could call our meeting to be delivered. This is a regular meeting of the mayor and burial council of the board of Seaside Rock in the county votion of the state of New Jersey held on Thursday May 1st 2025 advertised to begin at the conclusion of the work session meeting
which has just now ended. Pursuant to the provisions of New Jersey's Open Public Meetings Act, adequate notice of this meeting was properly provided by transmitting the notice of the meeting for publication in the Asbury Park Press on the Ocean Star on January 3rd, 2025.
Notice of this meeting of the governing body also has been posted in the corridor of the municipal building and in the office of the municipal clerk. Roll call. Council member Amfield here. Council member Condos here. Council member Connor here. Council member Craft here. Council member Rotunda here.
Council President Wil here. Mayor Pearson here. Thank you. If we could now all rise together for a moment of silence to be followed by our pledge of allegiance. Algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic
for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes for April 14th, 2025, a work session, April 14th, 2025, a
regular meeting. Is there a motion or comments? Motion, Mr. Mayor. I'll second that. Motion by Council Member Ammobile, second by Council President Wil. Council member Ammobile. Yes. Council President Wilson. Yes. Council member Condos. Yes.
Council member Connor. Yes. Council member Crack. Yes. Council member Attenda. Yes. Motion approved. And next on the agenda is a motion for approval of the special meeting minutes. Those are the minutes for April 14th, 2025 and
executive session. Uh any comments or if not a motion? I'll make that motion. May second. Motion by Council President Wilk. Second by Council Member Craft. Roll call. Council President Wilk. Yes. Council member Craft. Yes. Council
member Amir. Yes. Council member Condos. Abstain. Thank you. Council member Connor. Yes. Council member Rotunda. Yes. Motion approved. The next two items on the agenda are uh
special items. And for those two special items, we welcome a number of distinguished guests here tonight. And uh it's always a risk when you begin to recognize guests because you forget
someone. But that being said, uh the two resolutions are are of course that of appointing our new chief of police, Brian McKay. And uh secondly, we have a resolution on the agenda
authorizing the promotion of Michael Confederac from sergeant to lieutenant. And uh obviously as we can see by looking around us, law enforcement is always a joint and cooperative endeavor.
And it requires not just a chain of command from the uh top, not just the federal level, but the state level through the county uh and otherwise. Uh but it also involves a cooperative joint
enterprise with sharing uh of efforts to protect the community for the safety of the community and that includes neighboring uh communities as well and their representatives and I see a number of them here in the audience uh this
evening and we certainly welcome all of them for a very happy occasion and obviously we uh welcome and recognize and give great thanks to Seaside Park's own police department uh whose members
are here this evening as well uh and included in the special guests and I may ask momentarily uh two of our very uh distinguished uh individuals here this evening to perhaps say a few words as to
uh joint law enforcement and offering their congratulations and support to the new chief as well as the new lieutenant. But obviously, first and foremost is our our chief law enforcement uh officer for
Ocean County, our distinguished prosecutor, Brad Boheimr, who is here in attendance with us. We welcome along with the Ocean County Chief of Detectives, Chief Carrington, is here as well. uh we welcome him and we thank
them for all their ongoing service for the county, for the state, and for each and every one of us. Uh and we also recognize and thank our distinguished Ocean County Sheriff who's here with us,
Mike Masterardi. And we thank him for coming. We thank him for all his efforts. and uh those are many on behalf of law enforcement and on behalf of communities here including Seaside Park uh for everything that he does for each
and every one of us. And uh included among the special guests as well, we recognize Chief Ellis from Manchester Township, Chief Lisero from Lavallet, Chief Sanui from Berkeley Township, and
of course uh we recognize our neighboring chief uh who also has done so much for Seaside Park and our community, and that is uh Seaside Heights Chief Tommy Boyd, who's here. uh among and standing next to him of course
is uh one of our many former distinguished chiefs of the Seaside Park Police Department and that is former Chief Ed Dixon and we welcome him and we welcome as as I indicate I'm I'm sure that I have uh neglected uh someone out
there of stature and I apologize if so uh obviously this is a joint ceremony and it's one uh of celebration and thanks and joint effort for each and every one of us for our safety and for our communities uh here in Ocean County.
