All right. Good evening. I'd like to call to order the city of Venner commission meeting March 12th, 2026. If I could um have everyone stand in your various locations to salute the flag. I >> pledge allegiance allegiance to the flag
United States of America and to the republic which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Can I have a roll call? Lisa, >> Commissioner Langraph >> here.
>> Commissioner Mento is absent. Mayor Creable >> here. >> Would you please read the open public meeting announcement, Lisa? >> 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.
>> Thank you. Would you please read the live streaming announcement? The city of Vander offers live streaming and the option of public comment via remote access as a convenience to the public. In the event remote access is unavailable for any reason beyond the city's control, the city will not pause
or stop the live meeting. The city reserves the right to discontinue remote access at the discretion of the city for any future meetings. >> Excellent. Thank you. We have no presentations this evening. We have no department heads and we have no capital discussions. Uh I see no minutes to
approve and no ordinance introductions. However, we have three public hearings and three adoptions. So um we're going to well we'll discuss them now but we'll do them uh in the regular
meeting. The first one is a bond ordinance providing capital for various equipment for the vendor city school that is um not to appropriating 900,000 and authoring the issuance of bonds or notes to finance thereof. Any other
comments there? It's something that we've been discussing for a while. >> No good with that. Um the second um public hearing and adoption in the regular meeting will be um uh city code entitled
affordable housing chapter 102. Um want to take this opportunity to um uh introduce Tiffany and um who who who else is on the call that would like to discuss that and maybe add some background.
So, I'm here with Nick and uh I'm gonna defer to Nick uh but I'm here to answer questions because he's on camera and I am not. >> Okay. >> So, >> sure. So, uh this is Nick Carlson um with Archer and Grinder. Uh we've been
working with the city on its affordable housing obligations um since uh earlier uh last year 2025. Um so just as a quick background on uh June 30th uh we had to submit the uh housing element fair share
plan which was done uh it was accepted by the court uh on time and uh any uh anyone who had any objections uh had a certain amount of uh time statutoily uh to object. Only one objector uh filed
any objection. That was the Fair Share Housing Center. And it's important to note that they did not object to any substantive uh portion of the housing element and fair share plan. All they wanted was uh for us to submit to them
for review. Um certain other documents uh that would be part of the um the filings uh that were going to be due uh this month. Um they're due on March 15th. that includes the affordable housing ordinance uh to deal with the
city's fourth round um affordable housing uh obligations as well as uh a number of different types of um documents. Uh there is a uh affirmative marketing plan. Uh there is a uh
ordinance uh creating the position of municipal housing liaison and uh eventually appointing someone to that position and so on and so forth. I don't need to uh describe every single one, but they just wanted to see our drafts um in order to just uh make sure that uh
that they were on board with what we're planning on doing. We ended up submitting uh documents to the court on October 9th, 2025. the uh fair share housing center on December
4th, 2025 emailed back um or sorry, not emailed, but uh filed a correspondence with the court indicating that they were um that they accepted the documents that we submitted on October 9th. The court then
entered a case management order uh requiring the city and the fair share housing center to uh draft and agree to a consent order that would essentially uh document everything that would be
done in order for the city to uh meet its obligations for affordable housing. And uh there were some very very minor changes that were made to the housing element and fair share plan that we had submitted uh last summer. And one of
those was the set aside ordinance. We had submitted a draft uh set aside ordinance uh on June 30th last year and it said that there would be a 20% set aside for units that were offered for sale but a 15% for units offered for
rent. And eventually we um turned that into a uh 20% flat uh set aside across the board for any um anything with five or more units. Um, and >> more units.
