Keith do you see it on the computer there by any chance uh mayor Marshall is ill this evening and we wish her a speedy recovery I welcome to the regular meeting of the Tucker BAU Council for February the 18th 2025 Madam court please read the open
public meeting act statement please yes provisions of the open public meeting act have been complied with this uh notice was published in the Deacon and the Park Press the time date place for this thank you roll call
Mr pres Mr Martin here Mr here Mr D yes Mr here Mr Peterson here thank you please stand for pleas pleas flag of the United States of America and to the rep for it stands one
nation under God indivisible Li and justice for all there are no presentations this evening we'll get right into the business portion of our meeting starting with legislation and Council and thank
you council president the same um tonight I had the second reading in um and U public hearing for ordinance number one of 2025 and it is updating the fees for uh building department
construction permits and other fees within that department so at this time I have an ordinance of the bur of Tuck County of ocean stated amending and supplementing chapter 132 of the bur code titled construction codes uniform and I'd like to open this for public
comment second okay Mo second please um you can do all in all in favor pass anyone have any comments on the sord seeing none I make a motion toose
the public okay motion made in second to close the public comment on this ordinance all in favor opposed Carri at this time I make a motion to adopt ordinance number one 2025 second a motion been made in
seconded to adopt ordinance number one of 2025 any comments from councel Roll Call book please Mr Brean yes Mr Martin yes Mr cango yes Mr D Moore yes Mr Mr P yes thank you and
that's all I have this evening okay thank you okay we'll move on to finance Council mcart uh thank you council president I do have uh one ordinance reading it will be the first reading this evening as well as three
resolutions uh I wanted to make one quick announcement before we get into that uh I had spoken with the superintendent and principal at Dr n Elementary School and the superintendent is hosting a series of meetings to go
over um their 2025 2026 school budget planning uh academic achievement chronic absenteeism mental health and awareness and um community connectedness so this is uh kind of like a I mean I don't want
to say it's informal it is a formal meeting that tuer is putting on but um she's encouraging the residents of tuckered in to come out uh to get involved to hear with what's going on in the school so I will get this up on the website but the next meeting that they're hosting will be on Tuesday
February 25th and that is at Tucker elementary school um I believe it's at 6:30 but again I'll get it all electronically from her so that I can get up and I'll have everything up going along with
that U for my first order of official business I will have the first reading of ordinance number two of 2025 this is an ordinance um a bond ordinance um appropriating
$1,275 th000 in bonds or notes to do sewer replacement on uh daddy Tucker Drive In town next reading will be March 17th March 17th and we'll have the um
public hearing at that point so I have an ordinance of the burough of tuckeron in the county of ocean state of New Jersey providing for sanitary sewer main replacement on Daddy Tucker drive and appropriating $1,275 th000 therefore and providing for
the issuance of 1, 275,000 in bonds or notes of the burrow to finance the same and I move this on first reading second okay motion second to move this ordinance on first reading any questions from
Council seeing none roll call vote Please Mr breand yes Mr Martin yes Mr cangel yes Mr Dore yes Mr D yes Mr Peterson thank you uh next I have a resolution for the payment of claims
since we're doing uh our Council meetings once a month now we're kind of getting the double bill that's put into one so our totals will be a little bit higher um for this month we have 2,794
5946 going out out of that I wanted to point out that $762,000 of that is going to Pinelands Regional School District $665,000 is going to Tucker than Elementary School and 2,794
5946 and I move this resolution second okay motion made in second to the paying of the bills any questions from councel seeting down roll call vote Please Mr yes Mr Martin yes Angelo yes Mr Dore
obain Mr depri yes Mr Peterson yes thank you okay uh my next resolution is for the certification of the 2023 audit we have received our 2023 audit back and it's
acceptable uh resolution of the buau of Tuan County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the annual certification of the 2023 Municipal audit and I move this resol second Mo made in second to accept the uh 23 audit any questions from
Council seeing n Roll Call mran yes Mr Martin yes Mr Colangelo yes Mr de Moore yes Mr Dee yes p u and then my final resolution this evening is along the same lines of the 2023 audit it's our corrective action
plan I have a resolution of the buau of Tucker and County of ocean state of New Jersey approving the corrective plan submitted by the Chief Financial Officer for the year ending December 31st 2023 and I move this second okay motion
