comt you have the window cracked Ste yes you have the window cracked he actually got out today the night of I was getting the mail and he shot out the door he outside and he was like oh my God what do I do now I just went over picked him
up like to call this feeding to order all stand flank salute please i al to the flag the United States of America to the stand na
Gody andice for all okay have a roll call please thank you council member deanis here council member Dill here council member G here council member Johnston here council
member mcgan here council member Owen here council president Habor present also present is Administrative Frost city clerk Keith city solicitor Smith and city engineer Snider pursuant to the open public
meetings act adequate notice of this meeting has been provided the agenda for this meeting is posted in City Hall and on the city's website Summers point gov.org suing to city code a
266-8480 rule and add resolution number 86 to the agenda this item is time sensitive and needs attention prior to our next meeting may have motion please I'll make that motion I have a second second any comments not hearing any
comments all in favor I any opposed not hearing any opposed uh resolution number 86 is added to the agenda Communications does anyone have any Communications they would like to share I have a communication I'd like to
share it's from the uh green uh Green Thumb Garden Club we are very aware that the Philadelphia Eagles Are Champions and now Summers Point has the news of a future Eagle to share a future Eagle Scout to to be clear a wonderful story
is unfolding this week here in summers point on Saturday March 1st local Boy Scout Jeffrey LoveIt will be overseeing his workday towards earning the eagle scout award Jeffrey is a member of troop 55 in summers point and has been steadily planning towards this day since
last spring Jeffrey has chosen to remove the eight existing 3ftx 12T garden beds behind the Summers mansion and replace them with 2ft high raised beds of the same dimensions filled with fresh wood chips and ecos soil it also involves improving a wild Thicket of trees facing
Shore Road both involve many steps Not only would the grounds behind Summers Mansion be improved but will enhance the chances of a bful harvest for next spring he is involved The Green Thumb Garden Club and Patriots of the summmer man from the beginning and we are thankful
he has chosen this project we hope you can consider covering this project to share how the community has responded we are invited you're all invited to come see for yourself anytime Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. work time or or contact Rosemary Evans at
69214 6967 it's a great opportunity for a project where we have a young person working in the community and having other groups uh work working along with them such as the Garden Club and the Mansion so I think it's a great point for summers's Point anybody else have any
Communications if not let's move on to the administrator's report Jason anything to share nothing this evening nothing toce solicitor report Mr Smith yes please um just want to draw council's attention toin number 6 of
2025 it's on for a first reading um with a request ofs to refinance property they have asked us to amend the Redevelopment plan and the
Redevelopment financing deals with the purchase and construction of parking lot across the street that restricted although it's not in the name of the uh B courts is another entity
1.7 million associated with costs relative to the construction procurement construction of parking lot and another 2.3 million relative to Renovations or repair work on the main complex
itself there's the whole financing issue the ordinance outlines that the to uh plan and the agreement outline that um I've asked uh Council for B Court to
provide me with a backup documentation concerning the financing for both the 1.7 million figure and the uh $2.3 million figure and I just want to point out one
thing conne the Second Amendment that's on page five just so everyone aware the annual service char is to was aware of that you can take a look at
this that put it on the first reading passes um financing is uh required to be done by the end of this month for various reasons uh so there is
actually another another coun me before the de counil meeting have to get it so I adise counil that goes on for second I want the financials so that if anyone ask we have them we them
so just asking that like pass us tonight that if anyone has any questions they can contact Jason discuss have the doc thank you I there is a uh not AIG deal but it is a
big deal uh resolution 83 2025 this is to make uh not staff's life a lot easier that's a uh they we now are required to publish a
newspaper our print and I don't know anyone who really gets City Press I think get mail really not we've had great difficulties in being able to post our
legal notices and this is just a resolution support of having current status where because of the star leer allowa the internet and this resolution
support having us be able to no is on our website and it's kind of I think it's probably long overdue this direction so I just point that out because it's not necessarily the cost of
legal does it's having our staff having to jugle our schedules to get things done on certain dates so that we can meet deadlines for thank you second one may more important the first our world Mr Senator I just have
two items the first is uh regarding route n in the Great Bay tunnel project I spoke to the engineer today and also the water company and right now weather depending they're anticipating opening the road the uh March 9th is the the date right around there so that's I just
