that sandpaper. Please. Yeah. Where are you? Good evening everyone. Welcome to the regular meeting of the Tucker Burough Council August 18th, 2025.
Adam, would you please read the open public meetings act statement? Yes. Provisions of the open public meeting have been complied with this um notice was published in the beacon and the park pressing the time placed in this meeting. Thank you. Roll call, please. Mr. Freeland, right.
Mr. Martin, here. Mr. Philando, here. Mr. Dmore here. Mr. Here. Mr. Peterson here. Marshall here. Thank you. Please stand for the flag 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. [Music] We welcome everyone tonight. I haven't seen before, so I hope you're
um enjoy our meeting tonight. We'll start with legislation. Councilman Green. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, um, tonight I have an ordinance requiring a piece of land, lots 54 and 55 from Frank Schultz being donated to
the town. It is currently has combined assess value for the two lots of $200. And the second, this will be open for public comment on September 15th at the second reading. And tonight is ordinance number 8 of
2025, ordinance of the burough of county, state of New Jersey, authorizing the acquisition of block 116, lots 54 and 55 from Frank Schultz in accordance with NJSA 40A12-5. And I so move this on first read.
Second. Okay. I have a motion and a second on this ordinance on this first reading. Roll call vote, please. Um, Mr. Reen? Yes. Mr. Martin? Yes, Mr. Colangelo. Yes, Mr. Demore. Yes. Mr. Dupree. Yes. Mr. Peterson.
Yes. Thank you. And that's all I have this evening. Okay. Thank you very much. Moving on, we have finance. Councilman Martin. Uh, thank you, Madam Mayor. I have three resolutions this evening. The first one is our payment of claims for the month.
Uh, we're just over $2 million for this month. Um, going out in checks. I wanted to point out a couple of the larger bills that are going out. Our third quarter tax levy for Ocean County is due. That is just over $679,000.
Uh we're also paying off um the road project on Daddy Tucker, which is just over 161,000. We have Pinelands Regional School District at $75,000 and Tucker Elementary School at $326,000.
All going out this month. So I have a resolution of the Burough of Tucker County of Ocean State of New Jersey authorizing payment of claims in the amount of $2,19,19. And I move this resolution second. All right. I have a motion and a second on the payment of claims. Roll call,
please. Mr. Mr. Bland. Yes. Mr. Marin. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Demore. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Peterson. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Uh my next resolution is to cancel 2025 taxes due to the disabled uh
veteran exemption. This is for two residents of the burough. Um one will be refunded $3,111.37 that they've already paid for this year. The other one $743.36 what they've already paid for this year.
Have a resolution of the Burrow of Tucker County of Ocean State of New Jersey authorizing the tax collector to cancel 2025 taxes on property granted the 100% disabled veteran exemp exemption and refund the resulting credit balance. And
I move this resolution. Second. All right. Thank you very much. I have a motion and a second on this resolution as read. Roll call vote, please. Mr. Bland, yes. Mr. Martin, yes. Mr. Kangelo, yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Peterson,
yes. Thank you. Thank you. And then my final resolution is authorizing the renewal of the Ocean County uh chip insurance membership. I have a resolution of the Bureau of Tucker, County of Ocean, State of New Jersey, authorizing the renewal of
membership in the Ocean County Municipal Joint Insurance Fund. And I move this resolution. Second. All right. I have a motion and a second on this resolution as presented. Roll call, please. Mr. Bringing. Yes. Mr. Marian. Yes. Mr. Fangelo. Yes. Mr. Dmore. Yes. Mr. Deree.
Yes. Mr. Peterson. Yes. And then I'll have one committee report later in the meeting there, but that's it for now. Okay. All right. Put you down for there. Uh, thank you very much. Next is public
works, water, and sewer. Council President Kindula. Thank you, your honor. I will be reading two resolutions this evening. One has to do with authorizing a road opening permit for Kuru and the second is to cancel water and sewer charges. Also
like to announce that the public work will be closed Monday, September the 1st date. I have resolution Burough Tucken County votes in the state of New Jersey authorizing approval of the road opening permit on for block 116 lot 12 and
granting relief under section 419-15 of the burough code and this is to reconnect the gas service at 93 Kurum. I move this resolution second. All right. Thank you. I have a motion I'm sorry a second on this resolution as
read. Roll call vote, please. Mr. Breland, yes. Mr. Martin, yes. Mr. Kangelo, yes. Mr. Mr. Mr. Peterson, yes. I have a resolution of the Burl Tucker and County of Ocean, State of New Jersey to cancel excess water and search
charges for the year 2025. The properties involved have a failed water meter and I move this resolution. Second. Okay. I have a motion and a second on this resolution. Roll call vote, please. Mr. Brand, yes. Mr. Martin, yes. Mr. Angelo. Yes. Mr. Dmore. Yes.
Mr. Dupree. Yes. Mr. Peterson. Yes. Thank you. That's all I have, your honor. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Moving on. Public buildings and grounds and community affairs. Councilman. Thank you, Mayor. I have one resolution this evening. This is for uh
reconstruction uh improvement project on Kelly Avenue. Resolution of the Burrow of Tucker County of Ocean State of New Jersey awarding a contract to Arawak Paving Company for the SSY 2024 road
reconstruction improvement project on Kelly. I make this motion. Second. Okay, I have a motion and a second on this, please. Mr. Freeland, yes. Mr. Martin, yes. Mr. Kangelo, yes. Mr. Demore, yes.