seconded on the resolution is WR any questions from Council seeing on the roll call vote Please Mr yes Mr Martin yes Mr yes Mr yes Mr Mr thank you and that is all I
have committee report I want okay thank you we go to public work Water and Sewer cman fangula tonight I'll have three resolutions two of which have to do with road openings one on fish uh king fisher the other on Second Avenue both are to
reconnect gas and third uh resolution is to award a contract for the purchase of the utility body for one of our uh trucks couple announcement for the future ocean County's Department of Solway management is again sponsoring
their hazardous waste program for 2025 as well as their document uh shredding program uh details will be posted on the website uh the document shredding has uh two times of the year one's a spring and
a fall schedule the May 24th schedule for hazardous waste is the one nearest to us and that'll be in May and that's at Stafford but all the details will be on the uh website have a resolution of the B Tucker and
County of oan state of New Jersey authorizing the approval of a Road opening permit on King Fisher Road for Block 112 block 41 and granting relief under section 49-15 of the burough code and I move this resolution second okay
motion's been made and seconded to uh authorize this road opening any questions from Council seeing none roll call vote please Mr B yes Mr Martin yes Mr mangelo
yes Mr deore yes Mr de yes Mr yes okay have a resolution in the B of C County o state of New Jersey authorizing the approval of a Road opening permit on Second Avenue for granting relief under section 22915 of the B code and I move this
resolution second okay motion is made and seconded to have the road open on Second Avenue questions from Council seeing none roll call vote Please Mr bre yes Mr Martin yes Mr yes Mr deore yes
yes Mr Peters thank you and finally have a resolution of B Tucker County of ocean state New Jersey Waring a contract for the purchase of a 9 foot stall utility body and we had two quotes received M
Truck had the lowest bid uh of $8,400 and I moov this resolution second motion Maiden seconded to approve the purchase of a utility body for a truck any questions from councel seeing them
roll call vote Please Mr bre yes Mr Martin yes Mr Fango yes yes yes all right we'll now move on to public buildings and grounds and Comm Le Affairs councilman B thank you president
CL I I have one resolution this evening uh this is um a resolution for the sale of the Gris mil also known as 100 Water Street after careful consideration um
the council has agreed that the uh GIS Mill is time to sell it uh there's been um you know in considering this we looked at the condition of it um what
could do with it um it it's taken a long time to really get to the point where we realized that it was time for the sell us and get it on the tax rolls um and Appraisal has been done for and it came out to
$190,000 and that'll be the basic um bid that's a acceptable low bid on it um we haven't come up with the date of the sale yet but it'll be sold at auction therefore I moved this resolution uh resolution of the bur of
tuckeron County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the sales Block 33 any questions from coun I'm going to announce it now just real quick I want to go over it in public real quick because we have to do three consecutive meetings or three
consecutive weeks of advertisement and um the last advertisement has to be seven days prior to the acceptance of the bids do we want to take bids at the next council meeting or do we want to take bids at the week before the next council meeting because I want to put a
date in this resolution tonight that we're um so the next council meeting is St Patrick's Day March 17th um we can take bids say March uh like 11
Tuesday I would think I'm a week ahead of by myself okay you don't want to do it by a week Monday because there's some rules on that as well so are you available Tuesday to do March 11 would be the 11th yeah um where the
12 the 12 would be better okay so morning 10 a.m. 10 o' all right so March 12 10 a.m. um will be the sale that's going to take place here so that resolution will now
have March 12th at 10: a.m. and that's enough time that's that works out you would have three I would it would go in on Fridays prior to
three yes it would go in March 21 or February 21st February 28th March 7th and then the sale would be the 12th so that's five days from the last publication which is within the seven days am I reading that
right not earlier than not earlier than days days prior so that ear yep we're good make that resolution why do it 3 weeks in a row because the statutory language is not
really clear when it says not earlier then does it mean you know within seven days or Beyond seven days so I always say do it three weeks in a row and you're sa we have a second for that I second
okay with the discussion on the resolution that is read uh roll call vote please uh and the bid will be sorry and the bid will be similar to the fire truck uh not sealed bids right it would be more like an auction bid correct so people can come in the minimum bid is 190 and it