>> I'm sorry. 10 or more. Yeah, >> 10 or more. Right. >> 10 or more units. >> Right. That's right. We got it down to um uh we did made it 20% and in exchange it was only for 10 or more units. Um that's correct. And uh
the only other real changes were for um the reporting requirements. Uh we um we established uh uh a schedule by which we would submit all our our draft documents which Tiffany has drafted most of those. We submitted those to the fair share
housing center over the past month or so. They have uh responded back in writing that they approved um everything that we sent to them. some of the documents. Uh they have not approved the uh versions um the final versions, but
uh Tiffany uh has been speaking with uh the Parishure Housing Center and has been doing uh similar documents uh for several different municipalities and is basing and Tiffany, you can correct me if I'm wrong, but basing uh most of her drafts off of either model ordinances
and um or just on versions that she has already had had approved um for other uh townships and the fair share housing center indicated in writing that as long as they um as long as the material provisions uh were were kept the same that they would not have any problem
with it. So uh the only objector to uh any of our uh submissions and the only objector to the housing element and fair share plan um has signed off on the versions that uh that we have ready to uh to adopt today today.
>> Okay. Great. Good work, Tiffany and and Nick. Thank you both. Pardon me, I gota sneeze. Excuse me. >> Thank you. >> The only thing I'll add is, you know, Fair Share Housing may or may not have
comments, but uh we'll address those if they come back. They wouldn't be substantive, and so I'm not concerned about them because they haven't officially signed off on everything. But we have to complete by March 15th. And you're not the only town they haven't officially signed off on because they have 400 and some municipalities they're
trying to get through. >> Jeez. Right. Um but also the one of the broadstroke headlines here is that we are in complian within the deadline. >> Correct. That's the cake. That's the March 15th deadline. Kate, >> right? Good. Thank you. Thanks for the
work. Um and I think along with that if we if we're okay to move on unless anyone has any questions >> no >> was uh we'll have 20 uh 26007 which is uh requires that we um create a
municipal housing liaison. Correct. >> Yeah. That that'll be Danielle Manera out of the code office because she'll see the stuff coming across our desk. So, it's someone in the construction office that sees the units being built and she sees all those those documents already. So, >> Lance, if I if I may interrupt at at
this point, the resolution that's before the commission uh names me as the housing leazison. >> Oh, okay. I thought we were going with Danielle on this. >> We were I think we can leave this alone for now just so we can get through it tonight. We can always do a substitution later. >> All right. Congratulations.
>> Yeah. Right. Well, the language in the ordinance though also says that it if uh if and when I leave, the next administrator would automatically be the housing liaison. So, we'll probably want to revisit that down the road, too. >> Okay. >> Okay. All right. Yeah, I thought we I
thought we' talked about Danielle, but that's fine. That's no problem. >> All right. Thank you. Um >> thanks, Tiffany and Nick. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Yeah. Um, yeah. I guess that's all. Is that all we were looking for?
>> Well, we're going to have Oh, the public hearing on that in the in the regular session. So, they might want to hang on just in case there's questions during public. >> That would be helpful. Thank you. Um, so moving on to uh resolutions by consent.
We have uh the first one is 2026-082. This is uh authorizing a refund for a tax overpayment, which is um pretty common place. Um 2026-083 is another refund for tax overpayment.
Um 2026-084 is a yearly uh parking enforcement for uh giving us the ability to enforce no parking from April 1st to June 30th for various events throughout the city. Also
something we do annually. Uh a little bit more um description might be needed for 2026-085. This is a resolution um that we are adopting and uh reiterating I guess uh that you brought to the table, Lance.