So, uh before as a formal note of business, I would uh consider a resolution from the council for the promotion of uh Brian McCay to chief of police and also for the promotion of Michael Confederate salute from sergeant
to lieutenant. Salute, Mr. Mayor. Motion by council member Rotunda. I'll second it. And a second by council member Connor. Roll call. Council member Rotunda. Yes. Council member Connor. Yes. Council member Ammobile. Yes.
Council member Condos. I'm abstaining. Thank you. Council member Craft. Yes. Council President Wil. Yes. Motion approved. And now it will be my pleasure first to administer the oath of office to our new
chief Brian McKay. [Applause] And obviously for a moment like this, this is a family occasion. And uh not just family, neighbors, but those in the immediate family. We we thank everyone.
And if you could repeat after me, raise your right hand. I, Brian McCay, I, Brian McKay, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution I will support the Constitution of the United States of the
United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States. in the governments established in the United States and in
this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will faithfully and I will faithfully impartially and justly impartially and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of chief of police of
chief of police according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. [Music] All right. And now before we uh hear a few words
from our new chief and also uh from our prosecutor and our sheriff, I'm going to ask if newly to be made Lieutenant Confederac could come forward. uh someone else who's served in law enforcement for the burough of Seaside
Park and of course for the county and the state for many many years a good friend of Seaside Park [Applause] [Laughter] raise your I, Michael Confederac, I, Michael
Confederate, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and
allegiance And I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments established in the United States and to the governments established in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will
faithfully and I will faithfully impartially and justly impartially and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of Seaside Park Police Lieutenant of Seaside Park Police Lieutenant according to the best of my ability according to the best of my
ability. So help me God. So help me God. Thank you very much. [Music] And if we I'll turn the floor over to our new chief. And Mike's being shy, so he's walking over.
Okay. I just want to thank everybody for coming. I'm kind of overwhelmed and so humbled to see so many people here. Um, first and foremost, I want to thank my God for without him, none of this is possible. I want to thank Mayor Peterson and the council for having faith in me
to do this job. Um, and I hopefully I will accomplish and and take your faith and and do my best ability. Uh, you know, part of 30 years of law enforcement. Um, there's so many people that have helped me get to where I'm at.
So many people who have mentored me and been at my side. Um, I want to thank my wife Erica. Um, she's been a cop's wife for 30 years. Uh, that says something about her character. Um, she's always been my calm rock place when I go home,
whenever things are bad, and there's nobody whose opinion I value more than her. I want to thank my children who never complain missing holidays, missing birthdays. I'm so proud of you guys. My mom who's born and raised in Seaside
Park. You have taught me to have work hard. You taught me my faith. You taught me everything and I'm so thankful. You taught me to love this town. Um, and you you taught me that. Um, I want to thank prosecutor Billheimr who I've now known
for well over 20 years and always you have a big smile and a open hand. You always stop to talk to me and you never deny that. I'm so thankful for you. And Ocean County is very lucky to have you as the prosecutor. Chief of Detectives Carrington, same thing. You have always
have this enormous smile and a big handshake and you always greet me with a big hug. I'm so thankful for that. Chief Boyd literally has an open door for me. He's always let me walk in this building. He's always helped me. And one of the biggest things is I love that our
talks on the history of Seaside and I love doing that. Sheriff Mashinardi, you've always opened your door for me. You've always assisted me in this town and I'm so thankful for that. Um, some other people, I'm sorry if I'm getting a little long-winded.
Um, Captain Mary Nelson from Jackson. She was the last person that I trained in Weartown to see her now. Her husband's retired Sergeant Jimmy Kinglin. I also worked with him in Weartown that you trusted me with your son to be a class two here and he's now
a full-time officer in Jackson and I thank you for that. uh, Sergeant Pete Lar Rosa from Lakewood who every Sunday you're willing to listen to me and answer my questions and you are my brother in faith and I thank you for that.