would go back and forth Just FY Mr bre yes Mr Martin yes Mr Colangelo yes Mr deamore yes Mr Dee obain Mr Peterson yes
okay anything else oh I'm sorry okay uh thank you we'll move on then to Administration and regulations councilman thank you president cango I only have one line item I will have
fireing MS report in the committee report session as every council member had a chance to look over the minutes any additions or Corrections that you feel need to be made there being none I move
that we accept the minutes as written okay a motion made in second to accept minut minutes any question by councel seeing none and roll call vote Please Mr bre yes Mr Mar yes Mr Colangelo yes Mr Vore yes Mr yes Mr
Peterson yes thank you that's all I have okay thank you all right we'll move on to uh Law Public Safety Council Peters uh thank you I have the uh monthly activity report for the police department for January
2025 uh calls for service were 237 rest were eight motor vehicle stopped were 122 motor vehicle summons were 77 motor vehicle accidents were eight medical was
22 and suspicious person and D check 21 that's all that thank you moving on uh there will be some uh appointments this evening an appointment and a resolution which I
agre resolution of burl tuck and County otion state New Jersey supporting publishing legal notices on official government websites and and urging the state leaders to pass legislation that will authorize municipalities counties
schools districts and all local government to publish legal notices in a clear transparent and timely manner on a government's official website and I move this resolution second okay motion made in seconded on the resolution has read
there no questions from councel all call vote Please Mr bre yes Mr Martin yes Mr Colangelo yes Mr deore yes Mr yes Mr Peterson yes thank you uh council president sorry the Pres
the appointment to the EDC tonight will have to be scratched the economic development committee is there's some discrepancies and I wanted to talk to the mayor but I haven't been able to on this so it'll just be the appointment to the environmental commission all right thank you then I'll go forward with the one that I do have have a resolution of
the B of tuckeron County of ocean state New Jersey importing a member to the tuckeron Bur environmental commission Paul saam has been appointed as alternate number two for term to expire December 31st 2026 I move this resolution second okay motion has been
made and seconded on this appointment uh roll call vot please Mr bre yes Mr Martin yes Mr Colangelo yes Mr Dore yes Mr Dee yes Mr Peterson yes and thank you Paul for your willingness to volunteer
problem uh Mr coners I have nothing mayor nor do I have anything thank you sir uh Madam clerk uh I have a few things this evening the first thing I have is um application for a raffle license requesting waiver of
the Fe from the finance Fourth of July C celebration committee uh for a uh raffle to be held on February 24 that request second okay I believe a motion was made
second pretty quick sorry about that president was that M then uh both all V Mr Brean yes Mr Martin obain Mr Colangelo yes Mr Dore yes Mr Dee yes Mr Peterson yes thank you uh the next one I
have is also a raffle application from the Tucker and Library Association for two separate dates they two are requesting waiver of the three I'm sorry not two different dates just um not two different dates but I believe
it's one 5050 and one on PR or just um for May 3rd 2025 and they two are asking I made that okay motion made in second to wave the ra Li speak pleas Mr bre yes Mr
Martin yes Mr Colangelo yes Mr Dore yes Mr yes Mr Peterson yes thank you the next uh thing I have is a request for facility use form from uh the Jersey Shore boat
racing Club they are requesting the South Green Street park for August Che August 24 2025 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and they will include all the
necessary um documentation Insurance cleaning up afterwards I agree to everything that's in the facility use form so they're requesting that dat I made that motion second okay motion made and seconded
that we allow this to proceed attending all the requirements being uh roll call vote Please Mr yes Mr Martin it doesn't conflict with any of the the TBA concert right I know they had one at the end of August
did they give us an application already I thought so and then we approved it this year what's up well it would have been last meeting one two meeting yeah I guess you're right
so what time do they hold the concerts at I think they're usually at like 5:30 or usually their concerts are Saturday nights correct yeah would would be races is Sunday Sunday yeah so their concert is they all are on Saturday okay and I
believe I'm almost guarantee that all their boat races are on Sunday correct me if I'm wrong if anybody knows but racing is only on Sunday um yes so I don't think there'll be any comp the only thing I have is um it might have