This is the uh regarding the New Jersey pact um re um >> yeah the new real real regulations. Um, yeah, a lot of the coastal communities, uh, Kate May County has actually filed, uh, litigation against the D for these
rules. But what's happening up in our legislative body is that, um, I guess it's scutterary, um, has proposed a bill, Senate resolution number 106, that would determine that the D's proposed
coastal regulations are inconsistent with legislative intent. And remember, when the D proposed these rules, they didn't do it through the legislative process, right? >> They did it through the rulem process, which takes out both our assembly and
our and our senate um legislative body. So, they kind of usurped the rule making pro the real rulemaking process that everybody else follows. They're allowed to do it. It's just not done very often. Um, these rules went into effect uh, I think the third week of January of this year after u, Governor Murphy signed him
the day uh, his last day in office. So, a lot of towns are are supporting uh, Senator Scutary. I'm having trouble his his name. Scutter um, and that that bill to basically nullify those rules. Um,
I'm dealing with a lot of these rules right now. These rule these are the ones we've talked about that will require homes to be elevated another four to five feet for base flood elevations. Um causes a lot of problems on the barrier islands with uh home construction and
new home construction. Any renovations that you do require you to meet these new flood elevations. I won't go into all the details, but raising on on some of the more smaller lots that we have, raising a house to that height creates all kinds of problems from access,
stairways, things of that nature. Um, to also even to some extent firefighting um on bigger lots. You know, that home's going to be well up in the air, set back from the street. Can our fire department get their ladder trucks to the back of that home so they can or the sides of
the home because it's so high in the air now? You know, it's I'm dealing with this in in Brigantine right now. It also creates aesthetic issues. You're looking at, you know, down the side of these homes, three, fourtory tall uh because you're going to have that that first
floor garage area of sheer walls. Um so from an architectural standpoint, much less important, but also of concern. So, I support this this resolution moving forward to uh try and resend those rules and come up with something that's more
reasonable. Look, we all know that there's issues at the shore with uh flood elevations and sea level rise, but this took it way to an extreme to a point where if you build a parking lot, you have to make that above base flood elevation.
>> If the water's that high, nobody's here, >> right? So >> yeah, >> that's my little short story on it. Sorry for to be so longwinded trying to turn the volume down on my other phones. >> Beep. >> Understood. I I support it as well. There there were some applications in the planning board that raised houses
from their original 1920s elevation to 15 ft. And they actually did a pretty good job at keeping the aesthetics, but a 4T more than that would be >> Yeah. would be would be hard to imagine as it becomes this sort of a half a
floor and um and then like you said the the our lots are so close together it'd be it'd be almost impossible to get stairs with so many switchbacks to get up to those. >> Yep. >> Um we then the stairs would be out in the middle of the street. What it tends
to happen is they they'll put it internal. So you get a door that's into in between your garages and it's not a very attractive entrance way to a home. >> Yeah. It's awkward. >> It's awkward. Yeah. >> Talking to the designer. You do design not houses, but you have the eye for
that and it's just not an aesthetic thing. >> Yeah. No, they it's a it's an it's definitely um a lot to it. So anyway, um moving forward, the next resolution uh and I hope that goes forward. Uh the next resolution we have is 2026-086.
Um this is uh this is authorizing to enter a contract with Delasio and Associates for planning and design services for lead service line replacement program phase 1B for 115,000. >> Right. So this is new technology they're
coming out with that um Delasio has been working with the D on and a couple other communities. He brought it to us. this this funding can be returned to us as part of the technical support that we're part of with this whole leadline service the public seminar that we had a couple
weekends ago. Um all of that is reimburseable expenses through this grant should we should we move forward and use this technology. Um what it does it without excavation it will assist in determining whether you have lead line
um or not. So that's that's a savings down the road that if we can go down a street and find out, you know, all these homes on the right side don't have, you know, lead lines or galvanized lines, right, >> we're in pretty good shape. So we don't have to dig up that street as much. So
that that's what this will do. But these u this is experimental stuff that they've used in other communities that the D and and the state is trying to push us to use and they're helping us pay for it. So >> Okay, great. Can I add one thing to this?
>> There there were other proposals sought. I believe was also another the recommendation from the our engineer was to go with the Delasio proposal. >> Yeah, the tetratech was the highest and I think the other was in the middle and
then Delasio is the lowest. >> Great. Um uh okay. So then we'll have um we have a we're pulling uh 087 until we get the full set of specs for that um concession for the uh food, beverage, and uh pier
kiosk and beach cart service. So we're pulling that. >> That's uh 2026-087. Then we'll have bills and payrolls. >> Uh we're going to add a few. Thank you. Yeah, >> we're going to add um some additional
resolutions. Um 202688 is adopting the affordable housing spending plan which was discussed earlier and adopting uh two and then two 2026-089 is appointing the affordable housing
liaison Tom Cheró and 202690 is adopting the affirmative house is the affordable housing affirmative marketing plan. Um >> these are companions to the ordinances. These are the resolutions that adopt and
implement the things that are specified in the ordinances. Okay. And so they go hand in hand. >> Um what is the marketing plan? What is it? What's the goal there? >> The marketing plan in addition to having a housing liaison, we're obligated to have a housing agent uh who is not an
employee. that agent becomes responsible for marketing any of the units that are created down the road as part of the affordable housing plan. >> And it's afford I'm sorry, it's um affirmative in that you cannot choose
arbitrarily who qualifies to get these units. They have to market them in an afford in an affirmative fashion, take applications, determine qualifications and eligibility for either rent or purchase of the units, and that agent handles that aspect of the plan.