And you have the county chiefs of police association. You guys have reached out to me. You've been so helpful for me. Um, and I'm looking really looking forward to working with you guys. Um, and my first boss in Weartown, Robert
Campenile, who taught me how to be a police officer, and I'm forever grateful for that. Um, you know, all my officers, I am so thankful for your support to see every one of you here. It means a lot to me. Um, it shows your
dedication and my promise and pledge to you is to always support you, have your back, and to give you every resource you can to serve and and do your job well. And finally, just the people of Seaside Park. I I love this town. You guys have
always embraced this police department. Um, that has always been one of the the greatest things that this department has. You guys embraced us. you always loved us and and I'm very thankful for that. So, I'll uh I'll shut it down now. Thank you. If I missed anybody, I
apologize, but thank you all for for coming out. [Applause] And certainly, as I indicated earlier, law enforcement keeping us safe is a joint cooperative effort. There's a
chain of command and there's cooperation at all levels. And I want to turn the floor over uh if he would say a few words. We have our county prosecutor, the Honorable Brad Belheimer, who's here with us this
evening. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We spoke uh for about 10 minutes before uh the ceremony and didn't mention any part about me speaking. So, just for that, I might just yield my time to Chief Boyd. Jumps ensue. I would like to say
um as the mayor said, law enforcement here county is a collaborative effort and we work so well together and we we look forward to working with Chief Mccay. I want to congratulate you. Like you said, we have known each other for a long time and I'm proud to be here and to see you get promoted to chief. I'm
also happy for Lieutenant Confederac. We've known each other a long time. I'm happy that I got to be here for you as well. I look forward to working with both of you, your department, anything you need from us. You know, you have our support. I'd like to thank all the chiefs that are here as well and I encourage you to be involved in the
chief's association. I think that'll be good for everybody. So, thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council. Congratulations on your choices. You did a nice job here. I'm very very proud to be here. Thank you. Thank you. And we we also welcome here this evening
another very distinguished guest and public servant, our Ocean County Sheriff Mike Masterardi. Thank you, Mayor. You're the mayor and the council on making a chief of police. We think that's very important. All of us in law enforcement chiefs that are are here. I
can assure you that the 180 officers in the sheriff's office are here to assist your town. Whatever you need, the chiefs will tell you whatever a chief wants. Say, "Chief what?" Yes. You get I get a lot. The reason I'm here is somebody had to drive Chief
forward. Any prosecutor said, "Congratulations, Erica. Uh, Lieutenant, congratulation you and congratulations to your families. Uh, it's probably the best day and the worst day of your life all at once." uh been doing it for a couple of years now and uh I will say it's a good uh a
good run. You have a great department here. Keep up the great work. Move it forward and we're here to support you any way we can. Congratulations to Seaside Park. Thank you. [Applause] And I know we have lots of celebrating
uh those out there uh and and thanking wishing our new chief and our new lieutenant all the best. And obviously I can't recognize for speaking all of our chiefs, but as long as he keeps it short, we could call on our neighboring
chief. If he wants to say a word or two, we certainly in fact welcome Chief Tommy Bird. I think you made a great pick, Mr. Mayor and Council. Um, I've known this kid for a long time. Seaside Park is a a special town. It's a beautiful place. It's an enclave. Everybody wants to come
here. You know, we know that. And I'm just happy that you have you picked a a chief of police, you know, director. And, you know, we're lucky we got this guy here because I hang on him like a ticket of hound dogs here. So when we have problems, he's here, they're there.
We all help each other. So as you know, Seaside gets very, very busy and it's not easy, but you got to have the neighboring towns have to help you, too. So we're just lucky. And and in today's world, it's a lot different. Law I'm in my 41st year as law enforcement. It's
it's it's crazy, right? It's it's it's it's not the same. Everything you do is on video. Everything is a camera. Everything everybody you get out of the car, everybody has a phone up. Everybody wants to take a picture of you. Everybody wants to videotape it. And guess what? You gota let them. It's not like the old days. So, you know, if you
don't, it's like the dinosaurs. If you don't if you don't adapt, you're going to not be here. So, uh, I think we're going to do good in the seaside. I think we're going to do great seaside park. I think he's a great pick and, uh, we're very happy. You got a great attorney, Mr. Zarski sitting
