Call our meeting to order. This is a regular meeting of the mayor and burough council of burrow seesaw park and the county votion of the state of New Jersey held on Thursday July 17th 20125 advertised to begin at the conclusion of the work session meeting which has just
now ended pursuant to the provisions of New Jerseys open public meetings act. Adequate notice of this meeting is properly provided by transmitting the notice of the meeting for publication in the Oswald Park Press and the Ocean Star on January 3rd, 2025. Notice of the
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 here. Council member Condos here. Council member Connor here. Council member Craft here. Council member Rotunda
here. Council President Wil here. Mayor Peterson here. Thank you. Let us all now rise for a moment of silence to be followed by our pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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 first item on the agenda is request for approval of the minutes. June 30th, 2025, a work session. June 30, 2025, a
regular meeting. Any questions, comments from council? If not, a motion. I'll make that motion. Motion by council president Wil. I'll second it. Second by council member Con. Council President Wil. Yes.
Council member Connor. Yes. Council member Amfield. Yes. Council member Condos. Yes. Council member Craft. Yes. Council member Rotunda. Yes. Motion approved. And the next we have special meeting
minutes that of June 30th, 20125 a closed executive session. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion. Motion by council member Ammobile. Second. Second by council member Craft. Roll
call. Council member Annville. Yes. Council member Craft. Yes. Council member Condos. Yes. Council member Connor. Yes. Council member Rotunda, yes. Council President Wil, yes. Motion to approve. Next on the agenda are ordinances, final
reading and adoption. Ordinance 22518, which is amending chapter 435 entitled vehicles and traffic. And this comes about as a result of the ongoing review through our police department of those
individuals who are eligible for uh what have been designated in the statute handicapped person designation restricted parking. The residences and the proofs having been submitted with the parks and this designates those
particular uh parking spots eligible. Any uh thing else from council on this is second reading hearing? None. We'll go into the audience if there are any public questions, comments as to final reading
ordinance 22518. If anyone has them, if they could come forth, give their name and address to the microphone. Hearing none, I would close the public portion that I entertain a motion from council as to second reading and adoption ordinance 22518.
Take the motion. Motion by council member Condos. Second. Second by council member Rotunda. Roll call. Council member Condos. Yes. Council member Rotunda. Yes. Council member Emmil. Yes. Council member Connor. Yes.
Council member Craft. Yes. Council President Wil. Yes. Motion approve. Next are authorizations. The first team Randy adaptive surfing July 28th, August 13th. Brand dates July. It should be the 29th.
Should be 29th. A typo. And one day later on August 14th. Time 9:00 a.m. to 3 on the 13th Avenue Beach. Second is a block party and that being August 16th for the rain date August
17th 4:30 to 10 10th Avenue Bonagget Avenue Bay View Avenue and the third Bonani wedding date of August 7th 6:30 to 7:30 and there's a typo. It's Ocean Beach and
D Street. It's it's not Ocean Beach and North Avenue. Ocean Beach and D Street. That being said, any uh comments, questions from council as to any of the three authorizations or if not a motion.
I'll make a motion. Motion for approval by council member Connor. Second, Mr. Mayor. Tom, second by council member Amville. Roll call.
Council member Connor. Yes. Council member Amiel. Yes. Council member Converse. Yes. Council member Craft. Yes. Council member Rotunda. Yes. Council President Wil. Yes. Motion approved. Next are the resolutions. I'll read in
summary fashion. 225262. A resolution to extend the grace period for third quarter taxes. 263 amending resolution 225162 and authorizing the award of a non-fair and open contract to Integrated Technical Systems, Inc. for the
maintenance of parking kiosk. 264 authorizing certain special law enforcement officers. 265 authorizing the award of a non-fair and open contract Ocean County Power Sports for the purchase of two allterrain vehicles.
266 authorizing the increase to the bid threshold as per the discussion at the work session. 267 authorizing change order number two for Dr. Paul Bologona to conduct SAV survey for Bayfront Wave
Energy Dissipation Project. 268 Appointing seasonal employees for the Department of Beach Patrol. 269 authorizing the purchase of a police vehicle and equipment from New Jersey state contracts 20-fleet-189
17 fleet- 00761 and 17 fleet-766 270 authorizing class 2 special law enforcement officers for the calendar year 2025 271 authorizing the adjustment of a designated water sewer utility ility
account 272 authorizing the award of a non-fair and open contract for solar lights. Any questions, comments from any council members on any of the resolutions? I have a couple comments. Um on
resolution 267, the um that's for Dr. Paul Gabna. Um there's additional $2,70 for the total contract of $11,716
and that's for him to conduct another SAV survey to complete the survey. Then I think we'll be done with the SAV surveys so that we could complete the uh submittable to the Army Corp of Engineers.