>> Okay. There's firms, Tim, that that is one that does a lot of it. Um, we've also talked about partnering some of the more local facilities in ARC and um I think Homes for Everyone or something like that. that that some two local folks work for and I've talked to them
about they're interested in it. We would we would get pricing and see what their plans are to help us through that process. >> Okay. All right. As part of it goes hand inand with the >> Yep. >> with the statutory regulation that we're following here. >> Yeah. >> Um it look so move any other questions.
I'll move on to the next one which is going to be pulled. That's uh 091. This is we're waiting for some more information on correct for rehabilitation and renovations. >> We'll bring it we'll bring it back to you when when we finish everything up.
>> Okay. All right. And then uh that's 091. And then the last one which will be on the agenda is 202692. Um this is approving rates uh changes and charges for the 2026 recreation
department, city of Vner. So, some some uh some increases there, but nothing too uh out out of the ordinary and recommendations by our our uh wreck leader there, right? >> The only ones that I saw that were significant, mayor, is is the one for
the water park and that's kind of out out of our hands. That's something we don't have water park. So, they're going to that and that's what they charge. So, >> exactly. >> That was the only one that really jumped out at me as a as a significant increase, but that's, you know, the cost of going to a water park. So
>> yeah, >> not not really under our control. >> Yeah. I um I grew up working in my grandparents restaurant in the summers. So we went to um stock the soda machine and slicer camp. Uh it wasn't go to we
didn't go to fun camps. Make breadcrumbs. Make breadcrumbs for service later camp anyway. Um so that is uh one through five. Those
are the uh excluding 091 for uh adding from the bench. Right. >> Yep. >> We're going to go uh we'll approve uh bills and payroll. And we have one discussion item. You want to take that on now? The revocable license.
>> Sure. Uh so the the resident there at 21 South Troy came to the city. I don't know if it came to the clerk's office. I think it did. or construction. And then what we do is they they requested to use part of the city's rightway basically for fencing. Uh they want to put a 4ft
high fence out to their their sidewalk. Um so what happens is they send that in and our city engineer in this case it was Matt Duran took a review of that. Uh said there's no real safety issues or concerns. It's not at a corner that it won't affect any any sight triangles at
a corner. Um it's behind the sidewalk. it doesn't infringe on public access. Um, and we've done this uh in in certain instances where, you know, they want to put the fence up. If we need that area back, we have the right. That's the revocable part of that license. So, I
don't have an issue with it. So, what we typically do is if you we discuss it at this meeting, we put it on for next for a vote resolution approving that revocable license. If I might, um, in Matt's letter, it does say that we do need to get the legal legal description.
>> Yes. As after this meeting, they provide him the legal descriptions. >> We'll get that. >> He'll have the applicant will have to comply with all Matt's conditions. >> Yes. >> Great. I think I saw that they were looking for a little bit more play space for their for kids in that area. So, I
think it's and it's it's not a very >> uh it's it's a you know, we have small lots. It's not a It's It doesn't seem to be any adding any difficulty to the neighborhood. >> No. >> No. >> Um so I app I I agree with it as well. >> All right. Um
so seeing that we're through that part of the agenda, I could open it up for public comment for any before we open the before we close and open. I u have a motion to open the meeting for public portion on anything that we've discussed so far.