Mr. Dupri, yes. Mr. Peterson, yes. Thank you. I have one other thing. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Councilman Martin and uh his father Wayne Martin and other members of the Pride and Celebration Committee for
the effort and countless hours spent in the planning and execution of the Friday night summer concerts at the Bfield, which deserves our recognition and sincere thank you. I would also like to thank the Parkertown Fire Department and our local police officers for being
there to support the community and prepared to offer assistance had there been an emergency. Being at the concert each week, I could couldn't help but notice the sense of small town community and the coming together of our residents, both young
and old, relaxing in their lawn chairs, listening to music, tapping their feet, and just having a good time. I also not noticed that many young families arriving with children and kids having fun running in the outfield playing catch and maybe eating ice cream. I felt
like this was watching good memories being made. Our intent and in the ball field revitalization project last year was to create a place for kids to once again play ball. We soon realized that we had also created an opportunity to
utilize the space and provide other activities for our community. Our hope is the summer concerts were just the beginning. Early fall movie nights has been suggested. We would love to hear your ideas as well. Thank you.
That's all I have. Thank you. Very, very nice. It was nicely said you you put everything together that happened and um it makes it sound like it was a wonderful summer which it was. I have an assistant. I have
for your assistant. That's very welcome. All right. Next is administration and regulation. Council member Free. Thank you. I have several things. First, I wanted to thank Frank personally and Ron and the other council members that took this project on to improve the Bay
Avenue Ballfield. Over the years, it has been neglected and it took uh someone like Councilman Demore to bring it to the forefront and get the support from the community and also the council uh and the town to bring it up to where it
should be. This is the results we're able to enjoy. So, with that being said, all council members have a chance to look at the uh minutes for the preceding meeting. Any additions or corrections? There being none, I so move that we
accept the minutes as second. Okay. I have a motion and a second to accept the minutes as presented. We'll call vote, please. Mr. Yes. Mr. Martin, yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Mr. Yes. Mr. Peterson. Yes. Thank you.
And uh second item, your honor, I have a resolution the burrow of Tugert and County of Ocean State of New Jersey assessing leans upon dwellings or lands for property maintenance pursuant to B or burrow ordinance 103-2 and permitted by NJSA
40.48-1.14. I so move that we assess written second. Okay. Again, I have a motion and a second on this resolution as presented. Roll a vote, please. Mr. Bland, abstain on County Avenue and yes on King Fisher. Mr. Martin.
Yes. Mr. Kindle. Yes. Mr. Demore. Yes. Mr. Dra. Yes. Mr. Peterson. Yes. Thank you. And then another item that I have your honor is the Tucker Construction and code enforcement on site inspections were 28 for the month. Violation notices
sent were 12. Bulkhead inspections were three. Open violations eight violations cleared were four oper requests were three uh public works cleanups were two calls from homeowners were 17 and co
inspections co inspections one and uh that concludes the uh construction report. I also have a report from the fire company and squad 85 EMS. Parking time fire company has uh 21 fire incidents in the burrow for the month of
July. There was a total of 44 EMS calls. Uh 22 were handled by uh Parkertown EMS uh and the others uh from the squad 85 and quality. And that's the reports that
I have for the fire and EMS. That's all I have on that. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for reporting all of that and bringing us up to date. That was very good. Next is law and public safety. Councilman Peters. Thank you, your honor. I have a monthly
activity report for the police department for July 2025. Calls for service were 319. Arrest were 10. Motor vehicle stops were 226. Motor vehicle summons were 88. Motor
vehicle accidents were nine, medical was 44, and suspicious person and vehicle checks was 19. And uh I do have something to report on the committee report. Other than that, that's all. All right. Thank you very much,
Nancy. That's good. I have nothing else to to add. Um again, I thank you for for your letter. That was perfect. Uh, so we're going to move on to Mad. I'm sorry. Madam Mayor, I have nothing to report this.
Okay. Thank you for uh sitting in with us tonight. Have a good time. You're right. So far as easy, right? Not going well. That's right. Okay. Now, Madam Clerk, I'm sorry. No, you're good. Um, all right. So, I have two things. First thing I have is a
raffle application for the Sacramento Historical Society for September 6, 2025. Um they are requesting waiver of fees for that specific um raffle application
for the borrow application. I move that we accept that request and issue the RAF license free of charge. Seconded. Okay. Motion in a second. Do we do roll? Okay.
Mr. Freley. Yes. Mr. Martin. Yes. What was the date? September 6th. Thank you. I'm assuming that's the um flea market. 10 pound flea market. Um Mr. Kangelo. Yes. Mr. Dmore. Yes. Mr. Dupra. Yes.
Mr. Peterson. Yes. Uh the next thing I have is another raffle application from uh let's see the New Jersey Conservation Officers Association. They are requesting a raffle application
for September 27th and 28th and also requesting waiver of the second. I'll second. Okay. I have a motion and a second. We'll call it please. Mr. Freeland. Yes. Mr. Martin. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes.
Yes. Mr. Peterson. Yes. Um the next thing I have is a request for the bill facility use application of the Ter Beach Association for Octo. I'm sorry, August 23rd, 2025. It's for a
boat parade. Um I have all this stuff in line. I'm sure that they will give more details than I will, but um I need approval for them to use South Green Street Park. I make that move also. Okay. I have a motion and a second call, please. Mr. Bland, yes.
Mr. Martin, yes. Mr. Kangelo, yes. Mr. Bemore, yes. Mr. Dree, yes. Mr. Peterson, yes. Um, the next thing I have is a letter of resignation from our uh Department of uh public works labor uh Joseph Hannon. His
last day will be August 28th. I just need a motion and a second to I'll make a motion with regret to accept his resignation. Second with regrets. Okay, I have a motion and a second and we're all regarding that resignation.