Thank you, Bill. Second one is the um uh resolution 272 and that has to do with the solar lights. This is for the Fifth Avenue pier and the marina. Um, we'll be placing these on top of the JCPNL poles.
Once uh we've uh finally got the paperwork straightened out so that we're the owners of it and uh some electrical wires have been removed uh from the uh from the I guess from the uh pier. Sure. Mr.
Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Any other comments, questions from council on any resolutions? Mayor, I was just going to add and I appreciate that you clarified that um bill because I was asking about the SAV thing as well because I know last time I was probably
like the broken record saying, you know, are we going to stop paying for this? So I asked why there was the incremental. My understanding is that the estimate of the amount of hours that it was going to take to complete the survey was actually underestimated and that was the rationale for it. So, I
understand that. Now, um the other thing I just wanted to make a comment of just more for our I guess administrative team is I'm thrilled that we now have Jaime's paperwork in here that shows for every every single I guess resolution that it certifies the availability of funds and
which account it's coming from. And I think that's a great addition to the operations of how we manage our budget. And so, I just want to say thank you for that. I think it's the first time we've had it in the past and I noticed it right away and it's very very helpful. She's improving a lot of processes.
Yeah, I think any other questions, comments from council on any resolutions. Hearing none, it's our practice to allow any public comments on resolutions that are not required by law. If anyone has a
comment on the resolution, if they could give their name and address on the record and make Peek. Yes, Michelle. Michelle Miller, 1500 Lake Avenue. First of all, thank you, Gina, for bringing up that question. I was thinking about that
myself. Um, the second one is is just a comment. Uh I was speaking to two of the neighbors on uh south side from the marina and they were saying that there's a problem with some people across the
bay with bright lights. So I know you're putting up solar lights and obvious you know they something was there before but if you would consider the fact that people across the street it might you
know bother them if it's bright lights facing them LED lights these would not produce any light pollution. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you, Michelle. Any other comments on resolutions?
Hearing none, I would close the public portion and I would entertain a motion from council as a consent agenda. I'll make the motion there. Motion by council member Craft. I'll second. Second by council member Connor. Roll call. Council member Craft. Yes.
Council member Connor. Yes. Council member Emville. Yes. Council member Condos. Yes. Council member Rotunda. Yes. Council President Wil. Yes. Motion approved. And the next item on the agenda, payment
of claims 225 273 approving payment of the itemized claims as set forth on the check registry bill list for the time period July 1, 2025 to July 17, 2025. Any comments from council? If not, I
motion. I make the motion. Mayor motion by council member Craft. Second. Second by council member Rotunda. Roll call. Council member Craft. Yes. Council member Rotunda. Yes. Council member Amabil. Yes. Council member Condos. Yes.
Council member Connor. Yes. Council President Wil. Yes. Approve. Next is a budget resolution. It's 225274. Rescending resolution 225123
uh as required by the state. Any questions, comments? Yeah, I'd like to speak. Sure. the um state has mandated that we send the uh 2025 adopted
uh budget. And the reason is because the um after we had submitted the annual uh financial statement for 2024 um they discovered that there were some
uh over um overexpendures uh had that had occurred in 2024. And um when that happens the requirement is to any any of our expenditures that occur in that previous year that get
moved forward to the next year which is 2025. We had submitted the annual financial statement um basically in June and typically it's done in early March so that the state has some time to review
the AFS before we go ahead and adopt the budget but we were uh behind a little bit so we uh we issued the AFS a little late and that's why the uh why that's why they're saying that now that we have
some over expenditures. There were over expenditures in both the water sewer as well as the current fund. Um what's going to happen is that in the next meeting we will u move on and move
forward to uh to generate a new budget and the uh the following to this meeting is we send it next meeting we'll issue it and then will be a public meeting and then uh second meeting after that. Um
the dates are um 87 will be the resolution introduction and 821 will be the public hearing and final adoption. Um let's see what else I want to say about that.
I guess that covers it. Thank you both. Any other comments from council? If not, is there a motion? I'll make that motion. Motion by council president Wolf. Second.
Second by council member Craft. Roll call. Council President Wil. Yes. Council member Craft. Yes. Council member Emmafield. Yes. Council member Condos. Yes. Council member Connor. Yes. Council member Rotunda. Yes. Motion approved.