>> I'll make that motion. I have roll call. Lisa, >> I'll second it. Yes, >> Commissioner Langra. >> Yes. >> Mayor Creable. >> Yes. Is there anyone in the Zoom platform? I don't think so. I think we've all got
>> anybody on Zoom who wishes to question or comment any of the items spoken about so far? Please make yourself known by raising your hand within the chat feature and you'll be recognized. No. >> No. Okay. Um, may I have a motion to
close public portion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Commissioner Langra. >> Yes. >> Mayor Creable. >> Yes. Um, I may I have a motion to close the workshop portion of the meeting and call to order the regular session of
tonight's meeting. >> I'll make that motion. >> I'll second it. Roll call. Lisa. >> Commissioner Langri. >> Yes. Mayor Creable. >> Yes. Uh, moving forward, we have no minutes to approve, no ordinance introductions. May I have a motion to open for public hearing ordinance
2026-005. This is the bond ordinance for general capital improvements regarding the school. >> Make a motion to open to for public hearing ordinance 2026-005. >> Second. Roll call, please. >> Commissioner Langri, >> yes. >> Mayor Creable.
>> Yes. Any comments from the public on this ordinance? Ordinance 005. >> Anybody wish to question or comment on ordinance 005? >> No. >> Nothing. All right. Well, stay tuned.
Uh, >> yeah. >> We have a motion to close public hearing on uh 005. >> Motion to close. >> Second. Have a roll call. Paul, >> Commissioner Langraph. >> Yes. >> Mayor Kel. >> Yes. I have a motion to adopt ordinance
2026-005 as described earlier. >> Motion to adopt. >> Second. Lisa, can I have a roll call, please? >> Commissioner Langra. >> Yes. >> Mayor Creable. >> Yes. I have motion to open uh for public hearing ordinance 2026-006.
This is the motion uh this is the ordinance to create uh chapter 102 of the city entitled affordable housing. I have that motion. >> Make a motion to open public hearing on ordinance 2026-006. >> I'll second. We have a roll call. Lisa >> Commissioner Langra. >> Yes.
>> Creable. >> Yes. Any comments from the public regarding uh affordable housing? Anybody wish to speak or comment on ordinance 006? >> No. >> Hearing none. May I have a motion to
close public hearing ordinance 006 hearing? So moved. I will second. >> Commissioner Langra. >> Yes. >> Mayor Creable. >> Yes. A roll. You already gave me a roll call. May I have a motion to adopt 2026-006
um entitled affordable housing as described? >> Make a motion to adopt ordinance 2026-006. >> I'll second it. May I have a roll call, please? >> Commissioner Langra, >> yes. >> Mayor Creel, >> yes.
>> Moving down, we have uh ordinance public for uh public hearing ordinance 007. This is um creating the municipal housing leon liaison. May I have a motion to open for public hearing? >> Motion to open public hearing ordinance 2026- 0007.
>> I'll second that. We have a roll call. Lisa, >> Commissioner Langra. >> Yes. >> Mayor >> Creable. >> Yes. Any comments from the public regarding Tom Cheron who is our municipal housing liaison? Only that aspect of Tom Cheró.
Anybody wish to question ordinance 007? >> No. >> There are no comments. Uh motion to close, please. >> So moved. >> I'll second. We have roll call. Lisa. >> Commissioner Langra. >> Yes. >> Mayor Creable. >> Yes.
Uh ordinance adoption for ordinance 2026-007 uh entitled municipal housing liaison. May I have a motion to adopt? >> Motion to adopt ordinance 2026- 0007. >> I'll second. May I have a roll call, Lisa? >> Commissioner Langra.
>> Yes. >> Mayor Creable. >> Yes. Okay. See if I get this right. This is resolution motion to adopt resolutions 2026-082 to 092 omitting
80 ordinance 87 and order ordinance 91 as described earlier in the workshop. May I have that motion? >> I'll make a motion to adopt resolutions 2026-082 to 092 with the exception of 087 and 091.