been at the TV meeting that they talked about I have two applications from them one has the date of August 24th and then the other one has date of just one I'm not sure if they're asking for two dates is is anybody here from the club um I'm
not I'm not sure if they're asking for another date so just in case you might have on coming back with a a more specific date but as of right now it's August 24th June 1st is that what they're asking for okay like I said the application says just
one on itle for the year you are all the right that's why you got the appointment tonight all right so I'm requesting sorry guys I'm requesting June 1st and
August 24th same same thing um and I have aot I have make a motion to accept both the dates okay have a motion in a second to accept the debates
present call Mr bre yes Mr Martin yes Mr Colangelo yes Mr Dore yes Mr depri yes Mr Peterson yes thank you that's all I have with you okay thank you we'll now move into the commit
reports Martin thank you um tagging along with the U raffle the first raffle license that Jenny did for the pinland Fourth of July fireworks committee that is next Monday February 24th um it's a 50/50 raffle that will be coinciding
with uh their spaghetti dinner which will be at the Redmond so from 5: to 8 at the Redmond is spaghetti dinner um next Monday meatballs meatballs salad for you that's all I
have thank you are there any committed reports from anyone in the audience seeing on them we're going to move to the uh open public form just want to remind everyone before I call for the for the
vote that all comments or questions for the public are limited to five minutes per speaker sharing of unused mment is not allowed and please be respectful when making your comments and please State your full name and address when you approach the the podium I move to
open the public form second okay motion made in secondly to open the public form all in favor pass okay anyone wishing to comment please step forward yes sir my name is Lee from 121 will ter
Tucker uh first thing I want to mention um well you you said you were going to resign are you still going to keep your word no I said that if you could show where I said I'm going to go after your tax exempt status I would the clip that
you played from that is me say asking for a resignation and that it would be my recommendation so it's a technicality so okay that's fine I wanted to mention um Mr depre at the previous meeting who said that I or we turned in every Fire
Company in the area that's not true but what's going on here is we were holding account accountable the fire companies who had members that either went after our fire company or one of us as individuals any way shape or form in the past and holding the fire
companies that come into town to the same standards that we were built to have no intention to go after any other fire company and now I believe West h fire company has uh washed out the scum from their fire company so that's all said and done now hope everything moves
on um next thing I wanted to mention is is the fire company service um other words I mentioned before I thought West Tucker should closer most of town they should have been appointed here had another fire call that was called in as a structur fire and West Tucker got there first so
aside from politics it would make sense that they'd be the primary coverage for tuckeron as are closer to most of it and I just don't know why that decision was made is there any reason for it no
okay then I want to go on to the uh EMS issue are you giving is Great Bay getting $25,000 this year this year we haven't finalized the budget at all this year okay I saw they were getting an amount on the budget here that would amount to 20 about
25,000 a year no on the budget nobody saying anything okay yeah it's in in here the payment the bills list yeah the bill list so if that were that monthly fee that monthly amount was given for 12 months it would work out to about 25,000
a year so is that the plan to give the great pay 25,000 a year so we carry on with the budget until we adopt the new budget and what was in the past so that is what we did last year which wasn't with 10,000 last year you're the chairman of Finance you
have no clue what's going out with the money okay well look here's one of the problems I have last month we're paying R Bay Ems for service here last month there was an incident in a daytime on Saturday the chief of Galloway told me
about it the captain and Great Bay chief of Great Bay called Galloway so you can get ambulance up here we don't have anybody to cover the area so Galloway came up when they came up the Great Bay ambulance was leaving to go Comer Stafford so that means if somebody here has a call then they're going to have to
have a PID ambulance come instead of volunteer service that were pay anywh so I just want to make a point there I don't think that's fair and then next day of listen to the scanner they trying to get ambulances out around here that was on Sunday there was a Chiefs meeting
West tuckeron and from what I'm told by a couple of people at the meeting there were five people that are cross members between Great Bay EMS and park down firey sat there at meeting wouldn't need to go answer the call two of them are sitting right in here tonight so why are we paying for service like that that's
