we've been you know urging the Council of Red Bank to um you know call for a ceasefire um that's all I would like to say thank you I yelled
my time thank you excuse me next up we have uh vegan zarabian forgive me if I mispronounced your name but you have the floor and if you could correct me I'd appreciate it can you hear
me uh yes sir we can okay vegan's Arabian uh 185 Maple Avenue um I'm here in solidarity with Georgina and her colleagues and some of the statements that was made uh between
the Israeli and Palestinian conflict uh urge the council to and implore the council to um to vote and pass on the resolution uh thank you very much thank you
sir we have no further hands M okay yes see um I would urge the council as it continues to be besieged Ser question
those you the council to do so why they were that time they come they say seeking um a resolution which as I understand it
does not exist there is no such resolution materal to the to the but the council has that best know is that correct so there is no
resolution um so there's no resolution to supported or denied so I would ask the council to clarify what it is that people are Bing exactly
want uh for my understanding is the they would like us to adopt the resolution that up and and gave to us pry sure the all around and yet know some of the folks have
[Music] come is of Palestine and possibly Yas I don't know but that um that has been a concern of mine from the very beginning um also
I'd like to know where else um these resolutions um are being sent um they certainly need to be sent um to Israel to Palestine um to Washington and
possibly other places I would like the the council to to be responsive and ask some questions of the folks who are asking you over and over and over [Music] um to do
something I am not asking you to do anything clearly what it is that people are wanting you to do and why when you don't do it or when I don't support it
I'm accused of being in concert with people who are um committing uh genocide which I reject but that's the that's that's the accusation so thank you for listening
thank you4 Street I remind Mr head that this is a two-way street I haven't come here today to uh to actually speak about the G situation I have done in the P if Mr he wants to
know my notification for for actually speaking on I'll be very glad to tell you and tell Mr heck what my what my motivation is I'll be very willing to do that what I'm not about to do is sit here and have people
and this has been done elsewhere in this meeting come out here and make uh implications bya here say and and this Council prepared to put up with it you know so
so please you know believe that people come here you know we could be sat home just watching TV we could be uh down the park we could be doing all sorts of things we do not
have to come here and basic in the end being Motivation by other people in the community without being called to those people being call to account nobody here has
ined Mr he's reasons for for speak don't do it to me thank you thank you anyone else no one online mayor okay have a motion to close the public comment I
make s a motion second second all in favor hi all right um Council comments Christina you got anything just really quickly wanted to thank everyone who's come today and give their opinions on whole number of things it's it's always
really helpful um to understand uh also I'm just wanting to have a a quick moment of gratitude um considering what we were able to do today um I think we were we tackled a number of things that a lot of us has been thinking about for
a long time and it's a privilege to be able to act on those short-term rentals know number of us have been following this owning our opinion before well before we were Council people um and getting finding the right balance there
uh it's really a privilege to be able to put that forward and thank you to everyone who help put that together um same thing uh you know maybe little notice but the bond work for for marine park I think that's a big deal and being
able to move that a step forward um so yeah just just thankful for that even uh the discussion and being able to put forward the things that our feelings about the vision for the downtown uh all all kind of big things here so wanted to
just Express that thank you David I'd just like to briefly express my sympathies to the family of CJ levet a good man and a very good family that stretches very wide um throughout this community it's cousins and
everyone um secondarily uh in mind of that we have a Memorial Day on Monday um firefighter services are at 10: at the at 90 Mammoth and then at the old burough Hall Uh u i attend annually and
have for a long time and it's always a lovely Affair and this year it's a little more personal unfortunately um but in barara I'm not making your event I haven't meeting at the hooking ladder on June 5th so sorry the kids are going to have
to the kids can come down and get a fire lesson he can send a check tar right thank you hit me up for money um what a quote do know to what Christina said about the amount of work
that we are putting um um that we're getting through and trying to make it as holistic as possible um continuing along that line the environmental commission Green Team submitted their latest updates to sustainable Jersey for certification and um through sustainable
Jersey they do have some actions that do benefit communities uh one of them is integrating health and Municipal decision-making and the burrow is working on that we have um Laura who's taken the training and again it's developed a checklist and finding a way
to make presentations as well as to implement that so that we do make whenever we do have decisions to make that we are considering all determinants of health is your word and the other one that we are working on I did speak to Jim as
we're going through the actions and for those who um who've been who've known me for while there is a deadline and that I sort of go around and nag people to to get what we need done but one of the things that we that Jim fully agreed that we should be looking at is to
update our complete streets policy for a complete and gleen streets and um we're looking at this submission um that incorporates having a community of employees and residents to help make
changes that will improve our streets for pedestrians or as I told Jim our MVPs are most vulnerable population which are CH children and seniors and if um I personally had the experience where my mom used a mobility scooter and if