wanted to give everybody a heads up with that um New Jersey Avenue uh I was hoping to have that out to bid already but we're still waiting for the state to review the plans to give us to go ahead technically they have 30 days which is almost but usually they only take a week or two I don't know if they're backed up
but that's the delay in that yeah anything else that's it do we have any committee reports council president yes Mr Owen um just a uh from the Arts commission just a uh an announcement um registration is
now open for the Arts commission uh grown up in May series with an abstract watercolor collage project for children ages 6 through 10 accompanied by an adult there are three dates to choose from March 15th March 22nd or March 29th
the class is only $10 for more information check out the Summers Point Arts commission website or on Facebook the Arts commission continues to work on their 20 25 programming with upcoming poetry calligraphy vision board creative
storytelling and recycled art workshops thank you Mr Owen any other committee yeah council president uh the planning board met on February 19th and the uh salt house project the paddle
club and the bass Harbor boat yard were approved by the uh planning board and uh the defo plaza presentation was partially completed but uh we it was a long meeting we ran out of time it was
like 5 minutes to 12 so we uh decided to uh move it forward to the final part of the presentation to March 19th and uh it was uh a very interesting uh all all four were very interesting projects and
I think they're uh going to end up being an asset to the uh to the city thank you any other committee reports yeah council president um I attended the school board meeting uh again they had their uh student of the month awards for January
which is always fun to watch um they also did their uh school safety data system presentation uh reporting on any violence or any incidents that are happening in the schools um the numbers are definitely
down significant which is a good thing uh they've done a lot of training for staff and uh looks like they're really on top of everything there uh they also did the annual uh audit presentation for 23 to
24 um there were no there were six minor recommendations which those Corrections have already been made there were no discrepancies or anything in their audit it was a clean audit and uh that's always a good thing so
thank you thank you any other committee reports Mr President uh edak met last night and it was brought to our attention by someone in the audience that uh the website still lists us as meeting at the Gateway Theater uh so
that needs to be updated and also looking at it uh I think we have Bill dy's name spelled wrong on there so if if it's spelled wrong on economic development and I believe he's also on the historic commission so you may want
to review that and other than that uh eak is moving forward with what uh they were instructed to do uh they're looking they're following the master plan for the future they've picked uh a project
here in town to focus on which is the gas station on Route 9 and 559 that be brought up to speed contact the owner contact the environmental company get as much information to see if there's anything that can be done to uh move
that along and they also formed a Tourism Committee uh of which was discussed last night on uh and Rob's actually the the Forerunner on this that uh the Garvey races want to come back to
Summers point so they may need a little assistance so I would recommend to them them that they come to one of our meetings we find out what exactly they need and then bring it the council to and that's all any other I'm sorry I
forgot one thing I could uh last night I uh attended a networking session for uh Sustainable New Jersey talking about grants and solar programs and environmental programs uh a lot of good information that uh it was all for
schools and for municipalities um our schools are already doing a lot of this but there is some new stuff and some new rules that I will pass on to them and uh Mr H was there I'm sure he'll pass on any new thing we could use for the municipality so that's great
great to see groups working together to get things done so any other I have one it's uh probably not a uh committee report but it is in reference to a bus trip when we did meet with the recreation committee about a year ago uh
some of the seniors brought forward that they wanted to see us bring back bus trips U there is a bus trip schedule for May 8th it's to the duck Chapel dinner theater it's fidd on the roof uh there is information on the short start tier
Facebook website as well as information right up here um with the agendas and there is information on the door coming in so anybody looking to attend that please reach out Ashley mats is uh in uh down in the finance department will
answer your questions so that's something coming up also all right moving on from the committee reports I really appreciate the committee reports because I think they're very meaningful it's a it fills in not just City Council on what's going on in different groups but it is an Avenue for the public that's attending
or listening online to hear some of the things that are going on so I I appreciate those reports I'm moving on regular me meeting minutes for February 133 2025 and executive session meeting minutes for uh February 13
2025 we need them approved as to content may I have a motion please I'll make that motion may I have a second second any comments not hearing any comments all in favor I any opposed not hearing any opposed the minutes are approved
moving on to the ordinances ordinance number four please ordinance number four of 2025 an ordinance repealing section 11 14-1 146 H5 of article 22 of chapter 114 of the code of the city of Summers
Point may I have a motion to open to the public for comments on this ordinance alone I'll make that motion I have a second second all in favor I any opposed not hearing any opposed we are now open