there. Way many times out of lawsuits. So, everything's all good. Thank you for allowing us to come to sharing your [Applause] experience and I I certainly uh don't want to uh Lieutenant Confederac wishes
to say a few words. But I don't want him short changed in any way. But he's, you know, I just want to say thank you to the mayor council for, you know, for choosing me and everything and and thanking my wife for being here, my family. As Brian McKay said, Jeie McKay,
his family is they are my rock. My family hold. So I'm just very appreciative that you've given me. I feel honored that I did this position and they carry it out. So thank you very much. I think we all share the sentiments. We
have a terrific police department, a lot of dedicated men and women and that tradition goes back many many years and uh I was honored to be a member of it uh quite a few decades back. so I I can
share my thoughts and love of the department uh and that department that in turn loves our town and works for our town. I thank each and every member of the police department uh many of whom are here this evening and I certainly
thank all of them and I I thank as well uh Lieutenant Fitzgerald who's been serving as the officer in charge uh for the last uh uh weeks and months for his dedication as well. And I thank all of
the team of lieutenants, sergeants and down to each and everyone and those that are starting out in the latter the class ones who are receiving some excellent training under the opaces through the sheriff's department through the prosecutor's department through our own
police department. and I'm uh glad to have each and every one of you dedicated to careers in law enforcement and thank you for your service and of course to those police officers who are out there each and every day protecting us and serving us. So, thank everyone and thank
you all for coming here this evening and obviously this being a regular meeting uh we certainly would understand I know especially our law enforcement community has a lot of other special obligations uh ongoing and commitments though this evening. We
would not be offended if if those of you need to depart and and some of the families and friends obviously have some celebrating to do and that's certainly understandable and welcome as well uh as the town governing body proceeds with
the ordinary business of this this meeting. So, thank you all for coming out this evening. [Music] Yes. last week. He [Music] Our mics are back on and the next item
of business is final reading and adoption. It's ordinance 202506 that amending chapter 135 article 1 section 1357 of the code sees aside entitled permits required for use of
beach rates and this came about through research ongoing for a considerable period of time from the committee and as referenced on the record at the first reading these particular fees had never been modified increased or otherwise for
I think it goes back to 2010 2010th. Uh this addresses that situation with what the uh recommendation is is a equitable and fair imposition uh of the
fees. Any other comments from council members on this particular second reading? No. Hearing none, we'll go into the audience. This is a second reading in a hearing ordinance 20256. If anyone has any comments, if
they could give their name and address into the record hearing none, I would close the public hearing and I'd entertain a motion from the council. I'll make that motion. Motion by council member Connor. Second. Second by
member. I go honor. Council member Connor, yes. Council member Condos, yes. Council member Anna, yes. Council member Craft, yes. Council member, yes. Council President, yes. Motion approved. And
next is final rating adoption ordinance 202507 amending section 200 of the code of the Cesar Park entitled development regulations to permit a one-year extension of variances under section 200-16D. And that brings our ordinance
in conformity with the uh municipal land use act. Also, this is in accordance with recommendations from our planning board uh and commensurate with the procedures in uh other municipalities as well. Any other questions, comments on
this hearing? Then I'll go into the audience. Any public comments on final reading adoption ordinance 20257? And here seeing none I will close the public portion and I'd entertain a motion for final reading 202507. I'll make it. Motion by council president
Wilk. Second. Second by council member condos. Roll call. Council president Wil. Yes. Council member Condos. Yes. Council member Annabil. Yes. Council member Connor. Yes. Council member K. Yes. Council member Rotunda. Yes.
Approve. And next final reading and adoption ordinance 202508 amending the burough code of the burough seaside park so as to amend chapter 62 entitled police department and that uh particular uh ordinance as per discussion in
previous meetings uh allows for uh appointment if the council were so inclined uh for the uh captain's position uh in the police department as 12. Any uh questions, comments from
councel? If not, we'll go into the audience for a second final reading adoption ordinance 25509. Any 08 258 08 I apologize. And hearing none, I will uh
close the public portion. I'd entertain a motion on second reading 20258. I'll make that motion, Mr. Mayor. Motion by council member. Second and second by council member Con.