my question no answers okay anybody go look into it or just I can tell you flat out what I can tell you flat out three of you were at the meeting that's right both the chief and myself left that meeting so whoever told you that they
lied to you or you're lying to us no I'm not I'm sure it's the latter okay well we'll clarify that the next meeting okay maybe but I think it's wrong for you to make a statement like corrupt when you make a statement that I'm turning in all the local fire companies where the fire
company is that is not true absolutely not true anyway the paper the letter from the state that said you turn them in I didn't turn anybody in on the trck airport except for the two companies the
two companies that have members either turn individuals or Fire Company into other agencies okay that's what I was told you turned in West Tucker in you turned in parkertown you turned in Mystic Islands the only and you also turned in west or uh West
no no way shape reform didn't happen they were not involved in it they didn't do anything wrong that I saw and that that's total false but you so you're going around checking everybody the state has well going to continue you when you're when Parker Town comes into
Tucker for calls or Great Bay they're fair game we're pack payers here fair fair game they're fair game to be held to the same standards we were held to H to law they are trained by Ocean County fire academy so they are held to the same standards everybody else did the
only thing was that we see was tuckeron that was held to the same standards couldn't measure up and that's why you're not Chief you talk no I wasn't Chief when this happened I was Chief previously yeah but your son was and you were Chief prior to that and when you
invited me and the mayor you said that you were pretty much the chief and you showed me well that was after we were I'm sorry can we summarize yeah anything else to say yeah okay now
that's too long please sit down your time is up thank you anyone else wish to be respectful in their comments tonight please up to the podium State your full name and address even folks my name is Jim NY
current owner of War cigars live N9 Drive walk in New Jersey I'm interested in the grill and I'm just curious Bing process I'm sure all learn that bit more about the next few weeks yeah this will be I believe given the age of the building an
interest in keeping historic and keep that picture up there so I'm looking mod changing at all and I look to the council everyone else in town and as say the historical side to say what we can and can do with the building I don't want to change it all I want to update it and bring it to today's code
standards but given the fact that it's originally a 300y building you know without being in there without having structal engineer and architect have to walk the project me you know getting the 190 is fine whatever the number might be but maybe it's $400,000 problem because the thing sits over
water and it's been sitting over water for quite a long time so I was ask respectfully if we thought we could in this publication on week say you know the property can reviewed at certain times in the course of the week and some members be some from town be come and walk us through it
yeah would video IT contract stru near Mark make sure that you know I'm not buying something that's you know $200,000 about to fall the water like only concerns the age having to keep it as beautiful as it is Bring Back oral condition colors the same and put window box in some flowers in make
look pretty drive by time regardless the fact it's cigar shop inside irrelevant we're we're going to make it available for go through it so uh the there was a appra on it how we arve from to the
minimum bid done on it which any bder is uh I believe happy to come and and look at that and then I would just ask that you email me uh a time and a date that you would like to come and view it and we'll set that up and my Public Work superintendent will uh assist you and
take you throughout the whole building and do whatever whatever half hour access to the church it's you just email me uh or give me a call and we'll set it up and and that's for anybody who's interested in the thanks appreciate time thank you thank you thank
you anyone else wish to address Council even Frank chief of the park toown Volunteer Fire Company 701 Rail Drive bar as Le said West par did be to the part the day because it was one of your employees that were working at the b y and he did get there to CH truck first
that's no life he works right down the road so he should it was at night he was working as far as the anal every time there's a call and people that know me will know I don't check my pager off I run 247 I take every call I can with accept night I'm working we have two amb Park to fire
days have four ambulances and yes we struggle at times but we always get that one ambulance out sometimes we get two ambulances out the problem is we're having multiple calls at a time it's impossible for us to do this but as far as fire wise the fire company at um has