Thank you. I'll second it. Roll call. Lisa. >> Commissioner Langra. >> Yes. >> Mayor Creable. >> Yes. Lisa, will you read bills and payroll, please? >> So, we have bills in the amount of 1,165,246.98. We have payroll from 215 to 228 2026 in
the amount of $71,279.31. >> Okay. Thank you. I have a motion to approve bills and payroll, please. >> So moved. I'll second Lisa. >> Commissioner Langraph. >> Yes. >> Mayor Creable. >> Yes. I see no announcements or safety reports. Uh Commissioner Langraph, do you have any uh comments or reports this
evening? >> Yeah, just briefly. Um I asked Rick and and Ernie to give me some updates on some things. Um storm water kind of running as normal. We had a little bit of an issue with pump number three. Um got some debris stuck in it after some work that was done out in Veter Gardens
Plaza. Um drinking water. This is interesting. Uh during the last cold snap that we had a lot of waterline breaks, things of that nature. Well, that shows up here. Um we're about we pumped
uh let's see million million.1 gallons per day is is uh what we pumped. Normally we're just under 800,000. So with those waterline breaks, that's that's the reason for it. You know, you have service lines break, city line breaks. So you try and catch them as
soon as you can so you don't lose this water, but it's still being pumped out of the ground. So um but all those have been fixed for the most part. There's some still some minor stuff happening on the on the resident side, but nothing on the city side. Um got some upcoming
street work, continue fire hydrant work, replacing the old Cory fire hydrants. Um waiting on a few new fire hydrants to be delivered, trying to replace all the ones in the city over a period of time. give us better better service to our firefighters to get better access for
fighting fires. Um, let's see. I don't need to go into that too much. Water or work continues on the water tower over on Surrey by the boat boat house. I know we had a little issue there, Tim. I I saw Rick's working with
you and John Kelly to try and get better access for the boat boers. >> Yeah, >> the crew crew teams over there. So, hopefully that'll work out. >> Yeah, thank you for that. I just just interject that was very I appreciate that the boat uh the work construction kind of pins them in for getting their trailers out and they have a race not
this Friday but next. So they want to be able to make some adjustments to get it out of there so that the mainland crew can get to Philadelphia. I think the flicks start >> pretty early and then we'll need to >> we'll need to yeah used to go to them and then we'll need to give them some space in the parking lot while they're
away since they're going to have to load and unload those. It's kind of a >> that the part of season >> got that lot there. So there's there's space out there for them. It's not used too much for the rest of the, you know, hopefully they'll get those scaffolding down. Well, that's not going to be till summertime, I guess. So, it's going to
be crowded over there. >> I appreciate the help. >> Yep. Glad it work. Glad hopefully it works out. I think Monday, I think they're working on that, right? >> Yep. >> Uh let's see. Lots of minor stuff. Um PW are engaged
in preseason uh workups, doing some mandatory safety training coming into the new the new spring and summer season. Um let's see, seasonal rehire. We're starting to rehire our summer summer folks and get an update on some capital projects from from Rick and what we need
with public works. Um looks like we got our green team uh shredding event coming up April 25th. So, we're kind of coordinating that with Ski Beach uh and special events on the May calendar. Got the block party coming up. So, all those things we're getting kind of geared up from a public work
side. Fishing pier opening for key sales starts uh 8 a.m. on April 25th and pickle and tennis ball work has commenced as of this week. Starting to do some of the demo out there um to get that work going before the season
starts. It should be ready for, you know, the summer season. Um boardwalk construction continues. They're moving pretty quickly. The um the pilings are being driven down by Suriri now, right where they the the stockpile and lay down yard is for now.
So they're moving pretty well. I saw an update of the schedule uh just this week, just today I guess it was that uh they plan on having everything up and ready by May May 15th or something like that. May 11th. Tom and Tom Tom, you sent me that schedule. I saw
>> Yes. The uh the decking is scheduled to be completed within the next few weeks. They are looking to be finished and demobilized around May 15th, which was what the what the target date was. So, >> yep. >> Did they decide if they're going to go any further towards Jackson Avenue
before they shut down for the summer? >> I don't know the answer to that yet, Lance. I think when you get back, that's a discussion that needs ice because >> um we'll see. >> It's an odd project. uh Tim and and the public that we actually have to spend so
much of the state's money by October of this year. Um they kind of cut us cut two months short on us. We thought we had till December, but they said we have to do it by October so they can show the proofs that we spent the money by the end of the year. >> So, and one of the unfortunate things too is that we have an extra week this
summer between Memorial Day and Labor Day. >> Memorial Day is early. It's on May 23rd and Labor Day is late. So that's a week that we lose if we aren't able to uh accelerate the pace here. >> Yeah. But we did purchase all the lumber, so that helps.