Oh, it was I apologize. Second by council member Rotunda. Roll call. Council member Emma. Yes. Council member Rotunda. Yes. Council member Condos. Yes. Council member Connor. Yes. Council member Craft. Yes. Council President
Will. Yes. Motion approved. And the next is final reading adoption ordinance 20259 amending and supplementing an ordinance of the Bay of Seaside Park fixing and determining salaries and wages of certain officials and
employees. And this came about through a great deal of research uh through the committee, our administrator and the staff. And in particular, this brings into conformity uh some of the changes with the state statute that uh have
increased the minimum wage in New Jersey. And this makes sure that we're in conformity with all positions uh so that they are not below the minimum wage is the primary reason. Then it also addresses some other uh cleanup
discrepancies etc. Any other comments from council on this? Can I just like make one comment on it because I think what we read the first time there was some questions after the fact but I think that to your point that there's been research done
and looking at other towns and also based on collective bargaining agreements. But one of my strong feelings about this as part of the personnel committee is that we want to attract and not only attract people to work here, but really to retain people to work here because it costs the burrow
significant resources every time someone leaves and then you have to readvertise and rehire and retrain. So I think it's important that we are paying something that people want to work here, want to stay here. Well said. And any other council
comments? If not, we'll go into the audience if there are any public comments on final reading ordinance 20259. And hearing none, I would close the public portion and I would entertain a motion. Make that motion. Motion by
council member Condos. Second, ma'am. Second by council member Connor. Roll call. Council member Condos. Yes. Council member Connor. Yes. Council member. Yes. Council member Craft. Yes. Council member Ratunda. Yes. Council
President Wil. Yes. Commissioner. And the next is final reading and adoption ordinance 202510 amending section 2936 of the code of the bar of CES Park entitled boat slip rental permits to amend the weightless
procedure for the marina. And this too came about through uh identifying a potential problem or area needing to be addressed. and the research from the committee uh to make that procedure fair uh more equitable if that's the right
term and I don't know if um uh the committee wants uh to put any more input on that uh hearing none uh the boat slip yes and the boat slip issue um the fee hasn't
gone up in quite some time and the the movements and the use of vote the committee looked at it and felt that it it was relative for an increase at this point. Any other comments? If not, we'll go
into the audience if there are this is more focused on the uh issue as to making sure the slip is alternating between I understood. I just Yeah, I understand. Yes, I think that was the
committee looked at that. Yeah, but looked at both of his issues. No, I I I apologize. My mind is still pretty And anything else from council then on second reading 202510 hearing. None, I'll go into the audience if there are any public
comments on final reading 202510. Hearing none, I'll close the public portion and I'd entertain a motion from council. I'll make a motion. Motion by council member Craft. Second by Council President Wil. Roll call. Council member Craft. Yes. Council President Will. Yes.
Council member Emville. Yes. Council member Condos. Yes. Council member Connor. Yes. Council member Rotunda. Yes. And next on the agenda are first two entitled uh or
resolutions that must be uh passed prior to the actual uh consideration at the public hearing of the budget itself. 2025 167 is authorizing the municipal budget to be read by title only at the
public hearing about to be conducted and that in conjunction with standard procedure uh throughout the state as well as past procedure over the years in this town and others any questions comments from council or
if not a motion I'll make the motion motion by council Council member Craft. I'll second it. Second by Council Member Connor. Roll call. Council member Craft. Yes. Council member Connor. Yes. Council member Ammobile. Yes. Council member
Condos. Yes. Council member Rotundas. Yes. Council President Wil. Yes. And the next uh resolution related to the budget as well. And that is 2025168. It's authorizing us to refer to
a self-examination of the budget for 2025 and that is a procedure whereby uh budgets are able to be approved in New Jersey and ours and Seaside Park went through the process I believe was last year last year and that entailed
significant delays but ultimately uh approval process by the state of New Jersey and as such this year's uh budget uh involves what's referred to as self-examination through the municipality and its professionals
itself. Anything else, agenda on the record? Nope, you covered it. Okay. Anything from council? Uh if not, uh is there a motion? I'll make motion. Motion by council member Craft. I'll second and second by council member Connor. Roll
call. Council member Craft. Yes. Council member Connor. Yes. Council member Amabil. Yes. Council member Condos. Yes. Council member Otenda. Yes. Council President B. Yes. Bush. And next on the agenda is the public
hearing on the municipal budget and the adoption of the 2025 municipal budget. And this uh budget was subject to aformational hearing which occurred back on the
second meeting of March as to the various line items as to the basis of the uh review process those line items and the capital expense operating revenues and what are operating expenses rather and anticipated revenues and I
don't know if we need any more similar from I know a great deal of work went into the budget uh through the committee uh as well as through our professionals and that included but was not limited to our uh prior CFO and our current CFO uh
all whom contributed greatly to the finished product and obviously uh no one up here as we're all taxpayers uh no one is ever happy with a increase uh in taxes albeit it's a modest one, but uh
that increase has been scrutinized thoroughly as to what items uh might be considered to be eliminated. Uh and there are a lot of very necessary appropriate expenditures that uh simply
cannot uh be put off any longer. And those obviously uh include but are not limited to uh an urgently necessary fire truck and the capital expenses. Uh we're moving ahead on the boardwalk project uh
which uh and other items that are absolutely necessary to to consider and to move forward on. So I don't know if the council or anyone has anything moving out on the the parking lot improvements as well. Yes. Which is
another important Yeah. that we're doing. Anything further from council then? If not, I will go into the audience for this public hearing on the 2025 budget. If anyone has any comments, uh, if they could get their name and address into
the record. Yes, Edie. Edie claim 48 11th Avenue. Um, I'm looking at this particular sheet, but it doesn't give what the um change is for considering the new budget. What's the amount what's the amount of the tax
increase, I guess, is what it 4 4.4 cents per $100 of evaluation. And um since we don't have at least not right now in our possession the um
itemized budget from when it was presented at I guess it was the March meeting. Has anything been taken out of the budget in an effort to reduce the tax impact? Nothing. Yeah. So it's basically it's the same has not changed yet.