she can safely get around town I would consider that a safe Street as a child can safely get around town and that would be well David has signed on for me and I think I can Lear Christina um to be part of that group to help us as well
so um that's um sha Tre has nothing to report um one more thing I want to share about rank Choice voting there are 18 plus municipalities that have runoffs so that would give them an opportunity to take a look there's 62 jurisdictions within the United States that do have
rank Choice voting and there are many different ways to implement that and that was my quick search this week as soon as I came back for vacations realizing that we're going to have this on the agenda so um two states have it for federal elections which will be kind of interesting to see how that plays out
and um again thank you all for being here and was late and have a great U Memorial Day weekend thank you thanks thank you mayor um guess I'll start yeah I get um Mr hack was
wondering about our engagement with the a discussion that um presidents and others have been here to discuss and there has been some dialogue actually I mean I don't feel like I need to add any more that I've already said quite a lot
here and I've had I don't really want to repeat all the things that I've had with Dialogue on on this I'm not ready to make a motion and um give the uh what they want and I've expressed why so I just want you to know that
since you basically that's how I was taking your questions why weren't we engaging um I think the mayor is correct want resolution so um now on the other thing I'm I serve as a Le on to our
schools for the council and um I want to thank uh mayor Portman and Christina Council and Christina and um Laur for joining me on some of these recent activities one was to Red Bank Regional High School for I don't know if I got
the name right um Council equity and Justice uh program they've got a big partnership over there the board president asked us to attend and so we went it was a well attended um meeting of Red Bank Regional over in Little Silver um so we were there for that um
hopefully it will lead to good things um and then we uh the other night we were at the Red Bank burough Public Schools final strategic meeting uh and I think that was actually uh very productive and interesting discussion and so I'm glad
we were all well represented there um I don't remember such representation when we did when I was on the school board five years ago when it was previous previously done but um anyway so I just wanted to make that comment and I have a few announcements from Parks and wck by the way our
meeting is next week so you already did one uh councilman City so I don't need to do the uh uh but I will mention that we have a Red Bank pride in the park on Saturday June 8th rain date is the 9th
Riverside Gardens play Park 12 to 3 and we have the 4th annual June celebration on Sunday the 16th rain or shine Johnny Jazz Park and there's a March at noon from Pilgrim Baptist um also um we have
room in our summer basketball fall Recreation soccer and summer Sports Camp so go to our website or call uh Red Bank Parks and Rec for more information about that and um I think that concludes my
remarks thank you very much mayor you I wanted to report from the Animal Welfare um so we had jappy hour this weekend which went very well we had a huge turnout thanks for everyone who came um we were able between that and the weekend before where we stood in
front of fs and Feathers to get 250 pounds of cat and dog food that we donated to lunch break and they also made $250 at the lunch break table at yappy hour so um that was big success um as
you Bob mentioned tonight Bob Sacrament looking at doing it a couple more times because it was such a big success people like coming down with their dogs thank you for all attend to that um the library the update from the library is
their elevator has been dismantled and put back together the doors are on it but it's still not working because I didn't realize they couldn't just replace the whole Library it had to be dismantled and then there was an open shaft so it did the library did close for a few days during that time so it
was pretty unsafe and now they're rebuilding it and the doors are on it so hopefully keep your fingers crossed her and have an elevator quickly um and then the other thing that she wants to mention from the library um board meeting was that they're having them
June 15th 100 birthday bash at the library um the kickoff summer kickoff that goes along with their 100th um birthday bash so that's it thank you thank you everybody who came
tonight K what do you got um so I wasn't prepared to talk about CJ passing uh but CJ was member of my house 96 and I'm best friends with his son Bobby he's my captain um and I just you know I don't know if he'd be rolling his eyes or laughing at me for even talking
about it right now to be honest um but CJ was always really really really really supportive of everybody like from the get like just from the beginning I became a firefighter I remember uh he bought me this sticker that just said women and fire on it and
he was like here you go and it was really weird because the morning of the funeral I was in my closet which is a mess because obviously I spend my l l time in the town I don't really keep my closet super organized and I remember thinking to myself man I really wish I had that sticker so I could wear it in
my dress uniform cap um to the funeral and I swear on my life I picked up my hat in my closet which is a tornado and it was right there um you know so uh it's always a big loss
when you lose people who are there for really formative moments for you especially when you're when going into a fire department and you know everybody's not really sure of what your motivations are why you're doing what you're doing or why you're becoming a firefighter and he was always right there he was
spotting my foot when I was climbing up the truck he was always just really supportive and he was always like you got it girl um he loved music Billy he went to concerts all the time um you
know he so uh great thigh great loss and my heart goes out so much to to Bobby um who's captain of n6 currently um from Animal Welfare committee uh just rep reported on the dog days that was
great excited to hear from River Center as their liaison that they're going to look to make um yappy hour more regular event um and then from Community Equity engagement committee um they've really been Hands-On with making the Red Bank classic 5K more accessible um so in 2022