Roll call, please. Mr. Breland, yes. Mr. Martin, yes. Mr. Kangelo, yes. Mr. Demore, yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Peterson. Yes. And that is all I have for this evening. Okay, we're ready now to move on to
reports. And Mr. Martin, you said you had a report. I did. Thank you. Um, thank you very much, Frank, for the nice words. That's what I was going to touch on was the uh summer concert series Pride and
Celebration put on. Um, it was it was really neat to see. Um, it's hard to do a headcount because everybody's moving around. A lot of the kids are moving around, running to the ice cream truck and stuff, but I think we averaged over 200 people there each Friday night. Um,
we had one that it was cloudy and spritzing a little that it was easier for me to count and I counted 111 that night. Um, and I think that was the least attended one because of the weather. But, um, we were definitely over 200 people there on Friday nights,
people coming and going. It was fun. Um, the second to last one, kids actually set up a volleyball net out in the outfield and they were out playing volleyball while the concert was going on. So, it was really really cool to see the ball field being used like that. Um,
and I'll extend back thank you to uh Council Diamore and Councilman Peterson for their help with the stage. Uh Frank was over every Friday helping me lug that stage out, get it set up, and then every Saturday morning and and Ron uh
taking it back apart and getting it back off the ball field so that it was back in shape to be a ball field on Saturday mornings. Um but it was nice that um our local U12 um baseball team, they opened the concession stand every Friday and uh
had kids going out selling water, selling candy, stuff like that as fundraisers for the their baseball um team, which I believe is the Swamp Dumps. That's what they told me is their name. Um, but it was nice. It was nice
to see everybody getting involved. Um, in that, uh, in addition, um, we went around and, uh, Bunny and Renee went around and collected money, um, for the food pantry at most of the concerts. And
this summer, we collected just over $750 for the food pantry um, just from the people that were out in the crowd. So, I wanted to point that out. That was very nice. And thank you to everybody that generously donated. Um, and then following up on what Frank said, we
definitely want to utilize um, the field, the stage, whatever we can over there. It was it was really cool to see. So, we're definitely looking for more things to do. Um, we have kicked around, Frank was telling me about movie night.
um possibly even trying to do a couple more concerts in the fall, maybe get involved with the porch fest that goes on and make that one of the places that a band plays up on the stage. So, we definitely want to utilize it more and um and seriously, if anybody has any
ideas for things they want to see, we're always open for suggestions. So, thank you. That's great. Thank you very much. Um are there any other committee reports? On August 21st, which is this Thursday, the Tucker Chamber of Commerce is having
their first meeting at LBI National from 6:30 to 8:30 and everyone is welcome. Uh, this is a step forward for the town because with the chamber, we'll get a lot more activities and a lot more things going on. So, please support
them. That's all I have. Okay, that's fine. I have a report to do. We have the environmental committee. I uh had to miss it because of a training session I had. And our uh chairperson Beth is here. If
you'd like to give your report, come forward. Bethenski, 209 Cedar Street, Tuck, New Jersey, Environmental Chair. Um, we missed you and Paul, you were going to keep doing this, I thought, but
we had help. Uh, we have three new members. Um, the guts were Carolyn Keane, Vincent, and Lisa. I don't remember her last name. We're looking at uh continuing on. I haven't talked to Kayn
yet, just because it was a really fun weekend. Um because we had started talking about removing the pear trees, the invasive root destroying awful trees apparently. And when we talked about it, nobody even
knew where they were, but now they do. And we're going to work on that. when I called to speak to Savannah about a mix up of the date of our cleanup adopt the highway which is September 20th not August 20th as I said
and anybody that wants to come bring a friend and it's really simple it's mostly little bottles and cigarette butts that you know but because we're kind of a clean town um but I talked with Jenny and she said the yard could also help with that you have a front end
loader, I guess, Mike. I don't know. Yeah. Back. Yeah. Okay. Well, it's all the same to me. Whatever you want to call it. Um, but anyway, and Vincent and John. So, we're looking at new trees and I'm going to make friends with my new friend
Garrett because we're going to need money. Even though we're allowed to fund raise, we don't have any cash. And one of the trees, John who's a new member, he looked into trees and for sour something trees gum.
Sweet gum. Such not a gardener. Um they were like $200 and some dollars. So we're all going to, you know, find out. And then they said, "We don't like those trees because they drape spiky balls."
Yeah. And I'm just going to leave it at that because I'm about to start laughing because Sam's going to make me laugh. So, we're like regrouping again. I know Kaitlin still will help us cuz like she's doing the fun and stuff. She didn't just like leave. She just has a
lot of life stuff. And um Cynthia will be back and in the fall. So again, September 20th if you want to come out to the burrow hall at 10:00 a.m. That's where we start. Thanks. I think that's it. I have the litter
signs, the bright signs that go up. Okay. So, I will put them up. Okay. Do you want me to remind you? Okay. Go ahead. I'll have them up for you guys. They stay up all day cuz I usually just grab them on my way home from work. All right. Thanks, Brian. All right. Very good. Thank you very much. And
thank you for everything you do. We've been working hard on that. You're doing a great job. Thank you. You really are. Is there money involved? you get not for me but for the environment of that. Yes. Zero dollars.
It's very important because we we are proud of our child and we want to keep it looking nice. Yeah. And the first time we did it I was like we're really kind of clean. Like we didn't know you couldn't go into the bushes. You're not allowed to go and so there was like plastic that was in
there. But for the most part it's it's it looks good. little booze bottles pretty much set up, right? But my son has those little spiky things and they are terrible. He's gonna take his tree down because you know, you can't walk without
shoes and even then you can trip over them. So, we don't worry. Okay. Uh, are there any other reports? TBA. forget the we have the Pepper Beach
Association. Um, we also had a very successful concert series this year. We had our last concert two weeks ago. Um, great turnouts for all three, but the really great and again small town feel. It's really nice. It just I was sitting on
the bulkhead watching the full moon come up and I went if you didn't believe in God, you believe in it now because it was just so beautiful and everybody was dancing and just having a wonderful time. But we raised a total of $1,599. Yep.
It's all good for for Tucker uh food pantry. And I buddy gave me the number tonight. I said if I would have known that I would have given her another dollar. Um but yeah and so thank you. Thank you for the permits. Um it's just and the
clean bathrooms and the trash cans. Huge huge success this season. Hopefully we'll be get do it again next year. Um we do have our third annual Tucker Beach co boat parade uh this coming Saturday. Um we're doing it a little bit differently because we never seem to get
all of the lagoons and somebody's feelings gets hurt. So, what we're going to do is we're going to meet outside of Green Street Park at 6:00 p.m. on August 23rd and we'll do some loops through out into the bay and through the cove where
there's enough water and then as time permits, people will branch off into the different lagoons. We're going to use Green Street Park as a viewing area. So, there should be some I'm hoping there'll be volunteers there. We're hoping to pass out candy and stuff for the kids.