Okay. Thank you. Any other comments on the 2025 municipal budget hearing? None. I would close the uh public hearing and I'd entertain a motion from the council. So move, Mr.
Mayor. Motion by council member Rotunda. Second. Second by council member Craft. Roll call. Council member Rotunda. Yes. Council member Craft, yes. Council member Emmobile, yes. Council member Condos, yes. Council member Connor, yes.
Council President Wolf, yes. Much approved. The next item on the agenda are the payment of claims 225169. It's approvement. The payment of the itemized claims is set forth on the check registry bill list for the time
period April 15th to May 1st, 2025. Any comments or questions from council or if not a motion? I'll make a motion. Second. I'll make that motion a bill. Second. Okay. Motion by council president Ro. Seconded by Council Member Craft. Roll
call. Council President Bill. Yes. Council member Craft. Yes. Council member Amil. Yes. Council member Condos. Yes. Council member Connor. Yes. Council member Rotunda. Yes. Second. Next, our
resolutions are read in summary fashion. 170 authorizing the advertisement and receipt of bids for Seaside Park Marina breakwater improvements. 71 authorizing the solicitation of dates for the lease for antenna attachment on
the municipal water tower and ground space for ancillary support equipment located at block 50, block five rather, lot 171 authorizing the execution of change order number one to the contract between
the Burough Seaside Park and PNA Construction for a decrease in the amount of $225,1843. 3 cents. 173 establishing fees for persons to utilize the public boat ramp located at 13th Avenue. 174 Appointing
seasonal employees for the Department of Beach Control. 175 Appointing seasonal employees for the Department of Beach Patrol. 176 Appointing seasonal pumpout boat operators for the 2025 summer season. 177 appointing class one special
law enforcement officers for the calendar year 2025. 178 authorizing the designated adjustment and or refund on water sewer utility accounts. 179 authorizing the designated miscellaneous refund for
farmers market fees. 180 authorizing the bur of Seaside Park to enter into a lease purchase agreement with taxexempt leasing court. 181 authorizing execution of a letter of intent to purchase a ladder truck from absolute fire
protection source while contract number 11302- RVG-1 182 resolution requesting approval of items of revenue and appropriation fiscal year 2025 pumpout vote program
183 Resolution requesting approval of items of revenue and appropriation 2025 local recreation improvement grant 184. Resolution requesting approval of items of revenue and appropriations recycling tonnage grant 185 calling for the
restoration of energy taxes to municipalities by the state of New Jersey in its budget. 186 authorizing and providing for the incurrence of indebtedness for the purpose of providing a portion of the cost of
acquired, constructing, enlarging, improving and/or extending its water utility system for phase 3A water main and phase 3B water main project. Any questions, comments from council on any of the
particular resolutions or any further background? No, I don't. If not, we'll go into the audience if there's any public comments on any of the resolutions. We uh allow such comments even though not required by
law. If anyone has any, if they could give their name and address into the record. Seeing none, I would close the public portion and I would entertain from council a consent agenda. A motion for approval of the resolutions. Make a
motion. Motion by council member Condos. Have a second. Second by council president Wolf. Roll call. Council member Condos. Yes. Council President Wil. Yes. Council member Emma. Yes. Council member Connor. Yes. Council member Craft. Yes. Council member
Rotunda. Yes. Motion to approve. And item 12 is uh an announcement. And uh before I make that that announcement being uh moving up a long-term alternate member of the planning board, Michael
Brosman to uh fulfill the unexpired term as a class 4 member. And uh that uh duty uh naturally is a somewhat sad one though we thank him very much for all his years of service as Michael Brazen
has been an alternate for many many years. Uh and the reason and I know everyone in the Seaside Park governing body, the planning board, past and present, as well as the entire community, uh offers our sympathy to uh
the late Tony Darrow's wife uh Lillian to his family uh as he was very very proud. in particular, one recent uh granddaughter, I recall this winter him conversing with me as she passed the bar
exam of foreign colors in three different states at once. So certainly he was rightfully very proud. But uh Tony Dara passed away. Uh and unfortunately it was all a private ceremony and none of us in the town uh
even his neighbors close friends realized that it was a private ceremony. uh he passed back on April 10th and uh he's recognized as one of the very longest if not the longest serving members. Uh he served on our zone board