and 2023 there was only one physically challenged racer and that's increasing the three participants in 2024 uh special shout out to cie your neighbor uh G uh you know he really L the efforts to increase participation um he purchased a chair on his own for a
member of ZR fit and wellness who will be using it to participate and he's also volunteering to push another participant in a chair which was required through uh acquired through the New Jersey uh State Grant um beyond that broadwalk season has kicked off there's still more
improvements to come on it as Bob was sharing earlier um and just excited to see all the work that's going there um when we move to Manor's report he left his report here I messaged and asked him if I can read it so I'll read the man after your comments
mayor thank you uh just few things I want to share um last night I went to the mammoth County Workforce Development board Awards dinner and accepted an award on behalf of uh the parks and W
Department um it was the youth employment partnership uh May 22nd 2024 where their untiring and selfless effort on behalf of the county of Mammoth and it citizens I think the number was over the last few years we've employed 60
young people in the parks department um so anyway it was pretty cool to go accept that award on behalf of the burrow and then the other thing I wanted to share um I I was at Yap ya with my dog and I was chatting with a resident and the resident was saying do you know
that they rent out a equipment now at the library you can borrow not rent you can borrow not just equipment he said he had his daughter's birthday party yeah they took out the karaoke machine the bad mitton set the cotton candy maker cotton candy maker yeah so it's a really
um I mean the library was already amazing you know the seed bank is amazing but it's great to watch our library kind of evolve with the town and the needs of the town and and meeting it so very I was I was proud to for that to be my library anyway uh that's all I had
to say um you were going to read the manager's report yep all right May 23rd 2024 buau manager report water rate study after a year-long study that was previously authorized the buau is beginning to zero in and a path forward
for the water utility this has concluded a combined effort with Ingenuity the bur's utility engineer and CDM Smith Engineers as a consulting firm for Ingenuity CDM Smith has analyzed the financial report of this project while Ingenuity has gathered the necessary information into detail where robust
Capital Improvement plan over the next 10 years read report excert page four so this is from the bur Red Bank Capital Improvement Plan central to our financial planning considerations the burough of Red Bank has maintained its utility rates the
same for nearly a decade requiring strategic financial planning the primary objective of this Capital Improvement plan revolves around projecting water and sanitary utility expenses for the next decade this CIP will also determine rates for the initial three years and a
plan for rate increases over the next five years the initial phrase will phase will meticulously assess the adequacy of existing rates in relation to current expenses and how those rates may change over time just today the bur manager
myself I was there uh sat and analyzed the data presented by CDM Smith in order to determine the path forward as water utility rates have not been increased in almost a decade a decade unfortunately or fortunately the task of addressing the unsustainable
range structure while replacing and improving aged and aging infrastructure is now the responsibility of this governing body during the 2024 budget presentation CFO Tom Seaman addressed the need to plan for future water rate changes and prepare for the proposed Capital
Improvement plan over the next few weeks we will be disseminating information related to the water rate study and plans for providing an informational Forum which will be held in the middle of June I will also invite Ingenuity to the first June council meeting to discuss the water rate study main areas of
Interest so that's on that at the request of the mayor Deputy Mayor trigano and I know we heard from other people in the governing body I think everybody um I'll will be working with Captain frzy over the next few weeks to discuss holding a bike and pedestrian forum for the end of June to
discuss areas of concern for the public and updates about road projects and future Crossing improvements I know I can add to that that um myself the mayor and the manager have been in contact uh with Commissioner Ross ldra which will
be a necessary uh meeting to take place for us to work on anything in a county capacity um so that has moved forward um National Public Works week recognition oh so the manager has a barbecue for the public works
employees and I can't believe I'm saying this but he actually made that Public Works ground fuel homy uh which is I think a testament to his leadership and the new employee Wellness campaign and everybody participating in it uh Jim was out there barbecuing for all the Public Works
employees everybody was sitting relaxing having fun um it was I got the stop by and it was um a very beautiful site and I really enjoy seeing the camaraderie and the leadership that our new manager he wouldn't say this in his report but I have to say it that uh he's really
giving to the employees there's a marked difference in the environment in this place with having HR and having a manager who constantly is going out of his way to show people that he cares about them um so yeah thank you to our Public Works employees during this week
and that is all we had submitted okay I believe we have an session don't we also okay yes we have executive session to discuss the personel matter and the labor attorney will be joining us right so can I have a motion to adjourn to Executive session
so moved second I'm gonna take a three minute break favor I I I just say something remembering Frank Lun Santa young man we had a moment of Sil silence at the beginning yeah right after the
Pledge yes we need a just yeah we're going to take a break give everyone a moment to clear the room and then we'll go for the Public's benefit we'll take about 30 minutes in this executive session we we not we will not be taking any action after executive
session I know what it's about [Music] i i Frank what I should what I should have mentioned is invite the whole town out to watch your daughter play t because that's best the threey old I mean she's
the cutest it's been she she's taking advant couple do we have was anybody this right what would you say was this like the usual amount of fireworks that Frank