We didn't I don't think we did um the pizza or the ice cream for this, but uh we'll be piping in some music through a Bluetooth speaker and bring your chairs. It's open to the whole burrow to come up to watch. We'd like people come in and see what's happening down in the beach,
you know, to bring the community together. So, um that'll be this Saturday. And fingers crossed, good weather. It's supposed to be nice. Hopefully everyone's gone by then because it's windy and it's a mess down on the beach and that's probably why there's not allow people here today. Is that on the town website also?
What's that? Could that be on the town website? Okay. Thank you, Carolyn. Thank you for your work you do and also TDA. My my pleasure. Great sense of hum. Thank you.
Okay. Do we have any other committee reports? Commission reports. All right. We'll move on to the public forum. Move to open the public forum. Second. Okay. I have a motion and a second to open public forum. All in favor?
All right. Now for uh any visitors who have not been here before. We have a fiveminut limit uh on speaking. You will come up to the microphone. Say your name and your address. You are addressing the council here. You are addressing us.
That is who you look at who you talk to. All right. So, does anyone have any comments this evening? Mr. Solomon, Paul's online, 20 Edgewater Drive and soon to be 64 Edgewater Drive. Um,
Paradise Cove, we've adopted a safety program for Thompson Creek since it's so dangerous and has been trashed in four decades. Um, it's called safety for 73 or 73 for safety. You call when
you're going out on VHF radio and you call when you're going back in. We put three signs up. One's 4 foot by 4 foot out on the mars. We got permission from course wildlife refuge to do that. I went out there personally and did it.
Um, and we did two on each lagoons. They're yellow. Um um going to make sure that sandpaper takes pictures of them so they can put it in the sandpaper. Um also at the environmental committee meeting um I had one of my neighbors come, Roger Hoffman. He's an
environmental engineer. Um he emailed me. I forget the name of the shrub or bush or whatever it is that he wants to put downtown. It's not evasive. It's flowering. It'll look really nice. I think I sent you an email with a link. I'm pretty sure I sent you an email. Um,
I might have even sent Sam that same email, but um, your email kept on coming back to me for some reason because I probably screwed it up somehow. Yeah, it was overflowing. I know I had a lot of people send me stuff. No, they're not. That's it. You know,
day. All right. Thank you. And thank you for everything you've enjoyed. Jenny, is there room for one more on the environment or is it is it okay? I know Roger on the air have
expressed an interesting, you know, he just has to send a letter to the mayor to be interested. Keep it on fire. All right. Uh, Anthony Scatale, 125 Pro Road. Just wanted to ask a quick question. The um
the ordinance that was read earlier about acquiring block 116 last 54 and 55. Is the borrow purchasing that or and that's on the peninsula, right? Okay. It's so we don't need to get any kind of construction easement or anything like
that for the living short. Right. So those are the last two that we had to worry about, right? That's the last two. There's still there's still um the the gentleman that owned that piece of property actually approached us prior to all of this going down um that he
wanted to donate it to the burrow. And then the $4.5 million um funding that we received, we're in talks and getting that up and going and one of the questions was, you know, we had to get an easement from those individuals. Um,
so this is going to help us out because we don't necessarily need the one next to him, but we would need him to have an easement on. Yes. So, so there's what is there only two left that that No, just one. Just um the original one that gave us, but I don't He's not even an owner there anymore.
Okay. That's one that's still above water, not underwater. I think this one's a good portion of underwater. It can be out of water. It's It's um It used to be the ZTO property and then the the property next to it. There was next to it. Yes.
Okay. I just wanted to double check. So that's good because then that's on the way to where we can go and you should see soundings hopefully within the next Greg thinks like a month or so. So that project is moving like we're we're moving they'll be out there on the sounding so
they know that that's so that on the base side. Yeah. Okay. and then all the way up and around the point. All right. They should go there right now and see what it looks like. All right. Thanks a lot. All right. Thank you. Yes, sir.
And how are you first? Yep. Okay. It's Gerard Schultz on 478 Anchor Road. Uh just riding around town, I saw some observations that maybe we should address. Uh my son was down a couple weeks ago
and he's from out of town and uh he mentioned to me he says mean meaning I mentioned to him watch your speed of town because you're really watching right so Andy is from New York so New York nailed right away
uh but uh he said that as you're coming down green street into town he says he's looking and all of a sudden by the time he approaches it he sees the speed limit sign but in a distance you cannot see the signs why because of the trees on
the propert trees are on private property I don't know if you could do anything with the trees on private property as far as getting them cut back so the visibility is a little bit better on on green street but like I did it myself I just was driving down there and
I saw three 30 mph signs that were completely covered until you get climate. Now, all of a sudden, somebody out of town, they're going to get a ticket because of this. And I said, "I don't care that." So, that's one thing.
The other thing was riding by and I just look around at the flood waters today. And I went down Little Lake Hover Boulevard before you make the turn to go all the way out out to the bay. Uh, I saw it on the way back, but going down
that way, which would be our fire department from Parker Town coming in and servicing us would not be able to see the fire either because they're completely covered with bushes. Coming back, you see it. But if you're going down there, some if there's a fire
on the Blue Lake Horn Boulevard, they're not going to see that fire hydr. So, what's that mean? Oh, it's it's only a fire hike. No, it's a big big concern because that's what they rely on fire hydrants. So that's only one that I had
to heard. There might be more. The other thing that I noticed was a woman walk on a baby carriage on Green Street. Why couldn't she want to use a sidewalk? Take a ride down South Green Street.