>> We did. Yep. >> So that's all I have. >> Great. Thank you. Um I'll be very brief as well. Uh couple of things. Uh we did have a meeting with uh um the sheriff municipal court. It actually went much uh much smoother than I expected. The
police department reported no real issues with them. They've reported that the kiosk has been being used more frequently and um they reported that um there was addition better communication between um the prosecutors and the
police department. They handed they did hand them off uh some uh tickets that were not um that that are backlogged, but uh they they came up with a system that the backlogs will be done weekly so that they'll cut through that. So I was actually very pleasantly surprised. I
know there there might be some things to brief you about with code, but um the police department aspect of the shared court has seen a much marketked improvement. The the last few meetings we had were almost adversarial that there that there were things not getting done, but this
one seemed on on our side anyway that there was that a lot of the friction had been ironed out. Were you going to say something, Tom? Okay. >> Yeah. I I hope that we've gotten better with the code because it hasn't shown that yet. >> Okay.
>> So, I I do want to talk to I think Dino attended that meeting. >> He did. Yes. >> Yeah. I want to talk to him and see what what was resolved because as of the notes that I got from from Pam and Dino were that it's not working very well. We've got backlogs to last summer from, you know, violations that we've
issued that are not getting resolved through the courts. >> Okay. >> So, >> yeah, man. But I'll be glad to discuss it with you next week when you're back. >> Okay, that's great. Thanks. >> Um and then uh other from police department, good news that we have uh at
the last minute before closing the application process. It looks like we had a influx of class ones for the summer. So we may have between eight and nine depending on how that the last few play out with one or two returning. So that's good news. we were um it's always
I think a a quality of life uh issue to have enough guys to have on rotation, guys and women uh on rotation in that uh class one and you never know uh if you find somebody that may want to be a police officer later in life. So, we're looking forward to that. And then uh also uh if every if the entire role
comes back um we'll have another uh a large staff of uh larger than normal. We have a young staff of lifeguards. Uh so we met with um Chief Funk today. Um so we have about if everybody comes back we'll have about 80 on that staff and um
not the need for as much of a test as we would normally have. So that's also good news. >> Mayor that that's not actually an increase over last year. It it's but it's less rookies. It's fewer. If everybody comes back, we won't need to hire as many rookies, >> right? So it's not an increase. the
chief is still looking to run camp and that sort of stuff to have people available if uh a shortage develops, you know, as guards go back to school and those sorts of things. But 80 is the number was the number last year, >> right? A lot of that's a lot of beaches,
three per stand. Um and that's all I have. >> Um any other uh any other com if I can I just quick comment on that? Remember one of the things that's changed with the way that beach patrols operate. I think it used to be kind of standard practice for them to work six days a week. Uh,
and those days are over because subject to overtime requirements now. So, that has increased the the number of guards that all the towns need in order to be able to properly staff >> uh for public safety without running into issues with overtime.
>> That's changed in the last few years. That's true. That makes that makes the math make more sense is that we have to have more shifts, more more more tours, I guess you would call it. Okay. Um, with that, any other comments? Uh,
we can go to I can ask for a motion to open the for public comment. >> Make that motion. >> I'll second. Lisa, roll call. >> Commissioner Langraph. >> Yes. >> Mayor Creel. >> Yes. So, at this point, anybody um would
like to speak about anything regarding Ventner City? I see there might have been somebody else add to the the Zoom. This is your chance. Okay. Anybody who would like to speak on any items, please make yourself known by raising your hand or within the chat
feature and you'll be recognized. No >> hearing. None. I have a motion to close. >> Motion to close. >> I'll second. A roll call. L. >> Commissioner Langraph. >> Yes. >> Mayor Creable. >> Yes. Uh, we have no executive session.
May I have a motion to adjurnn? >> So moved. >> I'll second. No. Roll call. Commissioner Langra. Yes, >> Mayor Creel. >> Yes. May meeting adjourned. >> Okay. Thanks, guys. Thanks for
accommodating my vacation.