for public comments on ordinance number four of 202 only may have a motion to close motion to close have a second all in favor I any opposed not
hearing any opposed may I have a a motion to adopt this ordinance please I'll make that motion I have a second second all in favor I I any opposed not hearing any opposed ordinance number four is adopted ordinance number five
please ordinance number five of 2025 calendar year 2025 ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits and to establish a c bank since this is the first reading um may I have a motion to introduce ordinance number
five I'll make that motion may I have a second second any comments not hearing any comments all in favor I any opposed not hearing any opposed ordinance number five is introduced ordinance number six
ordinance number six of 2025 an ordinance authorizing and approving the execution and delivery of the Second Amendment to a long-term tax exemption and capital contribution agreement between Bay View Court urban renewal LLC and the City of Summers Point dated May
3rd 2016 and the Fifth Amendment to the Redevelopment agreement between Bay View Court urban renewal LLC and the City of Summers Point dated May 3rd 2016 since this is the first reading of this ordinance may I have a motion to
introduce I'll make that motion may I have a second second any comments not hearing any comments all in favor I any any opposed not hearing any opposed ordinance number six is
introduced I'm now going to ask our CFO Shaina gestel to please come up to the microphone or to the podium and she's going to discuss a little bit about our 2005 budget that will be later introduced via resolutions
2025 2025 yeah you said 05 I'm sorry 2025 thank you Mr I thought it was going a time work there for minutes good uh we are introducing the 2025 budget tonight with just under a
2cent increase or a local tax rate of 1.14 this is up 1.76% from 2024 we saw an $8 million increase in our assessed valuation and anticipate that number to grow as we continue with future
development considering the increases in our fixed costs or the costs that are beyond beyond the city's control such as health benefits pensions contractual salaries and general liability insurance we feel we have done our best to be conservative throughout this budget
process we use 3.4 million in Surplus this year versus last year's 2.8 million a couple of line items impacting our anticipated revenues this year are the loss of approximately 100,000 in state aid as the two-year Municipal Relief
Fund program ended in 2024 and although our investments did well last year in interest rates have started to go down and we may not see as good of results in 2025 we did receive a generous donation of 100 ,000 in addition to the mandatory
bed tax contribution from Shore Medical Center however there is no guarantee we will receive these funds for next year's budget and will need to plan accordingly our debt service remains stable and we plan to introduce our annual Bond ordinances around the time of the budget
adoption the public hearing is scheduled for March 27th at 7 p.m. here in council chambers you will be able to comment on the budget at that time a copy of the introduced budget will be posted to our website Summers Point gov.org by the end
of the day tomorrow for your review thank you all for your time this evening I want to thank you Shan sha for your uh leadership during this process uh you we very uh much kept us on task so I appreciate that thank you thank you
council president okay um the next uh thing here on the agenda I I need a motion and a second to open uh to the public for Resolutions only at this time may I have a motion I'll make that motion I have a
second second all in favor I any opposed not hearing any opposed we would like the public to uh please come up to the podium if you want to speak state your name and this is on resolutions only thank
you motion to close the public portion second second all in favor I I any opposed not hearing any opposed resolutions open to the public for comment is now closed number 77 please
resolution number 77 of 2025 introduction of 2025 Municipal budget I have a motion I'll make that motion I have a second second any comments not hearing any comments all in favor I any opposed not hearing any
opposed resolution number 77 is approved number 78 now before um Madam Clerk reads it there's three I believe there's now three executive sessions on here number 78 number 79 and number 86 we
will go into executive session after the business part of the meeting is done everybody is welcome to wait in the lobby while we're in executive session and then once we come out I do not believe we'll be taking any action when we come out of executive session but you're more than willing to to wait
outside number 78 please resolution number 78 of 2025 authorizing executive session advice of councel and attorney client privilege communication regarding the status of contractual negotiations between the PBA Patrol and dispatch and
the City of Summers Point have a motion so moved I have a second second any comments not hearing any comments all in favor I I any opposed not hearing any opposed resolution number 78 is approved number
79 please resolution number 79 of 2025 authorizing executive session advice of councel and attorney client privilege communication regarding the status of contractual negotiations between the city of Summers point and the City of Ocean City regarding a shared facilities
service agreement for Municipal Court matters I have a motion I'll make that motion I have a second second any comments not hearing any comments all in favor I any oos opposed not hearing any opposed resolution number 79 is approved