That concludes the written agenda. Are there any other items from council at this time? May I just have a short report from the public works league. Over the holiday week of the 4th of July, there was 9.55 tons of recycling
material went to the Ocean County uh plant and 87.98 tons of garbage. It's quite a bit of garbage. Um, also public works is in the summer road where they're maintaining the town and the beaches. Um, at this point that's what
we're working on and that's my report. Thank you. Anything else from council? I I have a report. We held a boardwalk reconstruction meeting on Tuesday. Um and it has to do with uh the start of
the construction which will be occurring on late uh September 2nd. Vulcan construction will be doing the work. This is the uh section of the boardwalk that will start from Fifth Avenue and go
to Island Avenue. Uh this particular contract, this is number one of three. Um the first one is for 4.367 million and the uh the plan start date as I said was um was September 2nd and
the end date is anticipated to be February 28th. We have to uh stop the boardwalk construction before any piping clover kind of action is going on. Um um it's going to be a sequenced project
where they they rip up and they do some pile driving and then they just keep moving down kind of like a wave as they um as they described it. Um the uh the plan is uh to to work between
8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Uh they also plan initially to be working on Saturdays to get ahead of it so that if they run into bad weather down the road, you know, they'll be a little ahead of the curve. Um so Saturdays initially is
is very possible. And uh fourth and fifth avenue street side is where the construction setup staging will be. Uh they'll also be moving the pavilions during the construction and setting them back and that'll be done by walking
construction and not our guys. Um and the contract for this uh work is sign going to be signed tonight. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Anything else from council?
Mayor, I just wanted to give a brief update. I know we talked about it last time. There's always questions about what we're doing with the proposal from the Seaside Park Board of Ed. And as part of our, you know, ongoing, I'll just say ongoing discussions. I did meet with June Corsinesi, who's the president
of the board, and she's taking, you know, some information back to the full board and to their attorney. And I did touch base with her today. She said their next meeting is August 18th. So hopefully coming out of that meeting we'll get some feedback.
Very good. Thank you. Anything else from Mr. May I have the police report for the month of June? Um we sees Park Police Department handled 845 calls for service during the month of June. There were 211 motor vehicle stops. 80 motor vehicle
summons issued. Parking summons were 665. Traffic accidents there were 13 reported. three injuries, one hospital transport. One crash resulted in a subject striking the guardrail at approximately 80 mph. The driver was a
17-year-old youth who was observed doing approximately 100 mph coming down the barrier island. There's one domestic violence incident, one arrest. 23 emergency first aid calls were answered. There were three total arrests.
background investigations. Three firearms background investigations were done. Four employment background investigations were done. Employee training during the month of June. The GIF update training, which is mandatory, was done by Lieutenant Fitzgerald. Method of instruction was done by
patrolman Bzenecker. There were no internal affairs investigations for the month of June. And the detective bureau handled the secondary luring of a juvenile resulting in one arrest. And there is an active investigation of underage photos which is in progress.
Thank you, Jerry. Thank you. And Joe, I got some Mr. Mayor from the rec side and tourism side. Um uh our our our Seaside Pike Park Softball League and and Jeffrey Potter, Jeff Potter, who's been running the league for quite some time as we all
know. Um he is the league, but you know, so are the players, but Jeff is does it. So, uh, I just wanted to share with you, a lot of you know that already, but just want to share with the group that, um, uh, and this is a letter, I'll say it to Jeffrey Potter and the Seaside Park
Softball League from the New Jersey USA softball hall of fame. Dear Mr. Jeffrey Potter. At a recent meeting of the USA Softball Hall of Fame of the New Jersey Selection Committee, Seasite Park Softball League was voted
to receive the USA softball of New Jersey Community Hall of Fame award. That's very nice. Very prestigious to that group. Um, USA Softball Hall of Fame of New Jersey exists to pay tribute to those who have
made outstanding contributions to the game of amateur softball in the state of New Jersey. You will be recognized and honored at an induction ceremony on 1019 2025 at Battleground Country Club in Manalopin, New Jersey. So that's a very
prestigious honor for our group, our town, our league, for Jeff and all the players present and past. So I just wanted to share that with you. If you see Jeff, maybe just give him a thumbs up. Last last week, the softball league had our annual oldtimers game and
both the mayor and I participated. Neither one would have us suffered any serious injuries. Well, you're just standing now, aren't you? And um the last thing I just want to say is is uh this Saturday, Boots on the Bay, our third annual Boots on the Bay
is this Saturday from 3 to 8:00 p.m. the J Street Marina lawn. So be there, a couple bands, uh some beers, vendors, food trucks, and everything. I've been to and probably a lot of you have too the past a couple ones and it's a great
time and everybody looks forward to it. So try to get out there and support everybody and have a good time from 3 to 8 on Saturday. Boots on the bank. Thank you, Joe. Thank you, Joe. Yep. Good. Anything else from council at this time? No, ma'am.