of adjustment for many many years, decades in fact and then the planning board. Uh so uh he's a a very fine contributing member of the community and we uh extend our deepest sympathies to his family and
uh that uh concludes that particular uh announcement and our offering of sympathies. Anyone else on the council have anything uh further at this juncture? I have one thing further. Y I just double checked and our
um the amount to be raised by taxation for municipal purposes has increased by $992 since the uh introduction. the uh the amount of appropriations did
not change just that number changed probably due to a reduction in uh I don't know exactly the number it could be uh uh not sure exactly which number some number that carried last
year grants receive it after after yes I have my report yes council as Stockton Avenue Road for uh roadway improvements. All drainage work and concrete work is complete. Road work will start Monday at the latest and last
3 to 4 days. The project will be substantially complete with permitting by 5 yard drainage project. Old drainage raft is complete, concrete sidewalks replaced, replacement is complete, fence posts are installed, and the new
retaining wall is expected to be completed by Tuesday, 429. Thereafter, the impure work including import of infield mixing grading will start workers to be on target to be completed by 59. the 14 dam
shoreline stabilization project. Um that was started on a Wednesday and I believe it is complete. It looks complete but I'm not sure if it's complete but I was there today. Um I have to say I was there um prior to the start of the project.
The tree the pine tree that was on the um entry port of the water um the bor crew went in. They did a fantastic job. They removed the tree carefully and reloc relocated it to a safer location. Hopefully it will take
um I think um just a sug suggestion I I think we should plant another palm tree in that same location in time with ground settle a little bit. Um it's only my suggestion. I think that would be nice to replant one back there. I think the roots will go down into the ground
into those rocks and I think it would be very secure. uh if anyone has the opportunity to look at look at that area, I really think it came out very nice. I did have the opportunity when I was there with the burough crew, I did speak to Eric on other areas of interest that I like to see addressed and we hope
to talk about that at a later date. Um that is a really nice area down there and um I think it needs a little speaking, but we'll talk about that at a later date. Nothing crazy, just just make it a little nicer. um B Avenue um storm
drainage work including additional piping for the future pump station is complete. The contractor is now working on concrete curves and sidewalks between 9th Avenue and 14th Avenue. That work will continue until 5 523 and the old
paving work be complete by 66. internal uh projects work began began on Monday to replace the front porch uh railways um at the bar hall and the steps um faded non beach entrance signs
have been replaced opening of the the opening of the marina fence along K Street created so that residents can walk through the marina to get parked cars on central avenue during flooding and the water department will begin hydrant flushing next
week. Um, but I think that's it. Mayor, thank you. Next one. Just want to add Zumbberry. Oh, the number eight on for the parking stores has has begun today
on Ocean Avenue. I believe it's one at the north end. Am I correct? Yeah, I haven't seen them at the north end. They're working way their way over. So, do we have a way think that will be done? It should it shouldn't take too long. They got a lot done today. So,
okay. Right. Just give Jim dates probably. Yeah, probably depending on the weather. Yeah, it council member Connor. I just wanted to mention that um Council Member uh Wilk mentioned signs that the uh streets where the street entrance to the
boardwalk, not the the beach entrances. Uh you know, every street has one, some didn't. and and a lot of those signs you couldn't even read them or anything else like that. A couple of them were missing in some of the streets. So, um everywhere was signed. I just want to thank Yeah. to
your signs. Yeah. Um sign everywhere. But we have one of these streets. So, anyway, um I just wanted to They look very nice. Uh you can read them. They look nice. I want to thank Karen and Eric and his crew and his team for putting them up. In some cases, they were missing. you know, they had to put a
uh you know, post in to put it up, but they all look very nice and they're there, so it looks good. Thank you. Yes. Thank you, Council. Thank you. Anything else from uh council? I just want to thank Karen and and you, Mr. Mayor, for for shaking the tree to got the county
to get Ocean Avenue done so quickly. It was great. And um it was done a lot quicker than we anticipated. Very good. We had our meeting and uh I was told we were quite forceful. Our administrator was there, our council president was