Look at our sidewalks. A lot of them would be horrible. One in question when I was on the planning board, I in turn requested that that be a new sidewalk put in and it was denied by by the mayor. He didn't feel
that it was important and he got in touch with the engineer and the engineer at that time felt, oh no, they don't have to replace it. That's not the same spot where I saw this woman with the baby carriage. And that's only one spot and there's a lot of other spots here. It's bad enough when you get down there
past the trailer park, you have to walk out on the road. But thank thanks to the county that they come in and pave the road and they put nice signs in there and everything else. I was just hoping that they would have put something in, you know, like say bike lane or something like that. But still, no, it
it's good. It's good the way it is. Now, I'm not a complainer. I'm an observer. I'm trying to bring these up as observations. But one other thing I noticed is at the at the concerts you mentioned the other day we had a
little rain out a little sprinkle. We didn't have a little rain out a little sprinkle. We had a serious condition there. I was smart enough to get up before a lot of other people were because they said I'm not going to be a statistic. I'm not going to have the one the week before the
but I'm not going to have lightning strike me dead. A lot of people were there a lot lot of elderly people like I am. I mean I'm up in the air but I'm a little bit more casual. A lot of people would not be able to get up fast enough to get out of here for that approaching
storm that we had with the lightning on. I think that there should be somebody that's in charge of this year concert be able to go and say that's it. Let's cut it off. Let's not put our everybody in danger. Nobody got up until the start
pouring. It was too late. And then the lightning came and then I felt sorry for the people, but I also felt sorry for the concert people. All their equipment that was out there got destroyed. They were out there trying to save their equipment. Bobby Keane across the street
from that. He come over tried to help them out a little bit as far as saving their equipment, but all that equipment got destroyed. Somebody should be able to say that's it. Cut it off. No more concert tonight. But we we got to start to think about that. You got to start start thinking
about the safety of the people. Like I say, some of the things I did bring out was safety of the people. Okay. The fire hydrant, the sidewalk, the concert. Okay. Well, thank you. All right. Thank you.
All right. Yes, sir. Gary Corier, 925 South Green Street. Uh, first I want to thank Sam. Um, he put a call on for me couple of weeks ago, I think, uh, for a sinkhole that developed it for the county had paved in front of
my by swarm train that's there. And we voted it would take 30 days to get out. They were out there that afternoon. So, thanks. Unfortunately, it's reopened. So, so you want to put a call. They use Flex Seal.
I I don't know. There was about eight guys there. But, uh, but it's opened up and I waited till it got to the point where someone was walking there, they could step in and do damage. Plus, it's kind of going underneath this cement tour and that's going to
be a good call again. Um, so there's a lot of folks here who usually don't show up, but u it's because of the water. So I know that uh there's been the uh the water department has said it was from the construction that was going on on
South Green and we didn't get a chance to do the flush uh due to the drought last year. U however, I'll tell you that uh myself and I can speak for about eight other people who live by me on South Green, it's not a one-day event any longer.
It's five, six days in a row, the water is uh the color of urine to be blunt. And obviously if you have small kids, grandkids, whatever, you know, you're really wondering like don't drink it is the the real word, but um uh shower in
it or cook with it. So, so the the question, and I know it's up and down throughout. Uh one of my neighbors actually told me that he was speaking to someone on I think Cops Avenue, which is not in the beach section, and they've experienced some discoloration. So I I
don't know what if anything could be done. Maybe all of one of you can speak to it a little bit. I don't know if we can flush it. I know we're we're scheduled for a flush in the fall, but is it in initially uh I can say that we've looked into we haven't ignored it and we
have our our people working on it and Jenny has a a summary tonight that she can share with you. Okay. I just don't want to take your five minutes. No, there's anything else that you know make sure you you ask.
No, that's that's about it. I was really just seeing what what's going on. If you're going to give a summary so with regards to the discoloration of water. So, at first, yes, we with the water and stew department with
anything that you deal with trying to figure out, narrow down what the problem is, you have to have data, right? You have to have reoccurrences oneoff. Sometimes you can't figure out it could be this or it could be that. So when we first were made aware of the discolor
the discoloration of water. Um we kind of did chalk it up to the fact that you just had we had just milled and paved South Green Street. So that's a ductal iron pipe underneath there. And what happens with vibrations when the heavy machines go over it, there's a chance
that the iron deposit that is in the pipes tends to break loose and um get into the system, meaning the not the water treatment system, the system out into the to the the pipes themselves. So
again, collecting data data while doing that. We were monitoring um the testings. it was iron because we tested the blur the the the colorization is iron. So during that time though um we
had seen that where we normally produce about 200 to 250,000 gallons of water a day during those times our water treatment plant was producing 400 to 500,000 gallons a day. So that means what they were kind of looking at was
specifically in the beach area, you have more people come down during the weekends, people washing their boat. So that was acting like almost like a flushing of the hydrants, right? So you go from 200 to to 500 and it was flushing the the system and something could got broken loose. That's what we were want watching happen one time.
Well, now you're saying it's happening more often, which we are seeing and we're seeing it uptown and in the beach. We're seeing it more um all different places. So, what we've been monitoring is um the filters that are in our system. What wells we have two wells in
the burrow of Tucker. We call them well number three, well number four. What wells are operating at that time? Because if if you ever had to do um a true well in New Jersey outside of Tucker, there's you know I live in New Grant and I have a well we're loaded
with iron in New Jersey. So, we're monitoring well three, well four to see what's happening on that. Um, today we started again with the sampling because we are seeing it more frequently. But let me back up so you guys are not as nervous. Every day, uh, bacteria samples
are taken all over the town. There is no bacteria in the water. The although iron is not fun to look at, the water is healthy and will not contaminate. It's not contaminated. We have an third-party
laboratory that tests that water on a daily. So within our system, meaning the raw water comes from the wells, goes into our water treatment facility, and then we test it from there. That all tests perfectly fine. Again, third party laboratory has to come in. The D gets
those reports. It's something that we have to do frequently. when it goes from our water treatment facility into the the pipes of the system is where we're finding that the the iron can be building up. Now, with that being said, because it's more frequently, we still
do have to do the flushing of the hydrants. That should be done twice a year. We weren't even allowed to do it once last year because of the the governor had put a drought warning on it, so you can't use that water. Um, but those should be twos twice a year.