Hearing none, we'll go into the audience. If there are any public comments, if anyone has them, they could give their name and address to the record. And yes, Eie. 481 11th Avenue. Uh, a couple of questions.
Where are they going to put the pavilions when they take them off the boardwalk? Do we ever They don't They move them too far. They only get them out of shift. Oh. Oh, okay. You're right. You're right. I'm thinking that. Is the boardwalk the new part? Is that going to be trucks?
Yes. I should have met you. They're going to pull everything out. pilings is the underc carriage and the decking of course and it will be tracks again to match what's already there on the south side which is nicer to ride your bike on I have to say. Yeah. Oh yeah.
Um next um congrats to the softball league. I think that's awesome. Really think that's awesome. Yeah. Um which brings me to recreation. Um, and I know I've I feel like I'm, you
know, beating the dead horse, but I noticed in the announcement for the Boots on the Bay that it's listed as the recreation department. And I've been told how many times we do not have a recreation department. So, has that changed? Do we now have one?
No. So, why do we keep calling a recreation department if we don't have one? because that I think leads people to think I don't know what they think but well it is a team effort I'll say that so I don't know what you call a department there's no official department
I mean well I know committee I mean you can the reason we've asked is because there have been times when maybe some event that people not necessarily me but people have thought that it could be covered under the umbrella of the recreation department but that's when we
find out there is no recreation department All right, here's another question I have. Um, do we have an operating historical society? I saw where they um were co-sponsors of
the parade and as I was a member up through last year. Um, and I didn't know anything about it. I would have helped out, but I didn't know anything about it. Do we have an operating historical society?
Yes. Yeah, believe it was Chuck and Nancy and we do cuz I haven't heard anything about it and I'm a member. Well, I know they I think are looking for volunteers for Boots on the Bay. I think they have their historical
materials that they've had at other events. We haven't had a meeting since last August. I don't know about general membership. There had been a a trustee meeting or an office meeting to authorize a grant application. I do know that occurred.
Who would I get in touch with about this? I would just write a letter and say we want you want to have a meeting of that would trigger the process I would assume. To whom do I address the letter?
The president. Who's the current president? The president. Bonnie Peterson's the president. VP Joe Toth. Um, he's the treasurer. Oh, you're the VP of the other. Sorry, Joe. Yeah, sorry. Joe's the treasurer. Bonnie.
Bonnie's V. Uh, Bonnie's the president. Um, VP is Sharon France. You're the treasurer and something. Secretary is I was getting working my way down. Ann was secretary. Yes, that's that's the four officers.
Okay. Um, and I guess my my last question is the is the kind of the biggest one. Um, with the recent court deciding that South Seaside Park can choose to withdraw from
Berkeley Township, um, and based on what I've heard, they want to become part of Seaside Park. um what's the process for that and how
do people start to understand all that's involved and I mean there's a lot as you can imagine there's a lot of chatter about it and this one says this and this one says that and they'll want sidewalks and they want that we can't give them this and blah blah blah so my question
is uh I guess basically um how is the public going to be kept informed about this process. So, at the end of the day, it's pending a potential litigation to be discussed in executive session. But procedurally, to answer your question, the statute provides that they need to file a
petition with the burough of Seaside Park to annex under statutory, which they've now done. Oh, they have. Okay. They have done. So, I think we received it this week. So they filed their petition to enex and they included all the material that they provided in the
lawsuit to DNX from Berkeley Township. So now under a statutory process, it has to be reviewed uh by the mayor and council. I think there's a referral that'll end up going to the planning board. They do an investigation um as to all the ramifications and ultimately it
comes back to the mayor and council and it can only be done by ordinance. So there will have to be public hearings on the issue and discussion and then ultimately a vote by the mayor and council. Okay. So there will be there has to be because it has to be
done by ordinance. So there has to be a first reading. You know, I'm sure there'll be discussions before first reading. You know, there obviously uh in terms of the planning board, I'm not so sure of their process. Did they have to have a public hearing or or a public meeting? But I know
there's a referral process to the planning board also. I would suspect they have a public hearing on it as well or I don't I'm not I don't want to speak out of turn. We just got the petition reviewing the statute as to the procedure. But basically that's that's the format. Now you mentioned litigation.