number 80 please resolution number 80 of 2025 authorizing rfps for Marina operations may I have a motion please so moved I have a second second any comments not hearing any comments all in
favor I I any opposed not hearing any opposed resolution number 80 is approved number 81 please resolution number 81 of 2025 amending the authorization of purchase through the use of State contract vendor Xerox Corporation
pursuant to njsa 40a colon 11-12 a and njac 5 col 34- 7.29 C for the Summers Point Clerk and construction offices may I have a motion I'll make that motion have a
second second any comments not hearing any comments all in favor I I opposed not hearing any oppos resolution number 81 is approved number 86 please resolution number 86 of 2025 authorizing executive
session advice of councel and attorney client privilege communication regarding the status of issues concerning a cyber security claim involving the city of Summers Point have a motion I'll make that motion have a second second any comments not hearing any comments all in
favor I any opposed not hearing any opposed resolution number 86 is approved okay now we go over here we have uh one two three four items
on a consent agenda tonight uh may I have a motion I'll make that motion have a second got the second any comments not hearing any comments all in favor I any opposed not hearing any opposed the consent agenda is approved
some old business U Mr Snider um this is in relation to the municipal approval statement for the NJ do regarding review of the proposed additional bus stops requested by residents along US Route 9 New Road I know you did did reach out
and did get a reply I did reach out and um I was just inquiring and stating some of the concerns city council had for the stops which were um in front of the Groveland cleaner um across from Wells Fargo and then across um right across not across from
um it's the uh car rental yeah Enterprise yep um just stating some of the concerns that we want to discuss and they kind of took that as the city's not interested and they just said they don't want to do it anymore so based on the question that was dropped so uh move on
I guess I didn't mean to officially have that as the city's position I it was more of a you know inv getting asking questions and they just kind of said they don't want to do it if there was a consensus there it came back pretty clear from them
so I was surprised a little bit but I wanted to make sure I read that right that's why I wanted you to address it um does anyone have any other old business to discuss okay if we don't have any other old business how about uh new business we have two uh social Affair permit
applications on uh two actually for for the American Legion one on the 4th of May and the other one on the 2nd of November and then we have one for the uh VFW Post for an event on 321 and I'm gathering that only
information is here and approved gu okay so um with that all okay is can I just get a few nods at the head here to make sure everybody's good with this yeah we good think everybody's good with those okay all right uh next next I guess does
anyone else have any new business they want to talk all right not hearing any new business I'm go to Mr Frost here to talk about discussion of the billing please sure uh this evening we have a bill list the amount of 1,439
as650 any questions for Mr fost not hearing any questions um I need a motion to open up for the public portion so moved I may have a second second all in favor all right no any opposed nobody
opposed okay uh so we're now open for public session anybody that wants to address city council please come up to the microphone and state your name again we're into we Ed the three minute rule so that everybody may speak ch Pearson 587 Marks Road
um we'll talk about the budget in March but you should do better you might think 1.8 cents is not very much however we're higher than Ocean City higher than L Port everybody in every store in this town is telling
me how bad the taxes are and I expect them to be no taxes no increase this year and that's that now let's get down to the real story tax re uh Revenue not tax revenue revenue and
how are we going to get some to make the taxes go down and guess what everybody in this town is asking me what about the boat ramp how much are you going to charge who's going to take it I don't know about this stuff anymore and uh but
I have to hear today today in the diner Pat what's going on with the boat ramp I went to City Hall I asked them can I pay for the summer they have no idea they don't have any clue what's going
on you tell me it will be on the agenda the boat ramps at our next city council meeting what will it be there will be a discussion on the boat ramps and the fees or next meeting on March 13th okay so on March 13th fishermen and people
that want to Park their boots know that March 13th there's going to be a discussion so when can they go and find out what they have you know that people want if fishing season's on right now starting this weekend or something I don't know about this stuff
but I hear about it every day not individual many all right well what about the rest of the people they can call me to okay and what what that's not an answer Tom and you know it that's just
pushing the people off it's pushing the people off you're supposed to well tell me I'll call you T when do you want me to call you I will I'll call you tomorrow deal thank anyhow please look at it please look at it and please
look at keeping those tax you know what to do keeping those taxes level you know what to do you did it before the bottom line is and you know too Sean you're just playing so the bottom line is put the I I don't sit up here and play well
okay you're not I don't sit up here and play you're not playing please don't say that okay I I apologize for that no you don't need toiz apologize I know I apologize this is a very serious situation for that's it thank you very much for your comment not seeing oh come on up