There's also, like I said, the two wells that we have to monitor. There's things within our water treatment facility called filters. There's four different filters that the water has to go through. We have to monitor them. Um, the backwashing of our system. So, all of that's being done. We have reports on
it. You could come down and see our reports and it'll show you. But what I need now from the people of Tucker because again, data shows where the the problem is, right? We want to we want to get to the pinpoint of the problem so we can fix it. Was it just in the system?
Is it our filters? Is it that the water is in demand? Or do we just need to flush the hydrants like we need like is supposed to happen which we cannot do right now because the amount of water that we're producing and then you go and you flush hydrants. Our system can't
really handle it. You don't want our system putting that much pressure on it. So we have to wait till the fall to do the flushing of the hydrants. With all that being said, what we're asking of the residents is when you see this, when you have this, could you please, instead of running to Facebook, to please call
my office 609 2962701? That way I can take your address, the time of day that you had uh observed this. Does it when you run your water, does it stop? Does it not stop? I need all that data. We're going to try and put compile that. We're working on it
every single day. Okay, our water and sewer guys are out there every day. But I our licensed professional um has said, and again, we need a little bit of time to pinpoint where the fix is going to be, but he has said that the
discoloration is only excess iron. It is not a health hazard and we do understand that it's uncomfortable to look at. We really truly do. Um, but every day we're making multiple tests of the water and it's it's not us sampling it. It's a third party company that we
pay for to come in and sample that and anything that would be of health hazard is absolutely within normal standards. Okay. Can I just ask a question? So the testing on the water is um you may have
mentioned it may pass me is um are you testing water that's actually has gone through the pipes or is it at the actual well? So, we have to test at the water treatment facility. So, the raw water comes out, raw water from our well comes out and goes through our system. There's
a sink like a regular household sink that has to be tested multiple times a day after the water goes through the water treatment facility. There's a a specific sink that's in there that has to be tested that gets tested there. Then there's multiple places throughout uh the whole burrow that goes and gets
sampled as well. Is it Is there any benefit from having some jars brought in or is that overall? I mean, it's it's higher iron deficiency. We've tested it in other places. Um, and it it's the high it's
high iron, which again, I can't we're working every day to pinpoint what it could be. We're we're working that as a fact where we're just going to run one well and maybe see how that well works versus the other well. But I can't give you an exact answer until I go through
the data to see what is you know and and again it is I understand that it you know seeing dirty water is not something that we want to see either. However, it it is not a health hazard to anybody at this time, and we're working
diligently to get an answer to get it fixed. So, once you pinpoint the problem, I mean, does that mean the pipes are breaking down? No. What happens pipes are rusting out? Not always, because there's always iron buildup because you're pulling from a
well like just like any water for 30 years. So it could just be that there's some buildup in the pipes and the pipes you the pipes in Tucker grounds could have like a belly in it. It depends on what road you're asking about.
169. It it depends. and they could have bellies and then you have tea lines and then you have laterals and you don't know where that there could be one little piece of iron sitting in a cross pipe and that water is still hitting it and I can't get it out of the system
until I flush it and that's why it's not just Tucker and beach areas I have it in other places so it's pulling and that's what we have to pinpoint are these analyses public knowledge yeah I mean I'm just going to give you a little my background
yeah the I'm about former chemist with four years experience and when I see yellow water like this I'm very concerned because this is contamination you could say it's unfit to drink it's not portable I wouldn't want to drink it I would not want to bathe in it I would
not want to cook with it until we find out until we get a scientific analysis of this well that's the laboratory tells us that it's a scientific we have to get that analysis not not only at the source but we have to get it as far downstream
for more users, more end users. And this is something that's been going on Jenny for no guaranted this first happened three months ago. The first time the first time we've seen it this this was taken last Saturday and
I've experienced it over this weekend again as well as many others here behind me. Right. But that's what I'm trying to say to you that when the week again it's the timing too, right? if you see it on a Sunday or a Saturday where the high demand is. So there it's knocking stuff off.
But this is not and probably some council members could attest to this. It's not only a tuck in the beach thing. This is a burrow thing. No, I people that are in burrow have experiencing this and you know even even without the high consumption of the beach on the weekends. So it's something
that that's wherever your I don't know where your purification plan is. It's on South Green Street. It's on South Green Street at at DPW headquarters. Okay. So that that would be upstream. It's by the tower by the tower. You have to So the way that it pulls from the wells there has to go through
all this treatment facility and then it gets fills that tower and that's how you have the pressure and that's what we monitor. Every little thing that we do with water and sewer, New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection has us every single day having a report
that we have to do and it includes scientific testing. They're outside chemical um we have to go out to bid every year to a laboratory. The lowest bidder of the laboratory is who gets the bid and that laboratory has to come in and take samples. There might be
somebody in here. I don't know if you've gotten anybody in here has gotten letters where they those people actually come into your homes to sample your water in your home. That is required by us by law for us to do monthly. So yes,
when we say that there's there's just certain aspects for with regards to homeland security, right? So water treatment plants are really high-end on having OPER requests and viewing records and how our treatment works because of homeland security. You don't want
somebody having access to our computer system, any of that stuff. So there there is a balance, but yes, we do have and again I would please ask like you're saying that you have all that, call my number um 2962701.