Well, this was litigation. It's now I know that they but now the going forward does that need to be litigated at all or no? Well, it depend it depends. So whatever the decision of the mayor and council is, there's potential for litigation. What do you mean if they say no
or say yes? You still have, you know, there's potential for litigation. Definitely if we say no, obviously it'll appeal our decision. But if we would litigate, like I said, we're still studying it, but uh if we say yes, I don't know that Berkeley Township can file another suit
or not. I think Oh, you're thinking of Berkeley, of course. Okay. I don't know if it ends with the Supreme Court New Jersey or not. I don't know what else you know I can't speak for them right or or for other avenues they can pursue. Okay. Well, um, I speak for any number
of people, I'm sure, who just want to be kept informed as to all what all the little particulars, of course. And another thing else I'll also say, um, and I know uh, the mayor and council are going to get inundated
with people they meet on the street or whatever. I've already I'm surprised there are more people here tonight, quite honestly. Well, I told my wife I won't be home till at least 9:00, but many of them have years. Yeah, I may be wrong. So, but I I um I I've advised obviously the
mayor and council. They they just can't discuss it, you know, with with with anybody because again, it's potential and threatened litigation. Um but there has to be a public process and obviously the public will be kept informed and there'll have to be public hearings. Now, I can tell you be the place I think if somebody says
something to me, I'm going to say come here. Sure. But again, the specific question is going to be asked what's going on. Well, no, what's going on? The answer is well, there's a process and right I think like I said, I'm pretty positive it's got to be referred to the planning
board. They have to do a due diligence. They send a report back to us and then we have to do it by ordinance. Has to be public hearing, public input, public and then it's done by ordinance. Great. Thank you. Sure. No problem. Any other public comments? Yes.
Uh, Phil, good evening. Uh, Dr. Philo68, Decater Revenue Systems Park. Um, I'm really glad to hear that there will be a public process on the annexation. I would hope that if a benefit cost analysis has not
been done that there will be one done particularly looking at the costs associated with annexation because it you know will call for more police more sanitation staff local roads the impact on education across the board there's going to be you
know an impact all set by of course any readable rules that permit so I would hope that as a part of your public process that you'll share that kind of information to educ ate the taxpayer that this could benefit us or could not. So that's all I have to say.
Thank you. Yes, Joanne. Joanne Penn 208 K Seaside Park. Um several weeks ago, I don't have exact date, um we had a massive gas leak. on
KC Court and K Street and Old Key had to be evacuated and I would like to publicly thank the police and fire department for what they did that night. Um it was very scary and um they did a
fabulous job. So according to them, um the other thing that I'm not sure where this goes, but um we've been having over in our section, uh a lot of work being done by the electric company.
Um they've been doing a lot of things. I'm not quite sure what they're doing, but we're getting phone calls from um West Penn, which um they're calling us and telling us that the power is going to be shut off and they're going to be working in
the area. And they it was accurate. I mean, they did and they came and they worked for two days and the power was not off the first day, was off the second. My concern is that we're getting these from this Westp Power and I didn't know who it was and I wasn't sure if it
was a scam or not. I don't know who knows who it is, but it was for Jersey Central. Now, the other day I got another one saying that the work scheduled for this coming Monday, which I never got one saying there was, is being cancelled due to the amount of
rentals in the area. And so, I don't know what's going on with it. I don't know if somebody can help me with who they are. Do they let you know what they're going to be working? JCPNL is a subsidiary of First Energy,
as is Westpen Power. Um, PTOAC, Edison, Bomb Power. There's a whole list on First Energy's website of all their subsidiaries. Okay. And so maybe they're just consolidating some of these to a certain call center to push it out. Okay. It's just very confusing because
you don't know who they are and yet they follow through. So, we knew that they were real. But do they notify the town that they're going to be doing this work? No. Not at all. Okay. And they notify the residents, I
believe, that are going to be affected by whatever they're doing. Thank you. Thank you, Julian. Any other public comments? Yes, Alan. Okay. Adam Moley at 1450 Street. I just want to thank all the council members for
their giving information to us today. At least to me, I don't know about anybody else, but to me it was it was enlightening. Thank you. And Steve, thank you for giving us a road map of what the steps are going to be. Thank you. Thank you, Al.
Thank you, Al. Thank you. Any other public comments? Hearing none, I would entertain a motion from council unless council has anything further for adjournment. Motion. Motion by council member Condos. Second. Second by council president Will. Roll
call. Council member Condos. Yes. Council President Wil. Yes. Council member Ammobile. Yes. Council member Connor. Yes. Council member Craft. Yes. Council member Rotunda. Yes. Thank everyone for coming out this
evening.