put s program together we pay for call 11 bur residents have came to us have joined at the 11 fire Parkers and they're having fun park to fire they said they never had this much fun we did get your B fully in Appliance with the
state we inspected all your M Mariners we did all our pre plans this hasn't been gone since time has been Chief that's how long this has gone we got your count a few clients and we're enjoying being here the police work great with us and like I'm not going to
people but when you hear stuff like this you want to know the answer give me a call one of my members are going to be at every meeting three bu like this just want you to see my shirt I'm I for
you uh I live in 209 Cedar Street get a little confused now going back and forth with mom's anyway everything aside um I have nothing but all for the gentlemen and women who
have assisted me in the past two years with good of my parents by you in particular Fourth of July he was at the parade I saw him and I just pushed the girlfriend away and gave him a good hug a donation will come soon I the numbers
mess me up but anyway so I don't I don't want to I don't think I'm just lucky that I've had service like that kind put up with my obnoxious remarks cuz the more nervous or whatever you know upset I go to the Jil
and so when I come in here and I and I hear this stuff apparently and unfortunately the Tucker and fire department is no more right is that that's it right I I accept that don't like it there's many people on here that
don't like it don't know how to change it but I do know that the service that I have gotten couldn't have been there any quicker any Kinder and I'm forever grateful so thank you go we'll get all Sol M 20 Edge Water Drive um we
want to talk about the blow outside some pictures I also want to talk about social media again um this past week 60 Minutes did a spot on social media and how Germany changed their laws because
people are getting slandered uh all kinds of stuff goes on for social media I I don't know if uh the burough or the state has to adopt these laws that Germany's adopted they're pretty strict if you get C slandering somebody you're going to
jail that's just the way it is I suggest you watch 60 Minutes um it's it's very informative and is probably the future social media do you agree with that I think it needs to be controlled you may not think so but you
know there's too much excuse the express BS going on with it and people slandering each other and throwing each other under the bus it's not worth it you know something needs to be done so maybe in the future we'll see that happen have a good
night thank you are there any other [Music] comments seeing none then I move to close the public form second okay motion made second close the public form all in favor any
oppos motion to adjourn uh before we adjourn we have the uh committee reports yes sir um um yeah um the public if they had a
committee out here yes I did um we have I haven't given my reports sure I did mine okay he looked at me and then skipped you okay that being
said uh for the environmental uh I'm happy to say we have a full board now with the appointment of Paul Salman thank you so much for stepping up um as far as uh fire and EMS
uh January we saw 11 fire calls and 19 EMS calls that were answered now I do uh caution the public and it actually is upsetting when a member of the public and I'm not pointing anybody out comes up and when a
fire company for whatever reason loses member I ask that you don't call him [Music] scum that is actually more of a reflection on the person uh making that insinuation that it is the people that actually left for
whatever reason and we don't know what that is it could be personal and with that said uh also we hear the word corruption being thrown around here all the time if any member
of the public feels that there is any corruption and more importantly has the backbone to come in to speak with a person that they're accusing of and go over maybe some records or actually possibly some proof that someone is
corrupt not just because they disagree with them but maybe perhaps there is corruption and if that person would like and has information and facts I will literally drive them to the prosecutor's office and we'll go sign the complaint
together how do that sound I will back anybody but if you stand up here and you're going to insinuate somebody these corrupt and you don't have the backbone to back that up sit down we don't need to hear from it we want people if you're
going to call somebody corrupt stand up like a man and take those charges to the prosecutor's office don't stand up here and say oh this one's corrupt this one's corrupt anybody can name call as we saw tonight when somebody said a fire company brushed out their scum again that
reflects on a person that's making those you know accusations thank you that's all I have thank you sir uh any other comments from Council seeing none then I moved to
adjourn the motion been made in second to adjourn all in favor all corruption is oh it is corruption is a