Call that number so I can get that data in there. you can talk to our licensed professional. He has to have certification and I know that again we understand that it's really uneasy and I'm hoping within the next two weeks to
have not hear of this again. We're working through it but I just have to pinpoint where that is. What what bothers me and some of my neighbors here in the burrow in the beach is that this is not going to clear itself up until it
is from what you're saying until the hydrants are approached and lines are approached. No, that was the first thing. That's what I said. That was their first but that doesn't that's why they need more data. It could be that. It could be that um the filters in the system are that
could need to be reviewed. It could be that the well that we have has a little bit more iron in it when it's being pulled higher. There there's a lot of components and you just have to give me a little bit of time to get that data. Like I said, we first thought it was this one scenario because it was oneoff
that happened in June once and then for the next what couple of days or next couple of weeks you didn't see it. But now it's becoming more prevalent just recently. Am I wrong? Like I mean correct me if I'm wrong, but within the last two weeks it's becoming more. You're correct. It happened once back in
June. Then I think we went about three to five weeks with it not occurring. And now then recently over the last two weeks, correct? I would say it's happened at a 14-day period, probably 10 days. So that's why we're okay. What we were thinking about the first may not be the
case. That's why I need to get more construction the road construction is done in May. Is that correct? I thought it was June. I thought the million the paving was I thought okay maybe before July 4th. Yeah. Well, yeah. before July 14
that activity is when we first start seeing it. But what bothers me about this is that people in the burrow are also seeing this and they're upstream of facilities. But that's South Green Street is what I'm trying to say to you. No, no, no. I mean people on the cops
app. But the water comes out our treatment facility out onto South Green Street. That's the main Right. Right. Either way. Right. Right. Okay. So, it goes Yeah. It goes north and it goes south. Correct. Because you have North Green, North Green and this part of Bass, but
our water treatment facility is on South Green Street. So, the water goes So, I I did see I did observe some activity over the weekend at at the uh the water tower. Okay, sir. We had another question in the back. Sorry.
So, I I do apologize. I did come in late. I did get the phone number. Exactly what information do you need in regards to this data? Because I just for the past six months I've been bathing my kids in tea water now starting to break out. What's your address? Well, after the meeting just come up to me with your
name, your address and everything. Oh, I'll gladly do it. I say it out loud. Um, so you need date, time of day, when we're, you know, y um and address obviously. Um I know the flushing of the hydrants I
guess is the main way to resolve this issue. Not necessarily. That's what I was just trying to say to you when you had that one off. That's what we were hoping for. Yeah. But now we have to dig a little bit more because you are seeing it more. So did this lab that we're utilizing? Did they mention any ways that we can
temporarily kind of make the water a little bit better? They only they only test the water. They don't they don't talk about what's in the ground. Like they're not they're not people that are installing wood manses or any of that stuff. They just strictly just iron. It's 100% just iron. Okay. Cuz like I said, I'm sorry issues
on my There's another question in the back. Carol, are you okay with us posting that on Facebook? Don't Don't post your water problems on TV. [Music] Can you stand up and say your name? Sorry.
Bruce mention 923 South Green Street finds that car right now still. Uh I've been told over years do they have a main going out town across the creek over there in case this love over here we have a we have an interconnect with
little lake Harper Township in the event are they having trouble? No good and they have to test. Okay. They have to test just as much as we do. Are there any other questions for All right, I'll come back to you. One last time. Go ahead, sir.
Okay. Uh Bruce Griez 189 Road. Firstly, before I get started, I just like to thank the mayor and the council for extending a tax-free property tax to a disabled vet. I appreciate that that
move. Uh several issues I'd like to address this evening and besides the tap order. Uh one would be the uh condition of the bulkheads uh post dredging of 2023.
Um I've noticed when I'm voting up and downing her lagoon, there are quite a few compromised leaking bulkheads. They've been brought to the attention of the burrow previously, possibly as as long
as two years ago. And I'm very concerned about this because we paid good money out of our pockets, $5,000 per property owner on the uh lagoons that are on the bay side
back in 2023. Now we see these lagoon these bulkheads leaking sand and silt back into the lagoons. and I I would like to see them properly addressed by the burough. Now, do we have ordinances dealing with
you know you mentioned that there were three bulkhead uh failures or inspections that were done? Correct. What is the what's the like after you sent that email? I instantly and this is going back uh when you first
sent me the email. I went ahead and visited the gym and Phil and I checked with them to make sure that uh they were following up and they were they had a folder that they brought in front of me. They showed the letters they sent out to the homeowners. Uh unfortunately they're
at the mercy of uh trying to track down where the homeowner is, who the homeowner is, not the renter, but the homeowner. And a lot of times these people just throw the the mail out that they get. Um, and we're Jim could update
us on where we are now with them. But unfortunately, we have to do it a certain way every time for every complaint that comes in. And if we don't address it the same way, we could be held liable. So, they are dotting their eyes and crossing their
tees. But with that being said, um, trying to contact and warning the property owners that they have to take care of this ASAP. Uh unfortunately, there may have to be legal action taken. Um but Jim could
update us a little better than I can because I only saw the work that they had done. So it's so there is a specific ordinance dealing with conditions of bulkheads. Yes, that's correct. Is there a fine schedule associated with that? I believe some Jim will be able to
answer that. Okay. There are some that are compliant on mon alone this past year but straightly since spring to now there's been three at least three bulkheads replaced on which is so we are they are
present some our lagoon fo lagoon is a direct leak to the spit so if we do any work on the spit and we keep continue to have these leaking bulkheads on the fo lagoon it's going to drastically affect spit condition and
we're putting what almost $500,000. I think they spit it four and a half million. Four million three digit three digits. Okay. Uh the other the other item I'd like to quickly discuss with you and it
it uh when we left for this meeting my wife and I today we had to leave about an hour and a half early and go up here for dinner before because we could not get out of road. Flamingo road was totally covered. Uh,
Little Lake Harbor Boulevard was totally flooded. I do not like driving my fairly new truck through salt water as as as many of you could attest to. I I discussed this maybe a year or two ago with the with the council about having
check valves put in the system especially uh at 189 Rainbow Road where my sewer by my house on the road goes directly to the lagoon and when the lagoon comes up high like right now we have a northeast storm right all the nor
easterners we've been getting my properties flooded check files I understand were placed on curu when they repaved curling two years ago. And I understand that those check valves are working fine. And I
understand check valves, being a scientist, I understand check valves need maintenance, but uh you know, having all my neighbors up the road from me and also, you know, my friends that come to visit here, you cannot get out of our house unless you
want to drive through saltwater. It's the same for Little Harbor Boulevard. It's the same for parts of herin they could attest to yourself. Yeah, I think it does. Also, so just want to raise the awareness of
the council, you know, concerning that the flooding of flamingo. We are very aware of it. Okay. Thank you as well. Thank you. Thank you. Well, um, with that being said, with the flooding and it'll tie in with this errand that could be possibly coming up
the coast. Uh, residents of Tuckman Beach, uh, you're able to park at the ballpark on Bay Avenue if you feel the need to uh, put your vehicle at a high spot. Um, the town does own that. We will originally I wanted to come up with
an idea where we give you a little permit that's free of charge. That way we can track down who owns the vehicle in case something happens and we have to move it. Um but if you do want to put your uh vehicle in the lot itself, please do not block the access to the
field as the EMS will use that for flyyous. But if you you feel that you don't want your vehicle to be flooded out, you are welcome to put your vehicle in times of high tide uh due to storms in the uh the
parking lot for the ball field itself. Mike, is there a security video on Unfortunately, there there is not. Um but if we notice that there are a large amount of cars, we can have the the police do patrols off and through there
to keep an eye on things. Plus, we have some pretty nosy neighbors. Uh, one of my family members being one watches that make a home. I have a question about the filters. Just get your name. Sorry, Steve. I'm sorry.