there, I was there, uh Josh and Eric, uh Bill, we had a uh a teamed up on phone calls every couple of days to the county engineer and there were within a couple days they started. So I just have
one thing, mayor. I just want to let everyone know uh Inerson beach badge sales started today at the bath house and they'll be open every day between 10 and 4. Thank you. Very good. Anything else from council or the government? If not, we'll go into the
audience if there's any public comments. if anyone has them, if they could give their name and address into the record. And Evie, it's too soon for a little too. Um, thank you again, President Wil, for your report. And it's really um
great to hear that some of the projects that have been hanging around and hanging around are are getting done. And I think that's that's wonderful. Progress is a is a wonderful thing. And when things come to completion, um, and I didn't realize they had
started numbering the the spots because we were talking today, a bunch of us, that if you parked in an unmarked spot for many hours, you could have free parking, but that's not going to last very long. So, it's nice to see that done. I wrote down Ocean Avenue on that
part, and it's it's glorious. Nice for bike riding. Yeah. It's okay. Thanks everybody for your work. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Any other public comments hearing? None. Yes, Chuck. I I thought Shirley Cretzel got
central I mean Ocean Avenue. Don Quicker. She mentioned something. Name and address. Chuck Applebee 21510th Avenue. Um the uh the uh cell towers. You're going to be renegotiating cell tower stuff. Um, I
had to do that in the past. Um, I would recommend having contracts I think are going out for cell tower. Um, they do a uh assessment on the the wattage and everything when they do these cell towers and a lot of times now you'll
just re-up the contract. But what you could do is have them redo that. So they keep adding things as they have these contracts. uh but they never redo the environ or the human impact statements uh to the people that live around there.
So um you can have them do that when they redo the contract. So they have to do that study. A lot of times they just do it on paper but then you could have them go out there and do readings. It's really something good to do because they keep adding antennas and changing them over the years and you never get a
holistic, you know, actual assessment of the impacts. So, it's something you can do at the time of writing. You should do it every time they make a change, but they try to say that it's a not a significant change. So, they really don't have to do it because it cost them money, but they will do it. So, it's a
good thing to have because you really shouldn't be impacting neighbors, you know, because these things do get get a little carried away, you know. Um, the other thing was I I paid for my trailer storage down at the marina. I think it's
a base price for everybody. I don't know if there's going to pay, but I don't think there's a discount for residents. No. So, my my thing is, and I've said this before, um I I initiated that when they started doing the trailers storage down there, and it was
to get trailers out of people's driveways. So, then they have parking at the houses. So, to try to help out parking around town. So prioritizing local Seaside Park residents to be able to store their trailers there. I know it's being uh a lot of people utilize
that uh yard for trailer storage. It's really I think filled up by the end of the summer. So trying to have more locals using it. Maybe you can charge more for out oftowners or prioritize uh the people that are in town. I don't know if you
could do that or not, but uh so the object is to get trailers out of people's yards and have them down there. It may go against Green Acres. Yeah. Well, we do it for the slips. Yeah. So, you know, whatever. Uh I'm not looking for a discount. I'm just saying charge
the others more. Um and uh O Ocean Avenue looks good, but I don't know if they raised up all the manholes and everything. There seems to be pretty bumpy. It's bumpy. There's a lot of them that are real low. We we had to purchase. We're waiting for the
equipment to come in to raise the manholes up the level of the road. Yeah. So, that's what it was. Yeah. So, I noticed that. So, usually you do that when you're doing the job. I didn't know why that wasn't done really, but it looks really nice. Do the job. Did they put more handicap spots up there? Yes.
Everything is in compliance now with title 39. So, that's all right. Um All right. Thank you. Thank you, Chuck. Thank you, Chuck. Any other public comments? Hearing none, I would close the public portion and I'd entertain a
motion for adjournment from the council. I make that motion, Mr. Mayor. Motion by council member Almobile. Second by council member Condos. Roll call. Council member. Yes. Council member Condos. Yes. Council member Connor. Yes. Council member. Yes.
Council member Otanda. Yes. Council President Wil. Yes. Thank you.