I don't know all what talk out but um I did attend may I have your name please Christine that's all I'd like to go by okay um name I don't think I have to I I live in summers point along the
bike path your last name please I I I don't have to anyway the the EAC meeting went over some things you know and I I sent counsel Janice I didn't know you were there I
can send it tomorrow think I forgot any email um first off transparency even about meetings is really kind of like we're in the dark you got to plug in each commission and half the time is not
there the agenda is not there I mentioned it I asked for calendar Monday everything was on there not not actually not everything there was a few things Miss saying the EAC meeting was not on there which I mentioned you know
so a little bit more transparent just on your meetings let alone what's going on um I think I already made it clear when I heard outrageously in the newspaper about more benches on the bike
path whose idea was that I does that's my idea was your idea yes ma'am we have benches on the bike path do you live over there I I do on the bike path I do not live on the bike path I use yes I do quite often do
you not see them yes I do so we don't need more we don't need work a subjective opinion isn't it that would be an opinion right your opinion is we don't it is my opinion we don't need more benches okay well my opinion
because I know what I see on some of these benches going on and I see what's left behind and it's problems there's just more Pro more benches more problems and a workout station you want to throw money at something so crazy that would
make it dangerous for who's going to use them it's going to become a wild scene and I don't want to look at that outside of my house it's just totally inappropriate to think that we should have to put up with that there's gyms all in bunch of gyms
in this town you can walk to if you live near the bike path there's one right at the Acme I'm not sure if shoppr right one is still open Snap it's just an outrageous idea that you would even think to do that in front of people's
homes you that's the usual response just you want me to respond to that you're certainly the the the benefit that's my response there is no benefit to that you want to ask you want me to respond or not well let me finish the rest of my comment about it and to throw quarter million dollars at it when we got
streets that look like hell qu a million they looked impoverished when you come up on Shore Road both ends they're filthy they got huge Pooles I mean that's where a quarter of a million dollars should be thrown at Road it doesn't matter that it's a
county you have a right to protect this town and you have a job I think to protect this town and have the county take care of it we have a three minute Rule and you have gone over the three minut minute rule thank you know there was a three minute rule that transparent
it was announced at the beginning of the Mee I would have made sure I was 3 minutes well it was it was announced can thank you very much can I have an answer then sure I I'll respond to you you know the the the benefits of of exercise and and being outside is very
well known and the social aspects of that bike path is very well known that's a that's a jewel in this community and the enhancements we have made made over the years to that I'm very proud of them and as we continue to make these enhancements I'll continue to be proud
of them now I'm not sure where you're quoting this $250,000 is from but much of that much of excuse me much of that is those enhancements have been made through the use of grants that that our city engineer has aggressively gone after and secured for this community so
again I'm very proud of that bike path and I I'm looking forward to any other enhancements that we may make there whether they're benches for people to gather on and interact socially or whether they're uh some of these uh exercise stations which will improve not
only their physical health but their mental health and give them an opportunity to be outside come on okay thank you very much for the comments I'll be back again then if you're not gonna let me say on that that that's a Fus thank you very much does anyone else have any comments on come on up sir
thank you another evening Council Steve swosy I'm a resident of 168 Alder Avenue of B Harbor Township uh the young lady over here already mentioned it I'm here thought on the agenda tonight was going to be about the boat ramp um believe was State it's going to be spoke at next month I'm going to try to attend that
meeting also I just want to make sure that the uh that the veterans are mentioned again in there with the uh with the reduced rate for the veterans and the seniors out there so I wasn't sure if that was going to be proposed again for this year or not so thank you thank you very much for your
comment anyone else from the public want to speak if not may I have a motion to motion to close the public portion thank you second please second all in favor I any opposed not hearing anybody opposed
the public portion is now closed May I have a motion to pay the bills please make that motion I have a second second all in favor fa I any opposed not hearing anybody opposed let's pay the bills um any comments from the governing
body not hearing any com comments from the governing body uh we will be going into executive session after a short break again I do not believe that we will be taking any action after executive session but you're more than welcome to wait in the
lobby and then we will come get you once we come out of executive session thank you for all that attended thank you for your comments appreciate it