First of all, pleasure being here. Steve, 191 Flamingo Road, Bruce's neighbor. Um, talked about the filters in the water system. When was the last time there were a chance? I'm just curious. They're supposed to be changed every 8 to 10 years. The last time they
were changed, I believe they're within that eight and it's nine years. Okay. So, we're coming up on it now. Yep. Yep. And they're supposed to be every two years they're supposed to be inspected and we get a report on that. Um the last time they were done was in
2023. So again, we're it's it's two I don't want to say that it's the perfect storm, but I just feel like everything's all kind of coming at once and um we're trying and we're going to fix it. Can guarantee you we're going to fix it. It's just I want to make sure I'm fixing the right thing, not just
throwing cuz you're looking at money too, right? So those filters can be anywhere between 30 to 40,000. So instead of just throwing taxpayer money at something, I want to make sure I'm doing it the right way as well. Thank you very much.
Have another question. Uh where's the shelter now? The firehouse closed like hurricanes or tornadoes. Yeah, our shelter was never at the firehouse. Our actual shelter for when we do a mandatory evacuation is
Pineland's Regional, either high school or middle school. It was the middle school. That's where the evacuation uh facility is is Pineland's middle school. During Sandy, it was Pineand's middle school. It's staffed. It has certain area for animals um people with animals.
It has areas that people don't know have animals. So, that's the uh evacuation facility. Okay. Thank you. The sheriff's department will step in. They do have mobile uh kennels for uh pets. Uh they used to put
them up in uh different areas, but now they have a mobile kennel that they can bring in. The sheriff was telling me and same thing Parkertown Fire Company in uh if a state emergency is declared and people are homeless, we can shelter
people at Parkertown Firehouse. But Pinelands is, as Jenny stated, the area. Yes. And we do have high water vehicles in case um anybody needs to be evacuated.
Okay. We have any other questions? Anyone else who hasn't asked a question? Just congratulations on the new cell phones. They're starting to run the cable. I was watching the other day. So, won't be long now.
Maybe two months. Did you have a question? Um, pay attention to the news. If it says Nor Eastern music car, it's better to walk back in order and go get it. Um, it's been that way for years. So the
other question I have is do we have anyone who represents Tucker for the project that's going on in summer street? Um there's 450 some homes going up there. That means possibly 900 cars that'll be
coming through Tucker. That's a problem and that's something that needs to be addressed. That's a lot. Even if it's only 500, that's a lot more of cars. I go to work after quarter at 9 in the morning. The traffic is backed up almost to the so you figure
they build their houses. It's going to be horrible and you can't widen it. There's no way. So I really think that somebody from Tucker should be I did addressing it. I did address that with the mayor during the national night out
and unfortunately Little Egg is uh not connected to Tucker as far as the municipality versus the township. We have no say in their variances and what they can and can't do. All we can
do over there, all we can do is offer our opinions and just like anything else, they can take it with a grain of salt. I brought up about um not only the traffic, but there's also a bigger issue of fire and
EMS. Oh, absolutely. Before this was even coming up, right? There will be a huge burden put on fire and EMS in the area, but that's something that they're responsible to look at. Unfortunately, Tucker has no
say. The only thing we can do is make suggestions and we did voice our opinion and our concerns to the mayor and a couple of council members and it's dy noted, but unfortunately um they don't need variances uh because
that property is designated as residential and they are allowed to do. There's another meeting coming up next week and he's got because I've been to voting meetings so far and each meeting there's
more and more people so people need to go and there's a lot of people that are not happy about it right so I've been telling everybody um they need to go to these meetings even though it's little harbor it does affect us
bad I mean you figured that could be 9 more cars coming through here. And I know I have a problem at the lake. I even know I have an arrow to go left. They don't stop. The told me to go at the lake.
I mean, really, our taxes will go down. They you know, I just it's it's really a problem. So I I would say people should go to meetings, you know, it's a highland now because there's a lot of people. There's more
people than were allowed at the last meeting. So thank you. Like I said, leave your cars. Why did they say buddy? It's worth. All right. Do we have any other questions?
Okay. Just wait for a few minutes. We close our meeting. Move to close the public forum. Second. Motion. A second to close public forum. Motion to. Motion to second. A motion and a second to adjourn. All
in favor? All right. Thank you. Thank you very much for coming. I don't have your number.